the Mountain Goats
@themountaingoats.bsky.social
irl wall of lost thoughts
Pinned
change of plans. feeling like I'm just gonna come to terms with my rusty cage
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Liza Minnelli — David Lachapelle, 1989
December 24, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Liza Minnelli — David Lachapelle, 1989
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the people’s mayor
NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani on Mustapha Kharbouch, the Palestinian student who was falsely accused last week of being the Brown University shooter by various racists and conspiracy theorists.
December 24, 2025 at 4:43 AM
the people’s mayor
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if any of you have the opportunity to see TARTUFFE at New York Theater Workshop before it closes:
DO IT.
that was some of the best live theater I've been to in years
DO IT.
that was some of the best live theater I've been to in years
December 24, 2025 at 3:44 AM
if any of you have the opportunity to see TARTUFFE at New York Theater Workshop before it closes:
DO IT.
that was some of the best live theater I've been to in years
DO IT.
that was some of the best live theater I've been to in years
in the spirit
December 24, 2025 at 2:38 AM
in the spirit
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I love this live version of the new @themountaingoats.bsky.social song.
🎶"There's always a clock ticking somewhere."🎶
youtu.be/pv53gRqjvxY?...
🎶"There's always a clock ticking somewhere."🎶
youtu.be/pv53gRqjvxY?...
"Cold at Night" - The Mountain Goats ft. Tommy Stinson (LIVE on The Late Show)
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
youtu.be
December 23, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I love this live version of the new @themountaingoats.bsky.social song.
🎶"There's always a clock ticking somewhere."🎶
youtu.be/pv53gRqjvxY?...
🎶"There's always a clock ticking somewhere."🎶
youtu.be/pv53gRqjvxY?...
“disavowing” your vote does jack shit for the people who said it would harm them and are now screwed by the current thing they asked you not to do
Rep. April McClain Delaney is disavowing her January vote in support of a law that requires federal law enforcement to detain undocumented immigrants accused — but not convicted — of certain crimes.
December 23, 2025 at 3:51 PM
“disavowing” your vote does jack shit for the people who said it would harm them and are now screwed by the current thing they asked you not to do
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DOJ accidentally uploads 42 page poem written by the president about how much he loves being a pedophile
December 23, 2025 at 1:44 PM
DOJ accidentally uploads 42 page poem written by the president about how much he loves being a pedophile
ok: operatives inside camp with the aging candidate had his partner in crime murdered in prison ahead of the election. there’s now a smoking gun. fine. this obv has implications for canon throughout our expanded cinematic universe but nothing in it contradicts prev storylines so I say go for it
December 23, 2025 at 1:14 PM
ok: operatives inside camp with the aging candidate had his partner in crime murdered in prison ahead of the election. there’s now a smoking gun. fine. this obv has implications for canon throughout our expanded cinematic universe but nothing in it contradicts prev storylines so I say go for it
I know that’s how I work — do a thing, hope it really pays dividends six years later
You know how sometimes people will make sensationalist claims to the FBI for the fame and clout of them coming out six years later in a report no one was sure would ever be publicly available
* DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE: SOME DOCUMENTS RELEASED CONTAIN UNTRUE AND SENSATIONALIST CLAIMS MADE AGAINST PRESIDENT TRUMP THAT WERE SUBMITTED TO THE FBI RIGHT BEFORE 2020 ELECTION
* DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE: TO BE CLEAR CLAIMS AGAINST TRUMP ARE UNFOUNDED AND FALSE
@reuters.com
* DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE: TO BE CLEAR CLAIMS AGAINST TRUMP ARE UNFOUNDED AND FALSE
@reuters.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:02 PM
I know that’s how I work — do a thing, hope it really pays dividends six years later
ok we’re really all doing politics this morning and we need jokes. here I’ve got one: what did the Epstein files say to the person who, to please the admin, spiked a story about state-sponsored torture of prisoners charged with no crime? “I can buy you some time I guess — maybe sixty minutes”
December 23, 2025 at 12:41 PM
ok we’re really all doing politics this morning and we need jokes. here I’ve got one: what did the Epstein files say to the person who, to please the admin, spiked a story about state-sponsored torture of prisoners charged with no crime? “I can buy you some time I guess — maybe sixty minutes”
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if bari weiss had tried to do 9/11 there'd be three towers now
December 23, 2025 at 2:36 AM
if bari weiss had tried to do 9/11 there'd be three towers now
thought there was a new Mesarthim record
ESA/Webb's final Picture of the Month for 2025 features Westerlund 2 containing many of the Milky Way’s hottest, brightest & most massive stars. Located 20,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Carina
Link for more info: esawebb.org/images/potm2...
