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The truth is out there
Gorsuch and Kavanaugh should apologize for their enabling of the fascist MAGA Potus crime syndicate boss.
here's my favorite new country song open.spotify.com/track/248suN... (thx @kimwinnick.bsky.social)
Butt rock or not. World Cafe discusses the "genre' @worldcafe.bsky.social @kallao.bsky.social www.npr.org/2025/09/01/n...
Harrison Bader, Brandon Marsh lead Phillies to instant-classic Labor Day victory over Brewers onpattison.com/news/2025/se...
What a crazy Phillies win!
About Benny Johnson @bennyjohnsonn.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/b...
“there is a third explanation at the heart of many of the institutional accommodations with Trump, and this is the one that doesn’t get discussed as much: The institutions agree with him more than before.” Via @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/1987...
Look forward to Stephen Miller's criminal trial and then life in prison for crimes against humanity.
60 yrs today. enduring. classic.
don't want to let it slip under the radar that racist law prof amy wax lost her discrimination suit against penn and will be suspended from teaching this year
Brittany Howard on the Shakes' new song: "It reminds me of the Guess Who, or even early Tom Jones." www.npr.org/2025/08/29/n...
maybe. probably.
I’d love to hear a Sabrina Carpenter lp produced by Jeff Lynne.
Our new album 'Straight Line Was A Lie' is out today. Aroha nui to everyone who played a part in the creation of this album, @antirecords.bsky.social for putting it out and everyone who comes to our shows or listens to our music.
It won’t fit in screen shots but linking here the full letter of resignation posted by one of the departing CDC officials, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who ran the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases and led efforts to fight COVID, monkeypox, and bird flu x.com/dr_demetre/s...
We’ll wait…🤔
Vaccines are safe and effective. RFK Jr. isn’t.
📌This is what a hero looks like. This is Dr. Susan Monarez, who just announced she WILL NOT resign her post as C.D.C. Director underneath the anti-vax monster, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. She is standing up for the health and well-being of hundreds of millions of Americans, and we MUST stand up for her.
Playing now: The Counting Crows' full set from #NonComm. xpn.org/2025/08/25/c...
Jazz drummer Kassa Overall covers classic hip-hop songs on his new lp, C.R.E.A.M. and is playing Solar Myth on 9/3. John Morrison, host of Culture Cypher Radio talks with Kassa about the congruence of jazz and rap. xpn.org/2025/08/25/k...
We went to New York to see Lady Gaga, and what an incredible show we saw. Review & photos by John Vettese. xpn.org/2025/08/27/l...
Hanif Abdurraqib reviews a new album by Racing Mount Pleasant, “a band that dwells in emotional quietude without sacrificing sonic grandeur.”
lol. not laughing. #Phillies
location issues.
phillies i love you but you're bringing me down.
i have zero hope.
funny you should say this. i listened to it this morning in Philly. 63 degrees in the AM and rocking hard as usual.
Some thoughts on the 50th anniversary of Born To Run somevelvetblog.substack.com/p/happy-50th...
happy 50th anniversary to all who have celebrated the genius of this classic album over the years. released on this day: 8/25/75.
WSJ EDITORIAL BOARD: “The real offender here is a President who thinks he can use the powers of his office to run vendettas... the kind of gratuitous viciousness that has increasingly defined Trump’s return… it’s turning out to be worse than we imagined.” www.wsj.com/opinion/john...
DC police are now harrasssing people on metro bus stops. This is Fascism.
"While the Democratic-controlled state house has repeatedly passed funding for SEPTA in the past month, filling the deficit with state sales taxes, none of those bills have been able to make it through the state's Republican-controlled Senate." defector.com/doomsday-for...
Burn in hell, Dobson
new music matters somevelvetblog.substack.com/p/i-got-some...
I remember this. www.culturesonar.com/what-happene...
Because nothing says “you should feel free to come visit Washington” like standing in front of dozens of armed soldiers next to a guy who thinks women shouldn’t be able to vote 🙃
I watched before I left Philly!
here for a few..
For our final Throwback Thursday of the Summer, we rewind to the year 2005 all day. Sujfan, Fiona, LCD, Gorillaz, Clap Your Hands, The National, Spoon, Kathleen Edwards & more. Starting at 6am w/ @kristenkurtis.bsky.social xpn.org/2025/08/18/x...
In anticipation of their Mann show on 9/4 the HAIM sisters - Alana, Este, and Danielle - talked with Kristen Kurtis @kristenkurtis.bsky.social about their new album and coming to play Philly. xpn.org/2025/08/19/h...
It took thirty years but I'm on Tiny Desk today! www.npr.org/2025/08/20/g...
Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it
What's "complaint rock?" Asking for a friend.
Bummed I missed this. Love this crew
Snort
Oops.
Rocking sweet tunes on WXPN @wxpnfm.bsky.social today until 2pm, Philly time. Have a listen: XPN.org
leave it to Chubby to pull a punk rock move like this www.stereogum.com/2319357/afte...
Cafe host @rahrahraina.bsky.social Raina Douris talks w/ award winning bluegrass musician Molly Tuttle about her new album, So Long Little Miss Sunshine, an unexpected meeting with Ringo, and how Molly has lived with alopecia and advocated for others with the condition. www.npr.org/2025/08/15/n...
The meeting was a disaster for everyone except two people. Trump got his photo op and his ego boost. Putin got his photo op, whitewashing of war crimes and no sanctions. No one in Ukraine, Europe or the United States benefited in any way.
