David Torrence
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This is not hard. Artists are not responsible for ensuring the Kennedy Center remains relevant and successful. The center’s board is responsible for that, in a fiduciary way. All of this energy being directed at artists should be re-directed at the board.
December 30, 2025 at 4:07 PM
This is not hard. Artists are not responsible for ensuring the Kennedy Center remains relevant and successful. The center’s board is responsible for that, in a fiduciary way. All of this energy being directed at artists should be re-directed at the board.
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The constitutional remedy for a president who uses collective punishment against people for the crimes of a few is impeachment, removal, and disqualification, followed by a criminal trial.
BREAKING
The Trump administration says it has frozen all childcare payments to Minnesota in the aftermath of allegations of fraud by some in the Somali community.
Important: allegations along these lines have existed for years, which has resulted in prosecutions starting with the Biden DOJ.
The Trump administration says it has frozen all childcare payments to Minnesota in the aftermath of allegations of fraud by some in the Somali community.
Important: allegations along these lines have existed for years, which has resulted in prosecutions starting with the Biden DOJ.
December 30, 2025 at 11:54 PM
The constitutional remedy for a president who uses collective punishment against people for the crimes of a few is impeachment, removal, and disqualification, followed by a criminal trial.
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'Two legendary late-night shows by Sun Ra and His Inter-Galactic Research Arkestra, now released in their entirety for the first time, as the 6-LP vinyl box-set Nuits De La Fondation Maeght.'
#SunRa - Nuits de la Fondation Maeght is No 14 in tQ’s Reissues Etc. of the Year 2025
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#SunRa - Nuits de la Fondation Maeght is No 14 in tQ’s Reissues Etc. of the Year 2025
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December 30, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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SUN RA - SPACE IS THE PLACE (1974)
YouTube video by Steelworker Records
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December 30, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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Give him a prize, a medal, a statue - as long as they’re in gold - & he’s yours for the taking.
Netanyahu announces that he's awarding the Israel Prize to President Trump. Trump says it's "surprising and very much appreciated"
December 29, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Give him a prize, a medal, a statue - as long as they’re in gold - & he’s yours for the taking.
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A really important piece. The times when we have opened our country to talented people from around the world are among the moments when America has been truly great. Trump is destroying that legacy and fomenting unconscionable racism.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o...
Opinion | One of America’s Most Successful Experiments Is Coming to a Shuddering Halt
www.nytimes.com
December 29, 2025 at 12:37 PM
A really important piece. The times when we have opened our country to talented people from around the world are among the moments when America has been truly great. Trump is destroying that legacy and fomenting unconscionable racism.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o...
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A trio of newspapers that cover Missouri’s capital city and surrounding communities will now be run by a familiar and polarizing figure in state politics whose career has been marked by scandal. #moleg #mogov
New owner with checkered political past takes over newspaper serving Missouri’s capital • Missouri Independent
A trio of newspapers that cover Missouri’s capital city and surrounding communities will now be run by a polarizing figure in state politics.
missouriindependent.com
December 29, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Just thankful to be circling the sun & it was in Matt Pikes lifetime.
#musicsky
#rifflord
#thepoweroftheriffcompelsme
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#musicsky
#rifflord
#thepoweroftheriffcompelsme
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High on Fire - Snakes for the Divine (Live at Sweden Rock, June 11th, 2010)
YouTube video by mathiasnielsen66
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December 29, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Just thankful to be circling the sun & it was in Matt Pikes lifetime.
#musicsky
#rifflord
#thepoweroftheriffcompelsme
youtu.be/IN5vEaILcvs?...
#musicsky
#rifflord
#thepoweroftheriffcompelsme
youtu.be/IN5vEaILcvs?...
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(!) Just weeks before Jeffrey Epstein was dead, Donald Trump’s Department of Justice was apparently monitoring Julie Brown, a journalist who has led coverage on Epstein.
Why?
Why?
December 28, 2025 at 10:03 PM
(!) Just weeks before Jeffrey Epstein was dead, Donald Trump’s Department of Justice was apparently monitoring Julie Brown, a journalist who has led coverage on Epstein.
Why?
Why?
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Our photographer Alex Kormann captured the exact moment the presses stopped for the last time in Minneapolis, ending a 158 history of locally printed newspapers.
December 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Our photographer Alex Kormann captured the exact moment the presses stopped for the last time in Minneapolis, ending a 158 history of locally printed newspapers.
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A nice thread in which an actual expert patiently explains why the Secretary of Health and Human Service is not simply a liar, but an especially stupid one.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy
December 28, 2025 at 6:06 PM
A nice thread in which an actual expert patiently explains why the Secretary of Health and Human Service is not simply a liar, but an especially stupid one.
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“And the Peanuts” remember how peanuts was written in a default san serif font and was always about some bullshit that a Facebook addicted boomer would someday be obsessed with
December 28, 2025 at 9:32 PM
“And the Peanuts” remember how peanuts was written in a default san serif font and was always about some bullshit that a Facebook addicted boomer would someday be obsessed with
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AMERICAN MOVIE is, in my opinion, good. letterboxd.com/andrewmoxon/...
A ★★★★ review of American Movie (1999)
Equal parts hilarious and touching. Mark Borchardt never "made" it but there's something inspirational there all the same, and I honestly love all these people warts and all. AVR of Uncle Bill may be ...
letterboxd.com
December 28, 2025 at 11:14 PM
AMERICAN MOVIE is, in my opinion, good. letterboxd.com/andrewmoxon/...
