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In the richest city in the richest country on the planet, the thing we can’t afford is to forget those who are left hungry.
November 27, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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The Atlantic calls @johnlingan.bsky.social ‘s Backbeats “Superb.”

Tune in this holiday season.

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November 27, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Join me at @propublica.org in one of the most rewarding jobs in journalism, guiding collaborative investigative projects in local newsrooms around the country as a senior editor with our Local Reporting Network!

We’d love to see your application by Dec 8.
Senior Editor, Local Reporting Network
Remote, United States
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November 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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johnlingan.bsky.social John Lingan @johnlingan.bsky.social · 10d
For the next three weeks I’m going to share individual playlists for the 15 chapters in BACKBEATS.

First up, blues legend Sam Lay, who came to Chicago as part of the Great Migration and played with Walter, Wolf, Muddy, and at the “Dylan Goes Electric” concert. King of the “double shuffle.”
Backbeats: Sam Lay by John Lingan on Apple Music
Playlist · 10 Songs
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November 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Please volunteer, Volunteers, and help win this imminent election in Tennessee.

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November 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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sarahweinman.com
So great to see Whitney over here! Give her a follow, she's a wonderful reporter whose work was indispensable in writing the latter portions of WITHOUT CONSENT.
whitneywoodworth.bsky.social Whitney Woodworth @whitneywoodworth.bsky.social · 3d
The first trial of a man accused of raping his wife while living with her happened in Salem. A new book by @sarahweinman.com takes a look back at the case and its impact— paired with an expected twist 38 years after the initial trial.
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November 25, 2025 at 1:26 AM
monogramdp.bsky.social
This feels like the most bourgeois, Gen-X, Brooklyn thing I’ve ever shared, but did you know that you can sing Where Is My Car? to the tune of Where Is My Mind? or There Goes My Gun.
November 25, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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jackjenkins.me
What are you reading this weekend?
November 22, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.

If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
November 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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@dansinker.com's piece is still the best thing I read this year. As he predicted, the immorality of the movement itself will be it's undoing.

The fight isn't over, but what felt impossible in January, feels possible now. Atlantic/WSJ are joining the chorus. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
What Felt Impossible Became Possible | dansinker.com
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November 20, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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Absolutely stellar thread of book recommendations (including many of my favorites) and I would also add, because I literally recommended this book last night, THE ACCUSATION by Edward Berenson
chrislhayes.bsky.social Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 8d
Ok BlueSky: what are your favorite history books in terms of sheer page-turning, narrative propulsion? Thinking along the line of Killers of the Flower Moon, etc. Nonfiction chronicles that read like novels or movies.
November 20, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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We appreciate @maris.bsky.social and her thoughts, always!
November 19, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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johnlingan.bsky.social John Lingan @johnlingan.bsky.social · 10d
For the next three weeks I’m going to share individual playlists for the 15 chapters in BACKBEATS.

First up, blues legend Sam Lay, who came to Chicago as part of the Great Migration and played with Walter, Wolf, Muddy, and at the “Dylan Goes Electric” concert. King of the “double shuffle.”
Backbeats: Sam Lay by John Lingan on Apple Music
Playlist · 10 Songs
music.apple.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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The #USMNT ends 2025 in a far better place than it might have reasonably hoped to at the close of 2024.

My column on a tumultuous year that ended on an unimaginable high on Tuesday: the 5-1 battering of a genuine world power.

@theguardian.com

www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Pochettino’s first full USMNT year started shakily. It ends with real World Cup hope
The USMNT coach took charge of a team in flux and initially looked like he would feed that uncertainty. But his foundations are starting to look solid
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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It’s clear we need new leadership that will actually fight for us. Tell your Democratic senators to call on Chuck Schumer to step aside as Minority Leader.

Call: indivisible.org/resource/cal...

Email: act.indivisible.org/sign/dem-sen...
We cannot afford a divided and weak opposition party when an authoritarian is invading our cities, terrorizing our communities, and corruptly self-enriching at the expense of the rest of us. We want to celebrate a Democratic Party that fights back. But after this latest surrender, the next step is primaries and new leadership. We get the party we demand, and we intend to demand one that fights.
November 15, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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The code is not complicated. Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.
www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/17/i...
As ICE Street Raids Ramp Up, New Yorkers Stock Up On Whistles
Taking a cue from Chicago, community groups have distributed thousands of whistles in recent weeks — a grassroots system people in other cities have adopted to help neighbors sound the alarm.
www.thecity.nyc
November 17, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Pre-order a copy for your household every time there’s a friendly between now and the World Cup next summer.

The next friendly is Tuesday night, the U.S. vs Uruguay.

Those are the rules.* Hey, we didn’t make ‘em!

*FIFA receives no commission on any sale of this book.
November 17, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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This but, you know, minus one day
November 13, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Had the same thought.
November 13, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Hey, friends in NYC! Come hang out with a buncha cool comics creators and fold zines and make posters to push back against ICE! A @handsoffnyc.bsky.social and @bkindivisible.bsky.social event at @anyonecomics.bsky.social in Brooklyn! It's gonna be a blast!

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Hands Off NYC Zine and Poster Fun in Brooklyn with local comics creators! · Indivisible Brooklyn
Join New York comic creators to fold zines and make posters to push back against ICE in our city! Stay to fold and color a while or just swing by to pick up zines and posters to distribute in your nei...
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November 11, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Happy 80th birthday to Neil Young, an Olympian figure and the subject of some of the funniest quotes in BACKBEATS thanks to his tempestuous relationship with Kenny Buttrey.

