When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.
I keep reading that there have been no public executions in the United States for decades. Not true.
🧵🧵🧵 I was going to write a simple sentence about the madness of the moment, but I got distracted by the U.S. president’s complaint that he was screwed out of the Nobel Peace Prize after bombing multiple countries, and then he bolstered his case with a plan to execute a guy in a wheelchair and ...
The blood thirst in this group is appalling. I shouldn't ever be surprised, but I am not a ghoul, so I am.
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · last wk.Breaking news: The firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be live-streamed, the Defense Department said. “People need to understand that there’s serious consequences for these types of things,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said.
One easy but important thing you can do this Banned Books Week (or at any time of the year) is to write a postcard or email to your local librarians and thank them for supporting diverse books. This came up in a panel I was on tonight, and the librarians confirmed they don't hear enough of this.
This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does: If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives
Look at this photo we found from Donald Trump Jr.’s lavish Bahamas wedding. Can you spot the Russian oligarch close to Putin who bankrolled the event? 🧵
deranged behavior to just treat it like an anthology of established facts to be taken at face value with zero critical thinking, and honestly it says a lot about you as a person if you're hyped about a river of blood rising to the height of a horse's bridle drowning unbelievers. stay away from me
Happening now in TX: Voters in battleground Tarrant County are telling GOP local officials what they think of their plan to cut 30% of voting locations this year “Nothing you can do can stop us from removing you in November”
The Creative Activities building at the Minnesota State Fair is the best. Such a rich hub of cultural, social, and political expression. Lots of Minnesota resistance artwork throughout.
That's not how executive orders work and that's not how naming things work and this isn't how political reporting should work either. This event should be covered, yes, but as another sign of the president's steady descent into complete ineffectiveness and utter insanity.
NPR@npr.org · 2mo agoPresident Trump signed an executive order on Thursday directing the federal government to rename Lake Ontario amid an escalating trade dispute with Canada . n.pr/4wVcHyF
Republicans have spent the last year trying to defund Dolly Parton
When we hate on these disgusting immoral evil billionaires it’s bc just look at everything Dolly did. They could be doing that. They could just be helping people and every day they choose not to help people. They choose to harm. And when they die, we’ll dance and laugh and be thankful they’re gone.
cis Black women athletes are also VERY FAMILIAR with having their bodies policed by, or on screechy indignant behalf of, their white peers which is why we always say “scratch a TERF, find a racist”, and why the right is so motivated to downplay the very real solidarity happening across communities
LunchCounterPunch@theultrasecret.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe right-wing wants to portray Black WNBA players as menacing precisely because they are the opposite of that; inclusive, welcoming, and proud to be so.
Two identical looking ball-point pens. One with dry ink.
HELL Kennedy@helenkennedy.com · 2mo agoFor a junk drawer to legally qualify as a real junk drawer, what is the ONE absolute mandatory item it must include? A cocktail swizzle stick from a place you don't remember.
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
It’s a Fair Question….. “Why is it that it takes 900 years and 5000 impact studies to build high speed rail but a 5 minute city council meeting is all it takes to approve a massive data center?”
I had a visceral physical reaction to this story that is hard to describe. Just destruction of everything I hold dear. Monstrous garbage oligarchies.
Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · 3mo agoNo longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.
[eleanor rigby voice] connecticut bigfoot hids in the woods outside Lyme but is spotted by rubes doesn't have boobs
the beggars out of here getter@milesklee.bsky.social · 3mo agoFAKE NEWS, BIGFOOT HAS PROPORTIONALLY BIG NATURALS
Here’s one: www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...
Parsley and Cilantro Identified as Potential Sources of Cyclospora Outbreak in North Carolina - Consumer Reports
State officials said parsley and cilantro may be linked to rising cases in North Carolina. The FDA is also investigating a new outbreak with an unknown source.
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