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Music journalist, No Depression magazine co-founder. Author of "Old No. 1 at 50: A History of Guy Clark's First Album," published November 2025. Former Seattleite and Austinite, now in SoCal. Lifelong fighter of fascism; hope you are the same.

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“We’re not starting a war, we’re ending one” was a Russian talking point on Ukraine — four years ago.

10.03.2026 23:30 👍 970 🔁 298 💬 20 📌 2

Way better than the Giants' rice-a-roni-in-a-cable-car offering.

10.03.2026 23:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Please wear a bathing suit in the tartar tub!

10.03.2026 23:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
MAGA Voter Claims She Loves High Gas Prices

MAGA Voter Claims She Loves High Gas Prices

MAGA Voter Claims She Loves High Gas Prices https://theonion.com/maga-voter-claims-she-loves-high-gas-prices/

10.03.2026 16:00 👍 1745 🔁 241 💬 39 📌 10

The bottom line is Trump sacrificed 8 American lives (& counting) and more than 1,000 Iranian lives (& counting) for nothing. He hurt the US & global economies, destabilized the Middle East, & will pull out with the same Iranian regime in power. There's no silver lining.

A senseless, criminal waste

10.03.2026 00:26 👍 11997 🔁 3307 💬 582 📌 170

Here's a question for you, Jake Tapper: Is your abandonment of your journalistic ethics a failure to support American democracy?

(Hint: The answer is yes.)

09.03.2026 01:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Department of Justice has sued 30 states and DC for access to their unreacted sensitive voter data. My law firm is fighting them in all 30 cases.

We are dedicating so many resources because these are the most important legal fights and the future of free and fair elections is at stake.

06.03.2026 23:41 👍 16083 🔁 4134 💬 384 📌 138

I’m ashamed that I’m a citizen of the USA. We’ve just become murdering terrorists. No ethics, no morals and being run with the most incompetent government in history. Can we stop this nightmare, please!!

07.03.2026 02:03 👍 1997 🔁 415 💬 142 📌 25

SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26

NO - 41%
YES - 38%
UNSURE - 21%

06.03.2026 19:09 👍 13681 🔁 2976 💬 325 📌 185
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Explore Financial Disclosures From President Trump and 1,500 of His Appointees - ProPublica Use this database to explore potential conflicts of interest for President Donald Trump and his team. The documents disclose positions officials have held outside government, their assets and their de...

Our database paints a detailed financial picture for President Donald Trump and hundreds of his political appointees, some of whom have ties to the industries they regulate.

The disclosures include their recent employers, assets and debts.

07.03.2026 00:00 👍 619 🔁 303 💬 19 📌 21

This.

And remember: Unprecedented actions require unprecedented responses.

06.03.2026 23:36 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Trump calls on divided GOP to pass SAVE America Act ‘at the expense of everything else’ Trump suggested the SAVE America Act includes a number of provisions that are not in the proposal.

If you care about free and fair election this November, this is the most important story of the day. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

06.03.2026 02:23 👍 1983 🔁 1007 💬 74 📌 47

Other things we would trade for Paxton abandoning his Senate campaign:

— Resignation of Trump
— Prosecution of Bondi
— Neutering of Miller
— Ivermectin injection for RFK
— Waterboarding Hegseth
— Build a wall around Mar-A-Lago

How bout it, Ken? Lots of win-win options here.

05.03.2026 23:31 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

So his best bargaining chip is Canceling Himself. That sounds about right.

05.03.2026 20:43 👍 15 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

So far the war in Iran has cost an estimated $5.5 billion.

That's roughly $1 billion per day.

$41,666,667 per hour.

$11,574 per second.

People do not want this.

They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.

05.03.2026 17:31 👍 18757 🔁 7312 💬 796 📌 414
Unopened can of beer on sidewalk

Unopened can of beer on sidewalk

If anyone wants a full can of Rainier it’s at the corner of 26th Ave NE and NE 55th St.

05.03.2026 00:10 👍 73 🔁 8 💬 6 📌 3

Pete Hegseth is not "a former member of the press at Fox," as MS NOW just said.
Fox News is not journalism. It's anti-journalism. It makes people less informed than they were before.
Hegseth is a former fascist propagandist who has moved on to become a war criminal.

04.03.2026 23:07 👍 552 🔁 165 💬 25 📌 8
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Five questions with Sara Petite: San Diego’s Americana angel has a new album due soon Petite, a San Diego Music Award winner, has become a linchpin of the local roots-music community through her “Americana Roundup” series.

I wrote about Americana singer-songwriter #SaraPetite for my latest "Five Questions" piece on the Times of San Diego website. She's playing the Belly Up in Solana Beach on Sunday, opening for #SteepCanyonRangers.

timesofsandiego.com/arts/2026/03...

04.03.2026 19:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

For years on my old blog I published the names of servicemembers who died in Iraq & Afghanistan. No other outlets were.

These are the first 4 Americans to die in the Iran War.
Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35
Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42
Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39
Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20

03.03.2026 23:07 👍 9141 🔁 3040 💬 430 📌 163

Hey Marco: The leadership of THIS country does not reflect the people of the United States. I think that’s been pretty apparent in the protests you’ve seen.

02.03.2026 23:25 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A list of news outlets and social media sites whose billionaire owners, investors or parent companies also have U.S. government defense contracts:

Axios
CBS
NBC
The Washington Post
TikTok
YouTube
X
Soon: CNN

01.03.2026 01:26 👍 90 🔁 40 💬 0 📌 1

The government illegally took your money.

They won’t give it back.

28.02.2026 03:38 👍 3651 🔁 1107 💬 101 📌 19

Every ICE officer who has broken the law should be arrested, tried, and imprisoned for their crimes.

27.02.2026 23:41 👍 15530 🔁 3126 💬 586 📌 158
The Immigrant
The Immigrant YouTube video by Neil Sedaka - Topic

"Music would play, they tell me the days were sweet and clear
It was a sweeter tune and there was so much room that people could come from everywhere
There was a time when strangers were welcome here"

- Neil Sedaka, "The Immigrant"

RIP to a man who saw this coming www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMPb...

28.02.2026 00:17 👍 407 🔁 148 💬 19 📌 12
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28.02.2026 01:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I'm begging my fellow politicians, Illinoisans, and Americans to realize that right now, we aren't fighting over policy or political party.

We're fighting over whether we're going to be a country rooted in empathy and kindness — or one rooted in cruelty and rage.

28.02.2026 00:43 👍 21567 🔁 5727 💬 601 📌 240
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Every senator who voted to confirm RFK Jr owns this tragedy. Every single one.

27.02.2026 14:51 👍 16778 🔁 7026 💬 540 📌 375

We so badly need Teddy Roosevelt’s trust-busting right about now.

27.02.2026 04:38 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hey @axios.com -- congratulations on defining the word "prevarication" so perfectly.

27.02.2026 03:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0