Rutherford NJ #NoKings

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵) www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Desperately wish this had happened like two days ago so I could have included this wild story in my column about seat switching today www.usatoday.com/story/travel...

I've never been to a wedding even among my own loved ones that was as fun as the random bachelorette party that showed up to the club in rural Ireland ending in arm-in-arm singalongs to Teenage Dirtbag and Fairytale of New York, this is the greatest country in the world

Well don't I feel stupid

A transgender sprinter is suing the NCAA and SUNY Geneseo college, claiming they discriminated against her by barring her from competing in a track event, despite knowing that the NCAA's 2025 transgender exclusion policy violates New York state law. www.law360.com/acces...

We really out here #arsenal #coyg

American cultural victory on display in a punk/metal venue in Camden, London UK

Something I should've estimated about visiting the UK is that the age verification for alcohol purchases is a silly little fig leaf, while the age verification for accessing a discord channel about drinking or your bluesky direct messages is arduous and not worthwhile.

I saw Oso Oso on the $10 Bill Tour last night in NJ. It celebrated 10 years of the band, and sticking to the theme, he/they're in my top 10 Long Island artists of all time, and top 10 bands I was blessed to see rising in their scene. Jade said maybe in 20 years they'll have a $30 tour. #laterskeets

Thick Lizzy is Gowanus's premier Thin Lizzy tribute band.

Spotted lanternflies must be in a mania over the cool evenings. The past 6 weeks, I'd see 1-2 per hour in my neighborhood. Tonight, I killed a few dozen, and they're evasive, a few dozen more times they escaped me though I'd like to believe that I crushed the same ones the next time around the block

“I make a mistake. I’m so sorry. It’s a culture thing. I don’t know. I don’t understand. I’m so sorry. I feel so bad right now. I’m so sorry honey.” She later added, “Can we forget about this? I try to be a good person. Please. Please. Please don’t do in the news nothing about me.”

I almost believed that bluesky fixed this for a few days

Ronnie Rondell Jr: Veteran Hollywood stuntman set on fire for Pink Floyd album cover dies

just asked myself, "was Toad The Wet Sprocket the American equivalent of The Smiths"? and it was one of the top 50 moments I've been utterly humiliated to be an American in 2025

idk if there's a succinct term for this kind of lyrical callback within the same song getting sloppier or more desperate, but I feel like Paul Westerberg on $100 Groom, "go downtown and we'll find ourselves a judge" -> "go downtown and find some crooked judge" is unique for not being about drugs/sex

very serious Alaskan journalism

Happy 60th anniversary to those who still have Beatlemania. Lovely to hear Cousin Brucie so sharp & going on 90. He says that he never really knew how the music sounded that night until about a year ago. www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...

Excited to see Crowbar and Eyehategod tonight. Last time I saw Eyehategod was in in Amityville in 2019 and there was a dude who blacked out threw up down his shirt while leaning against a column during The Fight or Sheer Terror, that's one of my x posts I wish I'd saved.

Very rare diagonal toilets. May Kaidee, vegan Thai restaurant, E Broadway, New York, NY.

Update

ICE is attempting to co-opt my personal favorite thing about America. So I’m in the Indianapolis Star explaining to Indycar fans why what ICE is doing is so harmful, and to everyone else about why Indycar, in particular, represents a better America than that. www.indystar.com/story/opinio...

Tonight I saw Laura Stevenson's 1st show (solo) since Late Great's release. Her vocals get more impressive on each album & I'm glad I got familiar with the new songs. She is a music therapist now and starting to sound like Susanna Hoffs. What a special singer-songwriter to witness in a special scene

feels like bluesky is missing out on its potential without Anton Newcombe arguing with people 16 hours a day

There are a lot of late great musicians whose lyrics hit different after they're gone, because they're gone, but David Berman still feels like he's talking to you like nobody else. 6 years gone to one of the best to ever do it.

Football Giants, baseball Giants spoof classic Francesa call on WFAN "Dan in Warwick's" classic question gets answered 10 years later with some help from the "Eli Manning Show" and Mike Francesa. www.newsday.com/sports/media...

