ActiveCultures
@activecultures.bsky.social
Imposing his taste on friends & strangers since 19xx. Agitador Cultural. Globalizer. Arts Monger from Long Island & Brooklyn now in Abu Dhabi UAE
IG @activecultures
Also me (w/ others):
@NYUADArtsCenter @globalFEST_NYC
Representing no one but me
Also me (w/ others):
@NYUADArtsCenter @globalFEST_NYC
Representing no one but me
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“Imagine how they lie when there’s no evidence to contradict them.”
Watch this powerful message from Jon Stewart.
Watch this powerful message from Jon Stewart.
January 27, 2026 at 7:59 PM
“Imagine how they lie when there’s no evidence to contradict them.”
Watch this powerful message from Jon Stewart.
Watch this powerful message from Jon Stewart.
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After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
January 27, 2026 at 9:30 PM
After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
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We the people have the power. Join us tonight, Jan. 26, for a virtual training on how to exercise your right to document ICE abuses in your community.
RSVP below: Note that, when using that link, Indivisible will know you came from us; their privacy policy applies.
www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
RSVP below: Note that, when using that link, Indivisible will know you came from us; their privacy policy applies.
www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
January 26, 2026 at 7:31 PM
We the people have the power. Join us tonight, Jan. 26, for a virtual training on how to exercise your right to document ICE abuses in your community.
RSVP below: Note that, when using that link, Indivisible will know you came from us; their privacy policy applies.
www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
RSVP below: Note that, when using that link, Indivisible will know you came from us; their privacy policy applies.
www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
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No Kings is hosting what is shaping up to be the largest ICE Watch training in history tonight.
Join here: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
Join here: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
January 26, 2026 at 4:01 PM
No Kings is hosting what is shaping up to be the largest ICE Watch training in history tonight.
Join here: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
Join here: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
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RIP Sly Dunbar (1952-2026)
Sly Dunbar, Influential Sly & Robbie Drummer, Is Dead At 73
Grammy-winning producer and drummer Sly Dunbar — one half of the Jamaican duo Sly and Robbie — has died aged 73, DancehallMag has confirmed. Rory Baker, a
www.dancehallmag.com
January 26, 2026 at 4:17 PM
RIP Sly Dunbar (1952-2026)
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It’s cold comfort right now but, if past is prologue, spectacles of violence committed by the state against sympathetic civilians—especially when captured on camera—were the beginning of the end for Bull Connor and Jim Crow, too.
January 14, 2026 at 1:46 AM
It’s cold comfort right now but, if past is prologue, spectacles of violence committed by the state against sympathetic civilians—especially when captured on camera—were the beginning of the end for Bull Connor and Jim Crow, too.
I let my friends’ 6-year old son DJ for a road trip from Dubai to Abu Dhabi. He may have led me to my new mini obsession: Luna Luxe.
youtu.be/Fgo0O3M5wy8?...
youtu.be/Fgo0O3M5wy8?...
She Is King
YouTube video by lunaluxe - Topic
youtu.be
January 26, 2026 at 6:50 AM
I let my friends’ 6-year old son DJ for a road trip from Dubai to Abu Dhabi. He may have led me to my new mini obsession: Luna Luxe.
youtu.be/Fgo0O3M5wy8?...
youtu.be/Fgo0O3M5wy8?...
Sanctuary fades
Congregation splits
Nightly military raids
The congregation splits
It's a song of assassins
Ringin' in your ears
We got terrorist thinking
Playing on fears
Well they blew the horns
And the walls came down
(For Minneapolis. youtu.be/8EyqFM02mtc?...)
Congregation splits
Nightly military raids
The congregation splits
It's a song of assassins
Ringin' in your ears
We got terrorist thinking
Playing on fears
Well they blew the horns
And the walls came down
(For Minneapolis. youtu.be/8EyqFM02mtc?...)
The Call - The Walls Came Down
YouTube video by stereomusicvideo
youtu.be
January 26, 2026 at 6:37 AM
Sanctuary fades
Congregation splits
Nightly military raids
The congregation splits
It's a song of assassins
Ringin' in your ears
We got terrorist thinking
Playing on fears
Well they blew the horns
And the walls came down
(For Minneapolis. youtu.be/8EyqFM02mtc?...)
Congregation splits
Nightly military raids
The congregation splits
It's a song of assassins
Ringin' in your ears
We got terrorist thinking
Playing on fears
Well they blew the horns
And the walls came down
(For Minneapolis. youtu.be/8EyqFM02mtc?...)
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Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"
January 25, 2026 at 8:24 PM
Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"
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This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.
January 25, 2026 at 5:20 PM
This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.
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I use that Bjork video and few others of hers as examples of “music video as artistic expression.”
January 24, 2026 at 6:40 PM
I use that Bjork video and few others of hers as examples of “music video as artistic expression.”
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Haha, awesome!
Sometimes I teach a unit on music videos (history, aesthetics, critical analysis, etc.) in a media production class. We discuss three different analytical frameworks: music videos as self promotion (and advertising), social commentary, and artistic expression.
Sometimes I teach a unit on music videos (history, aesthetics, critical analysis, etc.) in a media production class. We discuss three different analytical frameworks: music videos as self promotion (and advertising), social commentary, and artistic expression.
January 24, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Haha, awesome!
Sometimes I teach a unit on music videos (history, aesthetics, critical analysis, etc.) in a media production class. We discuss three different analytical frameworks: music videos as self promotion (and advertising), social commentary, and artistic expression.
