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rootsafoot.bsky.social

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2 of 2 10pm-2am tonight,Alison Krauss, I'm With Her, Nanci Griffith from Storms, Brendan Nolan, Susan Kane, Aerialists, The Drifters, The Staple Singers, jazz singer Greetje Bijma, Stephen Peter Rodgers, Della Mae, acoustic music from The Allman Brothers, Parliament, The Spinners, Mahalia Jackson

10pm-2am tonight, 4 hours of roots, trad and folk music, Emily Scott Robinson, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, J. Earle Hines, The Indigo Girls (acoustic), protest singer Donna Theresa, Toots and the Maytals, Karen & The Sorrows, Kate Rusby, poet Robyn Rowland & harpist Lynn Saoirse, Off the Beaten Path wbrs

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This is absolutely *superb*, deeply engaged with Newman and Cool Hand Luke, but also about what makes a star an auteur, and what may be missing from star vehicles today. I just loved it. Angelica is a hell of a writer.

Angelica Jade Bastién@angelicabastien.bsky.social

I wrote about Paul Newman, what makes a star-auteur, the kinds of faces I miss in cinema lately, and how seeing a great movie can become a spiritual experience. Thanks to @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social for existing. No paywall, everybody can read, baby. angelicabastien.substack.com/p/watching-c...

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Revoking kids' visas because their parents criticized Elon Musk.

Jameel Jaffer@jameeljaffer.bsky.social

This wild document is the basis for the State Department's decision to cancel the visas and green cards of tech researchers who study the social media platforms and of tech regulators who enforce privacy and transparency laws. Disclosed to us last night in @thecoalition.bsky.social v. Rubio.

Sandy Sheehan, his store, brokedown truck, booth at festivals and his gravely voice playing old-timey music on the radio and “Old Joe Clark’s”, never been there, but a place of legend, so important to Boston in the lean years, through the “great folk scare” and darn near until Sandy died. Miss him

Tony Rice (from the Gordon Lightfoot collection), David Mallet from Celebration, performers signing The Ukrainians songs, Kimie Miner, The Horsenecks, classical guitarist Andrew York, Adrian Legg, Dan Tyminski playing Tony Rice, Susan Anders, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Matt Watroba…

Tonight 4 hours of roots, trad and folk, 10pm-2am Off the Beaten Path (11/8), Bukka White, The Kasambwe Brothers, from Rwanda "The Good Ones", cajun fiddler and singer Harry Choates, Pedro Vargas, Sharon Goldman, Stan Rogers with a couple of Archie Fisher songs (also a rare live cut from 1978)…

Just listened to Bernie’s full Idaho speech. He warmed up a crappy campaign speech, added some muskRat, no ideas, no plans, not even a mention of the rallies on Saturday. He is truly incompetent. These rallies are a Potemkin village that We are helping erect. All that energy that Could be harnessed

Our progressive leader

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social

Mockler: If you had to say one thing to Elon Musk and his DOGE cabal, what would it be? Warren: I would say follow the law and get the hell out of our agencies. Get the hell out of our government. Nobody elected you.

A corrupt Republican? Shocker.

ProPublica@propublica.org

Exclusive: Six sources who worked for the Air Force or in Congress told ProPublica that they had heard about Sen. Joni Ernst’s relationship with a top military official and there had been concerns about it for years.

So mango Mussolini reportedly has a sh**ting in public problem (hushed up over 40 years apparantly) and reeks such that anyone near him grimaces. And he chose a musk as his cover. You can’t make this stuff up. A whole government of wanna be he-men.

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why winning matters with Judge Nancy Gertner "When you go roaring into court and you say, “This is illegal!” and a judge responds, “Yes, it is,” you begin to create a narrative so people have a sense of what the metes and bounds of our democracy are."

slate.comA Former Federal Judge Just Beat Trump and Musk in Court. She Has Advice for the Resistance.The work of these lawsuits, of these cases, is more than just halting behaviors that are unlawful.

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Yes. Eliminating CFPB will hurt thousands of veterans, servicemembers, and their families. Over 400,000 have called CFPB since it started. They just recently got over $80M returned to members of Navy Federal Credit Union for illegal overdrafts. Now they shut it down for the rich people.

VoteVets@votevets.org

🚨FYSA: The CFPB is being shut down—a direct hit to Veterans and Military families. It protected those who've served from predatory lenders and shady fees, returning billions to those wronged. Now, that’s over. Republicans say they support the Troops—it'd be nice if they showed it.

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President Donald Trump has fired the director of the Office of Government Ethics, the agency announced Monday. The small office is an independent agency responsible for setting policies on preventing conflicts of interest for federal employees.

washingtonpost.comLive updates: Federal judge says Trump administration has been violating court orderThe latest news on President Donald Trump’s return to the White House and the new Congress.

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Carole Cadwalladr@carolecadwalla.bsky.social

This is what should be on every front page right now. What's happening in the US right now is an illegal power grab by a private citizen. IT'S A COUP. It's a digital coup. It's Musk who's leading it. The consequences are terrifying. And it's coming for us next. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

Not only is mango Mussolini the worst president ever (even before trying to dismantle our democracy) and probably the worst name businessman in history, but apparently he reaks so badly that folks wince when they are forced to be near him and they move away and reportedly it is getting worse.

The MSM is not reporting on this. If the insect is spending money on 5 ads lying about NSAID tonight he will influence lots of wavering idiots. Are rich donors preparing to spend on instant widespread response? Or better yet ads telling the truth? Please. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/nfl/n...

timesofindia.indiatimes.comReports Suggest Elon Musk Might Spend $40M on Super Bowl Ads Targeting Government Waste - The Times of IndiaSpeculation surrounds Elon Musk's potential appearance in Super Bowl LIX commercials. Rumors suggest Musk might spend $40 million on ads addressing go

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After a NY judge blocked DOGE access to Treasury data, Elon Musk just reposted a user who implied that the judge’s order should be defied ⬇️ 👇 “I don’t like the precedent it sets when you defy a judicial ruling, but I’m just wondering what other options are these judges leaving us…”

Coming up at 10pm, 4 hours of roots, trad and folk music, wbrs. Gabriel Yacoub, new Mary Chapin Carpenter, Julie Fowlis & Karine Polwart, Connie Dover, Skip Gorman, Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer with Chao Tian, a cappella group BR6 with Gershwin & Jobim, Tania Elizabeth, Off the Beaten Path, 10pm-2am

Off the Beaten Path pt.2 JAX, Tall Heights, Mike Laureanno, new from Kim Beggs, Nefesh Mountain (not the new one!), Lou Reed, Alan Jackson, Fru Skagerrak, Joan Osborne, Marla Fibish, Newfound Road, a Capella group The Dear Abbeys singing The Who, Bill Staines, Oh He Dead, Johnny B Moore, 10pm-2am

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“This abrupt change..will have devastating consequences on medical science. Many people will lose jobs, clinical trials will halt, and this will slow down progress toward cures for cancer and effective prevention of illness” “A sane government would never do this” apple.news/AuphtalGfSpy...

apple.newsNIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately — The Washington PostResearchers say it would hurt facilities that work on medical issues such as cancer research and heart disease. Elon Musk contends the old policy was ‘a ripoff.’