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Dick Mac (alive!)
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The only survivor of the National Peoples Gang. Soccer fan. Viking (RBNY). Gooner (Arsenal). Art collector. Leftist. Brooklyn. Reject all theocracies. He/him.
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#OnThisDay in 1939, American singer, songwriter, actress, and author, Tina Turner was born in Brownsville, Tennessee. She was the Queen of Rock & Roll. She died in 2023.

Photo by Helge Øverås.

#BOTD #MusicSky #TinaTurner
Tina Turner on stage in 1985
November 26, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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#OnThisDay in 1942, the movie “Casablanca,” directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, and Paul Henreid, premiered at the Hollywood Theater.

#OTD #Casablanca #HumphreyBogart #IngridBergman
Movie poster for the film Casablanca starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman
November 26, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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#OnThisDay in 1914, American professional baseball player Joe DiMaggio was born in Martinez, California. He is a hall-of-famer, was married to Marilyn Monroe, and is a much loved sports icon.

Photo by Tom Sande.

#BOTD #JoeDiMaggio
Yankees star Joe DiMaggio posing in uniforms for Tom Sande on September 1, 1941
November 25, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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In 2003, BowieNet friends from around the world sent me snow globes for my 45th birthday in NYC. It is time for the snow globes to find new homes. Come get one or more if you like.
#BowieNet #davidbowie @davidbowiereal.bsky.social
November 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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On This Day in 1963, John F. Kennedy, President of the United States, was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. He was 46. I was five and in the first grade. The nuns sent us home. Everyone was sad.

Photo by Cecil Stoughton.

#OTD #JFK
November 22, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Things that @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social opposes: fire trucks, airports, police, paved roads, public schools, CDC, sewage systems, libraries, SNAP, Medicaid, and public hospitals. The list goes on. He’s a fucking idiot. #HakeemJeffries #neoliberal #VichyDemocrats
Top democrats vote to condemn socialism. Hakeem Jeffries, Katherine Clark, Pete Aguilar, and Ted Lieu. They all oppose fire trucks, airports, paved roads, public schools, sewage systems, libraries, and public hospitals.
November 22, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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#OnThisDay in 1950, American musician, singer and songwriter Tina Weymouth, a founding member and bassist of Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club, was born in Coronado, California.

#BOTD #MusicSky #TomTomClub #TalkingHeads #TinaWeymouth
Color photo of Tina Weymouth playing a bass guitar on stage.
November 22, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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So nice!
"Our Walls Crumble When No One is Looking" - Lola Jovan
November 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Now the Saudis won't have to hijack passenger jets when they next attack the United States, they can use fighter jets.
November 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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#OnThisDay in 1936, American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and multi-instrumentalist Don Cherry was born in Oklahoma City. He is the father of Eagle-Eye Cherry and step-father of Nenah Cherry. He died in Malaga, Spain, in 1995, age 58.

Photo by Brian McMillen

#BOTD #MusicSky #DonCherry
Don Cherry at Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society, Half Moon Bay CA 2/19/89. Photo: Brian McMillen
November 18, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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#OnThisDay in 1948, Cuban-American performance artist, sculptor, painter, and video artist Ana Mendieta was born in Havana, Cuba. She died under suspicious circumstances in 1985.

#BOTD #ArtSky #AnaMendieta
Black and white photo of Ana Mendieta posed in front of a wooden door.
November 18, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Nine paintings by Alim Smith. Admire the cubism in there. Get him in your collection now before you can’t! This guy’s got it going on.

#art #ArtSky #ContemporaryArt #AlimSmith

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Nine 4 by 4 paintings by Alim Smith
November 17, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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@tinafriml.bsky.social at @caveatnyc.bsky.social doing the Three-Day Champion podcast. Tina Friml is happening. Pay attention.
November 16, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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#OnThisDay in 1969, Mercury Records released the album “David Bowie” in the UK on their Philips label. It was released in the US in 1970 by Mercury as “Man of Words, Man of Music,” and then globally as “Space Oddity,” in 1972 by RCA Records.

