tidal.com/playlist/f83... Real gone set tonight, daddy-o #Playlist #50s rocking and rolling for the first half, a nod to #Blues and #Punk and tasty live cuts, with a final nod to the posthumous birthday boy #LouReed

In a sane world both Netflix and Paramount would be blocked from this deal. But holy shit, we desperately need antitrust to make a huge come back if this goes through! The consolidation of media to then turn into an authoritarian monopoly is just utterly devastating.

tidal.com/playlist/df5... #MusicSky #playlist

I'm old enough to remember a GWB official circa 2003 saying this memorable quip! "Everybody wants to go to Baghdad. Real men want to go to Tehran." www.jstor.org/stable/4122038

It’s insane how they vacillate between lies depending on what they want to do, and crazier that people just believe them. Want to look strong? WE COMPLETELY OBLITERATED IRAN’S NUCLEAR PROGRAM! 💪💥 Want to bomb Iran? Iran is a week away from bomb-grade material!! 😱

It took me about 15 months to type the history of the R&B charts into a spreadsheet so that I could organize by the date the song entered the charts. 3685 of 22,000 Albert King "Born Under a Bad Sign" August 26, 1967 #musicsky www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Py3...

If you can make it out to the lineup spots for any of the parades, do it. Guarantee there's gonna be a battle of the marching bands and dance groups every block. It's pure joy and energy, the good kind of energy. Universal salve.

50 years of her comedy is not enough 💔

Had to go find the 1999 "review" that Plugged In (Focus on the Family's pop culture magazine, which all evangelical kids will remember well) published for "Devil Without a Cause," the album that "Bawitdaba," his hit song he performed tonight, is on ... www.pluggedin.com/album-review...

Tactical success and military power, without strategy or a plan. Familiar, and not in a good way.

The idea that an 5-year-old citizen is somehow harmed by a 5-year-old non-citizen being present within our borders makes my blood boil

crickets from the free speech crowd, of course

Like, if you wanna feel sad, pick your favorite artist or writer from 100 years ago and imagine them having to work it in the online algorithm universe. Imagine Faulkner having to do fake candid bedhead shots or Agatha Christie having to post fun facts to drum up engagement.

A Minneapolis knitting shop has resurrected the design of a Norwegian cap worn to protest Nazi occupation. Its owner says the money raised from hat pattern sales will support the local immigrant community.

Correct. Subscribe to @flaminghydra.com to support and strengthen this model. It's working!! Slowly, but it's working. Just by sharing the subscription money, publishing good work, and attracting enough subscribers, eventually it will add up to a whole salary for each member.

Besides the splendid @roncharles.bsky.social and @johnwilliams.bsky.social and Becca Rothfeld, I'm thinking about former editors Nina King and Marie Arana and Jabari Asim and Michael Dirda. Book World has long had a unique and often surprising voice. What a terrible loss.

...they said I don't got any class, I'll show em, I got class, I got so much class, more class than anybody ever...I'm gonna shut down their stupid center and see how they like it...tell me I got no taste...I'll show em.... www.cnn.com/2026/02/01/p...

Self-portrait, https://botfrens.com/collections/19/contents/4085

good reference point to rebut the whole "but the billionaires create jobs" line

I spoke to a woman at the protest in minneapolis and she explained she wanted to be there in part because "i was a kid when george floyd got killed" and i nearly dropped my recorder

Tonight's #playlist was all #80'sMusic tidal.com/playlist/9ea...

Nice theory, I suspect it would have happened. I hope the freedom loving world continues to assist Ukraine to get back their country

Today's vinyl is Big Star Live in Memphis. Alex Chilton and Jody Stephens reunited in the early nineties, along with Jon Auer (and, sadly, the since-credibly-accused-of-multiple-sex-crimes Ken Stringfellow) of the Posies. Auer is here singing Chris Bell's solo song "I Am The Cosmos".

Alex Pretti did not “tragically die. He was murdered.

what's the purpose of teaching literature in today's world, you ask?

artsfuse.org/158013/poetr... Found a book by the excellent contemporary poet Martin Espada today on a shelf at a school in Nola which was inscribed to someone at UMass Boston, my alma mater. Spent an afternoon with him a few years ago, talking about a few things which are still relevant #poetry

tidal.com/playlist/6f9... Tonight's #playlist was one hour of #punk with California gettin' repped hour two was #NewWave with a hint of goth hour three was all #Nola carnival joy dig it dig in

Just randomly putting this old piece up, no reason @thebaffler.com thebaffler.com/latest/the-c...

Cassidy sentenced countless children to death, knowingly, by confirming RFK and Trump stabs him in the back anyway I hope it eats at him every miserable day of the rest of his life

Congrats to everyone who voted for Trump to lower prices! You’re now paying more for everything so Trump can feel better about himself bsky.app/profile/twse...

Living in New Orleans a few years really does strange things to a guy

Wrote last month about the media’s use of “crackdown” to legitimize and validate the regime’s occupation of opposition strongholds. It’s driving me insane. badfaithtimes.com/bad-faith-an...

tidal.com/playlist/bc0... Know Your Rights There Is Power In A Union Land of the Freak Paint It Black The Room Got Heavy Let England Shake Strange Overtones Waiting For The Night Natural One Little Wing Girl Ways To Be Wicked With Arms Outstretched Something Is Working #MusicSky #Playlist

Huge if true. I'd better give The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars a listen at some point to check this.

Trump is clearly not well. At a meeting with oil industry CEO’s Trump suddenly interrupts his introductory remarks, gets up and looks out the window and starts talking about his ballroom. Trump then realizes his mistake and says “unusual time to look”, and sits back down to continue.

Recalling my Walter Benjamin today: "The logical result of Fascism is the introduction of aesthetics into political life... All efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war"

did not realize that I had a live Substack account but hey why not get it rolling join me, won't you, for a world of various cerebrations: substack.com/@matthanson8...?

DISMAL JOB NUMBERS REPORTED Worse numbers since 2003

@chrislhayes.bsky.social: “A 37-year-old American citizen, the mother of a young child is dead tonight. She was shot in the face by an agent of the federal government, and that government has spent the day telling despicable lies about her.”

With Trump very transparently saying that the invasion of Venezuela was to take their oil, let's dive into oil markets. TL;DR - it's not at all clear to me that Trump or the people around him have any coherent long term strategy.

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

If you don't think the capture of Nicolas Maduro has made the world safer, just remember how the death of Saddam Hussein brought stability to the region and a lasting peace to the world.

Apparently they're ranking Kubricks so what's up #Moviesky #Kubrick 2001 Strangelove Barry L Shining Paths Eyes Wide Killing Spartacus Clockwork Full Metal haven't seen Killer's Kiss or Fear and Desire yet the top three are Great the rest are good but increasingly flawed

Yeah, man, the only difference between your career and Mark Rufallo’s career is the political stuff.

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