Carley Carden
@carleycarden.bsky.social
•GA artist •intersectional feminist •learner •quant •hsp •ilove Iris Murdoch •heavy music •prog policy •RCV •NBA •Virtue ethics in the streets, virtuoso in the Heat (culture) •All things are connected.
Hooooly happy pub day, @josie.zone! Currently balls-deep (for days sans sleep) in reconciling accounts to prep back taxes for mtg w IRS on Fri, but I took a pause ~6:15am to visualize PPL GOING FUCKING HAM in stores/doors/libraries/streets over beckbook.com, and atp, tysm for a reason to live. 😅💅🏼💖
"The Last Temptation of Beck" by Josephine Riesman
From the New York Times-bestselling author of "Ringmaster," Josephine Riesman, comes a stylish and shocking account of the life of the musician Beck.
beckbook.com
𝐓𝐖𝐎 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐓 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐊𝐒 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐍𝐎𝐖 𝐅𝐈𝐍𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐘 𝐀𝐕𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐀𝐁𝐋𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐘𝐎𝐔! One is 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙇𝘼𝙎𝙏 𝙏𝙀𝙈𝙋𝙏𝘼𝙏𝙄𝙊𝙉 𝙊𝙁 𝘽𝙀𝘾𝙆, which just published on all platforms: beckbook.com The other is 𝙇𝙊𝙎𝙀𝙍 𝘽𝘼𝘽𝙄𝙀𝙎, my "soundtrack" album of musicians interpreting the book in bangin' original tracks: bit.ly/loser-babies SNAG ONE OR BOTH NOW!!!
"I'm a lyricist, son. A lyricist that has had to serve as his own inspiration when most of my peers seem to idolize Donald Trump more than Sly Stone" D'Angelo ~1999
please do not post photos of barbour jackets in early october if you're not also voting for policies to address global warming
generic reply to emphasize, I’m a police and prison abolitionist, I have been writing about these systems for two decades
the Cornell case should make us question prosecutors and police all the time: the same DA offices discounting college students’ sexual assault cases (the lacking investigations, the disbelief) are happy to jail countless women for far less, day in and day out, when most people aren’t watching
Georgia - with 2 Dem US senators - is not a Red State, dammit. What on earth is Dickens doing here? Raking in cash from the oligarchs to protect their interests from "extremists"??? #GApol
Andre Dickens try not to be massive disappointment challenge: Impossible
“Drawing on labyrinthine Internal Revenue Service records, the pair study a group of rich business owners that looks more like a suburban chamber of commerce than an oligarchy: car dealers, dentists... What they find is tremendous wealth and power.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/b...
The Rich People Democrats Aren’t Talking About (Gift Article)
As billionaires become a popular political target, a new book urges Washington not to lose sight of a much larger, and quieter, group of wealthy business owners.
nytimes.com
Victor Wembanyama should invest in @thexylom.com, a nonprofit, independent, worker-led news outlet that covers the most pressing global health and environmental disparities, just saying: fundrazr.com/campaigns/su...
Love to read my GOAT holding forth ab his GOAT This world does not deserve Kareem Abdul-Jabbar *or* Oscar Robertson, and it never has. Thankfully for us, life isn’t fair. 🏀🐐🐐♥️
More from Kareem's "Giant Steps," his takes on Oscar (his GOAT) and Bellamy (funny guy):
Starting Oct. 1, many immigrants who are here legally lose their Medicaid coverage because of the Republican budget bill passed last year. n.pr/4z0FPpq
'It's a nightmare.' Former refugee, professor on Trump's new Medicaid policy
Starting Oct. 1, many immigrants who are here legally lose their Medicaid coverage because of the Republican budget bill passed last year.
n.pr
the constitutional convention was one of the most epic examples of “we’ll fix it in post” in human history
Also, when you read about how the constitution came together, these dudes just thru stuff together to avoid war between the states.
hell yeah, brother-comrade Victor 😎🤙
Just asked Victor Wembanyama if he’d ever consider promoting a sports betting company. “Absolutely not. I will never do that. Honestly, I think it's very sad to see some players promote it. .. Everybody does whatever they want, but without me.”
