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john banther @johnbanther.bsky.social · 16m

this is realllllllllly nice

Especially Quasthoff, they captured something special with him. and the interaction between von Otter and wiener phil is exquisite

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

“Please someone listen to me, I don’t want to die”

These are the words of a woman named Harmonie who had an ectopic pregnancy

Her obgyn refused to help, citing a
1% chance the fetus could survive

She lives in a blue state & still couldn’t access the life saving care she needed

Illinois Woman Denied Treatment for Ectopic Pregnancy

10.14.25

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john banther @johnbanther.bsky.social · 1d

It was lovely speaking with and hearing Xuefei Yang perform on Classical Breakdown. A living legend, she talked about adapting Satie’s music for guitar, her experience being the first guitar major in her country, and sheer versatility of her instrument.

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Xuefei Yang performs Erik Satie and shares insight into her new album!

Podcast Episode · Classical Breakdown · 10/14/2025 · 41m

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john banther @johnbanther.bsky.social · 4d

Listening to Sir Michael Tippet, who died in 1998 and seemed to hate technology and viewed art as something to use and push back against deleterious for humans technology. I wonder what he’d say about Palantir 😆

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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 9d

Any trans person who begins their transition today is exhibiting more courage than most people will in their entire lives.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 9d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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john banther @johnbanther.bsky.social · 9d

genocide streamed to our phones daily for years now, and we could have stopped it at any moment.

Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 10d

Greta:

"I will never comprehend how humans can be so evil. That you would deliberately starve millions of people living trapped under an illegal siege as a continuation of decades of oppression and apartheid.”

Source: Global Sumud Flotilla via X

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 10d

Greta:

"I will never comprehend how humans can be so evil. That you would deliberately starve millions of people living trapped under an illegal siege as a continuation of decades of oppression and apartheid.”

Source: Global Sumud Flotilla via X

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 11d

I believe that we are many,
And I believe that they are few.

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 11d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 13d

Every day I'm reminded that fascism can't create art.

It destroys or appropriates it.

Sam @samd.bsky.social · 13d

reddit occupied government

Ken Dilanian
@DilanianMSNBC
Follow
The challenge coins being handed out by @FBIDirectorKash. Seems someone put a lot of thought into this.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 14d

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

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john banther @johnbanther.bsky.social · 14d

The newest episode of Classical Breakdown is on Beethoven’s 3rd Symphony, Eroica!

It remains one of my favorites from him, the second movement is just out of this world. Let me know if you have a favorite moment 🎶💜 #wetaclassical

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Beethoven's Symphony No. 3

Podcast Episode · Classical Breakdown · 09/30/2025 · 1h 4m

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john banther @johnbanther.bsky.social · 14d

huh? like the food? how does that make sense at all? one of the fascinating and depressing things is reading how militaries over the millennia dealt with food, a pretty critical thing…

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 14d

UPDATE: Mikeno has stopped contact and is assumed intercepted by Israel. Not a single delivery of baby formula will reach the shores of Gaza to try and save a single child's life.

Flotilla Tracker showing the only boat to break through Isreal's illegal kidnapping has now been assumed intercepted

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john banther @johnbanther.bsky.social · 15d

I had a great time speaking with Gianandrea Noseda about Mahler and Beethoven this week at Apple Classical! His new recording of Mahler 7 with the NSO is out now and definitely worth several listens. #todayatapple

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 16d

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

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john banther @johnbanther.bsky.social · 19d

what a picture! almost surprising to think he carried it this way, but i never really thought about it.

Beth Levin @betheena.bsky.social · 20d

Gordon Parks
photo of Glenn Gould

john banther @johnbanther.bsky.social · 19d

yes, i believe his father made it when he was little. i think he played almost everything using it.

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 19d

This is pseudoscience. They are mandating the teaching of pseudoscience.

Might as well force faculty to teach that like 443 megahertz is a healihg frequency or the earth is flat or whatever.

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Texas Tech Moves to Limit Academic Discussion to 2 Genders

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john banther @johnbanther.bsky.social · 19d

A reminder! I’ll be with conductor Gianandrea Noseda this Monday evening at Apple Carnegie Library to talk about a new recording of Mahler’s Symphony No. 7, and features in the Apple Classical app.

john banther @johnbanther.bsky.social · 19d

if you lived in boston during this time period 😂

john banther @johnbanther.bsky.social · 19d

I’m getting better at least posting something that happened day of 🎶🎶

Thank you to everyone who listened and donated today during our fall pledge drive, your support means everything 💜 to us at WETA Classical

It was fun spending a few hours on air listening to music 🙂

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john banther @johnbanther.bsky.social · 21d

This is possibly the biggest episode we’ve done! Chris DeChiara played so many percussion instruments I can’t remember them all.

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The Great World of Percussion with Chris DeChiara: From bones and war drums to symphonies!

Podcast Episode · Classical Breakdown · 09/16/2025 · 1h 45m

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john banther @johnbanther.bsky.social · 21d

but what world will there be for the younger generation while those in power stand idly by enriching themselves as it burns?

john banther @johnbanther.bsky.social · 21d

violence is the language these men know and they will use it against any innocent person, woman, or child they feel like it.

Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 21d

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

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