Does the world need an eleven-minute, electro-acoustic instrumental cover of Lyle Lovett's "If I Had a Boat"? I don't know, but I sure enjoy listening to it, and the world's a little better for it.

I am a proud grandson of antifa members Jack and Henry, one who served in England, the other in North Africa and Italy, to rid Europe of nazism and usher in an unparalleled era of peace, innovation and prosperity in America.

A new album by Kieran Hebden and William Tyler is cheaper than therapy.

If you haven’t bought anything from @effinbirds.com, you really need to. Like, today.

The fight continues, because not to fight would mean surrendering the goal of fair representation, for ourselves and for everyone who comes after us, and that would pretty much be the whole ballgame.

If you tolerate this, your children will be next.

Trump II is so disorienting b/c he’s simultaneously speed running some of America’s worst eras, the racial oppression of Jim Crow, the cronyism of the Gilded and Jazz Ages, the political persecution of McCarthyism, the lawlessness of Nixon, the natsec overreach of GWB, all in 8 months.

It’s important to tell everyone you know, including your dog and your kid’s pet guppy, that you refuse to be ruled by these dweebs.

You have not been paying attention.

Shameless hypocrisy is the new black.

"People are wonderful. I love individuals. I hate groups of people. I hate a group of people with a common purpose. Cause pretty soon they have little hats. And armbands. And fight songs. And a list of people they're going to visit at 3 a.m.” -George Carlin

I am a free speech warrior, but you will be prosecuted if you disrupt my dinner plans.

I am a free speech warrior as long as the Venn diagram of my views and your views is a circle.

I am a free speech warrior. The only things off limits are: •accurate quotes of myself and my political allies; •accurate descriptions of historical events; •statistics; •studies; and •anything I deem unpleasant. Other than that, come at me, bro.

Ohio’s congressional map is broken. Politicians carved it to keep themselves in power, splitting apart communities and silencing voters. 🧵👇 #Ohio #FairMaps

MAGA constitutionally available free speech starting to look an awful lot like the available prizes in The Jerk guessing game scene.

It turns out that Kirk wasn’t a radical, that things that I thought were shocking are things we’ve become accustomed to, and that our road back from this is longer than I thought.

There needs to be a truth and reconciliation-type proceeding in Columbus to reckon with all of the ways that the city and Ohio State have allowed themselves to be co-opted by the Wexner money hose.

Maybe we could properly fund our public schools rather than maniacally abuse them.

All of the don’t tread on me people: Please yes tread all over me just like that yes all of this treading on me is so good.

Our imaginary leftist authoritarian government continues to rack up Ls, while the actual reactionary authoritarian government marching through our streets is allowed to act with absolute impunity.

"For the real question is whether the brighter future is really always so distant. What if, on the contrary, it has been here for a long time already, and only our own blindness and weakness have prevented us from seeing it around us and within us, and kept us from developing it?" -Vaclav Havel

This is pleasant and is, in fact, conducive to writing.

The US right is just the confederacy. It's still around. It hasn't gone anywhere. It still wants the same things. The left doesn't need to do anything to cause it to organize or act.

If, 5 years from now, we are looking back under autocratic rule, thinking about when exactly democracy died in America, the president building a paramilitary goon squad to enforce a domestic political agenda will be top of the list. What do you want to have stood for when authoritarians took over?

Let’s not stop at the Department of War. Let’s go all the way. Imagine the Department of Labor as the Department of Capital and the Department of Energy as the Department of Coal.

If you think this post by the President of the United States is funny, there’s something wrong with you.

More headlines like this, please. The Associated Press is saying what many other mainstream outlets are afraid to say.

All of the don’t tread on me people: Please yes tread all over me just like that yes all of this treading on me is so good.

Ohio Republicans are going to try to turn us into the next Florida, the result of which would be many needless deaths, because they are afraid of a vocal minority of their own constituents.

National Birds of Prey, 2025 Edition

Dear Dispatch: There is, in fact, a right side and a wrong side in the current struggle for America’s soul. Bernie is on the wrong side, and it’s not a close call. You can and must do better.

Let's have the next bubble be outrageous overinvestment in something with social utility like public transportation or libraries.

"The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the Federal Government, are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State Governments are numerous and indefinite." -James Madison, Federalist No. 45

In summary, Trump is stealing hope from kids with brain cancer and their families while at the same time corruptly stuffing his own pockets with billions. What do you do with these people? I have some thoughts, none of them good.

It’s a race to see whether the anti-intellectualism and anti-professionalism in the Commerce And Treasury Departments kill the economy at scale before the anti-intellectualism and anti-professionalism in HHS kill humans at scale.

“The proposed Constitution, so far from implying an abolition of the State Governments . . . leaves in their possession certain exclusive and very important portions of sovereign power.” -Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 9

Business journalists might want to start prepping those think pieces about the similarities between the Hoover and Trump administrations.

What are we to conclude about a political movement the culmination of which is the intentional, unnecessary elimination of funds for pediatric cancer research? What about the people who continue to support that political movement?

Trump has turned law schools into 3-year programs in the history of law in America.

There are no trade deals. There’s no new US investment. All there is are taxes on consumers & extortion of companies and foreign governments. That’s it.

As a friend recently put it: the venn diagram of people who assured us the gun violence was worth it because we need the guns to protect ourselves against a tyrannical federal government and the people cheering on Trump as he deploys the military to take over American cities is a circle

The link below is to Wayne Hospital in Greenville, Ohio. There is a wide lane for any Democrat willing to take it to spend real time in rural areas like Darke County and talk with the people there about the party’s plans to reverse the Medicaid cuts and preserve quality health care access.

Word has it that Chief Justice John Roberts is working on a new legal theory that extends maximal executive authority into the afterlife.

“We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.” - Louis D. Brandeis In TWO DAYS we are going to let this White House and sycophant billionaires hear us. Find a protest here 👇🏼💪🇺🇸 #Ohio50501 Pls SHARE! maydaystrong.org

With Cracker Barrel retreating on their big redesign, that presumably takes the pressure off of Frisch's to do something about their Big Boy. I mean, look at this guy.

The folks who don’t want to use taxpayer funds to pay for cancer research are excited to use taxpayer funds to terrorize people with armed thugs.

It's funny on some level that America has unleashed its id on the world, and the world, rather than cowering in fear, has simply shrugged and stopped sending us mail.

I don’t know what to do with all this anger either. It’s the question lingering when I’m eating breakfast, driving to work, checking emails, going to meetings, picking up the kids from practice, taking the dog for a walk.