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“Be careful with this precious human cargo…”
“Be careful with this precious human cargo…”
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“When I set out on the long excursion that finally led to California I wandered alone from Indiana… All the world was before me and every day was a holiday…”
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It’s weird. You’re drinking your first cup of coffee, getting ready for breakfast, when all of a sudden your notifications blow up, so you throw some clothes on, grab your PPE, and run off to chase trouble with neighbors.
My latest is a love letter to Chicago. "I see you stumbling through the stubborn, awkward rhythm of showing up, again and again. I see you fighting alongside people who sometimes frustrate and confuse you, and defending neighbors you may have never met, because you know they’re all your people."
In Chicago, We Run Toward Danger Together
"Faced with unrelenting state violence, Chicagoans have refused to be cowed," says Mariame Kaba.
organizingmythoughts.org
November 8, 2025 at 9:29 PM
It’s weird. You’re drinking your first cup of coffee, getting ready for breakfast, when all of a sudden your notifications blow up, so you throw some clothes on, grab your PPE, and run off to chase trouble with neighbors.
If MLK were alive today where would he be? If RFK were alive today where would he be? Where are our leaders? 7-8 million marched in the streets in Oct, tens of millions went to the polls on Tuesday, citizens in the streets in Chicago… where are the leaders? Right now this minute, where are they?
Chicago PD arrested several individuals on behalf of ICE after conducting a raid on an entire city block in the Little Village neighborhood. During the arrest, one of the detained neighbors was visibly choked by CPD officers and repeatedly informed them that he was unable to breathe
11/8/2025
11/8/2025
November 8, 2025 at 10:14 PM
If MLK were alive today where would he be? If RFK were alive today where would he be? Where are our leaders? 7-8 million marched in the streets in Oct, tens of millions went to the polls on Tuesday, citizens in the streets in Chicago… where are the leaders? Right now this minute, where are they?
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"Judge Ellis spent more than 90 minutes handing down her ruling at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse. She began by reading Carl Sandburg’s poem, “Chicago.”
Federal agents’ use of force amid an aggressive deportation campaign in Chicago “shocks the conscience,” the Trump administration’s arguments “lack credibility,” and a top Border Patrol official lied while trying to justify the use of tear gas, a judge found Thursday. - @jonseidel.bsky.social
Federal judge enters broader order governing feds' use of force during immigration blitz
The judge previously forbade federal agents from using tear gas or other “riot control” weapons against people who pose no immediate threat and without two warnings during the deportation campaign. Ho...
chicago.suntimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:26 PM
"Judge Ellis spent more than 90 minutes handing down her ruling at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse. She began by reading Carl Sandburg’s poem, “Chicago.”
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"No crowns, no thrones, no kings."
Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks out after winning huge fight against Trump and the GOP's redistricting push.
Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks out after winning huge fight against Trump and the GOP's redistricting push.
November 5, 2025 at 5:27 AM
"No crowns, no thrones, no kings."
Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks out after winning huge fight against Trump and the GOP's redistricting push.
Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks out after winning huge fight against Trump and the GOP's redistricting push.
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California voters just said F*CK NO to Trump’s authoritarian power grab!
Prop 50 is more than a ballot measure, it’s a blueprint for how we defend democracy. It proves that when voters are given the chance to stand up and fight back, they do — by huge margins and despite relentless intimidation.
Prop 50 is more than a ballot measure, it’s a blueprint for how we defend democracy. It proves that when voters are given the chance to stand up and fight back, they do — by huge margins and despite relentless intimidation.
November 5, 2025 at 4:10 AM
California voters just said F*CK NO to Trump’s authoritarian power grab!
Prop 50 is more than a ballot measure, it’s a blueprint for how we defend democracy. It proves that when voters are given the chance to stand up and fight back, they do — by huge margins and despite relentless intimidation.
Prop 50 is more than a ballot measure, it’s a blueprint for how we defend democracy. It proves that when voters are given the chance to stand up and fight back, they do — by huge margins and despite relentless intimidation.
This is multilateral... not partisan, not bipartisan... it's a multilateral effort. Today was a multilateral vote for America by varied interests. Freedom, opportunity, the promise of America. No Kings.
Democrats sweep key races on Election Night 2025. @maddow.msnbc.com reports
www.msnbc.com/politics/liv...
www.msnbc.com/politics/liv...
November 5, 2025 at 3:50 AM
This is multilateral... not partisan, not bipartisan... it's a multilateral effort. Today was a multilateral vote for America by varied interests. Freedom, opportunity, the promise of America. No Kings.
Dawna Kemper reads her story 'Harmony' from the 'Santa Monica Review' spring 2025 issue.
www.bibliocracyradio.org/episodes/h9z...
www.bibliocracyradio.org/episodes/h9z...
Dawna Kemper & Miles Parnegg — Bibliocracy Radio
www.bibliocracyradio.org
November 4, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Dawna Kemper reads her story 'Harmony' from the 'Santa Monica Review' spring 2025 issue.
www.bibliocracyradio.org/episodes/h9z...
www.bibliocracyradio.org/episodes/h9z...
"... this blood is written in music..."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xty...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xty...
Oganesson (Saul Williams Remix)
YouTube video by Tortoise - Topic
www.youtube.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:59 PM
"... this blood is written in music..."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xty...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xty...
