I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. —Jorge Luis Borges Bruno Ganz | Angels in the Library Wim Wenders | Wings of Desire

A perfect excuse to have a glass of champagne! ~ J & L Lobmeyr art nouveau champagne glass, with enamelling on stem (c 1900, Vienna)

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Remembering these losses is a way of making their absence into presence. It is about the activity of memory. — Edmund de Waal library of exile and of ‘Casualty List’ with Brecht on Walter Benjamin:

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. —Jorge Luis Borges Bruno Ganz | Angels in the Library Wim Wenders | Wings of Desire

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

This is a great piece by my colleague spencer on the bad bunny helftimeshow but of course there’s never been a more divisive idea in American history than all of us being American, we fought a civil war over it and Trump is nothing if not manifest opposition to it www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

Not at all surprised to learn that Bad Bunny has a historical adviser. His halftime show was a reminder that our history and culture are deeply intertwined with the rest of the western hemisphere. We should think of his performance as part of #America250. #SuperBowl news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...

the sugar cane.

Oliver's author cover for 'The British Library Murder Mysteries'.

Green Day - Super Bowl Performance Part 2

Green Day - Super Bowl Performance

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this is a good one storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

BREAKING: Judge Ana Reyes, in DC, issues a stay of DHS Sec. Noem’s decision to end Haiti’s temporary protected status (TPS) designation, a decision that was to go into effect on Tuesday and could have ended legal status for up to 350,000 people overnight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

FLAG: Trump said today that Republicans should nationalize elections — continuing to double down on his 2020 election lies. The suggestion runs contrary to the Constitution's delegation of election administration to state governments.

Sometimes you have to say it out loud to appreciate how dire t all is: The president just openly declared his plans to steal the midterm elections — in an interview with the former number two person at the FBI.

Nearly ten years ago I co-founded @wbaidlaw.bsky.social to provide pro bono representation of whistleblowers. Yet another example of the great work it does. The DNI & Tulsi Gabbard have a lot of explaining to do.

I love FOIA.

“Early on, I learned to disguise myself in words, which really were clouds. The gift of perceiving similarities is, in fact, nothing but a weak remnant of the old compulsion to become similar and to behave mimetically. In me, this compulsion acted through words.” Walter Benjamin

Every year at Candlemas, great drifts of snow-drops bloomed across Old Fox's village; miraculous, unadorned, pilt into the pale February sunlight from the dark, moleish earth below. In the churchyard around the graves and by the yew trees, across the green, in cottage gardens and under wayside oaks,

they bowed their delicate heads and quickened hope in every heart and every weary soul. Lady Mary's Fair Maids, Grey Brock called them, here to herald the spring and fare ye well to Christmas for another season in this old and stormy world.

Honoring Imbolc with the memory of blacksmith and dowser Hamish Miller of Cornwall, who, with wife Ba, referred to me as ‘the daughter we never had’. Among much other magic, Hamish hand-forged the replacement Chalice Well cover in Glastonbury— seen here in a photo by @glastomichelle.bsky.social

Happy #Imbolc, ushered in by Brigid and her hare. Nature is stirring, there’s a full moon. The winter is ebbing away. The seeds scattered last year are waking up. Pat yourself on the back , you’ve made it through another winter.

"If I can't have you, no one can" is the credo of almost every abuser. He's even tattooed his name on the building.

Trevor Noah: "If things keep getting worse in America, can I come live with you?" Bad Bunny: "I have some news for you, Trevor. Puerto Rico is part of America."

Honoring Imbolc with the memory of blacksmith and dowser Hamish Miller of Cornwall, who, with wife Ba, referred to me as ‘the daughter we never had’. Among much other magic, Hamish hand-forged the replacement Chalice Well cover in Glastonbury— seen here in a photo by @glastomichelle.bsky.social

Thinking this morning about the arrests of journalists, activists, and the overall state of the country. As is often the case, James Baldwin came to mind. This the 63rd anniversary of THE FIRE NEXT TIME. He wrote, “Everything now, we must assume, is in our hands.”

