Garrett Tiedemann

BBC Radio 4 - Archive on 4, The Ballad of the Radio Feature A close listen to the history and evolution of the radio documentary feature.

A close listen to the history and evolution of the radio documentary feature, a hybrid form which can sometimes appear closer to music or poetry than to news reporting... www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00c7fd0

Ken Casey: ‘I’m Not Going to Shut Up’ A conversation with the Dropkick Murphys front man about punk, politics, and Donald Trump

"Everything we've been doing for the past 30 years was a kind of warm-up for the moment we're in."

Jeffrey Goldberg interviews the Dropkick Murphys front man Ken Casey about punk, politics, and Donald Trump:

The Falling Tree logo designed by Ariana Martinez. A tree reaches its branches up towards the sky, casting a light green shadow onto the ground below. The text reads ‘falling tree’ in a soft pink against a dark forest green background

At the heart of what we do remains a belief in radio's imaginative possibilities - audio that can reconfigure the world around us & sink into our dreams.

Dip into our archive of nearly 900 audio docs here www.fallingtree.co.uk/our-archive/

35 Years Later: Gremlins 2: The New Batch Remains One of the Most Audacious Sequels Ever "If you want to find something weird, you have to go downtown."

35 yrs ago, Gremlins 2: The New Batch completely destroyed my brain in the best possible way. So, in honor of its anniversary today, I thought I’d celebrate this underappreciated gem of a sequel: thehorrorchick.substack.com/p/35-years-l...

Please check it out & shares/subs are appreciated! 🖤

Go to a Steampunk Radio Museum 📻 A shrine filled with ancient audio gear will do you good. Wireless museums, which are scattered around the US and many other countries, are filled with restored and cleaned-up gear going back to the d...

I know it sounds weird but you should continuous-wave.beehiiv.com/p/go-to-a-st...

governance based on fantasy is always bad governance.

Video Stores, Revival Houses, and the Future of Movies The documentary “Videoheaven” and MOMA’s series “A Theater Near You” consider how people watch films and why it matters.

“Yet, though the rise of video rentals shrank the public space of movies by keeping more viewers at home, the video store arguably expanded the public space of movies by its ubiquity, covering the commercial landscape much more densely than movie theatres did.”

This is why we’re out in the streets - you cannot defend the actions of people who would lie to kidnap 1st graders. Any human being with a conscience is going to take that personally.

see, the thing *i’m* genuinely worried about is that RFK will effectively ban vaccines

RFK Jr. says he is removing all 17 members of CDC's vaccine advisory committee HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced on Monday he is removing all 17 members of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory committee.

well this sure seems extremely bad

"Television was born without a conscience." — Norman Corwin

The President’s Power to Call Out the National Guard Is Not a Blank Check Domestic deployment under Section 502(f) has its limits, and for good reason.

www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

Head’s up.

The Insurrection Act has not been invoked.

This is against the will of the State of California

#NationalGuard #USArmedForces

June 7, 2025 In April, John Phelan, the U.S.

June 7, 2025

What I have been quietly working on for a year:

kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes

Sending out thousands of national guard to crush a protest of a few hundred at most is not strength, it's weakness. Power doesn't panic. If there were hundreds of thousands in the streets, they wouldn't be able to stop it. Those on the side of democracy outnumber them.

Hey everyone, you want to know a fun factoid?

Almost all of the federal agents currently in LA aren’t local, which means they’re staying at a hotel somewhere. Hotels have fire alarms.

Wanna know another fun fact?

If protests start popping off in other states, they can’t be everywhere at once.

there are more of us than there are of them. way, way more.

Landscape With Figure A documentary about World War Two's finest British poet, Keith Douglas, who was killed in action with the Sherwood Rangers in Normandy three days after the D-Day landings. Presented by Sean Street, wi

On the anniversary of D-Day, let’s remember - but not simplify - poet-soldier, ‘war hero’, ‘angry young man’ Keith Douglas. Killed in action 3 days after landing on Gold Beach in the first wave. This was made with @seanstreet.bsky.social 20yrs ago … soundcloud.com/fallingtreep...

