My rundown of a bunch of new records: Bon Iver's return, Andrew Bird and Madison Cunningham covering Buckingham Nicks, Jerry Cantrell gets dark, farewell albums by MC5 and Japandroids, plus Fantastic Negrito and a deluxe edition of Tom Petty's Long After Dark. sterlewine.substack.com/p/on-the-ste...
Plus, Jerry Cantrell, farewell albums from MC5 and Japandroids, an expanded version of Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers' Long After Dark, Fantastic Negrito.
My policy guide now includes detailed descriptions of where Harris and Trump stand on abortion, climate change, crime, democracy, the economy, foreign policy (including Ukraine and China), health care, immigration, Israel/Gaza and LGBTQ rights. Gift link:
Here’s what Vice President Harris and former President Donald J. Trump have done and want to do on abortion, crime, democracy, the economy, immigration, Israel and Gaza, and Social Security and Medica...
I’m singlehandedly demolishing the office cache of Halloween chocolates.
‘New York Times’ To Cease Publication “Being an employee of The New York Times was one of the most shameful, useless things I’ve ever done in my life,” said longtime columnist David Brooks. theonion.com/new-york-tim...
NEW YORK—With the struggling newspaper admitting this was the final nail in its coffin, The New York Times announced this week that it would permanently cease publication, saying there was no way it c...
This presidential election can go three ways: Harris wins, Trump wins, or organized mischief by Trumpists breaks the electoral system and the country. In Georgia, right now, we have a foretaste of the chaos option. snyder.substack.com/p/a-fair-fig...
Or chaos everywhere
I wrote about the hurricanes, attention grifters, the limits of the term misinformation, and how it is more apt to call it a full cultural and political assault on any person or institution that operates in reality. (gift link)
What’s happening in America today is something darker than a misinformation crisis.
But the Trump bible does not include amendments 11 through 27, so...?
This headline stack is one for the time capsule. First, analyzing Harris's message discipline, which is common to normie politicians, as if it's uniquely revealing and shifty. Second, framing Trump's openly racist, completely dishonest stump rhetoric as if it's quirky and full of subtle meaning.
Helluva lede: “A well-known Arizona election denier says his group — working through a conspiracy-minded assistant police chief in tiny Millersville, Tennessee — gained access to a highly confidential federal database that tracks Americans’ banking transactions and other financial data.”
An election denier says his group — working through the assistant police chief in tiny Millersville — gained access to a confidential federal database that tracks Americans’ banking transactions.