Simon Potter
Simon Potter
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“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”
Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents
‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said
www.independent.co.uk
October 15, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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From here I will be calling this exact strain of right-wing Christofascist dispensational premillennialist apocalyptic evangelical supersessionist covenentalist Biblical-inerrantist evangelicalism that's merged almost fully with right-wing cultural issues and the US civil religion "the US heresy".
May 9, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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you're saying

J: didn't president say just last week that he could secure return of abrego garcia by just picking up the phone? was he not telling the truth?
DOJ: influence does not equate to constructive custody.
J: my question is, was president telling the truth?

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May 7, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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World Central Kitchen has run out of food to serve in Gaza. Its bakery ("recently the last working bakery in Gaza") is out of flour. There are 100,000+ tons of food in staging areas within driving distance of Gaza, and Israel refuses to let them in wck.org/news/gaza-up...
World Central Kitchen | WCK Forced to Halt Cooking in Gaza as Supplies Run Out
After serving more than 130 million total meals and 26 million loaves of bread over the past 18 months, World Central Kitchen no longer has the supplies to cook meals or bake bread in Gaza.
wck.org
May 7, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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What. A. Night.
Mahler’s 8th Symphony. Completed.

@lporchestra.bsky.social
London Symphony Chorus
Tiffin Boys Choir

#Singing #Concert #Choir #Orchestra #London #Mahler #ChoirLife #MoreThanJustSinging
April 26, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Haha! Love this letter from Douglas Adams to his US editor about not Americanising the text of Hitchhiker's Guide. 🐋🌸
April 7, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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April 5, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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On David Ricardo and comparative advantage www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, David Ricardo
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Ricardo's argument on free trade after the Napoleonic wars
www.bbc.co.uk
April 6, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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Elbows up, Canada.
March 22, 2025 at 10:11 PM