Charles F. Whittingham
@cfwhittingham.bsky.social
Educator & friend | Left-leaning, culture-first, savoring art, ideas & the small pleasures that make life vivid 🍷📚✨ | Open-minded, supportive of creative expression | Quiet admirer of confidence, charm & effortless grace 🌹 | #Progressive #Humanist
Libraries are reporting record summer usage. People need spaces where attention isn’t monetized. In a year defined by political volatility, the library remains one of the few institutions that still treats citizens as thinkers. And I fear it is about air conditioning. #climate #libraries
Virginia’s July assessment report confirms what educators already knew: chronic underfunding produces predictable inequity. Legislators keep demanding outcomes they refuse to resource. Civic formation collapses when budgets contradict the mission.
We normalize a lot of things we shouldn't. Medical debt. Child hunger. Working two jobs just to pay rent. None of this should be normal.
Word to Congress: Voting is not some complex advanced theory.
Odd practice the redaction of files quite literally produced by those elected by the people to serve the people.
Ross Crawshaw-Lopton@rosslopton.bsky.social · last mo.Release the #EpsteinFiles. No more redactions. No more delays. If crimes were committed, prosecute everyone involved — no matter who they are.
When people renew wedding vows, it's safe to assume someone got caught cheating.
The Liberal BoJack@thelibbojack.bsky.social · last mo.When people get super religious out of the blue, it’s safe to assume they did something really bad.
Anna Julia Cooper’s "A Voice from the South" asserts Black intellectual agency is still ahead of many institutions. #blackstandardcollective #feminism #Booksky www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61741
A Voice from the South by Anna J. Cooper
Free eBook digitized and proofread by volunteers.
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The Israeli military violated the ceasefire in Lebanon yesterday. The Israeli army first attempted to advance their invasion, until they faced local resistance. Israel took to social media to proclaim themselves the victims, while launching two airstrikes on the area their army failed to take.
Israel Violates Lebanon Ceasefire With Airstrikes and Fresh Invasion Push
Fri, 26 Jun Friday, 26 June 2026 ·188 days and still no Epstein files
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ONE WEEK until 'The Dead Milkmen' is out on #jcardpress... This Counts as Research! (The Dead Milkmen) Vol. 9.5: JOE'S DANISH LESSONS, SOME RIGHTEOUS PRAISE FROM DANDREW, AND A SPECIAL EVENT IN VERMONT ON JULY 6th @deadmilkmen.bsky.social #musikloppen #copenhagen
This Counts as Research! (The Dead Milkmen) Vol. 9.5: JOE’S DANISH LESSONS (+ Praise from Dandrew, and a special event July 6th in VT)
For much of 2025, I was deep in the throes of archival research and interviews with/about the Dead Milkmen for my forthcoming (aptly titled) book The Dead Milkmen, which you can preorder from J-Card Press here. With any book project, especially on such an eclectic and long-running band, there were many stories and artifacts that, for various reasons, slid into the margins or I needed to cut for space.
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Top Philadelphia Songs — The Philadelphia Inquirer’s 76 Iconic Tracks as listed by Dan DeLuca - The Dead Milkmen song "Punk Rock Girl" comes in at #30.
MAGNET Exclusive: Excerpt from “The Dead Milkmen” by Tyler Sonnichsen (J-Card Press). “By being ‘serious about not being serious,’ the @deadmilkmen.bsky.social were, ironically, to the left of so many urbane punk bands.” Read more: magnetmagazine.com/2026/06/26/m...
California has some of the most complicated business laws in the country. There are fees, filings, and compliance requirements that apply specifically to California businesses that catch a lot of new owners off guard.
I am not a prolific poster, but I like organizing in support of women. When I think of supporting women, I avoid the negativity of attacks on males. Rather, I strive for positive action: patronizing superior women-owned business, outreach, shelters, PP...and online. 💗 go.bsky.app/DNgPNfj
I do not get wound up that easily. However I got wound up when I found out about school ventilation issues. School Lunch Debt, Poor Quality of Breathable Air. Children. Schools. Our society is flat out ghoulish. #education
Everyone’s “fine” until you ask twice. #wellbeing
I have it on good authority that whenever you start a sentence with "I am".... (ie. "I am a publicist," "I am in a padded cell," "I am the Walrus.") ...if you are hyper evolved then you just stop at "I am."
Fairness and decency are not political stances but civic obligations. Both are lacking here.
Khashoggi's Ghost@urocklive1.bsky.social · last mo.JFC. We're doing crime is fine now, and also everybody cheats. I guess we've evolved beyond laws and ethics in this advanced century. The Vice President says nobody cares about that stuff.
“Justice commands us to harm no one and to help all.” Cicero
AI is infecting us like a computer virus. This corrosive technology is moving faster than ethics, and regulation is jogging behind both. #techpolicy
Are we currently on: Ceasefire/Strait Opened or Bombing/Strait Closed? I know it is one or the other but this is getting hard to track.
This is to remind how Trump and Elon Musk treat people with empathy.
ICE is rapidly gaining control of police agencies across the USA. 2001-2025: 130 Police forces signed to work for ICE. 2025-2026: 1,857 Police forces signed up to work with ICE.
The Trump Regime Has Driven a 1,222% Rise in Local Police Forces Working for ICE
The police officer who is supposed to keep your street safe can now be the one who delivers you to one of ICE's concentration camps. This is done through a 287(g) agreement, a provision of U.S. immigr...
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They're putting the police under ICE. They're building and purchasing concentration camps. We're finding camps that appear to be secret training camps. It's not an accident that this term began with two Nazi salutes.
Israel fired on civilians who attempted to collect the bodies of victims in South Lebanon. Israel has claimed those civilians are "terrorists". This disgusting military has no shame.
