My new book Still In A Dream is out in the UK a month from now! Details at my blog of my UK mid-June tour - London, Bath, Bristol, London again, Leeds, Brighton - info about guests, times, locations, links for tix. Hope to see at you one of these events! blissout.blogspot.com/2026/05/stil...

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

Announcing the first Still in a Dream event for @simonreynolds.bsky.social, which will be at Rough Trade East on Monday 15 June, discussing his new masterpiece on shoegaze with the great @mikiberenyi.bsky.social. Tickets from dice.fm/partner/tick... And we’ll be sharing more event details soon…

Trump pressured Republican states to rig their electoral maps, because he saw a midterm disaster coming for his party. He knows they will lose big without rigged districts. Virginia can level the playing field and stop his newest scam tomorrow by voting YES for fair election maps. #VoteYesVirginia

Here’s the cover for ‘fifty lost treasures’, the exclusive bonus fanzine that accompanies Still in a Dream by @simonreynolds.bsky.social when you order a signed copy from select independent retailers. Over 8,000 extra words from one of the finest music writers in the world... geni.us/StillInADream

There will be a party like this in the U.S. one day

i will vote for any candidate who offers up this slogan

more seriously congrats to the hungarian people for kicking that asshole out

People will be closely studying how Hungary's opposition pulled off their win in such a pro-incumbent system. Important to note that the theme was corruption. Democrats need to get much better at calling out Trump's corruption.

Orban’s defeat also removes a major part of the far-right populist infrastructure worldwide, which I wrote about this fall: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Hi JD Vance. I think Nigel Farage and Reform could definitely do with your help in the May elections here

It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...

Orban concedes defeat. The support of Trump, Vance, Putin, Lavrov, Weidel, Milei, Le Pen, Fico, Babis and many others could not overcome Hungarian anger at a stagnant, corrupt regime www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

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And Orbán is out, by a landslide. Other authoritarians will be feeling the chill. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

3. Nothing is inevitable. There are models, new ones every day, for getting off the path of autocracy. Follow global democracy movements like you would the NBA. Get invested. Hungarians just showed us how to beat cynicism. The future can still be ours and we and MUST can learn from others.

BREAKING: Viktor Orbán concedes defeat in Hungarian elections after 16 years in power - with opposition Tisza party on course for landslide victory.

Orban is not conceding because he's honourable. He's conceding because his defeat is so comprehensive even he can't pretend he won.

Orban, Bolsonaro, Trump, and all the rest of these goons want you to believe they are inevitable and, once in power, invincible. They are not.

I’ve checked out of BS a bit so apologies for just being promo guy BUT I have a book to promote. (out May 7). Had some lovely quotes come in from early readers, so huge thanks to @luketurner.bsky.social, @simonreynolds.bsky.social, @adellestripe.bsky.social, @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social.

Trump went from making insane genocidal threats this morning to hyping the “golden age” of Iran hours later, and he received no concessions in between. He’s an absolute basket case who needs to be removed from power before he follows through on one of his mass murder fantasies.

I was promised that history ended in 1989, man. I didn't consent to all this history happening during my lifetime.

How it feels doing literally any task right now.

today sure feels like one of the all time ‘so i still just gotta go and do my little job during all this?!’ moments

The rest of the world should probably collectively stand up to the U.S. right now, tbh

This is absolutely insane and 25th amendment grounds in and of itself

The 25th Amendment exists for a reason.

The President is openly threatening genocide. A crime against humanity. He must be removed from office. The 25th Amendment must be invoked. If not, Congress has to do our damn job. Speaker Johnson, call us into session. War powers & impeachment. Remove this man from office.

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