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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Across town, three of her conservative colleagues — Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., Justice Amy Coney Barrett and Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh — had been invited to dine on sea bass and ice cream at a White House state dinner for President Xi Jinping of China." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u...
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Justice Jackson Calls Emergency Docket ‘Potentially Corrosive’
Hours after fielding the Trump administration’s latest emergency application, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson gave a speech urging the Supreme Court to rethink such requests.
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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
First five minutes here are about Tom Forcade (you may need to sign in through your cable provider to view): www.ms.now/the-briefing...
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The Briefing with Jen Psaki - 9/23/26
Jen Psaki tackles the biggest issues of the week and features one-on-one interviews with newsmakers.
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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Reposting this Tom Forcade story because MS Now just did a segment on it, in relation to the current attempted free-press ban...
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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 18/01/2024
John Coltrane Quartet, 6/10/60, with Pete LaRoca Sims on drums, and McCoy Tyner brand-new in the piano seat. youtu.be/iRpdfJqi8lI
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John Coltrane Quartet - The Jazz Gallery 1960
The John Coltrane QuartetThe Jazz GalleryNew York City, New YorkJune 10, 1960Audience Recording01. Liberia02. Every Time We Say Goodbye03. The Night Has A Th...
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Sam Stephenson @sfstephenson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Today is Coltrane's centennial. So I'm re-upping this piece I wrote on his first biographer in 2014. Piece won an ASCAP Deems Taylor-Virgil Thomson Prize. One of my favorite projects. www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/06...
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An Absolute Truth: On Writing a Life of Coltrane by Sam Stephenson
June 3, 2014 – A few years ago I found a used, first-edition hardcover of Dr. Cuthbert Ormond Simpkins’s 1975 book, Coltrane: A Biography, online for $150. I had long
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Daniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It's time to go back to Gotham City. My book, I AM THE NIGHT: THE ULTIMATE UNAUTHORIZED HISTORY OF BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES, comes out today! It's a narrative history of the landmark cartoon, packed with new interviews and deep-dive research. Grab a copy here: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
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Peter Avellino @peterapeel.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
AN UNMARRIED WOMAN on TCM tonight. mrpeelsardineliqueur.blogspot.com/2021/10/ever...
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Ever Since You Left
For months it’s been hard to avoid trying to think about new beginnings. Or maybe what I’m dwelling on are just the endings. Right now it’...
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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Visions of Light is a superb documentary on the history of cinematography up to the end of the 80s So many beautiful clips & interviews with the very best to do it throughout. My students loved watching it. youtu.be/FVns3k-NGAo?...
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Visions of Light || The Art of Cinematography || 1992
YouTube video by Pulok Sarker
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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
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Miles Davis and John Coltrane through 1960, on America's Birthday
Two Centennials and a Semiquincentennial
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The ICE murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo deserves the same fury as Renee Good and Alex Pretti
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debbie lynn elias @moviesharkd.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
EMMY FYC: Daylight Noir: Cinematographer MARK SCHWARTZBARD on the Sunbaked Visual World of THE LOWDOWN - Exclusive Interview - go.shr.lc/4flkMrj #markschwartzbard #cinematographer #exclusiveinterview #thelowdown #fxnetworks #FYCEmmys #EmmyFYC
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EMMY FYC: Daylight Noir: Cinematographer MARK SCHWARTZBARD on the Sunbaked Visual World of THE LOWDOWN - Exclusive Interview
Sun, Sweat, and Sunshine Noir: Mark Schwartzbard Finds the Visual Pulse of THE LOWDOWN.
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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 08/07/2026
At @comicsjournal.bsky.social, I wrote about the life of Gerry Conway, who died in April after a life in comics.
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Gerry Conway, 1952-2026 - The Comics Journal
Zach Rabiroff remembers the legendary comics writer, who passed away back on April 26.
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Reed Tucker @reedtucker.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
E. Nelson Bridwell: First Fan graphic novel Kickstarter is live! 100 pages, full color with amazing art from Dylan Mitchell. The story of the overlooked DC Comics editor from the Silver Age, fueled by new research. Extras for every supporter. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ree...
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E. Nelson Bridwell: First Fan
A graphic novel revealing the remarkable untold story of the influential DC Comics writer/editor
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Paid a visit to my friends of @theclientele.bsky.social in North London, where they are recording a new album. The two songs I heard there were magnificent, worthy of what is the best band to have emerged from this country in the last two decades.
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gregorg @greg.org · 07/07/2026
i'm mostly offline atm, but it's not too late to call out jason farago's fascinating history of the creation and form of the statue of liberty for omitting the original proposal, holding, not a tablet, but her broken chains, celebrating the end of slavery, which the american sponsors rejected
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The Most Iconic American Artwork Is the Hardest to See
The Statue of Liberty is caught between the sublime and the souvenir, our critic Jason Farago explains. Look again: She’s much stranger than you think.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
This might be even bigger news than the red card. Need a Trump angle? Same day he intervened in red card Trump admin announced end to decades of subsidies for solar & wind.
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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
IDK if it’s bad form to repost “1 like = 1 x” stuff (thus possibly multiplying OP’s workload) but I could read this Uncle Tupelo stuff all week. Also, I co-sign the Dino Jr points
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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I think it's a moral abomination for Ezra Klein to have Chris Rufo on his podcast and then get a transcript of it published in The New York Times as if this is a conversation between equals and not a radical centrist and a fascist telling each other 'exaaaaactlyyyy'
Another argument you make in that piece is: “The popular slogan that ‘facts don’t care about your feelings’ betrays similar problems” — the slogan being Ben Shapiro’s.
In reality, feelings almost always overpower facts. Reason is a slave of the passions.

