Robin, let’s talk

Black Sounds concert in Columbus. Featuring Talib Kweli, the Deal Breakers, and Starlit Ways, all repping central Ohio in its beautiful variety. Concert organized by grad students in Music and Comp Studies.

Totally fair assessment.

That you, Cathy.

I promise to live what’s left of my life the way that George plays his solo on I Should Have Known Better.

Great song.

Pinned Elon Musk @elonmusk Under the Biden administration, the FAA and other government agencies had absolutely insane hiring practices that endangered the public. President @realDonaldTrump and his team are working rapidly to restore competent personnel to all positions involving your safety.

FAA Leader Quit Before D.C. Plane Crash Thanks to Elon Musk The world's richest man apparently thought it was a good idea to bully the Federal Aviation Administration chief out of his job. The administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, Michael Whitaker, resigned from his position on January 20 after repeated demands from Elon Musk that he quit, leaving the agency without a Senate-confirmed leader during a major crisis in the wake of the D.C. plane crash. Musk called for Whitaker's resignation in September after the FAA chief proposed fining Musk's company SpaceX over $600,000 in civil penalties for failing to follow license requirements during two launches in 2023. Whitaker told a congressional panel at the time that fines were "the only tool we have to get compliance on safety matters."

Elon Musk suddenly going into overdrive to blame DEI, Obama, Biden...

likely because he doesn't want you to know that the FAA was without a leader during the DC plane crash thanks to him

DEI was not the demand, it was the settlement

Judith Butler · The Compass of Mourning · LRB 13 October 2023 We are to condemn or approve, and that makes sense, but is that all that is ethically required of us? In fact, I do...

“What if our morality and our politics did not end with the act of condemnation? What if we insisted on asking what form of life would release the region from violence such as this?” -Judith Butler’s latest

Me too

68 is the new 29!

Tell me about it.

All of these answers are correct.

Opinion | Our Economy Thrives on Bad Feelings Only by reckoning with how deep manufactured insecurity runs will it become possible to envision something different.

First excerpt from my new book:

“If inequality can be captured in statistics, insecurity requires talking about feelings: It is, to borrow a phrase from feminism, personal as well as political.”

www.nytimes.com/2023/08/18/opinion/inequ...

Astra Taylor on how we might come together as things fall apart! Read every word - no pull quotes do the job, but: “We work hard, shop hard, hustle, get credentialed, scrimp and save, invest, diet, self-medicate, meditate, exercise, exfoliate.” None of it provides “the security we crave.”

Love this piece.

www.nytimes.com/2023/08/18/opinion/inequ...

This is a great piece by @astra.bsky.social

Amazing control of tone as she states what should be obvious with total clarity.

This is a poster of the Long Ryders tour dates in Europe in October.

I feel sheepish to plug an upcoming project with all the woes of the world swirling around us but…deep breath…a band I am in tours 🇪🇺central Europe in October and I hope some of you folks will come check us out. 🎸🥁

Half-baked thought: maybe now all humanities professional orgs should have watchdog/activist committees to keep an eye on major assaults by legislatures, boards of trustees, etc.? a necessary shift, culturally? both for ready activism & for easy rallying nodes for orgs to communicate & band together

Hi buddy. Welcome. Glad you’re here!

jd vance is having a terrible night and i think that’s nice

Thanks to the people of Akron, Toledo, Dayton, Athens, and the 3Cs!

The cities of Ohio have pushed back against the Republican effort to cheat us of majority rule. Happy for all of us.

We voted. Hell, no!

Love that show.

Very frightening.

Believe me, growing up in the Midwest helped.

💔

Me too

in all the remembrances about sinead’s passionate and righteous life, let us not forget how powerfully tender her music was. few people can sing about intimacy, longing, desire, and grief in a way that cuts to the quick every time and never feels hackneyed