Herr Issyvoo
@whistlersky.bsky.social
Teacher, writer, theatre artist, baker - not always in that order. Recently returned to upstate NY roots, and living in Rochester.
En avant.
En avant.
New post on #substack . In the fall I'll begin working with Rochester Education Justice Initiative to teach a course in #Shakespeare behind the walls on corerctional facilities withing #DOCCS in NYS. This week I started out on that journey
Attica open.substack.com/pub/michaelw...
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Attica
Beginning a journey with Rochester Educational Justice Initiative
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July 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
New post on #substack . In the fall I'll begin working with Rochester Education Justice Initiative to teach a course in #Shakespeare behind the walls on corerctional facilities withing #DOCCS in NYS. This week I started out on that journey
Attica open.substack.com/pub/michaelw...
Attica open.substack.com/pub/michaelw...
Thoroughly enjoyed #DemonCopperhead - transporting the Social Realism of Dickens from the workhouses of London to the opium mills of Appalachia. So glad #Kingsolver is using the opportunity to make a meaningful difference in this #epidemic with both direct action and education. Bravo
‘The damage is terrifying’: Barbara Kingsolver on rural America and the recovery home funded by Demon Copperhead. Now she has used royalties from the novel to open a recovery residence. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
💙📚 #LiteratureSky
💙📚 #LiteratureSky
July 6, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Thoroughly enjoyed #DemonCopperhead - transporting the Social Realism of Dickens from the workhouses of London to the opium mills of Appalachia. So glad #Kingsolver is using the opportunity to make a meaningful difference in this #epidemic with both direct action and education. Bravo
Well, you can't get more "American" than Superman - and leave it to the British Broadcasting Co to point out the ethical roots of this hero #BBC #Superman #upupandaway
"A head-bashing Superman took no prisoners, made his own law and enforced with his fists. He's essentially a violent socialist."
"He was no super-cop. He was a super-anarchist. If this rowdy and rebellious Superman were introduced today, he'd be hailed as one of the most subversive superheroes."
"He was no super-cop. He was a super-anarchist. If this rowdy and rebellious Superman were introduced today, he'd be hailed as one of the most subversive superheroes."
'He was a violent socialist': How Superman started out as a radical rebel
Returning to cinemas next week, the superhero may be known as the ultimate all-American Mr Nice Guy – but, back in the 1930s, he didn't begin that way.
www.bbc.com
July 6, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Well, you can't get more "American" than Superman - and leave it to the British Broadcasting Co to point out the ethical roots of this hero #BBC #Superman #upupandaway
Huge crowd at #NoKings #Rochester, lining the streets for miles. Great, fun, peaceful, united action
June 14, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Huge crowd at #NoKings #Rochester, lining the streets for miles. Great, fun, peaceful, united action
Wow. This is for real: Craigslist ad for seat fillers "attendance perception for an event taking place in Washington DC on June 14th." Red hat will be provided. Pay is in fast food and cryptocurrency - paid for by the LLC which own's 45/47's meme coin
washingtondc.craigslist.org/doc/tlg/d/wa...
washingtondc.craigslist.org/doc/tlg/d/wa...
Seat Fillers Needed - June 14th - Constitution Avenue - DC - talent gigs - craigslist
T-Mellon Events is looking for seat fillers and extras to provide their time for space maximization and attendance perception for an event taking place in Washington DC on June 14th. Extras and Seat.....
washingtondc.craigslist.org
June 14, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Wow. This is for real: Craigslist ad for seat fillers "attendance perception for an event taking place in Washington DC on June 14th." Red hat will be provided. Pay is in fast food and cryptocurrency - paid for by the LLC which own's 45/47's meme coin
washingtondc.craigslist.org/doc/tlg/d/wa...
washingtondc.craigslist.org/doc/tlg/d/wa...
These stories are impossible to shut our ears to- and they are being drowned in rhetoric of fear. Thank you Gov #Newsom for centering your comments on the injustices done to the most vulnerable among us. That's true leadership and strength
Newsom: "Speaker Johnson -- his eloquence was elevated when he called to 'tar and feather' the governor of California. Very religious man. I guess that's the spirit. The word of the Lord."
June 13, 2025 at 12:33 PM
These stories are impossible to shut our ears to- and they are being drowned in rhetoric of fear. Thank you Gov #Newsom for centering your comments on the injustices done to the most vulnerable among us. That's true leadership and strength
Historians and scholars like Heather Cox Richardson, Madeline Albright, Robert Reich have helped me to put the news of today in perspective with movements in the past.
