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Chris Willman @cwillman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Nothing could make me feel more on top of the world than a phone call with Chrissie Hynde, which I get the honor of about once every 20 years. We talked about the new documentary she has premiering in Toronto, "The Pretenders." She gets funnier as the call goes on... variety.com/2026/music/n...

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Camera-Shy Chrissie Hynde on Finally Allowing a Definitive Doc to Be Made About ‘The Pretenders,’ Bowing in Toronto: ‘I Just Wanted to Be in a Band. I’ve Never Graduated Beyond That Initial Interest i...

Chrissie Hynde and director Joss Crowley talk about persuading her to talk for 'The Pretenders,' an overdue band documentary at the Toronto Film Festival.

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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 · 23/09/2026

Thank you for sharing—looking forward to reading this!

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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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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Wishing you a speedy recovery, Scott!

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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Happy (belated) publication day!!

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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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Tom Reagan’s Witch’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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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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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I’ve actually had all reposts turned off for a few months, endorse!

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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

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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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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Here, the ghost is me. @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

Agree that it holds up better than most of Stone's work! THE ORDER, with Jude Law, makes an interesting companion piece. (As does Costa-Gavras' sometimes-nutso BETRAYED)

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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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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 · 18/06/2026

Thought his podcast about the WU a few years ago was really terrific, too!

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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

congratulations on the work!

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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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