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Late-stage generalist, RPCV🌍, history/art/jazz/fiets-urb/pro-sci/anti-dictator, gentler in person.
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Mickalene Thomas billboard debuts on The High Line
by Chadd Scott for See Great Art
www.seegreatart.art/mickalene-th...
by Chadd Scott for See Great Art
www.seegreatart.art/mickalene-th...
Mickalene Thomas billboard debuts on The High Line
The High Line installe 'Portrait of Mnonja' by artist Mickalene Thomas as a billboard adjacent to the park at 18th Street near 10th Avenue.
www.seegreatart.art
February 18, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Mickalene Thomas billboard debuts on The High Line
by Chadd Scott for See Great Art
www.seegreatart.art/mickalene-th...
by Chadd Scott for See Great Art
www.seegreatart.art/mickalene-th...
We can be certain that we face hard dictatorship when we consider that in *1971*, on (now defunded) PBS, the Rev. Jesse Jackson can affirm the nobility of children on Sesame Street, and that today, in 2026, the FCC blocks a CBS interview with a white, Christian, Democratic candidate for US Senate.
Jesse Jackson on Sesame Street in 1971 doing a call-and-response with the kids of the poem I Am - Somebody. [kottke.org]
I Am - Somebody
From 1971, here’s Jesse Jackson on Sesame Street doing a call-and-response with the children of the poem I Am - Somebody. I Am Somebody I Am Somebody I May B
kottke.org
February 17, 2026 at 7:33 PM
We can be certain that we face hard dictatorship when we consider that in *1971*, on (now defunded) PBS, the Rev. Jesse Jackson can affirm the nobility of children on Sesame Street, and that today, in 2026, the FCC blocks a CBS interview with a white, Christian, Democratic candidate for US Senate.
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RIP Jesse Jackson (Jacob Lawrence's portrait of Jesse Jackson, created in 1970 for cover of Time magazine, now in collection of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery) npg.si.edu/object/npg_N...
February 17, 2026 at 11:24 AM
RIP Jesse Jackson (Jacob Lawrence's portrait of Jesse Jackson, created in 1970 for cover of Time magazine, now in collection of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery) npg.si.edu/object/npg_N...
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😲 This is THE most amazing thing I've seen this year. (And that's saying something!)
A ResistDance retelling of ICE murdering Renee Good & Alex Pretti enacted through dance‼️😭
Performed by First Amendment Troop in DC. 🤍
A ResistDance retelling of ICE murdering Renee Good & Alex Pretti enacted through dance‼️😭
Performed by First Amendment Troop in DC. 🤍
February 17, 2026 at 4:56 AM
😲 This is THE most amazing thing I've seen this year. (And that's saying something!)
A ResistDance retelling of ICE murdering Renee Good & Alex Pretti enacted through dance‼️😭
Performed by First Amendment Troop in DC. 🤍
A ResistDance retelling of ICE murdering Renee Good & Alex Pretti enacted through dance‼️😭
Performed by First Amendment Troop in DC. 🤍
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Coffee versus Tea #oilpainting #art
February 17, 2026 at 4:25 AM
Coffee versus Tea #oilpainting #art
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I am the cover artist for @cooksillustrated.bsky.social March/Aprils issue! 😁
February 9, 2026 at 3:27 PM
I am the cover artist for @cooksillustrated.bsky.social March/Aprils issue! 😁
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Frederick Wiseman, who captured the weirdness and wonder of everyday life, dies at 96
Frederick Wiseman, who captured the weirdness and wonder of everyday life, dies at 96
The prolific, pioneering filmmaker made dozens of documentaries and chronicled the inner workings of institutions. His 1967 film, Titicut Follies, revealed appalling conditions at a prison facility.
www.npr.org
February 17, 2026 at 2:08 AM
Frederick Wiseman, who captured the weirdness and wonder of everyday life, dies at 96
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1/ The US is losing its vaccine infrastructure. Before the US became a military power, we had to conquer infectious disease. That was key. When disease was controlled, we decoupled it from the military. That let us forget that infectious diseases threaten national security. We're about to learn why.
February 16, 2026 at 8:01 PM
1/ The US is losing its vaccine infrastructure. Before the US became a military power, we had to conquer infectious disease. That was key. When disease was controlled, we decoupled it from the military. That let us forget that infectious diseases threaten national security. We're about to learn why.
A+ ..
Looks like there wasn’t a language barrier for kids in Uganda when it comes to Bad Bunny.
Love this!
Love this!
February 16, 2026 at 8:31 PM
A+ ..
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“There’s something in this miniature fable, the film seems to suggest, on which contemporary Brazil is built. It’s not that there aren’t real things to worry about. It’s that what you don’t know or can’t remember or will not face haunts you more.”
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Gaby Wood · At the Movies: ‘The Secret Agent’
Like Walter Salles’s I’m Still Here, which had a similarly successful run last year, The Secret Agent is set during...
www.lrb.co.uk
February 16, 2026 at 8:05 PM
“There’s something in this miniature fable, the film seems to suggest, on which contemporary Brazil is built. It’s not that there aren’t real things to worry about. It’s that what you don’t know or can’t remember or will not face haunts you more.”
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Good Afternoon
Rare polar stratospheric clouds over the mountains of Svalbard.
Rare polar stratospheric clouds over the mountains of Svalbard.
February 16, 2026 at 7:41 PM
Good Afternoon
Rare polar stratospheric clouds over the mountains of Svalbard.
Rare polar stratospheric clouds over the mountains of Svalbard.
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563A Spectacles in the Small Face https://www.wikiart.org/en/friedensreich-hundertwasser/spectacles-in-the-small-face
February 16, 2026 at 7:26 PM
563A Spectacles in the Small Face https://www.wikiart.org/en/friedensreich-hundertwasser/spectacles-in-the-small-face
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New blog post.
