Joe Hagan

Ocean of Influence: Inside the Celebrity Boat Trip That Was All Over Your Feeds The Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection threw the mother of all influencer trips, featuring Tom Brady, Leo DiCaprio, Martha Stewart and a hundred or so other A-Listers. Vanity Fair climbed aboard…

@joehagantv.bsky.social with an all-timer of a lede (and an assignment!) www.vanityfair.com/style/story/...

Culture, Empathy and Resistance | Washington Spectator There is a widespread sentiment in the non- MAGA universe that this particular moment is the worst that America has ever experienced. History tells us otherwise. In Yuval Noah Harari’s book Nexus: A…

My friend Danny Goldberg wrote an excellent essay looking at 1950s beat culture as a model of liberal resistance in the MAGA era. washingtonspectator.org/culture-empa...

From @espiers.bsky.social

Good riddance

Rocking “Sweat Leaf” at its intended volume. #ripozzy

YouTube video by Black Sabbath BLACK SABBATH - "War Pigs" (Live Video)

Ozzy as I will always think of him - the titan of heavy rock athwart his Mt Olympus.

Live at the Olympic Theater, Paris, 1970.

youtu.be/K3b6SGoN6dA?...

The Velvet Sundown sound as tepid and cliche as human-generated 1960s throwback bands. Quite an achievement!

Ro Khanna Really Believes “Blue MAGA” Can Save the Dems—and Steve Bannon Loves It Silicon Valley’s congressman wants to revive his party’s fortunes with his own version of progressive populism. MAGA leaders and Rust Belt workers are listening. Can Khanna pull it off?

Great article by @joehagantv.bsky.social on Rep. Ro Khanna’s efforts to message and connect to working-class Americans. More of this! @vanityfair.com

www.vanityfair.com/news/ro-khan...

Right-wing Republicans in Congress attack Mamdani with Islamophobic comments.

Right-wing Republicans in Congress attack Mamdani with Islamophobic comments. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

Mr. Antiwar President has us inches away from a Civil War at home and a nuclear war abroad in defense of an ally that is starting random hot regional wars to detract from its ongoing genocide. I’m sure all of this will just naturally cool off.

I've been bitching about the horrible CGI in George Lucas's revised "Star Wars" for years. I'd love to see the OG version, but now that it's been screened (against Lucas's wishes), I guess it's jankier than expected.

If you imagined a world in which people's attention spans grew shorter & shorter, making them less & less able to concentrate, and ever hungrier for hot takes & instant gratification, and an all-consuming entertainment fascist rose to power by exploiting demand, wouldn't it look just like ... this?

How the Man in Seat 11A Became a Plane Crash’s Sole Survivor

I'll bet seat 11A is going to become very popular on flights from now on.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/w...

It's almost like Trump's LA gambit was specifically designed to launch Gavin Newsom's presidential bid in '28.

No.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/o...

ABC Suspends Terry Moran for Calling Stephen Miller a ‘World-Class Hater’

ABC Suspends Terry Moran for Calling Stephen Miller a ‘World-Class Hater’ www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/b...

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Wow!

Loved Cinderella!

Nice

Btw the opening acts for the Monkees were Herman's Hermits, Gary Puckett & the Union Gap, and The Grass Roots. Meant nothing to me at the time but now I’m like, wow, I saw them!

Not too shabby! Love them.

My first concert was the Monkees. Their 20-year reunion tour after MTV started re-airing the TV show. I was 14.

What was yours?

Given the radical social upheaval that AI is about to unleash, maybe Democrats should consider the Universal Basic Income concept as their own revolutionary response.

Beto O'Rourke is intimating that he may run for office again in 2028. What say ye?

www.vanityfair.com/news/story/w...

Joe wrote the definitive Bill Fox story (without even getting access!). Stuff of indie rock journalism legend. An honor just to add a coda to what he did

Why Beto O’Rourke May Never Stop Running The Texas politician has been hitting campuses and streets to register voters, and he’s keepin’ the faith for the Democrats.

Talked to @betoorourke.bsky.social last week. He has a pep talk for Dems. Optimism, he says, is an act of will. It doesn’t come easy.
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/w...

The Ballad of Bill Fox Robert Pollard adores him. Jeff Tweedy calls him a hero. But he’s just wanted to be left alone — until now.

Fantastic @nymag.com story on the mysterious genius pop songwriter Bill Fox by @naterogers.bsky.social

www.vulture.com/article/the-...

Why Beto O’Rourke May Never Stop Running The Texas politician has been hitting campuses and streets to register voters, and he’s keepin’ the faith for the Democrats.

Talked to @betoorourke.bsky.social last week. He has a pep talk for Dems. Optimism, he says, is an act of will. It doesn’t come easy.
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/w...