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Joe Perry

@biggreenjoe.bsky.social
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Co-founder of the indie rock group Big Green, brother of smarter people, lover of critters.

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Big Green @biggreenband.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I’m still digitizing reel-to-reel tapes of my eldest brother Mark (1951 – 1980), setting the old grand piano on fire back in ’69. Getting parts of a Chopin sonata stuck in your head is a hell of a lot better than having some portion of “The Night Chicago Died” on infinite repeat. biggreenband.com
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Joe Perry @biggreenjoe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
ICYMI, here's a clip of Trump at the GOP midterm convention exhorting his followers to pledge allegiance to him. share.google/aVmTAW6ODunL...
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Majority Report @majorityreport.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans www.propublica.org/article/ecto...
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
If all income in excess of $400,000 were subject to the Social Security payroll tax, Social Security’s solvency would be guaranteed forever. We could also expand Social Security benefits. There’s no reason even to consider reducing Social Security benefits or raising the age of eligibility.
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Big Green @biggreenband.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
How did you spend your summer? The simple fact that we ask is evidence of our transgressive nature as a band from the alternative rock era. Just look at this image from 1992 – what a bunch of fuckers. biggreenband.com
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LifuX @lifux.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Ice Age 6: The Revenge of the Orange Cat. Diego finally caught up with Manny. 🐈 #Cat #Cats #Catsofbluesky #Caturday #LifuX
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Joe Perry @biggreenjoe.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Cancer took my beautiful girl today. Fuck that disease to the goddamn moon.
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Joe Perry @biggreenjoe.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Some old crank is rambling on the national mall. Get a net.
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Big Green @biggreenband.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Big Green's new single "Against It" is out on various streaming platforms (and gratis on our web site). Listen, add to your summer playlist, share with your frenemies, etc., now at biggreenband.com
Cover art is a photo by a Palestinian photographer named Hosny Salah, who works in Gaza. A young boy in blue jeans and sandals sits in the rubble of buildings destroyed by IDF bombs (provided by the United States.)
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Mickey Kuhns @mickeykuhns.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
The default assumption should be that anything that this administration says is a lie until proven otherwise. Tяump lies about everything.
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Big Green @biggreenband.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
I interrupt this guitar lesson for a brief update: I am authorized by Big Green's counsel to announce that our new single, Against It, will be released on June 1. Something to look forward to, am I right? Express your joy! biggreenband.com/2026/05/t-mi...
Sequence of shots, left to right, showing me trying to finger a chord on my Martin 6 string and getting, well, kind of discouraged.
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Citizen X @mayoubhappy.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
This👇🏽 deserves to be posted 100 times but I’d be labeled spam.
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Joe Perry @biggreenjoe.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
I guess the SS was prepared for anything tonight. Anything except RUNNING REAL FAST.
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Big Green @biggreenband.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Okay, let me try this again ... Our plan is to cherry pick the best Ned Trek numbers for an album and collect the rest in a volume 2 at some point, or just put out as a “pick your adventure” database. Either way, less work for mother. We’re lazy-ass mofos, let’s face it. biggreenband.com
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Joe Perry @biggreenjoe.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
New Substack post. Read it before the toxic freak reads his incoherent address tonight and likely changes everything again. open.substack.com/pub/joeperry...
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The zero-trust solution.
If this war is going to end, the U.S. and Israel may have to accept their least-favorite off-ramp: an actual deterrent to further attacks.
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Joe Perry @biggreenjoe.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Slept in an XTC shirt and woke up only making plans for Nigel.
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Big Green @biggreenband.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
New Home (Old Band): After heated discussion, we’re boxing up all of our baubles, winding up all of our furniture in bubble-wrap, and backing the U-Haul up to the front stoop of our long-running blog. Time to load it in and pack it off to our new digs at www.biggreenband.com
Joe and Matt having a heated discussion back in 1988 or so, when the skies were black with flocks of hooting pterodactyls.
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Big Green @biggreenband.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Well, our site went down for a few weeks, but now it's back. Stupid internets!
Joe of Big Green messing with electronics, using a tool, and being totally confused like the ass clown he is.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
