Mrs. Betty Bowers (‪@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social‬): "This is #BenjaminNetanyahu's son Yair. While working class American service people are dying in the gratuitous war his father & #DonaldTrump started, Yair is poolside in Miami chilling. No word on where Donald Trump's children were..."

Koreans are celebrating Independence Day today — the beginning of the movement to liberate Korea from Japanese military occupation... #한국 #조선 #대한민국 #삼일절 #손글씨삼일운동2021 #대한민국만세 #독립 #삼일운동 #서대문형무소 #서대문독립공원 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1...

"A Study in Scarlet" was published #OnThisDay in 1890 — the first story by #ArthurConanDoyle featuring #SherlockHolmes — who would become the most famous detective in the world; here's a 1968 film version starring #PeterCushing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD2L... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Study...

#Puyi #溥儀 was crowned Kangde emperor of #Manchukuo #OnThisDay in 1934, having made the tragic error of allowing fascist imperial #Japan to install him as a figurehead presiding over its puppet state from 1934 to 1945; his story inspired "The Last Emperor" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puyi

#FryderykFranciszekChopin was born in Poland #OnThisDay in 1810; I visited #FrédéricFrançoisChopin' in the Cimitière Père Lachaise (5.23.15); here's me playing the opening of #FrédéricChopin's Étude in E Major (Op. 10, No. 3): www.youtube.com/watch?v=18rM... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A...

#Iran has confirmed the death of #SupremeLeader #AyatollahKhamenei in the wake of US & #ApartheidIsrael's attacks that violate the US Constitution & international law: let's oppose this illegal war but avoid celebrating a brutal dictator who may have killed more than 60,000 peaceful protesters...

#JohnTenniel was born in London #OnThisDay in 1820, remembered today for his brilliant #illustrations of the #AliceInWonderland books, which remain the best representations of #LewisCarroll's eccentric & extraordinary characters; this is the Cheshire Cat: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Te...

Sandro Botticelli (1445), Wladyslaw Jagiello, king of Bohemia & Hungary (1456), Fryderyk Franciszek (Frédéric François) Chopin (1810), Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848), Lytton Strachey (1880), Glenn Miller (1904), Yitzhak Rabin (1922) & #HarryBelafonte (1927) were born #OnThisDay...

#JohnTenniel was born in London #OnThisDay in 1820, remembered today for his brilliant #illustrations of the #AliceInWonderland books, which remain the best representations of #LewisCarroll's eccentric & extraordinary characters... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Te...

#AOC's statement on #DonaldTrump's attack on #Iran should mention #ApartheidIsrael but doesn't:

#NewYorkCity Mayor #ZohranMamdani has issued a statement condemning #ApartheidIsrael & US attacks on #Iran; just imagine the statement that #AndrewCuomo would have issued if he'd been elected mayor~!

#JohnTenniel was born in London #OnThisDay in 1820, remembered today for his brilliant #illustrations of the #AliceInWonderland books, which remain the best representations of #LewisCarroll's eccentric & extraordinary characters; this is "The Jabberwocky": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Te...

#KeirStarmer's unconditional & enthusiastic support for #ApartheidIsrael's #GazaGenocide contributed significantly to the #GreenParty victory in the #GortonandDentonByElection & will help bring about the #LabourParty's demise; it's time for real change~! www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/elec...

#MichelDeMontaigne was born #OnThisDay in 1533, one of the most significant figures in French Renaissance philosophy who articulated a healthy #skepticism of established authority & believed #France needed to move beyond conflict over religion... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_...

I curried organic mushrooms, steamed broccoli & tossed it all on conchilie rigate, sprinkling za'atar on the funghi in solidarity with Palestinians being subjected to ongoing violent ethnic cleansing & genocide in illegally occupied Palestine; support #BDS to #FreePalestine from #ApartheidIsrael~! 🍉

Manchester Green Party 🐝 (@mcrgreenparty.bsky.social): "#HannahSpencer is the NEW UNDISPUTED...👑 QUEEN of the North!" #GortonDentonByElection #GreenParty

Q-Wave, the W.O.W. Project & API Rainbow Parents will be marching in the Lunar New Year for All contingent in the lunar new year's parade in Manhattan tomorrow (Sunday, March 1); meet up at Hester & Elizabeth in Chinatown at 12 noon~!

