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@beatgrrrl.bsky.social - Friday's Weekly Round-Up on The Allen Ginsberg Project - The birthday today of William Blake, plus Beat news David Amram, Anne Waldman, Brooklyn Allen Ginsberg celebration & more allenginsberg.org/2025/11/f-n-...
November 29, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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Ghost of Cleveland jazz great Albert Ayler still haunts today’s sounds 55 years after his death
Ghost of Cleveland jazz great Albert Ayler still haunts today’s sounds 55 years after his death
Decades after his mysterious death in New York, jazz great Albert Ayler's specter still looms large over jazz and other genres of music. The Cleveland-born artist is still considered an enigma.
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November 29, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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Happy celestial birthday to American Black actress producer, playwright, and civil rights activist Gertrude Jeannette (November 28, 1914 - April 4, 2018) was the first woman to get a motorcycle license in New York City (1935) and the first woman to work as a licensed taxi driver in NYC (1942).
November 29, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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‘I almost always play it in hiding, alone’: can anyone get into free jazz, history’s most maligned music?
‘I almost always play it in hiding, alone’: can anyone get into free jazz, history’s most maligned music?
Even though he’s partial to hideous noise, free jazz is mostly unknown to the Guardian’s pop critic. A new guidebook from Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore may change his mind
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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ΛRT HΞΛVΞN: Happy birthday to Harlem Renaissance illustrator, artist, sculptor & educator Charles Alston (November 28, 1907–April 27, 1977)

❝I don't believe there's such a thing as “Black art,” though there's certainly been a Black experience. I've lived it. But it's also an American experience.❞
Charles Alston wearing a shirt and tie with arms crossed holding a cigarette in front of one of his paintings. Abstract art Abstract art An older Charles Alston sitting in front of one of his paintings
November 28, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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As AI-generated music saturates the market, people are realizing they can't distinguish it from human-made music. Many listeners, and musicians, are unsettled by this.
AI music creates unease as it tops the charts – DW – 11/27/2025
As AI-generated music saturates the market, people are realizing they can't distinguish it from human-made music. Many listeners, and musicians, are unsettled by this.
www.dw.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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brandonfriedman.bsky.social Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 4d
The folks at @afghanevac.bsky.social have in hand a new USCIS directive which largely targets Afghan refugees who fled the Taliban in the wake of the U.S. withdrawal in 2021.

In case you needed a reminder that the most loathsome people in the world work for DHS.
USCIS Refugee Memo – Summary of Key Provisions Effective immediately, USCIS is ordering: ● A total freeze on all pending Form I-485 applications filed by refugees admitted from Jan 20, 2021 – Feb 20, 2025 ● A mandatory re-interview of all principal refugees admitted during that period ● A review and potential re-interview of derivative refugees, including spouses, children, and follow-to-join beneficiaries ● A reassessment of whether each refugee met the definition at the time of admission Authority being invoked: ● INA § 101(a)(42) (refugee definition) ● INA § 207 and § 209 (termination and adjustment authority) ● USCIS asserts power to undo past refugee admissions Consequences: ● USCIS may terminate refugee status for principals and all derivatives ● USCIS may deny green cards, even for those who already have them ● There is no appeal of a denied refugee-based I-485; the only option is to contest removal in immigration court ● Refugees placed in removal proceedings may renew their I-485 claim before an immigration judge Additional conditions: ● USCIS has 90 days to create the priority list for who will be re-interviewed ● The freeze on I-485s remains until lifted in a future memo ● Only the USCIS Director or Deputy Director may authorize exceptions ● USCIS is explicitly framing this as correcting “expediency,” “quantity over quality,” and “vulnerabilities” in Biden-era adjudications ● The memo states USCIS will revisit all inadmissibility grounds, including those previously waived ● The memo highlights a review of the persecutor bar ● It asserts a need to ensure refugees “pose no threat to national security or public safety”
November 27, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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Happy Thanksgiving! May your turkeys be easy to spot!
Select all images of turkey Click VERIFY once there are none left and they’re Elon Musk as a turkey and the pillsbury doughboy and actual turkeys, good luck discerning
November 27, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Psychedelic collage poster for the Acid Test, November 27, 1965 by Ken Kesey
November 27, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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John Lennon, Anne Murray, Harry Nilsson, Alice Cooper, and Micky Dolenz, known collectively as the Hollywood Vampires, celebrate Thanksgiving at The Troubadour, West Hollywood, California, 1973
John Lennon, Anne Murray holding a bouquet of roses, Harry Nilsson, Alice Cooper, and Micky Dolenz, known collectively as the Hollywood Vampires, celebrate Thanksgiving at the Troubadour, West Hollywood, California, 1973
November 27, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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William S. Burroughs, A Thanksgiving Prayer, 1990
November 27, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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𖧶 National Day of Mourning 𖧶
November 27, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Vintage postcard featuring a humorous illustration of a person having a Thanksgiving-related nightmare. Anthropomorphic food items, including a turkey with a pilgrim hat, a large nut, and various crackers/biscuits, are depicted menacingly around the bed. The text reads, "May your Thanksgiving never end in Dreams Like these!"
November 27, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Ernie Gehr
Serene Velocity
1970
Serene Velocity (1970) - Ernie Gehr
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November 25, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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Spoke with Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar about TRAIN DREAMS, shooting the logging scenes, working with animals, and, um, my *very* different interpretation of the source text. For the most recent @filmmakermagazine.com.web.brid.gy issue now online. filmmakermagazine.com/131835-inter...
Interview: Craig Bentley and Greg Kwedar on Train Dreams
Craig Bentley and Greg Kwedar discuss the making of the Denis Johnson adaptation Train Dreams.
filmmakermagazine.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Roky Erickson and The Nervebreakers - Bo Diddley's A Headhunter
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'Live From 1979 in Dallas,Texas .
Roky Erickson and The Nervebreakers - Bo Diddley's A Headhunter
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November 27, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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Crowd Gathered to Watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, Times Square, New York City, 1980

