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Raising the Dead: The Work of George A. Romero out now: https://www.amazon.com/Raising-Dead-Work-George-Romero/dp/0197686486
Spooky Halloween music from the legendary Chic-A-Go-Go. Dance along with Miss Mia and Ratso to Chicago's Team Satan!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lfm6...
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31.10.2025 14:11 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
STOP THE SLOP! SAVE THE FUTURE DON'T USE AI! Great Blob-y poster by Alternative Histories Matt!
Shoutout to @alternatehistories.bsky.social's new public service announcement!
31.10.2025 14:10 — 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
"Though the show was a hit, his sponsors – Manor House coffee – were nervous about Terkel’s politics. ‘I had signed my name to all kinds of petitions in the thirties and forties,’ he explained. ‘I was against Jim Crow, for rent control, for ‘Friendship With Our Wartime Ally’ – the Soviet Union. Some of the originators and circulators of those petitions were Communists or fellow travelers: the enemy within, in the early fifties. A deputation from his sponsors called on him. Things could be made right if he would issue a statement saying he had been ‘duped’ into signing. ‘But I wasn’t duped. I was against Jim Crow!’ It wasn’t principle that kept him from recanting, he said. It was vanity: ‘I was too smart to be a dupe!’ He was blacklisted from both commercial radio and TV. And of course it was principle.”
From an article in The Atlantic 40-some years later: "Things could be made right if he would issue a statement saying he had been 'duped' into signing. 'But I wasn't duped. I WAS against Jim Crow!"
29.10.2025 18:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0![The cast of Studs' Place, with really weird text from the ad company representing Manor House Coffee promoting the show/the coffee: "We'll bet you 2 lbs of McLaughlin's Manor House Coffee that you'll think 'Studs' Place' is one of the best programs on TV. What a howl of protest went up not long ago when 'Studs Place' lost its time on one of the networks. W.F. McLaughlin & Company, a client of ours, put it on WENR-TV and there was loud rejoicing. All the critics joined in - every single one. Even Fred Allen cheered. Now 'Studs Place' isn't like anything else on TV. No murders, no psychological dramas. Just pleasant, heart-warming fun. Amusing, unexpected, it features those four characers you see above: Chet Roble, Studs Terkle [sic], Win Stracke, and Beverly Younger as Grace. (You'll love Grace!) We think you'll like it. So we suggest this: See 'Studs Place' three times just to be sure you get the flavor of the program and know the characters. Then if you don't agree that it's one of TV's better shows, write us a letter about it. Tell us why. Bang will come two pounds of wonderful McLaughlin's Manor House Coffee. You can't lose either way." Woof.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:se3fmqr5tfgan3lefx5ynxq3/bafkreidggqrw4iheqwcwbhqgtfntupzwh7ustmp6azgy2brwarxpnmy7u4@jpeg)
The cast of Studs' Place, with really weird text from the ad company representing Manor House Coffee promoting the show/the coffee: "We'll bet you 2 lbs of McLaughlin's Manor House Coffee that you'll think 'Studs' Place' is one of the best programs on TV. What a howl of protest went up not long ago when 'Studs Place' lost its time on one of the networks. W.F. McLaughlin & Company, a client of ours, put it on WENR-TV and there was loud rejoicing. All the critics joined in - every single one. Even Fred Allen cheered. Now 'Studs Place' isn't like anything else on TV. No murders, no psychological dramas. Just pleasant, heart-warming fun. Amusing, unexpected, it features those four characers you see above: Chet Roble, Studs Terkle [sic], Win Stracke, and Beverly Younger as Grace. (You'll love Grace!) We think you'll like it. So we suggest this: See 'Studs Place' three times just to be sure you get the flavor of the program and know the characters. Then if you don't agree that it's one of TV's better shows, write us a letter about it. Tell us why. Bang will come two pounds of wonderful McLaughlin's Manor House Coffee. You can't lose either way." Woof.
Newspaper ad for Studs Terkel's TV show "Studs' Place" and for its sponsor, Manor House Coffee - which would soon take the show off the air bc it didn't like Terkel's history of supporting Civil Rights, rent control, peace with the USSR, and other progressive causes.
29.10.2025 17:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Studs Terkel on Reagan: "I've got this hearing aid. Ronnie Reagan has two. Of course, there's nothing in between his."
29.10.2025 15:02 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"According to his running club, the man, who is a U.S. citizen, was returning from a team run when agents pulled him out of his vehicle, tackled him to the ground and kneeled on top of him, allegedly breaking six ribs and causing internal bleeding"
28.10.2025 20:40 — 👍 2983 🔁 1763 💬 126 📌 253Border Patrol Chief Bovino exited the federal courthouse in Chicago today, facing questions over his use of tear gas in communities despite a federal ban without justification. Before leaving, he stood in the truck doorway, fist-pumped, and then placed a CS grenade on the dashboard.
28.10.2025 18:13 — 👍 838 🔁 321 💬 122 📌 153
A house is not a home, by Rein Kooyman, 2025, 📸 via @mlbonfox
28.10.2025 13:45 — 👍 2672 🔁 469 💬 8 📌 17"ELEVATED HORROR" DIRECTOR SEEING ANY WOMAN OVER THE AGE OF 45: ahh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AIEEEE!!!! AAAuuUGHHHH!H! OUGHGHGHGGHHGHGHGGHHG
27.10.2025 12:59 — 👍 1670 🔁 324 💬 6 📌 10
Christina's World
Christina's World https://www.wikiart.org/en/andrew-wyeth/christinas-world-1948
27.10.2025 11:34 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Big fan of the baby races. Also speed painters and anything involving dogs. Everything except the trampoline troupes, really.
27.10.2025 02:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Purchase
Steamfitter http://www.moma.org/collection/works/44814
26.10.2025 17:11 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
www.youtube.com/watch?v=awjE...
26.10.2025 16:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0More from the scene
25.10.2025 16:21 — 👍 4761 🔁 1235 💬 248 📌 557
Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.
23.10.2025 18:51 — 👍 12716 🔁 6391 💬 324 📌 465
two border patrol agents wearing green uniforms stand on either side of a person wearing sweatshirt, jeans and sneakers. the agents are each holding one of the person's arms and walking toward a white suv that's parked on 26th street the caption reads "little village 26 street"
border patrol have returned to terrorize chicago's little village neighborhood again this morning.
from a video posted to facebook about 10 minutes ago near 26th and pulaski. at one point, the person recording says, "he's got his fucking rifle out!"
Anybody in Brooklyn should go see the absolutely delightful "Having a Ball!" by Stephanie Coleman and the House of Avant-Garde at BAM's FLUXX screening tonight!
www.bam.org/film/2025/fl...
Ratso of Chic-A-Go-Go, the greatest children's TV show ever made, tells Gary Burger of The Monks that "All rats love punk." Ratso is a puppet. A rat.
All rats love punk
22.10.2025 18:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0[Exit King.]
18.10.2025 13:57 — 👍 7686 🔁 2091 💬 61 📌 66
“They literally ushered us into the street to protest and immediately after started beating the shit out of us.”
This is 100% an accurate description of how this started.
Broadview PD mishandled the situation from the start, then unleashed ISP to beat the protesters they’d led into the street.
