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Yesterday I testified before Texas's Senate Committee on Education K-16, against Senate Bill 13, which would affectively ban supposedly "indecent" and "profane" books in public school classrooms and libraries. Here's a clip:

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We're watching the on-video confession of the Trump-Russia scandal.

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Hiding from the horrors of the present in the social problems of the past - vintage World In Actions, the BBC Archive bonanza and the Campaign for Real Ale hardlybaked2.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...

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Rabbit Holed, @kieranpressreyn.bsky.social Pitchfork column, explores the cult around the Survivor incidental music + underscores pitchfork.com/thepitch/mee...

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I will use every tool at my disposal to protect this country from Trump. I will litigate to defend voting rights until there are no cases left to bring. I will speak out against authoritarianism until my last breath. I will not back down. I will not bow or scrape. I will never obey.

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A blogpost about Phil Mogg's arse hardlybaked2.blogspot.com/2025/02/old-...

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Kieran’s new music+meme culture column Rabbit Holed for @pitchfork.com kicks off with profile of rage rap prince OsamaSon pitchfork.com/thepitch/osa...

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RIP to Terror Danjah - not just grime's greatest producer but one of the most thrillingly inventive electronic musicians of the 21st Century. Here's my line note for Planet Mu's Danjah comp Gremlinz, plus Q+ A with Terror energyflashbysimonreynolds.blogspot.com/2025/02/rip-...

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Gen Alpha icon + Twitch streamer Fanum profiled by @kieranpressreyn.bsky.social who says "Fanum and his peers are... creating the public-access TV of the 2020s, only if public-access TV could make you rich"

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The world is still catching up to Annette Peacock

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I profiled the divine Natasha Lyonne and I dare you to resist her charms www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

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Severance season 2 is finally here. Exploitative billionaires, corporate trickery and desire to escape real world misery—it’s the perfect vibe for 2025 www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

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Go-bags, fire apps, windows tape-sealed against smoke and soot - snapshots of living five miles from the firestorm by @joypress.bsky.social www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

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A fundraiser for Altadena resident Bennie Maupin, who played on amazing 70s albums by Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, The Headhunters etc, recorded his ECM solo classic The Jewel In the Lotus, etc. Lost his home of 25 years, instruments, photos, everything www.gofundme.com/f/help-the-m...

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Today's listening... Revisiting @simonreynolds.bsky.social’s mix for NTS from earlier this year, as he shared an hour of music featured in his latest book #FUTUROMANIA - exploring the vanguardist electronic music which prefigured the pop of the future. 🎛️ www.nts.live/shows/guests...

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Ya está disponible la versión en español de Futuromania de @simonreynolds.bsky.social blissout.blogspot.com/2024/12/futu...

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I wrote the first profile of 2hollis - "hyperpop's Justin Bieber" "guy who out-aura'd Ken Carson" "Kylie Jenner's favorite new-gen" - he pulled back the curtain about everything, from his childhood to his industry connects to his love of Zyzz: www.complex.com/pigeons-and-...

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If you miss the Village Voice, follow these wonderful people from my starter pack! go.bsky.app/C45D6iZ

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new yorkers of bluesky, I helped curate this free show w/ Mark Leckey within his new exhibition at Gladstone Gallery come hang 8pm on Saturday Nov 23 it will be swell

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I wrote about upsammy's wonderfully soothing new album, a sweet soundtrack for giving your brain a break from all the maddening chaos pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

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Instead of staffing a government, we are casting a C-list reality show. All we need now is to have Joe Rogan make the cabinet members eat cow eyeballs and it’s a readymade Fear Factor reboot

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“There was a group catharsis that came from everyone hating on the same piece of shit": I talked to Sharon Horgan about life after the Prick, aka season 2 of Bad Sisters, which is now out on Apple TV+ www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

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RIP Shel Talmy: as well as the Who, David Bowie, The Creation, Roy Harper, Pentangle and so many others, he produced this, one of my favourite ever records: the Kinks See My Friends, TV taped September 1965 www.youtube.com/watch?v=brWI...

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Skeeting Skeeter, because.... youtu.be/xHa6a3FtPJg?...

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In happier times (3 weeks ago) I interviewed A.R. Kane. In unhappier times (today) it's the cover story of @thewiremagazine.bsky.social For more on the story and the newly active dreampop team, visit my blog blissout.blogspot.com/2024/11/drea...

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I interviewed the glorious Ncuti Gatwa for VF's Hollywood Issue, & if he can't distract you from the news, no one can. He talked Doctor Who, Sex Education, imposter syndrome, racist backlash, & eating scones w/ the Queen (aka Olivia Colman) www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

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Immerse yourself in The Deep Ark – an extraordinary 8-hr odyssey through 1990s Electronic Listening Music + website + lushly photo-illustrated book. An audio-visual-poetic celebration of a landscape-turned-dreamscape, site of ritual adventures thedeepark.com

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My new book FUTUROMANIA: Electronic Dreams, Desiring Machines, and Tomorrow’s Music Today is out today in the UK via White Rabbit. US edition out May 7 on Hachette. Full details at the blog, including my radio show for NTS. blissout.blogspot.com/2024/04/futu...

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Matt Worley’s punk & post-punk fanzine epic ‘Zerox Machine’ is a book I loved editing. Described as ‘definitive’ by @simonreynolds.bsky.social , with great endorsements by Liz Naylor, Mark Perry, Steve Ignorant, Nicholas Bullen, John Robb and Mike Scott. In bookshops soon.

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One of my favorite Pitchfork things is the Sunday Review - writers going long on records the magazine never got to cover before. After a tough week, it’s bittersweet to be this Sunday’s Reviewer, with a paean to Cocteau Twins and Head Over Heels pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

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An awful day for music journalism, music journalists – and for music, too. Salute to all the great editors I’ve worked with at Pitchfork and to my fellow contributors.

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My new book, Futuromania, will be out in the UK April 2024 on White Rabbit Books. The first 500 copies come with ltd edition zine via select record stores. Preorder here: geni.us/Futuromania

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Lovely to chat with Rudy Tambala of A.R. Kane about the wonderful A.R.Kive box set of their core creation circa 88/89. 3 hr memory-dive distilled into this Pitchfork Q+A. pitchfork.com/thepitch/ar-...

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Fran Drescher on 🔥: “I cannot believe, quite frankly, how far apart we are on so many things, how they plead poverty...when giving hundreds of millions of dollars to their CEOs. It is disgusting. Shame on them. They stand on the wrong side of history at this very moment.”

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