Thomas Yates

"More than any other group in this country’s history, we have served, generation after generation, in an overlooked but vital role: It is we who have been the perfecters of this democracy." #1619Project #PulitzerPrize nytimes.com/interactive/20…

My dear friend Dick Parry died this morning. Since I was seventeen, I have played in bands with Dick on saxophone, including Pink Floyd. His feel and tone make his saxophone playing unmistakable, a signature of enormous beauty that is known to millions and is such a big part of songs such as Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Wish You Were Here, Us and Them and Money. He played in the last band I had that included Rick Wright for the On An Island Tour and at Live 8 with Pink Floyd. Here are some pictures of him, including one of him and me playing for the ABC Minors at the Victoria Cinema in Cambridge in 1963.

⚠️ Frost Advisories are in effect tonight into Sat morning across the Upper Hood River Valley & Southern Willamette Valley. Temps as low as 34-36 degrees will result in frost formation. 🪴 Sensitive outdoor plants should be brought indoors or covered up if possible. #ORwx #WAwx

They're really doing Whitey's on the Moon while children get bitten by rats in Gaza. They're doing the Gil Scott-Heron poem

We are seven months away from the most consequential midterm election in the history of the United States. Meanwhile, we are fighting a war. These are the structural conditions for a coup attempt in which a president tries to nullify elections and take permanent power as a dictator. If we see this, we can stop it, overcome the movement that brought us to this point, and make a turn towards something better. snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-cou…

NEW: For the first time, ProPublica has been able to quantify how many U.S. citizen children have been directly affected by Trump’s immigration crackdown: more than 11,000 kids had a parent detained — and that’s an undercount. 1/ 🧵 propublica.org/article/trump-…

We need a nightly news guy who comes on at 6:30 just shaking his head saying "I don't even know where to start"

Same people who claim a Black woman who’d been the AG and Senator for the state with the largest population and economy and who’d served as VP was unqualified to be president are trying to convince us a plumber with no college degree should be DHS Secretary. That’s real DEI.

1965, San Francisco- just a cramped stairwell, but history fills the frame. Big Mama Thornton stands unshaken, Muddy Waters steady beside her, Chicago Blues running deep in every face behind them. No stage, no spotlight- just the raw truth of the blues. 📸 Jim Marshall

He took the greatest military force in world history, lost a war to a middle power in a week, begged the world to save him, and demanded that the media lie about this and everything else. I try, but at a simple human level I do not see how anyone can mistake this man’s almost supernatural weakness for strength. His weakness is something negative, gravitational, so deep that it can draw in a whole country. But only if we fail to see it. Only if we let it.

@NSReicher WOULD

I don't need this. I don't. but, oh man...

An entire White House administration that failed fifth grade history…

Nobody: Absolutely no one: Sturgill Simpson:

LOL

Black people don’t hang themselves from trees during Black History Month in a county that has a long-standing historical connection to the Ku Klux Klan and a state with the second-highest number of lynchings in the country. Kyle Bassinga was lynched.

Ladies, gentlemen, SWs fans…😝
I have explored space.
I have explored time.
Now… I explore distortion. Yes. You read that correctly.
I am releasing a HEAVY METAL album. Thirty-five metal virtuosos. Thunderous guitars. Chaos with purpose.
Covers of legends like Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, and Judas Priest — and a few originals forged in the same cosmic fire. This project is, quite literally, a gathering of forces. Loud imagination. Honest intensity. Unapologetic exploration. At 94, one does not slow down. One turns the volume up. So prepare yourselves.
We are about to boldly headbang where no one has headbanged before. 🤘 Stay tuned. The metal voyage begins this year.

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE follow the shelter account and interact with the posts! You have no idea how much of a difference this makes. Thank you! :-)

Trump recently suggested that he is will issue a new anti-voting executive order. Last time he issued one, we sued and won. If he does it again, we will sue and win. Trump knows this. It is why he and his allies hate and attack me. I will never back down or stop fighting.

Confidence is increasing for several inches of accumulating snow with travel impacts somewhere in the lowlands Wed. Night into Thu. Morning (Feb. 18-19) with a potential narrow band of snow, but confidence is low regarding where this narrow band will set up, if at all...

Happy Valentine's Day to this amazing couple.