Michaelangelo Matos
@matoswk.bsky.social
Michaelangelo Matos
Author, historian, critic, journalist
St. Paul
he/him
The Underground Is Massive (Dey Street, 2015); Can't Slow Down (Hachette, 2020)
I edit books - inquire within
Beat Connection: DJ mixes newsletter - http://michaelangelo.substack.com
Author, historian, critic, journalist
St. Paul
he/him
The Underground Is Massive (Dey Street, 2015); Can't Slow Down (Hachette, 2020)
I edit books - inquire within
Beat Connection: DJ mixes newsletter - http://michaelangelo.substack.com
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DFL legislators need to insist on a compensation fund of tens of millions of dollars to offset economic harms of the ICE siege. It infuriates me that Mercado Central has to hold a $500,000 bake sale to hold onto their building. Tens of fucking millions.
February 1, 2026 at 2:40 PM
DFL legislators need to insist on a compensation fund of tens of millions of dollars to offset economic harms of the ICE siege. It infuriates me that Mercado Central has to hold a $500,000 bake sale to hold onto their building. Tens of fucking millions.
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This tracks: Mining companies used racist Fennophobia to blacklist Finnish labor organizers on the Range a century ago.
February 1, 2026 at 3:10 PM
This tracks: Mining companies used racist Fennophobia to blacklist Finnish labor organizers on the Range a century ago.
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If you care about Don Lemon, don't forgot Mario Guevara (reporter who was filming police at a No Kings rally in June) was targeted for his journalistic activity; detained for 112 days; and deported. He had no criminal charges against him and was on the path to getting a green card.
February 1, 2026 at 9:40 AM
If you care about Don Lemon, don't forgot Mario Guevara (reporter who was filming police at a No Kings rally in June) was targeted for his journalistic activity; detained for 112 days; and deported. He had no criminal charges against him and was on the path to getting a green card.
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It’s the single most important thing anyone in this state can do right now. That way people can shelter in place safely.
At the local level we be voting on funding support for rental assistance, legal assistance, small business support, and more.
At the local level we be voting on funding support for rental assistance, legal assistance, small business support, and more.
February 1, 2026 at 1:48 PM
It’s the single most important thing anyone in this state can do right now. That way people can shelter in place safely.
At the local level we be voting on funding support for rental assistance, legal assistance, small business support, and more.
At the local level we be voting on funding support for rental assistance, legal assistance, small business support, and more.
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You’re describing an emergency. The world is also watching you and waiting for you to do something.
Are you going to establish an eviction moratorium? Rent is due today.
Are you going to establish an eviction moratorium? Rent is due today.
They’re taking kids from Minnesota and sending them to detention camps. They’re shooting American citizens in the street and locking investigators out of the crime scenes. The world is watching what happens next.
Hundreds of people spelled out the distress signal "SOS" on Bde Maka Ska in Minneapolis on Friday, Jan. 30.
📷️ Provided by Jeff Schad
📷️ Provided by Jeff Schad
February 1, 2026 at 1:44 PM
You’re describing an emergency. The world is also watching you and waiting for you to do something.
Are you going to establish an eviction moratorium? Rent is due today.
Are you going to establish an eviction moratorium? Rent is due today.
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Why is @newyorker.com denying me a pithy @susanorlean.bsky.social's original subheadline offering AI slop instead? Also, the article was published on September 27, 1999 not September 20. AI-slopped date perhaps?
February 1, 2026 at 3:57 PM
Why is @newyorker.com denying me a pithy @susanorlean.bsky.social's original subheadline offering AI slop instead? Also, the article was published on September 27, 1999 not September 20. AI-slopped date perhaps?
Guys, it's on Tubi. You deserve it.
February 1, 2026 at 8:01 AM
Guys, it's on Tubi. You deserve it.
Hello @nstop.com
Archival sources cast new light on the relationships between 3 key musicians in the Dunedin Sound/Flying Nun scene, by way of the letters they wrote to each other.
Fantastic story for @audioculturenz.bsky.social by @rubbasoul.bsky.social.
Fantastic story for @audioculturenz.bsky.social by @rubbasoul.bsky.social.
When Dunedin rock’n’roll people wrote letters to each other - a fascinating insight into the thinking and ambitions of David Kilgour, Martin Phillipps and Peter Gutteridge.
www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/hol...
www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/hol...
February 1, 2026 at 5:59 AM
Hello @nstop.com
Research. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-gu...
Janet Jackson - The Pleasure Principle
YouTube video by JanetJacksonVEVO
www.youtube.com
February 1, 2026 at 5:54 AM
Research. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-gu...
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"It’s really a shame that I learned all of this too late."
Man Who Lost Everything In Crypto Just Wishes Several Thousand More People Had Warned Him
CHICAGO—Saying he had been absolutely blindsided by the sudden change in his fortunes, local 33-year-old Tyler Branton, a man who lost everything in cryptocurrencies, told reporters Thursday that he j...
theonion.com
January 31, 2026 at 11:38 PM
"It’s really a shame that I learned all of this too late."
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Racist real estate grifting has always been this administration’s destiny
January 31, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Racist real estate grifting has always been this administration’s destiny
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Point is: it's impossible to navigate the thickets of these assholes' sub-literate correspondence, or to keep track of which schmuck is sad that some other schmuck didn't make it to the New Year's debauch aboard a third schmuck's mega-yacht.
January 31, 2026 at 9:14 PM
Point is: it's impossible to navigate the thickets of these assholes' sub-literate correspondence, or to keep track of which schmuck is sad that some other schmuck didn't make it to the New Year's debauch aboard a third schmuck's mega-yacht.
