Bruce Hodges
@brucehodges.bsky.social
Writer | editor | more-than-decent cook. Where: The Strad (London), WRTI (Philadelphia). Music | architecture | art + design | photography | theater + film | journalism | science | climate change
Photo: Luis Barragán, Cuadra San Cristóbal, Mexico
Photo: Luis Barragán, Cuadra San Cristóbal, Mexico
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Bruce Hodges
@brucehodges.bsky.social
· Sep 25
One of the great paintings of the late 20th century, "Constructing the Grand Canyon" (1990, oil on canvas) by Mark Tansey (b. 1949), on view at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
Zoom in to see the workers pushing blocks of text into place to create the walls
walkerart.org/collections/...
Zoom in to see the workers pushing blocks of text into place to create the walls
walkerart.org/collections/...
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Fortune 500 companies that have contracts with ICE:
-Amazon
-AT&T
-Booz Allen Hamilton
-Caci
-Charter Communications
-Comcast
-Dell
-Ecolab
-FedEx
-General Dynamics
-L3Harris
-Motorola
-Thermo Fisher
-UPS
Know who profits from Trump's cruelty.
-Amazon
-AT&T
-Booz Allen Hamilton
-Caci
-Charter Communications
-Comcast
-Dell
-Ecolab
-FedEx
-General Dynamics
-L3Harris
-Motorola
-Thermo Fisher
-UPS
Know who profits from Trump's cruelty.
January 8, 2026 at 8:46 PM
Fortune 500 companies that have contracts with ICE:
-Amazon
-AT&T
-Booz Allen Hamilton
-Caci
-Charter Communications
-Comcast
-Dell
-Ecolab
-FedEx
-General Dynamics
-L3Harris
-Motorola
-Thermo Fisher
-UPS
Know who profits from Trump's cruelty.
-Amazon
-AT&T
-Booz Allen Hamilton
-Caci
-Charter Communications
-Comcast
-Dell
-Ecolab
-FedEx
-General Dynamics
-L3Harris
-Motorola
-Thermo Fisher
-UPS
Know who profits from Trump's cruelty.
Some restorative music after this awful week: from 2024 in Brooklyn, Steve Reich's Music for 18 Musicians, with Bang on a Can All-Stars & Friends
#selfcare
#selfcare
Steve Reich: Music for 18 Musicians with Bang on a Can All-Stars & Friends
YouTube video by Bang on a Can
youtu.be
January 8, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Some restorative music after this awful week: from 2024 in Brooklyn, Steve Reich's Music for 18 Musicians, with Bang on a Can All-Stars & Friends
#selfcare
#selfcare
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Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).
January 8, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).
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Ollie Matson's House Is Just A Square Red Cloud, 1931, David B Milne
January 8, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Ollie Matson's House Is Just A Square Red Cloud, 1931, David B Milne
January 8, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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That’s why the better slogan was, is, and will always be “Demilitarize the Police”
January 8, 2026 at 3:38 PM
That’s why the better slogan was, is, and will always be “Demilitarize the Police”
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Colegio Passage, Buenos Aires, 2017
photo: Michael Eastman
photo: Michael Eastman
January 8, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Colegio Passage, Buenos Aires, 2017
photo: Michael Eastman
photo: Michael Eastman
If you haven't yet read the prize-winning poem by Renée Nicole Good (née Macklin), "On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs," it's worth a look.
poets.org/2020-on-lear...
📷: Jules Tennant
poets.org/2020-on-lear...
📷: Jules Tennant
January 8, 2026 at 2:55 PM
If you haven't yet read the prize-winning poem by Renée Nicole Good (née Macklin), "On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs," it's worth a look.
poets.org/2020-on-lear...
📷: Jules Tennant
poets.org/2020-on-lear...
📷: Jules Tennant
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The Parachutists by William Baziotes, 1944
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137881
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137881
January 8, 2026 at 10:20 AM
The Parachutists by William Baziotes, 1944
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137881
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137881
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• Eyes Wide Shut (1999) de Stanley Kubrick.
January 8, 2026 at 10:26 AM
• Eyes Wide Shut (1999) de Stanley Kubrick.
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Ken Ferguson (Scottish)
"Daybreak", 2024.
Watercolor, 18.5 × 13 inches.
Private Collection.
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
"Daybreak", 2024.
Watercolor, 18.5 × 13 inches.
Private Collection.
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
January 8, 2026 at 10:28 AM
Ken Ferguson (Scottish)
"Daybreak", 2024.
Watercolor, 18.5 × 13 inches.
Private Collection.
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
"Daybreak", 2024.
Watercolor, 18.5 × 13 inches.
Private Collection.
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
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Tsuchiya Koitsu (Japanese, 1870–1949)
"Evening at Ushigome", 1939.
Woodblock Print, 39 × 26 cm.
Private Collection.
