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Composer, Professor, London-based New Yorker
https://linktr.ee/asie212
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Fantastic session with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Jac Van Steen recording my 'Kiskadee' for broadcast on BBC Radio 3! So exciting to have this ACO / LOA Toulmin Foundation commissioned work cross the pond after touring performances around the US over the past year
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Jen Mercieca
4 months ago
No kings.
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Christopher Webb
4 months ago
Wow! France gifted her to us, and now theyâve captured what so many Americans are feeling on Independence Day. The values the Statue of Liberty stood for are no more. đ A stunning mural of the Statue of Liberty covering her face was unveiled in Roubaix, France, on July 3, 2025.
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Acyn
6 months ago
Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.
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Caroline Potter
6 months ago
So,
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was asked in 1930 (for L'Intransigeant) whether he'd be happy for a woman to conduct his music: 'Without hesitation. I donât see in what sense a woman is inferior to a man. This idea of inferiority is an ancient idea.â
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Marc Elias
7 months ago
I suggest everyone become very, very familiar with this piece by law Professor
@david.noll.org
. I suspect you will be referring to it often.
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/if-t...
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If the Marshals Go Rogue, Courts Have Other Ways to Enforce their Orders
Opinion | Even a rogue marshalâs service is not an insurmountable obstacle to courts enforcing the rule of law.
https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/if-the-marshals-go-rogue-courts-have-other-ways-to-enforce-their-orders/
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Anne Applebaum
7 months ago
âAmerican government, American foreign policy, and American trade policy are slowly being transformed, not to benefit Americans but to benefit the president, his family, and his friends.â
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Kleptocracy, Inc.
Under Trump, conflicts of interest are just part of the system.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/04/trump-kleptocracy-autocracy-inc/682281/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK38ZrJXK8ZionmOZzik4AAN4&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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Christopher Webb
7 months ago
What happened today reeks of insider trading. Trumpâs tweet wasnât randomâit was a signal. Someone cashed in, and the public deserves to know who and how much. Follow. The. Money. âThis entire White House is one giant grift.â âSen.
@chrismurphyct.bsky.social
shining a spotlight on it! đ„
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George Conway đșđžđ«đđž
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Mueller, She Wrote
7 months ago
I called my senators today and told them I want Cory Booker to be the senate minority leader. We canât hold hearings. We donât have subpoena power. We canât pass budgets. But we CAN filibuster, and we CAN change party leadership.
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Adam Parkhomenko
7 months ago
yâall are wild
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NB: Stravinskyâs Petrushka was on the program, music from a ballet about Russian puppets đŻ
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Joyce White Vance
8 months ago
We just watched Trump & Vance do Putinâs bidding in the Oval Office & it was horrific. Not even two months into this administration & itâs a disaster for the free world.
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Lisa Hirsch
8 months ago
NBC purges people of color. Was there a direct order from the co-presidents? Threat of a lawsuit? We are looking at re-segregation of American public life.
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Mike Nellis
8 months ago
Elon Musk is easy for most Americans to hate because everyone has had a dickhead boss who is bad at his job and way in over his head.
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Chris Murphy
9 months ago
I'm holding a citizen meeting in West Hartford to talk about what I'm doing and what people can do to fight back against Trump's seizure of government for the billionaire class. 1/ Unfortunately, we've maxed out the space, so here's a đ§” on what you can do.
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Christopher Webb
9 months ago
âExtinction Burstâ as applied to MAGA. This is worth the two minutes of your time. Trust me on this one⊠(Part I)
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Boze the Library Owl
9 months ago
The part of George Orwellâs 1984 that everyone forgets is how the music and publishing industries have been replaced by a machine that spits out songs and bad novels âwithout any human intervention.â The goal is to keep you from ever having to think.
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Fantastic session with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Jac Van Steen recording my 'Kiskadee' for broadcast on BBC Radio 3! So exciting to have this ACO / LOA Toulmin Foundation commissioned work cross the pond after touring performances around the US over the past year
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pixelatedboat aka âmr blueskyâ
9 months ago
Ah damn it turns out this whole political system relies on false assumptions about how big of an asshole someone could be
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Mueller, She Wrote
9 months ago
Was hoping I wouldnât have to dust off this gem again.
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Mueller, She Wrote
9 months ago
There weren't headlines like this before the election because they wanted Trump to be elected so they could make money writing headlines like this after the election.
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Simon Oldridge
9 months ago
It's the big vote on the Climate & Nature Bill for science-led action this morning.
#CANBill
Is your MP planning to vote for it? Full list here:
action.zerohour.uk
If not, they may be wavering. It's not too late to tag them and urge them to vote for our future.
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Climate and Nature Bill Campaign
Ask your MP to back the CAN Bill
https://action.zerohour.uk
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Jeffrey AKA The Hairless Hippie
9 months ago
I'm trying to keep up with this; the party of pro-life has 1) ended cancer research 2) pulled us out of the WHO 3) Frozen communications and updates for the NIH and the CDC 4) raised prescription prices previously capped 5) out of Paris Climate Accords again 6) FDA and HHS gone Dark
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George Takei
9 months ago
Itâs find out time for so many of his supporters.
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Marina Fang
10 months ago
Mood, 2 weeks into 2025
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Laurence H. Tribe
10 months ago
Hereâs a version that I found printed in Germany around a decade ago, ahead of its time. . .
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Marc Elias
10 months ago
It is not only that Trump got 4 votes, but the stated reason for allowing the sentencing to go forward is that it wouldn't take much time, won't lead to jail, and isn't too inconvenient. SCOTUS did everything but offer to validate his parking and buy hm lunch.
