Really just cannot believe we've reached a point where someone argues with a straight face that "solidarity" means "any art done by anyone in this population - regardless of their background or the subject matter or anything else - is actively promoting genocide."

Two DJs vie for control of a Mizrahi Jew using Israeli EDM and Palestinian electronica:

Oh hey cool, "Jews and their rotting souls come out in degenerate art" but uh...leftishly?

“Every day is a good day to leave the old stuff behind and look forward with confidence” New interview with the legendary and gracious Gigi Masin. We chatted about defining (and avoiding traps in) ambient and jazz, the long web of sampling, and more.

Tsunami’s last (and greatest?) album, an alt-rock masterpiece from a band that delivered three of them. Unsparing lyrics, horns and accordions, dissonance and pop. A lot packed in here! Now’s a great opportunity for more great Jenny Toomey albums to get their due - Grenadine reissues?

For a decade now, the illusion that Republican senators in whole or in part would rise up against the outrages of the Trump presidencies has animated political reporting even as the Senate GOP conference has chronically failed to rise to the occasion.

Faux Deal Ends Faux Fight Over Blanche Nomination

Wet Noodle Award: Cornyn and Tillis Trump is Lucy. GOP senators are...

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High-level politicians of Germany's far-right, neo-Nazi adjacent AfD are blaming Moroccan immigrants to Spain's Ceuta last week on Israel. Progressives should ask whether they want to acquiesce to an ultimately far-right framing of migrants as "invaders," just because it lets them blame Israel.

The Sound - best known now as the post-punk band that should have been bigger. It’s hard to think of an album that balances darkness as well as clawing out of despair - kindred spirit to Echo and the Bunnymen’s Heaven Up Here.

pssssh, like that's impressive. www.espn.com/espn/page2/i...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

Trump: “The Winning Shot in the Bedminster Club Championship! Thank you very much to all of those who participated. I won with a 70, & am so honored in that, unlike the rest of the field, I’m given very little time to practice, bc I’m focused on many other things. It’s called TALENT, and I have it”

Desperate people mistakenly thought they have a chance to get to Europe. Dozens died. Unless you have solid evidence, blaming the Israeli government sounds very much like elders of zion stuff

weekly listening 5x5

Good. Because it is.

CNN@cnn.com · 5d ago

The New York attorney general's office is suing Kalshi, one of the largest prediction markets, alleging it's running an illegal gambling operation in the state. https://cnn.it/4bSza7I

Reiterating that Musk's literal voter bribery last time was an unambiguous go-directly-to-jail felony, for which people have been successfully prosecuted over vastly smaller amounts. It wasn't just pouring money into a PAC, whatever one thinks of that. It was a black-letter plain-as-day crime.

Yes, Elon Musk’s Vote-Buying Is Against the Law

People have gone to prison for comparable schemes.

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Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 6d ago

Musk got away with his $1 million vote-buying scheme in 2024. Why wouldn't he try something similar this November?

What scares me even more than Miller’s disgusting rhetoric is that I’m not sure how many Americans either agree with it or, at the very least, still don’t see it as a dealbreaker. Nothing is being hidden here, and it hasn’t been for a while.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7d ago

Stephen Miller's rhetoric is indistinguishable from 1939 Joseph Goebbels

with increasing settler terror, this is really important - support if you can!

jstreetdotorg.bsky.social@jstreetdotorg.bsky.social · last wk.

J Street is proud to support Protect the Harvest, a coalition that brings Palestinians, Israelis, American Jews and others together to harvest alongside Palestinian communities and provide a protective presence. 2/2 Join the coalition and learn more: protecttheharvest.net

This fall, Palestinian farmers in the occupied West Bank will harvest their olive trees under the threat of settler violence and displacement. 1/2

Perfect album from the 90s? A lot of great answers but I mean...

Noah Berlatsky@nberlat.bsky.social · last wk.

Post a perfect album from the 90s.

hardly surprising given the far-right currently in power largely grew from online shitposters. Again recommending that everyone read Dale Beran's It Came From Something Awful - www.goodreads.com/book/show/41...

It Came from Something Awful: How a Toxic Troll Army Ac…

An insider's history of the website at the end of the w…

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Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · 2w ago

The use of extremely online memetic aesthetics to support far-right political goals is like something out of Walter Benjamin’s nightmares.

can think of many others of these, esp. for American horror now.

The thread o’ tweets@threadotweets.bsky.social · 2y ago

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He does this every Friday.

What’s obvious is not only that he knows he’s spewing lies, but that he enjoys it. This is all fun to him, the Bannon playbook of overwhelming people with bs to counter the very idea of objective truth. Just a truly evil human being.

Jonathan Harris@jonathan-a-thon.bsky.social · 2w ago

He's quite possibly one of the worst people to have ever lived.

As someone who loves Halloween candy and horror films, this is way too soon and a real pooper on summer.

Theseus, His Sails Unfurled@essencewarden.bsky.social · 2w ago

DAWG WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING

The President's war with Iran is such a fiasco that he's now back to threatening to commit war crimes. This is wrong and must stop. Congress needs to end this war, not rubber stamp a $1.5 trillion military budget.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Trump: "From this point forward, any time Iran shoots at a ship in the Strait of Hormuz, whether it be by Missile, Rocket, Drone, or any other device or weapon, the US will bomb and destroy ONE BRIDGE OR POWER PLANT, including those located next to, or in, the Capital City of Tehran."

You *really* don't need to tell everyone why it's cool that you feel the need to publicly mourn the death of a notorious right-wing racist because you can't reconcile having been an edgelord in the 90s. You can just say nothing, you know.

path to american reconstruction: 1. find presidential candidate named bob america 2. after victory, appoint mia hamm to the supreme court

Ben@cinemashoebox.bsky.social · 2w ago

holy shit judit polgar is going to be president of hungary www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

In England you can do this now

Mmm.

Loren Ipsum@champblandguy.bsky.social · 3w ago

What a tedious scold.

1/ Of course this guy with that stupid theater marquee has to add that he cleans toilets because he truly believes that the antisemitic crap he spews is just the average for any working Joe. portlandtribune.com/2026/07/17/l...