adam offitzer

some news: the "letterboxd for concerts" site i'm building is now called HearHear 👏 Encore was a fine name, but not unique enough. i've been writing the HearHear newsletter for years, and this shift just feels right. sign up to build your life in live music: hearhear.fm (app coming soon!) 👀

It’s just so appalling and enraging how casual and commonplace this has become. I’m out of words.

Why is the modern GOP struggling with a Nazi problem? John Oliver lays out the case in a simple, powerful, hilarious way, connecting the inability of today's Republicans to denounce white supremacy to a long tradition inside the party. WATCH: https://loom.ly/y1gqvds

Here’s last night’s story about the rising prominence of extremist beliefs within the Republican Party, what it has to do with the upcoming elections, and why being 31 years old is one of the least cute ages you can possibly be. https://youtu.be/SnsBI4YxwIs

Today was the best day for global democracy in quite a while.

Thread 🧵: the fraudulent transgender mailers have a connection back to Dallas, Texas, where a local Republican megadonor used a similar playbook years ago when he funded a fake BLM group to send letters to wealthy white parents that were designed to discredit the BLM movement.

I swear to god if I hear another person talk about “the mainstream media” while mainlining disinfo slop online all day, I’m going to lose my mind

🚨🚨voting sickos: NYC early voting sticker designs just dropped 🚨🚨 we’ve got ones for halloween AND the marathon!!! early voting starts TOMORROW www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/10/23/e...

NEW, from Bloomberg News: “Elon Musk has now given more than $445 million in the current election cycle.”

🧵 Elon Musk has donated a staggering $369M to influence the 2026 elections, making him the largest individual political donor in modern US history. And yet, he continues to invoke George Soros as a shadowy force secretly manipulating elections and the world as we know it. Let’s take a closer look.

This is one of the most holy sh*t stories I’ve ever read in my life. www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-...

Whenever possible here on KDO, I link to paywalled articles with gift links. To help in that endeavor, I've built a gift link discovery tool called Prometheus. “An informed public is the foundation of a healthy society..." [kottke.org]

I went down to New Orleans to profile Twisted Teens Come for the answers to those pervasive questions online (How do you write three addicting albums in one year? Who even are they and where did they come from?) and stay for the stories of lifelong trainhoppers pitchfork.com/story/twiste...

America can have an oligarchy or a democracy—but not both. When Democrats next have national power, they must restrict the political power of billionaires, even including the so-called liberal ones that help put them in power. trib.al/UbF2XAk

Elon Musk is trying to buy this Senate seat in Texas. He wants our land, he wants our water, and he wants his own personal U.S. senator. He’s trying to buy Texas. But on November 3rd, we’ll deliver a clear message to the world’s first trillionaire: Texas is not for sale.

As the network's climate coverage greatly decreased under Weiss, CBS also aired segments discounting scientific warnings and downplaying consequences of federal climate policy.

look man. I realize we live in an era of repulsive politics but this is some low-down shit right here bsky.app/profile/eric...

Huge follow-up reporting to my scoop: The Guardian confirmed America Next—the conservative nonprofit founded by Bobby Jindal that was offering students $ to disrupt El-Sayed events—paid a firm registered to Tommy Teepell’s dad Timmy $250k for “canvassing and influencer marketing” against El-Sayed.

Emphasizing again that we cannot treat this as just business as usual. This is the President of the United States openly attacking an entire ethnic group.

State legislative races should be getting a lot more attention Dems could flip 500 seats, pick up new majorities in 7 states & break up GOP majorities in 6 states 2026 could be 2010 in reverse

I'm in the West Bank this week as part of the “Protect the Harvest” coalition along with Israelis for Peace, Unarmed Civilian Protection in Palestine & Protect the Harvest.

i caught up with star moles, who made one of my favorite albums of 2026, to discuss her breakout year, signing to dead oceans, new music & more andrewsacher.substack.com/p/star-moles...

did your brain melt this summer as Fox News ran 8+ hours of Sophie Cunningham/TERF coverage? to you I present the many trans fans, affirming parents of trans kids, and WNBA players who are pro-Black, pro-trans, pro-woman. “The majority of the fanbase is standing up saying: ‘No, this isn’t right.’”

when critics of bari weiss say that she is not a journalist, we mean that literally. she does not respect or even appear to understand the values of the profession. everything for her is propaganda. www.semafor.com/article/10/1...

