Peter Blackstock
@peterblackstocksd.bsky.social
Music journalist, No Depression magazine co-founder. Author of "Old No. 1 at 50: A History of Guy Clark's First Album," published November 2025. Former Seattleite and Austinite, now in SoCal. Lifelong fighter of fascism; hope you are the same.
75 million Americans voted for this shit. Including a few people I used to consider friends and family.
November 25, 2025 at 10:24 PM
75 million Americans voted for this shit. Including a few people I used to consider friends and family.
Democracy dies at The Washington Post.
At this point, the Washpost edit page is just trolling its readers.
This is today's actual house editorial.
This is today's actual house editorial.
November 25, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Democracy dies at The Washington Post.
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Marc Elias: Capitulating To Trump Isn’t Strategy — It’s Surrender abovethelaw.com/2025/11/marc...
Marc Elias: Capitulating To Trump Isn’t Strategy — It’s Surrender - Above the Law
Above the Law’s 2020 Lawyer of the Year Is still fighting to protect your right to vote.
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November 25, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Marc Elias: Capitulating To Trump Isn’t Strategy — It’s Surrender abovethelaw.com/2025/11/marc...
Piggie Smalls is next.
At least one insurrectionist goes to jail
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Bolsonaro to Start Serving 27-Year Sentence Over Coup Plot
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November 25, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Piggie Smalls is next.
Are you with the Astronaut, or the Asshole?
Which side are you on, Americans?
Which side are you on, Americans?
November 25, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Are you with the Astronaut, or the Asshole?
Which side are you on, Americans?
Which side are you on, Americans?
If ANY of us did what DJT did, we'd face consequences and investigations. The same should absolutely be true for president Piggie Smalls.
Mark Kelly: "I said something that was pretty simple and non-controversial, and that was that members of the military should follow the law. In response to that, Trump said I should be executed, I should be hanged ... it says a lot more about him than it says about me. I'm not going to be silenced."
November 25, 2025 at 3:02 AM
If ANY of us did what DJT did, we'd face consequences and investigations. The same should absolutely be true for president Piggie Smalls.
X, the second-worst social platform that ever existed. (Hi, TruthSocial.)
At this point X is like 1950s Vienna, a whole place made up entirely of spies, running ops against other spies, with no non-spy people. Or maybe like a 1971 Black Panthers convention where 3/4 of the attendees are conintelrpo.
November 25, 2025 at 2:02 AM
X, the second-worst social platform that ever existed. (Hi, TruthSocial.)
Keep writing those stories, @propublica.org. And thank you.
I’m still flabbergasted — and not a little bummed out — that we could write a long series of stories listing zillionaire after zillionaire who didn’t pay taxes for years and years — and basically nothing happened
November 25, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Keep writing those stories, @propublica.org. And thank you.
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I’m still flabbergasted — and not a little bummed out — that we could write a long series of stories listing zillionaire after zillionaire who didn’t pay taxes for years and years — and basically nothing happened
November 25, 2025 at 1:28 AM
I’m still flabbergasted — and not a little bummed out — that we could write a long series of stories listing zillionaire after zillionaire who didn’t pay taxes for years and years — and basically nothing happened
HEGSETH MUST BE COURT-MARTIALED IMMEDIATELY.
November 24, 2025 at 9:48 PM
HEGSETH MUST BE COURT-MARTIALED IMMEDIATELY.
Hegseth must be court-martialed immediately.
Hegseth is now threatening to recall Sen. Mark Kelly to active duty in order to court martial him.
November 24, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Hegseth must be court-martialed immediately.
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When the Trump regime aims to punish members of Congress for reminding the military to refuse illegal orders, it’s a strong indicator that the Trump regime is ISSUING ILLEGAL ORDERS.
November 24, 2025 at 5:36 PM
When the Trump regime aims to punish members of Congress for reminding the military to refuse illegal orders, it’s a strong indicator that the Trump regime is ISSUING ILLEGAL ORDERS.
My question is, why didn’t the FBI open an investigation IMMEDIATELY? No need for anyone to request it. If ANY citizen does this, they’d automatically face legal consequences. THE PRESIDENT THREATENED THEIR LIVES. This is mind-numbingly simple.
Rep. Jason Crow's office is seeking a Capitol Police investigation into Trump for what they described as "intimidating, threatening, and concerning" social media posts.
It's highly unusual for a member of Congress to request a police investigation into a sitting president of the United States.
It's highly unusual for a member of Congress to request a police investigation into a sitting president of the United States.
Scoop: Democrat requests police investigation into Trump over "threatening" posts
"All of these posts are intimidating, threatening, and concerning," Rep. Jason Crow's office wrote.
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November 23, 2025 at 4:53 AM
My question is, why didn’t the FBI open an investigation IMMEDIATELY? No need for anyone to request it. If ANY citizen does this, they’d automatically face legal consequences. THE PRESIDENT THREATENED THEIR LIVES. This is mind-numbingly simple.
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My latest review for @nodepression.bsky.social looks at a new #WillieNelson album of #MerleHaggard songs, plus the vinyl reissue of a terrific 1994 #HightoneRecords Merle tribute. Find it here:
nodepression.org/album-review...