Photo credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA
Link for more info: esawebb.org/images/potm2...
Photo credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA
December 23, 2025 at 1:49 AM
thought there was a new Mesarthim record
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This is the funniest and most embarrassing possible outcome for Bari. People are going to get to see a totally normal news piece that clearly isn't biased against Trump and think, "She was afraid that THIS would upset the administration??"
I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:
WATCH: Segment CBS News Pulled From "60 Minutes"
YouTube video by Phil Lewis
www.youtube.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:14 PM
This is the funniest and most embarrassing possible outcome for Bari. People are going to get to see a totally normal news piece that clearly isn't biased against Trump and think, "She was afraid that THIS would upset the administration??"
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I highly recommend watching this segment, not just because the CBS News execs and the White House didn’t want you to, but because these men were tortured and they deserved to have their voices heard.
!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social:
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
December 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I highly recommend watching this segment, not just because the CBS News execs and the White House didn’t want you to, but because these men were tortured and they deserved to have their voices heard.
emotional maturity is not looking at your opponent's graveyard when you mill them
December 22, 2025 at 11:29 PM
emotional maturity is not looking at your opponent's graveyard when you mill them
as I said this morning please give this season if you can. here are a few places trying to help:
solitarywatch.org/donations/do...
www.theyoungcenter.org
cityofasylum.org
www.zakat.org
solitarywatch.org/donations/do...
www.theyoungcenter.org
cityofasylum.org
www.zakat.org
December 22, 2025 at 11:28 PM
as I said this morning please give this season if you can. here are a few places trying to help:
solitarywatch.org/donations/do...
www.theyoungcenter.org
cityofasylum.org
www.zakat.org
solitarywatch.org/donations/do...
www.theyoungcenter.org
cityofasylum.org
www.zakat.org
well, whaddaya know
The 60 Minutes piece on the Trump Administration’s torture prison that Bari Weiss doesn’t want you to see has leaked.
December 22, 2025 at 11:17 PM
well, whaddaya know
because I just viscerally did not like Clapton when I was a kid (late seventies; the Slowhand album was on the radio and I was not into it) I never listened to much Cream until much later and yeah if you're like me and didn't, there's gold in there
For younger listeners Cream were a chamber quartet whose mid-wintery cello & acoustic driven sound was augmented by organ handbells trumpet and tonette. This song is typical of their output and had a huge influence on the contemporary gothic wyrd folk sound
www.youtube.com/watch?v=89z5...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=89z5...
As You Said
YouTube video by Cream - Topic
www.youtube.com
December 22, 2025 at 5:59 PM
because I just viscerally did not like Clapton when I was a kid (late seventies; the Slowhand album was on the radio and I was not into it) I never listened to much Cream until much later and yeah if you're like me and didn't, there's gold in there
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It's kind of funny that the last time CBS News/60 Minutes did something like this it became such a big scandal that they made a movie about it www.rottentomatoes.com/m/insider
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December 22, 2025 at 4:30 PM
It's kind of funny that the last time CBS News/60 Minutes did something like this it became such a big scandal that they made a movie about it www.rottentomatoes.com/m/insider
what it's like being in a band with me and you forgot to block my number
December 22, 2025 at 3:21 PM
what it's like being in a band with me and you forgot to block my number
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What’s happening at CBS News is a five alarm fire and portent of what’s to come, a nuclear assault on the very heart and soul of America. This is not hyperbole.
