Lynne in Minneapolis
@wuwei-wubuwei.bsky.social
Art Historian, Adjunct, Curator - following the circulation of ideas. Also: car free, permaculture, Taoist & Quaker ideals, physics, economics. Build Peace with Justice.
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“When past and present seem unpromising as vehicles for liberation, it can be tempting to turn toward the future. Yet the future is not an empty slate, easily amenable to the inscription of our deepest desires.” Rahul Rao, Out of Time
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really recommend cameron mcwhirter’s book on the AR-15 www.amazon.com/American-Gun...
November 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
really recommend cameron mcwhirter’s book on the AR-15 www.amazon.com/American-Gun...
It’s almost as if there was a blackout 🤔
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November 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
It’s almost as if there was a blackout 🤔
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Cartoon by Michael de Adder
November 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Cartoon by Michael de Adder
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If what Miller says is true, why does research consistently show that immigrants (including the undocumented) commit fewer crimes than U.S.-born citizens?
November 28, 2025 at 2:40 PM
If what Miller says is true, why does research consistently show that immigrants (including the undocumented) commit fewer crimes than U.S.-born citizens?
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The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
November 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
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The irony is rich.
November 28, 2025 at 7:39 PM
The irony is rich.
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Take it form a historian whose first book is specifically about the relationship between crime, policing, & immigration—while white immigrants always had an easier time entering U.S. society, there is practically no group who wasn’t told their culture was incompatible with assimilation.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Take it form a historian whose first book is specifically about the relationship between crime, policing, & immigration—while white immigrants always had an easier time entering U.S. society, there is practically no group who wasn’t told their culture was incompatible with assimilation.
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A lovely meditation on families, holidays, and art
My memoir-essay on growing up with Norman Rockwell Thanksgivings is up in Vogue this morning. Here’s a small extract: www.vogue.com/article/norm...
November 28, 2025 at 1:30 PM
A lovely meditation on families, holidays, and art
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Combatting poverty and hunger in this city will take every single one of us. Myself included.
November 27, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Combatting poverty and hunger in this city will take every single one of us. Myself included.
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They did it again! NYC subway Thanksgiving 2025, via @scootercaster.com!
November 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
They did it again! NYC subway Thanksgiving 2025, via @scootercaster.com!
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Imagine you lived in the 18th century.
Smallpox kills 1 in 3 cases. Yet you can’t culture pathogens, don’t know germ theory, and have no idea what a virus is. How would you invent a vaccine?
In a new episode of HARD DRUGS, we trace the history of vaccines!
Smallpox kills 1 in 3 cases. Yet you can’t culture pathogens, don’t know germ theory, and have no idea what a virus is. How would you invent a vaccine?
In a new episode of HARD DRUGS, we trace the history of vaccines!
The history of vaccines
open.spotify.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Imagine you lived in the 18th century.
Smallpox kills 1 in 3 cases. Yet you can’t culture pathogens, don’t know germ theory, and have no idea what a virus is. How would you invent a vaccine?
In a new episode of HARD DRUGS, we trace the history of vaccines!
Smallpox kills 1 in 3 cases. Yet you can’t culture pathogens, don’t know germ theory, and have no idea what a virus is. How would you invent a vaccine?
In a new episode of HARD DRUGS, we trace the history of vaccines!
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If this guy had studied the liberal arts, he might understand what a false premise is.
It’s time to stop worshipping the liberal arts | Letters
Letters: While such institutions have intrinsic value, that doesn’t mean they are entitled to be socially favoured or economically exceptional for ever, says Jianyang Geng
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:58 PM
If this guy had studied the liberal arts, he might understand what a false premise is.
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I wrote a fun little book about how religion is always material and social, and so always economic, and how some ancient ritual economies were justified in myth!
Makes a great present for the nerdiest and second nerdiest person you know!
https://bookshop.org/a/115568/9781009559911
Makes a great present for the nerdiest and second nerdiest person you know!
https://bookshop.org/a/115568/9781009559911
November 26, 2025 at 11:19 PM
I wrote a fun little book about how religion is always material and social, and so always economic, and how some ancient ritual economies were justified in myth!
Makes a great present for the nerdiest and second nerdiest person you know!
https://bookshop.org/a/115568/9781009559911
Makes a great present for the nerdiest and second nerdiest person you know!
https://bookshop.org/a/115568/9781009559911
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A lot of us are going to need Leslie Jones on speed dial tomorrow. youtube.com/shorts/rr0Bd...
Talking to your family at Thanksgiving is hard. Let Leslie Jones handle it #dailyshow
YouTube video by The Daily Show
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November 26, 2025 at 11:24 PM
A lot of us are going to need Leslie Jones on speed dial tomorrow. youtube.com/shorts/rr0Bd...
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Today in life under competitive authoritarianism
Textbook stuff. As textbook as it gets.
