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sppz.bsky.social
Family man, music lover, eMPA student, (former?) bike commuter, hiker, public servant, music lover, poetry lover, public library fan, thinker, left-handed. He/him/his. Opinions are my own.
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100% Gemini behavior — wants things both ways.

I’ve recently been seeing some summaries of the 1994 Trilateral Process between US-Ukraine-Russia re Ukrainian nuclear stockpile and missle treaty follow-thru in the aftermath of the downfall of USSR in 1991. I don’t recall reading this important historical context in the past 6 years /1

Machete method—just hacking away and leaving incredibly crude edges.

This is the way.

Interesting interview. Always helpful to listen to (and consider!) voices outside your own conversation.

This excellent thread is also a bit of Oregon political history in disguise. Now representing OR CD-1: @repbonamici.bsky.social

Great, wonky thread of how things work (or are supposed to work).

This is the message: “Weak and Afraid.” This is how Congressional Republicans are acting in their abdication of duties to check the Executive Branch. This is how the Executive Branch is acting in their roughshod deforestation of various federal agencies and of the federal government workforce.

Somehow, I entirely missed the existence of Balmat, a new-ish record label from the inimitable @philipsherburne.bsky.social (and friends). Then I stumbled onto this release and I’m totally blown away by the release and the several others in their catalog. earthtraxonline.bandcamp.com/album/dreams...

Often great notes on the historical rhyming from @kevinmkruse.bsky.social. Here’s another example in the “haven’t we seen this before?” chapter of DJT II.