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Brent S. Sirota

@brentsirota

Time-lag accumulator. Professor of History at NC State University. I write about church & state in the long eighteenth century Atlantic world.

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Brent S. Sirota@brentsirota· 13d

Finally got my Zone Poems on vinyl. Prairiewolf Friday.

Prairiewolf, Zone Poems (2026)

Brent S. Sirota@brentsirota· 15d

Monk

Thelonious Monk at the Village Gate, 1968

Brent S. Sirota@brentsirota· 15d

Brent S. Sirota@brentsirota· 16d

Detail from Leo Tanguma's terrifying mural Children of the World Dream of Peace at Denver Airport

Brent S. Sirota@brentsirota· 16d

doing great, sir

CNN: Trump’s overall approval rating, 34%, matches the career low he last saw at the close of his first term, following the January 6, 2021, insurrection. Half of Americans now strongly disapprove of him, a high across his terms, with a record-low 15% strongly approving.

Brent S. Sirota@brentsirota· 17d

Brent S. Sirota@brentsirota· 17d

RIP artist Betye Saar. 70s jazz heads might know her as the artist behind this album cover.

Bennie Maupin, The Jewel in the Lotus (ECM, 1974)

Brent S. Sirota@brentsirota· 20d

Dry subzero martini at Conniption in Durham.

Dry subzero martini at Conniption in Durham NC

Brent S. Sirota@brentsirota· 26d

pausa de hidratación

Brent S. Sirota@brentsirota· 29d

demand to be taken to heaven alive

Brent S. Sirota@brentsirota· Jul 14

Possible Spain-England final. El Draque awakens.

Laser eyes Sir Francis Drake.

Brent S. Sirota@brentsirota· Jul 12

I don't know if this Misha album from last year really got its due. It's like if Terry Riley tried to make an exotica record.

Misha Panfilov, To Blue from Grey in May (2025)

Brent S. Sirota@brentsirota· Jul 7

I don't regret getting into dogfighting.

Brent S. Sirota@brentsirota· Jul 7

pausa de hidratación

Brent S. Sirota@brentsirota· Jul 7

hexed

Trump asleep at Knicks game

Brent S. Sirota@brentsirota· Jul 6

Just starting to digest this beast.

Topdown Dialectic, FalseLP A (2026)

Brent S. Sirota@brentsirota· Jul 6

The Onion: World Death Rate Holding Steady At 100 Percent

Brent S. Sirota@brentsirota· Jul 4

The King of England looking westward trembles at the vision.

Solemn heave the Atlantic waves between the gloomy nations,
Swelling, belching from its deeps red clouds & raging Fires!
Albion is sick. America faints! enrag'd the Zenith grew.
As human blood shooting its veins all round the orbed heaven
Red rose the clouds from the Atlantic in vast wheels of blood
And in the red clouds rose a Wonder o'er the Atlantic sea;
Intense! naked! a Human fire fierce glowing, as the wedge
Of iron heated in the furnace; his terrible limbs were fire
With myriads of cloudy terrors banners dark & towers
Surrounded; heat but not light went thro' the murky atmosphere

The King of England looking westward trembles at the vision

-- William Blake, America A Prophecy (1793)

Brent S. Sirota@brentsirota· Jul 1

bet it

Angine de Poitrine

Brent S. Sirota@brentsirota· Jun 24

Happy 91st birthday to the incomparable Terry Riley, one of our greatest American seekers.

Terry Riley

Brent S. Sirota@brentsirota· Jun 23

@ Foxborough

Brent S. Sirota@brentsirota· Jun 21

👇

Horace Silver, The Cape Verdean Blues

Brent S. Sirota@brentsirota· Jun 20

WHITE SQUIRREL!!!!

Brent S. Sirota@brentsirota· Jun 19

They realize the king we were declaring independence from was also named George, right?

A Star Is Born: America250 Introduces “George the Star,” Official Mascot of America’s 250th Anniversary

Brent S. Sirota@brentsirota· Jun 18

They don't know I lost a war.

Brent S. Sirota@brentsirota· Jun 15

It is textbook authoritarianism, and it should be disqualifying from any future in American politics.

NYT: The meeting broke up without a decision — a vague consensus to keep thinking about it. But it had been clarifying in its own way. Even after the administration’s posture had helped escalate tensions in Minnesota, even with the blowback mounting, the vice president and Mr. Miller were still searching for a reason to put federal troops on American streets.

Brent S. Sirota@brentsirota· Jun 12

Tony Soprano: What's that painting mean to you?

Irina: Nothing. It just reminds me of David Hockey.

Brent S. Sirota@brentsirota· Jun 12

Milhouse: When are they going to get to the fireworks factory?

Brent S. Sirota@brentsirota· Jun 5

"The car's on fire and there's no driver at the wheel . . ."

Trump asleep at meeting.

Brent S. Sirota@brentsirota· May 28

Honored to have blurbed the new revised edition of @drbobcornwall.bsky.social's classic Visible and Apostolic. Just got my copy.