Ziggy Played Guitar

I owe no one a debate. Block button is your best friend. Living my best life. Wear the term SJW with pride.

[Moira Donegan @MoiraDonegan]

This scenario—in which a man sexually abused his partner’s daughter, and the mother sided with her pedophile boyfriend over her girl child—is a textbook-typical child sexual abuse scenario. Which of course only makes it more brutal and devastating, not less.

[Ziggy Played Guitar @Classical_Dee]

Disgusting monitoring by @WellsFargo . Will look into closing my account.

[Shanny Basar @shannybasar]

Wells Fargo fires workers over fake keyboard activity - BBC News https://t.co/WGh5S61C1D

[Dan Rather @DanRather]

Trump attorneys sent @propublica a cease and desist order demanding this article not be published, so you should definitely read it, ASAP.
https://t.co/s3U5nC9dzg

[BabelColour @StuartHumphryes]

I've cleaned for you this amazing salt print photo of London, taken nearly 200-years ago from Blackfriars Bridge by Henry Cundell. It was taken in 1844 and is the earliest photo of St Paul's and one of the earliest of London itself. Taken only a couple of months after the publication of 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens, this is an incredible and rare oppotunity to see the real Dickensian London, with St Pauls shrouded and obscured by the thick, smoggy air of old London town. A truly remarkable window through time!

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

This appears to be one of the biggest crimes in modern history. For context, if the FTC's investigation is accurate, this single crime costs people at least 10 times the amount of all property crime combined according to the FBI.

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

THREAD. This is one of the most depraved copaganda campaigns in modern history. Biden's behavior here is shameful, and many Democrats who know better are going along, hoping people won't actually read what is being proposed.

[Rania Khalek @RaniaKhalek]

A group of pro-Israel billionaires have a WhatsApp group where they coordinate how to influence the US response to October 7, including pressuring Eric Adams to use the NYPD against Columbia students.

All this time it was Eric Adams who was in bed with outside agitators.

The irony.

[Ziggy Played Guitar @Classical_Dee]

Rather than let New Yorkers vote on it, Marjorie @Byrnes4Assembly decided to sue in court to get it removed. Do call Marjorie and thank her for thinking and deciding for you.
Albany Office
518-455-5662

District Office
585-218-0038

[Ziggy Played Guitar @Classical_Dee]

Hi #NY, just wanted to let you know that Marjorie Byrnes @Byrnes4Assembly has won a lawsuit to remove an abortion ballot initiative from this year’s election ballot. The initiative would have enshrined abortion rights & equal protections under the law into our state constitution.

[Ziggy Played Guitar @Classical_Dee]

@_celia_bedelia_ For the record, my dog is more important TO ME than anyone’s kids. If my dog is unconscious in a burning building, he’s the one I’m carrying out to safety.

[¡Señorita Pug! @PugCrumbs]

Anyway! There's a song with Willie Jones on Cowboy Carter ("Just for Fun"), who is easily one of my favorite country artists. c:

Here's a banger of his that some of y'all probably haven't heard! It's called "Down by the Riverside." Definitely check out the rest of his music!

[Scott Hechinger @ScottHech]

Entire interview here: https://t.co/DuUlbMoZJR

[Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall]

True Detective: Night Country stuck the landing, with the most satisfying finale of the franchise so far. My review: https://t.co/17RgxCD2NZ

[Kendall Brown @kendallybrown]

Honestly, congrats to Kris Kristofferson for having officially outlived Toby Keith.

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

I remember well the public feud between The Chicks and Toby Keith, and I feel like many conservatives are willfully misremembering it.

The Chicks were blacklisted by much of the industry for their opinions on George W. Bush and the invasion of Iraq (which turned out to be 100% right, by the way).

And Toby Keith directly contributed to that pile-on.

Now, look, you can dislike how Natalie Maines went about offering her opinions, but nothing she did was anymore inappropriate than what Toby Keith did.

But country conservatives loved Mr. Keith's jingoistic propaganda and already disliked The Chicks for their progressive opinions even before Iraq.

A fair fight between the two would have meant both get to say what's on their mind and then, afterward, everyone gets back to the music.

That's what should happen in an industry that supposedly loves freedom of speech and freedom of ideology.

But that's not what happened. Much of the country music industry sought to push The Chicks completely out for their opinions, and Toby Keith went right along with it.

Many conservatives whine about "cancel culture" these days and do this incessant handwringing over free speech, but two decades ago, The Chicks became arguably the most prominent victim of "cancel culture" for expressing a reasonable opinion about our government's illegal and immoral invasion of Iraq.

It was an enormously embarrassing moment for the country music industry, and The Chicks never got the apology they deserved from the many cowardly men who did the exact opposite of supporting free speech.

Every time I hear some performative conservative whine about so-called "cancel culture," I think back to when they worked overtime to destroy The Chicks for expressing a reasonable opinion.

[Ziggy Played Guitar @Classical_Dee]

@scottEmovienerd Not a film, but this was a huge difference in quality.

[Ziggy Played Guitar @Classical_Dee]

@euphospug @scottEmovienerd If we’re gonna go with shitty American remakes of British gems, then we need to look at tv, too. See Broadchurch, Life on Mars, and tons of other shows we butchered over here.

[Ziggy Played Guitar @Classical_Dee]

@TheMewl @scottEmovienerd This is the one. The original was so good! The remake was such crap!

[Praxis Makes Perfect @AlexPleskach1]

Thinking about the time in 1928 when the LAPD couldn’t find a missing child, publicly “reunited” the mother with some random kid to save face, and then institutionalized the mother when she tried to tell people it wasn’t her son rather than admit their mistake

[Ziggy Played Guitar @Classical_Dee]

@unicorn__sauce @Arc_Hammer89 @AlexPleskach1 Not only dismissed, the cop threatened the black women if they kept trying to “cause trouble.”