Jorge E. Bañales
@unspooled.bsky.social
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this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.
December 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.
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The ACA isn't just "health care for people who don't have a conventional employer." It also disallows something that was incredibly common 20 years ago, which I fear is getting lost to generational memory: insurance companies could deny you health care for essentially any previous health problem.
I'm dubious about Amazon's commitment to keeping pre-existing conditions a thing of the past.
December 14, 2025 at 11:50 PM
The ACA isn't just "health care for people who don't have a conventional employer." It also disallows something that was incredibly common 20 years ago, which I fear is getting lost to generational memory: insurance companies could deny you health care for essentially any previous health problem.
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The Munsters poses the chilling question, what if your parents were a vampire and a Frankenstein? The Addams Family poses the chilling question, what if your parents were openly sexual?
December 1, 2025 at 2:56 AM
The Munsters poses the chilling question, what if your parents were a vampire and a Frankenstein? The Addams Family poses the chilling question, what if your parents were openly sexual?
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Win the brand-new, soon-to-be-released MEMS Mic 1U module!
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Contest ends November 30th, 11:59PM PST
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Contest ends November 30th, 11:59PM PST
November 30, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Win the brand-new, soon-to-be-released MEMS Mic 1U module!
intellijel.com/contests/
Contest ends November 30th, 11:59PM PST
intellijel.com/contests/
Contest ends November 30th, 11:59PM PST
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I have never seen such a perfect image
October 20, 2025 at 12:06 AM
I have never seen such a perfect image
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Fillmore, Silver Spring, 2015. This show still feels like it was last week.
October 14, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Fillmore, Silver Spring, 2015. This show still feels like it was last week.
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Just me and my Gen Z son, hangin out
September 4, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Just me and my Gen Z son, hangin out
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As more time passed, the mothers of the Venezuelan men that the Trump administration deported to El Salvador sometimes slipped into speaking about their sons in the past tense.
Then they’d quickly correct themselves and say, “He’s alive.”
Then they’d quickly correct themselves and say, “He’s alive.”
What I Witnessed as I Photographed the Disappearances and the Homecomings of My Countrymen
Over the past four months, a photojournalist documented the lives of five families whose sons had been imprisoned in El Salvador, including their long-awaited reunions. CECOT left a mark on the men, t...
www.propublica.org
August 21, 2025 at 11:00 PM
As more time passed, the mothers of the Venezuelan men that the Trump administration deported to El Salvador sometimes slipped into speaking about their sons in the past tense.
Then they’d quickly correct themselves and say, “He’s alive.”
Then they’d quickly correct themselves and say, “He’s alive.”
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"Witnesses — including the Post reporter — asked the officers to identify themselves numerous times. All but one, who was wearing the ICE badge, refused.
“Oh, are you guys the cops?” one agent, who was wearing a mask, responded. “Then shut the f--- up.”
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
“Oh, are you guys the cops?” one agent, who was wearing a mask, responded. “Then shut the f--- up.”
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Federal officers detain, tackle moped driver amid Trump D.C. police crackdown
Six agents wearing police vests without clear identification of their agencies detained a man they later identified as a Venezuelan national in Northwest Washington.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 18, 2025 at 12:47 AM
"Witnesses — including the Post reporter — asked the officers to identify themselves numerous times. All but one, who was wearing the ICE badge, refused.
“Oh, are you guys the cops?” one agent, who was wearing a mask, responded. “Then shut the f--- up.”
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
“Oh, are you guys the cops?” one agent, who was wearing a mask, responded. “Then shut the f--- up.”
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
This fall I am teaching Darkroom 1 and 2 at the Woodbridge campus of NVCC. Thursdays. Darkroom 1: 12:45 to 3:45pm, Darkroom 2: 4 to 7pm.
August 28 start. In Darkroom 1 students use 35mm cameras, in 2, medium format cameras. Let me know if you or anyone you know is interested!
#photography #nvcc
August 28 start. In Darkroom 1 students use 35mm cameras, in 2, medium format cameras. Let me know if you or anyone you know is interested!
#photography #nvcc
August 15, 2025 at 7:42 PM
This fall I am teaching Darkroom 1 and 2 at the Woodbridge campus of NVCC. Thursdays. Darkroom 1: 12:45 to 3:45pm, Darkroom 2: 4 to 7pm.
August 28 start. In Darkroom 1 students use 35mm cameras, in 2, medium format cameras. Let me know if you or anyone you know is interested!
#photography #nvcc
August 28 start. In Darkroom 1 students use 35mm cameras, in 2, medium format cameras. Let me know if you or anyone you know is interested!
