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Neighborhood Gods Unlimited, by Open Mike Eagle 14 track album

Open Mike Eagle - Neighborhood Gods Unlimited (auto reverse)

The most fun album, in any genre, that I heard this year. Relentlessly charming, but it never gets corny or overstays its welcome. The hooks are infectious, witty, and introspective.

openmikeeagle.bandcamp.com/album/neighb...

New FEDCO seed catalog has landed with the amazing art and copy.

Best day of the year.

Collapsing Tape: Experiments in Rupture and Repair, by Various Artists 23 track album

Apologies - not sure which of you weirdos shared this compilation, but it gets year end love. 23 disparate tracks, somehow as thematically tight as Efficient Spaces’ Searchlight Moonbeam comp, but for the avant-percussion set.

collapsingdrums.bandcamp.com/album/collap...

Well said!

Feels like a huge leap forward, whereas some of the earlier work felt too practiced and designed to tug at heart strings. This feels effortless.

Rat Heart - Dancin' In The Streets, by Shotta Tapes 12 track album

Dancin’ In The Streers - Rat Heart (Modern Love)

Wigged out, blown out, washed out blue eyed soul. Devastating, and intimate. Tiny gestures make a huge emotional impact.

shottatapes.bandcamp.com/album/rat-he...

Artwork by Monica Trinidad, featuring illustrated tan-colored text on a purple background: “Block It! Don't Build It. Don't Fill It. Don't Fuel It. How are YOU disrupting the ICE kidnapping, detention, & deportation machine?" In the middle are three rows of drawings in orange, tan, and black, depicting: a protest in front of a construction vehicle, transport vans and three Avelo Airlines planes, and hands holding and ripping apart money and a paper with "Palantir" on it.

New resource⚡️ Block it! Don’t Build It. Don’t Fill It. Don’t Fuel It.

A mini-toolkit to take action to slow down and disrupt the government’s kidnapping, detention, and deportation machine.

Info on strategies/tactics, ways to take action, and more:
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/block-it

The first and last 3 song runs on that album are unstoppable. Some real hits in between, but the way it starts and finishes is unrivaled.

Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

Henry House, by Nate Wooley 5 track album

Henry House - Nate Wooley (Ideologic Organ)

This collection of drones and reassembled poetry creates a universe in a thimble. No sound is out of place. "Henry was particular in his stickiness," indeed.
natewooley.bandcamp.com/album/henry-...

Gonna try and write a little bit each day here about my fave albums of '26. In no particular order.

Autechre Guitar, by Shane Parish 10 track album

Not often that a pre-order announcement comes along that feels tailor made to my interests, but the intersection of Autechre and finger picked guitar by Shane Parish is right there. From the inimitable Palilalia records, and label boss Bill Orcutt.

shaneparish.bandcamp.com/album/autech...

Not sure if you’d had a chance to spend any time with the new Idea Fire Company that just dropped on Horn Of Plenty as well, but it occupies some similar space in my mind. More textural, less percussive, maybe. It’s very good.

OK I’ve put together the list. Shame on all of them:

Ford CEO Jim Farley
Stellantis CEO Antonio Filosa
General Motors plant manager John Urbanic
National Auto Dealers Association Chairman Tom Castriota
Transportation Sec Sean Duffy
Deputy transportation Sec Steven Bradbury
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The thing about useful idiots in professional spaces is that the whole game, from the perspective of the fascist, is to constantly game them into taking ”innocuous” positions on any given day’s culture war issue, thus forcing them to perpetually conflict with everything left of the fascists.

Corpusty, by Germ Lattice 4 track album

Germ Lattice take the energy of a spinning top moments from collapse, pluck it out of time like they're saving it from Lavos, and preserve it for the length of an EP. The sound of ramshackle instruments and yawns shoved back into the mouth may concern or annoy people close to you, but it's worth it!

This is a wonderful description of what I think is my AOTY.

When police accuse protesters of being "professional agitators," remember—

Police are unscrupulous mercenaries who assault anyone they are ordered to in return for a paycheck.

Protesters who stand up to police are doing so for free, at tremendous risk to themselves, as a service to the public.

maybe i am going insane