In escalating panic Trump is now demanding Arizona 'remedy' the 1864 law. But the telling detail is he's only willing to ask for rape and incest exceptions - exceptions which while important will do basically nothing to step the backlash.

Heck of a story here teaonews.co.nz/2024/04/12/cro…

PSA: by my reckoning The Beths will be on the Sonora Stage at Coachella at 11.50am today.

(You can watch the live stream on YouTube)

The world is on fire and Republicans are prioritizing laws going after woke appliances.

Sorry, who's obsessed again?

Those are big numbers. Texas pop. around 30 million people.

What the heck?

This is a very interesting question. Everyone knows the stock is virtually worthless – so who is buying it at any price?

What a story. And apart from any of the rest of it, what a disgraceful and unfair position to put a young law student in.

I just saw I got a blue check again, because Elon Musk is a sad, thirsty clown.

The few times I've posted on here since he bought Twitter have been to dunk on his awful management of this place.

I want no part of his bullshit. Off to figure out how to get rid of the check.

Splore's taking a break next year. Understandable and responsible call, given they're in it for the long haul (and it used to be two-yearly anyway). Fred's comments on the business environment for festivals are salient. rnz.co.nz/news/national/…

I'm pleased to announce that I'll be the guest of Renee Jones on her Gang of Four show on 95 BFM tonight. Show starts at 7pm and I'll turn up at 8 for a chance to play some glorious and mostly-new indie pop from all around the world.
Stream it here if not on radio.…

This just gets worse.

Bit of drama in the hood. Bloody hell. nzherald.co.nz/nz/emergency-s…

Just to note that the mastheads for the blogs of Tze Ming Mok and davidslack.bsky.social have somehow disappeared and we're fixing that. But they definitely both exist. I've actually met them.