Beejieweejie she/her
@beejieweejie.bsky.social
Summer school arts worker. Teaching artist elder. Metal parts.
This is beautiful and fairly profound. It's about what it is to make art in the world, and it's also about friendship: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/768682...
Contrapposto by Dave Eggers: 9780593803509 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
NATIONAL BESTSELLER · THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • A sweeping novel about friendship, love, and the lifelong pursuit of art from Dave Eggers, the award-winning, bestselling...
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I've got 3 live virtual public events on YouTube scheduled over next 8 days (see recent posts for links): 1) Aug 3, 1p PT: WA wildfire disaster & bigger picture 2) Aug 4, 6p: "Super El Niño Town Hall" (CA Sen. Mike McGuire) 3) Aug 10, 1p: El Niño update: The latest forecast
Interesting idea to pick someone who really wanted to be Fed Chair but had no interest in economic forecasting or monetary policy.
Live at Noon Pacific Time on Wed, Jul 29: I'll discuss the upcoming prolonged, and potentially intense, SW US heatwave (inc. links to Pacific hurricane), & also recent surge in severe wildfire activity across Northern Hemisphere amid ongoing record heat.
Upcoming intense SW US heatwave & ongoing Northern Hemisphere wildfire activity amid record heat - YouTube
The latest in a recurring series of live, virtual, & interactive #weather and #climate-focused "office hours" hosted by Dr. Daniel Swain. 07/29/2026 topic: I...
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Betye Saar left us just before her 100th, but she left lots of wonderful objects behind for us to ponder. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
Betye Saar, a Los Angeles artist who transformed collections of bigoted bric-a-brac, has died
Betye Saar, a Los Angeles artist who transformed collections of bigoted bric-a-brac — Sambo dolls, ceramic mammies, and crude renderings of pickaninnies — into potent works of assemblage that mined th...
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Can't wait for @serioustrouble.show.web.brid.gy & @kenwhite.bsky.social to weigh in on this one. 👀
new roses uni 🌹🎓@newroses.bsky.social · last wk.In a decision issued today, July 27, a New York Supreme Court Justice awarded The New York Times $171,616.20 to be paid by Wayfarer Studios after their unsuccessful defamation lawsuit, citing NY’s anti-SLAPP law.
"The recent report by the White House Domestic Policy Council is nothing less than a declaration of political war on the historians' profession," David Blight in powerful testimony defending the historical craft and the Smithsonian. #OAH #AHA #historymatters 🗃️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbz2...
WATCH: David Blight makes opening statement in hearing on how Smithsonian presents history
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
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Please read this entire 🧵 - 🔥 Thoughtful, with caveats, but also, so much connecting the dots in terms of warming, dry materials, and the phenomenon of these swift-moving, and devastating fires alllll over the world.
Daniel Swain@weatherwest.bsky.social · last wk.In recent weeks, there has been a remarkable surge in large, intense, fast-moving, and unfortunately in many cases destructive/deadly wildfires in multiple Northern Hemisphere regions spanning a wide range of climates & ecologies, but they all share one key commonality. [Thread]
Out today: my conversation w/NASA fire scientist Christopher Potter on the dynamics of extreme fire behavior--including science behind wildfire-induced thunderstorm clouds (i.e., pyrocumulonimbus)--on the latest episode of "When Wildfire Comes" podcast.
Episode 9 – Extreme Fire Weather with Dr. Daniel Swain
When Wildfire Comes · Episode
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Thank you, @espiers.bsky.social for this excellent discussion 🙏♻️💚 slateprivate.supportingcast.fm/content/eyJ0...
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We are looking for female rappers and singers! Like and repost!
Loved @kenwhite.bsky.social on @serioustrouble.show.web.brid.gy speaking about lawyer Boris Epshteyn, the him and @joshbarro.bsky.social getting corrected: “It’s Epstein”😂 youtube.com/shorts/k8j5V...
