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Alton Smith

@altonsmith101.bsky.social

Ensemble instructor and piano teacher at Old Town School of Folk Music, Chicago, IL

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He probably WISHES he was in the Epstein files…

16.02.2026 23:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Republicans: everyone must be able to carry any gun at all times,
up to and including high powered rifles, to protect themselves against tyranny

also Republicans, without batting an eye: carrying a gun is unquestionable justification for federal agents to shoot you dead in the street

24.01.2026 17:13 β€” πŸ‘ 6718    πŸ” 2035    πŸ’¬ 31    πŸ“Œ 71

Mandelbaum! Mandelbaum!!

01.10.2025 22:29 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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In light of today’s absolutely fucking deranged β€œI’m in a war movie” speeches by Trump and Hegseth, I give you the plaque at West Point.

30.09.2025 16:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1429    πŸ” 472    πŸ’¬ 28    πŸ“Œ 8
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Robert Redford playing a gentle incarnation of death, coming for a frightened old woman in The Twilight Zone episode "Nothing in the Dark" (1962). An extraordinary performance then, terribly bittersweet today

16.09.2025 13:28 β€” πŸ‘ 12879    πŸ” 3827    πŸ’¬ 362    πŸ“Œ 366
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maybe there's still some good left in this world after all

28.07.2025 02:46 β€” πŸ‘ 17319    πŸ” 4374    πŸ’¬ 310    πŸ“Œ 547

Why couldn’t Ted Turner have been the billionaire that took over everything?!!

27.03.2025 23:05 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or β€œcontroversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

30.01.2025 21:09 β€” πŸ‘ 126876    πŸ” 24578    πŸ’¬ 2227    πŸ“Œ 784
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The Old Man and the Keys: The Improvised Legacy of Garth Hudson Writer, musician, and Hold Steady member Franz Nicolay remembers the Band’s famed keyboardist and sage eccentric, who died Tuesday at age 87

RIP Garth Hudson, last of The Band, probably THE touchstone group of my musical life for the past 20+ years. Too many ends of an era of late… www.theringer.com/2025/01/22/m...

23.01.2025 00:24 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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