Anthony Dean-Harris
@anthonydeanharris.com
Writer; artist; radio host of A Smooth Ride (weekdays 2-4pm PST) & content coordinator at Portland's Jazz Radio @kmhd.org; archivist emeritus & co-conspirator at San Antonio's FL!GHT Gallery; he/him; hopefully witty, certainly verbose
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Right now, Oregonians should listen very hard to @opbkmhdcreators.bsky.social union. The voices you hear on the radio at OPB are generally poorly-compensated, some working two jobs, and the wage gap between the CEO and the actual journalists is a gap of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
December 3, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Right now, Oregonians should listen very hard to @opbkmhdcreators.bsky.social union. The voices you hear on the radio at OPB are generally poorly-compensated, some working two jobs, and the wage gap between the CEO and the actual journalists is a gap of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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On the day that @opb.org CEO Rachel Smolkin posted this video, saying OPB’s funding gap of $5 million was closed, I was also told by the Chief Content Officer that Hush was canceled. Eighty percent of my income, and my health insurance - gone. I was given no reason for the cancellation. 1/x
OPB has closed this year’s $5 million budget gap created when Congress ended federal funding. Our work is not done. A strong future for free and fair journalism requires your support.
https://www.opb.org/pressroom/presidents-update-funding-cut-update-building-trust/
https://www.opb.org/pressroom/presidents-update-funding-cut-update-building-trust/
December 3, 2025 at 10:04 PM
On the day that @opb.org CEO Rachel Smolkin posted this video, saying OPB’s funding gap of $5 million was closed, I was also told by the Chief Content Officer that Hush was canceled. Eighty percent of my income, and my health insurance - gone. I was given no reason for the cancellation. 1/x
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lol you'll never convince me a huge part of the reluctance isn't that there's no legal way to make UBI white-only.
Lotta white people in this country are happy to lose as long as nobody Black or brown wins.
Lotta white people in this country are happy to lose as long as nobody Black or brown wins.
I wish more people didn't get mad because "why can't I have $1000 a month for nothing!"
And instead went "why not universal basic income?"
And instead went "why not universal basic income?"
December 3, 2025 at 7:49 AM
lol you'll never convince me a huge part of the reluctance isn't that there's no legal way to make UBI white-only.
Lotta white people in this country are happy to lose as long as nobody Black or brown wins.
Lotta white people in this country are happy to lose as long as nobody Black or brown wins.
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Posted on the corner of SE 7th Ave & Hawthorne Blvd, Tomorrow Records is the charming little catchall neighborhood record store that fits folks’ needs (and our latest Record Store Rundown).
Record Store Rundown: Tomorrow Records
Posted up at the corner of SE 7th Ave & Hawthorne, Tomorrow Records is the charming little catchall neighborhood record store that fits folks' needs.
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December 1, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Posted on the corner of SE 7th Ave & Hawthorne Blvd, Tomorrow Records is the charming little catchall neighborhood record store that fits folks’ needs (and our latest Record Store Rundown).
I made two pound cakes -- one for yesterday's gay Thanksgiving (which was *awesome*) and the other for my co-workers -- and the disappointment I felt and spread to others at forgetting to bring the cake to work this morning was palpable.
November 28, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I made two pound cakes -- one for yesterday's gay Thanksgiving (which was *awesome*) and the other for my co-workers -- and the disappointment I felt and spread to others at forgetting to bring the cake to work this morning was palpable.
Now begins my Pacific Northwest challenge of getting butter to room temperature while turning off the heat in my house as I leave for work.
November 26, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Now begins my Pacific Northwest challenge of getting butter to room temperature while turning off the heat in my house as I leave for work.
My station's parent company made a PNW version of the holiday yule log and it's kinda one of the most brilliant ideas I've heard from them since I started working there.
November 26, 2025 at 2:51 PM
My station's parent company made a PNW version of the holiday yule log and it's kinda one of the most brilliant ideas I've heard from them since I started working there.
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This is the type of hater energy that will fuel us in the years ahead.
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:42 PM
This is the type of hater energy that will fuel us in the years ahead.
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pig stand, san antonio, texas, 1982
November 24, 2025 at 5:36 AM
pig stand, san antonio, texas, 1982
My annual tradition of posting my favorite jazz albums of the year in my hard to decipher handwriting continues, though I miss doing this on an oversized mailing envelope
November 24, 2025 at 11:50 PM
My annual tradition of posting my favorite jazz albums of the year in my hard to decipher handwriting continues, though I miss doing this on an oversized mailing envelope
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I'm worried about getting and giving the stink-eye. I'm uncertain my food isn't messed with. I'll still feel obligated to tip.
Just a bad dining experience all around.
Just a bad dining experience all around.
Personally I would prefer that my haters NOT be my waiters at the table of success. I just want to enjoy my meal
November 23, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I'm worried about getting and giving the stink-eye. I'm uncertain my food isn't messed with. I'll still feel obligated to tip.
Just a bad dining experience all around.
Just a bad dining experience all around.
