jel1955jel
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Working to remember to savor the time I have here. I think everyone should listen to the last movement of Mahler 4 regularly, among other things.
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@jel1955jel.bsky.social
· Mar 4
The Case for Enlarging the House of Representatives
www.amacad.org
Why didn't any of our Democratic leaders pay attention to this proposal back in 2021 when it was published, and Nancy Pelosi was running the US House? If they had, would the US and its citizens be in the mess it's now in?
www.amacad.org/ourcommonpur...
www.amacad.org/ourcommonpur...
If need a little inspiration - a little hope - and if you have time, watch/listen to this lovely tale from @davidnihill.bsky.social.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPa7...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPa7...
Never Judge a Book By It's Cover: Fruit for Thought
YouTube video by David Nihill
www.youtube.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:15 PM
If need a little inspiration - a little hope - and if you have time, watch/listen to this lovely tale from @davidnihill.bsky.social.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPa7...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPa7...
Just sharing this few minutes of near perfection. Thank you @joycedidonato.bsky.social and #IlPomoDoro and most of all #HenryPurcell
youtu.be/f00nKLzCRrI?...
youtu.be/f00nKLzCRrI?...
Joyce DiDonato sings "When I Am Laid In Earth" (Purcell: Dido and Aeneas)
YouTube video by Warner Classics
youtu.be
October 23, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Just sharing this few minutes of near perfection. Thank you @joycedidonato.bsky.social and #IlPomoDoro and most of all #HenryPurcell
youtu.be/f00nKLzCRrI?...
youtu.be/f00nKLzCRrI?...
Reposted by jel1955jel
Louder for those in the back
October 23, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Louder for those in the back
Reposted by jel1955jel
Finally managed to see a production of #TheInheritance at #RoundhouseTheater in Bethesda, MD, that wasn't cancelled because of the pandemic or never opened because theater managers feared tRump and his minions.
It's a beautiful, operatic piece that is as good as touted to be. See it!!!!
It's a beautiful, operatic piece that is as good as touted to be. See it!!!!
September 27, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Finally managed to see a production of #TheInheritance at #RoundhouseTheater in Bethesda, MD, that wasn't cancelled because of the pandemic or never opened because theater managers feared tRump and his minions.
It's a beautiful, operatic piece that is as good as touted to be. See it!!!!
It's a beautiful, operatic piece that is as good as touted to be. See it!!!!
Incompetent thugs run the US.
It's as though they're all auditioning for a Guy Richie film that he lost interest in making last year.
apnews.com/article/trum...
It's as though they're all auditioning for a Guy Richie film that he lost interest in making last year.
apnews.com/article/trum...
After mechanical challenges, UN says Trump's team to blame for nonworking escalator and teleprompter
President Donald Trump used an inoperable escalator and a defective teleprompter at the United Nations to paint the global body as dysfunctional.
apnews.com
September 26, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Incompetent thugs run the US.
It's as though they're all auditioning for a Guy Richie film that he lost interest in making last year.
apnews.com/article/trum...
It's as though they're all auditioning for a Guy Richie film that he lost interest in making last year.
apnews.com/article/trum...
@marylanddot.bsky.social I am an elderly, disabled person and I am at #WashingtonUnionStation, waiting for a MARC train, and you have closed the waiting room. I CAN'T STAND FOR AN HOUR!!!!!!! Ever hear of the Americans With Disabilities Act!?
August 30, 2025 at 7:04 PM
@marylanddot.bsky.social I am an elderly, disabled person and I am at #WashingtonUnionStation, waiting for a MARC train, and you have closed the waiting room. I CAN'T STAND FOR AN HOUR!!!!!!! Ever hear of the Americans With Disabilities Act!?
Precisely!!!! Thank you @kairyssdal.bsky.social
August 28, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Precisely!!!! Thank you @kairyssdal.bsky.social
More idiocy @democraticparty.bsky.social. Refusing to admit that the arms the US is handing the government of Israel are being used in a genocide is stupidity. The US is totally F****d.
DNC Votes Down “Overwhelming Popular Position” Calling for Arms Ban to Israel
theintercept.com/2025/08/26/d...
DNC Votes Down “Overwhelming Popular Position” Calling for Arms Ban to Israel
theintercept.com/2025/08/26/d...
DNC Votes Down “Overwhelming Popular Position” Calling for Arms Ban to Israel
The weapons ban resolution was put forward by a first-time DNC member to represent the views of younger party members.
theintercept.com
August 28, 2025 at 2:35 PM
More idiocy @democraticparty.bsky.social. Refusing to admit that the arms the US is handing the government of Israel are being used in a genocide is stupidity. The US is totally F****d.
DNC Votes Down “Overwhelming Popular Position” Calling for Arms Ban to Israel
theintercept.com/2025/08/26/d...
DNC Votes Down “Overwhelming Popular Position” Calling for Arms Ban to Israel
theintercept.com/2025/08/26/d...