Sometimes I teach a unit on music videos (history, aesthetics, critical analysis, etc.) in a media production class. We discuss three different analytical frameworks: music videos as self promotion (and advertising), social commentary, and artistic expression.
That night you find out your friend was the principal dancer in a Bjork video.
youtu.be/KJRiBDMfrTU?...
youtu.be/KJRiBDMfrTU?...
björk: wanderlust (2D version)
YouTube video by björk
youtu.be
January 24, 2026 at 6:20 PM
That night you find out your friend was the principal dancer in a Bjork video.
youtu.be/KJRiBDMfrTU?...
youtu.be/KJRiBDMfrTU?...
January 23, 2026 at 9:56 PM
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cannot adequately describe how great this is to see
there are more of us than there are of them and they will not break us
there are more of us than there are of them and they will not break us
It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing
January 23, 2026 at 8:40 PM
cannot adequately describe how great this is to see
there are more of us than there are of them and they will not break us
there are more of us than there are of them and they will not break us
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They are never, ever going to win in Minnesota.
January 23, 2026 at 8:56 PM
They are never, ever going to win in Minnesota.
This is where I came in. Golden Years on WPIX-FM was my gateway drug.
January 23, 2026 at 12:33 PM
This is where I came in. Golden Years on WPIX-FM was my gateway drug.
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Former special counsel Jack Smith offered a robust defense of his derailed efforts to prosecute Donald Trump, telling lawmakers in his first public testimony that the president “willfully broke the very laws that he took an oath to uphold.” https://wapo.st/4qFjsSX
January 23, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Former special counsel Jack Smith offered a robust defense of his derailed efforts to prosecute Donald Trump, telling lawmakers in his first public testimony that the president “willfully broke the very laws that he took an oath to uphold.” https://wapo.st/4qFjsSX
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You have to know that there is no suitable reality in which we just Go Back To Living Among These People.
There is no going back. It can’t just be All Good.
Whatever implications you glean from this statement; yes.
There is no going back. It can’t just be All Good.
Whatever implications you glean from this statement; yes.
There is no level to which these heartless shit-for-brains won’t stoop to inflict cruelty and suffering.
January 22, 2026 at 8:29 PM
You have to know that there is no suitable reality in which we just Go Back To Living Among These People.
There is no going back. It can’t just be All Good.
Whatever implications you glean from this statement; yes.
There is no going back. It can’t just be All Good.
Whatever implications you glean from this statement; yes.
My wife is a mega show ticket fiend.
Who is more popular: BTS or Bruno Mars?
(This summer, we’re going to both)
Who is more popular: BTS or Bruno Mars?
(This summer, we’re going to both)
January 22, 2026 at 9:05 PM
My wife is a mega show ticket fiend.
Who is more popular: BTS or Bruno Mars?
(This summer, we’re going to both)
Who is more popular: BTS or Bruno Mars?
(This summer, we’re going to both)
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I met an absolutely lovely academic who asked whether my department back home is affected by ICE -- a question dramatizing how little info is getting out.
For the record, the small example I chose:
My dept has a carpool to pick up grad students of color who can't safely commute to campus alone.
For the record, the small example I chose:
My dept has a carpool to pick up grad students of color who can't safely commute to campus alone.
January 22, 2026 at 7:52 PM
I met an absolutely lovely academic who asked whether my department back home is affected by ICE -- a question dramatizing how little info is getting out.
For the record, the small example I chose:
My dept has a carpool to pick up grad students of color who can't safely commute to campus alone.
For the record, the small example I chose:
My dept has a carpool to pick up grad students of color who can't safely commute to campus alone.
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CA's AG, also openly supporting the protest movements: “Crowds are super important. That is the rawest, most powerful expression of our democracy. When people show up, whether it’s Hands Off or No Kings, we are speaking about what we will never accept and what we demand.”
January 22, 2026 at 8:27 PM
CA's AG, also openly supporting the protest movements: “Crowds are super important. That is the rawest, most powerful expression of our democracy. When people show up, whether it’s Hands Off or No Kings, we are speaking about what we will never accept and what we demand.”
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This morning I reached the 350k follower mark here on Bluesky, which is mindblowing. Thank you so much for letting me be part of your Bluesky experience. I'm glad to be here. To celebrate I've donated to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota and to the MN chapter of the ACLU. Onward!
www.ilcm.org
www.ilcm.org
Home - Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota
www.ilcm.org
January 22, 2026 at 3:41 PM
This morning I reached the 350k follower mark here on Bluesky, which is mindblowing. Thank you so much for letting me be part of your Bluesky experience. I'm glad to be here. To celebrate I've donated to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota and to the MN chapter of the ACLU. Onward!
www.ilcm.org
www.ilcm.org
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NYC friends! Consider coming to this before the big Union Square march, this Friday (1/23), coinciding with Minneapolis & St Paul's citywide shutdown and strike.
We can all hop on the train down to Union Square together afterward (protest car!).
We can all hop on the train down to Union Square together afterward (protest car!).
January 21, 2026 at 3:40 PM
NYC friends! Consider coming to this before the big Union Square march, this Friday (1/23), coinciding with Minneapolis & St Paul's citywide shutdown and strike.
We can all hop on the train down to Union Square together afterward (protest car!).
We can all hop on the train down to Union Square together afterward (protest car!).