Reposted by Jason Mellard
EVER HEARD OF… THE UFO CLUB?
(Underground-England)
A look at Joe Boyd's legendary, short lived UFO club, and the UK psychedelic underground scene of 1967.
(Photos by Adam Ritchie)
underground-england.com/the-ufo-club/
(Underground-England)
A look at Joe Boyd's legendary, short lived UFO club, and the UK psychedelic underground scene of 1967.
(Photos by Adam Ritchie)
underground-england.com/the-ufo-club/
EVER HEARD OF… THE UFO CLUB? – Underground
The latest in our series investigating overlooked or obscured figures in musical and subcultural history takes a look at London’s first psychedelic night club ‘
underground-england.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:39 AM
EVER HEARD OF… THE UFO CLUB?
(Underground-England)
A look at Joe Boyd's legendary, short lived UFO club, and the UK psychedelic underground scene of 1967.
(Photos by Adam Ritchie)
underground-england.com/the-ufo-club/
(Underground-England)
A look at Joe Boyd's legendary, short lived UFO club, and the UK psychedelic underground scene of 1967.
(Photos by Adam Ritchie)
underground-england.com/the-ufo-club/
Reposted by Jason Mellard
Hey my news outlet @thebarbedwire.com is hiring a social media manager. Looking for someone smart who lives in Tx and loves covering our messed up state www.journalismjobs.com/job-listing/...
JournalismJobs.com - Job Listing - Social Media Manager
JournalismJobs.com has journalism and media job listings with digital media, newspapers, tv stations, radio stations, magazines, nonprofits, and academia.
www.journalismjobs.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Hey my news outlet @thebarbedwire.com is hiring a social media manager. Looking for someone smart who lives in Tx and loves covering our messed up state www.journalismjobs.com/job-listing/...
Reposted by Jason Mellard
📝 Sign below to support Professor Tom Alter of Texas State who was fired for speech he made in his capacity as a private citizen! ⬇️
the Texas State University System Board of Regents is reviewing Tom Alter’s case on November 10. The link below will take you to a letter you can sign and send in his behalf.
if there's no free extramural speech there's no freedom at all
actionnetwork.org/letters/supp...
if there's no free extramural speech there's no freedom at all
actionnetwork.org/letters/supp...
Academic Letter of Support for Dr. Tom Alter to be Reinstated at TXST, San Marcos
Dear Academic Supporter of Dr. Tom Alter, Tom Alter is undertaking a formal appeal of his firing from Texas State University, San Marcos. On November 10, a subcommittee of the Texas State University...
actionnetwork.org
October 27, 2025 at 1:58 PM
📝 Sign below to support Professor Tom Alter of Texas State who was fired for speech he made in his capacity as a private citizen! ⬇️
Reposted by Jason Mellard
Asking again, if you're a UT-Austin grad, to add your name to this open letter. You can also forward it to President James Davis (president@utexas.edu) and the UT Board of Regents (bor@utsystem.edu).
Some select quotes from Texas alumni on the “Compact for Academic Excellence” currently being offered by the Trump Administration.
(Photo by Vivian Arcidiacono on Unsplash)
shorten.ly/nodealtexasq...
(Photo by Vivian Arcidiacono on Unsplash)
shorten.ly/nodealtexasq...
October 14, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Asking again, if you're a UT-Austin grad, to add your name to this open letter. You can also forward it to President James Davis (president@utexas.edu) and the UT Board of Regents (bor@utsystem.edu).
Reposted by Jason Mellard
It was an absolute joy to write about the Texas Archive of the Moving Image, a nonprofit that works tirelessly to preserve Texas' film history by digitizing tapes and film before they degrade. Their website is a treasure trove of cool state history: www.chron.com/culture/arti...
Meet the people preserving Texas history, one home movie at a time.
Your home footage may be more special than you think, the nonprofit says.
www.chron.com
October 12, 2025 at 8:48 PM
It was an absolute joy to write about the Texas Archive of the Moving Image, a nonprofit that works tirelessly to preserve Texas' film history by digitizing tapes and film before they degrade. Their website is a treasure trove of cool state history: www.chron.com/culture/arti...
Reposted by Jason Mellard
Good news to your end your week ✊ Dr. Thomas Alter is set to be reinstated at Texas State University after an initial court victory.
Statement from @texasaaup.bsky.social President Dr. Brian Evans and Texas AFT President @zephcapo.bsky.social 👇
www.texasaft.org/membership/h...
Statement from @texasaaup.bsky.social President Dr. Brian Evans and Texas AFT President @zephcapo.bsky.social 👇
www.texasaft.org/membership/h...
Judge’s Order Clears Way for Fired Texas State University Professor’s Reinstatement
A Union of Professionals
www.texasaft.org
September 27, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Good news to your end your week ✊ Dr. Thomas Alter is set to be reinstated at Texas State University after an initial court victory.
Statement from @texasaaup.bsky.social President Dr. Brian Evans and Texas AFT President @zephcapo.bsky.social 👇
www.texasaft.org/membership/h...
Statement from @texasaaup.bsky.social President Dr. Brian Evans and Texas AFT President @zephcapo.bsky.social 👇
www.texasaft.org/membership/h...
