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Porcelain with a Lake Superior iron with wood ash glaze.

24.01.2025 20:12 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
“The Common Era,” Abigail Dembo

Tremendous poem in today's @parisreview.bsky.social mail out: mailchi.mp/theparisrevi...

04.03.2026 14:28 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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Trump's War If Trump campaigned as a President of peace, he has governed as the opposite

Trump calls it a war, waged by what he insists on referring to as the Department of War

time.com/7382697/trum...

I'm tired of semantic games intended to hide moral, legal, and personal impotence, depending on what they are most concerned with at any moment.

06.03.2026 15:47 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Looks beautiful. Would love to see the production.

05.03.2026 04:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I haven't said anything about this before, bc in the grand scheme of horrors this only rates as an inconvenience, but since others are experiencing it:

Just three days after CBP arrested me for filming them outside Broadview on 9/27, my TSA Pre & Global Entry were suspended—and so were my wife's.

04.03.2026 21:03 👍 2443 🔁 1201 💬 3 📌 49
Complex score for a performance of the work on the ARP 2500

Complex score for a performance of the work on the ARP 2500

Éliane Radigue’s score for 7th Birth, 1971, one of the first compositions for the ARP 2500

25.02.2026 02:16 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Dreyer album art; navy blue with white circular center in the style of a vinyl lp.

Dreyer album art; navy blue with white circular center in the style of a vinyl lp.

Dreyer's Miniatures reminds me of Cage's works for prepared and toy piano:

www.naxos.com/CatalogueDet...

25.02.2026 18:27 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Immanuel Wilkins: Tiny Desk Concert
Immanuel Wilkins: Tiny Desk Concert YouTube video by NPR Music

Immanuel Wilkins NPR Tiny Desk Concert! Watch now: youtu.be/KcOweHh_DMI

New album "Live at the Village Vanguard, Vol. 1" out March 20: immanuelwilkins.lnk.to/LiveAtTheVil...

24.02.2026 15:31 👍 17 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0

The US constitution is actually a pretty good legal framework when people actually follow it and there are actual consequences for violating it.

16.02.2026 15:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A photo of observers filming agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement after one of their vehicles got a flat tire on Feb. 5, 2026, in Minneapolis, overlaid with the headline, "“Uptick in Abductions”: ICE Ramps Up Targeting of Minneapolis Legal Observers."

A photo of observers filming agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement after one of their vehicles got a flat tire on Feb. 5, 2026, in Minneapolis, overlaid with the headline, "“Uptick in Abductions”: ICE Ramps Up Targeting of Minneapolis Legal Observers."

“She was so scared. The terror in her voice was really, really horrible.” interc.pt/4rBWrAe

10.02.2026 22:31 👍 120 🔁 63 💬 2 📌 5

At this point I don't believe anything the DOJ comes up with anymore. The idea of them fabricating things is too plausible to me.

29.01.2026 03:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 3
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US military removes captain of Russian oil tanker from Scotland Authorities were informed on Tuesday morning that Georgian Avtandil Kalandadze and his colleague have departed the UK.

Interesting ... from Scotland.

"Two people have been abducted from Scotland in the middle of the night by the US military. Despite an order from our highest court that they be kept here."

www.heraldscotland.com/news/2580062...

29.01.2026 00:55 👍 17 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 0

I agree but I don't see Bondi or Patel as being any less culpable in this mess, and are equally in need of removal. Who just sent a list of extortion demands to the state of MN, and who is attempting to eliminate peaceful resistance by investigating groupchats? They're all complicit.

27.01.2026 01:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Vance is insulting competent ethical law enforcement and ignoring an important role of independent judicial warrants.

25.01.2026 16:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Antofagasta’s Lobbyists Deliver “An Outrageous Abuse” of the Congressional Review Act

It’s a little hard to sit through the video of yesterday’s Rules Committee hearing on House Joint Resolution 140, but it's worth it just to see Representative Teresa Leger Fernandez coax Pete Stauber to […]

21.01.2026 17:01 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Fighting for Canoe Country...Again Call to Action to stop another tactic to put a copper-sulfide mine in the BWCA watershed. The vote is tomorrow. This affects ALL public land, not just Minnesota.