Anne Appelbaum offers this succinct view of the current crisis- well worth the 10 min read
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Anne Appelbaum offers this succinct view of the current crisis- well worth the 10 min read
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
This Is What Trump Does When His Revolution Sputters
His military deployment in Los Angeles follows a long, disturbing tradition.
www.theatlantic.com
June 12, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Historians and scholars like Heather Cox Richardson, Madeline Albright, Robert Reich have helped me to put the news of today in perspective with movements in the past.
Anne Appelbaum offers this succinct view of the current crisis- well worth the 10 min read
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Anne Appelbaum offers this succinct view of the current crisis- well worth the 10 min read
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Excellent thread: From flooding the courts, panoptical surveillance, and a tech-bro certainty of human hierarchy, to AI visions of a Thomas Kinkade, Leni Riefenstal, Starship Troopers" utopian future - "if you get enough VC's in the Signal chat together, you'll eventually reinvent feudalism"
A manifesto shared by Joe Lonsdale, who co-founded the surveillance behemoth Palantir with Thiel, implored the administration to “fire people who can’t be fired…Mass deport people who can’t be deported.”
Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale RTd this thread, which says Trump shld act fast & “Fire people who can't be fired. Force them to litigate. Mass deport people who can't be deported. Force them to litigate. Cancel 100s of billions in funding that are not lawful to cancel & force them to litigate.” 1/
June 12, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Excellent thread: From flooding the courts, panoptical surveillance, and a tech-bro certainty of human hierarchy, to AI visions of a Thomas Kinkade, Leni Riefenstal, Starship Troopers" utopian future - "if you get enough VC's in the Signal chat together, you'll eventually reinvent feudalism"
So this parade is not the first time US presidents have tried to gloss over their impotence with showy theatrics :
Influenced by the pageantry [of a] European visit, President Nixon [requested a] redesign of the WH Secret Service Division’s attire.
thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/trump-birt...
Influenced by the pageantry [of a] European visit, President Nixon [requested a] redesign of the WH Secret Service Division’s attire.
thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/trump-birt...
June 11, 2025 at 11:05 AM
So this parade is not the first time US presidents have tried to gloss over their impotence with showy theatrics :
Influenced by the pageantry [of a] European visit, President Nixon [requested a] redesign of the WH Secret Service Division’s attire.
thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/trump-birt...
Influenced by the pageantry [of a] European visit, President Nixon [requested a] redesign of the WH Secret Service Division’s attire.
thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/trump-birt...
#mosaicmonday - putti inside the great dome of St. Peter's Cathedral at the #vatican, designed by #Michelangelo
...proving that, yes indeed, it is worthwhile to climb the hundreds of stairs to go up inside that incredible dome
...proving that, yes indeed, it is worthwhile to climb the hundreds of stairs to go up inside that incredible dome
May 19, 2025 at 12:50 PM
#mosaicmonday - putti inside the great dome of St. Peter's Cathedral at the #vatican, designed by #Michelangelo
...proving that, yes indeed, it is worthwhile to climb the hundreds of stairs to go up inside that incredible dome
...proving that, yes indeed, it is worthwhile to climb the hundreds of stairs to go up inside that incredible dome
How, exactly, is giving the #UAE access to US #AI technology and microchips putting #AmericaFirst? This trades long term US growth and prosperity for short term, most probably personal, gains for #Trump and cronies
Let the brain drain begin.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Let the brain drain begin.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
First Thing: Trump agrees deal for UAE to build largest AI campus outside US
Concerns China could access the technology. Plus, James Comey investigated over photo of seashells
www.theguardian.com
May 16, 2025 at 12:38 PM
How, exactly, is giving the #UAE access to US #AI technology and microchips putting #AmericaFirst? This trades long term US growth and prosperity for short term, most probably personal, gains for #Trump and cronies
Let the brain drain begin.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Let the brain drain begin.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
#mosaicmonday is a thing and I am here for it. #Ravenna was a bucket list goal and this past autumn I was lucky enough to see it. Fabulous, glistening gold, lapis, and emerald green #Byzantine masterworks everywhere. Stunning.
May 12, 2025 at 11:05 AM
#mosaicmonday is a thing and I am here for it. #Ravenna was a bucket list goal and this past autumn I was lucky enough to see it. Fabulous, glistening gold, lapis, and emerald green #Byzantine masterworks everywhere. Stunning.
THIS is the impact disinfo stories have:
TX Committee on Public Education calls out the lies in HB54 (FURRIES Act) and draws the connection to discrediting and defunding public education
That's the end goal - who it hurt is just cannon fodder for these legislators
youtu.be/sNhQ1bAb9bQ?...