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
"Evening at Ushigome", 1939.
Woodblock Print, 39 × 26 cm.
Private Collection.
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
January 8, 2026 at 10:32 AM
Tsuchiya Koitsu (Japanese, 1870–1949)
"Evening at Ushigome", 1939.
Woodblock Print, 39 × 26 cm.
Private Collection.
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
"Evening at Ushigome", 1939.
Woodblock Print, 39 × 26 cm.
Private Collection.
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
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I don't want to post about #classicalmusic now.
First, the murder.
Second, the reluctance of the media to call this what it is.
Third, the new normal: this.
First, the murder.
Second, the reluctance of the media to call this what it is.
Third, the new normal: this.
Lying, despite video evidence, works: NYT, WaPo, CNN all leading with version of Trump Regime claiming that cold-blooded murder of innocent woman was "self-defense"
January 8, 2026 at 10:33 AM
I don't want to post about #classicalmusic now.
First, the murder.
Second, the reluctance of the media to call this what it is.
Third, the new normal: this.
First, the murder.
Second, the reluctance of the media to call this what it is.
Third, the new normal: this.
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Here’s her prize-winning poem, if anyone’s interested - it’s a gut punch ❤️
poets.org/2020-on-lear...
poets.org/2020-on-lear...
2020 Academy of American Poets Prize
On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs by Renée Nicole Macklin
poets.org
January 8, 2026 at 7:11 AM
Here’s her prize-winning poem, if anyone’s interested - it’s a gut punch ❤️
poets.org/2020-on-lear...
poets.org/2020-on-lear...
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Look for the helpers.
Faced with evil, watch for the decent people standing against it.
Faced with evil, watch for the decent people standing against it.
A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.
January 8, 2026 at 2:32 AM
Look for the helpers.
Faced with evil, watch for the decent people standing against it.
Faced with evil, watch for the decent people standing against it.
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My wife, a Minneapolis native, reminding me it's dead of night in Minnesota in January, below freezing, and there's thousands of people outside
January 8, 2026 at 4:06 AM
My wife, a Minneapolis native, reminding me it's dead of night in Minnesota in January, below freezing, and there's thousands of people outside
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Because it’s gonna take all of us to make real, transformative change.
January 8, 2026 at 3:04 AM
Because it’s gonna take all of us to make real, transformative change.
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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.” -- James Baldwin
this is why teaching history feels so important to me right now.
The thing I always come back to is how many people never despaired against longer odds, and how arrogant it would be to put myself above them.
January 7, 2026 at 10:31 PM
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.” -- James Baldwin
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There’s a special kind of grief many of us are feeling tonight. Because it didn’t have to be like this.
January 8, 2026 at 3:08 AM
There’s a special kind of grief many of us are feeling tonight. Because it didn’t have to be like this.
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This is a vetted fundraiser for the family of Renee Good, the woman who was killed by ICE in Minneapolis.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
Donate to Support for Renee Good’s wife and son, organized by Mattie Weiss
Please support the wife and son of Renee Good as they grapple with the devastating … Mattie Weiss needs your support for Support for Renee Good’s wife and son
www.gofundme.com
January 8, 2026 at 2:29 AM
This is a vetted fundraiser for the family of Renee Good, the woman who was killed by ICE in Minneapolis.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
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10,000 people honoring Renee Nicole Good
at the site of her murder
at the site of her murder
January 8, 2026 at 3:09 AM
10,000 people honoring Renee Nicole Good
at the site of her murder
at the site of her murder
"It’s often said that none of us has to ask what we would have done had we lived during some past moment of historic injustice, because you are doing it right now. That statement is often framed as an admonition. I say it here tonight in thanks and in praise. You are already doing it."
#ThankYou
#ThankYou
Tonight, I was one of more than 200 people who gathered on Chicago’s North Side to mourn Renee Nicole Good. Several people asked me to publish my remarks from the vigil, so I’m sharing them here.
The Cost of Staying Human
Remarks from a vigil for Renee Nicole Good
organizingmythoughts.org
January 8, 2026 at 3:07 AM
"It’s often said that none of us has to ask what we would have done had we lived during some past moment of historic injustice, because you are doing it right now. That statement is often framed as an admonition. I say it here tonight in thanks and in praise. You are already doing it."
#ThankYou
#ThankYou
Say bad things are bad.
Democrats need to understand that they can just say “It’s insane to threaten Greenland” and “I don’t think ICE should murder Americans in the street” and you don’t need to pretend to link it to the affordability crisis.
Say bad things are bad.
Say bad things are bad.
January 8, 2026 at 1:17 AM
Say bad things are bad.
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Melt, and no more be seen
January 8, 2026 at 12:46 AM
Melt, and no more be seen
And forgot to say, enjoy!
January 8, 2026 at 12:22 AM
And forgot to say, enjoy!