Mark Swartz

Reinventing care for #OlderAmericans, one story at a time aginginamerica.news. Subscribe today and find us on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/groups/14364...

If you love #BobDylan, you'll either love my novella or wonder what the hell I was even thinking. Learn more and back the project here. www.kickstarter.com/projects/450...

Our Quick Guide to SNAP Eligibility and Benefits is now updated for fiscal year 2027, including the latest eligibility rules, benefit amounts, and recent changes to the program: www.cbpp.org/research/foo...

External appearances often belie the reality, the gnawing discomfort in the gut. @allmusic.com on #BlackBoxRecorder www.allmusic.com/album/englan...

Purposely. Not. Tech. aginginamerica.news/2026/10/06/t...

Storytelling gives us something that technology can’t. www.the74million.org/article/the-...

Got to share the stage with one of my favorite people yesterday- DoLette McDonald is a damn national treasure ❤️

@neglectedbooks.com on Al Young's Musical Memoirs neglectedbooks.com?p=205 (Doesn't mention Mingus Mingus, cowritten with Janet Coleman)

"What’s wrong with us? Our nation’s moral compass, I mean." @jimhightower.com aginginamerica.news/2026/10/02/w...

Tailored to a T / While history is tellin' you / The same old thing

@melinamagdelenat.bsky.social on #PalliativeCare in India and France aginginamerica.news/2026/09/21/w...

"All through the Night" disambiguation: --Cyndi Lauper, written by Jules Shear --Ella Fitzgerald (and others), written by Cole Porter --Lou Reed, written by Lou and Don Cherry --Peter, Paul and Mary (and others, including Jane Siberry), adapted from the traditional Welsh "Ar Hyd y Nos"

"I believe an act of care is a practice, though care itself may be innate." aginginamerica.news/2026/09/03/w...

#Fashion #Kindergarten #Investing #Childcare #Advocacy

Claude on #YayoiKusama: A wild, deliberately absurd guess: somewhere in the billions — say, roughly 3 to 5 billion dots over her career.

Claude tells me that William Vollmann has written 18,000–20,000 pages.

#NorahJones youtu.be/FpqvD2SFnq8?...

Care Top 5 substack.com/@icareaboutc...

what's everyone's favourite jon spencer exhortation? i particularly enjoy 'a roy rogers roast beef-ah sandwich!' on big road youtu.be/IVcur-HDOfY?...

She my baby, she all right / Keep me fairly warm at night Yo La Tengo + Robyn Hitchcock youtu.be/nv5C4fJC5Qw?... #SoftBoys

#NowPlaying #FridayAfternoon #ErnestRanglin #Guitar youtu.be/7Clg_7FTRKI?...

Wild misfire from a PR firm

#BestSongHeardToday #MusicChallenge #MusicSky youtu.be/pjWV-ksEA3g?...

In honor of the #RollingStones interpreting #AmyWinehouse on their new album, here's my ever-expanding Men Covering Women playlist open.spotify.com/playlist/03K...

“Medicaid is also the insurance that keeps caregivers themselves healthy enough to keep providing that care.” @jason4care.bsky.social aginginamerica.news/2026/07/07/c...

Don't let no five-and-dime baby / Break your million-dollar heart. #PaulHaines #CarlaBley #LindaRonstadt youtu.be/7UIFtduRB6E?...

When I told my friends … they would say: “Letta who?” I would answer, “Ask your maid.” daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2015/06/lett...

Ibeyi (left) is a French musical duo consisting of twin sisters Lisa-Kaindé Diaz and Naomi Diaz. Isaya (right) is a French musical duo consisting of twin sisters Caroline and Jessica. Got it?

"Humble & Kind" by Lori Mckenna #SongShares #Americana #LifeLessons open.spotify.com/track/4ZBFIz...

What is @nealkshah.bsky.social predicting about Medicare? aginginamerica.news/2026/06/17/t...

Reading for context

When and why did he put the umlaut over the Y? www.rocnation.com/music/jay-z/

Interviewed Mary Lou Falcone about caring for her husband who died of Lewy Body Dementia (LBD). Most fascinating part was learning doctors + researchers focused on LBD are actively seeking out caregivers to learn more. @lewybody.bsky.social @swartzmark.bsky.social @lewybodydementiarc.bsky.social

YouTube commenter: "If writing this song was the only thing Herb did in his career, he'd [be] counted among the greats." youtu.be/fOjcoCAFTho?...

Mary Ellen Mark viewed mental illness with compassion. Her photos make sure we do, too.

#TedTurner, character in Percival Everett's "I Am Not Sidney Poitier" (2009), dies at 87

93 open.spotify.com/playlist/5bJ...

"The likely impacts of high levels of heating include the inundation of major cities, the closure of the human climate niche (the conditions that sustain human life) across large parts of the globe, the collapse of the global food system..."

“I’ve had them ask me, ‘Are you my grandma?’” she said. “And I’ll say, ‘I can be your school grandma.’ It’s such a privilege to know them and to be known by them.”😭 hechingerreport.org/tapping-reti...

GSA journalist fellow @swartzmark.bsky.social authored this piece for aginginamerica.news with support from @nihcm.bsky.social. aginginamerica.news/2026/04/14/a...

The Gospel Queen of the Brazos Bottom Star Route

Celebrating intergenerational connection this week with @bellabromberg.bsky.social and other talented young writers. aginginamerica.news

YouTube commenter: I want this played as they lower my body into the grave. youtu.be/n_SiVabBvC4?...

"This is one of the most powerful immersive works of music I’ve ever heard, and feels almost as inexhaustible as the natural forces it aims to channel." @tedgioia.bsky.social on #JohnLutherAdams's Become Ocean open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia... cc @blueridgegurl.bsky.social

Everyone should listen to #NeilYoung's 35-minute aural collage "Arc" (1991) once, but not more than that.

"First Song," composed by #CharlieHaden, lyrics by #AbbeyLincoln Elina Duni - vocals Rob Luft - guitar Matthieu Michel - flugelhorn Patrice Moret - double-bass Viktor Filipovski - drums @joshhaden.bsky.social youtu.be/SoksVe0tZeY?...

We'll take our stand for this land / and the stranger in our midst