[Christopher M. Federico]

anyway, I am going to see neo-Sleep next week; I got the ticket before realizing that Matt Pike was no longer in the gruppe but seeing Cisneros perform with Dale Crover of the Melvins and Bubba Dupree of Void is still a good way to kill a couple of hours

I've come around to the same take on the new 'Sleep' record as the new record by 'The Fall': both are good but should have been released respectively under the names 'Cisneros, Dupree, & Crover' (a la some 70s supergroup like West, Bruce & Laing or Emerson, Lake & Palmer) and 'Smith/Blaney' instead

45 years ago today, I was taking photos of Bauhaus at Birmingham's Locarno. It was only the second concert that I photographed. Thankfully, they were a very photogenic band THREAD 1 of 4

"A Genocide Was Committed in Sudan’s El Fasher. A Year Later, Survivors Recount the Horrors" The RSF killed, raped, & disappeared thousands as they overran North Darfur’s capital in Oct 2025. No one has been held accountable in the year since, writes Eisa Dafallah. zeteo.com/p/a-genocide...

So, to some quality time in the company of Lewis Carroll’s Alice In Wonderland and Tove Jansson’s enchanting illustrations.

translation: women Billy Corgan’s own age who know who he is realize that he is a tool and rationally want nothing to do with him

In fact I will say the Earnest and Pious Charismatic Ethnic Minority political figure (AOC, Mamdani, El-Sayed) has been a pretty good bet for the American left so far, whereas the Disaffected Gruff White Guy Showcasing True Masculinity (Fetterman, Platner) has been a worse bet. Just an observation.

well, don’t do the crime if you’re not prepared to do the time

“you should not give a damn what happens in other major democracies” is the epitome of the glib self-hating cosmopolitanism of a significant segment of the US commentariat

BREAKING: Judge Reyes issues a preliminary injunction in the East Potomac Golf Course case, blocking more tree removal and requiring 10-day notice "before making any irreparable modification to any forms or features" of the park. Background: www.lawdork.com/p/golf-argum...

i don't think anyone should run explicitly on banning online gambling but i do think that a democratic-led government should just quietly take steps to undermine the industry and create an inhospitable regulatory environment

‘The Horrible Snow Cat.’ #Painting by Albert Dumouchel (1969) #art

"Under Brazilian federal law, all legislators have immunity...To run for President, Bolsonaro decided not to run for his Senate seat. Now, after losing the Presidential election, he no longer has legislative immunity when his Senate term expires in January 2027." Very Special Episode of no amnesty

NEW: As expected, on a 2-1 vote, the Ninth Circuit dismisses DOJ's appeal in the US v. California case over DOJ's claims relating to "likely noncitizen" voting. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I agree with this in broad strokes, but the underlying connective tissue here is more of a character problem: this administration is simply bad at authoritarianism. Their policy judgment and execution has been ham-handed and incompetent because *they* are ham-handed and incompetent

NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

he’s going transition your kids to being Presbyterians

I would bet cash money that this was the very first time this man has ever darkened the doorstep of a Cheesecake Factory

south shore / WI pt 8 [10.19.26] 📷: Canon EOS 1500 manual / 800 iso #canon #photography #digitalphotography

RIP Walter Koenig (September 14, 1936 – October 25, 2026)

I do also think that empirical research *generally* sheds reasonable doubt on whether political professionals accurately predict what issue messages -- for example, the anti-trans ones that consultants seem to be recommending to some Democratic candidates this cycle -- actually land, i.e.,

Lot of fear of people lying to polls. We don't have much evidence for it & don't need it to explain error. People uncomfortable sharing their choice are more likely to be in the now ~98% of people who don't respond than to take ~20 min survey to lie. Non-response much bigger deal

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that's right