The Discourse has become sort of numb to the fact that the richest guy on earth and owner of a major social media platform just routinely spits out the kind of nakedly white supremacist shit that until a decade ago you rarely saw outside of places like Stormfront.
"The 2025 Yale Youth Poll found that, amid a rise in antisemitism among young people across the political spectrum, “self-described ‘extremely conservative’ young voters were the most likely to agree” with antisemitic statements." www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Bookshelf featuring a book with the title “Hidden Alliances / Versteckt Verbunden” on the cover.
Some reading for IWD - essays on women in electronic music, profiles of 20 female electronic musicians, and some excellent photos.
Okay what fanfic included both of these things
at this point it's not actionable, but this is why it does matter that the D response to Noem's firing needs to be "that doesn't change accountability."
no more BS about "healing" - and anyone who still thinks that's possible needs to retire.
definitely feel this. The strategy seemed to be "we won't focus on prosecution because the country needs to heal", which the right took as "great we can get away with more" and swing voters took as "oh so what they did was NBD then."
Would be great if we could stop seeing addiction as a personal failure in the same way we’re now understanding obesity.
Ohhhhhhhh found this at last. @meemocomma.bsky.social made a mix for me five years ago that is one of my favourites ever, I finally dug up decent quality audio of it, and here it is for your pleasure and mind expansion. Free download for subscribers, too. And doesn't she look mystical in that pic?
Anyway, a break from the frustration.
RIP Bob Power and here’s a clip of Erykah Badu performing “On & On” on All That.
With a cup of tea and incense, and introduced by a Good Burger sketch.
youtu.be/DhcciUTrITE?...
Was looking back at Susan Faludi’s Backlash recently and it’s really depressing how much a nearly 35-year-old book is so relevant to rampant misogyny we see now.
The level of smug prick condescension coming from this guy as a non-Jew is just staggering.
This “one true left” kind of gatekeeping is getting so, so tiresome.
Posts from Ryan Grim reading: “I gather that everyone here is 100% certain Graham Platner is a Nazi antisemite. I also gather you all are trapped in an epidemic chamber sealed tighter than the one around Fox News. So, who here actually knew that Platner’s wife is Jewish? And how does that influence your certainty?” Now let’s do one more thought exercise. You know that famous video of him singing shirtless at the wedding where you can see the skull and bones? Half that wedding party was Jewish. Do you think if he knew it was a Nazi tat, maybe he’d have just left his shirt on? Think, people. You can do it.”
Goddamn dude we get it, you think Jews are conspiring against you and also you totally have lots of Jewish friends.
And no one thinks Platner’s a dyed in the wool Nazi, but he keeps buddying up to/amplifying Nazis and maybe that makes him a bad fit for the Senate? No?
I’ve read before that Gen Z trend more conservative at the age they’re at now compared to millennials/X/Boomers. Dunno how reliable different studies are etc., but the “trad” thing and far-right crap is real.
What scares me is people tend to get more conservative as they age…
everyone who defended Mehdi Hasan for promoting Tucker - hope you're seeing this shit!
Obviously the way in which Tucker Carlson is specifically targeting Chabad is terrifying, but it is also a little bit funny to see Tucker Carlson try to explain Chabad to non-Jewish audiences, the way Orientalists tried to explain Islam after 9/11/01. forward.com/fast-forward...
TUCKER: Say it again, Rav Zalman... Shachter...
GUEST: Shalomi.
TUCKER: Shalomi?
GUEST: That's correct.
TUCKER: And you say he wanted to bring about an "Aquarian Age?"
GUEST: No, he thought we were already in one.
TUCKER: So this explains why we're in the war, fascinating
oh ffs who told Tucker about Chabad
he is not to be trusted with the knowledge of specific Jewish group names so he can sound to his audience like he knows things
Extremely important read.
I’m still dealing with people I’ve known for years if not decades who fail to understand that 1) antisemites will use any excuse, including otherwise legit questions and 2) that those motives - and the people adopting them - matter greatly.
The Diameter Of The Bomb The diameter of the bomb was thirty centimeters and the diameter of its effective range about seven meters, with four dead and eleven wounded. And around these, in a larger circle of pain and time, two hospitals are scattered and one graveyard. But the young woman who was buried in the city she came from, at a distance of more than a hundred kilometers, enlarges the circle considerably, and the solitary man mourning her death at the distant shores of a country far across the sea includes the entire world in the circle. And I won’t even mention the crying of orphans that reaches up to the throne of God and beyond, making a circle with no end and no God.
amichai.
Yeah a great orator with fire in their belly is nice, but first and foremost I want a politician to be good at the endlessly boring mazes that actually create change.
It’s okay to not want to think about the president every damn day. I don’t think most people want that!
Exactly. He has a problem with amplifying hateful people, and this kind of “jump before you look” thinking is not encouraging in a political novice aiming for the Senate.
I think the issue is that pundits get called out for this and think it’s unfair - but he’s not just another pundit!
This is exactly why I went for Warren in the 2020 primary. Her plans became a joke online but that’s what I want from politicians - not just “gee wouldn’t it be nice.”
I gotta know - how's the pressing quality?
cover art for a bootleg USSR release of the Sonic Youth album Daydream Nation, with the Gerhard Richter painting of a candle from the original release replaced with a photo of a candle.
my other favorite bootleg cover remains this Soviet release of Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation, where the Gerhard Richter painting of a candle is replaced by a photo of a candle.
Can't find it now, but there was a video interview with Lee Ranaldo where he talked about prizing his copy of this boot.
I'm a bit confused - is this specifically an intro to Microsoft's graphic design software or to... the concept of graphic design software in general?
I imagine the ultimate completist cassette remains this Ukrainian bootleg of Radiohead's OK Computer.
You can tell the graphic designer was intimately familiar with the music.
Yet another “we must gatekeep the One True Left” windbag adding that “…of course that means validating violent antisemitic rhetoric and the hatemongers who spew it, don’t question my Left™️ bona fides you dirty lib.”
It just doesn’t stop with Platner. Lying about a Nazi tattoo; dogwhistling Protocols of Elders of Zion; retweeting a Holocaust denier; and now this. Dont tell me this is converting MAGA. It is MAGA. www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Thank you - been really worried seeing this happen.
