Bob Ferguson
@bobferguson.bsky.social
Vinyl nerd. Will bore you with new wave trivia. NYC/NJ
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⚽With the FIFA World Cup kicking off today, billions of eyes will be tracking every wonder-goal, tackle, and stoppage-time winner.
At Oxfam, we’re keeping our eyes on something else: How much more billionaires will make during each 90-minute match than ordinary people.
At Oxfam, we’re keeping our eyes on something else: How much more billionaires will make during each 90-minute match than ordinary people.
June 11, 2026 at 2:08 PM
⚽With the FIFA World Cup kicking off today, billions of eyes will be tracking every wonder-goal, tackle, and stoppage-time winner.
At Oxfam, we’re keeping our eyes on something else: How much more billionaires will make during each 90-minute match than ordinary people.
At Oxfam, we’re keeping our eyes on something else: How much more billionaires will make during each 90-minute match than ordinary people.
This dude is my kind of people
February 23, 2026 at 11:20 PM
This dude is my kind of people
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for my Salon column this week, I wrote about Bruce Springsteen's best protest songs: www.salon.com/2026/02/10/b...
Bruce Springsteen’s protest songs still hit where it hurts
Springsteen has repeatedly turned moments of violence and injustice into songs that demand moral reckoning.
www.salon.com
February 10, 2026 at 7:03 PM
for my Salon column this week, I wrote about Bruce Springsteen's best protest songs: www.salon.com/2026/02/10/b...
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Obsessed to learn about the Paralympic Winter Games mascot Milo, a stoat who is a vinyl DJ "born without one paw, but thanks to his creativity and strong will, he learned to use his tail and turn his difference into a strength." www.olympics.com/en/milano-co...
February 6, 2026 at 2:39 AM
Obsessed to learn about the Paralympic Winter Games mascot Milo, a stoat who is a vinyl DJ "born without one paw, but thanks to his creativity and strong will, he learned to use his tail and turn his difference into a strength." www.olympics.com/en/milano-co...
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Billionaire wealth has jumped to a shocking $18.3 trillion in 2025. They're using their obscene fortunes to influence our economies, and politics in ways that benefit them—not the rest of us.
One way to turn the tides? #TaxTheRich and make billionaires pay their fair share.
One way to turn the tides? #TaxTheRich and make billionaires pay their fair share.
January 20, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Billionaire wealth has jumped to a shocking $18.3 trillion in 2025. They're using their obscene fortunes to influence our economies, and politics in ways that benefit them—not the rest of us.
One way to turn the tides? #TaxTheRich and make billionaires pay their fair share.
One way to turn the tides? #TaxTheRich and make billionaires pay their fair share.
Mark Kelly texts me more than my wife when I’m running late for dinner plans.
January 9, 2026 at 9:18 PM
Mark Kelly texts me more than my wife when I’m running late for dinner plans.
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Just signed a few books for lucky readers at the Hudson News at Newark Terminal A. I didn’t write any of these books, but still, what a surprise this will be.
November 4, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Just signed a few books for lucky readers at the Hudson News at Newark Terminal A. I didn’t write any of these books, but still, what a surprise this will be.
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Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, an activist who took part in Stonewall and remained an advocate for the decades that followed, including caring for AIDS patients & pioneering needle exchange & defending the rights of incarcerated trans people on both coasts, passed away. www.advocate.com/news/miss-ma...
Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, activist since Stonewall, has died
The LGBTQ+ community — and particularly the transgender community — has lost an iconic activist.
www.advocate.com
October 14, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, an activist who took part in Stonewall and remained an advocate for the decades that followed, including caring for AIDS patients & pioneering needle exchange & defending the rights of incarcerated trans people on both coasts, passed away. www.advocate.com/news/miss-ma...
I’ll tell you who should get the Nobel Peace Prize: it’s the person who invented the “undo send” button.
September 5, 2025 at 5:16 PM
I’ll tell you who should get the Nobel Peace Prize: it’s the person who invented the “undo send” button.
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This is awesome: a "WKRP in Cincinnati" fan created a three-hour Johnny Fever radio block, by using clips from the TV show and dropping in the full songs on his intros and outros, plus commercials and Les Nessman news breaks.
WKRP: Johnny Fever
www.awphooey.com
August 14, 2025 at 11:02 PM
This is awesome: a "WKRP in Cincinnati" fan created a three-hour Johnny Fever radio block, by using clips from the TV show and dropping in the full songs on his intros and outros, plus commercials and Les Nessman news breaks.
Dude is my hero.
1/ Very moving interview.
Coach of a college prep baseball team on UWS NYC speaks about half dozen armed ICE agents approaching and harassing the kids (Latino and black youth, all U.S. citizens).
"I am willing to die today" to protect the kids.
Coach of a college prep baseball team on UWS NYC speaks about half dozen armed ICE agents approaching and harassing the kids (Latino and black youth, all U.S. citizens).
"I am willing to die today" to protect the kids.
July 15, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Dude is my hero.
