Such terrible things happen round this place Such terrible things happen round this place Such terrible things happen round this place And people disappear without a trace Song: Sucker For Mystery Album: So-Lo

So how am I still in the dark Out of this madness is something unravelling How am I so in the dark Why am I so in the dark How am I so in the dark When the world is on fire Song: World on Fire Album: This Hungry Life Band: Tanya Donelly

They're meeting at the monument, The call came in the monument To liberty and honor under the honor roll They've gathered up the cages the cages and courageous, The followers of chaos out of control Song: Disturbance At The Heron House Album: Document

In my life I've seen treatments for AIDs developed, vaccines for Ebola and malaria, and now this. Medical science is one is the areas that still consistently seems to make these miraculous advances and I'm genuinely grateful to everyone involved. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

As I was saying…

Take a break from the madness tonight at 6PM PT and join CJH for a timely breakdown of this banger. twitch.tv/thetwitchses...

Y’all, we need to breathe. youtu.be/Gs069dndIYk?...

There's a light in the tower There to guide us through the long night Through the long night when we're dreaming Under blankets of deception Song: Long Breakdown Album: Dark At The End Of The Tunnel

watching this trump news conference and it is just a nonstop stream of absolute nonsense and actual lies although, it is not clear whatsoever whether or not trump can distinguish between the truth and his own fantasies

HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED

The Third Reich didn't last 1,000 years. Pinochet was ousted with a referendum. And the US isn't exactly dealing with the smartest, most competent fascists. Those of you insisting that 2025 is forever need to read a book, touch grass, go to therapy, anything other than trying to make others quit.

This is an important time to remember that responsibility is not a zero-sum game — recognizing one person’s fault does not necessarily diminish another person’s. The Trump administration is fascist. And ABC cynically caved and abandoned American values for money. Both are worthy of your contempt.

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

Do Not Give In To These Fucking People Do not self censor. Do not let them scare you Or let them scare you, but do the damn thing anyway Fuck Charlie Kirk. Fuck Trump. Fuck anyone who tries to strip us of our God-given right to say those things

"A Dirty Little Secret" www.calculatedriskblog.com/2025/09/a-di... '[I]t really isn't much of a secret that Wall Street and corporate America like the unemployment rate to be a little high. But it is "dirty" in the sense that it is unspoken.'

It was weirdly fitting that the Charlie Kirk murder blended into the 9/11 anniversary as once again Americans were told to “watch what they say” The hypocritical censorship around a “free speech hero.” My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

The puzzles that divide you Divide me too Who takes care of you? What do you really mean? Why did you do it? How can you sleep? How can you sleep? Song: How Can You Sleep Album: Lovesongs for Underdogs B-Side Band: Tanya Donelly

Can Jesse Welles Revive the Protest Song?

It's so funny you're still thinking about that guy and posting about it. When I'm thinking about Wang Chung's original motion picture soundtrack for To Live and Die in LA

I’ve been rewatching the Coen Bros filmography this month and while drawing a Barton Fink illustration, it struck me how much their films feel like Far Side cartoons: funny, strange, clever, yet frequently inscrutable. Anyway here’s a thread!

We’re quite deep within the Singularity right now, though it’s turned out be the Singularity of Stupid (SoS), which effectively prevents the original concept of the Singularity from happening.

I get that for folks who see it at a distance or through the prism of the media perhaps do not understand how bad it is, but the federal government's state capacity is dying on the vine in front of everyone's eyes

Raw milk and no vaccines, people are gonna be “Oregon Trail”-ass dying. The fucking ghouls will call it vintage American death, like we used to have in the old days!

Happy Labor Day! Come see me on my new stand up tour starting Sept. 12 😁

With a picture taken today by Getty Images; once again: do I know WTF is going on with Trump? I do not. Do YOU know WTF is going on with Trump? You do not All I know is he has never voluntarily STFU for five days since he was born

“TGIF INDEED! Let's all gather under the TWITCH party tent @ 6pm PT and dance into the night with THIS classic piece of gorgeousity, shall we?! I'll see y'all there.@thetwitchsessions”

For all of @governor.ca.gov's bluster, there are concrete measures he could be taking to demonstrate California leadership. This is one. Newsom should stand up a commission to fast-track changes in California that fill the gaps created by Trump. Redistricting should be the beginning, not the end.

This story has it all: aquaculture, Black Flag, Bernie Sanders, Star Trek as policy, John Hodgman, male tears, and a candidate citing Luthen’s monologue from Andor. Meet Graham Platner, the Maine oysterman trying to crack the senate. @grahamformaine.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/1996...

@ericstephen.bsky.social Three inning save alert.

AP live feed of the CDC walkout in Atlanta. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ7Q...

"This is at the heart of MAHA, and why RFK and co find themselves now on the Right— they are Nazis. They believe that the weak should be culled, that you should "trust your immune system" because physical strength and health is equivalent to moral strength"

Summer vacation is over. Song vs. Song returns this September.

This is a real work of art in the Youtube Video Essay genre. Funny, witty, hates the people I hate and genuinely insightful. Highly recommend. youtu.be/ewvRS3NwIlQ?...

Going to be a good one tonight. #oasis twitch.tv/thetwitchses...

In MacArthur Park in Los Angeles for a free ska show, and I gotta tell you, it’s really healing to see this pavilion full of dancing, smiling people instead of the fascist goons who trampled through here in July

"Easy" by the Commodores tonight. Going to be amazing. www.twitch.tv/thetwitchses...

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

Significantly diminish a band: Run DMV

Slightly diminish a band: Early Evening Oil

The Next Financial Crisis www.calculatedriskblog.com/2025/08/the-... I'm probably stepping on a few toes with this one ...

Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.

"In every age the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found among demagogues." -Thomas Macaulay (1849)

Jesse Welles wrote an ice recruitment jingle. www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6PpvUBk/

If you live in/represent a Blue State, want to gerrymander the FUCK out of your state, support and are willing to fight for a national anti-gerrymandering law you are principled, consistent and doing exactly the right thing.

Defunded NPR to offer “Tiny End Table Concerts”