Doug Reed

For those of you following my mixtape project here, which appears to be *looks around* approximately no one - I'm discontinuing the BlueSky posts. If you'd like to receive a daily mixtape via email, DM me your email address.

These will be posted in ZuckerHell in the public Mixtape '26 group.

An Hour Of Astronomy We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. #Mixtape26 3/365 shared via @tunemymusic

I made you a mixtape.

Astronomy.

#Mixtape26

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A cassette tape, featuring a cover photo of an Apollo astronaut and an MTV flag.

A cassette tape J-card listing the following songs: Dire Straits - Money For Nothing a-ha Take on Me Cyndi Lauper Girls Just Want to Have Fun Dexys Midnight Runners Come On Eileen John Mellencamp Jack & Diane The Kinks Come Dancing Madness House Of Fun Culture Club Karma Chameleon The Clash Rock the Casbah Men Without Hats The Safety Dance The Bangles Walk Like an Egyptian A Flock Of Seagulls Space Age Love Song Eurythmics Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) David Bowie Ashes to Ashes Talking Heads Once in a Lifetime The Buggles Video Killed The Radio Star

I made you a mixtape.

RIP MTV

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#Mixtape26 #2/365

A cassette tape labeled Mixtape '26: Beginnings, and a cover image of runners on their starting blocks.

A handwritten J-card for a cassette tape with the following songs- Tony Bennett - Let's Begin The Rolling Stones - Start Me Up Laufey - From The Start Frank Sinatra - Begin the Beguine Liz Gillies; Seth MacFarlane - This Could Be The Start Of Something Big The J. Geils Band - Start All Over - Again The Cars - Let's Go Paul McCartney - Take It Away Michael Franti & Spearhead - Start Small Think Big Michael Jackson - Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' The Kinks - Something Better Beginning George Jones - The Race Is On David Bowie - Absolute Beginners Ella Fitzgerald - (I've Got) Beginner's Luck The Platters - I Can't Get Started The Jam - Start! Tom Petty - Square One John Lennon - (Just Like) Starting Over

I made you a mixtape.

My New Year's resolution is to make you a mixtape every day in 2026 (barring catastrophe or technical failure).

This one is about beginnings. Fresh starts. Do-overs.

As Tony Bennett sings, Let's Begin...

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#mixtape26

Thank you! It just wasn't the same without Uecker this year.

Where do our rights come from? Believe it or not, the United States has been rolling back our rights for 40 years. The biggest expansion of the peoples' rights in American history actually occurred between 1953 and 1969, during the period of American history known as the "Warren Court."

THREAD.

That's despite the Democrats winning the popular vote in all but two Presidential elections since 1992.

If we really want to “make America healthy again,” we’d have Medicare for All.

There was a single CD "John Lennon Collection" that came out at the dawn of the CD era, encompassing almost all of Shaved Fish (thankfully minus Woman Is The...) - and including the best Double Fantasy songs.

I played that to death, and I'd have put it up against any single-disc best-of.

Just a random reminder that trickle-down economics was invented by conservatives in the 1980s to justify massive tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations. It’s been nothing short of a disaster.

@500songspodcast.bsky.social The unexpected discussion of Frank Sinatra (in the Zeppelin episode, no less!) dearly makes me wish there were an Andrew Hickey/Tyler Mahan Coe-type historian doing a podcast on jazz/pop.

Alcohol + math + social media = WTF was I thinking? Never mind. Disregard post entirely.

If you'd like to celebrate Julia Child's birthday, 167 episodes of THE FRENCH CHEF (1962-1973) are streaming free on YouTube.

youtube.com/playlist?lis... #BOTD #PBS #JuliaChild #Streaming

I didn't think it was possible for KISS to be any more disappointing than they are just by being KISS.

If you'd asked me in my late teens, "What movies are you most excited about right now?" I'd have rattled off Naked Gun, This Is Spinal Tap, Spaceballs...

If you asked me in my late fifties "What sequels/remakes are you least excited about right now?" - you'd get the exact same list.

Look you just have to make the cool weird shit that excites you. You must. In this world besieged by bland, scrubbed boring, computer slop, you must. Make the thing you’re embarrassed to make, the thing that feels “too much” because otherwise we get drowned in a sea of cowardly work made by a button

Just as the Teapot Dome scandal was breaking, President Harding died suddenly. I'd like to suggest that course of action as a viable answer to the Post's question.

I picked up an undergrad passenger once...

Me: What are you studying?

Kid: History.

Me: Cool. What's your favorite era to study?

Kid: Late 20th century.

my considered opinion is that the framers would have had most of congress, all of this white house, and most of the supreme court hanged

Anyone old enough to remember Ross Perot has seen this movie before.

Iran-Contra seems like a way to illegally arm an authoritarian regime who held our hostages for over a year. But apparently it was just a way to bring freedom to Nicaragua.

Two headlines: from the NYTimes and Al Jazeera. "Netanyahu, Trump discuss forced transfer of Palestinians out of Gaza" and "Netanyahu releases letter nominating Trump for Nobel Peace Prize"

This is what the NY Times chose to highlight from the Netanyahu/Trump meeting, compared to Al Jazeera.

You decide which is the important news.

Sean Cairns as a mad scientist laughs over Frankenstein's monster under a green light.

Amy Rowland, as a superhero, holds a speech bubble over her head.

Doug Reed rewrites the Constitution as a puppet Ben Franklin supervises.

Hawa Bah, dressed as a judge, looks into the distance wistfully.

Broom Street Theater's Reconstituting opens on Friday!

They'll still find a way to blame Joe Biden. The cultists will never believe they've been duped.

People living under fascism didn’t survive by giving up joy—they protected it.

They held onto the things fascism tried to erase: art, friendship, jokes, rituals, language, memory.

Not as escapism but as resistance. As proof they were still human.

Joy isn’t frivolous under fascism. It’s strategic.

Extremely dark that the entire U.S. government is lying down to be steamrolled by something called the Trump agenda for fear of some force called "Donald Trump" while the actual Donald Trump has no idea what's happening

It's not "Alligator Alcatraz".

The residents of Alcatraz all got due process.

It's "Alligator Auschwitz".

Thinking about the tut-tutting Democratic politicians who spent their two years in power warning that Supreme Court expansion was too radical an idea to even think about taking seriously. You absolute fucking rubes. You gigantic, credulous losers. I hope you are ashamed of yourselves today.

A quill pen hovers magically over the U.S. Constitution with the caption, "Please be careful with that. That's James Madison's quill pen and the original copy of the Constitution. Any changes you make are legally binding."

A tourist finds himself locked in a vault with the original copy of the Constitution and James Madison's quill pen. With help from the reanimated corpse of Benjamin Franklin, and a wisecracking chorus, he's got one hour to make all the changes he can before security drags him away.

Opens July 11.

Making Wisconsinites ashamed of our home state since 2010.