Bread & Puppet’s Fall 2025 circus tour is complete! Check out our final tour log.

Putting out a wish to the universe that @hellgatenyc.com covers Bread & Puppet's Brooklyn show. breadandpuppet.org/tour

Thank you, whoever made this. mamdanitimes.com

Bread & Puppet summer is in full swing. Shows continue on the farm through the end of August. BreadAndPuppet.org/Farm

I actually don't think she should be able to have a moments rest until she explains why Andrew Cuomo is fine but Al Franken is not. Like someone should follow her around with a bullhorn screaming the question at her.

I appreciate that, unlike the ever-evasive Times, Hell Gate just says the thing. It’s like reading good directing. They see and aren’t afraid to name what’s happening on stage plainly.

The NYT is amazing

There must be some middle ground between the Delacorte’s ultra-hardcore rain-won’t-stop-us policy and Little Island’s we-sense-a-mist-so-we’re-pausing-the-show-oh-wait-make-that-canceling-it approach. I appreciate the caution, but it’s awfully frustrating.

“Don’t rank Cuomo” chant broke out at the No Kings march down Fifth Ave.

Early voting starts today. Why wait?

Why are the mayoral candidates not cross endorsing each other?

“….heaven and hell take place on Earth. Therefore, our destinies are created by mortals, not by gods, and are in our hands. While it is impossible for every part of life to be heavenly, hell is too often a humanly imposed reality…” - Sarah Schulman in The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity

Is that you, Faust?

Im voting for Zohran

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Here is the grad speech that NYU is now withholding the student's diploma for: "As I search my heart today in addressing you all…the only thing that is appropriate to say in this time and to a group this large is a recognition of the atrocities currently happening in Palestine."

Kensington for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social !

“The further on we go, the more meaning there is, but the less articulable. You live your life, and the older you get —the more specificity you harvest— the more precious becomes every ounce and spasm. Your life and times don't drain of meaning because they become more contradictory…🧵

Canvas for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

Will we support a president as impactful as our current one, perhaps one who would bully the courts like FDR, someone who will move fast and make things, and enact something like a New Deal to restore and recreate what’s been lost? And further, one who will fight to move us to somewhere totally new?

How do we get to the other side?

Stunning.

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Bread & Puppet’s tour has a few weeks left! Don’t miss them! breadandpuppet.org/tour #breadandpuppet #politicaltheater #puppetry #ceasefirenow

What if our choice in November is Cuomo, Adams, or Sliwa? What then?

Yes.

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Mephistopheles is everywhere, making his case.

Temptation by Vaclav Havel, 1986

Maybe the second war history book I’ve ever read. While I don’t really care about the front line moving back and forth, or who had more horses, I did find this fascinating. I’m thinking a lot about how the ideas that animate a revolution can get away from the originator, in this case, Martin Luther.

Anyone who understands more history than me: I wonder how we should view recent attacks on judges and talk of ousting them, while knowing that much of the New Deal was passed with at least somewhat similar bullying tactics, mainly court packing. Any good reading on this?

“Orpheus II,” 2021 Louie Van Patten oil on arches paper

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

To stay grounded, I journal, meditate, and read this email every day.

Kyle Dunn (American, 1990) - Devil in the Daytime (2025)

If Faust doesn’t believe in the Devil or his promise of hell, what is he doing when he conjures Him? If he does believe, why does he take the deal?

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“Every revolution must be nourished by dreams of a new world.” - Summer of Fire and Blood by Lyndal Roper

Puppet show! Another tour booked by yours truly. Get your tickets at BreadAndPuppet.org/tour #puppet #puppetry #breadandpuppet

Joan Miro 1950

When someone describes someone or something as "creative," I truly don't know what that means. What is it to be creative or possess creativity? Experiencing something, what inspires the descriptor, "creative"?

Magnus Enckell (1870-1925) By the Window

“Give me a night that's romantic and long, but give me a month to get ready”

“Journalists, artists, musicians, and authors already know the answer to these questions: you try to hang on, cobbling together freelance gigs, for as long as you can, and then you leave the business…”

Museum Opening, Friday night shows, Circuses, Pageants, and more! Get your tickets to a Summer show on the Bread & Puppet Farm. breadandpuppet.org/on-the-farm #breadandpuppet

“The progressive had their chance and most of them lost it — sometimes because they failed to see it, sometimes because they saw it but failed to grasp it, and sometimes because they were so busy quarreling among themselves that after grasping it they let it sleep from their hands…”

Trump Unable To Focus In Meeting As Pressure Of Booking Kennedy Center Summer Jazz Series Looms theonion.com/trump-u...

New York! We’ve got the chance to freeze rent, make busses free, have universal childcare and city-owned grocery stores! Vote for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social ! 🌹

Hope is earned through study, through digging, through opening, and through finding the people who do these things. They exist. - @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social