I saw Emo Philips last night and he told a joke that’ll be my new mantra: “You don’t have to be the first best or the second best or the 100th best. You just have to be as good as if you didn’t exist”

A Honduran man who was detained inside a South Burlington home told the FBI he was driving the car that ICE agents tried to stop, according to a new court filing.

come to think of it would love a 'in on the kill taker' 'F#A# infinity' mashup

At a press conference at the Pentagon this morning, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine commended the Vermont Air National Guard for deploying in back-to-back missions to Venezuela and the Middle East.

Private equity has established a much more significant footprint in Vermont's health care landscape than was previously widely known. That’s injected new urgency into the regulatory conversation in Montpelier — but also complicated it.

Steven Tendo, an asylum-seeker who lives in Colchester, is out of prison and back in Vermont after a federal judge ordered his release Friday.

then screw up your shoveling, and someone gives you a pepe talk and says "you didn't screw up, you did the right shoveling, you're a damn good shoveler" and then someone says "shoveling is hard. everyone shovels. reach out for help if shoveling is getting to you. you're not alone"

this past week i laughed very hard at a daily show segment and an onion headline. the 2000s really are back baby!

my band’s playing burlington yall

The federal immigration authorities that detained a Ugandan pastor outside his workplace in Shelburne on Wednesday are now denying him the medication needed to treat his Type 2 diabetes, according to his lawyer.

we had tendo's attorney on the show today and played some audio from when he was on the show last year to hear his story

@davidcorn.bsky.social Steven Tendo, who was the subject of a MJ story a few years ago, was picked up by ICE this morning in VT and is currently being held in NH. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

A judge released Hussien Noor Hussien, who came to the United States as a refugee from Somalia, on bail. On the same day, agents detained another well-known Vermonter, Steven Tendo, who has been seeking asylum after fleeing Uganda.

On Wednesday morning, Tendo was detained shortly after arriving at the Shelburne health care facility where he works.

an actual documentary about melania would probably be very interesting

A year into Donald Trump's second presidency, and nearly a year into Mark Carney's leadership, we asked listeners from both Quebec and Vermont how they are feeling about tensions between Canada and the U.S.

Dmitrii Georgiev said he was on vacation in Quebec when he mistakenly approached the Canadian-U.S. border. By his telling, he wasn’t trying to get into the United States. But that didn’t matter.

I think this is one of the better songs I've written. One of the better mixes, too. In fact, I think this whole album has my best mixes and drum and violin playing. phonautographrecords.bandcamp.com/track/frozen...

RIP to a real one

if in vt, join us

current theory; marty supreme is josh safdie's movie about benny safdie

11 years ago I sang harmony with Nick Lowe (pictured) on Fresh Air with Terry Gross (also pictured), and I did a terrible job!

got this very nice and accurate profile in the legendary SPIN

I interviewed @jehrens.bsky.social about Repelican's awesome new album Dim Halo for Spin: www.spin.com/2025/12/repe...

motion to change the term “email job” to “notification job”

a bit of the my new repelican band playing our Panton VT barn aka The Dense Valley Barn album at repelican.bandcamp.com

Monthly Report: October Albums - Amber Mark, Florence + The Machine, Mobb Deep, Repelican, Flock of Dimes, Miguel, The Lemonheads, Monaleo, etc. narrowcast.blogspot.com/2025/11/mont...

nice review of my new record i'd like to share

cracking up that the chant of the "remainers" in the 1995 Qubec sovereignty referendum was "HELL NO, PLEASE DON'T GO!"

ALBUM RELEASE DAY repelican.bandcamp.com/album/dim-halo

Really enjoyed today’s spam text and thinking about the guy this worked on

why is this so funny

gunna be dropping my new Repelican record Oct 18! it’s a “return to form” as they say. 13 tracks of underthought immature mixed-fi by some rando at home just hitting record in the off-hours making what comes naturally

for the folks sweating over their streaming service subscriptions I cannot recommend enough that rabbit ear antennae still exist and they rule and the upfront cost is like $20 bucks and then … free

NEW: The Corporation for Public Broadcasting said that it will begin to wind down operations after President Donald Trump signed a package of spending cuts that ended its federal funding. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Pastor Steven Tendo is an asylum-seeker from Uganda currently residing in Colchester. He's set to check in with ICE later today. "I think that if they sent me back, they will be sending me to my grave," Tendo said. www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2...

eternal inner monologue of ‘everything used to be better’ and ‘everyone says that when they get old’ and ‘am i old?’ and ‘yes, [see orig. statement]’

🎶MOVE ON UP TO THE OTHER SIDE”

perhaps the general public should know that for decades, one of the foremost broadcast radio software platforms is called ‘Dad Pro’

deploy malloy

she’s the best. listen for faith in humanity restoration purposes

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using the clown emoji is the meanest thing a person can do to another person. utterly devastating

my weekend was spent watching vids of this old quebec man non-stop posting himself doing ... let's say "outsider" karaoke versions of the most random assortment of songs www.youtube.com/@WandererGuy...

Ben of Ben & Jerry’s *arrested* after confronting RFK Jr. & Congress: "They need to let food into Gaza. They need to let food to starving kids! Congress is paying to bomb poor kids in Gaza, and paying for it by kicking poor kids off Medicaid in the US!"