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2025-04-12 15:11:22

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@nprofile…f0x4 Ezra Klein made the good point that he can't even plan a podcast because the economic landscape changes so fast. Planning a business cycle? Forget about it.

2025-04-11 20:41:25

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Things are not going well when professionals speculate about your sanity. Trump is exposed for what he is--a madman.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOkLgrcB-jk

2025-04-11 17:26:55

Until this week the book on Trump was, you hit him he hits you back harder. Then the bond market lit him up--leaving him stumbling around the ring looking dazed & confused. Mike Tyson used to say 'everyone has a plan until they get hit in the face.' Trump didn't even have a plan--or maybe even a clue.

2025-04-10 13:37:15

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@nprofile…6lxc @nprofile…67np The across-the-board dishonesty of the American right is breath-taking. Getting rich off the grift is nauseating. Brooks is a poster boy for the whole sickening spectacle.

2025-04-09 14:55:05

Trump's entire so-called 'strategy' on tariffs rests on the fact that many people are economically illiterate. The media is playing along. They know better.

2025-04-09 12:56:42

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David Brooks gets paid serious bank to have his finger on the pulse of America. But he somehow missed Trump's criminal past, the impeachment trials, J6, and the 34 felony counts? He's just now coming to realize that Trump is a criminal? Most New Yorkers were aware long before Trump came down the escalator in 2015. That's 10 years ago. I once admired America. But the entire leadership class is corrupt & complicit. Appalling.

2025-04-09 12:47:53

"I should have seen this coming," says David Brooks. The senior NYT opinion writer is shocked, SHOCKED!, that Trump is a gangster. What a damning indictment of the media & the American elite. Absolutely shameful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6jwpbDCO6Y
#DavidBrooks

2025-04-07 14:18:21

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The Trump tariffs are pure extortion--and the market knows it. Wake up, MAGA.

2025-04-07 13:58:41

Trump: Tariffs
The Market: Let me introduce you to my little friend, The Bear.

2025-04-05 17:35:02

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@nprofile…0nz2 Thank you. We're with you. 🇨🇦

2025-04-05 17:35:02

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@nprofile…0nz2 Thank you. We're with you. 🇨🇦

2025-04-04 19:45:34

It's beyond belief that Trump is hosting a $1 million-a-plate dinner tonight at Mar-a-Lago after deliberately destroying trillions in wealth and firing tens of thousands of American workers. The billionaire class is truly sick & beyond satire.

2025-03-14 12:51:20

Under-reported reality: Why would anyone negotiate with Trump when he doesn't stand by his word or signature? POTUS' word is less than worthless.

2025-02-28 21:10:43

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@nprofile…v6dl Yes, if anyone had any doubts, America is officially on the side of Russia & North Korea. Couldn't be any clearer. Trump & Vance somehow managed to do it by embarrassing every American with a shred of decency. Takes talent. On the other hand, Zelensky looked like a leader.

2025-02-28 20:59:12

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@nprofile…v6dl A low point in American history. I agree--horrifying.
#Zelensky

2025-02-23 01:34:47

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@nprofile…vj00 Trump being recruited by the #KGB (also reported in the Guardian & elsewhere) would be unsurprising. Trump has been a Kremlin asset in plain sight since day one.

2025-02-21 15:09:21

Questlove continues his creative streak with a new doc on Sly Stone. Impossible to overstate the musical & cultural influence of Sly & the Family Stone -- beyond funk & soul. They even inspired #MilesDavis to change his look & musical direction.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeKg69eOsAk
#Questlove #SlyandtheFamilyStone #BlackFriday

2024-11-15 15:30:43

Weird to think that The Onion would literally be better at running the government than the incoming administration.

2024-11-03 17:56:22

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Mehdi Hasan makes the obvious point (on X) that if Biden or Harris had simulated oral sex at a rally on the eve of the election it would be wall to wall coverage on cable, front page of every paper, and 24/7 demands for them to quit the race. The debate over media bias is done. It's indisputable at this point. #complicit

2024-11-02 14:47:23

The Guardian is now running the story of over 100 hours of tape that show #Trump's close ties to #Epstein. This is based on info from author Michael Wolff, who has been offering the story to American media for weeks--with no takers. The media is #complicit.

2024-09-20 21:56:28

Yesterday it was Kamala Harris & Oprah. Today it's Tim Walz going under the hood while talking policy. The Harris - Walz campaign is proving daily that they have the vision, tactics, innovation, creativity, discipline, energy, momentum, resources, organization & will to win. This is great stuff.
#KamalaHarris #TimWalz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N-B0_OKkeg

2024-09-03 14:45:49

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@npub1jrl…krkx Seems like a big deal. Trump is a one-man crime wave.

2024-08-17 16:08:53

Kind of Blue, Miles Davis' masterpiece & 'sacred text' of jazz, was released on this day (August 17), 1959. On the iconic intro to So What?, drummer Jimmy Cobb thought he hit the cymbal too hard. It seemed to ring forever. But--like everything else on the album--it was perfection. #MilesDavis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9x6K4iKO7Rc

2024-08-17 15:50:19

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@npub1mqx…xqll Chuck Rainey. Walter Becker. Ron Carter. Charlie Haden. Depends on the day--mood. #music

2024-08-03 17:02:46

Stevie Wonder released his classic album, Innervisions, on this day (August 3) 1973. One of the singles, He's Misstra Know-It-All, is about a con-man politician. Sounds familiar, and funky AF.
#StevieWonder #SoulSaturday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roGGIreTt-4

2024-07-24 16:42:10

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@npub1v2s…mqq5 The 18-34 category should seriously scare Republicans.

