Unlike other videos, it opened with a minute-long prelude that established the narrative for what followed, creating a format that would be followed by other artists (including Michael Jackson, whose cinematically styled “Thriller” video came out in late 1983).

Unhappy with the idea of lip-syncing to the song, Petty and the group chose a narrative approach, in which the band discover an abandoned cassette player and a dust-covered arcade in a futuristic Mad Max–inspired desertscape.

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Grateful to be back on @msnbc.com @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social to discuss my op-ed in the Tennesseean.

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In several states, Republicans are pressuring Democrats to pass redistricting that disadvantages them, and Democrats are trying to fight back with "fair maps."
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“When we look back on the history of populism in America, we are going to look back on the MAGA movement as the biggest scam in American history. And the liberals were right. The MAGA supporters were had, they were.”

- Nick Fuentes

“You-, and honestly I-, and if you watch my show, you know I’ve been very critical — I’ve never been this far. This just goes to show this entire thing has been a scam.”

“And now he [Trump] says if you’re not on board with the Epstein cover-up, ‘Oh, I don’t want your support. You’re a weakling,’” mused Nick Fuentes this summer. “F*ck you! F*ck you! You suck. You are fat. You are a joke. You are stupid. You are not funny. You are not as smart as you think you are.”

Senate is back in session today.

1/ So a quick 🧵on where things are at on the shutdown.

You get a lot of propaganda and spin thrown at you, so I want to give you the real, behind-the-scenes tea.

Ah yes, air traffic controllers must show up for work without pay, but Congress can take the day off. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says he’ll be making “necessary cuts” to the department, because nothing fixes staffing shortages quite like firing more people.

It’s a mental illness

Great read, thank you!

… not just Columbus. Vasco da Gama was a true psychopath who burned alive Muslim passengers on a captured ship in the Indian Ocean. Cortes and Pizarro slaughtered staggering numbers of people in their conquests of the New World. Amerigo Vespucci was probably a pimp and definitely a ruthless slaver.

which makes him a very fitting guy for the US to have a weird origin myth around

I always make that point. On an aside, I've cited your evaluation of Columbus as "replacement-level character" in my lectures for years (with proper credit, of course).

Obama: "When you see an administration suggest that ordinary street crime is an insurrection or a terrorist act, that is a genuine effort to weaken how we have understood democracy."

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ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

This led to a period of global warming between 117 and 110 million years ago, driven by increased carbon emissions into the atmosphere.

The basins that once separated Africa and South America were rich in carbon, and their disruption during the Atlantic’s formation reduced carbon sequestration efficiency.