TX Committee on Public Education calls out the lies in HB54 (FURRIES Act) and draws the connection to discrediting and defunding public education
That's the end goal - who it hurt is just cannon fodder for these legislators
youtu.be/sNhQ1bAb9bQ?...
Texas Republicans Put Forth A Bill That Would Ban Furries From Classrooms With No Grounds For Bill
YouTube video by UnCommon Courtesy
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May 11, 2025 at 11:52 AM
THIS is the impact disinfo stories have:
TX Committee on Public Education calls out the lies in HB54 (FURRIES Act) and draws the connection to discrediting and defunding public education
That's the end goal - who it hurt is just cannon fodder for these legislators
youtu.be/sNhQ1bAb9bQ?...
TX Committee on Public Education calls out the lies in HB54 (FURRIES Act) and draws the connection to discrediting and defunding public education
That's the end goal - who it hurt is just cannon fodder for these legislators
youtu.be/sNhQ1bAb9bQ?...
#Caturday and because Gussie has not been seen much here.
And she appreciates #WilliamMorris.
And she's a good girl
That is reason enough
And she appreciates #WilliamMorris.
And she's a good girl
That is reason enough
May 11, 2025 at 12:01 AM
#Caturday and because Gussie has not been seen much here.
And she appreciates #WilliamMorris.
And she's a good girl
That is reason enough
And she appreciates #WilliamMorris.
And she's a good girl
That is reason enough
So here's my new word for the day: Cangiantismo
An example of cangiante, a Renaissance technique that simulates the iridescence of a fabric by painting areas of pure color side by side-
Gazzoli's The Feast of Herod and the Beheading of Saint John the Baptist, 1461
Luscious word - luscious look
An example of cangiante, a Renaissance technique that simulates the iridescence of a fabric by painting areas of pure color side by side-
Gazzoli's The Feast of Herod and the Beheading of Saint John the Baptist, 1461
Luscious word - luscious look
May 8, 2025 at 10:09 PM
So here's my new word for the day: Cangiantismo
An example of cangiante, a Renaissance technique that simulates the iridescence of a fabric by painting areas of pure color side by side-
Gazzoli's The Feast of Herod and the Beheading of Saint John the Baptist, 1461
Luscious word - luscious look
An example of cangiante, a Renaissance technique that simulates the iridescence of a fabric by painting areas of pure color side by side-
Gazzoli's The Feast of Herod and the Beheading of Saint John the Baptist, 1461
Luscious word - luscious look
Absolutely astounding interview with Tennessee Williams and the nature of memory, love, illusion, escape, and forgiveness.
Tennessee Williams: We Only Conquer When We Love open.substack.com/pub/grissom/...
Tennessee Williams: We Only Conquer When We Love open.substack.com/pub/grissom/...
Tennessee Williams: We Only Conquer When We Love
An excerpt from FOLLIES OF GOD
open.substack.com
May 4, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Absolutely astounding interview with Tennessee Williams and the nature of memory, love, illusion, escape, and forgiveness.
Tennessee Williams: We Only Conquer When We Love open.substack.com/pub/grissom/...
Tennessee Williams: We Only Conquer When We Love open.substack.com/pub/grissom/...
#Rochester has been active in upholding its values and ordinances as a sanctuary city- and it is drawing response from this administration.
I stand with Rochester Mayor Evans and City Council President Melendez who stood up for immigrants and their city's sanctuary city policy.
I stand with Rochester Mayor Evans and City Council President Melendez who stood up for immigrants and their city's sanctuary city policy.
April 29, 2025 at 1:13 AM
#Rochester has been active in upholding its values and ordinances as a sanctuary city- and it is drawing response from this administration.
I stand with Rochester Mayor Evans and City Council President Melendez who stood up for immigrants and their city's sanctuary city policy.
I stand with Rochester Mayor Evans and City Council President Melendez who stood up for immigrants and their city's sanctuary city policy.
#museums Sunday- @magrochester.bsky.social
NEW pieces in and just marvelous- including Deborah Sperber's After Grant Wood, reconfiguring American Gothic as a tapestry made of spools of thread
#Rocester
NEW pieces in and just marvelous- including Deborah Sperber's After Grant Wood, reconfiguring American Gothic as a tapestry made of spools of thread
#Rocester
April 27, 2025 at 3:31 PM
#museums Sunday- @magrochester.bsky.social
NEW pieces in and just marvelous- including Deborah Sperber's After Grant Wood, reconfiguring American Gothic as a tapestry made of spools of thread
#Rocester
NEW pieces in and just marvelous- including Deborah Sperber's After Grant Wood, reconfiguring American Gothic as a tapestry made of spools of thread
#Rocester
Independent bookstore day @writersandbooks - reading from michaelwhistler.substack.com and left with some good reading
April 27, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Independent bookstore day @writersandbooks - reading from michaelwhistler.substack.com and left with some good reading
"The enemy has a voice like seven thunders- what chance did that dim little voice ever have?" - Kushner
Negate truth by amplifying noise. The #presscorps is compromised. For those of us who have followed #MAGA media, these are familiar names. Now they will be louder.
www.cnn.com/2025/04/23/p...
