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JR Pfeiffer
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OCEANS OF TRUTH IN THE SUMMER OF LOVE

San Francisco: 1967. Phoebe Noguchi is a freelance photographer; Janey Cragg plays electric piano in an avant-garde jazz quartet.

When they meet, a flame is kindled. And then… a murder happens.

Fall 2026
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JR Pfeiffer @oceansoftruth.bsky.social · Jan 30
I'm working on the first episode of my sapphic detective series, set in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district during the Summer of Love…
Oceans of Truth in the Summer of Love Black Power. Vietnam. Peace and love. It’s 1967 in San Francisco, and the Haight-Ashbury is 
entering the Summer of Love. Phoebe Noguchi works as a freelance photographer; 
Janey Cragg plays electric piano in an avant-garde jazz 
quartet. When they meet, a flame is kindled. And then… someone is murdered Episode 1: The Decisive Moment It’s 1967 and Captain Dave Elgin has resigned his commission as an army lawyer in Saigon. No longer able to stomach American conduct in Vietnam, he can’t wait to speak out when he gets back home to San Francisco. Soon after Dave’s return, a former army legal associate is murdered, leading to Dave’s arrest for the crime. Phoebe and Janey have just met. But they both know he didn’t do it. And they both have good reason to find out who’s framing Dave.
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Fellow authors: Without any context, what's the first line of your current WIP?
Phoebe grasped the front of my granny dress, and gathered me in for a kiss. After a couple of lifetimes, she gazed into my eyes, drawling “Go get ’em, Tiger.” Then she turned and left the green room.
July 9, 2026 at 9:02 PM
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2 PM • Logan Circle
AMERICA AT 250: RULED BY AN ILLEGITIMATE FASCIST REGIME
TRUMP MUST GO NOW!
In the Name of Humanity, We Refuse to Accept a Fascist America
June 24, 2026 at 12:43 AM
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This is how Batman and Robin get to the Batcave in the Batman TV series from 1966.

Barring the possibility of time-travel, I'd say it's #AccidentallyWesAnderson.
One of the walls of Bruce Wayne's study, showing flocked, patterned wallpaper in green and off-white, symmetrically surrounding the secret portal to the Batcave, which had been hidden behind this wall. There are two shiny brass poles for our heroes to slide down, much like the poles in a firehouse, with a stenciled sign on each one. The pole on the left is marked "DICK," and the pole on the right is marked "BRUCE." The wall behind the poles is made of concrete, and "ACCESS TO BATCAVE VIA BATPOLES" has been stenciled on that wall in the space between the two poles. The right edge of the sliding mahogany bookcase that had hidden this secret area is visible on the left side of the portal.
May 28, 2026 at 7:09 PM
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10 shows I've seen, in no particular order

Sun Ra
The Clash
Milton Nascimento
Miles Davis
Tracy Chapman
Frank Zappa
Fela Kuti
The Dead Kennedys
Ani DiFranco
Seu Jorge
jessnevins.bsky.social Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · May 21
10 shows I've seen, in no particular order

Sinéad O'Connor
Ramones
Husker Du
Replacements
Pretenders
David Bowie
Lou Reed
Elton John
Osmond Family
Aztec Camera
May 22, 2026 at 1:42 AM
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If you're a writer, write "I waited" without saying it.

“The one day I carried my cello to practice—and the 6 Parnassus was late.”
jessiegender.bsky.social Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · May 17
If you're a writer, write "I waited" without saying it.

“I desperately wished for just a glimpse of the future l to see if all this would be worth it. But I had to take the long way round.”
thejenya.bsky.social Jen Vaughn, Storyteller at Large @thejenya.bsky.social · May 17
If you're a writer, write "I waited" without saying it.

“The stars danced overhead, keeping me silent company.”
May 18, 2026 at 2:34 AM
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Earth Is a Test Case for the Fermi Paradox
Earth Is a Test Case for the Fermi Paradox The scientific world that twentieth-century physicist Enrico Fermi was part of had reached the point of realizing that intelligent extraterrestrial life has almost certainly developed in many places in the universe. But given that, many people wondered why we haven’t run across it. Fermi, being well-known, and having posed the conundrum in a memorable way—“Where is everybody?”—wound up having this paradox named after him. There are lots of reasons that people advance for why we haven’t seen any signs of intelligence beyond our own planet. One of the more prominent ones is that there might be a threshold that many civilizations reach where they are intelligent enough to be able to destroy themselves—without having enough sense not to. And now, we ourselves are a test case for the Fermi paradox. The climate window is closing, as the nuclear window expands. And yet we sit. And yet we wait. Yeah, maybe we protest a few times a year. When we could be moving mountains.
April 7, 2026 at 4:41 AM
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For No Kings Day!
Humanity Needs You Disentangle your spirit. Attune yourself to the pulse of your soul. Be curious. Stay furious. Above all, keep learning. Unleash a chaotic yet rhythmic propulsion— Relentless, untamed, unyielding—
March 24, 2026 at 10:26 PM
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Donald Trump, in conjunction with Israel, has launched a murderous, illegitimate, and illegal war against the sovereign country of Iran—openly aimed at regime change. This is an unprovoked war of aggression, the supreme war crime and it must be stopped now.
STOP the ILLEGITIMATE & ILLEGAL WAR on IRAN
GET in the STREETS — TRUMP MUST GO NOW! Donald Trump, in conjunction with Israel, has launched a murderous, illegitimate, and illegal war against the sovereign country of Iran—openly aimed at regime c...
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February 28, 2026 at 7:41 PM
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Is there no alternative to the way we live now?