#OTD #MusicSky #DavidBowie
The original UK cover artwork featured a facial portrait of Bowie taken by British photographer Vernon Dewhurst, exposed on top of a work by Hungarian artist Victor Vasarely with blue and violet spots on a green background. For the US release in 1970, the album was renamed Man of Words/Man of Music, although this phrase was added to the cover to describe the artist and was not intended to replace the title. RCA Records in the wake of the commercial breakthrough of Bowie's fifth studio album Ziggy Stardust, repackaged the album with the title Space Oddity. The front cover was updated with a new photograph of Bowie taken the same year by photographer Mick Rock at Haddon Hall, showing a close up with orange hair
November 14, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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In the United States, when proof of the president’s crimes against children is further proven, it’s just another Thursday. In a civilized country, his removal from office and the drawing-up of criminal charges would be underway. Not here!
After Trump Split, Epstein Said He Could ‘Take Him Down’ Jeffrey Epstein cast himself as a Trump insider and wanted to leverage potentially damaging information about the president and his business dealings, according to emails with associates.
November 14, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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This is the thing: MAGAts already knew that Trump is a rapist and they happily voted for him. They know he’s in the Epstein files. They don’t care. They would vote for him again.

#MAGA #Trump #rapist
NY Times headline “Republicans Release Emails After Democrats Disclose Several Mentioning Trump”
November 12, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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It’s important to remember that @schumer.senate.gov is very proud of his record, his service, and his allegiance to Wall Street and Israel at the expense of his constituency and all of America. #ChuckSchumer
November 12, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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#OnThisDay in 1977, the album “Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols” was released.

#OTD #MusicSky #SexPistols
Yellow version of the cover art for the LP “Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols”
November 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Random #playlist for a subway ride.
Playlist
November 10, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Vichy Democrats need to lose their place in the Party and their seats next election:

Catherine Cortez Masto - Nevada
Richard J. Durbin - Illinois
John Fetterman - Pennsylvania
Maggie Hassan - New Hampshire
Tim Kaine - Virginia
Angus King - Maine
Jacky Rosen - Nevada
Jeanne Shaheen - New Hampshire
Vichy Democrats who have sided with Republicans to destroy access to health care for 40 million Americans: Catherine Cortez Masto - Nevada Richard J. Durbin - Illinois John Fetterman - Pennsylvania Maggie Hassan - New Hampshire Tim Kaine - Virginia Angus King - Maine Jacky Rosen - Nevada Jeanne Shaheen - New Hampshire
November 10, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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#OnThisDay in 1989, the Berlin Wall fell during the Peaceful Revolution, marking the beginning of the end of Soviet Communism in Europe.

#OTD #HistorySky #History #BerlinWall #Berlin #communism
Color Photo of a man using a sledgehammer to destroy the Berlin wall. Color photo of a man using a metal bedspring as a ladder to scale the Berlin wall
November 9, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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#OnThisDay in 1953, Welsh poet and writer Dylan Thomas died in New York City. He was 39.

#OTD #PoetrySky #DylanThomas
Black and white photograph of Dylan Thomas at Gotham bookstore.
November 9, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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“Making Art During Fascism” by Beth Pickens.

www.bethpickens.com

#BethPickens #ArtSky #fascism
Flag art with the pamphlet “Making Art During Fascism,” by Beth Pickens
November 8, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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#OnThisDay in 1972, “Transformer,” the second solo studio album by Lou Reed was released.

#OTD #MusicSky #LouReed
Album cover for “Transformer” by Lou Reed showing the artist in a stylized picture holding a guitar.
November 8, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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#OnThisDay in 1993, the soundtrack album “The Buddha of Suburbia,” the nineteenth studio album by David Bowie, was released.

#OTD #MusicSky #DavidBowie
Album cover art for the David Bowie album “Buddha of Suburbia” showing a brown-skinned holy man surrounded by white people.
November 8, 2025 at 1:53 PM