Ellen Chenoweth
@solidseam.bsky.social
https://solidseam.ghost.io/
excited about dance/performance, quilts, books, Philadelphia
excited about dance/performance, quilts, books, Philadelphia
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Every day during Trump’s reign is somehow more disgraceful than what came before. It’s absolutely disgusting watching this.
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Every day during Trump’s reign is somehow more disgraceful than what came before. It’s absolutely disgusting watching this.
heartbreaking
If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 14, 2025 at 1:14 AM
heartbreaking
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Among the things I hate to leave behind are these bookshelves. We worked with Philadephia Woodworking (woot!) to create adjustable shelves and bottom panels to allow access to wires. ✨ Scribing to the wavy walls of a 200yo house is no joke!
November 3, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Among the things I hate to leave behind are these bookshelves. We worked with Philadephia Woodworking (woot!) to create adjustable shelves and bottom panels to allow access to wires. ✨ Scribing to the wavy walls of a 200yo house is no joke!
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Tear gas being deployed blocks from my home this morning.
Video of the tear gassing at Roscoe and Harding in Avondale via source.
October 25, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Tear gas being deployed blocks from my home this morning.
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people playing music/videos on their phone speakers in public is more than just mildly annoying and is instead a leading indicator of the decline of community and empath
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 19, 2025 at 8:54 PM
people playing music/videos on their phone speakers in public is more than just mildly annoying and is instead a leading indicator of the decline of community and empath
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I appreciate the fact that the left is taking frogs back as a symbol from the right.
October 10, 2025 at 4:42 AM
I appreciate the fact that the left is taking frogs back as a symbol from the right.
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The full new Philadelphia Art Museum branding is out. I have mixed feelings, which is normal for rebrandings.
Directionally there's some good (I really like the griffin), but I think it also invites an identity crisis.
A thread with some thoughts:
Directionally there's some good (I really like the griffin), but I think it also invites an identity crisis.
A thread with some thoughts:
October 8, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The full new Philadelphia Art Museum branding is out. I have mixed feelings, which is normal for rebrandings.
Directionally there's some good (I really like the griffin), but I think it also invites an identity crisis.
A thread with some thoughts:
Directionally there's some good (I really like the griffin), but I think it also invites an identity crisis.
A thread with some thoughts:
I appreciate that this report captures the sense that Fringe season is the best time to be in Philly.
After sampling sardine-eating clowns, durational video games, and all manner of participatory theatre over nearly a week at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, critic Pria Dahiya reports, she may have trouble returning to run-of-the-mill theatregoing. www.americantheatre.org/2025/09/19/n...
No Bystanders at the Philly Fringe
After taking in nearly a week of performances, some durational and all participatory on some level, can I really go back to everyday, run-of-the-mill theatre?
www.americantheatre.org
September 20, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I appreciate that this report captures the sense that Fringe season is the best time to be in Philly.
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I do not care for the number of cameras I am captured by on any given day. I'm a nice little lady doing no evil deeds but on my walk to the damn library I hear this little voice coming from above saying "You are being recorded" and I feel like I'm in a dystopian teen novel, I hate it.
September 11, 2025 at 5:34 PM
I do not care for the number of cameras I am captured by on any given day. I'm a nice little lady doing no evil deeds but on my walk to the damn library I hear this little voice coming from above saying "You are being recorded" and I feel like I'm in a dystopian teen novel, I hate it.
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Tasks for the National Guard in Chicago 1:
Ring the doorbells of every single person staying in Trump International Hotel & Tower, no less than once every ten minutes, and ask them if they feel safe.
Ring the doorbells of every single person staying in Trump International Hotel & Tower, no less than once every ten minutes, and ask them if they feel safe.
August 30, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Tasks for the National Guard in Chicago 1:
Ring the doorbells of every single person staying in Trump International Hotel & Tower, no less than once every ten minutes, and ask them if they feel safe.
Ring the doorbells of every single person staying in Trump International Hotel & Tower, no less than once every ten minutes, and ask them if they feel safe.
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A dramatic, extremely worrying moment; over 61,000 people held in ICE detention. That is the highest number ever on record in United States history; roughly 6,000 higher than the previous record set under Trump six years ago, and over 21,000 higher than when Trump took office just seven months ago.
ICE just released updated detention statistics.
As of August 24, ICE is holding 61,226 people at authorized facilities around the United States and its Territories.
www.ice.gov/detain/deten...
As of August 24, ICE is holding 61,226 people at authorized facilities around the United States and its Territories.
www.ice.gov/detain/deten...
Detention Management
An official website of the United States government
www.ice.gov
August 29, 2025 at 7:52 PM
A dramatic, extremely worrying moment; over 61,000 people held in ICE detention. That is the highest number ever on record in United States history; roughly 6,000 higher than the previous record set under Trump six years ago, and over 21,000 higher than when Trump took office just seven months ago.
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Is “diversity taboo” or is this a segregationist regime that hopes to reinstate open white supremacy.
It is absolutely wild (and fundamentally dishonest) that media is still reaching for euphemism instead of simply calling this racism.
It is absolutely wild (and fundamentally dishonest) that media is still reaching for euphemism instead of simply calling this racism.
In Trump’s Ideal Picture of America, Diversity Is Taboo
www.nytimes.com
August 21, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Is “diversity taboo” or is this a segregationist regime that hopes to reinstate open white supremacy.
