keith butler

probably shouldn't have started pluribus at bed time

damn. rip, mr. dejohnette!!

she's my new fav 🥺

2am slow horses while my cat runs his sprints around the apt. maybe this is how i know i had too much coffee today 😵‍💫

What it's like to raise trans kids in the D.C. area right now As the Trump administration targets hospitals and schools, parents are scrambling to protect their kids.

“We deserve to live here. She deserves to live here. No trans person is asking for more rights. Just stop picking on us.”

@oriion.bsky.social spoke to five local families about their experience raising trans kids right now in the D.C. area.

In partnership with @19thnews.org:

Today I got to watch a microbiologist, who rose to head the CDC, be questioned by a plumber from Oklahoma who has the kind of first name normally given to a boy that you have to chain to the porch so he leaves the goats alone.

Also by a football coach who lost to fucking Vanderbilt in '08.

Keith Butler Jr. - seysew s e y s e w

new page on the website for the band. tap in!

www.keithbutlermusic.com/seysew

i swear the dmv only exists to make sure we're all staying up on our daily mindfulness practice. inhumane amounts of stress from that place!

day one of dc jazz fest...so good. special guests were cool but as usual the dc musicians really brought it and were the superstars 😌

love catching up on my weekly soaps (all the apple tv + shows)

platonic continues to crush it

smoke on apple tv +, epic little show. jurnee for the win!

Nduduzo Makhathini: Tiny Desk Concert The South African pianist and Zulu healer guides us through a meditation on stillness and an invocation of Blackness.

The South African pianist and Zulu healer guides us through a meditation on stillness and an invocation of Blackness.

Seizure medication, wheelchairs, Social Security cards, dentures, urns of ashes, work uniforms — just some of what's been thrown away during cruel, degrading, utterly counterproductive homeless sweeps.

A good time to revisit this gutting @propublica.org story:

After Texas Banned Abortion, More Women Nearly Bled to Death During Miscarriage A new ProPublica data analysis adds to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of first-trimester miscarriage far more dangerous.

A Texas woman was sent home from an emergency room twice during a miscarriage last year. She ultimately needed a blood transfusion to save her life.

“What happened to me was just so wrong,” she said.

By Kavitha Surana, Lizzie Presser and @andreasuozzo.com

we're only halfway through this week huh

with steve cardenas and mark lysher last night. that was fun

step 1: switch the tea out with coffee

could use a lil break 😅 35th year of life is going in just a bit

my comfort blanket

THREAD: Last year, ProPublica started receiving tips from an unusual kind of source: flight attendants. They said they'd worked on deportation flights for ICE, and they could tell us what it was really like on board. 1/

Travel Warnings and Detainments Cast a Shadow Over America’s Biggest Coffee Trade Show Amidst the U.S. government’s crackdown at the border and a raft of anti-trans legislation in Texas, some coffee professionals are skipping the Specialty Coffee Association’s Expo in Houston.

Another attempt at distilling everything that's going on through the lens of coffee.

This time, a look at how Trump's border crackdown, combined with the Texas legislature's anti-trans mania, have put people off attending the SCA's Expo trade show in Houston next month.

#CoffeeSky

This culture of ultra convenience that we've accepted (anything can be delivered in a day, you can get any book or movie you want immediately) has meant that everything becomes devalued. Including art. While lining billionare's pockets and producing more trash. How do we fix it? Start at home maybe

Okay, but I think the 250% tariff on poutine is good actually.

Some Actions That Are Not Protesting or Voting Some Actions That Are Not Protesting or Voting A list adapted from & inspired by Frontline Medics. Here was their original list of 25 actions. I’ve added a lot of things and edited other things. [Not...

passing this along. please share:

“Some Actions that are Not Protests or Voting”

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

that's crazy

grace / power a new series?

recent words + pictures

keithbutlerjr.substack.com/p/grace-powe...

¡FIASCO! / Throwaway / ZĀM — Rhizome DC Wednesday February 26 * 7pm * $15-25 * TICKETS Washington DC-based ¡FIASCO! was first assembled in 2016 building a unique repertoire of sounds and materials rooted in droning folk songs...

happening tonight :-)

www.rhizomedc.org/new-events/2...

lately with the 📷

The Great Resegregation The Trump administration’s attacks on DEI are aimed at reversing the civil-rights movement.

"If the Great Resegregation proves successful, it will restore an America past where racial and ethnic minorities were the occasional token presence in an otherwise white-dominated landscape. It would repeal the gains of the civil-rights era in their entirety."
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

wonderful gig tonight with emma and grant :-) swing town indeed