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Phil Huckelberry @huckelberry.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The first newsletter from the James W. Loewen Foundation is out! loewen-foundation.beehiiv.com/p/james-w-lo...

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James W. Loewen Foundation News - September 2026

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Phil Huckelberry @huckelberry.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

David Cobb: My Standard Bearer meta-spiel.beehiiv.com/p/david-cobb... We lost David on Monday. It's been a difficult situation to process. He just didn't seem like kind of human who could just be gone. I hope what I have to share will resonate with people.

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David Cobb: My Standard Bearer

1962-2026

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Phil Huckelberry @huckelberry.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

RIP David Cobb. Absolutely shocking news. No details known yet.

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Phil Huckelberry @huckelberry.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Silkworm: Seattle (Night Five) meta-spiel.beehiiv.com/p/silkworm-s... Catching the band in the Pacific Northwest this weekend. Come join us in Portland tonight! #silkworm #seattle #ballard #ninanastasia Hi @jon.wprb.com I'll buy things from you tonight!

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Silkworm: Seattle (Night Five)

Tractor Tavern, Seattle, 8/21/26

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Phil Huckelberry @huckelberry.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The Second Vanquisher meta-spiel.beehiiv.com/p/the-second... Just a terrible loss. I try to unpack a little the unexpected way that Glen Hansard reached me. Maybe you too. #glenhansard #jasonmolina #songsohia

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The Second Vanquisher

Glen Hansard, 1970-2026

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Phil Huckelberry @huckelberry.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

THE JAYHAWKS Tomorrow the Green Grass American Recordings, 1995 Finally a second installment in the META-FIFTY series, this one for an essential pop-country-rock masterpiece! meta-spiel.beehiiv.com/p/m50-the-ja... #jayhawks #tomorrowthegreengrass #meta50 #meta-fifty

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(M50) The Jayhawks, Tomorrow the Green Grass

American Recordings 1995

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Phil Huckelberry @huckelberry.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

META-SPIEL: A Cafeteria Out of Time meta-spiel.beehiiv.com/p/a-cafeteri... They put a jukebox into the high school cafeteria. Nobody knows why. This is the story.

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A Cafeteria Out of Time

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Phil Huckelberry @huckelberry.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Hello! It is Friday night, a time for fun and frivolity! I, naturally, am spending my exciting Friday writing a response letter to the Internal Revenue Service. It seems that the IRS has may have a difficult time distinguishing the characters I and 1 from one another. Fun! Frivolity!

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Phil Huckelberry @huckelberry.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

@hollywoodsteve.bsky.social looks like you guys finally took over rock and roll

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Phil Huckelberry @huckelberry.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

NUMBER ONE CUP Wrecked By Lions Flydaddy, 1997 meta-spiel.beehiiv.com/p/m50-number... The META-FIFTY finally kicks off with this 1997 Chicago indie-rock classic you've probably never heard of! #meta-spiel #meta-fifty #numberonecup #wreckedbylions #bradwood

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(M50) Number One Cup, Wrecked By Lions

Flydaddy 1996

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Phil Huckelberry @huckelberry.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Hefner's "The Sad Witch" may be one of the ten greatest songs ever recorded that is all

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Phil Huckelberry @huckelberry.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Illinois at Cultural Night meta-spiel.beehiiv.com/p/illinois-a... Yeah, we had an Illinois table at the school Cultural Night, and it was awesome. Read all about it. #illinois #culture #rockford #peoria

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Illinois at Cultural Night

Surrender to the culture of the Prairie State

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Phil Huckelberry @huckelberry.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

META-SPIEL: Lights Out In Bridgeview meta-spiel.beehiiv.com/p/lights-out... Only took five months but I finally finished my long piece on all of the Red Stars and Fire matches we saw in Bridgeview. #chicago #redstars #chicagostarsfc #bridgeview #chicagofire #chicagofirefc #soccer #illinois

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Lights Out In Bridgeview

Years of crosses and chicken tenders

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Phil Huckelberry @huckelberry.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

META-SPIEL 2026 Primary Election Guide meta-spiel.beehiiv.com/p/meta-spiel... #illinois #primary #election #karinavilla Pardon my poor editing! As always! Also please yell at me if you feel like it!

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META-SPIEL 2026 Primary Election Guide

yay elections!

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Phil Huckelberry @huckelberry.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

@mrillinois.bsky.social you may be pleased to learn that for annual Cultural Night at the school, we have signed up to offer a table extolling the cultural virtues of Illinois, most specifically the ancestral homelands of Rockford and Peoria

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Phil Huckelberry @huckelberry.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

meta-spiel.beehiiv.com/p/confrontin... I wrote a loooong piece on our current social / political moment, confronting it, using the right language to describe it, and the importance of staying creative and engaged with each other. You might need to break it into chunks. I hope you'll read it all!

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Confronting the Moment and Creating Through It

A long meditation on the American state of affairs and how to focus our energies

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Phil Huckelberry @huckelberry.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Phthursday Musings: Cemetery Prairies meta-spiel.beehiiv.com/p/phthursday... #cemeteries #prairie #iowa #books This week is mostly about encouraging you to read a wonderful piece I found thanks to @walthickey.bsky.social and written by @christianelliott.me so go do that now!

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Phthursday Musings: Cemetery Prairies

Seriously, go read this piece

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Phil Huckelberry @huckelberry.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Imagine people who like to think of themselves as sophisticated but who aren’t usually invited to truly fancy dinners, and then when they do get invited, instead of being appreciative, they just scheme to figure out how to steal the silverware. That’s the Trump Administration in a nutshell.

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Phil Huckelberry @huckelberry.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Phthursday Musings: 2025 Happened, 2026 Happenstances meta-spiel.beehiiv.com/p/phthursday... My 2025 in review. So many spiels. So many baseball games.

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Phthursday Musings: 2025 Happened, 2026 Happenstances

Don't you hate when recaps of a year are delivered in early December?

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Phil Huckelberry @huckelberry.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Phthursday Musings: Bailter Phtursday meta-spiel.beehiiv.com/p/phthursday... Bailter Space, a great, weird, underappreciated band RIP Brent McLachlan, as I spend a lot of time talking about being 19 again #bailterspace #newzealand #christchurch #kiwipop #matador

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Phthursday Musings: Bailter Phthursday

RIP Brent McLachlan, and some additional Kiwi musings

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Phil Huckelberry @huckelberry.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Suddenly realizing that there's a guitar line in Television's "Elevation" which was directly lifted as the rhythm line in Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Californication" and sharing that information with you all now just because

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Phil Huckelberry @huckelberry.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

meta-spiel.beehiiv.com/p/sometimes-... I try an unusual political science diversion to unify some themes about the Epstein scandal and how awful Larry Summers is (and for that matter Bill Clinton...) #billkreml #dialectic #larrysummers #monopoly #politics

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Sometimes Bad Guys Are Just Bad Guys

or, an attempt at a dialectical takedown of Larry Summers

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