John Ruscher
@johnruscher.bsky.social
New finds and old dreams. Everything's starting now. VA->NYC->SEA
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Pause for three minutes and soak up the grace of this man.
Earlier today, the father of three U.S. Marines, Narciso Barranco, spoke publicly for the first time after being pinned to the ground and savagely punched by ICE agents while they arrested the landscaper outside the IHOP where he worked.
Earlier today, the father of three U.S. Marines, Narciso Barranco, spoke publicly for the first time after being pinned to the ground and savagely punched by ICE agents while they arrested the landscaper outside the IHOP where he worked.
July 26, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Pause for three minutes and soak up the grace of this man.
Earlier today, the father of three U.S. Marines, Narciso Barranco, spoke publicly for the first time after being pinned to the ground and savagely punched by ICE agents while they arrested the landscaper outside the IHOP where he worked.
Earlier today, the father of three U.S. Marines, Narciso Barranco, spoke publicly for the first time after being pinned to the ground and savagely punched by ICE agents while they arrested the landscaper outside the IHOP where he worked.
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CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery.
America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons.
Watch and share his message.
America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons.
Watch and share his message.
July 18, 2025 at 12:15 AM
CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery.
America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons.
Watch and share his message.
America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons.
Watch and share his message.
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jon pareles used to take notes at concerts that involved **actual musical notation**, he's whipping up sheet music in real time at bowery ballroom or whatever. one of the best to ever do it.
July 15, 2025 at 9:17 PM
jon pareles used to take notes at concerts that involved **actual musical notation**, he's whipping up sheet music in real time at bowery ballroom or whatever. one of the best to ever do it.
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An excellent thread by someone very much worth listening to.
June 28, 2025 at 9:10 PM
An excellent thread by someone very much worth listening to.
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Quality words by @sivav.bsky.social on “DEI”:
June 27, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Quality words by @sivav.bsky.social on “DEI”:
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pretty significant crowd considering the short notice & the time of year - most students aren’t around in june, lots of community & faculty here.
June 27, 2025 at 7:29 PM
pretty significant crowd considering the short notice & the time of year - most students aren’t around in june, lots of community & faculty here.
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thirteen years ago yesterday, there was a rally in this very spot - then president theresa sullivan was reinstated after an attempted ouster
uvamagazine.org/articles/tim...
uvamagazine.org/articles/tim...
Timeline: Teresa Sullivan’s Resignation and Reinstatement
A comprehensive timeline of the events of June 2012 at UVA.
uvamagazine.org
June 27, 2025 at 7:22 PM
thirteen years ago yesterday, there was a rally in this very spot - then president theresa sullivan was reinstated after an attempted ouster
uvamagazine.org/articles/tim...
uvamagazine.org/articles/tim...
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a crowd has gathered at the UVA rotunda in response to the forced resignation of president jim ryan
June 27, 2025 at 7:12 PM
a crowd has gathered at the UVA rotunda in response to the forced resignation of president jim ryan
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the president does not actually have the power to fire a university president or a museum director, but if elites simply roll over under pressure, then effectively he does
June 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
the president does not actually have the power to fire a university president or a museum director, but if elites simply roll over under pressure, then effectively he does
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Jamelle isn’t kidding. There’s a faction of alumni that want to return to the all-white, men’s-only school to which their admission was assured by their race, sex, class, and First Families of Virginia pedigree, where they were guaranteed a degree in exchange for heavy drinking and sexual assault.
they want to force UVA’s president to resign because he thinks it would be bad if the university reverted to being a lily-white finishing school for the failsons of the old guard southern elite www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/u...
University of Virginia President Under Pressure From Trump’s D.O.J. to Resign
www.nytimes.com
June 27, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Jamelle isn’t kidding. There’s a faction of alumni that want to return to the all-white, men’s-only school to which their admission was assured by their race, sex, class, and First Families of Virginia pedigree, where they were guaranteed a degree in exchange for heavy drinking and sexual assault.
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Happy Juneteenth! Here in Virginia we traditionally celebrate Emancipation Day in April, on the 3, the day Richmond fell, & on the 9, the day Lee surrendered at Appomattox. Check out my short piece here. @rareuva.bsky.social
Juneteenth in Virginia: Keeping the Celebration Going
Juneteenth in Virginia: Keeping the Celebration Going
Juneteenth in Virginia: Keeping the Celebration Going
Visit the post for more.
smallnotes.library.virginia.edu
June 19, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Happy Juneteenth! Here in Virginia we traditionally celebrate Emancipation Day in April, on the 3, the day Richmond fell, & on the 9, the day Lee surrendered at Appomattox. Check out my short piece here. @rareuva.bsky.social
Juneteenth in Virginia: Keeping the Celebration Going
Juneteenth in Virginia: Keeping the Celebration Going
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Is there anyone who lives in Cville that goes by Market Street Park regularly and could take a photo of the large Basswood tree on the corner near the Haven? Im trying to go work with that tree for my tree project but live 45 minutes away and want to know what I need to bring to reach the leaves.
