Lisa Root

East Bay Punk Wocka Wocka Wocka

[New Noise Magazine @NewNoiseMags]

COVER REVEAL ISSUE 82: Our summer cover features OC legends, @SocialD1! The band recently released their long awaited new album, 'Born to Kill,' on @epitaphrecords.
📷: Jonathan Weiner
https://t.co/d4hqspyyjE

[New Noise Magazine @NewNoiseMags]

COVER REVEAL: Issue 82 features the return of @ceremony, who have plumbed the depths of today’s world and come up with an amalgam of anarcho- and post punk madness to reflect it on their new album, 'Tell Me Your Dream,' out Aug 7 on @RelapseRecords.
https://t.co/YalqbBGJMh

[Lisa Root @LisaRoot55]

Looney toons tongue unroll heart eyes

[The Academy @TheAcademy]

Ethan Hawke x 98th #Oscars

Photo Credit: Sami Drasin

[Extra Strength Tylenol 🏴‍☠️ @MissesDread]

You could get in your car with $500 in your pocket and drive to the other side of the country and start your life over. You could rent an apartment with just your name and some money. You could get a job just by walking in a place. It was an entirely different world.

[RetroBayArea @RetroBayArea]

Bottom of the Hill. San Francisco, late 1970s.

Bottom of the Hill is closing in 2026. I didn’t expect that. A lot of bands got their start here, and a lot of people found their scene here.

It’s sad. But in a city where places often disappear overnight or with very little notice, there’s something deeply human about being given a year to say goodbye. One last run. One more chance to show up.

It was built in 1911 when the Potrero Hill neighborhood was occupied by Italian and working-class families who worked at the nearby shipyards and warehouses. The building was originally a saloon and eatery, called “17th Street Restaurant.”

In the 1930s it housed a soda fountain and possibly even a speakeasy during prohibition.

From the 1960s through 1990 it was a family-owned restaurant and bar named Bottom of the Hill Restaurant, the type of place that was always busy at 6:00AM right when it opened its doors each morning.

Since 1991 it has been a live music venue. A true San Francisco institution!

📸: Jo Babcock

[Mike the Hot Dog Mayor @MikeHotDogMayor]

The Taco Bell in Pacifica, CA

[mo :3 @fruitpibble]

i love my country California

[⟡michelle⟡ @classiccinemich]

i know people have a lot of opinions about xanadu (1980) but i’m sorry this is the best movie musical closing number ever! nothing tops this level of 80s camp WITH gene kelly roller skating alongside olivia newton-john!

[Lisa Root @LisaRoot55]

https://t.co/5KYFzXQ74G

A song I can’t remember how I came across but that has always had a little spot in the corner of my head.

[owen cyclops @owenbroadcast]

when i was around 13 i ordered some band shirts. it came with a promotional CD for a label. one of the songs on it was great. for decades, ive sometimes thought about this song. just looked it up on youtube: it has 320 views. thats the beautiful part about art in the age of tech

[Adventures in California History @pitsenberger]

The actual trail across Donner Summit! It's a notch between two rock walls. Today, it's a quiet path that many people don't know about, as the more popular Pacific Crest Trail, which connects to it, draws most people's attention. Amazingly, this path was once the route of the Lincoln Highway, the first coast-to-coast highway in America. This path is the trail the Stephens party would have traversed.

[Sopranos World @SopranosWorld]

You know who loved Green Day?

[Bill Barnwell @billbarnwell]

Green Day have to be the only band to play 924 Gilman and the Super Bowl

[akil & saltfish @yungdessalines]

people spend years writing critical theory to explain the underlying dynamic of the world but once in a while the people in power just say it

[New Noise Magazine @NewNoiseMags]

COVER REVEAL: @newfoundglory are back on the scene with 'Listen Up!,' out February 20 via @purenoiserecs. Pre-order the issue now!
✍️: Kayla Moreno
📷: Angelea Yoder
https://t.co/qAVy5sIQLJ

[Niko @NikoLeMieux]

