Sonny Rollins was the last surviving musician from the iconic “A Great Day in Harlem” photograph from 1958 that featured dozens of jazz legends in Harlem. [📷 Art Kane]

“It would be like poetry without rhyming. It’s too easy.” Jeff Bezos, the dumbest billionaire, revealing his deep literary chops.

(Steranko showed!) www.nydailynews.com/2026/05/11/j...

In the '60s and '70s, one of the biggest producers of drug paraphernalia and trippy blacklight art was the Houston Blacklight & Poster Company. But its history has been nearly lost. I wrote about its influence and the importance of saving artifacts like these: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

Absolute masterpiece. “Long Way Home” sounds like it’s always existed, a true folk song

Well so much for that idea prospect.org/2026/04/07/w...

I couldn't breathe because I was laughing so hard. That bird's an asshole! 😂😂😂😂😂 Best with volume up.

We didn't deserve this day.

A Witnessing: David Katznelson guides us through BROTHER JT’s vast and beguiling career (Arthur, 2004) arthurmag.com/2007/09/25/b...

Given Trump’s Easter threats to carry out new war crimes in Iran, we should think one or two steps ahead about a coup attempt connected to the war. And then deter it. (1/17)

One of the funniest Cartoons I've seen in a while. Lol 🤣 Enjoy

Sure beats statues of Robert E. Lee.

Tiny bat

Always worth a repost.

Trump is obsessed with buying his aides shoes, and they’re too worried about igniting his wrath to take them off.

really cool guided tour of richartd hell's lower east side apartment from the nyt no firewall www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️ 🧵 Before he became a Harlem Hellfighter, James Reese Europe was already one of the most famous and influential Black musicians in the United States. Let's get into it! (cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory www.historynet.com/how-harlem-h...

Benefit show @ the Middle East in Boston March 12 for Jeff Monoman Conolly of DMV & Lyres fame who has cancer, w/ Mission of Burma, Classic Ruins, Unnatural Axe, Dogmatics, Hilken & Melissa Band plus special guests

Inexcusable, obvious corruption.

The UK arrested Prince Andrew. Hakeem Jeffries is telling Democrats not to boo Trump at the State of the Union.

My latest for @bandcamp.com is up: a potted history of Ireland's trailblazing freak-folkers Dr Strangely Strange, off the back of a new album last year, and an upcoming 55th-anniversary reissue of Heavy Petting! #spéirghorm #ireland #music daily.bandcamp.com/features/the...

Melania: available on DVD at Dollar General. Get yours now! 😝

Livid at every single person who knew about this post and didn’t tell me

Damn proud of Minnesota.

I've been planning to write for a long time about how ICE and their allies sure are a bunch of whiny bitches, for all they talk about how tough they are. I'm sad that this is the occasion. But by god, these "tough" guys are pathetic cowards. www.salon.com/2026/01/09/i...

I have spent 25 years as a regulatory lawyer of one kind or another, and I have come to realise one truth. In any commercial context, the regulator will tend to be captured. And in any lucrative commercial context, the regulator will be captured completely.

The Saints first album is the greatest punk album. perfected the genre right there

Just been reminded of another of my all-time favourites, Ian Curtis rides a rollercoaster...

Allons, allons, c'est un sujet futile et de niche, donc souvent évoqué sur les réseaux sociaux ! (petite photo que j'aime bien pour mettre en perspective)

Bienvenue dans le monde merveilleux des megabasses!

Oh hell yeah!

BREAKING from PP We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens* The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied: Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado www.propublica.org/article/immi... by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

In the past week, a White pastor was shot in the face with a pepper ball and a White reporter was handcuffed and detained by federal officers. Congratulations, America. Everybody's Black & Brown now. 🔥☕️ #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory #NoKings

#MusicMonday Petr Válek builds (and deconstructs) mechanical and electro-mechanical musical instruments or self-propelled kinetic objects, constructed from found household items. He also performs as Der Marebrechst — a bizarre noise musician and crazy inventor. vasulkakitchen.org/en/event/pet...

Just learned that Johnny Coley passed away. I was only new to his life and work in the last couple years with this record. That wrong dollar is one of my fav tracks recently. Johnny really seemed like a wonderful person. RIP ❤️‍🔥 Landscape Man | Johnny Coley

Fred Trump refused to step down even while he was dying of dementia (Alzheimer’s), they built him a fake office.

Visiblement, la plupart des nécros se contentent d'un truc en particulier, mais Joe Caroff a fait deux ou trois autres choses...

This took forever, but I am very glad to be able to write this morning that the entire run of Arthur magazine (2002-2008, 2012-13) is finally available online as single issue PDFs. Every page of every issue, either scanned or from the original digital files. FREE. arthurmag.com/read-the-mag...

Happy Bat Appreciation Day! The German word for a bat, Fledermaus, means “flutter mouse.” The Basque word, saguzar, means “old mouse.” And the Estonian word, nahkhiir, means “leather mouse.” But to me (and to anyone who’s seen the picture below) the correct term for bats will always be “sky puppies”

“'Of course he picks April Fool’s Day to pass!' exclaims Rachel Blumberg, the versatile drummer who served as a member of Hurley’s local backing band The Croakers off and on since 2009. 'Of course he did.'" The Way the Late Michael Hurley Taught Us to Slow Down: