Everyone needs to speak up, confront the lies, reject the scapegoating of transgender people, and loudly support trans youth. Start by sending a comment to HHS to demand access to care without government overreach: hrc.im/Comment

Disorder in the court! Last week's #GH featured legal trickery, a meltdown on the stand, and the flashback we've been waiting for. My latest for Diagnosis Daytime:

Money is speech, corporations are people, accountability is terrorism, technology is sentient, protest is illegal. Did I miss any of the tenets of 21st century US conservative orthodoxy?

New song at Bandcamp, not yet on streaming. I was working on this the week before Renee Good was murdered. I changed the lyrics in the first two verses. Link in bio. Proceeds will be donated to the ACLU. I took the photo at a peaceful weekly protest that takes place outside an ICE facility here.

This feels like a weird take until you realize it was written by a Democratic strategist.

This is a really beautiful column. The best newspaper advice writers responded to individual concerns in ways that could help and/or uplift almost anybody, and Rax is part of that tradition.

Fuck yeah. More like this, please!

"In the 21st century, defiance is compassion; compassion is defiance." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-invaders

Last week's #GH was light on action... but heavy on *action*, if you know what I mean. My latest for Diagnosis Daytime:

“Weak and fragile blubbering piss baby” describes every last schlub in this clogged gas station urinal of an administration. They persist only in the appalling absence of judicial oversight and Democratic resistance, and will collapse at the slightest provocation, whenever it finally fucking comes.

Last week's #GH was light on action... but heavy on *action*, if you know what I mean. My latest for Diagnosis Daytime:

My very first concert! princevault.com/index.php?ti...

My attitude on this is that I'm not calling them because I think I can change their minds. I'm calling them because it is unthinkable to let them do this without hearing how evil and awful they are. My spite powers me. If I can get just 500 people a day to join me, we could fuck up their day.

The president unilaterally decided to attack a sovereign nation and kidnap its leader, and now he says he's just going to run that county himself for a while too. Call your representatives now and demand they impeach him.

If you're reading this, it's because I like you, probably more than you realize. Here's to a 2026 that improves upon its predecessor in every way.

John Kerry once cut me off in the security line at an airport. I regret not having the presence of mind to shout "WHERE WAS THIS TYPE OF CUTTHROAT INITIATIVE IN 2004, JOHN"

Read all about last week's #GH in my final Critical Diagnosis column of 2025!

Newhart all the way!

Read all about last week's #GH in my final Critical Diagnosis column of 2025!

Just in case anybody is filled with the sudden urge to listen to Chuck Redd's music for any particular reason, there are many fine places to start: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_R...

It's true! After a ten-year hiatus, Mellowmas has returned. A holiday miracle, or something!

'Tis the season for year-end lists. Here's my round up of new records I loved in 2025, featuring an eclectic array of genres and a near-total absence of albums that have popped up on a bunch of other year-end lists: www.jefitoblog.com/new-albums-i...

My latest for Diagnosis Daytime breaks down last week's #GH, which included a holly jolly attempted murder trial and a fugitive manhunt:

This clip leads off @vjbigsuit.bsky.social's 2025 Christmas Video Mixtape! Nearly two and a half hours of holiday music videos for your eyes and ears (including classic commercial breaks): www.jefitoblog.com/2025-christm...

'Tis the season for year-end lists. Here's my round up of new records I loved in 2025, featuring an eclectic array of genres and a near-total absence of albums that have popped up on a bunch of other year-end lists: www.jefitoblog.com/new-albums-i...

The one and only @vjbigsuit.bsky.social has cooked up a 143-minute holiday music video party for you!

For readers who are about to lose care, I have been told that the Trans Youth Emergency Project is helping the families of trans youth contingency plan to access that care. www.transyouthemergencyproject.org

Cis people really have no idea how it feels to watch a regime hold a press conference to admit, on camera, the pogrom against trans people they've been waging for 11 months is not only real, but they're going to double down on genocide and try to wipe out all the children first.

Trans kids deserve the world. Trans kids deserve to grow up as themselves and be wrapped in love and support. These bills and legislation are monstrous.

Done!

My knee-jerk initial reaction to a purely pretty album got me thinking about how easy it is to be cynical or dismissive about things that lack dissonance, even during times when beauty can be a balm against trauma: www.jefitoblog.com/luminescent-...

We held off on publishing this for an extra couple of days in the wake of Tony Geary's passing. Might cook up a Luke-centric column at some point, but in the meantime, here's what went down on #GH last week:

I think the author of this piece is now working in the University at Buffalo's journalism program. I'm halfway tempted to email her and ask her how she feels about, like, eggnog cold foam.

I'd like to ask the reliably spineless @hassan.senate.gov and @shaheen.senate.gov the same question, but I already know the answer: Cowering in fear before an opportunity to do the right thing, and betraying their constituents in the bargain.

Aside from being perhaps the only writer capable of making me want to see the beauty in "Wonderful Christmastime," @nikostratis.com also uses her craft to honor the value of human labor like a modern Studs Terkel. This is tremendous work: www.anxietyshark.ca/simply-havin...

Okay gang, The Onion is 80 sign-ups away from our 60,000th print subscriber. This would put us in contention for the Top 10 most circulated newspapers in the U.S. So! We're giving our 60,000th subscriber a mystery box by our archivist as a nice lil thank you. Sign up now. I'd give it an hour.

Last week, Thanksgiving on #GH was so busy that it took five episodes to show it all. My latest for Diagnosis Daytime breaks it down:

Last week, Thanksgiving on #GH was so busy that it took five episodes to show it all. My latest for Diagnosis Daytime breaks it down:

Petition to get Zach Woods on Bluesky

Spotify Wrapped is usually a fun way to reflect on what you’ve listened to over the year and share your tastes with friends. But it hits different when it’s paired with propaganda for Trump’s deportation machine. Use our social toolkit to share the truth about Spotify: app.sosha.ai/toolkit/spot...

I can’t say it better than many of my neighbors, but just briefly, this is, of course, rank racist bullshit.

Nothing says Thanksgiving dinner like bullying your few remaining acquaintances into watching you marry your nephew's ex-wife, who has also been accused of shooting you. My latest #GH column for Diagnosis Daytime:

You ever think the guy with the Tiny Desk just wants to get back to work?

Nothing says Thanksgiving dinner like bullying your few remaining acquaintances into watching you marry your nephew's ex-wife, who has also been accused of shooting you. My latest #GH column for Diagnosis Daytime:

Walter Mondale could win on this platform. (And I'm talking about the very dead Mondale of 2025, not the decent politician of 1984.)

stumped this holiday season by what to get your stepdaughter with whom you have a warm-but-not-close relationship? is your fuckup sister getting out of rehab just in time for xmas dinner? have i got the gift idea for you!! bookshop.org/p/books/slop...

In November 1983, Toy “R” Us sent out this pre-Christmas sale circular. It is filled with all the great toys that would make 1983 such a memorable year. So let’s take a look at what you might have received for Christmas in 1983. www.retroist.com/p/1983-toys-...

Between Wild Horses on the tube and “Morning Desire” on the Hot 100, November 1985 was Peak Memory Hole Kenny Rogers

Shat in a cowboy hat! My latest Nielsens column looks at what we were (and weren't) watching 40 years ago this week: www.jefitoblog.com/the-nielsens...