now we've been talking about this fringe cult of scary right-wing assholes for weeks, and I know you've been thinking to yourself, "but Claire, when do we get to the part where they blame this on homosexuals?" come on, bestie! would I let you down like that?? of COURSE they blame it on homosexuals!

it is extremely funny that these guys are the same kind of people who always sneer at "cafeteria Catholics" for picking and choosing what teachings to follow, and it really did blow my mind to realize they think of the Archbishop of Canterbury as a schismatic Catholic in the year of our Lord 2026

JFC, these ghouls.

"The second hour being solely for student-led class discussion was wonderful!" I'm dead. Do not resuscitate until I can teach Jane Austen again.

"That's what I always wanted: music as a space for reflection on the human condition. You want people to not be settled in their beliefs; you want to challenge their beliefs through music, in some way." Happy Birthday George E. Lewis born July 14, 1952

I have achieved a life milestone I didn’t even dream to imagine for myself: My likeness made in Lego format with my @bunchbike.com … for the second time. I love the silliness so much. 😆

This pun gave me an idea for a new name for the ensemble: Public Sax Forest

This is so awesome.

As someone (an optician) who used to work there, Warby Parker was almost always my first rec for glasses, and I deeply appreciated their ethical impact and transparency to employees. I no longer recommend the company in any way, as they are partnering with google and samsung to make AI glasses.

Natalia Goncharova backcloth and tutu for #Stravinsky Firebird, now housed in V&A Storehouse

the wedge live band of all saxophonists is called george and the michaels and they played the sax part of “careless whisper” under a bridge by the mississippi river after we biked here

Daniel Spoerri's An Anecdoted Topography of Chance (Something Else Press, 1966), wherein Spoerri catalogues the items on his table. I love all these recursive authors' and translators' notes :)

Take away all the free time and the opportunities to experience boredom and then say omg nobody’s reading. Classic

You have one more week to see “Modern Art and Politics in Germany, 1910-1945” at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.

When Minneapolis is facing hostile policy, they know when the meetings are going to be, they get loud, and people show up. We need to do that. Nothing will change if we don't show up.

Wash your hands after getting your mail I guess. How can we help these USPS workers?

“Celebrate” by Pitbull

💔💔💔

I think there’s a lot for Critical AI to learn from the mass society / propaganda roots of comm studies — and radical publishing + radio — of the early 20th c; the TV critics + radical media collectives / community media centers of the 60s + 70s…

Tip/reminder for newbie doomers: if you’re coming here to say “resistance is futile, earthlings,” you’re supposed to do the voices too.

Awesome /s. Now do “protest is ineffective.” You know you want to…

News you can use!

If you haven’t been to a 2 hour meeting on updating the snow shoveling ordinance you aren’t going to have a clue how to get us universal health care

It's been real bad again, including a bunch this morning. Eyes out, neighbors.

in other words, making time (and space) orionmagazine.org/article/maki...

at last…………. i am becoming notorious for my pamphlets

as of april there were still over 500 minnesotans detained in tx - how many of them are still stuck sahanjournal.com/immigration/...

oh YES the radio k kids are pushing ska this summer 🦨🎺🏁

I want our next Dem president to bring back the WPA and just build infrastructure all across this country again. Build green energy, trains, housing, etc. We can have nice things (and nice bathrooms), but we have to invest in ourselves!

I loved working on this issue of @mlnjournal.bsky.social on the contemporary resonance of Rilke's poetry. This issue (open access!) includes 6 new translations by Edward Snow (audio coming soon). I also learned that Lady Gaga has a Rilke verse tattooed on her left arm.

Is there any Senator or Rep who voted for H.Con.Res.86 (war powers act) willing to speak up and defend congress’s constitutional power to declare (or not declare) whether the US is at war with Iran? www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

Lord knows we need the fucking work. Hell, I’d sign up immediately if it meant a steady paycheck and a chance to help my community

Can you believe it's just oil paint on flat panels? Almost miraculous. Annunciation as trompe l'oeil sculpture by Jan van Eyck, d. OTD 1441.

New: Back in 2018, I published a summary of studies and surveys about the prevalence of racism in the criminal justice system for the Wash. Post. The idea was for it to be a regularly updated resource. The Post hasn't updated it since I left. So I've updated and reproduced it at The Watch.

just got the bargaining update and the csu is practically begging us to strike

Sacre bleus! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Second, Rose Horowitch has written an essay which is decidedly about U.S. literacy. And that’s fine & good. The Atlantic has always been a decidedly nationalistic magazine. American deliteracy is a BIG DEAL! But the framing makes it seem like this is a stage of human development. It isn’t. 4/

Thanks to @hwfmorris.bsky.social for this lovely little review of my latest album in today’s New York Times! Hat tip, to Howard Skempton also, without whom I might not have become a composer. @ucddublin.bsky.social @cmcireland.bsky.social @nmcrecordings.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/a...

Tudor 100 Tudor 100 assembles musicians, artists, academics and curators for a two day programme celebrating the life and work of the pioneering electronic composer and pianist David Tudor to mark the centenary year Cafe OTO. 24-25 September 2026 www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/tudor...

Seriously I have a book project where this is the argument

narrative shmarrative, gimme the lyric

Coming up in the next two days at the @zfl-berlin.bsky.social: workshop titled “Transatlantic Print Entrepreneurs: Mobility, Publishing Cultures, and Partial Archives in the Mid- and Late-Nineteenth Century” organized by Sean Franzel and @spoerhase.bsky.social. 🌈🌈🌈 www.zfl-berlin.org/event/transa...

He’s an associate professor of comparative literature but coaches the Swiss men‘s soccer team during his “summers off.”

Ok seriously where can I get a breakfast burrito on Lake street? Lito’s and Andy’s don’t open until 10am.

Weather Aboveground is this anything

🎼 “this land is sto-len, this land was tak-en…” 🎶

Yesterday, 33 shackled ICE detainees were flown away from their homes in Minnesota, bringing the week's total to 70, the most since the end of Metro Surge. Stats: ottergoose.net/ice-flights-msp/data