Wiry
@wiryarky.bsky.social
PA born. Arky by circumstance. Ret med tech, grammy and unrepentant elderly white hippie. Disappointed in my country. Fan of books, blues, science, dogs & the Hogs.🐗 Support PBS & NPR! Adopt, don’t shop.🐾
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FIFA Ethics, an oxymoron.
NEWS:
Official complaint received by FIFA Ethics Committee, alleges “repeated breaches” of FIFA’s duty of political neutrality by Gianni Infantino, all in relation to President Trump. It also requests investigation into internal process behind Trump’s Peace Prize
www.nytimes.com/athletic/687...
Official complaint received by FIFA Ethics Committee, alleges “repeated breaches” of FIFA’s duty of political neutrality by Gianni Infantino, all in relation to President Trump. It also requests investigation into internal process behind Trump’s Peace Prize
www.nytimes.com/athletic/687...
Gianni Infantino accused of breaching FIFA’s ethics codes in relation to President Trump comments
Advocacy group FairSquare has also requested an investigation into President Trump being awarded the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize last Friday.
www.nytimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:33 PM
FIFA Ethics, an oxymoron.
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December 8, 2025
December 8, 2025
Last Wednesday, December 3, a reporter asked President Donald J.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:33 AM
December 8, 2025
In honor of his birthday today, here’s Junior Wells playing with Buddy Guy on Letterman in 1984.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Chxs...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Chxs...
Buddy Guy and Junior Wells-Messin With The Kid
YouTube video by Mikemoto’s World
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December 9, 2025 at 3:53 PM
In honor of his birthday today, here’s Junior Wells playing with Buddy Guy on Letterman in 1984.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Chxs...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Chxs...
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Blues great Junior Wells (d. 1998) was born December 9, 1934 at Memphis.
Raised at West Memphis, Arkansas.
youtu.be/47djAb6jVJk
Raised at West Memphis, Arkansas.
youtu.be/47djAb6jVJk
Junior Wells Hoodoman Blues
YouTube video by Thom Pernice
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December 9, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Blues great Junior Wells (d. 1998) was born December 9, 1934 at Memphis.
Raised at West Memphis, Arkansas.
youtu.be/47djAb6jVJk
Raised at West Memphis, Arkansas.
youtu.be/47djAb6jVJk
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“.. Of 26 brands, .. Jeep, and Tesla are the least reliable for used cars ..”
@consumerreports.org $TSLA
www.consumerreports.org/cars/which-b...
@consumerreports.org $TSLA
www.consumerreports.org/cars/which-b...
December 9, 2025 at 2:08 AM
“.. Of 26 brands, .. Jeep, and Tesla are the least reliable for used cars ..”
@consumerreports.org $TSLA
www.consumerreports.org/cars/which-b...
@consumerreports.org $TSLA
www.consumerreports.org/cars/which-b...
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Silence is not neutral.
December 8, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Silence is not neutral.
After reading about the shitshow at SCOTUS today, this illustration came to mind.
My new illustration for Vanity Fair.
From left to right: Mitch McConnell, Elon Musk, JD Vance, John Roberts, Donald Trump.
Huge thanks to AD Emily Crawford and editor of creative development David Friend.
#frankenstein #project2025 #donaldtrump
From left to right: Mitch McConnell, Elon Musk, JD Vance, John Roberts, Donald Trump.
Huge thanks to AD Emily Crawford and editor of creative development David Friend.
#frankenstein #project2025 #donaldtrump
December 9, 2025 at 1:08 AM
After reading about the shitshow at SCOTUS today, this illustration came to mind.
We mustn’t have any of that independence stuff going on in our independent agencies.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court seems likely to expand the president's power and back President Trump's firing of independent-agency board members.
The Supreme Court seems likely to back Trump's power to fire independent agency board members
The Supreme Court seems likely to expand presidential control over independent federal agencies, signaling support for President Donald Trump’s firing of board members.
bit.ly
December 8, 2025 at 7:02 PM
We mustn’t have any of that independence stuff going on in our independent agencies.
The Ellisons.
The Trumps.
Jared Kushner.
Saudi money.
What could possibly go wrong?
The Trumps.
Jared Kushner.
Saudi money.
What could possibly go wrong?
"Affinity Partners, the private equity firm led by Jared Kushner, is part of Paramount's hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros Discovery."
After Trump Vow to Intervene, Kushner Linked to Paramount's Hostile Bid for Warner Bros.
"The correct option is neither Paramount nor Netflix buy Warner," said one antitrust advocate.
www.commondreams.org
December 8, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The Ellisons.
The Trumps.
Jared Kushner.
Saudi money.
What could possibly go wrong?
The Trumps.
Jared Kushner.
Saudi money.
What could possibly go wrong?
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People are not prepared for what the end of a nonpartisan civil service will be like.
December 8, 2025 at 12:22 AM
People are not prepared for what the end of a nonpartisan civil service will be like.
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The people who think the Bible, which was written by mystics, priests, and poets, means only what it literally says are the same people who think the Constitution, which was written by lawyers, cannot possibly mean what it literally says.
Exactly. If they meant freed people, they would have written, "freed people." Instead, they wrote, "all persons" because they meant all persons.
This debate is idiotic.
This debate is idiotic.
December 7, 2025 at 9:20 PM
The people who think the Bible, which was written by mystics, priests, and poets, means only what it literally says are the same people who think the Constitution, which was written by lawyers, cannot possibly mean what it literally says.
