Heather Bentley
@heathervoila.bsky.social
Violist, Cellist, Composer, Improviser
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So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism.
Got it.
Got it.
Larry Summers tells @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 18, 2025 at 5:10 AM
So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism.
Got it.
Got it.
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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It’s too late. I’ve already depicted you as few synapses, tiny think, and myself as many synapses, big think. it’s over
November 14, 2025 at 4:07 PM
It’s too late. I’ve already depicted you as few synapses, tiny think, and myself as many synapses, big think. it’s over
I also appreciated someone saying it should be called “rape trafficking”
The soft pedaling language being used to describe the men in the Epstein files is enraging.
They didn’t “have sex with underage girls”.
They raped them.
Sex implies consent.
The survivors deserve better than this. Use the correct language. Say what these men did.
They didn’t “have sex with underage girls”.
They raped them.
Sex implies consent.
The survivors deserve better than this. Use the correct language. Say what these men did.
November 13, 2025 at 5:51 PM
I also appreciated someone saying it should be called “rape trafficking”
That was awful to watch. But kudos to the teenager for being possessed of extreme chill
The teacher has banned the use of Spanish in the classroom.
November 11, 2025 at 6:26 PM
That was awful to watch. But kudos to the teenager for being possessed of extreme chill
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Why is no one talking about the GOP effort to sneak a nationwide abortion ban into the CR?
November 10, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Why is no one talking about the GOP effort to sneak a nationwide abortion ban into the CR?
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Welcome to Mike's Narcissism 101 class!
Ch1: "WEAPONIZED IGNORANCE: When someone pretends not to know something to avoid responsibility or accountability.
This manipulative tactic leaves others to deal with the consequences, while the person using it escapes scrutiny."
So common, it has a name!
Ch1: "WEAPONIZED IGNORANCE: When someone pretends not to know something to avoid responsibility or accountability.
This manipulative tactic leaves others to deal with the consequences, while the person using it escapes scrutiny."
So common, it has a name!
November 4, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Welcome to Mike's Narcissism 101 class!
Ch1: "WEAPONIZED IGNORANCE: When someone pretends not to know something to avoid responsibility or accountability.
This manipulative tactic leaves others to deal with the consequences, while the person using it escapes scrutiny."
So common, it has a name!
Ch1: "WEAPONIZED IGNORANCE: When someone pretends not to know something to avoid responsibility or accountability.
This manipulative tactic leaves others to deal with the consequences, while the person using it escapes scrutiny."
So common, it has a name!
Here is something you can do to fight fascism that will not get you in any trouble and will HELP MUSICIANS. Delete Spotify. Cancel your subscription. LET’S END SPOTIFY
Reports of ICE ads on #Spotify were noted in early October. People began calling for boycotts immediately.
Now, nearly a month later Spotify is seeing major losses.
And we can do ever BETTER. 👏👏👏
#BoycottSpotify
Now, nearly a month later Spotify is seeing major losses.
And we can do ever BETTER. 👏👏👏
#BoycottSpotify
November 2, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Here is something you can do to fight fascism that will not get you in any trouble and will HELP MUSICIANS. Delete Spotify. Cancel your subscription. LET’S END SPOTIFY
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Are people really not aware of the existence of radio?
October 23, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Are people really not aware of the existence of radio?
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This whole thing is incredible, but look how his hand is shaking when he points at the guys who are being hassled. He's scared, he's angry, he's pounding with adrenaline, but he's maintaining control of himself and not backing down. He's taking a stand, whatever the cost.
"Man goes scorched earth on ICE agents kidnapping people in his hometown."
Source:
old.reddit.com/r/PublicFrea...
Source:
old.reddit.com/r/PublicFrea...
October 23, 2025 at 5:47 PM
This whole thing is incredible, but look how his hand is shaking when he points at the guys who are being hassled. He's scared, he's angry, he's pounding with adrenaline, but he's maintaining control of himself and not backing down. He's taking a stand, whatever the cost.
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It is what you think it is… they mean to starve the poor folks.
October 23, 2025 at 11:51 AM
It is what you think it is… they mean to starve the poor folks.
