Aran Ruth
@aranruthmusic.bsky.social
Musician, Artist, Romanticist/19th Centuryist.
Wiccans, Infinity People, Outrageous Cherry, &tc.
PhD University of Michigan 2018
Wiccans, Infinity People, Outrageous Cherry, &tc.
PhD University of Michigan 2018
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Will you sign this weekend? Find us at RankMIVote.org/Where-Do-I-Sign. Celebrate Labor Day by supporting Ranked Choice Voting! #VoteYourHopesNotYourFears #RankMIVote #rankedchoicevoting #Michigan #grassroots #ballotinitiative #nonpartisan #votersrights #democracy #volunteer #nonprofit #RMV #RCV
August 27, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Will you sign this weekend? Find us at RankMIVote.org/Where-Do-I-Sign. Celebrate Labor Day by supporting Ranked Choice Voting! #VoteYourHopesNotYourFears #RankMIVote #rankedchoicevoting #Michigan #grassroots #ballotinitiative #nonpartisan #votersrights #democracy #volunteer #nonprofit #RMV #RCV
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Next RCV 101 online presentation is this Saturday, July 19th! It's a quick and easy way to learn how Ranked Choice Voting works and why it's the upgrade that Michigan wants!
Visit RankMiVote.org/Events to explore more online and in-person events in July and August.
#VoteYourHopes #rankedchoicevoting
Visit RankMiVote.org/Events to explore more online and in-person events in July and August.
#VoteYourHopes #rankedchoicevoting
July 15, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Next RCV 101 online presentation is this Saturday, July 19th! It's a quick and easy way to learn how Ranked Choice Voting works and why it's the upgrade that Michigan wants!
Visit RankMiVote.org/Events to explore more online and in-person events in July and August.
#VoteYourHopes #rankedchoicevoting
Visit RankMiVote.org/Events to explore more online and in-person events in July and August.
#VoteYourHopes #rankedchoicevoting
“The residents of Los Angeles who took to the streets were not violently ‘rioting.’ They were demanding dignity, justice, and an end to state-sanctioned violence. Their actions are a moral call - to resist not only ICE raids and deportations, but the broader architecture of systemic violence …”
“What is at stake is not just the rights of L.A. residents but the future of American democracy. If the federal government can send troops into L.A. to suppress protests, it can do so anywhere.”
No longer a ‘what if?’: Trump’s threat to abuse military power is now a reality
It is Los Angeles today. Tomorrow, it could be Detroit.
www.metrotimes.com
July 11, 2025 at 3:57 PM
“The residents of Los Angeles who took to the streets were not violently ‘rioting.’ They were demanding dignity, justice, and an end to state-sanctioned violence. Their actions are a moral call - to resist not only ICE raids and deportations, but the broader architecture of systemic violence …”
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#RankMiVoteInTheNews - Today is a big day for the campaign, where we officially present to the Board of State Canvassers to approve our ballot language.
The Detroit Free Press spotlighted this milestone. They did a great job explaining Ranked Choice Voting.j
rankmivote.org/detroit-free...
The Detroit Free Press spotlighted this milestone. They did a great job explaining Ranked Choice Voting.j
rankmivote.org/detroit-free...
June 27, 2025 at 1:43 PM
#RankMiVoteInTheNews - Today is a big day for the campaign, where we officially present to the Board of State Canvassers to approve our ballot language.
The Detroit Free Press spotlighted this milestone. They did a great job explaining Ranked Choice Voting.j
rankmivote.org/detroit-free...
The Detroit Free Press spotlighted this milestone. They did a great job explaining Ranked Choice Voting.j
rankmivote.org/detroit-free...
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Sun Ra - Michigan State Fairgrounds Detroit, Michigan - May 30-31 1969 - Rock and Roll Revival
June 18, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Sun Ra - Michigan State Fairgrounds Detroit, Michigan - May 30-31 1969 - Rock and Roll Revival
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Cass Café is coming back — at least for the summer.
Detroit’s Cass Café reopens for art exhibit honoring Detroit artists Jim and Lucille Nawara
The beloved community space returns after being closed for nearly three years
www.metrotimes.com
June 13, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Cass Café is coming back — at least for the summer.