#photography #nvcc
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"The US government under Trump tried to disappear a gay Venezuelan man seeking asylum to a torture prison in El Salvador indefinitely...
"A coalition of Americans *didn’t let them*"
Great @cwnewser.bsky.social story on the movement to free Andry Hernández Romero:
www.advocate.com/news/freeing...
"A coalition of Americans *didn’t let them*"
Great @cwnewser.bsky.social story on the movement to free Andry Hernández Romero:
www.advocate.com/news/freeing...
Inside the movement that freed gay makeup artist Andry Hernández Romero from a hellhole
The U.S. government under Trump tried to disappear a gay Venezuelan man seeking asylum to a torture prison in El Salvador indefinitely. A coalition of Americans didn’t let them.
www.advocate.com
August 13, 2025 at 10:22 PM
"The US government under Trump tried to disappear a gay Venezuelan man seeking asylum to a torture prison in El Salvador indefinitely...
"A coalition of Americans *didn’t let them*"
Great @cwnewser.bsky.social story on the movement to free Andry Hernández Romero:
www.advocate.com/news/freeing...
"A coalition of Americans *didn’t let them*"
Great @cwnewser.bsky.social story on the movement to free Andry Hernández Romero:
www.advocate.com/news/freeing...
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Everyone’s better for having been in the warm up room! #duranlive
July 11, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Everyone’s better for having been in the warm up room! #duranlive
Snapseed update: sucks.
July 2, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Snapseed update: sucks.
I am a bass player in the DC area, looking to connect with other musicians to play music.
July 1, 2025 at 12:50 AM
I am a bass player in the DC area, looking to connect with other musicians to play music.
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One of the most in-demand session players of the 1960s, Kaye was listed alongside the late record producer Thom Bell and the late pianist Nicky Hopkins as inductees in the Musical Excellence category.
Star Bassist Carol Kaye rejects Rock & Roll Hall of Fame honor
One of the most in-demand session players of the 1960s, Kaye was listed alongside the late record producer Thom Bell and the late pianist Nicky Hopkins as inductees in the Musical Excellence category.
n.pr
June 21, 2025 at 8:48 PM
One of the most in-demand session players of the 1960s, Kaye was listed alongside the late record producer Thom Bell and the late pianist Nicky Hopkins as inductees in the Musical Excellence category.
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HAPPY happy day. It's the official release date of my 2t2 album🙌. Available from the link below and other fine records stores via links on www.coseyfannitutti.com Love to you all 🎊❤️ x x x x
June 13, 2025 at 8:03 AM
HAPPY happy day. It's the official release date of my 2t2 album🙌. Available from the link below and other fine records stores via links on www.coseyfannitutti.com Love to you all 🎊❤️ x x x x
My students' work from Spring 2023 to Spring 2025: jorgebanales.com/student-work/
Student Work — Jorge E. Bañales
jorgebanales.com
June 10, 2025 at 1:15 AM
My students' work from Spring 2023 to Spring 2025: jorgebanales.com/student-work/
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Thank you Simon. You seem to have that connection to the very soul of my music x
Something for your Monday morning: I reviewed the new Cosey Fanni Tutti album for Joyzine
joyzine.org/2025/06/09/a...
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Album review: Cosey Fanni Tutti – 2t2 - Joyzine
Cosey Fanni Tutti's new album '2t2' is full of the raw emotions of living, built to get into your bones and to leave you questioning everything.
joyzine.org
June 9, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Thank you Simon. You seem to have that connection to the very soul of my music x
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Here you go peeps me and Chris D having a chat 👍 @sonicstate.bsky.social
Podcast: midierror meets... Cosey Fanni Tutti - Artist, Musician & Writer | Series 2 Episode 7 : Art as Expression, Her Love of Low-End Sounds & New Album 2t2
Art as Expression, Her Love of Low-End Sounds & New Album 2t2
Podcast: midierror meets... Cosey Fanni Tutti - Artist, Musician & Writer | Series 2 Episode 7 : Art as Expression, Her Love of Low-End Sounds & New Album 2t2
sonicstate.com
June 9, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Here you go peeps me and Chris D having a chat 👍 @sonicstate.bsky.social
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RIP Sly, release it now
The earliest known live recording of Sly & The Family Stone has been unearthed and will be released in July
Earliest Known Live Recording Of Sly & The Family Stone Unearthed For Release Next Month
High Moon Records has announced The First Family: Live At Winchester Cathedral 1967, the earliest known live recording of the pioneering ’60s band Sly & The Family Stone. “I Gotta Go Now (Up On The Fl...
www.stereogum.com
June 9, 2025 at 7:52 PM
RIP Sly, release it now