Today at Noon! After dropping a surprise new lp yesterday, Goose play a show at WXPN @wxpnfm.bsky.social. Watch live or listen: xpn.org/2025/08/14/g...
About to play two hours of WXPN classics @wxpnfm.bsky.social today from 2-4pm. Nothing but the misses we turned into hits.
For many in the XPN community who were there, their performance remains one of the greats from over all the years of our fest.
America 2025
who knew he was in the Kiss army?
“Donald Trump is the public safety emergency.” Philadelphia @dalarrykrasner.bsky.social justice laid it out straight, no chaser on The Source with @kaitlancollins.bsky.social on @cnn.com.
Washington Post today
We're underway for National Record Day! We're spinning all vinyl all day on XPN @wxpnfm.bsky.social until Midnight tonight.
Jhoan f’ing Durán. #RingTheBell
Total rager music.apple.com/us/album/sou...
Total beauty
In 40 states, a single party controls the House, Senate & governor’s office…or else has enough power to block vetoes from a governor of the other party. That leaves less than 20% of Americans living in a state where the minority party has a meaningful voice in governance. www.wsj.com/politics/us-...
The CEO of a a multi-trillion dollar company went to the White House, openly handed the US president a gift made of gold, and his company got a special exemption to tariffs the president has illegally imposed. Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.
MPB Mississippi are DROPPING all @pbs.org and @npr.org programming as a result of federal budget cuts. The changes will take place July 1st, 2026. The story from @mississippitoday.org: mississippitoday.org/2025/08/08/h...
You sure about this, Google?
Still rocking it, yet resting in rock and roll power, it’s been 30 years today since Jerry passed.
“ECM New Series has inarguably carved out a distinct place in the classical music ecosystem.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/a...
I’m playing records today on WXPN @wxpnfm.bsky.social from 10a-2p Philly time. Have a listen.
Go Birds
aw that's nice, my library got some books for when the AI founders drop by
Come funk w/ me today on WXPN @wxpnfm.bsky.social. I'll be selecting the jams today on Funky Friday - vintage funk, soul & R&B from 4p-7p Philly time.
They were discontinued in 2019. I am "pretty sure" the last volume was #46
www.abbeyroad.com/Crossing
TDIR&R history: On August 8, 1969 photographer Iain Macmillan took one of the most iconic album cover photos ever. www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/beat...
Next Tuesday is National Vinyl Record Day and over at WXPN @wxpnfm.bsky.social we're rolling out the vinyl jams on the wheels of steel from 6am-Midnight w/ appearances from guest selectors Ted Leo, Charlie Hall, @sad13.horse and more, along with the many of the XPN hosts. xpn.org/2025/08/06/v...
Go Birds #FlyEaglesFly
"South Park" strikes again. Noem is hit hard. (I lost track of now many puppies she kills in these 22 minutes.) As is Charlie Kirk and every right-wing male podcaster. Trump's mini-manhood is back, and so is Satan as his sex-mate. And Jesus doesn't look happy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kD4E...
Ken Paxton is the most corrupt Attorney General in Texas history. This malignant clown was impeached by his own party. He has ZERO credibility on issues of law and order. Pipe down.
Cafe host Raina Douris @rahrahraina.bsky.social talks with Haim about their new album, and how nostalgia and self-discovery laid the foundation for the new songs. www.npr.org/sections/wor...
Our friends Lucius love public radio and to support us they've made available their recent World Cafe @worldcafe.bsky.social session w/ proceeds going to us. Thanks Lucius. And thanks to all of our members for your support. ilovelucius.bandcamp.com/album/lucius...
Watch our conversation with Dan and Pat w/ Cafe host Raina Douris @rahrahraina.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX7B...
You may have asked yourself…
If Harvard pulls a similar agreement, they will have to try and actually enforce it because I will not comply and I will seek appropriate remedies in state court. I'm not willingly giving up a right I've had for a decade because a pedophile rapist is extorting our university.
The Trump administration effectively created a de facto bathroom ban at Brown University and none of the major media is covering it, and if they do, they character it as about sports. This is how the trans visa ban was enacted and characterized. www.advocate.com/news/transge...
“What should The Post do to appeal more to Fox News viewers?” Washington Post publisher Will Lewis to (former Post) factchecker Glenn Kessler:
I disagree. I will tell you what's wrong with his jeans. 🧵
Not your imagination. Philly drivers increasingly are out of control. Running reds, stop signs, weaving over sidewalks to get ahead of two cars then to wind up in the same traffic Philly has always had.
My thoughts on Newport Folk @newportfolk.bsky.social, pts. 1 & 2 somevelvetblog.substack.com/p/what-i-lov...
How Philly musicians helped define this year's @newportfolk.bsky.social xpn.org/2025/08/04/a...
Meet Southern Avenue, our Artist To Watch for August. We're super excited as they'll be joining us in September for #XPOFest xpn.org/2025/08/04/s...
maga mafia crime boss is an extortionist
The Columbia settlement is an “astonishing transfer of autonomy and authority to . . . an administration whose disdain for the values of the academy is demonstrated anew every day.” New @knightcolumbia.org analysis of the Columbia settlement, just published. knightcolumbia.org/blog/what-th...
On July 16, I witnessed ICE agents swoop in and tear Carlos from his sister's arms. It’s a relief to know he has been released. But this is the frightening reality we face: No due process for people. No legal representation. This is what we’re fighting.