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ALBUM REVIEW: Merle Haggard Gets His Double-Due With a New Willie Nelson Set and A Top-Rate Tribute Reissue
“He won’t ever be gone,” Willie Nelson sang of Merle Haggard on the last song of Nelson’s 2017 album God’s Problem Child — and he’s right, of course. Haggard, who died in 2016, was one of the greatest...
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November 22, 2025 at 8:29 PM
My latest review for @nodepression.bsky.social looks at a new #WillieNelson album of #MerleHaggard songs, plus the vinyl reissue of a terrific 1994 #HightoneRecords Merle tribute. Find it here:
nodepression.org/album-review...
nodepression.org/album-review...
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I'm biased here but it strengthens my belief that global scale algorithmic social media is one of the worst inventions in human history. I'd delete it off the face of the earth without a second's hesitation
November 19, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I'm biased here but it strengthens my belief that global scale algorithmic social media is one of the worst inventions in human history. I'd delete it off the face of the earth without a second's hesitation
Vista native #SeanWatkins of #NickelCreek, with harmonies from his wife Dominique Arciero, is back in San Diego County tonight for a show at #FoxPointFarms in Carlsbad, teaming with local duo #LonesomeRoses.
November 21, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Vista native #SeanWatkins of #NickelCreek, with harmonies from his wife Dominique Arciero, is back in San Diego County tonight for a show at #FoxPointFarms in Carlsbad, teaming with local duo #LonesomeRoses.
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Articles of Impeachment need to be filed. Make Trump defend, in the media, his public tweets about hanging members of Congress by the neck until dead.
Let's see if he has the courage.
Let's see if he has the courage.
November 21, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Articles of Impeachment need to be filed. Make Trump defend, in the media, his public tweets about hanging members of Congress by the neck until dead.
Let's see if he has the courage.
Let's see if he has the courage.
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Kelly: "I never expected after serving 25 years in the Navy flying combat missions over Iraq and Kuwait, flying the Space Shuttle, that now I've got to worry about my personal safety and that of my wife, Gabby Giffords, who was already nearly assassinated, because of something the president said."
November 21, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Kelly: "I never expected after serving 25 years in the Navy flying combat missions over Iraq and Kuwait, flying the Space Shuttle, that now I've got to worry about my personal safety and that of my wife, Gabby Giffords, who was already nearly assassinated, because of something the president said."
Sing this to the tune of The Beatles song "Piggies":
"Have you seen the fascist piggie playing president?
As for all his G.O.Piggies, they can all get bent
Every single cent, is what they're grifting..."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXdK...
"Have you seen the fascist piggie playing president?
As for all his G.O.Piggies, they can all get bent
Every single cent, is what they're grifting..."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXdK...
The Beatles - Piggies
YouTube video by djazzma
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November 21, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Sing this to the tune of The Beatles song "Piggies":
"Have you seen the fascist piggie playing president?
As for all his G.O.Piggies, they can all get bent
Every single cent, is what they're grifting..."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXdK...
"Have you seen the fascist piggie playing president?
As for all his G.O.Piggies, they can all get bent
Every single cent, is what they're grifting..."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXdK...
The FBI needs to investigate the President for making death threats to several members of Congress.
They won't, but they absolutely are required to do so. They would do this if ANY citizen made such threats.
They won't, but they absolutely are required to do so. They would do this if ANY citizen made such threats.
November 20, 2025 at 10:48 PM
The FBI needs to investigate the President for making death threats to several members of Congress.
They won't, but they absolutely are required to do so. They would do this if ANY citizen made such threats.
They won't, but they absolutely are required to do so. They would do this if ANY citizen made such threats.
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Jeffries: "What's extraordinary to me is that Mike Johnson doesn't even have the decency to distance himself from Donald Trump's death threats leveled at patriotic members of Congress. Even John Thune had the decency to distance himself from Trump's remarks. But Mike Johnson couldn't say a thing."
November 20, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Jeffries: "What's extraordinary to me is that Mike Johnson doesn't even have the decency to distance himself from Donald Trump's death threats leveled at patriotic members of Congress. Even John Thune had the decency to distance himself from Trump's remarks. But Mike Johnson couldn't say a thing."
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How awful. This is outright health disinformation, lying to the American people. Not only is there massive evidence showing no link between vaccines & autism, there’s not even a plausible mechanism based on what we’ve learned about the genetics of autism, some environmental exposures in pregnancy
HEADS UP: CDC website now officially asserts that vaccines may cause autism.“Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities.” Also says the “vaccines do not cause autism” header remains b/c of an agreement with Cassidy.
November 20, 2025 at 3:18 AM
How awful. This is outright health disinformation, lying to the American people. Not only is there massive evidence showing no link between vaccines & autism, there’s not even a plausible mechanism based on what we’ve learned about the genetics of autism, some environmental exposures in pregnancy
I'm no longer going to refer to the current president as anything other than "Piggie."
(Yeah, yeah, I know, the fascists will say I'm just suffering from Piggie Derangement Syndrome.)
(Yeah, yeah, I know, the fascists will say I'm just suffering from Piggie Derangement Syndrome.)
November 20, 2025 at 4:27 AM
I'm no longer going to refer to the current president as anything other than "Piggie."
(Yeah, yeah, I know, the fascists will say I'm just suffering from Piggie Derangement Syndrome.)
(Yeah, yeah, I know, the fascists will say I'm just suffering from Piggie Derangement Syndrome.)