Clay (feet of)

Some people are also posting their events on Bluesky, looking for an audience and even additional participants.

To find them, and hopefully boost them, you can check out the Fall of Freedom feed here.

bsky.app/profile/clay...

#falloffreedom

Absolutely worth the 7 minute watch, especially if you’re frustrated by “neutral” journalistic practices.

Pete Dominick @petedominick.bsky.social

I had a slightly argumentative but important discussion with Boris Sanchez on CNN about why Jimmy Kimmel was fired and the larger context of what this mean. Don't let them cancel me for speaking out. patreon.com/petedominick www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MOd...

"With All Due Respect"

YouTube video by Pete Dominick 1

I don't normally track birthdays, but Tobin Sprout's was yesterday, so it's an excuse to share this astoundingly beautiful and short song from Guided by Voices.

#guidedbyvoices

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Guided by Voices - Awful Bliss

YouTube video by spookybuk

Seventeen years ago, brought Otter home, skinny and cold with a busted tooth from Red Hook. I miss her daily, but a bit more on this Gotchaversary.

#blackcat #gotchaversary #ripkitty

If I were still in Tampa, I'd be heading there.

Deviant Libation @deviantlibation.bsky.social

TELL YOUR CAT ABOUT THIS RIGHT NOW!!!

Schools are closed. No Zoom classes. I have often felt a little sadness for the kids who no longer have traditional snow days. This is a nice touch. We shouldn't be so relentlessly relentless. That's for Nandor only.

#nyc #hernando #wwdits #2026blizzard

NYC BLIZZARD: All NYC public schools will be closed Monday, bringing back ‘old-school’ snow day

As a major winter storm continues to batter New York City, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced that all public schools will be closed on Monday.

Somewhere on blue sky, and I can't find it anymore, I stumbled across this lovely cover by Elliot Smith of Thirteen by Big Star.

#elliotsmith #bigstar

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZZW...

Elliott Smith - Thirteen (Live Acoustic Big Star Cover)(From 'Lucky 3')

YouTube video by PinkDevilFish

Our snow has turned to sleet in Brooklyn, just the heavens reminding us once again to say fuck ICE.

I used to believe in the idea of a crisis of conscience, but it’s pretty clear many are immune, especially when power and profit are the alternatives.

No one who can stop this turd of a president/human will.

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Are you a musician? Put on a performance, people are doing this in small venues, at home, streaming, or a mix. Here's piano improv in person and streaming. bsky.app/profile/muz4...

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Stan Stewart (muz4now) @muz4now.com

Piano Improv for Fall of Freedom #PianoImprov #FallOfFreedom www.ticketleap.events/tickets/muz4...

Piano Improv for Fall of Freedom

Inspired by your thoughts about freedom, Stan Stewart will improvise on the piano. Join us and become part of this pressing towards the country we want to become. Fall of Freedom is inviting artists…

If you've been seeing Fall of Freedom posts and wondering what you might do if you want to make something happen, falloffreedom.com has a list of ideas.

That said, here are a few things I found that might make you think. Hey, I can do this, too!

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#falloffreedom

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Here’s a feed for Bluesky mentions with a lot of events and contributions.

bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Here's a feed that activates the few but hopefully growing posts about this event.

https://bsky.app/profile/claysw.bsky.social/feed/aaae525zmxd64

I love a good villanelle. This one I return to often. I needed it today.

The Waking by Theodore Roethke.

Today, they're tearing down the east wing to make a ballroom. Yesterday, the president post a video of himself in a crown, piloting a jet, and dumping shit on Americans.

And it just keeps going.

A lot of agent provocateur dog whistles going off for No Kings.

The GOP presents it as extreme. But it isn’t. At this point, no more extreme than voting.

There will be a lot of “normal” people out. They can’t let that be the story.

That’s me being paranoid. But these are the days for it.

Everything is so unhinged.

Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social

We Rate Dogs has joined the frogs.

When Zohran Mamdani becomes mayor🤞, he should appoint Sliwa as NYCs first cat czar: bodega cat rights, support for feral colonies, and little berets for any cat that wants one.

So many awful things, but this really pisses me off. It's petty, false, a violation of the Hatch Act, but it feels like our government has been taken over by children.

Shitty ones at that.

www.usda.gov

Absolutely wild. I wonder how many more of these "anonymous communications network[s]" are out there.

Apartments stacked with over 100,000 SIM cards and 300 servers, "capable of sending 30 million text messages per minute, anonymously."

Cache of Devices Capable of Crashing Cell Network Is Found Near U.N.

Florida, get rid of Ron DeSantis, and get it right next time.

“Responses that, early on, can feel pragmatic—waiting it out, remaining silent, cutting a deal—only embolden autocrats, leading ultimately to the demise of democracy itself.”

The strategy of many Democrats, the press, universities, etc. It’s not the way.

www.foreignaffairs.com/germany/hitl...

Warnings From Weimar

Why bargaining with authoritarians fails.

Promise him a nice post-retirement whale carcass to sleep in.

The best song about Hegelian philosophy you'll ever hear.

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The Owl of Minerva-- Donner Party (Audio)

YouTube video by qmagoo34