Breaking: SC newspaper verifies portions of Trump accuser's story. Textbook journalism. Local journalism. Support your local news outlets. www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...

Happening today at 6pm! Virtual Graduate Open House for the Rutgers-Newark / NJIT History department. Still time to register if you want to learn more about what we offer our grad students (hint: it includes paid public history internships and tuition remission!). go.rutgers.edu/historyopenh...

The Black Truth Band - Butter Nut-Part II [Trenton, NJ USA, Funk/Soul] (197x) https://redd.it/1kwukja https://youtu.be/-GozYVvFlWE

Let's Active- Hoosier Ballroom 9/18/86 xfer from low gen VHS tape Mitch Easter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sSaLqQv4D4

Admissions for our degree programs! For more info: sasn.rutgers.edu/admissions-a... Full-time PhD - April 3, 2026 MA General Track and Public Humanities Track - June 1, 2026 Part-time PhD - April 30, 2026 Questions: Director - Kyle Riismandel [email protected] Spread the word!

Rasputin & The Mad Monks - I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night [Newark, NJ, USA ; Psychedelic Rock / Acid Rock / Experimental] (196X) A very "out there" cover of The Electric Prunes' classic. https://redd.it/sqtkuc https://youtu.be/3WB8froJlt0

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hpmd... I return to this conversation.

The Blades - The Future [US, Power Pop] (1979) https://redd.it/1qayowp https://youtu.be/nS0hPOEhqFw

Interested in a PhD in Americvan Studies? Check out Rutgers-Newark: sasn.rutgers.edu/admissions-a... There are still spots in the full-time, funded PhD. Deadline is April 3, 2026. Questions: Director - Kyle Riismandel [email protected]

Come join our PhD program! If you have any questions or have a promising student looking to do interdisciplinary work, please let me know.

Tater Totz - Tomorrow Never Knows [USA ; Psychedelic Rock] (1988) Members from Redd Kross, White Flag, The Three O' Clock, and various guest artists came together to create two cover albums predominantly comprised of Beatles https://redd.it/owhbey https://youtu.be/7hSY1bxrkW8

Powerful rally at St. John’s University today against unprecedented union busting tactics by President Father Shanley who, after 56 years, is refusing to recognize SJU’s two longstanding faculty unions. SJU faculty have been working without a contract for 239 days! Union busting is disgusting.

Shoes are one of the greatest underrated bands. Whole discography is worth your time.

The Rings - Take The Chance [Boston, MA, USA - Power Pop/New Wave] (1981) https://redd.it/zwrz3b https://youtu.be/Biyg5fjZ3O4

I make it a rule to always read what François Furstenberg writes and this new piece on the current state of the research university and fiduciary responsibility is no exception. Drop what you are doing and read it now: www.publicbooks.org/the-misuses-...

Trump Suffers Setback Unrelated To Child Rape

Roy Loney - Love Is A Spider [USA ; Garage Rock] (1978) "Essentially reunited the 'Teenage Head' lineup of the Flamin' Groovies and added Cab Covay and Michael Houpt." https://redd.it/xwd35u https://youtu.be/aS0d0SBR5Pw

Not news, but the people doing this and directing this are absolute ghouls. They not only do it, but they derive joy from it.

There are a million ways to fight back. NJ is doing a lot. patch.com/new-jersey/a...

For anyone interested in the history of suburban surveillance leading up to Ring, etc., check out my book Neighborhood of Fear (which I apologize in advance is too expensive)

Ebo Taylor, who did for Ghanaian music what his friend Fela Kuti did for Nigeria, has been called the greatest rhythm guitarist in history. His son Kweku Taylor: “The world has lost a giant, a colossus of African music, leaving behind an unmatched artistry legacy. Dad, your light will never fade.”

