Murders The U.S. military is persistently killing untried, unconvicted people in the Caribbean—but evidently that’s no longer compelling news for most of America

52 strikes. 181 dead in the Caribbean and Pacific since last September. Zero evidence of drugs. The general running the operation says it doesn't work. His predecessor quit. The American press has moved on.

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

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Last night's dinner: Creamy peanut coconut rice. #homecooking #NYC

Was his name Pete Hegseth?

I knew Martin E. Rich for some time before he introduced me to his photography. Marty is an unsung New York treasure. Dig in here for books: www.blurb.com/user/martinr... and here for prints: www.artsy.net/artist/marti...

I love Marty’s work. I hope you will, too.

Dunhumvi’s Beer Wild rallies, mysterious inclusions in a bottle, little doors, little offices, Dunhumvi goes down in the dark

Everything Is Useless And Nothing Is Solved doesn’t always continue a short from the week before, but Dunhumvi’s story really stuck. This one’s probably for fans of Philip K. Dick. Dystopian, hallucinatory ... this is ‘Dunhumvi’s Beer’. Subscribe to EUNS: open.substack.com/pub/uselessu...

A grandiose, malignant narcissist of a president masquerading as a divine force. Media mischaracterizing the election of one Russia-aligned right-wing nationalist in Hungary to replace another as a victory.

The nation sure had its hands full this week. Subscribe to AYD: allyourdays.substack.com

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Magyar Orbán's loss in Hungary isn't a liberal victory—it's one right-wing nationalist replacing another. The real shift is happening in American elections right now.

Orbán lost to a right-wing nationalist. That's not a liberal victory. The real shift is in U.S. elections—where actual liberals are winning on actual platforms.

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

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SHOULD NOT (CURE A REAL DISEASE) - Single - Vinyl — JAMES OBRIEN Featuring Dan Bern, Karaugh Brown, Michael McDermott, Erika Nelson, James O’Brien 7-inch black vinyl. 45 rpm. Lyrics printed on outer jacket. Black inner sleeve.

Special broadcast day offer! Order a copy of “Should Not (Cure A Real Disease)” on vinyl today—April 15—and get 20% off to celebrate the show.

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Radio Garden State | Discover Local Music Now Explore Radio Garden State, New Jersey's indie radio station featuring local shows, music, and events. Tune in to support and enjoy Garden State's vibrant music scene.

Hear a new interview with yours truly and host Brian Glassberg on ‘Sound Advice' (on Radio Garden State at 5 p.m. Eastern).

The topic is the single “Should Not (Cure A Real Disease” (featuring Dan Bern, Karaugh Brown, Michael McDermott, and Erika Nelson).

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Revelation No one needs a Bible to identify the beast walking among Americans, but this week the world is (again) giving Trump an old, old name—Antichrist

The backlash against Trump from conservatives and Christians has been biblical. It’s also possibly the first sentence of the last chapter of America’s Trump-troubled times.

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

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Irish musician Moya Brennan dies aged 73 Moya Brennan, best known as the lead singer of the Grammy and BAFTA-winning group Clannad, died peacefully yesterday, surrounded by her family, at the age of 73.

Clannad were innovative, brilliant, and beautiful, and, in the 1980s and early 1990s, especially, their music altered my adolescent attention span in ways that continue to pay dividends. Safe travels, Moya: www.rte.ie/entertainmen...

From last night's dinner ... Feta, mint, and preserved lemon turnovers. #homecooking #NYC

Frisson, by Justin Szostakowski 6 track album

I met the musician Justin Szostakowski in Worcester, Mass., in the 1990s. I’ve come back into his musical orbit; he’s got a compelling little catalog of ambient, acoustically embellished cassettes going. Basinski, Barrett, Tangerine Dream, etc. Listen: justinszostakowski.bandcamp.com/album/frisson

I am also not an LBC talk show host.

No one shall claim my seat.

Dunhumvi’s Sandwich Wires in museums, hassles on the street, and the magical appearance of a crisis-framed BLT

Dunhumvi is a mind that moves in the middle of many voices. Museums in which sculpted marble serves both the imagination and its anxious thoughts. The fate of mortals is made plain in a restaurant doorway.

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It can always get darker, but this week helped Americans understand the true nature of nighttime in the land of the free.

Here’s the roundup of where things stand, as of week’s end.

Read Darkness and Fakery. Subscribe to All Your Days: allyourdays.substack.com

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I’ll join radio host Brian Glassberg next Wednesday, April 15, at 5 p.m. ET on Sound Advice, which airs on Radio Garden State.

We’ll be talking about the titanic single, “Should Not (Cure A Real Disease)”.

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Fakery The already dissolving U.S.-Iran ceasefire is a ruse, a cobbled-together sham, a fiction to keep Trump’s we’re-at-war button functional for further domestic control

The ceasefire is less than 48 hours old and already dead. There is no deal—just a war that Trump can conjure on demand, and all the "domestic threats/emergencies" needed to impose midterm controls this November. The topic is fakery. The newsletter is All Your Days.
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This week’s EUNS roundup includes murky moments and missing time, front stoops in the dark, and a deep secret about a room in which you've already slept.

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Darkness As the authoritarian crisis in the United States accelerates, the obscenely ginned-up Iran War offers Trump a full-on pathway to November election interference

Trump is threatening to destroy an entire civilization tonight. That's not only a crisis—it's a cover. Purged generals. Fired military lawyers. A draft executive order to seize the midterms under a wartime emergency.

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Out From Under Download zip file includes lyrics pdf and front cover art. Because the download is a zip file - it must be downloaded to a computer first before adding to phone!

Having spent a couple of days revisiting some of @michaelmcdermott23.bsky.social's records, ‘Out From Under’ (2018) is a masterpiece. ‘Willow Springs’ (2016) is also near-perfect.

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Radium Green Junkyard days and roaches at four, the taste of beer in the sun, a bedroom and its body count

Everything Is Useless And Nothing Is Solved is about to turn one! A year of strange culture, speculative histories, oddnesses, anomalies, asymmetricalities, and societal disintegration. This week? A liminal ride, a jag, a junkyard run, a secret revealed. Subscribe: open.substack.com/pub/uselessu...

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EUNS turns one on May 3, friends.

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The news is this: Paid subs open May 3. Pledge one now, and be there at the re-launch! Perks will be perked!

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USPS The Postal Service is broke, Trump wants to use it to control who votes, and the regime is positioned to profit from both outcomes

A financially desperate, politically compromised USPS has no institutional standing to refuse an unconstitutional order. As Trump seeks to control mail-in ballots before the midterms, that's no coincidence.

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Eight million ain’t bad, America. The rallies gettin bigly and they’re only gettin bigger.

This is “The Ballad of Tiny Hands and the Bigly No-Kings Rally.”

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mRNA RFK Jr. is trying to dismantle mRNA research that could cure cancer and HIV—the reason is ‘revenue’

The U.S. wants to kill $1B+ in mRNA research. mRNA could cure cancer. HIV. Maybe more. The industries paid to treat those diseases indefinitely are the ones that benefit from their suppression.

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