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[B-dubs @BuzzingBee123]

@popvinylalerts My collection is actually older than I am! It's a mix of my parent's records (classic rock, The Beatles, Carole King) and 2 other country stashes I inherited. Plus my own rapidly growing, eclectic collection of various artists from Pink Floyd to Taylor Swift.🌈🎶

[Justice Democrats @justicedems]

Everyone needs to watch @Justinjpearson's floor speech from the TN State House.

"Today, you will take the only Black-majority district from us. But I want you to know: No matter what you do, no matter how much you try to break us & make us bend & quit — we will still be here."

[B-dubs @BuzzingBee123]

@BloodRecs After hearing the album in full, I deeply regret not ordering this Blood Recs vinyl... please reopen the vault! 🥺💚😭

[popvinylsigned @popvinylsigned]

Happy RSD friends! We’ll be monitoring over 200 record stores on our Discord tomorrow for when overstock goes up online.

Meanwhile, to celebrate RSD, like and repost this tweet for a chance to win one of two copies of Fortnight 7in from last year’s RSD 🫶🏻

[Team Ossoff @TeamOssoff]

Ossoff: How much do you guys know about Jared Kushner, Ivanka's husband? He's on the Saudi payroll for $2 billion dollars. Did you know that? And now he's leading American diplomacy in the Middle East, apparently while at the very same time asking princes and sheikhs across the Arab world to give him billions more. If you're watching this online, don't take my word for it. Look it up for yourself.

Can you imagine, like a normal sitting U.S. ambassador just hitting up Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for billions of dollars? But he's a Trump, a royal, a princeling. The rules are for us, not for them.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Robert Mueller died last night.

He was 81 years old. He had a wife who loved him for sixty years. He had two daughters, one of whom he met for the first time in Hawaii, in 1969, on a few hours of military leave, before he got back on the plane and returned to Vietnam. He had grandchildren. He had a faith he practiced quietly, without performance. He had, in the way of men who have seen real things and survived them, a quality that is increasingly rare and increasingly mocked in the country he spent his life serving.

He had integrity.

And tonight the President of the United States said good!

I have been sitting with that word for hours now. Good. One syllable. The thing you say when the coffee is hot or the traffic is moving. The thing a man who has never had to bury anyone, never had to sit in the specific silence of a room where someone is newly absent, reaches for when he wants the world to know he is satisfied. Good. The daughters are crying and the wife is alone in the house and good.

I want to speak directly to the Americans reading this. Not the political Americans. Just the human ones. The ones who have lost a father. The ones who know what it is to be in that first hour, when you keep forgetting and then remembering again, when ordinary objects become unbearable, when the world outside the window seems obscene in its indifference. I want to ask you, simply, to hold that feeling for a moment, and then to understand that the man you elected looked at it and typed a single word.

Good.

This is not a country having a bad day. I need you to understand that. Countries have bad days. Elections go wrong. Leaders disappoint. Institutions bend. But there is a different thing, a rarer and more terrible thing, that happens when the moral center of a place simply gives way. Not dramatically. Not with a single catastrophic event. But quietly, in increments, until one evening a president celebrates the death of an old man whose family is still warm with grief, and enough people find it acceptable that it becomes the weather. Just the weather.

That is what is happening. That is what has happened.

The world knows. From Tokyo to Oslo, from London to Buenos Aires, people are not angry at America tonight. Anger would mean there was still something to fight for, some remaining faith to be betrayed. What I see, in the reactions from everywhere that is not here, is something older and sadder than anger. It is the look people get when they have waited a long time for someone they love to find their way back, and have finally understood that they are not coming.

America is being grieved. Past tense, almost. The idea of it. The thing it represented to people who had nothing else to believe in, who came here with everything they owned in a single bag because they had heard, somehow, across an ocean, that this was the place where decency was written into the walls. That idea is not resting. It is not suspended. It is being buried, in real time, with 7,450 likes before dinner.

And the church said nothing.

Seventy million people have decided that this man, this specific man who has cheated everyone he has ever made a promise to, who has mocked the disabled and the dead and the grieving, who celebrated tonight while a family wept, is an instrument of God. The pastors who made that bargain did not just trade away their credibility. They traded away the thing that made them worth listening to in the first place. The cross they carry now is a costume. The faith they preach is a loyalty oath with scripture attached. When the history of American Christianity is written, this will be the chapter they skip at seminary.

Now I want to talk about the men who stand next to him.

Because this is the part that actually breaks my heart.

JD Vance is not a bad man. I have to say that, because it is true, and because the truth matters even now, especially now. Marco Rubio is not a bad man. Lindsey Graham is not a bad man. They are idiots, but not bad, as in BAD! These are men with mothers who raised them and children who love them and friends who remember who they were before all of this. They are not monsters. Monsters are simple. Monsters do not cost you anything emotionally because there is nothing in them to mourn.

These men are something more painful than monsters.

They are men who knew better, and know better still, and will get up tomorrow and do it again.

Every small compromise they made had a reason. Every moment they looked the other way had a justification that sounded, at the time, almost reasonable. And now they have arrived here, at a place where a president celebrates the death of an old man and they will find a way, on television, to say nothing that means anything, and they will go home to houses where children who carry their name are waiting, and they will say goodnight, and they will say nothing.

