Barok Befok
@barokbefok.bsky.social
Alan R Kay, marooned in Iowa, politics & baroque music
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We Ain't Buying It!
Your Wallet.
Your Power.
Your Wallet.
Your Power.
November 29, 2025 at 2:02 PM
We Ain't Buying It!
Your Wallet.
Your Power.
Your Wallet.
Your Power.
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Hawkeye WR Seth Anderson showed up BIG - donating 30 turkeys to the Iowa City Catholic Worker! Defensive backs Kael Kolarik and Koen Entringer jumped in to help distribute them to volunteers who’ll roast & share them with immigrant families across our community. That’s what teamwork looks like ! 🏈🙌
November 24, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Hawkeye WR Seth Anderson showed up BIG - donating 30 turkeys to the Iowa City Catholic Worker! Defensive backs Kael Kolarik and Koen Entringer jumped in to help distribute them to volunteers who’ll roast & share them with immigrant families across our community. That’s what teamwork looks like ! 🏈🙌
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Just hearing "some bloviating orange monster from Mar-A-Lago" in a perfect British accent is refreshing... " Rory Stewart's speech on the fight for democracy.
November 18, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Just hearing "some bloviating orange monster from Mar-A-Lago" in a perfect British accent is refreshing... " Rory Stewart's speech on the fight for democracy.
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Sunday Night Community Event
“Growing Up in the Shadow of Jim Crow and the Light of the Civil Rights Movement”
📅 Date: Sunday, November 9, 2025
⏰ Time: 6:30-8pm
📍 Location: Zoom (online) - posted by Iowa City Catholic Worker
✅ RSVP: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
“Growing Up in the Shadow of Jim Crow and the Light of the Civil Rights Movement”
📅 Date: Sunday, November 9, 2025
⏰ Time: 6:30-8pm
📍 Location: Zoom (online) - posted by Iowa City Catholic Worker
✅ RSVP: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
November 8, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Sunday Night Community Event
“Growing Up in the Shadow of Jim Crow and the Light of the Civil Rights Movement”
📅 Date: Sunday, November 9, 2025
⏰ Time: 6:30-8pm
📍 Location: Zoom (online) - posted by Iowa City Catholic Worker
✅ RSVP: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
“Growing Up in the Shadow of Jim Crow and the Light of the Civil Rights Movement”
📅 Date: Sunday, November 9, 2025
⏰ Time: 6:30-8pm
📍 Location: Zoom (online) - posted by Iowa City Catholic Worker
✅ RSVP: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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No Kings, Just Neighbors: Fill-A-Truck Food Drive
Saturday, Nov 15 🕙 10 AM – 1 PM
Downtown Iowa City
Join us for a day of music, food, & community as we come together to fill a truck with groceries & personal care items for families in need.
www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
Saturday, Nov 15 🕙 10 AM – 1 PM
Downtown Iowa City
Join us for a day of music, food, & community as we come together to fill a truck with groceries & personal care items for families in need.
www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
No Kings! Just Neighbors! Fill-A-Truck Food Drive · Mobilize
🛻 No Kings, Just Neighbors: Fill-A-Truck Food Drive
📅 Saturday, November 15 🕙 10 AM – 1 PM
📍 Downtown Iowa City (Exact Location TBA)
After the powerful energy of our No Kings Rally, it’s time to ...
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November 6, 2025 at 6:44 PM
No Kings, Just Neighbors: Fill-A-Truck Food Drive
Saturday, Nov 15 🕙 10 AM – 1 PM
Downtown Iowa City
Join us for a day of music, food, & community as we come together to fill a truck with groceries & personal care items for families in need.
www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
Saturday, Nov 15 🕙 10 AM – 1 PM
Downtown Iowa City
Join us for a day of music, food, & community as we come together to fill a truck with groceries & personal care items for families in need.
www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
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Portraits of hunger in Iowa -- Scott's story.
@robertleonard.bsky.social
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Portraits of Hunger in Iowa--Scott's Story
A Series
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November 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Portraits of hunger in Iowa -- Scott's story.
@robertleonard.bsky.social
rleonard.substack.com/p/portraits-...
@robertleonard.bsky.social
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Iowa faculty, student groups reject calls for the universities to join the federal compact @iowacapitaldispatch.com
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Iowa faculty, student groups 'reject' calls for universities to join federal compact • Iowa Capital Dispatch
A coalition of faculty and student groups at Iowa's public universities have spoken out against calls to join a new higher education compact.
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November 2, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Iowa faculty, student groups reject calls for the universities to join the federal compact @iowacapitaldispatch.com
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AI chip startup backed by Antichrist aficionado Peter Thiel and In-Q-Tel (CIA venture capital) raises $100 million.
Experts are skeptical it will pan out. But don’t worry: The founder is not an expert and skipped college for a Thiel Fellowship.
