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Bad Bunny Threatens The Fabric Of America, Plus

the bad crow review @weldonberger.bsky.social · 22h

My allergies have been so bad the past few days and I've had so little sleep that I can barely write, let alone find something compact and clever to say about it. Whose idea was it to put a volcano upwind? Here's today's Bad Crow Review.
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Shutdown, call it shutdown, what're you gonna do about is what I wanna know, plus music

In Which The Washington Post Goes Mad, Plus

the bad crow review @weldonberger.bsky.social · 1d

I remain naive enough to be surprised when reporters at a major news outlet write egregiously stupid stuff of their own accord, and romantic enough to be delighted when writers elsewhere don't. Plus music! It's today's Bad Crow Review.
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A brief rundown of interesting stuff, plus music.

You're a terrorist and you're a terrorist and ..., plus some reading, plus music

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the bad crow review @weldonberger.bsky.social · 2d

Sadly the political decomposition is not as advanced as you'd like; not like, say, the state of civil liberties in our fair land. That, a few things I've read more or less recently, and a very little bit of genteel music. It's today's Bad Crow Review for the people.
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We're All Invaders Under This Regime, Plus

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the bad crow review @weldonberger.bsky.social · 3d

Tim Apple is bucking for a promotion to Tim Regime; a deaf nation refuses to die on Martin Niemoller's hill; and Japanese legends Yura Yura Teikoku return to the music rolls. It's today's Bad Crow Review.
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Apple steps up for ICE, plus music

the bad crow review @weldonberger.bsky.social · 6d

I mean, it would make his hands look huge until you zoom out and see the coin itself is minuscule, but no, I was just thinking about the general aggravation it would cause to people who wanted one.

Blasts From The Past Leading To The Present, Plus

the bad crow review @weldonberger.bsky.social · 7d

Make it a gold coin. A dollar's worth of gold is practically invisible.

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the bad crow review @weldonberger.bsky.social · 7d

In which we salute our criminal presidents past and present while pondering the eternal verities. And some music! Gotta scoot, gotta boogie. It's today's (and yesterday's, and yesteryear's) Bad Crow Review.
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Music!

Oh Look, We're In Another Vaporous War, Plus

the bad crow review @weldonberger.bsky.social · 7d

Me and the psycho kitty are taking a sick day but there's a development in Regime-land worth remarking, and I got some modestly eclectic music to get well by.
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I dunno. Music, I guess.

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Whisky Pete's Triumph Of The Swill, Plus

the bad crow review @weldonberger.bsky.social · 9d

The production values were low and the talent sucked, but you can't write off the impact of yesterday's bizarre pep rally for the regime; and can you ever go wrong betting against Chuck Schumer? Maybe! Plus some music picked from what an algorithm picked for me.
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Working for the shutdown, plus music

An Accelerating Spiral Clusterfuck, Plus

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the bad crow review @weldonberger.bsky.social · 10d

Tomorrow could be a big day in the life of the empire; a little knowledge is a dangerous thing but not so much as none; Ezra Klein remains an extraordinarily smart dufus; and there's music. It's today's Bad Crow Review.
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Teach your kids to be rootless cosmopolitans, plus music

A Manly Man Fires All His Generals At Once, Plus

the bad crow review @weldonberger.bsky.social · 13d

In which Comey gets indicted for some innocuous shit he probably didn't do instead of the horrid shit he definitely did, and Whisky Pete gets out of rehab in time to flex on the eve of a government shut down. Plus some music! It's today's Bad Crow Review.
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Comey liked torture and warrantless spying, but does he get indicted for that? plus music

Incoherent Like A Fox, Plus

the bad crow review @weldonberger.bsky.social · 15d

Trump's UN speech was deranged, cruel, bigoted, bizarre and crammed to the max with bullshit but it was also, much to my surprise, almost uniformly coherent. Also some Japanese tunes for your listening pleasure.
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Careful with that axe . . ., plus music

The Democracy Index Says We're Not, Plus

the bad crow review @weldonberger.bsky.social · 16d

Spinning a few tunes from Antifa HQ, a belated look at the 2024 Democracy Index (the worst is yet to come!), and dispatches from the War on The Poor. It's today's Bad Crow Review.
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The war on the poor heats up, plus health care workers are unhappy, plus music

Antifa? You Can't Prove You're Not In It, Plus

the bad crow review @weldonberger.bsky.social · 16d

Bill McKibben corrals something akin to hope on the climate change front, antifa as a terrorist organization is an all-but-perfect Catch 22, and a little musical change of pace.
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Bill McKibben is optimistic again, sort of, plus music

Saints Alive! Plus, Ho, Man, Is That A Bag Of Cash? Plus

the bad crow review @weldonberger.bsky.social · 18d

Where's a whimsical instrument of Rapture when you really need one? Plus wtf this, and wtf that, and wtf it all. Plus music. Today's Bad Crow Review is not to be missed.
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Whatever it was was better than this, plus music

How My Dad And Tuli Kupferberg Radicalized Me, Plus

the bad crow review @weldonberger.bsky.social · 20d

Where else will you find The Fugs, The Stranglers, and Fiona Apple on the same bill? Plus some musings about what dehumanization is for. Check out today's Black Crow Review.
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But are they really people? Plus music

Elsewhere In Disasters, Plus

the bad crow review @weldonberger.bsky.social · 22d

In which we learn that half of Americans think genocide is basically okay, and we confirm that the NY Times has a mumbling problem. Plus some music I like and I'm sure you will too. It's today's (this afternnoon's, this evening's) Bad Crow Review.
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More stupid press tricks, plus music

the bad crow review @weldonberger.bsky.social · 22d

It's one of my favorite things.

the bad crow review @weldonberger.bsky.social · 22d

This is an excellent approach whether or not one has bread.

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the bad crow review @weldonberger.bsky.social · 22d

My theory was maybe he didn't have the liquidity to buy New Zealand passports for the whole family so he's stalling for time. But now i think he thinks he's charged with preventing societal collapse. "I cannot save you all but i will see your remains treated with respect, and a new beginning made."

Only One Side Thinks You Have The Right To Exist, Plus

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Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 25d

Edward Hopper - Compartment C Car [1938]

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the bad crow review @weldonberger.bsky.social · 24d

In which we see that Ken Klippenstein is the Jeff Beck of investigative reporting; Ezra Klein doesn't get it; and the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain obviously fuckin' rocks.
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Seems like Kirk's assassin is, in most respects, just some guy, plus music

Things Distracting Me From Epstein, Plus

the bad crow review @weldonberger.bsky.social · 24d

Well somebody has to do it.

the bad crow review @weldonberger.bsky.social · 25d

So it turns out that the Post's ever-so-pompous "Democracy Dies in Darkness" slogan is actually aspirational, plus one confesses to getting distracted by the ongoing construction of a fascist dictatorship, plus music old and new(ish).
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Stupid press tricks, plus music