Dustin Ragland

Signage for "Excel Church"

"You know who else pivoted a table?"

Just a reminder that Muslims have been on this continent since the first arrival of non-Indigenous people. They were among the first generation of Americans, and have been here ever since.

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YouTube video by DuranDuranMusic1 Duran Duran - Anyone Out There

good morning... and it's duran duran weather

Reading Schelling in Tehran: 1 Technically, in Doha

My class was scheduled to read Thomas Schelling this month in our course on Nuclear Weapons and World Politics. It turned out to be a current affairs course. Here's part 1 of my series on reading Schelling in this crisis.

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Jon Snow looks up from a scrum of bodies in the battle of the bastards

solidarity with every parent trying to get kids to school today on day two of this stupid daylight savings

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Ailín Grad (aka Aylu) designs audio spaces from Buenos Aires, releasing solo music and collaborating with video, dance and performance contemporary artists as her main practice.

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YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie The self-immolation of Donald Trump

me, poking at the second trump presidency: "want to see a (soon to be) dead body?" youtu.be/ozvWGx_Re9A

claire trump is a bastard man

people have probably already gotten phds trying and failing to come up with a better political theory for trumpism than this

This is my favorite song from musicforthrmorningafter - and got me through a pretty heavy breakup way back when

A full concert venue with pete Yorn performing under a disco ball

Closer shot of pete Yorn in a shirt and hat playing acoustic guitar

Pete Yorn in shirt and hat playing acoustic guitar

Pete Yorn in shirt and hat playing acoustic guitar with blue stage lights behind

Pete Yorn - Masquerade, Atlanta last evening - this song is my favorite of his and means a whole lot - I heard it on the radio in Santa Fe in 2003, was stunned by it, immediately went to buy this CD

me paying $30 in gas to buy imported things that have been hit with tariffs bc joe rogan is learning about politics at age 58

Folks, you know how touring is incredibly hard to do for bands these days for any number of reasons?

Now imagine gas prices going up even further.

I was in Tehran this time last year. I want you to see how beautiful my city is. I want you to see the city the US/Israel is trying to wipe off the face of the earth

30 Rock was the greatest show . . .

Normalize asking American tourists where they were on January 6th

Ma’am the curbs are painted different colors by political affiliation in many Belfast neighborhoods you think they’re shy about politics?

Also I definitely want to know who you voted for to know if you’re safe to be around my kids or not

A black dog with short fur and a white chest and nose and paw tips sitting on a couch in front of a bookshelf

Burrito says love one another

YouTube video by Sanna Sharp Michael Stipe Joins Shannon Narducy

Michael Stipe showed up in NYC tonight for the Michael Shannon/Jason Narducy show and sang @remhq.bsky.social "These Days" (!!!!) and "The Great Beyond." 😭 😍https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RiouUSsOIs

"Building Live Loopers in Max": new book by Jeff Kaiser and Gregory Taylor

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sin mujeres no hay revolución

screenshot of text::"The United Nations instituted International Women’s Day (IWD) in 1975—or so the official story runs. Few remember not only that the origins of March 8 lie in the history of the international workers’ movement, but that it was the socialist movement in the United States that first launched the idea of a day devoted to women’s rights centered on working-class women. In fact, the Socialist Party USA first established a day of education and action around women’s rights called “Woman’s Day” in 1908, and the following year U.S. socialists held demonstrations in several cities to demand women’s suffrage. In 1910, German socialist Clara Zetkin proposed the transformation of the U.S. Woman’s Day into an international day of action—International Working Women’s Day—which, in 1914, started being celebrated on March 8. Three years later, on March 8, 1917, Russian women workers took to the streets in St. Petersburg, organizing a strike to demand bread and peace. It was the beginning of the Russian Revolution."

a useful explainer of International Women's Day by Cinzia Arruzza

Nothing is truer than this

Changed my life for the good

This is my favorite song from musicforthrmorningafter - and got me through a pretty heavy breakup way back when

A full concert venue with pete Yorn performing under a disco ball

Closer shot of pete Yorn in a shirt and hat playing acoustic guitar

Pete Yorn in shirt and hat playing acoustic guitar

Pete Yorn in shirt and hat playing acoustic guitar with blue stage lights behind

Pete Yorn - Masquerade, Atlanta last evening - this song is my favorite of his and means a whole lot - I heard it on the radio in Santa Fe in 2003, was stunned by it, immediately went to buy this CD

YouTube video by Sanna Sharp Michael Stipe sings These Days and Great Beyond with Shannon, Narducy, and Friends Brooklyn 3/7/26

Michael Stipe sings These Days and Great Beyond with Shannon, Narducy, and Friends Brooklyn 3/7/26
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Rio...

Genuine question I struggle to answer without fantastical elements (mass marches & citizen occupations in DC & S Florida? ) or spiraling into redacted approaches