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What will my podcast feed do without Melvin Bragg? I guess I'll just have to re-listen to all 1,000+ shows.

Also, he is a Lord?

www.bbc.com/news/article...

cc @madar.bsky.social
Melvyn Bragg steps down from BBC Radio 4's In Our Time after 26 years
The veteran presenter has hosted more than 1,000 epsiodes of the programme over the past 26 years.
www.bbc.com
September 23, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Canceled #disneyplus and #hulu. We can’t have the government bullying us out of the first amendment by pressuring media companies. #1A
September 20, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Dammit. When this goes bad, let no one who promoted this war slink away.
June 22, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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I have a lot of issues with Gavin Newsom but he is calling out Trump in a way other major leaders aren’t and if he causes Trump to have a stroke I will buy him a latte
NEWSOM: "It's a vulgar display. It's the kind of thing you see with Kim Jong Un, Putin, dictators that are weak… How weak do you have to be to commandeer the military for your birthday?“
June 13, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Also: I assume Harvard will try to sue fast and fix things, but the cruelty this letter unleashes *today* will induce lasting fear and panic not just on the 6800 international students at Harvard, but also on all international students in this country, even if there is a swift TRO. Why stay here?
🧵 Today's revocation of Harvard's ability to enroll international is awful for many reasons, chief among them the human cost as @jeremywallace.bsky.social notes. It's also an attack on the US economy. But maybe less obvious: it is terrible national security policy. It makes Americans less safe. 1/
6800 people who already probably have leases for next year, spent years of their lives working to get to where they were now upended because Trump and Noem and Stephen Miller want to crush a major export sector of this economy, oh, and also a source of cures for diseases and knowledge of all sorts.
May 22, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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I  know your goal is to try to make life as hard as possible for immigrants.
May 9, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Are we sure we wouldn’t have been better off with the nice lady?
March 15, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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Ok, I don’t actually mind the penny thing.

What? Even a broken clock that broken can be right once a month…
February 10, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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"The new regime must seize all points of power, without respect for paper protections."

If you have not yet subscribed to @gilduran.com's Nerd Reich newsletter consider this your reminder.
In 2022, Peter Thiel's "house philosopher" envisioned a second Trump administration led by a "CEO" who would be tasked with destroying the government.

He wrote down a blueprint. Welcome to the New Reality.

www.thenerdreich.com/reboot-elon-...
'Reboot' Revealed: Elon Musk's CEO-Dictator Playbook
In 2022, one of Peter Thiel's favorite thinkers envisioned a second Trump Administration in which the federal government would be run by a “CEO”
www.thenerdreich.com
February 5, 2025 at 7:56 PM
"The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction..."

-Toni Morrison 50 years ago.

All this anti-DEI BS is just meant to distract and impede.

She went on:

"...It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being...
January 31, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country
January 30, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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The Trump Chaos Cuts are threatening the safety and well being of Americans everywhere—from our children and elderly, to police and veterans. The administration needs to provide answers now.
January 28, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I just explained both Michesleson-Morley and Modigliani-Miller to the kids in one evening.

Got the names confused, though.

Turns out that debt/equity ratios do not alter the value of luminiferous ether.

#econsky #physicssky
January 24, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Oh man, it is almost the darkest day, and I’ve had a rollercoaster of a week, but here’s something amazing to share! I’m over the solstice moon to announce today that my next book of poems, COME, BITE will be published by Milkweed Press in Spring of 2027! @milkweed.bsky.social
December 19, 2024 at 7:06 PM
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A quick way for DOGE to cut over $1.3 Trillion in spending:

Gun safety laws save $557 billion.

Universal healthcare with Medicare for All saves $650 billion.

Ending fossil fuel subsidies save $20 billion.

Cutting contractor profit from the military budget saves over $80 billion.

Start there.
December 14, 2024 at 9:03 PM
Poets wrote about Taylor Swift (no relation) and the @nytimes.com turned it into a very cool quiz including work by @tessathon.bsky.social (yes, relation).

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Match the Taylor Swift Song to the Poem Inspired By Her Music (Gift Article)
Famous poets (tortured or not) have taken inspiration from Swift's music. Can you match the poem to the song?
www.nytimes.com
December 13, 2024 at 2:03 PM
It’s out, y’all! Tess Taylor’s podcast “Intimate Addresses.” Take a listen. It’s a great dose of art and history. If you ever wanted to “get” 20th century art, this is a great place to start!

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
September 26, 2023 at 12:29 PM