One issue I’m having with extremists: their ideas are neither interesting nor complex. People who navigate the middle tend to be more open to complexity.…

We keep hearing that Ds have “lost the working class,” oh how the pundits prattle. I live in a state where the D party has created no-premium healthcare coverage for ppl earning less than 37K, thanks to two D party presidents. Coverage for children. Tuition-free state college if lower income...

URGENT! Write your Democratic Senators and Reps with a plea to stand firm in the budget negotiations. If we don’t prevail now, we will end up with huge budget cuts to public health programs and workforce and loss of health care access for millions. No surrender! actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

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@bronwynjones.bsky.social [CBC The House] Overheard on today’s show, PM Carney at Women’s Rugby this weekend.

Like a door that keeps revolving in a half forgotten dream

@ytsl.bsky.social what's happening with the storm watch? Are you safe?

Despite excessive noise about high profile figures at UNGA, the UN staff does a lot of mundane work we take for granted in daily life. The good news is that, like housework, this continues, even while headlines allude to the UN "failing."

Just one thing. "Sex trafficking" marks a user as ill informed or bigoted. You can call it "trafficking" or, refer to labour rights, workplace issues, human rights. Use words to describe social goals; tabloidy sex terms are to be avoided. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

@antalbert.bsky.social Origin story.

If only

Acetaminophen is manufactured or sold by oodles of companies, and Tylenol is but one. AKA paracetamol. I guess three catchy syllables makes a good headline. 🤷‍♂️

Happy September 21st to those that celebrate!!! 😃 💃🏾🕺🏾

Taking a break from Robespierre to read about the far more relatable Jane Birkin. Moi non plus! www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

This seems timely. 🐳 #ishmael

soundcloud.com/tracyquan202... The femme chivalric.

This editorial contains misinformation. The rent policy Z is suggesting has been used in NY quite recently. It's more nuanced than the article implies. Z would simply be following our existing rent stabilization laws!

Sarah in the role of Hamlet.

My latest radio segment.

Indeed.

Occasionally the sound cuts out, but I enjoyed this thoroughly. Willa Cather's New York, with Francis Morrone as our guide.

How it's going. After the executive order.... soundcloud.com/tracyquan202...

@malrog.bsky.social That was strange! The friends of broken Britain cast as Anglophiles. They seem more phobe than phile, but maybe that’s just me. Do they know that many of the people they deem unBritish are from …. Greater Britain? Have they noticed that the leader of the Tories…?

How does this work? I see a new hobby in my future

Incumbent NY mayor claims to be authentic working class figure (to distinguish self from other candidates), vetoes a bill that provides *minimum pay for delivery workers*. Council to the rescue, but... what's up with that, Eric? www.yahoo.com/news/article...

For my radio spot, I'd like to know: where do we in the US pay out of pocket for covid (or any) vaccine. I won't use anyone's name/profile. I would like to mention states/cities. Any other details to share? Prescription needed, vaccine unavailable, etc. I'm a regular guest on RTHK. My DMs are open.

www.conservatoiredeparis.fr/fr/halle-and... A talk by Eleanor Roberts, archivist, transcribed.

Governor of Utah name checked Bsky as a problematic platform. At first I was taken aback, seems wrong. Then remember how many times I've blocked hateful or undesirable users.

Just downloaded from Naxos a PDF booklet of lyrics and notes for a favorite composer's lieder. I don't know WHY this prompt from Adobe strikes me as cheesy/antisocial: "This appears to be a long document. Save time by reading a summary." Isn't this why we scroll??

State Assembly member Linda Rosenthal (NYC) wrote to NY State Gov Kathy Hochul on 3 Sept. #vaccines Read, download here. files.constantcontact.com/68368a7a001/...

Listening to fun discussion on @thebrianlehrershow.bsky.social RN comparing France w US ...

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv... I quite enjoyed this. Have been all of the above, though mad scientist sounds familiar. More of a cheerleader these days.

One of the great blogs I have stumbled upon in my short time on this erf. If you're intrigued by paper media, have a look. It's a nice change of pace.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tumult-of-...?

I try to refrain from ad hominem labels, so I will just say the health sec'y is living a life that befits a grifter. Too much time spent picking apart his claims. They're dismissable. Even if a few turn out to be accurate, you can be sure that someone with better intentions has made such claims.

In The Acrostic Song, an Elgar vibe. Nicely done. www.daviddeltredici.com/alice/ Look for this box on the left, click on the top song, all will play. RIP Del Tredici (professor CUNY & Harvard, recipient Kennedy Center award... )

If the HPV vaccine had been available 20 years earlier, my beloved Grace might still be alive. Get vaccinated.

If you have Naxos, try this catalogue # INNOVA669

Dumb phones are the tweed jackets of telephony, elbow patches are included.

Is there a fountain in your future? www.wnyc.org/story/fabulo... Transcript too.

To remind myself that we have a civilization: Del Tredici discusses Lewis Carroll and Alice Liddell in his music. His decision to be tonal or atonal. Not everyone in US society is a judgmental savage. Let us be more like Del Tredici. Even if we are not composers of art song.

LOVE the thought that my smartphone may soon be a dumbphone. I miss the prestige of using a dumbphone, and look forward to reclaiming it. 🙂‍↔️👑

James Baldwin, a US writer who couldn't have emerged from any other country, who taught so many how to be patriotic and why. "I love America more than any other country in the world," Notes of a Native Son.... professors ordered to remove BALDWIN from their courses?

Look: I can’t stand's RFK Jr. But if you come into my replies suggesting the problem is his former heroin use, please leave. Stigmatizing drug users is not OK with me. He’s a terrible person. Opioids have nothing to do with that.

Guys! This headline needs a brush up. You don’t refer to people from US as Americans in a piece about the Americas. It’s tone deaf & confusing. Maybe use scare quotes? @nytimes.com Or is your point that America is destroying America? That seems a bit existentialist for a food piece.

Lesson learned 🍽😳 DO NOT toast rolled oats at 450 F in a deep metal container for 10 min. They've bin* reduced to a molecular state 🫢 reminiscent of F Scott's Valley of Ashes. (*yes that's also a reference to US pronunciation, which some English speakers find amusing)