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Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.
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Not many people know this, but the song 8675309 is actually threatening people who live in the zip code 75309

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Kashmir deserves a lasting peace, writes novelist Mirza Waheed, whose parents and grandparents lived through skirmishes in the same conflict between India and Pakistan

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

Here’s hoping the #SCOTUS justices are well aware that if they ignore the written text of the 14th Amendment, that a future Court could ignore the written text of the 2nd Amendment, using the rulings from today’s hearing as precedent. @asharangappa.bsky.social

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This is bleak reading

submitted 23 days ago • 1584 comments

"Multiple Trump White House officials have ties to antisemitic extremists." Trump regime is not about combating antisemitism, they are about silencing dissent. www.npr.org/2025/05/14/n...

submitted 23 days ago • 8 comments

"After just three short months of the Trump administration, we are contemplating the abdication of US leadership in oceanic and atmospheric science." from @thebulletin.org via @climatedesk.org

submitted 25 days ago • 21 comments

I just returned from Antarctica: climate change isn’t some far-off problem – it’s here and hitting hard | Jennifer Verduin

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SLOAN: ".. I’ve been reading proxy statements since I became a business journalist more than 50 years ago, and don’t remember ever seeing a CEO pay package like Nunes’ that was so much greater than the revenue of the CEO’s company." @barrons.com $DJT www.barrons.com/articles/djt...

submitted 31 days ago • 29 comments

in an op-ed for @wsj.com, Trump Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent makes a series of highly specific promises of economic improvement in the second half of 2025. Bookmark to review later. www.wsj.com/opinion/trum...

submitted 31 days ago • 72 comments

It seems some people think hiding in plain sight is a good idea.

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🚨🚨 Deranged letter from Education Secretary Linda McMahon to Harvard’s president, cutting off federal funding for any new grants. Worth reading in full. It is NUTS.

submitted 31 days ago • 719 comments

“When public lands are sold off for profit, we lose the places that define our country and unite us as Americans,” writes Tracy Stone-Manning in an op-ed.

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JUST IN: ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, which exposes the fatal consequences of abortion bans, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: www.propublica.org/series/life-...

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Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal theonion.com/think-tank-c...

submitted 32 days ago • 36 comments

Cave exploration & survey… #cave

submitted 32 days ago • 2 comments

On what planet, in the aftermath of SignalGate, does Waltz survive a Senate confirmation fight?

submitted 36 days ago • 150 comments

Bernie Sanders, for the win. Like always. Canada gets it. But we're too ignorant and lazy to keep Trump out of office. 🙄

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

@catgyoung.bsky.social www.cbsnews.com/news/scienti...

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Listen to the coal rolling, rolling through the cold steady rain, wheel on wheel, listen to the turning of the wheels this night black as coal dust, steel on steel, listen to these cars carry coal, listen to the coal train roll. -by Michael Stillman #internationaljazzday #coltrane #UNESCO

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

Happy International Jazz Day 💯 🎼

submitted 37 days ago • 10 comments

Trompe-l'œil Murals of Hà Nội #Vietnam #Travelphotography #Travel #Photography

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@sanders.senate.gov #berniesanders

submitted 42 days ago • 6 comments

BREAKING: The constitutional crisis has arrived. We knew it was coming, just not when.

submitted 42 days ago • 1629 comments