Listening to "Wear Black" by the @themountaingoats.bsky.social for the umpteenth time and got chills at John's delivery of the line "wind in the evergreen cypresses," somehow doing a pitch-perfect impression of the great Bruce Cockburn for a moment
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"Loving you is not separate from the struggle for liberation. It is liberation itself."
Doodle of a little cartoonish guy peeking over a wall and the text "Kilroy was here"
I think this might be the Kilroy Was Here of Gen Alpha
Doodle of a face looking left with a ponytail (?) and a spot on the cheek
Doodle of a face looking left with a ponytail and a spot on the cheek
Doodle of a face looking left with a ponytail and a spot on the cheek. Text reads "is that hyperpig mentation?"
Doodle of a face looking left with a ponytail and a spot on the cheek. Text reads "Harperpigmimtation"
I kept seeing this doodle at an event with my kids, and as I was staring at it, 3 different kids walked up and said "Is that hyperpigmentation?"
Bernadette Peters and Steve Martin in "The Jerk"
This is still Peak Romance, to me
"Georgia state Sen. Ed Setzler, a Republican who sponsored the 2019 law, said he supported Emory’s interpretation."
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Our country provides weapons, money, and unwavering diplomatic support for a campaign to starve children on the other side of the world. www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle...
🎧 "Sentiment" - Un
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Nuclear weapons are a threat to all life on earth and we will never know peace until we dismantle them.
www.npr.org/2025/05/06/n...
Haha yes, WART BATTLE MUSIC let's go
summoned this riff from a hazy memory of a metalcore show at the american legion hall, circa 2005
🎧 "Dull Knife pt. II" by Planning for Burial
Happy May 1st. The value of your labor belongs to you and the actions of the state are best understood as as a coordinated effort to distract you from this. The state fears an organized and unified proletariat like it fears death and rightly so. Power to the workers and power to the people
"Action Alert" in red text on a grayscale photo of the State House
On Tuesday, 4/29, at 10:30 a.m., SC lawmakers will consider H. 4123, a bill that would criminalize teachers and school librarians. We need everybody who can make it to show up in the Blatt Building (1105 Pendleton St., Columbia), Room 110, to speak out against this bill.
No new law enforcement agencies had to be created to carry out this year’s mass deportation campaign. The departments spawned during the George W. Bush administration — Homeland Security & ICE — are now in the hands of an even less accountable unitary executive. brutalsouth.substack.com/p/rehearsals
Please take a few minutes to read about what ICE did in Milwaukee and think about where we're headed as a country. www.jsonline.com/story/news/b...
God is returning to Indiana and She's not happy with what They see
Dorothee Sölle wrestled with this, ultimately arriving at the conclusion she was called to speak as a liberation theologian to what was then called the "first world." Not an easy task, but a necessary one in the belly of the beast.
We Said Hello by Sequoyah Prep School (album art)
I've been staring at your pictures cause you've got sparkling eyes Makes me jealous I want to be there beneath that same western sky And I'm wondering what that sign means by dangerous (dangerous) I'm headed to the state line later this week, I'm finally getting my tattoo done I hope that you'd be proud of me, Oh I know what you mean its going to set me free
Listening to some vintage South Carolina emo music and came across this little time-capsule lyric from before our state legalized tattooing. sequoyahprepschool.bandcamp.com/track/ill-fi...
Is that Bonhoeffer in your profile picture
She said the men didn't tell her why they were arresting her and shackled her. She said at one point, after they had changed cars, she felt "sure they were going to kill me." During a stop in Massachusetts, one of the men said to her, "We are not monsters," and "We do what the government tells us."
"We do what the government tells us."
www.cbsnews.com/amp/boston/n...
DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States
One fun thing about living in an old house is gradually discovering the, uh, ingenuity of previous residents
"Beast of the Southeast"
"When the report drops, it won’t be a scientific review—it will be a political weapon."
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The book Celebration by Damir Karakas
"He spat again and thought how in this world the only abundance was of evil and trouble, and with these words he was overcome by bleak and vague forebodings."
Exploding Trees & Airplane Screams by Patterson Hood
Foxes in the Snow by Jason Isbell
Been a good year for new music from the Drive-By Truckers diaspora
Dozens of used copies of Sen. Tim Scott's book America: A Redemption Story
Seen by a friend at Goodwill
"... as if he expected the profusion of azalea blooms to have a lethal effect on him." – Flannery O'Connor, "The Partridge Festival"
"Christine" (2016)
Rebecca Hall acted the hell out of this movie
