JOEY'S TOP TEN ALBUMS OF 2025
Songs are fun, but this is the list that really matters to me. Was up all night polishing this one.
Thanks for reading. Stay tuned for the TV articles next week.
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Every song by Elizabeth Morris of @allodarlinuk ranked! After four months of work (!!!), my next huge feature is about a band you maybe haven't heard of that might end up being everything to you: https://t.co/4pH0KxZZgQ
a @WedgeLIVE cat tour is not politically neutral - “cats not kings” sign in a yard, “free pawlestine” sign, cat head and palestine jersey, “trans rights are human rights” on a fence
There are things we should be able to say plainly. But we can’t. Because there are gatekeepers of grief and designated spokespeople for sorrow, and somehow we never qualify.
So let me say it plainly, without euphemism or editorial sheen:
Fuck every person who has ever uttered that Israel has a right to defend itself.
Fuck every person who parroted Israeli propaganda—about October 7, about mass rapes, about beheaded babies.
Fuck every person who could watch the wholesale slaughter of Palestinians, mourn it, and still condemn their right to resist extermination.
Fuck every person who policed our language, our grief, our protests—every person who dared to frame this genocide as “both sides.”
Fuck every person with a platform who chose silence over duty.
An entire people has been pulverized into dust and memory, because cowards refused to call a genocide by its name and bigots masquerading as truthsayers refused to believe that Palestinians were people worth saving.
Israel executed 15 paramedics because they know they can. Because they know no rules apply to them and the U.S. will fund and back their genocide through every barbaric, indisputable atrocity, because that has been the case for decades
Another international graduate student has been detained by ICE agents - this time at University of Minnesota. We don’t have the details yet. This isn’t going to slow down any time soon.
All three of these young men are now dead. Targeted by Israel for their courageous reporting of the horrors inflicted on their people over the last 18 months. More than 200 journalists and media workers have been killed in Israeli attacks, 80% were between the ages of 20-40. So many brave, young men and women who risked their lives to document the atrocities.
May their souls be at rest now.
Last month, I got 35 people to rank the 36 songs on The Clash's fourth Sandinista! and today I am publishing the results along with a THOROUGH write-up of every single track.
This was a monumental undertaking and I can't believe I did it. PLEASE read it: https://t.co/zXl59x7EsM
After repeatedly violating every single commitment under the ceasefire, Israel is now fully resuming the genocide of the already destroyed Gaza concentration camp.
The world is watching.
History will remember who stood on the sidelines of this unspeakable atrocity.
This is what a "ceasefire" is for Israel. The only real, lasting ceasefire is the total dismantling of an apartheid, genocidal state whose existence has always and will always rely on the wholesale slaughter and dehumanization of Palestinians
zionist lobby groups spend millions on ads at the Super Bowl. meanwhile, this is the people’s protest: defiance and standing up even when you’re all alone, risking your liberty, at the empire’s circus 🇸🇩🇵🇸
JOEY'S TOP 25 SONGS OF THE HALF-DECADE: https://t.co/lojkaNzOuW
This is my final list of the year, and I care about it way more than the other ones. Would be enormously meaningful if you, whoever you are, spent some time with it. I thought about this one so much.
JOEY'S TOP TWENTY TV SHOWS OF 2024: https://t.co/Uq47oUhrIf
Here it is, your guide to finding the best TV you missed last year. Please use it and let me know what you thought of any shows you tried.
That's it for 2024. Next Thursday: The top 25 songs of the decade (so far).
JOEY'S TOP TEN ALBUMS OF 2024: https://t.co/4G0LvtcqB4
This is sort of the main event, the list I've made for the longest time (back to 2010). Who won 2024?
As always, appreciate any engagement. Next Thursday and Friday I'm putting out my TV episodes and TV shows lists.