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populuxe 🍂 @populuxe.bsky.social · 4h

hubcap diamond star halo

populuxe 🍂 @populuxe.bsky.social · 5h

“too small for a republic, too large for an insane asylum” — james petigru

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populuxe 🍂 @populuxe.bsky.social · 5h

john c calhoun tips his hat at south carolina, of all states, arguing they have the right to send the ng into other states *because* of “federalism”

Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 5h

This is getting wild.

The states of Iowa, Montana, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and 14 others have just asked for permission to file THEIR amicus brief in IL v. Trump.

The States of Iowa, Montana, Oklahoma, South Carolina and 14 additional States
respectfully move for leave to submit the attached amicus curiae brief in support of Defendants
and their opposition to Plaintiffs’ requested temporary restraining order and preliminary
injunction. Proposed amici are States with a vested interest in federalism, the relationship between
States and the federal government, and deploying the National Guard. We also each have a vital
interest in supporting the President and Congress in enacting and enforcing valid immigration
laws. Every State has a responsibility to protect our citizens.
The federalization of States’ National Guard units is a matter of profound public
importance, as it directly implicates the delicate balance of power between state and federal
governments—a true cornerstone of Federalism. States generally maintain authority over their
National Guard units, allowing governors to deploy them for state-specific needs, such as disaster
response or public safety. Federalization of state National Guard units without gubernatorial

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populuxe 🍂 @populuxe.bsky.social · 6h

i find it absolutely fascinating

populuxe 🍂 @populuxe.bsky.social · 6h

post-ww2 comics history is full of guys who got a job drawing or writing comics at 19 or so, left to fight a war, then came back 4 or 5 years later & took up where they left off — sometimes they spent the rest of their career doing that, sometimes they moved into advertising, tv, or hollywood

Phil Nobile Jr. @philnobilejr.bsky.social · 1d

You ever think about how there were dudes that probably saw loads of combat in WWII and then 20-odd years later were playing henchmen on BATMAN

Two middle-age dudes playing henchman on Batman

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populuxe 🍂 @populuxe.bsky.social · 7h

i like to think the pet shop boys did a single with her, too

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 8h

" How do we fight a white supremacist narrative machine that wants to eliminate diversity and flatten all knowledge"

" Make sure that those who speak out with "authority" are mostly white , erase everyone before a certain time space and are never held to account"

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populuxe 🍂 @populuxe.bsky.social · 10h

this is so similar to a key detail in nathaniel west’s *day of the locust* that i wonder if he read it

David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 11h

In July 2024, five months before he allegedly set the fire, Mr Rinderknecht asked ChatGPT to create an image of a "dystopian painting" that included a burning forest and a crowd of people running away from a fire. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Pacific Palisades fire suspect snared by ChatGPT image, say investigators

Investigators say evidence collected from the 29-year-old's devices showed an AI image of a burning city.

www.bbc.com

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populuxe 🍂 @populuxe.bsky.social · 11h

real nemesis the warlock vibe

populuxe 🍂 @populuxe.bsky.social · 15h

i’m certain kurt would’ve been amused & appalled by this

Yo Gabapentin @yogabapentin.bsky.social · 1d

Claude AI’s logo is unironically Kurt Vonnegut’s butthole drawing

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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 1d

Door of the Cosmos: Sun Ra’s On Jupiter and Sleeping Beauty

aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/10/06/d...

Strut continues their deep dive into this phase of Ra’s career with the twin 1979 masterpieces offering a fresh glimpse at some of the most revered and beautifully spacious music the Arkestra ever cut.

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populuxe 🍂 @populuxe.bsky.social · 1d

wow the housing shortage is hitting coffee, too

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populuxe 🍂 @populuxe.bsky.social · 1d

love the shipyard pumpkin

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populuxe 🍂 @populuxe.bsky.social · 1d

unfortunately unamuno, like too many american centrists & center-rightists, initially supported franco as an antidote to the left popular front, then when he got him, realized what a mistake he’d made. he denounced franco, too, but by then it was too late

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populuxe 🍂 @populuxe.bsky.social · 1d

prayers up, dolly

two tweets from dolly parton, 1 april 2020

Dolly Parton @DollyParton • 30m
My longtime friend Dr. Naji Abumrad, who's been involved in research at Vanderbilt for many years, informed me that they were making some exciting advancements towards research of the coronavirus for a cure.

