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This took forever, but I am very glad to be able to write this morning that the entire run of Arthur magazine (2002-2008, 2012-13) is finally available online as single issue PDFs. Every page of every issue, either scanned or from the original digital files. FREE.

arthurmag.com/read-the-mag...
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If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:

- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
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Before the release of Hotline TNT's third full-length LP, 'Raspberry Moon,' Will Anderson talks about the attention that followed 'Cartwheel,' writing from a happier place, and the art of things left unsaid.

Read the Q&A here:
www.pastemagazine.com/music/hotlin...
Hotline TNT Won’t Give It All Away
Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.
www.pastemagazine.com
The Jean Cocteau Crucifixion mural in the church fittingly next door to @princecharlescinema.com
Nobody’s allowed to mention the ICA without also mentioning this legendary moment. Sorry, those are the rules.
William Tyler at the ICA London last night
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Karl Marx was born on this day in 1818.

“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it."
The Nashville guitarist’s latest album is an act of reckoning: Collaging together found sounds and field recordings with his own fingerpicking, it feels like an elegy for a nation in free fall
William Tyler: Time Indefinite
Read Daniel Felsenthal’s review of the album.
pitchfork.com
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Happy Bicycle Day! in honor of the unofficial LSD holiday, here's a history of the best, purest acid made in underground: tracking its application from Bay Area '60s freak-out parties, to current clinical depression studies. for @rollingstone.com. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Inside the Long, Strange Trip of the World's Best LSD
Owsley Stanley created a legendary strain of acid in the 1960s — now it's taking on a new life in modern-day research facilities.
www.rollingstone.com
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THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM

My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social.

The governing ideology of the far right has become a
monstrous, supremacist survivalism.

Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
The rise of end times fascism
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
www.theguardian.com
Just once I want to care enough about a hill that I WOULD die on it
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Becoming a “thank you for your service” guy for a car dealership is the logical endpoint of American conservatism
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elon putting up "check out my tape of ambient field recordings on bandcamp" numbers
7,000 units in a quarter lol
Tesla confirms it can’t sell the Cybertruck even with tax credit and discounts
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RIP to Wings Hauser, an American original and the man behind some of the most deranged film performances I've ever seen. (Also he's the smug lawyer that gets told "wipe that smirk off your face" in The Insider) I wrote about him last year; this is a gift link. defector.com/wings-hauser...
Wings Hauser, American Weirdo | Defector
When Entertainment Weekly profiled the actor Wings Hauser in the spring of 1991, he had made nine movies in the previous 15 months and was wrapping up production on a tenth. “The 43-year-old actor-dir...
defector.com
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Dumber golden calf
On display at Mar-a-Lago: A golden Mount Rushmore monument with Trump head on it
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Israel resumed its relentless bombing of Gaza overnight on Tuesday, killing more than 400 Palestinians and sowing terror.

Here's what we know about why Israel broke the ceasefire in the enclave ⤵️
Why did Israel break the ceasefire in Gaza?
Israel resumed its relentless bombing of Gaza overnight on Tuesday, killing more than 400 people and sowing terror.
aje.io
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Holy crap. The DOJ is arguing that the President can unilaterally deport anyone he wants without ANY statutory authority, just on his inherent authority as President over national security.

That is a terrifying claim to make and not one that has ever been recognized before in US history.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are hitting the road this coming week for Sanders's 'Fighting Oligarchy' tour, which is focused on "the takeover of the national government by billionaires and large corporations."

Events will take place in Nevada, Arizona, and Colorado.
Chad and Chaz headed to Jeff’s with a bottle of roofies
Major kidnapper vibes
Get in loser, we're tanking the economy
Imagine breaking Grover’s heart
The nonprofit behind “Sesame Street” announced “painful” staff reductions as it searches for a new streaming partner to air the iconic show.

Sesame Workshop President and CEO Sherrie Rollins Westin blamed the end of a distribution deal with Max and the loss of federal funding under President Trump.
Layoffs to hit Sesame Workshop amid streaming woes, Trump attacks
Sesame Workshop announced layoffs at it searches for a new “Sesame Street” streamer.
www.washingtonpost.com