The Hi-Techs - Pompeii [New York, USA; New Wave] (1980) taken from V/A NYC-area punk/power pop bands comp LP 'From The City That Brought You... Absolutely Nothing' on Out Of Print Records . https://redd.it/1lfhddt https://youtu.be/v5BO-rJPVns

If your loved one has been detained, call the Siembra NC Hotline at (336) 543-0353

TIMELINE CLEANSER! You may never have heard C-3PO rap in an official Star Wars video, so it's time to remedy that. 🎵

Discontinued Food News! This will be especially devastating for those of you, who like me, have the childhood sensory memory of clunking a cylinder of orange slush around in a plastic pitcher of water with a wooden spoon to produce the most underwhelming OJ imaginable, burned into your brain!

The fraud, corruption, and financialization of youth sports detailed in this article is completely insane.

Just a reminder that application for the MA program (General and Public Humanities tracks) and part-time PhD are still open - rutgers.my.site.com/ApplicantPor.... Check out more about applying here: sasn.rutgers.edu/admissions-a...

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The Cardigans Live at Double Door 1996-06-14 https://archive.org/details/ajc02596_thecardigans1996-06-14

On a downtown street in Minneapolis, as people stream out from the massive march, Mary Tyler Moore says “fuck ice.”

🚨WE HAVE AN AID REQUEST🚨

I have some more bad news. If an admissions committee even suspects you used ChatGPT for your application letter, they'll almost certainly decide not to waste a precious admissions spot on you. Instead they'll give it to, you know, someone who actually likes to write and knows how to do it.

every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s

Historians, American Studies, editors, and readers: if you had to choose one book to read/consider/teach on the 250th anniversary of the United States, what would it be?

Rene Ufer & Lilian Treiberg - Kajakad [Estonia, Experimental] (1977) Insane track https://redd.it/j9643e https://youtu.be/FvpxSJjIt4c

New: Police have released info about millions of surveillance targets nationwide from thousands of different police departments because of a public records redaction error in Flock data. Reveals active police investigations, border patrol & ICE targets, lots more: www.404media.co/police-unmas...

Philadelphia sheriff Rochelle Bilal: “No law enforcement professional wears a mask…No law enforcement professional shoots at a moving vehicle. “What Trump’s private army is doing…is not only against legal law, but moral law.” Vows to arrest agents on site who commit crimes.

from someone who was in school for the beginning of the "war on terror," please. please please please. talk to teenagers in your life about not joining the us military. about not letting themselves be groomed by recruiters in schools. they're going to want soldiers, and they always start young.

1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!

2026 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From! open.substack.com/pub/erininth... @charliejane.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social @transgenderreport.com

Rutgers full-time faculty: The window for applying for a pay equity adjustment is open, now through March 1! Come to a Salary Equity Program info session on Zoom to learn what's involved – Tuesday, Jan 13, at 12pm. RSVP here: https://loom.ly/yaMngaw

And online excel still can't maintain formatting in one document but we have AI scraping our data and surveiling our every move. Enshittification reigns

Outrageous - Who Am I? Where Am I? [Baltimore, MD, USA , Punk / Garage Rock / Art Rock] (1979) https://redd.it/jup4vy https://youtu.be/txmcSS6kBJ0

"Digitized audio of Guy Lombardo's NYE Party at the Waldorf-Astoria, December 31st, 1967. Includes midnight report at Times Square, and ball drop, reported by Bill Beutel. No commercials, and was taped directly at the Waldorf, and not on TV. Aired on ABC originally." archive.org/details/12-3...

Huge ups to the frog people!

So, the frog stopped the National Guard from coming to Portland, along with astute lawsuits by Oregon. Only part of what's happening, but hard to understate how fundamentally the Portland Frog changed perceptions and helped morale. Humor, imagination, courage, savvy.

RIP, Isiah Whitlock Jr

Budweiser Malt Liquor Vocal and Instrumental Theme [US, Theme, Soul] (1971) https://redd.it/el0e93 https://youtu.be/WW6kM0sATII

September- Stump [USA, Private Rare Groove Funk](‘79) pick this up recently and it rules!! https://redd.it/f3trgq https://youtu.be/TC-rjVpbThE

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