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Kennedy Center Dishonoured.
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Kennedy Center Dishonoured.

Pray for Humanity & the Arts.

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December 19, 2025 at 4:22 PM

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–31 Below Zero open.substack.com/pub/billking... On January 4, 1981, a fire ripped through the downtown YMCA, causing $1 million in damage.

–31 Below Zero

On January 4, 1981, a fire ripped through the downtown YMCA, causing $1 million in damage.

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December 19, 2025 at 1:17 PM

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Sweet Sugar Cane
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Sweet Sugar Cane

Let it burn, let it burn, let it burn.

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December 18, 2025 at 1:03 PM

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Reagan’s “Morning” and America’s Long Shadow
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Reagan’s “Morning” and America’s Long Shadow

The Hip Hop Revolution

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December 10, 2025 at 7:16 PM

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Mother Earth, Megyn Kelly, and the Unforgivable Lie
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Mother Earth, Megyn Kelly, and the Unforgivable Lie

There’s something unseemly, almost ritualistic, about the women who orbit Republican power structures—shameless in the pursuit of attention, shameless in their ability to twist truth into a marketable...

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November 14, 2025 at 8:23 PM

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George Springer open.substack.com/pub/billking... @bluejays.com @mlb.com @sportsillustrated.bsky.social

George Springer

Baseball’s Timeless Card

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October 23, 2025 at 2:15 PM

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Ray Charles – Confessin’ the Blues
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Ray Charles – Confessin’ the Blues

There was never a chance of mistaking who owned the room when Ray Charles opened his mouth.

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August 30, 2025 at 11:15 AM

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The Diminishing Returns of Corporate Media open.substack.com/pub/billking... . Hundreds of Substack writers rise daily with more depth and more honesty than CNN’s whole bench. The seismic plates are moving. People want the truth. They want journalism that stares down fascism without blinking.

The Diminishing Returns of Corporate Media

Jake Tapper.

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August 27, 2025 at 4:37 PM

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The Diminishing Returns of Corporate Media
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The Diminishing Returns of Corporate Media

Jake Tapper.

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August 27, 2025 at 4:36 PM

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Ossington Rising open.substack.com/pub/billking... It was the streets that spoke most clearly. Nothing about it then suggested the word cool. But the corner, the curve in the road—it hummed with dormant energy, as if it knew its time was coming.