Michael Kusek
@michaelkusek.bsky.social
Publisher of Different Leaf. Former Take magazine. I never have enough good sense to stay home. Always looking for art, design, ideas & trends.
My junior year of college I would put this album on and read Anne Rice books.
[September 22nd, 1986] This Mortal Coil releases their second album "Filigree & Shadow"
September 22, 2026 at 4:11 PM
My junior year of college I would put this album on and read Anne Rice books.
Lordy, she is a pop juggernaut.
Carly Rae Jepsen - Versailles (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by CarlyRaeJepsenVEVO
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September 22, 2026 at 12:38 PM
Lordy, she is a pop juggernaut.
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Communism has no place in America, the President declares the day before rolling out his new state television station.
September 22, 2026 at 4:14 AM
Communism has no place in America, the President declares the day before rolling out his new state television station.
Not that I would have ever voted for him, but this has to end his chances.
The State AGs were on pace to kill the Paramount/Warner Bros by litigation and delay until Gavin Newsom stepped in and turned the tide. Now the Trump loyalist Ellisons will control CNN and HBO. Don't ever, ever forget that Newsom stabbed us in the back
www.wsj.com/business/med...
www.wsj.com/business/med...
Exclusive | Newsom Expresses Concerns About State Antitrust Suit Against Paramount
The California governor has told people involved in the suit that blocking the $81 billion deal could harm Hollywood jobs.
www.wsj.com
September 21, 2026 at 11:27 PM
Not that I would have ever voted for him, but this has to end his chances.
I wonder if they wrote this headline about the Norman Rockwell Museum or the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art.
September 20, 2026 at 5:09 PM
I wonder if they wrote this headline about the Norman Rockwell Museum or the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art.
Any board or staff member of the Kennedy Center involved in this travesty should be shunned by every arts institution going forward.
Kick them off your boards. Give back their money. Refund their ticket purchases.
Kick them off your boards. Give back their money. Refund their ticket purchases.
“Workers renovated Mr. Trump’s three theater boxes in the center, installing gold plumbing fixtures and tearing up newly laid tile whose color was not to the liking of the White House.”
How President Trump Broke the Kennedy Center www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/u...
How President Trump Broke the Kennedy Center www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/u...
How President Trump Broke the Kennedy Center (Gift Article)
Internal emails and documents demonstrate the political capture of the institution, including how officials once pursued a plan to unload much of the art collection.
www.nytimes.com
September 20, 2026 at 12:26 PM
Any board or staff member of the Kennedy Center involved in this travesty should be shunned by every arts institution going forward.
Kick them off your boards. Give back their money. Refund their ticket purchases.
Kick them off your boards. Give back their money. Refund their ticket purchases.
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Protesters starting to gather at the Kennedy Center. One is holding a sign that says "LESS BUTTHURT MORE BEETHOVEN"
September 18, 2026 at 10:18 PM
Protesters starting to gather at the Kennedy Center. One is holding a sign that says "LESS BUTTHURT MORE BEETHOVEN"
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From executive producer Rachel Maddow,
Kill. Bury. Print. is streaming September 27 on Peacock
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLfo...
Kill. Bury. Print. is streaming September 27 on Peacock
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLfo...
Kill. Bury. Print. | Official Trailer | Peacock Original
YouTube video by Peacock
www.youtube.com
September 17, 2026 at 7:43 PM
From executive producer Rachel Maddow,
Kill. Bury. Print. is streaming September 27 on Peacock
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLfo...
Kill. Bury. Print. is streaming September 27 on Peacock
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLfo...
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Resharing this from Kerry Kennedy. Dear allies in DC, please help us?
TONIGHT 6:30PM Hands Around The Kennedy Center
Music background might be Aaron Copeland's " Fanfare For The Common Man" and woman. And allies ♡
TONIGHT 6:30PM Hands Around The Kennedy Center
Music background might be Aaron Copeland's " Fanfare For The Common Man" and woman. And allies ♡
September 18, 2026 at 3:31 PM
Resharing this from Kerry Kennedy. Dear allies in DC, please help us?
