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senior editor, smithsonian mag. preorder 'jolt' now: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Jolt/Ted-Scheinman/9781668075593
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d.e.i., claudius @scheinman.bsky.social · Nov 19
hello friends new and old, you can buy my first book here 🎩 us.macmillan.com/books/978086... — and next year you can preorder my second book, about getting voluntarily electrocuted! ⚡️⚡️
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johnlingan.bsky.social
BACKBEATS is out tomorrow! And you can read an excerpt of the Charlie Watts chapter at @rollingstone.com, including one of my fav interviews, Steve Albini.

www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

As always, preorder at johnlingan.com
'HE MARCHES RIGHT THROUGH THE SONG': STEVE ALBINION HOW CHARLIE WATTS'S SNARE DEFINED THE ROLLING STONES In his new book 'Backbeats,' John Lingan explores what made drummers like Watts so extraordinary By JOHN LINGAN NOVEMBER 8, 2025
November 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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whetmoser.com
nostalgia for mass death is really fucked up
November 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
scheinman.bsky.social
latest jessica winter is great: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
"The squishier centrist side has no such certainties. Galloway, in both his podcasts and “Notes on Being a Man,” presents masculinity not as one side of a fixed binary but as a state of mind and a life style, one equally available to men and women, and therefore impossible to define. (It’s a feeling, and we know how Trump supporters feel about those.) Within this amorphous framework, men’s biggest problem is, likewise, a feeling—an unreachable itch, or a marrow-deep belief—that men should still rank above women in the social hierarchy, just not as much as before. This belief may be misguided or unconscious, but it is nonetheless insuperable, and it must be accommodated, for the good of us all." "The deeper one sinks into our nation’s alleged man-boy problem and its potential solutions, the more the woman reader may begin to feel something stronger than resentment or intellectual disdain. She may begin to feel a chauvinistic gratitude in her sex. The familiar flatness of feeling a little degraded seems preferable to the anger, entitlement, and alienation that (we are told over and over) gnaws away at so many male specimens. What a gift it is, really, to have no choice in the matter. To have to move out of your parents’ house, to show up for your shift, to change the diaper, not because any of it is gender-affirming but because life is full of tasks that need doing, and you are the person who does them. At least then you know who you are. Reading Galloway, one gets the sense that men last knew who they were about seventy-five years ago. Much as the Trump Administration does when it vows to revive the coal industry, or when it shares fascist-lite iconography that would be at home in a Paul Verhoeven film, Galloway appeals to the reader’s nostalgia for mid-century “Peak Male.” It was young men, he reminds us, who stormed the beaches at Normandy and who won the Battle of the Bulge: “When Germans or Russians are streaming over the border or firing from the beach, big-dick energy isn’t just a nice idea; it’s fucking mandatory.” Of course, the German soldiers were young men, too. And it isn’t clear which border Galloway thinks the Russians were crossing, or if he realizes which side they were fighting for."
November 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
scheinman.bsky.social
GUYS there is still time to call your senators...

...and make sure they're doing ok. #wellnesscheck 🙏🌊🙏🌊
November 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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runwithskizzers.bsky.social
This entire piece is very, very good and well worth your time to read — but this bit had me rolling

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“People read Foucault,” the redoubtable David Brooks once wrote, in an actual column that I’ve all but committed to memory, “and develop an alienated view of the world.” God, did I love this. An “alienated view of the world”! Not by, like, trying to pay rent or having an insurance claim denied—no, no, it was probably the Foucault you read in 2003.
November 8, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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lukeoneil47.bsky.social
DC this is tonight. Please do not make me have gotten on a plane for nothing thank you.
lukeoneil47.bsky.social Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 19d
Hello here is a thread of some book tour dates I have coming up soon. Nov 5 at @busboysandpoets.bsky.social in DC with @patrickcreis.bsky.social @iamchrisscott.bsky.social @scheinman.bsky.social + @dwdavison.bsky.social

(flyers by the great @tylerlittwin.bsky.social)
November 5, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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dwdavison.bsky.social
Come check this out if you're in the neighborhood!
scheinman.bsky.social d.e.i., claudius @scheinman.bsky.social · 15d
d.c. friends, come hear @lukeoneil47.bsky.social discuss his new collection with @patrickreis.bsky.social at @busboysandpoets.bsky.social in brookland on nov. 5! rsvp below.

additional inducements: readings by @iamchrisscott.bsky.social and @dwdavison.bsky.social and me 📚
November 3, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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aklingus.bsky.social
We’re running out of titans, man bsky.app/profile/jazy...
October 27, 2025 at 2:43 PM
scheinman.bsky.social
d.c. friends, come hear @lukeoneil47.bsky.social discuss his new collection with @patrickreis.bsky.social at @busboysandpoets.bsky.social in brookland on nov. 5! rsvp below.

