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YouTube video by Jazz Everyday! Kenny Burrell - Spring Can Really Hang You up the Most (Live in Pasadena)

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YouTube video by Roman Turovsky Roman Turovsky - "Tombeau de Boleslaw Lesmian" - Maciej Konczak (theorbo)

Bolesław Leśmian is a Polish poet I’ve found fascinating—and elusive in translation—knowing him only by way of a gorgeous Tombeau for theorbo by Roman Turovsky.
NOW there’s a short video & reading with Edw. Hirsch about him: youtu.be/1soYINOUmGg?...
@plinstnewyork.bsky.social #poetry #classicalmusic

YouTube video by Près de votre oreille - Robin Pharo Robin Pharo et Ronan Khalil // Prélude en mi mineur - François Couperin

A peaceful four minutes of space to exhale and call a truce with saber-rattling timelines.

Gentle, measured, reflective: Prélude in E minor by François Couperin.
#ClassicalMusic

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The Man Nobody Killed The first comprehensive book about Michael Stewart, the young Black artist and model who was the victim of a fatal assault by police in 1983, from Elon Green...

I've been so weirdly busy that I forgot to tell you the paperback is coming out Tuesday. It's a steal. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Trump's trade policies have exactly the impact on US manufacturing that most macroeconomists said they would.

Trump Has Been Sued 198 Times for Withholding Funding. It Hasn’t Stopped Him. (Gift Article) Immigration demands for highway dollars, D.E.I. rules for homeless grants: how Trump has tried to wield spending to get his way.

We've been tracking nearly 200 lawsuits against the Trump administration over its attempts to leverage federal funding to impose the president's agenda.

The most startling pattern: The administration seems entirely undeterred when it loses in court.
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WATCH: “Where is YOUR loyalty? This is so unnecessary… We’re thousands of miles from Israel… Who paid for Bruce Pearl??”

Dems push back as ex-UT coach Bruce Pearl pushes a bizarre RepChrisTodd bill to rename the West Bank “Judea & Samaria” in textbooks.

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Every individual in this nation — regardless of party affiliation, age, sex, religion, socioeconomic status, favorite kool-aid flavor — should realize this is exactly who Trump is. We’ve witnessed his 35,000+ lies, his racism, his Nazi agenda. This move embodies, like no other, who this monster is.

Only 12% of Americans want ground troops in Iran. But Republicans, still fumbling to explain why they went to war, are all over the map on ground troops:
Trump: "I don’t have the yips with respect to boots on the ground.”
Sen. Lindsey Graham: “We’re not going to have any boots on the ground.”
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Now We Are Here | Stanford University Press Who gets to live a life with dignity? Each day, families around the world make the difficult decision to leave their homes in search of safety, stability, and opportunity. For many migrant families, t...

She's not on here, but Gabrielle Oliveira is an amazing person and her amazing book about immigrant children and families just won the @aeraedresearch.bsky.social Outstanding Book Award!!!!!! This makes my day!!!!

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It’s not just that the Administration isn’t answering questions about Iran.

They’re lying.

U.S. Attack on Iran Prompted Military Bible Studies, Advocacy Group Says Military commanders didn't just call this a holy war, some allegedly responded with emergency Bible studies

EXCLUSIVE: Military commanders aren’t just preaching “Armageddon” in the Iran war…

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation tells me that after the first U.S. bombs fell Saturday, some commanders scheduled emergency …… Bible studies for Sunday.

Rhode Island Priests Sexually Abused Hundreds of Children, Report Finds The report from the state’s attorney general, covering 75 years, faulted the Diocese of Providence for not removing accused priests and not contacting the police enough.

Breaking News: Priests in Rhode Island abused hundreds of children over the course of 75 years, the state’s attorney general found.

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"No one wants to fight for Israel!"
— Former Marine Sgt. Brian McGuinness

He was protesting the war in Iran, when Montana Senator Tim Sheehy (R) decided to step in and "assist" Capitol Police in removing, and in the process *breaking the arm* of McGuinness.
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Maryland man pardoned for Jan. 6 riots held without bond for Metro assault on women 28-year-old Bryan Betancur is accused of assault and battery on the metro for touching women’s hair. He has a documented history of stalking women.

I did a video interview about Bryan Betancur today at the courthouse!

