Andrew Varnon
Middle-aged adventurer of the ordinary. #GreenfieldMA #BeerBaseballAndTheBible #BigMessyAmerica #Tennis #PublicSchools Neurodiversity & Sexual Assault awareness. Poet & Essayist. ArtSpace board member. Check out my #Varticles (Varnon + Articles, get it?)
- Reposted by Andrew Varnon🚨 Tell your Senators to vote NO on the GOP’s so-called “SAVE” Act”, which would: Require continuing voter purges w/ NO PENALTY for erroneous purges. Subject election officials to potential PRISON TIME & citizen suits for mistakenly registering a single voter—even if the voter is a citizen! 1/
- Good reporting from MassLive on what the Trump administration's request to states for voter rolls means, and why it matters. www.masslive.com/politics/202...
- Today’s poem of the day at the Academy of American Poets: “Burn Out” by Amy Alvarez. poets.org/poem/burn-ou
- Canadian PM Mark Carney gave this speech at the UN, where he talked about the rupture in the world order and what middle powers like Canada need to do.
- Correction: World Economic Forum, not UN.
- Cool!
- My @jskstanford.bsky.social year at Stanford centers on one question: What grows when you build a community newsroom inside a public library? I've been testing it in Brooklyn neighborhood. It's works. We can do this in the 16,000+ library buildings in the U.S. Seriously. medium.com/jsk-class-of...
- “ICE’s lawless behavior in repeated incidents should be deeply concerning to everyone who wants to live in a free country.” - Heather Cox Richardson
- On January 6, 2021, supporters of President Trump broke into the Capitol building to try to prevent congress from certifying the results of the presidential election won by Joe Biden. The rioters assaulted police officers and threatened members of Congress and VP Mike Pence.
- In K-12 public education, we call it bullying.
- I love the retro “Jim’s Take” opening to this, and also, it’s spot on. It’s the oil, stupid.
- I published my first post on Substack, containing the first section of an essay that I've been brooding over for a little more than a year now. It's called "Retreating into the Corn." open.substack.com/pub/andrewva...
- Agreed.
- This seems like a zen koan of social media: we are all writing off-the-cuff aphoristic pronouncements and expecting everyone else to keep up.
- Hey, it’s a podcast on the Boar’s Head Festival at Trinity UMC Springfield! My family and I are in it and it’s coming up Jan 9-11.
- Pageantry with Purpose: The Boar’s Head Festival #wearehometownnews #sothatremindsme
- This says a lot about our country right now, and I don’t know what to feel about it.
- Saw the Allan Rohan Crite exhibit at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum yesterday. Powerful retrospective on a Black Boston artist. cdm.bostonathenaeum.org/digital/api/...
- Here’s the exhibit page: www.gardnermuseum.org/allan-rohan-...
- My family and I went to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum yesterday. The courtyard is amazing, especially on a dreary day. And there is art everywhere.
- My brother went to New College, so I’m interested in this reporting. I saw the NYT piece and it was odd.
- New, from me: The NYT reporter who specializes in profiles of beleaguered right-wingers on campus went to New College...and found out that things were going ok! So let me explain some pretty massive errors of omission: 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...
- Reposted by Andrew VarnonLook very closely at the speeches at the Trump youth organization's AmFest, and you'll see an effort not merely to overturn the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement, but even Reconstruction. It echos with the Mudsill democrats in the years before the Civil War, confident of white supremacy.
- MassLive has been doing an interesting series of stories about the Trump administration's interference with Higher Education. This one is about Orban's Hungary and how it might warn of future intentions in the United States. www.masslive.com/news/2025/12...
- If we love America, what is it that we love? If we are thankful for America, what is it that we are thankful for?
- I’ve been thinking about this in terms of… everything. But thinking about the Ken Burns American Revolution.
- Library newsroom? I like it.
- "In a sequel to her influential 'Library as Infrastructure', contributing writer Shannon Mattern delves into the organizing force of libraries at a time when public knowledge is under attack." placesjournal.org/article/extr... @shannonmattern.bsky.social
