MJ Wycha
@mjwycha.bsky.social
Underemployed historian, skeptical ne'er-do-well, raconteur for hire.
Music, Film, Books, History
Music, Film, Books, History
Lovely Jerry and Donna duet on Dolly Parton's Tomorrow is Forever.
RIP Donna Jean. May the four winds blow you safely home
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FJM...
RIP Donna Jean. May the four winds blow you safely home
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FJM...
Grateful Dead 10/19/74 Winterland Arena - San Francisco, CA
YouTube video by Josip Capan
www.youtube.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Lovely Jerry and Donna duet on Dolly Parton's Tomorrow is Forever.
RIP Donna Jean. May the four winds blow you safely home
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FJM...
RIP Donna Jean. May the four winds blow you safely home
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FJM...
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“You need to model somewhere in the curriculum what it means to read a whole text in the company of an engaged community.”
Yes. Yes. Yes.
www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...
Yes. Yes. Yes.
www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...
Are Books Really Disappearing From American Classrooms?
Measuring whether "whole texts" are vanishing in favor of excerpts isn't clear cut.
www.edweek.org
October 16, 2025 at 1:04 PM
“You need to model somewhere in the curriculum what it means to read a whole text in the company of an engaged community.”
Yes. Yes. Yes.
www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...
Yes. Yes. Yes.
www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...
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If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.
September 22, 2025 at 9:03 PM
If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.
how many veterans, unheralded & forgotten, died before their time?
how many vets died sad, lonely deaths w/ zero acknowledgement or public outrage from all these so-called American patriots now so sanctimoniously angry over the death of some social media influencer?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLVW...
how many vets died sad, lonely deaths w/ zero acknowledgement or public outrage from all these so-called American patriots now so sanctimoniously angry over the death of some social media influencer?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLVW...
John Prine - Sam Stone
YouTube video by John Prine
www.youtube.com
September 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
how many veterans, unheralded & forgotten, died before their time?
how many vets died sad, lonely deaths w/ zero acknowledgement or public outrage from all these so-called American patriots now so sanctimoniously angry over the death of some social media influencer?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLVW...
how many vets died sad, lonely deaths w/ zero acknowledgement or public outrage from all these so-called American patriots now so sanctimoniously angry over the death of some social media influencer?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLVW...
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Theodore Roosevelt, 1918:
“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country.”
www.americaamerica.news/p/capitulati...
“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country.”
www.americaamerica.news/p/capitulati...
Capitulation and the Attack on Free Speech
The crackdown on Jimmy Kimmel is an outrage that puts us all at risk
www.americaamerica.news
September 20, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Theodore Roosevelt, 1918:
“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country.”
www.americaamerica.news/p/capitulati...
“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country.”
www.americaamerica.news/p/capitulati...
reposting this as it seems apt
A few books that help explain how America has ended up on the brink of cancelling democracy and representative government
September 13, 2025 at 5:04 PM
reposting this as it seems apt
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wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend
Opinion | Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t Either.
www.nytimes.com
September 13, 2025 at 3:35 PM
wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend
Gonna be wildly ironic to have made it through 10 years of honorable Army service and multiple deployments only to get shot here at home by an American in Trump's new MAGA Army. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/u...
Hegseth Authorizes Troops in D.C. to Carry Weapons
www.nytimes.com
August 23, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Gonna be wildly ironic to have made it through 10 years of honorable Army service and multiple deployments only to get shot here at home by an American in Trump's new MAGA Army. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/u...
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July 26, 2025 at 10:44 PM
One of the best albums of the 90s. Just great song after great song.
July 17, 2025 at 7:36 PM
One of the best albums of the 90s. Just great song after great song.
What's the next book here?
Beyond the American Renaissance?
Above the American Renaissance?
Down the Street from the American Renaissance?
Seriously though, these books are great and have been tremendously influential for my understanding of early to mid 19th century lit and popular culture
Beyond the American Renaissance?
Above the American Renaissance?
Down the Street from the American Renaissance?
Seriously though, these books are great and have been tremendously influential for my understanding of early to mid 19th century lit and popular culture
July 16, 2025 at 6:20 PM
What's the next book here?
Beyond the American Renaissance?
Above the American Renaissance?
Down the Street from the American Renaissance?
Seriously though, these books are great and have been tremendously influential for my understanding of early to mid 19th century lit and popular culture
Beyond the American Renaissance?
Above the American Renaissance?
Down the Street from the American Renaissance?