📷 Richard Sandler
Photo captured by photographer Richard Sandler, depicts a crowd gathering for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in Times Square, Manhattan, on November 27, 1980. The photo captures a moment in time when the X-rated film Marilyn Chambers: 100% Screw Magazine was showing at the Cinerama theater. The contrast between the family-friendly event and the adult film advertisement provides a glimpse into the social landscape of Times Square in the 1980s.
November 27, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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MUSIC HΞΛVΞN: Happy birthday Jimi Hendrix

November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970
November 27, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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A Thanksgiving poem by Gregory Corso

SONG OF THE FEAST, 1957 (for David Amram)
Song of the Feast (for David Amram) by Gregory Corso, 1957 What feast of thee, blue wild body! My relatives from the mire wait outside thy plumage gate! The raging cock, release! HAIL THANKSIVING! Here the fox-spoon, ye ol’ fudder bucket! An here the geese-bowl, ol’ gowdy! Yez, dare the shaker-pep an the shaker blee-ack, too! C’mon, bring o’er the radiator-soup! Now we is a eatin, now we is a eatin— Play the radio flea, ol’ fane Yez,now we is a eatin an a listening, eatin an a listening — Hey, blink, pass down the bread sink — Ah, gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble Man! smell that crazy pilgrim-hat pie! Say dere, plank, take yo foul fingers outa dat sympathy-sauce! Shhhhhhh, boys, here comes the Weedy Lyke— Pay me no mind — jes eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat— Gregory Corso source: Allen Ginsberg Project
November 27, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, New York City, 1974

📷 Louis Stettner
Photo by the American photographer Louis Stettner in 1974. The photograph captures a child looking up in astonishment at a Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade balloon surrounded by adults in a crowd.
November 27, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Scientists may have observed dark matter directly for the first time, using data from NASA's Fermi gamma-ray space telescope - a finding that, if verified, would mark a major shift in modern physics
Study claims to provide first direct evidence of dark matter
Astrophysicist Prof Tomonori Totani says research could be crucial breakthrough in search for elusive substance
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Thanksgiving, Pictures from Home, 1984

📷 Larry Sultan
Photo taken by photographer Larry Sultan through a glass window of a woman wearing a floral dress or apron at a kitchen counter holding a pan with an uncooked turkey.
November 27, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Madonna and Jean-Michel Basquiat, Thanksgiving, 1982

📷 Glenn O'Brien
Photo was taken in November 1982 at the apartment of writer and TV host Glenn O'Brien in New York City. Jean-Michel Basquiat is wearing a hat and has his arm around Madonna. They're pictured in front of Basquiat's 1980 painting "Untitled (Car Crash)". Photo was taken in November 1982 at the apartment of writer and TV host Glenn O'Brien in New York City. Jean-Michel Basquiat is smoking a cigarette and has his arm around Madonna as she looks up at him. They're pictured in front of Basquiat's 1980 painting "Untitled (Car Crash)".
November 27, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, 1942

📷 Weegee (Arthur Fellig)
Photo by Weegee (Arthur Fellig) capturing a moment during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City, 1942. The photo captures the inflation of a large balloon, likely Mickey Mouse, the night before the parade on a rainy street. The scene features vintage vehicles, specifically a 1940s era taxi cab, and several people managing the large inflatable character.
November 27, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Single cartoon panel by Moose Allain featuring man sitting in a chair saying, "Thanks for introducing me to minimalism." and a woman sitting in a chair to his right responds, "It's the least I could do."
November 27, 2025 at 11:16 AM