James O'Brien

Evidence America stands at the pedophile’s crossroads: how will it respond to the new evidence about Donald J. Trump, as detailed in dead Jeffrey Epstein’s files?

Epstein’s newly released emails link Donald J. Trump to the sexual abuse of minors. America must now choose: investigate and act on the new data, or accept evil as the face of our national character. The topic is evidence. The newsletter is All Your Days.

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Blowback As the idiotically conceived force-a-federal-shutdown playbook disintegrates, it’s actually worse than ‘I told you so’ for U.S. defenders of democracy

The Democrats’ shutdown gambit has backfired—empowering Trump’s regime and proving yet again that old-guard tactics can’t win America’s fight for democracy in 2025. The topic is blowback. The newsletter is All Your Days.

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One Martini, Half A Scotch And Water Chuck Palahniuk can’t write; Ira Glass passed the test; Bergman beat ‘Fight Club’ to the punch; Amelia Gray’s marketing plan

Chuck Palahniuk can’t write; Ira Glass passed the psycho test; Ingmar Bergman beat ‘Fight Club’ to the punch; Amelia Gray’s marketing plan.

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Hope Whatever happens next, the profound blue shift on Tuesday revealed a true heartbeat of resistance in the fight against American autocracy

"In the suburbs of that same state, Bucks County elected Democrat Joe Khan as district attorney—the first time since the 1800s a Democrat will run that office. Democratic candidates also held the Delaware County Council."

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Hope Whatever happens next, the profound blue shift on Tuesday revealed a true heartbeat of resistance in the fight against American autocracy

The events of Tuesday remind the U.S. of a time-tested truth. That while this nation is periodically subjected to the whims and fancies of fascists, it is also filled with people of opposite bent and intention.

The topic is hope. The newsletter is All Your Days.

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Cheney Somehow, the blood-soaked hands of dead Dick Cheney have left America a message about fighting for democracy

Close to the root of America’s problems with executive overreach in 2025 are the awful actions and decisions made by its vice president back in the early 2000s. The topic is Cheney. The newsletter is All Your Days.

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America, by James O'Brien 10 track album

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The real dream that created this song, which sits at the end of the album ‘America,’ arrived wholly formed.

Here’s the “Dream” video. Available now on the limited, signed, numbered, 140g vinyl album ‘America’ — only at Bandcamp: jamesobrien.bandcamp.com/album/america

I Only Went Home To Sleep Solving the Jeremy Allen White problem, Lucida Grande, sympathetic uses of chemotherapy, Sam Elliott on the music industry, a tale of two Vernons

Solving the Jeremy Allen White problem. Lucida Grande. Sympathetic uses of chemotherapy. Sam Elliott on the music industry. A tale of two Vernons.

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Venezuela Decades of conflict with Caracas have now provided the U.S. regime with a theater to project power and reprogram American thresholds for unlawful actions

Why Venezuela, why extrajudicial killings, why now? The answers start with more than a decade of deterioration between Washington and Caracas; they continue with the way Trump has chosen to escalate it.

The topic is Venezuela. The newsletter is All Your Days.

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Farming the Ether Unproduced Woody Allen, lost X-Files, Copper Nose, Ken Impenetrable

"Reading my history, I knew even at a very young age that there was something terribly, seriously wrong with Bernhard Goetz. I mean that I knew more about him than the words on the page could convey ..."

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Venezuela Decades of conflict with Caracas have now provided the U.S. regime with a theater to project power and reprogram American thresholds for unlawful actions

The U.S. regime has turned the Caribbean into a testing ground for extrajudicial killings, rewriting America’s limits on state violence (and impunity). Why? And how’s that going for DJT and his masters? The topic is Venezuela. The newsletter is All Your Days.

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The Ballad of Tiny Hands & The Bigly No Kings Rallies, by James O'Brien track by James O'Brien

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It’s my pleasure to introduce the new video for “The Ballad of Tiny Hands & The Bigly No Kings Rallies.” Watch a clip here (below). Get the new single and the full-length video at Bandcamp (before it heads off to its forever home in the Wavelengths subscription side): Link in comments.

