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STL. history teacher, SLPS. public school advocate. Percussionist. Into weird music, veg/native gardening, & pro-bike/anti-car agitprop. RIP Twitter—yet another beautiful thing ruined by a billionaire https://canapostrophet.bandcamp.com/album/cant

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Josh Torres Wedding @torreswedding.bsky.social · 1d

My band CAN'T formed last year, and wrote and recorded an album in a DIY studio in my basement, 99% live.

Instrumental music that is experimental at times, so not for everyone...but maybe for you?

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CAN'T, by CAN'T

12 track album

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 5h

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

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Josh Torres Wedding @torreswedding.bsky.social · 1d

CAN'T, by CAN'T

12 track album

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Josh Torres Wedding @torreswedding.bsky.social · 2d

Tonight!

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 5d

Greta Thunberg spoke publicly for the first time since reports emerged that she was mistreated while in an Israeli prison.

The activist arrived in Greece alongside other members of the Global Sumud Flotilla after they were deported from Israel.

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 6d

"Klein’s musings about redrawing the line are, more importantly, a manifestation of a pervasive tendency in American elite circles to accommodate rather than fight back, to acquiesce rather than stand firm," says @thomaszimmer.bsky.social. Excellent piece. democracyamericana.com/posts/c5d024...

Where Is the Line?

On Ezra Klein, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and the struggle to define the boundaries of what is acceptable in America

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Josh Torres Wedding @torreswedding.bsky.social · 7d

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A Journey Into the Mind of Watts

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Josh Torres Wedding @torreswedding.bsky.social · 7d

Since people are talking about Pynchon, his ‘66 essay on Watts is a really interesting time capsule

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Josh Torres Wedding @torreswedding.bsky.social · 7d

Was a joy to finally see Bill Frisell live after listening to him for almost three decades

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Monica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 8d

My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

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State of St. Louis @stateofstlouis.bsky.social · 8d

Old enough to remember when ward reduction, nonpartisan elections, big salary hikes, and personal full time staff were going to bring St. Louis City a more professional Board of Alders

$72,000 each a year for this nonsense

Steph Kukuljan @stephkukuljan.bsky.social · 8d

Voters approved a new tax on Airbnb-style rentals, but #STL officials didn't pass a bill authorizing collection.

Aldermen said they weren't told. City counselor's office said they were.

“There seems to be a lot of confusion about who is responsible for what.”
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a close up of a woman making a funny face while sitting on a couch .

ALT: a close up of a woman making a funny face while sitting on a couch .

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Josh Torres Wedding @torreswedding.bsky.social · 9d

Haunting

Josh Torres Wedding @torreswedding.bsky.social · 11d

This is probably gonna get us pulled over now but to hell with em

Josh Torres Wedding @torreswedding.bsky.social · 12d

Steve Gadd on one side and Idris Muhammad on the other 😮‍💨

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 12d

I have been haunted by this statement all day www.kgw.com/article/news...

Local News
Trump seems to back off Portland military plan: 'Am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening?'

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Josh Torres Wedding @torreswedding.bsky.social · 13d

Matthew Shipp

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 13d

That Reichstag isn’t going to burn down itself!

Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 13d

👀

No explanation needed.

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Josh Torres Wedding @torreswedding.bsky.social · 14d

Also, Democrats could try a little harder

Rebecca Fachner @rebeccafachner.bsky.social · 14d

Your regular reminder that Republicans in Congress could stop this at literally any moment they choose.

Josh Torres Wedding @torreswedding.bsky.social · 14d

Hermeto and Thelonious

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Devin 🌞 Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 16d

vote to raise the minimum wage, Missouri legislators strike it down; vote for paid sick leave, struck down; vote to raise taxes to fund light rail expansion, it’s canceled

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Josh Torres Wedding @torreswedding.bsky.social · 18d

Disappearing people = current leve of fascism

Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 18d

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site

As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 20d

The image below is from an actual government website, not some ad on TruthSocial.

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Josh Torres Wedding @torreswedding.bsky.social · 20d

Bill Stewart 😮‍💨

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 21d

Red Scare 2.0 sucks balls

Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social · 21d

Stephen Miller: "Children will be taught to love America … As we close the Dept of Education and provide funding to states, we're going to make sure these funds are not being used to promote communist ideology."

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