I’m the only candidate who is willing to stand up to the Sacramento status quo to deliver less expensive housing, single-payer healthcare, and free childcare. We need a Governor who leads with good ideas, not corporate giveaways.

I uploaded another never-before-heard recording of Elvis Costello from 1982 - by popular demand. "Big Tears" the B-side to the "Pump it Up" single in 1978.

Free universal childcare. Free UCs and CSUs. Eliminating income tax for those earning under $100,000. Californians deserve a governor with a plan to make life more affordable.

The Trump presidency will forever be remembered as having employed the most incompetent administration in American history.

Let's all share this widely to help educate the DOJ.

You can take the boy out of South Africa, but you can't take the South Africa out of the boy, apparently... It's astonishing how many 'serious people' haven't tumbled to this idiot's cons by now.

"No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices." Edward R. Murrow, who died on this day in 1965

You can take the boy out of South Africa. Can you take the South Africa out of the boy? Gotta believe Bezoboy is loving this headline. What do you get for the world's second richest man for his birthday? The "World's Richest Man" trophy... www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Listen to this rare Devo concert I recorded in France: substack.com/@aggrovox The set list captures 70% of the 2026 "Mutate, Don't Stagnate" tour with a couple of surprise bonus tracks! Best experienced with a good set of earbuds, but sounds great on a phone, too!

Attention all Spuds! First-ever listen! Listening to this rare live Devo concert recording will: 1. Help you win friends 2. Influence your enemies! We are Devo! I recorded this show 46 years ago and it features 70% of the songs on the '26 tour! open.substack.com/pub/aggrovox...

Devo performs at Max's Kansas City, New York 📷 Allan Tannenbaum, November 15, 1977

open.substack.com/pub/aggrovox... First-ever listen! I recorded John Lee Hooker in 1980 at Casa de la Raza in Santa Barbara. 300+ people packed the community center to hear Hooker and the Coast To Coast Blues Band led by Hooker's longtime collaborator Melvyn "Deacon" Jones on Hammond B3.

This post won't help you get new clients, or help your career. It won't help you find a new job, or develop a new skill set. It might give you some context of what a life's work looks like, and what it means long after you're gone. open.substack.com/pub/aggrovox...

open.substack.com/pub/aggrovox... 28 min of commercial free John Lee Hooker - and a few words offering historical context. Recorded September 24, 1985 at Casa de la Raza before an audience of a ~300 Blues fans. A good board mix and a very authentic show featuring the Coast to Coast Blues Band.

open.substack.com/pub/aggrovox... 28 minutes of John Lee Hooker recorded live in 1985 - a decent separate record mix direct from the board.

Never-before-heard recording of a 1985 John Lee Hooker concert. Sounds great! Boom Boom, Never Get Out of the Blues Alive, Locked Up in Love Again, Serves Me Right to Suffer 28 minutes of foot-stomping Blues for a crowd of 300 in a tiny community center. aggrovox.substack.com/p/john-lee-h...

28 minutes of never-before-heard live performance from the Godfather of the Blues - John Lee Hooker: Boom Boom open.substack.com/pub/aggrovox...

There's gotta be more, much, much more to this story... www.yahoo.com/news/article...

How can we get "8/8/74" trending?

Education Secretary Linda McMahon is being blocked from schools across the country. Why? Because parents discovered who is actually paying for her tour. The list of cancellations is growing: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/the-resist...

Oh. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt is big mad about this picture? Would be a shame if people saw it. 🍿

Zoomin' along this road seems like a bad idea, unless you want to eat a hedge. Tiger Woods arrested for DUI in the 280 block of South Beach Rd. in Jupiter Island, FL. #tigerwoodsDUI

That’s just my two cents.

Am I the only one who believes that Trump not only doesn't care about surging gas prices but: - he knew all along this would be the immediate effect - he told insiders well in advance and they are making bank - he's privately saying "I can double gas prices and they still love me!" Fucking nuts.

A tiny town of 5,000 people just checkmated a federal plan for a 10,000-person detention center. You won’t believe the simple tool they used to stop the regime in its tracks. 🛠️🚫

Working in healthcare, even tangentially is an exercise in root cause analysis. The more I look at the state of American politics the more I'm convinced we've forgotten the lessons of the country's history. When once we reigned in carpet baggers and robber barons, now we put them in charge.

