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Mike Duquette
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Music reissue news at @theseconddisc.bsky.social, assorted culture writing at Duques-Delight.ghost.io, freelance writing at Allmusic/Observer/UltimateClassicRock/various labels of varying repute
Agreed—I absolutely wish she said more (less because she’s got pull and more because her saying more at her level acts kind of like a mirror), but let’s not pretend Michael wasn’t posing for pictures with Reagan
I guess there’s an interesting piece to be written about which artists have or haven’t spoken out about the US regime but when you’re getting into “stopping Rosalia having a number 1 is the kind of thing HE would do” you’re stretching a point

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
Taylor Swift’s silence on the Trump administration using her music speaks volumes | Alim Kheraj
Official Trump social media accounts have been using The Life of a Showgirl snippets to promote his agenda. Why has Swift, who once wanted ‘to be on the right side of history’, said nothing?
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Menswear guy about to be whistling like Omar
This is exactly what I thought the nepo baby who wrote the Olivia Nuzzi article looks like
November 15, 2025 at 12:29 AM
RFK Jr. (sitting in a van that looks like Cranky Kong’s house): L̷̖̔ị̷̿v̷̨͛ṽ̸̥y̵̤͌,̷̱̃ ̸̤̌I̵̘̚ ̶͕͂l̸͈͊õ̶̡v̶̥̈́e̷̲͑ ̴̘͒y̶̠͊o̸͓͋u̸͇͊.̶̪̈́ ̵̮̎P̶͙̓l̵̤̒e̷̯͂ą̵͋s̷͙̒ė̴̼ ̸̇ͅh̶̯͝a̸̧͐v̴̙̆e̶̛̦ ̵̼̚m̵̩̂y̷̘͝ ̶̜͛b̷͔͝a̴̩̋ḅ̸̅y̸͈̐.̵̦̀ ̸̯͐Į̶̀ ̵͈͗w̶̮̌ȑ̸̲o̵͙͑t̸͖̓e̶̳̋ ̴̇͜y̵̏͜ò̷͓u̸̹̅ ̴͕̒a̷͕͂ ̴͕͛p̶̩̎o̶̟͆ę̴͑m̷̯̈́.̶̥́
Olivia Nuzzi (face immobile for the last 45 minutes): I would take a bullet for this man
Jacob Bernstein: Wow, is that an ORIGINAL King James Bible?
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Having kids and few friends likely to get married sadly means I’d have to fight to make my own opportunities to go absolutely stupid on a dance floor to this
Outkast - B.O.B. (Bombs Over Baghdad) (Official HD Video)
YouTube video by OutkastVEVO
youtu.be
November 14, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Every single paragraph of this is like when that goon in Burton’s Batman sees Batman jump off the roof, looks over, sees no trace of him, and has a psychotic break while cackling
you can’t be putting this in the paper (gift link but i do not recommend you use it www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/s...)
November 14, 2025 at 6:50 PM
New York Times is reporting that Olivia Nuzzi did it
Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart, Sting - All For Love (Non-Film Version)
YouTube video by BryanAdamsVEVO
youtu.be
November 14, 2025 at 6:38 PM
A meeting of the minds in this great @nymag.com photo diary of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social’s Election Day. nymag.com/intelligence...
November 14, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I'm an American so I'm more inured to the disrespect for human life than I'd like to be, but the second you hear "a young person killed themselves with the encouragement of ChatGPT," how are we not going after whatever server that exists on or whatever with a big fucking hammer
November 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
It would be so cool if this guy got swept away by a tornado, or pulled into a bank’s drive-thru tube
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · 2d
Gregory Bovino, the top Border Patrol official leading the charge on the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in cities, and his officers are heading to Charlotte, according to a source familiar with the planning. That was news to city officials. https://cnn.it/49crpZT
November 14, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Reposted by Mike Duquette
Most of the song is about believing in yourself and being confident but in the third verse, the Scatman starts uttering frightening prophecies
November 13, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Finally! I was just thinking how I KNOW I could make a better, quicker movie for my TV than the team of artists and craftsmen who’ve been working on this for years
Don’t want to wait until 2027 for Frozen 3? Soon, you may be able to make your own. bit.ly/3JS59Kz
November 13, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Thomaston Chatterton Williamston! Are you writing centrism on my walls again?? I just warshed them!!
November 13, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Why would I want to listen to AI music when humans can make this
November 13, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Jesus, not only *any* Chicks song but their last country Top 10 (a No. 1 on that chart, even) before the insane 2003 backlash
People are always doing too much when talking about the politics and optics of country music, but a Trump supporter getting a hit off a song made famous by the Chicks genuinely turns my fucking stomach
November 13, 2025 at 5:39 PM
The argument is “why didn’t we get that kind of investigation from the Times,” instead of the trans panic/Gaza panic/Zohran panic/here’s who the hell “Chris Rufo” is and all the other “We Didn’t Start the Fire” lyrics from Hell that the paper has instead pushed in the last nine years
I am not defending Landon’s relationship with Epstein. In fact, the NYT didn’t even try to defend it. He left the paper. What I’m saying is that a piece of investigative journalism that exposes a secret, criminal act such as statutory rape requires far more than what is in these emails.
November 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Reposted by Mike Duquette
Alternatives to NY Times Games & Puzzles 🧵

