Philly is filling up for No Kings Day. #NoKings

No Kings (Philadelphia)

There are a whole bunch of reasons to turn out for #nokings tomorrow but here are maybe the top two: 1) huge turnout is a signal to republicans edging away from Trump and puts steel in Dem spines. 2) least we can do to honor bravery of Minnesotans who turned the tide

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS WEST HOLLYWOOD” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes

We’re teaming with our friends @soniccathedral.bsky.social to give you the chance to be one of the first to read the new @simonreynolds.bsky.social book. Sign up for their newsletter and they’ll be giving away the last of our very limited proof copies in tomorrow's mailing... eepurl.com/dvrkPP

What a flaccid Oscars that was. glad for the winners, but it shouldn’t be foreign and/or documentary filmmakers who speak to this moment. PTA a particular failure. Why make movies that confront what is happening if you can’t speak to it.

It's indefensible that the legacy media are not covering Trump's mental deterioration as the major story that it is.

I wrote about everything happening too much in 2026 and the rise of ‘monitoring the situation. How total bombardment is partly a surrender to the internet and its logic and algorithms—a kind of attentional death

"It’s a frightening reality of the Trump regime that, as he's descended into utter incoherence & is now nothing more than an assortment of adolescent (& frequently violent) urges, the govt has been remade into a tool for the immediate satisfaction of his desires no matter how nihilistic they may be"

I've been struggling with how to express my dismay at the war coverage by our top newsrooms, and how it dances around the central fact that Trump is deranged and unfit to command. I finally wrote something. Please read it. presswatchers.org/2026/03/the-...

“I wish I could say how cavalier, obtuse and hopeless Secretary Hegseth is at leading the Pentagon. I can’t even muster the words to describe his self-adulation, matched only in scope by his apparent moral depravity.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

This is not the best part of the firing, but it’s in the Top 10.

Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone. But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota.

Of course. No one wanted this war. They wanted food and health care and energy prices to go down. Now all those things will cost more. It's a war of folly by a doddering old man who likes when things blow up and needs to distract us from the child sex ring he's connected to.

We're taking to the streets from coast to coast on March 28 to show our collective power and demand an end to the Trump administration's abuse of power. Over 1,000 protests are already planned nationwide — and more are being added by the day. Join us.

It really is amazing how much of political punditry, *especially* elite outfits in NYC and Washington, still embrace this bizarre idea that rural spaces represent the "Real America" while metropolitan areas, where most (presumably real) Americans actually live, should be held in contempt.

What's happening to you, Milton? It's a big old Guardian feature, that's what. With a film about Ted, made by his own family, coming soon, I chatted with him about his poetry, puppetry and wayward life and times, with Roger Law of Spitting Image spitting facts www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f...

Donald Trump said today that "Republicans should say, we want to take over. We should take over the voting." My life's work is to prevent that from happening. I built a law firm to stop it. I started Democracy Docket as another tool in the fight for democracy. Subscribe now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

Last week we shared the news that Simon Reynolds next book will be Still In A Dream: Shoegaze, Slackers And The Reinvention Of Rock, 1984–1994 We’ve updated #ThePortal with pieces on several of the artists featured in the book, as well as an archive Simon Reynolds interview buff.ly/RjqnUou

Simon Reynolds is releasing a new book, Still In A Dream: Shoegaze, Slackers And The Reinvention Of Rock 1984–1994 buff.ly/haXZ9vR

My new book Still In A Dream: Shoegaze, Slackers, and the Reinvention of Rock, 1984-94 is out in June on @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social . It's a love letter to the music of my youth and a flashback to the most exciting time of my writing life. Pre-order geni.us/StillInADream

Wrote about one of my fave records of the 21st Century, the 2010 Rangers album Suburban Tours, whose dreamy guitar haze is shot through with nostalgia for growing up amid Sun Belt sprawl. An opportunity also to get a jump on nostalgia for chillwave (a genre itself shot through with nostalgia).

Had a fun chat with Lawrence of Mozart Estate / Go-Kart Mozart / Denim / Felt legend for @pitchfork.com pitchfork.com/features/int...