I wrote about Lou Reed and the concert I recorded - the last night of the 1980 European tour supporting the album, "Growing Up in Public." Over on Substack I'm streaming the last 32 minutes of the encore, including a very, very rare "Pale Blue Eyes" rendition. aggrovox.substack.com/p/lou-reed-g...

I've written a few words about the 1980 Lou Reed tour. I recorded the last night of the tour in France and include 32 minutes from the encore. If you like Lou Reed you should enjoy the intimate nature of the performance in front of a tenth of the band's customary arena audience on the tour.

I recorded a #DEVO show in France 46 years ago. I finally digitized the tape, tweaked the EQ to bring it back to life and share several songs on my @Aggrovox Substack. substack.com/@aggrovox

Yeah, you’re the next Edison, Sam. 🤦

Are dilettantes unfairly being given a bad name in today's world? 120+ years ago it was a full-time job for many. From my research dilettantes took very seriously their trips to Italy and Greece to find object d'art and bring it back to England and America.

Let's be clear: banning mifepristone = a national abortion ban. Mifepristone has been safe, effective and FDA-approved for 20 years. Extremists won’t stop until abortion is banned everywhere. I'll keep fighting to pass my Women’s Health Protection Act to restore the right to abortion nationwide.

Palantir CEO Alex Karp: "This technology disrupts humanity's train, largely Democratic voters, and makes their economic power less, and increases the economic power of vocationally trained, working class, often male voters. These disruptions are going to disrupt every aspect of our society."

In 1980 I recorded the band in France at the Theatre de Verdure in Nice, France. The site of a Roman amphitheater near the sea, the concert was a triumphant return to France for the band. aggrovox.substack.com/p/devo-in-ni... 4 tunes offered here for your listening pleasure...

Are you a #Devo fan? Listen to: Freedom of Choice, JOCKO-HOMO, Whip It, and Satisfaction from the 1980 European tour. These never before heard recordings were recently digitized and I write about the band and seeing them live.

I’m starting to think the root cause of everything going sideways isn’t that the rich and powerful own everything at the expense of everyone else, it’s that they have such shitty taste and such a monumental lack of imagination. As soon as old white guys get the cash they start chasing 19 yr olds. 🤦‍♂️

A Ferrari Mercedes rivalry in the 2026 F1 season would be a treat to watch.

About Trump's war of choice, Bill Maher said: "I don't hate it." No Maher

The absolutely most shitty thing about Trump's war of choice in Iran: it's working to keep the Epstein files off the front page.

Find a stranger six-minute feature film cold open than Rental Family. I’ll wait.

February 25, 1970 is the anniversary of the burning of the Bank of America in Isla Vista, the student community at UCSB. 600 National Guard troops are ordered to UCSB by Gov. Ronald Reagan who says, "If it takes a bloodbath, let's get it over with. No more appeasement." substack.com/home/post/p-...

I have questions about MAGA. 1. Will it be successful in destabilizing enough people’s ability to tell fact from fiction that it becomes self sustaining? 2. Why is it so successful at disrupting one’s ability to discern truth? 3. How has this been engineered and implemented and by whom? Thanks!

Hillary Clinton’s fire and fury opening statement to the House Oversight Committee.

February 25, 1970 is the anniversary of the burning of the Bank of America in IV, the student community next to UCSB. Listen to 18 min. of experimental audio born of resistance from prof. of English Ed Loomis aggrovox.substack.com/p/a-legal-as...

Musk’s plan to solve his launch overcapacity problem by positioning one million networked ai satellites in space reminds me of working for an early media company owned by the Douglas family with primary funding from Enron.

Three never-heard-before live recordings from Elvis Costello's '82 Imperial Bedroom tour. Best experienced with headphones or earbuds. I also recount Elvis' brilliant show at UCSB in '78. aggrovox.substack.com/p/elvis-cost...

I've worn a tuxedo exactly one time in my life - to get married. I do not anticipate ever wearing a tuxedo again, unless by some miracle I win an academy award. That's it; marriage and the Academy Awards. The ONLY two places I will ever wear a tuxedo.