ROLLING STONE: “The damage from Miller’s grand designs are plain for all to see. Americans’ mistrust and hyper-partisanship has grown only more poisonous. The country feels like a tinder box and Miller, and ICE are running around with lit matches.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Melania fails on every level writes @tessastuart.bsky.social www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Harrowing and haunting read from Cheyenne Roundtree about one the survivors of R. Kelly's predations. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

omg. Musk to Epstein: "The world needs more romance."

How ICE Turned Immigration Into a Church-State Power Struggle: “The Herods of the world, and their fear driven campaigns of terror, are ever with us," wrote Minnesota Episcopal Bishop Craig Loya. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... via @rollingstone.com

Someone flagged for me a search of “Suebsaeng” and it appears to be things like the trump doj emailing around links to media coverage of their massive fuck up of a government wide cover up, and my name and @rollingstone.com and @nikkimcr.bsky.social for instance show up.

"Trump 2.0 has been 'a blast for Stephen,' a White House adviser told Rolling Stone." Read @seanwoods.bsky.social's commentary ↓

Minnesota rapper tells us about his experience being violently detained by ICE agents while protesting the killing of Alex Pretti: “I assumed I was going to die.” Interview: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

"In Miller, Trump definitely found what he had long sought: his own Roy Cohn. A man so ruthless and power-mad who is willing to be hated by all, if that means winning."

Just the worst www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Bruce Springsteen: "We’ll remember the names of those who died On the streets of Minneapolis" www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Inside Refuse Fascism from the great @djpeisner.bsky.social www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Neil Young is a hero. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

‘People who worked on the film said they had fewer problems working with Melania Trump ... than they did with the film’s director, Brett Ratner. (“She was totally nice,” one person said. “She was the opposite of Brett Ratner.”) www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... via @rollingstone.com

Lies and more damn lies www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

“During Trump’s second term, we have watched our culture grow coarser… This moral surrender degrades us all,” Jonathan Taplin writes. “The abandonment of universal values is... a quiet unraveling of the American spirit itself.” More: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

“Trump has proclaimed that we are entering a golden age. I want to propose another possibility — that the next 10 years could be the most chaotic and politically unstable in American history,” writes Jonathan Taplin. 🔗 www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The Strange Case of the $10 Million Streaming Scammer www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

"It had been a low, dishonest decade since Donald Trump descended his golden escalator and transformed our country..." www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Who killed the counterculture. My new essay in Rolling Stone. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

READ Jonathan Taplin: Can the Counterculture Rise Again? www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... via @rollingstone.com

This is Mad King stuff. "The Kremlin said on Monday that Trump had invited Putin to join his newly formed “Board of Peace” a committee that will ostensibly oversee the reconstruction of Gaza." rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-push-take-over-greenland-delights-russia-1235501604/

“It’s bullshit, multi-layered bullshit,” Nicholas Grossman, political science professor at the University of Illinois tells Rolling Stone. "Russia and China — especially China — are not threatening Greenland...The only thing that is actually threatening is Donald Trump.”

Moving and beautiful: ‘But now I’m so much better, so if my words don’t come together, listen to the melody because my love is in there hiding.’ www.rollingstone.com/music/music-... via @rollingstone.com

My first @rollingstone.com column is now live! Thanks for reading and reposting, and please consider subscribing if you don’t already. (Piece also available on Apple News.) www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The Dems find a unifying issue. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Truly damning investigative reporting in @rollingstone.com on how Danish researchers long favored by RFK.Jr for their studies which cast doubt on vaccines,secured a no bid grant to fund the unethical trial in Guinea Bissau. This read is worth your time. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

READ @mattbaidc.bsky.social debut in RS: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

pleased to share by review of an outstanding new bio of Justin Townes Earle. Curious what you think... @jonbern.bsky.social

A lot of buyers remorse down along the border. “We’re all suffering,” says Rio Farms’ president and general manager. “We wanna see Trump succeed but we don’ t know how long we can hold on.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

"Imagine if President Barack Obama — or God forbid, Bernie Sanders — decided to have the Justice Department open a criminal investigation into the chairman of the Federal Reserve." rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The Cartel, The Stolen Newborn and the Mother Left for Dead www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

From Olympian to cartel leader and now the Feds might be closing in. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

And Renee Good’s last words appear to be “We’re not mad at you.”

Roy Wood: The Rolling Stone Interview youtu.be/Qp5KX6fOv6c

Yes, JD. Let’s ask them if they think a stay at home mom, avowed Christian, and widow of a veteran deserved to be shot in the face and left to bleed out in her own car after dropping her 6-year-old off at school, for the crime of looking out for her neighbors. Let’s ask everyone running for office.

Riverside Church Sexual Abuse Trial to Begin This Week www.rollingstone.com/music/music-... via @RollingStone

Read Jonathan Taplin on loss and resilience. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

“China, Vietnam, Germany — they’re all laughing at us because we did all the heavy lifting. We did all the R&D for decades, and now it’s time to reap the benefits. This administration has decided to give the benefits of our hard work to everybody else...” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Trump opened Pandora's Box www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

“Trump’s foray into Venezuela was unquestionably a military success. Its wider implications remain to be seen. But it is another step toward an unrestrained imperial presidency, actively working to dismantle a global system America itself created, as it sows chaos at home and abroad.”

Is there plan? There doesn't seem to be a plan. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

“My generation is very worried — people don’t trust the U.S. like we did a few months ago. Anything is possible.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

It was a long and brutal year for us in the media. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Chemtrails are total BS. So why pass laws about them? www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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From the great @sarahweinman.com www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

“I was ruled by my dick. I cringe with embarrassment to think of the foolish behavior, the nonsense. Oh my God, chasing women. What a bad boy I was. I was bad, selfish … But, you know, my whole thing with women was always very odd and quirky and strange.” www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

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‘Paranoid, Loathsome, Neurotic’: The Inimitable R. Crumb Looks Back www.rollingstone.com?p=1235487124 via @rollingstone.com