This, for the love of all that is holy Compliant and credulous media will be the death of the republic

Just rewatched “Moonrise Kingdom”. Love the Wes Anderson version of Britten’s Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra that appears in the credits. 😄 Never noticed that before. Very clever, cute, and Wes Andersen. 👍

Just your daily reminder that the occurrence of frequent uncontained measles outbreaks in a country is not a flex, it is a marker of under development and a failed public health system.

The thing is I don’t think he actually cares if there is peace or not. This isn’t about peace. Like always it’s about his own ego. He just wants to be given the Nobel Peace Prize because he doesn’t want to be beaten by Obama. This isn’t about peace. Like always it’s about his fragile ego.

Seems like last Christmas he should have given his heart to someone special in the first place.

It’s weird how they named one of the planets after a candy bar.

Me: “You go to dinner with the chicken you have, not the chicken you wish you had. 🫡” My kids: 🙄🙄

Sex is funny/weird. Everybody knows what it is, but does anyone know what it is??

Prepare to die.

Listening to Stevie Wonder: Songs in the Key of Life on vinyl. Pretty rad. ❤️

Who has made this 🤣

There’s no vaccine bogeyman that’s worse than the grim reality of advanced liver disease. I’m so sorry we’re going to learn this the hard way.

I’m playing through book 2 of the Well-Tempered Clavier and oh my, but E major is a divine key! It really has a feeling of holiness.

I turned on Apple Intelligence on my iPhone and suddenly I feel so smart. So savvy. So… intelligent. 🤓

I’m conflicted about drone footage in film. It’s obviously an amazing new technology and perspective, but also since it’s so easy it seems cheap and lazy to me. :/ Would love to have my mind changed on this. Comments welcome.

Can we share everything about ourselves with someone else? Is there anyone that can understand and accept all of us? Maybe that’s why humans created God—a One in which we can safely confide and still be loved. God is the manifestation of our desire and need to be loved unconditionally.

Only 25 min in, but Architecton is pretty rad. Get drunk, high, or sober and give it a watch. 👍👍

Played an advent concert today. Some nice arrangements for piano and cello of Coventry Carol and In the Bleak Midwinter. 🎶❤️

AAP on the ball and already out with comments about the ACIP meeting: www.aap.org/en/news-room...

'A vote to weaken the Hep B birth dose, is the first time in my 21 years as liaison w/ ACIP, that ACIP is voting on a policy that based on all the credible evidence, it will actually put children at higher risk, rather than lower risk of disease & death. ~Dr. Amy Middleman

Here is the email address for Aftyn Behn's congressional campaign office: [email protected] Bombard their inbox with requests for her campaign to demand a hand recount of Tuesday's election. If she is a leader worthy of a seat in the US Congress, she will try to stop her election being hacked.

Liver cancer prevention in children. That is what RFK Jr trying to "scale back on" today. He is a monster.

I don’t care that it’s only 2 people. A nation shouldn’t be killing other humans without cause. Period.

Hard to overstate how damning it is they've spun their wheels trying to come up with their strongest possible argument and the best they can do, the rationalization for it Hegseth actually put in writing, is "we can kill shipwrecked survivors if they try to call for help."

Normalize impeachment. It's the most basic duty of a member of Congress and the beginning of accountability.

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Just because he’s president doesn’t give him license to be a piece of shit. C’mon press! Stand up to him.

What a bunch of shady creepers.

DJ Kodachrome starts in 10 minutes. kwva.uoregon.edu

Leonard Bernstein on the murder of JFK: “This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.”

As a cellist I often feel like the goal is to be “the best”. But there is no “best cellist”. It’s not like being long-jumper where whoever jumps farthest is best. So what is the point of playing the cello? To connect with others? Maybe. Or maybe it’s just to find out how far you can jump.

If you are trying to sell me a super cute cardigan and it’s >1% nylon or whatever, then f*** you. Give me wool or give me death. Was that too over the top??

I’m so glad for Christmas. Without it I don’t know if I’d ever buy kids matching pajamas. 😊

If I just keep riding my skateboard until I’m older, and older, and olderer, then at some point it will be really impressive that I’m riding at all even though I can’t do crazy tricks. Which really is the point of it all anyway. So why should I wait till I’m older to revel in that?

Leopards, faces, etc.

Donated. ❤️

Even if they get away with it, it was still murder.

I know I’m probably way late to the party on playing your didgeridoo along to your Radiohead vinyls, but I’m glad to be here in any case.

Maybe this Christmas season will be the one when Trump’s heart grows three sizes.

On one hand I want Trump to fade away ASAP and we can act like all that BS never happened. On the other, I want everyone that is involved facilitating it all to be brought to account in every legal way possible.

Be advised that with only three viewing experiences, we have the sum total of what the American entertainment industry has to say about Thanksgiving. 1. Planes, Trains & Automobiles in full. 2. The camp play carnage in Addams Family Values 3. The clip below. After that, it's all just football.

The American Dream should be a rising tide that lifts all boats. Each generation—each individual—shouldn’t have to start from square one. If we can manage (legislate) it, then this type of “rising-tide” American Dream IS achievable. And the USA could actually be the Greatest country on Earth.

Now listening to The Way Home by Mark Boyle. On my smartphone. 🤷‍♂️🙃

Finished audiobook Churchill: Walking with Destiny by Andrew Roberts. Excellent. I was teary-eyed listening to his death. Despite his foibles, he did the right thing when it mattered most. He was right more often than most. An amazing and singular man was he.

I’ve been freaked outa bit lately because “quiet piggy” is my safe word.

The AAP and more than 40 organizations are alarmed that the CDC is promoting the outdated, disproven idea that vaccines cause autism. We’re calling on the CDC to return to its long history of promoting evidence-based information to protect Americans’ health. Read the full statement: bit.ly/3XILwry

Articles of Impeachment need to be filed. Make Trump defend, in the media, his public tweets about hanging members of Congress by the neck until dead. Let's see if he has the courage.

EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN CONGRESS should be pressed about Trump calling for their colleagues to be killed

History will remember Trump as a cold crusty pile of shit because he does stuff like this publicly and in full view of everyone. Makes one wonder what filthy depths he descends to in private.

Actual causes of death in the US and media coverage of same. And then we wonder why people have such a skewed understanding of the world. @ourworldindata.org is a treasure. Thanks, @hannahritchie.bsky.social and colleagues. ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...