Proof that the MAGA movement is all about racism and control, and not making anything "great": These nationalists are pining for a time in the past when things were "better". When is that time? The 1950s. End of story. That's it. Wait. What? You don't understand? Fine, I'll lay it out for you:

Even if the federal minimum wage had ONLY kept up with inflation, it would STILL be $10.81 today. That's just a taste of how incredibly sick our current situation is. #eattherich #nobillionaires #payyourfairshare

Intermediate to advanced clarinet students: If you don't have a copy of Paul Jeanjean's Vade Mecum du Clarinettiste, you should get one. If you think your finger technique is on point, work out of this book and learn that you have a lot of work yet to do. It's fantastic!

Holy buckets. I had forgotten how fun the Bassi Rigoletto Fantasia was once you start getting it (back) under your fingers. Now, if I can just match Corrado Giufreddi's tempo at the end (quarter note=172), I'll be ready to go for my next recital!

Today's warmup was so bad, I feel like I need to do nothing but spend my life working out of the Vade-Mecum for the next week without allowing myself to touch actual music. Does my brain even remember that I have fingers that are supposed to work independently? It doesn't seem like it.

Bizarre freak accident: Scanning REED 1 for "A Connecticut Yankee". I removed the binding to use ADF. Scanner is directly next to paper shredder. Table of contents fell PERFECTLY in the shredder slot! Bye bye, page. WHEW! these books are all copies. Scanner got turned off after that!

Question time! Give me your clarinet or saxophone questions, and I'll do my best to answer them. Have a playing problem you'd like help with? Let me know! Has there always been something bugging you about these instruments? I can help! Need advice as far as equipment? Ask! Give me your questions!

This week, I'm with the Oregon Mozart Players! I am honored to be included. This concert will present the winners of the young artist competition. OMP will also join with the Eugene Eugene-Springfield Youth Orchestras! So, I get to play with an old student as well! www.oregonmozartplayers.org

The US was stress tested in 2016, 2020, and 2024–and it abysmally failed the test. No country on earth ever fell so far so fast. Unfortunately the damage though it may be mitigated can never be undone. The great book of the history of the US will end with a moron elected twice by a nation of morons.

Sunday, May 4th at 2:30!

Listening to Jimmy Bosch and his Salsa band was the absolute best choice I have made to maintain my sanity at my brainless day job today. #salsamusic

I would much rather live next to anyone else... Immigrant, BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, "illegal" or not, than live near any white christo-fascist nationalist. #downwithfascism #nationalismisnottheway #punchnazis

Of course, when I start working outside, my equipment immediately fails. I give up.. Stupid string trimmer....

Caitlin Everett # 8566 Alexander Everett #8565 Sgt Jacob Briskey #6824 Jason Marchione #8490 Sgt Scott Bach #6711 Sgt Detective Michael Settle #6625 Share so these F’ers can’t hide. They #FAFO so now they need to pay the consequences! #notofascism

One more for the day

NEWS: Hong Kong has suspended postal service for all goods being sent to the United States, saying the U.S is "unreasonable, bullying, and imposing tariffs abusively."

ICE has just sent an innocent 19-year old young man named Merwil Gutiérrez to El Salvador to die in the same concentration camp. He wasn’t even their target, and they kidnapped him anyway. Jesus Christ, people. Wake up.

This happened in Boston. Trump's ICE Gestapo just took away a little girl in a Winnie the Pooh shirt who was on her way to school. 🥺🥺🥺👇

Trump just caved to Big Pharma—again. His new executive order pushes to delay Medicare drug price negotiations, giving drug companies four extra years to price gouge seniors. The only winners here are the drug companies.

Today was one of those days, as an adult with a family and a part time job, that I never did get to do any practicing. It hurts me physically every time that happens. If you have the opportunity, get some time practicing. Don't take a second of that time for granted.

No professed Christian has any business celebrating Easter while doing nothing to free an innocent man and to condemn the people who placed him in chains. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/if-your-ch...

A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

Wow let's surround this guy with our support that's call him let's thank him let's keep him in our prayers and let's hope he is successful.

The vast majority of cane is grown in France and Argentina That means if you use reeds, they will be subject to those idiotic tarrifs in less than 90 days. Yes, that includes synthetic reeds like Légère, and Forestone. Venn, and the Silverstein synthetics are made in the US.

Hey! Reed players! Listen up! I highly recommend that you all purchase your year's worth of reeds NOW. Most reeds are not made in this country, and even if they are, like D'Addario, the cane they are made from is not grown here.

Check out this upcoming concert by the Eugene Concert Choir. It is Joan Szymko's Shadow and Light. This piece explores Alzheimer's. It is one of the top 5 most important works of my life. Please click on the link below and purchase your tickets now: eugeneconcertchoir.org/2024-2025-se...

Cory Booker for president. That is all.

As an American Jew I cannot express how much less safe I feel living in a country where people can be snatched off the street and institutions can be bankrupted for making Dear Leader mad

What we don't seen to understand is how much danger we are actually in. 1930s Germany was a crippled, sickly thing that mustered a military, basically in secret, big enough to challenge all of Europe. We are not crippled nor sickly. We have the strongest military in the world. See what's up?

Might save a life.

Email list for all DOGE employees Please ReSkeet!

I think it might be time to start buying and stashing gold. This crypto grift the 🍊💩 and his family is running, along with the Muskrats' invasion of our private information, AND the fact that these tech bros have been pushing us father and father away from physical currency is terrifying.

Good!

"25th Annual Putnam County Spring Bee" is objectively hilarious. Or is perfect for me and my 15 year old son. #musicaltheater #livetheater

The only one I patronize anyway is Pepsi. I have some in the basement, but I will purchase no more until they change that

Future elected Democrats must check ALL boxes. □ I will fearlessly fight fascism □ I will fight for my constituents without fear of reprisal □ I will leave the confines of Washington DC to use my pulpit throughout every US state to organize the American people against tyranny when it arises

🚨 RUBELLA HAS ENTERED THE CHAT Please listen to this update by @bettyb2007.bsky.social! Measles is EXPLODING, not just in Texas (😷 up, San Antonio & San Marcos!), but Australia and Canada. And now rubella is back as well. Note: brain worm isn’t giving the updates. youtu.be/udXQ_Udb5WQ?...

I didn't think I was capable of feeling any more shame for what America has become. I was wrong.

I needed this as a palette cleanser today!

I post this a LOT. I have never meant this more sincerely than today.

And to think we could have had a sane, serious government run by an intelligent person who would have acted in the best interests of Americans, and not Vladimir Putin.

In 1989 the US was "The shining city on the hill." Today we have become Barad-dûr. #USembarrasment #wearethebadguys #standwithukraine

We are a disgusting disgrace of a country. youtu.be/uqOOOR7Kr-s?...

That's the most 🐎💩, disrespectful, pointless, garbage question that could have been asked someone literally fighting for the life of his country.

If this current regime is successful with their plans, they will be complicit in the deaths of my family members. No, I won't moderate my tone. #oligarchy #itsaboutthecruelty #americanfascism #medicareforall