December 22, 2025 at 3:06 PM
What’s happening at CBS News is a five alarm fire and portent of what’s to come, a nuclear assault on the very heart and soul of America. This is not hyperbole.
so cool! now when I commit high crimes in flagrant violation of international law, all I have to do is refuse to talk about them on camera, and then, since they couldn't get "both sides," I can avoid an embarrassing news report on them! amazing system. A+
Bari Weiss this morning on the 60 Minutes segment: "We need to be able to get the principals on the record and on camera."
Of course, most journalists know that oftentimes people who are the subject of negative reporting don't want to speak on camera or on the record.
Of course, most journalists know that oftentimes people who are the subject of negative reporting don't want to speak on camera or on the record.
December 22, 2025 at 2:54 PM
so cool! now when I commit high crimes in flagrant violation of international law, all I have to do is refuse to talk about them on camera, and then, since they couldn't get "both sides," I can avoid an embarrassing news report on them! amazing system. A+
it's easier to get a novel into an airport bookstore than a lyrics-and-commentary one; the reason we're not on the bestseller list is that the lyrics are fiction but the annotations are nonfiction (we outsold half the titles on either list afaik) so the list said "what is it? idk"
The mini-Powell’s Bookstore by the entrance of concourse C-D in PDX airport did not have @themountaingoats.bsky.social songbook and I think this is something the FAA and the Reading Rainbow need to look into immediately.
Getting the feeling This Year doesn’t wanna see me until next year.
Getting the feeling This Year doesn’t wanna see me until next year.
December 22, 2025 at 2:52 PM
it's easier to get a novel into an airport bookstore than a lyrics-and-commentary one; the reason we're not on the bestseller list is that the lyrics are fiction but the annotations are nonfiction (we outsold half the titles on either list afaik) so the list said "what is it? idk"
ending solitary confinement is the necessary first step in imagining a justice system that truly serves justice, that serves the people. Solitary Watch helps people whose humanity the current system tries to destroy. at the end of the year, consider helping them in their work.
Friends, exciting news! We’ve just received a second matching funds grant from The Public Concern Foundation. TRIPLE MATCH!
That means a gift of $50 now is actually $150 to Solitary Watch!
solitarywatch.org/donate
That means a gift of $50 now is actually $150 to Solitary Watch!
solitarywatch.org/donate
BREAKING: We Have a Triple Match!! - Solitary Watch
Friends: This is really exciting for us. We’ve just received a second matching funds grant from The Public Concern Foundation. TRIPLE MATCH! That means a gift of $50 now is actually $150 to Solitary W...
solitarywatch.org
December 22, 2025 at 2:44 PM
ending solitary confinement is the necessary first step in imagining a justice system that truly serves justice, that serves the people. Solitary Watch helps people whose humanity the current system tries to destroy. at the end of the year, consider helping them in their work.
I, the poet John Darnielle,
with old MacBook and nerves of steel,
and proceeds from my work on Hinge
for people trying to not come off cringe
restored this castle; why the hell not;
and may this castle, which I bought,
inspire more poets to get paid
by folks who need help getting laid
with old MacBook and nerves of steel,
and proceeds from my work on Hinge
for people trying to not come off cringe
restored this castle; why the hell not;
and may this castle, which I bought,
inspire more poets to get paid
by folks who need help getting laid
December 22, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I, the poet John Darnielle,
with old MacBook and nerves of steel,
and proceeds from my work on Hinge
for people trying to not come off cringe
restored this castle; why the hell not;
and may this castle, which I bought,
inspire more poets to get paid
by folks who need help getting laid
with old MacBook and nerves of steel,
and proceeds from my work on Hinge
for people trying to not come off cringe
restored this castle; why the hell not;
and may this castle, which I bought,
inspire more poets to get paid
by folks who need help getting laid