No arguments here

Eephus (2024, Lund):

We need full electronic voting oversight and reform. This should be a priority of every elected official who cares about democracy at all. Otherwise, that's the ballgame.

With receipts!

www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...

Wow. Greg Bovino admits on camera that his agents can detain people if you look scared, change your demeanor, or grip a steering wheel too tight.

As his unmasked agents walk around with large guns to scare you, they may arrest you just for that — even if you're a U.S. citizen.

so gov pritzker has talked a very good game but its time to step up and protect his people like he said he would

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

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65. Burst, LAZARUS BIRD: Apropos name, as this defunct Swedish outfit lurches forward with sudden pressurized blasts of aggression, even as the songs coil and expand past radio-single length. "Progressive" doesn't have to mean meandering. youtu.be/LQnIjuXY8HM?...

How do you read stuff like this and not feel like our democracy is being swallowed whole by billionaires?

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

Mike Johnson’s abrupt closure of the House had more to do with stalling a congressional investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation than previously reported, and it appears to have been a direct response to the Treasury’s surrender of Epstein’s financial records.

Fave of TIFF?

And Wright, too!

One benefit to not going to festivals much anymore is that I'm going to spend the next two months watching new movies from Kelly Reichardt, Park Chan-wook, Richard Linklater (twice over!), Noah Baumbach, Kathryn Bigelow, Guillermo del Toro, Yorgos Lanthimos, Joachim Trier, a second Safdie, etc!

66. Kalmah, SWAMPSONG: Look, a guy can't subsist on po-faced brutality alone. His diet must also include a little goofy, horns-up bombast; think Children of Bodom but with better, catchier riffs. youtu.be/rRsdU-kh_pw?...

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

67. Truckfighters, MANIA: Good soundtrack for driving too fast through the desert with all the windows down... or pretending to, anyway. (I don't live near the desert and my Chevy Trax has lousy pickup.) youtu.be/41qQoqpZQas?...

Ken Jacobs (1933-2025)

A great artist, a wonderful teacher, & speaking personally, a close friend for over 50 years. Linking to a piece I wrote to mark his 80th birthday.

www.nytimes.com/2013/05/19/m...

NEW: I spoke to clergy and faith leaders who've joined protests at the Chicago-area ICE facility.

Three say they've been shot with pepper balls, sometimes while praying.

All say ICE is also violating their religious freedom, and one is arguing it in court. religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

68. The Sword, GODS OF THE EARTH: Figures these guitar heroes have songs in GUITAR HERO, as they play the kind of classically bodacious riffs that compel you to reach for a plastic or invisible Flying V. youtu.be/u1_okT_8Y3Q?...

Stephen Miller called for violence after a ruling by Judge Goodstein and then days later her house goes up in flames. We’re not talking about this enough and how we bring awareness to the violent rhetoric this administration is using to further their agenda and incite these acts.

now that the news is official: some thoughts on Bari Weiss taking over at CBS News, and what it means that the Free Press—a publication that never apologizes or corrects itself when its "reporting" is ripped to shreds—is touted as a needed dose of "trust and integrity" slate.com/technology/2...