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Musicologist at UCLA: Early Music, 60s pop, medievalism, middlebrow. New book project: the 1980s Authenticity Wars: listeners, genre and style. AuDHD. Reform Jewish lady from NJ. Pro-Israel. I block antisemites.
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so uhhhh did Elon shut down the National Sex Offender Registry too? www.nsopw.gov

most of the return-to-office mandates come from a similar place: managers who need to justify their own existence. because let's be real — if you can't rely on adults to work well from home, you did a shitty job of hiring.

An Opus Dei priest converted me to Catholicism two weeks ago. Here's who I think the next Pope should be.

You don't fire the military lawyers (JAG) and the Chairman of Joint Chiefs if you aren't planning on pushing your "Commander in Chief" status to the limit. Let's hope there are soldiers who will uphold their oath since our leaders aren't.

I hate to be the one to get into semantics, but he won’t have that name if he’s Pope. You guys forget he’ll have to take a new hallowed name like Pope Calzonepuck XIV

“Remember, I can do whatever I want to whomever I want.” It sounds like President Trump, to the world. But it was Caligula, to his grandmother. Megalomaniacs end badly. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/o...

Hold the fuck on — members of Elon Musk's private security detail have been deputized by the U.S. Marshals Service? What the actual fuck?!?!?

Our country is run by a guy who bankrupted 4 casinos 👀

Remember: all that rotting food & medicine were prepared by American workers, farmers & scientists. We're not only depriving starving, vulnerable, ill people with the help they so desperately need -- we're screwing American workers, farmers & scientists whose livelihoods depend on this work.

Did you know there’s a whole spectrum of stuff in between “spend all weekend cleaning your house” and “don’t do anything at all because it’s so overwhelming”? Wipe down one counter. Put away half a load of laundry. Vacuum one room. You can do a little bit, and it helps! And then you can stop!

If you’re cheering for a South African sociopath to fuck over US military veterans then you should probably stop with that America first bullshit.

I’ve noticed how often even well-meaning cis white men just *totally miss* that the Musk/Trump regime are obviously driven by overt and hideous misogyny, in addition to overt and hideous racism.

There has long been a consistent minimization of and even sneering at attention to the misogynistic aspect of fascism by the mostly white dudes who specialize in talking explicitly about extremism and fascism.

a lot of women and non-white people and queer people are *stupid assholes* and it still doesn’t mean it’s OK to discriminate against them there’s no “misogyny, racism, and queerphobia are OK when they’re being applied to stupid assholes” caveat, and that’s for very good reason

Daily🧵of cartoons: when you get to the end, click on Continue Thread. If you save a cartoon, keep caption w/ artist's name & handle. Previous 🧵s under Feeds tab of my profile. Adam Zyglis @adamzyglis.bsky.social

admittedly idk how it will work yet, but his absolute void of support or goodwill among most americans has to come into play at some point. and he's so desperate to be liked

Sending an email to employees asking them to list five things they did that week is a classic move from a manager who has no idea how to manage

How do you spell “I-l-l-e-g-a-l”?

I LOVE MORALISTIC GARBAGE I LOVE GLOBALISM I LOVE THE BROTHERHOOD OF MAN AND THE ANTICHRIST WILL NOT CONVINCE ME OTHERWISE

“Business acumen.” Hahahahahahaha!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

HELL YEAH!! The largest organization of professional and amateur surfers has just SLAPPED Donald Trump with a major lawsuit to protect California beaches from off shore drilling. SEE YOU IN COURT!

The thing about swastikas spray painted on the side of a cybertruck is there’s a 50/50 chance the owner did it.

Stigmatize Tesla, Weaken Musk #ABlueView🧵1/3 Musk wielding chainsaws at CPAC is another reminder why it's imperative we stigmatize the Tesla brand & hurt it's financials which would weaken Musk because his wealth & power are so very dependent on $TSLA.

2 freed hostages barely communicating after a decade in Gaza; 4 others report torture, starvation If you see anyone comparing Hamas evil against hostages to convicted prisoners released by Israel as ransom, know that they are lying. www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-feb...

The Washington Post wouldn’t need to write headlines like this if it hadn’t normalized Trump for the last decade.

This is our city. We’re going to continue following & enforcing the laws to keep all Bostonians safe. And it goes without saying that our police commissioner has my complete confidence & support.

New, from me @theatlantic.com: *No, the federal government is not too big *It has real human capital needs *Firings are indiscriminate, weakening state capacity *Creating a toxic and politicized workplace is driving away dedicated employees www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

In 1987, Trump was having financial difficulties (he lost $1 Billion dollars from 1978-1990) - so he turned to Russia. The KGB literally paid for his trip to Russia, and he was recruited by the KGB. #Krasnov

PRAMS is the source of data for basically every effort to limit infant mortality and all the health dangers mothers face before and after birth. So a pretty big deal the Elon and Co decided to cancel the program.

Friendly reminder: This motherfucker has ZERO authority to demand ANYTHING from and federal worker. Fucking zero. Shoot the email back and tell him to go fuck himself.

The Pentagon is now pausing their mass firing of civilian employees in order to evaluate potential impacts on military readiness. I’m just spitballing here, but maybe a readiness assessment should have been the first step. 🤦‍♂️

“At least Russia has elections” Russia frequently jails and kills any opposition to Putin, who has been in power since 1999. If you like dictatorships, that’s fine. Just admit that. Don’t insult anyone’s intelligence—including your own—by claiming Russia has real elections.

No matter how preposterous, the Times headlines nearly every Trump story as if it were written by the White House comms team.