All Your Days returned to its considerations of thinking impossibly on Tuesday, looking at the rise of UAP stories in the American press. AYD also revisited the central crime of Trump’s illegal bombing of the Middle East: more than 100 dead kids in Minab. Subscribe here: allyourdays.substack.com

My new book is out. This is the first compilation from Everything Is Useless And Nothing Is Solved, my experimental fiction newsletter. Crime fiction, weird shit from the suburbs, urban paranoia, exurb ennui. The strangest 80-plus pages of your year. Yearly.  Get a copy right here: bit.ly/44hv4BR

An American Tomahawk missile killed more than 100 children at a school in Minab just four months ago. But nobody in the U.S. is writing much about that atrocity anymore. The topic is Minab. The newsletter is All Your Days. open.substack.com/pub/allyourd...

It’s been a whirlwind couple of weeks for Everything Is Useless And Nothing Is Solved. Today, the official EUNS 2025 yearbook—a perfect-bound paperback packed with the ol' werewolf’s favorite pieces from 2025—goes on sale at www.jamesobrienhq.com/store/p/ever... Get your copy at the web store today!

Trump's UAP files aren't disclosure. They're misdirection—a spectacle aimed at distracting Americans from Iran, inflation, and Epstein. But there’s also more to these sightings than the media typically allows. The topic is UAP. The newsletter is All Your Days. open.substack.com/pub/allyourd...

A “lost script,” unproduced Woody Allen, a forgotten mystery in an old sleep-health app, a last-minute phone call on the threshold between yesterday and everything else. Is it real? Or is it EUNS?  Read and subscribe to Everything Is Useless And Nothing Is Solved: open.substack.com/pub/uselessu...

What happens when the United States abandons its anti-epidemic efforts in Africa? What about when American authoritarian land whales foist moron after moron into the Justice Department to bury the Epstein files? Read this week’s articles and subscribe to AYD: allyourdays.substack.com

Weird enough, it gets its own show. Strange culture. Speculative and genuine histories. Oddnesses. Anomalies. Asymmetricalities. Societal disintegration. The strangest seven minutes of your week. Weekly. Subscribe to EUNS: uselessunsolved.substack.com

Todd Blanche buried the Epstein files. Trump's reward: the nomination for attorney general. Now a handful of Republicans can stop it—and should. The topic is Blanche. The newsletter is All Your Days. open.substack.com/pub/allyourd...

Ebola is spreading through Congo, and the U.S. could help stop it at the source. Trump chose a quarantine wall and a statement blaming Europe instead. The topic is Ebola. The newsletter is All Your Days. open.substack.com/pub/allyourd...

It's about America.

Collateral men are watching; their cameras are drinking it up. The world apes not caring. The dinner guests pretend not to see. Everything Is Useless And Nothing Is Solved. The strangest seven minutes of your week. Weekly: open.substack.com/pub/uselessu...

Donald J. Trump very much wants Americans’ mail-in ballots not to count this November, and the noxious appointment of Bill Pulte to the acting director of national intel stands to put Section 702 of FISA in terrible hands. Subscribe to AYD for articles twice weekly: allyourdays.substack.com

Have you heard “Thief and Painter” yet? My new single is available exclusively to Wavelengths subscribers (downloads and streams) at www.jamesobrienhq.com/store/p/wave.... You can also watch the whole “Thief and Painter” video at my YouTube channel: youtu.be/ETc62kXwdsc?... Here's a clip.

Bill Pulte is spectacularly unqualified to run American intelligence. That is exactly why Trump gave him the job. Pulte's proven talent is turning government data into weapons against Trump's enemies. The topic is surveillance. The newsletter is All Your Days. open.substack.com/pub/allyourd...

A radio host beams his voice out of the darkness. A lost ‘90s cookcore band tears into it. A severed head sings. The devil delivers a future history. Today marks the premiere of the very first episode of EUNS TV. Subscribe at any paid level to get new episodes: uselessunsolved.substack.com

Donald Trump has constructed a machine to decide who gets a mail-in ballot. In Boston today, a judge is weighing whether to stop the U.S. president’s scheme before it can touch a single vote this November. open.substack.com/pub/allyourd...