Their oldest friends are watching. The ones who knew Rubio when he still believed in something. Who knew Graham when he said, out loud, on the record, that this exact man would destroy the Republican Party and deserve it. Who sat next to Vance and thought here is someone worth knowing. Those friends are not angry tonight. They moved through anger a long time ago. What they feel now is the quiet, irrecoverable sadness of watching someone disappear while still being present. Of watching a person they loved choose, again and again, to become less.

That is what cowardice costs. Not the coward. The people who loved him.

And in the comments tonight, the followers celebrate. People who ten years ago brought casseroles to grieving neighbours. Who stood in the rain at gravesides and meant the words they said. Who told their children that we do not speak ill of the dead because the dead were someone's beloved. Those people are tonight typing gleeful things about a man whose daughters are not yet done crying. And they feel clean doing it. Righteous. Because somewhere along the way the thing they were given in exchange for their decency was the feeling of belonging to something, and that feeling is very hard to give up even when you can no longer remember what you gave for it.

When Trump is gone, they will still be here.

Standing in the silence where the noise used to be. Without the permission the crowd gave them. Without the pastor who told them their cruelty was holy. They will be alone with what they said and what they cheered and what they chose to become, and there will be no one left to tell them it was righteous.

That morning is coming.

Robert Mueller flew across the Pacific on military leave to hold his newborn daughter for a few hours before returning to the war. He came home. He buried his dead with honour. He served presidents of both parties because he understood that the institution was larger than any one man. He told his grandchildren that a lie is the worst thing a person can do, that a reputation once lost cannot be recovered, and he lived that, every day, in the quiet and unglamorous way of people who actually believe what they say.

He was the kind of American the world used to point to when it needed to believe the story was true.

He died last night. His wife is alone in their house in Georgetown. His daughters are learning what the world is without him in it. And somewhere in the particular hush that falls over a family in the first hours of loss, the most powerful man and the biggest loser on earth sent a message to say he was glad.

The world that loved what America was supposed to be is grieving tonight. Not for Robert Mueller only. For the country that produced him and then became this. For the distance between what was promised and what was delivered. For the suspicion, growing quieter and more certain with each passing month, that the America people believed in was always partly a story, and the story is over now, and there is nothing yet to replace it.

That is all it needed to be.

A man died. His family is broken open with grief.

That is all it needed to be.

Instead the President said good.

And the country that once stood for something looked away 🇺🇸

Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

[B-dubs @BuzzingBee123]

@loscharlos Keep fighting for SSD benefits!💯 If you haven't already, hire a disability atty! They only get paid when you win. After 3+ yrs & 3 denials, I requested a hearing with a Judge and was finally approved. Received 3yrs backpay & full Medicare coverage!🫶🙏

[B-dubs @BuzzingBee123]

@AmericanKaw13 @CowboyLike_Mike I donated and commenting here to boost.🥺 I hope Mike's attorney is able to secure his release from detention! The entire immigration system is broken and it breaks my heart to see how our neighbors are being targeted. No human is "illegal!" Fuck ICE & this regime!

[PoliticsGirl @IAmPoliticsGirl]

Did you know DHS has allotted $8M dollars to pay influencers for pro-ICE content? So we’re out here paying for our own propaganda.

[Jayna 💕 @Eras_Resale]

The man behind all the $2 bills spotted at the Grammys 😊

If you need a boost of positivity I recommend watching the whole thing :)

[B-dubs @BuzzingBee123]

@CanIl3av3now @newheightshow @tkelce @JasonKelce 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Mother Jones @MotherJones]

When Ian Austin, an Army veteran, was arrested for protesting ICE in Minneapolis, he says he was detained and shackled for hours.

“We're turning into something that I can't even begin to respect, and something that I literally went to war—or they told me I went to war—to fight against,” he says.

Since he was arrested, he’s continued protesting. Mother Jones senior reporter Julia Lurie spoke to Austin outside the Whipple Federal Building, where ICE is based.

“When they say, ‘Why would you be out here?’ How the fuck could I not be out here?” he says. “My nation is under attack."

[Eoin Higgins @EoinHiggins_]

Doesn’t get much clearer than this

[PoliticsGirl @IAmPoliticsGirl]

Today is the tipping point.

[B-dubs @BuzzingBee123]

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[popvinylsigned @popvinylsigned]

My house is on pretty goose avenue 💕🌼🪿Like, repost and follow us for a chance to win a copy of Man’s Best Friend on vinyl w/ signed insert! Giveaway ends Dec. 24! Open internationally, we will pay shipping to you.

[B-dubs @BuzzingBee123]

@popvinylsigned Only if you promise none of this is a metaphor!😁🪿🫶🎄🌟😍

[B-dubs @BuzzingBee123]

@megnostalli0n @taylornation13 That's so sweet! They did an amazing job! 🥹🥹

[B-dubs @BuzzingBee123]

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[B-dubs @BuzzingBee123]

@SeaChelll13 @tswiftstorenews Omggg that would have been so cruel if signed vinyl dropped at 11pm on a Sunday night with no warning. Sorry you missed out though. 😭🫶

[B-dubs @BuzzingBee123]

@tswiftstorenews Thank youuuu! Thanks to you, I finally won the war for a #3 photo and I could cry because it completes my set! Now they can be framed.🫶😭🙏❤️‍🔥🤗