Midwest Plebian

[Kansas Baseball @KUBaseball]

YOU CANNOT MAKE THIS UP.

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

The border sequence in Sicario remains some of Denis Villeneuve’s finest work.

[Daniel Hishaw Jr. Burner @HishawBurner]

There’s Allen Fieldhouse, then 50 feet of 💩, then everybody else.

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[KFC @KFCBarstool]

37 yr old ICU nurse Alex Pretti murdered by ICE in broad daylight with zero justification for deadly force. I mean ZERO. This feels like a watershed moment in American history that should enact change, but won't.
Very reminiscent of Sandy Hook when we all said "if that didn't get us to change, we never well!" Feels like another one of those. Because if you cannot admit this was wrong you're either an idiot or a liar, and I think you're a bad person and an unAmerican asshole. The hypocrisy from the same people who have been proudly screaming about the Ist and 2nd amendment for hundreds of years now trying to say protesting and carrying a legal firearm is reason enough to be murdered...what a joke. And the response from our leaders from Donald Trump to Tim Walz is all dangerous and pathetic. Were just a 3rd world country now where masked morons with no training and a gun can kill you for no reason other than "well we won't get in trouble for it tor" Out of all the dumb entities to blindly follow be of your political affiliation, supporting ICE is by far the most pathetic. ICE agents and their supporters the biggest trash in America maybe ever

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

This is musician Chuck Redd, the host of the annual Kennedy Center Christmas Eve jazz concert. He cancelled the event after Trump's insulting move to change the name of the historic venue.

RETWEET to thank Redd for standing up to Trump!

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

🚨NEW: Musician David Matthews calls out Trump: "What a shallow, horrifying, selfish, greedy, cruel little pig he is. While we all mourn the loss of a cultural icon, this withering turd of a human just puts poison in the air”

RETWEET if you stand with Matthews against Trump!

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Dave Matthews: “What a disgusting human being Donald Trump is. What a shallow, horrifying, selfish, greedy, cruel little pig he is. While we all mourn the loss of a cultural icon, this withering turd of a human just puts poison in the air”

[Mookie Blaylock @PearlJamLyric]

They said ... timing was everything, made him
Want to be everywhere, there's a
Lot to be said for nowhere

[Mookie Blaylock @PearlJamLyric]

A distant time ... A distant space ... That's where we're living ...
A distant time ... A distant place ... So what you giving? ...
What you giving?

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

This is what the Leadership of 1776 would be saying about Trump and his Administration on 2025! 👇👇👇

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Jack White just earned a new degree of respect from me.

