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“1964: Mario Savio Launches the Free Speech Movement in Berkeley” by Antonio Frasconi, 2003. Color woodcut with photo engraving, 66” x 24”.

I’m about to part with this wonderful woodcut.
“Boy with Cock,” color woodcut by Antonio Frasconi, 1947, NYC. Paper: 28x20 inches. One of his very first color prints. #antoniofrasconi

IT IS A COUP This is what should be on every front page in 150 point banner headlines. All I have is this Substack but I lay it beneath your feet and pray to a higher power that I'm wrong.

This. This is what it is.

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Meanwhile, here are some pomegranates on a table.
“Still Life,” by Antonio Frasconi, 1959. Color woodcut & collagraphy, 34”x25” #antoniofrasconi

Happy Birthday (one day late) to the great Langston Hughes (1901-1967).
Portrait of Langston Hughes, by Antonio Frasconi, 1999. Hydrostone cast of woodblocks, 20”x16” #antoniofrasconi #langstonhughes

Oh, I remember this. Drumpf’s sleight of hand. While we are all looking at birthright citizenship, what is it he doesn’t want us to see? The removal of Biden’s lower medicine costs? There so many awful things all at once.

The felon leader of the Republican administration rescinded President Biden's action to lower prescription drug costs for Americans on Medicare and Medicaid.

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PROTECTING THE MEANING AND VALUE OF AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP – The White House By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.

The single greatest attack on the Constitution in my lifetime. Utterly and completely lawless.

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1,500 criminals are going home.

Biden commutes sentence for Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, convicted in killing of FBI agents President Joe Biden has commuted the sentence of Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, who was convicted in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents and is serving life in prison.

At long last, some good news.

Biden commutes sentence of Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier—one of the longest serving political prisoners in the U.S.

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Apple’s “Silo” series is very cool. I just wish it was directed by David Lynch.

Musical score: long sinuous white lines on blue paper. Very peacefully and smoothly Lines for Altos & Sopranos, showing key changes

Snowforms
Beautiful music by R. Murray Schafer, based on Inuit words for snow:

apingaut, first snowfall
mauyk, soft snow
akelrorak, drifting snow
pokaktok, snow like salt

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The score is a thing of beauty!

Tonight. Down the street.

Hello, I’m over here for this week of the fb boycott. 1st note: @bsky.app please make an iPad version.

Tripping over a tipping point.