Once again, the main day of Tea Party protests had about 300,000 nationwide, but saw endless coverage. The No Kings protests had about 7,000,000 nationwide, and many media outlets reacted with a yawn. No Kings was nearly 25x as big as the Tea Party but the Tea Party got 25x the attention.

HAPPENING NOW: A MASSIVE crowd of protesters flood the streets of San Diego for a “No Kings Day” rally showing their love for America and standing up against the corrupt fascist Trump administration. look how huge it is

I’ve managed to squeeze in a fair bit of niche music into the pages of the Guardian over the years, but especially chuffed with getting to cover the waltzer sound system wars of Hull Fair. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

"The original #NoKings protest was 250 years ago. We've had democracy since then. Now we have a would-be king who wants to take it away—King Donald the First. Fuck that. Stand up and be counted in the nationwide No Kings protest on October 18." 👉👉 nokings.org

I wrote a little about Optimo's JD Twitch futurismrestated.substack.com/p/mixes-dige...

For his Rabbit Holed column @kieranpressreyn.bsky.social interviews Music Place, bonkers online archivist of the ultra-obscure, who leaves "a cursed but beautiful 'breadcrumb trail' across scenes and languages"

Knowing everything you know about Epstein and Trump read this yourself two-three times and ask what the most obvious interpretation of it would be.

Quick! Read while the paywall is relaxed for 24 hours this conversation between @kieranpressreyn.bsky.social and Shawn Reynaldo of First Floor substack about being a Gen Z music+culture writer

PLEASE TALK ABOUT ANYTHING OTHER THAN EPSTEIN. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.

RIP Keith Dobson of World Domination Enterprises - probably the most exciting live band I ever saw + creators of the immortal "Asbestos Lead Asbestos". Keith, aka Kif Kif, was a lovely guy, a great interview, a genius noise guitarist, and a counterculture lifer blissout.blogspot.com/2025/07/rip-...

"Actively passive, losing-itself-in-the-noise" - new column by @kieranpressreyn.bsky.social steps out of his lane to explore "hazy new-gen alt-rock": bar italia, untitled halo, deer park et al. Slackerdelia returns, only this time they don't even have the energy to capitalize their names...

For his Pitchfork column Rabbit Holed @kieranpressreyn.bsky.social‬ reports on SWAGGOTFEST, a 12-hour anarcho-pride parody of a music festival that transcended cringe and captured the sweetest, rawest aspects of the New York DIY scene pitchfork.com/thepitch/all...

Joy on the glorious #NoKings protests in LA

the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president

Especially if you're on the fence about it, protest today. Fascism is isolating and lonely. Its very goal is to make you feel like you're the only person unwilling to accept a cult of personality. On days like today you fully realize there are more of us than there are them. You will feel better.

"No Kings must break through to normies, independents, and Trump voters feeling remorse...Size is persuasion...If 100,000 people show up for Trump’s parade, but 5,000,000 people turn out across the country for No Kings rallies, who looks strong and who looks weak?" www.thebulwark.com/p/no-kings-n...

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS PASADENA” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

"I was this pedophile's biggest supporter until he was personally mean to me" seems like a bit of an own goal.

Entertaining + revealing GQ profile by @kieranpressreyn.bsky.social of YouTube cult star Adam Friedland, a left-aligned comedian with an irreverent / puerile approach to politics and the art of the interview.

A tribute to Susan Brownmiller, pioneering activist and writer in the women's liberation movement, by @joypress.bsky.social. Fascinating and funny tales of how the feminist firebrand took down Hugh Hefner on TV and helped organize the occupation of Ladies Home Journal.

THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social. The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

BREAKING: 36k people showed up in LA for Bernie and AOC’s rally. In the off year. Americans are pissed — and anyone ignoring that is making a big mistake.

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In Rabbit Holed, his Pitchfork column, @kieranpressreyn.bsky.social dives into the world of experimental ASMR, an evolving internet-folk form that keeps pushing to new extremes of wacked-out weirdness pitchfork.com/thepitch/cra...