…”Famous?” you wonder, not having heard of Deportee before. don’t ask me, ask: Lyle, or Bruce, or Dolly, or Joan, or Arlo, or The Byrds, or Johnny Cash, or Rosanne Cash… you get it now
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Margo Price, covering the famous Woody Guthrie protest song Deportee, live on CBS Saturday Morning 🎵
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agree with this: Removing political speech from MLS fans is untenable – just ask Austin FC
The club told the Guardian it is engaging with supporters on the topic of rules around political messaging in stadiums. But those rules are unjustifiable and, in this climate, possibly even untenable.
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Summer Cannibals, Just a Little Bit, live at KEXP 🎵
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…and those clean energy changes have to happen fast and happen everywhere. encouraging more residential solar: great. elected officials doing things like mandating solar, wind, & batteries instead of more gas plants (or coal ffs): way greater
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…to be clear, in 2026 “environmental voting” means doing something to stop the runaway climate train, which primarily means switching from fossil fuels to clean energy as soon as humanly possible (i.e., “environmentalism” is no longer a nerdy/niche thing about saving a salamander or recycling more)
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what a smart approach to increasing pro-environmental voting from www.environmentalvoter.org I also love how it’s an ongoing, long-term effort, beyond the boom & bust of individual elections
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Touch Girl Apple Blossom, Heart Go, live on KUTX 🎵
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Beth Orton, Otherside live 🎵
Tell me you’ve made it through the night
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Ratboys, Light Night Mountains All That, live on KUTX, 2026 🎵
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10,000 Maniacs, These Are Days, live at MTV’s 1993 “inaugural ball” 🎵
never before and never since I promise
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Republicans don’t mind data center expansion (& the horrifically polluting fossil-fuel power generation required), but they know how unpopular that expansion is. so they’re faking concern & slowing the headlong rush a little, but just until after the election. don’t fall for it
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The Police, Synchronicity II, live in Buenos Aires, 2007 🎵
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happy Oktoberfest! (yes, I know what month it is. close enough! also I decided I’d stok’d up about enough) 🍺
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The Kills, Future Starts Slow, live at Rock en Seine, 2011 🎵 youtu.be/H2NGdSyeC…
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I’ve stopped donating to individual campaigns, even for candidates we love. win or lose, those orgs are gone the day after the election. check out these alternatives:
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Happy Birthday (not that one), live on KEXP by the unique band Black Country, New Road 🎵
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Joan Osborne, covering Stevie Wonder’s Love’s in Need of Love Today, live on Conan 🎵
Good morn' or evening, friends Here’s your friendly announcer I have serious news to pass on to everybody
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stoktoberfest - the period of time in August when you buy up all the märzen/fest/Oktoberfest beers that are already out, so you’ll have them in October (ok ok, September), when they’ll all be gone (replaced by winter ales) 🍺
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Automatic, Is It Now?, live at KEXP 🎵
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The Grateful Dead, New Speedway Boogie, live in 1970 🎵
one way or another this darkness got to give
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Sinead O’Connor, Troy, live in 1988 🎵
the beauty & raw power from this 22-year-old woman with an acoustic guitar is honestly staggering
I’d kill a dragon for you
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Tacocat, Psychedelic Quinceañera, live on KEXP 🎵
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for any country, let alone a host country, let alone this vile kleptocracy, to interfere like this is fucking sickening. for the supposedly apolitical FIFA to give this even a moment’s consideration is worse. way to taint whatever accomplishment the USMNT reaches. way to defile the entire sport ⚽️
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The World Cup is undressing the myth of Trump’s American homogeneity ⚽️
If [FIFA] wasn’t so busy kowtowing to authoritarian regimes and fleecing workaday fans, it could be the greatest force for global good since, well, the advent of international flight
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what a day 🇳🇱 🇸🇪 ⚽️ 🏆 🥹
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I’d given in and was going to subscribe to the Fox One service for the World Cup, but between ads during the two-per-game hydration breaks & having to see Fox News idiots’ big dumb faces every time we launched the app, decided to cancel. we’ll just watch on Telemundo, no problema ⚽️
