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Aaron Landsman @thinaar.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Excited to see Nolan's Odyssey so I can experience Emily Wilson's review in IMAX.

Aaron Landsman @thinaar.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Actual quote from my chat with one of my web hosts: "The email service recently upgraded. Thus, it is not giving the option to upgrade."

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Aaron Landsman @thinaar.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Hey Theater Social Justice TONYC friends! If you are in town and can study with Julian Boal, do it!

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Aaron Landsman @thinaar.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Not me still unable to not cry watching Prince's superbowl gig 10 years after he's passed.

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Aaron Landsman @thinaar.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

The Colloquium for Unpopular Culture presents NIGHT KEEPER Listening event with Aaron Landsman/Norman Westberg/Jehan O. Young Sat, 2 May 2026 2:30pm Recording Studio, 5th Floor, 194 Mercer Street Free, open to public, non-NYU guests RSVP: ss162@nyu.edu Night Keeper is on @hallowground.bsky.social

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Aaron Landsman @thinaar.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

placesjournal.org/article/prin... Listening to him, we can immerse ourselves in a soundscape that was nurtured by unique historical economies, migrations, and patterns of social interaction.

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Prince & Place

Listening to Prince, we are immersed in the soundscape of Minneapolis — a musical geography shaped by racism, class inequality, sexuality, migration, habitation, and displacement.

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Simon and Gargamel @kellylink.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

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Aaron Landsman @thinaar.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

I asked my friend C in Minneapolis how to support people there. She said: organize your block, your building, get your people together and get ready. If you want to know more, please find me. open.substack.com/pub/thinaar/...

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Dearly Beloved

We are gathered here today to get through this thing called ICE*

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John Abernathy @john-abernathy.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

This is a powerful, loving, heartbreaking statement from the wife of Renee Macklin Good, who was murdered by our government. It amazingly seeks to rise above the hate to honor Renee and calls us to our best selves. Read and share. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

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Renee Macklin Good’s wife says she nurtured kindness

On Wednesday, Renee Macklin Good was fatally shot by a federal ICE agent. Becca Good, her wife, shared the following statement with MPR News.

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Urban Omnibus @urbanomnibus.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

New release! “Life Beyond Line Items” To get the city we deserve, New Yorkers must be active participants in its governance. In conversation, Celina Su and @thinaar.bsky.social ask: How can we build democratic muscle and demand moral budgets? urbanomnibus.net/2025/11/life...

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Life Beyond Line Items - Urban Omnibus

To get the city we deserve, New Yorkers must be active participants in its governance. What spaces and methods can help us build democratic muscle and demand moral budgets?

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Aaron Landsman @thinaar.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Planning on choreographing a new TikTok performance called "Jump to Recipe", where we play songs whose choruses contain the word "Jump" and we read recipes aloud while people jump up and down and try to make the recipe. Seeing this as a big entrepreneurial adventure.

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Aaron Landsman @thinaar.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

open.substack.com/pub/thinaar/... “So much of what comes through the small screens on our devices is reductive and horrifying. Performance and politics are two sites where we can feel and be critical at the same time. Can sense devotion and lament it’s not toward something more freeing."

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Where are we? (Field Notes)

Quick dispatches from the long projects

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Aaron Landsman @thinaar.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Senate democratic leadership voting for the Charlie Kirk memorial holiday whatver-the-fuck are an indicator of how much we can't rely on either party to get us through. We keep us free.

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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

We’d be in a much stronger position right now if mainstream Democrats had taken a common sense stand for First Amendment principles instead of piling on undergraduate standing up for Palestine.

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Aaron Landsman @thinaar.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Two pieces in one single week! Come see NIGHT KEEPER at Mabou Mines on June 23 (and pick up a record!) See a draft of my epic game-based thingy, All the Time in the World on June 26 up at @ps21.bsky.social as part of Catch! open.substack.com/pub/thinaar/...

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July is a heatwave...of performance!

Night Keeper July 23 at Mabou Mines; All the Time in the World July 26 at Catch

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Dennis B. Hooper @dennisbhooper.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Fully on board with dems running for office promising to reinstate fired federal employees and jail this administration’s various criminals, but let’s go ahead and add “we will seize by eminent domain any national parkland sold to developers”

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Urban Omnibus @urbanomnibus.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

urbanomnibus.net/2025/04/this... New release! “This Is a Rehearsal” With democratic institutions and processes at a nadir, the playwright Aaron Landsman (@thinaar.bsky.social) considers the public meeting's mise-en-scene. How might artists help perform power when we are out of practice?

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This Is a Rehearsal - Urban Omnibus

With democratic institutions and processes at a nadir, a playwright considers the public meeting's mise-en-scene. How might artists help perform power when we are out of practice?

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Aaron Landsman @thinaar.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Thanks to Urban Omnibus for the patience to make a long and grappling piece about performance, power, civic meetings and the search for the right tools to meet the moment: urbanomnibus.net/2025/04/this... Shout outs to Katy Rubin, Antanas Mockus, NYCHA tenants and other civic performers.

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This Is a Rehearsal - Urban Omnibus

With democratic institutions and processes at a nadir, a playwright considers the public meeting's mise-en-scene. How might artists help perform power when we are out of practice?

