1/ Anticipating a big fire in the belly of the beast this Monday night. Obviously, my Lions versus the Chiefs was always going to be a monster of a challenge and all that bullshit attached to the Montgomery-to-Goff TD and those 2-3 plays and penalties that cost us field and downs might have made

What we all should know and understand about TFG and MAGA is this: They hang their petty hatreds and ignorant vindictiveness like some will hang a medal of valor. They seek to disenfranchise, disempower, delegitimize, and dehumanize those who are different and those who oppose them. #RESIST

Nearly 7 million turned out to rally and protest for #NoKings yesterday. That's a damn significant number, but still not yet a number that could embolden the rest of America (326+ million) to recognize and decisively act on the dismantling of our democracy. Keep at it people! GOOD TROUBLE. #RESIST

Attended a #NoKings protest in my hometown. Respectable turnout. I'd guess 7-800. One MAGA provocateur waded into the rally with his Trump banners and a megaphone. A handful of drivers on the main drag had a wild hair. Gunned their pickups (an overcompensating cliché, right?). Otherwise... #RESIST

I'm convinced those hired by ICE are J6 insurrectionists, members in good standing with the Proud Boys, the Oath Keepers, the Three Percenters, the Patriot Front, and no longer hireable LEO with shitty evals and violent work histories... I mean, can you recall the last newsmaking alt right rally?

The Tragically Hip frontman Gord Downie passed away October 17, 2017 following a battle with brain cancer. I've had "celebrity" deaths depress me some, but Gord's passing was especially evocative as The Tragically Hip has long been among the soundtracks to my life and Canada comfortably adjacent.

If we should somehow survive and get on the other side of TFG and MAGA, the reset, the renewal of democracy and the rule of law, our aspirations and the recognition diversity and inclusion are required to fulfill our collective American Dream, needs to be bold and sinewy. #Resist #Defy #NoKingsDay

Every week... Hell... Most every day TFG and MAGA have either created a crisis, disregarded the rule of law, or violated our Constitution... And in-between their acts of worse and worst, fomented a level of animus, cruelty, and reprehensibility from which there ought to be absolutely no coming back.

Just 'cos...

This week's listens: Christone "Kingfish" Ingram/Hard Road/2025 Larkin Poe/Blood Harmony/2022 Fu Manchu/The Covers/2011 The Black Crowes/The Southern Harmony And Musical Companion/1992 The Black Crowes/Amorica/1994

Played hooky this past Monday so I could spend a little bit of it at Detroit's Hart Plaza for an Indigenous Peoples' Day Pow Wow. A nice turnout for an event that hadn't been staged downtown in thirty years. Well spent... Every so often you owe yourself such a day.

1/ Make 2 or 3 plays and it's a different game for my Lions vs. the Chiefs. Maybe the outcome is a win. But this much needs to be also said... Play with passion. Play with abandonment. Play with attitude. Play with a chip on your shoulder. But any lack of composure as had been demonstrated

1/ It really is a challenge to recognize, at minimum, one-third of my country persists in the obstinate belief TFG has the best interests of our nation in his decision-making and actions when it is irrefutable everything he does is to benefit him and his like. The unprecedented level of corruption

I pretty well eat, drink, and sleep Detroit Lions. Lifelong Honolulu Blue and Silver... So, I don't "invest" when watching NFL football... But that Giants-Eagles game was something to behold as I saw the Giants in one single game manifest a damn juicy team identity. Breathtaking af to bear witness.

1/ I've family and friends who've served in our military. All had been "boots on the ground" in a theater of war and some deployed multiple times. Not much has been said of TFG and Hegseth's chaotic leadership or their arbitrary and reckless changes to U.S. military policies, standards, and norms

This kinda' blows as Dan is one of my faves when it comes to analyzing and dissecting the game of football. The NFL is making a mistake here (not totally unexpected as they seem to do that with some frequency).

1/ The moron to the pipsqueak's right is my congressperson. A MAGA-mouth. Every claim she's made to having voted for something that helped our congressional district is something she'd actually voted against or voted to undo. Each day it's a pretense she's working hard on behalf of her constituency.

We've become conditioned to one outrage after the other. We've normalized his unhinged malice... For Chrissakes, can we draw a frikkin' line without moving it?!

1/ Each day I'll see video of an ICE arrest (or abduction) that points not only to the absence of adequate training and the violation of due process, but is also a disturbing display of cruel intent. ICE has surreptitiously descended into a goon squad, a militarized arm of TFG's authoritarian

1/ The way I currently view our Lions: Game 1 a wakeup call as they should have intuited that game better than they had. A depressing outcome, really. Game 2 not only a "get right" game, but an opportunity to exorcise the Ben Johnson hangover. His departure was like an albatross and a good thing it

Excellent thread. Many arguments I regularly make when conversating with friends and good acquaintances who feel and believe similarly. There is no ideology or political bent we should affix to any fight for democracy. You're either pro- or you're not. And our "here and now" requires "fighters".

Post widely please

Stupid, absurd, and both morally and ethically challenged. The legal exposure will be wild. The optics even wilder. I could care less about the Super Bowl halftime show. I'd have to go back several years to identify any that I liked... More, Bad Bunny is a U.S. citizen and Noem can go fuck herself.

