Jesse Welles is a folk singer I found out about recently. Also liked Tom Morello’s The Nightwatchman (also folk).

Damn, didn’t know Wired had paywalls; I guess ublock hid it for me. Updated description to include archive.org link.

It’s Trump, the Republicans, Musk, and other billionaires using the power of the government to coerce Bytedance into actions that will be favorable to them. It’s kind of Trump’s MO; threaten people/corporations to enrich his family or otherwise benefit him in some way. They will likely force Bytedance to sell TikTok at a large discount to the government and Trump’s friends.

NCD is Non Credible Defense, a military meme community. Not sure what MWoG is.