Dan Reilly
@danreilly.bsky.social
Journalist and whatnot. Written a lot of things about a lot of things for a lot of places. Also worked in TV (Cold Case Files, Snapped, The Killer Among Us). Pretty confident I can perform an emergency tracheotomy. https://www.clippings.me/danreilly11
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Dan Reilly
@danreilly.bsky.social
· Jun 18
Seven musicians open up about navigating the complications and cruelty of American health care: ‘You realize the whole system is broken, religion is broken, government is fucking broken — you’re on your own.’
‘You Realize the Whole System Is Broken’
Seven musicians open up about navigating the complications and cruelty of American health care: ‘You realize the whole system is broken, religion is broken, government is fucking broken — you’re on your own.’
www.vulture.com
My feature on how musicians deal with the American medical system is here, with artists detailing their struggles to get decent care for cancer, gender-affirming care, chronic illnesses, substance abuse, and catastrophic injuries. This one is important to me, so please take a few mins to read it!
we’re gonna have to teach the children that doing drugs is for fun with your friends, not this bullshit
Tomorrow Grimes will DJ a livestream of immortality influencer Bryan Johnson tripping on shrooms to determine its effect on longevity. Mr. Beast and the CEO of Salesforce will be there too.
Grimes DJing Immortality Influencer's Shroom Trip With Special Guest Mr. Beast
Grimes is a fan of Bryan Johnson, the multimillionaire and immortality influencer who spends his time trying to fight death. He is perhaps best known for undergoing plasma transfusions with donations ...
stereogum.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:14 PM
we’re gonna have to teach the children that doing drugs is for fun with your friends, not this bullshit
the key to turkey-frying safety is a sweet dog that’ll bite faces if anyone messes around
November 28, 2025 at 1:18 PM
the key to turkey-frying safety is a sweet dog that’ll bite faces if anyone messes around
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If you've somehow never seen it you should all be properly stoned enough by now.
“The whole band is battling quantum realities but the drummer is keeping the portal open.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaaT...
“The whole band is battling quantum realities but the drummer is keeping the portal open.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaaT...
November 28, 2025 at 3:26 AM
If you've somehow never seen it you should all be properly stoned enough by now.
“The whole band is battling quantum realities but the drummer is keeping the portal open.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaaT...
“The whole band is battling quantum realities but the drummer is keeping the portal open.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaaT...
as a child, I believed the Macy’s parade Santa was the real one, and his appearance marked the start of Christmas season. I stand by it.
November 27, 2025 at 4:27 PM
as a child, I believed the Macy’s parade Santa was the real one, and his appearance marked the start of Christmas season. I stand by it.
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If you're going to play devil's advocate today, do it right - don't just argue that tariffs are good, argue that the Dark Lord deserves to feast on our eternal souls given willingly and in the service of torment
November 27, 2025 at 1:29 PM
If you're going to play devil's advocate today, do it right - don't just argue that tariffs are good, argue that the Dark Lord deserves to feast on our eternal souls given willingly and in the service of torment
I don’t know if there’s enough going on here, visually
November 27, 2025 at 12:26 AM
I don’t know if there’s enough going on here, visually
made it through with only one minor “steer off the highway to avoid a collision” and a briefly tailgating Tesla with an AW JEEZ plate. Not bad!
Of course, this will likely end tomorrow due to the apparent inability of Tesla drivers to navigate the cross island and the LIE like functional humans.
November 26, 2025 at 8:08 PM
made it through with only one minor “steer off the highway to avoid a collision” and a briefly tailgating Tesla with an AW JEEZ plate. Not bad!
Spotted in the wild
November 25, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Spotted in the wild
maybe it’s the holidays or the likelihood of getting through them without a second civil war, but I’ve noticed a lot of strangers I meet are in better moods and more courteous than they were a few months ago. Hope it’s a real thing!
November 25, 2025 at 6:57 PM
maybe it’s the holidays or the likelihood of getting through them without a second civil war, but I’ve noticed a lot of strangers I meet are in better moods and more courteous than they were a few months ago. Hope it’s a real thing!
Ah, I got it wrong — Cliff was a lefty, learned to play on a righty guitar and never reversed the strings. Can’t believe I used to have a job where things like this happened.
November 25, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Ah, I got it wrong — Cliff was a lefty, learned to play on a righty guitar and never reversed the strings. Can’t believe I used to have a job where things like this happened.
When I asked Jimmy this question, I wasn't expecting this answer about the song. One of those special moments that, thankfully, I was very aware of as it was happening.
![Jimmy Cliff, talking to me in 2012: I'm the kind of person who, I don't want to be in the same place all the time. New York is a special city for me because one of my biggest songs, I created it when I was here, which was 'Many Rivers to Cross.' I was finishing an album and we had all these musicians who were doing all these things in the studio, and I thought to myself on the way to the studio, "I would really like to record this song I had going on in my head." I had the title, [and] 20 minutes on the way to the studio, the whole song just came. When the session finished, I just said, "Could you give me a minute? I have this song. Could you listen to this song?" I had my guitar, and I sat on the stool, and I played it. I sat right there, and they put the microphone in front of me and played it, and that was it.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5p4uxfmybtfgeipljxwxerto/bafkreieahwp4hsbie2wx3dpnvouq24e42isy4nf7cvodabdqltoeafvelu@jpeg)
November 24, 2025 at 1:48 PM
When I asked Jimmy this question, I wasn't expecting this answer about the song. One of those special moments that, thankfully, I was very aware of as it was happening.
RIP Jimmy Cliff. One of the best interviews ever (and probably the best picture of me at work). He did a song for me and our photographer, showed me how he played guitar with the strings reversed because he learned on a lefty. Just the coolest.