Textbook stuff. As textbook as it gets.
November 24, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Today in life under competitive authoritarianism
Textbook stuff. As textbook as it gets.
Textbook stuff. As textbook as it gets.
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By aligning itself with federal funding mechanisms, proponents allowed its priorities to be diluted.
Instead of producing streets that are safe, human-scaled, and integrated into neighborhoods, we’ve ended up with expensive projects that serve as compliance exercises.
Instead of producing streets that are safe, human-scaled, and integrated into neighborhoods, we’ve ended up with expensive projects that serve as compliance exercises.
November 26, 2025 at 11:48 PM
By aligning itself with federal funding mechanisms, proponents allowed its priorities to be diluted.
Instead of producing streets that are safe, human-scaled, and integrated into neighborhoods, we’ve ended up with expensive projects that serve as compliance exercises.
Instead of producing streets that are safe, human-scaled, and integrated into neighborhoods, we’ve ended up with expensive projects that serve as compliance exercises.
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I guess it’s a good thing we were so concerned about the right to speak our opinions being outlawed by a ruling class that we guaranteed it by making it the very first amendment in our Bill of Rights when we formed the country.
November 26, 2025 at 11:55 PM
I guess it’s a good thing we were so concerned about the right to speak our opinions being outlawed by a ruling class that we guaranteed it by making it the very first amendment in our Bill of Rights when we formed the country.
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Just a heads up for @hotelbarpodcast.bsky.social listeners that the episode we'll be dropping this Friday, "Quiet Resistance (with Tamara Fakhoury)," is a MUST LISTEN for anyone interested in how Palestinians are navigating Israeli oppression in their day-to-day lives.
November 27, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Just a heads up for @hotelbarpodcast.bsky.social listeners that the episode we'll be dropping this Friday, "Quiet Resistance (with Tamara Fakhoury)," is a MUST LISTEN for anyone interested in how Palestinians are navigating Israeli oppression in their day-to-day lives.
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Can the families of the West Virginia guards sue the President? I am wondering about this especially as a judge has ruled the deployment illegal.
November 27, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Can the families of the West Virginia guards sue the President? I am wondering about this especially as a judge has ruled the deployment illegal.
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When bike paths are safe and easy to use, more people are likely to ride bikes, which helps keep everyone healthier and reduces healthcare costs.
November 26, 2025 at 8:32 PM
When bike paths are safe and easy to use, more people are likely to ride bikes, which helps keep everyone healthier and reduces healthcare costs.
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"Not only was the groundwork for the Trump administration’s descent into increasingly repressive and illegal tactics laid under Biden, but the investigation revealed that the framework for cracking down on student free speech was also in place before the pro-Palestine encampments."
November 26, 2025 at 2:28 PM
"Not only was the groundwork for the Trump administration’s descent into increasingly repressive and illegal tactics laid under Biden, but the investigation revealed that the framework for cracking down on student free speech was also in place before the pro-Palestine encampments."
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Mamdani’s Arts and Culture Transition Committee includes Elizabeth Alexander, the poet and Mellon Foundation President; Legacy Russell, Executive Director of The Kitchen; and Hiba Abid, the New York Public Library’s first-ever curator of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies.
Meet the Members of Mamdani’s Arts and Culture Transition Committee
Mellon Foundation President Elizabeth Alexander, curator Kimberly Drew, and The Kitchen Executive Director Legacy Russell are among the 28 members of the advisory team.
hyperallergic.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Mamdani’s Arts and Culture Transition Committee includes Elizabeth Alexander, the poet and Mellon Foundation President; Legacy Russell, Executive Director of The Kitchen; and Hiba Abid, the New York Public Library’s first-ever curator of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies.
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A reminder that Witkoff is a real estate guy with no prior diplomatic experience.
Donald Trump has put a child in charge of capitulating to Vladimir Putin.
www.reuters.com/world/trump-...
www.reuters.com/world/trump-...
April 11, 2025 at 9:36 PM
A reminder that Witkoff is a real estate guy with no prior diplomatic experience.
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Congress requires DOD to facilitate Scouts activities but the Secretary can ignore the law in cases where it is “detrimental to national security." Hegseth is preparing to do so because the scouts have become too inclusive of girls.
www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
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U.S. ready to cut support to Scouts, accusing them of attacking 'boy-friendly spaces'
Documents show the U.S. military is planning to sever all ties with the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts.
www.npr.org
November 26, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Congress requires DOD to facilitate Scouts activities but the Secretary can ignore the law in cases where it is “detrimental to national security." Hegseth is preparing to do so because the scouts have become too inclusive of girls.
www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
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Gee, if there hadn’t been such a rush to concede, someone might have noticed.
November 26, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Gee, if there hadn’t been such a rush to concede, someone might have noticed.