Why didn't our elected Democrat Elites mitigate the risks that these Christian-nationalist, are now into exploiting to threaten all American people, @pelosi.house.gov? www.thecut.com/article/pete...
We Should All Fear Pete Hegseth’s Anti-Woman Pastor
Ex-members of the fringe Christian church he supports have tried to warn us.
www.thecut.com
August 25, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Why didn't our elected Democrat Elites mitigate the risks that these Christian-nationalist, are now into exploiting to threaten all American people, @pelosi.house.gov? www.thecut.com/article/pete...
@jonathancapehart.bsky.social I listened to you this evening on @pbsnews.org, and while I understand your position, I have to respectfully disagree. You fail to take into account the fact that Democrats and Republicans have blocked reapportionment reform for nearly a century now.
August 8, 2025 at 11:14 PM
@jonathancapehart.bsky.social I listened to you this evening on @pbsnews.org, and while I understand your position, I have to respectfully disagree. You fail to take into account the fact that Democrats and Republicans have blocked reapportionment reform for nearly a century now.
@governor.ny.gov and @governor.ca.gov if you actually want to do good for Americans, you would be advocating for repeal and replacement of the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929 instead of advocating for less democracy by forcing political gerrymandering on citizens of your states.
August 8, 2025 at 8:29 PM
@governor.ny.gov and @governor.ca.gov if you actually want to do good for Americans, you would be advocating for repeal and replacement of the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929 instead of advocating for less democracy by forcing political gerrymandering on citizens of your states.
Wondering why Americans are not demanding that our political elites and the people who run our news media talk about the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929 while we are listening to all this chazerai conversation about how Texas' state government is working right now.
August 7, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Wondering why Americans are not demanding that our political elites and the people who run our news media talk about the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929 while we are listening to all this chazerai conversation about how Texas' state government is working right now.
Yet again, Microsoft has shown that it is a company that should not be allowed to exist.
Global hack on Microsoft product hits U.S., state agencies, researchers say
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Global hack on Microsoft product hits U.S., state agencies, researchers say
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Global hack on Microsoft product hits U.S., state agencies, researchers say
Unknown attackers exploited a “significant vulnerability” in Microsoft’s SharePoint collaboration software, hitting targets around the world.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 21, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Yet again, Microsoft has shown that it is a company that should not be allowed to exist.
Global hack on Microsoft product hits U.S., state agencies, researchers say
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Global hack on Microsoft product hits U.S., state agencies, researchers say
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Just in case anyone thought that LGBTQIA+ people had equal rights to heteros:
www.advocate.com/news/catholi...
www.advocate.com/news/catholi...
Catholic school fires Louisiana band director after husband's obituary reveals he is gay
It’s just a stab in the back,” the 63-year-old band director told local media.
www.advocate.com
July 3, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Just in case anyone thought that LGBTQIA+ people had equal rights to heteros:
www.advocate.com/news/catholi...
www.advocate.com/news/catholi...
Carsie Blanton's album, After the Revolution keeps coming to mind, and I vote for it's becoming the album of the summer of 2025.
I mean, "I'm swimmin' in the Pool," lookin' f###kin' glamorous...
open.spotify.com/album/1Ijlvw...
I mean, "I'm swimmin' in the Pool," lookin' f###kin' glamorous...
open.spotify.com/album/1Ijlvw...
After the Revolution
Carsie Blanton · Album · 2024 · 12 songs
open.spotify.com
June 5, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Carsie Blanton's album, After the Revolution keeps coming to mind, and I vote for it's becoming the album of the summer of 2025.
I mean, "I'm swimmin' in the Pool," lookin' f###kin' glamorous...
open.spotify.com/album/1Ijlvw...
I mean, "I'm swimmin' in the Pool," lookin' f###kin' glamorous...
open.spotify.com/album/1Ijlvw...
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/de...
Demand that The US House be expanded to at least 1000 members
Because our current federal government has grown completely unresponsive to the American people, we have to force change on our elected Elites.
This is not a partisan issue. This is an American...
sign.moveon.org
April 2, 2025 at 7:47 PM
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/de...
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/de...
Demand that The US House be expanded to at least 1000 members
Because our current federal government has grown completely unresponsive to the American people, we have to force change on our elected Elites.
This is not a partisan issue. This is an American...
sign.moveon.org
March 26, 2025 at 7:40 PM
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/de...
Why didn't any of our Democratic leaders pay attention to this proposal back in 2021 when it was published, and Nancy Pelosi was running the US House? If they had, would the US and its citizens be in the mess it's now in?
www.amacad.org/ourcommonpur...
www.amacad.org/ourcommonpur...
The Case for Enlarging the House of Representatives
www.amacad.org
March 4, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Why didn't any of our Democratic leaders pay attention to this proposal back in 2021 when it was published, and Nancy Pelosi was running the US House? If they had, would the US and its citizens be in the mess it's now in?
www.amacad.org/ourcommonpur...
www.amacad.org/ourcommonpur...