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when you just want to be friends
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a nice intro for the curious: A (total) beginner’s guide to the World Cup (funny, too: “the expanded field means there is a chance for plucky underdogs with little chance of winning – such as Jordan, Curaçao & England – to compete with the big boys”)
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agree with this rave review of Widow’s Bay. we never watch horror, so we weren’t sure about it, but being open to the comedy & silliness has been enough. can’t wait for the last 2 episodes
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Metric, Black Sheep 🎵
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Joan Osborne, St. Teresa 🎵
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I didn’t know how much I needed this rainbow
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Lorde, Homemade Dynamite 🎵
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a long but fun Atlantic article on The Best Free Restaurant Bread in America (gift link)
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Florence + the Machine, One of the Greats, live for World Cafe 🎵
arms outstretched back from the dead streetlights bursting overhead
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authoritarian expert Ruth Ben-Ghiat on Elections as Tools of Autocracy and White Supremacy:
You have often heard me say: Never give up on elections. I stand behind this, now more than ever… This is the time to message that a strike against some of us is a strike against all of us.
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resurrected a copy of the website for the now-defunct Austin Computer Book Club. no longer at the “cool” URL of austin.computerbook.club, but back for posterity (and LinkedIn 😊) at computerbookclub.chrisgrayson.net hire me, I ran a Meetup for a couple years! 📚
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Ana Tijoux, 1977 🎵
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that Atlantic article that Kash Patel is suing them over is really a must-read. these are pros, and they covered their bases:
the more than two dozen people I interviewed …described Patel’s tenure as a management failure and his personal behavior as a national-security vulnerability
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of all the times he’s claimed “it’s like nothing anybody’s seen before”, whaddya know, this time it’s true! Oil and gas crisis from Iran war worse than 1973, 1979 and 2022 together, says IEA
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Speedy Ortiz, Raising the Skate, live on KEXP 🎵
I’m not bossy, I’m the boss
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I finished the book How to Kill a Witch by Zoe Venditozzi & Claire Mitchell. a quick, interesting read for women’s history month 📚
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Le Tigre, TKO 🎵
read about it at your Barnes & Noble
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I’ve shared this before, but since it’s the best performance of the best rock song ever made, a repeat should be okay. Wussy, Teenage Wasteland 🎵
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Screaming Females & Garbage, Because the Night 🎵
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I don’t use Google anymore (still liking Kagi), but I understand it remains popular, so here’s a tip on how to make the Guardian your go-to news source in Google search
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the Volts podcast is normally about clean energy topics, but this episode with Michael Hobbes about “reactionary centrism” was fantastic. clear-eyed analysis of media and punditry trends that explains a lot about [gestures] …all of this
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this would be a great live performance by Annabelle Chairlegs of their new single Concrete Trees even if she wasn’t wearing the not-yet-released top-secret new Austin FC 2026 away jersey
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amazing RATM cover by Brass Against, Killing in the Name
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stunning podcast from The Guardian, Minneapolis citizens on protecting their neighbours from ICE. our own government is (still! after two murders!) terrorizing its own people
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enough is enough. I’m not going to work tomorrow nationalshutdown.org
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The Cranberries, Zombie, live in 1999 🎵
Another mother’s breakin' Heart is takin' over When the violence causes silence We must be mistaken
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Florence + the Machine, Free 🎵
Is this how it is? Is this how it’s always been? To exist in the face of suffering and death And somehow still keep singing?
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hi, there! after reading Bill McKibben’s Here Comes the Sun last year, I’ve become a clean-energy zealot. I’ve been learning a lot about it; it’s an area with fantastic potential & massive innovation… there’s so much good news (& bad; thanks Tr*mp) that I’ve started a new blog: Solar Noon