James O'Brien
@jamesobriennyc.bsky.social
Writer. Editor. Musician. Filmmaker.
Trump took a Supreme Court licking yesterday, but the orange despot has more flying monkeys in the wings when it comes to election day and beyond. The topic is “shells”. The newsletter is All Your Days. allyourdays.substack.com/p/shells?r=3...
Shells
Trump’s U.S. Supreme Court justices are not quite the compliant puppets he expected—but that doesn’t mean the midterms crisis is over
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What is Everything Is Useless And Nothing Is Solved? Whatever that is, it’s for certain that it shows up throughout the stories, shorts, surreal injections, strange inflections, and minor movies that make up what EUNS delivers every week. uselessunsolved.substack.com
Scenes of devastation in small northeastern cities. Surgeries, postures, discomforting parties, revenge as a nickname, the red wetness of dramatic exits. Read Everything Is Useless And Nothing Is Solved: uselessunsolved.substack.com/p/scenes-of-...
Scenes of Devastation in Small Northeastern Cities
Surgeries, postures, discomforting parties, revenge as a nickname, the red wetness of dramatic exits
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From the approaching deadline to wrestle the Epstein files from the mendacious federal officers who won’t release them to the quarter-century mark of a moment that has transformed America in exactly the ways the terrorists hoped ... subscribe to All Your Days: allyourdays.substack.com
Lemme share some recent musical milestones with you, fair reader. Here's a way to catch up—and keep caught up—with what the songs side of my world looks like in 2026: Get the Vinyl Bundle at JAMESOBRIENHQ: www.jamesobrienhq.com/store/p/viny...
JAMES O'BRIEN VINYL BUNDLE: Essentials | 00–26 + Should Not (Cure A Real Disease) + America — JAMES OBRIEN
Three albums on vinyl by James O'Brien, bundled for a special collector's price, signed by the artist.
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Ultimately, American democracy will survive or die based on whether the nation can stop the terrorists from continuing to win the 9/11 victory. The topic is terrorists. The newsletter is All Your Days. allyourdays.substack.com/p/terrorists...
Terrorists | 2026
In America, the planners and flyers of the 9/11 planes are still winning
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What if a decent wolf man’s best days were just a bit eclipsed? What if his life turned out a little less than lunar? Watch EUNS TV episode 2 - “Film Studies”. Subscribe at any paid level for EUNS TV every other month. All subscribers get strange new EUNS fiction every Sunday: bit.ly/462mlo6
Ten months after Trump signed a law ordering the DOJ to release the Epstein files, more than three million records remain unreleased. Rep. Massie wants the files. He needs 112 signatures. He’s got 4 months. The topic: EFTA. The newsletter: All Your Days. allyourdays.substack.com/p/efta?r=37r...
EFTA
In four months, the deadline on Thomas Massie’s push to get the rest of the Epstein files released will be up—he needs 112 more signatures to get it done
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As a compilation, 'Essentials | 00–26' touches on many projects that mean the world to me, and not the least of those is 'Careful in the Future' — both an album and a video album/short film. Stream "White Leather": bit.ly/3OZFXUY Get 'Essentials | 00–26' on vinyl at JAMESOBRIENHQ: bit.ly/4tBqZDI
“Love is when you’re fighting a guy, but then it changes.” A secret Cassavetes/Falk script surfaces. A snapshot of two spirits. A liminal zone. A space between what was and what ought to have happened. Read Everything Is Useless And Nothing Is Solved: uselessunsolved.substack.com/p/steak-dinn...
‘Steak Dinner’
Lost Cassavetes in London; what almost came after ‘Mikey and Nicky’; love is a knife through which you can feel another man’s heart
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From the USPS becoming mail-in ballot blockers to the psychopaths and insurrectionists slipping through the barely existent gates of Trump’s ICE street army ... The newsletter is All Your Days. Twice weekly. Subscribe here: bit.ly/4f5AbeU
Watch the new episode of EUNS TV - “Film Studies” … Out now. Out every eight weeks. Out of this world. Subscribe at any paid level for EUNS TV every other month. All subscribers get strange new EUNS fiction every Sunday: bit.ly/462mlo6
ICE has become a haven for killers and a training-and-equipment bank for criminals and insurrectionists. A new whistleblower reveals how these bad actors get a badge, a gun—and grotesque impunity. The topic is infiltration. The newsletter: All Your Days. allyourdays.substack.com/p/infiltrati...
