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I'd have thought this was obvious, but folks: Don't shoot Donald Trump. Just vote for his Democratic opponent.

Kevin Roberts, head of the Heritage Foundation that spearheaded Project 2025, admitted that Trump is lying about his connections to the project in order to get elected, saying it's a "political tactical decision" and that "if you're running for president and you're trying to win...then it makes sense you would want to pivot from that."

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Trump knows the bring-back-the-Dark-Ages wishlist Project 2025 is going to cost him voters, so he's trying to disavow any connection to it. Here's video proof (from his own mouth) that he's lying. At least 240 people who worked on Project 2025 also worked for Trump, and it mentions Trump by name 312 times.

Just dropped a super-sized ep of my indie music podcast. we have 24 brand new tracks guaranteed to rock your summer. Me and Ben give you all the info and share our vacation adventures. Plus, WHITE BOARD has arrived!

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Thanks for listening! Special shoutout to @SteveCarll67

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3. Party Dozen – "The Big Man Upstairs". Sydney, Australia improve-based duo with a catchy tune based on asymmetrical guitar strumming and saxophone that gives it a no-wave flavor.

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2. DIIV – "Raining On Your Pillow". Third pool of dreamy, druggy melancholia from the Brooklyn shoegazers' new album. Dive in and float away.

My Top 3 Songs of the Week (2024 Week 27):
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1. Wilco – "Annihilation". Tweedy & Co. are back with a new album, Hot Sun Cool Shroud, and this single, which characteristically balances pretty moments with noisy ones to produce an effect you might call "hangdog optimism".

Note: title should say "Week 26", not 25.

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5. Peel Dream Magazine – "Lie in the Gutter". With this song, Peel Dream Magazine hits that same sweet spot that Stereolab used to be able to reach back in the '90s. If you were there, you know the one.

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4. Allegra Krieger – "Never Arriving". I keep picturing a scenario involving Allegra Krieger, a lost track by members of Fleetwood Mac and Tom Petty's Heartbreakers, and possibly a time machine, to explain the felicitous existence of this song.

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3. Local Natives – "Camera Shy". This song hooked me with that flanged guitar that pulses through it (much like "Help You Ann" by The Lyres hooked me with it 40 years ago), and the rest of the package delivers on that promise.

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2. Lutalo – "Ocean Swallows Him Whole". Lutalo is a Vermont-based indie folkie; here he picks up the hypnotic sonics of UK indie rock for this slinky, stuttering track. "Ocean's going to see who you were all along".

My Top 5 Songs of the Week (2024 Week 25):
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1. MJ Lenderman – "She's Leaving You". I love Lenderman's melodic hooks and his laconic singing. Waxahatchee's Katie Crutchfield sings harmony and, as on her song "Right Back To It", they sound amazing together. "It falls apart / we all got work to do."

I get that Biden is not an ideal candidate. He wasn't an ideal candidate in 2020 either. He remains the only viable choice for preserving what's left of democracy and buy us time to develop better options for ourselves.

And who would it even be? I'm sure we could all come up with a short list of candidates we'd prefer, but I doubt there's a single candidate who could both satisfy enough Democrats to unify the party *and* get a national campaign up to speed at this late hour (especially without the advantage of incumbency).

Yeah, there's a mechanism for replacing him now, but how is it going to play for the DNC to overturn the express will of Democratic primary voters and choose somebody that none of them voted for and hasn't proven themselves as a viable national candidate through the primary process?

Democrats spent the first part of this year going through the best available process for deciding whether to replace Biden as their nominee. It's called "the primaries". Only three people bothered to run against him, one of whom explicitly ran on Biden's age. None of them polled higher than 15% and Democratic voters in all 50 states overwhelmingly chose Biden to be the nominee.

Instead of using AI to steal jobs and intellectual property from artists, they should use it to design a smoke alarm that can tell the difference between “the house is on fire” and “dad’s heating up tortillas on the stovetop again”

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