A short break from all the craziness going on around... This photo of birds on power lines from Dan Ilic looks like musical notation. So I tried to play it.

A small but interesting story in the larger Tenet saga is that one of the contributors to the apparent Russian influence op, Tayler Hansen, has said he was banned from YouTube. He's the only Tenet contributor to claim this. This is what it says when I visit one of his old videos.

Heres some Patriot Front dummies, unmasked, filming themselves putting up stickers in NYC today. Any IDs?

Godspeed You Black Tamperer (ft Maya)

enjoyably mad stat regarding oxford chancellors

The precipitous dip in quality of new music, movies and books is because musicians, filmmakers and authors are, like us, always on their phones, and thus no longer forced to creatively contend with the silence and boredom which used to be an inescapable reality of everyday life

Another reminder from emptywheel (Check, please) that you're doing crimes (or there's probable cause to believe you are) , the US government doesn't need FISA to spy on you. They can just spy on you the regular way using regular warrants and stuff.

The truth.

This line has been EVERYWHERE in far right podcasts this week. It's like that all get a message sheet

And second, I actually think the progressive media scolds have a point for once.

Trump in a number of ways benefits from the perception that he’s a huge liar

This is hell. I’m on this website less and less. This is a Twitter ad for “Whites Against Replacement” with the Patriot Front logo.

The white nationalist Patriot Front, who are proudly fascist (their logo includes an actual fasces), are paying for ads on Twitter. This is pretty bad, guys.

And somewhere men without the wall, beneath the wood, without the wall, Had found the place where London ends and England can begin.