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Small fry.
December 24, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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My new piece in @rollingstone.com : “Our democracy is made up of reciprocal ties between and among all of us, and AmeriCorps strengthens these ties. We will all feel the loss of AmeriCorps...and our democracy will pay the price.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
April 25, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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okay cool, I am gonna need to buy a new furnace and it won't be installed until sometime this week

I'm not saying "you should buy my games" but, uh, buying my games would definitely help
December 6, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Love the new Floating Points track getting back towards their retro-future Elaenia vibes.
December 4, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Fahey's restored Recording King at Lark Street Music NJ
December 3, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Completely missed Gwenifer Raymond's new album release. As anticipated it's great and should further her reputation as both one of the most innovative and skilled solo guitar players.
October 9, 2025 at 6:37 PM
An kind and wonderful man I knew was needlessly killed this weekend and instead of everyone getting a chance to breath, grieve, and remember the commentary machine was immediately spun up by the local media.
September 29, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Starting to feel like the NYT has a quota on how many time they need to put this supposition into print each day.
September 15, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Too many folks have spent the last 16 months trying to have the correct reaction to invented narratives and unrealities.
September 15, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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An evening with a San Francisco resident Coyote 🧵 ⬇️
#mammals
July 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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🚨 There’s a lot of horrific news out of Washington right now—but you might have missed this: Senate Republicans just introduced a plan to sell off 120 million acres of our public lands.

Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵
June 16, 2025 at 9:13 PM
The thing about not wanting to shout into a maelstrom is that if you stay quiet, you simply vanish.
June 10, 2025 at 3:29 PM
@nytimes.com continues it's important coverage of seagulls.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/s...
A Conclave of Sea Gulls Concludes Its Business
www.nytimes.com
May 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Americorps NCCT getting shut down is a shame. It was the start of my learning how to talk and live with the varied people who make up this country and how to communicate despite extreme moral differences. Passing this skill & perspective to recent high school & college graduates is invaluable.
April 30, 2025 at 4:14 PM
The NYT might have many faults, but they have an admirable dedication to reporting the latest on seagulls:

www.nytimes.com/2019/08/23/s...

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/w...

www.nytimes.com/2019/08/07/w...
In Defense of Sea Gulls: They’re Smart, and They Co-Parent, 50/50 All the Way (Published 2019)
Besides, if people weren’t such slobs, gulls would never have learned about French fries.
www.nytimes.com
April 29, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The building I work in was vandalized this weekend and now the power is out. This week is starting strong.
April 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Just got word from my college roommate - who is the state archivist for the state of South Dakota - that due to the DOGE shutdowns of IMLS, they can no longer fund InterLibrary Loan in SD.

This means exchange between libraries, ability to get books delivered across the system, is gone as of 4/30.
April 15, 2025 at 1:31 AM
I wonder if there's a WH betting pool for who can get the craziest EO signed by just putting it down in front of him.
April 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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I was scheduled to give a talk on Palestine at a student conference at @notredame.bsky.social. The University rescinded my talk a week in advance citing an extremely flimsy excuse. It is truly disgusting. Attached is the letter I received and my reply, link below...
April 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Looking at a job and trying to decide if I should apply, not because I am unsure about wanting the position, but because it is far less safe than my current position during a possible staffing reduction.
April 4, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Whew, turns out that writing long carefully crafted letters that fairly examine systemic and organizational failures that allow abuse to thrive in community arts groups is more therapeutic than angry screeds.
April 1, 2025 at 3:58 PM
When you walk over what would have been a red line a year ago, it's a sign that you are willing to cross nearly any line.
March 14, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Last year I dug up a "lost" film Kenneth Tynan made called WE DISSENT. Today it struck me that C Wright Mills was speaking on the grounds of Columbia, where cops have been dragging away Dissenters for the past 2 years! www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaDR...
C. Wright Mills speaking at Columbia University in 1959 about DISSENT!
YouTube video by Benjamen Walker
www.youtube.com
March 6, 2025 at 8:14 PM
The thing about people who believe that the study of history begins and ends with great man theory and that they are one of them, is that they are completely unaware of the true power of the people.
February 26, 2025 at 7:09 PM