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I'm going to need this to be talked about daily, local news needs to bring this up any time they talk about Demuth.
Let's put it on billboards, make some ads.
"Minnesota House Speaker Lisa Demuth said Monday that her caucus steered YouTube creator Nick Shirley to day care sites in Minnesota"
Let's put it on billboards, make some ads.
"Minnesota House Speaker Lisa Demuth said Monday that her caucus steered YouTube creator Nick Shirley to day care sites in Minnesota"
Demuth: GOP caucus directed YouTuber to Minnesota. A professor explains why it went viral
University of Minnesota media law professor Jane Kirtley says the new viral video is flashy but absent of facts to back up its claims.
www.mprnews.org
January 31, 2026 at 4:48 PM
I'm going to need this to be talked about daily, local news needs to bring this up any time they talk about Demuth.
Let's put it on billboards, make some ads.
"Minnesota House Speaker Lisa Demuth said Monday that her caucus steered YouTube creator Nick Shirley to day care sites in Minnesota"
Let's put it on billboards, make some ads.
"Minnesota House Speaker Lisa Demuth said Monday that her caucus steered YouTube creator Nick Shirley to day care sites in Minnesota"
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I don’t know why we would extend the courtesy of intellectually honest criticism to Bari Weiss?
we’re having fun with this but I do think it’s worth saying that Bowles’ story seems consistent and I haven’t seen any indication that she met him more than the one time she acknowledges
In 2019, Nelly Bowles revealed that she had been to Epstein's house, and that she wasn't impressed enough to think there was a story there. www.nytimes.com/2019/09/14/b...
January 31, 2026 at 8:54 PM
I don’t know why we would extend the courtesy of intellectually honest criticism to Bari Weiss?
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it's unfair how politicians just get to be on drugs all the time but the rest of us get in trouble
November 21, 2024 at 2:41 AM
it's unfair how politicians just get to be on drugs all the time but the rest of us get in trouble
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I’ve been trying to tell my non-lawyer friends just how unprecedented some of the things these federal judges are doing actually are - this order left me speechless.
NEWS: Judge Biery has ordered the release of 5-year-old Liam Ramos. A thunderous rebuke against ICE’s violent campaign in Minnesota. Read the order below.
Link:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Link:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Order – #9 in Conejo Arias v. Noem (W.D. Tex., 5:26-cv-00415) – CourtListener.com
OPINION AND ORDER OF THE COURT--The Court finds that the Constitution of these United States trumps this administration's detention of petitioner Adrian Conejo Arias and his minor son, L.C.R. The Grea...
storage.courtlistener.com
January 31, 2026 at 9:00 PM
I’ve been trying to tell my non-lawyer friends just how unprecedented some of the things these federal judges are doing actually are - this order left me speechless.
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this is repugnant, depraved anti-American language and it’s a sign of how far we’ve degraded ourselves that it barely registers as controversial in mainstream discourse
Translated "it's fine if they're slaves or indentured servants"
January 31, 2026 at 6:50 PM
this is repugnant, depraved anti-American language and it’s a sign of how far we’ve degraded ourselves that it barely registers as controversial in mainstream discourse
Not always, though. Lisa Stansfield's Affection (1990) had thirteen songs, three bonuses, one mid-album, two at the end; it doesn't play very differently than a ten-song version.
A guess: because it was the B-side of the hit single, and therefore considered a "bonus" rather than part of the album, per se? That was the logic of so many CD-only bonuses.
January 31, 2026 at 6:58 PM
Not always, though. Lisa Stansfield's Affection (1990) had thirteen songs, three bonuses, one mid-album, two at the end; it doesn't play very differently than a ten-song version.
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And I know it's straying still further from your CD focus, but the cassette version of The Beloved "Blissed Out" - a remix album in its own right -contained a whole extra album's worth of further remixes, which made it even more suited to its morning after / drive home from the rave purpose.
January 31, 2026 at 6:39 PM
And I know it's straying still further from your CD focus, but the cassette version of The Beloved "Blissed Out" - a remix album in its own right -contained a whole extra album's worth of further remixes, which made it even more suited to its morning after / drive home from the rave purpose.
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The Cure albums in particular used to have vast swathed of extra material on the tape versions.
January 31, 2026 at 6:25 PM
The Cure albums in particular used to have vast swathed of extra material on the tape versions.
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not really what you asked for either, sorry, but the original cassette version of "in the dark" in '87 had a bonus track not included on the CD or LP versions ("my brother esau")
January 31, 2026 at 6:22 PM
not really what you asked for either, sorry, but the original cassette version of "in the dark" in '87 had a bonus track not included on the CD or LP versions ("my brother esau")
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Japanese labels used to require them for licensing anything there
January 31, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Japanese labels used to require them for licensing anything there
Does anyone know what was the first album to have CD-only bonus track(s)? I do not and am suddenly curious.
January 31, 2026 at 6:14 PM
Does anyone know what was the first album to have CD-only bonus track(s)? I do not and am suddenly curious.
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with the amount of money this country has we could have universal healthcare, free college, housing for all, but instead we have our actual president suing the IRS for 10 billion dollars which he will get because, wait for it, he is in charge of the IRS. Madness.
January 31, 2026 at 3:59 AM
with the amount of money this country has we could have universal healthcare, free college, housing for all, but instead we have our actual president suing the IRS for 10 billion dollars which he will get because, wait for it, he is in charge of the IRS. Madness.