Basswood – Charlottesville Area Tree Stewards
www.notabletrees.org
May 23, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Is there anyone who lives in Cville that goes by Market Street Park regularly and could take a photo of the large Basswood tree on the corner near the Haven? Im trying to go work with that tree for my tree project but live 45 minutes away and want to know what I need to bring to reach the leaves.
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Support your local independent venues - if you still have any! And start one if you can (esp in Boston/Cambridge please we need more of them badly)
May 20, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Support your local independent venues - if you still have any! And start one if you can (esp in Boston/Cambridge please we need more of them badly)
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So LiveNation puts Trump’s puppet assigned to trash the Kennedy Center on its board - and AEG is owned by a Trump megadonor - and between them they control oh about 90% of the live music market
Well, this sure isn’t going to improve relations between Live Nation and the artist community. www.livenationentertainment.com/2025/05/live...
Live Nation Entertainment Elects Richard Grenell to Board of Directors
LOS ANGELES, May 20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Live Nation Entertainment (NYSE: LYV), the global leader in live events, today announced the election of Richard Grenell to its Board of Directors. Mr. Grenell...
www.livenationentertainment.com
May 20, 2025 at 9:49 PM
So LiveNation puts Trump’s puppet assigned to trash the Kennedy Center on its board - and AEG is owned by a Trump megadonor - and between them they control oh about 90% of the live music market
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PLEASE don’t buy into Amazon’s booksale this week.
They are intentionally trying to eat into profits from Indie Bookstore Day this weekend, a really important annual event for our important community institutions.
Check out your local fave or bookshop.org.
They are intentionally trying to eat into profits from Indie Bookstore Day this weekend, a really important annual event for our important community institutions.
Check out your local fave or bookshop.org.
Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.
An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.
bookshop.org
April 23, 2025 at 1:36 PM
PLEASE don’t buy into Amazon’s booksale this week.
They are intentionally trying to eat into profits from Indie Bookstore Day this weekend, a really important annual event for our important community institutions.
Check out your local fave or bookshop.org.
They are intentionally trying to eat into profits from Indie Bookstore Day this weekend, a really important annual event for our important community institutions.
Check out your local fave or bookshop.org.
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Stream cult singer-songwriter Bill Fox's first new album in 13 years, 'Resonance'
Stream Bill Fox's First Album In 13 Years, 'Resonance'
A new Bill Fox album does not come along every day, but today, one has.
www.stereogum.com
April 15, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Stream cult singer-songwriter Bill Fox's first new album in 13 years, 'Resonance'
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"I am sitting in a tomb." www.npr.org/2025/04/13/n...
An American composer's biological matter creates new music from beyond the grave
An art installation in Perth, Australia, seeks to extend the musical output of the late experimental composer Alvin Lucier, and asks interesting questions about the nature of creativity.
www.npr.org
April 14, 2025 at 12:38 AM
"I am sitting in a tomb." www.npr.org/2025/04/13/n...
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The whole world runs on “just in time” inventory control and that inventory comes from some other part of the world.
Share this @waldo.net piece from 2011 with people who go don’t understand how global trade works.
And suggest they plant a victory garden.
waldo.jaquith.org/blog/2011/12...
Share this @waldo.net piece from 2011 with people who go don’t understand how global trade works.
And suggest they plant a victory garden.
waldo.jaquith.org/blog/2011/12...
On the impracticality of a cheeseburger.
If you came here having been told that this is an article about how the cheeseburger was “impossible” until recently, please note that it is not. It is about how the cheeseburger as we know it today...
waldo.jaquith.org
April 5, 2025 at 1:54 PM
The whole world runs on “just in time” inventory control and that inventory comes from some other part of the world.
Share this @waldo.net piece from 2011 with people who go don’t understand how global trade works.
And suggest they plant a victory garden.
waldo.jaquith.org/blog/2011/12...
Share this @waldo.net piece from 2011 with people who go don’t understand how global trade works.
And suggest they plant a victory garden.
waldo.jaquith.org/blog/2011/12...
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RIP MICHAEL HURLEY. the great snock has made his last wish for a potato. he made this planet a much better place to live & i miss him already
April 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
RIP MICHAEL HURLEY. the great snock has made his last wish for a potato. he made this planet a much better place to live & i miss him already