A. Lasnem
@thebostonflaneur.bsky.social
musician, teacher, former lawyer and congressional staffer (the 103rd, the woeful Congress that preceded Gingrich et al.)
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I’m a transgender writer.
I’m not your punching bag. Not your project. Not your scapegoat. Not your villain.
I’ve survived worse than your pearl clutching outrage—and I’m still loud, proud and here to stay.
My existence is not up for debate.
I’m not your punching bag. Not your project. Not your scapegoat. Not your villain.
I’ve survived worse than your pearl clutching outrage—and I’m still loud, proud and here to stay.
My existence is not up for debate.
March 22, 2025 at 12:33 PM
I’m a transgender writer.
I’m not your punching bag. Not your project. Not your scapegoat. Not your villain.
I’ve survived worse than your pearl clutching outrage—and I’m still loud, proud and here to stay.
My existence is not up for debate.
I’m not your punching bag. Not your project. Not your scapegoat. Not your villain.
I’ve survived worse than your pearl clutching outrage—and I’m still loud, proud and here to stay.
My existence is not up for debate.
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As awful and stupid as Trump Term II is, and despite my expectations it'd be very bad and very dumb, some things are still so stupidly bad that my brain rejects them.
"No way," I involuntarily think. "That's just too dumb, even for this." But it's real.
This post is about Dan Bongino. (This time.)
"No way," I involuntarily think. "That's just too dumb, even for this." But it's real.
This post is about Dan Bongino. (This time.)
February 24, 2025 at 2:56 PM
As awful and stupid as Trump Term II is, and despite my expectations it'd be very bad and very dumb, some things are still so stupidly bad that my brain rejects them.
"No way," I involuntarily think. "That's just too dumb, even for this." But it's real.
This post is about Dan Bongino. (This time.)
"No way," I involuntarily think. "That's just too dumb, even for this." But it's real.
This post is about Dan Bongino. (This time.)
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Check out the Carter Center’s photo from the funeral this morning and who’s obscured.
This photographer needs a raise. 🤣
This photographer needs a raise. 🤣
January 9, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Check out the Carter Center’s photo from the funeral this morning and who’s obscured.
This photographer needs a raise. 🤣
This photographer needs a raise. 🤣
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I'm going to be a bit self-indulgent here...
(yeah, yeah... like always, Duncan,)
-and link this lovely clip of my dad being as close to himself as he ever got with a camera in front of him. ❤️
youtu.be/N7-7HJCXx10?...
(yeah, yeah... like always, Duncan,)
-and link this lovely clip of my dad being as close to himself as he ever got with a camera in front of him. ❤️
youtu.be/N7-7HJCXx10?...
David Bowie imitates Mick Jagger!!
YouTube video by GionoYT
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January 10, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I'm going to be a bit self-indulgent here...
(yeah, yeah... like always, Duncan,)
-and link this lovely clip of my dad being as close to himself as he ever got with a camera in front of him. ❤️
youtu.be/N7-7HJCXx10?...
(yeah, yeah... like always, Duncan,)
-and link this lovely clip of my dad being as close to himself as he ever got with a camera in front of him. ❤️
youtu.be/N7-7HJCXx10?...
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Anita Bryant is a perfect cautionary tale about how being a hateful asshole will almost always erase all of your other accomplishments. I've always heard she was a popular singer (who was also a spokesperson for Florida orange juice) but have never heard one of her songs played anywhere.
January 9, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Anita Bryant is a perfect cautionary tale about how being a hateful asshole will almost always erase all of your other accomplishments. I've always heard she was a popular singer (who was also a spokesperson for Florida orange juice) but have never heard one of her songs played anywhere.
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If you need a spot of good news... do not want to minimize awful things going on. But as a wildlife lover, this bird news is encouraging: In Chi, McCormick Place applied a film to its huge glass exterior & bird collisions are down **95%** Hope other bldgs do this blockclubchicago.org/2025/01/09/h...
How Window Dots At McCormick Place Are Saving Bird Lives
Following a mass collision in 2023, the installation of bird-safe window film and other measures have significantly reduced migratory bird deaths at the Chicago convention center.
blockclubchicago.org
January 10, 2025 at 1:28 AM
If you need a spot of good news... do not want to minimize awful things going on. But as a wildlife lover, this bird news is encouraging: In Chi, McCormick Place applied a film to its huge glass exterior & bird collisions are down **95%** Hope other bldgs do this blockclubchicago.org/2025/01/09/h...
A Supreme Betrayal of Justice - Scientific American
December 11, 2024 at 4:29 PM
A Supreme Betrayal of Justice - Scientific American
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say what you want about Newsmax but they bring on the biggest sexual misconduct experts
December 11, 2024 at 1:26 AM
say what you want about Newsmax but they bring on the biggest sexual misconduct experts
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Black musicians, composers, music scholars predated the Renaissance and, not surprisingly, existed outside of the Western world. Let’s stop pretending composition, musicology, and music theory only existed in Europe.
silpayamanant.wordpress.com/bmc_505-1505/
silpayamanant.wordpress.com/bmc_505-1505/
Early Black Musicians, Composers, and Music Scholars (505-1505 CE)
While musing about how exclusion of Blacks is built into music academia as a colonial driven knowledge system, I (as usual) posted those thoughts to a twitter thread It was obviously not my first. …
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December 6, 2024 at 12:20 PM
Black musicians, composers, music scholars predated the Renaissance and, not surprisingly, existed outside of the Western world. Let’s stop pretending composition, musicology, and music theory only existed in Europe.
silpayamanant.wordpress.com/bmc_505-1505/
silpayamanant.wordpress.com/bmc_505-1505/
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The early years of the AIDS epidemic was hell.
