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Summer 2026
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W.E.D.em Boyz
about 11 hours ago
The last photo of third-grader Mikaeil Mirdoraghi, waving to his mom before he left for school. He was killed shortly after in the U.S./Israeli strike on a primary school in Minab.
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Pablo Hidalgo
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The only one who could ever reach me / Was the son of aā¦
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kate wagner
about 12 hours ago
"why did you become a writer" because no one gave a shit about my special interests growing up. now i make them everyone else's problem. next question
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Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary)
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"Vibe was 100 percent scanned page by page, issue by issue on Google Books. & then I don't know what happened, but it just disappeared one day."
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Lost Recipes | Defector
In 1991, Spin magazine took the Compton rap collective N.W.A out to eat for a profile at the Russian Tea Room in Manhattan. The white author presents gangsta rap as a cynical enterprise, no different ...
https://defector.com/lost-recipes
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Coming July 21, friend! Thanks for reading!!
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Whitney Curry Wimbish
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We updated our record of people immigration agents have killed or caused to die since Trump took office in January 2025. As of today, agents have killed at least 28 people in the field and 48 people in custody.
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A Running Count of How Many People ICE Has Killed and Injured - The American Prospect
ICE is not required to report any use-of-force incidents against the public. So The American Prospect created our own running tally.
https://prospect.org/2026/01/29/ice-trump-killed-injured-list-dhs-cbp-border-patrol-renee-good-alex-pretti/
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Rachel Cole
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AMERICAN RAIN
2 days ago
Tina Weymouth and Grandmaster Flash by Laura Levine 1981 š¤
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David
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Escape From New York (1981) Director John Carpenter
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Alejandra Caraballo
2 days ago
Polymarket has created a betting market on the use of nuclear weapons. Everyone involved in this should be put in prison for life.
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RM
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The great music engineer and producer Bob Power has died. An absolute legend, producing records for Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, The Roots, DāAngelo, Erykah Badu, and on and on.
www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
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Bob Power, Engineer and Producer Who Excavated Hip-Hop's Low End, Dead at 73
Bob Power, the celebrated engineer and producer who worked on classic albums by A Tribe Called Quest, Erykah Badu, the Roots, and more, has died.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/bob-power-dead-obituary-1235524199/
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Gumby Screens
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Tom Snarsky
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Bill Knott
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Comics in the Golden Age
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shauna
3 days ago
tldr THANKS SUCKA
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Steven (with a PH)
3 days ago
THERAPIST: and this one? ME: that looks like you kissing my mum. THERAPIST: what about this one? ME: also kissing my mum. and groping her a little. why are you showing me these? THERAPIST: I thought you'd be happy for us.
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The Guardian
3 days ago
āCultural monstrosities!ā The thrilling visual legacy of punk and post-punk ā in pictures
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āCultural monstrosities!ā The thrilling visual legacy of punk and post-punk ā in pictures
From bold anti-Nazi posters to an acid-drenched take on Jean Cocteau, a new exhibition, curated by writer Philip Hoare, shows how influential the DIY designs of the 70s and 80s became
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2026/mar/03/visual-legacy-post-punk-posters-in-pictures?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1772523043
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Sarah J. Jackson
4 days ago
Well today in AI scams targeting authors. I received an email claiming to want to include my book in a book club. Not only do all the photos of authors they claim to work with look AI generated but look at
@colsonwhitehead.com
and
@zadiesmith.bsky.social
and then look at these photos
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Your daily John Waters screenshot
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G Elliott Morris
4 days ago
tough to come up with a better story about the ignorance and hubris of mankind than āb-list tv news host becomes Secretary of Defense,ā but then we get the story āb-list tv news host becomes Secy. of Defense, plugs AI system directly into military systems, has it select targetsā
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MythologyBot
4 days ago
D1548.0.1 Amulet has control over weather.
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Retro Commercial Screens
6 days ago
The thing you have to understand about the 80s is that the Harlem Globetrotters could show up in anything at any time and nobody would bat an eye.
