At First I Thought I Wouldn't Say Anything About It But Then I Thought Keeping Quiet About It Might Appear Even Ruder

I am pleased to reaffirm I'm not the drooling fanboy I hope I never will be so I'm disappointed but not surprised I'm underwhelmed by the new Lambchop, as good as it is it hasn't saved me, I wanted it to, you can vouch, my fault for wanting another Bible.  < (listen gratis once)>  Punching the Clown gets better with each listen to the songs I didn't hear until last Friday but my favorite songs had already been pre-released. Unslayed, me, that's my complaint. Only me can save fucking me. Fine metaphors abound

Anhedonia is the name of my next band 

Today's ➥ monologue	Didya know that Israel is commiting genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing in the West Bank and Lebanon? Is true
The israelis killed this little Palestinian girl for fun, as she filmed herself live on air on her phone in a makeshift tent in Gaza
HOW THE MEDIA SELLS GENOCIDE
Israel published a video of its invading soldiers blowing up an entire town in South Lebanon
Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has called for nightly killings in Gaza of dozens of people who he says are ‘not worthy of life’
Israeli settlers torch Palestinian homes amid record year of settler terror in West Bank
The Orwellian Company Behind ICE’s New Electric Shock Gloves
"Buried deep under this panic is the fear that authoritarian societies will lose their grip on the next generation. Authoritarianism begins in the home. If adult children reject the authority of abusive and toxic parents, how will they learn to submit to the abuse of other authorities?"
How Algorithms Are Reshaping Consciousness to Serve Capital
Charting the rise of tech fascism
Navy weighs renaming carrier slated to honor Black war hero, potentially switching it to Trump
How Democratic consultants, committees, and party leaders built a fundraising spam pipeline that funnels money from a captive pool of elderly donors into their own operations
Democrats would rather Crackerstan then People's Republic
➥	"America: where we live in a command economy but scream all day about the horrors of communism"
The Democrats Really, Really, Really Don’t Want People Investigating Their Scammy Fundraising
They are not misleading the rooms, they are taking direction from their bosses. Reminder - this shitsmear hates you far more than he dislikes the crackeriest authoritarian Republican
Thomas Frank on something to rekindle your obamapostasies
Reminding you for the xillionth time that if you think Democrats will save you you're the fool they think you are
"I do not want Democrats to figure out how they can work together to help Donald Trump enact his agenda. I want Democrats to win power and then act as a wrench in the gears of government for the rest of Trump's term"
The Bezos Post editorial board is horny for your Social Security
"We need to acknowledge that the bottom can fall beneath the US economy, practically, in any minute."
Today in Fear of a Socialist Country from your Bezos Post editorial board
"Technology capitalism treats technology almost like a force of nature, without an agenda, inevitable and unstoppable. This framing binds us to the status quo"
"here is the thing. if you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority of groups of people, i am not calling you a racist to *insult* you, i am calling you a racist because it best describes your beliefs"
"But you see, Hanania put all of his racism behind him — except for the occasional racist tweet — and therefore could be welcomed and rewarded as a reformed public intellectual with interesting ideas"
Revenge of the White Supremacists
"The fact that Nathan Cofnas got hired by a university and now platformed in the Wall Street Fucking Journal proves why Diversity, Equity and Inclusion was necessary in the first place. He is *the poster boy for white mediocrity* yet he is inescapable and no institution will reflect on why this is"
Pentagon dismisses Stars and Stripes leadership after editor, reporter oppose military interference
Samuel Alito gained up to $2.9m from oil and gas assets since joining supreme court, analysis shows
Union-Busters Are Using ICE to Intimidate California Wine Industry Workers
"Postliberalism is a kind of liberal democratic excrement"
What is a conjunction?				The answer, as always, is racism
"Forcing everybody to start smoking cigarettes"
How Roy Cohn taught Donald Trump everything
Maggie		"Wealthy people announcing they're giving their fortune to charity when they die is not altruism but rather intended to put the money under their control permanently. "I want you to use this for charity" guarantees that the money will continue to be used exactly as they commanded even post mortem"
The Real Reason that Substack is Collapsing
Maggie		Pike & Rose is grotesquely stupid
{ feuilleton }			Today's monologue: hardest two weeks of my work year to celebrate my birthday, may be scarce here, it's not you		{ feuilleton }
I tried the Outline Trilogy and failed so I have no opinion on Cusk's novels but this review of her new one by Ryan Ruby uses the new Cusk for a long riff on the rise of autofiction and its meanings and significance and is worth your time

JOHN ASHBERY

AT FIRST I THOUGHT I WOULDN'T SAY ANYTHING ABOUT IT

but then I thought keeping quiet about it might appear even ruder.
At first I thought I had died and gone to heaven
but that scapegrace the unruly sun informed me otherwise>

I am in my heavyset pants and find this occupation of beekeeping charming
though I have yet to meet my first bee.
We don't know if I get to keep the hat and veil.

"Too hot," he said: "Too hot for everything!"
He so caring, so mundane. "...to have you on board."
Bulgarian choirs everywhere stood up and sang the song of the rent.
It was lovely. Now I shall take a short vacation,
proof that I am needed here. Nobody wants my two cents

anymore, I believe. To some it was like skating in summer.
A small turret perched over the lake. It exploded.
That's the way I feel about people taking me out
to some nice repast, and afterwards you go home and
go over everything that was stated. I prefer flowers and breathing.