My mashup of Langston Hughes and Woody Guthrie -- elegy and echo for this dark day
From the crucible of depression-era disillusionment came Woody's guitar ("This machine kills fascists") and Hughes's oath:
America will be 🇺🇸
May the dream guide us as we walk each other through
From the crucible of depression-era disillusionment came Woody's guitar ("This machine kills fascists") and Hughes's oath:
America will be 🇺🇸
May the dream guide us as we walk each other through
![Alt text:
A digital image with black serif text on a light beige background. The text reads:
So long, America,
that never has been yet
It’s been good to know ya —
to know you must be
[An American flag emoji appears in the lower left corner.]
This image is a mashup of two iconic voices in American protest art: Langston Hughes and Woody Guthrie. The line “So long, America, that never has been yet” echoes Hughes’s 1935 poem Let America Be America Again, which mourns the broken promises of American freedom and equality while insisting on the dream’s enduring necessity:
“O, let America be America again—
The land that never has been yet—
And yet must be—the land where every man is free.”
The phrase “It’s been good to know ya” recalls the refrain of Woody Guthrie’s Dust Bowl ballad So Long, It’s Been Good to Know Yuh, a song that blends warmth, weariness, and a sense of moving on. Guthrie famously wrote “This machine kills fascists” on his guitar—a reminder that music and poetry can be tools of resistance.
Together, the lines in this image form a quiet elegy and a call to conscience: a farewell to the myth of America, and a vow to keep walking toward the dream it has yet to fulfill](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bbkpuqjmzbkig3lhxxbbvvg2/bafkreiggueaijbmbj7aqwhw6ueqposzm7jfciclp2dbzi2x27xnu4zxhaq@jpeg)
July 3, 2025 at 9:20 AM
My mashup of Langston Hughes and Woody Guthrie -- elegy and echo for this dark day
From the crucible of depression-era disillusionment came Woody's guitar ("This machine kills fascists") and Hughes's oath:
America will be 🇺🇸
May the dream guide us as we walk each other through
From the crucible of depression-era disillusionment came Woody's guitar ("This machine kills fascists") and Hughes's oath:
America will be 🇺🇸
May the dream guide us as we walk each other through
@nytpitchbot.bsky.social that you???😭😭
June 6, 2025 at 12:54 AM
@nytpitchbot.bsky.social that you???😭😭
May 12, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Making these little mockups today
May 3, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Making these little mockups today
Nah it's just a weird trick of the light
If you adjust the settings on your monitor you'll see Tom Cotton is a reptile
If you adjust the settings on your monitor you'll see Tom Cotton is a reptile
March 30, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Nah it's just a weird trick of the light
If you adjust the settings on your monitor you'll see Tom Cotton is a reptile
If you adjust the settings on your monitor you'll see Tom Cotton is a reptile
The Talmud asks, what does it mean to "follow God?"
It means that one should seek to emulate the divine attributes of the Holy One
וְאָמַר רַבִּי חָמָא בְּרַבִּי חֲנִינָא, מַאי דִּכְתִיב: ״אַחֲרֵי ה׳ אֱלֹהֵיכֶם תֵּלֵכוּ״, וְכִי אֶפְשָׁר לוֹ לְאָדָם לְהַלֵּךְ אַחַר שְׁכִינָה? אֶלָּא, לְהַלֵּךְ אַחַר מִדּוֹתָיו שֶׁל הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא
Sotah 14a: 3-4
It means that one should seek to emulate the divine attributes of the Holy One
וְאָמַר רַבִּי חָמָא בְּרַבִּי חֲנִינָא, מַאי דִּכְתִיב: ״אַחֲרֵי ה׳ אֱלֹהֵיכֶם תֵּלֵכוּ״, וְכִי אֶפְשָׁר לוֹ לְאָדָם לְהַלֵּךְ אַחַר שְׁכִינָה? אֶלָּא, לְהַלֵּךְ אַחַר מִדּוֹתָיו שֶׁל הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא
Sotah 14a: 3-4
March 7, 2025 at 5:02 AM
The Talmud asks, what does it mean to "follow God?"