Reposted by Jason Mellard
Amanda Shires spent an afternoon introducing me to Lubbock and a small portion of those very fun hours is now chronicled in Texas Monthly ahead of her new album :) gift link: www.texasmonthly.com/arts-enterta...
Amanda Shires Tells Her Side of the Story After Divorce From Jason Isbell: “I'm Not Scared”
After a marriage in the spotlight ended in brutal divorce, the singer-songwriter-fiddler is telling her story, her way.
www.texasmonthly.com
September 23, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Amanda Shires spent an afternoon introducing me to Lubbock and a small portion of those very fun hours is now chronicled in Texas Monthly ahead of her new album :) gift link: www.texasmonthly.com/arts-enterta...
Reposted by Jason Mellard
"Enough is enough. Texas must allow faculty and college students to explore freely the breadth of human knowledge, and administrators must support us in that time-honored quest."
– Pauline Strong, President @utaustinaaup.bsky.social
#AcademicFreedom
#AcademicSky
@texasaaup.bsky.social
– Pauline Strong, President @utaustinaaup.bsky.social
#AcademicFreedom
#AcademicSky
@texasaaup.bsky.social
Manufactured outrage is killing academic freedom in Texas | Opinion
Enough with the "gotcha" attacks like the recent firing of a Texas A&M instructor. Let professors teach. Let students learn, writes Pauline Turner Strong.
www.statesman.com
September 19, 2025 at 8:04 PM
"Enough is enough. Texas must allow faculty and college students to explore freely the breadth of human knowledge, and administrators must support us in that time-honored quest."
– Pauline Strong, President @utaustinaaup.bsky.social
#AcademicFreedom
#AcademicSky
@texasaaup.bsky.social
– Pauline Strong, President @utaustinaaup.bsky.social
#AcademicFreedom
#AcademicSky
@texasaaup.bsky.social
Texas State terminates history professor over comments made at conference – The University Star share.google/CCzqjzasnYQY...
Texas State terminates history professor over comments made at conference
Texas State University terminated Associate History Professor Thomas Alter on Sept. 10, after videos of him speaking at an online socialism convention were published online. The conference was the Rev...
share.google
September 11, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Texas State terminates history professor over comments made at conference – The University Star share.google/CCzqjzasnYQY...
Appreciate my unions today and everyday. If you work in Texas universities, join up with @cwa-tseu.bsky.social and @texasaft.org The only way through is together!
September 1, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Appreciate my unions today and everyday. If you work in Texas universities, join up with @cwa-tseu.bsky.social and @texasaft.org The only way through is together!
Reposted by Jason Mellard
“Texas Democrats lost. But they drew attention to Republicans’ efforts to put their thumb on the scale, and demonstrated a valuable tactic for galvanizing their beleaguered party.
They lost, but they lost loudly. Losing loudly has been a crucial feature of successful political movements.” Gift:
They lost, but they lost loudly. Losing loudly has been a crucial feature of successful political movements.” Gift:
Opinion | Why the Texas Democrats’ Walkout Worked
www.nytimes.com
August 30, 2025 at 6:01 PM
“Texas Democrats lost. But they drew attention to Republicans’ efforts to put their thumb on the scale, and demonstrated a valuable tactic for galvanizing their beleaguered party.
They lost, but they lost loudly. Losing loudly has been a crucial feature of successful political movements.” Gift:
They lost, but they lost loudly. Losing loudly has been a crucial feature of successful political movements.” Gift:
Reposted by Jason Mellard
Calling all part-time and full-time faculty in the South: Speak out on academic freedom, shared governance, and your working conditions! Survey closes 8/29 at 5pm ET. States: AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, TX, VA. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
2025 AAUP Faculty in the South Survey
The Georgia conference of the American Association of University Professors [AAUP] and its partners in states across the South have been at the forefront of fighting attacks on higher education. To as...
docs.google.com
August 27, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Calling all part-time and full-time faculty in the South: Speak out on academic freedom, shared governance, and your working conditions! Survey closes 8/29 at 5pm ET. States: AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, TX, VA. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Reposted by Jason Mellard
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
August 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
Simply believe that people who don't live in cities shouldn't be able to declare cities "unliveable." Like, most of us do live here, in the face of all your imaginary terrors.
August 16, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Simply believe that people who don't live in cities shouldn't be able to declare cities "unliveable." Like, most of us do live here, in the face of all your imaginary terrors.
Reposted by Jason Mellard
Reposted by Jason Mellard
“We wanted to rid ourselves of the fashions of historiography,” Burns summarized at one event, “and make a film that simply shows what happened.”
That’s not how history works though. You’re making an argument about what happened & what mattered even if you don’t realize you’re doing it. 🗃️
That’s not how history works though. You’re making an argument about what happened & what mattered even if you don’t realize you’re doing it. 🗃️
“whatever you write, you are taking a stance on your subject and on the practice of history itself. the suggestion that other historians are not also interested in ‘show[ing] what happened’ is, at best, careless.” www.politico.com/news/magazin...
