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42 years ago today
Legendary hardcore punk band Discharge performing at Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, December 9, 1983.

Photos by Alison Braun

#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #discharge #alisonbraun #history #punkrockhistory
December 9, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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Part of why this stuff keeps getting underreported is that our media class can’t get it through their thick heads that this is not a weightless debate over political ideology, but a declaration of war on over 100 million Americans, which DHS is announcing an intent to eliminate
November 28, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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My microwave sings a little song when my Hot Pocket is done. Should it have the right to vote?
can’t fucking catch a breath

make it stop
November 25, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.

Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Remember a few weeks ago when Trump brought in a couple bulldozers and demolished about a third of the White House? That was weird.
November 21, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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A rapidly multiplying number of new media upstarts are entering the fray in Los Angeles — from driven local journalists to national commercial and philanthropic institutions that sense opportunity. www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/more...
“More of everything”: In Los Angeles, an “explosion” of new efforts aim to up the city’s local news game
A well-funded coalition building out neighborhood news, a new newsletter from an expanding for-profit site, and a nonprofit breaking through on social media are just a few examples of the latest bids…
www.niemanlab.org
November 18, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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You will be shocked to learn that the administration's claims about their helicopter-borne night raid against "terrorists" in Chicago are more than a little shaky.
November 13, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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There is nothing I like more than a tech unveiling where nothing works properly. "Gonna Fly Now" is a brutally funny piece of music to use, too. A+.
when you wear a size 9.5 shoe but the 8.5 was on sale
November 11, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Not every idea is worth airing. Not every point of view is worth hearing. Not everything that "a lot of people believe" should be credentialed by homepage space. Would the NYT editorial board run "Did Homosexuals Ruin Culture?" or "Did Black People Get Too Big for Their Britches?" I guess we'll see.
November 6, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week.

@wired.com #ICE
www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...
November 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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mr president sir, the pollsters are saying you should drop more diarrhea on the nation youre leading sir
November 5, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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The NY Times and WaPo may be lost causes but holy shite look at PEOPLE out here absolutely killing it with 100% unvarnished truths 🌟
October 28, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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For the timeline tonight... keep on pushin'.

❤️

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLMR...
The Impressions - We're a Winner
YouTube video by WatchSoul
www.youtube.com
October 19, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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This piece is fantastic, arguing that the path forward is to stick to a real moral center and pull others in, not to compromise your values away.

“You don’t buy into the MAGA lies to get supporters. You give them a vision of what you support, and you call them to it.”
I really appreciated this thoughtful piece about Ta-Nehisi Coates & Ezra Klein. Andrea Pitzer says “lost” folks like Klein “don’t have a clear idea how this moment fits into history and what it is exactly that they’re doing”. [degenerateart.beehiiv.com]
You don’t have to swallow frogs
Klein and Coates show that if you don’t know what your core beliefs are, you’re going to get played.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
September 30, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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If you voted for him, you've done this.
September 26, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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omfg
September 19, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption.

Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow.

People have power. Ask Target
September 20, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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KAMLAGER-DOVE: Dylan Roof, who followed white supremacist propaganda, murdered 9 Black parishioners in 2015. Do you deny this?

PATEL: I'm sorry. Dylan Roof? Can you give me more information?

KAMLAGER-DOVE: You're head of the FBI
September 17, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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all i know is that normalizing debate with fascists has only facilitated the rise of fascism.
September 12, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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What centrist libs can't seem to internalize is that the US contains a large, longstanding, well-funded political movement that *wants political violence and authoritarianism*. It does not need to be provoked in any way in order to pursue those goals.
September 12, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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“The government sometimes makes brief, investigative stops to check the immigration status of those who gather in locations where people are hired for day jobs such as construction, landscaping, agriculture or car washes…and who do not speak much if any English.”
-Justice Kavanaugh
One day after the Supreme Court lifted the ban on racial profiling, federal agents swarmed a car in Van Nuys.

Four masked agents with guns drawn yanked people out, slammed them to the ground, and pointed a weapon at a pregnant woman.

There is no justification for this. None.
September 10, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Love the new Rose Garden patio look, it's just missing a couple empty Maxwell House cans for cigarette butts
September 6, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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Fujioka said the agents’ appearance in Little Tokyo “is a parallel of what happened in 1942,” and noting that the museum was built on the location where L.A. residents of Japanese descent “were told to come here and put on buses and sent to camps.”
Border Patrol agents stage show of force at Newsom's 'big beautiful press conference'
Border Patrol agents arrested at least one person, who a coworker said was delivering strawberries, outside of Gov. Gavin Newsom's event in Little Tokyo.
www.latimes.com
August 14, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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The rich must be incentivised; the poor must be disciplined.

The political economy of the super-elite in one headline.
August 5, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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AI will never locate a new archive. It will never uncover a new source. It will never find a small, privately held collection of papers that can upend what we think we know about the past. It can never work with undigitized sources. It can never do real oral history or ethnography.
AI can only replace historians in the sense that it can spit out mediocre, plagiarized narrative that vaguely resembles history. It will never replace *good* historians. Unfortunately, many university presidents and CEOs don’t seem to care about the quality of work being done, only the quantity- 1/2
Just a reminder this list is drawn from a piece written by four researchers for MICROSOFT (data scientists, CS people, economists) who have never stepped foot in an archive/never taken an oral history/studied material culture, by their CVs.
Unlike them, I do my research, and don't talk out my ass.
August 5, 2025 at 2:58 PM