Holy shit what

one of the realest tributes to Prince anybody did after he died. Somebody major needs to get on TV and do for “The Charade” what D’Angelo did here youtu.be/FeV7A6VWjL8?...

My former proximity to this one moment of ICE barbarism is not the point—the point is they’re enacting violence all over the city. It’s like nothing I’ve seen before.

This is who @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social is. Brilliant. Fearless. I fucking hate typing this shit out: Free Eman. Amplify amplify amplify please.

Logan Square neighborhood, Chicago. Man wearing a balaclava in a white, unmarked vehicle, pulls the pin on a tear gas canister and tosses it in the road. "Just trying to grab some lunch and these fucking losers showed up. FUCK ICE!" source: www.reddit.com/r/LoganSquar...

Gregory Bovino, commander-at-large of the U.S. #BorderPatrol, claims a @wbez.org/@chicago.suntimes.com report about his comments Sunday in downtown #Chicago was "grossly inaccurate" and taken out of context. So we've posted the interview's unedited AUDIO and TRANSCRIPT: www.wbez.org/immigration/...

Fills me with rage. I drove past here every day for 4 years. I hope these pathetic cowards never get another moment of sleep as long as they live.

God, what a fucking coward.

“The DHS first began working with UTS in 2008 and accounts for 98 percent of UTS’s contracts with the federal government.” 👀👀

This is worth a read (or listen). You will not be surprised to learn that Bovino did in fact describe racially profiling people.

@schumer.senate.gov Resign and take your ineffectual opposition with you.

This passage nearly broke me.

This only happens to you once

Hmmm....

This might be totally asinine, but I feel like the majority of musicians in my community have embraced more traditional concepts and form over the last few years (self included), and I wonder how much of that is a unconscious reaction to the political times vs us growing older and more knowledgable.

NEW — Multiple videos and photos shared to social media show over a dozen federal agents, including Border Patrol, raiding a Home Depot on 47th Street and Western Avenue in Chicago. This Home Depot has been targeted for arrests at least twice before. thetriibe.com/2025/09/bord...

american men must be WARRIORS and do PULL UPS and drink RAW MILK and DEFEND WOMEN but ESCALATORS are TERRIFYING DEATH TRAPS, you will get KILLED on the BUS and i have NIGHTMARES about CARJACKINGS

Something that I find particularly upsetting is how in modern reporting landscape, one off text posts from randos can be considered "broadly representative" of their entire sub group.

Apparently they found download codes for a modular synth ambient EP carved into the bullet casings.

Something that does give me (long term) hope is that all these people are huge fucking losers that no regular person could stand to be around for longer than a day or two.

I can't afford the wonderful microphones produced by AEA, so I've been working on a ribbon microphone motor based off a combination of their specs and the original patents for the RCA 44. Here's a short video of the ribbon tuning process from last night.

... along with murder in the second degree as a crime of terrorism www.nycourts.gov/legacypdfs/p...

Me at every vintage shop I walk into.

We need your help! Send a letter to your elected officials and tell them to support the Living Wage for Musicians Act 💪 actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

it's funny how baroque the slow movements of the saint-saens violin sonatas are

Let's fucking gooooooo.

Canadian billionaire Kevin O’Leary thinks he should be entitled to a meeting with Zohran Mamdani

Milwaukee Avenue in Wicker Park will go car-free once a month this fall. blockclubchi.co/4fawx1o

Leave the obviously bad platforms. There are alternatives to using Spotify, Substack, etc. etc. There are just as convenient options out there!

here's the Tom Lehrer song I reached for: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJ9...

It rocks that they might do Adrian Veidt's plan but to keep people from talking about the president being a diddler

Don’t look away. If you endorse this, you’ve lost a key, core part of your humanity. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Doing all the dumb overkill shit for my old highschool telecaster. Turning it into a western swing lead guitar. Moderately proud of this wiring job I did for the control panel.

Committing my telecaster to be a “country lead” guitar from here on out.

They all wanted to go home and didn’t want their constituents to get rewarded for asking they do the bare minimum during the worst constitutional crisis we’ve faced since the civil war. If that means public media and foreign aid get destroyed in the process? So be it.

A+ to superman. Best one that’s come out while I’ve been alive

everyone should stop giving a fuck about opinions on the internet. Don’t read reviews of movies or albums or whatever the fuck, just listen/watch and make up your own damn mind

i’ll be there! 40% cuts to the CTA would be apocalyptic

In case you hadn't heard, Bob and Carrie Weston have moved to Portugal—which means that Chicago Mastering Service, one of the most sophisticated such studios in the city, has a new owner! I interviewed Greg Obis (@guypidgeotto.bsky.social) about his new role. chicagoreader.com/music/chicag...

No single action can force change, but if a mass of bands and users stopped using Spotify, it might make a difference.

NEW: Democrats have used SCOTUS rulings to galvanize their base — but they won’t do that with Skrmetti, which green lit gender-affirming care bans One Dem said it’s now a states issue Another said trans issues don’t poll well A third pointed me to the Cass report www.notus.org/democrats/tr...

Today I found this wacky out-of-print scifi book that contains a score for a demonic ritual

Anyway throwback to this essay I wrote… nine years ago? That can’t be right

archive.org/details/zine... If you didn't know, the Internet archive serves up a wide selection of zines, and I think that's pretty neat.

A+ quality bird

Fear of the New York City subway is a mark of low moral character. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-subway...