Pomegranate is French for “potato grenade” but the French don’t want you to know this

Have you listened to the latest episode of Public Health Is Dead yet? Lots of good info and reminders. Check it out here: public-health-is-dead.simplecast.com/episodes/bey...

Our editors share a wide variety of their personal favorite albums of 2025, featuring some of the year's biggest releases and a wealth of lesser-heard gems. Each writer hand-picks their own top albums, including some lists of singles and links to streaming playlists. Tune in!

Distraction: The personal favorites of individual editors (who participated, including me) are up! Many, many great recommendations to peruse over the holidays. Link is below, or search the interwebs for "AllMusic Loves 2025" at your convenience. 💛🕺🎶 www.allmusic.com/blog/post/al...

It's that time of year, and AllMusic's overall picks for best albums of 2025 are out (alphabetical, not ranked). Genre lists are revealed on weekdays for the rest of the year, personal lists by editor forthcoming. 🎶 www.allmusic.com/year-in-revi...

I just saw a "lyrics proofreading" credit on an album press release and it made my day.

If you need a distraction, I contributed to this AllMusic list, which is surprisingly sweet and funny (and unsurprisingly informative) at times. www.allmusic.com/blog/post/la...

This is just under an hour long and packed with stuff everyone should be aware of (re: "the files," authoritarianism, what's actually going on and why people are acting the way they're acting, things to be on the look-out for...)

It's not like we were born with an innate understanding of N95 masks and airborne transmission. Many of us put in the intellectual effort to understand it, starting in 2020. You don't need a medical degree to understand this stuff. It has been explained, and explained, and explained.

Wow, is this a current mood. (There’s a nice little summary of how the hell DJT made it into college, if you’ve ever wondered.) Sorry for the preview photo. www.marytrump.org/p/the-pettin...

New interview! On all the things going wrong and how we got here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYWn...

Another great interview with Sarah Kendzior. I've been begging folks for years to understand that the (establishment) Dems are in on it--this interview packs in a lot of info quickly, including a sense of how that's played out. We HAVE TO understand what we're really up against.

OK, I'm officially in favor of anything over nothing, but I was already annoyed at being excluded from No Kings, AN ANTI-AUTHORITARIAN PROTEST, due to ableist/ageist/racist/transphobic lack of masking; now I learn it starts at 9:30 here. Why? Michigan football game @ noon. 🙄🙄🙄

feels like Lotte Reiniger gif time

Was feeling the lowest of lows then got a Wordle in two.

Someone said "Star of David banner" and I heard it as "star of David Banner" until a good 30 seconds later. (And, no, I wasn't thinking of the rapper.)

As far as finding things and doing research, the internet and Google worked better in 2005.

Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest: www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...

TIL about water clocks. How had I never heard or thought of these before?

It would take around 1.1 million acres of solar panels to (clean) power the world. That's less than a quarter of the number of acres devoted globally to golf courses. You can see where this is going, right...?

Watching the Sumud Flotilla tonight and thinking about our friend Greta Thunberg, who was just arrested by Israel… and also countless other people who are just as brave even if we don’t know their names yet

Should I be alarmed that it smells like gasoline and I can hear multiple helicopters nearby (can't see anything from inside my neighborhood).

Violet Affleck crushes it again

. Court of History Sidney Blumenthal & Sean Wilentz discuss Sidney’s essay in-Guardian Cracker Barrel controversy shows how logo change was weaponized by the right-part of the ongoing culture war What corporate retreat reveals about cynical politics driving these battles youtu.be/p0JTgGw3MhA?...

How have I not heard any "You're fired!" jokes

Today (end of Wednesday for me) has been the most bananas news day I can remember, an endless stream of medium and major news, running the gamut from awkward to obscene and dystopian to unbearably tragic. I want off the death-cult train.

Hey, everybody, there's new AllMusic list post by the editing team. What did I pick? 🤔 This one's pretty fun to explore, good job, everyone. Favorite One-Album Wonders: www.allmusic.com/blog/post/fa...

Hey, everybody, there's new AllMusic list post by the editing team. What did I pick? 🤔 This one's pretty fun to explore, good job, everyone. Favorite One-Album Wonders: www.allmusic.com/blog/post/fa...

I just glanced out the back of my apartment to see a hawk dive-bombing a squirrel about 100 feet away near a tree, ran out, and somehow scared it away. (I half thought it might retaliate--it can fly!) 🐿️ Total knee-jerk response.

One of the first things I'd do to set myself apart if I were to become on online personality of some sort (which I won't because of my voice/appearance) is to record & edit in a natural way with pauses. I f^hate (hate!) how videos are sped up & mushed together now, algo be dam'd.

For my homies, a packed interview from Aaron Parnas's Substack: Today, I’m bringing you a special interview with Mallory McMorrow, a rising star and candidate for U.S. Senate in Michigan. open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...

Midwestern U.S., August 2025: I know there are other things going on, but as if to underscore, after what seemed like two months (six weeks?) of continuous unbearable heat, I'm now wearing a hoodie and there's wildfire smoke.

But have you ever fallen UP the stairs?

I've returned to my browbeaten '80s childhood mindset of "I'll figure it out on my own" because the combination of search engines, Help, and AI are so untrustworthy now.

Is it possible that RFKJ got to an age where he understood that the see eye aye ⚰️ his father and has been trying to ⚰️ as many Americans as possible ever since

This is some insane Soviet bullshit. The idea that any American news organization would agree to something like this is unconscionable. I don't know how any self-respecting journalist could work for an outlet that's doing this.

I cried through half of The Zombies: Hung Up on a Dream.

THE SHROUDS felt like an '80s movie about the future to me.

Check out my convo with @wajali.bsky.social - on last nights SCOTUS order allowing POTUS to gut the department of education, and what the R Justices are up to more generally ….

NYC, tonight. Flash flooding has significantly affected the subway. This is the 28th Street station of the No. 1 train. The 1 is out, and the 2 and 3 trains are back in service with severe delays. E, F, M, and R trains are a mess too. Oh, and do *not* drive. Stay home.

It’s crazy that Boeing got away with killing those whistleblowers

So does The Crying Game still work?

I've been sitting on this one for several days and finally read it -- it's a must. "In order to 'live your life' without any COVID mitigations you’re asking me, and so many others, not to live at all." 📢

I've assembled a team of the most horrible perverts and criminals you've ever seen and we're going to fix this country

Make movies like the 1930s again.

I'm not sure any TV show has used music as well as The Handmaid's Tale.

If you haven't figured out yet that there's always one last-minute turncoat -- Rep or Dem -- who "surprise" delivers the power class what it wants, I don't know what to say. It happens every time. So close! 🙄 Maybe next time (if you're still alive then)!

I wanted to quickly gush about an indie pop release day that includes new albums by Lightheaded, Jeanines, and Frankie Cosmos, do enjoy. :) 🤓 Footnote: the Lightheaded is "drenched in lush reverb on tape by Fred Thomas (Saturday Looks Good to Me)" 💙 (quote from Bandcamp).

Leaving your AC off is not a moral victory. Keeping yourself cool is not a weakness.