Jason Benetti is excellent, so this is lovely news.

The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s GOP started a group chat for conservative students — and within 3 weeks, it was filled with over 400 instances of the N-word, Nazi rhetoric and writings of "dozens of ways of violently killing Black people"

Two guys from the Epstein files and one about whom I distinctly remember hearing rumors years ago that he might have raped and murdered a girl in 1990. People were just asking questions… Anyways, exactly the folks you can trust to have your interests at heart

And nothing of value was loat

I think we can consider it an indictment of the orchestra world when simple gender parity among guest conductors feels so progressive. Baltimore is the largest budget org to consistently demonstrate parity.

It begins again- in the last month orchestras have started announcing their next subscription season and I’ve started analyzing the diversity of their conductors. Not looking that amazing so far. I’ve entered seven orgs in my database (with at least 5 more announcements to process).

PAPA LEONE YES

And THIS is why I won’t be setting foot in the USofA, not even to change planes on the way to somewhere else, while that fucker or anyone from his POS regime are in charge. ‘If it can happen to me, it can happen to you.’

"It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul". Ursula K. Le Guin, in The Wizard of Earthsea.

Leon Botstein, president of @bardcollege.bsky.social, has repeatedly made public statements about his relationship with the pedophile sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein that have turned out to be misleading, incomplete, or untrue. I'm going to make a thread to compile them all here.

When I was living in NYC, I was approached by someone to sing a messiah with Schiller Institute Chorus. I spent 30 seconds googling them and immediately declined because the LaRouche Verdi Tuning was giving strong cult vibes.

I tried to get my gyn to replace my nexplanon last summer out of concern of losing access and they brushed my worries off and said I had to wait a year. I will be so very angry if I cannot get it replaced this year.

It ain’t over til Minnesota has ICE’s battle flag

People are going to inevitably focus on the headline, but the Reformer story correctly focuses on the reality of what this terror campaign against an American city and its residents has actually consisted of.

"FFP2 masks are part of the [German] Olympic team's hygiene concept to stay healthy and perform successfully!" "FFP2-Masken gehören beim olympischen Team zum Hygienekonzept, um gesund zu bleiben und erfolgreich zu sein!" #MaskUp 1/

I’m reminded of the passage in Heinlein’s Farmer in the Sky where one settler is complaining about the tedious work of breaking up moon rock and seeding it with organic material when it would be “simple” ti just ship a bunch of Mississippi Delta mud up to Ganymede

I really want people to think about this. After all the insane lawsuits, all the threats, all the bullshit weve seen from this admin and the targets who kneeled in fear, an average Joe called the president a Pedophile protector to his face and didn't get touched. That's the Power of a union.

probably not great that every natsec-adjacent reporter has spent the last 24 hours going "ron wyden expert here, this is not cute, ron wydens only do this when they're very distressed"

Exhibit 8648264848272 in how some terrible men never learn their lesson. This guy really should know better than to comment about the state of how women are treated in classical music on a KATHERINE NEEDLEMAN post.

I've told this story on ContrabandCamp but it's worth sharing for BHM because it's one of the greatest stories ever. A thread.

I’m sure someone is writing/has written a think piece about how the structure of arts funding in the US especially creates the environment that allows someone like JE to prey on a student at Juilliard for multiple years.

So… how many major non-profit orgs are doing some needed due diligence and searching their board/major donors in the files?

What do we think David Stern means here when he says Valery Gergiev is "a great source of P"? Also, this appears to be either a banker or the deceased former NBA Chairman, not the son of Isaac Stern.

This is the future liberals want

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

You may not know what the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee is, but it's the central advisory panel for autism in the federal government. @rosebroderick.bsky.social reports that RFK Jr. is loading it up with autism conspiracy theory cranks. www.statnews.com/2026/01/23/k...

If you’re in the position to monetarily support anti-ICE efforts in Minneapolis, here’s a long list of places that can put your money to good use. standwithminnesota.com

Yesterday, my sister attended the funeral of a local actor who had died from complications due to influenza. The woman was 25 years old and had a promising career ahead of her. Last year, she had been cast in our top regional theater’s production of Fiddler on the Roof.

Congrats on your influence, @musicologyduck.bsky.social

They had the audacity to claim Bluesky didn't have the juice, but not since peak Twitter have I logged off for an evening and come back to my entire feed speaking in a new language of rapid-fire in-jokes that I have to reverse-engineer to figure out what's happening. That, my friends, is The Juice.

Beyond the fact that this bugfuck insane letter was written and sent to the leader of Norway, the State Dept agreeing to distribute it to other heads of state instead of objecting and honorably resigning or at the very least planning some kind of coverup is a sign of deep institutional collapse.

90 day suspension of US tourist visas and this is all over

The Department of Homeland Security is refusing to release information on 3 detained Oglala Lakota tribal members who are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp for Native people, unless the tribe enters into an immigration agreement with ICE.

BREAKING: The controversial hepatitis B vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau has been *cancelled,* I can now report. A senior official with Africa CDC confirmed the cancellation and said GB officials are working to make sure any research is conducted ethically: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

If you have the luck to not be in the US, buy from this awesome artist

“Hearts starve as well as bodies, give us bread but give us roses.” Mayor Mamdani is amazing

Wikipedia template for every prominent right wing businessman

“War isn't Hell. War is war, and Hell is Hell. And of the two, war is a lot worse.”

[wakes up] “I’m sorry, what”

EMERGENCY UPDATE

I’m #OneOfTheTwo, also a classically trained singer, have a family member with long covid, and wear a mask to keep myself and those around me safer. Masking is community care. It is shameful that Jon Stewart would deride us, and Jon Favreau just laughed along and didn’t defend his staff.

Wrote about how disappointing it is that Jon Stewart punched down on people masking at @motherjones.com, when people should mind their own business and leave mask wearers be. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Under communism, Our Flag Means Death, A League of Their Own, and The Residence will have all the seasons they want.

Congratulations, Suzanne Collins, you accidentally wrote the Torment Nexus.

Its taken a long time and a lot of work on my part to get to a point of better communication about my own needs - aided in no small part by my late dx of ADHD illuminating to me somewhat how my brain works. An emotionally abusive relationship in college didn’t help.

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen: RUSH THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS (x2) JACK JOHNSON PANIC! AT THE DISCO LUCINDA WILLIAMS

This colonial horror is happening now in Denmark.

We are reinventing slave patrols

I made my parents take the raads test tonight and they both scored over 100