Its gratingly bad.

Completely agreed

people today do not understand good music anymore.

I don’t think that’s anymore true than it’s always been, we just have a biased impression of the past because the best stuff from that period stays in rotation, but there was plenty of chart topping crap back then too

Bad covers are frustrating, but I love a good cover where an artist is able to highlight what’s different about their approach to music and also pay a bit of respect to a songwriter they like

Because it’s the best written song they’ve ever performed (because they didn’t write it)

Note that the cops decided to let her back into her home to say goodbye here. If they didn’t have the Trump flags the last thing they would’ve seen was her being taken down and hog tied in the driveway.

Eh, close, but that’s still theoretically barely viable until the administration takes the affirmative step of saying “everybody in Denver can’t vote but Rifle’s cool”, at which point anybody in Denver who can’t get a lawyer and a court date is probably screwed,

So, yeah I guess the difference between rule of law being down for the count and democracy going into hibernation might be entirely semantic in practice

Do with that as you will

I’m going to believe a lot of people are about to realize what a bad idea this all is and keep telling people what a bad idea this all is and eventually live in a better world or get dumped in a mass grave for running my mouth. Good luck everybody.

Man, what a great year for anarchism in the USA, first we had a No Kings day, now we have a No Citizens day! /gallows humor

Fr tho, this is awful. It seems like for now at least everybody needs to get their own lawyers and court dates to prove they’re a citizen if the Trump administration wants to go after you. BTW, a lot of law firms have struck deals with the administration limiting the kinds of pro bono work they will do. Also deportations to third party countries are legal for now. Also, they may deport you while you have a case pending and then do nothing to bring you back when a court does order it.

So, yeah, they’ve probably created a “no due process needed, exile all the uppity poor brown queers and any other deviant troublemakers we don’t like, unless they have someone inside the system that can get them a pass (and even then maybe do it anyway)” machine here. Call it fascism, dictatorship, totalitarianism, social darwinism, cyberpunk dystopia, whatever, I think we’re here now.

This reporter is a dumb racist asshole whose dumb racist bullshit is probably going to be reposted to every dumb racist asshole social media feed before I can finish writing this comment, but FTR,

A shocking message

Real subtle framing there /s

about the immigration raids was posted on Instagram by the elected official Cynthia Gonzalez, who serves as the vice mayor of the city of Cudahy, located in southeast Los Angeles County. The message isn’t for the federal government. It’s allegedly for the “cholos,” a slang term in the U.S. meaning gang members, in Southern California.

Meanwhile, in reality, (arc)

Ari Taylor, a recent USC journalism master’s program graduate, explored these intricacies in her capstone project. She summarizes them succinctly:

It’s safe to say that cholo culture is more than riding down Sunset in a candy-coated Impala or going to Sephora in order to draw on the most perfect eyeliner wing. It’s more than negative stereotypes of gangbanging on the blocks of East L.A.

It is history. It is a culture. It is resistance and activism

Back to the dumb racist asshole’s story,

“I wanna know where all the cholos are at in Los Angeles. 18th Street, Florencia. Where’s the leadership at?.. Now that your hood is being invaded by the biggest gang there is, there ain’t a peep out of you… Don’t be trying to claim no block, no nothing if you’re not showing up right now trying to help out and organize,” Gonzalez said, according to the video.

So, she’s calling on people to “help out and organize” and that’s a problem only because she’s using the slang of a non white culture to call on non white people to “help out and organize” and that’s very upsetting to dumb racist assholes like Josh and Jim here.

The FBI can’t confirm or deny an investigation into Gonzalez’s words,

FBI: “Josh what the fuck are you talking about, we’re not investigating a politician for calling someone a cholo.”

Dumb racist asshole: “Hmm, but there are some investigations you’re doing that you couldn’t tell me about if I asked right? Like, are you investigating any Chinese spies right now?”

FBI: “Wha - I… Yeah, there are sometimes investigations we do that we can’t talk about right away, but thi-”

Dumb racist asshole: “You can’t confirm or deny, got it, thanks! Disconnects”

but ABC7 legal analyst Josh Ritter believes the vice mayor’s call to action may have crossed the legal line.

"When you’re dealing with a political leader calling upon criminal street gangs to take action, that takes on a far more sinister meaning and, perhaps, criminal meaning behind it. It is one thing to say local people of the neighborhood stand up for yourselves.

Which is what she did

It’s another thing to actually call out the names of different criminal street gangs and ask them to protect their neighborhood," said Ritter.

Which she did not do and you only think she did because, and I really can not emphasize this enough, you and everyone else involved in the writing of this story is a dumb racist asshole.

Media literacy is a threat to a lot of production houses’ business models

Also, if memory serves its actually a modernized version of Shakespeare or someone like that, so there’s a hilariously high brow joke of “yeah, people thought his plays were trashy when they first came out too” thing going on with that one, but you don’t actually need to get that to be entertained by it

e; I misremembered so I’ll just quote the wiki page

Literary scholar John Thorburn notes that Wild Things is loosely based on several figures in Greek tragedies, namely Medea, whom he describes the character of Suzie as a “modern-day version of.”[5] He also notes that Kelly functions as a Phaedra-like figure, while Sam exemplifies both Jason and Hippolytus.[6] Thorburn suggests that the film’s "most under-appreciated element is screenwriter Stephen Peters’s obvious debt to classical mythology, tragedy and, especially, two Euripidean plays, Medea (431 BC) and Hippolytus (428 BC).[7] Suzie is met by police, Duquette and Perez, while reading Death on the Installment Plan.

One can have no fun watching a good movie

Requiem for a Dream

“Soldiers don’t go to hell”

Huh, I’ve definitely heard about the border extending a hundred miles in land from the Mexican and Canadian borders and the coasts before, but I’d never heard about that 100 mile radius from international airports and I can’t seem to find any official sources that back that up

It’s probably irrelevant, though, if you’re trying to go anywhere near any airport the TSA will do whatever they want with you

And either way, the gigantic “constitution doesn’t apply here” zones we’ve created are absurd

e; Actually, multiple people are saying the airport thing now in this thread, so it seems like this probably is a thing and I just missed the news story about it somehow

They’re probably giving him leniency in exchange for testifying that Garcia is the head of a criminal conspiracy

I mean, things would be better if we had more Dems in Congress. Definitely not perfect, not even good enough, but slightly better than this shit show.

There might be more stuff you can do in addition to voting that people don’t want to discuss or encourage in public channels for a variety of reasons regardless of whether or not they would actually support that kind of stuff, but you may as well also vote if you can.

I can’t find a good resource for the exact pay formula they use, but cops are definitely eligible for overtime pay, which has apparently blown out their budget to the extent that the city is taking out a $17m loan to pay them (arc)

Is the city really your enemy?

So long as LAPD officers keep defending ICE kidnappings, yeah

I mean, that would have been an accurate description of me at age 21

“Israel announces plans for series of short ceasefires while new rounds are being chambered.”

son says

There is video of them punching him multiple times in the head after taking him down to the ground. Acting like we only have the son’s word for the fact that this was a violent arrest injuries is crazy journalistic cowardice.

Yeah, I think if a journalist or judge tried to make ICE go on the record with a straight answer they’d probably just get assaulted and charged with several felonies, but there was this

The acting U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee, Rob McGuire, argued on June 13 that the likely attempt by ICE to try to deport him was one reason to keep him in jail.

e; Like, they’re not the same office obviously, but presumably a DOJ attorney has some insight on what ICE might be contemplating