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Andrea Powers
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She Is Too Fond of Books, and It Has Turned Her Brain.

On Goodreads. https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/6894519-andrea



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We're doing an Advent calendar of iconic Christmas movie dresses and we're kicking things off with Donna Reed's dutiful wife frock in IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE and how it highlighted the film's themes, time and place:
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Christmas Movie Dress Advent Calendar Day 1: Donna Reed in IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE - Tom + Lorenzo
We're highlighting a different classic Christmas movie dress every day until Christmas Eve and we figured we'd kick things off with one of the most iconic
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December 1, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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ricksteves.bsky.social Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 12h
The only real job I’ve ever had other than what I’m doing now was teaching piano, which I absolutely loved.

Here’s a three-minute piano lesson that I recorded back during the pandemic. In good times or bad, these simple notes can bring you lots of creative joy at the keyboard.
Rick the Piano Teacher Teaches the Blues
It's very easy to improvise to your heart's desire if you know this simple 6-note system. It's actually addictive.
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December 6, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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It’s weird that news organizations like the BBC are covering this as if it’s a real thing with a real process behind it—and not clearly some nakedly invented “participation trophy” by a corrupt organization to curry favor with a corrupt and easily manipulated man-child. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
Donald Trump: US president named inaugural Fifa Peace Prize winner
US President Donald Trump receives the inaugural Fifa Peace Prize before the draw for the 2026 Fifa World Cup.
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December 6, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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andydiggle.bsky.social
It's not visiting anymore. It wants to stay.
An Andor edit
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December 5, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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First time I’ve heard him. Has me grinning.
"Join ICE" - Jesse Welles (LIVE on The Late Show)
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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December 5, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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December 4, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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“The day laborers outside Lowe’s just wanting to hammer shingles onto your roof are the modern-day Christians thrown to Bovino’s cowardly lions in a Roman circus for Fox News couch potatoes.”
willbunch.bsky.social Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 1d
I went to New Orleans to see what it looks like when a great American city comes under siege from the government, as masked goons of 'Catahoula Crunch' lie about nabbing bad guys before swarming Home Depot, roofing jobs for folks with brown skin

My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/new-...
Life during wartime in New Orleans as feds terrorize Latinos who saved a city | Will Bunch
The first day of long-feared federal immigration raids across Greater New Orleans exposes the Big Lie of mass deportation.
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December 4, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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From Otis Redding to Booker T, Steve Cropper was a strong yet subtle force that shaped so many soul classics
From Otis Redding to Booker T, Steve Cropper was a strong yet subtle force that shaped so many soul classics
The guitarist for Booker T & the MGs defined the sound of original R&B, co-creating soul anthems and proving himself one of the most influential musicians of the 60s
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December 4, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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I wrote this about the UK government appeasing the far right in February.

www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
You say you recognise ‘legitimate concerns’ and take a tougher line on, say, refugees. You accept the far right’s entirely false premise that immigrants increase crime, that the housing crisis is due to migrants rather than your own bad policies, or that foreigners are swamping the health service, rather than holding it up with their bare hands in the face of your own drastic underfunding of the system. And you become less popular. You, the sensible moderate, continue to slide in the polls against the very parties whose policies you were trying to steal. A sizeable number of your own base are appalled, and you have failed to impress a single racist. Because everywhere, from France to Germany to the Netherlands to the UK, as with Fanta and its supermarket imitators, it turns out people prefer the original to the copy. You’ve driven away your traditional base, while sanitising the racism of the far right for low information voters, who now consider them more reasonable. You have moved the sensible middle position toward the far right – where you now stand, boxed in, by the ghouls you've just baptised as moderates. And the slide continues. Because you cannot placate these people. You cannot reach an end. Round up every refugee in camps and they'll want the next cruelty. Their concerns are not about society, the economy or public safety, they're an ever-moving target of fear and hatred that cannot be sated, it must be challenged. And now it’s too late, because you thought that you - and you alone! - would be the first centrist to steal the fascist’s lunch by agreeing with them rather than fighting them with every fibre of your being.
December 4, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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Good morning. Fuck AI. www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
The time has come to declare war on AI
"It's now in everything, even if you don't want it there."
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December 4, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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I just heard on the radio that Steve Cropper died today.

I first became aware of him in the Blues Brothers band, but he was also a member of Booker T and the MGs and part of the house band for Stax, making him one of the most important and influential guitarists in rock music. 1/
Steve Cropper, Guitarist, Songwriter and a Shaper of Memphis Soul Music
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December 3, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Goodbye to him.
Steve Cropper
December 4, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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December 3, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Steve Cropper, legendary guitarist for Booker T & the MGs, dies aged 84
Steve Cropper, legendary guitarist for Booker T & the MGs, dies aged 84
Prolific musician was known for work on songs like Green Onions and Otis Redding’s (Sittin’ on) the Dock of the Bay Steve Cropper, the legendary guitarist whose work as an instrumentalist, producer and songwriter at Stax Records left an indelible impression on Memphis soul music, has died at the age of 84. Hs son Cameron confirmed his death to Variety. Continue reading...
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December 3, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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RIP Steve Cropper, you might not know his name* but you know a lot of his music.

