Mark Armstrong

@markarms.bsky.social

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Producer, writer, singer. Editor, @niemanstoryboard.org Podcasts @ursastory.bsky.social Music: https://www.instagram.com/markarmsmusic Founder (emeritus) of Longreads markarms.com

The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman by Deesha Philyaw
Book: Catch the Devil by Pamela Colloff
Video from my live performance of “Don’t Get Too Comfortable” at Tim’s Tavern in West Seattle / White Center
Live cover of Archie, Marry Me
Sensitization by Cory Doctorow
Twin cities resident here. Why is the NY Times using their resources to interview and write this article where rural people are bashing the Twin Cities. We are under invasion by ice agents. There was another shooting last night. People are getting dragged out of their houses. US citizens are being detained. They are pulling people over indiscriminately just because they look a certain way. There is so much bad stuff happening and the news is not even capturing the full extent. Please spend more resources covering this. Not interviewing people who do not understand what is happening. What is happening here is terrifying and needs to be the front page of every newspaper. National news does not seem to be getting it. All NY Times resources in Mn need to be spent on documenting the brutal behavior of the Feds. People need to understand what could be coming to them. Here in the Twin Cities I feel like we have been completely abandoned by government. Local governments are unable to stop the brutalisation of their residents. It is traumatic and it is institutional betrayal.
Listening age: 79
Nieman Storyboard podcast, Spotify Wrapped
Soul-Folk, by Ashawnta Jackson
Shoshana Walter, author of "Rehab"
Ursa Live at the Center for Fiction
Ursa Live, July 9, The Center for Fiction
"Alternative music gig slated for Indio in fall." Desert Sun, 1999
Nieman Storyboard podcast
The NEA putting a thing in their regulations that says no art by trans people—that’s just one piece of this conversation. The other piece is all the theater companies across America that are reviewing plays for next season, and they just quietly slide the ones by trans playwrights or featuring trans characters into the discard pile. It’s behind closed doors, and we’ll only notice it years from now.
Book: The Man Nobody Killed by Elon Green
Video of Alki Beach, Seattle, with the song “Don’t Get Too Comfortable” by Mark Armstrong
Billie Eilish at Climate Pledge Arena, Seattle.
Me on Spotify Wrapped!
Spotify Wrapped with Chappell Roan, Lana Del Rey, Taylor Swift, (and me!)
Pink Pony Club, Spotify Wrapped. Data doesn’t lie.
Dog by a warm fireplace.
Sheep, relaxing.
Chiweenie on a walk.