ICE has been arresting asylum-seekers in San Francisco for months now—targeting immigration court & sending people to far-flung detention centers. It's a constant stream of news. Readers often tune out. So here's a timeline recapping the most significant events so far.

An Irish activist who is part of the Gaza aid flotilla has said drones targeting their boats are an attempt to harass and intimidate them from trying to break Israel's blockade of the besieged Palestinian territory

#BOTD 1926. Remembering jazz saxophonist, composer, and bandleader John Coltrane (d.1967) #Skyjazz #Trane

this is me having a good old rapture all around the backyard today

The Venezuelan Poodle Moth

4.7 magnitude earthquake 2 miles from Berkeley a minute ago - gave the house a good shake here

oh man, anyone remember the time a weasel hopped up onto the back of a woodpecker? Those were the days. 🧪 www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

Korla Pandit playing up a storm with Roy Rogers and The Sons of The Pioneers 1949 www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oig...

@petercase17.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UM2...

American poet William Carlos Williams BOTD 1883 Reciting his poem "The Dance" recorded in 1948 for an audible anthology of poetry www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXgd...

Sad that the great genius Hermeto Pascoal has departed - I saw him play Vicar Street Dublin with his Big Band in 2004 - I think 29 people on stage - all with coconut shells for "Jegue" (Donkey) - if I'd won the Powerball last week - I would have bought a donkey www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtNq...

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

Brazilian composer Hermeto Pascoal, known as 'The Sorcerer', dies aged 89 reut.rs/41PaRCS

Despite Musk’s endorsement, a meeting with Trump, and enthusiastic US MAGA support, Conor McGregor was polling at less than 2% in Irish polls when he dropped out of the race for president.

Lady Victory looking like a statue on a car bonnet in 'The Avengers' 1924.

pretty wild that it so quickly became normalized that immigrants don’t have even basic free speech rights www.axios.com/2025/09/11/c...

Global Sumud Flotilla Vows to Keep Sailing to Gaza; Israeli Drones Accused of Striking Two Boats https://www.democracynow.org/2025/9/11/global_sumud_flotilla_breaking_gaza_siege

Over 300 former EU and member state ambassadors, and former EU officials, have written a joint letter calling on the EU to immediately suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement and impose targeted sanctions on members of the Israeli government

Roy Brown - Good Rockin' Tonight 1947 youtu.be/cgdzS4OSQ1M Roy James Brown (September 10, 1920 or 1925 – May 25, 1981)

French photographer André Durst, close friend and sponsor of Salvador Dali and Elsa Schiaparelli. An elegant mise-en-scène from Vogue 1936 that resembles a Dali painting. A wealthy heir, Durst's passion was photography and he was an active member of the Paris Surrealist group. #Photography #Vogue

Italian designer Elsa Schiaparelli photographed by French photographer André Durst, 1936 #ElsaSchiaparelli #BOTD

"The composer must bear in mind that the radio listener does not hear music directly. He hears it only after the sound has passed through a microphone, amplifiers, transmission lines, radio transmitter, receiving set, and, finally, the loudspeaker apparatus itself." -Raymond Scott #BOTD

He grins at me whenever I whistle his favorite song by The Troggs thru my teeth

The #GlobalSumudFlotilla boat carrying Tadhg Hickey and his shipmates was struck last night by another incendiary device.

New release on Olvido vinyl LP or digital download African Steel Slide Guitar Classics from Uganda, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia and the Congo: 1953-1968 olvidorecords.bandcamp.com/album/africa...

Bandcamp Friday this week thank god Couple heavy setbacks lately. I’m hoping Friday helps I made Canary’s Full Discography (196 titles; $1,000+ value) $161 until Saturday You could make it your full-time job for a month to listen to all of it. Or buy it for a friend canary-records.bandcamp.com

Catesby Natural History of Carolina - Eastern Screech Owl, Mark Catesby, 1731.

I had that dream again

digitally colorized footage from 1929 of blind Aran islander Padraig O Maoilean from Inis Oirr busting a few moves www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaCX...

The first confirmed birth of a white-tailed eagle in Co Waterford for over 150 years has taken place

Although temperatures around here have been quite high - they haven't been too high to make people shed their skunk-fur headgear

That Pritzker presser? Unreal. A sitting governor saying, flat out, the Union is coming apart and his state is being invaded by an authoritarian regime. This is a whole new level of crisis.

ITALY: Italian Dockworkers Threaten to ‘Shut Down All of Europe’ If Gaza Aid Flotilla Is Blocked novaramedia.com/2025/09/02/i...

I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable

Fun with bottles in Segundo de Chomon's THE RED SPECTRE (1907). The color was likely stencil-applied.

This is the only Siamese side from the legendary Music of the Orient set from 1928 by ethnomusicologist Dr. Erich von Hornboestel. The first world music "album" #78rpm #musicoftheorient #nowplaying #musicsky

"As old geek philosopher Alvin Stardust once said..." www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeXv...

Today for Labor Day 2025 - instead of doing my weekly 3 hour live radio program - i have decided to NOT do my weekly 3 hour radio program instead - and so far it's working out really well Love Thy Neighbour - Roaring Lion www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbI8...

Carl Perkins - Her Love Rubbed Off originally recorded 1956 www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBD5...

a stirring set of jaunty jigs and rollicking reels on the fiddle with boisterous brass band accompaniment rec. 1920 multiple decades ahead of James Last &/or R.Conniffe www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwFy...

Irish Tango on the harmonica - 1915 I'm thinking of featuring it in the Irish-themed musical stage show I've been working on that I'm hoping to see to Public Broadcasting - it's called "Celtic Bollix" www.youtube.com/watch?v=Owxg...

rambunctions a-plenty going on here: Hey! Hey! and Hee! Hee! (I'm Charleston Crazy) - International Novelty Orchestra rec. 1924 www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMeV...

Fifty-two young Palestinians from Gaza are due to arrive in Ireland today and in the coming days to begin a new life as students in Irish universities.

Aug. 27, 1925: A battle over Darwinism is settled not by court showdown, as in the Scopes trial, but by two locomotives labeled “evolution” and “anti-evolution” crashing head-on into each other at the Great States Fair in Aurora, Ill. “Anti-evolution” is declared the winner.

I picked up a CD reissue about 20 years ago of Cuban legend Maria Teresa Vera with Rafael Zaqueira recorded 1916-1924 - this track wasn't on the reissue - it just showed up in my subscription feed - never heard it before until now www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy-H...

The number of arrivals from the US has risen by 96% amid an overall decrease of 16% in immigrant arrivals, the latest CSO figures have shown

Pappa-noop! Pappa-noop! How do minions reproduce?

1925: Li Fu Lee works in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's radio experiment station.