Brooklyn Kathryn
@brooklynpoplar.bsky.social
• Monterey, CA
• Originally from Nashville
• Lover of fiddle tunes, contra dance, & nature 🎻🌿
Let's talk music! Punch Brothers, Hawktail, Chris Thile, Janelle Monaáe, Fiona Apple, Allison Russell, Josh Ritter, Anaïs Mitchell, Billie Eilish, Harry Styles
• Originally from Nashville
• Lover of fiddle tunes, contra dance, & nature 🎻🌿
Let's talk music! Punch Brothers, Hawktail, Chris Thile, Janelle Monaáe, Fiona Apple, Allison Russell, Josh Ritter, Anaïs Mitchell, Billie Eilish, Harry Styles
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Chris Thile's new album, 'Bach: Sonatas and Partitas, Vol. 2'—on which he performs Bach's Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004; Sonata No. 3 in C major, BWV 1005; and Partita No. 3 in E major, BWV 1006—is out now: christhile.lnk.to/bachsonatasp...
November 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Chris Thile's new album, 'Bach: Sonatas and Partitas, Vol. 2'—on which he performs Bach's Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004; Sonata No. 3 in C major, BWV 1005; and Partita No. 3 in E major, BWV 1006—is out now: christhile.lnk.to/bachsonatasp...
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I witnessed this from my living room last night while I was watching The Rehearsal. Really sad and disturbing, but also absolutely wild that I paused The Rehearsal (season 2!) to investigate when I heard the struggling plane engine concerningly close to my apartment. 😳
Three people were killed after a small plane crashed off the coast of Pacific Grove in central California on Saturday night, the authorities said.
3 Dead After Small Plane Crashes Off California Coast, Coast Guard Says
www.nytimes.com
July 27, 2025 at 10:09 PM
I witnessed this from my living room last night while I was watching The Rehearsal. Really sad and disturbing, but also absolutely wild that I paused The Rehearsal (season 2!) to investigate when I heard the struggling plane engine concerningly close to my apartment. 😳
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"abolish ice" should be a standard position for anyone on the left, including politicians. you can't claim to be anti-fascist or pro-immigrant without demanding that the government's chief tool of anti-immigrant fascism be dismantled.
June 8, 2025 at 1:57 PM
"abolish ice" should be a standard position for anyone on the left, including politicians. you can't claim to be anti-fascist or pro-immigrant without demanding that the government's chief tool of anti-immigrant fascism be dismantled.
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Molly Tuttle, @rhiannongiddens.bsky.social, and Chris Thile are among those featured in a @nytimes.com Magazine article on the resurgence of roots music: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/m...
June 4, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Molly Tuttle, @rhiannongiddens.bsky.social, and Chris Thile are among those featured in a @nytimes.com Magazine article on the resurgence of roots music: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/m...
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This is wickedness.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/n...
Columbia Activist Arrested by ICE at His Appointment for Citizenship
Mohsen Mahdawi, a legal permanent resident, has lived in the United States for 10 years and was arrested in Vermont. He has not been charged with a crime.
www.nytimes.com
April 15, 2025 at 3:12 AM
This is wickedness.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/n...
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April 14, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States
Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
www.npr.org
April 15, 2025 at 12:47 PM
DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States
This is the first year I've ever owed money and cannot express enough how sick I felt making this payment to the government today.
I want to pay for healthcare for all, public lands, and robust social safety nets, but instead I'm funding genocide, death camps, and Elon's government contracts.
I want to pay for healthcare for all, public lands, and robust social safety nets, but instead I'm funding genocide, death camps, and Elon's government contracts.
I have never before felt sick about paying my taxes.
April 15, 2025 at 2:01 PM
This is the first year I've ever owed money and cannot express enough how sick I felt making this payment to the government today.
I want to pay for healthcare for all, public lands, and robust social safety nets, but instead I'm funding genocide, death camps, and Elon's government contracts.
I want to pay for healthcare for all, public lands, and robust social safety nets, but instead I'm funding genocide, death camps, and Elon's government contracts.
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(📣) PROOF UNLOCKED: The first massive report in the three-report PROOF series on The Trump-El Salvador Scandal is now free to the public.
I hope you will share it widely, and consider subscribing if you find the content useful.
I hope you will share it widely, and consider subscribing if you find the content useful.
BREAKING NEWS: America Is Back in the International Slave Trade
A Trump administration filing in federal court in Maryland may be the most shocking confession any presidential administration has made in generations—as it signals a reinstitution of the slave trade.
sethabramson.substack.com
April 14, 2025 at 7:40 PM
(📣) PROOF UNLOCKED: The first massive report in the three-report PROOF series on The Trump-El Salvador Scandal is now free to the public.
I hope you will share it widely, and consider subscribing if you find the content useful.
I hope you will share it widely, and consider subscribing if you find the content useful.
Oh shit I collected social security as a minor. Psyched to learn I'm part of the "fraud, waste, and abuse".
Damn kids with dead parents gaming the system.
Damn kids with dead parents gaming the system.
Jeanine: We found out there are people who are between the ages of one and four who are getting social security
Jessica: That's the benefit for kids whose parents are dead.
Jessica: That's the benefit for kids whose parents are dead.
April 15, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Oh shit I collected social security as a minor. Psyched to learn I'm part of the "fraud, waste, and abuse".
Damn kids with dead parents gaming the system.
Damn kids with dead parents gaming the system.
