People are already in the streets after an ICE agent shot a woman in her vehicle in Minneapolis today. Here are some @wired.com tips for protecting yourself from your government. www.wired.com/story/how-to...

If, like me, you’re desperately trying to maintain, you could do worse than checking out this website. Rebroadcasts of old radio on a number of themes, including crime, comedy, horror, and even old World Series games. It’s not perfect, but there’s just something very nice about it.

This will sound like a joke, but it's not. When TWO "Minnesota Nice" politicians drop the F-bomb in front of live cameras, we're at Defcon 1.

words ain’t workin’.

ICE observers in the Twin Cities are in need of dash cams to prevent further intimidation and frivolous claims. Cams are $110, memory cards $35, and ship to us directly via this wish list: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/... If you've been looking for a way to help, we'd sure appreciate it!

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Mayor Jacob Frey: “To ICE, get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”

Growing crowd here at 34th and Portland in south Minneapolis, where witnesses tell me an ICE agent shot an observer in her car. Witnesses said she was not responsive and was taken away. Bovino is on scene along with dozens of federal agents.

I'm happy this is happening, and contrary to the headline, I was watching it.

“She was trying to turn around, and the ICE agent was in front of her car, and he pulled out a gun and put it right in—like, his midriff was on her bumper—and he reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times,” [the witness] said. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

n/p "The Louis Armstrong Collection, Vol. 5: Louis in New York" and wondering why I would ever listen to anything else (always a good feeling, always passes, always returns)

California wants to tax billionaires with a 5% wealth tax and the CEO of Nvidia, who would have to pay $8 billion on his $163 billion fortune, says it like it is: that's perfectly fine! 🧵

Is the government of Greenland running a cocaine/fentanyl cartel? This forthcoming CBS News report says the evidence is strong.

Great start. Now rename it for Sonny Rollins! (cc: @jazyjef.bsky.social)

"[Lemi] Ghariokwu created a visual identity as unique as Pedro Bell’s work for Funkadelic." www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

I'd very much like to read Nik Cohn's 'Today there are no gentlemen: the changes in Englishmen's clothes since the war' book. Why is this so hard? Am I missing something here... It's not in print... copies going for over $1k... no scans anywhere that I can see...

The deplorables endure, and have spoken. New imperialism is a go!

Hot Club zoom stream starting at 730pm ET. I'll be there, some of my favorite hours of every week are spent checking out these people gathered in a room in Manhattan to listen to brilliant jazz 78s, with introductory spiels by people that know stuff. hotclubny.org

The Stone (2005-2018), Avenue C & 2nd Street, NYC, 1.5.18 📸 Jeff Caltabiano

Donald Trump is doing colonialism the right way. by Ezra Klein

Elon Musk is using Grok to fill the internet with child pornography. Some liberals object.

Twitter is owned by a fascist, Facebook and the Washington Post have gone MAGA, and now CBS News is about to be turned into far-right state TV. Here’s why America has a liberal media bias problem.

James W. Grauerholz, writer, editor, cultural steward, and one of the most quietly influential queer figures in American letters, died on January 1, 2026, at the age of 73. Best known as the literary executor and closest companion of William S. Burroughs. topekapride.com/james-grauer...

I worked closing shifts alone at a Subway when I was 14. eventually I got fired for stealing food. (there was no food at home.)

"'Books Are Going to Take Longer to Get to Libraries': What Baker & Taylor's Demise Means for Comics" by Gina Gagliano, writing for @comicsjournal.bsky.social (1/5/26): www.tcj.com/books-are-go...

"The wild-eyed, weird-bearded, longhaired dynamo, internationally known as the Rockabilly Rasputin, was a manic force, one you could always find at just about every unsavory corner of the Hollywood underground." jonnywhiteside.substack.com/p/johnny-leg...

h/t @andrewmale.bsky.social

Maduro’s biggest mistake? Not going on Joe Rogan.

So much of American history is just impulsive and extremely stupid elites, who don't believe in consequences because they have never personally experienced them, doing highly consequential stuff because they're bored or believe it might make them richer. I guess a lot of our culture, too.

He may keel over at any second.

Muting “FIFA Peace Prize” – the risk of someone making the joke remains alarmingly high after more than 9 hours of the joke being made

Our national shame and guilt deepens.

Illustration by Scottish artist Noel Laura Nisbet, for a 1916 edition of “Cossack Fairy Tales”, a collection of folk stories from an area known to us today as western Ukraine: publicdomainreview.org/collection/c...

Never gets old.

An excellent piece about the life and music of Ernest Hood. I didn't know that he had to switch to zither due to complications from polio in 1946, but had previously played jazz guitar: chadcrouch.substack.com/p/ernest-hoo...

day one in mamdani’s new york

"occult cabinet members" #yougogavin

queen

Yes, what a year.

Re-upping for the morning heads

A lovely, wandering tribute from Xander Marro to Louis Family Restaurant, a beloved diner in Providence RI that’s just announced it’s closing for good on Dec. 31. xandermarro.substack.com/p/good-bye-s...

Ezra Klein is cashing in the right way

Mitten and Cinnamon, looking like a film noir showgirl and the tough guy gangster whose clockwork careful criminal career will unravel as he tries to please her.

Went to the movies; was subjected to 30 minutes of previews for one forthcoming piece of shit after another and then—Marty Supreme, two and a half ridiculously thrilling hours that erased everything and replaced it with a world where people actually succeeded in making something fantastic.

FE just posted a piece i did about the process of putting together the "now jazz now" book. www.forcedexposure.com/Features/Lat...

Nothing could better sum up where we are as a culture