It's the final day of the @chirpradio.org Fall Fundraising Drive. I'm trying to raise $3000 and get 50 donors. I'm $222 and 10 donors away. Please consider a donation to my fundraising page to get me over the top! CHIRP has been part of my life since 2007, and I believe in our mission. 1/3

I got my flu and pneumonia shots today and I’m feeling it right now.

Another example of why nobody ever wrote a song called "Fuck the Fire Department"

Two days left in the @chirpradio.org Fall Fundraising Drive. I’ve stretched my personal goal again. I’m now trying to raise $3000 and get 50 donors. I’m $264 and 13 donors away. Your donation can keep the music going on CHIRP, where I've been doing my Saturday morning show since 2010. 1/3

Superb essay by @jamellebouie.net on how the hyped-up unitary executive theory is built on a distorted conception of the President’s superior democratic legitimacy, and why it’s extreme application would fundamentally upend our constitutional order. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

Jimmy Kimmel has risen to the occasion tonight.

Just a few days to go in the @chirpradio.org Fall Fundraising Drive. I stretched my fundraising goal to $2500, and I'm trying to get 50 donors. I'm $40 (!) and 19 donors away. Please go to my fundraising page to help me meet my goal! 1/3

When I was writing a book about the Pharcyde, one of them mentioned that Toni Basil used to hook them up with gigs as backing dancers for hip-hop videos when they were teenagers. Me: Wait…you guys knew Toni Basil. “Yeah, of course. Toni’s a g.”

had a ton of fun working on this poll with @today.yougov.com about the songs that everybody knows the lyrics to, the generational anthems are super neat www.numlock.com/p/numlock-su...

Today is $10 Day at the @chirpradio.org Fall Fundraising drive. Every donation helps the station pay its bills and expenses. We’d appreciate it if you’d just donate $10 to CHIRP, and help support independent media (and cool music) in Chicago. 1/3

The edge guys haven't been good either. Whatever one can say about Dennis Allen as DC, the guys up front need to be better.

The interior of the Bears' defensive line has been pretty bad this year.

the funny thing about the constant misappropriation of MLK is that the guy left a massive body of writing specifically aimed at explaining his views of those of the movement he represented to the broad public. it is extremely easy to know what the guy thought on a variety of subjects and yet

there is a point here i want to amplify. the free speech defenders of the mainstream seem to have no awareness that actual free speech is often more fractious and destabilizing than civil and respectful. a society where speech is genuinely free isn’t the deferential space they want it to be.

Narduwar the Human Serviette interviews Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. It was worth delaying going to bed to watch this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMfU...

I think that reality be damned, Bluesky is going to continue to be just what weirdo reactionary centrist types refer to whenever they're talking about anyone vaguely left of center, as a way to generalize.

Why streaming sports is inferior: the Notre Dame-Purdue game on NBC is running long, and the Illinois-Indiana game is (allegedly) starting. I went to Peacock and it's been stuck on Coverage Will Begin Shortly. Presumably, on the network, you'd have analysts, a studio show, whatever. Show that.

Curtis, a high school friend of Buddy Holly, also wrote "I Fought The Law," and spent decades playing with The Crickets. www.avclub.com/sonny-curtis...

Here's the playlist for my CHIRP Radio show this morning. Thanks to everyone who tuned in! I'm back on next week, 9-Noon (CDT). habloennui.blogspot.com/2025/09/sept...

@support.bsky.team I'm trying to make routine posts with links and repeatedly getting an internal server error. For months, I've been able to post my weekly radio show playlist, and now I can't. This is very frustrating. How can this be fixed?

I'm $75 away from my goal. Help out @chirpradio and help get me over the top!

I’m back on @chirpradio.org this Saturday morning, 9-Noon (CDT) and I’ll have the latest from Joan Shelley, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Boo Boos, Kendra Morris, The Divine Comedy, Joy Crookes, Wednesday, Stealing Sheep, and The Wellingtons. Tune in at 107.1 FM or chirpradio.org. 1/4

The on-air portion of the @chirpradio.org Fall Fundraising drive kicks off today. CHIRP’s trying to raise $48K. I’m trying to raise $2000 and get 50 donors. I’m $534 and 34 donors from my goals. Please consider a donation to my fundraising page. 1/3

Of course, minutes after I typed this, Phoenix turned this game into a blow out. The first 15 minutes were great, trust me.