The vote is tomorrow. Tell your elected representatives to vote NO on HJR 140. I give a short explanation why in the attached. This affects how MAGA goes after ALL public land, not just the BWCA, so please take action, no matter where you live.

ericchandler.substack.com/p/fighting-f...

21.01.2026 05:00 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 2

"...omnis enim ex infirmitate feritas est", De Vita Beata, III.2, 58 CE

23.01.2026 19:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Unfortunately, House Joint Resolution 140, the bill that would permanently strip protections from mining in the watershed of the Boundary Waters, just passed the House tonight.

This was a crushing loss. But the fight is not over.

22.01.2026 01:14 👍 35 🔁 20 💬 4 📌 4
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BREAKING: The U.S. House just voted 214-208 to give a Chilean mining corporation access to tens of thousands of acres of national forest lands surrounding the Boundary Waters Wilderness.

CALL YOUR TWO U.S. SENATORS at (202) 224-3121 and tell them both to "Vote NO on House Joint Resolution 140!"

21.01.2026 22:11 👍 24 🔁 14 💬 4 📌 3

And here we are: the entire transatlantic alliance is now talking about Greenland, instead of talking about ending the war in Ukraine.

14.01.2026 13:36 👍 9391 🔁 2738 💬 360 📌 139
Luna tweet:

In July 2025, I formally referred Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to the Department of Justice for potential perjury and false statements to Congress and senior administration officials.

I laid out, in detail, how Jerome Powell lied under oath to Congress and misrepresented

RTing one from July 21, 2025:

I have formally referred Jerome Powell to the DOJ for criminal investigation.

Chairman Powell knowingly misled both Congress and executive branch officials about the true nature of a taxpayer-funded project.

Luna tweet: In July 2025, I formally referred Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to the Department of Justice for potential perjury and false statements to Congress and senior administration officials. I laid out, in detail, how Jerome Powell lied under oath to Congress and misrepresented RTing one from July 21, 2025: I have formally referred Jerome Powell to the DOJ for criminal investigation. Chairman Powell knowingly misled both Congress and executive branch officials about the true nature of a taxpayer-funded project.

Ana Paulina Luna, who has been cozying up with several Russian handlers of late, takes credit for the Powell investigation.

12.01.2026 05:01 👍 870 🔁 385 💬 82 📌 30

reminds me of when our daughter started using "willn't" which led me to an interesting etymological lesson.

10.01.2026 17:46 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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George Morrison Painted a Different Picture of Abstract Expressionism The Ojibwe artist was active in New York's midcentury art scene and embraced by fellow Abstract Expressionists, yet he’s rarely in canonical histories today.

George Morrison’s heavily impastoed surfaces set him apart from his New York contemporaries, many of whom were exploring paint as a liquid medium to be poured (Pollock and Helen Frankenthaler) or applied in thin washes so the hand is not evident (Ad Reinhardt and Mark Rothko).

09.10.2025 16:42 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
american honey persimmons, painted by amanda almira newton, 1906

american honey persimmons, painted by amanda almira newton, 1906

american honey persimmons, painted by amanda almira newton, 1906

05.09.2025 04:18 👍 48 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 2

... and then Trump begs foreigners to come for all the great opportunities here.

10.04.2025 03:32 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Something seems deeply wrong about both (1) a branch of government being able to delegate its powers to another branch, and (2) needing a supermajority vote to reclaim it. It seems patently unconstitutional and illogical to me (it's always seemed that way to me about other powers also)

08.04.2025 22:15 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Very, very high protein flour + gelatinized crust

07.04.2025 04:37 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You don't even have a bluesky link on your website. You do have links to four social media sites, so you do understand social media sites are not mutually exclusive.

20.03.2025 18:49 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Supporters of Ukraine have unfurled the world’s largest 🇺🇦 flag on the White House ellipse, pushing for the U.S. to continue its aid against the Russian invasion: “Do not abandon Ukraine!”

09.03.2025 12:50 👍 943 🔁 167 💬 18 📌 4
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Søndergård has been one of the best things to happen to the Minnesota Orchestra! Opening with Howell, soprano Julia Bullock's masterful les Illuminations by Britten enthralled the hall. The evening completed with Mahler's Symphony No1.
@minnesotaorchestra.org

08.03.2025 04:51 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0