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We are currently living in The Age of Incompetent Hypocrites.

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"A 25% tariff will completely blow apart the business case for entry-level vehicles"

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It's early Sunday morning on an overcast day and something made me think of the andante from Brahms' Sextet No. 1. Here is an absolutely gorgeous performance of this, one of my favorite pieces in the string chamber music repertoire. The depth of feeling is hard to express in words.

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Hiring your brother is the original affirmative action for white people.

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If only the pros outweighed the cons.

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The head of the FDA's vaccine team has reached his limit where putting up with RFK Jr's disinformation is concerned:

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There are Tesla Takedown protests planned for today. To see the locations, go to www.teslatakedown.com

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Another graduate student taken by ICE, this time at the University of Minnesota.

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Shostakovich completed his Symphony No. 10 in 1953, not long after Stalin's death. The scherzo, here performed by the LSO, takes the listener through what feels like a whirlwind. Perhaps Shostakovich was evoking what it felt like to live through the Stalin régime with its capriciousness and chaos.

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There’s nothing quite like gravel riding to clear one’s head and just be in the moment. This afternoon’s ride was just what I needed.

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Going for a bike ride on this warm afternoon offered a welcome break from all the bleak news.

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Who could ever blame them for leaving?

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Surely a coincidence, right?

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It seems a lot of people like to spread myths about Social Security. Sometimes it's out of ignorance. More often, I suspect, it's to undermine the program because it serves their ideology. AARP has this list of myths contrasted with the truth.

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Another academic detained and sent to an ICE facility far from her home. What's worse, she's a Russian dissident and if deported back to Russia, faces prosecution there for her anti-war positions. This is yet another source of deep shame to Americans. Or at the very least should be.

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The article I referenced on the show. www.theverge.com/policy/63426...

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At the start of one of my lectures today, I reminded students of my no audio-recording or photography policy so we could have a safe space to discuss government economic policy without fear of being recorded. My American students seemed confused. My international students all nodded. They get it.

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Several Countries Have Issued U.S. Travel Advisories Over Anti-LGBTQ Policies At least four countries (France, Denmark, Finland, & Germany) have issued some sort of advisory for LGBT travelers to the United States — highlighting the dangers for LGBT Americans and visitors from across the globe.

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This is a good overview of the worries in Brazil as Bolsonaro and seven other co-conspirators are indicted for plotting a coup.

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I learned this week that you can put our troops' lives in danger, compromise our national security, and violate the Espionage Act. And the government will do nothing. But if you write an editorial for your school newspaper that Trump doesn't like, you will be abducted on the street and disappeared.

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This is sickening and is yet another source of shame for us all as this is done in our name as Americans.

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For the non-Portuguese speakers: former president Bolsonaro of Brazil and seven others accused in plotting a coup after he lost the last election have been formally indicted and scheduled to stand trial before Brazil's Supreme Federal Tribunal.

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George Soros is the Emmanuel Goldstein of the régime.

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Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

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"Food banks are handling unprecedented demand as U.S. hunger rates climb after years of decline. In 2023 13.5% of Americans struggled at some point to secure enough food, the highest rate in nearly a decade...In rural America, the hunger rate is even higher at 15.4%." www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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The fascists in charge sure do tell on themselves.

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I’ll take being aware and feeling bad over being uninformed any day.

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“Forget being careful about following the rules – just don’t come here. Why spend your money in the US, which is threatening to annex its neighbours and rapidly descending into authoritarianism?”

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Circling back on this…

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I'm proud of my union for joining this lawsuit.

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The US régime doesn't have the legislative means to end Social Security. So it appears determined to undermine it and cause it to fail by depleting it of resources.

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It didn't take very long for the new régime to decide that some college students, by protesting a war, threaten US national security and must be hunted down. Meanwhile, the Congressional leaders of the Democratic Party go on acting like everything is normal.

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Taxing the positive externalities of certain transportation modes is a new one to me. Maybe Washington can take that revenue and use it to subsidize cigarette sales.

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First performed on March 25, 1714—it feels like only yesterday—Bach's cantata "Wie schön leuchtet der morgenstern" ("How beautifully shines the morning star") has pride of place as the first in the BWV catalog of his works. Here is this shining work performed in its entirety on period instruments.

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“Wait guys, P. Hegseth is typing…”

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So what other classified information is being shared with people, including foreign governments, who shouldn't have access to it? And why is anyone surprised since this régime is headed up by a man who has a track record of being "careless" to put it mildly when it comes to information?

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Começa amanhã o processo.

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This is not a disagreement. At this point, with the last decade (and particularly the last couple of months) as a resume, their alignment with this president means that we are fundamentally disconnected on what is morally acceptable. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/we-dont-ne...

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What a difference in the weather from one day to the next. It was sunny and pleasant for yesterday afternoon’s run. Now it’s dreary and rainy. Such is spring.

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Yesterday I was telling someone how the régime could bar entry into the US by non-citizens on the basis of social media posts. "How can they do that?" was the incredulous reply I got. It's amazing how naïve many people are. But why stop there? Bar permanent residents from becoming citizens, too:

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I just did a search in my area for self-identified MAGA business owners on www.publicsquare.com/marketplace and noticed a pattern: gyms, personal trainers, auto repair shops, building contractors, and a few lawyers. Not that I'm in the market for any of these but it's good to know whom NOT to hire.

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And yet another permanent resident whom the régime has decided to arrest and detain. No reason given.

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Democratic Chair of the fastest growing county in Pennsylvania, Cumberland County, demands Fetterman resign www.pennlive.com/opinion/2025...

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oh hey it’s the cool zone

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When you really distill down what's going on here, the president is asserting an unreviewable power to seize any person off the street and ship him to a dungeon abroad. The constitutional crisis is here. ICYMI @corbinkbarthold.bsky.social:

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