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Michaelangelo Matos
Author, historian, critic, journalist
St. Paul
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The Underground Is Massive (Dey Street, 2015); Can't Slow Down (Hachette, 2020)
I edit books - inquire within
Beat Connection: DJ mixes newsletter - http://michaelangelo.substack.com

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a real snapshot of a moment in time, nixon’s enemies list but for sonic youth fans

SPIN readers' poll, October 1989.

preeeeeetty much

SPIN readers' poll, October 1989.

Five sets that either come from older times or make new sense of the music from those times, now live on Beat Connection! michaelangelo.substack.com/p/bc086-five...

BC086 - Five Mixes: Old School, June-July 2024michaelangelo.substack.com Static-laden senses of the new, even at this late hour: Post-punk, rave anthems, and more!

1. Franco 2. Prince 3. Moore-Ranaldo(-Gordon)

ok with all the death in the air we need music over here give me your 3 favorite guitarists today don't think, just answer 1) Jerry Garcia 2) Jimi Hendrix 3) Robyn Hitchcock

Clouds for @rahawahaile.bsky.social

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Dumbass. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/you-patsy

You Patsywww.hamiltonnolan.com We don't have time for this bullshit.

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Worth emphasizing that the very theme of night 2 of the RNC is a lie. Crime is down since Biden took office and we are no longer quarantining at home amid mass death. America is far safer now than it was in January 2021.

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Ooh, I know this, it's a "power stance" which is meant to make you look stronger and more dominant. All the Tories were doing it a few years back and it made them look absolutely insane.

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His full name is Jabroni Dickwad Vance

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I still think Hillbilly Elegy is one of the worst books of all-time -- make that list next NYT

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One more time, in honor of JD Vance, who is a legitimate fascist: inthesetimes.com/article/nati...

Onward, Christian Soldiers—To War!inthesetimes.com At this year’s National Conservatism Conference, a right-wing army prepares to rise.

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cannot reskeet this fast enough

Tempted to read J. D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy? Skip it and listen to this instead

‎If Books Could Kill: Hillbilly Elegy on Apple Podcastspodcasts.apple.com ‎Show If Books Could Kill, Ep Hillbilly Elegy - Mar 23, 2023

I picked ten essential Les Blank music docs for Observer. observer.com/2024/07/the-...

The Greatest Music Docs You Haven’t Seen: 10 Essential Les Blank Filmsobserver.com This month, 11 more Les Blank documentaries are available on the Criterion Channel. Blank’s subjects included Cajun and Tex-Mex music, the blues, polka, Dizzy Gillespie and Huey Lewis. All to…

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Read it again

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This feels like textbook "obeying in advance" that Timothy Snyder warned us against. Also, how long is the period of demi-mourning for a person who was mildly injured? Also, if the GOP gets to go ham on the Democrats and the media, how long do the rest of us keep our hands behind our backs?

This is deranged. The press has just decided that criticizing Trump is no longer okay. www.cnn.com/2024/07/14/m...

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When I got jumped in March 2016 at a Trump rally by Neo Nazis and Trump cheered it on from the stage the Democratic mayor issued a statement about violence on both sides and the ACLU supported Trump’s right to yell at people to attack me. Stop looking to institutions to protect you from fascists.

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Whenever you’re tempted to start going easier on Republicans, I’d recommend looking at this

“We will hold investigations to identify the neo-cultural Marxists in seats of power all across Washington,” Posobiec said. “We don’t negotiate with un-humans. Because that’s the stakes of this battle: humanity versus un-humanity.” inthesetimes.com/article/nati...

Onward, Christian Soldiers—To War!inthesetimes.com At this year’s National Conservatism Conference, a right-wing army prepares to rise.

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apoplectic with rage over this triumph WITHIN the collective. triumph AMONG the collective. triumph FOR the collective. the batter is not competing with his what? TEAMMATES. his TEAMMATES God damn you all to Hell

espn is doing a segment about home runs and the voiceover just said “we love the home run because of what it represents: the triumph of the individual against the collective”

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If someone took a shot at Biden Trump would be selling commemorative band aids “sorry to ear about your near miss”

If a Democrat had been the target of an assassination attempt, can anyone plausibly imagine a Trump statement that did not denigrate and equivocate?

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Getting increasingly pissed off by various politicians "distraught" today. This is America, where every day we wonder if this when someone we love gets mowed down by a shooter. Pretending to be shocked just shows you don't get it. Trump has a Secret Service detail to protect him. My kids don't.

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If a Democrat had been the target of an assassination attempt, can anyone plausibly imagine a Trump statement that did not denigrate and equivocate?

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That's truly idiotic.

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A reminder of how Trump responded when a supporter broke into Nancy Pelosi's home and brutally attacked her husband with a hammer:

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a far right conspiracy theorist broke into nancy pelosi’s house and beat her husband with a hammer and he and most of the party made jokes about it

If a Democrat had been the target of an assassination attempt, can anyone plausibly imagine a Trump statement that did not denigrate and equivocate?

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On Saturday a wholesome afternoon of fantasizing about concentration camps and plotting to overturn the coming election was disrupted by violence

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This is NYT’s portrait of a Trump rally, where the explicit agenda was putting millions of people in concentration camps before deporting them.

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And this is how fascism wins. It convinces moderates to stop using the correct language to name what our enemy is and make no mistake. Trump and the Republicans are a fascist anti-democratic enemy to every real American who believes in the Constitution and rule of law. Do not stay silent.

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the "violence shook this previously peaceful white christian nationalist rally railing against the vermin tainting the blood of the country" stories are going to destroy me

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Just a reminder: it’s good to oppose assassinations. But you are under absolutely no obligation to treat Trumpists and Trump-apologists as people who are honest, or acting in good faith, when they purport to condemn political violence or violent rhetoric. They’re not sincere.