Dolly Parton @DollyParton
I am making a donation of $1 million to Vanderbilt towards that research and to encourage people that can afford it to make donations.
12:25 PM • 4/1/20 • Twitter Web App

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populuxe 🍂 @populuxe.bsky.social · 1d

tamang’s blog is still up & his piece about the people he encountered at the dakota is fascinating

thundernip.blogspot.com/2019/11/on-l...

ON LEAVING THE DAKOTA

ON LEAVING THE DAKOTA View from The Dakota, Room 103 on 9th floor overlooking the Central Park. Photo by Indra Tamang. Anyone readi...

thundernip.blogspot.com

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populuxe 🍂 @populuxe.bsky.social · 1d

tennessee may have run into patti smith at one of charles & ruth ford’s soirées at the dakota (indra tamang, who took care of the fords & inherited their apartment from ruth, remembers meeting them both there) so i’d say the chances are high the glorious bird had a favorite ramones song

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 2d

For #BannedBooksWeek, we’re highlighting the unjust censorship of political books which impacts countless incarcerated readers each year.

For every book purchased from this reading list, we will be sending a book to someone who is incarcerated.

Books Are For Everyone: A Banned Books Week Reading List

Banned Books Week—October 5th to 11th—is an annual celebration of the freedom to read, and the aspiration that books should be accessible to all. In recognition of Banned Books Week 2025, Haymarket is...

www.haymarketbooks.org

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populuxe 🍂 @populuxe.bsky.social · 1d

“where grief itself has run out of language”

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

My statement on the two year anniversary of October 7, 2023.

“Two years ago today, Hamas carried out a horrific war crime, killing more than 1,100 Israelis and kidnapping 250 more. I mourn these lives and pray for the safe return of every hostage still held and for every family whose lives were torn apart by these atrocities.

In the aftermath of that day, Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Israeli government launched a genocidal war: adeath toll that now far exceeds 67,000; with the Israeli military bombing homes, hospitals, and schools into rubble. Every day in Gaza has become a place where grief itself has run out of language. I mourn these lives and pray for the families that have been shattered. Our government has been complicit through it all.

This must end. The occupation and apartheid must end. Peace must be pursued through diplomacy, not war crimes, and our government must act to end these atrocities and hold those responsible to account.

These last two years have demonstrated the very worst of humanity. We must answer it by modeling the very best: a relentless pursuit of our higher ideals and an unwavering commitment to universal human rights.”

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populuxe 🍂 @populuxe.bsky.social · 1d

🎉🥳🎊

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populuxe 🍂 @populuxe.bsky.social · 1d

i saw her before the pandemic — later, i ordered some of her cassettes a couple days before everything shut down & when i got back to my office, there they were waiting

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populuxe 🍂 @populuxe.bsky.social · 1d

☹️

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populuxe 🍂 @populuxe.bsky.social · 1d

claire on the cover, hell yeah

The Wire Magazine @thewiremagazine.bsky.social · 1d

The Wire 501 is out now!

Featuring claire rousay on the cover, plus Giorno Poetry Systems, Rafael Toral, Lord Spikeheart’s Invisible Jukebox, Yusuf Mumin, Susu Laroche, and much, much more.

Available to buy:
www.thewire.co.uk/shop/

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populuxe 🍂 @populuxe.bsky.social · 1d

i have a framed poster for a jayne county show at the limelight

(in wolfe’s *bonfire of the vanities,* the journalist peter fallow — said to have been modeled on alex cockburn — goes to the limelight)

Farran Smith Nehme @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 2d

Memories, For Sale Or Lease. Tonight, 20th Street and 6th Avenue.

The deconsecrated church that once housed a club called Limelight.

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populuxe 🍂 @populuxe.bsky.social · 2d

some moon tonight

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