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.

Bartiromo: "We are waiting any moment now to get the jobs number for the month of June. The expectations call for the numbers to be up 95,000. Right now seeing the number -- actually, uh, showing a decline in jobs, uh, down 33,000, uh."

Possibly the most beautiful thing I’ll see all day, perhaps all week…❤️

this suggest that cardinals are angels' natural predators

Keystone Cops Time…

Ouch. Only for the car’s o-ring. #notdoingthat

Trump orders an end to all federal funds for NPR and PBS. They say he can't. My updated story for NPR: www.npr.org/2025/05/02/n...

My new album Things Have Changed is now streaming on all platforms. Go, stream!

hey guess what trump's numbers about social security are total horseshit www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

“How”, a song from my new album Things Have Changed, out now on @bandcamp.com mikeschrand.bandcamp.com/album/things...

lots of people rightfully hailing the great gene hackman performances but let me say a word for his role as the villain in sam raimi’s THE QUICK AND THE DEAD. he brings so much genuine menace to the performance, it’s electrifying

Secretary of Defense Hegseth says he doesn’t know if Russia invaded Ukraine. This you?

“Walking Away”, from my album “Things Have Changed”, out now at mikeschrand.bandcamp.com/album/things...

I have decided to cancel my show at The Kennedy Center on May 11, 2025 and move it to The Anthem.

Roberta Flack, the magnetic singer and pianist who was one of the most popular artists of the 1970s, died on Monday at 88. Flack was known for her majestic anthems like “Killing Me Softly” and “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face.” nyti.ms/4h1KzSh

My new album is now out on @bandcamp.com! Get some for your ears. mikeschrand.bandcamp.com/album/things...

A new song, “Jackknife”, from my new album Things Have Changed, out soon on @bandcamp.com

A preview song from my upcoming album “Things Have Changed”, out soon on @bandcamp.com #originalmusic #songwritersofbluesky #stlouis

Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons: -We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S. -The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous. 🧵⬇️

A few members of the @stlpublicradio.bsky.social and @npr.org morning team: Yours truly, @steveinskeep.bsky.social and @abbyllorico.bsky.social having a nice #STL morning.

True.

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

This fellow looks pretty happy. Probably because…Things Have Changed. #newalbum #soon

Rest In Peace, David Lynch🌹

Dang, #usps, this is insane. Product ordered from the same state I’m in on 12/21, in limbo since 12/29. Ordered same product again 1/3, and now THAT one is still in limbo since 1/9. Horrible!

Five years ago today, I was immortalized by the account @nprmageddon (on the dumpster fire platform) and thought I’d share it on this fine platform today. #npr #publicradio

Merry ChristmAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSS

This could be one of the most important weeks ever for abortion access in Missouri. That may sound like hyperbole, but the stakes are high in Jackson County Judge Jerri Zhang's courtroom tomorrow. Here's my Reel for @stlpublicradio.bsky.social:

I’m neither on Spotify nor Instagram, but my colleague @larafaiham.bsky.social sent me this Spotify Wrapped from Insta, for a listener whom I do not know. Two words: Day. Made.

Lee Jae-myung, Leader of South Korea's Democratic Party, live-streamed himself scaling the walls of the National Assembly to bypass military barricades so that he could vote to overturn the President's martial law.

We have three dogs, two Boston Bulls and this adorable little Frenchton, Rosalie. Caught a few shots of her working earnest on the Nyla handle bone. ❤️

My lovely spouse @bretonrouge.bsky.social and I celebrated her birthday with a sublime dinner at Zen in Crestwood.

Weeks after @propublica.org reported on the deaths of two pregnant women whose miscarriages went untreated in Texas, state lawmakers have filed bills that would create new exceptions to the state’s strict abortion laws. www.propublica.org/article/texa...

Me: *Does nothing* *Does nothing* *Does nothing* *Starts something* Them: "You busy?" Me:

Gaetz shows himself out x.com/mattgaetz/st...

Follow my esteemed colleagues and me if you care to.

Interesting and funny conversation with @abbyllorico.bsky.social this morning about unfortunate encounters with animals. My worst? Being crapped on by a bird while at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington Cemetery. What’s yours?

Māori MPs briefly suspended the Aotearoa parliament’s attempts to reinterpret their founding treaty in the most bad ass use of the Haka I’ve ever seen.

Obligatory #dogphoto. Our two Boston Bulls and our young Frenchton in the center.

Oh satire! Alex Jones' media company sold to The Onion at auction www.npr.org/2024/11/14/n...

I got off the bird about five years ago, as it was a dumpster fire then. Hoping for a little bit of normalcy here. Hello! Please follow if you care to.