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white house has joined bluesky
click here to block all official us government accounts instantly
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click here to block all official us government accounts instantly
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October 17, 2025 at 10:35 PM
My god, this is the level of personal commitment needed. F’n courage. SHOW ME YOUR FACE. I am in awe
This is a great new tactic: “SHOW ME YOUR FACE.” Don’t follow any orders until/unless these goons identify themselves. They shrunk like violets when this man demanded to see their faces.
ICE/Border Patrol held a weapon on a guy who was demanding they show him their face in Rogers Park today
October 13, 2025 at 4:55 PM
My god, this is the level of personal commitment needed. F’n courage. SHOW ME YOUR FACE. I am in awe
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I wouldn’t call any modern genocide quaint, but…his point is well taken
Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.
Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.
Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.
October 13, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I wouldn’t call any modern genocide quaint, but…his point is well taken
“You have to be so quiet over there” - Bowie, 2002
David Bowie 2002. Prescient. Thoughtful.
"One of the dangers of the American way is that it's America first in everything it does. There is virtually no interest in the ambitions, feelings, needs or sensitivities of any other nation.. It's one of the things that makes us resent Americans much"
"One of the dangers of the American way is that it's America first in everything it does. There is virtually no interest in the ambitions, feelings, needs or sensitivities of any other nation.. It's one of the things that makes us resent Americans much"
October 8, 2025 at 8:49 PM
“You have to be so quiet over there” - Bowie, 2002
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Black Lives Matter was the last true bastion against fascism that posed a real threat to what the regime is now
And instead of supporting it, many of you “both sides’d” it because of your loyalty to carcerality and lack of imagination
Our ancestors fought for a world they’d never see. You can too
And instead of supporting it, many of you “both sides’d” it because of your loyalty to carcerality and lack of imagination
Our ancestors fought for a world they’d never see. You can too
October 4, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Black Lives Matter was the last true bastion against fascism that posed a real threat to what the regime is now
And instead of supporting it, many of you “both sides’d” it because of your loyalty to carcerality and lack of imagination
Our ancestors fought for a world they’d never see. You can too
And instead of supporting it, many of you “both sides’d” it because of your loyalty to carcerality and lack of imagination
Our ancestors fought for a world they’d never see. You can too
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ABOLISH ICE.
Pass it on.
Pass it on.
October 4, 2025 at 4:05 AM
ABOLISH ICE.
Pass it on.
Pass it on.
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The Revolution Will Not Be Televised 🔥✊
#GlobalSamudFlotilla is a 🌏 heroic effort of 500 activists, 44 ships, 44 countries -
22 Americans -
Volunteering to sail to Gaza & bring aid to starving Palestinians.
They arrived & have been picked off one by one by Israeli forces throughout the night. 🧵👇🏼
#GlobalSamudFlotilla is a 🌏 heroic effort of 500 activists, 44 ships, 44 countries -
22 Americans -
Volunteering to sail to Gaza & bring aid to starving Palestinians.
They arrived & have been picked off one by one by Israeli forces throughout the night. 🧵👇🏼
October 2, 2025 at 11:18 AM
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised 🔥✊
#GlobalSamudFlotilla is a 🌏 heroic effort of 500 activists, 44 ships, 44 countries -
22 Americans -
Volunteering to sail to Gaza & bring aid to starving Palestinians.
They arrived & have been picked off one by one by Israeli forces throughout the night. 🧵👇🏼
#GlobalSamudFlotilla is a 🌏 heroic effort of 500 activists, 44 ships, 44 countries -
22 Americans -
Volunteering to sail to Gaza & bring aid to starving Palestinians.
They arrived & have been picked off one by one by Israeli forces throughout the night. 🧵👇🏼
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Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com
September 30, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com
This is why I despise the story of Gilgamesh, though I try to keep an open mind for historical reasons
OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.
September 25, 2025 at 7:37 PM
This is why I despise the story of Gilgamesh, though I try to keep an open mind for historical reasons
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Happy Bastille Day. Viva La France m.youtube.com/watch?v=Tmey...
Casablanca: "La Marseillaise" (Remastered to 4K/48fps HD)
YouTube video by Tales From SYL Ranch DARKROOM
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July 14, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Happy Bastille Day. Viva La France m.youtube.com/watch?v=Tmey...
Well that was a thing of beauty 👏👏👏
July 1, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Well that was a thing of beauty 👏👏👏