Exclusive: Iranian girls killed by ‘double-tap’ strikes on Minab school Eyewitnesses describe second blast which killed survivors as they sheltered in prayer hall

The girls’ school in Iran, where 165 people were killed by an apparent US-Israeli attack, was hit with two strikes, with the second missile killing sheltering survivors, two first responders and the parent of a slain child have told Middle East Eye.

The Trump Administration is trying to strip veterans of their reproductive freedoms by banning the VA from providing abortion counseling and care.

I'm pushing the administration to respect their service and reverse course on this draconian attack on our veterans' health and freedom.

Another huge area of concern is what they are doing to women.

There have been many allegations of sexual assault, rape & forced pregnancies in ICE detention concentration camps, AND

in Trump's last administration, there was forced sterilization in his Georgia detention facility which has reopened.

never, ever, ever, ever accept "how will you pay for it?" as an argument against social programs.

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Why are there zero consequences for lying under oath for members of government?

I am honestly beyond exhausted at this point.

This kind of privilege must be erased.

It should not only be instant removal from office, it should automatically be jail time.

Letter: If you support voting by mail, you better let your Utah legislator know today Letter: Lannie Chapman and Diedre Henderson are two very strong advocates in government for us. Where do your state representative and senator stand? Call them and find out.

Letter: Lannie Chapman and Diedre Henderson are two very strong advocates in government for us. Where do your state representative and senator stand? Call them and find out.

A copy of The Naomi Poems: Corpse and Beans by St. Geraud, né Bill Knott.

WIDOWER’S WINTER Outside, the snow is falling into its past... I do want this night to end. In the fireplace, a section of ash caves in. The fall day you were buried, birds went over, south, thick enough to carry someone. They took my gapes of breath. -Their fuel? We are together in some birds, who fail. I didn't even want to look at your grave, its heroic little mound like the peck of dirt we hope to eat in our life.

LIFER (AKA "HAPPY BIRTHDAY'') our prisoner has received a package containing a cake which of course he thinks must conceal a file or a hacksaw-blade and starts to dig down into toolorate. Get our swing with icicles for actually however his salvation his way out his escape route has been carefully laid out in brightcolored frosting over darker frosting the crucial message the delicate pinkly lettering overlooked unheeded falls shredded apart now by his hopeful search

& #soapboxpoem 3/31: two poems by Bill Knott. Bill Knott went entirely his own way, and I admire so much how he made his work available toward the end of his life with handmade books, free PDFs on his website, and YouTube videos of him reading his work that are still up to watch.

Florence ICE detainee dead after untreated tooth infection, official says An ICE detainee, who had been at a Florence detention center for four months, died Monday following an untreated tooth infection.

An ICE detainee in Arizona has died of a TOOTH INFECTION after it went untreated for weeks, a local official says. He was a Haitian asylum seeker imprisoned in Florence, Arizona. @emilybregel.bsky.social reports.
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How Federal Agencies Got Caught Up in Trump's Anti-Immigration Crusade WIRED spoke with workers across seven government agencies—from the IRS to HUD—about how their work has been contorted to support ICE and other immigration efforts.

The gravitational pull of Trump's immigration focus is sucking in basically every major federal agency, all of whom are being told to change policies and practices to enable ICE and related enforcement efforts.

From the @wired.com Inner Loop newsletter this week:

Long-COVID Sufferer Awarded Nearly $1M After Employer Refused to Let Her Work From Home | Law.com A jury in Nassau County awarded $954,000 to a longtime employee of Stony Brook University Hospital Blood Bank.

A woman with Long Covid won almost one million dollars in a lawsuit against her employer who refused to allow her work from home accommodations.

May this set a precedent.

Remote work should be accessible to all who need it.

It’s a game changer for people with disabilities.

Ben Eidelson on not conflating anti-Zionism with antisemitism:

"The idea that we can conclusively presume, if [student protesters] are saying anti-Zionist stuff it's because they hate Jews, is just factually implausible. It's not how we would treat any other civil rights question."

Despite Promises, Veterans Affairs Department Cut Thousands of Roles for Doctors and Nurses

Got it. There's plenty of funding to send troops into harm’s way, but not to take care of their health afterwards. This is shameful.

For the first time in over a century, families across the U.S. have to fear their children growing up without citizenship in the only home they've ever known.

We'll be defending the right of birthright citizenship at the Supreme Court on April 1 in our case Barbara v. Trump.