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Michael Kusek

@michaelkusek.bsky.social
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Publisher of Different Leaf. Former Take magazine. I never have enough good sense to stay home. Always looking for art, design, ideas & trends.

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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 14h
Skipped the Nazis, huh.
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Most TV is just this now.
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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 29/09/2026
This is like a fucking SNL skit where studios keep making hockey shows instead of gay shows
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Michael Kusek @michaelkusek.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just in time for spooky season my superbly talented friend has a new book out!
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Clarence Patton @cpattonnyc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Just a truly fucked up day in higher education: thehill.com/homenews/edu... newrepublic.com/post/213446/...
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Michael Kusek @michaelkusek.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Is there a chance speaking Spanish gets Glenn her Oscar?
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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.
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Michael Kusek @michaelkusek.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The western Massachusetts Lesbian community hasn't had this kind of media attention since the 20/20 story in the early 90s.
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20/20 commercial, October 1992 - "Lesbians"
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"we have left your F-35 parts with a neighbour"
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Michael Kusek @michaelkusek.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Twitter post: I saw goody proctor at the kn95 lesbian bar.
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Michael Kusek @michaelkusek.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My junior year of college I would put this album on and read Anne Rice books.
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Michael Kusek @michaelkusek.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Lordy, she is a pop juggernaut.
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Carly Rae Jepsen - Versailles (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by CarlyRaeJepsenVEVO
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Communism has no place in America, the President declares the day before rolling out his new state television station.
The White House •
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WALLE HOUSE
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Communism directly opposes the United States
Constitution and American values.
While every Democrat voted against the largest tax cuts in American history and over 100 refuse to condemn socialism, President Trump will ensure that communism never has a place in America.
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COMMUNISM HAS NO
PLACE IN AMERICABenny Johnson • • Follow
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TRUMP TV IS OFFICIALLY LIVE 24/7
The White House just launched "TRUMP TV: The Essentials Station" — a nonstop stream featuring President Trump's speeches, major announcements, past highlights and administration updates, refreshed in real time.
The launch comes amid Trump's escalating fight with
CNN, MS NOW and Politico, which have sued his administration after being barred from White House access.
Americans can now watch the White House's own selected footage and announcements DIRECTLY,
24/7.
The media landscape just changed in a BIG way. •*
TRUMPOV
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Michael Kusek @michaelkusek.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Not that I would have ever voted for him, but this has to end his chances.
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Michael Kusek @michaelkusek.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I wonder if they wrote this headline about the Norman Rockwell Museum or the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art.
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Michael Kusek @michaelkusek.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Any board or staff member of the Kennedy Center involved in this travesty should be shunned by every arts institution going forward. Kick them off your boards. Give back their money. Refund their ticket purchases.
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Protesters starting to gather at the Kennedy Center. One is holding a sign that says "LESS BUTTHURT MORE BEETHOVEN"
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MaddowBlog @maddowblog.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
From executive producer Rachel Maddow, Kill. Bury. Print. is streaming September 27 on Peacock www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLfo...
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Kill. Bury. Print. | Official Trailer | Peacock Original
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Amy Ringenbach Dawson @bleuz00m.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Resharing this from Kerry Kennedy. Dear allies in DC, please help us? TONIGHT 6:30PM Hands Around The Kennedy Center Music background might be Aaron Copeland's " Fanfare For The Common Man" and woman. And allies ♡
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Ryan Teague Beckwith @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
a bumper sticker that said "KENNEDY CENTER NOT DATA CENTERS" would do numbers right now
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Duchess Goldblatt @duchessgoldblatt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Blessed are those who pre-order books, for they believe in the future and believe in art and conduct themselves accordingly.
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Michael Kusek @michaelkusek.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If ever there was a reason to ignore every syllable that comes out of this man's face.
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Michael Kusek @michaelkusek.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
My friend Michael is just too generous.
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Michael Kusek @michaelkusek.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It's a Fire by Portishead just came on. I've heard it about six million times but this morning its struck me as an extra perfect song.
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rick murnane @rickmurnane.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I do hope others have noticed that the Bowie song that the geniuses at Meta have chosen for their latest 60 second ad is about there being five years left until the end of the fucking world.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Jared Kushner is not "on the other side of the aisle." He's not an elected official. He's not an administration official. He's the president's son-in-law and a private citizen. You do not, in fact, have to take meetings with relatives of the president. Some might even say you should *not* do that
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
You know what gets a library perpetual access to a book??? Purchasing the physical book. I guarantee the publisher won’t come steal it back!!!
