Andrew Varnon

I built a lamp for 3 am, for when it’s raining and the year of COVID schooling is almost done. 1/

A quarter of the U.S.'s roughly 30,000 United Methodist churches — which once dominated the country's religious landscape — have left the denomination, according to the church's news agency. At issue is the question of ordaining and marrying LGBTQ people. nyti.ms/41rbqRC

RT @Samantharhill: "Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpo…

@SaratogaNHP @Boston1775 Ooh. This sounds like fun!

246th Anniversary Commemorative Encampment Sat.-Sun., 10/7 - 10/8 Rain, maybe, but the show goes on! No musket / cannon firing Sat., but hopefully Sun., but still lots to see and do! MORE: facebook.com/saratoganhp (Photo: Saratoga NHP)

Florida is now the book-banning state.

@MichaelSocolow Because the current Nobel Prize winner is also Norwegian?

Today, we probably shouldn't forget Nobel literature laureate Knut Hamsun (1920), the Norwegian who centered racism, xenophobia, & misogyny in his fiction, and who partied with Hitler and Goebbels in the Bavarian Alps (and remained committed to Nazism). uwapress.uw.edu/book/978029598…

@MrRural It’s depressing. But what do we do about it? We have to build a way forward that is broad-based and inclusive, not based on grievances and revenge fantasies.

@ServerFairy On Mastodon, I’m @andrewvarnon@mastodon.social

@SachemHead Which server did you go with on Mastodon? I'd like to follow you back over there. Also, this list might be of interest: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

I feel like I’m hanging on at X out of inertia. Other people are leaving. But I haven’t left yet.

@mysteriousrook I’ve created an account on Mastodon, but I haven’t really used it.

@InstantKarma510 Good sleep helps!

I bought a new mattress and I think my depression might be...cured?

“My anti-phonics perspective took root in 1991, when I wrote my first feature story as an intern for the Greenfield Recorder in Massachusetts.” 🤔 kappanonline.org/ghezzi-russo-h…

Tennis is a Hobbesian struggle for aspiring pros. youtu.be/STff_wOQHn4?si…

@HartmanAndrew @jacobin @NelsonLichtens1 “…much of the new wealth floated to the top of society, obscuring a period of labor weakness and capital flight. Subsequently, the United States became a good place for the wealthy to house their cash, but not to be a working person.”

Good review in @jacobin of Judith Stein & @NelsonLichtens1's new book, "A Fabulous Failure: The Clinton Presidency and the Transformation of American Capitalism." jacobin.com/2023/08/a-fabu…

"Clinton attempted to provide a new basis for a reestablishment of the New Deal social contract, but it was a project undertaken without any serious analysis of the political or economic forces that had undermined the closest the United States had ever come to social democracy."

@nowthisnews This reminds me of the documentary “My Architect” about Louis Kahn. Kahn’s buildings could be categorized as Brutalist, but they seemed more thoughtful, complex than the stereotype. youtu.be/0HxB9Iu3Hbc?si…

Step foot on a college campus, and there's a good chance you'll run into one of them: a bulky, towering, fortress-like structure with an architectural style that has been misunderstood for years.

@OurShallowState “They’ve shot all the horses.”

Molly Jong-Fast has a piece in Vanity Fair which quotes Adam Kinzinger: "(Republicans) want a post-Trump future. But they have no courage to make it happen. Everyone is just hoping the other guy is riding in on a white horse to save the party. But they’ve shot all the horses.”

RT @WoodyGuthrieCtr: "It's the shape of the world all around you that causes your blues. And your blues is caused by some things you want a…

@TrueFactsStated You put out treats?

Hope in the early morning.

@jayrosen_nyu “And if volume is the name of the game, ex-leftist crossover stars who find new levels of celebrity on the right aren’t lost – they are found.”

"We are not having disagreements about differing interpretations of reality – we are having disagreements about who is in reality and who is in a simulation." —Naomi Klein. theguardian.com/books/2023/aug… It's really, really hard to write a good sentence about this condition. (I know.)

Naomi Klein on following her ‘doppelganger’ (Naomi Wolf) down the conspiracy rabbit hole. theguardian.com/books/2023/aug… This is an excerpt from her new book.

@TheCivilWarDoc1 @_NatParkService Cool! Thanks!

@SachemHead @_NatParkService Odd. Here you go: nps.gov/people/cwillia….

Meet Private Cathay Williams, the only woman to serve in the US Army as a Buffalo Soldier. #civilwar #twitterstorians The @_NatParkService has an article about her here: nps.gov/peoplecwilliam….