Simon Reynolds
@simonreynolds.bsky.social
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Once again, the main day of Tea Party protests had about 300,000 nationwide, but saw endless coverage.
The No Kings protests had about 7,000,000 nationwide, and many media outlets reacted with a yawn.
No Kings was nearly 25x as big as the Tea Party but the Tea Party got 25x the attention.
The No Kings protests had about 7,000,000 nationwide, and many media outlets reacted with a yawn.
No Kings was nearly 25x as big as the Tea Party but the Tea Party got 25x the attention.
Ask yourself this: How would the New York Times have covered the protests if it had been seven million MAGA supporters flooding the streets? We don’t even have to guess: We know how they and other mainstream outlets covered the Tea Party protests during Obama’s first term.
October 26, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Once again, the main day of Tea Party protests had about 300,000 nationwide, but saw endless coverage.
The No Kings protests had about 7,000,000 nationwide, and many media outlets reacted with a yawn.
No Kings was nearly 25x as big as the Tea Party but the Tea Party got 25x the attention.
The No Kings protests had about 7,000,000 nationwide, and many media outlets reacted with a yawn.
No Kings was nearly 25x as big as the Tea Party but the Tea Party got 25x the attention.
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HAPPENING NOW: A MASSIVE crowd of protesters flood the streets of San Diego for a “No Kings Day” rally showing their love for America and standing up against the corrupt fascist Trump administration. look how huge it is
October 18, 2025 at 6:34 PM
HAPPENING NOW: A MASSIVE crowd of protesters flood the streets of San Diego for a “No Kings Day” rally showing their love for America and standing up against the corrupt fascist Trump administration. look how huge it is
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I’ve managed to squeeze in a fair bit of niche music into the pages of the Guardian over the years, but especially chuffed with getting to cover the waltzer sound system wars of Hull Fair. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
Oggy oggy oggy! The donk-tacular dance music of Hull’s huge funfair
With 600,000 people attending, Hull Fair is the UK’s biggest – and has a thrilling but overlooked musical subculture. We follow the blaring soundsystems to meet the DJs and MCs facing off in waltzer b...
www.theguardian.com
October 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I’ve managed to squeeze in a fair bit of niche music into the pages of the Guardian over the years, but especially chuffed with getting to cover the waltzer sound system wars of Hull Fair. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
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"The original #NoKings protest was 250 years ago. We've had democracy since then. Now we have a would-be king who wants to take it away—King Donald the First. Fuck that. Stand up and be counted in the nationwide No Kings protest on October 18."
👉👉 nokings.org
👉👉 nokings.org
October 11, 2025 at 7:52 PM
"The original #NoKings protest was 250 years ago. We've had democracy since then. Now we have a would-be king who wants to take it away—King Donald the First. Fuck that. Stand up and be counted in the nationwide No Kings protest on October 18."
👉👉 nokings.org
👉👉 nokings.org
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I wrote a little about Optimo's JD Twitch futurismrestated.substack.com/p/mixes-dige...
Mixes Digest 22: Remembering Optimo’s JD Twitch
8 enduring sets from the late Keith McIvor (plus links to 20 more)
futurismrestated.substack.com
September 25, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I wrote a little about Optimo's JD Twitch futurismrestated.substack.com/p/mixes-dige...
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For his Rabbit Holed column @kieranpressreyn.bsky.social interviews Music Place, bonkers online archivist of the ultra-obscure, who leaves "a cursed but beautiful 'breadcrumb trail' across scenes and languages"
Meet the Most Cracked Music Archivist Online
Rabbit Holed is Kieran Press-Reynolds’ weekly column exploring songs and scenes at the intersection of music and digital culture, separating shitpost genius from shitpassé lameness. This week, Kieran ...
pitchfork.com
July 23, 2025 at 4:58 PM
For his Rabbit Holed column @kieranpressreyn.bsky.social interviews Music Place, bonkers online archivist of the ultra-obscure, who leaves "a cursed but beautiful 'breadcrumb trail' across scenes and languages"
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Knowing everything you know about Epstein and Trump read this yourself two-three times and ask what the most obvious interpretation of it would be.
