Dean Barker
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"Weird composer; weird way of thinking...It is rare to find someone who is mad about Schumann, but I love him very much." - Mitsuko Uchida
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Ahead of our Make Freedom Ring concert in Munich on 30th November, I speak to BR-Klassik about the situation in Gaza, the silence of the classical music industry, the responsibility to speak out as a German citizen, and the question of justice for Palestine
www.br-klassik.de/aktuell/news...
www.br-klassik.de/aktuell/news...
Michael Barenboim zu Gaza-Konflikt:
Am Sonntag gibt Michael Barenboim ein Benefizkonzert für Gaza-Hilfen. Im Interview spricht der Geiger über die Gründe für sein öffentliches Engagement und darüber, warum Konzerte Orte der Solidarität ...
www.br-klassik.de
November 27, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Ahead of our Make Freedom Ring concert in Munich on 30th November, I speak to BR-Klassik about the situation in Gaza, the silence of the classical music industry, the responsibility to speak out as a German citizen, and the question of justice for Palestine
www.br-klassik.de/aktuell/news...
www.br-klassik.de/aktuell/news...
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Your art is amazing!
Creating an Etsy to sell my paintings and prints 🤭 part of me wants to start doing commissions but I’m hella scared bro
November 27, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Your art is amazing!
Not good. Not good at all.
November 27, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Not good. Not good at all.
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That time, ~400 years ago, when Jesuits dragged a new world turkey nearly 2,000 kilometers from Goa to northern India.
Fun, but also reflective of premodern India's integration in global networks of trade and travel.
#Thanksgiving #Thanksgiving2025
Fun, but also reflective of premodern India's integration in global networks of trade and travel.
#Thanksgiving #Thanksgiving2025
November 27, 2025 at 2:18 PM
That time, ~400 years ago, when Jesuits dragged a new world turkey nearly 2,000 kilometers from Goa to northern India.
Fun, but also reflective of premodern India's integration in global networks of trade and travel.
#Thanksgiving #Thanksgiving2025
Fun, but also reflective of premodern India's integration in global networks of trade and travel.
#Thanksgiving #Thanksgiving2025
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Little dog looking out the window this morning
November 27, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Little dog looking out the window this morning
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Not because of victories
I sing,
having none,
but for the common sunshine,
the breeze,
the largess of the spring.
Not for victory
but for the day's work done
as well as I was able;
not for a seat upon the dais
but at the common table.
"Te Deum"
Charles Reznikoff
Happy Thanksgiving!
I sing,
having none,
but for the common sunshine,
the breeze,
the largess of the spring.
Not for victory
but for the day's work done
as well as I was able;
not for a seat upon the dais
but at the common table.
"Te Deum"
Charles Reznikoff
Happy Thanksgiving!
November 27, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Not because of victories
I sing,
having none,
but for the common sunshine,
the breeze,
the largess of the spring.
Not for victory
but for the day's work done
as well as I was able;
not for a seat upon the dais
but at the common table.
"Te Deum"
Charles Reznikoff
Happy Thanksgiving!
I sing,
having none,
but for the common sunshine,
the breeze,
the largess of the spring.
Not for victory
but for the day's work done
as well as I was able;
not for a seat upon the dais
but at the common table.
"Te Deum"
Charles Reznikoff
Happy Thanksgiving!
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exactly what public school advocates said would happen with vouchers, the vouchers would cut public schools and funnel money to the rich, communities would not like the cuts and raise property taxes that are far more regressive - Republicans panic and kill com control share.google/HwgtNyFjZfHm...
Reynolds considers property tax freezes for seniors as part of 2026 plan
Gov. Kim Reynolds said Tuesday that a property tax freeze for seniors is “one of the things” her campaign is looking at as it devises how to reduce property taxes in the state.
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November 27, 2025 at 2:13 PM
exactly what public school advocates said would happen with vouchers, the vouchers would cut public schools and funnel money to the rich, communities would not like the cuts and raise property taxes that are far more regressive - Republicans panic and kill com control share.google/HwgtNyFjZfHm...
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If you bring AI to Thanksgiving you have to sit at the kid’s table.
November 27, 2025 at 1:33 PM
If you bring AI to Thanksgiving you have to sit at the kid’s table.
You just died. The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
November 27, 2025 at 1:29 PM
You just died. The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
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guy who doesn't need to do anything thinks you should never give up
November 27, 2025 at 1:26 PM
guy who doesn't need to do anything thinks you should never give up
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Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!
Madonna and Jean-Michel Basquiat, Thanksgiving, 1982
📷 Glenn O'Brien
📷 Glenn O'Brien
November 27, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!
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Grateful for those who refuse to give up.
Is education a lost cause?
No, it's THE cause, the pièce de résistance of democratic living.
Give up on it, you give in to the banality and brutality of evil.
No, it's THE cause, the pièce de résistance of democratic living.
Give up on it, you give in to the banality and brutality of evil.
November 26, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Grateful for those who refuse to give up.
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It's hard work to constantly swat down any notion that the House has constitutional powers and can do stuff affecting the operations of the government.
Speaker 'barely holding it together' and 'crushed by his workload': NYT
Speaker 'barely holding it together' and 'crushed by his workload': NYT
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) made several revealing admissions about the stressful and chaotic nature of his job, according to a recent New York Times report.The Times' Annie Karni wrote in a Wednesday article that Johnson turned what was meant to be an easy interview with a friendly podcast h...
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November 27, 2025 at 4:01 AM
It's hard work to constantly swat down any notion that the House has constitutional powers and can do stuff affecting the operations of the government.
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Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action...
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
November 27, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action...
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
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"polite reminders" do not exist, all reminders are impolite
November 27, 2025 at 1:04 PM
"polite reminders" do not exist, all reminders are impolite
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This interview with Any Lucia Belloza is heartbreaking but everyone should read it. These are the lives our country is destroying.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
![“I was so happy when I got there [to Babson],” Lopez Belloza said. “I was just living the college life — going to events, going everywhere ... everything there was really great. I really loved the school."
She and her father also had a special shared aspiration. With her business degree, Lopez Belloza was going to help her father open his own tailor shop, they hoped.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:u6ajzyiqzkzbppp2x2y7fpfu/bafkreib33kpkgmvas4z6avgq62styxbzrzuawjufqyddtoynqgbiwnhtzy@jpeg)
November 27, 2025 at 10:55 AM
This interview with Any Lucia Belloza is heartbreaking but everyone should read it. These are the lives our country is destroying.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
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I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:47 AM
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
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Beagle Brother is watching!
November 27, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Beagle Brother is watching!
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Irene Cara and the most disturbing Marmaduke costume you will ever bear witness to? ONLY FROM THE MACY’S THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE...
November 22, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Irene Cara and the most disturbing Marmaduke costume you will ever bear witness to? ONLY FROM THE MACY’S THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE...
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'In the realm of the living Spirit, comrades, out of the depths of misfit mystic melancholy, the kindest souls emerge.'
November 26, 2025 at 1:23 AM
'In the realm of the living Spirit, comrades, out of the depths of misfit mystic melancholy, the kindest souls emerge.'
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macy’s thanksgiving day parade
1988
elliott erwitt
1988
elliott erwitt
November 27, 2025 at 11:18 AM
macy’s thanksgiving day parade
1988
elliott erwitt
1988
elliott erwitt