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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 23d

🎧LEVER TIME PODCAST: A frank conversation with @rbreich.bsky.social about his own difficult journey and his self-critical argument about the Boomer generation’s failures sowing the seeds of much of what we’re now living through.

How The Boomer Generation Failed Us

Robert Reich explains how his generation’s political flaws fueled Trump’s rise and the demise of the Democrats.

www.levernews.com

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Daniel Efram @thebeam.bsky.social · 23d

There's a new Jean-Michel #Basquiat biopic being made by Julius Ohna starring Danny Ramirez and Kevin Johnson, which includes an Albert Diaz character. One problem... they never got his permission. My story & photos for @evgrieve.bsky.social

#art #movies #captianamerica

'Samo' story: Real-life Al Diaz left on cutting room floor of new Basquiat biopic

EV Grieve is the leading news, entertainment and lifestyle blog about the East Village of New York City.

evgrieve.com

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Daniel Efram @thebeam.bsky.social · 23d

There's a new Jean-Michel #Basquiat biopic being made by Julius Ohna starring Danny Ramirez and Kevin Johnson, which includes an Albert Diaz character. One problem... they never got his permission. My story & photos for @evgrieve.bsky.social

#art #movies #captianamerica

'Samo' story: Real-life Al Diaz left on cutting room floor of new Basquiat biopic

EV Grieve is the leading news, entertainment and lifestyle blog about the East Village of New York City.

evgrieve.com

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Molly Crane-Newman @mollycranenewman.bsky.social · 23d

BREAKING: Justice Gregory Carro has dismissed the first degree murder charge against Luigi Mangione in his state case, finding the DA put legally insufficient evidence before the grand jury. More TK.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · Apr 17

A U.S. citizen born in the state of Georgia has been arrested for entering Florida as an “unauthorized alien.” During a hearing in Leon County, his mother presented his birth certificate and Social Security card, but the judge said she had no authority to release him.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · Mar 31

Fresh from endorsing the German far right, Musk is now defending the French far right.

When people show you they are, believe them the first time.

Elon Musk slams Marine Le Pen guilty verdict as arch-conservatives unite in fury

Key adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump signals he will make the French far-right standard-bearer a new cause célèbre.

www.politico.eu

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Douglas Wolk @douglaswolk.bsky.social · Jun 29

Just went to see the brilliant Sara Marcus and Sara Jaffe in conversation at Powell’s Books, and bought Marcus’s new book “Political Disappointment.” Which made me think about Krakoa. Because practically everything makes me think about Krakoa these days.

“Political Disappointment” by Sara Marcus

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Daniel Efram @thebeam.bsky.social · Mar 26

Some of my images accompanied a feature on Steve Keene, known as "SK" from his painting stamp.

Get your copy of The Steve Keene Art Book via Hat & Beard Press here:

bit.ly/3IsEfCu

The Steve Keene Art Book

Hardcover, 265 pages11.8 in. x 11.8 in.29.972 cm. x 29.972 cm. Steve Keene is the most prolific American painter of all time, producing more than 300,000 hand-painted works via his studio/chainlink f...

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Daniel Efram @thebeam.bsky.social · Mar 26

Artist Steve Keene painted the cover of the latest issue of @creemmagazine.bsky.social. The most prolific painter in history, and the subject of my Steve Keene Art Book, has been painting over 50 pieces per day for nearly 25 years. #art #painting @bsky.art

www.instagram.com/p/DHl27DZPmYn/

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Daniel Efram @thebeam.bsky.social · Mar 26

Some of my images accompanied a feature on Steve Keene, known as "SK" from his painting stamp.

Get your copy of The Steve Keene Art Book via Hat & Beard Press here:

bit.ly/3IsEfCu

The Steve Keene Art Book

Hardcover, 265 pages11.8 in. x 11.8 in.29.972 cm. x 29.972 cm. Steve Keene is the most prolific American painter of all time, producing more than 300,000 hand-painted works via his studio/chainlink f...

bit.ly

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Daniel Efram @thebeam.bsky.social · Mar 26

Artist Steve Keene painted the cover of the latest issue of @creemmagazine.bsky.social. The most prolific painter in history, and the subject of my Steve Keene Art Book, has been painting over 50 pieces per day for nearly 25 years. #art #painting @bsky.art

www.instagram.com/p/DHl27DZPmYn/

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · Mar 19

Trump welcomed UAE’s nat’l security advisor tonight. UAE, like Israel, is accused at the ICJ of genocide—Sudan claims it funds and arms RSF in Darfur, enabling massacres, rapes, and expulsion of the Masalit ethnic group.

