Amelia
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Amelia
@amelialb.bsky.social
retired middle school teacher, artist, i study history politics culture society, i’m usually making something
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January 2, 2026 at 6:54 PM
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Didn't know that about Lenny's Mass and the Kennedy center!

His words after JFK's murder are notable.

"This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before."

leonardbernstein.com/lectures/spe...
An Artist's Response to Violence | Speeches | Lectures/Scripts/Writings | Leonard Bernstein
This will be our reply to violence.
leonardbernstein.com
January 2, 2026 at 4:08 PM
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In response to Trump’s threat, Ali Shamkhani, an adviser to the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, warned that Iran’s national security was a “red line, not material for adventurist tweets”

“Any intervening hand nearing Iran security on pretexts will be cut off with a regret-inducing response”
January 2, 2026 at 4:23 PM
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sorry to grimpost so soon into the year but we truly gotta fight back against the people who are proudly encouraging use of the mistake generator and that's going to mean criticising some people we formerly respected as people who like the idea of science or truth or evidence
January 1, 2026 at 7:16 AM