Topher Dunne
LightNews LightNews
Topher Dunne
@tdunne.bsky.social
61 followers 40 following 28 posts
educator, musician, adoptee
Posts Replies Media Videos
1. library worker
2. pharmacy assistant
3. factory worker (warehouse)
4. short order cook
5. HS teacher
January 29, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Reposted by Topher Dunne
jamellebouie.net
The uncomfortable truth is that the president of the United States is a man with the mind of a spoiled child. His debilitating solipsism is a threat to the stability of the entire world. A functional Congress would impeach and remove him. But the Republican majority is in a codependent relationship with the president, unable to separate his identity from that of their party. And the president’s advisers are either cowed supplicants desperate to please or scheming viziers eager to use his power for their own ends. There is no one, then, to pressure Trump to resign like there was for Nixon. In John McTiernan’s 1990 film adaptation of “The Hunt for Red October,” Fred Thompson, in the years before he was elected as a Republican senator from Tennessee, delivers a haunting warning as he, and Alec Baldwin’s Jack Ryan, observe a deadly naval disaster. “This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we’ll be lucky to live through it.” We have three years left with a mad king. It does not feel sustainable.
January 21, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Reposted by Topher Dunne
dean.bsky.social
Remembering the great Ralph Towner, who died today in Rome, at 85.

His hero was Bill Evans, which is evident as much on the guitar as well as when he plays the piano.

I love his version of “My Foolish Heart”, from the 2016 ECM album of the same name.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=f80R...
My Foolish Heart
YouTube video by Ralph Towner - Topic
www.youtube.com
January 18, 2026 at 10:03 PM