if you ever called donald trump the “peace candidate” or expressed a similar sentiment, please have the decency to delete your account and go away and let smarter people discuss politics
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Joe Perry @biggreenjoe.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Read the entire thread; it's not too long and totally worth your time.
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Big Green @biggreenband.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Say howdy to yet another nightmarish Christmas miracle, and check out Big Green's holiday playlist for 2025. It's the gift that keeps on giving. www.big-green.net/bg/
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Joe Perry @biggreenjoe.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Throwback Sunday: my podcast on Israel's attack on Gaza back in May 2021 - some foreshadowing of the horrors to come. creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
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Episode 64: Israel/Palestine: The Long Game by Strange Sound
Revisiting the Israel/Palestine conflict, I take a kind of deep dive into its history and attempt to make the case (as a layman) that Israel's resort to force is their way of avoiding good faith negot...
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Big Green @biggreenband.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Funny thing about our latest album, In Retrograde, is that it’s doing better in The Philippines than pretty much anywhere else. Who’s number 2 in the Big Green fan club? Indonesia, that’s who. Could have knocked me over with a feather when they told me that. www.big-green.net/bg/2025/09/w...
Joe and Matt Perry of Big Green
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Joe Perry @biggreenjoe.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Lest we forget in remembering dear Charlie.
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Joe Perry @biggreenjoe.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Perhaps Trump's most toxic legacy.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 27/07/2025
Families in Gaza are starving to death. Meanwhile, Trump & Netanyahu are using US taxpayer dollars to replace international aid orgs in Gaza with mercenaries — leading to even more deaths. ENOUGH. I led 20 Senators in calling on Trump to stop supporting this barbarity:
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Senate Democrats urge U.S. to stop funding GHF, resume support for U.N. food distribution in Gaza as more starve
Senate Democrats told the secretary of state they have "grave concerns" about the U.S. role in financing GHF, the main group distributing aid in Gaza.
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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
My new plan is to ask AI how to build the super AI that all these idiots are spending all their money trying to figure out how to build. Then I will ask how to get the money to build it. Then I will ask it to build itself & keep the money. And then it will be dinner time so I will ask it for pizza.
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Big Green @biggreenband.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Reviewer and listener comments, as they say, are where the rubber meets the road. And with an album like In Retrograde, they're leaving skid marks. Check out the ones we're musing over. www.big-green.net/bg/2025/06/w...
Joe and Matt at a gig in the early 1990s, musing over some strange thing.
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Lyndsey @lyndseydoob.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
I needed to read this today. Thought someone else might need it too.
A screenshot of a post previously from Greenpeace. It’s a photo of a blue fence with black writing on top. The writing says:
‘If you ever feel heavy because you care deeply about injustice, suffering and ecological destruction. Remember that’s trillion dollar propaganda machine was built to make you numb and it didn’t work on you. ‘
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Joe Perry @biggreenjoe.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
It's official: we suck.
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David Faris @davidfaris.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Netanyahu has spent the better part of two decades trying to strong arm the United States into an unprovoked war against Iran and finally found a president stupid enough to do it for him. Unbelievable.
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Big Green @biggreenband.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
“There’s a lot of pain and there’s a lot of angst. I’m not really sure a lot of that was consciously put into the songs,” Matt Perry said about the lyric writing process. “You end up revealing things that you didn’t think you were going to reveal.” - NYS Music nysmusic.com/2025/05/29/b...
Matt Perry playing his Les Paul. Smooth!
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."
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Big Green @biggreenband.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
"In Retrograde takes an overall turn away from Big Green's usual ironic and humorous writing and steps into a more sentimental territory." - Jenna Sents, NYS Music nysmusic.com/2025/05/29/b...
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Big Green’s First Album in 10 Years: In Retrograde
Big Green, a Utica-based indie band, released their fourth album on May 1 In Retrograde. Big Green made their start in the 1980s producing demos and playing at local bars in Utica. Brothers Matt and J...
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Read this horrifying testimony from Israel's massacre of people just trying to get food:
Mansour Sami Abdi, a father of four, described the chaos: "People fought over five pallets. They told us to take food—then they fired from every direction. I ran 200 metres before realising I’d been shot. This isn’t aid. It’s a lie. Are we supposed to go get food for our kids and die?"

