@keepreading.bsky.social
3rd gen DC, GenX. I’m a fan of books, art, and music. Pretty passionate about free speech, science, and the Oxford comma. I was DOGE’d out of my job in public health —all opinions are my own.
Nick Cave is next level genius
Glad you found him
![Brian Eno - Ambient 1: Music For Airports [Full Album]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hrbusmf6kamwy4nxxxwlztqf/bafkreibk6zudqh5jbvhru4pbugpaxczorgqzs62bt7zylnsby7v6oofh74@jpeg)
Today is a Brian Eno kind of day. Soothing my nervous system
youtu.be/WC8PjeUxf94
“Except for Caillou” 💀
21.02.2026 06:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Ending 287(g) deals between local police and ICE isn’t radical - it’s NECESSARY.
Courts found 4,421+ illegal ICE detentions since Oct 2025.
Due process exists because power gets abused.
Maryland chose the Constitution over chaos.
This is why state & local elections matter.
On President’s Day, the First Amendment Troop staged “ResistDance” — a tribute and act of artistic dissent — at the Lincoln Memorial. ❤️
#FirstAmendment
#ArtisticExpression
Yes! What if we treated extremely normal human variation as something other than a "disorder"???
www.positive.news/society/yout...
Yes, those are words
13.02.2026 19:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I, along with many friends and colleagues, were DOGE’d from HHS when they rescinded the mRNA funding last year. Yes a personal loss that I am still grieving, but more importantly a massive loss to public health 😡💔
13.02.2026 03:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#IsmuasMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge #MusicSky
Feb 13 A song with complex production
Public Enemy "Fight The Power" contained 23 samples to construct. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmo3...
Samples: www.whosampled.com/Public-Enemy...
Every single show I play will go toward fighting this authoritarian nightmare.
Who’s with me?!
Links in bio to latest shows, so grab your tickets now, DC.
✨Support live music✨
✨Support the people.✨
✨Save the people✨
Abolish ICE NOW!!!
✨🖤✨
wow -- with Trump standing behind him, a man (not sure who he is) offers this prayer: "We pray that he would be mindful of the poor and that he would be invested in the alleviation of suffering happening in the families preparing to bury their loved ones in Minneapolis."
05.02.2026 15:24 — 👍 8950 🔁 2167 💬 950 📌 418Your suspicion was right.
Trump shut down the Kennedy Center out of pure embarrassment after the cancellations.
He’s betting we forget in two years.
In 2023 the Kennedy Center was in the black, pulling in $286M in revenue. And it reopened from a $250M renovation in 2019.
It is the worst feeling - i’m sorry 😞
06.02.2026 00:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I feel that
04.02.2026 23:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1That album was my life in grammar school
04.02.2026 23:24 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1And for the record — I had my kids at a freestanding birth center with nurse midwives. And I’ve been accused of being an ‘almond mom’ (probably). But 100% vax on schedule and always had excellent pediatricians who believed in science
Just saying
More than once this year I’ve said to friends and to my three young adult kids how stressful it must be to have little ones today. It’s a hard enough gig when your kids are babies without being forced to navigate their health care without trustworthy medical guidance
04.02.2026 23:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0‼️ If you’ve been following social media from CDC, be aware that with the exception of their Emergency and NIOSH accounts, all other CDC Centers have been told their socials are shut down and nothing can be posted on them.
Further posts will come directly from HHS‼️
Content posted by other agencies had to be approved by hhs aspa starting in Jan, 2025.
I really hope no one has been thinking that content posted during Trump II has been direct from agency staff.
Considering the office I worked for within HHS was ordered to halt all comms Jan 2025 (as were most HHS comms) — what in the fresh hell will HHS be ‘communicating’?
Not only are these deeply unserious people — they are dangerous
(And do not hate on my beloved em dash please)
Save the post. Hundreds of workers at the Washington Post stand to lose their jobs in layoffs, which could render The Post unrecognizable amid some of the most severe staff cuts the newspaper has ever seen. If you value The Post and care about its future, we ask that you join us in person in our call to #SaveThePost. Feb 5, 2026 @ 1301 K St. NW 12:00-1:00pm
Jeff Bezos, one of the richest people on Earth, just eliminated hundreds of union jobs at the Washington Post.
Solidarity with @postguild.bsky.social. Join them tomorrow, February 5 at 12:00 p.m. for a rally to #SaveThePost.
Yes please. I would like my hometown paper back
04.02.2026 22:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0🌟And with that bit of beautiful news - i am now going to close my computer with a smile. For the first time in a year+
04.02.2026 03:01 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A very low bar
but he did say it - out loud. finally
It shouldn't
But at least he said it
low bar I know
i mean it’s not even irony at this point
we need a new word
@merriam-webster.com ??
We lost a good one today.
30.01.2026 23:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Hey… if you’ve been carrying more. Not all at once — just in pieces. A thought didn’t finish. A feel set aside so things kept moving. Nothing dramatic. Just a quiet weight.
This is a place where that weight can sit for a bit.
This is Ink Radio.
Let’s pass on music.
So peeps stay human.
I must credit @altcdc.altgov.info for that gem
30.01.2026 01:05 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Agree
2020 and BLM in DC brought the city together but it wasn’t enough. Nothing will be enough until we ALL acknowledge this country was built on the backs of the enslaved and we are a fundamentally racist society