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The Senate tax bill threatens to reverse hard-won climate progress. It would increase U.S. carbon pollution by slashing incentives for clean energy—driving up global climate risks from floods, fires, and storms. 🧵
#ClimatePolicy #CleanEnergy #TaxBill #ClimateCrisis
#ClimatePolicy #CleanEnergy #TaxBill #ClimateCrisis
July 2, 2025 at 9:58 PM
The Senate tax bill threatens to reverse hard-won climate progress. It would increase U.S. carbon pollution by slashing incentives for clean energy—driving up global climate risks from floods, fires, and storms. 🧵
#ClimatePolicy #CleanEnergy #TaxBill #ClimateCrisis
#ClimatePolicy #CleanEnergy #TaxBill #ClimateCrisis
Had a ball with the @oxfamamerica.bsky.social crew last weekend at #bonnaroo!
Another year of amazing Oxfam volunteers and concert goers getting together for a celebration of music, art, and activism at Bonnaroo!💚
June 18, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Had a ball with the @oxfamamerica.bsky.social crew last weekend at #bonnaroo!
Praying that this zebra shows up at Bonnaroo next week
🦓 SPOTTED: NC5 found the missing zebra in RUTHERFORD COUNTY (yes this is real)
Our vote would be to let the zebra keep running, roaming the streets of Murfreesboro like a sacred cow in India. It fits the moment we’re in! 🎪
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DKjyepY...
Our vote would be to let the zebra keep running, roaming the streets of Murfreesboro like a sacred cow in India. It fits the moment we’re in! 🎪
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DKjyepY...
June 6, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Praying that this zebra shows up at Bonnaroo next week
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this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake
June 5, 2025 at 8:22 PM
this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake
Don’t know who here can use this info, but Beyoncé tix for tonight at MetLife in NJ can be had for $50-$60 on StubHub right now.
May 22, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Don’t know who here can use this info, but Beyoncé tix for tonight at MetLife in NJ can be had for $50-$60 on StubHub right now.
I was in this documentary too, and it’s always been a ball to tell people “I was in a film with George Wendt”!
George Wendt was a big Replacements fan and appeared in the 2011 documentary about the band's fans, "Color Me Obsessed" .... he was not the only one to draw a connection between "Cheers" and "Here Comes a Regular" #RIP
May 20, 2025 at 9:17 PM
I was in this documentary too, and it’s always been a ball to tell people “I was in a film with George Wendt”!
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Even though the Trump administration is doing its best to destroy climate action, @oxfamamerica.bsky.social shares 5 reasons for hope for the fight for climate justice in the US 👇
www.oxfamamerica.org/explore/issu...
www.oxfamamerica.org/explore/issu...
Five reasons for hope in the climate crisis | Oxfam
Despite setbacks on climate change under the Trump presidency, here are five ways we are making progress in the climate crisis.
www.oxfamamerica.org
April 22, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Even though the Trump administration is doing its best to destroy climate action, @oxfamamerica.bsky.social shares 5 reasons for hope for the fight for climate justice in the US 👇
www.oxfamamerica.org/explore/issu...
www.oxfamamerica.org/explore/issu...
I love all of these amazing stories about, and expressions of love for, Clem Burke. I wish we as a society could get comfortable about giving folks the same kind of love and props while they are alive to hear it all.
April 8, 2025 at 12:40 PM
I love all of these amazing stories about, and expressions of love for, Clem Burke. I wish we as a society could get comfortable about giving folks the same kind of love and props while they are alive to hear it all.
If you ask a friend the question “Can I kick it?” And they don’t answer with the exact three words “Yes you can”, are they even your friends? #atcq
March 28, 2025 at 4:27 PM
If you ask a friend the question “Can I kick it?” And they don’t answer with the exact three words “Yes you can”, are they even your friends? #atcq
Seriously, who else could play me?
DiCaprio stars as Bob Ferguson in One Battle After Another, loosely inspired by Vineland. The film's U.S. release moved from Aug. 8 to Sept. 28. #OneBattleAfterAnother
Watch Leonardo's movie offline: www.streamfox.org/streamfox-fo...
Watch Leonardo's movie offline: www.streamfox.org/streamfox-fo...
March 28, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Seriously, who else could play me?
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The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought:
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
Killing children is by design, I'm afraid. "Pro-natalists" like Musk claim they aren't racist, but their pressure to have children is solely focused on white women, while they back policies that literally kill of non-white children.
He's a eugenicist.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
He's a eugenicist.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True.
A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.
www.nytimes.com
March 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought:
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
Aww man, such sad news. What an original, what an icon. I’ve lost track of how many times I’d seen David Jo over the years…solo, as Buster, The Dolls, every show was so good. And will never forget a fun little chat that he ended with, “Ok, be good…or be bad, I don’t care.” RIP, #davidjohansen
March 1, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Aww man, such sad news. What an original, what an icon. I’ve lost track of how many times I’d seen David Jo over the years…solo, as Buster, The Dolls, every show was so good. And will never forget a fun little chat that he ended with, “Ok, be good…or be bad, I don’t care.” RIP, #davidjohansen