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Minneapolis-based Augsburg University historian Michael J. Lansing on the fury, grief, and hope of his city—and the years of organizing that prepared Minnesotans for this moment. zps.la/49MObr6
bad bunny | mexico city | dec 2025
🐰🇲🇽 witnessed a moment of real Lisztomania (Benitomania?)
In a thousand years, if there’s History
America’ll be remembered as a nasty little Country…
all autos rusted away,
trees everywhere.
—Allen Ginsberg
“ECOLOGUE”
from THE FALL OF AMERICA
poems of these states
1965-1971
City Lights Publishers, 1972
National Book Award for Poetry, 1973
all i want 4 xmas
nice convo! go community! 🕺🏽
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card-carrying member of the costco party
Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol made $95 million last year. His workers are striking for the bare minimum. Glad to be on the right side of the picket line with them.
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Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
“Where everything else felt exhausted, the classroom was overflowing, plentiful. All we needed was a poem, a few hours each week, and trust in what we could do, in what we did do, together.”
@johannawinant.bsky.social on the real power of close reading in a growing age of austerity:
Taking the beloved #JunotDiaz novel from the page to the stage:
www.zocalopublicsquare.org/long-wondrou...
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Hold an ice cube – and shake like a dog: therapists on 16 simple, surprising ways to beat stress
MAGA’s ongoing war on academic freedom, reflected in headlines from the last 24 hours.
when planned obsolescence takes you to the apple store in downtown los angeles, housed at the old tower theatre — home to premieres of talkies like “the jazz singer” and filming location for “post-talkies” (is that what we might call it) like “mulholland drive” (tower theatre = club silencio)
LAUSD out here with the @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social font
These guys sure were prolific emailers.
another LA celebrity
always practice the 3 Rs:
reading, writing, arithmetic
reduce, reuse, recycle
rosalía, robyn, … rihanna?
is it true it was a footlong with salami, onions, mustard? we need better reporting on this
A little bit about my book, Insecurities of Expulsion, in my new essay in @zocalopublicsquare.bsky.social! And get out and vote! www.zocalopublicsquare.org/mamdani-miss...
Stockton hip-hop is an "in-between place" in the shadow of hyphy, writes "hip-hop midwife" Tama L. Brisbane. But it's growing its own sound. zps.la/4nVGzXQ
How should the U.S. remember its history of slavery?
Americans asked themselves when Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation burned down in May, and again when Trump said museums focus too much on “how bad slavery was.”
Historian Perry L. Carter has words:
www.zocalopublicsquare.org/slavery-was-...
Always read Robin D.G. Kelley: "We need to create a new university. And we will never change anything unless we are organized," and, how? in the style of Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, "putting...body and...future on the line"
www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-re...
#losangeles #literature
Los Angeles’ Literary Public Square
In 1964, gay couple Pat and Lou drive their white Thunderbird convertible from St. Louis to the San Francisco Bay Area. The rest is queer history.
@johnbirdsall.bsky.social on the "invisible engine" of his work.
(Thanks for writing.)
www.zocalopublicsquare.org/giving-my-ga...
