Adam Michael
aldentepasta.bsky.social
Adam Michael
@aldentepasta.bsky.social
After a brief pause, a new blog post is available. I also added a subscribe button at the bottom of my posts.
The Power of the Pivot: Paint, Pandemonium and a Cold Compress.
When I started this blog, I told myself it would be a space for reflection, honesty, and creativity—a place to document and untangle the experience of teaching art to elementary students through th…
lucidstudiosvt.com
May 28, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Ever felt like you were role-playing your way through life just to survive?
Your Muse isn’t gone. They've been archiving the real you.

This one's about shame, creativity, and the return of the parts you lost.
The Puppet, The Performance, and The Parts We Leave Behind: When Our Muses Begin to Archive
As I’ve said (or at least alluded to) in every post so far—and will probably keep saying—your Muse, especially if you’ve struggled to reach them, doesn’t arrive with fireworks. For those of us who …
lucidstudiosvt.com
April 9, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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My first blog post is an introduction to something that's been insisting on existing. There is a lot more to unpack about the Dark Muse.
The Dark Muse: A Reckoning In the Shadows
Let me introduce you to someone. No, no, no. That’s not right. You know them already. You just might not realize it yet. They are waiting in the spaces between your thoughts, in the silence you’ve …
lucidstudiosvt.com
March 26, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Is it at all surprising that a convicted felon would ignore a judge's order?
March 20, 2025 at 10:24 AM
At least I can be a proud Vermonter today. Seeing lots of negativity from the MAGAts, but I think it's because they're realizing you can get your message across without shitting in your own hands or beating cops with flagpoles.
March 1, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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musk's private security deputized by u.s. marshals service -- potentially clearing the way for his personal bodyguards to be carrying weapons on federal grounds.

um...

www.cnn.com/2025/02/20/p...
February 21, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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A dictatorship that kills people from democracies if they say something inconvenient hosting another dictatorship that does the same and a country run by a wannabe dictator who wants people jailed for saying anything inconvenient gathered to decide the fate of a democracy that wasn’t even invited?
February 19, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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Go ahead.

Let the people see you for what you are.
for the second time today, Tom Homan is on Fox News confirming that he asked the DOJ to investigate AOC
February 18, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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February 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
In other news, Kendrick Lamar brings back boot cut.
February 11, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Will the Chinese tariffs raise the prices of MAGA hats and Trump flags?
February 4, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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On the easel this morning.
February 4, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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The DOGE kids showing up at Treasury:
February 4, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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The universe speaks in mysterious ways.
February 2, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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TRUMP: "I'm going to impose 25% tariffs!"

CANADA: "We will do even worse in return."

TRUMP: "Don't make me shoot myself in the other foot!!!"
February 2, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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On the art board today. Getting closer to the days where I can share creations more regularly. #escaping9to5 #lucidvt #artthatawakens
January 30, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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Preferential hiring for mine, not for thine.
January 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Not just foreign aid: ALL federal aid. And clearly from the language used this garbage isn't coming from Trump. This smells like Stephen Miller and Heritage/Project 2025. And it's going to whollup Trump voters, who mainly live in impoverished red, taker states, hard. www.politico.com/news/2025/01...
Trump administration orders sweeping freeze of federal aid
In a two-page memo, the Office of Management and Budget ordered all federal agencies to temporarily suspend payments.
www.politico.com
January 28, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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Inspectors General are tasked with rooting out government waste. They have been purged by Trump because they could also identify his corruption.

DOGE is tasked with *pretending* to root out government waste. It has been installed to promote corruption to benefit Trump and his loyalest cronies.
January 25, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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This same Christian Nationalist symbol is tattooed on the guy they just confirmed. Hegseth has raged against Muslims while drunk in public. He’s told racist jokes about Mexicans according to his sister-in-law. We know what he’s about and why he has that tattoo. So disgraceful.
January 25, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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First they came for the immigrants, and I did not speak out—
     
Because they were already coming for DEI, unions, gay marriage, EPA regulations, food safety, climate change, gun control, federal disaster relief, lower drug prices, books, journalists, protestors, trans people & contraception.
January 25, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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January 23, 2025 at 12:27 PM