1/ Tired of measured, "we're-not-like-them" responses from Democratic leadership. To battle TFG and MAGA, it requires an all-in, all-of-the-above response and a ready willingness to get in their face and go-toe-to-toe. Yes, it is about tactics, messaging, and arguing on behalf of objective fact and

Both the SoD and Cadet Bone Spurs are disrespectful, dishonorable wannabe tough guys predisposed to fascism and authoritarianism. One a five-time Vietnam War deferment who regularly maligns those who serve and the other just flat out af unfit and incompetent... America's enemies have maniacal grins.

A safe bet this posturing fucknut was regularly swirlied in high school... And deserved it... Like TFG, always overcompensating. He and his orange-sprayed master are singular douche bags and plain-as-fucking-day fascists. A disaffected segment of America better catch up to what they're planning...

Just cos...

This week's listens: Headstones/Burn All The Ships/2025 Sloan/Based On The Bestseller/2025 Southern Avenue/Family/2025 Rory Gallagher/Irish Tour '74 (40th Anniversary Edition)/2014 Terry Reid/River/1973

Joan Jett had her birthday yesterday. A young 67... Crushed on Joan when she was with The Runaways and maintained that crush for decades. Cool and influential af, an iconic rocker... And rarely and grudgingly do I call anyone "iconic"...

Crazy take on a Celebration of Life... Commemorative af...

There is a whole ecosystem of ignorant ass, inbred fuckwits and antagonistic extremists who've thrived (materially, too) dehumanizing historically vulnerable communities and systemically maligned minorities. They're bullies. Be intolerant of bullies. No pity or leniency. Bully the bullies.

The murder of Kirk should be rightly condemned. Political violence is unacceptable. But the disingenuous reimaging of Kirk is borderline obscene and furthers an authoritarian construct. A Day of Remembrance? Honor more those children whose flesh and bones had been reduced to bloody confetti.

1/ Hateful words might incite hateful actions which could lead to terrible outcomes... I'm paraphrasing Dowd, but this is an observation that isn't a lie nor does it directly assign blame... MSNBC didn't have the spine when they'd needed it... Kimmel satirized TFG and ABC hadn't the balls to do the

Manufactured culture wars and raw political opportunism got us here. Gutlessness and greed, too. It's all about power. It's acquisition and consolidation. We've already crossed several red lines. The warning lights are blinking and the sound alerts are screaming. Authoritarianism. Unchecked.

These past nine months our country has made a scary hard rightward turn... We are no longer lurching towards authoritarianism. We are clearly in the throes of it... And it should be clear we've become an unprincipled, inhospitable, unsafe pariah nation lacking international credibility and respect.

Jeremiah Johnson isn't just my favorite Robert Redford film... It is one of my all-time faves... Three Days of the Condor, All the President's Men, Brubaker, The Candidate, Sneakers, An Unfinished Life are easy "likes", too... More, I very much respected his political opinions and insights.

Just 'cos...

This week's listens: Larry McCray/Heartbreak City/2025 Grainne Duffy/Dirty Woman Blues/2023 The Sonics /Live At Easy Street/2016 Asphalt Ballet/Asphalt Ballet/1991 Asphalt Ballet/Pigs/1993

TFG's administration seems to have an excess of straight up morons and batshit crazies e.g. Miller, Noem, Gabbard, Hegseth, Homan, RFK Jr., Patel, Vought, Davis... And while it doesn't "beg the question"... Why does Kash Patel always look like he's trying to suppress a bowel movement?

1/ Kirk's murder is worth lamenting inasmuch violence can never be a response to political debate and ideological differences. That said, any democratic forum ought to be values based i.e. civil and thoughtful, reasonable and respectful... Much of what Kirk communicated to his immediate base and

Just cos...

Unfortunately, inside his own political party the Utah governor is an outlier. I'm absolute that a sobering distinction should be made, at least semi-regularly, between conservative, Republican, and MAGA as they are not uniformly interchangeable labels... The one ain't necessarily the other.

Not coincidentally... Some of my Canadian friends and I were lamenting in an email how we don't see other or frequent many of our shared spots as we once had... And I stopped counting the number of businesses Stateside who've spoken of the absence of their Canadian regulars... We're shitty allies...

1/ There can be no acculturation for political violence. The murder of Kirk is wholly unacceptable and no one "deserves it". A democracy cannot thrive should violence trump discourse and disagreements. That said, there is an ecosystem in thrall to vitriol and animosity, a culture and industry,

Each remembrance, I am left feeling the memory of 9/11 has dimmed for far too many. It must never be forgotten.

1/ Wrong. Profoundly wrong. Fake electors are damn near on par with the J6 insurrectionists. But the judge sees no intent to commit voter fraud or impede the outcome of a free, fair, secure presidential election. Essentially, Judge Simmons argues the fake electors were too unsophisticated to

I am alternately feeling confident and anxious. Yep. My Lions' regular season is here. The NFC North will be f-n bedlam. All four teams have both players whose playmaking can leave you breathless and game disruptors intent on ruining your day. It's on. LET'S GO LIONS! #OnePride #DetroitLions

For every Republican office holder, cabinet member, political operative, news personality, CEO or U.S. business leader who humiliate themselves before TFG... Cowards.

Fuck the U.S. Tennis Association. Enabling pantywaists. Democracy is LOUD. Resistance LOUDER. Get it?!

We're not secure nor safe. The Democratic Party and anti-Trumpers need to stop wringing their hands and start doubling their fists. Resistance can be a yard sign, attending a rally or protest, writing or phoning your congressperson, assisting a candidacy... For everyone, it's "DO SOMETHING".