“What it comes to is that if we, who can scarcely be considered a white nation, persist in thinking of ourselves as one, we condemn ourselves…to sterility and decay, whereas if we could accept ourselves as we are, we might bring new life to Western achievements and transform them.”

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

I testified Friday before Gov. Pritzker's commission studying abuses of ICE and CBP and tried to explain how the agencies went so far off track. It's actually way worse than I ever realized. Please read and share my testimony as Congress considers reform: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...

Bring me all of your dreams You dreamers, bring me all of your Heart melodies That I may wrap them In a blue cloud-cloth Away from the too-rough fingers Of the world ~ Langston Hughes Ian Boyden | Fog Remnant Stone @ianboyden.bsky.social Beautiful backstory: www.ianboyden.com/posts/nephol...

Amiri Baraka and Maya Angelou dancing over the ashes of Langston Hughes, buried under the floor beneath a mosaic cosmogram that includes lines from one of his poems, at the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

What better way to begin Black History Month than by celebrating the 125th birthday of Langston Hughes. He was actually named John Mercer Langston Hughes after his uncle John Mercer Langston who was an abolitionist, lawyer, and founding Dean of Howard Law

Everyone should Follow Congressman Joaquin Castro— Support his efforts to free the *100s of other children and family members* still wrongfully held by ICE in Private, For-Profit Dilley Detention Center in Texas: ➡️ @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/joaq...

Dear Ali @velshi.com and producers @velshimsnow.bsky.social @ms.now thanks for covering Liam Ramos on your show today but PLEASE do not cite and promote X as source— Congressman Joaquin Castro is HERE ON BLUESKY too, cite Bluesky, not X Everyone Follow: ➡️ @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social

Quite appropriate as we begin Black History Month. Let us be clear, despite the Regime's attempt to redact it, Black History is American history. Thanks.

on this day in 1960 was the start of the Greensboro sit-ins, a compelling stand for civil and human rights, a spark that helped ignite a fire of positive change in America. We can do this today America: the power of love and decency is stronger than the forces of hate and cruelty.

Thank you to everyone who demanded freedom for Liam. We won’t stop until all children and families are home.

I am so tired of waiting, Aren't you, For the world to become good And beautiful and kind? Let us take a knife And cut the world in two- And see what worms are eating At the rind — Langston Hughes Langston Hughes on the beach in Carmel-by-the-Sea with Greta, furfamily of friend Noël Sullivan

I am so tired of waiting, Aren't you, For the world to become good And beautiful and kind? Let us take a knife And cut the world in two- And see what worms are eating At the rind — Langston Hughes 5-year-old Liam Ramos, abducted by ICE in Minnesota, now held in a detention center in Texas.

happy bday writer, one of my favs, Langston Hughes, b.1901, Joplin, MO, leading figure of Harlem Renaissance. “Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird, That cannot fly.” “Looks like what drives me crazy Don't have no effect on you--...

...But I'm gonna keep on at it Till it drives you crazy, too.”

A huge political earthquake in Texas tonight as Democrats flipped a State Senate seat from red to blue in a district Trump won by 17 points. Trump personally waded in — endorsing the Republican and personally urging base turnout — and was dealt a massive loss.

Hard to overstate how big a deal a Rehmet win would be. Tarrant County is the epicenter of Christian nationalism in Texas, an incubator for far-right policies, and nexus of billionaire Tim Dunn's network, which is riding hard for Wambsganss. Rehmet almost entirely funded by donations of $100 or less

Democrats didn’t just see a 30-point shift in Texas and flip a State Senate seat red to blue: they did it while being outspent 20-to-1. This will send shockwaves through the Republican Party.

Wow, buckle up. The early vote just came in Tarrant County, and Democrat Taylor Rehmet is up 56% to 44% in the special election for a Texas state Senate seat. This is a seat that went for Trump by 17%. This would be a huge upset. This is already 45K votes.

Short, scathing, entirely worth reading— the Judge’s order that Liam Ramos and his father be released—