Charles Burckhalter, Oakland science hero
The name of Charles Burckhalter might ring a bell for Oaklanders: Burckhalter Elementary School, in East Oakland on Burckhalter Avenue, is named for him. I visit nearby Burckhalter Park, whenever I…
oaklandgeology.com
February 16, 2026 at 7:02 PM
New blog post.
Oakland, Cal., Oct. ‘18.
📷 -gw
📷 -gw
February 16, 2026 at 10:09 AM
Oakland, Cal., Oct. ‘18.
📷 -gw
📷 -gw
Happy President’s Day …
February 16, 2026 at 9:08 AM
Happy President’s Day …
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From Frederick Douglass's 1867 "Composite Nation" speech, a defense of Chinese migration to the United States at a time when anti-Chinese sentiment was intensifying.
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...
November 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
From Frederick Douglass's 1867 "Composite Nation" speech, a defense of Chinese migration to the United States at a time when anti-Chinese sentiment was intensifying.
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...
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CA scientists: there is a push to get a bond measure to establish a CA version of NSF. Already see many big names on here. www.fundcascience.org
Fund CA Science
www.fundcascience.org
February 16, 2026 at 4:08 AM
CA scientists: there is a push to get a bond measure to establish a CA version of NSF. Already see many big names on here. www.fundcascience.org
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The Best Mystery Show You Haven't Seen is Back For Season 4
www.inverse.com/entertainmen...
www.inverse.com/entertainmen...
The Best Mystery Show You Haven't Seen Is Back For Season 4
'Dark Winds' is television done the old-fashioned way, and that's never been more needed.
www.inverse.com
February 16, 2026 at 12:10 AM
The Best Mystery Show You Haven't Seen is Back For Season 4
www.inverse.com/entertainmen...
www.inverse.com/entertainmen...
McKibben puts San Franciscan down for a nap..
Very funny Bill McKibben reply to a critical letter in NYRB:
"I’m grateful to Mark Roller for producing an almost pitch-perfect summary of the anti-renewable talking points that have been in circulation for decades. These would have been wrong in, say, 2016, but in 2026 they are just silly."
"I’m grateful to Mark Roller for producing an almost pitch-perfect summary of the anti-renewable talking points that have been in circulation for decades. These would have been wrong in, say, 2016, but in 2026 they are just silly."
Is It Easy Being Green? | Mark Roller, Bill McKibben
To the Editors: Regarding Bill McKibben’s review of The Story of CO 2 Is the Story of Everything , and with all due respect to McKibben, I believe that
www.nybooks.com
February 15, 2026 at 8:31 PM
McKibben puts San Franciscan down for a nap..
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Curling
Bisbee, ND
Bisbee, ND
February 15, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Curling
Bisbee, ND
Bisbee, ND
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The last wild European bison was shot in 1927. At the time there were fewer than 60 such bison alive in zoos & private parks. Now, the great, shaggy beasts are once again roaming the Carpathian Mountains.
And they're helping bring wild lands back to life.
Good news story! No pay wall.
And they're helping bring wild lands back to life.
Good news story! No pay wall.
A Century After Vanishing, a Gentle Giant Returns
Wild European bison are roaming the Carpathian Mountains for the first time in 100 years — and bringing the land back to life.
reasonstobecheerful.world
February 11, 2026 at 8:49 PM
The last wild European bison was shot in 1927. At the time there were fewer than 60 such bison alive in zoos & private parks. Now, the great, shaggy beasts are once again roaming the Carpathian Mountains.
And they're helping bring wild lands back to life.
Good news story! No pay wall.
And they're helping bring wild lands back to life.
Good news story! No pay wall.
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This is a genuinely huge, sweeping victory today for the University of California—or rather, for us, its faculty, acting through our faculty associations, while the UC itself maintained a strict policy of deer-in-headlights silence.
The Trump admin has given up its appeal of a powerful injunction:
The Trump admin has given up its appeal of a powerful injunction:
Trump administration drops appeal of court order blocking $1.2-billion UCLA settlement
The Trump administration dropped its appeal of a major higher education case in which a federal judge blocked its $1.2-billion settlement proposal to UCLA over alleged civil rights violations. It will...
www.latimes.com
February 14, 2026 at 4:57 AM
This is a genuinely huge, sweeping victory today for the University of California—or rather, for us, its faculty, acting through our faculty associations, while the UC itself maintained a strict policy of deer-in-headlights silence.
The Trump admin has given up its appeal of a powerful injunction:
The Trump admin has given up its appeal of a powerful injunction:
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Chants and slogans continue to echo across Tehran tonight.
February 15, 2026 at 5:26 PM
Chants and slogans continue to echo across Tehran tonight.
Florence Beatrice Price, “String Quartet No. 2 in A minor,” Ora String Quartet, live at the Hugh Lane Gallery.
Especially taken with the third movement (Juba) at 18:55, but the entirety is gorgeous.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=4DeN...
Especially taken with the third movement (Juba) at 18:55, but the entirety is gorgeous.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=4DeN...
Florence Price String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Ora String Quartet live at the Hugh Lane Gallery
YouTube video by Ora String Quartet
m.youtube.com
February 15, 2026 at 5:05 PM
Florence Beatrice Price, “String Quartet No. 2 in A minor,” Ora String Quartet, live at the Hugh Lane Gallery.
Especially taken with the third movement (Juba) at 18:55, but the entirety is gorgeous.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=4DeN...
Especially taken with the third movement (Juba) at 18:55, but the entirety is gorgeous.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=4DeN...