TONIGHT 6:30PM Hands Around The Kennedy Center
Music background might be Aaron Copeland's " Fanfare For The Common Man" and woman. And allies ♡
TONIGHT 6:30PM Hands Around The Kennedy Center
Music background might be Aaron Copeland's " Fanfare For The Common Man" and woman. And allies ♡
Reposted by Michael Kusek
a bumper sticker that said "KENNEDY CENTER NOT DATA CENTERS" would do numbers right now
September 18, 2026 at 3:30 PM
a bumper sticker that said "KENNEDY CENTER NOT DATA CENTERS" would do numbers right now
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Blessed are those who pre-order books, for they believe in the future and believe in art and conduct themselves accordingly.
September 18, 2026 at 6:29 PM
Blessed are those who pre-order books, for they believe in the future and believe in art and conduct themselves accordingly.
If ever there was a reason to ignore every syllable that comes out of this man's face.
September 17, 2026 at 9:36 PM
If ever there was a reason to ignore every syllable that comes out of this man's face.
My friend Michael is just too generous.
The amazing @michaelkusek.bsky.social remade his magazine, @differentleaf.bsky.social, as a collectors’ item, & focussed, this issue, on art. Guest edited by Nick Cave & Bob Faust, it’s beautifully realized, interactive, & also, made of paper! An object in the stream of forgettable networked images.
September 17, 2026 at 12:30 AM
My friend Michael is just too generous.
It's a Fire by Portishead just came on. I've heard it about six million times but this morning its struck me as an extra perfect song.
September 16, 2026 at 2:39 PM
It's a Fire by Portishead just came on. I've heard it about six million times but this morning its struck me as an extra perfect song.
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I do hope others have noticed that the Bowie song that the geniuses at Meta have chosen for their latest 60 second ad is about there being five years left until the end of the fucking world.
September 15, 2026 at 10:38 PM
I do hope others have noticed that the Bowie song that the geniuses at Meta have chosen for their latest 60 second ad is about there being five years left until the end of the fucking world.
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Jared Kushner is not "on the other side of the aisle."
He's not an elected official. He's not an administration official. He's the president's son-in-law and a private citizen.
You do not, in fact, have to take meetings with relatives of the president. Some might even say you should *not* do that
He's not an elected official. He's not an administration official. He's the president's son-in-law and a private citizen.
You do not, in fact, have to take meetings with relatives of the president. Some might even say you should *not* do that
Jeffries defends his meeting with Kushner: "I'm of the view that if we're going to be committed to actually solving problems on behalf of the American people ... they're are gonna be times that you have to speak with people on the other side of the aisle. Even people you strongly disagree with."
September 13, 2026 at 6:59 PM
Jared Kushner is not "on the other side of the aisle."
He's not an elected official. He's not an administration official. He's the president's son-in-law and a private citizen.
You do not, in fact, have to take meetings with relatives of the president. Some might even say you should *not* do that
He's not an elected official. He's not an administration official. He's the president's son-in-law and a private citizen.
You do not, in fact, have to take meetings with relatives of the president. Some might even say you should *not* do that
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You know what gets a library perpetual access to a book??? Purchasing the physical book. I guarantee the publisher won’t come steal it back!!!
"In 2022, Wiley removed over 1,300 ebooks from academic library collections; [they said] perpetual access is not an option for subscribed content. In 2025, Clarivate,... announced they would stop offering libraries perpetual access licenses for ebooks and primary-source digital collections."
Consumers Are Worried About the Loss of Physical Media Ownership. Libraries Are Leading the Conversation. — Association of Research Libraries
Sally Sax is head, Collection Strategy and Partnerships, MacOdrum Library, Carleton University. In a recent Atlantic Monthly article about Sony’s plan to end physical sales of PlayStation console game...
www.arl.org
September 13, 2026 at 12:33 PM
You know what gets a library perpetual access to a book??? Purchasing the physical book. I guarantee the publisher won’t come steal it back!!!