Self-soothing with my fave after my timeline breakdown over the importance of due process & the scourge of US funded concentration camps.
Chris Thile always makes me feel some level of hope and joy when things feel impossible. Here's a throwback to simpler times (2020 💀): youtu.be/Qiija5dBBIw?...
Chris Thile always makes me feel some level of hope and joy when things feel impossible. Here's a throwback to simpler times (2020 💀): youtu.be/Qiija5dBBIw?...
Live from Home: Chris Thile plays Gillian Welch's "Hard Times" | Live from Here with Chris Thile
YouTube video by Radio Heartland
youtu.be
April 15, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Self-soothing with my fave after my timeline breakdown over the importance of due process & the scourge of US funded concentration camps.
Chris Thile always makes me feel some level of hope and joy when things feel impossible. Here's a throwback to simpler times (2020 💀): youtu.be/Qiija5dBBIw?...
Chris Thile always makes me feel some level of hope and joy when things feel impossible. Here's a throwback to simpler times (2020 💀): youtu.be/Qiija5dBBIw?...
To be clear, NO ONE should be kidnapped and deported to a foreign prison.
I don't care what heinious crime any of them are accused of. They deserve due process.
I don't care what heinious crime any of them are accused of. They deserve due process.
April 15, 2025 at 1:32 PM
To be clear, NO ONE should be kidnapped and deported to a foreign prison.
I don't care what heinious crime any of them are accused of. They deserve due process.
I don't care what heinious crime any of them are accused of. They deserve due process.
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If you don’t see yourself or someone you care about in this example, just wait a few weeks.
One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind.
An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one."
The other said, "Take him anyway."
So they did.
An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one."
The other said, "Take him anyway."
So they did.
April 14, 2025 at 5:56 PM
If you don’t see yourself or someone you care about in this example, just wait a few weeks.
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1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.
April 15, 2025 at 1:13 AM
1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.
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UPDATE: El Salvador’s brutal far-right dictator, Trump and Musk friend Nayib Bukele, has confirmed that he will never return any person sent to him from America. And Trump has confirmed he wants American citizens sent to El Salvador to die in a foreign gulag. This is a five-alarm fire for democracy.
Yes, Donald Trump is Planning to Send U.S. Residents En Masse to Death Camps in El Salvador Run By Dictator Nayib Bukele
The White House meeting on Monday between Trump and Bukele isn’t quite a Hitler-Stalin summit, but in the context of this century’s politics and America’s descent into fascism, it approaches it.
sethabramson.substack.com
April 14, 2025 at 5:03 PM
UPDATE: El Salvador’s brutal far-right dictator, Trump and Musk friend Nayib Bukele, has confirmed that he will never return any person sent to him from America. And Trump has confirmed he wants American citizens sent to El Salvador to die in a foreign gulag. This is a five-alarm fire for democracy.
So when are the mass protests for Kilmar (and fucking everyone else) being sent to a Salvadoran concentration camp?! I don't know if there has been another time in my life where the moment so clearly called for mass mobilization.
April 15, 2025 at 12:36 PM
So when are the mass protests for Kilmar (and fucking everyone else) being sent to a Salvadoran concentration camp?! I don't know if there has been another time in my life where the moment so clearly called for mass mobilization.
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#BREAKING: Over 36,000 people rallied in Los Angeles today in support of @sanders.senate.gov and @aoc.bsky.social’s OLIGARCHY TOUR — setting a record as their largest stop on this tour.
April 12, 2025 at 11:09 PM
#BREAKING: Over 36,000 people rallied in Los Angeles today in support of @sanders.senate.gov and @aoc.bsky.social’s OLIGARCHY TOUR — setting a record as their largest stop on this tour.
Hands Off Protest in Monterey, CA.
April 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Hands Off Protest in Monterey, CA.
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As a Smithsonian Folkways recording artist who works in Black folk music, climate fiction and Afrofuturism: if you want my last two albums, buy them now. Fellow music scholars and archivists: if you're willing to put these in your institution's collection, please let me know so I can donate them.
Trump executive order on Smithsonian targets funding for programs with 'improper ideology'
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order on the Smithsonian Institution that targets funding to programs that contain what he calls “divisive narratives” and “improper ideology.”
apnews.com
March 28, 2025 at 6:30 AM
As a Smithsonian Folkways recording artist who works in Black folk music, climate fiction and Afrofuturism: if you want my last two albums, buy them now. Fellow music scholars and archivists: if you're willing to put these in your institution's collection, please let me know so I can donate them.
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type 2
there are two types of male groupchats. they either have a name like “BONER BOYS RES[ERECT]ED: HORNY 4 LIFE, 2 CAKED UP 2 DIE” but everyone’s just encouraging each other on breakups and to try therapy. the other will be named something like “gary chat” and filled with domestic terrorists
March 26, 2025 at 11:22 PM
type 2
I need Gemma and Irving to work together on the outside. My god, the combined serve would be unstoppable.
Choosing to believe Irving is in s3 because the world is too horrible and scary right now and I need something to believe in.
#severance
Choosing to believe Irving is in s3 because the world is too horrible and scary right now and I need something to believe in.
#severance
March 22, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I need Gemma and Irving to work together on the outside. My god, the combined serve would be unstoppable.
Choosing to believe Irving is in s3 because the world is too horrible and scary right now and I need something to believe in.
#severance
Choosing to believe Irving is in s3 because the world is too horrible and scary right now and I need something to believe in.
#severance