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How the autobiography of a Muslim slave is challenging an American narrative
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
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July 26, 2025 at 12:21 AM
May the joy you shared with so many now return to you a thousand fold, Gary. With gratefulness from a one-time young public school music student. You took the time to bring Flight of the Bumblebee to the working class kids. Gratitude and respect for your caring 🙏🎶❤️. www.violinist.com/blog/scottsl...
Remembering Bassist Gary Karr (1941-2025)
For those who haven't heard, the great double bass soloist Gary Karr died Wednesday of a brain aneurysm. He had been recently diagnosed with aggressive brain cancer. He was 83. I know this is a violi...
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July 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Two Set denied entry?!? Seriously????! Smh.

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Visa Trouble Postpones TwoSet Violin's U.S. West Coast Tour Plans
TwoSet Violin has been forced to postpone five of its <a href="https://worldtour.twosetviolin.com/">World Tour concerts</a> scheduled for July in the United States, due to the rejection of violinist B...
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July 13, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Coming for the musicians performing pro bono…..?!? www.beaconjournal.com/story/news/l...
'Humiliating and traumatizing': Czech musician set to perform in Kent detained, sent home
A Czech musician and former Kent State student was scheduled to perform several U.S. concerts. Instead, he was detained in Detroit and denied entry.
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July 9, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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July 3, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Egregious And how does this improve our national security ? The ripples from this across many lives in time will be heartrending

Intgrity, and lack thereof, matters
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From the ICE_Raids community on Reddit: ICE sending an interpreter to his death
Posted by Livid_Discount9140 - 824 votes and 43 comments
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June 14, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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These are the people that make America great 🇲🇽🇺🇸
June 13, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Hearing Loss, Incident Parkinson Disease, and Treatment With Hearing Aids

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June 12, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Music. The universal language. Bonus points for singing while you play bsky.app/profile/in-o...
in-otter-news.bsky.social In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · Jun 10
This is the most beautiful music I’ve ever heard!! 😍
June 11, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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there’s a lot of talk about how “gnarly” things are in L.A. right now. not at this interfaith vigil a few blocks from the protest. this is nice. ❤️
June 11, 2025 at 1:18 AM
But yes by all means stop funding to PBS. Emotional and musical intelligence is not of value in today’s world or in the USA so why teach such useless stuff to children? (Or maybe send the policy makers for some remedial stuff they can use?) youtu.be/U_hdCugr4-c?...
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg - Sesame Street
YouTube video by NSS Music
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June 8, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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Kabul at risk of becoming first modern city to run out of water, report warns
NGO says Afghan capital’s 7 million people face existential crisis that world needs urgently to address
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June 7, 2025 at 11:14 AM
“Americans are not infants: they can handle complex and challenging historical narratives. They do not need to be protected from the truth.”

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National Park Service removes references to Harriet Tubman from ‘Underground Railroad’ webpage | CNN
An image of and quote from Harriet Tubman have been removed from a National Parks webpage about the “Underground Railroad,” following several prominent changes to government websites under the Trump a...
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April 7, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Public education is important and should be a priority. How many have the basic literacy across disciplines to grasp this and what is happening?

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This is the dubious way Trump calculated his ‘reciprocal’ tariffs | CNN Business
President Donald Trump’s massive tariffs announced on dozens of nations Wednesday were pitched as “reciprocal,” matching what other countries charge the United States dollar for dollar, even taking in...
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April 4, 2025 at 8:49 AM
So much winning and greatness and growling tummies…..

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$722K in food shipments to East Tennessee food bank canceled by U.S. Department of Agriculture
Twenty-one tractor-tailer loads of food coming to East Tennessee were canceled by the United State Department of Agriculture, Second Harvest Food Bank of East Tennessee shared.
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March 31, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Military personnel have a unique role in society. As veterans they have unique medical and health needs.

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Veterans Affairs Research Under Threat
This Viewpoint discusses the critical importance of continued funding for the intramural research program in the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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March 29, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Yes, you ARE good, COL Harvey.

Valor and dedicated service and excellence. Period.

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One of the Last Surviving Tuskegee Airmen Remembers Struggle for Recognition Amid Trump's DEI Purge
Col. James H. Harvey III, 101, was one of four Tuskegee Airmen who won the first U.S. Air Force Gunnery Meet in 1949.
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March 24, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Trump and DOGE Propel V.A. Mental Health System into Turmoil www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/u...
Inside the Turmoil at the V.A. Mental Health System Under Trump
A chaotic restructuring ordered threatens to degrade services for veterans of wars in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan.
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March 22, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Oh my What frightful dream is this? www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...
ANALYSIS | U.S. could lose democracy status, says global watchdog | CBC News
Possibly defying a court order. Urging his Justice Department to prosecute nemeses. Repeatedly calling the media 'illegal.' Declaring a predecessor's pardon null and void. U.S. President Donald Trump ...
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March 19, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Thank you for your service……

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Navajo Code Talkers get "DEI" label as military info disappears under Trump order
Also vanishing: The Civil War regiment from "Glory," women pilots from WWII and a Medal of Honor winner.
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March 17, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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🐶 DOGE is also bad for dogs 🐶
March 16, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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The Alien Enemies Act, Explained
This detention and deportation power poses an alarming risk of abuse and rights violations in both wartime and peacetime.
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March 15, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Egg.cellent creative problem solving! Why stay cooped up in a problem when there are options to egg.splore and egg.spoloit. 😎🤣https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cyvemrjzq55o
March 3, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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This is Winston Churchill visiting Washington DC to request assistance in the war against Germany. Notice he is wearing a "zip suit" and not a traditional suit. This was to honor the British troops--the same reason Zelensky dresses the way he does.
March 1, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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First, they said postponed; now the meeting is canceled. That means no flu shots next year.

“'It’s a six-month production cycle,' Dr. Offit said. 'So one can only assume that we’re not picking flu strains this year.'"

Fundamentally, that's a form of mass murder.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...
F.D.A. Cancels Meeting of Vaccine Experts Scheduled to Advise on Flu Shots
The cancellation plays into fears among scientists who worry that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will use his position as health secretary to sow doubts about vaccines.
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February 27, 2025 at 8:14 PM