"You’ll build a ramp for trash cans before you’ll build one for people?" thesqueakywheel.org/restaurant-o...

Utterly predictable in its overwhelming obnoxiousness.

Don't miss it!

“The long history of trying to ‘cure’ or eliminate autism has been a history of terrible abuse and dangerous sham treatments." I spoke to @autisticadvocacy.org's Greg Robinson and @drstevenkapp.bsky.social about the awful autism presser yesterday. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This is an absolutely terrific piece from @texastribune.org and reinforces my belief that the best coverage of right-wing cancelations occur at the local level, after years of the national media focusing on threats from the left. www.texastribune.org/2025/09/19/t...

Amanda Shires spent an afternoon introducing me to Lubbock and a small portion of those very fun hours is now chronicled in Texas Monthly ahead of her new album :) gift link: www.texasmonthly.com/arts-enterta...

Beyond dangerous to let these guys keep doing this.

i wrote about cardi b settling several scores www.vulture.com/article/revi...

New at No Fences Review: @cantkill.bsky.social & I return with more Turn It Up recs. New stuff from Kali Uchis & Ravyn Lenae, a Sonny Curtis tribute, meditations on the state of the nation with Martha Wainwright, The Clash, and Big K.R.I.T, and more. Plus reading recs. Please share & subscribe.

This is funniest possible headline for a song literally called "Song for Bob Dylan"

“For the large majority [of the Harper’s Letter signatories,] Trump’s reign of terror has apparently been less objectionable than the irritating undergraduate and entry-level scolds of the 2010s.”

every time you smugly post "and you're surprised?" to someone on here you should legally have to go out into the world and loudly tell one shameful secret to a stranger in a full but quiet restaurant.

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

Meanwhile, Brian Kilmeade, who advocated killing all homeless people, still has a cushy Fox job.

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. 🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

Flat-out, complete, utter bullshit.

New at No Fences Review: Turn It Up recommendations from me and @cantkill.bsky.social. New ones from Robbie Fulks, Willie Nelson, KIRBY, The Beths, and more. Plus a bunch of great reading recommendations. Please share and subscribe.

Pay attention.

Amen.

I learned a lot about some folks this week. Whew.

going from "transgender ideology" to "look at the poor misguided white kid" without even taking a breath, unconscionable

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Everybody who fell for the Harper's Letter or all the hand-wringing about "uncivil" students on the left, congratulations. You built this. You own this. And fuck you for being the useful idiots these fascists needed to launder their dismantling of academic freedom.

Read for yourself the quiet miracle of @nikostratis.com on Springsteen: thequietus.com/culture/book...

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

Fascism.

Someone wrote "SCHOOL SUCKZ" on the whiteboard in my classroom before I came in this afternoon. And that person might be my new hero.

This is the year for important edited collections in the history of health and medicine. In my humble opinion, every historian in our field should have these two books.

My biography of Justin Townes Earle will be released on January 13th, 2026, the week after what would’ve been his 44th birthday. It’s called ‘What Do You Do When You’re Lonesome’ If you’d like to support a debut author, you can pre-order here: www.hbglibrary.com/titles/jonat...

A huge thank-you to @NoDepression.bsky.social for giving me space to ruminate on the revolutionary potential of queer country for all of us. In the article, I discuss Julien Baker & Torres; the Indigo Girls; Heather Littlefield and, of course, Lavender Country nodepression.org/queer-countr...

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...

I really try not to say “we are fucked.” But this kinda thing makes it difficult.

Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere

Turn It Up with No Fences Review... Prince quakes the house, Charley Pride rocks and rolls, Amanda Shires rocks out, Hayes Carll gets away with it, BigXthaPlug gets even, and more. W/ @charleshughes2.bsky.social

New at No Fences Review: @cantkill.bsky.social and I return with new Turn It Up recommendations: Prince, Amanda Shires, Merle Haggard, BigXThaPlug, and more! Plus reading recommendations. Please share and subscribe!

New at No Fences Review: Joe Ely Week continues with @cantkill.bsky.social’s fantastic deep dive into 16 of his favorites from this great artist. Please share and subscribe!

“To be Southern is a spectrum.” —In an interview surrounding her latest album, “Miss Black America,” which was released today, KIRBY spoke with Francesca T. Royster on her Mississippi hometown, musical lexicon, and Southern identity. 🔗: https://shorturl.at/yX6wO

This was great fun to write. A good read, if I do say so myself, and even better listening. At No Fences Review

This is a really fantastic conversation. (Not surprising, given that these are two of the best and most thoughtful country critics we have right now.) The state of the music and the critical discourse, in a particularly pointed and insightful convo. Don’t miss it, and don’t forget it.

New at No Fences Review: Joe Ely Week continues with @cantkill.bsky.social’s fantastic deep dive into 16 of his favorites from this great artist. Please share and subscribe!

Landed the 1st #alabamashakes #brittanyhoward interview on the band’s 1st new song in a decade #anotherlife for @npr.org www.npr.org/2025/08/29/n...

Transgender studies professor Dr. Susan Stryker tears Gavin Newsom a new one while accepting the Transgender Legacy Award from the California state legislature 🔥🔥🔥 @susanstryker.bsky.social

Had a real pinch me moment chatting with Ashley Monroe — whose music means as much to me as anyone's — about her new album, Tennessee Lightning. We touched on many things including how she feels about "Americana" (my most burning question). Give it a read! thebluegrasssituation.com/read/ashley-...

New at No Fences Review: it's Joe Ely Week, and we're kicking off our appreciation of this great artist with my look at Letter To Laredo, which was released 30 years ago today. Stay tuned for more later in the week. Please share and subscribe!

it works

Crystal clear.

Tim Walz : trans rights are human rights JB Pritzker : we’re taking names of all you fuckers and coming after you Gavin Newsom : lol my pr firm made another meme while i guest starred on another right wing podcast

New at No Fences Review: it's Joe Ely Week, and we're kicking off our appreciation of this great artist with my look at Letter To Laredo, which was released 30 years ago today. Stay tuned for more later in the week. Please share and subscribe!