Polish Foreign Minister replies to Musk: 🇵🇱

Applications for air quality permits confirm figures that Source NM previously reported: If approved, Project Jupiter could emit more than 14 million tons of greenhouse gases per year. By comparison, Albuquerque and Las Cruces emit a combined 6.7 million metric tons of greenhouse gases annually.

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Maybe, just maybe, if the FBI counterterrorism desk hadn't been retasked to chasing abuelitas, somebody might've followed up on the tips...

Farewell and RIP Tom Stoppard. A titan of our times, a voice for the ages, a master of every written form. A kinder, more civilized man has scarcely lived. Honored to have known him. What a life. #TomStoppard

I wish all figures of authority cared about moms and babies. But some don’t. Some even want you to hurt. And those are the people who cast doubt on the vaccination miracle that has allowed so many of us to live longer and better. kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...

I happily donate to Wikipedia, incredible resource in this day and age especially.

Maybe best obit I’ve ever read. @nytimes Mr Weber steps up to the cricket bat and goes 200 yds. #twogents_2025 #tomstoppard www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/t...

“It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in a country where virtue and knowledge prevail.” ~Attributed to Samuel Adams. Image: Samuel Adams portrait by John Singleton Copley. Public domain.

Imagine posing for a photographer friend who sells your image to iStock and a year later, you see this is what The Washington Post has done with the image of you walking on a beautiful fall day

Anxiety is the price of the ticket to life; intrapsychic depression is the by-product of our refusal to climb aboard.~James Hollis, 𝘍𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘔𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘏𝘢𝘭𝘧 𝘰𝘧 𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦

Years-old government reports found issues with private equity firm founder’s previous company.

“People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive…so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.”~Joseph Campbell, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘔𝘺𝘵𝘩

“When you are dying, at least in my limited experience, you start remembering everything.” Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy, writes about receiving a terminal diagnosis. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/4SkkDI

Many late-19th-century paintings depict people reading, a motif that symbolizes intelligence and personal introspection. For artists such as Georg Pauli, the absorbed reader offered a relatable way to express the era’s growing appreciation for private reflection.

This short doc is an absolute heartbreaker.

Sunday's NYT crossword is Shakespeare-themed. Only just started it. Anybody else? #kinglear_2025 #twogents_2025

One of the best pieces on #LucyLippard I’ve read. By a great young NM art writer #loganroycebeitman. #newmexico

Still thinking about the Guardian calling Lear, the character, "unplayable." His dementia and his bullying, his warrior status and kingship are cited. Dallying with the daughters. His pathos. Maybe all of us real people are unplayable, because none of us has just one tragic flaw. #kinglear_2025

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

In 1971 after Peter Brook’s film of Lear, I left the movie so overcome I couldn’t speak. My MIT boyfriend cheerily said, “But so who would be the next King then?” I knew the relationship was doomed. #kinglear_2025

When I worked at the Royal Exchange, Manchester they had a costume shop. All costumes made on premises. It was a magic wonderland to visit. Back in the day, **sigh.** #kinglear_2025

Nice- puff jacket sleeves with cable knit vest. 👌

When fine artists worked in the theatre and ballet. #kinglear_2025

Thanks to @nemimeli.bsky.social 's post on Robert Colquhoun, the Scottish designer of the 1953 Lear, I may have found my next Wikipedia project. #kinglear_2025 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_...

V, 3. For me the most poignant speech so far. When you just want the bad stuff to go away. Especially the bad you’ve caused yourself. #kinglear_2025

Wild graphic on front page of WSJ.

This is what intelligence and critical thinking sound like: VIA hana.clio What is there to debate?(for myself)

IV, 6. Gloster: “I see it feelingly.” No truer words in Shakesp. #kinglear_2025

IV, 5. So far I'm more moved by Gloster, Kent, and Oswald than Lear. #kinglear_2025

A real president does this. Thank you to every veteran who’s worn the uniform and carried the weight for the rest of us — just respect 🇺🇸

@tressiemcphd.bsky.social has repeatedly observed that the MAGA feminine aesthetic, instead of aiming for a coherent beauty heuristic, is meant *only* to signal female willingness to self-subjugate to a male desire. The outcome needn’t be “attractive”, it need only say “I’m willing to do this”.

“Most of the days the federal government has ever been shut down, Donald Trump was the president.”— @howtoreadthisch.art www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...

IV, 1. World, world, O world! But that they stranger mutations make us hate thee… As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods,— They kill us for their sport. One of the darkest scenes we’ve read. How worse the despair of familial pain vs that of war or kings. #kinglear_2025

III, 7. Well! No doubt now about the Evil Daughters. Whew. #kinglear_2025

The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth. ~Adrienne Rich

III, 4. <last post, promise> I believe Shakesp was aware that a child is at least partly the work of the parent. If so, I can read Lear's madness coming from a deep dark knowledge that he is not wholly blameless for his daughters' ingratitude and selfishness. Or not. #kinglear_2025

III, 4. In a tiny pencil note from 1998, next to the line "Pour on; I will endure:--" I have written "Dilsey." iykyk #kinglear_2025

III, 4. As a young playwright I quickly learned that mad characters were the most fun to write. They can say anything and never have to make sense; or can make the most sense in their nonsense. In this scene Shakesp gives himself dueling crazies and has a blast. #kinglear_2025

III, 2. “I am a man More sinn’d against than sinning.” (That’s what they all say.😆) #kinglear_2025

Wilfred Owen weeps

For me, perfection is a patriarchal word that splits everything into contraries: black or white. You are then living in constant conflict, and integration is not possible. Even the language is split, so that I find people who cannot endure words such as masculine and feminine.~Marion Woodman

II, 4. “O, sir, to willful men The injuries that they must procure Must be their schoolmasters.” I guess none of you have dealt with a willful, irrational, imperious parent who exacted loyalty and “love” as it suited them. So yes, i get the tragedy. #kinglear_2025

I’d forgotten I read Lear in 1998, a few notes in margin tell me. At end of passage “Allow not nature more than nature needs…give me that patience, patience I need.” II, 4, I’ve written in tiny hand “Crock.” Guess I was annoyed by King then too. #kinglear_2025

The Jungian analyst Elizabeth Osterman, a great teacher, once told an analytic training seminar that I attended, “Watch what you hate—it’s pure gold.”~John Beebe

Still not blaming Regan or Goneril for anything. Maybe their husbands. #kinglear_2025

I’d forgotten Lear is a disguise play. #kinglear_2025

II - 3,4.The language IS rich. My face I’ll grime with filth; Blanket my loins; elf all my hair in knots… Infect her beauty, you fen-suckt fogs… #kinglear_2025. (Must use elf as a verb before I die)

dog on Shakespeare #kinglear_2025