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AN URGENT EXCLUSIVE: Ahmed Soliman, the 30-year-old gay man ICE expelled in April to Equatorial Guinea, a country he has no ties to, was arrested this morning and cannot be located, his attorneys say. They fear he may be in one of EG's torture prisons. prospect.org/2026/09/11/i...
Immigrant Trump Sent to African Hotel Prison Arrested After Speaking With Media, Lawyers Say - The American Prospect
Ahmed Soliman’s attorneys fear he may have been sent to one of Equatorial Guinea’s notorious torture prisons.
prospect.org
September 11, 2026 at 4:42 PM
AN URGENT EXCLUSIVE: Ahmed Soliman, the 30-year-old gay man ICE expelled in April to Equatorial Guinea, a country he has no ties to, was arrested this morning and cannot be located, his attorneys say. They fear he may be in one of EG's torture prisons. prospect.org/2026/09/11/i...
I was starting my usual morning routine at a bakery getting a morning pasty when the woman behind the counter said "Did you hear about the plane that flew into the World Trade Center?"
September 11, 2026 at 2:11 PM
I was starting my usual morning routine at a bakery getting a morning pasty when the woman behind the counter said "Did you hear about the plane that flew into the World Trade Center?"
First day of 52nd grade!
How time flies!
How time flies!
September 8, 2026 at 3:19 PM
First day of 52nd grade!
How time flies!
How time flies!
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Afghan man taken by ICE in Missouri.
His wife asks the paper not to name him because of threats for helping the U.S. in Afghanistan.
"Estrada went Wednesday to U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley’s office in Kansas City to seek assistance but said the office wasn’t helpful."
www.stltoday.com/news/local/c...
His wife asks the paper not to name him because of threats for helping the U.S. in Afghanistan.
"Estrada went Wednesday to U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley’s office in Kansas City to seek assistance but said the office wasn’t helpful."
www.stltoday.com/news/local/c...
www.stltoday.com
September 8, 2026 at 12:18 AM
Afghan man taken by ICE in Missouri.
His wife asks the paper not to name him because of threats for helping the U.S. in Afghanistan.
"Estrada went Wednesday to U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley’s office in Kansas City to seek assistance but said the office wasn’t helpful."
www.stltoday.com/news/local/c...
His wife asks the paper not to name him because of threats for helping the U.S. in Afghanistan.
"Estrada went Wednesday to U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley’s office in Kansas City to seek assistance but said the office wasn’t helpful."
www.stltoday.com/news/local/c...
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Look if you've got a better way to run a country than "putting an illiterate octogenarian bigot on TV every few days to free associate and complain, and then everyone tries to figure out if it means we're about to start a war or not" I'd love to hear it. But the constitution says this is it.
May 4, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Look if you've got a better way to run a country than "putting an illiterate octogenarian bigot on TV every few days to free associate and complain, and then everyone tries to figure out if it means we're about to start a war or not" I'd love to hear it. But the constitution says this is it.
I lived over a great bar. One particularly quiet night a friend and I were having a drink with maybe two other customers and the bartender. In walked Gloria Steinem and a friend and we all watched her in awe as she walked the length of the place to a table at the back.
September 4, 2026 at 12:55 AM
I lived over a great bar. One particularly quiet night a friend and I were having a drink with maybe two other customers and the bartender. In walked Gloria Steinem and a friend and we all watched her in awe as she walked the length of the place to a table at the back.
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“Moulton exemplified the reactionary, left-bashing panic and capitulation to Trump we saw from many congressional Democrats in the wake of the 2024 election. Almost two years later, he got what he deserved: an electoral whupping.”
September 2, 2026 at 2:55 AM
“Moulton exemplified the reactionary, left-bashing panic and capitulation to Trump we saw from many congressional Democrats in the wake of the 2024 election. Almost two years later, he got what he deserved: an electoral whupping.”