aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

It might be hard to convey to people outside economics just how seismic this is. The Trump effect has most certainly arrived to US academia.

Friends and comrades made a crowdfunding page for my family.

It’s really hard to post this. I know that there are a lot of other important issues asking for money but things have gotten to the point where we need to open ourselves up to your support.

Thank you for your consideration.

eventually politicians need to start advocating for criminal and civil penalties for people involved in fabricating stories to get citizens incarcerated.

or, put another way: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

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I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

I hope it's clear to everyone now that Trump really is going for it - he's trying to become a dictator. I don't know if he'll succeed, but he's working to install himself as an autocrat unaccountable to voters. And he's weaponizing the military against Americans who oppose him as part of that effort

Protest is political speech. ICE is not above criticism. Nobody should be. Vocal and direct protest against ICE actions galvanizes resistance in impacted communities; that is why the regime fears it. This is a terrible, but predictable, move.

This is fantastic

the president has begun ranking generals out loud by fuckability

« No fats, no femmes, masc 4 masc »

“AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society, and our descendants will be digging it out for generations.”

"one officer smiled for a selfie with her as she cried."

I want to say thanks to whoever left this extremely twisty mystery in the little free library in our neighborhood

# of paragraphs for news orgs to mention there's no discernable need to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon

The Guardian: 1st paragraph
BBC: 4th paragraph
AP: 5th paragraph
Time: 6th paragraph
Politico: 8th paragraph
NPR: 9th paragraph
CNN: 10th paragraph
NBC: 12th paragraph
Fox News: never mentions

Grotesque and symptomatic behavior that would seem implausible if it appeared in a political satire; a dying empire turning in on itself, saber-rattling and sending in troops to an American city to fight a « war » against the very idea of anti-fascism

Hell yes

What are the DIY spots we should play next tour? Let me know!

Super chuffed to say that MATMOS is going to perform at the Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona this summer along side many artists we admire! This fest has got it all, from Neubauten to Ninajirachi! 🛹🫟🎪🥁

Feldman on headphones makes your everyday life into a sad, slightly scary but also beautiful movie

standing in the rain waiting for a bus to take me to the gym while listening to Morton Feldman

Found photo of my main squeeze as a young wastrel ; photo taken in Florida during a road trip across the USA

Every few years I save up for an early modern book; just gripped this 1641 folio of Joshua Sylvester’s translation of the « Divine Weeks » of Guillaume de Salluste du Bartas - rarely read today, it’s a didactic poem on the creation of the world that was a huge hit with Renaissance readers

The whole administration in one quote