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New in PN: The regime wants to turn artists into performing monkeys
"Freedom of speech and freedom of expression is the right to criticize the ruler. But it’s also the right to not play jazz vibraphone if you don’t want to — not even if the ruler says you must for his greater glory."
"Freedom of speech and freedom of expression is the right to criticize the ruler. But it’s also the right to not play jazz vibraphone if you don’t want to — not even if the ruler says you must for his greater glory."
The regime wants to turn artists into performing monkeys
But freedom of speech includes freedom to not praise the king.
www.publicnotice.co
December 30, 2025 at 1:11 PM
New in PN: The regime wants to turn artists into performing monkeys
"Freedom of speech and freedom of expression is the right to criticize the ruler. But it’s also the right to not play jazz vibraphone if you don’t want to — not even if the ruler says you must for his greater glory."
"Freedom of speech and freedom of expression is the right to criticize the ruler. But it’s also the right to not play jazz vibraphone if you don’t want to — not even if the ruler says you must for his greater glory."
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The “fun” thing about the kennedy center freakout is that conservatives have been carving out “creative” exceptions to anti discrimination laws so they can be bigots to ordinary people just trying to make a purchase, but if actual artists don’t want to perform for the god king they must be punished
December 30, 2025 at 1:42 PM
The “fun” thing about the kennedy center freakout is that conservatives have been carving out “creative” exceptions to anti discrimination laws so they can be bigots to ordinary people just trying to make a purchase, but if actual artists don’t want to perform for the god king they must be punished
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“Financially devastating but morally exhilarating.”
“Losing my integrity would cost me more than any paycheck.”
— Performers on canceling Kennedy Center gigs, showing far more integrity than wealthy executives at CBS and ABC news organizations.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/a...
“Losing my integrity would cost me more than any paycheck.”
— Performers on canceling Kennedy Center gigs, showing far more integrity than wealthy executives at CBS and ABC news organizations.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/a...
New Year’s Eve Concerts at Kennedy Center Are Canceled
www.nytimes.com
December 30, 2025 at 2:33 AM
“Financially devastating but morally exhilarating.”
“Losing my integrity would cost me more than any paycheck.”
— Performers on canceling Kennedy Center gigs, showing far more integrity than wealthy executives at CBS and ABC news organizations.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/a...
“Losing my integrity would cost me more than any paycheck.”
— Performers on canceling Kennedy Center gigs, showing far more integrity than wealthy executives at CBS and ABC news organizations.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/a...
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another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
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Bullshit. I served in Congress with Mike Turner. He knows what side Trump is on. He knows Trump is on Putin’s side. He just doesn’t have the guts to say that publicly.
KARL: What side of Russia-Ukraine is Trump on?
GOP REP. MIKE TURNER: I, you know, clearly, ummp, Trump is on the side of peace
GOP REP. MIKE TURNER: I, you know, clearly, ummp, Trump is on the side of peace
December 28, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Bullshit. I served in Congress with Mike Turner. He knows what side Trump is on. He knows Trump is on Putin’s side. He just doesn’t have the guts to say that publicly.
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Problem is with impeachment power in a partisan Congress. It's a gun with no bullets; the idea that the electorate empowered a sovereign for four years, and it is anti-democratic to remove him, is so powerful (and so dumb) that you can never really crack his party and get the votes for conviction.
All time most incompetent political party
December 28, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Problem is with impeachment power in a partisan Congress. It's a gun with no bullets; the idea that the electorate empowered a sovereign for four years, and it is anti-democratic to remove him, is so powerful (and so dumb) that you can never really crack his party and get the votes for conviction.
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Anthony Theakston Sculpts a Spirited Flock of Bronze and Ceramic #Birds #art #sculpture
Link for more #photos and information: www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/12/anth...
Link for more #photos and information: www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/12/anth...
December 27, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Anthony Theakston Sculpts a Spirited Flock of Bronze and Ceramic #Birds #art #sculpture
Link for more #photos and information: www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/12/anth...
Link for more #photos and information: www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/12/anth...
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"They found the coats on Thursday morning.
Fifteen winter coats. Good ones, not garbage. Hanging on the chain-link fence outside Lincoln Elementary.No note. No explanation. Just coats zipped up like ghosts waiting for bodies.
Principal Morris freaked out. Called the police. "Could be stolen"
Fifteen winter coats. Good ones, not garbage. Hanging on the chain-link fence outside Lincoln Elementary.No note. No explanation. Just coats zipped up like ghosts waiting for bodies.
Principal Morris freaked out. Called the police. "Could be stolen"
December 28, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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The guy who put a 19 year old named Big Balls in charge of gutting key government services: “experience matters when lives are at stake”
December 28, 2025 at 12:18 AM
The guy who put a 19 year old named Big Balls in charge of gutting key government services: “experience matters when lives are at stake”
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Corruption so pungent, it wafts right off the page:
Lobbyists who do pardon deals “say their going rate is $1 million. Pardon-seekers have offered some lobbyists close to the president success fees of as much as $6 million if they can close the deal.”
Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Lobbyists who do pardon deals “say their going rate is $1 million. Pardon-seekers have offered some lobbyists close to the president success fees of as much as $6 million if they can close the deal.”
Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Inside the New Fast Track to a Presidential Pardon
Even some of the president’s closest advisers have been surprised by a number of the recent series of pardons.
www.wsj.com
December 27, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Corruption so pungent, it wafts right off the page:
Lobbyists who do pardon deals “say their going rate is $1 million. Pardon-seekers have offered some lobbyists close to the president success fees of as much as $6 million if they can close the deal.”
Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Lobbyists who do pardon deals “say their going rate is $1 million. Pardon-seekers have offered some lobbyists close to the president success fees of as much as $6 million if they can close the deal.”
Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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🇨🇦 🇺🇦Canada will provide Ukraine 2.5 billion Canadian dollars - funds intended to unlock financing from the IMF, World Bank, and EBRD to begin the reconstruction process. This was announced by Prime Minister Carney.
He also condemned Russia’s overnight attack on Kyiv.
Thank you Canada ❤️
He also condemned Russia’s overnight attack on Kyiv.
Thank you Canada ❤️
December 27, 2025 at 6:08 PM
🇨🇦 🇺🇦Canada will provide Ukraine 2.5 billion Canadian dollars - funds intended to unlock financing from the IMF, World Bank, and EBRD to begin the reconstruction process. This was announced by Prime Minister Carney.
He also condemned Russia’s overnight attack on Kyiv.
Thank you Canada ❤️
He also condemned Russia’s overnight attack on Kyiv.
Thank you Canada ❤️
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Kharkiv tonight 🎄
December 27, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Kharkiv tonight 🎄
Brilliant 👏🏾
Editorial cartoonist @dennisgoris.bsky.social is exceptional.
Please follow and share (&credit his work).
Please follow and share (&credit his work).
December 25, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Brilliant 👏🏾
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From our family to yours, merry Christmas! We hope your day is filled with good people and good food.
December 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
From our family to yours, merry Christmas! We hope your day is filled with good people and good food.
❤️☕️🇺🇦
Greetings from Kyiv!
No power at home this Christmas morning,
but the cafés are open and generators are singing.
My warcoffee went home with me.
Merry Christmas!
No power at home this Christmas morning,
but the cafés are open and generators are singing.
My warcoffee went home with me.
Merry Christmas!
December 25, 2025 at 6:21 PM
❤️☕️🇺🇦
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flashes of colour on a grey day - red crested pochard, great spotted woodpecker, kingfisher ❤️🧡
December 24, 2025 at 8:21 PM
flashes of colour on a grey day - red crested pochard, great spotted woodpecker, kingfisher ❤️🧡
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This Christmas, I have just one wish for you:
Take a moment to really see the older people in your life.
Let them know they’re loved, valued, and never invisible.
Share a smile with an elder you don’t know.
Offer a warm holiday greeting.
Small gestures carry enormous power.
Love,
Lynda 🎄✨
Take a moment to really see the older people in your life.
Let them know they’re loved, valued, and never invisible.
Share a smile with an elder you don’t know.
Offer a warm holiday greeting.
Small gestures carry enormous power.
Love,
Lynda 🎄✨
December 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
This Christmas, I have just one wish for you:
Take a moment to really see the older people in your life.
Let them know they’re loved, valued, and never invisible.
Share a smile with an elder you don’t know.
Offer a warm holiday greeting.
Small gestures carry enormous power.
Love,
Lynda 🎄✨
Take a moment to really see the older people in your life.
Let them know they’re loved, valued, and never invisible.
Share a smile with an elder you don’t know.
Offer a warm holiday greeting.
Small gestures carry enormous power.
Love,
Lynda 🎄✨
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December 25, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Merry Christmas everyone! 🎄❄️🎅
Cartoon from the Toronto Star newspaper 2022.
Cartoon from the Toronto Star newspaper 2022.
December 24, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Merry Christmas everyone! 🎄❄️🎅
Cartoon from the Toronto Star newspaper 2022.
Cartoon from the Toronto Star newspaper 2022.
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Merry Christmas! Michelle and I hope you have a wonderful holiday filled with light and joy.
December 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Merry Christmas! Michelle and I hope you have a wonderful holiday filled with light and joy.
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Great blue heron
April 22nd 2024
April 22nd 2024
December 24, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Great blue heron
April 22nd 2024
April 22nd 2024
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I wrote a little thing about "Fairytale of New York" and about hope for a better year, but mostly I wanted to share the rendition of the song played at Shane MacGowan's funeral in 2023 because it's so beautiful. Happy Christmas, I love ya baby. dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
I've got a feeling / This year's for me and you | dansinker.com
dansinker.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I wrote a little thing about "Fairytale of New York" and about hope for a better year, but mostly I wanted to share the rendition of the song played at Shane MacGowan's funeral in 2023 because it's so beautiful. Happy Christmas, I love ya baby. dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
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Imagine interviewing a victim of torture and independently confirming the details of his torture and then being told you can’t broadcast it because the people who ordered the torture wouldn’t give their side of the story.
December 23, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Imagine interviewing a victim of torture and independently confirming the details of his torture and then being told you can’t broadcast it because the people who ordered the torture wouldn’t give their side of the story.
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December 23, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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