"Blues were here when the world was born." JL Hooker @Ridge_Cook on other worlds or platforms.
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Investigate the banks.
Arrest the bankers.
They knew.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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I for one welcome a nuclear-armed @uniofeastanglia
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On this 4th of July behold not the gross celebrations of corruption by those who have appropriated this day and the Government of the People for that purpose, but dwell on a future 4th when a terrible spirit of retribution floods the land, and pray it is confined to the guilty 🇺🇸
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"I had nearly five thousand volumes in my library at Rome; but after reading them over many times, I found out that with one hundred and fifty well-chosen books a man possesses, if not a complete summary of all human knowledge, at least all that a man need really know. I devoted three years of my life to reading and studying these one hundred and fifty volumes, till I knew them nearly by heart; so that since I have been in prison, a very slight effort of memory has enabled me to recall their contents as readily as though the pages were open before me. I could recite you the whole of Thucydides, Xenophon, Plutarch, Titus Livius, Tacitus, Strada, Jornandes, Dante, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Spinoza, Machiavelli, and Bossuet. I name only the most important."
The Abbè Faria, The Count of Monte Cristo
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When Trump gets me my J6 payout I won’t be tellin’ nobody, but there’ll be signs
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President Reagan meets with Rupert Murdoch and Roy Cohn in the Oval Office, 1983. Let’s not make believe we don’t know where this started.
If wannabe Nazis now confidently roam the halls of power—and the streets of American cities—it is because Republican leaders have made them feel at home. From @TheAtlantic April issue:
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Guitar 🎸 ASMR
Master Guitar builders even tune the bracing inside an Acoustic Guitar 🎸
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This killing of Alex Pretti reveals a dark truth about the administration's view of gun rights: they are not universal. They are reserved for the "right" kind of people. If you are a MAGA supporter, your gun is a symbol of freedom. If you are a protester in Minneapolis, your gun is proof of terrorism.
The "right to bear arms" has been replaced by the "privilege to bear arms," contingent on political alignment. This is the hallmark of a militia state, not a constitutional republic.
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Next Monday I will be speaking to Peterborough Theological Society on the subject of ‘Popular (and Unpopular) Christianity: Faith Negotiating Folklore’, where I will explore the question (seldom discussed these days) of how we should engage theologically with popular religion
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Republicans have sold America down the river but not for an ideology, they have none. Small, mediocre men who offered their ambition for cash and whatever projects and positions their billionaire masters in the interest of capital, have prepared them to promote. Perdition awaits.
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The thick fog making everything seem blurry and surreal. The coal truck was just a hazy form along the road, mystical and distant.
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just got out of an uber. the driver was telling me how he has to work 16 hour days, seven days a week, at two different jobs to afford rent. he doesn't have healthcare and he worries about retirement. "i would feel a lot better if we owned greenland," he told me. then he cried.
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My review for Folklore of Francis Young’s ‘Silence of the Gods: The Untold History of Europe’s Last Pagan Peoples’ is now available online ahead of publication in the journal itself. @DrFrancisYoung @FolkloreSociety tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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hands down, my favorite cartoonist is bill watterson. i developed even more respect for him when i learned his strong views against merchandising. this sort of stance is almost unheard of today, as people sell junk merch at every opportunity to maximize income
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Written by Costello, given to Dave Edmunds, before EC realised how good a song it was and recorded his own version. I prefer the more venomous Costello cut, but Edmunds’ original, featuring his Rockpile cronies, is a mighty fine slice of power pop.
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