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A wonderful performance of my duo 'Le Chai au Quai' from a recent visit to the Conservatorio Superior de MĂșsica "JoaquĂn Rodrigo" de Valencia, featuring Javier Bernabeu Pina, bass clarinet and Juan MarĂn Llorens,cello.
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Arlene Sierra â Le Chai au Quai (2008)
YouTube video by Arlene Sierra, composer
https://youtu.be/28I9U_1J1DQ?si=V9tkUhNbytiT34kr
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Trudy Gonzales
10 months ago
2 very different presidents are highlighted this week A good kind moral man Jimmy Carter lies in state History has shown us all the good he has done An immoral self-serving man Donald Trump will soon take office The differences could not be more stark
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Bill Grueskin
10 months ago
Owners of news orgs âhave an obligation, frankly, to protect the free press.â â Former Washpost cartoonist Ann Telnaes, speaking to
@davidfolkenflik.bsky.social
[We also learn that the Post lost 300k (!!) subscribers after Bezos killed the Harris endorsement.]
www.npr.org/2025/01/04/n...
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A Pulitzer winner quits 'Washington Post' after a cartoon on Bezos is killed
Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes resigned after an editor rejected her sketch satirizing tech chiefs, including the Post's owner and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/04/nx-s1-5248299/cartoonist-quits-wapo-over-bezos-trump-cartoon-washingtonpost
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JoJoFromJerz
11 months ago
If youâre upset about President Biden pardoning his son Hunter, wait until I tell you about the time Trump pardoned his son in lawâs hooker hiring daddy and made him ambassador to France.
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God
11 months ago
I shouldâve pardoned my son too. I let Jebus go through all that, and for what?
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Clara Jeffery
12 months ago
I was getting very frustrated by the male-dominated punditry about the election, and very little space being given to women, and the rage that so many of us feel right now. So I wrote something:
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Of misogyny, Musk, and men
Women are not okay. We're furious.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/musk-trump-men-election-results-misogyny-sexism/
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Rebecca Solnit
11 months ago
Old classic, new platform.
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Jen Dohner Art
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Tobi
11 months ago
4/ Letâs rewind for a moment: The UK in 2018 was in chaos post-Brexit. The US? Trump was in office â another monumental shock. What united both stories was the same tactic: using psychological manipulation to win hearts, minds, and votes.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
11 months ago
One thing I find interesting about the echo chamber complaint is that an echo chamber just won a presidential election. Put aside the convo of whether itâs âgoodâ or âbadâ for a moment. The far right has devoted enormous resources + time to building echo chambers & loathes spaces they donât control
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Markus Pössel
12 months ago
Letâs talk a bit about what you, an average German newspaper reader in 1933, would have learned about Hitlerâs rise to power. Letâs assume you read the âVossische Zeitungâ, a comparatively liberal middle-class newspaper. In modern times, the Berlin State Library library letâs you read it online: 1/
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1933 - ZEFYS
ZEFYS, das Zeitungsinformationssystem der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin ist ein Portal fĂŒr den Nachweis und Zugriff auf aktuelle und historische Zeitungen aus Deutschland und der ganzen Welt.
https://zefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/list/title/zdb/27112366/-/1933/#jan
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Simon Groth
12 months ago
Publisher: Do you want to put an LLM clause in the copyright statement? Me: Definitely. How specific can we get? Publisher: As specific as you like.
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Murshed Zaheed
11 months ago
âAs more of the popular vote is counted, it turns out that Trumpâs victory came with the slimmest of margins â a few hundred thousand votes in key places slid him into office.â -
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The Guardian
11 months ago
Thousands eager to escape Trump keen to snap up âŹ1 Sardinian home, says mayor
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Thousands eager to escape Trump keen to snap up âŹ1 Sardinian home, says mayor
American applications would be fast-tracked although scheme is open to other nationalities, says mayor of Ollolai The mayor of a small town in Sardinia has said thousands of Americans keen to escape Donald Trump have expressed an interest in movingâŠ
http://dlvr.it/TGHmqn
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Kara Swisher
11 months ago
Some pigs are more equal than others.
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Mary L Trump
12 months ago
Like many of you, Iâve spent the last few days taking stock. Very much unlike 2016, I feel neither despair nor paralysis. Instead, I shift between a clear-eyed detachment and a grim determination. My latest:
www.marytrump.org/p/dont-let-t...
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Don't let the shadows hold back the dawn
Sundays
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JoJoFromJerz
12 months ago
If Epstein were alive, Trump would have given him a cabinet position.
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Mikel Jollett
12 months ago
A lot of the positions people like RFK jr. take (anti-vax, anti-pasteurization etc.) get described as âcontroversial.â Theyâre not. There is no controversy. This is long-settled science. The correct term is âstupid.â
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Mike Galsworthy
12 months ago
Me in Byline Times⊠Trumpâs election in the US now exposes the geopolitical weakness of a Brexited UK. Weâll enter an existential battle as to whether to roll in with Trump or the EU. Trying to navigate the middle ground is a foolâs errand. We must choose the EU.
bylinetimes.com/2024/11/15/d...
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'Donald Trump's Election Means Reversing Brexit Is Now More Urgent Than Ever'
For the sake of Britain, Europe and humanity, itâs time for us to get back with the European team, argues Mike Galsworthy
https://bylinetimes.com/2024/11/15/donald-trump-uk-us-eu-relations/
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evonnyoh
12 months ago
I have chills watching this. Good chills. Good trouble.
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Leah Broad
12 months ago
Composer & pianist Fanny Mendelsssohn was born
#OTD
in 1805 - surely one of the most extraordinary composers to have published so little in her own lifetime. Thank goodness her scores are being given a new lease of life now - here's her phenomenal Piano Trio:
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