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An Italian court yesterday sentenced executives at a chemical plant to jail terms of up to 17 years for polluting water used by hundreds of thousands of people with PFAS, or "forever chemicals". Corporate executives killing our environment need to held to account. www.france24.com/en/live-news...

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An Italian court yesterday sentenced executives at a chemical plant to jail terms of up to 17 years for polluting water used by hundreds of thousands of people with PFAS, or "forever chemicals". Corporate executives killing our environment need to held to account. www.france24.com/en/live-news...

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Just over a month after the death of Ian Curtis, Joy Division 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' was released 27th June #otd in 1980. NME gave it Single of the Week (journalist Paul Rambali) #JoyDivision

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#OtD 26 Jun 1952 Black feminist and squatting activist, Olive Morris was born. She was a founder of numerous anti-racist and women support organisations, such as OWAAD and the British Black Panthers stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9836...

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Lovely grey skies at Media City, Salford. Very Joy Division.

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"We all know the Beat poets never would have become a byword for bohemianism if they’d had a compulsion to tidy a kitchen or treasured the idea of parenthood" davehaslam.substack.com/p/retracing-...

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Looking forward to interviewing Kevin in Liverpool on July 15th, marking the publication of his autobiography www.visitliverpool.com/event/kevin-...

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Hope Sandoval of Mazzy Star born #otd June 24th, 1966. Classic footage of an amazing song... www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4m5...

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New article - some insights into promoting acts, staging events, curating shows. And all the info about an event at Manchester International Festival on 5th July. HERE davehaslam.substack.com/p/ghost-asse...

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#OtD 20 Jun 1967 boxing legend Muhammad Ali was convicted for refusing the draft for the Vietnam war. Sentenced to five years prison and a $10,000 fine, he attacked a system where "the rich man's son went to college and the poor man's son went to war" stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9289...

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New article - some insights into promoting acts, staging events, curating shows. And all the info about an event at Manchester International Festival on 5th July. HERE davehaslam.substack.com/p/ghost-asse...

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Sad news. Adeo's family; "We are deeply saddened by the loss of our beautiful Adeo. The enormity of support and love shown by the public, friends and strangers sharing Adeo's appeal is a testament to the passionate way he lived his life" www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...

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God it’s not hard is it, Beeb

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Opening words of 'The Bell Jar' by Sylvia Plath; “It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they executed the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York." Convicted of spying on behalf of the Soviet Union, Julius & Ethel Rosenberg were executed #otd June 19th, 1953.

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Opening words of 'The Bell Jar' by Sylvia Plath; “It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they executed the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York." Convicted of spying on behalf of the Soviet Union, Julius & Ethel Rosenberg were executed #otd June 19th, 1953.

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I’ve long had concerns about the NTIA for a number of reasons, but this is off the scale shady. Michael Kill comes across as a classic 21st century grifter. Nightlife needs representation, but not from characters like this

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New article on my Substack, please give it a read. Here davehaslam.substack.com/p/ghost-asse...

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As also recommended by @davehaslam.bsky.social‬ (so you know it makes sense) ♫ @ghost-assembly.bsky.social‬ - De Laatste Rit (The Last Ride) (2025) Big Strings Attached / @bandcamp.com ghostassembly.bandcamp.com/album/de-laa...

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New article. All the info about an event at Manchester International Festival on 5th July. Plus, some insights into promoting acts, staging events, curating shows... HERE davehaslam.substack.com/p/ghost-asse...

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New article. All the info about an event at Manchester International Festival on 5th July. Plus, some insights into promoting acts, staging events, curating shows... HERE davehaslam.substack.com/p/ghost-asse...

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Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes married on June 16th 1956. Plath wore a pink wool knitted dress, and Hughes wore a corduroy jacket. Their honeymoon was in Benidorm (via Paris). Hughes later (1981) explained their honeymoon choice; Benidorm ‘was at that time still undeveloped as a tourist resort’.

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June 16th is #Bloomsday, a celebration of James Joyce’s novel Ulysses. The novel is set on June 16, 1904. In 1955 Eve Arnold photographed Marilyn Monroe reading the book. She said she kept Ulysses in her car and would read it aloud to herself to try to make sense of it.

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June 15th 1979 #UnknownPleasures released. Applause please for the album's producer; Martin Hannett. Found sounds (the metallic clang of an old lift door closing, glass smashing), innovate, embrace space, less is more... Photo by Daniel Meadows #JoyDivision

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NEW: The authoritarian crackdown begins in LA. This is dystopian. As the dictator’s parade is broadcast in the top right corner, MSNBC’s reporter and peaceful protestors are charged by police as tear gas is fired. Watch till the end.

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I, like many of you, am not only devastated but furious at the assassination of two Minnesota lawmakers this morning. This isn’t some isolated tragedy. It’s extremism, it’s fascist violence, and we have to treat it that way. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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The Carl Davis music at the beginning of The World at War has so much power, at the time and still. What an incredible series.

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That our government has not only failed to act to prevent this, but knowingly enabled it, is an absolute stain of shame that will last generations.

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Cat jumping, Salford. 1957. Photo by Neil Libbert.

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Breaking: Autistic community preemptively rejects David Walliams

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A fella called Lee Crocker sketched me DJing at one of my 7” vinyl only sessions last week. I’m taking my box of 7s to Folk on Burton Rd this Friday, and Holding Patterns in Leeds on Saturday. Free entry. Come say hello! Sketchbooks optional.

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DJing at Folk on Burton Rd this Friday, Holding Patterns in Leeds on Saturday. Free entry. Come say hello! Loving my 7” vinyl series…

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Barry Adamson. 67 yrs old today, born 11 June 1958, grew up Moss Side, Manchester. Musician, film-maker. Original bassist in Magazine and then with Visage, the Birthday Party, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and many others, as well as creating amazing solo work.

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DJing at Folk on Burton Rd this Friday, Holding Patterns in Leeds on Saturday. Free entry. Come say hello! Loving my 7” vinyl series…

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For most Jews, Israel was not about settler colonialism. It was supposed to be a safe homeland for a traumatised generation post-Holocaust. It was, in the Jewish consciousness, a homecoming to a land we’d been expelled from. What it’s become fills me with grief, rage & shame I can’t even articulate.

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