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Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.
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Not many people know this, but the song 8675309 is actually threatening people who live in the zip code 75309
May 17, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Kashmir deserves a lasting peace, writes novelist Mirza Waheed, whose parents and grandparents lived through skirmishes in the same conflict between India and Pakistan
Kashmir Deserves a Lasting Peace
Three generations have grown old since India and Pakistan started fighting, with civilians on both sides living under the forever-looming threat of war.
bloom.bg
May 17, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Here’s hoping the #SCOTUS justices are well aware that if they ignore the written text of the 14th Amendment, that a future Court could ignore the written text of the 2nd Amendment, using the rulings from today’s hearing as precedent.

@asharangappa.bsky.social
May 15, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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This is bleak reading
May 14, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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"Multiple Trump White House officials have ties to antisemitic extremists." Trump regime is not about combating antisemitism, they are about silencing dissent. www.npr.org/2025/05/14/n...
Multiple Trump White House officials have ties to antisemitic extremists
NPR has identified three Trump administration officials with close ties to antisemitic extremists, including a prominent Holocaust denier.
www.npr.org
May 14, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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"After just three short months of the Trump administration, we are contemplating the abdication of US leadership in oceanic and atmospheric science."

from @thebulletin.org via @climatedesk.org
How Trump's dismantling of NOAA threatens the Keeling Curve—and why that matters
A small group of scientists is scrambling to preserve our ability to track atmostpheric carbon dioxide.
www.motherjones.com
May 12, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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SLOAN: ".. I’ve been reading proxy statements since I became a business journalist more than 50 years ago, and don’t remember ever seeing a CEO pay package like Nunes’ that was so much greater than the revenue of the CEO’s company."

@barrons.com $DJT
www.barrons.com/articles/djt...
Trump Media CEO’s 8-Figure Pay Dwarfs the Company’s Revenue
Trump Media CEO Devin Nunes was paid more as a share of revenue than the leader of any comparable company.
www.barrons.com
May 6, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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in an op-ed for @wsj.com, Trump Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent makes a series of highly specific promises of economic improvement in the second half of 2025. Bookmark to review later. www.wsj.com/opinion/trum...
May 6, 2025 at 1:26 AM
It seems some people think hiding in plain sight is a good idea.
May 6, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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🚨🚨 Deranged letter from Education Secretary Linda McMahon to Harvard’s president, cutting off federal funding for any new grants.

Worth reading in full. It is NUTS.
May 6, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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“When public lands are sold off for profit, we lose the places that define our country and unite us as Americans,” writes Tracy Stone-Manning in an op-ed.
Opinion: Public lands are a national treasure and must not be sold
“When public lands are sold off for profit, we lose the places that define our country and unite us as Americans,” writes Tracy Stone-Manning in an op-ed.
www.sltrib.com
May 5, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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JUST IN: ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, which exposes the fatal consequences of abortion bans, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.

This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: www.propublica.org/series/life-...
May 5, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal theonion.com/think-tank-c...
Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal
WASHINGTON—In an effort to assuage any fears over the constitutionality of the Trump administration’s flurry of executive actions, a D.C.-area think tank called The Himmler Institute reportedly assure...
theonion.com
May 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Cave exploration & survey…

#cave
May 5, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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On what planet, in the aftermath of SignalGate, does Waltz survive a Senate confirmation fight?
May 1, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Bernie Sanders, for the win. Like always.

Canada gets it. But we're too ignorant and lazy to keep Trump out of office. 🙄
May 1, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Listen to the coal
rolling, rolling through the cold
steady rain, wheel on
wheel, listen to the
turning of the wheels this night
black as coal dust, steel
on steel, listen to
these cars carry coal, listen
to the coal train roll.

-by Michael Stillman

#internationaljazzday
#coltrane
#UNESCO
April 30, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Happy International Jazz Day
💯 🎼
April 30, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Trompe-l'œil Murals of Hà Nội
#Vietnam
#Travelphotography
#Travel
#Photography
April 30, 2025 at 5:39 PM
April 26, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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BREAKING: The constitutional crisis has arrived. We knew it was coming, just not when.
April 25, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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6/ We also know that while judges can of course commit crimes and are subject to the same criminal statutes as the rest of us, the one thing federal law enforcement has always made sure that it did _not_ do was arrest judges who are in the midst of doing their jobs.

_That_ is what creates a crisis.
April 25, 2025 at 2:56 PM