What Ken Burns Won’t Say About the American Revolution
On the road with America’s foremost history documentarian in a fractured country.
www.politico.com
July 19, 2025 at 3:11 PM
“We wanted to rid ourselves of the fashions of historiography,” Burns summarized at one event, “and make a film that simply shows what happened.”
That’s not how history works though. You’re making an argument about what happened & what mattered even if you don’t realize you’re doing it. 🗃️
That’s not how history works though. You’re making an argument about what happened & what mattered even if you don’t realize you’re doing it. 🗃️
Some mixed feelings about my hometown Austin these days, but the 13th Floor Elevators' "Slip Inside This House" on the airport speakers definitely goes on the plus side of the ledger.
June 29, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Some mixed feelings about my hometown Austin these days, but the 13th Floor Elevators' "Slip Inside This House" on the airport speakers definitely goes on the plus side of the ledger.
Reposted by Jason Mellard
"Find your political home" remains, for me at least, the single best guiding star in times of crisis and chaos.
Individuals can doomscroll and post and have big feelings; groups can take meaningful action. Maybe it's an activist org, union, student group, career, collective/crew, etc (1/3)
Individuals can doomscroll and post and have big feelings; groups can take meaningful action. Maybe it's an activist org, union, student group, career, collective/crew, etc (1/3)
June 22, 2025 at 3:47 PM
"Find your political home" remains, for me at least, the single best guiding star in times of crisis and chaos.
Individuals can doomscroll and post and have big feelings; groups can take meaningful action. Maybe it's an activist org, union, student group, career, collective/crew, etc (1/3)
Individuals can doomscroll and post and have big feelings; groups can take meaningful action. Maybe it's an activist org, union, student group, career, collective/crew, etc (1/3)
Reposted by Jason Mellard
From @jasonmellard.bsky.social: "This Week in Texas Music History, Blues giant Leadbelly performs his final concert at UT’s Hogg Auditorium" - #Texas
The Swan Song of an American Music Legend - KUTX
In 1949 Huddie Ledbetter, known as Lead Belly, performed his final public concert at the University of Texas Hogg Auditorium.
kutx.org
June 20, 2025 at 10:29 PM
From @jasonmellard.bsky.social: "This Week in Texas Music History, Blues giant Leadbelly performs his final concert at UT’s Hogg Auditorium" - #Texas
Reposted by Jason Mellard
Hell yeah. Here's my manifesto: close reading for all.
On Sigrid Nunez, and Karl Ove Knausgaard, and Erich Auerbach, and why close reading is an answer to AI.
Thanks to @brandyjensen.bsky.social, rockstar editor, who rules. For @defector.com defector.com/close-readin...
On Sigrid Nunez, and Karl Ove Knausgaard, and Erich Auerbach, and why close reading is an answer to AI.
Thanks to @brandyjensen.bsky.social, rockstar editor, who rules. For @defector.com defector.com/close-readin...
Close Reading Is For Everyone | Defector
In Sigrid Nunez’s 2018 novel The Friend, a famous writer kills himself. Not long before, he complains to the narrator about readers: “People talking about a book as if it were just another thing, like...
defector.com
May 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Hell yeah. Here's my manifesto: close reading for all.
On Sigrid Nunez, and Karl Ove Knausgaard, and Erich Auerbach, and why close reading is an answer to AI.
Thanks to @brandyjensen.bsky.social, rockstar editor, who rules. For @defector.com defector.com/close-readin...
On Sigrid Nunez, and Karl Ove Knausgaard, and Erich Auerbach, and why close reading is an answer to AI.
Thanks to @brandyjensen.bsky.social, rockstar editor, who rules. For @defector.com defector.com/close-readin...
Reposted by Jason Mellard
Don't make Texas universities unconstitutional by passing SB37 www.expressnews.com/opinion/comm...
Texas lawmakers aim to strangle liberal arts with SB37
Senate Bill 37, under consideration in the Texas Legislature, would change our public universities so radically that they would no longer be first-class.
www.expressnews.com
May 3, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Don't make Texas universities unconstitutional by passing SB37 www.expressnews.com/opinion/comm...
The @thebarbedwire.bsky.social writers out there doing the Lord's work, and consistently so.
i also have been looking for a place to write this paragraph for three years (still think that last sentence could be an entire story)
May 2, 2025 at 3:58 PM
The @thebarbedwire.bsky.social writers out there doing the Lord's work, and consistently so.
If you've been waiting in the wings to launch an artisan chicory coffee revival, congrats, I guess.
April 8, 2025 at 1:00 PM
If you've been waiting in the wings to launch an artisan chicory coffee revival, congrats, I guess.
Reposted by Jason Mellard
The last time I felt like this was when Leticia Van de Putte asked her epic question — what does a woman have to do to be heard over the men in the room — during Wendy Davis' filibuster of the 2013 TX omnibus anti-abortion bill and the crowd in the building hollered until the clock hit midnight.
April 1, 2025 at 11:30 PM
The last time I felt like this was when Leticia Van de Putte asked her epic question — what does a woman have to do to be heard over the men in the room — during Wendy Davis' filibuster of the 2013 TX omnibus anti-abortion bill and the crowd in the building hollered until the clock hit midnight.