Working on some new merch ideas (when I should be doing real work)... Another remixed Pettibon album cover... #merch #solarpunk #sonicyouth #solarpower #solarpostpunk

Everything they are doing & saying right now is very obviously meant to clear the way for mass repressive violence. Fact checking is not going to do shit. Talking about kitchen table issues is not going to do shit. We need open, unapologetic defiance & conflict.

Today I was told to censor some text about my research because the department is appealing a funding cut and didn't want evidence of anti-trump activity on anything public facing... We're cooked and we're surrounded by cowards.

I've been reworking my #solar record player project to include in my upcoming book. It's getting close! Really distorted, but still musical enough to easily know what it should sound like. The circuit and mechanism isn't too bad either! #solarart #solarpunk #solarpower

I've been finalizing the projects for my new book of #solarpower art tutorials. This is an optical disc sequencer, included in the #soundart chapter. (The book should be available sometime in 2026)

I spent most of August finalizing projects for the sound art chapter of my new #solarpower art tutorials book. This is an optical sequencer - basically a light based drum machine. (Being published by Make, expected sometime in 2026)

It's up! Rachel Webb Jekanowski @alexnathanson.bsky.social and I muse on what the public humanities might look like if we focused less on bringing high culture to the people & more on helping publics make culture we can study--in this instance, solar-powered art! academic.oup.com/isle/advance...

The Energy Department's closure of the Solar for All program is anti-poor and part of a larger draconian policy agenda rooted in racism. www.dezeen.com/2025/08/14/e...

I'm recruiting participants for a paid demand response user experience study in NYC! A demand response event is a 4-hour period of time in the summer where electricity usage is high and the utility offers to pay energy consumers to turn off appliances. More info at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I'm teaching 4 #solar power art workshops in NYC this July! More info and tickets at www.eventbrite.com/e/solar-powe...

👏 Make 👏 Nathan 👏 Fielder 👏 Transportation 👏 Secretary

Across the five boroughs, our volunteers knocked on more than 86,000 doors... just in the past week. We've now knocked 430,000+ doors at 1,006 different neighborhood canvasses since we launched our field program in January. This is truly unprecedented.

In Trump 1, my go-to mantra was the Brecht quote "As crimes pile up they become invisible." For Trump 2, this Adorno quote about Brecht is a strong contender

I don't agree with everything Fain says, but we desperately need a worker-centered justice-oriented political machine in this country. As a UAW member I'm glad to hear him defend Mahmoud. If youre looking for a different perspective on tariffs, it's worth a listen. www.youtube.com/live/6xVVzvR...

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More than 1,800 academics, including art historians and art professors, have committed to boycotting Columbia University in an open letter denouncing the school’s compliance with Trump administration crackdowns on pro-Palestinian dissent.

"Samira Moyheddin recently wrote, '...Don’t stay in jobs where your knowledge is a liability.' [We are compelled] to say out loud, all the time, that if the university has become a place where our knowledge—of genocide, Palestine, racism, fascism—is a liability, then we must change the university."

I made this functioning solar panel mosaic in 2017 and barely exhibited it, so I'm particularly happy for it to be in this year's Solar Biennale at Mudac. Every time I return to it my feelings about it change. Unfortunately, it feels more relevant than ever.

Grab a copy of my book A History of Solar Power Art and Design! Student, educator, and activist discounts available!

In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…

NY State should take Trump Tower by eminent domain and turn it into refugee housing.

That's an expensive game so they really hate this car

Guest lecturing at Wash U today!

In a hotel in St Louis and just learned they broadcast protests on CSPAN?! Biomedical grad students researching diseases in disadvantaged communities who had their funding cut are out in these streets fighting Elon Musk.

NYC‼️ Join Rise and Resist and other groups to RESIST THE DICTATORS on Presidents Day—TOMORROW—Monday in Union Square (14th St) at 1PM. Peaceful demo, bring your friends! ​INFO: actionnetwork.org/events/resis... #PresidentsDay #EndOligarchy #StopTheCoup #ResistTheDictators #RiseandResist #Resist

TFW your PhD committee wants you to confirm some data and the DoE link no longer works and you're not sure if it just changed or if it's a coup.

Today's the day! We're now officially selling our 50 watt #solar panel window mount system! Designed for renters with double-hung windows between 22"-36.5" wide. Free shipping for early adopters! Link in bio! #solarpower #solardesign #energy #der #climate #energytransition #pv #nyc #windowsolar

Folks are shocked that their institutions, after professing commitments to climate justice and DEI, are now caving to Trump and scrubbing all references. It's brutal. And it's the smallest taste of what our students felt when their universities called in the cops b/c they protested a genocide.

Every semester I require my undergrad art and design students to make their own manifesto. Zoe Leonard's piece is one of my favorite examples. It felt particularly important bringing this into the classroom today, especially as a contrast to Apple's 'Heres to the Crazy Ones' ad.

Excited to share our newest design: a 50 watt #solar panel window mount designed for renters! Join the wait-list to be the first to know when we start selling them! Link in bio. #climate #energytransition

Americans spent the last 80 years making fun of the French for not putting up much of a fight against the Nazis, but seem really complacent about these new Nazis taking over most of the federal government.

We out here. Where are you?!

If the FCC is requesting the “full, unedited transcript and camera feeds” from CBS’s Harris interview, I’d, then, like to demand that NBC supply the “full, unedited feeds” from The Apprentice for the years when DJT hosted.

We obviously need a general strike.

Look, grist! (I mean content) . A recent #solar sounder experiment with a VCO. #noise #solarart #solardesign #soundart #analogsynth #synth

Another user test of our 50 watt solar panel mount, designed for renters! This system is charging a 200Wh battery. Interested in a solar panel for your apartment? Join the wait list for early discounted access. Link in bio . #renter #apartment #solar #nyc #brooklyn #solarpower #energy #climate

I made this 6v solar cell mosaic piece back in 2017 and coincidentally I had to pack it up this week to be shown for the first time in a major show... #solar #mediaart #thismachinekillsfascists