Jeffery Rahn
@jefferyjrahn.bsky.social
writer poetry and prose
what would’ve been Catherine’s 70th today. RIP
December 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
what would’ve been Catherine’s 70th today. RIP
@audacityofdespair.bsky.social i’d like to better understand the consolidation Netflix, paramount, etc. Obviously there are numerous pieces, financial, creative, political, which are not separate. i’d like to hear your perspective, since you’ve made TV. I don’t think my Grandfather’s Cousin
December 8, 2025 at 6:04 PM
@audacityofdespair.bsky.social i’d like to better understand the consolidation Netflix, paramount, etc. Obviously there are numerous pieces, financial, creative, political, which are not separate. i’d like to hear your perspective, since you’ve made TV. I don’t think my Grandfather’s Cousin
@hartmannreport.com Thom, Chapman’s family were part of the “Morbid wealth ” as you put it. like your wealthy friend that you’ve mentioned, that passed on. Chapman Root was part of the Fortune 400. His Grandfather invented the Coca Cola bottle. For a time Chapman and my Sister were married.
December 6, 2025 at 12:05 PM
@hartmannreport.com Thom, Chapman’s family were part of the “Morbid wealth ” as you put it. like your wealthy friend that you’ve mentioned, that passed on. Chapman Root was part of the Fortune 400. His Grandfather invented the Coca Cola bottle. For a time Chapman and my Sister were married.
@hartmannreport.com Hi Thom, i must’ve written this back, before or during the Pandemic. I go back and forth with name calling Trump, a form of projection. Projection, is also, how we/i learn. so i don’t want to judge it. it’s something we all do. but rather be aware of it….love your show Thom
December 6, 2025 at 11:51 AM
@hartmannreport.com Hi Thom, i must’ve written this back, before or during the Pandemic. I go back and forth with name calling Trump, a form of projection. Projection, is also, how we/i learn. so i don’t want to judge it. it’s something we all do. but rather be aware of it….love your show Thom
@audacityofdespair.bsky.social Another piece of the War on Drugs. Alexander Aviña is associate professor of Latin American history at Arizona State University, extensively researched and written about capitalism, the U.S.-backed war on drugs, so-called, and state violence. He’s the Author of the
November 25, 2025 at 4:53 PM
@audacityofdespair.bsky.social Another piece of the War on Drugs. Alexander Aviña is associate professor of Latin American history at Arizona State University, extensively researched and written about capitalism, the U.S.-backed war on drugs, so-called, and state violence. He’s the Author of the
@erinburnett.bsky.social today i heard Amy Goodman mentioned that CNN may be bought, once again. And that DT want you and Anderson gone. I hope it doesn’t come to that. While i don’t resonate with some of your position, I think you and Andersen are the best CNN‘s anchors. And idea that you are to
November 21, 2025 at 10:31 PM
@erinburnett.bsky.social today i heard Amy Goodman mentioned that CNN may be bought, once again. And that DT want you and Anderson gone. I hope it doesn’t come to that. While i don’t resonate with some of your position, I think you and Andersen are the best CNN‘s anchors. And idea that you are to
@hcrichardson.bsky.social It also tells the story from the perspective of the 17 yr old Floridian. A Teenage Girl that has been conditioned to believe, She has nothing more to sell than “Her Body”.
And isn’t it also a crime that this 17 yr old Teenage Girl cannot afford proper dental care? It is
And isn’t it also a crime that this 17 yr old Teenage Girl cannot afford proper dental care? It is
November 17, 2025 at 4:46 PM
@hcrichardson.bsky.social It also tells the story from the perspective of the 17 yr old Floridian. A Teenage Girl that has been conditioned to believe, She has nothing more to sell than “Her Body”.
And isn’t it also a crime that this 17 yr old Teenage Girl cannot afford proper dental care? It is
And isn’t it also a crime that this 17 yr old Teenage Girl cannot afford proper dental care? It is
@profgalloway.com Hi Scott, I thought of your speaking on Young Men. I was in the mythopoetic Men’s Movement. I don’t think i ever left it. Men like the older Men and some younger Men in Our Men’s group had a profound influence on each other. Hillman, Bly, Moore and Meade were the celebrities
November 16, 2025 at 3:33 PM
@profgalloway.com Hi Scott, I thought of your speaking on Young Men. I was in the mythopoetic Men’s Movement. I don’t think i ever left it. Men like the older Men and some younger Men in Our Men’s group had a profound influence on each other. Hillman, Bly, Moore and Meade were the celebrities
Renaud brudders. my brother reed was severely dyslexic as a kid. the camera was his only option www.democracynow.org/2025/10/21/b...