Gift Link:
www.wsj.com/tech/peter-t...
Experts are skeptical it will pan out. But don’t worry: The founder is not an expert and skipped college for a Thiel Fellowship.
Gift Link:
www.wsj.com/tech/peter-t...
Peter Thiel-Backed Startup Secures $100 Million to Make Chips in U.S.
Substrate is seeking to build semiconductor factories with new laser-based technology, but the hurdles are high.
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October 30, 2025 at 12:31 PM
AI chip startup backed by Antichrist aficionado Peter Thiel and In-Q-Tel (CIA venture capital) raises $100 million.
Experts are skeptical it will pan out. But don’t worry: The founder is not an expert and skipped college for a Thiel Fellowship.
Gift Link:
www.wsj.com/tech/peter-t...
Experts are skeptical it will pan out. But don’t worry: The founder is not an expert and skipped college for a Thiel Fellowship.
Gift Link:
www.wsj.com/tech/peter-t...
Georgian cooking experience at Handel Hendrix House - The kitchen of the great composer will come to life with costumed demonstrations
www.gramophone.co.uk/news/article...
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Georgian cooking experience at Handel Hendrix House
The kitchen of the great composer will come to life with costumed demonstrations
www.gramophone.co.uk
October 29, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Georgian cooking experience at Handel Hendrix House - The kitchen of the great composer will come to life with costumed demonstrations
www.gramophone.co.uk/news/article...
www.gramophone.co.uk/news/article...
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Curious to hear from semiconductor chip boffins if this has any legs. The work is being supported by Peter Thiel, who has claimed that the rational approach to solving problems has failed, so why not try the opposite of that, the irrational.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/t...
Can a Start-Up Make Computer Chips Cheaper Than the Industry’s Giants?
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Curious to hear from semiconductor chip boffins if this has any legs. The work is being supported by Peter Thiel, who has claimed that the rational approach to solving problems has failed, so why not try the opposite of that, the irrational.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/t...
I canceled mine and told them I did so because they are supporting the American Gestapo
Spotify is running recruitment ads for ICE.
A platform built to connect creators and listeners is helping an authoritarian regime build up its secret police force.
But we’re not going to idly accept that. We’re going to make Spotify listen: indivisible.org/cancel-spoti... #CancelSpotify
A platform built to connect creators and listeners is helping an authoritarian regime build up its secret police force.
But we’re not going to idly accept that. We’re going to make Spotify listen: indivisible.org/cancel-spoti... #CancelSpotify
October 29, 2025 at 11:53 AM
I canceled mine and told them I did so because they are supporting the American Gestapo
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Spotify is now running ICE recruitment ads. We asked them to stop. They ignored us. Let's show them what we showed Disney. No Kings, No Collaborators, No Capitulators. indivisible.org/cancel-spotify
Don’t Stream Fascism: Cancel Spotify
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October 28, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Spotify is now running ICE recruitment ads. We asked them to stop. They ignored us. Let's show them what we showed Disney. No Kings, No Collaborators, No Capitulators. indivisible.org/cancel-spotify
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Tomorrow, Mon 27 Oct
Unpack the Compact Movement Call: Resisting Trump's Latest Attack on Higher Ed
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Unpack the Compact Movement Call: Resisting Trump's Latest Attack on Higher Ed
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Unpack the Compact Movement Call: Resisting Trump's Latest Attack on Higher Ed · No Kings
Trump’s new “Compact to All Higher Ed” is a direct attack on students, faculty, and academic freedom. **Join Public Citizen and national partners, for a timely discussion on Trump’s new “Compact to Al...
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October 26, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Tomorrow, Mon 27 Oct
Unpack the Compact Movement Call: Resisting Trump's Latest Attack on Higher Ed
www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
Unpack the Compact Movement Call: Resisting Trump's Latest Attack on Higher Ed
www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
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Essential viewing for all peaceful civil resistance warriors Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social talking to Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social
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Talking With Erica Chenoweth
Civil resistance: Does it work, and when?
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October 25, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Essential viewing for all peaceful civil resistance warriors Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social talking to Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/talking-wi...
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/talking-wi...
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Local Governments: Pass the Due Process & Safety Resolution Now!
This simple, common-sense resolution will help protect students, residents, workers, schools, & visitors from harmful ICE raids in our community. Contact your local elected officials today.
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This simple, common-sense resolution will help protect students, residents, workers, schools, & visitors from harmful ICE raids in our community. Contact your local elected officials today.
secure.everyaction.com/38K0P3bF5U6R...
October 22, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Local Governments: Pass the Due Process & Safety Resolution Now!
This simple, common-sense resolution will help protect students, residents, workers, schools, & visitors from harmful ICE raids in our community. Contact your local elected officials today.
secure.everyaction.com/38K0P3bF5U6R...