So the WNBA added a bunch of games to the regular season, but first round playoff series are still only best of 3? I'd watch 5 or 7 games of this Phoenix-NY series. This is quality hoops.

Dog Man Star will probably never be topped, but I think a good argument can be made that the post-hiatus Suede is even better than the pre-hiatus Suede.

I’m making progress on raising $2000 and getting 50 donors for @chirpradio.org during its Fall Fundraising drive. I’m $1516 and 41 donors away. And I'll be matching the first $700 to my fundraising page. Your donation can help me get closer to making my goal! 1/3

Congrats to Donald Trump for finding something John Yoo thinks is illegal. The bar was high. bsky.app/profile/carl...

It is Day 4 of the @chirpradio.org Fall Fundraising drive. I’m trying to raise $2000 by 9/25 and get 50 donors. I’m $1797 and 46 donors away. To show my commitment, I'm matching the first $700 to my fundraising page. Please help me make my goal! 1/3

And yes, I was the last Black full-time columnist in the Opinion section. Washington Post -- operating in a city which for a long time has been majority Black, is now without any full-time Black opinion writers.

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

Here's the playlist for my Self-Indulgent Birthday Show on @chirpradio.org this morning. Thanks to everyone who tuned in! I'm back on next Saturday, 9-Noon (CDT). habloennui.blogspot.com/2025/09/sept...

I’m back on @chirpradio.org this morning, and I’ll have the latest from Baxter Dury, Ego Ella May, Reb Fountain, Stereolab, Star Feminine Band, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Chameleons, Guerilla Toss, and Titanic. Tune in at 107.1 FM or chirpradio.org 1/4

Lost late-90s NYC "Moth" trio THE SPELLS to release debut LP nearly 30 years after recording. Photos by Nick Zinner (Yeah Yeah Yeahs), produced by Greg Talenfeld (Pavement), essay by @zacharylipez.bsky.social In-depth interview @psychedelicbabymag.com usthemgroup.blogspot.com/2025/09/lost...

New list of medieval dog names just dropped.

The @chirpradio.org Fall Fundraising drive starts today. We’re trying to raise $48000 in two weeks to keep are live, local programming put together by a community of 260+ volunteers, with an emphasis on local music. 1/3

Man, I can't tell you how much I'm looking forward to voting against Brendan Reilly in the Cook County Board president's primary next year. The rationale behind his candidacy seems to be: 1) look what I've done for downtown Chicago (which is still hurting post-pandemic), and 1/2

The complete inability to build consistent narratives or a coherent set of facts feels like a death knell for democracy. You can't leverage popular sovereignty toward the creation of public goods if popular sovereignty can't decide on what reality is

"Obedience must of course be secured for the command of a court. . . . But courts should be explicit and precise in their commands and should only then be strict in exacting compliance. To be both strict and indefinite is a kind of judicial tyranny." #SCOTUS Justice Felix Frankfurter, February 1949

This is 60.

Sparks, High-heeled boys, and Happy Birthdays! @sparksofficial.bsky.social @mrhonorama.bsky.social

/7 SCOTUS, the Federalist Society, the entire academic and intellectual infrastructure that brought us here: they're nothing but pretentious Trumpers. At least the guy in the MAGA hat and "fuck your feelings" t-shirt is honest about who he is. These people are not.

What is important is that the shut down is brought on by demanding that the administration adhere to the Constitution, along with other things.

honestly I just… tell the truth and blame the court for making it confusing.

The look on Ben Johnson's face after Caleb Williams committed the intentional grounding... #ChicagoBears

Q: but what if a full Epstein investigation also takes down Bill Clinton????? A:

Really good thread on this topic.

One of the greatest bitter kiss off songs, "The French Inhaler".

Sad. Don’t know what coverage is like in the US but here’s the BBC.