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Middle-aged adventurer of the ordinary. #GreenfieldMA #BeerBaseballAndTheBible #BigMessyAmerica #Tennis #PublicSchools Neurodiversity & Sexual Assault awareness. Poet & Essayist. ArtSpace board member. Check out my #Varticles (Varnon + Articles, get it?)

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“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and they deserve to get it good and hard.” - HL Mencken

“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and they deserve to get it good and hard.” - HL Mencken

09.11.2025 00:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Oh, Provincetown. (I should’ve read the hashtags.)

08.11.2025 13:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Wow! Where were they shot?

08.11.2025 13:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Viva the New Deal!

07.11.2025 20:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The question might be: which is more "hidden," a park people don't know about in Philadelphia? Or Springfield, right next to the Public Library?

07.11.2025 13:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Chicopee?

07.11.2025 12:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Same statue?

07.11.2025 11:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Fascinating! Great to see old-fashioned newspaper analysis. And @masslive.bsky.social / Springfield Republican gets mentioned with an A rating.

31.10.2025 13:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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ONE. WIN. AWAY.

The Blue Jays take Game 5 in L.A. and head back to Toronto with the chance to claim their first World Series title since 1993.

30.10.2025 03:13 — 👍 3092    🔁 410    💬 123    📌 71

The ghost of Al Smith agrees.

30.10.2025 01:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

#WesternMass is still the exception.

30.10.2025 01:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Will Artificial Intelligence stand up to tyrants?

29.10.2025 10:24 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

To be fair, congress has kind of closed itself. But is there an echo? Yes, I hear it.

27.10.2025 16:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

(To be clear, I’m not against this.)

26.10.2025 17:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

But what does that actually look like? A new party? Who leads in such a coalition?

26.10.2025 17:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

McMansion Hell.

26.10.2025 16:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Do you mean to a few billionaires? Or to the rest of us?

26.10.2025 16:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It occurs to me that this sounds like a prayer. I don’t know how I feel about that.

26.10.2025 13:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

There is @ruwmi.bsky.social

26.10.2025 13:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Algorithm, help connect me with people who are building community, who are turning things around, connecting locally (#WesternMass for me) and helping their neighbors.

26.10.2025 11:31 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1

The odd thing is that Doug Ford, of all people, thinks that the Reagan Republicans will rise up against MAGA. He’s the one who ordered the ad.

24.10.2025 20:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

There is a dollars-and-cents argument for why Trumpism is bad for America. It's about corruption, it's about inequality, and it's about instability. Our country is becoming more corrupt, more unequal, and more unstable. We can see that. We don't have to accept it.

24.10.2025 13:26 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

One of the things about our individualistic culture -- the way we assume life is a competition and the market will sort things out -- is that it often rewards selfishness and punishes community-mindedness.

23.10.2025 12:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Friendly's in Greenfield closed. The Friendly's on Sumner Ave in Springfield closed. I still see the ice cream in the grocery store, but they've definitely retreated from my field of view.

23.10.2025 12:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

On the Bruce Peninsula! I'm not familiar with the east side of the Georgian Bay where you are talking about. But also magical and beautiful.

22.10.2025 16:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Good stuff!

21.10.2025 23:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Shameless self-dealing! American tax payers are being shaken down by our own president to line his pockets.

21.10.2025 23:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"When we marched, we were not only protesting Trump’s assaults on civil liberties and the rule of law; we were standing up for the right of citizens to choose their own leaders." #NoKings

21.10.2025 13:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Same.

20.10.2025 18:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Wendy Red Star | MASS MoCA Multi-media artist Wendy Red Star, a member of the Apsáalooke (Crow) tribe, offers accounts of American history that rectify the frequently flawed narratives about Native people. An avid researcher, R...

Cool! I remember seeing Wendy Red Star's work at MassMoCA! massmoca.org/event/wendy-...

20.10.2025 17:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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