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Elizabeth Sandifer
7 days ago
The secret hero of Moore's Swamp Thing run.
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Postmambo Studies
7 days ago
Great piece. Will Hermesās āLove Goes to Buildings on Fireā is a history of NYC popular music that includes the salsa movement, left out of other accounts because Spanish.
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Count Melancholia
9 days ago
New York City used to have an iconic, elegant skyline. Now it's all jagged and lacks harmony. It looks like the sharp jagged teeth in some weird fish's mouth. Ugly and unwelcoming.
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Alexander Chee
11 days ago
I was on Twitter for the writers and the book recommendations, the essays, the poetry, the community. I am here now for the same. Iām a nerd. Please reply with a favorite recent essay or poem or story or book recommendation, and thank you.
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Tim Carvell
13 days ago
Hear me out: Clifford the Big Red Dog was almost certainly euthanized at a relatively young age due to hip dysplasia and honestly? Everyone in town was secretly relieved.
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Rabih Alameddine
15 days ago
Helen Frankenthaler in her studio, photographed by David Parks for Life magazine in 1956.
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Art Of Coop
13 days ago
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Garbage Man - The Cramps
YouTube video by doesitfeelgoodtoyou
https://youtu.be/AyoAt7r1omc?si=KCSz8oFIDzhSby-D
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Benjamin Dreyer
14 days ago
Happy Pierre Boulle's birthday!
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Deth Veggie
14 days ago
Strongly reminiscent of this infamous diagram of a slaver ship. We are repeating our evils.
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James Goodwin
14 days ago
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Doubleday Books
15 days ago
@newyorker.com
reveals their most anticipated books of 2026, including LONDON FALLING by
@praddenkeefe.bsky.social
and COOL MACHINE by
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Our Most Anticipated Books of 2026
From the daily newsletter: Maggie OāFarrell, Halldór Laxness, Colson Whitehead, and more writers to watch this year.
https://www.newyorker.com/newsletter/the-daily/our-most-anticipated-books-of-2026
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David M. Perry
15 days ago
Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance. And you know why? Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.
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Diane Duane
16 days ago
Status report, "Period Food Research" dep't: Arrived today: a CD version of the Pennsylvania Railroad's dining car manual. 110 pp of instructions and recipes. The level of detail is amazing. A couple of entries on oysters here...
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Alan Sepinwall
16 days ago
Oh, man. Tom Noonan died? His performance as Francis Dolarhyde in Manhunter is one of the most terrifying, mesmerizing I've ever seen in a film.
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Jason Concepcion
17 days ago
staring at the screen, no ideas, the empty prompt window confronting you with your own mediocrity -- welcome to the work, chump, you loser.
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Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary)
18 days ago
& always a team player, as seen in this Godfather outtake shot, where he's the cue card man for Marlon Brando
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Prisonculture
18 days ago
Popping up across Brooklyn... All of the people featured in the windows are Black people.
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Ty Burr
18 days ago
From Hamdan Ballal, co-director of last yearās Oscar-winning documentary āNo Other Land.ā This is happening now.
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Paperback Paradise
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Jon Savage
21 days ago
New
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contains my ten page article looking at UK Punk 1976 through ten photos - by Ray Stevenson, Sheila Rock, Kate Simon, Jonh Ingham and others, inc an unseen shot of the Clash in October 1976 by John Tiberi
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emptywheel
21 days ago
On the one hand, the more Noem wastes bc of her own incompetence, the less she'll have for goons and concentration camps. On the other hand, the GOP cut $273M in cancer cure research last year to pay for shit like this.
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Hypervisible
22 days ago
Why do people hate ai? Itās a mystery for the ages.
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OpenAIās President Gave Millions to Trump. He Says Itās for Humanity
In an interview with WIRED, Greg Brockman says his political donations support OpenAI's missionāeven if some employees at the company disagree.
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-president-greg-brockman-political-donations-trump-humanity/
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Alissa Wilkinson
22 days ago
GOD BLESS US EVERY ONE
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Kate McKean
23 days ago
Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
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