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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 20h

The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 20h

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 23h

This weekend, three men in Evanston hugged their families goodbye to look for work at Home Depot but were attacked by ICE before they could return home.

Two were abducted, one is petrified of leaving the home.

If you’re able, please help us support our neighbors: www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...

Donate to Stand With the Families Left Behind After Evanston ICE Raid, organized by Michele Hays

If you are on social media and live near Evanston, IL, you ma… Michele Hays needs your support for Stand With the Families Left Behind After Evanston ICE Raid

www.gofundme.com

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tru @thetrudz.photo · 1d

‼️ I never liked his incredible music being reduced solely to the “Untitled (How Does It Feel)” video. The Voodoo tour caused him a lot of pain.

Article (Amy Wallace; GQ) excerpt reads: “D'Angelo felt tortured, Questlove says, by the pressure to give the audience what it wanted. Worried that he didn't look as cut as he did in the video, he'd delay shows to do stomach crunches. He'd often give in, peeling off his shirt, but he resented being reduced to that. Wasn't he an artist? Couldn't the audience hear the power of his music and value him for that? He would explode, Questlove recalls, and throw things. Sometimes he'd have to be coad not to cancel shows altogether.

When I ask D about this, he downplays his suffering. Watching him pull hard on another Newport, I realize that he finds it far easier to confess his addictions than his insecurities about his corporeal self. Self-destructing with a coke spoon—while ill-advised—has a badass edge. Fretting over what Questlove has called "some Kate Moss shit" seems anything but manly. If given the chance, he tells me, he would absolutely shoot the video again. But he does admit to feeling angry during the Voodoo tour.”

“Amen! (D'Angelo's Back)” via GQ

Article (Amy Wallace; GQ) excerpt reads: "’One time I got mad when a female threw money at me onstage, and that made me feel fucked-up, and I threw the money back at her,’ he says. ‘I was like, 'I'm not a stripper.' He was beginning to sense a darkness beckoning. He recalls a particular moment onstage at the North Sea Jazz festival in 2000. The band was in the middle of ‘Devil's Pie,’ his song about the spell fame casts upon the weak—Who am I to justify / All the evil in our eye / When I myself feel the high / From all that I despise—when he felt an ominous presence in the crowd. ‘That night I felt something that was like, whoa,’ he tells me. E-vil.

On the last day of the eight-month tour, Questlove says D'Angelo told him, ‘Yo, man, I cannot wait until this fucking tour is over. I'm going to go in the woods, drink some hooch, grow a beard, and get fat.’ Questlove thought he was joking. I was like, ‘You're a funny guy.’ And then it started to happen. That's how much he wanted to distance himself."

While the tour was a success, both critically and commercially, it left D broken. ‘When I got back home, yeah, it wasn't that easy to just be,’ he says. ‘I think that's the thing that got me in a lot of trouble: me trying to just be Michael, the regular old me from back in the day, and me fighting that whole sex-symbol thing. You know: 'Hey, I ain't D'Angelo today. I'm just plain old Mike, and I just want to hang out with my boys and do what we used to do.' But, damn, those days are fucking gone."

“Amen! (D'Angelo's Back)” via GQ

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Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 6d

Theorists! My department is hiring (NTT but continuing and good pay): jobs.chronicle.com/job/37895447...

Assistant/Associate Professor Non-Tenure Track Appointment in Music Studies-Theory - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania job with Temple University Boyer College of Music and Dance | 37895447

Teach a variety of undergraduate & graduate courses in Music Theory. Advise and mentor graduate students. Contribute to departmental &college service.

jobs.chronicle.com

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Seth Brodsky @sbrodsky.bsky.social · 1d

Really need a lifeline these days, anything really, not this for sure

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Seth Brodsky @sbrodsky.bsky.social · 1d

D’Angelo, one of the greatest musical artists of our catastrophic age, is dead. Learn his music through and through, it will change your life.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 5d

week 7, in a city under siege for 32 days and counting, and the students who are able to come to class despite the blitz are showing up like their lives depend on those 50 minutes of togetherness, poetry, and big questions

Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 5d

IDK, man. School started 2 weeks ago for us, and once again students remind me that they’re so curious and interested in the world and anxious to ask big questions. We hear that these questions are no longer useful or relevant, but wherever that’s coming from, it’s not what students believe.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 5d

he does not regret to inform you and neither do I

Willamette Week @wweek.com · 5d

Jack Dickinson, 26, says “we’re winning this.”

An Interview With the Portland Chicken

Rachel Saslow

www.wweek.com

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 15d

People of Illinois, we need your help.

Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors.

We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 23d

the Brazilian right is attempting to pass measures through the legislature to shield Bolsonaro and other legislators from the legal consequences of the failed coup, for which Bolsonaro was recently sentenced to 27 years. these photos are of the massive protests in response.

