Music journalist, No Depression magazine co-founder. Author of "Old No. 1 at 50: A History of Guy Clark's First Album," published November 2025. Former Seattleite and Austinite, now in SoCal. Lifelong fighter of fascism; hope you are the same.
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When Mike Johnson cites vibes but no evidence to accuse people of felonies, it’s obvious that he’s running a fascist scam against our democracy.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
When three hard hitting journalists with 100+ experience between them tell us that their boss is tampering with news content to make it more Trump-friendly, we should listen and then act to force a change at that network. My latest: Fire Bari Weiss.
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Here's how the corruption works:
Thursday: RJ Reynolds donates $5M to Trump
Saturday: Trump invites RJR execs to Mar a Lago; execs ask to loosen regs on flavored vapes; Trump calls up RFK Jr. and tells him to change it
Friday: FDA changes the policy
Ken Paxton is the most corrupt politician in America.
He embodies the broken system we’re running against.
It’s time to come together: The People vs. Ken Paxton
When Marco Rubio told Congress last week that “the war is over now,” he forgot to inform the U.S. military, Iran, Israel, Kuwait or Bahrain.
Memo to the Ellisons: no news organization survives when credible journalists accuse the boss of tampering with the content of multiple news stories.