2024-07-23 13:21:08

41 million members of Gen Z are eligible to vote in 2024, the most diverse & politically active generation in history. Nearly half are young people of color. Potentially a blue Democratic wave. #VoteBlue
(Source: Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning and Engagement)

2024-07-20 13:39:58

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@npub187f…zrxz A terrible loss. May her memory be an inspiration.

2024-07-06 16:19:25

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@npub1fnm…r6d9 Hillary's e-mails. Hunter's laptop. Biden's age. The media will do anything to avoid talking about the creeping fascism.

2024-06-30 14:16:57

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@npub1lzz…jhl3 "We're in a psychological war for our freedom" is as good a summary as I've seen. We have to rise above the mainstream media.

2024-06-29 13:11:01

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@npub1lzz…jhl3 A good point that, in a saner environment, should be obvious.

2024-06-23 17:07:10

Lilac blossoms on a misty #SilentSunday in #NovaScotia.
https://files.toad.social/media_attachments/files/112/667/018/337/317/227/original/5d3feb1795e31766.jpg

2024-06-11 18:06:18

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@npub1mmf…eknq The future is progressive (he said hopefully)

2024-06-10 12:41:28

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@npub1lzz…jhl3 A good refresher.

2024-06-09 17:50:05

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@npub1mqx…xqll I Got the News on #SteelyDan's Aja. Still a good song, but everything's relative.

2024-06-01 16:19:01

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@npub1y7x…jrl4 Playing for Change produce & record everything so well. I mean, damn, Cat Stevens' Peace Train sounds transcendent. It's the sound of the planet waking up singing.

2024-06-01 16:19:01

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@npub1y7x…jrl4 Playing for Change produce & record everything so well. I mean, damn, Cat Stevens' Peace Train sounds transcendent. It's the sound of the planet waking up singing.

2024-05-31 21:59:25

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@npub1v2s…mqq5 These stars are lining up just fine.

2024-05-27 12:49:49

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@npub1mqx…xqll Miles' In a Silent Way may be the most influential album of the modern era. But you could probably say that about several Miles Davis records.

2024-04-22 13:52:00

"Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch and go relay race right up to the final moment ... Humanity is in a final exam as to whether it qualifies for continuance in the Universe."
- Buckminster Fuller
#EarthDay2024

2024-04-20 16:02:48

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@npub1qal…kdvr The 80s were bad for so many reasons. But Reagan is a root cause, a poster boy. The Reagan myth is pure propaganda.

2024-04-03 00:06:50

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@npub1mmf…eknq He's a criminal.

2024-03-12 15:51:12

#JamieRaskin at the #RobertHur hearing: "This is a memory test. It's not a memory test for President Biden. It's a memory test for all America. Do we remember fascism?"

2024-02-15 00:09:03

#TheBeatles I'm Only Sleeping won a 2024 #Grammy for best video. Directed by Em Cooper, it took over 1,300 oil paintings to create a gorgeous interpretation of #Lennon's 1966 composition.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XwXliCK19Y

2024-01-27 01:35:23

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@npub19rz…a7f4 Yes, Danger Woman, the story of #EJeanCarroll
#noir

2023-12-18 18:58:04

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@npub1lnm…624t 'Light a tea & let it be.' 💙 Good read. Thanks. First time I've come across the story of Mezz Mezzrow (although Van Morrison once said Mezzrow's book, Really the Blues, changed his life).

2023-11-15 21:16:57

Sunset (5 pm local), Gallows Hill, #NovaScotia.
https://files.toad.social/media_attachments/files/111/416/628/070/076/481/original/02b920b53090f98c.jpg

2023-11-15 12:09:19

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@npub1lv4…ru5g We could use more Dean-inspired architecture.

2023-08-20 14:16:54

Morning light, #NovaScotia (ancestral home of the Mi'kmaq).
https://files.toad.social/media_attachments/files/110/922/347/734/415/541/original/caa5f82cbc777d1d.jpeg

2023-08-11 23:02:06

Michael Mann's #Thief (1981) is one of the most memorable films of that decade. Style, substance & a #TangerineDream soundtrack. #JamesCaan & #TuesdayWeld deliver knockout performances--their diner scene is a master class. Iconic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSPtl9uTtx4

2023-06-11 21:27:16

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@npub1mus…lhp7 #Awesome on #Sunday, too. 💙

2023-04-05 19:50:04

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#[0] #[1], #[2], it's all good.

2023-04-04 20:26:35

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#[0] #[1] I'm understanding why there's a movie named after #[2]

2023-04-04 17:57:55

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#[0] #[1] #[2] Good selection 😎

2023-04-04 00:24:30

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Some are calling for #[0] to resign. She should. But #[1] segments are collaborative processes. Producers are involved. Things don't happen by accident. The final product is what the producers were aiming for. That's how TV works.

2023-04-03 23:43:26

#[0] didn't make a mistake. #[1] wasn't fooled by #[2] That went according to plan. That's where we're at.
#[3] #[4] #[5]

2023-04-02 00:46:05

MTG needs counselling, not a 60 Minutes profile. The media is complicit.
#[0] #[1]

2023-03-31 15:18:12

Percussionist Ms Bobbye Hall is one of the most under-appreciated performers in all of #[0]. Who has she played with? #[1] #[2] #[3] #[4] #[5] #[6] #[7] #[8] #[9] for a start. She's been overlooked due to #[10] #[11] & all the other #[12]. What a beautiful #[13] 💙
#[14] #[15]
#[16]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLdaPH40Pk8

2023-03-31 12:50:35

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#[0] Finally the tables are starting to turn / Talking about a revolution 💙 🎵