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🎃 Emily Fright 🎃

@emilycello.bsky.social

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Cellist, writer, educator specializing in adult learning. Restorative justice, plants, environmentalism, animal rights, wine, hockey, F1, aviation. Proud Angeleno living in New England. https://emilywright.net https://m.soundcloud.com/lonelycello

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 16h

This is horrible, truly. What a metaphor

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 17h

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

love to see it. curious which unions will respond

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1d

Whoa. Chicago mayor calls for a general strike; now we're talking

www.huffpost.com/entry/chicag...

Chicago Mayor Issues Defiant Call For A General Strike

It was an audacious proposal, given that the U.S. has never held a true, nationwide general strike.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 1d

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🎃 Emily Fright 🎃 @emilycello.bsky.social · 1d

And this is why you, too, are a hero

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🎃 Emily Fright 🎃 @emilycello.bsky.social · 1d

And this is why Sam Bergman is a hero

Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 1d

It's okay to be mean to musicians like violinists and oboists because their fondest wish was always to live in the Mean Girls universe anyway, but being mean to a cellist should be a felony.

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 4d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 1d

The President of the United States sends out an AI generated video of him wearing a crown and piloting a fighter jet to drop bombs of human excrement on American citizens. No mainstream media Sunday show featuring this?!? Really?!? The media is complicit in our march to authoritarianism.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Not a single mention of this across the Sunday shows as far as I could tell

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump posts AI video showing him literally dumping shit on America

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🎃 Emily Fright 🎃 @emilycello.bsky.social · 1d

PS I love that message from Lando’s engineer. Imagine getting that kind of vote of confidence from the guy who would absolutely tell you if you don’t have the juice #f1 #AustinGP

🎃 Emily Fright 🎃 @emilycello.bsky.social · 1d

I’m no help here; there are so many delightful characters that I fuss all race and cry half the time

I think I’d like your lady!

🎃 Emily Fright 🎃 @emilycello.bsky.social · 1d

“I know I know I know” I love him so much

🎃 Emily Fright 🎃 @emilycello.bsky.social · 1d

Eeeeeeeeee Lando you have so much spirit, my crazy son #f1 #austinGP

🎃 Emily Fright 🎃 @emilycello.bsky.social · 1d

“I housed you. I clothed you.”

Looking for a congressional medal for doing the literal minimum to keep a human alive, my guy?

a woman in a yellow sweater is making a funny face with her hand in the air .

Alt: Maya Rudolph wags her finger in a sassy way

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🎃 Emily Fright 🎃 @emilycello.bsky.social · 1d

A good reminder. Glad yesterday didn’t turn into a mass casualty event, but let’s not pat anyone on the back until everyone can protest with the same guarantee of safety.

🎃 Emily Fright 🎃 @emilycello.bsky.social · 1d

Not sure what this is, but it’s what we need! There’s something extra cool about the calm expressions 😮‍💨

🎃 Emily Fright 🎃 @emilycello.bsky.social · 1d

Not in my name.

Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 1d

Petro objected to the US bombing a Columbian fishing vessel that had the emergency beacon on because they were broken down, that we subsequently bombed. One Columbian fisherman survived the attack.

This is the official US response to Petro's comments.

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JP Jordan @jpjordan.bsky.social · 1d

Two households, both alike in dignity

One does have a car in the front room, though

Sky News @news.sky.com · 2d

Shakespeare family home damaged by reversing driver

A 17th-century building that housed William Shakespeare's family has been left damaged after a driver reversed into it.

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🎃 Emily Fright 🎃 @emilycello.bsky.social · 1d

There is a LOT going on here

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 1d

waking up and groggily trying to piece together what people could possibly mean by “trump diarrhea video” i hate this world

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🎃 Emily Fright 🎃 @emilycello.bsky.social · 2d

Remember aol away statuses as the ultimate *frisson* of drama 🥲 sigh

🎃 Emily Fright 🎃 @emilycello.bsky.social · 2d

Sending hugs and solidarity from New England, friends 🥰🥰🥰

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

MSNBC Grandmas in Skechers seamlessly reclaiming the frog from 4chan Nazis in about six weeks has gotta be the political upset of the century.

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🎃 Emily Fright 🎃 @emilycello.bsky.social · 2d

This Leclerc lonely lap is giving that crazy Ferrari sunset lap/Max Interlagos storm mash up #F1 #austingp

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 2d

An Ohio University professor was removed from teaching a MFA class a day after returning home from an Israeli prison where he was detained upon being illegally abducted from the flotilla.

His students [solidarity!] walked out on the replacement prof in protest.

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An Ohio University professor who was recently detained by Israel for trying to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza has been removed from his only in-person class this semester, according to the university.

Tom Hayes, 70, was removed from teaching his in-person, master's-level film class, "Art of Editing," less than a day after he returned to Ohio from his detention in the Ktz'iot prison in the Negev Desert in Israel, he said.

Another instructor resumed in-person instruction of Hayes' class this week and will teach it for the rest of the semester, Pittman said. Students walked out on the new instructor in protest on the first day of instruction, Hayes said.

He plans on uploading his lectures to DropBox, so his students can finish his curriculum. He will also continue having online meetings with students to collaborate with them on their projects, he said.

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🎃 Emily Fright 🎃 @emilycello.bsky.social · 2d

Sending love from the east coast, friends! 🥰🥰🥰

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 2d

Minneapolis is showing up and showing out. #NoKings

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