It is absolutely wild (and fundamentally dishonest) that media is still reaching for euphemism instead of simply calling this racism.
It is absolutely wild (and fundamentally dishonest) that media is still reaching for euphemism instead of simply calling this racism.
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Latest from @iamleslierangel.bsky.social —
The new ICE detention facility at Fort Bliss is the largest in U.S. history. It’s also one of five sites where Texas held detainees of Japanese descent — including American-born civilians — during World War II.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/08/18/t...
The new ICE detention facility at Fort Bliss is the largest in U.S. history. It’s also one of five sites where Texas held detainees of Japanese descent — including American-born civilians — during World War II.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/08/18/t...
A ‘Shameful’ Legacy: Texas Has Officially Opened an ICE Detention Facility at Site of WWII Internment Camp
Camp East Montana is now the largest immigrant detention facility in U.S. history, but it’s just one of 19 sites that will add a total of 37,649 new beds for ICE detainment — a 105% increase in the st...
thebarbedwire.com
August 18, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Latest from @iamleslierangel.bsky.social —
The new ICE detention facility at Fort Bliss is the largest in U.S. history. It’s also one of five sites where Texas held detainees of Japanese descent — including American-born civilians — during World War II.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/08/18/t...
The new ICE detention facility at Fort Bliss is the largest in U.S. history. It’s also one of five sites where Texas held detainees of Japanese descent — including American-born civilians — during World War II.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/08/18/t...
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Also the fact that Cherelle Parker is not out front and center doing everything in her power to protest the SEPTA cuts basically invalidates the entire point of having a mayor. I understand the direct impact she can have is limited but she should still be incessantly denouncing it.
August 14, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Also the fact that Cherelle Parker is not out front and center doing everything in her power to protest the SEPTA cuts basically invalidates the entire point of having a mayor. I understand the direct impact she can have is limited but she should still be incessantly denouncing it.
I loved this show so so much in its Philly preview.
www.canibefrank.nyc NYC, I just saw this show and it was terrific, go see it!!
Can I Be Frank?
In a desperate attempt to prove they can think about someone other than themself, Morgan Bassichis turns to the work of queer comedian, musician, and performance artist Frank Maya.
www.canibefrank.nyc
August 16, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I loved this show so so much in its Philly preview.
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As Republicans at the state level in PA threaten to cut the funding for one of our nation’s most vital public transit systems, I’m currently in Copenhagen where the contrast is wild. Public transit in Copenhagen is well funded, fast, clean, and incredibly reliable.
August 12, 2025 at 9:53 AM
As Republicans at the state level in PA threaten to cut the funding for one of our nation’s most vital public transit systems, I’m currently in Copenhagen where the contrast is wild. Public transit in Copenhagen is well funded, fast, clean, and incredibly reliable.
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More and more this seems like the book of the year both because it's wonderful and because its message is so crystal clear. bookshop.org/p/books/one-...
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Check out One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This - <b><i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>BESTSELLER • SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 PALESTINE BOOK AWARDS • From award-winning nove...
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July 28, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Please read this first-person essay from Lanae Tipton, an incarcerated journalist in Texas with a desperate plea for air conditioning in prisons. She’s watched women seize on the floor from the heat. As one prison staffer said, “I vomited blood.”
thebarbedwire.com/2025/07/25/t...
thebarbedwire.com/2025/07/25/t...
I Watched a Woman Nearly Die in a Cell Across From Mine. Texas Prisons Need Air Conditioning.
More than two-thirds of Texas’ 100 prisons don’t have air conditioning — that can mean the difference between life and death.
thebarbedwire.com
July 25, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Please read this first-person essay from Lanae Tipton, an incarcerated journalist in Texas with a desperate plea for air conditioning in prisons. She’s watched women seize on the floor from the heat. As one prison staffer said, “I vomited blood.”
thebarbedwire.com/2025/07/25/t...
thebarbedwire.com/2025/07/25/t...
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this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely
If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
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June 29, 2025 at 10:54 AM
this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely
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It’s happening: the National Park Service is closing off Dupont Circle for the weekend, which is also when the WorldPride Parade will be taking place.
June 6, 2025 at 12:18 PM
It’s happening: the National Park Service is closing off Dupont Circle for the weekend, which is also when the WorldPride Parade will be taking place.
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I just attended Joiri Minaya’s Venus Flytrap performance at Bartram’s Garden in Philadelphia, which is the oldest continuous botanical garden in the United States. It was a visual delight that I can prove with just this one photo.
May 30, 2025 at 3:01 AM
I just attended Joiri Minaya’s Venus Flytrap performance at Bartram’s Garden in Philadelphia, which is the oldest continuous botanical garden in the United States. It was a visual delight that I can prove with just this one photo.
grateful to Sharon Hoyer and Newcity for this reporting and history of Chicago's Links Hall. some of the quotes in here are wild! www.newcitystage.com/2025/05/28/l...
An Elegy for Links Hall
For those in Chicago’s dance, performance art, puppetry, experimental and cross-disciplinary performance worlds—pretty much any theater of the non-kitchen-sink variety—the name Links Hall needs no exp...
www.newcitystage.com
May 28, 2025 at 8:52 PM
grateful to Sharon Hoyer and Newcity for this reporting and history of Chicago's Links Hall. some of the quotes in here are wild! www.newcitystage.com/2025/05/28/l...