FrankenSTEEN. #YoungFrankenstein #GeneWilder #MartyFeldman #shorts #lafftv
YouTube video by Laff TV
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Federal agencies are rapidly moving to curtail the ability of American scientists to collaborate internationally, and this is latest of several dramatic recent developments: "NSF policy set to ban almost all collaborations with Chinese scientists." www.science.org/cont...
Now hear this! Fascinating and educational. Please read/listen: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/o...
Opinion | What Americans Need to Understand About China (Gift Article)
Kevin Rudd, a former prime minister of Australia, went back to school to try to understand how the Chinese president thinks.
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On Wed, Jul 15 at 10am PT, I'll host a live virtual office hour on YT focused on Western U.S. monsoonal moisture surge, w/impacts ranging from humid heat (SoCal) to beneficial rainfall (Mountain West) to dry lightning & potential wildfire outbreak (PacNW).
Update on Pacific Southwest monsoonal moisture & potential Pacific NW lightning & wildfire outbreak - YouTube
The latest in a recurring series of live, virtual, & interactive #weather and #climate-focused "office hours" hosted by Dr. Daniel Swain. 07/5/2026 topic: I'...
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The Aragon Ballroom opened 100 years ago this week. I wrote this story for the Vintage Chicago Tribune page (gift link):
Vintage Tribune: The Aragon Ballroom once lived up to its name, enchanting dancers with music from the 'Waltz King'
The Aragon Ballroom, which later generations experienced mainly as a shabby, sticky home for rock music, was once the North Side’s hub for romance.
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I just submitted my formal comment on the disastrous proposal to transform essentially all U.S. federal grantmaking--affecting every sector of American science, technology, education, & health--into an overtly partisan political process. Full text here: weatherwest.com/wp-c...
A Cub's game, brought to you by Fernando Pessoa. IYKYK 🌫️⚾☁️📘
John Cusack@johncusack.bsky.social · last mo.Fog bowl in Chicago
Bryan Stevenson is an invaluable cultural asset. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
The America That’s Still Possible
Podcast Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · July 3 · 1h 46m
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The Six Grandfathers Before It Was Known as Mount Rushmore
Mount Rushmore [Six Grandfathers Mountain] is known as a shrine to democracy. However, the other side of its story demonstrates the lack of understanding and respect shown to the Native people who inh...
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What are we, if we are not in the service of process over product? Larry is a collaborator without attachment to the result. He is central to the enterprise. Any other interpretation, is calumny. Shame on ye, Handler.
Jon Phillips@jowiph.bsky.social · last mo.I would kill or die for Larry
Every time I see Cristiano Ronaldo happy on my TV screen I lose a year off my life
#BackToTheWild Some stories end quietly. No applause, no headlines. Just the soft rustle of leaves, familiar scents, and the safe place it knows so well. Somewhere beyond the city lights, another wild life slips back into the forest, as though it had never left.
Learned a lot about the difference between :"Are you Islamist enough?" and "Are you Iranian enough?" www.foreignaffairs.com/guest-pass/r...
Iran’s New Grand Strategy
How a remade Islamic Republic will reshape the Middle East.
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www.latimes.com/california/s... Something special for evacuated neighbors of this facility to look forward to, after the initial burning eyes, throat and coughing. But of course "health and safety are [Lineage Logistics'] top priorities". LMAO and crying my eyes out😭
Rotting meat, foul smell at site of Boyle Heights warehouse fire
Firefighters got the upper hand on a weeklong blaze in a Boyle Heights cold storage warehouse, but the work at the site is far from over.
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That’s amazing. You must listen. For real. Hold my head high at HEB got me 😂😂😂
𝐔𝐧𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐆𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐫𝐚𝐛@johnxuandou.bsky.social · 12mo agoThis is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
Genuinely extreme--and quite frankly explosive--fire behavior ongoing within #CottonwoodFire in SW Utah late this evening, with a persistent, deep, and apparently rotating *nocturnal* pyrocumulonimbus. This region had record low snowpack a following record warm winter. Yikes.
