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StevenJenings
@sdjenings.bsky.social
Los Angeles artist, Africa NGO worker, former FEMA disaster inspector, and social justice advocate
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December 11, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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Watch this excellent Aussie series on the stateless immigration nightmare. Really lays out the paranoia along with the brutality. Great acting from a diverse cast . . . of immigrants. . . that proves in itself just how pointless the fear mongering is.
Netflix Series “Stateless” Dives Deep into Australian Immigration Paranoia
Stateless, the 2020 TV series for Netflix directed by Emma Freeman and Jocelyn Moorhouse does Australia no favors in laying out their ongoing national paranoia surrounding immigration. The countr…
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November 14, 2025 at 12:06 AM
We are the #GOP. How can we hurt you today? Literally over and over and over!
ROLLING STONE: “The current Congress has dropped the pretense of public service altogether… Congress enjoys ultraluxe health care as it fights to gut yours.”

@RepTimBurchett @MarshaBlackburn why don’t you care about anyone but yourselves? www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
October 28, 2025 at 2:25 AM
And that's why the @gop tries to shoot them down, defund them, and nullify break through results by attacking upper echelon education and research because who needs stuff like this?

Congratulations to these outstanding folks at @UC schools!
October 13, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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You can read here about West Side Story LAOpera's current production . Every performance of this musical is a troubled piece of Ametican nostalgia but here it is with a litle history of how we got there! Thanks for reading.
West Side Story Lives On in American Nostalgia Despite Both Troubled Pasts and Futures
Between 1950 and 1960 nearly five hundred thousand mostly poor, citizen immigrant Puerto Ricans arrived in New York City. They were the victims of the US government’s controlling, deliberate…
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October 3, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Tabuteau is the same as other drug companies & CEOs, holding onto price gauging pattent, driving up costs to desperate users who will languish for 10 years so he can make the big money.This is not healthcare, just more grand scale extortion of the weak again!
Drug company grifting never dies!
October 2, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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My story on LADP excellent film filmed in the LARiver. There is a link to the Vimeo performance in the article. Worth watching! And thanks for reading.
Millepied’s Hearts and Arrows: Dancing in Reyner Banham’s Missing Ecology
Dancing inside the head of an architectural historian . . .
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September 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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My Substack view of the excellent little dance film by #BenjaminMillepied and Los Angeles Dance Project shot in and around the Los Angeles River. There's a link to watch the film via Vimeo in the story.
#danceonfilm #heartsandarrows
Millepied’s Hearts and Arrows: Dancing in Reyner Banham’s Missing Ecology
Dancing inside the head of an architectural historian . . .
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September 17, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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My story on the LA Dance Project film of Hearts and Arrows. Dancing inside the head of an architectural historian. #danceonfilm
Millepied’s Hearts and Arrows: Dancing in Reyner Banham’s Missing Ecology
Filmed dance may be the best expression we have of internalizing the complexities movement. In 2016 Benjamin Millepied transformed his stage work, Hearts and Arrows (2014) into a filmed vers…
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September 16, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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James Baldwin:" how much time do you need"?
pacodawg (@globalsdw) on Threads
Also please reread the James Baldwin "how much time do you need" speech! We are not getting better! Where is that blade. Ready!
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September 7, 2025 at 8:21 PM
The Texas massacre is ongoing. Follow the flagrant voting rights abuse by #texasgop. All made possible by a non functioning Dept of Justice, the suspension of VRA 1965 section 5, and #GovernorHotWheels
I expect major movement in Texas tomorrow. No one is covering the GOP's redistricting scheme with as much context and analysis as Democracy Docket. Its team of 20 works around the clock to provide you pro-democracy news and information.

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August 23, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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Everyone will eventually be masked in some way because it really isnt the law anymore.
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July 19, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Pretty good alright . Fist bump!
July 1, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Look at this pathetic white, geezer slob. Top tier idiot usurper.
June 23, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Listen up, protest this asssultbof democratic institutions and free speech. Stay peaceful. It will not prevail.
Thank you Gov Gavin Newsom
Governor Newsom Delivers Major Address to Californians
YouTube video by California Governor Gavin Newsom
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June 11, 2025 at 5:21 AM
That time has long ago, come and gone.
May 30, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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Spain will not do business with the gencidaires in @israel
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May 17, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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In the 80s and 90s I met in Los Angeles many Afrikaans white flighters. They were, to person, miserable, bigoted. racist, smug yobos. The shit that came out of theirs mouths was appalling.
The Afrikaanerization of the Republican Party
Trump's biggest financial backers just happen to be white former South Africans. Coincidence?
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May 14, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I lived with Hornbills in Cameroun when I worked there. They were not as amazing looking as their SE Asian relatives, but their calls at dusk were a part of the daily routine.
The Wreathed Hornbill is one of 10 species of Hornbill found in Malaysia. #birds #ThePhotoHour #hornbills
May 13, 2025 at 5:22 AM
They're not sending us their best people. . .
REPORTER: Why are you creating an expedited path into the country for Afrikaners but not others?

TRUMP: Because they're being killed. And we don't want to see people be killed ... it's a genocide that's taking place. Farmers are being killed. They happen to be white.
May 12, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Black women are the nation's only real and consistent backbone.
Rep Proudie, Missouri.
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May 9, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Absolute truth
NO!
Is there any other country or region or area or any damn thing that has a “leader” as DumbAF as America has??

No
May 8, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The whole of the #WhiteHouse is geared to hurting people and making fortunes in giveaways for 100 people at the top of the heap. This is not government.
Trump's budget cuts:

-$4.5B from programs for students in high-poverty schools
-$49M from the Ed Dept's civil rights office
-$26B from state rental assistance
-$4B from low-income home energy assistance
-$20B+ from the CDC and NIH

All to give the rich another tax cut.
May 8, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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A great as performance of Bausch Rite of Spring. Africa owns this one. Best version of any.
Pina Bausch Rite of Spring Opens a Pathway to Africa
. . . we art living our own traditions . . .
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May 5, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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LA Dance Project in Hearts and Arrows. I keep coming back to this excellent dance film. It really is a chronicle of the city and an honest use of music, dance, and place. You should watch it.
Hearts & Arrows
This is "Hearts & Arrows" by The Amoveo Company on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
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May 3, 2025 at 8:34 PM