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#DavidRizzio was murdered #OnThisDay in 1566 on the orders of Henry, Lord Darnley — king consort of #Scotland — precipitating his assassination with the probable connivance of his wife, #MaryQueenOfScots — which in turn precipitated her downfall...
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"Police say a device thrown into a crowd during a protest near Gracie Mansion was an improvised explosive capable of causing serious injury or death. The rally — organized by far-right activist Jake Lang — targeted Mayor #ZohranMamdani & drew a much larger group of counterprotesters..."

#MojtabaKhamenei's election to succeed his father as #SupremeLeader makes #Iran look like a theocratic monarchy; the #IslamicRepublicMustGo but #DonaldTrump's illegal war will not bring about democracy & will only benefit #ApartheidIsrael's fascist regime & hegemonic ambition...

"La Forza del Destino" is the only #GiuseppeVerdi #opera with an abstract title & makes me think of the Korean word for 'fate' #운명; here's Lise Davidsen singing "Madre, madre pietosa Vergine": #한국어 #조선말 #한국말 #한국 #조선

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Amerigo Vespucci (1454), Alexis I of Russia (1629), Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, Comte de Mirabeau (1749), Leland Stanford (1824), Ernest Bevin (1881), Vyacheslav Molotov (1890), #VitaSackvilleWest (1892), Samuel Barber (1910), Mickey Spillane (1918) & Matteo Salvini (1973) were born #OnThisDay

#Russia's February Revolution began #OnThisDay in 1917 with massive demonstrations in Petrograd that led to Nicholas II's abdication; #VladimirPutin had him canonized in 2019; will the current tsar suffer the same fate...? #StandWithUkraine & #StopPutinsWarInUkraine~!
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I awoke from a #dream four years ago today (3.8.22) in which I sang "Che gelida manina" from #GiacomoPuccini's #opera, "#LaBohème" twice from "Per #sogni..."; here's the Swedish Caruso #JussiBjörling singing the aria:

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#InternationalWomensDay is a good occasion to remember true feminist heroines like indigenous & environmental activist #BertaCáceres, who was assassinated in 2016 by the dictatorship installed in a military coup in Honduras by #BarackObama & #HillaryClinton:

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#EvaDahlbeck was born in #OnThisDay in 1920, playing Desirée Armfeldt in Ingmar Bergman's most celebrated comedy, "Sommarnattends Leende" (Smiles of a Summer Night):

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I participated in a forum on "Palestine & Gender Empowerment in the Fight for Liberation" hosted by the Palestine Solidarity Alliance of Hunter College & Apartheid Divest at CUNY to commemorate #InternationalWomensDay 8 years ago today (3.8.18); support #BDS to #FreePalestine from #ApartheidIsrael~!

Joseph François Oscar Bernadotte succeeded his father Karl XIV Johan as king of #Sweden & #Norway on his death #OnThisDay in 1844, reigning until his death in 1859. Oscar I was cautiously liberal, reversing his autocratic father's alliance with Russia...

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I steamed organic black rice & broccoli & tossed some smoked trout into the bowl for a high-protein pescatarian dinner that didn't rely on the #AnimalCruelty of #FactoryFarming; délicieux~! #Forelle #forell #ørret #silunger #truite #trota #송어 [song-eo] 🐟 🍚 🥦

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Most will vote for the Greens

#InternationalWomensDay is a good occasion to remind people that #feminism isn't about electing #women to office, as I noted in a talk I gave nine years ago — it's about challenging & dismantling the #sexgenderbinary that is the root of our oppression:

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Islamophobic #WhiteSupremacists throw IEDs at Gracie Mansion yet the NY Post tries to cast #NewYorkCity Mayor #ZohranMamdani as the domestic terrorist: the #Zionist supporters of #ApartheidIsrael who run the NY Post are getting this backwards like they do almost everything~!

"This #InternationalWomensDay, we recommit to solidarity with women worldwide. In particular, we stand with #Palestinian women, supporting their dual & intertwined struggles against #Zionism & patriarchy. #Palestine is a women’s issue & anti-Zionism is a #feminist position"~Jewish Voice for Peace

#JoeBiden assured his wealthy #donors that "nothing would fundamentally change" & that was the one campaign promise he kept: his failed administration & his refusal to step aside until his disastrous CNN debate with #DonaldTrump helped pave the way for the orange fascist's re-election...

#KeirStarmer is trying to stake out a middle ground that doesn't exist: #DonaldTrump won't accept anything less than full British participation in his illegal war on #Iran that a majority of British voters oppose; they will rebuke the #Labour government in the elections in May...

#OliverWendellHolmes, Jr. (1841), Franco Alfano (1876), Konstantinos Karamanlis (1907), Eva Dahlbeck (1920), Cyd Charisse [Tula Finklea] (1922), Juvénal Hayarimana (1937), Lynn Redgrave (1943), Carole Bayer Sager (1947), Lester Holt (1959) & James Van Der Beek (1977) were born #OnThisDay...

#NancyReagan died #OnThisDay in 2016; the evil schemer helped Ronald Reagan win election & re-election & so bears considerable responsibility for his reign of terror; Nancy reportedly used an astrologer to schedule Ronnie's most important engagements...
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#OscarStraus was born in Vienna #OnThisDay in 1870; little of his music is performed today, but he was a successful composer of #operetta in his day & wrote some wonderful songs, such as "Je t'aime," sung here by the late Arleen Augér:
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#OscarStraus was born in Vienna #OnThisDay in 1870; little of his music is performed today, but he was a successful composer of #operetta in his day & wrote some wonderful songs, such as "Je t'aime," sung here by the late Arleen Augér:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlBZ...
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I just curried organic French lentils with shallots & steamed organic black quinoa & broccoli, sprinkling za'atar on the legumes in solidarity with Gazans being murdered in #ApartheidIsrael's ongoing #GazaGenocide — funded with $3.8 billion a year in US taxes + $33 billion in new funding 🍉

#RachelWeisz was born #OnThisDay in 1970; I loved her as Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough in "The Favorite," the 2019 film about Queen Anne's lesbian love triangle:

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"Israel is becoming an apartheid state by not only refusing to try anymore to create a separate Palestinian state but also by working instead to make that impossible," writes Tom Friedman in a column that shows liberal Zionist support for #ApartheidIsrael is faltering
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#MauriceRavel was born #OnThisDay in 1875; along with Claude Debussy, Ravel is the greatest composer France produced in the 20th c. "Daphnis et Chloé" is an example of his sumptuous, magical music; here's Ozawa & the BSO in Suite n°2:
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#BenjaminNetanyahu has successfully pushed #DonaldTrump into war with #Iran & there will be serious consequences for American support for #ApartheidIsrael despite the #Zionist machine's best efforts to silence critics of the illegal & destructive war...

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/o...

Opinion | How Israel Lost Americans

#BenjaminNetanyahu has successfully pushed #DonaldTrump into war with #Iran & there will be serious consequences for American support for #ApartheidIsrael despite the #Zionist machine's best efforts to silence critics of the illegal & destructive war...

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/o...

I adopted Gomie & Morticia from Animal Care Centers of NYC (ACC) three & a half years ago (9.17.22); ACC's new rescue shelter is now full & there are thousands of stray cats & dogs in NYC who need a home so #AdoptDontShop~! #Caturday

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#MauriceRavel was born #OnThisDay in 1875; along with Debussy, Ravel is France's greatest 20th c. composer; his quatuor à cordes (string quartet) is an example of his magical, sumptuous #music, recorded here by the Emerson Quartet:

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