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Josh Torres Wedding

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STL. history teacher, SLPS. public school advocate. Percussionist. Into weird music, veg/native gardening, & pro-bike/anti-car agitprop. RIP Twitter—yet another beautiful thing ruined by a billionaire https://canapostrophet.bandcamp.com/album/cant

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Josh Torres Wedding @torreswedding.bsky.social · 17d

My band CAN'T formed last year, and wrote and recorded an album in a DIY studio in my basement, 99% live.

Instrumental music that is experimental at times, so not for everyone...but maybe for you?

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CAN'T, by CAN'T

12 track album

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 20h

SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live.

Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:

* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled

* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages

Marc Lobliner post on X: "Why the hell are we giving food stamps to 40 million people?

Does anyone work anymore?"

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Josh Torres Wedding @torreswedding.bsky.social · 7h

RIP Jack DeJohnette
A true legend

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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 2d

“Some of them said they’re scared because they don’t want their own family members to be taken away.”

Teachers Scrambled After ICE Released Tear Gas Outside a Chicago Elementary School

Chicago teachers said they’re dealing with traumatized students in underfunded schools — while Trump spends millions to militarize American cities.

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Josh Torres Wedding @torreswedding.bsky.social · 1d

Creeping out people with my masks since the 80s

Josh Torres Wedding @torreswedding.bsky.social · 4d

Truly powerful and inspiring to see one of the best writers, Ta-Nehisi Coates, interviewed by one of the best historians, Elizabeth Hinton

Josh Torres Wedding @torreswedding.bsky.social · 4d

This one is much better than I remember

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7d

“.. They are the asylum seekers, the rule followers. They go into the federal building holding papers .. hoping for a measure of due process. Some leave the courthouse with a hearing date set months or years from now. Others disappear into ICE’s prison system.”

@nymag.com
nymag.com/intelligence...

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Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 6d

Wake up, babe, the least subtle visual metaphor in history just dropped

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Josh Torres Wedding @torreswedding.bsky.social · 7d

I hope I live long enough to see the history books mention Trump‘s crapping AI video.

Quite the “illustrative example” of the ridiculous era we live in.

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Josh Torres Wedding @torreswedding.bsky.social · 8d

We live in an incredibly dumb and disgusting era

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 8d

President Trump posted what appeared to be an A.I.-generated video on social media showing him wearing a crown and flying a jet labeled “King Trump” that dumps brown liquid on protesters. He shared the video on Saturday, the same day that protesters participated in mass “No Kings” demonstrations.

Trump Posts Fake A.I. Video of Himself Flying a ‘King Trump’ Jet Over Protesters

President Trump shared what appeared to be an A.I.-generated video on social media. It shows Mr. Trump wearing a crown and flying a jet that dumps brown liquid on demonstrators.

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Josh Torres Wedding @torreswedding.bsky.social · 8d

The Conrad film was a @danielbachman.bsky.social rec. fascinating and beautiful

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Josh Torres Wedding @torreswedding.bsky.social · 8d

Dead Wax on Cherokee. At a surprisingly decent price too!

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Josh Torres Wedding @torreswedding.bsky.social · 8d

The recent Velvet Underground doc is one of the best I’ve ever seen.

Pairs very well with the Tony Conrad doc from 2014.
Those NYC drone cats were on to something

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Daniel Bachman @danielbachman.bsky.social · 8d

Ngl really loving seeing this death to Spotify movement making its way outside of the music community.

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 8d

Cancel SPOTIFY.

They are running ICE ads.

F them.

www.snopes.com/fact-check/s...

Is Spotify running ICE recruitment ads? Here are the facts

The advertising "is part of a broad campaign the US government is running" across various platforms — not just Spotify, a spokesperson told Snopes.

www.snopes.com

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Josh Torres Wedding @torreswedding.bsky.social · 8d

Got very lucky yesterday

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OrangeSage @orangesage.bsky.social · 9d

#NoKings Miami!

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 10d

So for-profit AI companies have trained on the world's largest collaborative volunteer project and a precious free resource, to make money for their for-profit enterprises. They have crushed traffic to the volunteer project, starving it of donors and volunteers

www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors

“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

www.404media.co

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 10d

“White House deputy chief of staff Stephen and his podcaster wife, Katie Miller, have fled their Arlington home after peaceful chalk messages were left on the sidewalk.“
Now imagine if armed, masked men were hunting you and your family like animals.

Stephen Miller selling home after fleeing amid peaceful chalk messages on sidewalk

White House deputy chief of staff Stephen and his podcaster wife, Katie Miller, have fled their Arlington home after peaceful chalk messages were left on the sidewalk.According to ARLnow, the Millers ...

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 11d

We’ve heard a lot of colossally stupid things from the Trump regime lately, but this is among the stupidest things I’ve heard from anyone, anywhere, ever.

Post quoting RFK Jr saying “We need to stop trusting the experts. Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it’s a feature of religion and totalitarianism.”

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Josh Torres Wedding @torreswedding.bsky.social · 11d

Had tinnitus in my right ear for the last month.
Don’t think it’s ever going away.
Brutal

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jeff @jazyjef.bsky.social · 12d

have always thought of the off-kilter handclaps on “Ain't That Easy,” which opens Black Messiah, as a statement of purpose. A way to keep out the normies used to slick-produced autotune pop.

D'Angelo and The Vanguard - Ain't That Easy (Audio)

YouTube video by DAngeloVEVO

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Josh Torres Wedding @torreswedding.bsky.social · 12d

Big tech is going to fold to fascism every time because…capitalism

Josh Torres Wedding @torreswedding.bsky.social · 13d

Sometimes referred to as the “beautiful people” (derogatory) Schnucks. Lots of people from Clayton and WUSTL

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Laura Belin @laurarbelin.bsky.social · 16d

Marian Wilson Kimber: It’s painful to realize the people in charge of Iowa’s history apparently have no idea how history works. If they did, they'd know there is no way to predict what parts of the collection will be of interest 5, 20, or 100 years from now. www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/10/10/t...

The theft of history

Marian Wilson Kimber: I have wondered if the box of women’s club programs that changed my life will end up in the dumpster.

www.bleedingheartland.com

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Josh Torres Wedding @torreswedding.bsky.social · 15d

Sound familiar?

Arundhati Roy
on ethnonationalism in India 2018