Alan Scherstuhl

one of the single best deals in streaming. i've been paying for PBS Passport for years. it rules

“You leave my nana out of this, Met!”

Seems to me if we had the greatest political system in the world, it wouldn’t equip a maniacal bully with the ability to demolish everything in the world on a whim, to protect his ego from knowledge of his own profound ignorance.

Cannot stop thinking about what a delightful headline “Missing Matter in Universe Found” is. Simply incredible local news energy. Repairs Completed on Main Street. Honors Students Named. New Comptroller Addresses Meeting. Luminous Fog Restores Balance to Galactic Wheel

I’ve listened to this a few times and… it sounds like he is admitting that he had no problem with his friend running a sex trafficking ring as long as it didn’t interfere with his own stock of girls and young women so his friend breakup was merely an HR dispute.

All I know is the “5 things to do this weekend” section is

Patty Griffin: A Love Letter in 16 Songs Charles on a few songs by an artist we love

New at No Fences Review: to celebrate the release of Patty Griffin's new album, I talk about a few of my favorite songs by this great artist. As always, there are many others that I could have included. Please share and subscribe!

Oh, I remember! It’s goddam tragic

5 Things to Do This Weekend

It’s always at this link, under the editor’s byline www.nytimes.com/card/2025/07...

There’s been a small Weekend section that runs on Fridays and covers five things … and now that’s going

Something that’s being lost: mainstream press making an effort to introduce readers to culture with no marketing budget

I’ve written jazz show previews for NYT for a couple years, balancing big shows with small and bold ones, and the weekend section they appear in is shutting down next month.

There’s a Tech Billionaire Pulling Trump’s Strings. No, It’s Not Elon Musk. With the Paramount-Skydance merger approved by the FCC, Larry Ellison just showed the world who is the real shot caller in the White House.

wrote about the Trump admin moves (Paramount-Skydance, the "AI Action Plan," the TikTok-ban deferrals) that serve as favors for one presidential pal: Oracle's Larry Ellison, who's not so coincidentally become the world's second-richest man and its most influential techie: slate.com/technology/2...

i really truly wish any of the epstein furore was caused by a genuine concern for cruelty for teenage girls, for exploited kids. it would be a different country if it was, of course, but the discourse is sometimes jarring

TT 536: Hal Galper a few memories of the late pianist

RIP Hal Galper. A few memories:
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"A fiction of moral convenience”, as he calls it: “While the terrible thing is happening –­ while the land is still being stolen and the natives still being killed – any form of opposition is terroristic and must be crushed for the sake of civilisation.”

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...

Unseparate Listen to content by Webber/Morris Big Band.

Pre-order Webber/Morris Big Band - Unseparate (OOYH 037), the sophomore album featuring 18 NYC-based improvisers led by Anna Webber and Angela Morris. Preview track only on Bandcamp, CD + 2xLP will ship 1-month before release date, so get those orders in!

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My Eclipse cyberpunk trilogy, 3 antifascist novels set in times remarkably like those we are sliding into, is TODAY ONLY offered by the ebook publisher at a promo price:

$3.99.

Three novels for four smackers. Just for today, the 19th: openroadmedia.com/ebook/the-ec...

Kindle, B&N etc

Adam Shatz · The World since 7 October The war with Iran is far more than an attempt to prevent nuclear weapons from getting in the hands of mullahs (if it...

Man, the kicker on Adam Shatz's latest:

"In a world of rising authoritarianism and ethnonationalism, where the rule of law has all but crumbled, the brutal, pitiless state run by Netanyahu looks more like a pioneer than an outlier."

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

William F. Buckley's Bill Never Came Due | Defector Perhaps the highest praise I can offer a book that took 27 years to complete and runs over 1,000 pages is that I can see why, and that it doesn’t feel like it. Sam Tanenhaus’s extremely long and anxio...

for Bills Week I decided to read the new 1000 page Buckley biography

This is also why I think all the people saying men need their own spaces to solve the young men skewering Republican are wrong. They need more exposure to women, lot less. Too few of them think you can have platonic female friends and that by itself is demeaning to women

People have obviously been reporting on the Trump Epstein connection for awhile but it does seem like there’s a bit of “Joe Rogan and Shane Gillis are talking about it so we can too” going on and I can’t express enough how if you’re doing that as the news you’ve got alot of stuff backwards

I'm surprised and vexed that neither the AP nor the NYT obit mention what I think is Martin Cruz Smith's best suspense novel, along with Gorky Park: ROSE, set in an English coal town in 1872. It was a bestseller, and I recommend it. #RIP

moma (museum of modern art in new york) announced the series i’m curating for them. it reads: MoMA ANNOUNCES LINEUP FOR FILM SERIES COMMEMORATING 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF HURRICANE KATRINA When the World Broke Open: Katrina and Its Afterlives Offers a Sweeping Cinematic Portrait of New Orleans and Its Enduring Cultural Legacy Across Eras and Genres

something you may not know about me is that i am a hurricane katrina survivor.

this year is the 20th anniversary of the hurricane and i am honored to be co-curating a film program at MoMA that takes a look at new orleans before, during, & after the storm. learn more: www.moma.org/calendar/fil...

wild how this letter—a cutesy prep-school light verse celebration of pederasty not just as a sick secret pleasure but as an essential element of self—is the first time ive ever seen him demonstrate tenderness toward anyone at all

Exclusive | Jeffrey Epstein’s Friends Sent Him Bawdy Letters for a 50th Birthday Album. One Was From Donald Trump. The leather-bound book was compiled by Ghislaine Maxwell. The president says the letter ‘is a fake thing.’

Here’s your free link to the Trump/ Epstein story www.wsj.com/politics/tru...

Gorgeous! Perfect for the office, lounging, or fleeing a gothic mansion

In the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, when there was no power, internet, cell service, or running water for weeks.. Blue Ridge Public Radio was our region's only source for critical, life-saving information. Everyone would gather around crank/battery powered radios 2x daily for updates. #npr

Love those nightgowns

Persuasion Drama • 1995 • 1 hr 47 min English audio PG CC Buy or rent Seven years after their breakup, a spinster and an impoverished sailor attempt to rekindle their aborted romance. © 1995 British Broadcasting Corporation. All

Horrifying description of Persuasion on YouTube, lord