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Trump is the antithesis of art.

Even the name resists beauty. It does not ring. It does not roll. It slides off the tongue like post-nasal drip. crude, unpretty, architecturally vacant. The sound itself lacks grace, like gravel in the mouth. billkingpiano.substack.com
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December 30, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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2025 in Black & White
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2025 in Black & White
The Stage
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December 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Kennedy Center Dishonoured.
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Kennedy Center Dishonoured.
Pray for Humanity & the Arts.
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December 19, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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–31 Below Zero open.substack.com/pub/billking... On January 4, 1981, a fire ripped through the downtown YMCA, causing $1 million in damage.
–31 Below Zero
On January 4, 1981, a fire ripped through the downtown YMCA, causing $1 million in damage.
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December 19, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Sweet Sugar Cane
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Sweet Sugar Cane
Let it burn, let it burn, let it burn.
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December 18, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Reagan’s “Morning” and America’s Long Shadow
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Reagan’s “Morning” and America’s Long Shadow
The Hip Hop Revolution
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December 10, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Mother Earth, Megyn Kelly, and the Unforgivable Lie
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Mother Earth, Megyn Kelly, and the Unforgivable Lie
There’s something unseemly, almost ritualistic, about the women who orbit Republican power structures—shameless in the pursuit of attention, shameless in their ability to twist truth into a marketable...
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November 14, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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George Springer open.substack.com/pub/billking... @bluejays.com @mlb.com @sportsillustrated.bsky.social
George Springer
Baseball’s Timeless Card
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October 23, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Ray Charles – Confessin’ the Blues
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Ray Charles – Confessin’ the Blues
There was never a chance of mistaking who owned the room when Ray Charles opened his mouth.
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August 30, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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The Diminishing Returns of Corporate Media open.substack.com/pub/billking... . Hundreds of Substack writers rise daily with more depth and more honesty than CNN’s whole bench. The seismic plates are moving. People want the truth. They want journalism that stares down fascism without blinking.
The Diminishing Returns of Corporate Media
Jake Tapper.
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August 27, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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The Diminishing Returns of Corporate Media
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The Diminishing Returns of Corporate Media
Jake Tapper.
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August 27, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Ossington Rising open.substack.com/pub/billking... It was the streets that spoke most clearly. Nothing about it then suggested the word cool. But the corner, the curve in the road—it hummed with dormant energy, as if it knew its time was coming.
Ossington Rising
The Three Faces of Toronto.
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August 25, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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The Soldier & The Russian Asset
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The Soldier & The Russian Asset
McWobble, wobbles.
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August 20, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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McWobble shows NATO Newson's close call
August 20, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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New White House Portrait
August 6, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Trump's Debit Card? open.substack.com/pub/billking... @kriskingphoto.bsky.social
Trump's Debit Card?
U.S. Department of the Treasury.
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August 4, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Charlie & Ringo
The Gospel Truth of Groove: A Sermon for the Drummers
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June 30, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Bill Evans
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Bill Evans
When Evans Whispered to the Piano
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June 23, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Understanding Indiana Basketball open.substack.com/pub/billking... @indianapacers.bsky.social @okcthunder.bsky.social @espntr.bsky.social
Understanding Indiana Basketball
Indiana vs Canada
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June 1, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Henry Diltz and the Permission to Remember open.substack.com/pub/billking... @concert-pics.net
Henry Diltz and the Permission to Remember
The Light That Lingered
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May 14, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Bell, Questlove & the Lost Oscar Moment
Summer of Soul
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May 13, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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May 9, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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The Bill King Trio
What's Going On
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May 2, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Let’s clarify: The Apprentice is not a redemption arc. It's a damn reckoning. Relax for anyone trembling with suspicion that Hollywood would giftwrap Trump in a halo of misunderstood genius. This is n...
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April 24, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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You Want to Fuck With Harvard?
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You Want to Fuck With Harvard?
Mall Cops Give it a Go
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April 20, 2025 at 12:24 PM