Negate truth by amplifying noise. The #presscorps is compromised. For those of us who have followed #MAGA media, these are familiar names. Now they will be louder.
www.cnn.com/2025/04/23/p...
‘Do you consider yourself a journalist?’ CNN meets MAGA media at White House | CNN Politics
CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan meets some of the Trump-friendly personalities who are now part of the White House press corps thanks to the administration’s policy on “new media” outlets.
www.cnn.com
April 23, 2025 at 12:55 PM
"The enemy has a voice like seven thunders- what chance did that dim little voice ever have?" - Kushner
Negate truth by amplifying noise. The #presscorps is compromised. For those of us who have followed #MAGA media, these are familiar names. Now they will be louder.
www.cnn.com/2025/04/23/p...
Negate truth by amplifying noise. The #presscorps is compromised. For those of us who have followed #MAGA media, these are familiar names. Now they will be louder.
www.cnn.com/2025/04/23/p...
"How do I imagine empathy?" parsed for you in a clear concise poem: an Easter meditation for Wilmer Abrego Garcia
April 20, 2025 at 1:39 PM
"How do I imagine empathy?" parsed for you in a clear concise poem: an Easter meditation for Wilmer Abrego Garcia
Algorithms aren’t just being used to feed you content. They’re also employed to fix real-estate prices, make probation and asylum decisions, dictate whether elderly people receive lifesaving medical care, and decide who gets targeted in a war zone.
www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
The Technology That Actually Runs Our World
The most dominant algorithms aren’t the ones choosing what songs Spotify serves you.
www.theatlantic.com
April 20, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Algorithms aren’t just being used to feed you content. They’re also employed to fix real-estate prices, make probation and asylum decisions, dictate whether elderly people receive lifesaving medical care, and decide who gets targeted in a war zone.
www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
NPR? Can we not call Bukele the "Coolest Dictator"?
He has wiped away the rule of law, disappears citizens w/o due process, and set up crypto w US for taking our own citizens into CECOT
So, no: not cool
The 'world’s coolest dictator' heads to the White House www.npr.org/2025/04/14/n...
He has wiped away the rule of law, disappears citizens w/o due process, and set up crypto w US for taking our own citizens into CECOT
So, no: not cool
The 'world’s coolest dictator' heads to the White House www.npr.org/2025/04/14/n...
The 'world's coolest dictator' heads to the White House
El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele heads to the White House to discuss further cooperation with the U.S., including the continued use of El Salvador's supermax prison for deported migrants.
www.npr.org
April 14, 2025 at 12:17 PM
NPR? Can we not call Bukele the "Coolest Dictator"?
He has wiped away the rule of law, disappears citizens w/o due process, and set up crypto w US for taking our own citizens into CECOT
So, no: not cool
The 'world’s coolest dictator' heads to the White House www.npr.org/2025/04/14/n...
He has wiped away the rule of law, disappears citizens w/o due process, and set up crypto w US for taking our own citizens into CECOT
So, no: not cool
The 'world’s coolest dictator' heads to the White House www.npr.org/2025/04/14/n...
A look at the disdain for "Professional Management Class" among the new right, and historic parallels to the attacks on the PMC
Who is PMC? Academicians, bureaucrats, creatives - if you were able to work from Zoom in 2020 - you are in the sites of this movement
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Who is PMC? Academicians, bureaucrats, creatives - if you were able to work from Zoom in 2020 - you are in the sites of this movement
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Trump Declares War on the Professional Class
The president unleashes a Marxist theory of power—but against knowledge workers, not billionaires.
www.theatlantic.com
April 13, 2025 at 12:12 PM
A look at the disdain for "Professional Management Class" among the new right, and historic parallels to the attacks on the PMC
Who is PMC? Academicians, bureaucrats, creatives - if you were able to work from Zoom in 2020 - you are in the sites of this movement
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Who is PMC? Academicians, bureaucrats, creatives - if you were able to work from Zoom in 2020 - you are in the sites of this movement
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...