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Happy birthday to Stephen Singleton. Before finding fame with ABC, he was in Sheffield electronic trio Vice Versa. Here they are at Futurama in 1980 with Stephen on synths and sax alongside Martin Fry on synths and Mark White on vocals youtu.be/ZP2adtK6adI (THREAD)

“Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't be a perfectionist - leave that to the classical musicians.” Dave Brubeck #jazzsky #music

WATCH: Sen. Van Hollen says he’s headed to El Salvador tomorrow morning to seek the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia—and to hopefully visit him in prison. "I promised his wife and his family that I would do everything I could 24/7 to try to bring him home. And that's why I am going to El Salvador."

DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States

Mr. Abrego Garcia was illegally abducted by the Trump Admin and, by their own admission, wrongly deported to El Salvador. He shouldn’t have to spend another second away from his family. I'm flying to El Salvador tomorrow morning to check on his condition and discuss his return.

No one should be above the law, most especially the President. Ignoring a Supreme Court ruling to facilitate Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return isn't just cruel; it's unconstitutional. They're saying the quiet part aloud — if they get away with it now, they'll do it to anyone.

…..and these guys want a tax break? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Southampton's substitution problem reared its head again on Saturday. Saints have made 154 subs this season - equal most with Brighton - but have profited next to nothing. Their bloated squad is a case of quantity, not quality. #SaintsFC www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/250860...

How much for a Juric one? #SaintsFC

boo ! #saintsfc

ha! #saintsfc

COYS!!! #SaintsFC

Good morning. Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors. It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.

Excellent article explaining what football is now in the EPL. Nothing will stop this. People like the Saudi state aren't buying clubs out of benevolence, we didn't "get our club back", no one has. In fact the opposite is true, it is being taken from communities. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

#InThatNumber 2️⃣7️⃣5️⃣ Ray & Kevin discuss the fallout from Spurs and react to Jurić departure 🔚 Jurić out ❌ Sport Republic 🔜 New manager 💰 Odds 🐓 Spurs 🦁 Villa preview #SaintsFC | #SouthamptonFC | #WeMarchOn

On this day in 1966, seventeen-year-old Mick Channon made his league debut for Southampton at the Dell. Channon scored that day and he would go on to score 228 goals for #SaintsFC in all competitions. He is still the club’s all-time leading goalscorer.

Tottenham in the running to sign Southampton defender https://www.eucup.com/981242/ Tottenham Hotspur could bring back Kyle Walker-Peters in the summer transfer window Tottenham Hotspur’s defensive problems do not seem to stop this season. The Lilywhites are finding it hard to get a set back …

1. Whenever you see really vicious and widespread "spontaneous" attacks on scientific findings that challenge powerful economic interests, you can be assured that corporate lobbyists have been busy behind the scenes. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Starlings fall to record low in UK’s 2025 Big Garden Birdwatch

A painting of my mum in her art studio with (RIP) George the cat, by my dad. tomcox.substack.com/p/lots-of-pe...

Below are screenshots from the article explaining what the law says. Redefine treason so that it’s far wider, looser, and more open to interpretation, and you have the administration’s way around the law prohibiting deportation of U.S. citizens.

🚨Meta is facing a $1.6B lawsuit over its role in the Ethiopian genocide—and for once, it won’t be able to hide behind jurisdiction. A Kenyan court ruled the case can move forward. This could set a global precedent.🧵

One sign that we are living under an authoritarian regime is that a lot of people are acting like they are living under an authoritarian regime.

Today House Republicans, cheered on by the richest person on Earth, passed a budget framework that will cut support for the poorest people in our country. All while cutting taxes for corporations and the wealthy, and massively increasing the deficit.

President Trump's popular vote victory was among the narrowest in modern U.S. history; it exceeds only the two elections (of Bush in 2000 and himself in 2016) in which the loser of the popular vote became the president.

Epic vandalism.

EOs targeting 2 former Trump officials aren’t getting enough attention. In invoking treason, Trump puts death penalty on table for Miles Taylor. In revoking security clearances for Penn because Taylor taught there, he gives Penn a choice: suffer or join the punishment by banning Taylor.

US President Donald Trump signed his latest executive order against a prominent law firm, this time targeting Susman Godfrey, which represents Dominion Voting Systems in defamation cases related to the 2020 US election reut.rs/3G4kxRR

Love it #jazzsky #music

gnight bsky 🌛 another busy day, hopefully tomorrow will be chill. but hope everybody made it over the hump alright new mary halvorson just dropped #jazzsky www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLUY...

JUST IN: US Justice Dept bars its attorneys from participating in American Bar Association events reut.rs/4idaTcS

I want to know what trades were made by members of the Trump Administration before these unhinged tariff moves? Who, if anyone, shorted stocks before the tariffs were first announced? Who bought back into the market before this pause was announced? Who is profiting from this?

The Senate just voted 66 to 32 to confirm Trump's investment banker, COVID conspiracy peddler ambassador to Japan. Trump is eviscerating the constitution, and they are pretending like everything is normal. www.senate.gov/legislative/...

Some words on a zeitgeist of a night for Arsenal. “Make it happen,” Arteta told them. One by one, all the way through the team, they found the courage to do it. www.nytimes.com/athletic/626...

I'm making an ID.me account (a private identity vendor selling its services to government), required to log into my IRS.gov account, and their privacy policy says I'm also creating an "an ID.me Rx Account," and consent to this company collecting my health information. *What*? www.id.me/privacy

Yes, it’s a bit hard to see now, but allowing the president to become a king who can kidnap citizens while also demolishing the global financial system is a small price to pay for getting to keeping 23 trans women from playing college sports.

Illegal attempts to access IRS data was an article of impeachment against Nixon.

This all alone is an open-and-shut cause for impeachment, yes there are dozens of others but sometimes it's clarifying to just look at one

Wow! The acting head of the IRS just stepped down, over the Trump regime's plan to share undocumented migrants' personal information with ICE.

States’ rights was once a bedrock of the Republican Party. But in an autocracy there are no states’ rights.

MAGA Maoism! www.liberalcurrents.com/americas-pat...

Cat People (Putting Out Fire) by #DavidBowie ( #music by #GiorgioMoroder) is a better #song than I remember it being. Features some tasty #guitar by #StevieRayVaughan m.youtube.com/watch?v=m0OD...

A familiar face to those of a certain age. Fascinating man, great legacy.