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 11/09/2026
AN URGENT EXCLUSIVE: Ahmed Soliman, the 30-year-old gay man ICE expelled in April to Equatorial Guinea, a country he has no ties to, was arrested this morning and cannot be located, his attorneys say. They fear he may be in one of EG's torture prisons. prospect.org/2026/09/11/i...
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Immigrant Trump Sent to African Hotel Prison Arrested After Speaking With Media, Lawyers Say - The American Prospect
Ahmed Soliman’s attorneys fear he may have been sent to one of Equatorial Guinea’s notorious torture prisons.
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Michael Kusek @michaelkusek.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I was starting my usual morning routine at a bakery getting a morning pasty when the woman behind the counter said "Did you hear about the plane that flew into the World Trade Center?"
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Michael Kusek @michaelkusek.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
First day of 52nd grade! How time flies!
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Laura Conaway @oleta.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Afghan man taken by ICE in Missouri. His wife asks the paper not to name him because of threats for helping the U.S. in Afghanistan. "Estrada went Wednesday to U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley’s office in Kansas City to seek assistance but said the office wasn’t helpful." www.stltoday.com/news/local/c...
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Look if you've got a better way to run a country than "putting an illiterate octogenarian bigot on TV every few days to free associate and complain, and then everyone tries to figure out if it means we're about to start a war or not" I'd love to hear it. But the constitution says this is it.
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Michael Kusek @michaelkusek.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I lived over a great bar. One particularly quiet night a friend and I were having a drink with maybe two other customers and the bartender. In walked Gloria Steinem and a friend and we all watched her in awe as she walked the length of the place to a table at the back.
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
“Moulton exemplified the reactionary, left-bashing panic and capitulation to Trump we saw from many congressional Democrats in the wake of the 2024 election. Almost two years later, he got what he deserved: an electoral whupping.”
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Keith Law @keithlaw.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
the goose chasing a man meme where the goose says “what else did he say” and then “WHAT ELSE DID HE SAY” as the man runs away
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Whalen for Congress @jeromiewhalen.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Polls. Are. OPEN. Can you remind 10 or 20 of your friends to go vote today? Let’s do this Western and Central Mass! ♥️
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Michael Kusek @michaelkusek.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Is there a country where stuff just works? I want to live there.
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Michael Kusek @michaelkusek.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
If you're voting in the MA-CD1 primary on September 1st, cast your vote for @jeromiewhalen.bsky.social. Time for new leadership for our district.
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Michael Kusek @michaelkusek.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
My freshman year of college I won $100 for taking first place in a campus lip sync contest as Frank-n-Furter. One of the judges said I won not just for my stellar act but because I had “the balls” to perform in a costume of lingerie borrowed from women in my dorm.
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Michael Kusek @michaelkusek.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Two weeks ago Different Leaf hosted a dinner in Provincetown, MA to honor our Art Issue Guest Editors, Nick Cave and Bob Faust. The dinner took place at the Provincetown Arts Society's Mary Heaton Vorse House, the historic home of the late author and activist. All photos by Michael Cestaro.
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Michael Kusek @michaelkusek.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Still damn good 40 years later.
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Matthew Lawrence @beefcakefactory.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
In honor of Dolly I will be working from 9 to 5 today.
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Michael Kusek @michaelkusek.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
God, this is just the best words on Dolly for the day.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A wonderful story you may want today.
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Michael Kusek @michaelkusek.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
My fave video of her. Just doing her thing in a pub.
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Coat of Many Colours - Dolly Parton, Ireland 1990
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026
[Exit Queen.]
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Murdered by the Trump regime. No accountability.
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A friend found this clipping in some old files. Haven't seen this before. Mind blown.
Color political cartoon by Danny Hellman from the New York Press dated October 6-12, 1999. In it, Donald Trump and his then wife Marla Maples being shown a model of the White House with many added stories and a shiny gold T on the top, with Taj Mahal towers on the side and flags flying with a T. It is labeled "Proposed White House Renovation." A ghoulish Philip Johnson says, "Granted, It's in violation of several of Washington D.C.'s landmark and zoning codes. But of course as president of the United States..." Trump, licking his lips, says, "It's tremendous, Philip, when do I move in?" The caption beneath is Spectacularly unqualified egomaniac Donald Trump contemplates a White House run"
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Micah @rincewind.run · 24/08/2026
the current supreme court continues to signal that the only way forward for democratic self-governance in the united states of america is to dismantle its power through court expansion or other major structural reforms
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