Kray Van Kirk
@krayvankirk.com
Singer/songwriter & storyteller Unrepentant idealist (yes, that one is really hard right now) Literary nerd Because Heroes.
Been MIA for a while. My bad. New music video from the new album EMPIRE is finished. META and Google said the original cover slide violated their rules re: political and social issues if I wanted to promote it. But here it is. :-)
"The problem with a delayed response is that the more power leaders with authoritarian tendencies accumulate, the harder it is to mount an effective resistance. The opposition is thus more likely to succeed if it acts early..." www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
How to Save a Democracy
Americans can learn from opponents of authoritarianism elsewhere.
foreignaffairs.com
For those of you asking why Pete Hegseth has a Russian email address: It's so he can log into Signal.
Map of the upcoming Spring tour! All the gory deets are on krayvankirk.com/shows I hope to see some of you along the way! I'll be playing a tune or two from the upcoming album, EMPIRE. (You can guess what THAT'S about!)
Petition to protect Medicaid. Sign and call your Congress Ritters!! go.caringacross.org/a/no-cuts-pr...
No Cuts, No Concessions: Protect Medicaid!
go.caringacross.org
Hi everyone. Touring singer-songwriter / storyteller on the OR-CA border. Folk Americana with Celtic roots so that absolutely everyone, of all identities and histories, can know they have a verse in the shouted poetry of dawn. krayvankirk.com/music The Midnight Commander was here!
Kray Van Kirk - Music
Kray Van Kirk music. The Midnight Commander, The Road to Elfland, Kray Van Kirk - Live at the Acorn
krayvankirk.com
I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky
Alessandro Rigolon@alerigolon.bsky.social · 2y agoJust received an email saying that it's not advisable to include the following words in future applications for research funding to the US DOT. Here we are.
In light of the 🍊 💩 and his 👿 legion blocking access to Medicaid today, Marc Cuban has a pharmacy website for drugs at cost. They don't have everything (e.g. Keppra is not available, but the generic equivalent, Levetiracetam, is) but it is an option and cheaper in many cases. costplusdrugs.com
Homepage of Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drugs
Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug homepage. Provides safe, affordable medicine or medication with transparent low prices.
costplusdrugs.com
No idea who so richly deserves the credit for this delight, but I *DO* have an idea of who should be in the bag.
Updated for the current enshittification of the US, by Timothy Snyder. "Strongman rule is a fantasy. Essential to it is the idea that a strongman will be your strongman. He won't." snyder.substack.com/p/the-strong...
The Strongman Fantasy (updated 11/24)
And dictatorship in real life
snyder.substack.com
Just in case anyone was wondering... you know, just for geek academic purposes... DuckDuckGo is a TOR search engine and the TOR browser is freely available for anonymizing Internet usage. www.torproject.org/download/
The Tor Project | Privacy & Freedom Online
Defend yourself against tracking and surveillance. Circumvent censorship.
torproject.org
Hi everyone. Touring singer-songwriter / storyteller on the OR-CA border. Folk Americana with Celtic roots, building new stories and myths for the 21st century so that absolutely everyone, of all identities and histories, can know they have a verse in the shouted poetry of dawn.
"If the human race is still here in 100 years, it will be because of lots of people doing lots of little things. Bigger things can get bought off by the powers that be. But if there are many, many little things going on, it will be too hard for them to keep up with all of them. " Pete Seeger