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Dick Mac (alive!)
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The only survivor of the National Peoples Gang. Soccer fan. Viking (RBNY). Gooner (Arsenal). Art collector. Leftist. Brooklyn. Reject all theocracies. He/him.
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Dick Mac (alive!) @dickmac999.bsky.social · Mar 16
Chatterbox Jazz Club in Indianapolis is the place to be! Be certain you stop by and support them!
chatterboxjazz.com
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#MusicSky #MusicChallenge
#20SongsByYear 1971

Day 7 - “Ain't No Sunshine” - Bill Withers

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Bill Withers - Ain't No Sunshine (Old Grey Whistle Test, 1972)
YouTube video by BillWithersVEVO
youtu.be
November 11, 2025 at 3:08 PM
dickmac999.bsky.social
#OnThisDay in 1977, the album “Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols” was released.

#OTD #MusicSky #SexPistols
Yellow version of the cover art for the LP “Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols”
November 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM
dickmac999.bsky.social
Random #playlist for a subway ride.
Playlist
November 10, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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#MusicSky #MusicChallenge
#20SongsByYear 1971

Day 6 - “Me And Bobby McGee,” Janis Joplin

youtu.be/5Cg-j0X09Ag?...
Janis Joplin - Me and Bobby McGee (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by JanisJoplinVEVO
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November 10, 2025 at 2:48 PM
dickmac999.bsky.social
How can people be losing their jobs because of editing a Donald Trump speech? Just air the speeches unedited because the motherfucker is insane and decrepit, no editing should be done, let the world see this idiot as he is.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/w...
Two Top BBC Leaders Quit Over Editing of Trump Documentary
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM
dickmac999.bsky.social
Vichy Democrats need to lose their place in the Party and their seats next election:

Catherine Cortez Masto - Nevada
Richard J. Durbin - Illinois
John Fetterman - Pennsylvania
Maggie Hassan - New Hampshire
Tim Kaine - Virginia
Angus King - Maine
Jacky Rosen - Nevada
Jeanne Shaheen - New Hampshire
Vichy Democrats who have sided with Republicans to destroy access to health care for 40 million Americans: Catherine Cortez Masto - Nevada Richard J. Durbin - Illinois John Fetterman - Pennsylvania Maggie Hassan - New Hampshire Tim Kaine - Virginia Angus King - Maine Jacky Rosen - Nevada Jeanne Shaheen - New Hampshire
November 10, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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sifill.bsky.social
And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons.

State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
‘How is this possible?’: a new film looks inside the appalling abuses of the Alabama prison system
In the year’s most shocking documentary, The Alabama Solution, prisoners share astonishing footage in a plea for help
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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50501movement.bsky.social
A man rushed to the Broadview ICE facility searching for his wife. They followed every legal step, but ICE took her into another room and she vanished. He tracked her phone there when the signal died. Police told him to “look up her name online.” He sat in the parking lot, weeping, with no answers.
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November 9, 2025 at 1:34 PM
dickmac999.bsky.social
#OnThisDay in 1989, the Berlin Wall fell during the Peaceful Revolution, marking the beginning of the end of Soviet Communism in Europe.

#OTD #HistorySky #History #BerlinWall #Berlin #communism
Color Photo of a man using a sledgehammer to destroy the Berlin wall. Color photo of a man using a metal bedspring as a ladder to scale the Berlin wall
November 9, 2025 at 12:29 PM
dickmac999.bsky.social
#OnThisDay in 1953, Welsh poet and writer Dylan Thomas died in New York City. He was 39.

#OTD #PoetrySky #DylanThomas
Black and white photograph of Dylan Thomas at Gotham bookstore.
November 9, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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“Making Art During Fascism” by Beth Pickens.

www.bethpickens.com

#BethPickens #ArtSky #fascism
Flag art with the pamphlet “Making Art During Fascism,” by Beth Pickens
November 8, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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#OnThisDay in 1972, “Transformer,” the second solo studio album by Lou Reed was released.

#OTD #MusicSky #LouReed
Album cover for “Transformer” by Lou Reed showing the artist in a stylized picture holding a guitar.
November 8, 2025 at 1:57 PM
dickmac999.bsky.social
#OnThisDay in 1993, the soundtrack album “The Buddha of Suburbia,” the nineteenth studio album by David Bowie, was released.

#OTD #MusicSky #DavidBowie
Album cover art for the David Bowie album “Buddha of Suburbia” showing a brown-skinned holy man surrounded by white people.
November 8, 2025 at 1:53 PM
dickmac999.bsky.social
Random #playlist for a nighttime subway ride.
November 8, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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#MusicSky #MusicChallenge
#20SongsByYear 1971

Day 5 - “Theme From Shaft,” Isaac Hayes

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Isaac Hayes - Theme from Shaft live (1971)
YouTube video by CharlieKappa
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November 7, 2025 at 7:15 PM
dickmac999.bsky.social
Has the Subway chain introduced a sandwich named “The Acquittal”?
#sandwich #subway #crime #acquittal
Subway sandwich shop
November 7, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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#OnThisDay in 2016, Canadian songwriter, singer, poet, and novelist Leonard Cohen died in Los Angeles. He was 82.

Photo credit: Gorupdebesanez

#OTD #MusicSky #LeonardCohen
Canadian songwriter, singer, poet, and novelist Leonard Cohen
November 7, 2025 at 11:30 AM
dickmac999.bsky.social
Folks in Queens, NY, just seen on Reddit THU, 06 NOV, 10:50 AM:

ICE IS IN FLUSHING
"BE CAREFUL EVERYONE they stopped my dad today around Parsons Blvd and Cherry Avenue TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW"

#ICE #NYC #Queens
November 6, 2025 at 3:58 PM
dickmac999.bsky.social
From your memories:

That time Donald Trump was traveling and protesters used a popular soccer chant to call him out.

#POTUS #Protest #NoKings
November 6, 2025 at 3:21 PM
dickmac999.bsky.social
No federal, state, county, or local government should ever bid to host World Cup or Olympic events: it is a conduit of money from the neediest taxpayers to the wealthiest taxpayers.
#WorldCup #Olympics

www.nytimes.com/athletic/677...
World Cup 2026 – what we’re hearing: Trump’s threat to move host cities concerns sponsors
Chicago has no regrets about not bidding to host World Cup games, low hospitality sales at the Club World Cup in the U.S. and more
www.nytimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
Now THAT’S a Project I can support!! 👊
November 6, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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#MusicSky #MusicChallenge
#20SongsByYear 1971

Day 4 - “Family Affair,” Sly and the Family Stone

youtu.be/eZ1CJcmdHVw?...
Sly & The Family Stone - Family Affair (video editado)
YouTube video by RUBEN ROCK GOMEZ
youtu.be
November 6, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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propublica.org
Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to our analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%.

(Published February)
Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
www.propublica.org
November 6, 2025 at 2:25 AM
dickmac999.bsky.social
I just unfollowed the New Yorker Radio Hour podcast and it makes me sad. I cannot support any Condé Nast products now that they are shifting from being moderately right-wing to being complicit in the fascist takeover of Western media.
Fuck #CondéNast
Fuck @thenewyorker.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 2:03 AM
dickmac999.bsky.social
I want to return to the days when the stock market numbers mattered only because that was what bookies used when you "played the number." #StockMarket #gambling #numbers #bookies
November 5, 2025 at 7:13 PM