Dream Song 14 by John Berryman Dream Song 14 Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so.    After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns,...

Dream Song 14 by John Berryman
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A Redditor Criticized ICE. Trump Is Trying to Unmask Them by Dragging the Company to a Secret Grand Jury. An ICE summons to get the user’s identity failed. Advocates worry the move to a grand jury signals an escalation of the war on dissent.

Reddit has been ordered to appear before a grand jury as the Trump admin tries to unmask anonymous online critics. “We should be very, very, very concerned that they’ve now taken one of these to a grand jury,” EFF’s @davidgreene.bsky.social told @theintercept.com. theintercept.com/2026/04/10/...

TV anti-war ad from 1971

Using a VPN May Subject You to NSA Spying US lawmakers are pressing Tulsi Gabbard to reveal whether using a VPN that connects to overseas servers can strip Americans of their constitutional protections against warrantless surveillance.

NEW: The government tells Americans to use VPNs to protect their privacy. The government also automatically presumes communications of unknown origin are foreign. Foreign communications don't require a warrant to wiretap.

Lawmakers who've done the math want answers.

My latest @wired.com:

SCOOP. From my OUR LAND newsletter: Trump's DOJ is helping to get a convicted FBI informant tied to Russian intelligence out of prison. The lie this guy told the FBI—Joe Biden took a $5m bribe from Burisma—was the main evidence for the GOP impeachment drive. 1/2

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MN Opera’s new season features world premiere comic book adaptation. More: bringmethenews.com/minnesota-lifestyle/mn-o...

Porcelain with a Lake Superior iron with wood ash glaze.

Tremendous poem in today's @parisreview.bsky.social mail out: mailchi.mp/theparisrevi...

Trump's War If Trump campaigned as a President of peace, he has governed as the opposite

Trump calls it a war, waged by what he insists on referring to as the Department of War

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I'm tired of semantic games intended to hide moral, legal, and personal impotence, depending on what they are most concerned with at any moment.

Looks beautiful. Would love to see the production.

I haven't said anything about this before, bc in the grand scheme of horrors this only rates as an inconvenience, but since others are experiencing it:

Just three days after CBP arrested me for filming them outside Broadview on 9/27, my TSA Pre & Global Entry were suspended—and so were my wife's.

Complex score for a performance of the work on the ARP 2500

Éliane Radigue’s score for 7th Birth, 1971, one of the first compositions for the ARP 2500

Dreyer album art; navy blue with white circular center in the style of a vinyl lp.

Dreyer's Miniatures reminds me of Cage's works for prepared and toy piano:

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Immanuel Wilkins: Tiny Desk Concert YouTube video by NPR Music

Immanuel Wilkins NPR Tiny Desk Concert! Watch now: youtu.be/KcOweHh_DMI

New album "Live at the Village Vanguard, Vol. 1" out March 20: immanuelwilkins.lnk.to/LiveAtTheVil...

The US constitution is actually a pretty good legal framework when people actually follow it and there are actual consequences for violating it.

A photo of observers filming agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement after one of their vehicles got a flat tire on Feb. 5, 2026, in Minneapolis, overlaid with the headline, "“Uptick in Abductions”: ICE Ramps Up Targeting of Minneapolis Legal Observers."

“She was so scared. The terror in her voice was really, really horrible.” interc.pt/4rBWrAe

At this point I don't believe anything the DOJ comes up with anymore. The idea of them fabricating things is too plausible to me.

US military removes captain of Russian oil tanker from Scotland Authorities were informed on Tuesday morning that Georgian Avtandil Kalandadze and his colleague have departed the UK.

Interesting ... from Scotland.

"Two people have been abducted from Scotland in the middle of the night by the US military. Despite an order from our highest court that they be kept here."

www.heraldscotland.com/news/2580062...

I agree but I don't see Bondi or Patel as being any less culpable in this mess, and are equally in need of removal. Who just sent a list of extortion demands to the state of MN, and who is attempting to eliminate peaceful resistance by investigating groupchats? They're all complicit.

Vance is insulting competent ethical law enforcement and ignoring an important role of independent judicial warrants.

Antofagasta’s Lobbyists Deliver “An Outrageous Abuse” of the Congressional Review Act

It’s a little hard to sit through the video of yesterday’s Rules Committee hearing on House Joint Resolution 140, but it's worth it just to see Representative Teresa Leger Fernandez coax Pete Stauber to […]

Fighting for Canoe Country...Again Call to Action to stop another tactic to put a copper-sulfide mine in the BWCA watershed. The vote is tomorrow. This affects ALL public land, not just Minnesota.

The vote is tomorrow. Tell your elected representatives to vote NO on HJR 140. I give a short explanation why in the attached. This affects how MAGA goes after ALL public land, not just the BWCA, so please take action, no matter where you live.

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"...omnis enim ex infirmitate feritas est", De Vita Beata, III.2, 58 CE

Unfortunately, House Joint Resolution 140, the bill that would permanently strip protections from mining in the watershed of the Boundary Waters, just passed the House tonight.

This was a crushing loss. But the fight is not over.

BREAKING: The U.S. House just voted 214-208 to give a Chilean mining corporation access to tens of thousands of acres of national forest lands surrounding the Boundary Waters Wilderness.

CALL YOUR TWO U.S. SENATORS at (202) 224-3121 and tell them both to "Vote NO on House Joint Resolution 140!"

And here we are: the entire transatlantic alliance is now talking about Greenland, instead of talking about ending the war in Ukraine.

Luna tweet: In July 2025, I formally referred Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to the Department of Justice for potential perjury and false statements to Congress and senior administration officials. I laid out, in detail, how Jerome Powell lied under oath to Congress and misrepresented RTing one from July 21, 2025: I have formally referred Jerome Powell to the DOJ for criminal investigation. Chairman Powell knowingly misled both Congress and executive branch officials about the true nature of a taxpayer-funded project.

Ana Paulina Luna, who has been cozying up with several Russian handlers of late, takes credit for the Powell investigation.

reminds me of when our daughter started using "willn't" which led me to an interesting etymological lesson.

George Morrison Painted a Different Picture of Abstract Expressionism The Ojibwe artist was active in New York's midcentury art scene and embraced by fellow Abstract Expressionists, yet he’s rarely in canonical histories today.

George Morrison’s heavily impastoed surfaces set him apart from his New York contemporaries, many of whom were exploring paint as a liquid medium to be poured (Pollock and Helen Frankenthaler) or applied in thin washes so the hand is not evident (Ad Reinhardt and Mark Rothko).

american honey persimmons, painted by amanda almira newton, 1906

american honey persimmons, painted by amanda almira newton, 1906