Q-Wave, the W.O.W. Project & API Rainbow Parents will be marching in the Lunar New Year for All contingent in the lunar new year's parade in Manhattan tomorrow (Sunday, March 1); meet up at Hester & Elizabeth in Chinatown at 12 noon~!

"The only diaspora Iranians who aren't worried are those who don't care about anyone in Iran. If you're a monarchist, you should be ashamed of yourself; you have blood on your hands; the state killing protesters doesn't justify bombing & killing the very same people you claim to want to liberate..."

"Schäfers Klageleid" (Shepherd's Lament) was first performed #OnThisDay in 1814; here's the great Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau singing #FranzSchubert's setting of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's poem (D. 121): www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsLh... oxfordsong.org/song/sch%C3%...

Globe Eye News (@globeeyenews.bsky.social): "NYC Mayor #ZohranMamdani says the US and Israeli strikes on Iran are a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. 'Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Americans do not want this. They want peace'"

Liu Bang was enthroned as the Emperor Gaozu 漢高祖 #OnThisDay in 202 BCE, establishing the Han dynasty whose prestige is so great that ethnic Chinese call themselves 'Han Chinese'; the founding emperor of the dynasty would rule until his death in 195 BCE at age 61: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor...

#JohnTenniel was born in London #OnThisDay in 1820, immortalized by his illustrations of the "Alice in Wonderland" books which may have been as responsible for the success of #LewisCarroll's books as the brilliant texts of those books themselves... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Te...

"La Prise de Troie" (The Capture of Troy) is on WQXR (@wqxr.bsky.social) now: this Met production of the first part of #LesTroyens stars Shirley Verrett (Cassandre), Jon Vickers (Énée) & Louis Quilico (Chorèbe), Rafael Kubelík conducting #HectorBerlioz' massive #opera: www.wqxr.org/story/berlio...

#JohnTenniel was born in London #OnThisDay in 1820, immortalized by his illustrations of the "Alice in Wonderland" books which may have been as responsible for the success of #LewisCarroll's books as the brilliant texts of those books themselves... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Te...

#Cuauhtémoc was tortured & murdered by #HernánCortés #OnThisDay in 1525; since then, the last Aztec emperor has been regarded as a symbol of indigenous #Resistance to the Conquistadores & Spain's conquest of Mexico, a key turning point in its #history... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuauht%...

#France abolished #Madagascar's monarchy #OnThisDay in 1897, ending #RanavalonaIII's reign as the island's last sovereign queen; she was sent into exile in Algeria & Madagascar would only become independent again in 1960... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranaval...

Paul von Hindenburg signed the #Reichstagsbrandverordnung into law #OnThisDay in 1933 a day after the fire that destroyed the #Reichstag in Berlin; #AdolfHitler used it as a pretext to eliminate civil liberties & establish the #Nazi dictatorship in Germany... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichst...

#JohnTenniel was born in London #OnThisDay in 1820, remembered today for his brilliant #illustrations of the #AliceInWonderland books, which remain the best representations of #LewisCarroll's eccentric & extraordinary characters; this is "The Cactus Race": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Te...

#MauriceRavel's orchestral suite "Le Tombeau de Couperin" premiered in Paris #OnThisDay in 1920; this "chef-d'œuvre d'orchestration" is performed here by the NDR Elbphilharmonie under Paavo Järvi: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iou0... fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Tomb...

Vegan Future: "Milk comes from a grieving mother. #DitchDairy #GoVegan"

#Welteisbärentag photo via Impressions 🇪🇺(@1mpre5510n5): global warming has made the polar bear an endangered species; we need to take action on climate change; #Klimaschutz ist #Eisbärenschutz~! #Eisbären #isbjørn #ísbjörn #OursPolaire #orsopolare #OsoPolar #urspolar #InternationalPolarBearDay

Margaret of Scotland & Norway (1261), #MichelDeMontaigne (1533), Jost Bürgi (1552), Alexei, tsarevich of Russia (1690), Louis-Joseph, Marquis de Montcalm (1712), John Tenniel (1820), Vaslav Nijinsky (1890), Linus Pauling (1901), Vincente Minnelli (1903) & Frank Gehry (1929) were born #OnThisDay...

