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Don't underestimate the brain-healing power of seeing mugshots of this MAGA filth in custody. Even monkeys are disturbed when they witness unfair behavior; for years now, the GOP has been treating grifters, liars, and frauds like heroes. It's one reason the world has felt broken.
A deeply touching, unflinching series of #photographs by Becky Wilkes chronicling her parents' final year. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/a-photographers-frank-tender-portrait-of-her-parents-final-year
You would honestly be hard-pressed to find a more ass-kicking performance by any band than this, The Band with Robbie Robertson blowing the roof off "The Last Waltz" with "Don't Do It." via nostr:npub1h2ern5h6ze3j0k9egggaugsydv0ttaak2y3x5rhz3gqnn9a47djq5caagt https://youtu.be/3IB0mNEz4Tw
Oy gevalt: Exhibit of Allen Ginsberg's photographs to feature "poems" written by Artificial Intelligence trained on Ginsberg's images. #poetry https://news.artnet.com/art-world/allen-ginsberg-photographs-ai-poems-2347317
After 40 years, Red Cross finally ends blood-donation policy that stigmatized #gay and #bisexual men. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/07/red-cross-ends-blood-donation-rules-singling-out-gay-and-bisexual-men.html
nostr:npub1ak3qrerzah70xzw3hvww2jg6n9pk8z2lw6e2yg29t24f0pzjz2sq9ql8j2 Precisely the point of me putting scare quotes around that word.
The little "centrist" sucker fish that swim behind the dark-money whales to provide reasonable-sounding rationales for their latest bananas manufactured culture-war obsession also play a crucial role in the Ecology of Bullshit.
Exactly this, this all day, *THIS THIS THIS*.
"That Trump will be tried for his coup attempt is not a violation of his rights. It is a fulfillment of his rights. It is the grace of the American republic. In other systems, when your coup attempt fails, what follows is not a trial." - Yale historian Timothy Snyder via https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-3-2023?utm_campaign=post
nostr:npub1gkyw2e9vwefahg0652l4x66fhw323h0scazwsfv3erp0kke2kxdqc3hp4w I regularly use both words, "lying" and "gaslighting," to describe what Republicans do, because they mean two distinct kinds of behavior. Please learn what the words you use mean before policing other people's toots. Thanks.
David Byrne says he "identifies" with #autistic people. This very amazing early footage of the original #TalkingHeads trio at NYC's Kitchen in 1976 is one of the most #autistic things I've ever seen. #Neurodiversity in action. #music https://youtu.be/8fdLi_60SIQ
I'm 3000 miles away, but #Phish just concluded an epic jam at Madison Sq Garden that phans will be seeking out for years.
100%: With their constant lying, gaslighting, and attacks on vulnerable people, the Republican party is giving Americans PTSD. https://johnpavlovitz.com/2023/04/15/the-maga-mental-health-crisis/?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=johnpavlovitz
nostr:npub1r0kt27gsskptf0yj70uhcz0tmlrctjl68n4k7fh2hl6sea2ceqrsr5vazc really somethin'.
Grifter-in-robes Clarence Thomas, husband of terrorist-at-large Ginni Thomas, tells friends he scrimped and saved to buy his just-folks RV, worth a quarter of a million dollars. He's lying, as usual. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/05/us/clarence-thomas-rv-anthony-welters.html?smid=tw-share
nostr:npub12ezq2wrjqgwc5wxazgnsv3fsukv7uylpzpp3yu7vurc72wam3rkqyeuyf6, author of the brilliant #NeuroTribes, has a list of book recommendations (everything from #books about #autism to the #GratefulDead to #Kerouac and the #Beats -- pretty much covers the bases!), and I'm so honored to see that the book I wrote with #neurologist Bruce Miller of #UCSF, is on it. Bruce and I wrote this dual #memoir so I could share my #grief about my father's #early-onset Alzheimer's and Bruce could share his knowledge bout the #brain. #EndAlz https://www.readthistwice.com/person/steve-silberman
nostr:npub14e75dlds2vr3nj6zjtzt6zzmem2ctfmjf2e9kcfdjsrp5m2uyqgqyx4v9k Cindy, for the record, I did not make that list, but I do certainly endorse your wonderful book "Finding the Right Words." Those are all my tweets and blurbs; it's some kind of aggregator website.
Trump's crude, mob-boss style threats trigger prosecutors' warnings in coup case. https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/04/feds-alert-judge-to-trumps-if-you-go-after-me-im-coming-after-you-post-00109944
"Of course he's hip! It's @JerryGarcia, for the love of God!" - my mind during the one long conversation I ever had with him. A sweet lil' podcast episode in which I recall what it was like to talk to the cofounder of @GratefulDead. Thanks, @JamBase! https://www.jambase.com/article/steve-silberman-jerry-stories-jambase-podcast
Prominent #fascist John Eastman, "Co-Conspirator #2" in Trump's indictment, continues to advocate violent overthrow of the US government to defend "gender norms" and gas stoves. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/eastman-reiterates-support-for-full-insurrection