Isaac Newton has thoughts:

“…to myself I seem …like a boy playing on the sea-shore, …now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell…, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”

A better world is possible! Go for it!
Roiling clouds with these words superimposed: “I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.” – Isaac Newton
January 18, 2026 at 5:38 PM
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“Kids, we are far downstream from those midterms having any effect.” – David Letterman
carlquintanilla.bsky.social Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · Jan 10
LETTERMAN: “.. CBS News is a wreck. It’s just gone. .. The integrity of CBS News .. has been trampled on, pissed on and eviscerated by these idiots that have taken it over.”

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January 11, 2026 at 7:02 PM
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LETTERMAN: “.. CBS News is a wreck. It’s just gone. .. The integrity of CBS News .. has been trampled on, pissed on and eviscerated by these idiots that have taken it over.”

@letterman.bsky.social $PSKY
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January 10, 2026 at 8:26 PM
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Let my people go!

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Paul Robeson - Go Down Moses (Let My People Go)
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January 11, 2026 at 6:47 PM
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Political cartoon by Jon Adams that illustrates a person's indifference to a government's harmful policy as long as it does not directly affect them. The cartoon is a modern interpretation of the "First they came..." poem attributed to Martin Niemöller, which critiques inaction in the face of the persecution of others. Illustration of 3 people running 2 are hit and the man who hasn't been hit says to the woman, "I don't really mind the government's new death ray, because it hasn't hit me yet."
January 7, 2026 at 6:46 PM
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Danger, danger, there are fascists in the White House!

It's up to us to drive them out!
miasma how do we shatter this stasis box? this miasmatic complacency? am i really just a pillar of salt? or flesh and blood and heart and brain and bone?
January 4, 2026 at 7:47 PM
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At Ocean Beach after today’s protest against U.S. war crimes in Venezuela.

The sky is no less turbulent than our outrage!
Fractal-like patterns in a turbulent sky, as dusk approaches. Will we act?
January 4, 2026 at 12:56 AM
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March stepping off tonight in Chicago, at least 1000 people in cold dark weather.
STOP THE ILLEGAL WAR ON VENEZUELA!
TRUMP MUST GO NOW!
IN THE NAME OF HUMANITY, WE REFUSE TO ACCEPT A FASCIST AMERICA!
January 4, 2026 at 12:00 AM
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We are the only lever of power that can turn Trump into a leaver of power.

Flood DC, nonviolently, in growing numbers!

Trump must go now!
January 3, 2026 at 7:34 PM
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Now more than ever!
miasma how do we shatter the stasis box . . . the miasmatic complacency . . . am i really just a pillar of salt . . . or flesh and blood and heart and brain and bone?
January 3, 2026 at 5:32 PM
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If refusing fascism makes you “scum,”
what does compliance make you?
Fuel the power of the people demanding TRUMP MUST GO NOW
See link in bio to join & support the movement
Let us know if you qualify and share with someone who definitely qualifies 😊
December 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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"We're not powerless. We're not spectators. This is our moment to rise."
– Kim Villanueva, President of NOW, speaking in DC on 12/13

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Refuse Fascism on Instagram: "Kim Villanueva @nationalnow Director speaks POWERFULLY @refusefascism rally. “Now is not the time to stand back, now is the time to be bold and blunt.” Find your voice! T...
Kim Villanueva delivered a powerful indictment of Donald Trump's regime at the Refuse Fascism Rally outside the White House. She accused Trump of betraying the Constitution, erasing human and civil ri...
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December 17, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Shoulder to shoulder, side by side,
Together we rise!

SURROUND THE WHITE HOUSE!
SATURDAY 12/13 • 2PM
All They Have… All they have is brutality and lies. Bluster, innuendo. Fear. All we have is heart, and hope; Outrage, resolve, creativity; Clear-eyed reason, gumption— Here, in the reality-based community, All we have… is each other.
December 13, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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Yearning to end the
Trump fascist regime?

SURROUND THE WHITE HOUSE!
SATURDAY 12/13 • 2PM
Yearning As we confront the fascist regime, We uncover and reveal The deepest layers of our own humanity— The most precious thing we have. It’s always been there, Waiting to be seen, hoping to be needed. And now it’s newly refreshing itself, As we clear away decades of cobwebs and dust.
December 13, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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Refuse Fascism on Instagram: "SURROUND THE WHITE HOUSE [2.0] in nonviolent protest Deliver the People’s Indictment TRUMP MUST GO NOW! The White House Is A Crime Scene! SATURDAY DECEMBER 13 2 PM 16 ...
The Trump regime is facing growing protests and an indictment. On December 13, join the people's movement to surround the White House and demand change. The event aims to drive out Trump's fascist reg...
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December 12, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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The Heart of our Humanity Walls erected, year after year… hemming us in. And those who have cast off the good of the intellect Jeer down upon us from the summit of those walls, Chanting—ranting—“Abandon all hope!” This chatter contends with the shrieks from below— Of those ensnared in the basements of Hell. How long will the chattering daze us? How long will we shut out the shrieks? How long till we notice that only our wits And only our own two hands Can topple these walls that rein us in? These walls that foreclose the radiant dance of us—THE MANY—in all our variegation. These walls obscuring the sobering truth: No matter our nation or station, Humanity’s heart beats as one.
December 11, 2025 at 6:17 PM