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Ian Sullivan 📀🌪💿
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Pittsburgh DJ [ Hurricane Ian ]; library technician; media, culture, and society student
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DC is FORTY-ONE PERCENT Black.

Do you understand?
August 11, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Working-class Americans have grown more progressive over the past two decades—not just on economic justice but also on immigration and civil rights. Today’s working class stands farther to the left than when it helped elect Barack Obama in 2008.
Democrats Keep Misreading the Working Class
Many in the party see workers as drifting rightward. But new data show they’re more progressive than ever on economic issues—if Democrats are willing to meet them there.
www.thenation.com
August 11, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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A deep dive into Stroom's one-of-a-kind discography of unearthed sounds and contemporary oddities.
Cult Belgian Label Stroom Specializes in Strange
A dive into the one-of-a-kind discography made of unearthed sounds and contemporary oddities.
daily.bandcamp.com
August 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
August 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Rümeysa Öztürk describes the library in the prison where she was held for 45 days for co-authoring an op-ed
July 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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“This is an emotional time for Kevin, his family, and all of us who love him. It’s a reminder that health is everything"
Kevin Aviance “lucky to be alive” following pneumonia diagnosis
The club legend was hospitalised over the weekend in a “very serious health scare”
mixmag.net
May 27, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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The surviving films of early Black American filmmaker Oscar Micheaux get a 5-disc deluxe release from Kino Lorber.
Black Film Pioneer Oscar Micheaux Gets Definitive Collection
The surviving films of early Black American filmmaker Oscar Micheaux get a 5-disc deluxe release from Kino Lorber.
buff.ly
May 24, 2025 at 8:50 PM
"Stitch-Possible" That's not real. You just made that up!
May 23, 2025 at 10:26 PM
I think if I am helping the President pay for a Qatari jet, I deserve to use it every once in a while
May 21, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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If you don't want to be compared to the Gestapo, one neat trick is to not engage in a campaign of terror around the country wherein you kidnap people off the streets to slave dungeons in accommodation of an autocratic fascist and his nationalist movement's desire for racial purity.
May 19, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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To ward off clout chasers, many of New York’s parties are instating specific guidelines or creating barriers for first-time attendees
If No One Is Dancing, You’re at the Wrong Club
How the mainstreaming of dance music is driving New York’s best nightlife even more underground
www.hearingthings.co
May 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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First look at the poster for the 30th anniversary 4K restoration of Showgirls 💃

The film will return to theaters in the UK, US and selected international territories from June 6 courtesy of Park Circus Films
May 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Dr. Carla Hayden is a people's librarian.

Her term goes until 2026 and should remain that way.

Don't comply with unjust laws and practices.

#FreedomtoRead @librarycongress.bsky.social

mag.uchicago.edu/hayden
Librarian for the people
Under the leadership of Carla D. Hayden, AM’77, PhD’87, a revered institution is connecting Americans with their country through its treasures.
mag.uchicago.edu
May 9, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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"For queer people of colour especially, carving out space for themselves has been an essential and political act of survival, and a fight that continues to this day without any signs of easing," writes Aurora Sol (@atomicnumber88.bsky.social)

newfeeling.ca/2023/06/30/d...
Queer Club Culture's Blueprint: An Interview With DJ Blackcat
Aurora Sol maps the history of dance music as a "movement of movement."
newfeeling.ca
April 29, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Incredible Soviet animated short about the abject cruelty and destructiveness of American imperialism.

#Filmsky

youtu.be/r4Lyzl6mnmU?...
Animated Soviet Propaganda - American Imperialist S01E04: Ave Maria (1972, EN sub)
YouTube video by Mani
youtu.be
April 20, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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𝘉𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘓𝘦𝘥 𝘡𝘦𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘯 has the quaint “band versus the world” narrative of an Amazon Prime rockumentary aimed at boomers—only with better archival footage
Becoming Led Zeppelin, Surviving Sly and the Family Stone
Two recent documentaries capture the rise of era-defining bands in the late 1960s and early ’70s—but only one gets to revel in a legacy.
www.hearingthings.co
April 13, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Per his attorneys, Mahmoud Khalil asked to address the court at his immigration hearing today, where a judge gave the green light to the Trump admin to deport him.

“This is exactly why the Trump administration has sent me to this court, 1,000 miles away from my family.”
April 11, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Helloooooo, it is #LetterboxdFriday once again! I had a fun week with films, and I can't wait to see what next week has in store :)
April 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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incredible, first ever reissue of the final release from iconic outsider label DD. Records, one of Japan's most prophetic, quietly influential DIY imprints, releasing 222 tapes thru the early 80’s in tiny, tiny editions, mad special this one

bit.ly/3RIsvm4
April 10, 2025 at 10:38 AM