“I was shot at 3:10am. As we were trapped, I bled constantly until 5:00am. There were many other men with me. One of them tried to get me out. He was shot in the head and died on my chest. We had gone there for nothing but food — just to survive, like everyone else”.
Mohammad Daghmeh, 24, a displaced person in Al-Qarara, Khan Younis.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
A deep dive into the awful provision that House Republicans smuggled into their reconciliation bill to prevent federal courts from enforcing their orders against the Trump administration, with @dahlialithwick.bsky.social: slate.com/news-and-pol...
That would mean that Judge James Boasberg could not enforce a contempt order against the government. It would mean that Judge Paula Xinis, who is overseeing the Abrego Garcia case, could not enforce a contempt order. It would mean that Judge Murphy, in this very case, could not enforce contempt against officials who defied him. It would mean that basically all of the federal judges who have ruled against the Trump administration so far would not be able to enforce contempt orders if the government defies their injunctions, because they did not require the plaintiffs to post bond.
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Big Green @biggreenband.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
“This packed album is one small step back into the analog warmth and wide range of sounds heard on late ‘60s and early ‘70s FM radio.” Check out the full review of Big Green's In Retrograde by the great Leif Zurmuhlen in Metroland Now: www.themetroland.com/blog-main/bi...
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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
here's one of the South African "refugees" that Trump has brought into the country
Charl Kleinhaus
@charlkleinhaus

Jews are untrustworthy and a dangerous group
they are not Gods chosen like to believe they are .
Where is the Temple that must be their concern
leave us alone we all believe in the God of
Abraham, Moses and Jacob ! I almost said
something ugly ...

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Joe Perry @biggreenjoe.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Give this a listen, gratis. (Worth every penny ... lol)
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Joe Perry @biggreenjoe.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Stats from RAINN on sexual assault: Of every 1K sexual assaults, 310 are reported to police 50 reports lead to arrest 28 cases will lead to felony conviction 25 perpetrators will be incarcerated 1 will be appointed to a senior post in the Trump administration (Okay, the last one is mine.)
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Looks like Donald Trump is going to have a real War on Christmas www.nbcnews.com/business/con...
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Christmas is in the crosshairs as toy industry faces brunt of China tariffs
Toy industry officials are warning U.S. consumers to expect higher prices and fewer choices this year — including for the holidays — because of Trump’s tariffs.
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Joe Perry @biggreenjoe.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Of all the fights before us now, this is one of the biggies. Do not let the Republicans get their way on this.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19/04/2025
Who could’ve foreseen that it would be a disaster to put an unqualified Fox weekend host with a drinking problem and sordid personal history in charge of the military
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Pentagon turmoil deepens: Top Hegseth aide leaves post
“There is a complete meltdown in the building,” one official said.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 18/04/2025
I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
Photo of Senator Chris Van Hollen with Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
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Phillip Anderson @phillipanderson.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
This is the way. So dope. A+++
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Joe Perry @biggreenjoe.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
This. Can. Not. Stand.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 14/04/2025
Mohsen Mahdawi of White River Junction, Vermont was illegally detained by ICE during what was supposed to be the final step in his citizenship process. Mr. Mahdawi, a legal resident of the US, must be afforded due process under the law and immediately released from detention.
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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
awesome point
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Mahmoud Khalil was a breaking point, the vertex of so many contradictions. Now, Mohsen Mahdawi presents one more chance for all of us in this country to look at each other, and to know this is not what we choose to be part of. There is nothing to be done in this moment except everything.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
This.
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