Christopher Bakke

Love that whoever was shooting and editing their performances that night knew enough to get lots of shots of Bill Berry in action. It’s a joy to watch him perform Gardening at Night.

There’s never enough money to forgive student loans or give people healthcare but always money to drop bombs on brown people.

One of the most clarifying sentences I’ve come across about Freud: “we must acknowledge his most paradoxical, difficult, and harrowing legacy: his unflinching acknowledgement of how the repressed returns whether we like it or not, in the mode of a drive towards destruction.”

Straight up Caligula shit

So many average citizens have stood up to Trump.

Alex Pretti went to the street to protect his fellow humans, who the Trump regime was harming. He lost his life for it. Renee Good lost her life for resisting.

And sorry, but—these fucking cowards in the Senate can’t vote against Trump nominees?

That’s god to hear. What study was this?

Quite the contrary. The politically passive deserve to be skewered.

Seeing the vile shit that young men believe is what gives me doomerism.

You can’t possibly imagine how every beat of this is the story of a recent love affair that broke me.

Clearing the strait of Hormuz via posting

Worth remembering that Spike Lee, as has happened repeatedly throughout his career, took huge flack for pointing this out at the time.

Powerless Americans in Minneapolis resist Trump en masse, while one of the most powerful people alive, who also possesses limitless wealth, gleefully runs defense for the American Nero.

What’s your take on Fight Club? Its defenders say it’s satire. They may have a point. But ultimately, Fincher’s remarkable gifts as a visual stylist overpower the social critique, and the film lands as one big dopamine hit of aggressive masculinity. I don’t even think Fincher perceived it.

10? They were unimaginable as recently as fall 2024.

Coin used as Leeds bus fare was 2,000‑year‑old currency The coin was handed down to Peter Edwards from his grandfather in the 1950s.

This is the sort of thing a cashless society robs us of, the opportunity to try to get away with paying the bus fare in Carthaginian currency www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I’ve reread the powerful final paragraph several times. Would love for you to cover some essential writings on repression on the pod.

christopher nolan’s the odyssey bravely raises the question ‘what if odysseus was from boston’

Now more than ever I’m convinced losing Anthony Bourdain meant we lost probably the biggest person on tv who advocated for the wonders of meeting new people and calling anyone online who hated learning new cultures the children they were, ruthlessly to the camera.

This sheer moral rot in our country is not going to go away with electoral victory in the midterms or even in 2028. We’re going to be living with the consequences of what we have become for a generation, at least.

Because by the 90’s they were aping far better American action movies. The earlier films were in fact quite a novelty: explicitly British, rompy and humorous with rare for the time on location shooting and stunt work.

Most listened to are Alligator and Discoverer. But the best song on the record is the understated Walk It Back.

You guys gotta start putting out box sets of your legendary shows and tours, complete with books of these killer photos. This aspect of your legacy deserves to be better known.

Genuinely fascinating how of all the languages Republicans could turn into their pet object of disgust, the one they chose is Western European, with an extremely rich literary tradition.

Ruben Ray Martinez: Footage shows US citizen shot by ICE agent in Texas traffic stop The Department of Homeland Security did not disclose Martinez was shot by one of its agents until almost a year later.

Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas.

"He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger."
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Finally, reactionaries, Gentile says, believe in the myth of the *past.* They hold to a transcendent, archetypal order that political actors must reenforce against a continual stream of degradation.

The conservative does *not* share the fascist myth of the future, nor its belief in the supremacy of politics. Conservatives are you say in your piece are passive. They are inherently skeptical of political activism, making them distinct from fascists, who are revolutionaries, not mere activists.

FWIW, the Italian historian of fascism Emilio Gentile distinguishes between the conservative, the reactionary, and the fascist. In Gentile’s telling, fascism is a revolutionary movement, fixated on a mythical future in which mass violence sublimates all of our private lives into state ideology.

Besnyö had one of the all time coolest hair styles.

Adults in the room.