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German late-night host Ina Müller likes to sing along with her musical guests, but, before doing so this night, Müller told singer-songwriter Anna Depenbusch: 'It's very rare that I get a song sent to me that makes me cry when I hear it.' I'll post a translation of the lyrics in Comments.

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Anna Depenbusch - Kommando Untergang liv@Inas Nacht

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Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Most of my favorite movies few people seem to have heard of. With this one, there’s no excuse: David Mamet directed the adaptation of Terence Rattigan’s classic play, and every single performance is memorable. You can watch it on YouTube for USD 3.99.

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The Winslow Boy (1999) - Trailer

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Norway produces more oil than Venezuela. And yet, between January and August 2026, electric vehicles made up 97.8 percent of all new cars sold in that country. Moving to EVs is often based on intelligence, not need. Which is why it lags in the notoriously short-sighted and stupid United States.

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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Bloody hell. A russian drone struck a building of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in central Kyiv. A fire broke out. People trapped inside had to climb out through the windows to escape. There are casualties.

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Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Why do we support these war criminals? Vote for candidates who will chart a different course.

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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In a world turned upside down by one man, it soothes my soul that my belief in people first leadership shines through the darkness to deliver a message of dissent in such a profound and meaningful way. Mayor Mamdani plants an olive tree on the porch of Gracie Mansion with families from Gaza as a

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 23/09/2026

Congratulations to @1199seiu.org and the nearly 70,000 CDPAP care workers who filed for the largest union election in American history. These workers make it possible for New Yorkers to live safely and independently at home. I’m proud to stand with them in the fight for a union.

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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A new bookstore opened in Kyiv. I visited it today. russian drones burn warehouses full of books and damage whatever they can reach. A new bookstore opened in Kyiv. russia will never win.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.

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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...

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Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I reviewed Penelope Shuttle's new collection, 'History of the Child', for The Manhattan Review. You can read that -- and all the journal's reviews -- here: themanhattanreview.com/reviews-summ...

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Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Lou Andreas-Salomé — a woman who set her own course. The 2016 film that tells her story is now available on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0uX...

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14/09/2026

Breaking News: A state-run immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades known as Alligator Alcatraz used small metal cages to confine migrants, a watchdog report said.

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‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Used Small Cages to Confine Migrants, DHS Watchdog Report Says

The Department of Homeland Security’s internal watchdog provided new details about conditions at the now-shuttered Florida detention center.

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Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Anyone who knows Edmund de Waal’s ‘The Hare with the Amber Eyes’ will be excited to see what the author makes of his discovery that his grandmother conducted a five-year-long correspondence with Rilke. More about the book here: www.penguin.co.uk/books/480401...

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Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“Does [Sergei Vasilyevich] really think we don’t know he’s writing a piano concerto?” Fifteen-year-old Vera Skalon wrote that question in her diary in the summer of 1890. She was staying in the country with the two Satina sisters and their cousin, a 17-year-old boy named Sergei Rachmaninoff.

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Rachmaninoff’s Summer of Love

Tracing the roots of one of his most popular songs

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A 40-year-old unvaccinated woman in Pennsylvania has just died from measles. There is no controversy. She needlessly died from a disease that is preventable with a vaccine. But HHS Secretary RFK Jr. thinks measles isn’t that bad. Nobody should die of measles in the United States.

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Pennsylvania woman dies of measles-related complications, local coroner says

The 40-year-old woman, who was from Jefferson County was unvaccinated, according to the coroner. The state health department is conducting a "thorough review" of the case.

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Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I told you about Cédric Klapisch's latest film earlier this year. It's now available to stream in North America and the UK. Germany's Kino-Zeit called it 'a real cinematic treat'. I'll post the US link and the trailer in Comments.

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Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Paula Beer is unforgettable as Anna in François Ozon’s ‘Frantz’, based on Maurice Rostand’s French play from 1930. Few stories about the First World War make the conflict’s tragedy as intimate and personal. Here’s the trailer: www.musicboxfilms.com/film/frantz

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Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

My favorite podcast about 'The Odyssey': Phil Cousineau and Valerie Andrews discuss the all-important question: what enables Odysseus to get home? Who are the key human and divine players? Does Nolan get that right? (Tom Holland as Telemachus.) www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2026-...

