What a wonderful world

Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one. Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”

I just today learned about this book from learning about Bad Bunny’s collaboration with the author! ❤️ Added to my TBR pile! news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...

¡Alegría de Puerto Rico!

New Parody Opera of Trump's White House Premieres in Hamburg World's Leading Classical Music Platform

Extra fun fact: the author, Elfriede Jelinek, is a Nobel Prize winner!! 🤭

Danke schön Deutschland! 👏

More here: theviolinchannel.com/new-parody-o...

It’s based on a turn of the 19th-Century French play, Ubu Roi (roi = king in French), and created in the style of Grand Guignol theater, known for its “grisly horror.“

It features a golf-cart riding, diaper-wearing president/king as Trump; two vampires, Mickey (Musk) and Tuckey (Zuckerberg); and Gorgonzilla, a monster created through a nuclear accident (yes, looks the same!)

YouTube video by Staatsoper Hamburg Monster’s Paradise von Olga Neuwirth und Elfriede Jelinek

Oh mein Gott!!! I love opera—I subscribe, usher, and see it whenever lucky enough to travel, but I have NEVER heard of anything like the Trump-mocking opera “Monster’s Paradise” that just opened in Hamburg, Germany!

youtu.be/XI-7H1X5mnM

😫 Loved their maps and notes for personal interest but also relied on them as trusted* source for work-related research, too

*mostly trusted, especially maps and similar hard “facts.” It was still the CIA after all! 😏

Park Service Is Ordered to Take Down Some Materials on Slavery and Tribes

…. Meanwhile, I’m sure there are other examples, such as highlighted in this NY Times article from last fall. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/c...

Evers Monument Never Removed Brochures ‘Not One Second,’ Superintendent Says, Disputing Reports The Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument never stopped giving out brochures, says the monument’s superintendent, Keena Graham.

So apparently there may have been a miscommunication about the availability of current brochure at the Evers Monument? Time will tell...

www.mississippifreepress.org/evers-nation...

Forgot Chile! (a former manager)

Even I didn’t realize until started to list them how many countries represented by close people I know in the Bay Area. And most countries within themselves are so diverse!

Yay! A splinter book group from class had at least mentioned about your Japan visit! (and now see post when look)

Hey, alumni of Resistance Studies Series! Our former teacher, Karen Attiah, has set up her inaugural virtual salon! There is a modest registration fee, but anyone is welcome to join! (not just alumni)

#Wemove

Thanks for posting on behalf of our old teacher! (For some reason I never see her posts! I’m not super active on this site, but still!)

😍 Mamdani, keeping it real!

Love the wrap—like a beautiful snow flurry! ❄️ (and while in real snow too!)

YouTube video by NYC Mayor's Office We're opening the roof of the Dinkins Municipal Building to the public

Promo on opening of rooftop of city hall!

youtu.be/zpGRDMw48Kw

(including Australia! 😉)

Book cover for Medgar & Myrlie, Medgar Evers and the Love Story that Awakened America, by Joy-Ann Reid

I’m grateful for this book which introduced me to their legacy, and hopefully it will continue to do so for others during this shameful period of censoring history by National Park Service

“Local” = San Francisco Bay Area ❤️

Plus non-local friends in about 10 other countries

…
Japan
Kazakhstan
Lebanon
Lithuania
Malaysia
Mexico
Moldova
Morocco
Netherlands
Norway
Pakistan
Peru
Philippines
Portugal
Republic of Korea
Russia
South Africa
Sweden
Taiwan
Thailand
Turkey
Vietnam
U.K., England
U.K., Northern Ireland
U.K., Scotland
Uruguay
Non-continental U.S.: Hawaii, Puerto Rico

🎼🎶 “Immigrants (We get the job done!)” 🎶

My family, local friends, neighbors and colleagues are from:

Afghanistan
Africa (in general)
Argentina
Canada
China
Costa Rica
Croatia
Czech Republic
Egypt
Ethiopia
France
Germany
Ghana
Greece
Hong Kong (pre-China)
Hungary
India
Iran
Ireland
…(cont’d)

These editions were printed on the “acid full” paper (due to war years?) that would break off it tried to dog-ear a page as a place marker, and would give you paper cuts throughout reading them. Still loved them!

While growing up I discovered my mother’s big box of them, with covers like these—loved them! Reaching into the box blindly to read one out after another was like discovering treasure!

🎉 💒 📚🥂❤️

Came here to say same!

🎉 Federal government dropped appeal; original ruling allowed to stand!:

“…the anti-DEI effort violated the First Amendment and federal procedural rules,”

as federal judge had originally determined in August, in case linking anti-DEI efforts to federal funding of schools and colleges

Just saw the 25th anniversary rerelease of the trilogy! ❤️🎞️ So many parallels…!

I always loved that Hawaii Opera Theatre is also known as “HOT”!!

Love this theatre for seeing old films on the big screen!! Been many many times over the years including with my child to see classics for first time. Bonus: the Mighty Wurlitzer organ still played and tickets are affordable ($6 if buy 4 tix pack, otherwise $7 general or $5 senior or <19 years)

C'était le plus petit rassemblement auquel j'avais participé, mais aussi le plus diversifié, notamment en termes d'âge, ce qui était formidable à voir (même si je comprends aussi pourquoi certaines personnes ne peuvent pas y assister)