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Daniel Efram @thebeam.bsky.social · Mar 17

#TeslaTakeover NYC 03.15.25
Over a hundred people protested at Tesla over Elon Musk's gutting of Federal Institutions, jobs and services while boosting Nazi white supremacy and fascism. @art.bsky.social
#photojournalism #photo #art #weareroamers

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Mar 18

The Trump administration cut a clause from federal contracting rules that had been on the books since the 1960s: Companies are no longer explicitly prohibited from having segregated facilities

'Segregated facilities' are no longer explicitly banned in federal contracts

The Trump administration cut a clause from federal contracting rules that had been on the books since the 1960s: Companies are no longer explicitly prohibited from having segregated facilities.

www.npr.org

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Daniel Efram @thebeam.bsky.social · Mar 18

This is breaking the system. Why is this surprising?

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Future of Music Coalition @futureofmusic.bsky.social · Mar 18

What's perhaps most bizarre about this action is the removed posts were largely instructions for companies about how not to break the law and instructions for consumers about how not to get scammed!

makena kelly @makenakelly.bsky.social · Mar 18

SCOOP: More than 300 FTC blogs published under FTC Chair Lina Khan disappeared this morning. They included posts critical of Amazon, Microsoft, and generative AI.

www.wired.com/story/federa...

FTC Removes Posts Critical of Amazon, Microsoft, and AI Companies

Business-guidance content published during the Biden administration has been removed from the Federal Trade Commission website.

www.wired.com

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Mar 18

It was wonderful to meet with the brave nurses at
@nynurses.bsky.social in Albany last week.

Nurses are fighting for safe staffing enforcement, pay parity, and safer working conditions and they deserve nothing less.

Assemblymember Zohran K. Mamdani poses in a photo with nurses from the New York State Nurses Association in Albany.

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Daniel Efram @thebeam.bsky.social · Mar 17

#TeslaTakeover NYC 03.15.25
Over a hundred people protested at Tesla over Elon Musk's gutting of Federal Institutions, jobs and services while boosting Nazi white supremacy and fascism. @art.bsky.social
#photojournalism #photo #art #weareroamers

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Daniel Efram @thebeam.bsky.social · Mar 15

FAA circa March 2026. Thanks Elon.

@dukeriley.bsky.social “Fly By Night” at the Brooklyn Navy Yard 2016.

#art #photo #weareroamers @art.bsky.social

Trained Pigeons corralled by artist Duke Riley fly in synchronized performance above the Brooklyn Navy Yard at dusk. Riley directs them via a long pole with a flag at the end.

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Daniel Efram @thebeam.bsky.social · Mar 15

The Whole World Is Watching
03.12.25

#freeMahmoudKahlil #weareroamers #photo #art #photojournalism
@photo.bsky.social

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Empire Must Fall 🇵🇸🍉 General Strike @empiremustfall.bsky.social · Mar 17

@schumer.senate.gov: Coward Cancels Book Tour #SchumerResign

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · Mar 17

I wonder how many percentage points he'd lose if the feckless, corporatist U.S. press CLEARLY informed the public he's destroying all corporate oversight, public safety standards, consumer protection, labor rights, environmental law, voting rights, and the social safety net

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Mar 17

new NBC poll shows Trump's approval rating at its highest point ever

NBC finds Trump's approval rating at 47 percent

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · Mar 16

The whole point is we don’t know if they are ‘foreign alien terrorists’! That’s the whole point of due process, and evidence, and a courtroom. We don’t take the government’s say so, especially a government with a history of relentless mendacity.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · Mar 16

I am begging blue state governors to have lunch this week with your adjutant general of the National Guard.

Cannot stress enough how important this relationship is going to be in the near future.

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