I remember a time when the FIFA Peace Prize meant something

That’s what I’m fuckin talking about

"Some files have not been made public despite a law mandating their release. These include what appears to be more than 50 pages of FBI interviews, and notes from conversations with a woman who accused Trump of sexual abuse decades ago when she was a minor."

mike huckabee looks like *that* now?

still unclear to me how the species made it this far

more like Bored of Peace amiright

We've gotten some media coverage of the University of Louisville nuking our childcare, including this LPM piece by a reporter I spoke to on the phone yesterday

some recent interviews...with Spanish guitarist Andrea González Caballero www.lpm.org/classical/20... Jonathan Biss (playing w/LO this weekend) www.lpm.org/classical/20...

Walkman Land is a ginormous online tribute to the portable cassette device of yesteryear and the great aunt of the ipod and iphone. (via @densediscovery.bsky.social ) walkman.land

It really warmed up today!

democracy dies in the hands of billionaires?

In 2023, Leon Botstein couched Jeffrey Epstein as an embarrassing footnote. The newly-released documents tell a slightly different story.

This is a “commercial” for Fannie Mae featuring an AI generated voice of the current president and someone filling out a mortgage application by hand (which also looks to be coil bound which feels useless) on CNN

Wrap me in plastic for the rest of this winter I swear I’m about to start an electrical fire just by touching stuff

The beatings will continue until morale improves

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

more like Bored of Peace amiright

wwjd

The government using children as *bait* to lure and snatch their parents. And I’m supposed to work today?

U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Cmdr. Greg Bovino is seen deploying a gas canister at Mueller Park in south Minneapolis this afternoon. Video by Ben Luhmann.

#nowplaying a symphony from a time when America fought fascism (recording by Minnesota Orchestra/Eiji Oue) lpm.org/classical

This is a so-called Kavanaugh Stop, yes?

I could’ve sworn I thought that word “peace” meant something different

His heart bleeds from murdering someone in cold blood?

Is that a jug of raw milk?

If someone tells you they’ve nominated your work for Pulitzer, that’s great! Good luck! Hope you win! But it’s not an official Pulitzer thing. I can nominate my non-existent cat for a Pulitzer. Or the FIFA Peace Prize.

I’ve seen this a couple times recently and it’s soapbox of mine (much like zipper merge). Applicable to many fields of creative work (unlike zipper merge): There is no such thing as a Pulitzer-nominated anything You can be a finalist or a winner. That’s it.

For @kentuckypublicradio.org I’m with a pool of reporters touring the UPS plane crash site for the first time.

Whiskey Tango Fridays

An amuse-douche, if you will.

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

Anyone paying even a little bit of attention knew it was only a matter of time

The storied Washington National Opera decides to leave the Kennedy Center where it has played since 1971, perhaps the most significant artistic rebuke yet to Trump’s campaign to remake the facility in his image and attach his name to it. @adamnagourney.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/a...

Thanks to Tim Page · December 7, 1941 September 11, 2001 January 6, 2021 Days when America was attacked by an enemy determined to bring us down -- and let nobody tell you otherwise

“The sun has been shining in a way to defy all wars and all dictators, and there’s nothing to be done about it.” from a letter between Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein

On days we invade another country for their oil we wear blue

Y’all, give Mike Johnson a break. He has been very busy and hasn’t had time to follow all that’s going on.

Stop. Read the post below. Do what it says. Look at Earth - our home world - from the surface of Mars. You are a terranaut on that fragile planet. This moment brought to you courtesy of NASA Science.

THE pop-tart is frosted cinnamon and sugar, toasted, then slathered in salted butter

Xmas decorations include Edition Peters

Waiting on fox’s approval regarding hen house story

Sometimes you gotta see it for yourself in real time to realize how ridiculous it is

This is a well put-together intro to shape notes and the Sacred Harp, from history to the current communities. And done with a light hearted touch too! (And less than an hour.) Bookmarking to share with folks that are interested.

Classical Host Laura Atkinson and Reporter Justin Hicks trace the American musical tradition of shape note singing from colonial America up to today in an emotional, and joyful one hour radio special.

Wild story about a potentially compromised senior Pentagon adviser — and the Trump administration's apparent efforts to quash the piece. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

At the point where I’m going to need a “noise rating” on bars and restaurants. Like, 1 you can hear someone else and you don’t have to strain. A 5 is only for lip reading and tacit head nods.

The president of the American Soybean Association, a Kentuckian, says the $12 billion payments will help farmers, but will not make up for the harms caused by trade wars and increased costs.

*two* local choirs have already or will perform music by a composer/arranger convicted of possessing child porn. neither of this groups are "small" and therefore could claim ignorance. why, people?

Movie thing