Incredible festival, by us and for us #CovidCautious folks! So affirming to spend 5 days online with other covid-safer performers making art from & around our experiences of the last 6y. Really looking forward to what's next from all the organizers and artists!

It's been A TIME lately but I'm so excited to be at #InspireAirAwareFest w so many incredible CC performers! I'm bummed I wasn't able to perform due to my housing situation, but I'm so thrilled to be in the house for y'all - *Do not sleep* on @augustalees.bsky.social or @lilyslays.bsky.social!

Bets on how long until the USian head of state latches onto this as his new reason to invade Canada?

BREAKING: Medical examiner says death of ICE detainee was a HOMICIDE - a witness says he was choked to death by GUARDS. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.

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Right on cue. This is looking like it's going to be the American Reichtag.

I needed this today

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

I needed this today

There’s a bitter irony in these headlines.

What can history teach us about what happens when a populist strongman with an idiosyncratic taste for low interest rates undermines central bank independence?

One week til my 1st show since 2024! It's a weird time, but I'm hoping to leave everyone feeling enraged, empowered, connected w community, centered in the truth of this moment. Series tends to sell out! Get those tickets soon. Masks required. Tix: cleanaireventspresents.ticketspice.com/mollylele

Loser Mike Johnson hopes we forgot about extending ACA tax credits while he was on Christmas vacation. Let’s make it very clear how wrong he is:

Wow. This is some pretty next level twisting of the law. I hope the courts can slow this down.

In broader community, there is a lot of holding my breath / feeling crazy, and limiting my time there. Judgement and hostility. I'm grateful Seattle has a strong #CC community, which keeps me sane. But it's not big enough I can replace a housemate spot quickly, or find anything for my sequins NYE.

This is why I love yiddish culture tbh

Today's #YNY2025 shitpost so far: In Susan Watts online class about the Hoffman tunebook recently compiled by her, Hankus Netsky, Dr (! When did I miss that) Hannah Ochner, Ilana Kravitz. She's got video interviews she did w Hankus about these tunes for historical context. (Cont)

Ouch, that #SpinelessSpeaker Johnson quote. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Last full day of #YNY2025! And ofc I'm 15m late to AM1 😂😭 but, I'm better slept that yesterday *and* will catch more of it than yesterday, & finally have my tech transitions between spaces / classes a little more figured out! Now I just have to not let the windstorm in Seattle knock me out today 😤

Happy to see that the @forward.com has an article out today about the digitial klezmer manuscript project I worked on as a volunteer in 2020-21.😁many fond memories of poking around looking at high-resolution chickenscratch scores of klezmer magnum opuses dating to the 1890s in some cases

Y'all I fucking hate christmas, but this new genre I'm seeing where it's a christmas song but twisted for a doomy shitpost is KILLING ME 🤣

1940s Yiddish catposting (morgen zhurnal)

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📽️ WATCH: After a bird flu outbreak tore through Midwestern barns, which led to 18 million hens being killed and a spike in egg prices, the Department of Agriculture didn’t investigate whether the virus was airborne. But ProPublica did. @natlash.bsky.social breaks it down: propub.li/4iVcYfD

One week til I make my faculty debut at #YiddishNewYork #YNY2025! If how much I'm cackling at the tweaks to this 3rd iteration of this class are any indication, this is going to be a hugely fun and wild speedrun through history in just 4 sessions. Can't wait! til PM2!

The US just bombed four more boats due to suspected “narco terrorists” on board. This time they were in the Pacific 14 people have been killed No trial . No evidence. Just murdered. Mexico’s Navy is currently searching for one lone survivor. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Hell yeah! 🚨 NEW: 22 states, DC, and 3 governors just filed a legal challenge over a $5 billion “contingency fund” meant to keep SNAP benefits going.

To quote my friend @drkatemarvel.bsky.social, climate change won't make humanity extinct but we can do better than "not extinct". Raise your standards people!

Excellent band names from one of my student's lessons today, talking about her cat and politics: Meat Apple Marie Antoinette's Perfumed Goats Please show me what genres those would be

Proof of life! (Tho RIP my hair 🥴💀) Covid-safer #LiveMusic is alive & well in #Seattle. So many fab folks in mask chains, #covidcautious musicians, new friends (tho no new housemate leads!) - not bad for an insomnia/Bad Body Day. @cleanairevents.bsky.social ftw! Looking forward to November's. 🍂✨️🍁

Here are 10 practical tips, based on Retana’s advice, for talking to kids about ICE raids and helping them cope with fear and uncertainty. Each point is presented in english y español. The full guide: lataco.com/kids-ice-tal... By Erick Galindo

Millions of Americans are working without pay in Federal and Air Traffic Controller jobs while White House continues construction of 200 Million$ Ballroom during the Government Shutdown. Unbelievable people voted for this illiterate clown 👇

👍🏽 Share if you want Rep. Adelita Grijalva of Arizona sworn in. Mike Johnson says he'll swear her in whenever she wants. She's wanted to be sworn in since she won her election in a landslide! RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES

Arrest her?

As long as Donald Trump continues to invade our blue States and blue cities with troops and federal agents, and continues to weaponize the DOJ going after his political opponents — every blue State needs to withhold 100% of federal taxes. The red states would crumble and so would Trump.

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system. I am not fearful — I am fearless. We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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The question remains: will the administration care or change course at all? The path here has been paved with broken court orders

I'm in (post-moveout/pre-movein between housemates) cleaning hell tonight, keeping myself preoccupied with basement-cleaning-inspired bandnames. Best so far: The Dirty Web, though I'm reconsidering with Scorched Earth Policy

The cat is out of the bag! My 500 Years of #Yiddish Bangers online class got accepted to #YiddishNewYork 2025! It's PM2 (4:15 EST) Dec 21-24 for one of the funnest crash course Intro To #Yiddishland - combination turntable intervention/ historical amuse bouche. www.yiddishnewyork.com #YNY2025

Anyone else a little shocked by how many folks you thought were left of center enough to understand Kirk was a Nazi are big mad right now and saying you need to have empathy for him?

Still looking for a #covid-cautious housemate in Seattle! Bonus of doing this now: patio meetup and space tour comes with garden treats.

I needed this today