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Art and Artist Files Reveal Surrealist Jewels Designed by Salvador Dalí
(Sofia Silva • Smithsonian)
The brilliant sparkle of a diamond, the saturated blood-red of a ruby become the building blocks of Dalí’s lesser known artistic enterprises: jewelry design.
blog.library.si.edu/blog/2016/02...
(Sofia Silva • Smithsonian)
The brilliant sparkle of a diamond, the saturated blood-red of a ruby become the building blocks of Dalí’s lesser known artistic enterprises: jewelry design.
blog.library.si.edu/blog/2016/02...
December 27, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Art and Artist Files Reveal Surrealist Jewels Designed by Salvador Dalí
(Sofia Silva • Smithsonian)
The brilliant sparkle of a diamond, the saturated blood-red of a ruby become the building blocks of Dalí’s lesser known artistic enterprises: jewelry design.
blog.library.si.edu/blog/2016/02...
(Sofia Silva • Smithsonian)
The brilliant sparkle of a diamond, the saturated blood-red of a ruby become the building blocks of Dalí’s lesser known artistic enterprises: jewelry design.
blog.library.si.edu/blog/2016/02...
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I assume this sort of thing is true of every single ICE employee.
Local ICE leader arrested for strangling a woman he lives with and is now being held in the Butler County jail (where ICE has been holding people)
www.citybeat.com/news/update-...
www.citybeat.com/news/update-...
UPDATE: Cincinnati ICE Leader Accused of Strangling Woman Now Faces Federal Charge, Booked into Butler County Jail
"This may be the first time an ICE agent is incarcerated in his own ICE jail," said Lynn Tramonte, executive director of the Ohio Immigrant Alliance.
www.citybeat.com
December 28, 2025 at 12:40 AM
I assume this sort of thing is true of every single ICE employee.
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“…photographs of nudes were associated with pornography rather than with artful, tender erotic poesy”
Sadly, not much has changed, but if you’re in Zurich, a must see exhibition.
Sadly, not much has changed, but if you’re in Zurich, a must see exhibition.
René Groebli and his wife, Rita Dürmüller
Ausstellung Bildhalle Zürich
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Ausstellung Bildhalle Zürich
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
‘It’s all about love’: how a Swiss photographer’s intimate honeymoon pictures caused a scandal
René Groebli took portraits of Charlie Chaplin and Walt Disney and pioneered new modes of photography. But it was his tender, erotic pictures taken in a Paris hotel room in the 50s that really caused ...
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2025 at 1:26 PM
“…photographs of nudes were associated with pornography rather than with artful, tender erotic poesy”
Sadly, not much has changed, but if you’re in Zurich, a must see exhibition.
Sadly, not much has changed, but if you’re in Zurich, a must see exhibition.
64 days in Chicago: The story of Operation Midway Blitz. Our team fanned out to cover the before, during and after of the federal government’s months-long raid on an American city. This is worth your time to understand the United States today
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/28/c...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/28/c...
64 days in Chicago: The story of Operation Midway Blitz
President Donald Trump’s federal immigration enforcement operation led to most surreal autumn in Chicago history. What happened during those 64 days will be remembered for a long time.
www.chicagotribune.com
December 28, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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We had congressional hearings when parents just suspected heavy metal was leading some kids to suicide.
i don’t see how any of the benefits of chatgpt and other consumer-facing LLMs can possibly outweigh their incredible ability to induce suicides
Adam Raine’s life hurtled toward tragedy soon after he began talking with ChatGPT about homework. Analysis of his ChatGPT account shows how the chatbot became a confidant as he planned to end his life.
December 28, 2025 at 5:33 PM
We had congressional hearings when parents just suspected heavy metal was leading some kids to suicide.
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A reasonable interpretation of the Trump-Vance play is they are telling Europe that in unless it gifts Greenland to the US we will abandon Europe to Russia.
So our madman leader is now simultaneously attempting to take all of Venezuela's oil and a big chunk of mineral-rich European territory.
So our madman leader is now simultaneously attempting to take all of Venezuela's oil and a big chunk of mineral-rich European territory.
This dramatically enhanced pressure on Europe/Denmark and the new outrageous sanctions on info researchers coming at a time when Putin is escalating his physical attacks on Ukraine suggests that the US is now *coordinating* with Russia to weaken Europe and Ukraine.
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Denmark lost more troops per capita in the post 9/11 war on Afghanistan. Saying they “are not a good ally” because they won’t surrender their territories to the US is lunacy. We are betraying our allies to satisfy the whims of a would-be Emperor for whom the US is not enough.
December 27, 2025 at 8:16 PM
A reasonable interpretation of the Trump-Vance play is they are telling Europe that in unless it gifts Greenland to the US we will abandon Europe to Russia.
So our madman leader is now simultaneously attempting to take all of Venezuela's oil and a big chunk of mineral-rich European territory.
So our madman leader is now simultaneously attempting to take all of Venezuela's oil and a big chunk of mineral-rich European territory.
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New reporting says Don Jr. directly facilitated the pardon of a crypto whale who had promoted the Trump's family crypto. Jr. brought the pardon lawyer to the White House, and introduced him directly to his Dad. Pardon occurred right after. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/pardon-the...
December 27, 2025 at 6:14 PM
New reporting says Don Jr. directly facilitated the pardon of a crypto whale who had promoted the Trump's family crypto. Jr. brought the pardon lawyer to the White House, and introduced him directly to his Dad. Pardon occurred right after. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/pardon-the...
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Filming them committing terrorism is now itself an act of terrorism?
December 27, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Filming them committing terrorism is now itself an act of terrorism?