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*yes, I know lots of you do know his name.
(1967) GREEN ONIONS - Live - Booker T. and MG's
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December 3, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Hey all,

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You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.
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December 3, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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This is lovely.
chowleen.bsky.social eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 3d
Had our first graduate thesis defense of the academic year here at Duke - for Yueqi Chen's absolutely lyrical ethnography on nurses' aides working in public hospitals in Hunan, China.

Sharing, with permission, a beautiful passage from Yueqi's thesis which I found really moving:
#everynightapoem
Stories are there, but they float, and only when one begins to listen, ask, and pay attention do they land. In an era governed by the tyranny of speed, stories are always afloat because few actually care about others’ stories, and the excuse is that they don’t have time. We are governed by speed because we allow speed to govern us. The cab driver’s father-in-law’s frostbites, just like nursing assistants’ body aches, are inconsequential for us and this world but are significant for them. They embody not only the pain of their bodies but the pain of this era. Their bodies become where pain clings to so that fewer others will need to experience pain. I’d like to invite my readers to slow down, even just a little bit, and to care for others’ stories, especially the bodily ones. Ethnography has an unforgiving quality to it because when you see people in the field, you can’t unsee them; when you hear someone’s stories, you can’t unhear them. Ethnography can never be tidy because it’s so close to an ever-messy, changing, and vibrant being that is life. To try to smooth out the ethnography is equivalent to leaving out the “unpretty” people and corners. I slowed down when faced with such “unprettiness” – I dwelled on it. This is my ethnographic responsibility – to not speed up when coming across the unprettiness but to stare right at it long and hard. from Yueqi Alex Cheng, "Reinventing Care: Nursing Assistants’ Embodied Resistance Working in Public Hospitals in Changsha, Hunan" for Graduate Liberal Studies at Duke University, December 2025. Two committee members, Anne Whisnant and Eileen Chow, and a third, Ralph Litzinger, off camera, plus the new MA herself, Yueqi Cheng
December 3, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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A pot of beans, by any other name: defector.com/a-pot-of-bea...
A Pot Of Beans, By Any Other Name | Defector
Some people had some stuff, and not fancier stuff instead, because it was what was available to them and they were common people who could not enjoy the ruinous modern bourgeois fantasy of choosing…
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December 2, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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This is a fun writeup
the-independent.com The Independent @the-independent.com · 3d
ANALYSIS | ‘Taking the gloves off’: Trump just held the Cabinet meeting from Hell
‘Taking the gloves off’: Trump just held the Cabinet meeting from Hell
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December 2, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Donald Trump spent last night having some bizarre social media fever dream. It’s long past time for the president's mental fitness to be a sustained front-page story. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-time-...
It’s time to talk about Donald Trump’s health (again)
The most consequential topic in the world is the simple question: Is the President mentally fit to serve?
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December 2, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Multiple large natural experiments have documented Shingles vaccine is linked with ~20-25% reduced risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease. A new report today adds to that and extends the to slowing the progression of dementia @cellcellpress.bsky.social
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December 2, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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My latest piece for @theguardian.com on the sandwich generation, of which I am one, and how we became the triple sandwich generation in Trump 2.0 www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... @jillgrinberglit.bsky.social @economichardship.bsky.social @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social link in comments
I’m part of the triple-decker sandwich generation. You probably are as well
You’ve heard of caregivers in the sandwich generation. In this anti-compassion Trump 2.0 era, it’s more like a triple-decker sandwich. Alissa Quart has experienced this first-hand
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December 1, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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I mean, I also sell these things but if you wanna buy from the source I wouldn't get in your way.
It is, after all, some of the most beautifully done cartography I've seen this year.
pinakographos.bsky.social Daniel Huffman @pinakographos.bsky.social · 5d
While I've lately been promoting the Independent Map Artists group I organize (mapartists.org), I haven't actually indulged in shamelessly promoting my own #map store for a long while.

Weird world maps, mountain sketch mugs, river transit maps, and more. somethingaboutmaps.com/Storefront
A physical world map, with an unusual projection. Multiple views of a mug featuring sketches of Denali Part of the map of the US showing various rivers in a transit map style. A large monochrome poster titled "Round Isles & Iles Rondes of the United States and Canada"
December 1, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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The anti-DEI retreat means there are entire marketing departments that have never heard of lesbians
monagle.bsky.social Matt Monagle @monagle.bsky.social · 4d
This week, Netflix will drop a western with Lena Headey and Gillian Anderson as warring matriarchs of opposing clans. Not a one of the dozens of media writers I follow online has ever mentioned this show, and yet its three-week-old trailer has over 1M views. Make it make sense.
The Abandons | Official Trailer | Netflix
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December 2, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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after watching sen. kelly’s press conference what i most admire is how much of it was just like, get a load of this guy, hegseth. you see this dumbass? one of the dumbest guys you’ll ever meet. prize dunce.
December 2, 2025 at 5:16 AM