Reminder fo what capitol "security" in full military-grade riot gear looked like for Black Lives Matter protests this summer.

Wow it’s almost like police forces in the US exist primarily to enforce the race/class divide & not actually to protect public safety

Let this be a lesson to you all. Police do not need deescalation or restraint training. They can restrain themselves against certain people. They just not going to restrain themselves against YOU.

Play us a little something

Law enforcement arrested 15 people today in D.C, according to NBC. 15. People were being arrested by the hundreds in Ferguson for peacefully protesting the killing of an unarmed black teenager.

I don’t see a path to defeating the fascist opposition right now that doesn’t require pressuring government, policing & military agencies to essentially turn on themselves & oust the most far right elements in their ranks. 1/

White violence after racial justice is a pattern. There’s a word for that.

Today, let us remember Martin Luther King as he was: A Black radical anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, revolutionary Christian who was murdered as an enemy of the State. Anything else is just a lie.

Orval! Schneeeule! Keeping Together! Wild Creatures! Much of Scratch, Dovetail, Pen Druid, The Seed... (& all the individual beers thereof)

Both Hop Culture and Craft Beer & Brewing have put out amazing resources recently on everyone’s favorite enigmatic beer style: saison. This one’s got words I forgot I wrote but which I badly needed to reread to hold the rudder in our weird pursuit of saison on our new farm.

2,400 year-old skeleton mosaic in Turkey that says: 'Be cheerful, enjoy your life'

Lawn Times are back!

I want to say something about historic analogies... In some important ways what we see now is *worse* than lynching. Because it isn't a mob that engages in extra-legal violence. It is an agent of the state, with the authority of the state, killing people without any process...

Abolish the police.

how would the George Floyd Act prevent the Chicago Police Department from shooting another 13 year old child with his hands up? How would the Act prevent another veteran cop from "accidentally" grabbing her gun? The proposed solutions don't match the problems.

Invasive Spotted Lanternfly nymphs are emerging: How you can help stop them from spreading planetprinceton.com/2021/05/16/inv…

Philly, we’re back! Our first event in, maybe like a year and a half? Come on out and help us remember how this goes. Writing Degree Zero 2018 Bluets 2020 Ice-nine Vidal Blanc 2018 Agnus Dei 2018

Less than 24 hours into our Portland (OR) visit & already encountered a beautiful black IPA & hoppy red ale. The dream of the mid-aughts is alive in Portland.