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Congratulations to Elon musk who is now rich enough to end world hunger over 165 times and still stay a billionaire but choses not to.

ok, all in for Mexico now

It is the very error of the moon

Day so far: 1 - dentist appt 2 - Chicago Cultural Center 3 - Art Institute National Treasures of Korea exhibit 4 - Dame Myra Hess concert, Lucas Amory, piano

Please Use AI

Say that he lied, New York Times. Say that he lied.

There’s a rainbow in my glass!

www.maptap.gg June 1 100🎯 98🔥 99🎯 91😁 71🙃 Final score: 882

Sun pillars

Even NPR accepts whatever framing the Republican gives. As @joshtpm.bsky.social often says, the news media is wired to the right even if individual reporters are personally liberal.

I’m in a haze of enchantment, having just finished reading the marvelous book “Memoirs of Hadrian” by Marguerite Yourcenar.

I spoke to @joycevance.bsky.social about my new book, The Fix. You can read our conversation in her Civil Discourse newsletter here. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

What type of person smirks in their mugshot

Every state should take a page out of Hawaii’s playbook on tackling Citizens United

My review of Dido and Aeneas (performed by the Monteverdis) is now published by @bachtrack.com

Program on Reena Esmail in WIAA Interlochen right now! www.interlochenpublicradio.org

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Is this by you @lisairontongue.bsky.social ? Great piece!! Gift link for everyone else www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/a...

Democrats Shouldn’t Let Russell Vought Fly Under the Radar talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/democra...

This @ft graphic shows that trump suddenly got very interested in trading stocks

...and happy Birgit Nilsson's birthday!

Just finished reading the astonishing and magnificent translation by Daniel Mendelsohn of The Odyssey

Connections Puzzle #1068 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 @mwj1231.bsky.social @som-snytt.bsky.social

Trio Eris - outstanding concert today in the Dame Myra Hess series of daily free concerts, held at the Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist

A highlight of the Samara Joy concert was Duke Ellington’s The Sunset and the Mockingbird. He wrote it for and presented it to Queen Elizabeth II, and it wasn’t heard again until after his death.

Samara Joy and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra

JUST NOW: Rep. Todd Warner walks into the house to strip majority Black Memphis or representation wearing a trump flag as a cape as Rep. Camper of Memphis looks on Video: www.instagram.com/reel/DYCuFmt...

FUN 😄 Connections Puzzle #1060 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 @geoffbrock.bsky.social @mwj1231.bsky.social @som-snytt.bsky.social

Good morning from glassy Glen Lake, Michigan.

Hi @kenmartin.bsky.social! Here's a free idea I hope you'll consider seriously. Gavin Newsom has had success holding a mirror to Trump's degeneracy, and you can too. 🧵 www.offmessage.net/p/dnc-sue-cb...

My New One at Slate: “The Supreme Court’s Conservatives Just Issued the Worst Ruling in a Century; This evisceration of the Voting Rights Act requires us to take SCOTUS reform more seriously.” @slate.com slate.com/news-and-pol...

I’m reading along and suddenly see @imanimosley.bsky.social quoted and I got all excited! How great!

"His voice was mostly warm and present, though at times strident and metallic in its higher register. His tender, remorseful interpretation of his Act 2 aria “Kuda, kuda, vi udalilis” was a highlight of the evening." About Stanislas de Barbeyrac. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/a...

Tonight's 8pm virtual tour: Gangsters of Chicago, Capone and Beyond (and their graves!) Tune in free: www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-to...

Is Bluesky having trouble today?

JUST IN: John Eastman, the conservative attorney who helped devise President Trump's last ditch strategy to overturn the 2020 presidential election, has officially been disbarred, per the California Supreme Court:

Some doorways in Mexico City

There was a guy in the Plaza Jardin Centenario in CDMX doing a Sprechstimme rendition of “Baby Come Back” and “Hotel California”

Passionately agree 🪩🤍🩶🤍

There it is: A full year of days spent playing golf in just over five years as president. www.pbump.net/outofoffice

Delicious early on: “For mysterious reasons, the Slovenian Sphinx stunned the West Wing, walking into the grand entrance hall of the White House to dump kerosene on the flickering Epstein fire.”

Might have to give MoDo a peep today.

We’ve moved habitations to a cargo container perched on the side of a mountain.

Happy 98th Birthday to the legendary Marilyn Maye, who is celebrating by performing at 54 Below tonight. youtu.be/s764YG1IDws?...

Fuego 🌋 showed us 🔥 last night

A nice breakfast in Guatemala

This has Russell Vought written all over it. He’s a graduate of Wheaton College, an evangelical college with at least a streak of anti-Catholicism to it. When I was there, before Vought… [cont]