Really, a remarkable statement from Colombia’s President.

Gifting this for all who need it as a distraction from the state of our nation today. It's a delightful tale about a rainstorm, a Ford employee's flash of genius, and the arrow that tells you which side of your car should face the pump at the gas station.🎁 www.wsj.com/business/aut...

hey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison

Ever relevant, this poem by Mary Oliver, especially today.

“I’m sure you’re aware of our connections with the Trump Administration,” the North Carolina Republican Party's communications director wrote in an email response to us. “I would strongly suggest dropping this story.” We didn't. #ICYMI, read the story that he wanted dropped:

This Helen Phillips books is breaking and rearranging my brain in the best possible way. Went to sleep last night after reading ‘The Beekeeper,’ highly recommended. Thx @helencphillips.bsky.social

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Truly one of the most exquisite albums released this year. Put it on loop…

The year is slowing down, but there's still some new music to check out! You can find the links at www.endaural.com/anticipation...

Hip-hop journalism isn't a 9-5 gig, so why should dropping the CABBAGES 25 Best Hip-Hop/Rap Albums of 2025 act otherwise? www.cabbageshiphop.com/2025-best-hi...

When Rebecca Solnit asks you to turn a thread into an essay, you fucking do it. jessica.substack.com/p/cbs-news-f... bsky.app/profile/rebe...

Rest easy, Isiah Whitlock Jr. 🙏🏾🕊💙

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This Smithsonian piece was another big highlight for me in 2025. 2026 marks 20 years since I dropped out of high school & started on the arts life. It has not been easy at times but after all these years it’s still all I want to do. Lots of work coming in 26, tree music, short stories, heavy drones.

Appreciate the shoutout on Lars guitar music list of 2025. I’m in the “Is that even a guitar?” category, and yes, it is, I made the whole record with my Guild D 55 and a drum machine on my phone. 🎸❤️‍🔥😜

I need some positivity. Quote or reply with your favorite bike memory of 2025. It can be a great ride, an advocacy accomplishment, whatever. Let's celebrate bikes. My personal favorite was finally doing a bikepacking ride up to Portland, Maine! It has me excited for bigger adventures in 2026.

2025 I’ve had trees on my mind, big time, & I was really happy to see this collections of essays about public history & trees edited by Dr Phil Levy. Phil was the archeo guy working on George Washington’s land by my parents house & was always so cool & open about sharing his work. This looks great.

Fantastic creative documentation of the 2025 wildfires in Southern California.

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Excellent piece. Well worth the read, especially today.

Flyboy in the Buttermilk: Essays on Contemporary America • Greg Tate (1992) 📕 reissue, with a new introduction by Hanif Abdurraqib & a new foreword by Questlove us.macmillan.com/books/978037...

This is really important reporting from @wbur.org about the scale of the kidnapping and deportation infrastructure across New England as well as the local and regional partnerships that have made it possible.

my recording of guitarist Gwenifer Raymond at the Hare and Hounds in Birmingham, England, on August 31, 2022 is now on the Milwaukee Taper blog, freely available for downloading in both lossless FLAC and high quality mp3 file formats: www.milwaukeetaper.com/2025/12/gwen...

We go to see a band the other night and I swear to god, one of the musicians up on stage is playing a laptop computer. I say to my wife “Looks like someone got lost coming home from the office!” and she goes “Ah shut up! It’s post-rock.” so I go “That guy’s POSTING something alright!”

@boomkat.com I beg you, slow the fuck down with all the heat, I’m going to go broke.

🚨 Newly restored footage of the (South African) Blue Notes in London in 1967. Preceded by more recent interviews. Chris McGregor - piano Dudu Pukwana - alto sax Mongezi Feza - pocket trumpet Ronnie Beer - tenor sax Johnny Dyani - double bass Louis Moholo - drums h/t Eremite Records

Monthly Project for December 2025-January 2026 is now live and we’re honored to have the illustrious Lawrence English joining us as guest facilitator for the live group critique session. Support the class and participate at patreon.com/peretsky and get speculatively spatial baby.

Radicchio is the greatest. That is all

NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇

One of the biggest moments of my career: USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!

Sounds correct

If you keep discovering new music, you don’t die.

They’re stealing from us. They are stealing from us and we have to put a stop to this. This cannot stand.

Anybody got any idea if Pancake Moon the new Michiko Ogawa album has US distribution?? Shipping $ is rough.

Stephen Miller is employing state terror in service of the open goal of shifting the ethnic mix of the country. In numerous ways he's doing this at the expense of public safety. We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read: newrepublic.com/article/2041...

My quote of the day If you have tapped into something that is real for you, chances are you are going to tap into something that is real for someone else. Rob Reiner

#nowplaying Michiko Ogawa & Lucy Railton - fragments of reincarnation (another timbre) Just a beautiful meeting between two incredible performers on shō/ Hammond organ & cello. 45 minutes of shifting overtones and complex drones. @anothertimbre.bsky.social

Making music isn’t about doing whatever you want or having fun. It’s about constructing an opaque sonic bureaucracy, which you then diligently work within as a stifled but honest functionary.

Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :) The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used > neal.fun/size-of-life/

Children don’t need ‘AI’ to create their graphic novels or any kind of art. They need confidence in their own beautiful, original, human creativity, flaws and all. They need to learn to make art badly before they get better at it. They need the space to do all this, and not learn through ‘AI’

This is incredible work. “So AI-generated music might be something like a detailed death mask: it preserves the surface structure of something living without being alive itself.”

I’ve got some friends who are talking about doing dry January but for removing the Instagram app from our phones. Is that a thing? I think it should be.

It’s a lazy Saturday afternoon, so I’m revisiting Laurel Halo’s Atlas. One of my absolute favorites from the last few years. If the date on this video is correct, I saw her and Leila Bordreuil perform at the Long Play Festival in Brooklyn the night before, & it was just as magical.

Great album with a cool Kraftwerk cover on it

I know there's a lot of news but if you can tear yourself away from the CDC vaccine committee today — you should really read this series on how the Trump administration has upended science in just 10 months, from my incredibly talented colleagues: www.statnews.com/american-sci...

Can all the folk who just got reminded that they’ve listened to a tonne of music on streaming this year, have a look at the music they heard and buy some on bandcamp today? 🫡🙏🏼

year end, looking back, wrapping up, list season, best, worst, & ambivalence, well here's another... 🧵 looking back at the things I made this past year, as much for myself as anything, but if I can interest & entice someone else to listen all the better, and there is one more BC Friday coming up..