Yes, that’s true, and we’ll caveat — we love Ben Shapiro. We’re Ben Shapiro fans, of course. But I think that he’s very wrong on that, and I think conservatives have made a fundamental error in latching on to that.

And really, what it is — it’s a rationalization for losing. It’s like: Yes, we may have lost the great political question that operates on emotions or passions, but we have the facts on our side, and if only people would read our white paper, our regression analysis or our rigorous logical argumentation, then we would be vindicated.

But look, while we should have the facts on our side, and while we should use logic, by itself, it’s insufficient. And, in fact, politics operates on a deeper level, an emotional level. And politics occurs on the field of sentiment and public opinion — much more on the field of abstract argumentation at the top.

Then you go on in the same piece to make an argument for “agitprop” — an old Soviet Union term for agitation and propaganda mashed up together.

It doesn’t have a great reputation — “agitprop” is usually not a term of endearment. But you say: “Agitprop doesn’t mean sacrificing the truth but, rather, channeling the truth toward victory.”
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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
CASABLANCA (1983)
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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
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Bilge Ebiri @bilgeebiri.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Apparently Sergei Bondarchuk's Soviet-era superproduction of WAR AND PEACE is going viral. I must therefore re-share this piece I once wrote about how it was made. www.vulture.com/2019/02/the-...
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The Fascinating Story Behind Sergei Bondarchuk’s 1968 Epic War and Peace
The shoot went on for five and a half years, with brutal winters, actors threatening to quit, and the director suffering a heart attack.
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Critical Nostalgia @highway62.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
A little more than 13 years ago, I started an obsessive project that centered around documenting comics I read. I think about it from time to time.
The omnipresent face of Thanos, looming over a bereft figure of The Vision, falling to his omnipotence.
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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Don't miss the scorching June 1956 live recording of the Brown-Roach Quintet that's included with this article!
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Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I just learned the sad news that Bruce Tull of the Scud Mountain Boys (and many other great bands) has died. Had the pleasure of meeting him once or twice and nearly was able to have him play on some of my songs. His guitar leads evoke my home landscape more than just about any other sound. RIP
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Liquor Store
YouTube video by Scud Mountain Boys - Topic
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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
This is a terrific interview. "How on earth did a Millennial weaned on the Internet get so deeply into these fading relics?" recordlung.substack.com/p/inside-the...
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Inside the Hot Club of New York
Matthew Rivera, founder of the 21st Century's hottest 78 scene, speaks.
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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Holy cow!
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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
hydration break
Bob Gruen
Sex Pistols, Luxembourg, 1977
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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
old crime books under fire in Moon Girl #2, 1947
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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Attn fellow Nixon-obsessives - 6/17/72: Happy Watergate Day!! www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte... Much misunderstood [at stake: exposing what AG John Mitchell called the "White House Horrors"] From us, via Cineaste, on RN's enormous influence on the #70s Film: midcenturycinema.org/wp-content/u...
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HIGH DESERT JAZZ @highdesertjazz.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
R.I.P. Abdullah Ibrahim Thank you, thank you, thank you for sharing your gift with the world. We all are better for it. Your musical legacy will live on and on and on. Godspeed, Sir! #Jazz #JazzMusic #Music #JazzSky #JazzMusicSky #MusicSky #DollarBrand youtu.be/LJA3vrLSdqA?...
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Abdullah Ibrahim (Dollar Brand) - Hajj (The Journey)
YouTube video by Antonio Lucente
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Jeremy Erwin @jeremyerwin.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Fresh Prairiewolf LP up for pre-order! Six new long-form jams recorded on stage in Colorado, edited, collaged and mixed into new forms - Anthem of the Sun-style. Our freakiest batch yet. ⚡️🐺
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Zone Poems, by Prairiewolf
12 track album
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Dominic Umile @dominicumile.com · 10/06/2026
A new book, 'Hip Hop Flyers '74-'84,' reproduces "flyers and various ephemera" of early hip hop, and features art by Buddy Esquire, PHASE 2, and others (linking to my 2025 post on the era below) beyondthestreets.com/products/hip... #books
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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Warren Hinckle documentary in the works! www.zalafilms.com/hinckle/
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PAPER TRAIL: Deciphering Warren Hinckle | A Film by George Csicsery
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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
This is a tremendous essay.
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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
This deep appreciation by @jasonpwoodbury.bsky.social makes me excited to dig out FLYING COWBOYS, an old favorite I've been away from for years. jasonpwoodbury.substack.com/p/theyll-be-...
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They'll Be Asking Me About You Forever
Rickie Lee Jones' Mythic Desert Opus, "Flying Cowboys"
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Nate Chinen @natechinen.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
One week ago, I was about to see JAŸ-Z with The Roots on the Belmont Plateau. The show was magnificent, and I decided to take my time processing it. Here are those thoughts — about the performance and the festival that housed it.
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Regarding The Roots Picnic
JAŸ-Z ran the table, but he couldn't own the Plateau
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Observations of Deviance @obsofdeviance.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Now archived @wfmu.bsky.social Bayeté on Iapetus: Todd Cochran Interview STREAM ▶️ wfmu.org/playlists/sh...
Bayeté on Iapetus: Todd Cochran Interview