People would stop coming to the gym or club and you'd find out they were dying or dead.
Because HIV was transmitted through sex, it made human intimacy deadly.
Pres. Reagan did not mention AIDS for years - because he did not give a damn about us.
People would stop coming to the gym or club and you'd find out they were dying or dead.
Because HIV was transmitted through sex, it made human intimacy deadly.
Pres. Reagan did not mention AIDS for years - because he did not give a damn about us.
December 1, 2024 at 4:25 PM
The early years of the AIDS epidemic was hell.
People would stop coming to the gym or club and you'd find out they were dying or dead.
Because HIV was transmitted through sex, it made human intimacy deadly.
Pres. Reagan did not mention AIDS for years - because he did not give a damn about us.
People would stop coming to the gym or club and you'd find out they were dying or dead.
Because HIV was transmitted through sex, it made human intimacy deadly.
Pres. Reagan did not mention AIDS for years - because he did not give a damn about us.
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If we want better fashion culture in the US, we have to lower the cost of housing and commercial real estate, support independent craftspeople, build denser neighborhoods, improve walkability, and get rid of overly restrictive zoning laws. Let kook culture thrive.
November 27, 2024 at 6:44 AM
If we want better fashion culture in the US, we have to lower the cost of housing and commercial real estate, support independent craftspeople, build denser neighborhoods, improve walkability, and get rid of overly restrictive zoning laws. Let kook culture thrive.
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I think Defector is able to say obvious things more straightforwardly than anyone else, and this is me trying to do that. defector.com/the-purpose-...
The Purpose Of A Bathroom Law | Defector
Current Delaware state senator Sarah McBride was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Democrat earlier this month, replacing Lisa Blunt Rochester, who moved to the Senate to replace the r...
defector.com
November 27, 2024 at 6:15 PM
I think Defector is able to say obvious things more straightforwardly than anyone else, and this is me trying to do that. defector.com/the-purpose-...
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In five days, a 16-year-old girl and her parents will be in front of nine Supreme Court Justices as they hear arguments against Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming hormone therapy.
Filed pseudonymously as LW, she and her parents Brian and Samantha are one of three families challenging TN's ban.
Filed pseudonymously as LW, she and her parents Brian and Samantha are one of three families challenging TN's ban.
November 29, 2024 at 2:30 PM
In five days, a 16-year-old girl and her parents will be in front of nine Supreme Court Justices as they hear arguments against Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming hormone therapy.
Filed pseudonymously as LW, she and her parents Brian and Samantha are one of three families challenging TN's ban.
Filed pseudonymously as LW, she and her parents Brian and Samantha are one of three families challenging TN's ban.
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Incredible fight!
November 16, 2024 at 4:04 AM
Incredible fight!
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Finance Capitalism really is a system that is quite close to Classic Feudalism!
November 20, 2024 at 1:51 PM
Finance Capitalism really is a system that is quite close to Classic Feudalism!
We seem to be living in the world where George Bailey had never been born. Clarence?
November 20, 2024 at 1:20 AM
We seem to be living in the world where George Bailey had never been born. Clarence?
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After this Taylor-Serrano fight, there's approximately a 99.999% chance that Paul-Tyson will be an enormous wet fart of an anticlimax.
November 16, 2024 at 4:01 AM
After this Taylor-Serrano fight, there's approximately a 99.999% chance that Paul-Tyson will be an enormous wet fart of an anticlimax.
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“It does not have to be this way.”
The rallying cry & leitmotif of the great David Graeber, whose work & vibrancy we need now more than ever.
Here’s @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social, beautifully, on DG’s anarchism, self-organisation, voluntary association & mutual aid.
www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...
The rallying cry & leitmotif of the great David Graeber, whose work & vibrancy we need now more than ever.
Here’s @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social, beautifully, on DG’s anarchism, self-organisation, voluntary association & mutual aid.
www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...
‘It does not have to be this way’: the radical optimism of David Graeber
As a new collection of his writing is published, Rebecca Solnit remembers her friend, the late activist and anarchist who believed ordinary people had the power to change the world
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November 15, 2024 at 11:03 PM
“It does not have to be this way.”
The rallying cry & leitmotif of the great David Graeber, whose work & vibrancy we need now more than ever.
Here’s @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social, beautifully, on DG’s anarchism, self-organisation, voluntary association & mutual aid.
www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...
The rallying cry & leitmotif of the great David Graeber, whose work & vibrancy we need now more than ever.
Here’s @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social, beautifully, on DG’s anarchism, self-organisation, voluntary association & mutual aid.
www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...
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Important, vital, of the essence, that a Democratic-led Senate confirm the reappointment to the National Labor Relations Board of current Board Chair Lauren McFerran — whose term expires on Dec. 16, 2024.
Elsewise: Trump's NLRB will wreak havoc on organized labor.
Please re-skeet.
Elsewise: Trump's NLRB will wreak havoc on organized labor.
Please re-skeet.
November 15, 2024 at 4:46 AM
Important, vital, of the essence, that a Democratic-led Senate confirm the reappointment to the National Labor Relations Board of current Board Chair Lauren McFerran — whose term expires on Dec. 16, 2024.
Elsewise: Trump's NLRB will wreak havoc on organized labor.
Please re-skeet.
Elsewise: Trump's NLRB will wreak havoc on organized labor.
Please re-skeet.