It has been over 11 years since the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada released its 93 calls to action. Since then, 14 of them have been completed. That is just 15%. In over a decade. www.indigenouswatchdog.org/2026/09/01/t...
TRC Calls To Action Status: September 1, 2026 - Indigenous Watchdog
indigenouswatchdog.org
wish the one of these women who’s still living would stop texting me incessantly ma’am, you don’t know me, and again: I have unsubscribed!
Finally figured out ~precisely~ who Keisha Lance Bottoms* has always reminded me of, and hoooooly lol/lmao even
His brother also did this in a playoff inning today. Neat.
Luisangel Acuña is the second player in White Sox history with two SB in an inning, joining: 1917 WS G2 Eddie Collins, also in the 6th inning
“Tell me what random painting you shove in the back of your fridge, and I’ll tell you what you are.”
a bagged salad rotting in my produce drawer while i tend to my refrigerator bonsai
Digable Planets became hip-hop darlings early on. https://bit.ly/4dGE6NU
Digable Planets celebrate 30 years of the immortal Black opus Blowout Comb - Chicago Reader
Digable Planets became hip-hop darlings early on.
chicagoreader.com
"“We make sure that the right people get access and the wrong people don’t: security of identity information is paramount,” said the Defense Manpower Data Center while maintaining intense, sustained eye contact and actively shitting itself in front of you."
Hackers stole millions of US military personnel records during months-long data breach | TechCrunch
The Department of Defense notified millions of current and former U.S. military personnel that their personal information had been stolen in a months-long breach.
techcrunch.com
*raises voice very slightly* TODAY SEEMS LIKE A GOOD DAY FOR PEOPLE TO READ THIS BLOG POST, FOR NO PARTICULAR REASON
"What is beautiful in a good novel hasn’t strayed in accidentally. Beauty in the novel is bone-deep, essential. Everything in a good story or novel is essential." You can read the original post here:
Oh, I am fucking horrified and enraged all over again.
BREAKING: SCOTUS’s Republican appointees will allow Tennessee to kill Christa Pike tonight, vacating a stay of execution entered by the Sixth Circuit this morning. The three Democratic appointees dissent.
Cash advance apps describe their typical users as young people in need of a little spending money and financial guidance. But these days, everyone is broke—and growing broker, thanks in part to petty usury masquerading as fintech. thebaffler.com/salvos/paid-...
Paid Phones | Daniel Kolitz
More and more Americans are living paycheck to paycheck. Albert, Cleo, Brigit, and Dave are here to help—but terms and conditions apply.
thebaffler.com
second chance for an Atlanta sports team to advance in the playoffs today, let's go Dream
do men understand the extent to which women are ready to burn it all down right now
remember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all.
Still kind of inconceivable how many people died or will die because of the death of USAID. And the world’s richest man did it almost as a joke
Tennessee’s highest-security youth prisons are operated by a single private company. Former staff say they felt pressure to hide abuse and other serious incidents from the state and to handle medical emergencies without calling 911. with @wpln.bsky.social
He Suffered Abuse in a Private Youth Jail. The Company Never Reported It.
Tennessee’s highest-security youth prisons are operated by a single private company. Former staff say they felt pressure to hide abuse and other serious incidents from the state and to handle medical ...
propublica.org
Gonna log off bc every post I’ve seen in the past 5 minutes has prompted me to say, “OH, FUCK OFF,” to my phone either silently or aloud, but none so much as the Hegseth “Autowarcom” killkillkill drivel
My interview with Briahna Joy Gray of Bad Faith on pro-extinctionism in the ASI race and related topics. Please watch and share. Just recorded another podcast last night with Cal Newport on similar issues, which will air in early October. This shit is really, really important:
Silicon Valley Wants a POST-HUMAN World (w/ Émile Torres)
YouTube video by Bad Faith
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