1971 b&w photo of Todd Cochran from the "Iapetus" sessions, courtesy of Mainstream records
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Bright Wall/Dark Room @brightwalldarkroom.com · 07/06/2026
In 2000, Paul Thomas Anderson directed a pilot episode of The Jon Brion Show, a variety show that didn’t get picked up. Brion—who wrote the scores for Magnolia & Punch-Drunk Love—spent some of the show playing songs with Elliott Smith, including this gorgeous cover of John Lennon’s “Jealous Guy.”
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The Jon Brion Show - Feat. Elliott Smith / Brad Mehldau ('00)
YouTube video by AlRosePromotions
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Observations of Deviance @obsofdeviance.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Tomorrow bsky.app/profile/obso...
Todd Cochran b&w photo
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William Bibbiani @williambibbiani.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
For clarity: I’m still working as much as usual, but now I need to work a LOT more to make ends meet after some recent, unexpected, tough life events. Any new paid work would be amazing right now. Thanks to everyone who’s reposting!
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Brian Jay Jones @brianjayjones.com · 04/06/2026
There's a nice (and quick!) one-pager in the new issue of Washingtonian magazine, spotlighting some of the greatest hits from THE CAPITOL.
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The US Capitol Gets Its Own “Biography”
The book’s author on what he found most intriguing.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Fun fact: the fundamentalist in question here is still alive and was an important mentor to Michele Bachmann.
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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
"You listen to this, Christians": fundamentalist Beatlephobia, long before the "bigger than Jesus" moment (Newsweek, February 15, 1965)
Beware, the Red Beatles 
Fluoridation, mental-health programs, and the United Nations
Nations are, as every Right-thinking fundamentalist well knows, insidious Communist plots to soften up America for the Bolshevik take-over. But by dint of "hard intelligence,
a 28-year-old Wisconsin preacher on tour for Billy Hargis's Christian Crusade says he has unearthed a more subtle
Communist ploy-the Beatles.
"You listen to this, Christians," shouted the Rev. David Noebel, speaking recently in a Claremont, Calif., Baptist church. "These Beatles are completely anti-Christ. They are preparing our teenagers for riot and ultimate revolution against our Christian Republic." It's all a part of the "Communist Master Music Plan," argued Noebel, a Baptist who went to the University of Wisconsin and
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Alan Zilberman @alanzilberman.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I am not going to go through all 350 pages of comments, but some of the hand-written responses are enjoyable.
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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Plastic Man for the Ascot Textile Corporation, 1964
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Sarah Archer @sarcher.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
If you were to donate books and cool ephemera in Philadelphia, which thrift shop or organization would you choose? Think 1960s bridal magazines, books on ceramics, back issues of World of Interiors, various academic titles about things of Victorian concern, etc.
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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
"Ain't Broke, Ain't Hungry" by Polka Dot Slim www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK0S...
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Polka Dot Slim - Ain't Broke, Ain't Hungry
YouTube video by Vintage Records
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Samantha Culp @samanthaculp.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
On the occasion of the Backrooms film release, reposting my 2022 essay on the phenomenon, the inherent tensions btw collective worldbuilding and surrealist art, and Kane Parsons' original web series (which I predicted even then was bound for Hollywood). borderstudies.substack.com/p/the-backro...
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The Backrooms, Before Hollywood: Lore vs. the Sublime
Before you head to the cineplex (ideally in a dead mall), my Backrooms essay from 2022
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