Jo Kroger

A musical tribute to Melissa and Mark Hortman At 8 a.m. on the morning of Wednesday, Aug. 6, the Hortmans’ children, Colin and Sophie, joined The Current’s Morning Show to share songs and stories that embody their parents’ spirit and memory.

Here is a great interview with a radio station the Hortman family listened to growing up. Their kids tell stories about their parents' favorite artists and songs, how the couple met, etc.

www.thecurrent.org/feature/2025...

Why do you appreciate unions?

I’ll start:

Weekends off
Paid vacations
Work breaks
Sick leave
Paid holidays
No child labor
Safer working conditions
Health care and retirement benefits

So hype for Mamdani and all of us, but also Brad Lander appreciation post.

I seriously think the Social Internet is 21st century cigarettes. Complete with secondary smoke causing a lot of harm in nonusers.

Dolly Parton, Queen of the World, how in the name of all that is good do you play with those nails? If my left hand gets more than half a millimeter of nails, my fingers get the CRANKIEST on the fretboard. How you do it, Appalachian Siren Goddess Creature?

Is my TL messed up or is absolutely no one talking about Gil Scott Heron in relation to the Kdot halftime?

Isn’t T-Mobile/Starlink just the plot of Kingsmen 2?

Also am I supposed to believe that’s Orlando Bloom??? (I know it was but… what??)

That West Point shot was … uh … militant lookin

PAX FRIENDS! Hanging at the Mythic Grove Booth at Pax Unplugged for the next 30 and parts of the next 2 days! Come say hi!! 💜

Uncontroversial Opinion, but important reminder that American IV: When the Man Comes Around is one of the greatest albums of all time and you probably haven’t listened to it recently enough.

I mean, clearly he just melting down now???

Well, I went to a family reunion/aunt-uncle wedding anniversary in Indiana and the fireworks show was tonight. As everyone was ambling back to their cars about a million emergency vehicles showed up and we found out there had been a shooting. And I guess I’m just processing that here in the internet

Everyone has valid TSwift opinions except for the people who keep saying “ugh - sounds like something a high schooler would write.”
Y’all.
She called the album “Tortured Poets Department”. Is that not a giant waving tongue-in-cheek flag saying “melodrama ahead” ???
Wild.

A frame from the comic strip “Calvin and Hobbes” where the classes yells “Bats aren’t bugs” at Calvin.

BUT NOT UNTIL over 2/3 through the album

We snappin

People always talk about classic-Christmas-movie Die Hard but don’t talk enough about essential-Christmas-viewing Long Kiss Goodnight

PINK or Dave Matthew’s Band. I swear I have a reason.

Just thinking about how "Brand New Day" from The Wiz is one of the greatest songs from a musical and actually just wait... The Wiz is ... so great.

Jokes on everyone else all you gotta do is catch Lyme and leave it undiagnosed for similar effects

THANK YOU

Hell Yeah 💜

I do not like celebrating the death of people, but I will celebrate that her Weekend at Bernie’s ass is out of the senate. I think that’s fair.

Welp. My friend Carmen’s basement apartment is flooding AGAIN. If you can help her, she’s terrified:

www.gofundme.com/f/safe-housi...

Trying to shoot some video footage. Questionable.

Looks bad Todd

Finally pulled the plug on the TwitX situation and it feels very very weird.

Just finally decided it’s time to pull the plug on tweet town (I’ve been busy okay??). Got a notification on here and then saw a bunch of ppl I love following and was like, “YES Bluesky finally gets it!” And then I realized I was accidentally back on the old site so no you cannot teach an old dog ne

Finally saw Barbie and it was somewhere between an utter delight and a fever dream. Hell yeah.