John Autry
@johnautry.bsky.social
Husband, father, grandfather, film fan, music aficionado, life long learner, and retired member of the NC House of Representatives.
November 17, 2025 at 10:27 PM
"Can't Buy a Thrill" by Steely Dan, released in November 1972.
#SteelyDan #CantByeAThrill #VintageVinyl
#SteelyDan #CantByeAThrill #VintageVinyl
November 16, 2025 at 11:14 PM
"Can't Buy a Thrill" by Steely Dan, released in November 1972.
#SteelyDan #CantByeAThrill #VintageVinyl
#SteelyDan #CantByeAThrill #VintageVinyl
Billy Lee Riley "Sun Sound Special: Billy Lee Riley" released in 1978.
#BillyLeeRiley #SunSoundSpecial #VintageVinyl
#BillyLeeRiley #SunSoundSpecial #VintageVinyl
November 16, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Billy Lee Riley "Sun Sound Special: Billy Lee Riley" released in 1978.
#BillyLeeRiley #SunSoundSpecial #VintageVinyl
#BillyLeeRiley #SunSoundSpecial #VintageVinyl
November 16, 2025 at 7:29 PM
November 16, 1989 - Six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter were brutally murdered by U.S.-trained and-supported death squads in El Salvador.
#SchoolOfTheAmericas #WesternHemisphereInstituteForSecurityCooperation
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#SchoolOfTheAmericas #WesternHemisphereInstituteForSecurityCooperation
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November 16, 2025 at 5:46 PM
November 16, 1989 - Six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter were brutally murdered by U.S.-trained and-supported death squads in El Salvador.
#SchoolOfTheAmericas #WesternHemisphereInstituteForSecurityCooperation
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#SchoolOfTheAmericas #WesternHemisphereInstituteForSecurityCooperation
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November 16, 1928 - An obscenity trial began for Radclyffe Hall's novel, "The Well of Loneliness." Great Britain banned it for its treatment of lesbianism, though it contained no explicit sexual references.
#RadclyffeHall #TheWellOfLoneliness
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#RadclyffeHall #TheWellOfLoneliness
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November 16, 2025 at 5:34 PM
November 16, 1928 - An obscenity trial began for Radclyffe Hall's novel, "The Well of Loneliness." Great Britain banned it for its treatment of lesbianism, though it contained no explicit sexual references.
#RadclyffeHall #TheWellOfLoneliness
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#RadclyffeHall #TheWellOfLoneliness
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November 16, 2025 at 2:28 AM
November 16, 2025 at 1:53 AM
"Goodnight Vienna" by Ringo Starr released this day in 1974.
#RingoStarr #GoodnightVienna #VintageVinyl
#RingoStarr #GoodnightVienna #VintageVinyl
November 15, 2025 at 10:47 PM
"Goodnight Vienna" by Ringo Starr released this day in 1974.
#RingoStarr #GoodnightVienna #VintageVinyl
#RingoStarr #GoodnightVienna #VintageVinyl
The Yardbirds' "Having A Rave Up with the Yardbirds" released this day in the US in 1965.
#TheYardbirds #HavingARaveUp #VintageVinyl
#TheYardbirds #HavingARaveUp #VintageVinyl
November 15, 2025 at 9:16 PM
The Yardbirds' "Having A Rave Up with the Yardbirds" released this day in the US in 1965.
#TheYardbirds #HavingARaveUp #VintageVinyl
#TheYardbirds #HavingARaveUp #VintageVinyl
"Live at The Fillmore East 1970" by Neil Young & Crazy Horse released this day in 2006.
#NeilYoung #LiveAtTheFillmoreEast #CrazyHorse
#NeilYoung #LiveAtTheFillmoreEast #CrazyHorse
November 15, 2025 at 3:04 AM
"Live at The Fillmore East 1970" by Neil Young & Crazy Horse released this day in 2006.
#NeilYoung #LiveAtTheFillmoreEast #CrazyHorse
#NeilYoung #LiveAtTheFillmoreEast #CrazyHorse
11/14/1953, the Colonial label in Chapel Hill released Andy Griffith’s monologue “What It Was, Was Football.” Colonial was owned by newspaper publisher Orville B. Campbell, who had heard Griffith perform the comedy bit at a luncheon earlier that year.