additional inducements: readings by @iamchrisscott.bsky.social and @dwdavison.bsky.social and me 📚
October 26, 2025 at 2:50 PM
scheinman.bsky.social
"francoist has aesthetic disagreements with non-catholic fascists" how terribly novel
alexshephard.bsky.social Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 16d
if you are trying to use the Trump ballroom as an analogy for how the right and the left treat development and preservation, I think this acknowledgment pretty thoroughly undermines the point! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/o...
October 25, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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lukeoneil47.bsky.social
Hello here is a thread of some book tour dates I have coming up soon. Nov 5 at @busboysandpoets.bsky.social in DC with @patrickcreis.bsky.social @iamchrisscott.bsky.social @scheinman.bsky.social + @dwdavison.bsky.social

(flyers by the great @tylerlittwin.bsky.social)
October 23, 2025 at 1:20 PM
scheinman.bsky.social
'backbeats' is a beautiful book, by one of my favorite writers (and favorite drummers), @johnlingan.bsky.social. 

it swings, it bops, it rocks, it skanks. do yourself a kindness and preorder: www.simonandschuster.com/books/Backbe...
October 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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jamellebouie.net
there are good & worthwhile historical & legal arguments for why the unitary executive is nonsense but to my mind the most straightforward argument is that it makes no logical sense that the president has absolute removal power over the people whose job it is to keep the executive branch accountable
donmoyn.bsky.social Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20d
The Inspector General system is basically broken now. Most IGs have been fired, most positions remain vacant. Those who remain or would take the job pose no risk to holding the regime accountable.
Congress added more barriers to Trump firing IGs after his first term. He just ignored them.
October 21, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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jaimealyse.bsky.social
It's pub day for The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2025, and the whole Best American series. I'm so proud of this book and all the brilliant, beautiful writing @susanorlean.bsky.social selected for it. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2025
Check out The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2025 - <p>&#8220;The best science and nature writing&#8212;which these stories represent&#8212;reminds us of the wide world and our connection to...
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October 21, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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scheinman.bsky.social
carving out a sensible middle with my “some kings” rally this weekend
October 14, 2025 at 9:36 PM
scheinman.bsky.social
carving out a sensible middle with my “some kings” rally this weekend
October 14, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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lollardfish.bsky.social
Pre-order The Public Scholar here. Pay zero shipping from @bookshop.org.

I tried to write it real good for you!

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The Public Scholar: A Practical Handbook
A Practical Handbook
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October 8, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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pixelatedboat.bsky.social
Thinking about how human cloning technology could be used to not only revive famous musical acts, but make them even better. Just imagine Crosby, Crosby, Crosby, Crosby, Stills, Stills, Nash, Young & Young
October 6, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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civilwarjon.bsky.social
My latest in @smithsonianmag.bsky.social about newly discovered Frederick Douglass letters.

www.smithsonianmag.com/history/hist...
When Historians Rediscovered These Frederick Douglass Letters, They Were Surprised by His Candid Opinions About Abraham Lincoln
In correspondence with a passionate abolitionist in London, the great American orator didn't hold back when talking about the 16th president, or his successor, the much-maligned Andrew Johnson
www.smithsonianmag.com
September 9, 2025 at 8:29 PM
scheinman.bsky.social
in our new print issue, richard grant delivers an exclusive about cormac mccarthy's personal library — and about the devoted cormackians who have been cataloguing it, lovingly and discreetly: www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture... via @smithsonianmag.bsky.social
Two Years After Cormac McCarthy's Death, Rare Access to His Personal Library Reveals the Man Behind the Myth
The famously reclusive novelist amassed a collection of thousands of books ranging in topics from philosophical treatises to advanced mathematics to the naked mole-rat
www.smithsonianmag.com
September 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
scheinman.bsky.social
these ppl’s basic premise has been that anything is permitted as long as it is against wokeness. now they have boxed themselves in.
mattboxer94.bsky.social Matt Boxer @mattboxer94.bsky.social · Feb 28
Bari Weiss’ publication has now turned on DOGE. I may be young but I’ve witnessed enough backlashes to know what one looks like. It’s usually when erstwhile supporters turn on you in a significant number, especially a prominent figure. Jack Murtha switching on Iraq in November 2005 is a good example
February 28, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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strategictaper.bsky.social
Brian Eno's "Ambient 1" only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it went on to start an airport.
February 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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brihreed.bsky.social
Among many scary things happening, this is scary. Having reported in countries without a Times v Sullivan, we do not want to go this route.
davidenrich.bsky.social David Enrich @davidenrich.bsky.social · Feb 7
Trump megadonor Steve Wynn has filed a petition asking the Supreme Court to overturn the landmark 1964 decision in New York Times v. Sullivan, which protects the media's ability to aggressively cover public officials. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...
February 7, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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annamerlan.bsky.social
On another note, I really needed to think about something else this weekend. So, for Flaming Hydra, I finished something I've been mulling over since December: the weird horny profiles that men's magazines used to run all the time. flaminghydra.com/what-was-the...
What Was the Horny Profile?
a collective of 60 writers, on fire and hard to kill
flaminghydra.com
January 29, 2025 at 12:43 AM