Yesterday as I was walking through Minneapolis with a friend I saw this Lexus parked terribly and commented to him: “get a load of this asshole’s terrible parking.” By complete serendipity, as if the universe itself was saying "be kinder with your spoken thoughts," right at that moment I heard a voice say “hey that’s my car, ICE grabbed me, I’m so sorry!” come from the passenger of a Jeep slowly passing by; the Jeep driver said she was the sister of the Lexus’ owner and that the two of them had just come back from picking her up from Federal detention. I went to go talk to the Lexus’ driver, but first I read the note on the windshield:

“THIS WOMAN WAS TAKEN BY ICE. Please don’t hit or tow.” Neighbors put that there, and put a tarp over the window that ICE broke open so snow wouldn’t get in.

The Lexus driver, a short, brown haired white woman told me she lived in the area and was driving through looking for parking, when armed ICE agents speedily blocked off the street in front of her, and swarmed the white pickup truck in front of her grabbing its driver. She said people came from throughout the neighborhood with whistles to record them grabbing that driver, and as she was trying to leave, ICE agents swarmed her vehicle as well and proceeded to open her window and door and remove her from her car, slamming her facedown in the street. She said a Federal agent entered her vehicle and parked it like this, before taking her away. I don’t know the story of the pickup driver.

I'll be honest, I didn't really believe what I was hearing at first until she showed me the video that a neighbor filmed, confirming the whole story. I asked her to airdrop it to me so I could make this post.

This woman was just driving and minding her business one moment, and the next she was snatched, she told me that they said she was "obstructing an investigation." After 24 hours in Federal custody, they released her with only the white shirt she was wearing when I met her, into the -8F cold where her sister was waiting, and they didn't give her back her car keys. She came to make sure her vehicle was still there.

There's a lot of people on this platform making all sorts of excuses for the Federal government's despicable behavior in Minneapolis, but what it comes down to is this: they are out of control. They are Out. Of. Control.

This woman's story that I saw firsthand is emblematic of the institutional rot at the core of DHS, CBP, and ICE. The agents involved in both shootings this month were 8- and 10-year veterans, not untrained amateurs. There have been three homicides in Minneapolis thus far in 2026- 66% of them have been US citizens murdered by the Federal government. My city is being subjected to a full-fledged occupation by lawless, unprofessional, un-American thugs. They have gone far beyond their stated mission of removing violent criminals and illegal aliens. They have all of us looking at every SUV, every vehicle with out-of-state plates, every vehicle with more than 2 men in it with caution, scrutiny, and concern. Many of my friends have bought guns or have gone to get their conceal carry permits, to stay safe from their own government because it's better to be judged by twelve than to be carried by six.

Minneapolis will survive this and will come out stronger for it, because we learned in 2020 that there's no one coming to save us, it's up to us to show up for our friends and neighbors. But people need to know that if the Federal government are doing this to us: You're not safe. You're next.

[PUSCIFER @puscifer]

Known for blurring the line between music, performance art, satire and world-building, Puscifer’s newest chapter introduces Bellendia Black, featured in the recently released comic, “Tales From The Pusciverse,” and now on the cover of @NewNoiseMags: https://t.co/yKAV7tkPiZ

[Lisa Root @LisaRoot55]

@jakeysnakey30 @Taskrabbit This guy’s been active with them since Oct 15 and they’ve already received feedback from two women who said he made unwanted advances/made them feel unsafe in their own home. They’ll give a bot response here but apparently ignore direct feedback. 😤

[Lisa Root @LisaRoot55]

I hired a @Taskrabbit to build a bookshelf. Dude was a complete creep. He came over while I was holding my dog to I guess get a kiss from her and KISSED MY BOOB. Among other creepy shit. Left private feedback- they never replied. Just a warning to the ladies- this company sucks.

[Lisa Root @LisaRoot55]

It looked like they removed him when I checked under my address, put a different one in and he's STILL on the app. Found this feedback buried in the reviews.

[Lisa Root @LisaRoot55]

@manuukenya I thought the common term was ‘sleep seeds’ but I guess not?