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Haven’t dug my posters out in a while

February 5, 2026 at 5:04 AM

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Madonna’s Confessions Tour live album is coming to vinyl for the first time ever on RSD this year. Pressed on starburst pink/purple splatter vinyl. Limited to 5,700 copies.

February 4, 2026 at 6:16 PM

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Hilary Duff is releasing her (mine) re-recordings as an EP for Record Store Day this year! Pressed on silver vinyl. Limited to 10k copies.

February 4, 2026 at 6:14 PM

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Love watching the Emerald Fennell/Wuthering Heights hate train collapse

February 4, 2026 at 1:26 AM

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@chrstnavelli.bsky.social

We need to stop with the tiny mics for red carpet interviews before someone’s hearing is permanently damaged

February 3, 2026 at 3:11 PM

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Genuinely curious about the people still active on X (formerly Twitter) at this point. Not for any moral reasons, but it’s legitimately made up of bots, and the overall user experience is so unpleasant.

February 3, 2026 at 3:00 PM

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That’s my best new artist

February 3, 2026 at 1:27 AM

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This is exactly what I’ve wanted Gaga’s performances to look like since 2010. Perfection.

February 2, 2026 at 7:34 AM

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Immediately obsessed. The sort of song that would be front page on Pop Justice at any point between 2008-2010

MEEK - Fabulous (Official Video)

YouTube video by MEEK

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February 1, 2026 at 6:52 AM

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I feel like the 2020s in music will be defined by the After Hours trilogy and Brat

January 31, 2026 at 6:59 AM

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Really loving the new Bebe Rexha rollout so far. It’s giving The Comeback meets Fat Actress meets The Anna Nicole Show. Someone get her a mini series.

January 30, 2026 at 9:51 PM

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The fakemink mixtape is so good

January 30, 2026 at 6:58 AM

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Might wait a few weeks to see The Moment so I can do a triple feature with Wuthering Heights and Marty Supreme

January 30, 2026 at 6:39 AM

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A. G. Cook’s score for The Moment is out now

The Moment (The Score)

open.spotify.com

January 30, 2026 at 6:32 AM

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The video for A. G. Cook’s “Residue” is the nightmare version of Brat. It’s Kylie Minogue’s “Come Into My World” meets the nightclub scene in Black Swan, where everyone in the club is Charli until she becomes the monster at the end.

A. G. Cook - Residue (Official Video)

YouTube video by A24

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January 27, 2026 at 6:39 PM

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Adam Serwer

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One thing I found deeply moving about resistance in the Twin Cities was the universalism of loving your neighbor, the philosophy driving the opposition to the ICE/BP invasion. I couldn't help but notice the contrast with the blood and soil-ism of Miller and Vance. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Trump-administration officials and MAGA influencers have repeatedly called these activists “violent” and said they are involved in “riots.” But the resistance in Minnesota is largely characterized by a conscious, strategic absence of physical confrontation. Activists have made the decision to emphasize protection, aid, and observation. When matters escalate, it is usually the choice of the federal agents. Of the three homicides in Minneapolis this year, two were committed by federal agents.

“There’s been an incredible, incredible response from the community. I’ve seen our neighbors go straight from allies to family—more than family—checking in on each other, offering food and rides for kids and all kinds of support, alerting each other if there’s ICE or any kind of danger,” Malika Dahir, a local activist of Somali descent, told me.

If the Minnesota resistance has an overarching ideology, you could call it “neighborism”—a commitment to protecting the people around you, no matter who they are or where they came from. The contrast with the philosophy guiding the Trump administration couldn’t be more extreme. Vice President Vance has said that “it is totally reasonable and acceptable for American citizens to look at their next-door neighbors and say, ‘I want to live next to people who I have something in common with. I don’t want to live next to four families of strangers.’” Minnesotans are insisting that their neighbors are their neighbors whether they were born in Minneapolis or Mogadishu. That is, arguably, a deeply Christian philosophy, one apparently loathed by some of the most powerful Christians in America.

January 27, 2026 at 2:38 PM

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I’m sure someone around Ye recognizes that the pendulum is swinging back towards woke in a big way and he’s dug himself and his career into a grave about a decade too deep to crawl out of.

January 26, 2026 at 3:37 PM

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Coincidentally, he recently hired a new manager and has an album out soon… I’m sure none of that has anything to do with this tho

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 9d

Ye, fka Kanye West, takes out a full-page in the Wall Street Journal to apologize to the Black community, and for antisemitism:

“I lost touch with reality”

$Twenty-five years ago, I was in a car accident that broke my jaw and caused injury to the right frontal lobe of my brain. At the time, the focus was on the visible damage - the fracture, the swelling, and the immediate physical trauma. The deeper injury, the one inside my skull, went unnoticed. Comprehensive scans were not done, neurological exams were limited, and the possibility of a frontal-lobe injury was never raised. It wasn't properly diagnosed until 2023. That medical oversight caused serious damage to my mental health and led to my bipolar type-l diagnosis. Bipolar disorder comes with its own defense system. Denial. When you're manic, you don't think you're sick. You think everyone else is overreacting. You feel like you're seeing the world more clearly than ever, when in reality you're losing your grip entirely. Once people label you as 'crazy', you feel as if you cannot contribute anything meaningful to the world. It's easy for people to joke and laugh it off when in fact this is a very serious debilitating disease you can die from. According to the World Health Organization and Cambridge University, people with bipolar disorder have a life expectancy that is shortened by ten to fifteen years on average, and a 2x-3x higher all-cause mortality rate than the general population. This is on par with severe heart disease, type-1 diabetes, HIV, and cancer-all lethal and fatal if left untreated. The scariest thing about this disorder is how persuasive it is when it tells you: You don't need help. It makes you blind, but convinced you have insight. You feel powerful, certain, and unstoppable. I lost touch with reality. Things got worse the longer I ignored the problem. I said and did things I deeply regret. Some of the people I love the most, I treated the worst. You endured fear, confusion, humiliation, and the exhaustion of trying to love someone who was at times, unrecognizable. Looking back, I became detached from my true self. In that fractured state. I gra…$

January 26, 2026 at 3:22 PM

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Is The Sluts by Dennis Cooper trending on TikTok or something? I’ve seen multiple posts about it online over the last few days.

January 25, 2026 at 1:02 PM

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I love that Charli xcx has flipped Brat into a multimedia, Warholian interrogation of the modern pop star. Critics and trolls can call it masturbatory all they want, but imo pop is always at its very best when it’s absurd and a little self indulgent.

January 25, 2026 at 4:35 AM