"The exercise of imagination is dangerous to those who profit from the way things are because it has the power to show that the way things are is not permanent, not universal, not necessary." URSULA K. LE GUIN "A WAR WITHOUT END"
Affirmation Coyote hopes you'll keep imagining a better world.
It's easy if you try.
I was about to deactivate my Bluesky account and then I saw someone mentioning hikaru no go and heated rivalry in the same post so maybe I’ll wait a minute 😍
Last night I was lamenting that I don’t know how to use the word “praxis” in a sentence…
My husband believes the evolution of cats has been accelerated by the Internet and that soon they will be the dominant species
Officially out today from Cymbal Press: OCEANS OF TIME: THE MUSICAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BILLY HART (as told to Ethan Iverson). If you like the book, please leave a review, for a review is real currency in the harsh marketplace of Amazon algorithms.
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What a great list! 💕💕💕
The Onion “Man Walks On Moon” cover with ZOHRAN
Today’s Mood in NYC.
A homemade sign reading "only one orange king in Philly", with a picture of Gritty wearing a crown over his helmet and saying "it me"
A homemade sign with "Liberté, Égalité, Gritté" written in copperplate script
Carroll Gardens
Family meal was on the table as we were leaving Hungry Thirsty tonight. Not too many restaurants like this anymore….
I call my husband The Jazz Bear
Sun Ra, #BOTD. Tootie Heath told a story:
Right before being pushed in the back of a police cruiser following a bust for possession of marijuana, Herman Blount turned, looked the arresting officer right in the eye, and said, “This is the unfriendliest planet I’ve ever been on.”
It’s soooo good deep fried though!
Wow great catch! I feel like, given Louisa’s character, it’s probably a double entendre that Louisa herself doesn’t intend or notice.
Tomorrow in the park!
The restored version of Akira Kurosawa's RAN, only briefly available on Blu-Ray in the US (it was a Best Buy exclusive and is now out of print), is now streaming on Tubi.
In response to today's supreme court ruling, we want to urge any researcher in Trans Histories to consider a proposal to our new Queer & Trans Histories series - because research into Trans histories will help to shape Trans futures: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/queer...
#TransRights
I prefer to keep writing and dream small. You don't have to be a big deal to be the real deal.
How many creatives of various kinds, having tried to calm nervous family by arguing that what we do is a job or profession or business like any other, wind up believing it themselves? It's not, and those who buy their own rationalization also may buy a fair amount of discomfort and regret.
A week from today, Wednesday April 9, I’m at Bar Bayeux in Brooklyn with Simón Willson and Vinnie Sperrazza. Two sets, 8 and 9:30 pm. This is part of the series curated by the excellent saxophonist Jerome Sabbagh.
Happy 14th Kidneyversary to us!
Mom wanted to write a letter to Biden
A LETTER TO HARVARD LAW SCHOOL STUDENTS March 29, 2025 To our students: We are privileged to teach and learn the law with you. We write to you today—in our individual capacities-because we believe that American legal precepts and the institutions designed to uphold them are being severely tested, and many of you have expressed to us your concerns and fears about the present moment. Each of us brings different, sometimes irreconcilable, perspectives to what the law is and should be. Diverse viewpoints are a credit to our school. But we share, and take seriously, a commitment to the rule of law: for people to be equal before it, and for its administration to be impartial. That commitment is foundational to the whole legal profession, and to the special role that lawyers play in our society. As the Model Rules of Professional Conduct provide: "A lawyer is ... an officer of the legal system and a public citizen having special responsibility for the quality of justice." The rule of law is imperiled when government leaders: • single out lawyers and law firms for retribution based on their lawful and ethical representation of clients disfavored by the government, undermining the Sixth Amendment; • threaten law firms and legal clinics for their lawyers' pro bono work or prior government service; • relent on those arbitrary threats based on public acts of submission and outlays of funds for favored causes; and • punish people for lawfully speaking out on matters of public concern. While reasonable people can disagree about the characterization of particular incidents, we are all acutely concerned that severe challenges to the rule of law are taking place, and we strongly condemn any effort to undermine the basic norms we have described. On our own campus and at many other universities, international students have reported fear of imprisonment or deportation for lawful speech and political activism. Whatever we might each think about particular conduct under particular facts,…
From 91 professors at Harvard Law School: a letter to our students.
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"Rule of law is a principle under which all persons, institutions, and entities are accountable to laws that are:
Publicly promulgated
Equally enforced
Independently adjudicated
And consistent with international human rights principles."
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A drawing of Claressa Shields boxing in the ring
CLARESSA SHIELDS
Started #BlackHistoryMonth w a boxing legend, Jack Johnson, so it was fitting to end it w a modern boxing champion. Claressa is the 1st American woman to win an Olympic gold medal in boxing & the 1st American boxer female or male to win consecutive Olympic medals. #BHM #Day28
Huge march in New York today protesting the illegal DOGE cuts
