Producer + DJ / City Planner + Assoc. Prof @WeitzmanSchool @pennmusa. Nighttime culture advocate. Music - Soul Clap / Razor-N-Tape / Defected.
West Philadelphia
Joined June 2009
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New EP on @soulclap with @AmyDouglasSings out today at all digital outlets PLUS 12”
vinyl of extended remixes from @JohnTheMixer. Go to michaelthelion.bandcamp.com or any streaming site, digital retailer or vinyl outlet. We always put a message in our music, we hope it moves you
This platform has become completely unusable, my whole feed is just dubious algorithmic content. Think I might be done here.
Upcoming -
4/25 - Earth Night @broadhallphl – Phila
5/8 - Rancho Deluxe show on @greatcircles
5/16 Hooked @DolphinPhilly – Phila
6/12 - Rancho Deluxe show on @greatcircles
6/18 - Dante's HiFi - Miami
7/3 - Bayleine - Cape Cod, MA
Franklin Roosevelt’s four freedoms- Freedom of speech, freedom of religion. Freedom from want and freedom from fear.
Censoring books.
Gone from the Naval Academy library after Trump book purge: "Memorializing the Holocaust."
Still on the shelves: Two copies of "Mein Kampf."
@johnismay nytimes.com/2025/04/11/us/po…
Michael The Lion retweeted
Users of the tigris / tidycensus #rstats packages:
The Census website has been blocking requests from tigris (and curl) since yesterday.
(Don’t worry, the datasets are still there!)
I’ve patched tigris, install with `pak::pak("walkerke/tigris@ftp-patch")` and it should work.
The view from Germany - "Forrest Gump is Dead."
Die USA waren für viele Generationen Sehnsuchtsort, der coole große Bruder. Doch wir waren blind. Zeit, sich von der Amerika-Liebe zu verabschieden. Tut es weh? Muss es. trib.al/zFUnSYF
Michael The Lion retweeted
If you can, please make a donation to help fund the funeral for Andy Williams aka Yam Who? x
gofund.me/199dcf1a
Michael The Lion retweeted
Trump cuts a Tesla ad at the White House, and Elon thanks him with a $100 million donation.
Outright corruption.
Haberman: Teddy Schleifer and I reported that Elon Musk has signaled to Trump’s advisers that he wants to direct $100 million into trump controlled political entities..
One of the key tenets of American society is tolerance. Other people have a right to express views you find abhorrent. Support that right - especially when you disagree! If and when there comes a day when you're the one in the jackpot - you'll want your rights supported.
It's cool that I filed a report on this service about misinformation in the form of holocaust denial and got an email back like "that doesn't violate our terms." What a great internet website.
Michael The Lion retweeted
Generations of American patriots, from our revolution onward, have fought for the principles Zelenskyy is risking his life to defend. But today, Donald Trump and JD Vance attacked Zelenskyy and pressured him to surrender the freedom of his people to the KGB war criminal who invaded Ukraine. History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for.
Michael The Lion retweeted
Justin Sun’s payments to Trump followed by the SEC dropping this case is just brazen corruption in broad daylight.
BREAKING
The SEC has just halted its fraud prosecution of Justin Sun, a Chinese national who has put more than $50 million in Trump's pocket since November through the purchase of crypto tokens from a Trump-backed company, World Liberty Financial.
Turns out austerity and tariffs (e.g. consumption taxes) are [checks notes] have the effects that 100 years of economics implied they would.
US consumer confidence drops by most since August 2021 trib.al/MNS8juW