This simple, common-sense resolution will help protect students, residents, workers, schools, & visitors from harmful ICE raids in our community. Contact your local elected officials today.
secure.everyaction.com/38K0P3bF5U6R...
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COURT ACCOMPANIMENT TO RESCUE JORGE
📍 Monday, Oct 20 – 2:00 PM
📍 Davenport Federal Courthouse – 131 E 4th St, Davenport
Join clergy, workers, and families from across Iowa to stand with Jorge, demand due process, and defend the dignity of immigrant workers. - Iowa City Catholic Worker
📍 Monday, Oct 20 – 2:00 PM
📍 Davenport Federal Courthouse – 131 E 4th St, Davenport
Join clergy, workers, and families from across Iowa to stand with Jorge, demand due process, and defend the dignity of immigrant workers. - Iowa City Catholic Worker
October 20, 2025 at 1:44 AM
COURT ACCOMPANIMENT TO RESCUE JORGE
📍 Monday, Oct 20 – 2:00 PM
📍 Davenport Federal Courthouse – 131 E 4th St, Davenport
Join clergy, workers, and families from across Iowa to stand with Jorge, demand due process, and defend the dignity of immigrant workers. - Iowa City Catholic Worker
📍 Monday, Oct 20 – 2:00 PM
📍 Davenport Federal Courthouse – 131 E 4th St, Davenport
Join clergy, workers, and families from across Iowa to stand with Jorge, demand due process, and defend the dignity of immigrant workers. - Iowa City Catholic Worker
It is a common sentence that Knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of Ignorance? - George Eliot, Daniel Deronda
October 19, 2025 at 7:50 PM
It is a common sentence that Knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of Ignorance? - George Eliot, Daniel Deronda
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“The MAGA right is fed not by conservative ideas but by chthonic forces in human nature that at different points in history gather like a hurricane and can level any decent political order.” —Mark Lilla
Storm Warnings | Mark Lilla
The MAGA movement is not fed by conservative ideas but by a nihilistic, apocalyptic determination to stage a counterrevolution against the Sixties, against liberalism, against even democracy itself.
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October 18, 2025 at 11:08 AM
“The MAGA right is fed not by conservative ideas but by chthonic forces in human nature that at different points in history gather like a hurricane and can level any decent political order.” —Mark Lilla
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Kudos to this Iowa City protester, who not only elevated the level of discourse, but also provided a source for the quote! "Truthfulness has fallen in desuetude." - Stereolab
@iowacityoflit.bsky.social
#NoKings
@iowacityoflit.bsky.social
#NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Kudos to this Iowa City protester, who not only elevated the level of discourse, but also provided a source for the quote! "Truthfulness has fallen in desuetude." - Stereolab
@iowacityoflit.bsky.social
#NoKings
@iowacityoflit.bsky.social
#NoKings
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An ICE agent, who is being arrested for drunk driving and nearly killing his little kids & others, tries to stop the arrest by racially profiling the officers arresting him. Amazing to watch the courtesy given to him as he is belligerent and uncooperative
October 17, 2025 at 3:11 PM
An ICE agent, who is being arrested for drunk driving and nearly killing his little kids & others, tries to stop the arrest by racially profiling the officers arresting him. Amazing to watch the courtesy given to him as he is belligerent and uncooperative
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Legal Observer Training
Sat, Oct 11 | 3–5pm | Iowa City Rec Center
220 S. Gilbert St., Social Room
Join Escucha Mi Voz Iowa for a Legal Observer Training
Sat, Oct 11 | 3–5pm | Iowa City Rec Center
220 S. Gilbert St., Social Room
Join Escucha Mi Voz Iowa for a Legal Observer Training
October 10, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Legal Observer Training
Sat, Oct 11 | 3–5pm | Iowa City Rec Center
220 S. Gilbert St., Social Room
Join Escucha Mi Voz Iowa for a Legal Observer Training
Sat, Oct 11 | 3–5pm | Iowa City Rec Center
220 S. Gilbert St., Social Room
Join Escucha Mi Voz Iowa for a Legal Observer Training
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Great to see Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social writing on Substack - Deafening Quiet from the Scientific Establishment
Leaders are underestimating the risks of not fighting back donmoynihan.substack.com/p/deafening-...
Leaders are underestimating the risks of not fighting back donmoynihan.substack.com/p/deafening-...
Deafening Quiet from the Scientific Establishment
Leaders are underestimating the risks of not fighting back
donmoynihan.substack.com
October 9, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Great to see Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social writing on Substack - Deafening Quiet from the Scientific Establishment
Leaders are underestimating the risks of not fighting back donmoynihan.substack.com/p/deafening-...
Leaders are underestimating the risks of not fighting back donmoynihan.substack.com/p/deafening-...