Dead & Company are playing 60 years of the Grateful Dead’s Music this weekend at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. I created another tshirt for this band! And this local show. #gigart #deadandcompany #deadandco #thegratefuldead #gratefuldead #gratefuldeadart #deadcosf #bobweir #johnmayer

Sometimes I play the "Exile on Main St."s b2b track-for-track, it's so fun how you can hear Pussy Galore getting increasingly intoxicated as the recording session goes on, which is a charm that supersedes the background level of heroin at Keith Richards's French villa when the original was recorded.

If any of my followers who ordered One Billion Users don't check their email closely, make sure you find that one from kickstarter and put in your shipping information! #onebillionusers

when Rainer Maria said, "it was the hottest day on record, the traffic was a monster, it was keeping me from smiling, and I wished that it would end," I really felt that

I was lucky to see Prong play 31 years of Cleansing tonight, the only such date outside of Europe, and I think only in New York do they play a setlist like this. Undeniably one of the best NYC heavy metal albums ever, and imo the best groove metal album ever. Loudest 3-piece I've seen in a long time

My 11-year-old daughter, unhappy with the snacks and the long lines at camp, decided to start her own business with a couple of her campmates. I found this document on my computer.

I should have known that a Long Island groove metal show would involve a guitarist in a Don't Tread on Me shirt 🙄

The Wu-Tang Clan: The Final Chamber and Run The Jewels. First time I've seen Wu since Rock the Bells 2009, that was a special era of hip-hop to live in, I got this spiritual closure tonight I didn't know I needed. They brought out Lauryn Hill and Mary J Blige. The whole crowd knows RTJ songs, too.

This is correct. Any candidate cynically “triangulating” on trans kids is a non-starter, and now is the time to say so. There’s still so much time to advance candidates that DON’T suck.

The best soccer ticket I've ever had, unfortunately the New York Red Bulls don't know how to puck up a man on defense

I hope no baseball fan on here plans to watch Manfred's festivities. Letting the brave & brilliant question speak for itself… how much is MLB paying Pat McAfee to refer to it as "the MLB"? All he does is talk out his ass. He obviously pays no attention to baseball and lets his lack of awareness show

Oh, I went to Connetquot River State Park Preserve a week ago, one of Long Island's hidden treasures

It's been more than 30 years since I bought Bad Hair Day, seeing Weird Al tonight at Madison Square Garden is fulfilling a dream of seeing one of my most formative favorites

Reminder that American banks only protect consumers when laws imposed 90 years ago require them to do so, and the dead TikTok ban represents the end of enforcement of federal laws.

Whoa. That's a sprite, an elusive, high-altitude electrical discharge from a thundercloud photographed by NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers from the ISS earlier today. With reported sightings going back more than a century, this phenomenon was first photographed in 1989.

You know my ass loves Joni Mitchell, and while Counting Crows is covering Big Yellow Taxi, I want to say that the actual best rhyme that's ever been put on recorded music is "museum" and "to see 'em"

Band shirts I seen at Jones Beach: Hot Water Music, Joyce Manor, Menzingers, Tyler Childers, Bruce Springsteen 4x, Modern Lovers, The Strokes, Rolling Stones 2x, Elvis Costello, Wallflowers, Goose, Outlaws, Allman Bros Band, Smashing Pumpkins, Pearl Jam 2x, Bloc Party, Pink Floyd 3x, "Woodstock" 3x.

One of the whitest things I'll admit is that I was an adult when I realized that the Billy Madison joke, "if peeing your pants is cool, consider me Miles Davis," was wordplay on HIS BAND NAME because The Gaslight Anthem released the song titled Miles Davis & The Cool, and I know I'm not the only one

What soccer teams does The Gaslight Anthem support? There are 3, and I only recognize Celtic FC.

Amazon Fresh is really the enshittification of groceries. I went at a grand opening, was kinda disorganized. 2nd time, a bunch of items near/past expiration. Months later, shelves half-empty and digitally mislabeled, self-checkouts busted, most of the traffic is employees, all too busy to help you.

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

Thank goodness the new owners of Blue Point Brewery have revived a disgusting Long Island tradition.