Lula @lulaoficialbluesky.bsky.social · 23d

Estou do lado do povo brasileiro. As manifestações de hoje demonstram que a população não quer a impunidade, nem a anistia. O Congresso Nacional deve se concentrar em medidas que tragam benefícios para o povo brasileiro.

Montagem com fotos de manifestações pelo Brasil

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Seth Brodsky @sbrodsky.bsky.social · Sep 13

Contemporary modernism

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · Sep 12

TIL that for some people with irreparably damaged corneas, you can pull one of their teeth, drill a hole in it, install an artificial lens, sew it into their cheek (so tissue attaches), then pull it out and stick it in their damaged eye, and ... it works fine!?! www.nbcboston.com/news/health/...

Man, 34, is no longer blind after tooth is implanted in eye in 'crazy' surgery

Tooth-in-eye surgery sounds like science fiction, but it can help people with severely damaged corneas see again. A patient and his doctors describe what it's like.

www.nbcboston.com

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Seth Brodsky @sbrodsky.bsky.social · Sep 13

The anxiety of influence—an “astral disease“ as Harold Bloom called it

Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · Sep 13

America, online: www.todayintabs.com/p/groyper-wa...

So in summary: it appears that this was a shooting where the victim, an influencer, was answering a question from another influencer when he was shot by a third influencer, after which a fourth influencer documented the ensuing chaos and a host of other influencers registered their takes, before the director of the FBI (an influencer) and the deputy director of the FBI (another influencer) announced the alleged shooter’s apprehension with a quote from Mad Max.

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Seth Brodsky @sbrodsky.bsky.social · Sep 12

Fantastic thread

matthew ellis @matthiasellis.com · Sep 12

An unsatisfying term I’ve been thinking through to make sense of this is “postpolitical.” The right looks for that one signifier to prove the shooter was a leftist, the left hopes for proof he was a right winger, and so on. But for these kids don’t use signifiers that way (1/)

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matthew ellis @matthiasellis.com · Sep 12

An unsatisfying term I’ve been thinking through to make sense of this is “postpolitical.” The right looks for that one signifier to prove the shooter was a leftist, the left hopes for proof he was a right winger, and so on. But for these kids don’t use signifiers that way (1/)

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Seth Brodsky @sbrodsky.bsky.social · Sep 1

totally, people have a really hard time grasping the notion of fiction don’t they. The Hollywood reporter guy was like “this is so five years ago”—it’s set in 2019!

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Seth Brodsky @sbrodsky.bsky.social · Sep 1

Fabulous review! I consulted on the script briefly and am bummmmmed by these dimwitted overliteral reviews—yours is so much truer to the script. Can’t wait to see the actual flick.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Sep 1

"Forget the partial deals. Go in with full force and finish this,” the premier [Netanyahu] reportedly said Trump told him."

www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

PM told cabinet a partial hostage-ceasefire deal with Hamas ‘not on the table’ – reports

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www.timesofisrael.com

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Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social · Aug 30

"After you've done that, can you dig a hole 6ft deep?"

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Seth Brodsky @sbrodsky.bsky.social · Aug 22

51st state’s official music

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Aug 21

“Defend the District” protest and Go-Go concert against Trump’s takeover at 14th and U St:

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Aug 16

NEW: Video shared with me from a bystander in DC shows multiple masked federal agents (at least one of whom appears to have an ICE badge) violently attacking and handcuffing a delivery worker in the street outside Bluestone Lane cafe near Logan Circle this morning.

Please take care when watching.

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Seth Brodsky @sbrodsky.bsky.social · Aug 14

Miss this guy much

The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · Aug 13

Michael Brooks would have turned 42 today. Here he is flawlessly explaining why the Israel Palestine situation is not complicated. Why it's not even asymmetrical warfare, but an occupation.

Rest in peace Michael. You were the best of us.

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Seth Brodsky @sbrodsky.bsky.social · Aug 12

Ah good idea, thanks Dean!

Seth Brodsky @sbrodsky.bsky.social · Aug 12

Danke!

Seth Brodsky @sbrodsky.bsky.social · Aug 12

As things go, a low priority but: good weather apps? With good radar features? It feels impossible to find one that doesn't require a huge yearly fee! Recs?

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Katie Hinde @mammalssuck.bsky.social · Aug 11

www.cnn.com/2025/08/11/m...

Anas Al-Sharif became the face of the war in Gaza for millions. Then Israel killed him | CNN

As a ceasefire in Gaza took hold in January, Anas Al-Sharif began removing his protective gear live on television, piece by piece, while a jubilant crowd cheered, hoping the day marked the end of the ...

www.cnn.com

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