We have proceeded without heeding. We have devolved into following. We are the product. The only thing left to do is read this week’s installment of Everything Is Useless And Nothing Is Solved. Subscribe to EUNS. open.substack.com/pub/uselessu...

There is no saner, gentler RFK Jr. And the PACs taking American donations are not necessarily representing the parties and outcomes they claim.  It’s a shitty mix. AYD hopefully offered some clarity in the mess of it. Subscribe to All Your Days: allyourdays.substack.com

Here's a bit of the bridge from ye olde new single. This is "Thief and Painter" and features Erika Nelson. Subscribe to the Wavelengths series at JAMESOBRIENHQ.COM and get a new track every other month.

A super PAC with a progressive name and a Republican operative behind it spent nearly $1M this spring boosting a fringe Texas Democrat whose social media turned out to be littered with antisemitic posts. The topic is Galindo. The newsletter is All Your Days. open.substack.com/pub/allyourd...

America no longer has a functioning federal pandemic prevention apparatus. RFK Jr.'s machine has spent 15 months taking the system apart. The topic is the machine. The newsletter is All Your Days. open.substack.com/pub/allyourd...

"Thief and Painter." The next Wavelengths subscription single. 5/26/26.

The Diceman, Beastie Boys, The Smothers Brothers, Carol Burnett, Sinatra, a Venice Beach web-only masterpiece. Yes, EUNS could deliver more than this in one astounding, unprecedented package of bite-size, digestible web content … but this week it won’t. Subscribe: open.substack.com/pub/uselessu...

In November, the government crushed small hemp. In December, it cut taxes for marijuana giants. Six weeks apart. Small operators out, big incumbents in. McConnell's bourbon donors: next aisle. The topic is cannabis. The newsletter is All Your Days. open.substack.com/pub/allyourd...

Packing up the first of this month’s bundles for new paid subscribers to Everything Is Useless And Nothing Is Solved. Get a EUNS mug with an annual membership, howlin’ your way this month! Subscribe to Everything Is Useless And Nothing Is Solved: uselessunsolved.substack.com

Trump went to China for a win and called it a triumph. It was the opposite. He got concessions that cost Xi nothing, left its rare-earth chokehold untouched, and put Taiwan on the table as a "negotiating chip." The topic: Beijing. The newsletter: All Your Days. open.substack.com/pub/allyourd...

You don’t have to lie down with devils. But you might let one read you a little story. Subscribe to Everything Is Useless And Nothing Is Solved. The strangest seven minutes of your week. Weekly. uselessunsolved.substack.com

Sometimes a disappointing film gets better after you remake it in your mind. Ladies and germs, please welcome ‘Four Ghostbusters and a Baby’ to your collective rebooted consciousness(es). Subscribe to EUNS. The strangest 7 minutes of your week. Weekly: open.substack.com/pub/uselessu...

The Democrats handed the nation’s gerrymandering war to the Republicans, and the media confused the weather of Alligator Alcatraz’s closure with the climate of the regime’s detention capacity expansion. Catch up on All Your Days this week. Subscribe: allyourdays.substack.com

Closing Alligator Alcatraz isn't a retreat. The regime is simply moving its abduction/deportation brutality into 8,000-bed warehouse mega-facilities in towns most Americans cannot find on a map.  The topic is the smokescreen. The newsletter is All Your Days.  open.substack.com/pub/allyourd...

Coming soon from yours truly. Subscribe to Wavelengths for new music. Link in comments.

The redistricting fight is over. The Republicans won.  Democrats are still favored to take the House, with caveats. The Senate is another story. What's left for November is a blue wave, and only that. The topic is redistricting. The newsletter is All Your Days. open.substack.com/pub/allyourd...

Everything Is Useless And Nothing Is Solved is on the grow. Our first founding member packs, including mugs and a personalized copy of the new EUNS Yearbook 1 - 2025 are being packed up and sent away to the world’s most interesting readers. Join them! Subscribe to EUNS. Link in comments.