Step by step, day by day, Americans experience the big platforms becoming Orwellian political censors. The US needs a federal government that will tax them and break them up; the democratic world needs to learn the lesson and protect itself.

I always have mixed feelings about these images. Yes, it's inspiring to see these college students committed to democracy, but the fact that they have to do anything remotely difficult to exercise their voting rights is enraging. Taking part in a democracy should be as easy as possible.

Time flies when the Left is making historic moves! Early voting starts in NINE DAYS, NYers – and to help you navigate your ballot, we’ve launched our updated voter guide just for you! Read more about the candidates & ballot measures on your ballot, and make your plan to vote: jfrej.org/ballot

Is it bad if major defense contractors have their own foreign policies?

RANDOM POSTER WHOSE OPINION I HAVE NO REASON TO TRUST: A result like this in NV-03 would be seismic. That’s deep Blortles country. It was Vinkum +8 in ‘24 ME DURING ELECTION SEASON: totally. i just need to look at 9000 more of these

President Trump’s administration “is tacitly declaring the citizenship of all foreign-born people provisional, their Americanness something that can be revoked,” our columnist Michelle Goldberg writes. “It’s a frontal attack on the idea of constitutional equality.”

www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/o...

The attack on Omar should have everyone up in arms. Trump is openly trying to deport someone for opposing him www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/o...

This from @michellegoldberg.bsky.social articulates the danger effectively. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/o...

Most of Ken Paxton’s Money Can Be Traced to One Man: Elon Musk www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/u...

🧵🧵🧵 The NY Times posted a 15-minute video today in which I got to tell NYT what’s wrong with its coverage. They said they saw my critical posts on Bluesky and invited me to do a video with them to air my grievances. Weird, right? I didn’t hold back. I blasted their sanewashing of MAGA extremism.

it's truly unreal, i have seen approximately ~40 more "letterboxd for concerts" ripoff attempts since launching mine but join mine, it's the best i promise! early access: hearhear.fm?code=hearhea...

I've created a new directory for all my playlists mapping out the history of POP as a genre - dive in! I'll be making and adding more playlists in the future to further flesh this out fluxblog.substack.com/p/fluxblog-5...

Still can't believe that Trump and Republicans enacted a law that made the poor poorer while making the rich richer. Taken as a whole, the Big Beautiful Bill was the biggest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in all of US history.

"A list obtained by The Washington Post reveals all the major donors to President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom project.... Tech giants Nvidia and Apple each committed $25 million....Absent from the list is Trump himself, who has said that he is helping to pay for the project."

Last fall, DOJ's Civil Rights Division launched a series of lawsuits to obtain unredacted state voter rolls. A year later, DOJ has lost 26 of those cases in district court and won ... zero.

Growing up, going to the Barnes & Noble in Clark, NJ and picking up the latest issue of @pastemagazine.bsky.social was a sacred tradition. So it meant a lot that Paste was the first outlet to cover HearHear, with a great feature from @graceroso.bsky.social www.pastemagazine.com/music/encore...

read that sentence. it is a description of political persecution. anyone giving this the time of day as a serious legal case is a fool.

Great explainer on Trump’s meme coin scheme here—

“The Trump administration itself, of course, seems blindsided by the prospect of a Democratic Congress next year. That might explain the aggression with which the president lashed out over the past week,” Jamelle Bouie writes.

this is so obviously correct it is deeply bizarre and corrosive how many people who should know better are unwilling to simply say it

This is an actual reason why Bari Weiss’ CBS foreign editor told staff that they could not include reporting on Netanyahu receiving advance warning of a Hamas attack before Oct 7. The astonishing tirade in @status.news www.status.news/p/bari-weiss...

I hope non-journalists can appreciate how embarrassing this is.

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