Aaron Mencher

🚨ATTENTION EVERYBODY🚨

🚨IT IS FERAL HOGS DAY🚨

Olivia Giovetti | Against Consensus During the curtain call for the closing performance of Verdi’s Il trovatore at the Royal Opera House on 19 July, one...

Anyway, hi Bluesky. Here's something I wrote for @lrb.co.uk earlier this week about Danni Perry bringing the Palestine flag onto the stage of the ROH and why claiming political impartiality in relation to a Verdi opera is like calling Guernica a painting of a horse. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...

it was really weird and almost made me nauseous… plus i was on a date… it was Bad™️

i went to a special exhibit on cannibalism

i appreciate your generosity! fortunately, i don’t think it will be necessary. i just needed to complain about my less than spectacular week

if anyone wants to give me a million dollars now would be a great time for that

expensive week
had to replace my computer
expensive car repairs
emergency dental work
and now my studio monitors are on their way out

they happened at one of my high schools but i was never invited

would love to have just one day where the people and things I care about are not under direct attack

“wait so you will be Dr. Mencher???? that’s so tough”

one of my high school students who thinks i am way cooler than i actually am

Every journalist in the world should be screaming about this at the top of their lungs.

make art! if it's the end of the world, you might as well make art! if it's not the end of the world, then the future will be better because people made art right now!

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use Update: The Metropolitan Museum of Art has put online 492,000 high-resolution images of artistic works. Even better, the museum has placed the vast majority of these images into the public domain, meaning they can be downloaded directly from the museum’s website for non-commercial use.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use.

realized that the mario kart item sound is bach’s prelude in c major but really fast and now i can’t unhear it

playing “love on top” to a bunch of undergrads in a music fundamentals class, and none of them had heard it before

Two weeks have passed since a Florida Highway Patrol officer arrested the Honduran immigrant client of Magdalena Cuprys of Cuprys & Associates. “He was stopped at a weigh station in Tampa because he owns a construction company, and he was required to stop for his truck to be weighed,” Cuprys told me. “The client had a valid Florida driver’s license. The patrol officer called Customs and Border Protection on him. The client called me, and the officer took the phone from him and spoke with me.” She asked why CBP was alerted. “I was advised that the client looked Hispanic, had a Hispanic name, and now they are collaborating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and CBP, and their orders are to call CBP any time they encounter anyone they suspect is an immigrant,” said Cuprys. “I asked if they would have followed the same process if it had been me driving, and the response was it depends if you look Hispanic.”

“It depends if you look Hispanic.”

From Forbes: www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

I don't mean to sound hysterical but there are some pretty clear historical examples of "force the urban-dwellers to the farms," and none of them are great.

what if they made a country that was easy to immigrate to

o i thought you were talking about metallic lithium and making it go boom…

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Private jet carbon emissions are soaring. Here’s who pollutes the most. A new study found that the United States was responsible for 55 percent of the pollution emitted by private jets globally.

“That year [2023], private jets polluted more than the total of all commercial flights departing from London’s Heathrow Airport, Europe’s busiest hub.”

www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

it appears like i am not a bad composer it was just a first rehearsal and they were still learning the music

who could have predicted this

not me

spotify is like "we’re all trying to figure out who exacerbated the mental health crisis amongst working musicians over the last decade"

apparently you can "double dog dare" your students into doing really good work. and because of that, i now have to grade an essay analyzing the "skibidi toilet" music video....

All the people I still know in LA laugh and laugh when they hear that "Los Angeles is burning." I made a couple of maps to show just how tiny and localized the protests are. GOPers are working really hard to make an excuse for declaring martial law. People should be very wary of that.

“Defund the police” was in fact a great slogan.

SEIU California President David Huerta Injured, Detained at ICE Raid in Los Angeles Los Angeles - David Huerta, President of SEIU California and SEIU- United Service Workers West was injured and detained at an ICE raid in Los Angeles today while exercising his First Amendment right to observe and document law enforcement activity. Tia Orr, Executive Director of SEIU California, made the following statement: "SEIU California members call for the immediate release of our President, David Huerta, who was injured and detained at the site of one of today's ICE raids in Los Angeles. He is now receiving medical attention while in custody. "We are proud of President Huerta's righteous participation as a community observer, in keeping with his long history of advocating for immigrant workers and with the highest values of our movement: standing up to injustice, regardless of personal risk or the power of those perpetrating it. "We call for an end to the cruel, destructive, and indiscriminate ICE raids that are tearing apart our communities, disrupting our economy, and hurting all working people. Immigrant workers are essential to our society: feeding our nation, caring for our elders, cleaning our workplaces, and building our homes."

BREAKING

The President of California’s largest union has been detained during an ICE raid.

Sacramento County to use drones to track homeless people on probation The county's probation department said it needs the drones to contact homeless people who are on probation, specifically in hard-to-reach spots like along the American Parkway.

"It's a scary thought to think our society is at the point that we are tracking homeless people with drones."

One day, we will come to our senses and instead provide universal basic income and housing, but until then, take a good look at our dystopia.

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