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Micah @rincewind.run · 2d

they are clearly trying to terrify everyone out of showing up to the No Kings protest and I simply do not think it is going to work

see you all there

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Tim Quirk @tbquirk.bsky.social · 1d

The person who makes Connections is apparently a Big Star fan.

A screenshot of today's Connections game, in which some of the tiles read Third Sister Lovers Magic Big Star

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Tim Quirk @tbquirk.bsky.social · 1d

(By "that riff," I mean "Seven Nation Army," not "Blitzkrieg Bop." Not that you could sing it to "Blitzkrieg Bop" if you tried, which I just now have, and failed miserably.)

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Tim Quirk @tbquirk.bsky.social · 1d

At Oakland Ballers games, when a player named Tyler Lozano comes up to bat, everybody chants, "Go Ty-ler Lo-zan-O" to the melody of that riff.

And now I sing that randomly to myself at least twice a day.

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Tim Quirk @tbquirk.bsky.social · 1d

You had me till "live in Atlanta or Charlotte."

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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · Nov 24

I hate when they take away things you were just starting to really enjoy, like your favorite TV show or democracy.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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Tim Quirk @tbquirk.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks! I wrote it cuz I felt it. And I've been married to the person who made me feel it for over 33 years, now.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Trump will just have to keep murdering fishermen until you stupid jerks give him the peace prize

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Tim Quirk @tbquirk.bsky.social · 3d

I mean, for DECADES the conservative position was that trying to ensure U.S. minorities had equal rights was somehow favoring them.

But now there's one minority (conservative Christians) that is literally getting rights that the government is depriving other minorities of.

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Tim Quirk @tbquirk.bsky.social · 3d

Related: it's kind of amazing that the Supreme Court seems to think protecting minority rights means states CAN'T outlaw non-medical treatments such as conversion therapy, but CAN outlaw genuine (and widely-supported-by-doctors) medical treatments for trans people.

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Tim Quirk @tbquirk.bsky.social · 3d

Kind of funny (but not ha-ha funny) that we liberals thought we were so smart for telling conservatives who wanted to return to the "good old days" that they weren't all that good for everybody because there was segregation and kids died from measles and stuff.

Apparently they actually wanted both!

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Tim Quirk @tbquirk.bsky.social · 5d

If you missed this the other week, my company just launched a new music download store/streaming service that aims to make a penny per play the floor rather than the ceiling for streaming royalty rates:

Introducing Tapedeck: A Music Service That Pays Artists What They Want

by Tim Quirk Zedge is pleased to announce the launch of Tapedeck, a new music download store and streaming service whose not-so-humble goal is to make a penny per play the floor, rather than the ceil...

blog.zedge.net

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 7d

Just posting this. Everyone knows why.

Text of the fourth amendment “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”

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Tim Quirk @tbquirk.bsky.social · 7d

*his

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Tim Quirk @tbquirk.bsky.social · 7d

I honestly expected more of this from the beginning, but I'll take it any time. Trump-appointed judge declares hos actions unconstitutional.

Duh.

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 7d

🚨BREAKING: A federal judge Saturday blocked President Donald Trump’s call-up of the National Guard for a deployment in Portland, saying Trump’s actions were based on false claims and undermined Oregon’s sovereignty. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Federal Judge Blocks Trump’s Seizure of Oregon National Guard for Portland Deployment

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Tim Quirk @tbquirk.bsky.social · 7d

I'm seeing the Mekons at the Make out Room next! Assuming my Waymo ever arrives.

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Tim Quirk @tbquirk.bsky.social · 7d

Gah. "Holding our right arms up" is what that was supposed to say.

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Tim Quirk @tbquirk.bsky.social · 7d

Apparently at least 40% of our country defines "freedom" as being free from ever having to think/know/care about people or topics they do not wish to.

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Tim Quirk @tbquirk.bsky.social · 7d

If you want to know many people pay attention to lyrics, there are currently 10 people in a crowd of maybe 10,000 holding our right for peace like Amar Bharati did, as Tweedy sings about in his song called "Amar Bharati."

So: .01%.

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Tim Quirk @tbquirk.bsky.social · 7d

Jeff Tweedy at HSB25. There are still compelling reasons to live in the Bay Area.

Jeff Tweedy performs on a gorgeous early-Autumn day at Golden Gate Park

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 7d

history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed

student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism

teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.

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Tim Quirk @tbquirk.bsky.social · 8d

This title card from Abel Gance's Napoleon describes most of my favorite people.

Beautiful, if amoral, she was a woman of easy manners, and a talented musician.

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Tim Quirk @tbquirk.bsky.social · 8d

No, probably it just means I need to meditate soon.

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Tim Quirk @tbquirk.bsky.social · 8d

Some people meditate. I drive across the country by myself every few years.

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