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Dash Lewis // Gardener @gardenerjams.bsky.social · Jan 29

for max clarity:

ARTISTS: hire me for bios — i've worked with independent artists, labels like drink sum wtr and leaving

EDITORS: hire me for feats — in 24 I published pieces on jeff parker, 03 greedo, lupe fiasco, carlos niño, billy woods, etc

for criticism — I wrote 24 reviews for pfork in 24

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Dash Lewis // Gardener @gardenerjams.bsky.social · 2h

spoke with tony seltzer and anysia kym about their new album for the ableton blog

Tony Seltzer & Anysia Kym: Unravelling The Philostrophy

NYC underground hip-hop producer Tony Seltzer and mutant R&B singer-producer Anysia Kym discuss their collaborative album Purity, their go-to tools in Ableton Live, plus they share the beat from their...

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Dash Lewis // Gardener @gardenerjams.bsky.social · 2h

spoke with tony seltzer and anysia kym about their new album for the ableton blog

Tony Seltzer & Anysia Kym: Unravelling The Philostrophy

www.ableton.com

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 3h

“Cease” fire

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Five Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza despite ceasefire

Israeli army confirmed it opened fire, saying a group had approached its soldiers before being targeted.

www.aljazeera.com

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Dash Lewis // Gardener @gardenerjams.bsky.social · 3h

very jealous

Dash Lewis // Gardener @gardenerjams.bsky.social · 9h

abolishing ice is the moderate position

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 19h

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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Dash Lewis // Gardener @gardenerjams.bsky.social · 15h

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 16h

police state mindset is truly something else

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Dash Lewis // Gardener @gardenerjams.bsky.social · 16h

what a fuckin tune

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Bandcamp @bandcamp.com · 18d

Steeped in the traditions of old-school R&B and Chicano car culture, lowrider soul is entering a new era. Here's an overview of the scene's history, from early pioneers to contemporary upstarts.

Ballads in the Barrios: The Story of Lowrider Soul

"Once these ballads find their way into the community, they never leave."

daily.bandcamp.com

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Pumpkinloaf @toneloaf.bsky.social · 22h

The Federal government has attacked Chicago but Chicagoans are doing a great job documenting what is happening. However, I do not feel that there is a solid timeline of key events forming, and so I put one together

Here is a 🧵with details on each, including sourcing and videos. AMA

A timeline I have put together to document key monents in the attack on Chicago:

6/16/2025 : Limited but heavily militarized and anonymized ICE activity
9/19/2025 : Broadview Escalation: 9/22/2025: Broadview: More chemical irritant use:
9/23/2025: Silverio Villegas González Murdered
9/26/2025: Broadview Scrum 1: Vehicular Violence and indiscriminate chemical irritants
9/30/2025: South Shore Raid
10/3/2025: Logan Square Tear Gassed
10/3/2025: Broadview Scrum 2: ISP+ crowd control; Deliberate attack on protesters by ICE while filming for content, Dan Bovino
10/3/2025: Arrested Alderman
10/4/2025: Brighton Park Stand Off
10/10/2025: WGN Producer Aggressively Arrested under suspicious reasons, no charge
10/12/2025: Albany Park Standoff

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 19h

ICE is all over the city and burbs today, including Waukegan. Multiple reports on social media from people who have found empty work vans and are trying to locate family of their owners. This is a near daily occurrence now.

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Dash Lewis // Gardener @gardenerjams.bsky.social · 20h

here's the tracklist for my guest mix on cosmic church

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 22h

“No Kings” is great , but we really don't get a functioning democracy back until we internalize, bone deep, the instinctive response to this and every other statement like it: “I don’t care what that rich guy thinks.”

Make it your morning affirmation. Say it ten times at the top of every hour.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 23h

Elon Musk calls for US troops to be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs: ‘It’s the only solution’

Musk demands US troops be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs

www.independent.co.uk

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 1d

It’s impossible to overstate how much “abolish ice” is the normie position now here in chicago — just countless random moms at toddler soccer on a park district field asking me where I bought my anti-ice t-shirt. average people don’t like our neighborhoods being terrorized.

laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 1d

A friend ran the Chicago marathon today and said he couldn’t count the number of FUCK ICE signs along the way.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 2d

This heartfelt and meaningful statement by Portland resident and author Cristina Breshears on another social media platform bears reposting here. I don't think the intent is to idealize Portland but to remind all of us what is important and why. (Posted here with permission.)

For nine nights now, the steady thrum of Black Hawk helicopters has circled over Portland. The sound is constant, invasive; a low mechanical beating above our homes. It’s expensive. It’s intimidating. And it’s unnecessary.

