Julia Conrad

Make It Make Sense: ICE targets Chicago’s homeless community Plus: state and local leaders crack down on anti-ICE protesters and advocates ask the chief judge to keep ICE out of county courthouses.

"Since September, at least six unhoused Chicagoans have been abducted by federal agents. That number is likely higher, but the social invisibility and isolation already faced by people experiencing homelessness make their disappearances harder to track" by @katieprout.bsky.social @mulchy.bsky.social

HL Mencken in 1918: "[Woman] may envy [man's] masculine liberty of movement and occupation, his impenetrable complacency... But she never envies him his puerile ego; she never envies him his shoddy and preposterous soul."

I highly recommend this great, thoughtful critique of Ezra Klein's book Abundance (and also a lot of his arguments in general).

just learned the word "incompossible" and I hate it

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“Do not memorize one dictionary alone, a dictionary of the German language; instead, memorize dictionaries of two languages, and then reflect on their differences, which are the differences between two conceptual maps of the same universe.” —J.M. Coetzee

The Thirty-Year Itch “Scratching,” cellist Katinka Kleijn’s one-woman performance piece, reviewed in the bar

VAN 401:

🎭 Komische Oper's "Don Giovanni," reviewed by Jeff Brown and @hwfmorris.bsky.social
🎭 “Scratching,” cellist Katinka Kleijn’s one-woman performance piece, reviewed by Hannah Edgar and @juliaconrad.bsky.social
🎭 Ben Poore on Quartet for the End of Time

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First known American citizen to be deported.

USDA cancels $1B in local food purchasing for schools, food banks States have been notified that they will not receive 2025 funding for schools to buy food from nearby farms.

“Donald Trump and Elon Musk have declared that feeding children and supporting local farmers are no longer ‘priorities,’ and it’s just the latest terrible cut with real impact on families across Massachusetts,” Healey said in a statement.

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having a calming nightcap of some Susan McClary: “For music is always a political activity, and to inhibit criticism of its effects for any reason is likewise a political act”

Tesla worst day since Sept 2020 .. -14%

$TSLA
@mikezaccardi.bsky.social

For NYC folks, there's a protest scheduled for saturday at 1pm at the Tesla dealership in the meatpacking district, if anyone else is interested in going.

"Our country did not get here by being typical" :')

update: Twitter deleted my tweet @ Jeff, but my impassioned yet formal email to his inbox may yet graze the eyes of an assistant #democracydiesinbezos

also jeff.bezos@washpost.com

just an fyi: jeff bezos's email is jeff@amazon.com

i'm like: is this real, is anything real, will anything ever feel real in this information-drenched world again

reading Benjamin Labatut feels like asking ChatGBT a question

Seeking the Truth About Julia Perry I am always bitter about going to the established-yet-edgy New York venue (Le) Poisson Rouge—their cheapest beer is $10—but their programs make it impossible to stay away. The kickoff event for the Ju...

A worthwhile re-read of @juliaconrad.bsky.social's overview of the life and legacy of Julia Perry as well as cuing up the Experimental Orchestra's American Counterpoints for my #BlackHistoryMonth listening this evening.
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Any news outlet reporting Mexico conceded anything to Trump to get him to delay tariffs has not done its homework.
Trump boasts he got Mexico to commit to stationing 10K troops at our border. Apparently he didn't realize Mexico already has 15K troops deployed there
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Giving access to SSNs, other data on government employees to non-employees like Musk is a violation of 5 USC 552a, and carries with it a penalty of $1000 per person whose data was accessed. We are building a case. Govt employees who want to participate should contact me directly

call me spoiled but i could really use some nightly Fireside Chats for the next 4 years on like... PBS

we need a new political party called the Humanity party

Pauline Oliveros collab with Fluxus artist Alison Knowles! And likewise!

Wendy Carlos made the platinum selling album Switched on Bach in an apartment across the street from Zabar's ... make your own conclusions

Tom Johnson, Minimalist Composer and Village Voice Critic, Dies at 85 He charted the rise of musical minimalism on New York’s downtown scene in the 1970s. He later gained notice for abstract works of his own.

goodbye to Tom Johnson, the passionate Village Voice critic who put language to minimalism, and who wrote an early review of Eliane Radigue's sounds "oozing from the walls" <3

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How a Decades-Old Loophole Lets Billionaires Avoid Medicare Taxes Some of Wall Street’s richest and most powerful figures are using a legal loophole to avoid paying millions of dollars in taxes earmarked for health care, a ProPublica investigation found.

bless ProPublica for their series on the tax records of the .001%

my Italian boyfriend just burst into the room to declare "HE'S ITALIAN!"

The only good man is a missing man.