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Some 35+ years ago an elder colleague sang the praises of Moeran's Cello Concerto, and I'll be damned if it hasn't been a wonderful piece for the evening in these difficult times. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXvm...

"The president is an insane raving lunatic who should be removed from office because he is endangering all of us" is not a hard thing to say. but the senate democrats will avoid it like the fucking plague.

Heads Up. 🚨 FAKE Packages like from UPS, Amazon are being left outside to get people to open door and step out... forgot where this is happening. FAKE Utility workers in Portland and FAKE construction sites on the loops in San Antonio, Texas.

"We're hearing people (of color) being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally." In other words #KavanaughStops

Affordability? Dog they're trying to institute a totalitarian police state in this country and you're talking about affordability?

(speaking to cat): spss spss spss spss, here kitty cat: syntax error, all commands will be ignored

Regrettably neither the courts nor congress have the ability to move quickly enough against a bull in a china shop; the founders gave neither of those two branches the power to enforce because they thought we would be too smart to let someone like this bull to be elected.

Yesterday was Buffy's birthday. A #BTVS reminder: "From now on, every girl in the world who MIGHT be a slayer, WILL be a slayer. Every girl who COULD have the power, WILL have the power. CAN stand up, WILL stand up. Slayers, every one of us. Make your choice. Are you ready to be strong?"

The Hmong were forced to come to the US as refugees about 50 years ago, because they helped US forces during the Vietnam War.

This is like a rapist telling his victim to not fight back as it will only hurt more if she does. "Let it play out."

Some kind of national emergency need, I'm sure. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/u...

Another name for “verbal assault” is protected free speech

The biggest obstacle we face as a society in getting people to accept reality about Trump is that it requires people to face reality about themselves and about ourselves as a society.

It is endlessly funny how Republicans, having complete control of the government, could end gerrymandering across the country in a day, but every one of their tantrums has to avoid acknowledging that is not nor has it ever been what they want. They literally just want only Republicans to do it.

The failure to invoke the 25th Amendment stands out as another example of gross fecklessness.

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Cows! (Gift link.) www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/s...

I, for one, do not miss Mayor Swagger. gothamist.com/news/mamdani...

Being completely honest, casting an influencer for their clout might mean that an unfamous theater veteran who would be objectively better didn’t get the part — but that is true of stunt casting by definition and is completely normal! the choice is never celeb vs talent but rather celeb vs closing

Who the HELL does this guy think he is??

A woman left a comment on Facebook criticizing the Mayor of Miami Beach,. The Mayor of Miami Beach then sent the cops to her home.

Stephen Miller is not on the side of Good.

My fury towards these knuckle dragging thugs who brutalized an old man WHO DID ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WRONG EXCEPT NOT BE WHITE has become incandescent. I think I would attack them with my bare hands if I were in St Paul. Prosecute every last one of them.

Just scanned an old slide showing a girls' procession in Cornwall, and saw a street sign in it for "Fore Street." Oh, I said, that's a helpful clue! (Not.) www.theguardian.com/notesandquer....

THIS! ⬇️

Manhattan Bridge - 1926 https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3104518

From @polgreen.bsky.social in Minnesota (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...

Imagine if only 1% of US households sent Kavanaugh a Get Well card.

THE MAN THEY TOOK WRAPPED IN A BLANKET IS A U.S. CITIZEN. This is the Kavanaugh Stop of all Kavanaugh Stops.

"Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein?" I hope your answer is 'yes'. We need accountability.

The Nobel committee made him do it, it's their fault. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/w... Respectfully, Mr. President, this isn't how it works.

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America, America, God shed his grace on you And WTF did you do with it? This??

Up there with the criminal defense team that hosted Shut the Fuck Up Fridays on YouTube, accompanying themselves on guitar on such hits as "Don't Eat Your Weed."

Some movie you sure just walked in in the middle of, Frankie...

Noem Denies Use of Chemical Agents in Minnesota, Then Backtracks www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/u... They just lie and lie and lie.

The other day I had Van Cliburn's recording of the MacDowell 2nd Piano Concerto on, and I wondered why no one seems to record anything else by MacDowell - - and speak of the devil, what pops up as a new release on the @prestomusic.bsky.social streaming service, hot off the presses!

Situation in Copenhagen 🇩🇰👀

Thanks. We have folks in our community giving vulnerable students rides to school, and a teacher shared that they were putting small stuffed animals on their dashboards to help kids identify safe cars. ICE picked up on it and started doing the same. Horrifying.

“There will be no Enemy’s List.”

Trump's Greenland folly answers Putin's desire for NATO's collapse.

These monsters are preying on children.

I know in my heart that the Siege of Minneapolis will go down as one of the biggest political blunders/grossest abuses of federal power in American history. Just a matter how long that consensus takes. Next week? Next year? Next decade?

We are all Minnesotans now. (Gift link.) www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/u...

Blanche: Ross is not being investigated. (And Ghislaine Maxwell gets to stay in her special playground.)

And such an interesting mel o 🥱

Gobbledygook.