Did you ever hear of the Dancing Plague? The Saint Vitus dance? Stories of monomania abound, and this one is true. Or mostly true. Some parts of it are real. Mostly just the most unbelievable parts. Subscribe to EUNS: open.substack.com/pub/uselessu...

The throughline of Donald J. Trump’s foreign policy is depletion. It's depleted Ukraine’s ability to defend itself and America’s ability to justify its horrific historic pivot. It's dangerously depleted the nation's rocket supply. Read more. Subscribe to All Your Days: allyourdays.substack.com

America has depleted half its missile inventory. To re-arm, it needs magnets made from rare-earth elements China refines. Next week, Trump has to please the man controlling the spigot in Beijing. The topic is munitions. The newsletter is All Your Days. open.substack.com/pub/allyourd...

Eleven phone calls. Eleven concessions to Moscow. Since January 2025, after every Trump-Putin call, the American posture shifts toward the Russian president's demands. It's an unprecedented change. The topic is the eleven calls. The newsletter is All Your Days. open.substack.com/pub/allyourd...

Celebrating its one-year anniversary, Everything Is Useless And Nothing Is Solved has done a deal with the devil. Which means paid subscriptions are now open. Get a copy of the new EUNS book as a founding member. The strangest seven minutes of your week. Weekly. Link in comments.

EUNS turns one today(!), and paid tiers are now open. $5/mo — EUNS TV (June 3) $50/yr — EUNS TV + mug $150 founding (10 spots) — EUNS TV + mug + signed yearbook All articles stay free. Here's this week's installment: open.substack.com/pub/uselessu...

All Your Days was on the midterms beat this week, and will be for the whole run. We'll need clear eyes to see through all this darkness, but the night will lift. Catch up with the latest articles from AYD—Midterms and Maps—and subscribe here: allyourdays.substack.com

The store is open! Get a copy of 'America' on vinyl, or an All Your Days mug, or grab a copy of PHOTOS, packed with images from around the world, and people ya know. Shop JOBHQ: www.jamesobrienhq.com/store

Two decisions gutted American elections on April 29. The U.S. Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act in Louisiana. Florida's legislature rammed through a GOP gerrymander hours later. The topic is maps. The newsletter is All Your Days. open.substack.com/pub/allyourd...

Six months out, the Democratic midterms wave is real. But the regime is building a wall—voter rolls, gerrymanders, the Roberts Court, and Speaker Johnson—to stop the count from counting. The topic is midterms. The newsletter is All Your Days. open.substack.com/pub/allyourd...

There may be no single toy in the history of toymaking as misguided—and, ultimately, as unwanted—as Loop-o-holic’s 1986 attempt to introduce the Daddy-Spanks-A-Lot game to American homes.  Subscribe to EUNS. The strangest seven minutes of your week. Weekly. open.substack.com/pub/uselessu...

America cannot hold itself accountable if it allows its own accounting to slip. This week, All Your Days revisited the extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean and also the death count in the concentration camps that the Trump regime has built. Subscribe to All Your Days: allyourdays.substack.com

The first EUNS hardcopy, a good-ol’ paperback book, arrives on May 3, friends. Founding member subscriptions at EUNS come with a signed, personalized copy. Copies will also be available at www.jamesobrienhq.com/store. Get weird! It’s good for ya. Subscribe to EUNS: uselessunsolved.substack.com

49 people have died in ICE detention since Trump took office. One every ten days is the present pace. ICE's own director admitted under oath the agency has no policy to prevent deaths—then resigned. The topic is the camps. The newsletter is All Your Days. open.substack.com/pub/allyourd...

Have you met our boy Dunhumvi? For the PKD connoisseur, perhaps. It’s been a two-Sunday run. It’s been a sandwich and a beer. It’s the weirdest seven minutes of your week. Weekly. Subscribe to EUNS: uselessunsolved.substack.com

52 strikes. 181 dead in the Caribbean and Pacific since last September. Zero evidence of drugs. The general running the operation says it doesn't work. His predecessor quit. The American press has moved on. The topic is murders. The newsletter is All Your Days. open.substack.com/pub/allyourd...