Goth @ 🖤

Liberated by a Goth Night dance floor. Fueled by @WaxTraxChicago Industrial Music. Nurtured by @CHICorg. (Lefty & Rural stuff @RuralLefty)

[Goth @ 🖤 @GothAtHeart_]

"They point out that goth and alternative cultures may be linked to whiteness in the popular imagination, but many of the characteristics associated with these subcultures, especially piercings, tattoos, and rock, have roots in communities of color." https://t.co/KJ6jd3qUnQ

[matt bernstein @mattxiv]

reposting hannah’s words because i couldn’t have said it better

[Danny Deraney @DannyDeraney]

The time Dolly Parton and Kermit jammed to Sly and the Family Stone.

This is always how I will remember her.

[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

We've been getting a lot of questions lately about how the Internet Archive digitizes books.

The short answer: page by page, by hand.

You may remember our viral 2021 video of Eliza Zhang scanning a book. That's still how we do it.

Meet Eliza, and learn how we scan books: https://t.co/gt9s5lbPE4

[Dark Entries Records @darkentriesrecs]

There will never be another Dolly Parton 🕊️

🎥 Dolly Parton and Patti LaBelle playing “Shortnin’ Bread” using just their acrylic nails in 1987.

[Block Club Chicago @BlockClubCHI]

Glunz Tavern tapped its final barrel of Schlitz beer in Chicago. https://t.co/FpyU98BO80

[Goth @ 🖤 @GothAtHeart_]

.@404mediaco by Samantha Cole, "Twitch is going to train Amazon's AI models on streamers' content unless they deliberately go into their settings and opt out, potentially sweeping up a wealth of streamers who either don't hear . . . ." #ItsEitherACorAI
https://t.co/kRbrA5Qb46

[john robb @johnrobb77]

Cabaret Voltaire and Gazelle Twin : The John Robb interview about their upcoming UK tour and their music https://t.co/1O2HlbcrIE

[La Arrolladora @Arrolladora]

"Unámonos por una gran causa: Colombia y Venezuela nos necesitan hoy más que nunca. Acompáñanos este domingo 16 de agosto a las 6:00 p. m. en el Kaseya Center de Miami. ¿Estás lejos? No importa desde dónde nos veas, puedes enviar tu ayuda donando antes, durante y después del evento a través de Univision, ViX, Venevision App y WAPA."

[Jane Schoenbrun @sapphicspielbrg]

have been looking for a nice clean moment to announce that i'm quitting twitter and friends it has finally arrived

FACT CHECK: i do not have a "fart fetish" (...not that there's anything wrong with that)

[Jesse De La Pena @jessedelapena]

Catch me spinning around town 08.14.26

[The Jazz Estate @thejazzestate]

Japanese saxophonist Chika Asamoto playing the soprano saxophone in the now-demolished Kowloon Walled City slum in Hong Kong, August 21, 1988.

[Nabil Ayers @nabilayers]

Pixies playing “Trompe Le Monde” on Letterman in Feb 1992. This was their US network TV debut. What an amazing, weird song to play, and with the full Letterman band. I count 4 guitars, and Paul and Sid’s solos are bonkers.

[NY AG James @NewYorkStateAG]

We're suing to block the @ParamountPics merger with @warnerbros.

This merger would create a massive company with unprecedented power and influence across the globe, raising costs for consumers and putting jobs at risk.

[Gabriel Zucman @gabriel_zucman]

Nearly half a century later, history may be repeating itself—but in reverse.

California is now emerging as the front line in the fight for global tax justice.

The November 3 vote could mark the beginning of a worldwide movement to end the tax impunity of the ultra-rich.

[Gabriel Zucman @gabriel_zucman]

In 1978, California stood at the forefront of the anti-tax revolt by passing the famous Proposition 13, which capped property taxes and foreshadowed the conservative revolution that swept across the United States a few years later.

[Gabriel Zucman @gabriel_zucman]

With a sufficiently large coalition of states—or, better yet, a federal tax—nothing would stand in the way of moving from a one-time levy to an annual tax on the largest fortunes, since wealthy Americans would not be able to escape taxation simply by moving to another state.

[Gabriel Zucman @gabriel_zucman]

In time, this process could very well lead to the creation of a federal tax on extreme wealth.

That's precisely what happened more than a century ago with the progressive income tax, which first emerged at the state level before being adopted by the federal government in 1913.

[Gabriel Zucman @gabriel_zucman]

There is every reason to believe that the California ballot will be one of the defining political battles of the U.S. midterm elections.

If the measure passes, California's billionaire tax could quickly inspire similar initiatives in states such as New York, Washington, and Massachusetts.

[Gabriel Zucman @gabriel_zucman]

Of course, billionaires will use that power to influence the November 3 ballot.

They are preparing to spend without limit while predicting every imaginable catastrophe should the 5% tax be adopted, backed by dubious studies and every kind of threat they can muster.

But democratic forces are more prepared than ever to take them on.

[Gabriel Zucman @gabriel_zucman]

This is the concentration of wealth we must confront.

Because extreme wealth always brings with it extreme power: the power to crush competition, manipulate public debate, shape public policy, and buy elections.