Seriously though, these books are great and have been tremendously influential for my understanding of early to mid 19th century lit and popular culture
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A State Department employee shared with PBS News an image from inside the department. The image includes a piece of paper taped to a mirror with the words, "Colleagues, if you remain: RESIST FASCISM. Remember the oath you vowed to uphold."
July 11, 2025 at 10:51 PM
A State Department employee shared with PBS News an image from inside the department. The image includes a piece of paper taped to a mirror with the words, "Colleagues, if you remain: RESIST FASCISM. Remember the oath you vowed to uphold."
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“The Declaration of Independence is the ringbolt to the chain of your nation's destiny…The principles contained in that instrument are saving principles. Stand by those principles, be true to them on all occasions, in all places, against all foes, and at whatever cost.”
—Frederick Douglass
—Frederick Douglass
July 4, 2025 at 1:15 PM
“The Declaration of Independence is the ringbolt to the chain of your nation's destiny…The principles contained in that instrument are saving principles. Stand by those principles, be true to them on all occasions, in all places, against all foes, and at whatever cost.”
—Frederick Douglass
—Frederick Douglass
This land was made for you and me
youtu.be/wxiMrvDbq3s?...
youtu.be/wxiMrvDbq3s?...
Woody Guthrie- This Land Is Your Land
YouTube video by rutaloot
youtu.be
July 4, 2025 at 3:05 PM
This land was made for you and me
youtu.be/wxiMrvDbq3s?...
youtu.be/wxiMrvDbq3s?...
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A little civ-mil for you!
By @rfmwilliams.bsky.social
@smh-historians.bsky.social
www.armyupress.army.mil/Journals/Mil...
By @rfmwilliams.bsky.social
@smh-historians.bsky.social
www.armyupress.army.mil/Journals/Mil...
www.armyupress.army.mil
July 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
A little civ-mil for you!
By @rfmwilliams.bsky.social
@smh-historians.bsky.social
www.armyupress.army.mil/Journals/Mil...
By @rfmwilliams.bsky.social
@smh-historians.bsky.social
www.armyupress.army.mil/Journals/Mil...
It is good and right to be under the enchanting spell of Nina Simone.
June 30, 2025 at 4:10 PM
It is good and right to be under the enchanting spell of Nina Simone.
Greg Brown is the best folk singer you've probably never heard of
June 28, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Greg Brown is the best folk singer you've probably never heard of
Poe the Cat chillin on the bookshelf
June 28, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Poe the Cat chillin on the bookshelf
truth be told, I always assumed the CIA flipped Weir when their house got busted in 67
Bob Weir undercover as a Deadhead, ironically looking like the most obvious narc since Norbert - except a narc would have a $15 lot dye or GD Merch shirt, not a fire Courtenay Pollock piece
June 28, 2025 at 12:14 AM
truth be told, I always assumed the CIA flipped Weir when their house got busted in 67
A few books that help explain how America has ended up on the brink of cancelling democracy and representative government
June 27, 2025 at 9:14 PM
A few books that help explain how America has ended up on the brink of cancelling democracy and representative government
Here's an oddball but super cool CD I picked up like 25 years ago: a Dylan covers album made up of bands from Dylan's (sorta) hometown of Duluth.
Cheers!
Cheers!
June 27, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Here's an oddball but super cool CD I picked up like 25 years ago: a Dylan covers album made up of bands from Dylan's (sorta) hometown of Duluth.
Cheers!
Cheers!
Here's come counter-programming to cool you down as the wicked heatwave continues:
Nico's gorgeously chilly and enigmatic Marble Index. Beautifully bleak and cold, the music and lyrics are like tripping on acid while reading William Blake in some frozen, existential and stark winter landscape.
Nico's gorgeously chilly and enigmatic Marble Index. Beautifully bleak and cold, the music and lyrics are like tripping on acid while reading William Blake in some frozen, existential and stark winter landscape.
June 25, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Here's come counter-programming to cool you down as the wicked heatwave continues:
Nico's gorgeously chilly and enigmatic Marble Index. Beautifully bleak and cold, the music and lyrics are like tripping on acid while reading William Blake in some frozen, existential and stark winter landscape.
Nico's gorgeously chilly and enigmatic Marble Index. Beautifully bleak and cold, the music and lyrics are like tripping on acid while reading William Blake in some frozen, existential and stark winter landscape.
Bob Seger is who all the characters in Bruce Springsteen songs would be listening to
June 25, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Bob Seger is who all the characters in Bruce Springsteen songs would be listening to