Patrick A. Reed
@djpatrickareed.bsky.social
Pop culture historian and journalist, DJ, Hip-Hop And Comics guy. Curator of Jack Kirby: Heroes And Humanity, Spider-Man: Beyond Amazing, Marvel: Universe Of Super Heroes/Earth's Mightiest Exhibition, Eight Decades Of Archie, and other projects.
Happy Birthday, Revolver! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uq0a...
And Your Bird Can Sing (Remastered 2009)
YouTube video by The Beatles - Topic
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The Beatles Bible 🍏@beatlesbible.com · 4h ago5 August 1966: The Beatles release Revolver, their seventh UK album (and many say their best). Paul McCartney, 1966: "I think it’ll be our best album yet. They’ll never be able to copy this!" Read all about Revolver: www.beatlesbible.com/albums/revol...
“Music publications BrooklynVegan, Alternative Press, Revolver, and Goldmine have been gutted by parent company Veeps... Nearly all the staff at each publication appear to have been laid off yesterday. Veeps, which is now owned by Live Nation, acquired the publications in 2024 or 2025”
BrooklynVegan, Alt Press Hit With Mass Layoffs
Music publications Revolver and Goldmine have also been gutted by owners Veeps and Live Nation
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Texas isn't a red state. It's a state held hostage by gerrymandering and voter suppression. Hell, earlier this week they announced they're shutting down half the voting centers in Tarrant County (that's Fort Worth, 2.2 million people) and kicked everyone out of the hearing who wanted to comment.
John DeVore@johndevore.bsky.social · 4h agoThis is a sentimental essay about politics, which I know isn't the fashion, and yet the editors at @newrepublic.com let me write something personal about the Lone Star State. Link in the replies.
I was appalled (though not surprised) when I learned Sunday that Senate Dems intend to help Republicans fund the government through the election, with one minimal concession that has nothing to do with election subversion or ongoing Trump theft of federal dollars from blue states. And I remain so.
Senate Democrats Dodge Last Pre-Election Opportunity To Fight Trump
They won't take a big stand to protect the election, or resist Trump's broader lawlessness, before the midterms.
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Been waiting for this to bubble up to the surface. Again, any other time in American history when we had functioning news media, this would have been a five alarm scandal. There would be senate hearings. There would be consequences for everyone in the chain of command involved in this.
Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · yesterdayHoly shit. www.wired.com/story/a-civi...
If you're scared about being the only person wearing a mask, I can tell you that most people do not care. I've been masking for the past 6 years. I've travelled to several different countries in that time. I've never had Covid and I've endured a handful of snarky comments at most. Be brave.
Ward Q. Normal (he/him)@wardqnormal.bsky.social · 3d agoIf you haven't been masking, give it a try. What do you have to lose? Just wear one in crowds and on planes, trains, and buses. Find a style that fits, so you don't futz with it. You don't have to get sick all the time.
(addendum: if you want to read the book, it's called "the lost subways of north america". if you get a copy directly from me, i'll sign it for you)
The Lost Subways of North America
Official website for Jake Berman's book, "The Lost Subways of North America," containing transit maps and his writings on cities.
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this is not true. there was no conspiracy. it didn't matter whether the streetcars were publicly owned (seattle, detroit) or private (los angeles, atlanta). a thread (because i wrote a whole-ass book on this): 1/?
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 3d agoIs everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.
That said, don't overlook a much smaller but significant box-office phenomenon: The proshot of Hadestown grossing $18 million--more than Hamilton made--feels like a very clear and positive statement about the viability of these straight-from-the-stage special events. Expect more.
Not the most important thing here, but why don't NC, SC, GA, FL count as "the coasts." All four states are on the coast. TX, LA, MS, AL are coastal states too, but the southeast states are on a main ocean coast. Looks like just another way to say red/rural = real & good; blue/urban = fake & bad.
Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com · 3d agoI really hate Elissa Slotkin's patronizing "my theory of the case is that what works in the middle of the country will work on the coasts, but not the other way around" shit. It's one of her canned lines that she uses in her eventual attempt to run for president.
What is the point of the investigative pieces if they don’t change how @nytimes.com covers this unprecedentedly corrupt, criminal, lawless authoritarian presidency?
Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · last wk.Nothing today on the front page or the editorial page. These pieces continue to have exactly zero impact on how the NYT subsequently covers the unprecedented lawless authoritarianism. Just back to business as usual. An entirely broken model of political journalism.
