Liv Veazey writes a must-read expose on the banality of ICE evil for Hellgate.

Two agents, the woman who had already achieved 3,000 steps and a man in a black gaiter, began looking at articles written about the arrests in immigration court on the man’s phone. “There we are!” the man said, pointing to photographs of them. “Look, we’re famous! We’re rock stars. This is everywhere across the country.” They both laughed, then the woman leaned her head on the man’s shoulder.

What ICE Agents Talk About When They Think Nobody Is Listening 🇺🇸

I’ve been out in the Twin Cities cycling with my dad and uncle. They’ve got great bike infrastructure, and I’ve gotten to take some scenic rides with lots of environmental diversity. Wish every US city were like this! 🚲

Flock, a surveillance system ostensibly for traffic enforcement, is in reality a back door goldmine for authoritarians, ICE, and criminalizing women.

From the EFF, with original reporting by 404 Media.

Flock’s insistence that what’s happening with abortion criminalization and immigration enforcement has nothing to do with them—that these are just red-state problems or the fault of rogue officers—is concerning. Flock designed the network that is being used, and the public should hold them accountable for failing to build in protections from abuse that cannot be easily circumvented.

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Finished reading: The History of Sketch Comedy by Keegan-Michael Key 📚

Stumbled across the obscure proto-metal band Sir Lord Baltimore in the Dopes to Infinity Wikipedia entry. Good stuff! I especially liked their first album. Loud Wire wrote a piece on their interesting story.

Since their inception, Sir Lord Baltimore were told they were five or 10 years ahead of their time. That’s great for establishing a legacy, but terrible for paying bills.

🎵 🤘

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Ivy goals.

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The unique charms of rusted metal in the heat.

Four music albums are displayed, including one vinyl titled Rick Wakeman The Journey to the Centre of the Earth and three CDs: Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool, Meat Puppets: Too High to Die, and Monster Magnet: Dope’s to Infinity.

Just received these in the mail. Keeping my record collection unhinged. 🎵

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Had a great time playing Bird and Friend’s improv show last night with The Cat’s Cradle Ensemble at Otto’s Shrunken Head. If you don’t know what any of that means, forgive the absolute word salad. 🎭

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This glum, hatted stick figure giving a bizarre finger gun while taking an unergenomic shit on the street? Relate.

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This graffiti looks like what I always imagined the author of The Enchanted Broccoli Forrest looks like.

This tooth face really speaks to me in a way I can’t articulate.

Auto-generated description: A vibrant mural on a brick wall features stylized red and yellow teeth with geometric shapes.
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A mashup animal for our times.

Manhattan at night from the RFK bridge, two ways.

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The Hellgate bridge at night, taken from the RFK bridge a few nights ago.

Had a great time playing Brooklyn Comedy Collective’s Fun and Dumb Improv Fest last night. Ryan had to run to another show before we took our photo but please rest assured he was there too. 🎭

Five people smiling and posing in front of a fun and dumb branded background.

I don’t say it enough, but fuck the New York Times. 🇺🇸

There’s two guys sitting outside a pizza place eating a whole watermelon. This is how it should be.

Man, I just made it back to NYC and there’s a cockroach on the subway. It’s like I walked into a propaganda poster.

Suspiria, 1977

Watched on Monday July 7, 2025.

Suspiria, 1977

Watched on Monday July 7, 2025.

Anonymous, crowd-sourced, free app to track ICE movements. Like Waze, but for the new Gestapo. I downloaded. 🇺🇸

404 Media wrote about a Queer Online Zine Can Only Be Read Via an Ancient Internet Protocol. Great read, and the zine, New Session, is fantastic. You can access it via the web (linked above), or my preference, via the aforementioned “ancient internet protocol”, telnet.

telnet issue3.anewsession.com

It’s so bright out, my phone fails Face ID from all my squinting.

jonsolari.bsky.social hipped me to some super high quality Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles laser disc rips, and now I’ve fallen down a beautiful archive.org rabbit hole. Support libraries!