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oliver2g.bsky.social
@oliver2g.bsky.social
Music omnivore, Anti-fascist
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but seriously if you want to know how the Trump Kennedy Center Honors went here’s my report from the night-of
Trump’s Very Weird Night at the Kennedy Center Honors
The president and I both got our heart’s desire. But something felt wrong.
www.theatlantic.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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JD Vance’s profundity is not limited to giving white people permission to not apologize for their whiteness
December 23, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:
WATCH: Segment CBS News Pulled From "60 Minutes"
YouTube video by Phil Lewis
www.youtube.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Painting by John Cage.
December 22, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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the vice president is a klansman
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 21, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Read this.
December 18, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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What caught my ears in 2025? Contemporary classical albums of the year, here:
purlis.substack.com/p/purposeful...
Purposeful Listening 5: Albums of the year, LCMF at Wigmore, London Sinfonietta play Grisey
Collate/curate
purlis.substack.com
December 18, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Wadada Leo Smith was born in Leland, Mississippi on this day in 1941. He turns 84 today.

📸 Jeff Caltabiano, NYC, 1.17.18, Deerhoof w. WLS
December 18, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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Born of a deep sense of personal and generational responsibility, Patti Smith’s 'Horses' is a landmark album that continues to shatter and rearrange the rock ‘n’ roll paradigm 50 years on. Wrote about it here. ⬇️
December 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Yo La Tengo, “Gimme Some Money”
12/15/25. Bowery Ballroom
December 17, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Happy 100th birthday Wozzeck!
December 15, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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D'Angelo And The Vanguard released ‘Black Messiah’ 11 years ago on December 15, 2014 | Listen to the album + revisit our tribute here: album.ink/DAngeloVngrdBM
December 15, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama.

Us: Across your entire career?

Reiner: In a 6 year period.

Us: That sounds-

Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.
December 15, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Good olde fashioned Christmas music

tidal.com/album/476364...
Anonymous 4 - On Yoolis Night - Medieval Carols & Motets
Listen to On Yoolis Night - Medieval Carols & Motets on TIDAL
tidal.com
December 13, 2025 at 2:44 PM
New Monk out today:

tidal.com/album/467442...
Thelonious Monk - Bremen 1965
Listen to Bremen 1965 on TIDAL
tidal.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Welsh musician Carwyn Ellis recorded this album in 2016. It is awesome. tidal.com/track/453440...
Bendith, Plu & Carwyn Ellis - Dinas
Listen to Dinas on TIDAL
tidal.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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This report is harrowing.
I asked the Pentagon about Pete Hegseth's mentor. Then the threats started.
Journalism in the second Trump administration gets personal.
www.motherjones.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Perfect
December 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Hot off the keyboard and gifted:

Hegseth has to go.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Pete Hegseth Needs to Go—Now
A man with such contempt for the military should not run the Pentagon.
www.theatlantic.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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“Real scientist are delighted when they find out they wrong... There are too many people in this world who want to be right. And too few who just want to know.”

― Brian Cox
December 2, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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To begin with today, happy 117th anniversary to this entirely reasonable cat
November 28, 2025 at 9:13 AM