No one in this entire administration follows laws or court orders, so the solution cannot be more laws or more court orders. We have a bad system, where you can’t remove a lawless executive & stop his underlyings from committing crimes without using a mechanism that has <never> worked in 240 years.
Asawin Suebsaeng@swin24.bsky.social · 3d agoAnd I wanna be clear that the “they’re not supposed to be fucking doing that” comment of mine I guess describes what they just do in the trump-vance era now; advocates and lawyers argue this is illegal in many instances. They don’t care. And have been just doing it for a while now
Excited for this game but Jesus Christ I am seriously choking on all of this smoke @wpbl.bsky.social please make it stop!!!
The scoreboard on this WPBL broadcast is astonishingly bad. So far, they've shown incorrect balls and strikes, not shown runners on base, and messed up which half of the inning we're in.
I don't remember hearing about this until now Seems like it would've been a good piece of information to have before the 2024 election Then again, maybe it wouldn't have mattered to anyone who voted for him
Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · 4d agoBREAKING: Capital One bank closed Trump’s accounts in 2021 over money laundering, per a new court filing. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
BREAKING: Capital One bank closed Trump’s accounts in 2021 over money laundering, per a new court filing. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Capital One Cites Money Laundering Review in Trump-Related Suit
Capital One Financial Corp. said in a court filing late Friday that it closed accounts belonging to President Donald Trump’s sprawling real estate company in 2021 for legitimate reasons after an inter...
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Capital One’s lawyers would not have signed-off on closing Trump’s account unless the money laundering evidence was very strong; it would simply be way too much of a legal/reputational risk
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 4d ago🚨 NEWS: In a new court filing, Capital One says Donald Trump’s accounts were closed in 2021 after months of analysis by its anti-money laundering (AML) professionals, not because of politics, as Trump has long claimed. 1/
NEW: Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, facing ethics inquiries for misconduct, has threatened to strip state scholarships from Catholic schools unless the Church rewrites its vaccine doctrine. It is an unprecedented attack by an American state on the religious liberty of the Catholic Church.
Florida’s MAGA Attorney Threatens to Defund Catholic Schools Over Vaccine Mandate
Florida’s attorney general gave the bishops until August 7 to accept vaccine exemptions their own doctrine calls dishonest. Nearly nine in ten of the state’s Catholic school students sit downstream.
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Wait the guy who convicted on 34 counts of falsifying business record also had his bank account closed because of money laundering? This is astonishing news
Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 4d agoCapital One said in a court filing late Friday that it closed accounts belonging to President Donald Trump’s sprawling real estate company in 2021 for legitimate reasons after an internal review by the bank’s anti-money laundering team.
An officer reported other cops for using racist, sexist and homophobic slurs at work, filed an Internal Affairs complaint & submitted recordings of the other cops being bigoted as evidence b/c otherwise nothing would be done about it. He’s now charged with 16 felonies & could get 13 years in prison.
Los Angeles Times@latimes.com · 5d agoLAPD officer who recorded colleagues' racist comments to be charged with felony eavesdropping
These long, ego-stroking meetings are beginning to look more like memory care. At some point they're going to end by playing YMCA and talking about the hottest clubs in New York circa 1982.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d agoBessent: "President Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton could not have imagined the economy that we would have created. It is the envy of the world."
We've gotta make the Monorail Simpsons episode required viewing for every city councilor in the country. Every single thing he says here is a lie. A Potemkin Village Imaginarium.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d agoHassett: "Data centers are very good for towns bc they create so many jobs & bring people in with high incomes that can buy houses & stuff like that. So if you take a sleepy town that hasn't seen much in the last 30 years & put a data center there, there are gonna be a bunch of happy residents."
In one California town, Flock misread license plates in 71% of the time. Out of a sample of 1,427 alerts that Flock sent to police in the town of Roseville, alerts that flagged vehicles as stolen or used in a felony after they passed one of the city's Flock cameras, 71% were inaccurate.
Flock misread license plates in 71% of the alerts it sent to police in one California town
Flock sent 1,427 alerts to Roseville police over two years, flagging cars as stolen or used in a felony. In 71% of them, Flock read the plates wrong.
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The State Department said it takes "full responsibility" for "hastily" altering and then presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted. An analysis by Reuters found a watermark in the map image that suggests it was made with OpenAI.