It means that one should seek to emulate the divine attributes of the Holy One
וְאָמַר רַבִּי חָמָא בְּרַבִּי חֲנִינָא, מַאי דִּכְתִיב: ״אַחֲרֵי ה׳ אֱלֹהֵיכֶם תֵּלֵכוּ״, וְכִי אֶפְשָׁר לוֹ לְאָדָם לְהַלֵּךְ אַחַר שְׁכִינָה? אֶלָּא, לְהַלֵּךְ אַחַר מִדּוֹתָיו שֶׁל הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא
Sotah 14a: 3-4
It means that one should seek to emulate the divine attributes of the Holy One
וְאָמַר רַבִּי חָמָא בְּרַבִּי חֲנִינָא, מַאי דִּכְתִיב: ״אַחֲרֵי ה׳ אֱלֹהֵיכֶם תֵּלֵכוּ״, וְכִי אֶפְשָׁר לוֹ לְאָדָם לְהַלֵּךְ אַחַר שְׁכִינָה? אֶלָּא, לְהַלֵּךְ אַחַר מִדּוֹתָיו שֶׁל הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא
Sotah 14a: 3-4
once again, Charles Fuckin Tilly
March 5, 2025 at 10:41 PM
once again, Charles Fuckin Tilly
Classic Charles Tilly
February 28, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Classic Charles Tilly
February 20, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Layered plywood, acrylic paint (2024)
February 15, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Layered plywood, acrylic paint (2024)
Also guess what the GAO recommended when it recently audited the CFPB?
"that CFPB work with the other financial regulators to establish or adapt an existing formal coordination mechanism to collectively identify risks posed by BLOCKCHAIN-RELATED PRODUCTS"
🤔🤔🤔
www.gao.gov/assets/d2410...
"that CFPB work with the other financial regulators to establish or adapt an existing formal coordination mechanism to collectively identify risks posed by BLOCKCHAIN-RELATED PRODUCTS"
🤔🤔🤔
www.gao.gov/assets/d2410...
February 11, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Also guess what the GAO recommended when it recently audited the CFPB?
"that CFPB work with the other financial regulators to establish or adapt an existing formal coordination mechanism to collectively identify risks posed by BLOCKCHAIN-RELATED PRODUCTS"
🤔🤔🤔
www.gao.gov/assets/d2410...
"that CFPB work with the other financial regulators to establish or adapt an existing formal coordination mechanism to collectively identify risks posed by BLOCKCHAIN-RELATED PRODUCTS"
🤔🤔🤔
www.gao.gov/assets/d2410...
They say they want audits -- but we already HAVE audits!
Guess what the GAO recommended when it audited the CFPB last?
"to establish or adapt an existing formal coordination mechanism to collectively identify risks posed by BLOCKCHAIN-RELATED PRODUCTS"
oh.
🤔🤔🤔
www.gao.gov/assets/d2410...
Guess what the GAO recommended when it audited the CFPB last?
"to establish or adapt an existing formal coordination mechanism to collectively identify risks posed by BLOCKCHAIN-RELATED PRODUCTS"
oh.
🤔🤔🤔
www.gao.gov/assets/d2410...
February 10, 2025 at 11:34 PM
They say they want audits -- but we already HAVE audits!
Guess what the GAO recommended when it audited the CFPB last?
"to establish or adapt an existing formal coordination mechanism to collectively identify risks posed by BLOCKCHAIN-RELATED PRODUCTS"
oh.
🤔🤔🤔
www.gao.gov/assets/d2410...
Guess what the GAO recommended when it audited the CFPB last?
"to establish or adapt an existing formal coordination mechanism to collectively identify risks posed by BLOCKCHAIN-RELATED PRODUCTS"
oh.
🤔🤔🤔
www.gao.gov/assets/d2410...
just one screen grab
February 10, 2025 at 2:42 PM
just one screen grab
they tried to rig the game
BUT YOU CAN’T FAKE INFLUENCE
🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
☠️
BUT YOU CAN’T FAKE INFLUENCE
🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
☠️
February 10, 2025 at 6:23 AM
they tried to rig the game
BUT YOU CAN’T FAKE INFLUENCE
🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
☠️
BUT YOU CAN’T FAKE INFLUENCE
🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
☠️
THE REVOLUTION IS ABOUT TO BE TELEVISED
YOU PICKED THE RIGHT TIME BUT THE WRONG GUY
YOU PICKED THE RIGHT TIME BUT THE WRONG GUY
February 10, 2025 at 5:37 AM
THE REVOLUTION IS ABOUT TO BE TELEVISED
YOU PICKED THE RIGHT TIME BUT THE WRONG GUY
YOU PICKED THE RIGHT TIME BUT THE WRONG GUY
Playing the part of a government unto itself to a tee
February 7, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Playing the part of a government unto itself to a tee
February 5, 2025 at 6:57 AM