July 17, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Knowing everything you know about Epstein and Trump read this yourself two-three times and ask what the most obvious interpretation of it would be.
Quick! Read while the paywall is relaxed for 24 hours this conversation between @kieranpressreyn.bsky.social and Shawn Reynaldo of First Floor substack about being a Gen Z music+culture writer
Kieran Press-Reynolds Is Mapping the Brainrot Continuum
A conversation with the NYC-based writer and proud zoomer, who shares his thoughts on Gen Z's relationship with music and details his own penchant for trawling the weirdest corners of the internet.
firstfloor.substack.com
July 17, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Quick! Read while the paywall is relaxed for 24 hours this conversation between @kieranpressreyn.bsky.social and Shawn Reynaldo of First Floor substack about being a Gen Z music+culture writer
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PLEASE TALK ABOUT ANYTHING OTHER THAN EPSTEIN. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
July 16, 2025 at 9:06 PM
PLEASE TALK ABOUT ANYTHING OTHER THAN EPSTEIN. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
RIP Keith Dobson of World Domination Enterprises - probably the most exciting live band I ever saw + creators of the immortal "Asbestos Lead Asbestos". Keith, aka Kif Kif, was a lovely guy, a great interview, a genius noise guitarist, and a counterculture lifer blissout.blogspot.com/2025/07/rip-...
RIP Keith Dobson
blissout.blogspot.com
July 15, 2025 at 4:38 PM
RIP Keith Dobson of World Domination Enterprises - probably the most exciting live band I ever saw + creators of the immortal "Asbestos Lead Asbestos". Keith, aka Kif Kif, was a lovely guy, a great interview, a genius noise guitarist, and a counterculture lifer blissout.blogspot.com/2025/07/rip-...
"Actively passive, losing-itself-in-the-noise" - new column by @kieranpressreyn.bsky.social steps out of his lane to explore "hazy new-gen alt-rock": bar italia, untitled halo, deer park et al. Slackerdelia returns, only this time they don't even have the energy to capitalize their names...
The Dreamy Malaise of Post-Pandemic Alt-Rock
Rabbit Holed is Kieran Press-Reynolds’ weekly column exploring songs and scenes at the intersection of music and digital culture, separating shitpost genius from shitpassé lameness. This week, Kieran ...
pitchfork.com
July 10, 2025 at 4:51 PM
"Actively passive, losing-itself-in-the-noise" - new column by @kieranpressreyn.bsky.social steps out of his lane to explore "hazy new-gen alt-rock": bar italia, untitled halo, deer park et al. Slackerdelia returns, only this time they don't even have the energy to capitalize their names...
For his Pitchfork column Rabbit Holed @kieranpressreyn.bsky.social reports on SWAGGOTFEST, a 12-hour anarcho-pride parody of a music festival that transcended cringe and captured the sweetest, rawest aspects of the New York DIY scene pitchfork.com/thepitch/all...
All Night at Swaggotfest
Rabbit Holed is Kieran Press-Reynolds’ weekly column exploring songs and scenes at the intersection of music and digital culture, separating shitpost genius from shitpassé lameness. This week, he repo...
pitchfork.com
June 26, 2025 at 4:29 PM
For his Pitchfork column Rabbit Holed @kieranpressreyn.bsky.social reports on SWAGGOTFEST, a 12-hour anarcho-pride parody of a music festival that transcended cringe and captured the sweetest, rawest aspects of the New York DIY scene pitchfork.com/thepitch/all...
Joy on the glorious #NoKings protests in LA
I've been stunned by the maddeningly out-of-whack portrait of Los Angeles being presented to the world, so I wrote an on-the-ground report from some of the vibrant, riot-free local protests this weekend www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...
In Los Angeles, So Much of the Protest Narrative Has Felt Wrong. Saturday Was a Corrective
After a week of watching a fun-house-mirror version of their city in global media, thousands of Los Angeles residents took to the streets on Saturday.
www.vanityfair.com
June 16, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Joy on the glorious #NoKings protests in LA
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the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president
June 15, 2025 at 1:11 AM
the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president
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Especially if you're on the fence about it, protest today. Fascism is isolating and lonely. Its very goal is to make you feel like you're the only person unwilling to accept a cult of personality. On days like today you fully realize there are more of us than there are them. You will feel better.
