To save you a click on that interview: Ta-Nehisi Coates is a serious thinker with a moral compass, a sense of historical perspective, and an understanding of the public that goes beyond chattering-class bigotry. And Ezra Klein is Ezra Klein.

Appropriate music and caption added... 🤌 Fuck trump & fuck 🧊. 💯

In these dark times, every now & then light shines forth when you least expect it. This glimmer is scheduled in advance though: tune in a beam of paradise on Tuesday at 8pm ET. wfmu.org/playlists/sh...

Thoughts and prayers for war-torn Portland and whatnot.

This is a monster... auralaggravation.com/2025/09/27/k... @editionsmego.bsky.social @dense-pr.bsky.social

COME AND BE SMASHED BY THE WHO

My favorite Bowie album and the appropriate soundtrack for 2025

I have an email out to the NFL press office to see if we should expect league wide Assata Shakur tributes this weekend before kickoff or if that will be the decision of individual team owners.

Mass walkout at the UN General Assembly during war criminal Netanyahu’s speech.

one cynically funny thing about Hegseth thinking he can retcon the genocide atop which America was built is that the rest of the world is not fooled & will never be fooled. World history will always teach that the Army committed organized murder of civilians at Wounded Knee. It’s generally known

Can anyone identify the composer? www.icporchestra.com/todaysarchiv... let @marquismorse.bsky.social know

list 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep 1. The Who 2. ... 3. The Who

"We are not here to drop the aid and go home and pat ourselves on the back. We are here to establish a humanitarian corridor for states themselves to assume their responsibilities."

Wes Streeting is an evil fucking monster. But we knew that. The Labour Party is now an actively genocidal force, and needs to be stopped.

GUYS THEY RAPTURED HIM

I learned this from Ishmael Reed’s dedication to Herriman in Mumbo Jumbo, probably my favorite book ever.

Matt Kent & Jeff Slate on Who Are You Super Deluxe Edition #TheWho www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLus...

Might as well alienate the few remaining liberals who might pay attention to me by saying that I won't vote for any presidential candidate who doesn't make dismantling ICE part of their platform

George Herriman is arguably one of the first major black artists in comics. And the only reason for that is because NO ONE KNEW HE WAS BLACK. He was light skinned enough to be white passing & hid that fact into old age so that he WOULD be able to continue drawing largely due to rampant racism.

What's this about Rapture Day? Oh hell yeah I'll watch this for the bazillionth time 🥰 Anita Baker - One Night of Rapture (1987) www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaPM...

Been thinking for a while I needed to post something like this on the podcast site, given how widespread LLM slop has become. This is off the top of my head, and should probably be more precise and concise, but it'll do for now.

Pathetic AI Chatbot Spends All Its Time Talking To Friendless Loser

This is absolutely true. If the NYT covered this the way they covered trans care, you all would finally understand what dangerous shit their trans care coverage has been.

Heard the latest episode yet? Song 180: “Dazed And Confused” by Led Zeppelin, Part One, The Song Remains The Same 💥 The first of a two part look at “Dazed and Confused” by Led Zeppelin. Available to listen on Spotify, Apple Music and via Andrew’s website: 500songs.com/podcast/song...

Autism is not a regrettable condition. It is not a disease. Bigotry and ignorance, on the other hand, are.

Today would have been John Coltrane’s 99th birthday. This photo of him with Bill Dixon at the 1966 Newport Festival was, for years, the only photo I’d seen of Coltrane smiling; Bill told me, “As you can see, I’m probably ranting about something.”

me telling my grandkids what it was like to have vaccines

I am clueless, or was clueless, about the existence of Disney adults. But I think that people know about Albert Ayler and Roland Kayn.

Couple days ago I went to the mom&pop pharmacy where we get our Rx filled. Pharmacist/owner (boomer) had a Charlie Kirk book on display. I paid, went home, called back, got his cool granddaughter who also works there, and broke down crying about what this man said about my child. Book was gone today

SCOOP: An MIT professor canceled an Israeli military funded research grant after pressure from students. “This concession shows that student campaigns do have an influence,” one student said. "These ties cannot survive transparency." theintercept.com/2025/09/22/m...

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Cocaine so white it claps on the one and the three

On Leonard Cohen's birthday, please enjoy this undated photo of the man himself buying cheetos at a 7-Eleven

The @washingtonpost.com is a racist rag. This letter is insane.

A reading list for building durable organizations for both short term survival and long term social transformation.

on a music walking tour in Manchester and regret to inform that this is roughly where the stage was when Dylan was called Judas

Posted on Johnny Echols’ fb page — Townshend is a Love fan!

Remembering Chico Hamilton on his birthday 🎂 📷 Jerry Schatzberg, 1965 "Hamilton had a subtle and melodic approach that made him ideally suited for the understated style that came to be known as cool jazz, of which his hometown, Los Angeles, was the epicenter." - Peter Keepnews

R.I.P. Sonny Curtis

I saw Proby with the Who twice. I thought, “I’ve heard that name,” and “He is ruining one of my favorite Quadrophenia songs.” I had no idea how insanely horrible a person he was until I listened to this episode.

this exists it is called thinking

"Once you use ChatGPT, you don’t want to think for yourself anymore" So glad I've never, ever, so much as lookedat the fucking website The only thing I'm actually good at is thinking

The greatest.

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