Notice who's doing the loading & packing. Guess who owns the land & why they own it & the loaders & packers do not.

Sitting Day 1 out, but yeah....

Anthropomorphic heteronormative couple Rayne, LA

In the US, we're taught to think of parks as unalloyed good things. And we're discouraged from asking, "Whose land was it to begin with?" and "What happened to them before & after the park was created?" Sometimes it's easier for Americans to ask those uncomfortable questions about other countries. 👇🏽

The thing about this guy, is you'd think he would be angry or bitter. But every person I've spoken to from the prison (I am doing a lot of these interviews in Arabic), spoke about "a Yemeni guy who helped me" referring to him. When I asked him about it he laughed & said it was a way to pass time...

Alhamdu,16, is all of us. "I like eating fast food. But I admit, sometimes I feel disgusted after a meal. I feel dirty inside. But I love the taste of unhealthy food!"

My French word of the day: un groupuscule = a small group "Un groupuscule trotskiste." 😄

Great thread! Please read every word. Perfect use of the word “yep”. Also, join a union.

Matilda Sissieretta Jones (b. 1868 in Virginia) was a renowned opera singer who performed at the White House (multiple times), at Madison Square Garden (with Antonin Dvorak), headlined at Carnegie Hall in 1893, & toured the Caribbean, South America, & England.

Fascism. Civil disobedience is not conspiracy. ICE agents kill people in cold blood in the streets and get transferred. Peaceful protesters sit in front of a bus and get 6 years in prison. Outrageous.

Meanwhile the US continues its extra-judicial killing spree. We're now up to 205 murders. apnews.com/article/boat...

"The Israeli combat soldier saw his teammates yelling in celebration, congratulating one another. They had just struck a vehicle of Palestinians driving near the Israeli-controlled part of the Gaza Strip, killing everyone inside." apnews.com/article/gaza...

Israel is wreaking havoc with utter impunity. apnews.com/article/leba...

Many thanks to Ethan Iverson for hosting my expanded reflections on Sonny Rollins, including a Desert Island list of recordings. substack.com/@iverson/not...

In our debrief the next day one student remarked about how “detailed” the experience was, in contrast to watching a video or listening on headphones. Another said how amazing it was to sit in community with all those people, not a phone in sight*, and to share that beauty.

We live in weird times, man.

It was a great day in Charlottesville.

I'm not a soccer fan, but this will make a lot of my friends happy. So, 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 🔥.

A devastating situation: “In the next ward lay the hospital’s laboratory technician, also sick. Seven other hospital workers had already died from suspected Ebola. Few of the staff members had ever been trained to fight the disease, and the most rudimentary equipment was in dangerously short supply”

Dying over the guy who stood next to Zuck's yacht and painted it in flames.

This seems to me a great memorial practice for US localities to emulate

Edgar Morin vient de nous quitter. Il aura traversé un siècle entier avec une curiosité insatiable, résistant sans relâche au conformisme des idées. Fascinant de rigueur et d'humanité, Edgar Morin laisse à jamais l'empreinte d'un homme qui aura aimé le monde assez pour vouloir le comprendre.

Human behavior researchers say catastrophes can bring out kindness in surprising ways. 15 years after Joplin, Mo., came together to rebuild after a deadly tornado, a community service spirit lives on.

"Over 900 checkpoints, gates, & roadblocks have turned entire towns into caged enclaves." "Palestinian society in the West Bank has been subjected to systematic social, political, & economic devastation." "All this occurs alongside the explicit Israeli policy goal of 'burying' a Palestinian state."

To say the least. "Faced with Benjamin Netanyahu’s war policy and the impact of the conflicts on the American economy, unwavering support for Israel no longer makes sense to a segment of public opinion."

UK military looks at moral catastrophe.

Timeline cleanser. 👇🏽

May 29, 1926: A portrait of Imogen Holst, the 18-year-old daughter of British composer Gustav Holst and later to become a composer and music educator in her own right.

Breaking: fed judge orders removal of Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center, temporarily blocks the planned renovation project. The Kennedy Center says it will appeal the decision. www.npr.org/2026/05/29/n...

A baffling choice for a Pacific- & Latin America-facing city that's also one of the country's most diverse. I'm mean he's good. But there are other good conductors out there.

Izzy Aly, Egyptian-born engineer caught in the hell of immigration detention, is begging for medical care for his failing kidneys, even as his urine turns red Aly is the poster child for the growing humanitarian crisis inside ICE detention. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/izzy...

This Saturday, 3 pm. You know where. 💯 Mel Walker was "a pillar of the community and his cafe was more than a restaurant but served as the unofficial center for the historically black neighborhood Starr Hill."

Wow, that’s a framing choice right there.

As always, “viewpoint diversity” initiatives should be taken as good faith when, and only when, economics departments start hiring Marxists and business schools start hiring labor organizers

🚨 New Modern Art Notes Podcast! "Miró and the United States" at The Phillips Collection; a Parasol Prints survey at the Addison! manpodcast.com/portfolio/no... 🍎: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... 🔊: open.spotify.com/show/25SUibT...

Important work from CT, as this is a persistent problem, but I was surprised there was no information about the ownership history of Park’s Edge….its pretty interesting (see replies). Maybe it will appear in another part of the series. www.cvilletomorrow.org/no-way-out-h...

I don't know what to make of this, but in France, "Since 2017, the number of people killed during police interventions has increased sharply. In the first five months of 2026, there were already 22 such deaths. This figure is three times higher than the average over the decade from 2005 to 2015."

A+ headline. "Governance takes a back seat as Trump continues on his monumental march of folly."

The Trump regime planned to warehouse Americans who had been exposed to Ebola in Kenya. (A truly appalling plan driven by fear, ignorance, racism, & neocolonialism.) Kenya has said no — at least for now. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 apnews.com/article/keny...

"The game belongs to everyone. It doesn’t ask where you are from, only how you play, how you lead and how you bring people together." apnews.com/article/worl...

Most outsiders have stopped caring about Gaza. Meanwhile, Israel continues to kill & colonize. apnews.com/article/gaza...

Here’s @adamneely.bsky.social’s unflinching and unassailable video on Berklee’s infamous “Bots and Beats: AI and the Future of Songwriting” course. youtu.be/EfeGc02nzC4?...

Trump's destruction of USAID has had terrible consequences in the global south, including many thousands of needless deaths. Guess what? It's had heartbreaking consequences in a lot of other places, too. Read this thread. (Then subscribe. 😄) 👇🏽

A welcome setback for Trump's war on art (and the Kennedy Center).

charlottesville city schools happily announcing their new police hires on the same day the nyt puts out yet another damning report on police violence against school children 👍 great policy work guys what could go wrong 👍 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trumpeter John D’earth will join The Jazz Messenger, Fri, May 29, 11am. They'll talk about Cville Jazz Fest, running June 4-7, and will also discuss the Thursday Night Millers Band, now featuring Richmond-based vocalist Laura Ann Singh. Tune in on 91.1FM or stream at wtju.net. 📸 Sanjay Suchak

Mobutu Sese Seko, c’est toi?

All I want to do is defund them, and people think I'm too radical. 😄

@joshuakosman.bsky.social The Detroit Symphony has posted the Mahler 9 with Herbert Blomstedt that it livestreamed a couple weeks ago. It's both magisterial and autumnal. www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2ry...

France has today gotten around to repealing the 1685 Code noir, which classed enslaved humans as property. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...