An exceptional response to Trump's little people!
The White House melts down and attacks music legend Jack White after he insults Donald Trump's "disgusting" and "vulgar" redecoration of the White House
“Jack White is a washed-up, has-been loser posting drivel on social media because he clearly has ample time on his hands due to his stalled career,” claimed White House spokesman Steven Cheung.
“It’s apparent [White]’s been masquerading as a real artist, because he fails to appreciate, and quite frankly disrespects, the splendor and significance of the Oval Office inside of ‘The People’s House,'” Cheung added.
this is Jack’s response…
"Listen, I’m an artist and not a politician so I’m in no need to give my answer or opinion on anything if I’m not inspired or compelled, but how funny that it wasn’t me calling out trump’s blatant fascist manipulation of government, his gestapo ICE tactics, his racist remarks about Latinos, Native Americans, etc. his ridiculous 'wall' construction, his attacks on the disabled, his attempted coup and mob insurrection and destruction of the sacred halls of congress, his disparaging sexist and pedophilic remarks about women, his obvious attempts at distraction about being a close personal friend of Jeffrey Epstein and his inclusion in the Epstein files, his ignorance of the dying children in Sudan, Gaza, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, his lack of empathy for military veterans and those struggling with poverty, his attempts to dismantle healthcare, his obvious wimpy and pathetic kowtowing to the dictators Putin and Kim Jong Un, his nazi like rallies, his attempts to sell merchandise and products like Goya beans through the office of the President, his fake 'gunshot to the ear' that he showed no medical records or photographs of, his constant, constant, constant lying to the American people, etc. etc. etc."
"No, it wasn’t me calling out any of that, it was the f*cking DECOR OF THE OVAL OFFICE remarks I made that got them to respond with insults," he continued. "How petty and pathetic and thin skinned could this administration get? 'Masquerading as a real artist'? Thank you for giving me my tombstone engraving! Well here’s my opinion, trump is masquerading as a human being."
"He’s masquerading as a christian, as a leader, as a person with actual empathy," he wrote. "He’s been masquerading as a businessman for decades as nothing he’s involved in has prospered except by using other people’s money to find loophole
after loophole and grift after grift."
"His staff of professional liar toadies like Steven Cheung and Karoline Leavitt have been covering up and masking his fascism as patriotism and fomenting hatred and division in this country on a daily basis," White went on. "And I have 'ample time on (my) hands'? That orange grifter has spent more tax payer money cheating at golf than helping ANYONE in the country. Improve. Anything. There is no progress with him, only smoke and mirrors and tax breaks for the ultra wealthy."
"So maga folk, enjoy your concrete paving over of the rose garden, your 200 million dollar ballroom in the White House, and your gaudy ass gold spray painted trinkets from Home Depot, cause he ain’t spending any money on helping YOU unless you fit into his white supremacist country club rich idiot agenda,"
"Wow, he hates who you hate....good for you, be proud of yourselves, how christian of you all,"
"The only way you can support this conman is because you are a victim of the 2 party system and you 'defend your guy no matter what he does.'" he wrote. "No intelligent person can defend this low life fascist. This bankruptor of casinos. This failed seller of trump steaks, trump vodka, trump water, etc."
"This man and his goon squad have failed upwards for decades and have fleeced the American people over and over," wrote White. "This professional golf cheat, this grifter who has hundreds of thousands of deaths from his inaction of the pandemic on his hands, this man that the majority of the country somehow were fooled into supporting and voting into office (through the flawed electoral college) and their love of reality
television stars."
"Being insulted by the actual White House that this particular conman leads is a badge of honor to me, because anyone who trump supports and likes is a villain who gives nothing to their fellow man, only takes what can benefit themselves,"
"And no I’m not a Democrat either, I’m a human being raised in Detroit, I’m an artist who’s owned his own businesses like his own upholstery shop and recording label since he was 21 years old who has enough street sense to know when a 3 card monte dealer is a cheap grifter and a thief,"
"I was raised to believe that we defeated fascism in World War II and that we would never allow it again in the world. I don't always state publicly my political opinions, and like anyone I don't always know all of the facts, but when it comes to this man and this administration I'm not going to be like one of the silent minority of 1930's Germany. This man is a danger to not just America but the entire world and that's not an exaggeration, he's dismantling democracy and endangering the planet on a daily basis, and we. all. know. it. -JW III...

[Midwest Plebian @Kspearljam]

@Mikehomeseller Fortunate to have seen the 18 times live. Looking forward to seeing them again!

[ML Smith @maria48308]

Perfectly said sir. Thank you!

[Tones Of Music @TonesOfMusic]

Pearl Jam on this day '93

MTV Video Music Awards

[truant finds home @pj_history]

Pearl Jam first headlined the Gorge 20 years ago today!

PJ began with a seated acoustic set, and busted this one out. It's a stunner: As the song builds, each band member stands up out of their seats, one at a time. #tfh

"Hard to Imagine," Sept 1, 2005: https://t.co/yR1F75mwqx

[Midwest Plebian @Kspearljam]

@tgoff11 Corduroy… Pearl Jam… opening line… “The waiting drove me mad… yore finally here and I’m a mess…”

[Midwest Plebian @Kspearljam]

@ScotPollard31 @KUHoops Totally agree @ScotPollard31 loved watching you all.

[David Frum @davidfrum]

Socialism is the belief that government bureaucrats can allocate economic resources better than private markets.

Trumpism is the belief that white-collar fraudsters and racist crackpots can allocate economic resources better than private markets. https://t.co/phCmLhynX6

[Midwest Plebian @Kspearljam]

@allrockmusic vs.

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

Isaac Asimov was so ahead of his time

Absolutely nailed it here