I'm at the Olympics and the entire stadium booed JD Vance. 😌

Here they go, right on my old school bus route too. Honestly a surreal number of people showed up to watch this, there are flower petals all up and down route 1.

I’m in Fburg rn trying to find the walk for peace monks and there is literally a trail of flowers down Lafayette blvd into downtown.

Check out my new record “Revolutions” out now at Bandcamp. Getting the Cantareel working with my steel guitar has really been a mind changer for me. Thanks for all the support out there! ❤️‍🔥

Aldona was quoted in this WMRA piece on Texas Gladden. 🪕❤️‍🔥 @aldonanana.bsky.social

Out of the 12 showings of the Melania documentary happening this weekend at my theater in Lynchburg, Virginia, home of Liberty University, only 10 tickets have sold. 10 tickets for 12 showings in a 173 seat theater. 10 tickets sold out of a possible 2,076. This theater never played Hamnet, not once.

Pink mountains this morning.

Casey Wasserman, founder of Wasserman talent agency, is in the Epstein files. His involvement is extremely clear and damning. Wasserman represents hundreds of the most well-known names in music.

Just got Bevis the bucket of churu. 😼

Our video presentation on the life and work of Texas Gladden. We’re really proud of this one, Elizabeth’s performance moved me to tears. ❤️‍🔥🪕

I think 2026 is the year I finally get it together and start the band I’ve wanted to start for years… The Stink Bug Stringband…

This might be common practice, idk, but we started heating up our chickpeas before making them into hummus, and … 😮‍💨

Narrator: "And they're BOTH in the Epstein Files"

This is another effort that has taken a HUGE amount of local activism, led by community folks who care. It CAN be done. Get involved where you live and push back. www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...

Here's the Bandcamp link, "Revolutions" out 2/6/26. danielbachman.bandcamp.com/album/revolu...

On this day in 1917, Congress passed an Immigration Act that banned racial groups deemed "undesirable" from entering the U.S., and primarily barred Asian people.

definitely worth diving into @doctorvive.bsky.social book, language of climate politics - breaks down Nordhaus' model and its inherent flaws

"New Perspectives on Healing Collective Trauma: Towards Social Justice and Communal Well-Being" Edited By Scherto R. Gill #OpenAccess #MentalHealth #Trauma www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...

Wild Turkey https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/120424

how often do you think about the not-that-long-lost Dog 2? At least once a month for me en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuegian...

The Trump regime is betting on climate chaos from AMOC failure and other factors to help them consolidate power. If you think the fascism is bad now, wait until we're waist deep in this mess.

Just out today: The report “A Nordic Perspective on AMOC Tipping” reviews the current state of science on the risk of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (#AMOC) shutdown. 🌊 Conclusion: it's "a serious risk which requires a dedicated risk management framework". pub.norden.org/temanord2026...

#Hippopotamus Amulet #AncientEgypt, 3rd Intermediate Period, 21st-22nd Dynasty, c. 1070-712 BCE Amethyst, L 2.9 cm / 1 1/8 in. www.liveauctioneers.com/item/2243059...

Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

Had to do a double take on this…Shartlesville PA is the entry point for my ancestors, they were part of a large Anabaptist settlement that displaced many Native groups in the early 18 century & were massacred because of it. Pretty sad to witness the beginning of another unbearable cycle of violence.

Theres no way we can make it through climate breakdown & fascism without a lot of people dedicating themselves to helping & the “School of Youth for Social Service” that was set up by monastics/social workers during the Vietnam War could be a shared aspiration beyond mutual aid as we know it today.

@dklawhorn.bsky.social noticed this in Lynchburg and suspected Liberty university…

Fucking surreal that people dressed like this and carrying assault rifles are permitted to kidnap people off our streets

Somehow missed the use of LRAD military grade sound weapons being used in Portland protesters?

starting to feel like the country is taking a Too Big To Fail approach to the Epstein files and paired with all the fascism and Horrors it kind of feels ripe for major systems change and I think we should discuss that more openly tbh

Here's a unique local Black history doc my dad made about Joseph Roane, a brilliant agronomist from Virginia's Northern Neck who moved with his family to the Soviet Union during the fiercest years of Jim Crow. Their son, named Yosif Stalin Roane, was born in the Soviet Union. Kremlin to Kremlin

We've got a pretty cool program planned for tomorrow, join us live if you can, I'll post the recording when its up too. Register here...

ICE tear gassed a bunch of children on Saturday. This was a massive escalation of force. They were shooting tear gas at the back of the crowd, it took these unmasked people maybe 3-5 minutes in the cloud of tear gas to escape in without trampling. www.theverge.com/policy/87278...

Is this kind of snow the reason colonial buildings have those little snow guards? To keep the sheets of ice falling on people? Fburg has these on so many buildings but I never saw them in action, we just never got that type of snow.

Didn’t get to post this yesterday, but a fun read about the origins of Ghog day in PA Dutch folklore.

Going through some 1930s era folk music news clippings & Im always amazed at how much the term “Anglo Saxon” is used. I know it was used in eugenics language/legislation, but I really feel like weve largely forgotten its role in creating the language for early 20 century white supremacist movements.

If we assume long-term accelerated warming, then we'll be breaking the Paris limit of 1.5°C before the year is out.

Wow just realized the weight of the snow coming off our roof crushed my canoe today. It crushed it. Huge cracks in the fiberglass. It sounded like the building was falling down when it fell.

Aldona & myself have been researching the Virginia Folklore Society for almost 10 years & tonight the new steering committee for the VFS has decided on a mission statement. If anyone out there would like to get involved in this ongoing effort to revive the VFS please get in touch! ❤️‍🔥🪕

Forgot to say that he has spoken with several old timers from around here and no one has ever seen anything like this snow before.

Sharing some of my own experience, research materials, and rare audio from the Gladden/Smith family ahead of our talk this week, which is free, and will also be recorded if anyone wants to check it out later on. ❤️‍🔥🪕

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

You cannot talk about the measles outbreak without talking about the widespread erosion of public health - from vaccines to COVID mitigations. ICE facilities have been wracked with TB, measles, and COVID outbreaks. Community spread stops with you. Wear a fit tested N95.

Talking to my neighbor on the phone about global warming.

loosely aspiring to have the movie start on the even hours, 2nd screening starting momentarilyyyy! videoteca-nod.org pw: stickybuns

This is a really cool local piece about a lesser known Free Town community nearby in Orange co VA. A Trip to Little Petersburg substack.com/home/post/p-...

Please enjoy 10 seconds of a fat groundhog enjoying an apple at my sister's house 😊

My family always went to Buxton in the winter because it was cheaper haha, but I have so many memories of the beach at wintertime, walking the woods near the lighthouse national park. Surreal to see it nibbled away by sea level rise and erosion.

This material history of American slavery looks great. 2026 Black History Month Lecture Tickets | Stratford Hall Historic Preserve

Unbelievable, Punxatawney Phil predicts a partial government shutdown is on the way.