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

I asked the one high ranking policeman I saw on 5th Ave why there were so few police. He said “We did not expect anything like this. Don’t tell anyone but I’ve only got 44 officers out here — and it’s a great crowd, great event, no incidents.”

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snackowski @snackowska.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

US liberals kept promoting ethnonationalism in Israel and then got ousted from power by ethnonationalists at home. maybe they need to examine that

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Sen. Jabari Brisport @jabaribrisport.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

For decades, the Democratic party has traded away its credibility as a stronghold for working-class people nation-wide. To recover, we need to rapidly – and entirely – divorce our party from the ultra-rich and their corporations.

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Aaron Landsman @thinaar.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

The beauty of "Night Keeper" lies in its ability to capture the feeling of sleeplessness without forcing it...it’s a perfect soundtrack for those late-night hours when the world outside feels distant, and all you have is your thoughts, the shadows, and the sound. www.chaindlk.com/reviews/12472

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Aaron Landsman / Norman Westberg - Night Keeper | Chain D.L.K.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

New Yorkers: Call Sen. Gillibrand’s office to vote NO on cloture and NO on the Republican Spending Bill. They vote in the morning. ☎️: (202) 224-4451

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Michael Sainato @msainato.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

A federal court in California has ordered the reinstatement of thousands of fired probationary federal workers www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Judge orders Trump administration to reinstate most fired probationary staff

Ruling by California judge applies to thousands of employees dismissed from six federal agencies

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Aaron Landsman @thinaar.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Curious how the ADL is going to spin Grump calling Schumer Palestinian.

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Aaron Landsman @thinaar.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

You can now pre-order Night Keeper (the LP and digital download) from @hallowground.bsky.social. In collaboration with Norman Westberg, a studio reinterpretation of my show about insomnia as a communion in the city. hallowground.bandcamp.com/album/aaron-... Click the link to listen to a taste.

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AARON LANDSMAN / NORMAN WESTBERG - Night Keeper, by Aaron Landsman / Norman Westberg

4 track album

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

if you find yourself reluctant to support the guy at Columbia because you find some of the politics he espoused distasteful or even abhorrent, you should know that this is exactly the reaction that they hoped for in choosing him as a target for unlawful detention based on political speech.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Mahmoud Khalil's rights should be defended for their own sake, and for his unborn child's sake, but they should also be defended on principle and for all of our sakes. The slope is slippery; the rights are crucial.

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Let's be really really clear. The Trump admin chose a Palestinian activist as the target of its first lawless political detention precisely BECAUSE they believe that will split the opposition. If you shrug at the abduction of Mahmoud Khalil, or worse, cheer it on, you're following Trump's script.

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Aaron Landsman @thinaar.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

“If you wanted to make us safe, pass gun reforms,” Boston mayor Michelle Wu said. “Stop cutting Medicaid. Stop cutting cancer research. Stop cutting funds for veterans. That is what will make our cities safe.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Plan to skewer US sanctuary city mayors backfires on Republicans

New York, Chicago, Boston and Denver mayors use platform at Capitol hearing to reject claims about crime and gangs

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Aaron Landsman @thinaar.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Re: the don't buy stuff thing: what has already proven effective is countering technofacist capitalism by participating in civil society, civic life and creativity. When we all call our no-good reps and they do something. When we go to community board meetings. When we sign our kids up for SYEP.

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Aaron Landsman @thinaar.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

"But perhaps the greatest of these sins is convincing ourselves that posting is a form of political activism, when it is at best a coping mechanism—an individualist solution to problems that can only be solved by collective action." www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...

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You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism

Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.

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Aaron Landsman @thinaar.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

just deactivated Xitter, which felt good.

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Aaron Landsman @thinaar.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Something I enjoy saying when I call Congressman Dan Goldman's office (@danielsgoldman.dg4ny.co) to urge him to do more in this moment is that his massive wealth insulates him from his possible courage. I want our elected officials who are wealthy to understand how much more is demanded of them.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Don't call it a tea party

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Aaron Landsman @thinaar.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

The rally to continue pressing @govkathyhochul.bsky.social to remove Adams from office was small but mighty. Let's keep showing up. (Also a hearty bonne idee to the person whose sign was written on the back of a French book box (#vivecartonlivres)

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 14/02/2025

New Yorkers, please call Governor Hochul and tell her to fire Adams. She's the only one with that power. It's deeply shameful that she hasn't removed this disgrace of a mayor. 1-518-474-8390

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Aaron Landsman @thinaar.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

The opposite of efficiency is generosity. I want DOGG not DOGE.

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Will Morrison @wamorrison95.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

The Stonewall Inn released a response to the National Parks Service removing the word transgender from the park outside of the Inn. A great reminder that we have to look after each other

The Stonewall Inn and The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative are outraged and appalled by the recent removal of the word 'transgender' from the Stonewall National Monument page on the National Park Service website. This blatant act of erasure not only distorts the truth of our history, but it also dishonors the immense contributions of transgender individuals - especially transgender women of color - who were at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots and the broader fight for LGBTQ+ rights.

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Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.com · 04/02/2025

I’m gonna say it until I’m blue in the face For every time 1 Dems calls, 4 Rs are calling on the same issue. Unless it’s a really important issue and then for every 1 Dem, it is 11 Rs. There is no such thing as calling too much. Rs have perfected contacting their electeds, now it’s our turn

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

i'm tired of being told to stop doomscrolling. i'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom on there

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