Luke Hill

Tweeting about: books, food, history, music, politics, religion, sports…and anything else that comes to mind.

Also at: @masscommons.bsky.social

[Luke Hill @MassCommons]

#thread

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

Respectfully, @shipwreckedcrew, you are WILDLY off base, and I say this as someone who submitted expert declarations in the Miot case, read every TPS grant and termination, and tracked Haitian migrants for years.

Since I don't pay Elon for a checkmark, bear with me for a thread.

[Luke Hill @MassCommons]

Morning Song - Bolo #Blues by Jimmy Forrest

"...sweet, achy, soulful..."
#jazz

Enjoy.

https://t.co/vHUmawKMVr

[Luke Hill @MassCommons]

Morning Song - Someone Like You by @NoahKahan ft. @joyoladokun

"Because the second you left, yeah, the voice in my head screamed “What did I do?” (“What did I do?”);
Now you’re gone and all I want is…."

https://t.co/2ylYsBwpW9

[Luke Hill @MassCommons]

Shadrach Minkins: From Fugitive Slave to Citizen by Gary Collison

"...restores Minkins to his proper role as the central character of his own ordinary, yet remarkable life."
#FugitiveSlaveAct

https://t.co/PFsB31GM1i

[Luke Hill @MassCommons]

Morning Song - Dai Dai by @shakira & @burnaboy

"After 12 years @FIFA finally returned to their senses and asked Shakira to create another @FIFAWorldCup banger.

Naturally she delivered."

https://t.co/dEZzQe7uOn

[Luke Hill @MassCommons]

The #FugitiveSlaveAct - The Liberation of Shadrach Minkins

"They hid him from the feds & then secreted him across the river, before accomplices on the #UndergroundRailroad got him across the border to Montreal, where...he lived as a free man."

https://t.co/kjFU2vzJkK

[Luke Hill @MassCommons]

Morning Song - Smooth Operator by @SadeOfficial

"Diamond life, lover boy,
We move in space with minimum waste and maximum joy..."
#FirstSideFirstSong

https://t.co/hN2Wg47FrS

[Luke Hill @MassCommons]

Morning Song - Route 66 by @GBguitar

"...witty, sweet, stylish..."
#FirstRuleOfCoverSongs

https://t.co/7THisyVi4I

[Luke Hill @MassCommons]

Morning Song - #Summer (Adagio) by Antonio #Vivaldi

"Let's enjoy it while we can."

https://t.co/smIV3hP0j6

[Luke Hill @MassCommons]

Morning Song - #Gospel Andante by @JonBatiste

#Mozart meets 400 years of Black American history.

Happy #FathersDay, y'all.

https://t.co/DNUZqOZBnf

[Luke Hill @MassCommons]

Morning Song - 245 by Eric Dolphy

"He lived at 245 Carlton Ave. in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. It sounds like it was the place to be."
#blues #jazz

Enjoy.

https://t.co/Xsq4xf0utw

[Gloria Purvis @gloria_purvis]

" With deep sincerity, I echo the Holy Father’s sentiments and ask for pardon on behalf of the Catholic Church of Philadelphia."

[Luke Hill @MassCommons]

"I found out the #IRS wasn't a bunch of ogres."

@AverageJoeMoney on @MoneyUnpluggedP with @ChrisHillALX

[Luke Hill @MassCommons]

Witnessing the Wounds: Catholic Theology, Trauma, & Social Healing, Stephanie C. Edwards ed.

"...models of liberating #theology..."

https://t.co/cAJV0H01x6

[Luke Hill @MassCommons]

Morning Song - Funkin' For Jamaica by Tom Browne ft. Toni Smith

“I feel it inside my soul,
Let it get into you,
‘Cause there’s enough to go all the way around….”
#Juneteenth #FunkyFriday

https://t.co/XwdLHFjNgD

[Luke Hill @MassCommons]

Morning Song - Field Song by @mon_rovia_boy

"Baby, I been working some things off,
Tryna get right for myself...
Still got miles to go,
Don't go forgetting on me."

https://t.co/PwZLOgI2al

[Luke Hill @MassCommons]

Morning Song - #Seventeen by @lakestreetdive

“I got the feeling,
You got the feeling,
Don’t you know what I mean?”

https://t.co/RWF4zldImc

[Luke Hill @MassCommons]

Morning Song - Stupid Song by @oliviarodrigo

"I feel right, I feel wrong, I feel totally insane...."

https://t.co/sDB3wmqhTZ

[Luke Hill @MassCommons]

Paule Marshall: A Writer's Life by Mary Helen Washington

"a thought-filled & insightful biography of Marshall’s life, as well as a critical & persuasive examination of her work, building the case for her rightful place in the pantheons of great writers."

https://t.co/delocWR0Zz