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Thx for the “sound” advice!

Hi @BBC—the new BBC app is so far a meager replacement for the old @BBCSounds app for digital listeners outside the UK. Most of the functionality is gone, like no on-demand access, and Search is a mess. Is the new app gonna be upgraded? It was made live before it was ready!

A Fight Over a West Point Job Reveals Two Visions of America Under Trump

This story leaves unexplained just why it is that Loomer has the crazily outsized pull with Trump that she does. She's been around for years. But there's not much pre-2024 that wld point to her having THIS much pull. Does not add up. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/u...

My Democratic colleagues and I just left the state of Texas to break quorum and stop Trump’s redistricting power grab.

Trump is trying to rig the midterm elections right before our eyes. But first he’ll have to come through us.

It’s time to fight back.

Wow, this: Harris "received her master’s degree from Radcliffe College in 1948, having taken its inaugural publishing course to learn the basics of editing, sales, cover design and publicity."

The inside story of the Murdoch editor taking on Donald Trump Since her arrival at the Wall Street Journal, British editor-in-chief Emma Tucker has shaken up not only her own newsroom but also the White House

NEW: She’s the Murdoch editor who has taken on Trump, defied Boris Johnson.

Murdoch handed her his prized possession - but she’s unlike others to prosper in Murdochland.

My Saturday read on the Wall Street Journal’s Emma Tucker:

www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Inside the Crisis at the Anti-Defamation League The group used to believe the rights of Jews were inextricable from the rights of everyone else. Its war against anti-Zionism has changed everything.

In an internal memo to ADL staff, Jonathan Greenblatt calls my story about the group a "shallow hit piece."

The article has more than 40 sources. You can judge for yourself whether or not it's shallow or a hit piece.

I'll link to Greenblatt's memo in the thread.

nymag.com/intelligence...

But fish not with this melancholy bait

Hideous and vulgar. Does it remind you of anyone?

Class act:

A Famed Upper West Side Novelist (and WSR Tipster) Discusses His New Book of Short Stories Upper West Side author Ed Park holding his new book, "An Oral History of Atlantis." Photo by Gus Saltonstall By

I usually read the West Side Rag for news of openings and closings in my NYC neighborhood, so was pleased to find the local outlet did this enjoyable Q&A w/fiction writer Ed Park whose latest book is An Oral History of Atlantis. www.westsiderag.com/2025/07/29/a...

Inklings pitch submissions open from the 1st to 31st August 2025. More information on the Saraband website.

We’re delighted to announce that we’re now open to Inklings pitch submissions until the 31st August!

Visit our website for further information - we’re really looking forward to reading your submissions!

saraband.net/2025/07/11/i...

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Donald Trump needs to be held accountable for this. He needs to be in prison. There’s absolutely no excuse for this.

I went to the Israelis for Peace demonstration at Union Square in NYC this afternoon. Deeply solemn and moving. They're there every Sunday at 5 pm.

Today they sat in silence with empty pots and photographs of children from Gaza.

I really enjoyed the winner of their annual competition for best song based on public domain material. It was by Devin Press of Chicago and New York, and was composed of theme melodies from Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. @newsounds.bsky.social

The 2025 Public Song Project | WNYC | New York Public Radio, Podcasts, Live Streaming Radio, News The Public Song Project invites anyone to record their own musical adaptation of a work in the public domain.

Enjoying the live broadcast @wnyc.org of the 2025 Public Song Project, w/interesting songs all drawn from or inspired by compositions and songs in the Public Domain. @openculture.bsky.social @natepatrin.bsky.social #PublicDomain #CoverSongs #CreativeCommons www.wnyc.org/story/2025-p...

What's in the Epstein files is apparently so bad for Trump that he's now going full "looking for the real killer" and about to pardon the only living person who actually helped run Jeff's teenage girl wurlitzer. Worth noting GM not only procured but also sexually abused the girls herself.

Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: ‘You’ve got no rights.’ He secretly recorded his brutal arrest Video from Kenny Laynez-Ambrosio, 18, puts fresh scrutiny on the harsh tactics used to reach the Trump administration’s ambitious enforcement targets

Given ICE brutality, it's unusual to get video evidence of how they operate. But here's chilling documentation that shows the indiscriminate and violent approach that ICE takes to arrests - here, including a US citizen: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

See interview w/Brandon Grafius, author of Scared by the Bible, new book coming in October. #Horror

I would love to see Dems use the 30 hours of debate until right wingers confirm Emil Bove to a lifetime appointment as reward for sending these men to a concentration camp by reading their stories of torture, one after another.

The other great thing about this clip is how clear it is that Powell doesn’t respect Trump in the slightest and has no intention of participating in any emperor’s new clothes nonsense. It’s weirdly refreshing since Trump surrounds himself with sycophants and our press largely humors them.

Rep Robert Garcia (D-CA), top DEM on the Oversight Committee, called the subpoena a victory for govt transparency—“House Republicans didn’t make it easy, but the motion was finally passed to force [DOJ] to release the Epstein files...“Let’s be clear: this is a huge win for the American people.”

House subcommittee votes to subpoena Justice Department for Epstein files A House subcommittee has voted to subpoena the Department of Justice for files in the sex trafficking investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.

Good work, DEMs! In the waning hrs before Spkr Johnson's shut down the House for 6 weeks—sparing Repubs uncomfortable #Epstein votes—DEM members of House Oversight sprung a good ploy, and w/votes from 3 angry Repubs, the subcommittee voted 8-2 to subpoena Epstein records. apnews.com/article/epst...

techargeaole nal gun to shoot into steal. 3. On or about March 27, 2025, MICHAEL GANN, the defendant, posted the following message on X and tagged @POTUS, the official X account for the President of the United States: "Dear @POTUS, I'm thinking just now here in NYC that it's too bad that the wall wasn't built before the National Guard would have to come here for the Protests and Riotation or would you just drop a bomb on this place while and because they seem to be coming and coming?" 4. On or about June 5, 2025-just hours before MICHAEL GANN, the defendant, was arrested with one of the IEDs on his person GANN posted the below message to Instagram:

A right-wing lunatic from the Five Towns placed IEDs in Manhattan and on a subway line after tagging the president in a tweet about bombing New York City.

The Post (predictably) and Times do not feel that these are details that their readers should know. Weird!

www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/me...

Trump claims he’ll take on the elites—but he won’t release the Epstein files. What’s he hiding? Maybe the ‘drain the swamp’ guy doesn’t want us looking too closely at who’s in the muck with him. Republicans should stop protecting billionaire pedophiles and release the files.

“To write honestly and with all our powers is the least we can do, and the most.”
Eudora Welty, who died on this day in 2001

The obit does justice to Bob Fuller's life. In addition to the books cited, Somebodies and Nobodies(2003), All Rise(2006), and Dignity for All,(2008), I edited a good novel of his w/int'l characters set on a big social canvas that also defined his amazing life and career, The Rowan Tree. #Oberlin

Remembering Robert W. Fuller, physicist, president of Oberlin College, citizen diplomat, author, dignity advocate Fuller studied with John Wheeler. Then, age 33, became president of Oberlin. Then fought against hunger and the nuclear arms race.

Inspiring obit of Robert Works Fuller, RIP age 89. Oberlin student at 15; early quantum physicist at 25. Oberlin president at 33, where he made US Olympian Tommie Smith the track&field coach; advisor to the govt of Indira Ghandi; proponent of #DignityForAll. www.berkeleyside.org/2025/07/22/r...

They SHUT DOWN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to avoid releasing the Epstein files.

Walsh has expressed strong disagreement with Mamdani about dozens of things, and he still AGREES about the one thing that clearly matters -- Democratic voters choose the Democratic nominee, and then Democrats and their allies should support the Democratic nominee. That's how politics works.