“Armed Only with a Camera”: HBO Film on Life & Death of Brent Renaud, Journalist Killed in Ukraine
Armed Only with a Camera, the documentary chronicling the life of the late filmmaker Brent Renaud, premieres Tuesday on HBO. Renaud was the first Western journalist killed during the war in Ukraine. H...
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October 21, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Renaud brudders. my brother reed was severely dyslexic as a kid. the camera was his only option www.democracynow.org/2025/10/21/b...
@hartmannreport.com Thom, Robert L. Moore wrote one of the finest books on the Male Psyche. The King if right-size, in his reflective and generative form is so crucial as you point out with you calls for a leader, a good and benevolent king or queen. My Daughter is such a leader, there in Portland
October 20, 2025 at 6:14 PM
@hartmannreport.com Thom, Robert L. Moore wrote one of the finest books on the Male Psyche. The King if right-size, in his reflective and generative form is so crucial as you point out with you calls for a leader, a good and benevolent king or queen. My Daughter is such a leader, there in Portland
@hartmannreport.com “Trump’s appeal in America is actually quite small and limited, if you consider the whole population. He doesn’t inspire awe. He’s more of an entertainer than a “leader.” I think in Trump we see a different type of the alpha male, a titanic adolescent, undisciplined and impulsive
October 20, 2025 at 6:00 PM
@hartmannreport.com “Trump’s appeal in America is actually quite small and limited, if you consider the whole population. He doesn’t inspire awe. He’s more of an entertainer than a “leader.” I think in Trump we see a different type of the alpha male, a titanic adolescent, undisciplined and impulsive
@hartmannreport.com hi Thom, HCR essay on the destruction of public art made he think of lowell’s last lines in For The Union Dead.
Colonel Shaw
is riding on his bubble,
he waits
for the blessèd break.
The Aquarium is gone. Everywhere,
giant finned cars nose forward like fish;
Colonel Shaw
is riding on his bubble,
he waits
for the blessèd break.
The Aquarium is gone. Everywhere,
giant finned cars nose forward like fish;
October 14, 2025 at 1:20 PM
@hartmannreport.com hi Thom, HCR essay on the destruction of public art made he think of lowell’s last lines in For The Union Dead.
Colonel Shaw
is riding on his bubble,
he waits
for the blessèd break.
The Aquarium is gone. Everywhere,
giant finned cars nose forward like fish;
Colonel Shaw
is riding on his bubble,
he waits
for the blessèd break.
The Aquarium is gone. Everywhere,
giant finned cars nose forward like fish;
@jeffmarek.bsky.social www.democracynow.org/2025/10/13/j... Jeff, Julian new BC author. I like your conversation with BB, Jeff. Brian & i, about same age. I wanted to skate at DU in 76. but wasn’t good enough. while i don’t agree with Brian always, i enjoyed his book. It has heart, intelligence
“We Survived the Night”: Julian Brave NoiseCat on Residential Schools & Recovering Native History
To mark Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we sit down with the award-winning Indigenous writer, journalist and filmmaker Julian Brave NoiseCat, an enrolled member of the Canim Lake Band Tsq’secen of the Secwep...
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October 13, 2025 at 3:35 PM
@jeffmarek.bsky.social www.democracynow.org/2025/10/13/j... Jeff, Julian new BC author. I like your conversation with BB, Jeff. Brian & i, about same age. I wanted to skate at DU in 76. but wasn’t good enough. while i don’t agree with Brian always, i enjoyed his book. It has heart, intelligence
@maozinon.bsky.social Good morning Inon, I saw your interview this morning on Democracy Now. My condolences on the murder of your Folks on this 3rd anniversary of Hamas‘ Terrorist Attack. Since your Mother was, as you describe an “Alchemist “ i hope you will indulge me for a moment. As you probably
October 7, 2025 at 4:12 PM
@maozinon.bsky.social Good morning Inon, I saw your interview this morning on Democracy Now. My condolences on the murder of your Folks on this 3rd anniversary of Hamas‘ Terrorist Attack. Since your Mother was, as you describe an “Alchemist “ i hope you will indulge me for a moment. As you probably
@audacityofdespair.bsky.social when he said, “ i’m really good at this stuff“ , i thought of my Chicago forefathers in Cicero or Berwyn who would say, “ what da fuck does that even mean”?
