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Nine Million Paychecks
Read more . . . →The Education Department is about to garnish the wages of five million Americans who defaulted on their student loans. Another four million are close behind. Up to fifteen percent of every paycheck, plus your tax refund, plus your Social Security if you’re old enough to collect it. The same administration that handed billionaires the biggest tax cut in a generation is reaching directly into the bank accounts of people whose crime was going to college. This is debt collection, not governance. The pause they announced in January lasted about as long as a campaign promise. Now the machinery is back:...
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Cephas Azariah & Kidnap - Lightning
Cephas Azariah and Kidnap bottle Lightning into melodic house that actually hits. Headphones on, phone away, stare out a window.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestSundays. One email. Zero ballads from white guys in beanies. -
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goddard. - Lillies (ft. Jazmine Johnson)
goddard. teams up with Jazmine Johnson on Lillies, liquid DnB that goes down like warm honey. Dangerously easy to replay all afternoon.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestWhat you missed this week, minus the corporate emo. -
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Thirsty
Read more . . . →The cloud needs to drink. Aerial shot of a small town and its water tower, connected by a massive blue bendy straw directly into a windowless data center. The straw bends over the tower like a kid finishing a milkshake, except the milkshake is the municipal water supply. Houses line the road below, small and white, very much dependent on the same water that’s currently being piped into a building with more air conditioning than the rest of the zip code combined. Every search query has a water cost. Every chatbot answer has a gulp. The town gets whatever drips...
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Curbi - Caliente
Curbi's Caliente is bass house at the exact temperature the name promises. Sweaty, loud, a little dumb, and we're completely in. Play it loud.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogMade for people who left the room during Yellow. -
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Future Dynamic - Waiting For You
Future Dynamic's Waiting For You is future bass that earns its sparkle. Big, shiny, and shamelessly in love. Cringe if you want, we'll dance.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogIf you wear this and someone hugs you, that's a real friend. -
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Why Every Pop Song Has a Drop Now
The drop didn't kill the pop chorus, it became it. How EDM rewired pop song structure between 2009 and 2013, from Guetta to Avicii, and never undid it.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogLooks like Helvetica. Sounds like a closing argument. -
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Ferreck Dawn - Need
Ferreck Dawn's Need is slick house that grabs you by the hips and doesn't ask. Gets worse and better every time the groove loops.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogThree words. One opinion. Cotton. -
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Cartoon & Artino - Ultraviolet
Cartoon and Artino's Ultraviolet is melodic DnB that glows. Bright, fast, and a little emotional. We were not prepared. Play it loud.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogWhat if your laundry was also a personality? -
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Four Hundred Trees and a Tee Time
Read more . . . →Four hundred and thirty trees. Cut down in a few hours on a holiday weekend while nobody was watching. Not for housing or a hospital or anything a resident of D.C. asked for. For a golf course. The president of the United States looked at a public park on federal land and decided the fairway wasn’t pretty enough for him. A federal judge called it bad faith and blocked the chainsaws. The National Park Service broke environmental law doing it. The administration’s move after getting caught was to announce a 15-month closure and share a redesign map like a kid...
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