@artbailey.bsky.social
www.heyartbailey.com https://www.youtube.com/@heyartbailey New album! https://baltoexclamationpoint.bandcamp.com/album/clownmower-ii I play piano, organ, write and arrange music, sometimes get asked to blow through brass tubing in public.
Piano trio tonight at Arthur's Tavern, NYC! Orion Turre, drums Joe Fitzgerald, bass, yours truly on the elephant teeth. Two sets 7+9. NO COVER CHARGE. $15 minimum per person, per set. Come on down, y'all. arthurstavern.nyc/events/art-b...
12.02.2026 19:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This is very good.
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After decimating the organization, we are bargaining per our contract with management. We have featured testimonials from Post employees. Here’s some of them had to say. Here’s what these layoffs have done to us. #SaveThePost 🧵
11.02.2026 16:48 — 👍 37 🔁 20 💬 1 📌 1ICE in #Wayne #NJ
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“‘This is a deliberate act of erasure,’ the political leaders told Gay City News in the joint statement. ‘The Pride Flag is history, resistance, and Pride born at Stonewall itself. Taking it down does not diminish our community. It exposes an administration afraid of visibility and truth.’”
10.02.2026 14:49 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Es el banger. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQI3...
10.02.2026 00:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0*Green card application in process and work permit, married to US citizen
*Lived in US for 20 years, no criminal record
*In detention for five months with no charge, despite judge approving release
*He disputes ICE claim that he signed forms agreeing to deportation
Concentration camps
09.02.2026 12:32 — 👍 131 🔁 36 💬 2 📌 050 Robert Milligan Pkwy in Merrimack, NH is about 1.5 mi. from railroad tracks.
04.02.2026 18:31 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
04.02.2026 06:43 — 👍 8728 🔁 3819 💬 164 📌 792Update: In the past week we've learned ICE has secured property to build human warehouses in Merrimack, NH and Williamsport, MD *as well as* Surprise, AZ; Upper Bern, PA; and Tremont, PA.
Facts that bear repeating.
“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
04.02.2026 15:45 — 👍 6698 🔁 2468 💬 59 📌 234Tear in the space-time continuum. Check their closet.
02.02.2026 18:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Congrats on the accomplishments! Discovery of this fact led me to a life full of cheap thrills and debauchery. Have you tried learning a blues/boogie by ear? Something easy but essential like Avery Parrish's "After Hours". Once you have the basics, learning by ear is the way to get the tasty nuances
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1/ BREAKING: Government documents reviewed by ProPublica identify Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa, 43, and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez, 35, as the two who fired their weapons during the deadly encounter with Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.
01.02.2026 21:12 — 👍 1803 🔁 752 💬 85 📌 99Now: Bruce Springsteen sings “Streets of Minneapolis” in Minneapolis
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In Trump’s America, if you record a protest, post a meme, or publish an article the regime doesn’t like, you can be woken up in the middle of the night and find this at your door.
If you’re not treating this like a five-alarm fire right now, it won’t stop here.
In time, they will come for you too.
Apparently, the owner doesn't allow playback on other platforms. Worth the extra clicks.
30.01.2026 15:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Roy Eldridge Birthday Broadcast! WKCR! Go listen! Here's Warren Vache in an interview with Monk Rowe---jazz lore is full of anecdotes of friendly competitive rivalry, this is one of my all time favorites that just happens to involve Roy:
youtu.be/0Qd78nQva90?...
Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning
I was sent this video of agents at her door:
"We can handle one 10,000-person protest but 10 1,000-person protests throughout the city will overwhelm us.” LAPD Chief Moore in 2020.
29.01.2026 16:46 — 👍 57 🔁 25 💬 0 📌 2Nah, that's a goat on a flying carpet.
29.01.2026 13:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“For families like mine in Wichita Falls, Texas, @pbs.org was oxygen,” writes @briangaar.bsky.social . “It was proof that humor could be silly, intellectual, and a little dangerous all at once.
thebarbedwire.com/2026/01/28/p...
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
27.01.2026 16:45 — 👍 17324 🔁 6924 💬 503 📌 330
Hey folks--
I've been asked to pin this link here, so here you go.
The lectures and podcast episodes for "America at 250," the lecture course that I'm teaching with David Blight and Beverly Gage are at this link.
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
GIFT ARTICLE (no paywall). Masterpiece reporting here from Adam. He deserves awards for this.
“This is my first occupation,” Olsen said as I climbed into the truck. “Welcome to the underground, I guess.”
A major Substack event: Vinnie Sperrazza begins his history of jazz drums! vinniesperrazza.substack.com/p/a-history-...
26.01.2026 21:46 — 👍 39 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 1This is the truth! We must have a nation-wide general strike.
#GeneralStrikeNow
wagingnonviolence.org/2026/01/mass...
#USDemocracy
#Voices4Victory
abdulwadud.bandcamp.com/album/by-mys...
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