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Sun Dec 7 the Sol Roots trio performs on historic U Street in Washington D.C.
"an award-winning blend of upbeat Jazz & Funk, deep Blues & Soul, heartfelt R&B, & hypnotic rhythms"
A weekly evening concert in the heart of the historic D.C. jazz & soul U Street corridor.
message for more details.
"an award-winning blend of upbeat Jazz & Funk, deep Blues & Soul, heartfelt R&B, & hypnotic rhythms"
A weekly evening concert in the heart of the historic D.C. jazz & soul U Street corridor.
message for more details.
December 7, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Sun Dec 7 the Sol Roots trio performs on historic U Street in Washington D.C.
"an award-winning blend of upbeat Jazz & Funk, deep Blues & Soul, heartfelt R&B, & hypnotic rhythms"
A weekly evening concert in the heart of the historic D.C. jazz & soul U Street corridor.
message for more details.
"an award-winning blend of upbeat Jazz & Funk, deep Blues & Soul, heartfelt R&B, & hypnotic rhythms"
A weekly evening concert in the heart of the historic D.C. jazz & soul U Street corridor.
message for more details.
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Blues musician Marcus “Mookie” Cartwright’s birthday.
Holly Grove, Arkansas native is one of several excellent younger bluesmen out there today.
Pic 1: At the Helena Rotary Club in 2011 (he was still in high school) & (2) at Clarksdale in 2016.
youtu.be/UYY11i7rDPg?...
Holly Grove, Arkansas native is one of several excellent younger bluesmen out there today.
Pic 1: At the Helena Rotary Club in 2011 (he was still in high school) & (2) at Clarksdale in 2016.
youtu.be/UYY11i7rDPg?...
December 7, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Blues musician Marcus “Mookie” Cartwright’s birthday.
Holly Grove, Arkansas native is one of several excellent younger bluesmen out there today.
Pic 1: At the Helena Rotary Club in 2011 (he was still in high school) & (2) at Clarksdale in 2016.
youtu.be/UYY11i7rDPg?...
Holly Grove, Arkansas native is one of several excellent younger bluesmen out there today.
Pic 1: At the Helena Rotary Club in 2011 (he was still in high school) & (2) at Clarksdale in 2016.
youtu.be/UYY11i7rDPg?...
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December 6, 2025
December 6, 2025
On the sunny Sunday morning of December 7, 1941, Messman Doris Miller had served breakfast aboard the USS West Virginia, stationed in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and was collecting laundry when the first of...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 4:54 AM
December 6, 2025
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Birthright citizenship is the explicit text of the Constitution. It's not open to interpretation. Anyone willing to eliminate it is willing to eliminate anything and everything else the Constitution explicitly provides.
Please note that any "centrist" pundit who blithely discusses the "merits" of arguments for eliminating birthright citizenship is either a fascist enabling fascism or a clueless clown enabling fascism.
December 7, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Birthright citizenship is the explicit text of the Constitution. It's not open to interpretation. Anyone willing to eliminate it is willing to eliminate anything and everything else the Constitution explicitly provides.
“It’s the kind of thing we see happening in third world countries and authoritarian governments.”
Like the United States, then.
Like the United States, then.
Somali American U.S. citizen grabbed & detained by Trump’s ICE goons for 24 hours, “sexually assaulted her and said what could you be hiding under your hijab?”
December 6, 2025 at 7:59 PM
“It’s the kind of thing we see happening in third world countries and authoritarian governments.”
Like the United States, then.
Like the United States, then.
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Roy Orbison - Oh, Pretty Woman (Monument Concert 1965)
YouTube video by RoyOrbisonVEVO
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December 6, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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youtube.com/watch?v=f8iv... Dave Brubeck Live on The Ed Sullivan Show
Dave Brubeck Quartet "I'm In A Dancing Mood" on The Ed Sullivan Show
YouTube video by The Ed Sullivan Show
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December 6, 2025 at 4:22 PM
youtube.com/watch?v=f8iv... Dave Brubeck Live on The Ed Sullivan Show
Again, this regime shoots itself (and our country) in the foot. This is some foolish and scary shit.
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Again, this regime shoots itself (and our country) in the foot. This is some foolish and scary shit.
BOTD in 1920 (d. 2012)
Jazz pianist & composer Dave Brubeck, founder of the legendary Dave Brubeck Quartet.
He famously refused some gigs in the South when promoters asked him to leave bassist Eugene Wright behind.
My kind of guy.
Here playing the timeless ‘Take Five’.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=tT9E...
Jazz pianist & composer Dave Brubeck, founder of the legendary Dave Brubeck Quartet.
He famously refused some gigs in the South when promoters asked him to leave bassist Eugene Wright behind.
My kind of guy.
Here playing the timeless ‘Take Five’.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=tT9E...
Dave Brubeck - Take Five
YouTube video by Tori Chitic
m.youtube.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:58 PM
BOTD in 1920 (d. 2012)
Jazz pianist & composer Dave Brubeck, founder of the legendary Dave Brubeck Quartet.
He famously refused some gigs in the South when promoters asked him to leave bassist Eugene Wright behind.
My kind of guy.
Here playing the timeless ‘Take Five’.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=tT9E...
Jazz pianist & composer Dave Brubeck, founder of the legendary Dave Brubeck Quartet.
He famously refused some gigs in the South when promoters asked him to leave bassist Eugene Wright behind.
My kind of guy.
Here playing the timeless ‘Take Five’.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=tT9E...
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