Michael Hayes
Michael Hayes
@tragedyman.bsky.social
I (still) don't have a Wikipedia entry. I like movies, mashups, science, sci-fi, zombies, comics, history, assorted nerdery, & the Oxford comma. Neutral Good. I would prefer not to pay as much attention to current events, but we live in interesting times.
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A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity www.openculture.com/2026/04/reco...
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With the Trump administration switching into anti-Catholic overdrive this week, I wrote about a time a hundred years ago when Catholic students from Notre Dame beat the shit out of the Klan. A feel good story for the ages. dansinker.com/posts/2026-0...
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I'm calling bullshit on the media narrative that Trump is "pivoting" and "deescalating" on his ICE raids. The threshold is this: As long as the military occupations and the treatment of US cities as enemy territory continue, there's no pivot. ICE out. 1/ (New piece) newrepublic.com/article/2057...
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look, as an Iranian American I can safely say that no one really cares about kidnapping and hostage taking at foreign embassies and it is not something that countries hold long grudges about - so I think this will quickly pass.
Uh. So ICE just technically tried to invade Ecuador. Cool new international incident dropping.
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Trump thugs are killing, brutalizing, and torturing American citizens. That is not an “immigration crackdown.” It’s domestic repression and occupation.
As the Trump administration escalates its immigration crackdown in Minneapolis, arrests and aggressive tactics by ICE and the Border Patrol, many seen on viral videos, have intensified the frustration and fear among residents, business owners and immigrant workers. trib.al/zVm2mk5
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Mandatory comparison. Note, it was a choice to not include a four column wide photo of Trump looking like shit in his only press appearance yesterday when he refused to answer questions about Epstein.
Our leading news organizations turned a cache of ultimately-innocuous emails into a scandal-coded weeklong series of front page stories leading into the 2016 election. If they do not cover the "emails from notorious pedophile implication the President" emails with the same fervor, it's curious!
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NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find: - NONE of the arrested were criminally charged - NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists." - ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants. We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua. www.propublica.org/article/chic...
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Replying to @katelynburns.com
the point of camo for a soldier is to obscure their position from the enemy. camo in an urban environment is completely different, and this forest green or desert pattern is functionally useless. police only dress this way to project an image of power they should not have.
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The worst game of MadLibs ever...
The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.
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It's always weird to hear Motörhead's "Ace of Spades" on a restaurant's Muzak, but when it happens I am reminded of @alexwinter.com's TV show The Idiot Box. IIRC, in one skit he played a rock & roll accountant, and at the end he trashes his cubicle while this song plays.
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Just remembered another use of the Ode to Joy from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. youtube.com/shorts/sl9a7...
What's your favorite use of pre-existing classical music in a movie not directed by Stanley Kubrick? Mine is probably "Hall of the Mountain King" from Fritz Lang's M, the main melody of which is whistled by the killer. Runner up: Howard Hanson's Symphony No. 2 ("Romantic") at the end of Alien