Meet the remarkable New York City council member who sponsored and passed a resolution in support of the Living Wage for Musicians Act. Solidarity! @umaw.bsky.social @shahanafrombk.bsky.social

June 4, 2025 Just hours after President Donald J.

June 4, 2025

1. Support trans rights no matter what because it is the right thing to do.
2. People respond to leaders who have clear convictions, not poll-based triangulation. That’s what leadership *is*. You lead, others follow.

In the aftermath of sobbing at a funeral a few weeks ago I spent a lot of time thinking about the grief debt. Grieving we owe - to ourselves, I guess - from the pandemic that just keeps piling up, interest compounding in the worst ways.

Could You Prove You’re a Citizen? For Americans wrongfully detained by ICE, it can be nearly impossible to escape.

"While the law is clear — ICE is not to arrest U.S. citizens — agents have such significant discretion, and such little accountability, that, in practice, the first opportunity a citizen will have to meaningfully contest their arrest is at their first court appearance."

nymag.com/intelligence...

Opinion | Domestic Violence Support Is Unraveling Funding cuts are harming domestic violence programs.

“Much of the federal infrastructure that supports domestic violence programs is damaged or gone,” writes the professor Rachel Louise Snyder.

Shhh. Republicans are trying to repeal Obamacare again. Sort of. They’re not branding it an Obamacare repeal this time around, but congressional Republicans are pursuing cuts to programs that are part of the 15-year-old health-care law.

Here's something everybody should be paying attention to: Congressional Republicans are trying to weaken the Affordable Care Act and put millions of people at risk of losing their health care. Call your Senators and tell them we can't let that happen.

Statement from Tristan Kern de Gonzales Husband of Jonathan Joss My husband Jonathan Joss and I were involved in a shooting while checking the mail at the site of our former home. That home was burned down after over two years of threats from people in the area who repeatedly told us they would set it on fire. We reported these threats to law enforcement multiple times and nothing was done. Throughout that time we were harassed regularly by individuals who made it clear they did not accept our relationship. Much of the harassment was openly homophobic. When we returned to the site to check our mail we discovered the skull of one of our dogs and its harness placed in clear view. This caused both of us severe emotional distress. We began yelling and crying in response to the pain of what we saw. While we were doing this a man approached us. He started yelling violent homophobic slurs at us. He then raised a gun from his lap and fired. Jonathan and I had no weapons. We were not threatening anyone. We were grieving. We were standing side by side. When the man fired Jonathan pushed me out of the way. He saved my life. Jonathan is my husband. He gave me more love in our time together than most people ever get. We were newlyweds. We picked Valentines Day. We were in the process of looking for a trailer and planning our future. He was murdered by someone who could not stand the sight of two men loving each other. I was with him when he passed. I told him how much he was loved. To everyone who supported him, his fans, his friends, know that he valued you deeply. He saw you as family. My focus now is on protecting Jonathan’s legacy and honoring the life we built together. If your concern is how someone coped with trauma or how loudly they speak when recounting injustice and being ignored by authorities then you never truly cared about my husband. Jonathan saved my life. I will carry that forward. I will protect what he built. Tristan Kern de Gonzales

Jonathan Joss--voice actor of John Redcorn from King of the Hill, and Ken Hotate from Parks and Rec--was killed in a homophobic hate crime today.

I'm so angry.

“‘Listening to a series I’d recorded, I heard my character say a line – but it wasn’t my voice”

If you follow me, and you’re a manager, and you have been a party to Gen AI slop replacing humans, I have a question: how do you live with yourself?

Everyone’s Gone to the Movies How the independent movie publication Screen Slate became indispensable—while defining what makes a good website in 2025.

“Screen Slate is doing the work—passionately, shaggily, without reservation or anxiety about audience and advertising. In fact, there is no on-site advertising, no paywall, and there never will be.”

How safe is the food supply after federal cutbacks? Experts are worried As the Trump administration slashes the federal workforce, experts say cuts to the USDA, FDA and CDC have left the food supply vulnerable to outbreaks of foodborne illness.

As the Trump administration slashes the federal workforce, experts say cuts to the USDA, FDA and CDC have left the food supply vulnerable to outbreaks of foodborne illness.