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Books and Tunes @booksandtunes.bsky.social · 8h

This is both disheartening and frightening. Middle school kids empowered by the Bully-in-Chief.

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Books and Tunes @booksandtunes.bsky.social · 8h

Same here.

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Books and Tunes @booksandtunes.bsky.social · 8h

I am sorry you suffer. 😢

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Books and Tunes @booksandtunes.bsky.social · 9h

It tracks with everyone I ask.

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Books and Tunes @booksandtunes.bsky.social · 9h

Ugh *was* a study. I'd pay for an edit button. Seriously.

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Books and Tunes @booksandtunes.bsky.social · 9h

Most days, multiple times. There is a study in 2022 that showed 88.2% of people with fibromyalgia had experienced childhood trauma. That's me, so chronic pain is a constant reminder.

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Books and Tunes @booksandtunes.bsky.social · 9h

"D’Angelo wielded his virtuosic songwriting and instrumental abilities to create music that captured life’s warmest, most sensual and most fleeting moments."

#MusicSky

D’Angelo’s 10 Best Songs: Staff Picks

D'Angelo's 10 best songs, according to the Billboard staff.

www.billboard.com

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Earl Verdant @earlverdant.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry can't remember who it was that mentioned it on here, but we really need to get the press to stop using "Antifa". They should say anti-facist or anti-facism. Make the MAGAs in the world say that they hate anti-facists. Make them say who they really are.

#proudlyantifacist

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Books and Tunes @booksandtunes.bsky.social · 2d

"Keaton’s ability to show you a character’s vulnerability was as striking as her gift for showing you what can lie beneath such sensitivity, including neediness at its rawest and most acutely exposed."

#FilmSky
#TCM
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The Surprising Power of Diane Keaton’s Emotional Transparency

www.nytimes.com

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Books and Tunes @booksandtunes.bsky.social · 2d

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Books and Tunes @booksandtunes.bsky.social · 2d

"It would be a great national service to provide women with medical information based on facts, science, and research. Women do not need to be lectured by a president of the United States who has never been pregnant about how to 'tough it out.'"
~ Maria Shriver

Women's Health Should Be a Bipartisan Priority

A lack of investment in women's health research is costing lives, writes women's health activist Maria Shriver

time.com

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 3d

Diane Keaton audiobook recommendation: her narration of Joan Didion's Slouching Towards Bethlehem is 10/10. Perfect meeting of reader and writer.

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Books and Tunes @booksandtunes.bsky.social · 2d

"When books that merely describe sexuality, ugly American history, or LGBTQ people are challenged it’s not because they’re getting caught in a child-protective dragnet. They are the targets of a deliberate effort to ban books deemed to have the wrong viewpoints—& to make any book easier to ban."
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A Half Century of American Book Banning

In the 21st century, censorship of work like Judy Blume’s has evolved into a broader attack on books.

www.theatlantic.com

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Books and Tunes @booksandtunes.bsky.social · 2d

"Vandalism, trash and human waste will tarnish natural treasures that are the envy of the world. But apparently nothing says ‘Make America Great Again’ like turning Yosemite into one giant toilet.”

What to Expect When Visiting Museums and National Parks During the US Government Shutdown

Key takeaways, along with a short list of what is and is not open during the ongoing government shutdown in 2025.

www.artnews.com

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Books and Tunes @booksandtunes.bsky.social · 2d

“Governing boards are meant to act as fiduciaries for their institutions, not as extensions of political parties/federal agencies. Linking core federal funding to sweeping national directives turns institutions into compliance machines rather than mission-driven centers of learning and discovery."

Higher Ed Sounds Off on Proposed Compact

The sector has overwhelmingly panned Trump’s plan to give preferential treatment to universities that commit to his policies. So have some conservative leaders.

www.insidehighered.com

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Books and Tunes @booksandtunes.bsky.social · 2d

"As her company prepares to celebrate its centenary, the legendary choreographer’s groundbreaking work is finally getting the respect it deserves in the UK. What took so long?"

‘A certain bite’: how Martha Graham pushed dance in dazzling new directions

As her company prepares to celebrate its centenary, the legendary choreographer’s groundbreaking work is finally getting the respect it deserves in the UK. What took so long?

www.theguardian.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

Meryl Streep, honoring Keaton at AFI:

“She’s given us all so. Much. Happiness.”

#RIP 🙏🏼

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Books and Tunes @booksandtunes.bsky.social · 3d

Today's Tune: Diane Keaton THERE'S A LULL IN MY LIFE

youtu.be/PGBy-xhLzWk?...

From The Tonight Show, 1972.

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Books and Tunes @booksandtunes.bsky.social · 3d

"She accepted her Oscar wearing a linen jacket, two full linen skirts, a scarf over a white shirt and black string tie, and high heels with socks. In her 2014 memoir, 'Then Again,' she looked back on the moment, with some regret, as 'my ‘la-de-da’ layered get-up.'”

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Diane Keaton, a Star of ‘Annie Hall’ and ‘First Wives Club,’ Dies at 79

www.nytimes.com

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Books and Tunes @booksandtunes.bsky.social · 3d

"I think the kindest thing that someone's ever done for me ... is that I got cast to be in The Godfather and I didn't even read it. I didn't know a single thing."

Diane Keaton, Famed for Roles in 'Father of the Bride,' 'First Wives Club' and More, Dies at 79 (Exclusive)

Diane Keaton has died at age 79, PEOPLE can confirm exclusively. The Oscar award-winning actress was best known for roles in movies like 'Annie Hall,' 'The First Wives Club,' 'Something's Gotta Give' ...

people.com

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Books and Tunes @booksandtunes.bsky.social · 4d

“Working with Monk brought me close to a musical architect of the highest order. I felt I learned from him in every way; through the senses, theoretically, technically,” Coltrane wrote for Downbeat Magazine in 1960.

#MusicSky
#Jazz

The rare sounds of Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane at the Five Spot Café

For Thelonious Monk's 108th Birthday, we look back at the sparsely documented collaboration of the eccentric pianist and famed saxophonist John Coltrane.

www.knkx.org

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 4d

You would not fire these people—including the staff of the hugely, HUGELY important 'Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report'—if you cared at all about public health, if you wanted people to live.

And you would not let your thuggish henchmen fire people like this if you were a responsible president.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Books and Tunes @booksandtunes.bsky.social · 4d

“There would be no Miranda, no Brandi, no Gretchen, no Maren without Tanya Tucker."
~ Brandi Carlile

#MusicSky

Born on This Day in 1958, the Child Prodigy Who Had Her First Hit at 13 and Paved the Way for Your Favorite Female Country Stars

Sixty-seven years ago today, a country legend who would see decades of success while growing up in the spotlight was born.

americansongwriter.com

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Books and Tunes @booksandtunes.bsky.social · 6d

“If fragile means somebody who can’t cope, well, Joan coped,” Eunice Kennedy Shriver, told The Globe in 2000. “I think she never gave up. She consistently tried to improve and overcome her problems, and eventually she did. So that is not a person who is fragile.”

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Joan Kennedy, Who Married Into a Dynasty, Dies at 89

www.nytimes.com

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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 7d

My profile of the delightful Keri Russell, the darkly funny, surprisingly introverted former New Mickey Mouse Club member who—even after Felicity, The Americans and The Diplomat!—has never fully embraced the idea of herself as an actress: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Keri Russell’s Emotional Transparency Has Anchored Three Decades of TV

But, offscreen, she’s not even sure that she wants to be an actress.

www.newyorker.com

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