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Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The Firemen's Memorial at 100th Street and Riverside Drive. In a time when so many try to divide us, may the memory of these men and women who died for the community show us the way forward.

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Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Hayley Croke says Rooney and Kata Mara deliver a once-in-a-lifetime performance in the Werner Herzog's new film. It premiered at the Venice Film Festival last week: loudandclearreviews.com/bucking-fast...

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Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Stopped into the studio of my friend Gary Falkenstern, and my eye was drawn to this new work. I like how the colors interact and the way the shapes create a space and float in it. (Click to enlarge.) What do you think?

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Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Thomas and Katia Mann in Frankfurt in 1949. I’m enjoying David Rintoul’s magisterial reading of ‘The Magic Mountain’ — now for a second time: www.diehoren.com/2022/10/welc...

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Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

When thousands of Anna Akhmatova's readers wrote their own poems 'in honor of Akhmatova', the poet quipped: 'I have taught our women how to speak, but I don't know how to make them be silent.' Here's one of my favorite Akhmatova poems: frankbeck142138.substack.com/p/i-was-like...

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

“No matter what they do later today or tomorrow, the justices in Washington bear at least some of the responsibility for how we got here in the first place.” Me on Missouri’s mess—and the conflicting injunctions simultaneously *barring* the state from using its 2025 map and *requiring* it to do so:

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Bonus 248: Missouri’s Massive Midterm Mess

The Supreme Court can and should put an end to the mess over which map Missouri must use in November's elections. But it’s a mess of the justices’ own making.

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 08/09/2026

⚡️Update: 2-year-old girl suffers shrapnel injury in Russian attack on Kyiv Oblast. A child was injured in a Russian attack on Sept. 8 and hospitalized with a shrapnel wound to the eye, Tymur Tkachenko, head of the Kyiv Oblast Administration, said.

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Russia pounds Kyiv in overnight attack, killing 5, injuring 25, as brief truce ends in missile fire

The attack has killed at least three people and injured 16 others, according to local officials. The strike signals a definitive end to Kyiv's brief respite while hosting U.S. envoys.

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Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Thomas and Katia Mann in Frankfurt in 1949. I’m enjoying David Rintoul’s magisterial reading of ‘The Magic Mountain’ — now for a second time: www.diehoren.com/2022/10/welc...

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

“Bennett decried Netanyahu’s reaction to the warning, claiming that Netanyahu ‘did not warn the heads of the security establishment, did not prepare Israel for the attack, and did not convene the cabinet.’ ... www.jpost.com/israel-news/...

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Naftali Bennett, Yair Lapid decry Netanyahu's inaction after UAE warning of Hamas attack | The Jerusalem Post

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Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Drop that fork, America! Here's another food recall: this time for pork in 8 states. Maybe relaxing regulations and firing inspectors isn't such a good idea after all.

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Pork recall in 8 states as highest warning issued

USDA recalled pork guanciale in eight states over possible listeria contamination amid a surge in foodborne-illness cases.

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Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Stories like this are why I subscribe to the Engelsberg Ideas newsletter. It's free, and it excels in bringing us stories you may not find elsewhere. Subscription details in Comments.

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The novel in Britain: from cover to cover

Philip Hensher speaks to Alastair Benn about his new book, ‘A History of the Novel in Britain’, a stylish and very personal survey of a great tradition.

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Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The Palestinian struggle for self-determination is one of the most heroic stories of our time. Sliman Mansour, who told that story on canvas, has died at the age of 79. More in Comments.

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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The new space force uniforms are directly inspired by the uniforms from the Starship Troopers film...which were inspired by the uniforms of the Nazis that Paul Verhoeven saw occupying the Netherlands during WWII

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Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

'I was like a river that our stern age of iron pushed aside. My life was displaced. It has flowed on through different channels, far from the first one, and I no longer know my own shores . . . ' Anna Akhmatova, from Northern Elegies, No. 5

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“I was like a river”

A master poet looks back on her life

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 05/09/2026

Two-thirds of NYC’s income growth since the pandemic went to the top 1%. The richest 0.001% — about 50 families — saw their average income soar from $315 million in 2019 to nearly $600 million a year. It’s time to build a city that works for everyone.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This country was built on the opposition to tyranny...so ICE must be abolished.

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