“Neil hires some of the best musicians in the world and has 'em play as stupid as they possibly can.”
Neil Young was among the folk rockers to follow Dylan's lead to Music City. He was still largely known as a crunchy electric guitarist at that point; he used distortion to signify joy and abandon on "Cinnamon Girl" and heartbreak on "Ohio." But his recent songs had been written during extensive physical recovery, like Dylan's had been, and were calmer for it. Buttrey, along with Tim Drummond on bass, Jack Nitzsche on piano, and Ben Keith on pedal steel, became Young's Nashville band, which he dubbed the Stray Gators. Harvest, the record they made together, was Young's biggest in every way. It featured a full orchestra on multiple tracks, two career-defining singles ("Old Man" and "Heart of Gold," his first number 1), guest background vocalists Ronstadt and James Taylor, and some of his best songwriting, particularly the straightforwardly country title track. Buttrey helped Young achieve that, even if their relationship was hardly chummy. "Neil tells everybody what to play, note for note," Buttrey said later. "If you play somethin' he doesn't like, boy, he'll put a look on you you'll never forget. Neil hires some of the best musicians in the world and has 'em play as stupid as they possibly can." Young told Buttrey not to play cymbals, and to hit his hi-hats with his nondominant left hand. Everything about Neil Young was defiant— his overdriven guitar tones, his nasal high tenor, the mix of unaffected directness and inscrutable poeticism in his lyrics. And that extended to his sense of rhythm. The prehistoric stomp of his work with Crazy Horse, like his distinctive hammer-on acoustic guitar style, was all about riding a groove, and the ambitious productions of Harvest didn't get in the way of that goal. "Out on the Weekend" and especially "Harvest" have a methodical, subdued gait that comes directly from Young's strumming, not the drums, as Buttrey acknowledged. The strings of Young's guitar fill the spaces where cymbals would otherwise go. "It's just ultra-, ultra-simple, a laidback kinda thing nobody but Neil does, and if you're right with him it sounds great, and it sounds awful if you're not," Buttrey explained. "If I can't see Neil's right hand when he's playin' guitar, then I'm not playing. His rhythm playing is just perfect—it'll feel like he's slowing down, but it's just the Neil Young feel. No drummer should ever hold Neil to a certain tempo, because if you put a metronome on it, you kill the Neil Young feel." After the success of Harvest, Young brought the Stray Gators on a 1973 tour, the first time Buttrey had allowed himself to be lured out of the studio and on the road. Supposedly the drummer requested an exorbitant payment of $100,000 to offset his lost record-making wages, which prompted the other musicians to ask the same. The anger never abated between Buttrey and Young, who was also reeling from the recent overdose death of his friend and Crazy Horse guitarist Danny Whitten. Increasingly reliant on tequila to calm his nerves, playing in bigger venues than ever before, and bereft of his harder-rocking backing group, Young was at his wits end through this tour and took it out on Buttrey. "Neil would just jump all over me," Buttrey said. Young kept hectoring him to hit the bass drum harder and get bigger sticks, and Buttrey kept buying thicker and thicker ones until a music store clerk told him, "Son, anything bigger than this is gonna have bark on it." Young once got so angry he punctured Buttrey's snare with a drumstick during a sound check. "I was playin' ten times louder than I had ever played in my life," the drummer recalled. "I was tryin' thicker heads, bigger sticks. It was drivin' me crazy. I looked down at the snare drums one night and saw somethin' splatter. My hand would bleed, it was drippin' down the stick and formed a big puddle on the snare. And when I hit the drum, blood would fly through the air.. It was the roughest time of my life." He quit midway through the tour, and the other musicians, Young included, plowed ahead in wretched shape from overdrinking. Incredibly, Young released a live album from this tour, Time Fades Away, though he chose performances from the leg that featured Jefferson Airplane drummer Johnny Barbata as Buttrey's replacement. It also contained only raw and rowdy new songs, recorded sparely, not the recent melodic hits that made his fame. In the longer context of his career, especially the chilling records that followed in Young's "ditch trilogy," it remains an exhilarating album, with songs that aren't found elsewhere in his catalog and a bleary, brown sound to match its cover. Yet Young basically disowned it, and let it fall out of print for nearly fifty years.
November 12, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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A good night at Books Are Magic among treasured friends — that is how you launch a book. Thank you all who made it out tonight!
I’m sitting on the left in a blue striped sweater dress. Alex Mar is on the right all in black. We’re at Books Are Magic in Brooklyn Heights. Megan Abbott took the photo.
November 13, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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This should be getting more attention. Please, spread the word, and participate if you can.

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Fall of Freedom
Fall of Freedom is an urgent call to the arts community to unite in defiance of authoritarian forces sweeping the nation.
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November 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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indivisible.org Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 16d
For the first time all year, Democrats were riding high and the regime was on the ropes.

If Senate leadership’s goal was to demobilize and depress rank-and-file Democrats, they could not have played their cards better.

This is why we’ve launched the largest primary program that we’ve ever run.
Democratic leaders have failed us again. It's time to get new leaders.
After yet another capitulation by Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats, it's clear we need new leadership capable of mounting a serious opposition to Trump's authoritarian regime. We're launching our la...
www.indivisible2026.org
November 12, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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What a dream review in the @bostonglobe.com by @katekilla.bsky.social! “Excellent, if often enraging” is about as accurate as it gets. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/12/a...
Looking back at when a husband could rape his wife without breaking the law - The Boston Globe
Sarah Weinman’s excellent if often enraging new book chronicles the legal journey of a right that seems so obvious and foundational it’s shocking to learn how newly it was won.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:48 PM