November 24, 2025 at 1:31 PM
RIP Jimmy Cliff. One of the best interviews ever (and probably the best picture of me at work). He did a song for me and our photographer, showed me how he played guitar with the strings reversed because he learned on a lefty. Just the coolest.
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“The efforts follow the death of Carlos Roberto Montoya Valdez, a day laborer who was struck and killed after running onto the 210 Freeway while trying to flee from an immigration sweep at the Monrovia store.”
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
“The efforts follow the death of Carlos Roberto Montoya Valdez, a day laborer who was struck and killed after running onto the 210 Freeway while trying to flee from an immigration sweep at the Monrovia store.”
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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say what you will about RFK Jr.'s poetry but at least he clearly didn't use ChatGPT
November 22, 2025 at 3:08 PM
say what you will about RFK Jr.'s poetry but at least he clearly didn't use ChatGPT
My main reaction to reading that thing
November 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM
My main reaction to reading that thing
compulsive oversharing is a disease, often marked by an inability to recognize it in fellow inflictors
the dogs looked sad when they watched cnn www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/s...
November 22, 2025 at 3:49 AM
compulsive oversharing is a disease, often marked by an inability to recognize it in fellow inflictors
November 22, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Anyway, I’m gonna write about this (for pay, if I can)
I believe someone can run and win on “the headlights are too damn bright”
November 21, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Anyway, I’m gonna write about this (for pay, if I can)
ideal movie for date night, unless one of you hates crocodiles
“Romancing the Stone” (Zemeckis, 1984)
Stoned Jack (Michael Douglas) reads the 8/2/82 “Elvis Costello Repents” issue of Rolling Stone in a crashed Colombian jungle drug plane shelter while stoned Joan (Kathleen Turner) looks on
Stoned Jack (Michael Douglas) reads the 8/2/82 “Elvis Costello Repents” issue of Rolling Stone in a crashed Colombian jungle drug plane shelter while stoned Joan (Kathleen Turner) looks on
November 21, 2025 at 9:44 PM
ideal movie for date night, unless one of you hates crocodiles
I bet all Zohran had to say was “I’ll make sure there’s a room named after you at the Queens casino. Gold as fuck.”
November 21, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I bet all Zohran had to say was “I’ll make sure there’s a room named after you at the Queens casino. Gold as fuck.”
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Not going to read too much into it, obviously Trump is the worst man alive, and is going to revert to saying the most odious shit imaginable in like an hour, but it's funny that this is coming a couple hours after 90 democrat losers voted to say "socialism is bad" for no reason.
November 21, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Not going to read too much into it, obviously Trump is the worst man alive, and is going to revert to saying the most odious shit imaginable in like an hour, but it's funny that this is coming a couple hours after 90 democrat losers voted to say "socialism is bad" for no reason.
recession indicator
Swiss authorities are searching for two robbers who overpowered a security guard at an ancient Rome-themed museum in Lausanne, smashed a display case and made off with dozens of gold coins that had been displayed inside.
2 robbers overpower a guard and steal dozens of ancient gold coins from a Swiss museum
Swiss authorities are searching for two robbers who overpowered a security guard at an ancient Rome-themed museum in Lausanne, smashed a display case and made off with dozens of gold coins that had been displayed inside.
bit.ly
November 21, 2025 at 4:32 PM
recession indicator
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Amazing reporting.
Young women in sports do need protecting -- from predatory coaches and other authority figures, particularly cis men (but women too), who groom, abuse, humiliate, and harm vulnerable athletes. The threat to women's sports is not and has never been trans women.
Young women in sports do need protecting -- from predatory coaches and other authority figures, particularly cis men (but women too), who groom, abuse, humiliate, and harm vulnerable athletes. The threat to women's sports is not and has never been trans women.
I’ve spent a lot of the last three years investigating the rise of anti-trans politics. Often, it came back to the controversy over trans women athletes.
So I teamed up with @pablo.show to look into the leading figure on the issue: Riley Gaines.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202... 1/
So I teamed up with @pablo.show to look into the leading figure on the issue: Riley Gaines.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202... 1/
How right-wing superstar Riley Gaines built an anti-trans empire
The swimmer tied a trans woman for fifth. The MAGA industrial complex took care of the rest.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Amazing reporting.
Young women in sports do need protecting -- from predatory coaches and other authority figures, particularly cis men (but women too), who groom, abuse, humiliate, and harm vulnerable athletes. The threat to women's sports is not and has never been trans women.
Young women in sports do need protecting -- from predatory coaches and other authority figures, particularly cis men (but women too), who groom, abuse, humiliate, and harm vulnerable athletes. The threat to women's sports is not and has never been trans women.
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TDOR is a day I've had complicated feelings on for many years, and this year it feels especially hollow. To have people only celebrate our names on the day we remember the dead. There has been little to silence of any of our triumphs and joys, and many feel all too eager to lay flags in memorial.
November 20, 2025 at 2:05 PM
TDOR is a day I've had complicated feelings on for many years, and this year it feels especially hollow. To have people only celebrate our names on the day we remember the dead. There has been little to silence of any of our triumphs and joys, and many feel all too eager to lay flags in memorial.
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I was reminded earlier today about when Kevin Garnett talked about Hakeem Olajuwon's trash talk, and it improved my day considerably. I share it now with you, in hopes that it will improve yours.
November 20, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I was reminded earlier today about when Kevin Garnett talked about Hakeem Olajuwon's trash talk, and it improved my day considerably. I share it now with you, in hopes that it will improve yours.