That's home. That's us.

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew.

Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right.

Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

Charles Joseph Smith brings his music aboveground  - Chicago Reader Charles Joseph Smith is a beloved fixture on Chicago’s DIY scene, but the ambitious music he's been making for decades has gone mostly unheard—until now.

My latest Reader music feature is all about Dr. Charles Joseph Smith, a classically trained pianist and pillar of Chicago DIY who is about to release a multi-disc archival compilation on @sooperrecords.bsky.social

33 year old Leqaa Kordia has FINALLY been released after one year in ICE custody. (📷: @gazamom)

Leqaa came to the US ten years ago on a student visa. She was detained for her participation in a Palestine protest, held 1,500 miles away from home, and kept in harrowing conditions.

The last photo of third-grader Mikaeil Mirdoraghi, waving to his mom before he left for school. He was killed shortly after in the U.S./Israeli strike on a primary school in Minab.

Sending love! Very grateful to have your art in my life.

Immigration judge terminates removal proceedings against child development scholar Rümeysa Öztürk - ACLU of Massachusetts Judge determines DHS lacks legal grounds to deport Ms. Öztürk, who was arrested and detained by ICE for co-authoring an op-ed

“Today, I breathe a sigh of relief knowing that despite the justice system’s flaws, my case may give hope to those who have also been wronged by the U.S. govt," said Rümeysa Öztürk.

"When we openly talk about the many injustices around us ..., true justice will prevail.”

I just read the declaration that Kira Kelley asked J. Blackwell to consider.
This immigrant describes being
-unlawfully arrested
-taken from one overcrowded & filthy prison to another over 19 days
-held incommunicado
& ICE never telling him a court ordered his release

He describes an American gulag

A CD case resting on a window sill. The CD is Daniel Schmidt and the Berkeley Gamelan - In My Arms, Many Flowers

Daniel Schmidt and the Berkeley Gamelan - In My Arms, Many Flowers

My 5am cold plunge routine helped me fit 15 more songs on my band’s new ep 💪💪

Drawing by 5 year old held in concentration camp in Texas by Trump Administration. It’s a pencil drawing of 4 stick figures with frowns behind a chain link fence depicted by a dozens of vertical and horizontal lines. Written in child-like letters, it says “Let us go” and “I am 5 years old.”

Here is the child’s drawing.

Immigrant families protest at Texas facility housing 5-year-old boy, father detained in Minnesota Dozens of immigrant families protested behind the fences of a Texas detention facility where a 5-year-old boy Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent this week after being detained in Minnesota.

“That children and their parents would risk retribution under these conditions to speak up is a testament both to how courageous they are and how abysmal the conditions of this place is,” he said.

Alex Pretti from his early days working at the VA

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

A large bird that i’m pretty sure is a red-tailed hawk on a chimney

I was surprised to see this red-tailed hawk (?) across the street yesterday

Perfect order. I’m insanely jealous of you for this

Mayor Mamdani Signs EO to Revitalize Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants and Appoints Cea Weaver as Director

Well here’s some good news

Looks so good! i’m jealous

‘Paying Rent to This Landlord Is Rewarding Neglect’: NYC Tenants Rally as Pinnacle Faces Bankruptcy As Pinnacle Group’s rent-stabilized buildings head to auction, residents on rent strike are warning would-be buyers not to overlook the years of disrepair that made them unlivable.

93 buildings owned by one of the city's most irresponsible and overleveraged landlords, Joel Weiner's Pinnacle Group, are currently in bankruptcy auction and tenants are fighting for a say in future ownership

Stabilization and Speculation | Cea Weaver Struggles over New York City’s housing policy

writing on this problem in the context of Mamdani's proposed rent freeze, @ceaweaver.bsky.social recently argued the city should buy rent stabilized buildings owned by overleveraged & irresponsible landlords to remove them from the cycle of disinvestment & speculation

Don't Take Us Back: Examining History and Ownership in Rent Stabilized Housing - ANHD About the Report Amid growing conversations about potential financial distress among rent stabilized buildings, this report brings together historical context and new research on ownership of rent sta...

this is a great new report from @anhdnyc.bsky.social on speculative investment's role in driving financial distress in NYC's rent stabilized apartment portfolios

Pharoah Sanders - Karma

Thanks Matt! I’ve really enjoyed reading about your recent listening in this fall’s Tall Grass Dispatches

Autechre - Sign

The second LaserDisc Rip today is rarer than the first, and also is by Japanese City Pop artist Tats Yamashita.

Early 90s. New York City. Real people. A single day documented from morning to midnight. Christmas comes early this year:

Christmas in New York.

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Isao Tomita - Snowflakes Are Dancing

Nala Sinephro - Space 1.8 CD on top of a stack of jewel cases sitting on the window sill

Nala Sinephro - Space 1.8

Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou - Piano Solo CD sitting on the window sill

Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou - Piano Solo

Holding the CD Bill Evans Live in Tokyo in front of my boombox

Bill Evans - Live in Tokyo

starting a now listening thread to justify my used cd habit, sorry in advance

everything about this is stupid and evil but the bit at the end, that betting markets generate insights that are useful in any way, is so funny. thank god i have access to the wisdom of the crowd when debating “how hot will it be in LA today” or “what will Jeff Probst say on Survivor episode 11”