grandiosity, inflation, dilution…. Yes, He is ” really good at this stuff”. “ Lions & tigers & Bears…
H Arlen
grandiosity, inflation, dilution…. Yes, He is ” really good at this stuff”. “ Lions & tigers & Bears…
H Arlen
September 24, 2025 at 3:46 PM
@audacityofdespair.bsky.social when he said, “ i’m really good at this stuff“ , i thought of my Chicago forefathers in Cicero or Berwyn who would say, “ what da fuck does that even mean”?
grandiosity, inflation, dilution…. Yes, He is ” really good at this stuff”. “ Lions & tigers & Bears…
H Arlen
grandiosity, inflation, dilution…. Yes, He is ” really good at this stuff”. “ Lions & tigers & Bears…
H Arlen
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Reposted by Jeffery Rahn
When 97 percent of what's being written about a person is bad, it's very likely that 3 percent of those offering opinions are full of shit.
Our president is an unfit fascist. And open speech without government restriction is an American birthright. Or was. Once.
www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
Our president is an unfit fascist. And open speech without government restriction is an American birthright. Or was. Once.
www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
Trump: ‘It’s no longer free speech.’
The president doubled down on his claims that critical media coverage of him is "illegal."
www.politico.com
September 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
When 97 percent of what's being written about a person is bad, it's very likely that 3 percent of those offering opinions are full of shit.
Our president is an unfit fascist. And open speech without government restriction is an American birthright. Or was. Once.
www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
Our president is an unfit fascist. And open speech without government restriction is an American birthright. Or was. Once.
www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
@hartmannreport.com Keep doing what you’re doing, Thom. I have a very deep history of Oregon Ranching and Progressivism in my Family. My Ranching Grandfather at Smith Rock near Terrebonne was a Norman Thomas Socialist. He‘d get frustrated with small mindedness which was common in Central Oregon in
September 11, 2025 at 6:33 PM
@hartmannreport.com Keep doing what you’re doing, Thom. I have a very deep history of Oregon Ranching and Progressivism in my Family. My Ranching Grandfather at Smith Rock near Terrebonne was a Norman Thomas Socialist. He‘d get frustrated with small mindedness which was common in Central Oregon in
Bluesky isn’t particularly good for sharing poetry. or maybe i just don’t know how to do it. Twitter( which i left years ago) was impossible. But Her it goes. My Relative Philo T. Farnsworth inventor of the TV. And RIK L RIK. Hope you enjoy. For some reason I thought of Royko while writing it.
August 17, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Bluesky isn’t particularly good for sharing poetry. or maybe i just don’t know how to do it. Twitter( which i left years ago) was impossible. But Her it goes. My Relative Philo T. Farnsworth inventor of the TV. And RIK L RIK. Hope you enjoy. For some reason I thought of Royko while writing it.
@lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com
When Lawrence calls DT, Hegseth & others “stupid” i’m reminded of the Brent Musburger Drinking Game. Rule 3: Whenever Brent says “It’s a foot race” everyone has to finish their drink. The first one done becomes “That Man” and gets to punch the Pardner in the arm. In all
When Lawrence calls DT, Hegseth & others “stupid” i’m reminded of the Brent Musburger Drinking Game. Rule 3: Whenever Brent says “It’s a foot race” everyone has to finish their drink. The first one done becomes “That Man” and gets to punch the Pardner in the arm. In all
June 27, 2025 at 3:04 AM
@lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com
When Lawrence calls DT, Hegseth & others “stupid” i’m reminded of the Brent Musburger Drinking Game. Rule 3: Whenever Brent says “It’s a foot race” everyone has to finish their drink. The first one done becomes “That Man” and gets to punch the Pardner in the arm. In all
When Lawrence calls DT, Hegseth & others “stupid” i’m reminded of the Brent Musburger Drinking Game. Rule 3: Whenever Brent says “It’s a foot race” everyone has to finish their drink. The first one done becomes “That Man” and gets to punch the Pardner in the arm. In all
@audacityofdespair.bsky.social
I always liked Bill Murray’s readings. As a native Chicagoan, Blackhawk and Cub fan he speaks to me. i thought you might enjoy this reading. Thank you for your journalism and storytelling, as well.
youtu.be/qxId8MXtPU0?...
