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Yes, that was Chicago conductor Giancarlo Guerrero performing with Bad Bunny Four minutes into Bad Bunny’s halftime show during the Super Bowl on Sunday, the camera panned over two rows of grinning string players. Leading them with graceful, sweeping beats and a sparkling h…

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We already have a submission that's only a couple of hundred dollars more than the lowest submission we got in the AY19-20 spreadsheet.

This fucking rocks

Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.

So, this is a long shot, but: I'm looking to hire a developer/programmer for my non-profit arts org for ongoing part-time maintenance and troubleshooting work on a proprietary database that's coded primarily in VB[dot]net. (I know, long story, it is what it is.) Would appreciate leads/reposts!

I didn't know Katharina was still relevant, maybe in Wagner time scales

Opinion | A federal judge schools chaotic Kristi Noem Blocking a government attempt to end temporary protected status for about 353,000 Haitians in the U.S.

Noem calls legal Haitians leeches. They win in court.

“The Haitian plaintiffs include a neuroscientist researching Alzheimer’s, a bank’s software engineer, a lab assistant in toxicology, a college economics major and a nurse. No leeches joined the suit.”

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@sndorf.bsky.social

Job vacancy for a Director of Music at a church in Devon.

I've been passed this job vacancy for a DoM at a church in Colton, Devon. I'm told the circumstances are promising: a musical Rector, reasonable resources, ambitions to do even more with both choir and organ.

Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.”

Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.

what if the real sex trafficking cabal was just the patriarchy we made along the way

Little opera quiz: name as many operas as you can where the English Parliament is mentioned.

I can think of 4, but there may be more.

Identified: the El Paso BORTAC crew rampaging through the Midwest One violent duo in particular, U.S. Border Patrol agents Michael Sveum (EZ-2) and Edgar Vazquez (EZ-17), have been frequently seen alongside former commander-at-large Greg Bovino terrorizing crowds wi...

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Federal agents are relying on error-prone facial recognition technology while ignoring people’s passports or other evidence of citizenship and immigration status.

This is illegal and must end now.

Reuters: U.S. SUPREME COURT ALLOWS CALIFORNIA CONGRESSIONAL MAP INTENDED TO BENEFIT DEMOCRATS

New Newberry Library $4m Grant Will Expand Access to Indigenous Studies Collections The Newberry Library has received a $4m grant from the Mellon Foundation which will fund a five-year project aiming to transform how Indigenous histories are preserved, accessed, and represented, and ...

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Bravo. There's a lot of leverage out there if you look for it.

Garcia: I want to remind the American public of Stephen Miller. There's probably no single person in this government that has done more damage and more harm to people across this country than this man right here. It's our job to hold him responsible

Via Ariana Figueroa: Dozens of U.S. House Democrats rallied on a chilly Tuesday morning outside U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement headquarters in the nation’s capital, demanding the resignation, firing or impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. https://ow.ly/6AX250Y8tTI

When thirty degrees feels like thawing

Casar holds a 3 minute and 26 second moment of silence to represent the time in which DHS officers let Renee Good bleed out after she was shot

What is the charge?

who knows, maybe jk rowling has spent years screaming about child genitals for normal reasons

BREAKING: Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been formally reported to the police over allegations he was involved in the trafficking of a woman to the UK for sex in 2010

It occurs to me that these freaks tend to talk about things in terms of genes instead of love or relationships because if they did frame it in those terms they’d have to confront the fact that a significant number of men refuse to do the work to make themselves lovable

the series is called Trans Film / Trans Space and we'll be kicking off at Hallwall's in March (it's in the basement of a 19th century Victorian gothic church that Ani DiFranco bought, couldn't dream of a cooler venue)

TIL that the wordes to the theme song of *Fraggle Rock* were written by the renouned poet Dennis Lee of Canada. Lee ys the original source of the sayinge (slightlye chaungid from hys wordinge) "Worke as if you live in the earlye dayes of a bettir nation."

exactly. this is not difficult.

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Apparently there was a city meeting in Hutchins, Texas, tonight. Hutchins is the location of DHS's newly announced 10,000-person concentration camp. What I've been told is that city officials were unanimously and adamantly opposed to it.

Unfortunately, I'm seeing this nowhere online.

Lake Oswego theater loses rights to screen 'Melania' after marquee jokes - Lake Oswego Review Lake Theater & Cafe announced that it will no longer show “Melania,” the Amazon Studios documentary about the first lady, after Amazon revoked the theater’s rights to the film. “Got […]

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