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Joe Hagan

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Special Correspondent for VANITY FAIR. Author of the Jann Wenner bio that Jann Wenner doesn’t want you to read.

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Joe Hagan @joehagantv.bsky.social · Nov 11

“A colossal achievement … fast-paced, compulsively readable, and consistently insightful.” - @NYMag.flipboard.com.ap.brid.gy

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Certainly seems like a LOT of people are being abducted and jailed by ICE without habeas corpus.
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Joe Hagan @joehagantv.bsky.social · 2d

After I published this story, Bari Weiss complained about my describing her as a “contrarian podcaster.”

“Contrarian podcaster? I run a company with 20 employees,” she texted.

I guess she got the last laugh.

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Can Anyone Fix California?

Climate. Housing. Crime. Depending on who you ask, the Golden State is a bellwether for progress, or a liberal hellscape. A journey through a land in crisis.

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Playmixt aka Kevin @playmixt.bsky.social · 3d

Finally scored an original for a buddy of mine who loves the latter.

Two album covers side by side. The first is "Keyboard Kapers" by Ferrante and Tischer. The second is "Slanted and Enchanted" by Pavement, for which the Ferrante & Tischer cover photo has been mutilated and painted over to serve Pavement's cover art designs.

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Joe Hagan @joehagantv.bsky.social · 3d

Beethoven sonatas for piano and cello. Mono, 1964. Peak Sunday morning.

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THE UNSHAMEABLE MIND OF EZRA KLEIN

In American media and politics, the tree of conventional wisdom has a deep and endlessly intrusive root system which binds any possibility of constructive change into harmless bipartisan jargon.

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Joe Hagan @joehagantv.bsky.social · 4d

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Japanese edition of “Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine”

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Freddie Hubbard quintet recorded in Bavaria in 1969 for the MPS label. A real stunner, this album.

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Joe Hagan @joehagantv.bsky.social · 4d

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With apologies to Allen Ginsberg

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 7d

RIP to Jane Goodall, who opened the world's eyes to our closest relatives. (Photo by NatGeo's Hugo Van Lawick)

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Joe Hagan @joehagantv.bsky.social · 7d

When did this forgetting happen? I missed it.

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Joe Hagan @joehagantv.bsky.social · 8d

I wonder how all those career military admirals and generals enjoyed being used as props for a hair-gelled phony tough guy to do his propaganda TV segment?

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Joe Hagan @joehagantv.bsky.social · 9d

This is the smartest thing I’ve read on a potential counter narrative to MAGA.

“Polling can show the elements for a winning strategy, but it takes political leadership to convert the statistics into a coalition.”

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Opinion | Democrats Are in Crisis. Eat-the-Rich Populism Is the Only Answer.

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Joe Hagan @joehagantv.bsky.social · 12d

What would “jazz impressions of the USA” sound like in 2025?

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Joe Hagan @joehagantv.bsky.social · 13d

I seem to remember a certain Donald Trump inciting a certain violent insurrection called January 6. Or as he called it, “a day of love.”

Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 13d

If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.

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Joe Hagan @joehagantv.bsky.social · 15d

The time I discovered a cache of rare Rolling Stones studio tapes in a closet in Manhattan. And that was just the beginning of the story.

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The moment I discovered a cache of original Rolling Stones studio tapes and lots more.

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Joe Hagan @joehagantv.bsky.social · 15d

Trying to understand what Trump sees in this radically unqualified candidate for Eastern District attorney who he wants to prosecute his enemies and who was his personal lawyer in Florida.

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Joe Hagan @joehagantv.bsky.social · 15d

Trump to UN: Did I mention I also make the earth rotate around the sun?

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Joe Hagan @joehagantv.bsky.social · 15d

Trump calls Christianity the "most persecuted" religion on the planet.

Huh.

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Joe Hagan @joehagantv.bsky.social · 15d

Trump admits he enforces a euphemism for coal to make it sound like it's clean.

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Trump describing weather to leaders of planet earth.

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Man who claimed Tylenol causes autism says green energy is a "con job."

Joe Hagan @joehagantv.bsky.social · 15d

Tump accuses China of not building wind farms in its territory. That is incorrect. China’s expansion of wind and solar capacity overtook coal capacity in 2025, according to a recent analysis.
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Live Updates: Trump Questions Purpose of U.N. in Address to General Assembly

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Joe Hagan @joehagantv.bsky.social · 15d

UN didn't realize they were attending a public reading of a MAGA reddit thread.

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Joe Hagan @joehagantv.bsky.social · 15d

Advertisements for Myself: UN Edition