“I’m Kid Rock.” “I’m Naomi Wolf.” “I’m Kanye West.” “I’m Matt Taibbi.” “I’m Catturd. Those stories, plus Rob Schneider, tonight on 60 Minutes.”

With their celebration of ordinary people’s lives, Mackenzie Crook’s ‘Small Prophets’ and @littletollerbooks.bsky.social’s recent reissue of L. P. Jacks’ ‘Mad Shepherds’ are a match made in heaven, writes Sue Brooks www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/06/mad-...

Full statement of Scott Pelley after he's fired from CBS 60 Minutes, detailing the sort of corruption of journalism Bari Weiss has brought to CBS News:

Via @johncoulthart.com

Remembering the late Curtis Mayfield, born on this day in 1942. MOJO pays tribute to a soul legend with a rundown of Curtis’ greatest albums...

‘Some of us are seeing it as the new nemesis, a new destructive force for habitat.’

Music that drives without going anywhere. prisonjam.bandcamp.com/album/big-ri...

The money was always there for the good things.

"what it was like for a young brown girl from London to work in the heyday of commercial recording studios" incredible story reverb.com/news/intervi...

extremely heady paid internship alert, apparently archiving ursula k. le guin's email?!

Happening now at the Hot Club of New York: "Tonight we kick off our June meetings with one of the greatest bands in all of Jazz history, the original 'Harlem Express,' Jimmie Lunceford and his Orchestra." 7:30-10:30pm ET: zoom.us/j/833482351

take advantage of this - there are so many great music books on UTexas Press! lemme know if you need recommendations.

Whether it’s Barack Obama, putting his feet up on the desk in the Oval Office or Donald Trump demolishing the East Wing and turning the White House grounds into a cheap amusement park, neither president showed much respect for Washington tradition.

Thread. Bookmark. The final graph is devastating.

Can I interest you in a moist owlette as a timeline cleanse? This is Sassafras the Eastern Screech Owl from the Cincinnati Zoo (@cincinnatizoo.bsky.social, but via their FB) and I love him very much. Eastern Screech Owls (Megascops asio) are native to eastern North America.

Yesternow: Editor’s Note Volume Seven aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/05/30/y... 21 years ago, Aquarium Drunkard began in a Venice Beach apartment with little more than a stack of records and an internet connection. Looking back at some of the sounds, broadcasts, and detours that shaped the project.

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Republicans say James Talarico ordered a vegan taco. Democrats say that it wasn't vegan because it had both egg and cheese—doubling down on the cultural elitism that has cost them so dearly in recent elections.

Do Democrats need their own human cage fighting match to celebrate America’s semiquincentennial?

I'm glad Arsenal lost, because I'm always glad when teams that play an anti-football strategy lose. And yet, how glad am I? I watched — or should I say barely endured — two-plus hours of life-draining, boring-as-hell, joyless, negative, park-the-bus-and-keep-it-there football.

Organ Pipe Cactus commissioned me to design this poster to celebrate their new dark sky status. www.spacearttravelbureau.com #art #spaceart #astronomy

Achieving!

whatever religion this is, i’m joining

Greg Bovino will speak at a white nationalist conference in Portugal tomorrow. He will share the stage with no fewer than five people who idolize Hitler, including one who joined a group created by two Nazi SS members. Another guy is a self-described racist who refers to women as "cockroaches."🧵

Beautiful to see a functional, supportive culture bearing fruit that has meant so much to so many. Far too rare. Bravo! #NevadaCity #JoannaNewsom www.youtube.com/live/PiY7JG_...

Watched a male wild turkey in full brilliant display for the local hens early this morning at the Nature Conservancy's Patagonia-Sonoita Creek preserve; meanwhile, three deer frolicked across the grass meadow, before slipping into the cottonwoods and hemlock. Life keeps going on, given the chance.

Adam Curtis, today, striding boldly past the racks of Paul McCartney CDs, heading straight to Inferno by Boards of Canada and then slapping his £20 note down, confidently, on the counter. Narrator: “But in the process of trying to avoid nostalgia, in reality Curtis had…”

omg, doug shaw is gone. fuck. fuckfuck. pure awfulness. love to anybody/everybody. ...and life is brief.

NEW: ICE officers just beat and used tear gas on detainees at Delaney Hall detention center in Newark, NJ, per family members of people inside. This is as the hunger/labor strike at the facility continues for its seventh fay. gothamist.com/news/family-...

Explorers Room starts NOW with the dub stuff up front : :::: : JOIN ME

Legend

Brand new film by the Dutch son of Moroccan parents on a fascinating, difficult subject. I'm intrigued! That said, looking at this trailer: unfortunate but perhaps inevitable use of you know what. youtu.be/enujpP5g8y4?...

The fundamentalist-modernist controversy never ended, and it sure looks like the Texas Senate race is gonna make what has often functioned as subtext between the Christian traditions just, like, context.

h/t @mariephillips.bsky.social

My kids have measles, I lost my job, and the US has been humiliated by Iran. But at least now they're naming army bases after Confederate generals again.

So sad to hear of the death of Sonny Rollins. Way back in the day I bought any live jazz disc that had Village Vanguard or Birdland on it. This one was nothing I'd ever heard before, the saxophone telling stories worth entire novels or films www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk5p...

ICE agents pepper-sprayed Senator Andy Kim of New Jersey.

Trump's frequent trips to Walter Reed raise new questions about Joe Biden's health.

Stunning front covers of course catalogs for a free university in the late '60s Bay Area. Wish there were legible scans of the full catalogs! Ah well. Source: www.beatbooks.com/pages/books/...

Hey, I started a site/newsletter to continue the work of my recently-cancelled column. I features a monthly (free) rundown of good experimental releases, plus a bonus (paid-sub) post on a single release from the month. Check out goodexperimentalmusic.com and thanks to everyone who encouraged this!

#becausefreedom #opencarrystate #Tucsonlife #Result 2 men clash in Tucson traffic, pull over and fatally shoot each other, police say archive.is/HhXZE#select...

Open, rude anger-at-the-bosses in the Premier League, always incredible to witness.

Sunday afternoon mood music

In a groundbreaking investigation by the Arizona Daily Star and Lee Enterprises, @emilybregel.bsky.social and @emilyhamer.bsky.social show how an Arizona detention center is using isolation recklessly, sometimes to coerce immigration detainees into self deportation. tucson.com/news/local/b...

Heard a random song the other day and now I'm seriously considering going on a Waylon Jennings bender for a week or three.