A company with just 2 employees is now in charge of restoring electricity in Puerto Rico

Its a powerful tool for seeing what might be around when all you can hear is a song somewhere in the trees.

I think of the Harriet Tubman quote: I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.I think that is going to be one of the major things we need to figure out how to organize around in order for this work to move forward.

I think what we have already seen is the need for really looking at how we shut down the ways that he can enact these policies.We were in front of one of the seventeen checkpoints that were feeding people into the inauguration.but I can imagine what seeing Bree Newsome just climb up the flagpole and take down the Confederate flag could have done for a lot of people.

trying to just use your politics to just hopefully get someone else on your side isnt going to be helpful.That speaks to the fact that we really need to be bolder in our assertions of what we want and what our values really are

sometimes it is difficult to get to the ringleaders atop the pyramid and one must be satisfied by dispatching proxies.

 —Lauren KaneThe guitarist and living jazz legend Pat Metheny is a sort of guilty pleasure of mine.What follows is part of an email exchange between Alex Abramovich and Joshua Clover about Jonathan Richmans song Roadrunner.

and casts a cold eye on the commodities we surround ourselves with (to make up for all the ways capital fails us) while making bold.its basically the run-on sentence—that was at once true to the particular motion of a car going around and around.

Its still the fifties; the economys still expanding; we can still cling to ideas of expansion and progress.but I hope to think less about which act one prefers (though this would be disingenuous to ignore) than how we think about influence.