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Joel Dilley
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Noble warrior poet/isolated book worm. Buddhist af.
Just par for the course. A deluded, violence-fueled father of 2 (!) who'd rather spend Christmas stalking Trump's enemies after spending 2 years in jail already.
Source: Politico
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Justice Department urges judge to jail former Jan. 6 defendant after alarming return to DC
Taylor Taranto is the latest Jan. 6 defendant who was pardoned by Trump to face new legal trouble.
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December 5, 2025 at 12:42 PM
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler...
Every novel is a game the reader and the writer agree to play together, but some novels require more agreement than others. INVISIBLE CITIES really asks you to buy in. How to describe it?

I could tell you, I suppose, that it's a dreamy travelogue of invented cities—
December 4, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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My contributor’s copy of Callaloo, Volume 43, No. 2 finally arrived here in Port of Spain.

The issue features my new short fiction piece ‘The Windrush Generation’.

My thanks once more to the editors. ✨

#booksky #fiction #shortstory

@callaloojournal.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Magnificent alley
December 4, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Watching 1937's Bing Crosby feature Double or Nothing and this trick dance routine knocked me out! Now I need to track down the shorts she made with Buster Keaton. #FilmSky

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Double or Nothing - Ames & Arno
YouTube video by Alfred Ruesch
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December 4, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Looking for Christmas songs that haven't been done to death and J. B. Summers qualifies! Only slightly derailed by a meandering sax solo...Tiny Grimes wrote it and supplies guitar. #BluesSky

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I Want a Present for Christmas (feat. Doc Bagby's Orchestra)
YouTube video by Release - Topic
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December 3, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Loved Timothy Olyphant in Alien: Earth!
December 2, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Tomorrow, 20 Escucha Mi Voz members have ICE check-ins in Cedar Rapids, the largest single-day group all year. When numbers spike like this, detentions usually follow, unless our community shows up. Join us at 7:45am to protect our families and demand no one is taken? - Iowa City Catholic Worker
December 2, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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"Translation creates a new republic of books that transcends boundaries and translators are often the unsung heroines/heroes. Our inaugural John Calder Translation Prize shortlist honours the art of translation and world literature." Judge Fiona Sze-Lorrain
December 1, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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November 30-December 2, 1978: NOVA Convention • New York, New York - William S. Burroughs, Patti Smith, Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, Laurie Anderson, Frank Zappa, Robert Anton Wilson, John Cage, Timothy Leary, Brion Gysin, Ed Sanders, Susan Sontag, Anne Waldman, Merce Cunningham, Philip Glass
November 30, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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In case you were wondering how stupid and evil you’d have to be to marry Stephen Miller, just watch this
Stephen Miller’s Wife @katiemiller : “Can you cite the statute that makes the boat bombings illegal?”

@bakarisellers.bsky.social : “The due process
clause in the constitution.”
November 29, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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So it’s family movie night and we’re near the end of Fantastic 4 and one of the characters appears to die and I’m all ready to be soothing and comforting like a good parent and that’s when the seven year old shouts “I GUESS NOW THEY’RE THE FANTASTIC THREE!”
November 29, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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The reality, of course, is that Miller and a significant portion of Trump’s base are the ones who failed to assimilate to America’s post-WWII culture of multi-racial democracy & religious pluralism…and they are now using their power to destroy that once dominant (and still popular) American culture.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Time to start banging the drum about this year's top tome to find under the Xmas tree! (Hadn't heard the old wheeze about Polish free jazz in some time; ha)

‘I almost always play it in hiding, alone’: can anyone get into free jazz, history’s most maligned music? www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
‘I almost always play it in hiding, alone’: can anyone get into free jazz, history’s most maligned music?
Even though he’s partial to hideous noise, free jazz is mostly unknown to the Guardian’s pop critic. A new guidebook from Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore may change his mind
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November 28, 2025 at 1:10 PM
3 records of the same (...) song. First, prime New Orleans grooviness, co-written by sax great Red Tyler and sung by ? & ? (Joe & Ann, to be technical), then Mickey & Sylvia give it New York moves, then Sylvie Vartan takes it to France!
1/3

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1960 Joe & Ann - Gee Baby
YouTube video by The45Prof
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November 28, 2025 at 2:23 AM
This is terrifying! Listen right and good (left), up AND down!
November 27, 2025 at 6:06 PM
A teaser for tomorrow's 100th anniversary of the Grand Ole Opry - guess the year when Ray Price was 'one of the newest' Grand Ole Opry stars?
#GrandOleOpry
November 27, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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“As our situation grows more perilous, it becomes ever easier to just shut down,” she once told me. “So to counteract that, we get in touch with our basic gladness to be alive.”

From Sam Mowe's Article, "What Joanna Macy Taught Me About Facing Eco-Grief": oneearthsangha.org/articles/wha...
What Joanna Macy Taught Me About Facing Eco-Grief • Sam Mowe
Sometimes, great teachers become their teachings, widening in greater and greater circles. 🌏
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November 26, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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This Friday and Saturday Chicago, join us supporting Martin Atkins (P.i.L, Killing Joke, Ministry, NiN, Pigface), Randy Blythe (Lamb Of God), Justin Pearson (The Locust), Tara Busch (I Speak Machine), Orville Kline, Dirk Flanigan, & Leyla Royale celebrating Killing Joke’s ‘Extremities’ album in full
Drummer Martin Atkins celebrates the 35th anniversary of Killing Joke’s Extremities with an all-star lineup - Chicago Reader
UK postpunk pioneers Killing Joke have 15 studio albums to their name, and whichever one you might consider their “worst” is still light-years beyond anything their scene peers released.
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November 26, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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The reason I talk so much about Democrats in rural America is because it’s key to taking the country back.

We can’t wring many more blue votes out of the cities. Come back to rural spaces. Run for office. Contest every race.

This is the way.
November 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Hang tough, New Orleans. We've got this.
November 26, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Join us in helping spread the word about the International Network of Engaged Buddhism's efforts to help female monastics facing flooding in Thailand:

www.buddhistdoor.net/news/engaged...
Engaged Buddhism: INEB Launches Emergency Appeal to Assist Female Monastics After Record Floods Inundate Southern Thailand - Buddhistdoor Global
In response to devastating floods in southern Thailand, INEB has launched an appeal on behalf of female monastics in the region.
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November 26, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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#BlueSkyMonday #EastCoastKin

ワット パークナムパーシーチャルーン
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#thai #Bangkok #temple #travel #sky #clouds #culture #bluesky
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November 24, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Originally published in wraps, this 1942 Bulletin has been handsomely, if conventionally, bound by Grimm book bindery of Madison, Wisconsin at some point. Many black and white plates and multiple foldout maps enhance this comprehensive (at time of publication) history of the Caddo people. #BookSky
November 24, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Devil weapons
November 23, 2025 at 5:56 PM