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Garden Stater, MTBer, foodie, tequilero, oenophile, aesthete. Petrarca was a scholar, poet laureate, and original Renaissance humanist, unaccidental tourist, and alpinist Born July 20, 1304.
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Portishead played Coachella in 2008 and last night Beth Gibbons returned to the desert as part of her first US solo tour. Watch her fantastic performance of "Glory Box" at the fest, the second time she'd included the Portishead classic in a solo set: www.stereogum.com/2304123/watc...

Gustavo Dudamel & LA Phil ゲスト(多分あってるはず) ・Laufey ・Maren Morris ・Becky G ・Ca7riel & Paco Amoroso ・Zedd ・LL Cool J www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wxwa... #コーチェラ

The Ca7riel y Paco Amoroso cameo during the LA Phil set at Coachella was so specifically targeted at me.

THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social. The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

'Why are high fertility people always so weird?' A weekend with the pronatalists

“I read library books as fast as I could go, rushing them home in the basket of my bicycle. From the minute I reached our house, I started to read." -Eudora Welty, writer Happy #BicycleBirthday, Eudora! April 13 (1909-2001)

#Clairo youtu.be/F7pqO7YKBt0?si=2GqA2WVQ9fPN8obj

Goddammit, this is sooooo good.

Don't sleep on #GustavoDudamel #Coachella2025 Fucking #LLCoolJ

Gustavo Dudamel & the L.A. Phil with Zedd on piano with a gospel choir all doing "Clarity"... the Symphony is here

#Laufey joins the #LAPhilharmonic w/conductor Gustavo Dudamel at #Coachella2025. #YouTube

My constituent Rümeysa Öztürk was kidnapped by DHS officials, had her constitutional rights violated, & has yet to be charged with a crime. I sat down with @theintercept.com to discuss Trump’s dangerous attacks on our students & immigrants, & how we're meeting this with resistance.

Manafort, LaCivita, Fabrizio

Everyone needs to read Altemeyer's "The Authoritarians" and his related research. There are like 10-15% of the population who are just straight up irredeemable and if you think they're redeemable it's because they've gone back into hiding because they lack power and an authoritarian to back.

"And now we bring you a Fox News exclusive interview with President Trump ..."