June 14, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Especially if you're on the fence about it, protest today. Fascism is isolating and lonely. Its very goal is to make you feel like you're the only person unwilling to accept a cult of personality. On days like today you fully realize there are more of us than there are them. You will feel better.
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"No Kings must break through to normies, independents, and Trump voters feeling remorse...Size is persuasion...If 100,000 people show up for Trump’s parade, but 5,000,000 people turn out across the country for No Kings rallies, who looks strong and who looks weak?"
www.thebulwark.com/p/no-kings-n...
www.thebulwark.com/p/no-kings-n...
No Kings. No Surrender.
Shows of force can work both ways.
www.thebulwark.com
June 13, 2025 at 5:24 PM
"No Kings must break through to normies, independents, and Trump voters feeling remorse...Size is persuasion...If 100,000 people show up for Trump’s parade, but 5,000,000 people turn out across the country for No Kings rallies, who looks strong and who looks weak?"
www.thebulwark.com/p/no-kings-n...
www.thebulwark.com/p/no-kings-n...
I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS PASADENA” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
NO KINGS PASADENA · No Kings
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.**
NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allie...
www.mobilize.us
June 12, 2025 at 11:03 PM
I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS PASADENA” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
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must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
“In light of the President's statement about cancellation of my government contracts, @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately”
June 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
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"I was this pedophile's biggest supporter until he was personally mean to me" seems like a bit of an own goal.
Musk says Trump is in the Epstein files and it is being covered up. This escalated quickly.
June 5, 2025 at 8:07 PM
"I was this pedophile's biggest supporter until he was personally mean to me" seems like a bit of an own goal.
Entertaining + revealing GQ profile by @kieranpressreyn.bsky.social of YouTube cult star Adam Friedland, a left-aligned comedian with an irreverent / puerile approach to politics and the art of the interview.
Adam Friedland Could Be the Millennial Jon Stewart. But Does He Want That?
The 38-year-old comedian started his YouTube series ‘The Adam Friedland Show’ mostly as a joke. But in the wake of an election that podcasters helped swing in Donald Trump’s favor, he’s fielding inter...
www.gq.com
May 28, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Entertaining + revealing GQ profile by @kieranpressreyn.bsky.social of YouTube cult star Adam Friedland, a left-aligned comedian with an irreverent / puerile approach to politics and the art of the interview.
A tribute to Susan Brownmiller, pioneering activist and writer in the women's liberation movement, by @joypress.bsky.social. Fascinating and funny tales of how the feminist firebrand took down Hugh Hefner on TV and helped organize the occupation of Ladies Home Journal.
The Still Vital—and Still Complicated—Legacy of Susan Brownmiller
The activist and author of the landmark rape study, Against Our Will, lived long see the struggle is still just beginning.
www.vanityfair.com
May 27, 2025 at 4:55 PM
A tribute to Susan Brownmiller, pioneering activist and writer in the women's liberation movement, by @joypress.bsky.social. Fascinating and funny tales of how the feminist firebrand took down Hugh Hefner on TV and helped organize the occupation of Ladies Home Journal.
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THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM
My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social.
The governing ideology of the far right has become a
monstrous, supremacist survivalism.
Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social.
The governing ideology of the far right has become a
monstrous, supremacist survivalism.
Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
The rise of end times fascism
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
www.theguardian.com
April 13, 2025 at 1:32 PM
THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM
My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social.
The governing ideology of the far right has become a
monstrous, supremacist survivalism.
Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social.
The governing ideology of the far right has become a
monstrous, supremacist survivalism.
Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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BREAKING: 36k people showed up in LA for Bernie and AOC’s rally. In the off year.
Americans are pissed — and anyone ignoring that is making a big mistake.
Americans are pissed — and anyone ignoring that is making a big mistake.
April 12, 2025 at 10:11 PM
BREAKING: 36k people showed up in LA for Bernie and AOC’s rally. In the off year.
Americans are pissed — and anyone ignoring that is making a big mistake.
Americans are pissed — and anyone ignoring that is making a big mistake.
Shite Lotus more like
April 7, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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