Since I’m getting “what did I miss” from alot, Paramount Plus, owner of CBS spiked the El Salvador CECOT prison story yesterday on 60 minutes because it made the White House look bad. Cancel paramount plus Censorship. Bari Weiss

You mean after a mass shooting you can do more than just send “thoughts and prayers”? www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

Next week on the Record Store Day podcast, it’s our Simply Having A Wonderful Christmas Episode featuring Wings book editor Ted Widmer, and Paul McCartney band guitarist Brian Ray.

You may think that tonight's presidential address was embarrassing, and beneath the dignity of the office. But please remember: tens of millions of people think he's some combination of Cicero, Lincoln, and Churchill. One has to come to grips with this.

The biggest question about Epstein is not who he associated with, but how he got rich in the first place. The NYTimes has done very good work on that in the past, and now pushes the story even farther. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/m...

There’s a new Paul Myers Overshare, read it for free, consider subscribing if you can support my work. pulmyears.substack.com/p/planes-tra...

This is how our government has been corrupted: 1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office 2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor 3) Donors make huge profit 4) Repeat We must get big money out of politics. It is the root of our dysfunction.

Paul's book is a monumental but tender biography, with interview content from Candy's many friends, famous and not famous. A perfect Holiday gift, and as my daughter Avolyn recently said, John Candy as Del Griffith in Planes, Trains and Automobiles IS Thanksgiving 🍂

Hey, there’s a brand new Paul Myers Overshare, and in it I share another new demo, this time it’s a song called “(I’m So Sick Of) Living Through History.”

We train police to de-escalate, to avoid using force whenever possible. Without that training, you’re unleashing thugs on a civilian population.

I agree. And Kane is a powerhouse of humanity and beautiful soul too. ❤️🙏

Truth from the NYT editorial board: "Rather than engaging Democrats on the merits of their position, Republicans have falsely and absurdly accused them of seeking to fund free health care for unauthorized immigrants." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

Reupping newrepublic.com/article/2010...

No fat troops, but fatuous fatheads are ok, i guess. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...

Epstein Survivor Lisa Phillips: “Together as survivors, we will confidentially compile the names we all know who were regularly in the Epstein world.”

"That is why I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it." Yes, there is a difference.

There’s a new Paul Myers Overshare update about some bad things in August and some fun stuff I’m planning in October. Warning: I briefly discuss gun violence. open.substack.com/pub/pulmyear...

I see that Ghislaine Maxwell says that Jeffrey Epstein's pal Donald Trump always behaved as a "gentleman." Perhaps. But I'd note that in my experience prisoners always say nice things about those who have the capacity to grant the clemency.

In 2016, Ghislaine Maxwell falsely stated, under oath, that she was not aware that Jeffrey Epstein recruited underage girls for sex (you know, the ones she was actually recruiting on his behalf). She was charged with two counts of perjury for this. Remind me why we give a shit what she says now?

I had an hour long conversation with Daryl Hall about making music and cutting records with the likes of Dave Stewart, Robert Fripp, Sara and Janna Allen, Glenn Tilbrook, Elvis Costello, and yes even John Oates. Coming on Tuesday on the Record Store Day Podcast.

Today, a chamber that once filled me with wonderment made me feel disgust.

Of the 50 states, Alabama is one of the most dependent on federal revenue. Alabamians receive far more from Washington than they send. Is this Alabama senator even aware of that? www.al.com/politics/202...

The Pet Shop Boys remix of “Colour of a Man” by The Hidden Cameras is now available on vinyl on "Origin:Orphan Remixed". bfan.link/originorphan...

More than 6000 scientists have signed a declaration condemning "Administration policies that undermine the NIH mission, waste public resources, and harm the health of Americans and people across the globe" www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...

MAGA who just bought a cybertruck

Genuine question: has there ever been a figure like Stephen Miller in US history? Ie: a Presidential aide with this much (apparent) power in the WH? I have read credible stories about him controlling policy at DOJ, DOD, and of course DHS. He’s like a Grand Vizier.

by popular demand, excerpts from this article posted in a thread below it

Yeah, kill all the old people, sick people, poor people, gay people, brown people, educated people, kind people, rational people, and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

President Zelensky, at the Kyiv Arsenal book fair, having just been handed a copy of AUTOCRACY INC, in Ukrainian

I strongly agree with Pope XIV. (Opinion media have injured trust in one another) www.npr.org/2025/05/12/g...

So let me get this straight, we finally get an American pope, and some of the America first crowd is mad because he cares about the poor and immigrants. Am i missing something here?

The Catholic Church heard the public need for a Midwest Boomer Father Figure after the US wiffed on Tim Walz and understood the assignment 🤍

Happy 99th birthday to the man who gave voice to the wild. 🎉 Sir David Attenborough, thank you for a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with wisdom, wonder, and grace. You've inspired generations to fall in love with nature.

A lot of musical birthdays today First up, in honour of @maryhopkin.bsky.social birthday Ron sings "Goodbye" RS youtu.be/HsRqn51jgno?...

"I think he thought he could bullshit his way through. Trump wouldn’t be paying attention. MAGA wouldn’t put a bunch of babysitters over there to spy on him. But they did. Instead of saying, 'Fuck you. I’m out of here. I won’t be a part of this.' He says, 'Thank you, sir. May I have another?'"

This

And there it is. Trump comes out in favor of codifying Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea and blames Zelenskyy for Putin’s aggression.

Dah yah think?

reiterating that they have no mandate. we are not the minority. they are.

The FBI director flew this government plane (or one just like it), possibly from Las Vegas, where he still lives, to see a hockey game in Long Island. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...

That’s nice. Our institutions still “recommend” the President not make false assertions and demolish the country. www.cnn.com/2025/04/18/p...

A thought . . . Lots of the "anti-woke" folks who came over to Trump were living in deep blue areas cut off almost entirely from MAGA culture. They felt burned by the up-close encounters with the "woke." But they had no close contact with MAGA at all. Now some of them are shocked at what they see.

Putin commits another massacre, and all the American president can do is dump on Zelensky and Ukraine -- and lie about them. Who can deny that the United States has switched sides, in a great struggle between freedom and tyranny? A grotesque turn of history.

He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him. He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons. He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him. He’s defying the Supreme Court. Don’t you see what’s happening here?

This is minor, and given that all else going on, might even seem benign. But nonetheless: a sitting President attending a UFC match with 4 senior cabinet officials and the richest man in the world is completely nuts. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/u...

No one who thinks empathy is a weakness has any business at all being anywhere near government, ever.