Our protests have been largely peaceful. There is no insurrection here. Yet this federalized military presence makes us feel like we are living in a war zone (the very kind of chaos this administration claims to be protecting us from).

The irony is painful: it is only this occupation that makes Portland feel unsafe.

Each hour of helicopter flight costs taxpayers between $2,000 and $4,000, depending on crew, fuel, and maintenance. Multiply that by multiple aircraft over multiple nights, and you’re looking at hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars burned into the sky.

Meanwhile, the Woodstock Food Pantry at All Saints Episcopal Church — which feeds working families, elders, and people with disabilities — has seen its federal funding slashed by 75%. How can we justify pouring public money into intimidation while cutting aid to those who simply need to eat?

This is waste, fraud, and abuse in plain sight:
* Waste of public resources on military theatrics.
* Fraud in the name of “public safety.”
* Abuse of the communities that federal agencies claim to protect.

Portland is a Sanctuary City. A sanctuary city is not a fortress. It’s a promise — a living vow that a community will protect the dignity and safety of everyone who calls it home. It means that local governments and ordinary people alike will refuse to criminalize survival. That schools, clinics, churches, and shelters will remain safe spaces no matter who you are or where you were born. But the term reaches far beyond policy. It’s an ethic of belonging; a refusal to criminalize need, difference, or desperation.

Sanctuary isn’t weakness. It’s courage. It takes moral strength to meet suffering with care instead of punishment, to believe that our neighbors’ safety is bound up in our own, to insist that safety is not achieved through force but through community, inclusion, and trust. It is living Matthew 25:40 out loud and in deed. It is an act of moral imagination and moral defiance. To hold sanctuary is to say: you belong here.

When we hold space for the most vulnerable — refugees, the unhoused, the undocumented, the disabled, the working poor, the displaced — we become something larger than a collection of individuals. We become a moral body. We do more than offer charity. We offer witness. We declare that the measure of a nation is found not in its towers or tanks, but in its tenderness.

Sanctuary cities are not lawless; they are soulful. They represent the conscience of the nation, a place where the laws of empathy still apply. To make sanctuary is to affirm that the United States is not merely a geographic territory, but a moral experiment: a republic that must constantly choose between fear and compassion, between domination and democracy.

A nation’s soul is measured not by the might of its military, but by the mercy of its people. When helicopters circle our skies in the name of order, while food pantries struggle to feed the hungry, we are forced to ask: What are we defending, and from whom? The soul of a nation survives only when we make sanctuary for one another. Not through walls or weapons, but through compassion and collective will. If we allow intimidation to replace compassion, we will have traded our conscience for control.

Please know that despite the hum of war machines overhead, the conscience of our city — whimsical, creative, stubbornly kind — can still be heard.

Portland is not the problem. Portland is the reminder. A reminder that a city can still choose to be sanctuary. That a people can still choose to be human.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d

Nice to see that the, um, crack troops of Portland's Naked Bike brigade have shown up to provide some diversion down at the ICE facility protests.

BikePortland @bikeportland.org · 1d

Amazing Emergency Naked Ride. Here’s the moment thousands of riders rolled through the protests at the ICE facility and cheers erupted. 😮💯

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Dean Van Nguyen @deanvannguyen.bsky.social · 1d

So you saw the movie One Battle After Another and want to learn about America’s real radical left wing groups…

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The Sidewalk School @thesidewalkschool.bsky.social · 1d

Keep Resisting Chicago! At Wilson and Sawyer -an hour ago. 10/12/25

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Dash Lewis // Gardener @gardenerjams.bsky.social · 1d

mannie fresh has a crazy couplet on "flossin season" where he crams every syllable together as if he's rushing through a turnstile to catch a train: "the ring i got, liberace want it/he couldn't afford that bitch i can afford to flaunt it"

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 2d

Dollars to donuts those edgelords have never organized an actual protest consisting of more than like five edgelord friends

Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 2d

Like I know there are edgelord leftists out there who look down their noses at shit like No Kings but sorry you guys, the more mass protest looks fun and family-friendly, the bigger it gets and the better its chances of being broadly effective

Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 2d

Portland does not own the patent on inflatable animal costume protests, come on people

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 2d

No money in the red kettles. Mutual aid instead.
(And no, I'm not taking questions about this.)

kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 2d

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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John Muller @mrjohnmuller.bsky.social · 2d

I saw someone say something to the effect of "ICE is a federal jobs guarantee for racists and domestic abusers" and, hoooooo boy, if that isn't hitting the nail on the head.

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 3d

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 2d

I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

www.theverge.com

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