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Stop Calling Me Frank

@stopcallingmefrank.bsky.social

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Working up a fever in a one-horse town. Somerville garage-punk-pub-rock band on Rum Bar Records. The music stuff is the band’s; the politics, academic crotchets, crap-takes and low-effort posts are mine.

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Stop Calling Me Frank @stopcallingmefrank.bsky.social · 9d

New single: “M.B. Anthem (The Market Basket Song)”: a pious hymn to our favorite grocery store.
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MB Anthem (The Market Basket Song), by Stop Calling Me Frank

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Memento (Spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 1h

native plants are important too

a flower field with text that says "Yeah I'm into BDSM, Bio-Diversity Supporting Meadows"

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Stop Calling Me Frank @stopcallingmefrank.bsky.social · 1h

I was trying to think of “Chili.”

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Snitty 🎃👻 @clofsnitville.bsky.social · 1h

Charlotte, Chili, Avon... Rochester can sure mangle a place name.

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Stop Calling Me Frank @stopcallingmefrank.bsky.social · 1h

I almost went with Haverhill, too. My wife grew up around Rochester, and there’s a lot of weird shit there. Like the town of Charlotte is pronounced “Shar-lot.”

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Stop Calling Me Frank @stopcallingmefrank.bsky.social · 1h

Leominster

Stop Calling Me Frank @stopcallingmefrank.bsky.social · 1h

I’m not sure “great” is the right word, either. He uses language in a non-mimetic, expressive way that I find fascinating in relationship to the music. The lines veer and swerve; the rhymes almost always surprise; the lyrics are both abstract and deeply personal somehow.

Stop Calling Me Frank @stopcallingmefrank.bsky.social · 6h

[Plays bass intro to “Wild Night”]

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Malaclypse the Middle @malaclypse.bsky.social · 6h

This Eschaton won’t Immamentize itself.

Spooky Ha-Lewie-n Name Pollis @lewispoll.is · Jun 19

Every time I read the phrase “Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee” I feel like I have to lie down

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Zombie Ostrich and 12.5k others @justostrich.com · 6h

It really sucks because there's a lot of really smart lawyers coming up with some really smart policy prescriptions that would effectively restrain the Trump administration in a world where policies could restrain him. Which is like building a really fast and well-designed car for a boat race.

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Stop Calling Me Frank @stopcallingmefrank.bsky.social · 6h

“For those times when all your shit sucks”

Stop Calling Me Frank @stopcallingmefrank.bsky.social · 8h

Can we sentence convicted criminals to life inside a toilet?

Stop Calling Me Frank @stopcallingmefrank.bsky.social · 8h

That’s crackling.

My high school history teacher, a grizzled old bastard, always insisted the Harding was our handsomest president.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 8h

👇👇

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 8h

Also, and not for nothing, he’s lying

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 9h

The Speaker's default argument is to plead ignorance about things it's his job to know.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Jen in Motion @jeninmotion.bsky.social · 8h

More and more people are saying this is to avoid the Epstein files. ;)

Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 9h

If I'm hearing the Speaker and Republican leadership right in this press conference they are now saying they will keep the House in recess for the fourth week in a row as troops and federal workers start missing their paychecks

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Hayes Brown @hayesbrown.bsky.social · 8h

New from me: It's hard to take the White House's good cop-bad cop shutdown routine seriously when all of the supposed "threats" are really just MAGA goals

Opinion | Trump's White House is struggling to pretend it hates the shutdown

Any threats the administration can muster to force Democrats to back down wind up sounding like long-standing MAGA goals.

www.msnbc.com

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Real Gone @realgonerocks.bsky.social · 8h

#MusicSky

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Motor Away

YouTube video by Guided by Voices - Topic

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Micah @rincewind.run · 10h

that donald trump was allowed to become president again after J6 is something we may never recover from as a nation

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 10h

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?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Stop Calling Me Frank @stopcallingmefrank.bsky.social · 9h

For a country this size, effective, respectable authoritarian government requires smart, competent bureaucrats, right?

It’s a weird experiment: Loyalty, looks, flattery, shamelessness carry outsized weight for MAGA. You’d think we could take advantage of this overt rejection of meritocracy.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 10h

if blue state governors and mayors aren't already thinking about the reliability of various police forces nominally under their control, they should start immediately