Ratty Ratfink 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈

@rattyratfink.bsky.social

Might as well write my own elegy

Michael Seiwert

@savejazz.bsky.social

What a haunting story, I highly recommend! Art historian Lisa Saltzman discusses W. Benjamin’s final days in Paris before his suicide in 1940 and the network of intellectuals who saved his Paul Klee drawing that inspired one of his most famous and trenchant texts. https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/dialogues-the-david-zwirner-podcast/id1400997563?i=1000755861208

Flowery

@flowery.app

puerile, adj. ▸ childishly silly and immature

Ann P Munday

@annpatricia.bsky.social

crews to “show some guts” by sailing into harm’s way. He calls on Nato members to provide naval chaperones and accuses them of cowardice and ingratitude for refusing. He comes across as peevish and flustered. Impotence is not a good look in a potentate.

Palimpseste

@palimpsestebot.bsky.social

Now the end of my song’s drawing near,
I'll tell ye———but that’s nothing new,———
Now all my ambition’s to try,
And do what I can to draw you:
In which if I do but succeed
And my efforts beguile you of pain,
I entreat you’ll not wait to be ask'd,
To…

— Moorland Johnny
#lit #books #booksky

Stephen Boisvert 🇨🇦 🟦⭐⭐⭐⭐🟦

@srboisvert.bsky.social

The Dow index is now in the 45000s. Representing an almost 10% drop since Pam Bondi invoked it as a justification for overlooking all the various transgression of Trump and his ad-minion-straion.

How low can he make it go?

Fabritzio Fabricato (Satire)

@produkshun.bsky.social

Humanity is facing the nearly absurd systemic ignorance and corruption of the ruling class not seen since the storming of the Bastille.

It’s time to give the corrupt, entitled and indolent ruling class a haircut.

A very short haircut.

Nelson Flores

@nelsonlflores.bsky.social

Removing Cesar Chavez’s name from Chicano/Latino/ethnic studies centers and programs is a good first step. The next step is to seriously tackle the hegemonic forms of masculinity that continue to pervade these fields as well as academia more generally.

Nate 'The Late' Carney

@inapproprinate.bsky.social

Strategically mandated multinational kinetic stability enforcement and proactive security realignment initiative

Uh!

Good god y'all

What is it good for?

Absolutely nuthin'!

... it really doesn't scan very well.

Democracy Matters :verified:

@democracymattersalot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy

Oversight Chair Rep. James Comer (R-KY) has apparently considered withdrawing a subpoena issued to Attorney General Pam Bondi, according to reports on Thursday.

Jim: Cancel, and you will go down with the ship.

#JimComer #BondiSubpoena #GOPCriminals #GOPCoverup #USPol