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Thanks for this write-up @niemanstoryboard.org

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THIS THIS THIS

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In honor of my upcoming newsletter post, new subscribers* will get a personalized stock photo of a microphone doing nothing! *offer applies to any subscriber or really anyone at all around here. continuous-wave.beehiiv.com

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Soon would be a great time for the few who made millions in podcasting to announce large gifts to their local public radio stations.

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Let’s normalize putting the name of the corporation that owns the private prison in the headline whenever something like this happens

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Tonight in BBC Radio 4’s Illuminated, Saba Husain receives an unexpected - and life-changing - box. It contains ‘the life’ of their mum, who they have never met. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... Producer: Christina Hardinge Co-creator: Saba Husain Sound Design & Music composition: Noémie Ducimetière

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Tim Eriksen takes us into the hair-raising sound of shape note singing in this weekend’s Heart and Soul on the BBC World Service… Listen to Our Sacred Harp - produced by Sarah Cuddon www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

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The potential loss of the world’s greatest climate forecasting tool has ramifications for long-term safety and security. NOAA’s climate modeling systems help the Defense Department not just operate but anticipate and prepare for emerging threats. By @abrahm.bsky.social

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Krapp’s Last Tape review – Gary Oldman’s arresting one-man Beckett is a startling piece of theatre

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April 25, 2025

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When we call for politicians to "do something," this is what we mean. Not speeches or op-eds or campaign rallies, but using every tool available to disrupt the advance of fascism.

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Me on Independent Bookstore Day

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Shout outs to some of my faves: Malaprop Books in Asheville, NC Harvard Bookstore and Million Year Picnic in Cambridge, MA Eliot Bay Books in Seattle Powells World of Books (the GOAT) in PDX

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The cruelty and the stupidity is the point

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Women in the control booth!? (Movie-Radio Guide magazine, Oct. 19, 1940)

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“It’s cynical, manipulative, and cruel — and for what? Amazon has already put half the bookstores in the country out of business, controlling over 60 percent of the market and selling far more books than all indie bookstores combined,” Reminder to NOT buy books from Amazon today (or any day really)

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It’s like they’re throwing gold bars away You all in Los Angeles need to go raid this

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Streaming only this weekend: a haunting collection of animated shorts, some of my favorite made by children in Gaza watch.eventive.org/artearchive/...

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Now in newsletter form! continuous-wave.beehiiv.com/p/the-profes...

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Some more detail on the arrest of Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel www.jsonline.com/story/news/b...

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FIVE ALARM FIRE

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Senator Tammy Baldwin's @baldwin.senate.gov statement on the arrest of Judge Dugan (posted elsewhere):

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Let's wake up. He's REALLY unpopular for this early in a term or really ever. President's this unpopular are already losing. Power becomes harder to assert when your power is fading.

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April 24, 2025

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In my latest New Cult Canon column, I wrote about Guillermo del Toro's CRIMSON PEAK, the ideal synthesis of his sumptuous historical fantasies and his more energized pop entertainments: thereveal.substack.com/p/the-new-cu...

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“Painting out these movie mistakes as part of a restoration is wrong. What's in the movie is in the movie, and altering the movie to this extent is a form of revisionist history. Cinema is worse off when over-aggressive restorations alter the action within the frame.”

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Even if you’re not autistic, you should be VERY worried about your private medical data being used to “track” anything.

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Just one small piece of the best interview I’ve read all year

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Go-Boy! is getting some love from the Guelph Mercury Tribune! @sammullins.bsky.social @laynerose.bsky.social www.guelphmercury.com/things-to-do...

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Have not seen it reported anywhere, but a contact in the government shared this: A new Presidential order this week that attempts to end every environmental regulation. Yes, every. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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This is all fascinating. I had no idea Ryan Coogler negotiated a contract where he kept final cut, first-line profits, and the rights to SINNERS after 25 years. But the idea of studio execs FREAKING OUT about it ("What if EVERY in-demand creative wants rights over their own work?") is even better.

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This: “The choice isn’t simply between open and closed borders, asylum and amnesty or disappearances and deportations. This picture of migration is one in which all nations, rich and poor, participate in a great network of human movement, linked by cultural, economic, historical and family ties…”

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Autopsies for 14 out of 15 of the medics killed in Gaza found that four of them had been shot in the head, while six were shot in the chest or back. The majority of them were shot multiple times, and all were clearly identified as emergency workers. truthout.org/articles/isr...

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NEW: Operatives from DOGE are building a master database at DHS that could track and surveil undocumented immigrants, two sources with direct knowledge tell WIRED. @makenakelly.bsky.social and @telliotter.bsky.social with this major scoop: www.wired.com/story/doge-c...

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Van Hollen: This case is not just about one man. It's about protecting the Constitutional rights of everybody who resides in the United States of America.

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Van Hollen: I should also just say, I mentioned the fake margarita, they actually wanted to have the meeting by the side of the pool in the hotel. They want to create this appearance that life was just lovely for Kilmar. Which of course is a big, fat lie.

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Some people in Jamelle's comments are reading "political ambition" as an insult, but ambition can dovetail with courage and leadership—it's what makes some politicians take worthwhile risks

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Though the headline compares it to Jordan Peele--& there are elements of the film that did put me in mind of Us & Nope--Sinners is wholly its own thing, a deeply personal big swing of a Southern Gothic vampire thriller from Ryan Coogler, w/ MBJ in a challenging double role. slate.com/culture/2025...

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Thread, for people who haven’t had to consider this before.

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