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music editor at
https://tonemadison.com
✍️/📸: rolling stone, npr, consequence, etc. makes music.
would rather have politicians who “don’t understand how the senate works” be elected to the senate than it be made up of protect-the-status-quo puppets who don’t understand how reality is impacted by the decisions *of* the senate
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Zach Rabiroff
2 days ago
Great news, everybody! The ACA is materially undermined, no concessions were secured on any other front, and Donald Trump will be able to declare this a personal win. But poor people did starve for about a week there, so there's that.
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Ro Khanna
2 days ago
Senator Schumer is no longer effective and should be replaced. If you can’t lead the fight to stop healthcare premiums from skyrocketing for Americans, what will you fight for?
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onion person
2 days ago
if democrats want to retain any amount of integrity they need to immediately vote out chuck schumer as party minority leader
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Wajahat Ali
2 days ago
Cull the Democratic Party. Systematically chip away all the weak, corporate centrists and corrupt, gutless elected officials who refuse to fight and instead suck at the teat of the oligarchy.
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Zoe Tunnell
2 days ago
If the Democrats were a real party and not a bunch of spineless career politician cowards these 8 senators would be ejected tomorrow morning.
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max tani
5 days ago
New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them)
8 days ago
thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
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NBA
8 days ago
GIANNIS BEATS THE BUZZER FOR THE GAME WINNER! 🚨🚨 Bucks hold off the Pacers for a 117-115 win ‼️
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NBA Daily News
8 days ago
GIANNIS WINS IT AT THE BUZZER!!!
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still gonna be returning to this one years down the line
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clipping.: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0-k7vW9Xek
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Justin Baragona
13 days ago
This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.
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Tone Madison
13 days ago
Music Editor
@stevenmps.bsky.social
highlights—and finds what unifies—great recent releases from Aergo, Baby Tyler Band, Calamity, Frozen Charlotte, Alex Yaco Kalfayan, and a collaboration between Slick and In Ropes in our latest.
tonemadison.com/articles/mad...
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Madison musicians bare their teeth
New releases from September and October seize a cathartic aggression.
https://tonemadison.com/articles/madison-musicians-bare-their-teeth/
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Sarah Weinman
14 days ago
Lmao what (from today's Breaker newsletter)
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Freedom of the Press Foundation
18 days ago
Nothing in the FOIA says agencies can close a request after three days just because they feel like it.
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Rory Blank
22 days ago
Neighbors 2.0
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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃
23 days ago
It's less than 24 hours after 5-8 million Americans marched against a president who called them domestic terrorists, and there is zero reference to it on the current NYT home page, except for a Bouie op/ed that came out several days earlier.
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Julianne McShane
27 days ago
NEW
@motherjones.com
: Nobody in that GOP group chat praising Hitler or making racist comments was a “kid,” as JD Vance claimed today I tracked down their ages. (Weirdly, it seems nobody else did.) Eight of the 11 in the group chat range from 24 to 35. Ages of others are unclear. But… no “kids”!
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No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"
We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/republican-hitler-group-chat-nazi-politico/
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Charlie Warzel
28 days ago
watching the government's social media accounts spit out groyper stuff on main this whole last year, this is how i imagined the behind the scenes chats were going
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a bump for the evening crowd
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about 1 month ago
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Gillian Brockell
about 1 month ago
Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE Truth: No cars rammed ICE Claim: She boxed ICE in Truth: ICE boxed her in Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE Truth: She did not have a rifle Claim: ICE returned fire Truth: Only ICE fired Claim: She drove herself to the hospital Truth: Paramedics found her
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For the last five years, I've tried to get various local acts to open up about the business-end of being a musician in 2025. A few have delivered great bits of commentary, but The Spine Stealers and I went deep on what that looks like—and means—for a band on the precipice of a breakout.
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about 1 month ago
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they are relying on you being afraid to post, say, or do anything meaningfully confrontational they are relying on using the fear of repercussion to quell dissent and solidarity they are relying on eliminating any and all pathways that lead to THEM being punished don’t fall for it — fight back
about 1 month ago
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yank the masks
about 1 month ago
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slash the tires
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Eli Valley
about 2 months ago
American fascists build on the work of Israeli fascists in spreading lies about a Holocaust survivor, hoping to terminate what remains of civil liberties in the US:
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jeremy kaplowitz
about 2 months ago
it is nice for my old boss at Hard Drive to put in writing that he loves Elon Musk and was uninvolved in us wrecking him on twitter lol
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Rob Thomas
about 2 months ago
Great write-up about singer-songwriter Jane Hobson by
@stevenmps.bsky.social
. I've been following her on Tiktok and enjoying her music and had no clue she had Madison ties!
tonemadison.com/articles/jan...
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Jane Hobson's new single exudes an empathetic warmth
"Walking In Circles" is an understated indie-rock gem.
https://tonemadison.com/articles/jane-hobsons-new-single-exudes-an-empathetic-warmth/
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Don Moynihan
about 2 months ago
This is an absolutely terrific piece from
@texastribune.org
and reinforces my belief that the best coverage of right-wing cancelations occur at the local level, after years of the national media focusing on threats from the left.
www.texastribune.org/2025/09/19/t...
