I ran sound for Labor in the Park, the festival of labor unions at IX today. First time I’ve seen a labor movement event like this in Charlottesville.

During a work trip to Austin last November, I visited the LBJ Library. In just a few years, our country passed an incredible volume of good legislation. Our country chose better lives for people. Our country chose a Great Society. Today’s regime is using this as a checklist for laws to rip apart.

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“The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power... The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?”

It makes me wistful to imagine living in a country with institutional trust levels this high. Even the tax collectors are ranked #8, with nearly 2/3rds of Swedes saying they trust it.

Today’s PSA, courtesy of the internet: STFU. Your silence is power.

The income needed to buy a median-priced home approximately doubled in four years.

This place can be really pretty sometimes

My annual Christmas wish, courtesy of Howard Zinn

Hey look! The FCC gave me an early Christmas present: another community radio frequency to use for programming that serves people’s needs

So that was a pretty impressive sky in Charlottesville

Spotify wrapped… So I went on a lot of long drives with my metalcore kid this year. And then developed my own System habit.

Sound advice from Debbie’s Drive-In in South Hill

Evidently, AI is coming for union organizer jobs, too www.ibtimes.com/ai-robot-upr...

I see we’re still doing “Cyber Monday” like it’s 1998 and the prefix “cyber” still feels vaguely hip.

I promoted my J-term class on the UVA subreddit and got the most delightful DMs