Fahad Siadat
@fahadsiadat.bsky.social
Performer/composer. Director of the Resonance Collective and See-A-Dot Music Publishing
I must be doing something right when I receive no fewer than 10 different emails from people forwarding me the @newmusicusa.bsky.social announcement about their New Music Inc. program expanding to Los Angeles.
May 16, 2025 at 5:20 AM
I must be doing something right when I receive no fewer than 10 different emails from people forwarding me the @newmusicusa.bsky.social announcement about their New Music Inc. program expanding to Los Angeles.
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Was just reading John Quincy Adams' oral arguments before SCOTUS in the Amistad case and this part seems, uh, pretty relevant
March 26, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Was just reading John Quincy Adams' oral arguments before SCOTUS in the Amistad case and this part seems, uh, pretty relevant
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I think it's worth repeating plainly that a federal judge halted Musk's federal funding freeze nearly two weeks ago but funds are still very much being frozen in violation of the court order.
February 11, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I think it's worth repeating plainly that a federal judge halted Musk's federal funding freeze nearly two weeks ago but funds are still very much being frozen in violation of the court order.
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The stupidest timeline
I know this is official, but I still refuse to believe it's real.
"H.R.1161 - To authorize the President to enter into negotiations to acquire Greenland and to rename Greenland as "Red, White, and Blueland"."
www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
"H.R.1161 - To authorize the President to enter into negotiations to acquire Greenland and to rename Greenland as "Red, White, and Blueland"."
www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
February 11, 2025 at 5:17 PM
The stupidest timeline
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for pity’s sake, I am BEGGING university leaders to stop framing this issue in terms of what this will cost the university. people dont care!
EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession
EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession
February 9, 2025 at 10:00 PM
for pity’s sake, I am BEGGING university leaders to stop framing this issue in terms of what this will cost the university. people dont care!
EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession
EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession
remember when everyone was up in arms about the toilet paper shortage and we saw a rise in bidet sales? I wonder if egg prices will inspire folks to go back to raising their own chickens at higher levels. A little less reliance on giant corporations is always nice.
February 5, 2025 at 7:57 PM
remember when everyone was up in arms about the toilet paper shortage and we saw a rise in bidet sales? I wonder if egg prices will inspire folks to go back to raising their own chickens at higher levels. A little less reliance on giant corporations is always nice.
This flu is so gnarly that I’ve had to invent a new portmanteau: Voughing. When you cough so hard you end up….you get it.
February 5, 2025 at 3:26 AM
This flu is so gnarly that I’ve had to invent a new portmanteau: Voughing. When you cough so hard you end up….you get it.
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The president calling for a complete and total ethnic cleansing of Gaza with full support from the Israeli PM. Absolutely beyond horrific.
February 4, 2025 at 11:17 PM
The president calling for a complete and total ethnic cleansing of Gaza with full support from the Israeli PM. Absolutely beyond horrific.
Dealing with a fever and thinking about how the difference of just a few degrees leaves me completely wrecked. Anyway, this post isn’t about climate change.
February 4, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Dealing with a fever and thinking about how the difference of just a few degrees leaves me completely wrecked. Anyway, this post isn’t about climate change.
government is not a business, its closest kin is a non-profit service organization. my analysis is this is what it looks like when business try to apply their principles to government. www.latimes.com/world-nation...
Column: Trump is creating an imperial presidency — and he's doing it by decree
Trump has been back in the White House for two weeks and is already remaking the federal government — and trying to create an imperial presidency.
www.latimes.com
February 3, 2025 at 7:31 PM
government is not a business, its closest kin is a non-profit service organization. my analysis is this is what it looks like when business try to apply their principles to government. www.latimes.com/world-nation...
Finally happened: son is yelling at his mom for things in Portuguese and she has no idea what’s going on.
February 3, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Finally happened: son is yelling at his mom for things in Portuguese and she has no idea what’s going on.
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Trump censoring not just what researchers can work on in the future, but also the publication of past research already completed.
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.
Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.
Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.
open.substack.com
February 1, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Trump censoring not just what researchers can work on in the future, but also the publication of past research already completed.
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Assuming we make it through the next couple of decades, this will be an incredible image for future historians/students of the Trump era
January 30, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Assuming we make it through the next couple of decades, this will be an incredible image for future historians/students of the Trump era
People talk about “networking” but it’s really just making friends. When you jive with people because of shared passions and respect each others talents you find reasons to work together. (I’m a professional musician and haven’t done an audition in years, everything is through friends).
people over 30 quote this with some life advice for the rest of us?
January 31, 2025 at 6:12 AM
People talk about “networking” but it’s really just making friends. When you jive with people because of shared passions and respect each others talents you find reasons to work together. (I’m a professional musician and haven’t done an audition in years, everything is through friends).
Man, this collection of street vendors was one of my fave parts of MacArthur park. it brings the community out and the streets full, which you’d think would help deter crime. (Also you could score some sweet deals…)
“This feels like gentrification happening before us, and at the end of the day, the crime is still there, and the sale of illegal drugs is still there,” said Juan Rodriguez.
Full story: lataco.com/macarthur-pa...
By @shoton35mm.bsky.social & @janettev.bsky.social
Full story: lataco.com/macarthur-pa...
