This week at The Carryall: in the audio interview roundtable "Thinking Through the Black Panther Party," Joe Street discusses his book *Black Revolutionaries: A History of the Black Panther Party* with @randalljstephens.bsky.social and @julianchambliss.bsky.social.
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New #culturerover: Flipping—are federalism & localism reversing in the USA? www.michaeljkramer.net/flipping/
New #culturerover: Nothin’ On—does the Boss’s cable-tv era ennui still hold true? www.michaeljkramer.net/nothin-on/
We begin *The Carryall* Issue 02: Spring/Summer 2026 with Scott Saul (@scottsaul.bsky.social)'s essay "Learning From Jorge Drexler (@jorgedrexler.bsky.social)," which asks what Latin American humanism might offer US cultural and intellectual history. thecarryall.org/learning-fro...
The Carryall Issue 02: Spring/Summer 2026 begins. Editor's Note, Tortoise Defeats Hare, from @michaeljkramer.bsky.social. thecarryall.org/tortoise-def...
To state the obvious there’s lots of somethin’ out there, but the systems and structures of our social and media worlds are not assembling it effectively. So it always threatens to dissolve into “nothin’.”
What kind of system could produce *somethin’* instead of “nothin’”? A pressing question for our channel-surfing, doomscrolling times.
Endless AI permutations but nothin’ on?
Lots of difference on the surface, but underneath the same structures of control?
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2 billion TikTok users and nothin’ on.
3 billion Facebook users and nothin’ on.
200 billion websites and nothin’ on.
Wait, did the Supreme Court schedule the birthright citizenship case on April Fool's Day on purpose?
"They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob." - FDR, 1936 millercenter.org/the-presiden...
The mystery seems part of the allure! I love it. And thank you for the fabulous radio show and all you do with The Wire. It’s inspiring.
Down with excellencies! Up with competencies!
Does anyone know more about the band Butter Swamp? Boise, Idaho to Medellin, Colombia?! h/t @saving-throw.bsky.social @thewiremagazine.bsky.social @resonancefm.bsky.social butterswamp69.bandcamp.com/track/the-at...
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Will always remember Madeleine Grynsztejn walking by my cubicle at the @mcachicago.bsky.social publishing dept on the way to the elevator & I overheard her say to an older, male, white-haired donor, "Well you just have to give the museum $10 million!" Strong! www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/17/m...
New #culturerover: One Cartoon After Another, history gets untethered in One Battle After Another & we are left with the problems of caricature. www.michaeljkramer.net/one-cartoon-...
New #culturerover: The Flimsiest, the cynical faux-realism of The Brutalist. www.michaeljkramer.net/the-flimsiest/
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CC: @mgallope.bsky.social, Brigid Cohen
New review essay: Hearing Thinking—What Musicology Can Offer Intellectual History, on Brigid Cohen’s *Musical Migration and Imperial New York* & Michael Gallope’s *The Musician as Philosopher,* @susih.bsky.social s-usih.org/2026/02/hear...
@sunybrockport.bsky.social Spring 2026 Public History Webinar Series.
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Does anyone know the name of this Civil Rights activist who appears in the Eyes on the Prize documentary being interviewed by a reporter. "My freedom is very much entangled with the freedom of every other man. So, I’m fighting for my own freedom here," he remarks. But he is not named in transcripts.