Amen, Ashé and So Must It Be!
27.02.2026 03:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Amen, Ashé and So Must It Be!
27.02.2026 03:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Everything‘s gotta change from the roots up and from the leaves down, then water it with the rain of justice.
27.02.2026 03:12 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Love my city so! Thanks for this story, BB.
26.02.2026 11:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yes! An apology means nothing if it isn’t backed up by a commitment to do better and actions that show the commitment.
08.02.2026 16:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This is great. And even better if you take one of the MANY online or in-person legal observer workshops created and sponsored by activist groups like Indivisible, Immigrant Defense Fund, Witness Media Lab, etc
01.02.2026 14:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yes. This.
01.02.2026 01:33 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Really really mean
31.01.2026 21:53 — 👍 29 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0This!
30.01.2026 15:05 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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… 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.
Signature
Philip Glass
Sorry! alt text here:
Photo of a letter part one:
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 (cont)
Philip Glass withdrew his symphony’s premiere on the anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s heartbreaking and impassioned Lyceum address in 1838. It’s worth the read:
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
“Friction works.”
26.01.2026 23:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Grateful for your compassion towards those of us who are struggling against this regime.
25.01.2026 23:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Concise and accurate.
16.01.2026 15:37 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia.
Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.”
Really listen to it.
Absolutely!
11.01.2026 01:11 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
Abolish the crazy thugs at ICE.
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09.01.2026 19:24 — 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Simpsons don't make mental the sign meme where the sign says "The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. George Orwell, 1984"
09.01.2026 19:01 — 👍 122 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0
Amazing!
Hoping this good news gets the attention it deserves – i.e., at least a fraction of the press that went to all of the anticipatory nay-saying your plan faced during your campaign.
Can’t wait to see what you and your team do next!
This. Normalizing the horror is one of the greatest dangers.
09.01.2026 02:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0💙
09.01.2026 00:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“Replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.” (I’m with Zohran)
03.01.2026 13:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Such an incredible performance. Thanks for posting this, so I could see it again. The first time I saw it, I cried for pure joy - this time the tears were more complicated.
01.01.2026 06:11 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0So many Hollywood movies could be described as “the one about the pisher who thinks he’s a big shot!”😂
30.12.2025 01:14 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0This is the way
30.12.2025 01:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“George Washington, at the close of the Constitutional Convention, said he did not expect the Constitution to last more than twenty years. The Father of the Country signed a document he fully expected his grandchildren to replace.”
open.substack.com/pub/cmarmita...
Lordy that is some insane shite in that article!
28.12.2025 04:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Great article - should be given to every student. And I’m delighted to learn about this publication. I love librarians SO much.
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