Infiltration
An ICE vetting chief says the agency handed badges and guns to recruits it never checked, then punished him for saying so. Gangs and insurrectionists have also noticed the open door.
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Donald Trump ordered the Postal Service to build a gate for mail ballots. A whistleblower says it built a woodchipper. The topic is postal. The newsletter is All Your Days. allyourdays.substack.com/p/postal?r=3...
Postal
As a whistleblower blows the lid off the U.S. Postal Service’s mail-in ballot woodchipper, the Trump administration has evidently ordered up a midterm elections killswitch
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This month’s EUNS TV subject—the star of this month’s episode—is an “other” wolf man. This is Episode 2 - “Film Studies.” Available to paid EUNS subscribers of any level, starting at $5 monthly. Subscribe today: uselessunsolved.substack.com/p/euns-tv-ep...
EUNS TV - Episode 2 - "Film Studies"
An ‘other’ wolf man, a tale to tell, a sorry story, cycles of the (lupine) heart
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Tomorrow is the day. EUNS TV - Episode 2. “Film Studies” Paid subscribers - any level. 08.31.2026 Subscribe: bit.ly/4xQcX2O
Somewhere in the annals of a man who plays a wolf, a rumor persists. Everything Is Useless And Nothing Is Solved pursues the lost documents of a lost time, a lost soul, a story that one writer would not—or could not—permit to exist. Read EUNS today: uselessunsolved.substack.com/p/other-wolv...
Other Wolves
The lost Curt Siodmak interview: On Lon Chaney Jr. and the protection of souls, the tolls of the father upon the son, rumors ventured, a sudden disconnect
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The wolf man you think you know. The wolf man you’ll get to know on August 31. EUNS TV is Everything Is Useless And Nothing Is Solved's bi-monthly web show. New episodes every eight weeks for paid newsletter subscribers of any level. Subscribe to EUNS today: bit.ly/4xQcX2O
As Trump empties America's missile magazine, refilling it runs through rare-earth magnets China controls. His answer? $1.6 billion for USA Rare Earth, whose private money raise ran through the very firm Howard Lutnick led, now headed by his sons. allyourdays.substack.com/p/elements?r...
Elements
America needs rare earths to replenish missiles wasted in Iran—but even as troves sit unclaimed in waste piles, the regime is enriching its buddies via mining deals
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This wolf man has a story to tell. Paid subscribers to Everything Is Useless And Nothing Is Solved are about to find out what it is. EUNS TV. It’s strange. It’s a bimonthly show. And it’s in full color. Subscribe to EUNS at any paid level to watch the new episode of EUNS TV on 8/31: bit.ly/4xQcX2O
As the Supreme Court lets Trump's mail-in voting crackdown advance, the majority’s message to Americans has become: “Hey, let’s see if this loaded revolver does any harm to democracy.” The topic is injunctions. The newsletter is All Your Days. allyourdays.substack.com/p/injunction...
Injunctions
While Donald J. Trump’s election-interference efforts remain mostly blocked, the Supreme Court has decided once again that Russian roulette is better than sensible harm prevention
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Exploring Inishlacken. And the captain who got us there. #connemara #ireland
EUNS TV. Episode 2. “Film Studies.” Premieres 08/31. Subscribe to Everything Is Useless And Nothing Is Solved at any paid level today to get EUNS TV: bit.ly/4xQcX2O
Can no longer predict what will happen when stepping out the front door. Afternoon caller. #connemara #ireland
Can no longer predict what will happen when stepping out the front door. Afternoon caller. #connemara #ireland