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ICYMI, reports from the current Springsteen tour: Cleveland, 5/22: www.radio-nowhere.com/bruce-spring... Pittsburgh, 5/19: www.radio-nowhere.com/bruce-spring... Chicago, 4/29: www.radio-nowhere.com/bruce-spring...

It's really bleak that lawyers are shaking down an independent blog for a copyright infringement from 14 years ago while LLMs are just gobbling up oceans' worth of intellectual property without consequence.

I gotta say, I think maybe it’s time for us to be concerned about these time travelers who keep getting killed around the White House

For those who haven’t yet signed up for my playlist emails, check out the first entry in the Stuff for Summer entry below: figgsrock2.substack.com/p/stuff-for-...

we are getting sued stereogum.com/tip-jar

Just a lovely interview by @chrisdeville.bsky.social here. Yet another reason I'm glad to be a @stereogum.com member.

You can tell that the audience for this is, like, Mamdani obsessives who do not live in or near NYC bc everyone here knows $700 is like the least you could hope to possibly pay to get into a Knicks eastern conference finals game at the Garden and he’s in TERRIBLE seats nypost.com/2026/05/22/u...

"Steven Soderbergh, armed with a newfound grasp on his own filmmaking identity—forged in the fires of Schizopolis and sharpened in the making of Out of Sight—transformed Lem Dobbs’s script for THE LIMEY into an existential meditation on time and memory."

55 POINTS 55 REBOUNDS 55 ASSISTS 55 BLOCKS

Bruce Springsteen last night in Pittsburgh was fucking insane. www.radio-nowhere.com/bruce-spring...

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it's cool that the president is trying to steal two billion dollars from my taxes to give to his pedophile friends and i'm supposed to like keep doing my job or whatever

They're stealing billions of your money to pay off violent right-wing psychos while doing everything in their power to spike gas up to $5 a gallon, make groceries into a luxury and hand the country over to the oligarchs who want to permanently replace you.

With summer right around the corner, you should probably subscribe to my playlist email as I’ve got a bunch of different mixes lined up for your ears as you bake in the hot sun. Click the image below to sign up! open.substack.com/pub/figgsroc...

Coming out of DJ retirement tonight for Prom Like It’s 1999 at Soho Live in Manhattan. 2 sets from me, a live set of sing along songs from Pop Punk Troubadours, a professional photographer, tarot card readings and much more. Tix at the door or below: tickets.venuepilot.com/e/niche-nigh...?

HAHAHA Bruce Springsteen WAS NOT HAVING IT with Chris Christie. SNUBBED!

THERE IS A GOD AND SHE LOVES ME

The plaintiff in this case deserves a Medal of Freedom. His lawsuit led a judge to prohibit Kars4Kids ads from broadcasting in California bc they violate false advertising laws. Hero. www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...

The relevant portion of the Jason Collins discussion

I DID NOT KNOW HE WAS A BUSINESSMAN

McConnell denied Garland a vote nine months out under the guise that there was an election soon and then jammed through Coney Barrett a week before Biden won. They have been flipping the bird to the concepts of norms and fairness for decades and the democrats have done jack shit to fight back.

Supreme Court affirms that when it says whites only it means whites only. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/u...

Let all pretense that this is about “law” die. The Supreme Court is a group of partisan actors intervening on behalf of the political party they support and against the will of the voters. It is the obligation of the next Congress that is committed to the Constitution to reconstruct the rogue SCOTUS

They’re like emergency responders who put on their siren and rush to the scene whenever Black people are trying to get representation

Roberts dropping that “we’re not political actors” quote and doing this 96 hours later is nasty work

official slogan of the democratic party

too much stuff disappears from or has never made it to the streaming services for the pretense that they're the forever alternative to used physical media to be serious

They put one of yours in the hospital, you put out a statement about how disappointed you are. That’s the centrist way.

This is an incredible story about record shopping…

My mind boggles at the people who are still saying, "But, but, the rules say...but but but...the process is..." Listen, Republicans don't care. They make shit up, bend the rules, ignore them, change them at will. Democrats have the majority in VA. Use your powers, be creative, & implement the map.

My latest mega playlist is out! Check it out here: open.substack.com/pub/figgsroc...

personally I think it's a very big deal that the Canada bureau chief for the @nytimes.com — certainly one of the highest-paid journalists in the country — asked an unspecified "AI tool" what Poilievre said & published its AI-hallucinated quotes in her reporting.

We have to proceed from the premise that no Republican claim to power anywhere at any level is legitimate in any way. Every bill, every law, every proclamation, every ruling, all of it is fouled, none of it should be held binding on either moral sensibilities or legal standing, all must be reversed.

The surviving members of Fountains of Wayne should bludgeon this man with their guitars

If you happen to be one of those people who enjoy when I create a very long playlist with a specific theme, I would suggest subscribing to my playlist email: open.substack.com/pub/figgsrock2 Tomorrow’s 8 hour journey was inspired by listening to a track from this album on my iPod the other day:

shut the fuck up, you hack, nobody believes this shit and that includes the members of the court

This is the 82-year-old state senator the FBI just raided because she successfully redistricted Virginia to match racist Republican redistricting efforts. They targeted her because she's ruthless and effective. They don't want anyone else to play within their new rules.

⚠️ Louise Lucus is one of the architects of Virginia's successful redistricting effort, so it’s almost certain this is politically motivated:

Saying this now, just in case - - New Yorkers hated Giuliani on 9/10, couldn't wait to get rid of him - Giuliani was in the street on 9/11 bc the Command Center at 7WTC was destroyed (he put it there to be near Judi Nathan) - Giuliani killed 343 firemen by forcing cheap radios on them

Gen Z has rediscovered the X-files & is realizing how dystopian the America of today is compared to the 90s "Watching The X-Files... has solidified my belief that I would have likely been happier in an age that preceded me." midnightmurmurations.substack.com/p/the-x-file...

The X-Files The Simpsons Bob’s Burgers Homicide: Life on the Street Parks & Recreation Futurama Mission: Impossible Perry Mason Law & Order Cheers The Dick Van Dyke Show The Twilight Zone Police Squad The Rockford Files Batman: The Animated Series

Very excited to be doing tech for my friend Eric when he DJs before @sugarcopperblue.bsky.social on Sunday.

it's incredible how they can't do the right thing even with nothing to lose by it

If you're going Sunday, you might see someone that looks like me during that 7pm to 8:30 pm slot...

“Major question answered by Congress thrice but we don’t like the answer”, the US Supreme Court

these mfs played to a blood pressure score

i finally made it to a Springsteen show this year: www.radio-nowhere.com/bruce-spring...

As a former pack-a-day smoker, do not bring back indoor smoking. When I smoked I had no idea how bad it was to smoke around people who weren’t also smoking. Like on the STREET it sucks. Don’t do this to other people

An absolute masterpiece of the form. What actually is that form? I can't really explain. But a masterpiece of... something.