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Brooklyn Rail music editor, Writer: Grove Dictionary; Library of Congress; Financial Times, Bandcamp, Red Hook Star-Revue, Playbill, NY Classical Review, The Strad, etc. Author: "Miles Davis' Bitches Brew"; newsletter: killyridols.substack.com
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one million times this stamping into a human face for eternity

Is Harris Faulkner antisemitic? I’m just asking the question

The very best of America’s shitposters are now outgunned by their Chinese peers. Balance of power has shifted.

Tidal following up Il Barbiere di Siviglia with "Non piangere, Liù", smash I mean read the fucking room or higher someone with the barest inkling of what classical music is

In today's newsletter I offer a reminder that Major League Baseball does not give a shit about Jackie Robinson's example or his legacy beyond how they can use it to make themselves look good. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...

People laugh at Water World, and yeah there's some goofy shit in there that Costner is too serious about, but just look around you

My look at the many scenes of Thurston Moore is out today on the @bandcamp.com Daily daily.bandcamp.com/lists/thurst...

Sometimes I like to imagine the secretary of defense is a pitcher and Jackie Robinson lays down a bunt on the 1st base line

I don’t think New York City can lay claim to being the greatest city in the world simply based on its run of mayors they have elected. We’re gonna give that title to Paris or something until they get their shit together

Predominantly in our ruling class

Columbia’s cave-in, Cuomo’s polling, the top-to-bottom corruption of Adams’ mayoralty: a good post earlier talked about the collapse of civic virtue in the U.S., but it’s worth suggesting that there’s something lacking regarding civic virtue and civil society in New York _specifically_.

Not surprised that Steely Dan works in 2025, surprised by how perfect it is. This is the attitude we all should carry

for clarity's sake

Lol.

Genuinely, honestly curious if Bukele's contempt for John Roberts and SCOTUS will actually break through to them. I mean, the guy is shitting all over them and telling them to have some more. That would motivate anyone with a sense of dignity.

The Judiciary thought the great danger to the republic in the last four years was Joe Biden canceling student loan debt. There's only one class of people they care about, and 99% of us ain't it

Your regular reminder that almost everything Trump is getting away with is not because of presidential strength, but because of congressional weakness and judicial deference. The constitutional tools are already there to fix this, but those who can fix it are refusing to do so.

One thing that Cuomo is better at than Adams is being gutless, just an absolute gutless pissant

Someone tell Joe and Eileen Bailey that it's time to wake up this motherfucker

This is what @schumer.senate.gov said he was waiting for before he took any action, and I don't think it's cynical to look at him, his career, what he says and what matters to him and expect absolutely nothing

As crew what functions will they be performing?

Bingo

The only thing Cuomo is promising to New Yorkers is his contempt and apparently there are hundreds of thousands of people eager to experience it

If NYers truly want a disgraced, failed former celebrity as Mayor then that’s exactly what they’ll be getting. Four more years of DeBlasio memes and kowtowing to Trump.

I feel tweeting this, under her own name on her public twitter account her husband follows, should be the last word on liz. just imagine being any of the people in a relationship like this.

Picture of the year

When will we as a society be able to move beyond Bill Maher

Local Paper Highlights Recent Social Activities in Town

And on top of legit not knowing what he's talking about, he has no capacity to reason. Put all these motherfuckers in an escape room and let them have a dumb-off.

Too much I know but I have to write this out so it's no longer in my head: Elizabeth Breuning gets to write for a prestige publication that—despite her superficial obfuscations—we need the "right" sort of people to "perpetuate humanity." What could be "wrong" with the other 8 billion, I wonder?

The eugenics movements is eventually going to eat this couple sine they are passing on the need for corrective lenses to their children

Wonder how many times things like this happen before Democratic leadership figures out just what that is that is banging on their door and yelling in their ear each second of every day

Cannot get over the premise that the "left" not attending a racist/eugenicist conference is an indictment of them, when the dek is sociopathic. Just come out and say "perpetuating genetically inbred white humanity should be a cross-politics consensus," Liz. She's a coward.

Look at that amazing ensemble!

How about a real moral panic: why does a lot of money turn people into weaklings? And what's the solution? (tax their fucking asses)

Wynton Kelly is one of the reasons this is my personal favorite Miles album. I know it's not the best, it's just my fave.

A splendid geographical astrolabe made and signed by Gillis Coignet the elder, father of painter Gillis Coignet whose day is today.

A helpful guide to the current state of US trade policy:

Would love to tell this fascist fuck that when you buy a ticket you buy the right to boo if you want that’s capitalism

A wonderful image of Australian soldiers, deployed as trainers in the UK, farewelling their fellow soldiers from #Ukraine who have just completed the Section Commander Battle Course. 🇦🇺 🇺🇦 (Image courtesy of @AustralianArmy)

You know it’s a brutal news week when the line of people with their dogs waiting in the rain to buy weed is out the door and down the block.

Before folks overreact to headlines about the judge’s ruling in the Khalil case, please note that (1) it was an immigration judge (IJ), not a federal district court; and (2) the IJ had no power to consider Khalil’s constitutional objections. This particular decision was a fait accompli.

New & Notable: The legend returns! An acoustic album from iconic Malian guitarist and vocalist is the perfect showcase for his bottomless talent.

The NYT when someone wants to kill higher education

i really hope none of the folks who made the anti-tesla stickers and fliers do something with this and post it all around nyc

Not pro-helicopter but I am pro-sanity in regards to reasonable regulations on aircraft (including photography drones). That said, helicopter crashes in the NY region seem to have killed more people than e-bikes killing pedestrians in the last couple of years, and guess what is closer to a ban