Judah Adashi

This book had such an impact on me @keeanga.bsky.social. Very excited about this new edition!

How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective Join @keeanga.bsky.social for a conversation with Michelle Alexander at @strandbooks.com Wednesday, February 18th

NYC!

How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective

Join @keeanga.bsky.social for a conversation with Michelle Alexander at @strandbooks.com

Wednesday, February 18th

Tickets
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Baltimore's own!

Fellow #CPAP users: seeking advice on how one can recycle an old machine!

"Deborah Borda, who has served as president and chief executive of the New York Philharmonic and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, said the upheaval confronting Noseda and his orchestra was 'a microcosm of what’s happening in the country today, with things being politicized that weren’t politicized before.' (NYTimes 1.27.26)

Is Borda suggesting that (classical) music wasn't "politicized" prior to the current moment?

After thoughtful consideration, I have decided to withdraw my Symphony No. 15 "Lincoln" from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Symphony No. 15 is a portrait of Abraham Lincoln, and the values of the Kennedy Center today are in direct conflict with the message of the Symphony. Therefore, I feel an obligation to withdraw this Symphony premiere from the Kennedy Center under its current leadership. Philip Glass

We Need Diverse Books launches Unbanned Book Network to fight school bans We Need Diverse Books has launched the Unbanned Book Network to counteract book bans in schools and libraries.

apnews.com/article/unba...

People are being shot in the streets.
Just after they are shot, doctors are asking to save their lives.
And CBP/ICE are saying no.

Those same murderers are invading hospitals and clinics.

How are our professional associations reacting?

bakerartist.org/portfolios/j...

Flock Can Share Driver-Surveillance Data Even When Police Departments Opt Out, And Other Flock Developments | ACLU The company’s default agreement with police departments grants the company license to share people’s license plate data

Amazon owns Ring, and Ring has partnered with Flock, a license-plate tracking service used by police, ICE, and more. Ring cameras were already surveillance tools for police, but they are now even more readily accessible to ICE and other government agencies. www.aclu.org/news/privacy...

Congratulations @caitlinvincent.bsky.social!!

"Sulala is the only organization in the Gaza strip that rescues stray animals!"

linktr.ee/sulalaanimal...

What Do Rosalía’s Lyrics Actually Mean? Dear the artist’s English-speaking audience: you might be better off not knowing

I had missed this piece at the time; HT @roxanegay.bsky.social.

I meant to post this here. As @roxanegay.bsky.social writes, this happened "because resistance and protest do work."

www.theledger.com/story/news/2...

Update: I appreciate @nightafternight.bsky.social citing this issue by way of Tim Rutherford-Johnson.

Music folks, weren't there significant domestic abuse allegations about/against Morton Feldman? I haven't seen them mentioned in a single post or article about his centenary.

Also, I didn't know who you were (from your handle) until I clicked over to your profile; hello and congratulations on all the life things!

You're right! I thought about this, but was having trouble finding easy and direct instructions. Which only underscores your point/the issue! I've tried to turn off AI search results in my browser(s) with limited success.

To turn off AI email summaries in Gmail, you must disable "Smart features and personalization" in Desktop Settings (General Tab > Smart features) or the Gmail app (Settings > [Your Account] > General > Smart features), which turns off AI-driven summaries and writing help but also other features like Smart Reply/Compose, while specific order summaries might need feedback to senders or are just part of the default experience.

For anyone who wants to turn these features off.

Despite protests, poetry and a cease-and-desist letter, Hopkins cuts down city trees for AI Institute | Baltimore Brew The red oaks along Remington Avenue, beloved by local residents, have been the flashpoint for a project that has fueled resentment toward the city’s biggest employer.

Despite protests, poetry and a last minute cease-and-desist letter accusing Johns Hopkins - and Baltimore city - of stonewalling the community, JHU yesterday went ahead and cut down those trees on Remington Ave. for its Data Science & AI Institute project. tinyurl.com/4srfr5nk

YouTube video by Trevor Noah Zohran Mamdani: New York's New Mayor Pops In

I'm sure NYers are well versed in Mamdani at this point, but I thought this was an excellent conversation. I've never been so engaged listening to someone talk about buses (starts around 41:00): "it's a political choice that that bus is traveling at 5 mph."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QLy...

THE FRONT-RUNNER Californias Gavin Newsom would rather be wrong than weak. By Helen Lewis (Header for an Atlantic article about Gavin Newsom, it features a picture of him looking like a real smart politics guy)

“GAVIN NEWSOM HAS A 30-PAGE FILE of reasons the Democrats lost the 2024 presidential election. Bounding across his Sacramento office, he starts listing them: incumbency, inflation, interest rates, Israel—and that's just the letter I. "Yes, too woke," he adds. "Yes, 107 days, referring to the short campaign after Joe Biden's forced withdrawal. But the California governor distills his party's problem down to one word. *Weak.*” (On the last paragraph the text starts to fade from black to gray)

“Newsom slaps his hand on a marked-up hardback of Bill Clinton's memoir, brought down from the shelf a minute earlier. "Given the choice," he tells me, summing up a crucial Clinton insight—one many Democrats still can't quite seem to grasp—"the American people always support strong and wrong versus weak and” (The text gets lighter and lighter until you can barely read it, that’s how huh kiwi you’ve hit that paywall baybay)

The text faded to the paywall at the same rate as my eyes would have glazed over anyway

Proud to be a @baltimorebeat.bsky.social Neighbor in 2026!

He can’t ever be president—thus, he acts more courageously (more “presidential,” if you will) than cowards who imagine they can lithub.com/why-its-a-go...

2026 update: last year, we took a one-way flight for a family emergency, and one additional round-trip flight. That puts us at 5 flights over the last 5 years. We're grateful for @flightfreeusa.bsky.social!

Am I right in thinking that #StrangerThings never acknowledges the existence of local or national government?