After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Trump now controls the networks with a reign of terror and intimidation.

The NFLPA can make it go away on Sunday. The two teams scheduled to play MNF on ESPN can too. Cross-industry solidarity could be a de-facto IWW that may help energize non-union sectors. Lotta union members in the TV trucks on Sundays and Mondays too. ❤ Just thinking of possibilities.

This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

Wow. Disney-owned ABC pulled Jimmy Kimmel Live over a MAGA and Charlie Kirk joke. I guess we know where America’s corporate overlords stand on the subject of free speech. loom.ly/S-ihuH0

The right wants a chilling effect to stifle any criticism. I think they got it. Just wild.

People Magazine has joined the resistance.

Has anybody else noticed that Amazon RARELY ships records in vinyl mailers anymore? I just get the loose in a giant box about 80% of the time now. Ridiculous. Granted, I'm only buying super cheap shit that has them losing money, but they lose even more when I return them.

They’re treating the murder of Charlie Kirk like the 9/11 terror attacks, as an excuse to go to war. But this time they’re going to war against the US.

Oh the news. Oh the news. Lord.

Tonight… The Waterboys… any minute now.

This is what started me sharing a ton of cheap Christmas records. They aren’t so plentiful anymore.

Just going to leave this from @onthemedia.bsky.social here

"Blood libel against the South" from [checks] ah, Monroeville, Alabama native Harper Lee, who responded to a similar charge in 1966:

SCOTUS essentially green-lit the Trump admin. to terrorize communities and it has nothing to do with immigration or law & order. We’ve seen this before. Skipping probable cause weakens civil rights for EVERYONE and those rights shouldn’t depend on how you look or where you stand

Indeed he is. Yet he joins the world’s dictators.

Blowing up a boat that allegedly had drugs in it and killing alleged gang members in international waters without any due process is pretty clearly not legal. Vice President of 🇺🇸: “I don’t give a shit” A lawless regime.

How about this band fronted by a dude from Ozma/Nada Surf/Weezer? sanglorians.bandcamp.com/album/family...

"One could make the argument we should have sided with Hitler," a guest told Tucker Carlson's podcast last month. @Yair_Rosenberg writes about the MAGA influencers who want to rehabilitate the Nazi leader—and what they hope to gain by doing so. https://theatln.tc/UeI0UOs9

This move by the Trump administration is an overtly discriminatory civil rights violation. Trans people have the same legal rights as other Americans — end of story. There are lots of good reasons to keep certain people from owning guns. Being trans isn't one of them. https://cnn.it/4niJnxG

Definitely lined up another post today. Solid.

Probably not going to write about it - but I rather enjoyed it. abandcalledfrick.bandcamp.com/track/paper-... #christmas #christmasmusic #punk

You do not have to like John Bolton to see this for what it is.

"Garland’s protection of the DOJ did nothing but preserve that institution long enough for Trump to return to power and weaponize it against political opponents. It was a profound failure that our democracy will be lucky to recover from."

As with most things authoritarians do, going after critics is as much about the chilling effect and message it sends as anything else.

Well worth a read. This really is the darkest timeline...

does this go under "personal liberties" or "free markets"? bsky.app/profile/josh...

And one more thing - I’m enjoying this conversation. Don’t put in your broadcast that I’m not enjoying it

yeah they are going to decide this and give republican states enough time to draw new maps

I'll say it a thousand times -- any account of the past that only celebrates the good parts of a nation without reckoning with the bad is not what we call "history" It is propaganda, pure and simple.

Nothing to see here. Keep moving. Nothing to see here.

Holy shit. The Justice Department's inspector general "received, but did not act upon, a potentially explosive set of allegations" against Emil Bove "for more than two months." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/u...

@polaroidblog.bsky.social I just realized that your Soundcloud page has a Rosenquist cover image. One of my favs. (also, I had to unfollow you to free up space - sorry! - they have a limit and I hit it!)

MAGA Sen. Bernie Moreno of Ohio declares war on a city in his own state.

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

Sen. John Kennedy defends Emil Bove: "If everyone is corrupt, nobody is corrupt." (Not the flex he thinks it is ... )

So the greatest growth of water intensive Data Centers for AI slop is in the arid West that’s experiencing a record drought. Yep, makes perfect sense. (Data courtesy @highcountrynews.org)

The "EXTREME HEAT" warning is just too perfect for this story

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You all should read my old posts and listen to those old songs. christmasunderground.com/2013/11/30/s...

Famously the funniest man alive. (Please note my dripping sarcasm)

Since joining the Trump administration, Howard Lutnick has emerged as one of the most vocal supporters of the president’s tariff policies. But his former investment bank, now led by his sons, is taking bets against them.

DOGE has deleted more than a thousand federal regulations using a new artificial intelligence tool.

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

Ok. Listening to a #Christmas mix. #itbegins

How much would it fuck you up to find out that a band you liked were AI? Maybe one where you even (gasp!) bought the record? I can imagine it fucking me up a bit...

Well... it sure looks like Amazon has accidentally swapped the CD/Vinyl prices on the new #NickDrake box set. $90 for the vinyl... $150 for the CD! amzn.to/3GHTxZ9 #vinylcommunity #cheapvinyl #folk #vinyl

I love the discount bins. Best place to search for new, fun, interesting music.

I 100% live in a music bubble where I care about music and the bands that make it. Bums me out that it is a bubble. I want to go on Discogs and see healthy have/want numbers for all these bands I love, and despite all my experience, I am continually shocked and bummed. #justthinking