Chris
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Iong time Plant ecologist, goat farmer, cheesemaker, fig grower, bookworm.
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look what you done for me, a sublime classic. what many an adolescent boy was hoping for a chance to say
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they wanted to title this "holy f*ckn shit!" but cooler heads prevailed
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the Rolling Stones condense 17 years of rock n roll into 3 minutes of grainy joyous perfection
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Ringo's version of "I'll play whatever you want"
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the duo of Sylvia's mother and the Candyman ruined many a life
about 15 hours ago
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slippin into darkness- about the bleakest song ever to hit the radio- the brevity of the lyrics just make it that more crushing
about 15 hours ago
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one of the few songs to use the word "unfurled" for better or worse
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apparently this song sholud be called Khartoum
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known in these here parts as "Ollie's Song"
about 15 hours ago
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ahh the irony of a rock song in which the singer takes to task a promiscuous woman...
about 16 hours ago
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VU's Run run run is all about a motley cast of characters looking to score. this could be a sequel.
about 16 hours ago
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a Millie Jackson song that can be played on the radio!
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America later covered this Andy Williams banger, retitling it, "a horse with no name"
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neil young, odd guy that he is, singing about his ranch caretaker
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CCR with another one of their blazingly optimistic takes on life.
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a cheese I made back in early February.
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brown rice. lentils and roasted sweet potatoes with pomegranate syrup
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If I can even approximate a shadow of this at 78, things will be good
youtu.be/Wgzgp-Pvwi0?...
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Patti Smith - Land - 11/29/25 - The Met, Philadelphia, PA
YouTube video by Tom F
https://youtu.be/Wgzgp-Pvwi0?si=HP5m93792NCscCbx
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emptywheel
9 days ago
Trump plans to steal $1.7B from taxpayers to pay off the terrorists he already freed from prison.
abcnews.com/US/trump-poi...
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Trump poised to drop IRS suit, launch $1.7B 'weaponization' fund for allies: Sources
President Trump is expected to drop his $10 billion IRS suit in exchange for the creation of a $1.7 billion fund for victims of governmental "weaponization," sources say.
https://abcnews.com/US/trump-poised-drop-irs-suit-launch-17b-weaponization/story?id=132962661
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my mom, late 1930's
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The rumor that Elvis did eventually weugh as much as a steamroller are not true. Probably.
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Hot August Night being one of only 2 lps that I believe my dad has ever owned himself. The other being The Righteous Bros. greatest hits.
15 days ago
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in 2026, I'd prefer a song by the Independents, "we are leaving you"
15 days ago
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a little more from Barry would be the equivalent of 3 nights for the average guy
15 days ago
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The Intercept
15 days ago
The U.S. killed two more people in a boat strike in the Pacific Ocean yesterday. One person is still missing. 193 people are now dead from extrajudicial boat strikes.
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The U.S. Has Killed More Than 190 People in Boat Strikes. Weāre Tracking Them All.
The Intercept is keeping count of all publicly declared U.S. attacks on boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean and the number of civilians killed.
https://interc.pt/4tqp7g2
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a dragonfruit and mango morning
15 days ago
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
16 days ago
This story is WILD. Juan Orlando Hernandez, the Honduran ex-president pardoned by Trump for narcotrafficking, seemingly caught on tape in dozens of conversations (if true), discussing plans with GOP and other figures to attack left-wing governments, and saying Israel paid for his pardon from Trump.
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āHondurasgate,ā the alleged US and Israeli interference plot to destabilize Mexico and other progressive governments
A leaked audio recording points to former Honduran President Juan Orlando HernƔndez, Javier Milei, and Donald Trump as attempting to create a platform to spread fake news about the administrations of ...
https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-05-07/hondurasgate-the-alleged-us-and-israeli-interference-plot-to-destabilize-mexico-and-other-progressive-governments.html#
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aged ten days, already getting soft on the edges
add a skeleton here at some point
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Duaa Eldeib
18 days ago
This was a hard story to report. Newborns who donāt get a vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop a condition where they bleed uncontrollably. But more and more families are declining the shot. And babies are dying.
www.propublica.org/article/more...
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Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.
https://www.propublica.org/article/more-parents-decline-vitamin-k-shot-newborns
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Christina Jewett
19 days ago
SCOOP: The F.D.A. blocked the release of studies finding that Covid and shingles vaccines were safe. In the case of Covid, FDA staff had to withdraw studies heading toward publication:
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/u...
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F.D.A. Blocked Publication of Research Finding Covid and Shingles Vaccines Were Safe
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/us/politics/fda-covid-vaccine-studies.html?unlocked_article_code=1.gFA.8TIf.Nf0VZEDJJMok&smid=url-share
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Arielle Zionts
23 days ago
Hundreds of foreign doctors about to complete training in the U.S. will have to depart the country and abandon their plans to treat underserved patients if the federal government doesnāt rapidly process their visa waiver applications, immigration attorneys told me.
kffhealthnews.org/health-indus...
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Delays in Visa Program Threaten Placement of Hundreds of Doctors in Underserved Areas - KFF Health News
A federal agency has dramatically slowed its review of visa waiver applications that allow international physicians completing U.S. training programs to stay in the country to work in underserved area...
https://kffhealthnews.org/health-industry/hhs-exchange-visitor-program-visa-waiver-j1-h1b-delays-foreign-doctors-deadline/
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33 years ago today. not quite, but almost the last time I wore a tie.
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Peter Baker
23 days ago
When Trump pulled out of the international nuclear agreement with Tehran in 2018, Iran lacked even a single bomb's worth of uranium. Since then, it accumulated 22,000 pounds of enriched uranium.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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How Iran Accumulated 11 Tons of Enriched Uranium
Two months after the United States began a war meant to prevent Iran from ever building an atomic bomb, the fate of its stockpile of enriched uranium remains a mystery.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/04/29/science/iran-enriched-uranium-stockpile-nuclear-energy-bomb.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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the anti expert administration
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28 days ago
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imo, this lives in the land of terrible, awful covers
29 days ago
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pop culture evolves from the singing nun to the flying nun to sister Janet in just over a decade
29 days ago
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Bobby Womack, the man who spent his early life being wildly talented and doing just about every possible sketchy thing involving women and girls.
29 days ago
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"See that last girl I was with only deserved a special love song. yours is _very_ special."
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we are all just starfish on a beach, are we not?
29 days ago
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when your parents drop like flies, keep on singing. words to live by.
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3 dog night being, intentional or not, incredibly honest here. they were really running on fumes by this point.
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Sami Jo disputes BTO's version of events
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the old "faithful rock star sitting at home while his cheating partner is out doing him wrong" song
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"dark lady" is absolutely bonkers.
29 days ago
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Quinn emphatically announcing wheel time is over
about 1 month ago
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"Always treat her with respect, I never would abuse her" you just know Paul Anka had a hand in this
about 1 month ago
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The only thing you done was Yesterday and since you're gone you're just another day. Lennon pipes in...
about 1 month ago
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i definitely believe drugs were involved writing the lyrics to this 5th D thing. it just brings this to mind:
about 1 month ago
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perhaps the most alarming thing of this song is the b side: "It Feels Good"
about 1 month ago
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if you broke in the 79s and really wanted an Eltin John lp, here was your go to, in the bargain bin for $1.99
about 1 month ago
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