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Something parallel is the average person's encounters with Gen AI technology in their daily life. It is garbage being shoved down users' throats in every imaginable context - work, health, finding a damn restaurant - with no choice and minimal controls if any. Surprised only that it's 49 points.

No need for bloodshed! The CONGRESSMAN DAVY Bandcamp is live. Official release date: Friday June 12. * Sample 3 songs sung by American luminaries! * Get your copy as soon as it comes off the assembly line! * Put that pistol down! plentytuff.bandcamp.com/album/congre...

This guy is now in charge at 60 Minutes.

Pretty much. On present evidence.

Totally normal.

The Purcell principle now officially just means “Republicans win.” For the reasons Sotomayor lays out here, SCOTUS’s eleventh hour intervention for Alabama Republicans is indefensible. It’s going to unleash massive chaos on the ground for both voters and election administrators. What a disaster.

Lankford looks like he's going to throw up.

Twenty twenty Six The number Another summer

Headed back in for another colonoscopy a few years early.

The slipperiest of slippery slopes is: "I'm only using it to ... do a thing I used to do just perfectly fine without it."

"Readers don't want anything sublime. / Scandals. Gossip. / Corruption and crime." Hear "Poison Pens" - a duet by #KellyHogan (Anne Royall) and #GeraldDowd (Edgar Allan Poe) from CONGRESSMAN DAVY - a new musical about Davy Crockett's political rise & fall! plentytuff.bandcamp.com/track/poison...

Tonight at 6:30 in Anacostia! I attended last night and this is a terrific lineup of short films!

Our CONGRESSMAN DAVY preorder page is live, so you can sample 3 new songs from the soundtrack featuring Robbie Fulks and Kelly Hogan and many others "free gratis" (as Davy would say): tinyurl.com/3efu4hbb Click through, have a listen, and get your copy before the ballyhoo starts on June 12, 2026!

While reporting on a large police presence breaking up a protest outside Delaney Hall ICE facility in New Jersey, Ali Velshi is escorted away by police.

Among the other atrocities at Delaney Hall last night, state police in riot gear attacked and arrested an elderly man playing a cello through the tear gas and mounted police assault. Well done, Mikie Sherrill. He was so dangerous.

Washington DC

Our CONGRESSMAN DAVY preorder page is live, so you can sample 3 new songs from the soundtrack featuring Robbie Fulks and Kelly Hogan and many others "free gratis" (as Davy would say): tinyurl.com/3efu4hbb Click through, have a listen, and get your copy before the ballyhoo starts on June 12, 2026!

Frog & Scorpion Are NOT Friends

The soundtrack to CONGRESSMAN DAVY - my new musical about Davy Crockett written with Dean Schlabowske - is available for pre-order! Sample three tunes from the record at Bandcamp, with an official release date of Friday, June 12. #CongressmanDavy 1/2 plentytuff.bandcamp.com/album/congre...

"O'Neill recently told [t]ownship officials that he would disclose the potential data center tenants to them if they signed a nondisclosure agreement... Township officials declined... because 'they didn't believe it was proper.'" @inquirer.com share.inquirer.com/lILY4R

Every time I go into the city and pass the President's House on Independence Mall, my rage at the blatant racism of this administration surges yet again.

I cannot say this loudly enough: we need everyone to know what is happening at Delaney Hall. 300 detainees inside are on Day 7 of a hunger and labor strike as of today. ICE is beating, gassing, tasing and assaulting protestors outside every night, and it is getting worse.

Alpha/Omega House

And #crypto, apparently.

Taking a wrecking ball to the American intellect. Where are the philanthropists?

Appalachian.

My new book, BEAUTY DOESN'T REACH ME, is getting some great notices & attention! At Zona Motel: tinyurl.com/bdd22hwz At Inside Hook: www.insidehook.com/books/books-... Little Atoms Podcast: tinyurl.com/mrye8fa8 Get your copy! www.richardbyrneplays.com/beauty-doesn... #booksky

"So what are #NDAs for? NDAs are a tool of the powerful to protect themselves by threatening the less powerful. The private sector has used them so promiscuously and so abusively that they should be a warning for the public sector, not a model for it." #NDA donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trump-want...

This morning in Punchbowl: "Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) lost to Rep. Christian Menefee (D-Texas) in a member-vs-member race... Menefee won a January special election to Congress and received help from a pro-crypto super PAC during the runoff." #crypto

Incoming: New summer t-shirt.

The Safety Dance

NDAs are the antithesis of the public accountability needed to sustain any sort of democratic governance.

Dark Jabbering Suns: A Jawa Story

A review of my book BEAUTY DOESN'T REACH ME that is brimming with imaginative sympathy for the endeavor from @chrisoxley.bsky.social at Zona Motel. tinyurl.com/bdd22hwz #booksky

RZ: Does the President know what the hell is going on with Kean? @dicknixon.bsky.social

Yes Yes Yes 100 Times 1000 Times Yes

CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG (1968)

Leeds second half at West Ham.

Yes yes Le Saux, Djed Spence "broke his jaw." Former Chelsea can't say that Delap broke it for him with a deliberate reckless elbow challenge that should have seen him off the pitch.

The Waves, Wang Chung www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIss...

This is the first day in a world without CBS News Radio, which had been broadcasting since 1927. Through eighteen presidential administrations, nine popes, five British monarchs, and numerous wars. Nearly 100 years of journalism, gone like that. Bari Weiss killed it.

The NY Times apparently thinks fairness in journalism means having no values at all. Trump assaults one of the key factors in America's rise to global leadership — immigration — and the best the Times can do is call it a “risky pivot.”

It's cool to drink bad beer is so 2026.

Die Reise nach Lyon (Blind Spot) 1981

Oh, @inquirer.com, just feed this kind of story into my veins.

Summer 1975. This. Coming out of an AM transistor radio. youtu.be/Ddw34wwDUU8?...