If it bothers you that your passive games subscription and clicks to the NYT Games cartel is funding their awful OpEd army and "journalism," there are a wealth of puzzle/game options less iffy/yikes complicit, and many are direct clones to your NYT faves.
July 4, 2025 at 2:03 PM
I mulled over whether to write about the so-bad-it’s prematurely-closing Broadway magic show with a few minutes of Muppets. Ultimately, I guested on something my friend Tara (not on here) wrote, getting most of my thoughts out (namely variations on “WHAT was Disney thinking here”)
174. Rob Lake “Magic” with Special "Guests" The Muppets
Mike Duquette and I on why we are not surprised this show is disappearing into thin air.
taragiancaspro.substack.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Have said so on previous apps, but I worked with one of these guys and was so thoroughly unimpressed that it took me nearly a month to realize he didn’t work there anymore
rory and mal trying to be the temu colin jost and michael che
November 13, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Big day for mini-revival of the word “kompromat”
November 12, 2025 at 10:59 PM
I understand this is a little “YOUR going to the camps liberal”/“(chuckles) You’re*”—but if this is gonna be a news story, the record should show the WSJ article did NOT say Cash was uncool (a ridiculous assessment). It said he could SEEM uncool compared to Dylan or Springsteen (also ridiculous)
November 12, 2025 at 8:46 PM
typically great work by @zachschonfeld.bsky.social here. Certainly makes me grateful for the companies I freelance for that pay promptly (or at all!)
Who got screwed when Vinyl, Me Please went bust?

Inside the subscription vinyl club's unpaid debts and troubled relaunch:
Who Got Screwed When Vinyl Me, Please Went Bust?
Inside the subscription vinyl club's unpaid debts and troubled relaunch
stereogum.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Turns out if you deliver a threadbare magic show with only minutes of the characters you're hyping to an audience desperate to see them, it will not do well at all!
Rob Lake Magic With Special Guests The Muppets to Close Early on Broadway
Jim Henson's creations are also making their Broadway debuts at the Broadhurst.
playbill.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:37 PM
For whatever reason, I always found this guy one of the more insufferable “town criers” of Twitter, but putting that aside: none of these “sustainable” lineups have remained unchanged
November 12, 2025 at 4:34 AM
A nice story: my kids presently want books read to them repeatedly. They were off daycare today so it was them and me. At the sixth request for one particular book, I sighed in my best Orson Welles, “Here, under protest, is beef burgers.” It made me laugh, which made my oldest laugh. Then we read.
November 12, 2025 at 1:22 AM
White Guy Says ‘Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles’ in Perfect French, Shocks Patrons and Staff
Pope Leo has shared his four favorite movies of all time, as the Vatican prepares to host dozens of actors and directors in a “World of Cinema” gathering on Saturday at his official residence. See which films made the pope's list. nyti.ms/4p3exK9
Pope Leo Shares His Favorite Movies Ahead of Vatican Event
The list leans heavily on uplifting classics.
nyti.ms
November 11, 2025 at 11:38 PM