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Western International High School junior Maykol Bogoya-Duarte was on his way to a field trip when a traffic stop led to ICE detention.
Activists urge officials to help Detroit high school student facing deportation
Western International High School junior Maykol Bogoya-Duarte was on his way to a field trip when a traffic stop led to ICE detention
www.metrotimes.com
June 9, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Western International High School junior Maykol Bogoya-Duarte was on his way to a field trip when a traffic stop led to ICE detention.
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“The University of Michigan is using private, undercover investigators to surveil pro-Palestinian campus groups, including trailing them on and off campus, furtively recording them and eavesdropping on their conversations…”
University of Michigan using undercover investigators to surveil student Gaza protesters
Revealed: security trailing students on and off campus as video shows investigator faking disability when confronted
www.theguardian.com
June 6, 2025 at 11:26 AM
“The University of Michigan is using private, undercover investigators to surveil pro-Palestinian campus groups, including trailing them on and off campus, furtively recording them and eavesdropping on their conversations…”
Playing with New Haven solo guitar shredder Alexander and Detroit solo guitar shredder Callie Simon tomorrow nite at Outer Limits Lounge
June 6, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Playing with New Haven solo guitar shredder Alexander and Detroit solo guitar shredder Callie Simon tomorrow nite at Outer Limits Lounge
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Listening to music with the following sounds can help you cultivate a healthy gut biome:
-chimes
-French horn
-samples of birds native to your region
-non-digital reverb
-high-value General MIDI instruments (97 or higher on soundset table)
-percussion played with mallets
-vinyl crackle samples
-chimes
-French horn
-samples of birds native to your region
-non-digital reverb
-high-value General MIDI instruments (97 or higher on soundset table)
-percussion played with mallets
-vinyl crackle samples
May 19, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Listening to music with the following sounds can help you cultivate a healthy gut biome:
-chimes
-French horn
-samples of birds native to your region
-non-digital reverb
-high-value General MIDI instruments (97 or higher on soundset table)
-percussion played with mallets
-vinyl crackle samples
-chimes
-French horn
-samples of birds native to your region
-non-digital reverb
-high-value General MIDI instruments (97 or higher on soundset table)
-percussion played with mallets
-vinyl crackle samples
Cool nite of solo performances at Ziggy’s next Thurs 5/15 - I’ll be playing some future tales from my sci-fi album-in-progress
May 6, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Cool nite of solo performances at Ziggy’s next Thurs 5/15 - I’ll be playing some future tales from my sci-fi album-in-progress
Incredibly disappointing. We’re running out of room on the floor with so many rushing to bend the knee. I can’t say I’m surprised but I can say I had hoped for better from @umich.edu.
University of Michigan, a longtime champion of progressive values, to close its DEI office
University President Santa Ono informed staffers in an email, saying Michigan remains committed to diversity among its students, faculty and staff.
www.freep.com
March 27, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Incredibly disappointing. We’re running out of room on the floor with so many rushing to bend the knee. I can’t say I’m surprised but I can say I had hoped for better from @umich.edu.
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Perhaps you'd like to take a tour through the varied covers of The Dispossessed?
The (Many) Covers of The Dispossessed
A book designer guides us through the design,history of Le Guin's masterpiece
jaredhenderson.substack.com
March 14, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Perhaps you'd like to take a tour through the varied covers of The Dispossessed?
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Are we having a Romantic moment? The Met’s Caspar David Friedrich retrospective coincides with our own neo-Romantic times: nostalgic to the core, pining to return to nature while scheming to dominate and destroy it.
We Are the New Romantics
Just like Caspar David Friedrich and the Romanticists, we live in anxious times and hunger for a touch of the sublime.
hyperallergic.com
March 12, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Are we having a Romantic moment? The Met’s Caspar David Friedrich retrospective coincides with our own neo-Romantic times: nostalgic to the core, pining to return to nature while scheming to dominate and destroy it.
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from Meditations in an Emergency, my new newsletter, day three: But I do not believe the people of this country will submit to the destruction and the attempts at dictatorship. We are not submitting now. meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/we-are-not-w...
February 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
from Meditations in an Emergency, my new newsletter, day three: But I do not believe the people of this country will submit to the destruction and the attempts at dictatorship. We are not submitting now. meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/we-are-not-w...