I always liked Bill Murray’s readings. As a native Chicagoan, Blackhawk and Cub fan he speaks to me. i thought you might enjoy this reading. Thank you for your journalism and storytelling, as well.
youtu.be/qxId8MXtPU0?...
El actor Bill Murray comenta un cuadro de Goya y recita un poema en el Museo del Prado
YouTube video by El Mundo
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June 17, 2025 at 12:55 PM
@audacityofdespair.bsky.social
I always liked Bill Murray’s readings. As a native Chicagoan, Blackhawk and Cub fan he speaks to me. i thought you might enjoy this reading. Thank you for your journalism and storytelling, as well.
youtu.be/qxId8MXtPU0?...
I always liked Bill Murray’s readings. As a native Chicagoan, Blackhawk and Cub fan he speaks to me. i thought you might enjoy this reading. Thank you for your journalism and storytelling, as well.
youtu.be/qxId8MXtPU0?...
@audacityofdespair.bsky.social
Chicagoans are notorious for taking a jab at someone they don’t like. My tall ( 6’ 5” 210 ) father, John S. Rahn ,might playfully ask about a certain someone: “ What’s happening wit Taco” ? It’s kinda of funny because our Mom & Dad moved to Tucson in 1982. They loved
Chicagoans are notorious for taking a jab at someone they don’t like. My tall ( 6’ 5” 210 ) father, John S. Rahn ,might playfully ask about a certain someone: “ What’s happening wit Taco” ? It’s kinda of funny because our Mom & Dad moved to Tucson in 1982. They loved
May 30, 2025 at 12:06 PM
@audacityofdespair.bsky.social
Chicagoans are notorious for taking a jab at someone they don’t like. My tall ( 6’ 5” 210 ) father, John S. Rahn ,might playfully ask about a certain someone: “ What’s happening wit Taco” ? It’s kinda of funny because our Mom & Dad moved to Tucson in 1982. They loved
Chicagoans are notorious for taking a jab at someone they don’t like. My tall ( 6’ 5” 210 ) father, John S. Rahn ,might playfully ask about a certain someone: “ What’s happening wit Taco” ? It’s kinda of funny because our Mom & Dad moved to Tucson in 1982. They loved
"He could cook and he could smoke and he liked liquor and women and everything that is good in life. He was a wonderful terre-à-terre man. That's why I liked him. If he would not have been a sinner I couldn't have loved him so much as I do now."
Gilles Quispel, Remembering Jung
Gilles Quispel, Remembering Jung
May 29, 2025 at 4:03 PM
"He could cook and he could smoke and he liked liquor and women and everything that is good in life. He was a wonderful terre-à-terre man. That's why I liked him. If he would not have been a sinner I couldn't have loved him so much as I do now."
Gilles Quispel, Remembering Jung
Gilles Quispel, Remembering Jung
“No, I won't condemn anyone for putting ketchup on a hot dog. This is the land of the free. And if someone wants to put ketchup on a hot dog and actually eat the awful thing, that is
their right. It is also their right to put mayo or chocolate syrup or toenail clippings or cat hair on a hot
dog.
their right. It is also their right to put mayo or chocolate syrup or toenail clippings or cat hair on a hot
dog.
May 28, 2025 at 6:48 PM
“No, I won't condemn anyone for putting ketchup on a hot dog. This is the land of the free. And if someone wants to put ketchup on a hot dog and actually eat the awful thing, that is
their right. It is also their right to put mayo or chocolate syrup or toenail clippings or cat hair on a hot
dog.
their right. It is also their right to put mayo or chocolate syrup or toenail clippings or cat hair on a hot
dog.
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Remember when we started demonizing empathy? We have entered barbarism.
May 10, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Remember when we started demonizing empathy? We have entered barbarism.