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• November 11, 2026 at 7:15 AM 1 min read

  Victory Day and a Pink Slip

  Today is Veterans Day. Or “Victory Day for World War I,” if you’re following Trump’s rebrand. The man who wanted to rename the holiday also fired 62,000 veterans from federal jobs this year. Rename the day, gut the people. Classic. That’s the whole trick, every time. The troops get a parade and a social media post. Defense contractors get a $1.5 trillion budget line. The people who actually served get a wait list and a layoff notice, and if they’re among the 1.2 million veterans currently on food stamps, a grocery bill that keeps climbing. Support the troops is a bumper sticker. It was never a policy. Happy Victory Day. The victory was never yours.

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  November 11, 2026 at 5:39 AM 1 min read

  Saliva Commandos - Cause That's The Way

  Saliva Commandos loop four words over a bumping tech house groove and it lives in your head for a week. Stupidly effective. Zero regrets.
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  November 10, 2026 at 10:38 PM 1 min read

  Mauro Picotto - The Twilight Zone (V2)

  Mauro Picotto remakes his own classic again and somehow it isn't a nostalgia racket. A quarter century in, he still means it. Respect.
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  November 10, 2026 at 6:05 PM 1 min read

  Drove - Bitter

  Drove repeats one word until it becomes a feeling, not a production trick. Bitter is melodic electronic with a lump in its throat. Quietly devastating.
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  Some shirts are statements. This one is a verdict.

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  November 10, 2026 at 4:08 PM 1 min read

  Twenty-Eight Years

  He retired before Google existed. The vest says otherwise. Retired in 1998. Standing at the store entrance in 2026. The smile is real, which is the part that’ll get you if you look at this too long. He’s not holding the sign in protest. He’s holding it the way someone holds a fun fact about themselves, like it’s trivia and not a summary of the entire pension system. Twenty-eight years between the party and the vest. Somebody did the napkin math on his fixed income and the answer was “greeter.” He seems fine with it, and that’s the bleakest part. The economy turned retirement into a word that means “the first job you take after the career you already finished.”

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  Made for people who left the room during Yellow.

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  November 10, 2026 at 3:49 PM 1 min read

  Mauro Picotto & Bryan Kearney - Proximus

  Mauro Picotto and Bryan Kearney twist an acid line down the drain like it's 1999. Pure uncut tech trance. Dust off the glow sticks.
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  If you wear this and someone hugs you, that's a real friend.

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  November 10, 2026 at 1:22 PM 1 min read

  Dani Thorne - The Afters (Hard Dance ViP)

  Dani Thorne's hard dance VIP of The Afters had us three plays deep on a weeknight. Legs screaming, face grinning. Do not recommend sitting down.
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  Looks like Helvetica. Sounds like a closing argument.

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  November 10, 2026 at 11:24 AM 1 min read

  Lykke Li - Future Fear (Killen. Remix)

  Killen. turns Lykke Li's grief into a four-four heartbeat and it hits at 1am. A Future Fear remix that works as a weapon. Rude.
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  Three words. One opinion. Cotton.

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  November 10, 2026 at 9:42 AM 1 min read

  Charlie Sparks x LAWTON - Feel The Vibe

  Charlie Sparks x LAWTON turn the BPM up to 150 and take the chairs out of the room. Hard techno that dragged itself back into the spotlight.
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  What if your laundry was also a personality?

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• November 10, 2026 at 6:09 AM 1 min read

  Half Your Paycheck and a Picket Line

  Tomorrow Spain shuts down. Every sector, every city. The first joint general strike in 14 years, and the demand is the most basic thing in the world: people who work full time should be able to afford a roof. Spaniards now spend half their gross salary on rent. In Barcelona it’s 76%. An 87-year-old woman named Maricarmen got evicted, sparked the biggest housing protests in a generation, and then died. The government looked at all of that and called a snap election instead of capping rents or building anything. Which is the perfect summary of every housing crisis everywhere: workers say “we can’t afford to live” and politicians say “let me check with the electorate on that.” Spain has 2% public housing stock. The OECD average is 7%. The Bank of Spain says 700,000 homes are missing. The numbers aren’t subtle. The solution isn’t complicated. The obstacle is that solving...

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  Ships in 3–5 days. The outrage ships immediately.

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