Our pals @50501ky.bsky.social got the #NoKings protest happening tomorrow at Metro Hall at noon. If you're so inclined, come on out to #TeslaTakedown at 11 AM tomorrow for a little warm-up demo! Then jump on I-64 West, you'll be downtown in no time. Bring your rain gear, it's gonna be stormy!

Americana is a vital part of Louisville, and in particular the South Louisville neighborhood that I call home. Thanks to @signifyingwolf.bsky.social for playing this fundraiser to help them narrow the gap left by federal funds being illegally impounded by the Trump administration!

This gets better with every listen. mammasmysteriskajukebox.bandcamp.com/album/jjuliu...

The No Kings protest map will help you find a place to exercise your First Amendment rights this weekend. (It's also a pretty good argument against the Electoral College.) www.nokings.org

One of the things mentioned here is that they arrived in unmarked cars and wore casual clothing, so if staff hadn’t had the courage to tell them to go away, how would you know they were federal agents and not random adult men abducting children? This should be the biggest conservative mom panic ever

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Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear renews push for universal pre-K ahead of 2026 General Assembly. From WKU:

THEATRICAL THURSDAYS! May Day! International Workers Day! And so today’s selection is MATEWAN, the great John Sales film set in West Virginia during the coal wars as the miners’ attempts to unionize were met with violence by Big Coal thugs. #UnionStrong #Solidarity #MayDay

we are playing a benefit for the Americana Community Center and the Louisville Academy of Music givebutter.com/fN6kmX

NOW— Mass ICE arrests happened/are happening at the Manhattan immigration court at 290 Broadway on the 20th floor. I was just outside the building and an observer came out crying, confirmed they witnessed people getting detained outside courtrooms while families watched and wept.

Buy THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP at Left Bank Books! You can get it signed and help out a great independent bookstore affected by the St Louis tornado. Their review of the book below -- and a link to order here: www.left-bank.com/product/sign...

Fantastic ending to Baroness Kidron's speech in the House of Lords yesterday, which led to the government's defeat on AI & copyright. Speaking the UK's creators: "Their property, their labour, is worthy of your protection - because apart from anything else, it is not ours to give away."

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it’s hard to fathom how different our realities are

Wishing everyone a disruptive May Day 2025!

I think we downplay the role of social media algorithms and targeted disinformation campaigns in drawing voters to Trump and away from Democrats at our own risk — it’s frankly a refusal to reckon with reality. Social media has created a matrix-like info control environment.

I know a lot gets forgotten about the first Trump administration but they arrested a local judge for the exact same thing in 2019. This isn't the first time. This is a fascist move by this administration but one they've done before.

Perfect Days (2023) Dir. Wim Wenders #filmsky #movies #movie #cinema #film #films

The people I most want to see often don't appear in my feed anymore. There needs to be a way for us to suggest "more of this person." And for anyone who wants to claim this is a purely chronological sorting of people I follow—it absolutely isn't. Some people are being completely filtered out.

you can pretend it's Kennedy from MTV and she's talking about bassists

NYT needs to correct this disinformation right away. Its reporters are apparently clueless about what's actually going on out there. People with valid visas and green-card holders ARE ABSOLUTELY being deported right now for speech, and without criminal convictions.

ACENTOS con Luis de Leon todos los miercoles circa 2013! www.artxfm.com WXOX 97.1 FM

we have to make expanding the supreme court a litmus test in the dem presidential primary season, theres no other choice

Parents tend to worry about sending their kids off to college. Hard to imagine families from outside NYC being ok with this.

A lot of creative folks are demoralized right now. Hell, I'm one of them. Maybe some of them are helping you through this rough time. If so, do me a solid: Share their stuff. Drop them a kind word. Tip their Ko-fis, or join their Patreons. It seems like nothing, but it's everything right now. 🤘

Tim Barnes has been a huge part of my musical and personal landscape for a couple of decades. There are two beautiful records in which he plays a major part that are being released. Enjoy with full heart. timbarnes.lnk.to/lostwords timbarnes.lnk.to/noumena

Equity Arc, which trains young musicians of color, was set to play with the US Marine Band — until Trump's anti-DEI order canceled the show. But Chicago stepped up, and now the students will perform at @chicagosymphony.bsky.social on 4/6. Grab a free ticket and join me in cheering them on. cso.org

Everything here looks fascinating.

this came out really well, especially if you find dorks charming www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCKt... THANK YOU AMOEBA FOR YEARS OF EVERYTHING

“Today there isn’t a single state, metropolitan area, or county in the United States where a full-time worker earning the local minimum wage can afford a two-bedroom apartment.”

Not getting much attention, but the Senate GOP is about to start voting - to make sure banks can charge higher overdraft fees. Seriously. Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.

Today is Wednesday March 26th. Kentuckians please read and act. It's easy, I just did it, it takes five chill minutes. We need to protect our water, now for the future. For reals.

Today's word from A Word A Day is pejorism: the belief that the world is getting worse. wordsmith.org/words/pejori...