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How a secret recording of a gender identity lecture upended Texas A&M
Officials have struggled to detail the exact reasons for the A&M professor’s termination, citing a technical issue with her course description. Faculty say the move was politically motivated.
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/09/19/texas-a-m-welsh-firing-professor-gender-mccoul/
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Scott Horton
about 2 months ago
Yesterday we learned that Trump micromanages the prosecution of his enemies and that the head of his secret police was filmed accepting a $50k bribe in a paper bag. Still, for the editors of NYT, the sanctification of Charlie Kirk, saint and martyr is a bigger news story. This paper is soulless.
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Had a lovely talk w/ David Levithan + Jens Lekman for WI Book Fest on Wednesday, which was (welcomely) a bit twee & soft. Scale-balancing today by indulging my grimy, scuzzy punk side via the first single release from the band’s upcoming album:
hollyandthenicelions.bandcamp.com/track/nothin...
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Nothing Wild, by Holly and the Nice Lions
track by Holly and the Nice Lions
https://hollyandthenicelions.bandcamp.com/track/nothing-wild-3
about 2 months ago
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Dems: Have the most softly-thrown softball pitch, have their feet planted & shoulders squared Also dems: *Watch the pitch coming from a mile away, drop the bat, take out a gun, shoot themselves in the foot, are flabbergasted that they're losing significant parts of their base, get hit by the ball*
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about 2 months ago
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A boost for the midday crowd. Event's tonight, really looking forward to talking with Jens and David (and seeing Jens play a bit of music). Doors at 6, show at 7. Free. UW Music Hall.
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about 2 months ago
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deeply + profoundly annoyed that fb retains their stranglehold on events. sure, it has robust infra, but the userbase is dying, the platform itself has been so enshittified that it's barely navigable, yet it remains THE platform to schedule/track events. need a new socials platform to step up.
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I'll be moderating a Wisconsin Book Fest event tomorrow evening at the university, to talk with author David Levithan and songwriter Jens Lekman about their collaborative novel, 'Songs For Other People's Weddings.' We'll talk. Jens will play a few tunes. Come out!
www.facebook.com/events/40773...
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David Levithan & Jens Lekman: SONGS FOR OTHER PEOPLE'S WEDDINGS
Event in Madison, WI by Wisconsin Book Festival on Wednesday, September 17 2025 with 107 people interested.
https://www.facebook.com/events/4077380022529593
about 2 months ago
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Bradley P. Moss
about 2 months ago
No coincidence the very first thing he did is blame the Jews. This is literally straight out of the 1930s. Say political opponents are to blame for everything, claim only submission to the right's views will bring unity, and employ the full power of the State to implement it.
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JP Acosta
2 months ago
If GB gets you to 5-0 your protection, the rep is over. Micah is just too good to leave 1v1. Every inside counter is available because of his lateral quickness
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Freakbeat Takeshi
2 months ago
thank goodness the president isn't on bluesky or he might get suspended for these remarks.
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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA
2 months ago
Just a reminder that the p*lice are defunding YOU
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onion person
2 months ago
rightwing media ecosystem operates by stoking hatred and anger and divisions every single day, they want people to constantly be afraid and want people to hate eachother, everything we are seeing is a result of the destablization the right has profited off of
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i'm looking REAL fucking sideways at dems rushing to denounce this as an "inhumane evil" or whatever the hell w/o bothering to touch on why kirk might have been targeted in the first place so far, pritzker's one of the only people at an upper-echelon level to actually indulge in SOME reason
2 months ago
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A lot of hand-wringing about “political violence” rn is blatantly disregarding dynamics. Like, if you run the trolley problem simulation, one track has Charlie Kirk on it, and the other has hundreds of thousands of people he has actively fought to dehumanize, disenfranchise, and violently punish.
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Parker Molloy
2 months ago
See? This is a good political response to what happened (if you must). Acknowledge, but make sure you get in something about how the right is constantly fomenting violence.
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Will Stancil
2 months ago
the answer to "why has the supreme court gone insane" is the same as the answer to "why has elon musk gone insane" is the same as the answer to "why has my uncle gone insane" which is that people mostly mirror the prevailing beliefs in their social environment and they're immersed in nazi media
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Kat Abughazaleh
2 months ago
The Supreme Court just ruled that ICE can target people based on their race. Can we get a “Fuck ICE” in the chat?
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@sladkow.bsky.social
& co absolutely killed, night & day difference in terms of crowd energy from last madison stop seeing a *full*
@jeffrosenstock.bsky.social
set ruled
@ekkoastral.bsky.social
lived up to the hype
@gladiephilly.bsky.social
- it was lovely talking & i am v excited for new tunes!
2 months ago
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any day that i get to watch/hear
@sladkow.bsky.social
shred a bit (today) is a good day + haven't seen rosenstock since he played a super wild, extremely abbreviated 2016 wicker park fest set in the immediate aftermath of a brutal storm that suspended activities (including pup!) - ready for round 2
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wrote more about the endless stream of good tunes coming outta madison
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micah parsons, welcome to the team
3 months ago
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great that algernon cadwallader is having a comeback moment but do dogs on acid next
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