#NasrallahAbuSiyam was a US citizen from Pennsylvania who was murdered by Israeli settlers but Gov. #JoshShapiro & Sen. #JohnFetterman support settler violence & #ApartheidIsrael's violent ethnic cleansing of #Palestine so they refuse to condemn the murder... www.currentaffairs.org/news/josh-sh...

#JohnSteinbeck was born #OnThisDay in 1902; he won a Pulitzer Prize & the 1962 Nobel Prize in literature for his novels, which laid bare class privilege & classc onflict in the United States in the early 20th c.; sadly, his lifelong #smoking habit helped kill him... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_St...

#OnThisDay in 1909, Austria-Hungary concluded a treaty with Turkey in which the Habsburg empire offered financial compensation in exchange for #Ottoman recognition of Austrian annexation of #Bosnia which led to World War I & the collapse & dismemberment of his empire en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnian...

#LotteLehmann was born #OnThisDay in 1888; one of the greatest singers of the 20th c., she became the first soprano to sing all 3 female leads in "Der Rosenkavalier" — the #opera of Richard Strauß; this is a fascinating documentary: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCgf... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotte_L...

#OnThisDay in 1964, the Italian government invited proposals to save the Leaning Tower of Pisa — ultimately beginning work in 1999; by 2001, the tilt had been halted with an enormous cable harness after the removal of soil on the north side of the tower: www.history.com/this-day-in-...

Constantine the Great was born #OnThisDay in 272 CE; his conversion & establishment of Christianity as the official religion of the Roman Empire was a turning point in the history of the empire & the world as was his establishment of Constantinople as the new capital en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constan...

“I Will Survive” won the first & only Grammy ever awarded for best disco recording #OnThisDay in 1980; only recently did I discover that #GloriaGaynor is MAGA — a revelation that shattered her reputation within the LGBTQ community: www.history.com/this-day-in-... www.lgbtqfresno.com/i-will-survi...

#NationalStrawberryDay is the perfect day to celebrate the health benefits of #strawberries; jeg elsker #jordbær~! #jordgubbar #Erdbeeren #fraises #fragole www.webmd.com/diet/health-... eatsmarter.de/lexikon/ware... www.indifferentlanguages.com/words/strawb...

#OnThisDay in 1933, the #ReichstagsGebäude was set on fire, which #AdolfHitler used as a pretext to suspend civil liberties & impose an absolute dictatorship only four weeks after his inauguration as Reichskanzler; it would take World War II to liberate #Germany... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichst...

I went to a public junior high & high school but the student body & the neighborhood were so Catholic that there was always fish on the menu every Friday even if it was only fish sticks...

#OnThisDay in 1943, non-Jewish wives & relatives of Jewish men targeted for deportation began a series of protests in #Berlin's #Rosenstraße — the only mass protests by Germans against Jewish deportation in #Nazi #Germany — saving 1,700 Jews... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenst...

#MarianAnderson was born #OnThisDay in 1897; one of the greatest voices of the 20th c., she broke the color line at the Met; here's video of her iconic performance at the Lincoln Memorial (4.9.1939): www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAON... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_...

Constantine the Great (272), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807), Hugo Black (1886), Lotte Lehmann (1888), #MarianAnderson (1897), John Steinbeck (1902), Michael Fox (1921), Joanne Woodward (1930), Elizabeth Taylor (1932), Ralph Nader (1934) & Mirella Freni (1935) were born #OnThisDay...

Throwback Thursday: I discovered #opera in college & #WolfgangAmadeusMozart's 'big four' are among my favorites; here's the quintet "Di scrivermi ogni giorno" (from "Così Fan Tutte") which holds laughter & tears in a perfect balance: www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8Yu...

"The number of candles has grown," #VladimirPutin says in Chappatté's cartoon for Le Tribune de Genève on the occassion of the fourth anniversary of #Russia's unprovoked invasion of #Ukraine as the all-powerful tsar continues to pursue his genocidal war against the Ukrainian people (2.25.26)

#HowardLutnick had long & deep personal & business relations with #JeffreyEpstein, the #EpsteinFiles show: #PamBondi needs to #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles so we can see exactly who is complicit in the worst pedophile sex trafficking scandal of our day~! www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Throwback Thursday: the late Troy Masters & me in the Dheisheh refugee camp in Bethlehem on day four of the first US #LGBTQ delegation tour of #Palestine 14 years ago (1.10.12) paulinepark.com/2012/04/04/p...