Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

Streaming the Mummers parade on YouTube and I hear somebody in the crowd go to their friend, "When is New Years this year?" and I have a pretty good idea about what 2026 is gonna be like. Happy New Year, everybody!

@kristenkurtis.bsky.social Wishing you and those you love a wonderful Winter Holiday!

Got Whamageddoned at the soup and sandwich place.

Thanks @wxpnfm.bsky.social. love this song and can't wait for the album. Seeing him in Homer NY this past summer was the best show of the year for me.

Got a puffy package from @wxpnfm.bsky.social today. This was inside.

My 2025 Albums List tells me I'm angry, but I'd like very much to calm down.

Confession. I absolutely SUCK at admitting when I’m struggling or need help. I would much rather support and help others, and I deflect right into output of care instead of receipt of care. But folks, this has been a YEAR. I’m a lot closer to chucking it all in the bin than I’ve been in a while. BUT

Gracie hasn't been the same since the year the aliens got her.

#XPNCOUNTDOWN leftovers, one vote wonders, kudos to the one person who voted for Amy Winehouse's version of Moody's Mood for Love. SUPER WOW!! And a big thanks to the chooser of Pete Yorn's Bizarre Love Triangle for the fabulous festival memory.

I ended at 8 of 10 on the 2025 #XPNCOUNTDOWN. Just wait til next year.

With Hurt at Number 2 I'm flummoxed for the Number 1 on the #XPNcountdown.

We are just so us sometimes. ##XPNCOUNTDOWN

Plan was to get out and get Christmas shopping today but it's #XPNCountdown finale day so I'll stay in and finish the cookies while listening all day.

For a minute when I heard it was going to be Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds I kind of hoped some people had voted in Shatner for the #XPNcountdown.

Ok, I will confess that MacArthur Park was on my list. I don't really even like it much. But, I admire the heck out of the fact that she made that weird original into a cover people were able to move around to. #XPNcountdown

Not complaining at all, but is the #XPNcountdown actually a burrito wrapped around a filling of the 100 Greatest Versions of This Must Be the Place?

Sometimes we are a spooky bunch. #XPNcountdown

Sometimes the #XPNcountdown transition is exquisite.

Marilyn Manson on WXPN in the AM hours is a new experience for me. Not necessarily a bad experience, just new. You never know what will pop up next in the #XPNcountdown.

The 500s and 400s are usually my personal sweet spot in any WXPN countdown list. That's where we hit a ton of songs I totally didn't think of but sure wish I did. #XPNcountdown

First one from my list to make the #XPNCountdown! Nice way to start a Sunday.

#XPNCountdown I just realized I should share my XPN Covers bingo card in case anyone else wants to play along (I've already crossed a couple off!)

@djrobertdrake.bsky.social Do you still take Christmas Cards for the The Night Before decor?

Proof of life pic showing the back of the Waldeck heads in the wild. What a great evening!

In 2016, Ken Paxton had the audacity to sit at my table and break bread with my family knowing full well that my son is trans, then SIX YEARS LATER wrote an opinion stating that families like mine shouldn't exist. Within days, a CPS investigator was in our home threatening to remove our children.🧵

New song out now "Livin in the USA" Stream, download, share HERE ⬇️ orcd.co/lowcutconnie...

13th Annual Conference happened yesterday and it was the best one ever!

Oh. "This is about whether we have functional constitutional government in this country. If the IRS can go after you because of what you think or what you believe or what you do, we'd no longer live in a free country.“

Happy #VinylDay! We're playing vinyl all day until Midnight tonight. Tune in. Watch the vinyl cam!!! xpn.org/2025/04/07/c...

If they are illegally detaining legal permanent residents by month two, they will be illegally detaining citizen dissidents by year two. If you want it to stop before it reaches you, we will have to stop it here.

These guys inherited one of the most functional state apparatus in the history of the world and they are inhabiting it like a crack house. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

PRE-ORDERS OPEN! A #transgender rights history about #LGBTQ+ standing up to Nazis in the shadow of the Third Reich! Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institute and the lives of #trans patients proving that joy + life lived as your authentic self is an act of radical #resistance. 🧪🗃️📚🏳️‍⚧️ bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

1. Germany has issued a travel advisory for trans and GNC people who wish to travel to the United States. International Pride organization InterPride has done likewise. Travel may be dangerous with visa restrictions. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

When Vance opened his month I thought I've never been this angry at another human in my life. Then the so-called president started talking and the brand new record got shattered before it could even hit the books.

The Trump administration touted the release of files in the case of Jeffrey Epstein, the late financier and convicted sex offender, on Thursday. But the documents contained no new revelations.

Trump and Vance just embarrassed America in front of the world. The only person happy about their despicable performance is Putin.

This Russian agent who claims to be our president is on TV right now being a EFFING A HOLE!!

1. Major news: Remember those "Biological men"/"Biological Women" signs at University of Cincinnati? They have come down thanks to MASSIVE student protests at the college, which have continued. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism. www.erininthemorning.com/p/university...

“We are really trying very, very hard ... to move our world forward" through "foundational, sometimes groundbreaking research, and then you get flagged and blacklisted because there is a word like ‘female’ in your project.” My latest, w/the brilliant Agnel Philip www.propublica.org/article/ted-...

"He's going to run the government like his business!" Yes, exactly.

‼️ After the start of negotiations between Russia and the US, international investors began buying all types of assets related to Russia, - Bloomberg Despite the fact that hundreds of billions of Russian assets are still frozen by US sanctions, investors are trying to get around them.

"before the first abortion ban went into effect, the rate of sepsis for this patient population was remarkably steady. After the first ban was passed in 2021, it shoots up by more than 50%" @propublica.org's Lizzie Presser on the increased threat of sepsis, post-Roe:

Watching Aime Wichtendahl speak right now on Iowa's removal of transgender people from civil rights law and I am in tears right now. She's incredible. I will do anything I can to clip this speech but if anyone else is doing so please send it.

The acceleration of anti-trans attacks isn't what scares me most at the moment. What scares me most are non-trans people who believe the GOP will stop at the military ban and passports and gender-affirming care for youth. Nothing could be further from the truth. (thread)

February 27, 2025

Craig Unger, an American journalist and writer who has written two books on Trump’s connections to Russia’s security services and the Russian mafia, says he is "absolutely certain" that the U.S. president is a Russian asset. The Kyiv Independent sat down with Unger to hear what makes him so certain.

Earlier today I wrote an open letter to Elon Musk in response to a post in which he claimed that I am “undermining civilization” and suffering from “generational trauma.” The response I received from so many of you was overwhelming. Thank you for all the kind words of support. The fight continues.