Timeline: Trump + Extrajudicial Killings A thumbnail reader’s guide to the Trump administration's summary executions of suspected drug smugglers in the Caribbean and Pacific

There are now at least 57 dead in the ongoing campaign of illegal summary executions by U.S. artillery fire, rockets, and other implements of death in the Caribbean and Pacific.
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America, by James O'Brien 10 track album

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The people ask, "Will you ship that urgent and timely LP 'America' on vinyl internationally?"

You bet. 'America' is off to the Netherlands today. Thank you, people. You ask all the right questions.

'America' on vinyl, limited, signed, numbered. Only at Bandcamp. Link in comments.

“I’ve got a friend from Iran; he says there are dissemination techniques just like this happening right now in deep cover points all over China, Pakistan, and the Middle East up the ass. So maybe they’re pushing revolution there—but this, baby, this is civil war. You wait.” — Copper Nose, EUNS

Farming the Ether Unproduced Woody Allen, lost X-Files, Copper Nose, Ken Impenetrable

From Woody Allen’s lost pages to an unmade X-Files episode to a slippery noir odyssey, conspiracy, collapse, and cosmic aftermath are the stuff of this week’s Everything Is Useless And Nothing Is Solved.

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Strike Facing an anti-democratic regime, the people of the U.S. badly need a general strike, but the nation has spent 80 years dismantling the mechanism

Kicking out authoritarian rulers takes a specific kind of leverage: close the valves that feed the regime, hold the line, and force a lawful door to open. General strikes have been that leverage.

The topic is “strike.” The newsletter is All Your Days.

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Rallies Listen to 'The Ballad of Tiny Hands and the Bigly No Kings Rallies' in this AYD exclusive

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OCTOBER 28 - LET'S GET BIGLY

A Night of German Opera Stephen Miller, Monty Python’s kitten-hater sketch, Frenchie LeCourneau, Lawrence Talbot speaks

“The fact was, though, my father did not believe he was killing me, per se. What I mean is, he didn’t think that he was killing his son. My father didn’t think he was killing Lawrence Talbot, his only boy ..."

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Excepted Federal courts have entered “excepted operations” amid the shutdown—throttling justice as Project 2025 advances

Federal courts have run out of carryover funds that had kept them fully open amid the ongoing shutdown. The outcome? The regime taking over the U.S. is throttling justice as Project 2025 advances. The topic is “excepted.” The newsletter is All Your Days.

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Everything about my mindset is in this one still. Bill Bixby. Fred Rogers. Mr. McFeely (kinda weird name, dude). Lou Ferrigno in the green paint. Going straight to the source of what terrifies you. The rational helper and the irrational brute. The gentle mediation. The weird guy. It's all there.

Rallies Listen to 'The Ballad of Tiny Hands and the Bigly No Kings Rallies' in this AYD exclusive

Listen to "The Ballad of Tiny Hands and the No Kings Rally" at All Your Days: jamesobriennyc.substack.com/p/rallies?r=...

There’s only one place to hear the new single, “The Ballad of Tiny Hands and the Bigly No Kings Rally” — and that’s at All Your Days. Link in comments.

Rallies Listen to 'The Ballad of Tiny Hands and the Bigly No Kings Rallies' in this AYD exclusive

Please welcome a song for our time, an exclusive All Your Days single: this is “The Ballad of Tiny Hands and the Bigly No Kings Rallies”.

Keep it going, friends. We ain’t out of this fight yet.

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The new album ‘America’ is now available as a limited-edition vinyl LP. Ten songs. Including “Five Seasons,” and “Algorithm” (with the titanic words and voice of Dan Bern).

All the lyrics in the liner notes. Signed and numbered. For sale only at Bandcamp.

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Beyond not putting the No Kings march on the front page, @nytimes published mental gymnastics Saturday about the “content” of a march rather than the “numbers”. Someone ought to explain to the NYT editorial team that numbers *are* the content of a political march. I