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Signs of summer

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A grassroots team of Nashville immigrants rights' activists organized night patrols during the ICE/THP mass traffic sweep to monitor civil liberty violations. @angelelatham.bsky.social and Nicole Hester joined some of those patrols and here's their dispatch: www.tennessean.com/story/news/2...

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#MusicPlaces #MusicChallenge The Loud Family 🎶 Why We Don't Live in Mauritania

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Exactly: “It’s a season-long bit of table setting that I absolutely cannot stand.”

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I'm sorry what now

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Interesting that the book link in this WaPo newsletter goes to Bookshop instead of Amazon...

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A long and interesting read. Also TIL the term writer's block was coined by a violently homophobic psychoanalyst

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“One of the world's most valuable documents,” according to UK academics. Harvard Law School paid $27.50 for it in 1946, or about $450 today

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“You only live once, and I want to experience life,” he said. “I’m not going to die with a lot of money. I’m going to die happy.”

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Conan O’Brien’s acceptance speech for the Mark Twain Prize, now on Netflix, is a really wonderful comment on Twain, comedy, the moment. www.vulture.com/article/cona...

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“Hell, if you as an individual have $400 to throw at a ‘festival experience,’ throw it at Humanities Tennessee to help preserve the festival experience that is open to everyone. Or throw it at a local bookstore.” 🦞

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“We’re past the age of idolizing our favorite rock stars; those rock stars are past the age of being too vain to mingle with the crowd.”

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“But the writing she does to understand the world is not necessarily the writing the world is meant to see...this book is not art, because art-making lives in the act of crystallizing the mess of life into a tighter, sharper form.”

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Tongue-out Saturday is that a thing

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Inflation continues to heat up - just check out the going rate for an Iowa family

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#Random80sSongOfTheNight #MusicChallenge Game Theory “Throwing the Election” (1988)

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“Starkey opted just to be their touring drummer instead. Either way, it doesn’t seem like the Who have much touring left in them...Townshend, who turns 80 next month, said he’d just undergone a knee replacement, and 81-year-old frontman Roger Daltrey said he was going deaf and blind.”

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With Trump reportedly planning to end the IRS Direct File program, there's no better time to remember how TurboTax owner Intuit spent two decades fighting to prevent Americans from filing their taxes online for free. (Published 2019)

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“I always thought space travel was futuristic, but this was the first time it came off as travelling back in time, in this case using their little capsule to take us back to the most ludicrous inanities of 2010s girlboss feminism.”

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a lovely little essay, funny and wise

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Emmylou Hairy thinking big thoughts on a #caturday

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Another relaxing severe weather evening in Nashville 🦞

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Great images, great cause Let's just dance

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"A proper trouncing: What does it mean that Louisiana voters overwhelmingly rejected Gov. Jeff Landry’s four constitutional amendments on Saturday?" New, by me. open.substack.com/pub/robertma...

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Weinermobile in the wild

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Happy birthday, Frank O'Hara Have you forgotten what we were like then when we were still first rate and the day came fat with an apple in its mouth

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Who are the five writers who made you? Evan Connell Marilynne Robinson Frank O'Hara Bruce Smith Paul Bowles (but really, Evan Connell again)

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found this review of a recipe in The Washington Post helpful:

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There is literally a subreddit for everything (also I think this is upside down and it's the Partridge Family bird?)

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Facts matter

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Sometimes everything seems so oh, I don't know. - Joe Brainard, born #OTD in 1942 #poetry #iremember

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hi... it's #BandcampFriday. for anyone interested, downloads of our records are five bucks each. ...or the complete 8-album 'catalog' is $20, total. they're here ➡️ dotdashdc.bandcamp.com/ 🙏 @wallytbm.bsky.social @countrymile.bsky.social @dti3.bsky.social

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More terrible news, another victory in the dumbing-down of the world: The immediate result of the grant termination was the cancellation of Between the Lines (the IWP’s summer youth program), and the dissolution of Lines and Spaces Exchanges, Distance Learning courses, and Emerging Voices programs.

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"the point is to inject subversion into popular structures, to let the revolution start from inside. That’s always been rock and roll’s most radical gesture"

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Happy Mardi Gras! #foodsky

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TOMORROW: Rep. @brotherjones.bsky.social is hosting “Literary Day On the Hill” in partnership with a number of local orgs “celebrates diverse literature… Will showcase fantastic novels, children's books, and classics that have been banned or challenged.” www.firstuunash.org/news/literac...

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The best moment I’ve ever heard in an interview was when goofy Terry Gross tried to get David Johansen to label his music (“Do you call it glam? Proto-punk?”) and with disdain and Staten Island dripping from every syllable the lead Doll said, devastatingly: “It was art, Terry.”

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Happy first day of March 🐰🫠

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