Ben Miller

The least forgivable part about that Timothée Chalamet interview clip is the fuel he gave to opera company social media teams.

the thing about Die Linke is that it's by definition an electoral project. that doesn't have to be everyone's bag but it is the nature of this particular game. the goal of an electoral political party is to organize victory in elections. not to make our little points from outside parliament.

we as a left have to stop doing stupid things like nominating three lead candidates in elections to satisfy internal party dynamics––and which sends a signal to voters that we are not serious about building or using power

I wish I was kidding! One memorable opinion proposes that woke billionaires are trying to force Bostonians to listen to music written by Black people against their will. Another shudders at the horror of a possible Esa-Pekka Salonen appointment.

ah schade die linke bei 4,5% und Faschos bei 18% - aber oh schau mal lustiges plakat

like “nuanced,” the term “credible” has been poisoned through bad faith media but it’s too important to let them take it from us. credible doesn’t mean willing to make up numbers at any cost—credible means “i believe this will do something for me”

yeah i think there’s also a lesson to be learned should Linke in fact remain outside parliament that—while the Linke shouldn’t focus exclusively on proposing to make up numbers for the Greens and SPD—they do need to act like they want to build power and use it to make people’s lives better

It is absolutely insane that the US appears to have targeted desalination plants first – putting them onto the board. Iran seems to have already retaliated against one in Bahrain. This is one of the most obvious ways this could spiral.

I think this deserves at least as much sustained attention from US media as Claudine Gay's dissertation

Comments section of the Musical Intelligencer (local fans) is depressing and interesting—Nelsons’ fans there seem to believe the firing is part of a woke plot to replace Beethoven and Brahms with pops programs that are also somehow full of Elliott Carter music

Not nearly all the musicians were happy…

spring fits

Asked if the US attacked a desalination plant in Iran, Pres. Trump says Iranians are "among the most evil people ever on earth." "They cut babies' heads off—they chop women in half..." "I know nothing about a desalinization plant, other than to say, if they're complaining about a desalinization plant, we complain about the fact they shouldn't be chopping babies' heads off." Trump envoy Steve Witkoff and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth can be seen nodding in agreement.

A pretty clear demonstration here of how the lies told to sell the destruction of the Gaza Strip to the public helped to create the structure of impunity required to destroy as much as possible of other countries too

For Norman Lebrecht, freshly canned from the BBC after Yuja Wang called him out for “misogynistic bullying,” any music director candidate for the Boston Symphony who wasn’t a white man would only be hired for ‘diversity’ reasons

The NYT weights in: Nelsons is "one of the most unfortunate symbols of all that is irresponsible about the overstretched, overtired, overindulged modern music director. It has been not only deeply frustrating, but genuinely sad, to witness his trajectory." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...

#812 - Geraldine Rauch über Hochschulpolitik & ihre Amtszeit als Präsidentin der TU Berlin

Größter Erfolg: Eine „Abrissgenehmigung“

Da unzählige dt. Universitäten mittlerweile auf Jahrzehnte hinweg zerstört wurden und oft allenfalls punktuell arbeitsfähig sind, vielleicht mal Bildungs- und Finanzpolitiker/innen einladen @tilojung.bsky.social und mit Rauchs vielen Aussagen konfrontieren.

she deleted it but this was a professional cultural critic blaming the popularity of Breaking Bad for the Iran war

“help, i had to identify with a Bad Man and confront parts of me that u didn’t like and now i’m bombing iran” can we get real please

my hot take is that complex characters existing in fiction are not to blame for wars of imperial aggression

what is the case for thinking that the duration of the conflict will be up to Trump?

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Well...!

“not aligned on future vision” and “has decided to end my appointment” are in the language of arts nonprofits absolutely NUCLEAR phrases

antideutsch zu faschist pipeline strikes again

I'm challenging Congresswoman Clark because she will not fight to Abolish ICE or stop funding ICE. She's not serious about getting to the root of these problems. Instead, she insults your intelligence by pretending these reforms will stop the violence.

We need a bold vision. Not empty rhetoric.

Pardon my french but I do not think mild mannered liberalism is up to the task of what we are now facing down.

hey, this isn’t cute or normal… global economic hegemons and the holders of the world’s reserve currency only do this when they’re very stressed

sensible and serious Journalism

The Most Chilling Detail in the U.S. Attack on an Iranian Naval Ship The Iranian warship was taking part in an international exercise with many other countries—including the United States.

This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea.
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