“ … I find everything that goes quote unquote wrong in a movie is actually the movie trying to write itself in a way… it tells you ”well, there’s another way and I’m going to force you to find it…” Guillermo Del Toro
November 3, 2025 at 3:59 PM
“ … I find everything that goes quote unquote wrong in a movie is actually the movie trying to write itself in a way… it tells you ”well, there’s another way and I’m going to force you to find it…” Guillermo Del Toro
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Love this! Incredible paint-on-glass artistry and visual storytelling. Pulls you immediately into Dostoevsky's dark dream and carries you in its flow. (Would love to see this animator do a Kafka story!)
From: The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1992), dir. Alexander Petrov, Sverdlovsk Film Studio
October 22, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Love this! Incredible paint-on-glass artistry and visual storytelling. Pulls you immediately into Dostoevsky's dark dream and carries you in its flow. (Would love to see this animator do a Kafka story!)
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This thread is so moving & perfect for today. #NoKings
PHILLY
I stepped out to walk across Philly last night and get a sense of things. City Hall always captures me here, Philadelphia has maintained its European layout and much of its early architecture.
I stepped out to walk across Philly last night and get a sense of things. City Hall always captures me here, Philadelphia has maintained its European layout and much of its early architecture.
October 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
This thread is so moving & perfect for today. #NoKings
“It’s easy to fall into the trap of treating friction on this boulder like passive resistance - a force that each scaler is at the whim of. But I learned to reshape this narrative: friction is something to sit with, to actively attend to, and to ask for help in understanding...
September 14, 2025 at 6:50 PM
“It’s easy to fall into the trap of treating friction on this boulder like passive resistance - a force that each scaler is at the whim of. But I learned to reshape this narrative: friction is something to sit with, to actively attend to, and to ask for help in understanding...
“Light Window Door Chamber” not new Turrell skyspaces just a glimpse into the new Gefen Galleries at LACMA… Amazing preview event last night in the city of angels. 100 wonderful musicians led by Kamasi Washington performing his “Harmony of Difference” music.apple.com/us/album/har...
June 29, 2025 at 4:27 PM
“Light Window Door Chamber” not new Turrell skyspaces just a glimpse into the new Gefen Galleries at LACMA… Amazing preview event last night in the city of angels. 100 wonderful musicians led by Kamasi Washington performing his “Harmony of Difference” music.apple.com/us/album/har...
“Be careful, with this precious human cargo”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m3Y...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m3Y...
When Things Was Cheap
YouTube video by NRBQ - Topic
www.youtube.com
June 21, 2025 at 1:51 PM
“Be careful, with this precious human cargo”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m3Y...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m3Y...
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I love painter Seth Armstrong's impressionistic, color-saturated paintings of our city's hillside neighborhoods.
So much ❤️ for L.A. especially right now. (Click for more beautiful canvases.)
So much ❤️ for L.A. especially right now. (Click for more beautiful canvases.)
Seth Armstrong Sets the Hills of Los Angeles Aglow in Vibrant Oil Paintings
Seth Armstrong transports us to Southern California in oil paintings that explore the nature of concealment.
www.thisiscolossal.com
June 20, 2025 at 5:12 PM
I love painter Seth Armstrong's impressionistic, color-saturated paintings of our city's hillside neighborhoods.
So much ❤️ for L.A. especially right now. (Click for more beautiful canvases.)
So much ❤️ for L.A. especially right now. (Click for more beautiful canvases.)
Whitney Portal... they are proposing to sell Whitney Portal...
June 13, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Whitney Portal... they are proposing to sell Whitney Portal...
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I grew up in East Central Indiana, convinced my grandfather was or at least had been a klan member, yet even with my journalism degree, I never knew about George Dale, the newspaperman who dared to challenge the Muncie KKK. Great & ultimately inspiring piece by Dan Sinker. “Fascism always fails.”
In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…
March 1, 2025 at 4:29 AM
I grew up in East Central Indiana, convinced my grandfather was or at least had been a klan member, yet even with my journalism degree, I never knew about George Dale, the newspaperman who dared to challenge the Muncie KKK. Great & ultimately inspiring piece by Dan Sinker. “Fascism always fails.”
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I hope these are being stapled up at every trailhead, parking lot, etc of every national forest & park across the land.
Posted at the Piedra Lisa South Trailhead in Albuquerque.
February 28, 2025 at 6:41 AM
I hope these are being stapled up at every trailhead, parking lot, etc of every national forest & park across the land.
If you are an artist in any discipline, you will find recognition and inspiration in this book. If you get far enough in to read these quotes you will be glad you took the trip “you’re with your buddy Dave, you’ll be fine” “I don’t care, it;’s modular…”
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/545016...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/545016...
Room to Dream by David Lynch, Kristine McKenna: 9780399589218 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An unprecedented look into the personal and creative life of the visionary auteur David Lynch, through his own words and those of his closest colleagues, friends, and famil...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
February 3, 2025 at 3:11 PM
If you are an artist in any discipline, you will find recognition and inspiration in this book. If you get far enough in to read these quotes you will be glad you took the trip “you’re with your buddy Dave, you’ll be fine” “I don’t care, it;’s modular…”
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/545016...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/545016...
Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos) I first heard this by the Byrds in '69. There is no existing recording of Woody singing the song, lots of good renditions. The story has not changed "they chase us like outlaws, like rustlers, like thieves..."
January 27, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos) I first heard this by the Byrds in '69. There is no existing recording of Woody singing the song, lots of good renditions. The story has not changed "they chase us like outlaws, like rustlers, like thieves..."