How would the Diva Plavalaguna have gotten the stones out of she weren't shot in the stomach? I've wondered this for nearly thirty years.
November 23, 2025 at 9:45 PM
How would the Diva Plavalaguna have gotten the stones out of she weren't shot in the stomach? I've wondered this for nearly thirty years.
Many a jazz DJ of my generation have a close relationship with the song choices of The Weather Channel's Local Forecast on the 8s of the hour.
Add to that, I wanted to write ever since I read Carter G. Woodson's 'The Mis-Education of the Negro' when I was 16.
Add to that, I wanted to write ever since I read Carter G. Woodson's 'The Mis-Education of the Negro' when I was 16.
November 22, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Many a jazz DJ of my generation have a close relationship with the song choices of The Weather Channel's Local Forecast on the 8s of the hour.
Add to that, I wanted to write ever since I read Carter G. Woodson's 'The Mis-Education of the Negro' when I was 16.
Add to that, I wanted to write ever since I read Carter G. Woodson's 'The Mis-Education of the Negro' when I was 16.
I certainly hope nothing happened in the world today because it felt like *everything* happened today at work and I don't know what more capacity I have.
November 21, 2025 at 2:50 AM
I certainly hope nothing happened in the world today because it felt like *everything* happened today at work and I don't know what more capacity I have.
I also was belated to this (wrapped it up last weekend). This show is *entirely* my shit. On some 'Bored to Death', 'The Long Goodbye', 'Inherent Vice' type shit. It's delightful and beautifully honest.
Belatedly, The Lowdown is so freaking good. Meandered in all the right directions and tied itself up beautifully. Let Sterlin Harjo cook.
November 20, 2025 at 5:03 AM
I also was belated to this (wrapped it up last weekend). This show is *entirely* my shit. On some 'Bored to Death', 'The Long Goodbye', 'Inherent Vice' type shit. It's delightful and beautifully honest.
I've been in Portland long enough that I now scoffed at an invitation to a party where I'll have to wear my tuxedo.
November 20, 2025 at 3:58 AM
I've been in Portland long enough that I now scoffed at an invitation to a party where I'll have to wear my tuxedo.
It's too early for Christmas movie season, but I'm looking forward to my annual watch of 'Eyes Wide Shut', 'Batman Returns', and 'The Lion in Winter'.
November 19, 2025 at 1:25 AM
It's too early for Christmas movie season, but I'm looking forward to my annual watch of 'Eyes Wide Shut', 'Batman Returns', and 'The Lion in Winter'.
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We’re seeing the entire federal government push towards punishing Black people for being in public life, but we’re still supposed to be triple sure and super grave about the idea that anyone in particular could actually hold any prejudice.
November 17, 2025 at 5:52 PM
We’re seeing the entire federal government push towards punishing Black people for being in public life, but we’re still supposed to be triple sure and super grave about the idea that anyone in particular could actually hold any prejudice.
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It’s funny that even now, with everything we know, there’s still a retreat towards treating racism as somehow uniquely unbelievable.
November 17, 2025 at 4:31 PM
It’s funny that even now, with everything we know, there’s still a retreat towards treating racism as somehow uniquely unbelievable.
It's like they're giving everyone the opportunity to literally boycott them twice as hard
Absolutely cannot wait to bust down the doors for a drink made by a company whose unionized workers are on strike in a store that doesn’t want to hire minorities anymore.
Beginning Monday, a Frozen Peppermint Hot Chocolate drink will be available exclusively at Starbucks cafés inside Target stores.
The chains are hoping the drink can drum up excitement from customers this holiday season.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/yrshv45s
The chains are hoping the drink can drum up excitement from customers this holiday season.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/yrshv45s
November 17, 2025 at 10:13 PM
It's like they're giving everyone the opportunity to literally boycott them twice as hard
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I went to a screening of Black Dynamite with a video Q&A after and the director mentioned there were like a dozen different lines until Cedric Yarbrough threw this out and it took another dozen takes for them to get a clean take without everyone cracking up
November 16, 2025 at 11:46 PM
I went to a screening of Black Dynamite with a video Q&A after and the director mentioned there were like a dozen different lines until Cedric Yarbrough threw this out and it took another dozen takes for them to get a clean take without everyone cracking up
Any time someone at work asks me if I'm going home for the holidays, I take great pride in asking them how I can afford to fly to Texas with the little OPB pays me.
Cc: @opbkmhdcreators.bsky.social
Cc: @opbkmhdcreators.bsky.social
November 16, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Any time someone at work asks me if I'm going home for the holidays, I take great pride in asking them how I can afford to fly to Texas with the little OPB pays me.
Cc: @opbkmhdcreators.bsky.social
Cc: @opbkmhdcreators.bsky.social
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"This isn't the America I know."
Black people:
Black people:
November 14, 2025 at 11:41 AM
"This isn't the America I know."
Black people:
Black people:
Felt some kind of calm relief seeing this rainbow today as I went to grab lunch
November 13, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Felt some kind of calm relief seeing this rainbow today as I went to grab lunch