#AndyGriffith #WhatItWasWasFootball
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#AndyGriffith #WhatItWasWasFootball
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November 14, 2025 at 8:16 PM
11/14/1953, the Colonial label in Chapel Hill released Andy Griffith’s monologue “What It Was, Was Football.” Colonial was owned by newspaper publisher Orville B. Campbell, who had heard Griffith perform the comedy bit at a luncheon earlier that year.
#AndyGriffith #WhatItWasWasFootball
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#AndyGriffith #WhatItWasWasFootball
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November 13, 1982 - The Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C. Carved into black granite are the 58,260 names of those Americans who died in Vietnam.
#VietnamVeteransMemorial #MayaLin
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#VietnamVeteransMemorial #MayaLin
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November 13, 2025 at 7:54 PM
November 13, 1982 - The Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C. Carved into black granite are the 58,260 names of those Americans who died in Vietnam.
#VietnamVeteransMemorial #MayaLin
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#VietnamVeteransMemorial #MayaLin
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November 13, 1974 - Karen Silkwood, a technician and union activist (Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers' Union) at the Kerr-McGee Cimarron plutonium fuels production plant near Crescent, Oklahoma, was killed in a one-car crash.
#KarenSilkwood
#KarenSilkwood
November 13, 2025 at 7:10 PM
November 13, 1974 - Karen Silkwood, a technician and union activist (Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers' Union) at the Kerr-McGee Cimarron plutonium fuels production plant near Crescent, Oklahoma, was killed in a one-car crash.
#KarenSilkwood
#KarenSilkwood
11/13/1933 - The first recorded "sit-down" strike in the U.S. was staged by workers at the Hormel Packing Company in Austin, Minnesota. When the Independent Union of All Workers (IUAW) went on strike, the company tried to bring in scab (strike-breaking) workers.
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#FirstSitDownStrike #Union
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#FirstSitDownStrike #Union
November 13, 2025 at 5:06 PM
11/13/1933 - The first recorded "sit-down" strike in the U.S. was staged by workers at the Hormel Packing Company in Austin, Minnesota. When the Independent Union of All Workers (IUAW) went on strike, the company tried to bring in scab (strike-breaking) workers.
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#FirstSitDownStrike #Union
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#FirstSitDownStrike #Union
"Half the population spent almost nothing on health care, while 5 percent of the population accounted for half of spending, and 1 percent for more than a fifth."
The Republican Brain Doesn’t Want To Understand Health Care
For 15 years we have heard the same lies and misrepresentations
open.substack.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:38 PM
"Half the population spent almost nothing on health care, while 5 percent of the population accounted for half of spending, and 1 percent for more than a fifth."
Happy Birthday to Neil Young, born this day in 1945.
Of all his work, "Tonight's The Night" is my favorite.
#NeilYoung #TonightsTheNight #BernardShakey
Of all his work, "Tonight's The Night" is my favorite.
#NeilYoung #TonightsTheNight #BernardShakey
November 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Happy Birthday to Neil Young, born this day in 1945.
Of all his work, "Tonight's The Night" is my favorite.
#NeilYoung #TonightsTheNight #BernardShakey
Of all his work, "Tonight's The Night" is my favorite.
#NeilYoung #TonightsTheNight #BernardShakey
November 11, 2025 at 7:35 PM
November 11, 2025 at 7:02 PM
November 11, 2025 at 5:39 PM
"Tucked within that last appropriation is a measure that allows the eight Republican senators whose phone logs were seized during former special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation of the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, to sue the government for up to $500,000 apiece."
November 10, 2025
Last night, the Senate advanced a measure to end the government shutdown, which at 41 days today is the longest in U.S.
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:15 PM
"Tucked within that last appropriation is a measure that allows the eight Republican senators whose phone logs were seized during former special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation of the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, to sue the government for up to $500,000 apiece."
November 11, 2025 at 3:37 AM