By @shoton35mm.bsky.social & @janettev.bsky.social
January 31, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Man, this collection of street vendors was one of my fave parts of MacArthur park. it brings the community out and the streets full, which you’d think would help deter crime. (Also you could score some sweet deals…)
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➡️ January 20: FAA director fired
➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen
➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded
➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees
➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years
Making America Great Again!
➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen
➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded
➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees
➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years
Making America Great Again!
January 30, 2025 at 3:37 PM
➡️ January 20: FAA director fired
➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen
➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded
➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees
➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years
Making America Great Again!
➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen
➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded
➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees
➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years
Making America Great Again!
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saying “my heart goes out to you” with the nazi salute is going to be hyper normalized over the next few years
Father Calvin Robinson finished his remarks at the National Pro-Life Summit by throwing an Elon Musk salute, much to the delight of the crowd.
January 29, 2025 at 7:48 PM
saying “my heart goes out to you” with the nazi salute is going to be hyper normalized over the next few years
The kids at my son’s day care call tootsie rolls “chocolate gum” and honestly they are correct.
January 29, 2025 at 2:30 AM
The kids at my son’s day care call tootsie rolls “chocolate gum” and honestly they are correct.
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Call your Democratic Senators tomorrow and tell them to put down their work on nominations until OMB withdraws its power grab on appropriations. No more nomines go through. None.
January 28, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Call your Democratic Senators tomorrow and tell them to put down their work on nominations until OMB withdraws its power grab on appropriations. No more nomines go through. None.
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Trump is attempting to unilaterally freeze trillions of dollars in federal spending that’s been duly appropriated by Congress. This is completely insane and illegal. He’s seizing unlawful control over the constitutional spending power? Five alarm fire www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion
The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 28, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Trump is attempting to unilaterally freeze trillions of dollars in federal spending that’s been duly appropriated by Congress. This is completely insane and illegal. He’s seizing unlawful control over the constitutional spending power? Five alarm fire www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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I am begging the national media to start taking this seriously.
Stop buying the claims that the framing of "temporary" or "pause."
They are altering the review processes of federally funded scientific research from merit-based peer review processes to political screening by ideologues.
Stop buying the claims that the framing of "temporary" or "pause."
They are altering the review processes of federally funded scientific research from merit-based peer review processes to political screening by ideologues.
NEW — OMB temporarily pauses all agency grants and loans programs.
Per copy of memo: "The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve."
Per copy of memo: "The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve."
January 28, 2025 at 1:46 AM
I am begging the national media to start taking this seriously.
Stop buying the claims that the framing of "temporary" or "pause."
They are altering the review processes of federally funded scientific research from merit-based peer review processes to political screening by ideologues.
Stop buying the claims that the framing of "temporary" or "pause."
They are altering the review processes of federally funded scientific research from merit-based peer review processes to political screening by ideologues.
Latest newsletter is out! It details two upcoming events in support of LA’s fire victims, lists other spring events, and discuses a little of what we’re trying to accomplish with recent Resonance Collective events. Event links also in this thread:
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January 27, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Latest newsletter is out! It details two upcoming events in support of LA’s fire victims, lists other spring events, and discuses a little of what we’re trying to accomplish with recent Resonance Collective events. Event links also in this thread:
eepurl.com/i8jboc
eepurl.com/i8jboc
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If you’re in an institution doing any kind of DEI work, the most important thing to do right now is simply call it something else. Change it to “Community Outreach” & then keep on doing the same important work. When they outlaw Community Outreach rebrand it as “Strategic Partnerships,” rinse/repeat.
January 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
If you’re in an institution doing any kind of DEI work, the most important thing to do right now is simply call it something else. Change it to “Community Outreach” & then keep on doing the same important work. When they outlaw Community Outreach rebrand it as “Strategic Partnerships,” rinse/repeat.
One fun (or terrifying) part of parenting is when your kids echo back to you what you unconsciously say to them. Today the kiddo wanted to race down the sidewalk and as he ran ahead he turned around and yelled “come on my love, you’re doing great!”
January 26, 2025 at 2:11 AM
One fun (or terrifying) part of parenting is when your kids echo back to you what you unconsciously say to them. Today the kiddo wanted to race down the sidewalk and as he ran ahead he turned around and yelled “come on my love, you’re doing great!”
Backed by stats and thoughtful analysis, this article makes clear what should be obvious. The populace hasn’t moved further to the right, politicians have moved right and we don’t want to vote for them, so the left stayed home from the polls.
How did Kamala Harris lose to the most unpopular US president on record?
Winning wasn’t Harris’s primary concern; winning without the left and anti-war movement was.
www.stephensemler.com/p/how-the-mo...
Winning wasn’t Harris’s primary concern; winning without the left and anti-war movement was.
www.stephensemler.com/p/how-the-mo...
How the most unpopular US president got reelected
Polygraph | Newsletter n°288 | 24 Jan 2025
www.stephensemler.com
January 25, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Backed by stats and thoughtful analysis, this article makes clear what should be obvious. The populace hasn’t moved further to the right, politicians have moved right and we don’t want to vote for them, so the left stayed home from the polls.