A lot of people are saying a lot of things about AI to me, and in general. Here I make a bit of effort to distinguish the baby from the bathwater.

The Ai Tsuno Project's latest album, Save the Humans, drops on all the music streaming platforms on January 15th. Ai Tsuno’s 10th album includes such instant classics as “Disarm Israel,” “Message from Gaza,” and “Bisbee, Arizona, 1917.”

A song for Renee Nicole Good, killed by ICE in Minneapolis on January 7th, 2026.

As much as Trump is behaving in ways that could be characterized as unprecedented, in other ways his behavior is surprisingly consistent with the history of US imperialism.

How is it that our oil is always underneath their soil?

What does the US invasion of Venezuela, the Cuba-Venezuela Solidarity Tent at the World Social Forum, and my visit to the US-Mexico border last weekend have in common?

Between abducting the Venezuelan president, killing scores of Cubans, boarding Russian tankers, and threatening to invade Greenland, the immediate future is feeling very sketchy.

Venezuela, 2026.