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Kyle Kivett @kkivett.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

My favorite recording of this song I’ve ever heard. Jackson’s is iconic but this is stunning.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃 🌓 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 13/10/2026

This is doing the rounds, and I’m aware some people may not like the choices Andrew Scott has made. But my goodness. I’ve heard this speech hundreds of times and this may be the first time it’s ever truly hit me. I *felt* his horror at “ay, there's the rub”. Bravo.

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

happens literally every day

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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 10/10/2026

11-3-26: Stain Removal

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Kyle Kivett @kkivett.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This surprisingly demonstrates the harmonic complexity of Giant Steps even more clearly than the original.

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Kyle Kivett @kkivett.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

While this caption sounds like it was written by AI, his birthday is still worth celebrating, as is his singular influence.

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Eric Alper @thatericalper.com · 30/08/2026

Charlie Parker was born 106 years ago today. “Bird” helped revolutionize jazz through bebop, transforming its approach to harmony, rhythm and improvisation while influencing generations of musicians.

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Glen Weldon @ghweldon.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Optimist: The glass is half full. Pessimist: The glass is half empty. Philip Glass: half half half half half half half half half half half half half half half half half half half half half half half half half half

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Kyle Kivett @kkivett.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

“Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.” - Seneca

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Abe Lincoln vs. the "heritage American" crowd, 1858: It doesn't matter where your ancestors were in 1776. Americans who read the Declaration and affirm its creed "have a right to claim it as though they were blood of the blood, and flesh of the flesh of the men who wrote [it] ...and so they are."

We have besides these men—descended by blood from our ancestors—among us perhaps half our people who are not descendants at all of these men, they are men who have come from Europe—German, Irish, French and Scandinavian—men that have come from Europe themselves, or whose ancestors have come hither and settled here, finding themselves our equals in all things. If they look back through this history to trace their connection with those days by blood, they find they have none, they cannot carry themselves back into that glorious epoch and make themselves feel that they are part of us, but when they look through that old Declaration of Independence they find that those old men say that “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,” and then they feel that that moral sentiment taught in that day evidences their relation to those men, that it is the father of all moral principle in them, and that they have a right to claim it as though they were blood of the blood, and flesh of the flesh of the men who wrote that Declaration, (loud and long continued applause) and so they are.

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

BS. Hamilton’s spinning in his grave He focused on credit, nat’l reputation, reliability As he said: “To see the character of the Government & the country so sported with, exposed to so indelible a blot puts my heart to the torture…Is there a constitutional defect in the American mind?” Maybe so.

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Kyle Kivett @kkivett.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Last time I looked for this commercial, it had apparently been scrubbed from the internet. I’m posting it here in hopes that doesn’t happen again. Simply one of my favorite commercials of all time (& that’s a short list). youtu.be/MMqcMmzCq2o

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Warrick Dunn (Tampa Bay Buccaneers) commercial - "Cover Jinx" - ESPN The Magazine (1998)

YouTube video by Mike's VHS Treasures

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Kyle Kivett @kkivett.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

There will always be people that disappoint with who they support politically, but there has never been a more egregious rejection of espoused values than Christians who support Trump.

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Jubilado0505 @jubilado251.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

“Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be". -A Lincoln

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

PASTOR LORAN LIVINGSTON (@CentralChurchNC): “There has never been a Christian nation, and never will be. You don’t live in one now. A Christian nation wouldn’t have killed and displaced 20 million Native Americans, or thought owning slaves was pleasing to God.”

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Tahar 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇺🇳 🇪🇺 @rochaa.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Jazz is the greatest, most genuine, & uniquely American invention. It’s literally impossible for Jazz to have been born in another than the American context If America spoke, it would’ve spoken the tunes written by Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Monk, Miles, Trane, Armstrong, Bird, Dizzy, etc, etc

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I’ve been thinking about the America I’m proud of and that I want to celebrate tomorrow, and it’s things like hip-hop and blue jeans and sending a man to the moon and this.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

It‘s just insane to me that a sitting president has made MORE THAN A BILLION DOLLARS peddling fucking fairy dust with no intrinsic value beyond his stature and power AS president, and it’s not treated as the biggest corruption scandal in American history.

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Kyle Kivett @kkivett.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Good Kisser - Lake Street Dive

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Kyle Kivett @kkivett.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Nadia Boulanger taught Igor Stravinsky and Quincy Jones. Freddie Keppard & Buddy Bolden inspired Louis Armstrong (who *still* doesn’t get the credit he deserves as the most important musician of the 20th century). Louis Jordan is the bridge between jazz & rock. King’s X inspired grunge.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Trump has turned the White House into a 24/7 corruption operation. This is a national crisis. Trump thinks the public will stop paying attention. So I went to the Senate floor to call his bluff. I told the ENTIRE STORY of his 500 days of corruption. 1/ Here it is - in one🧵

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Deke Fanboy (welcome back lad!) @sjbrewer.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

No Father’s Day is complete without this video. At the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, Redmond tore his hamstring in the 400 metres semi-final but continued the race limping and, with assistance from his father, managed to complete a full lap of the track as the crowd gave him a standing ovation.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

One of the greatest tragedies of American history is that the party of Abraham Lincoln has become the party of Jefferson Davis.

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Kyle Kivett @kkivett.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

This needs publicized more. I’ve mentioned this several times in conversation and each time it is completely unknown to my conversation partner. This screams the point that our national immigration policy is racist, and most have no idea.

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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man." A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

The economy is in freefall and the war is a quagmire but the president is laser-focused on making Americans' lives better: - White House ballroom - UFC cage match on the lawn - big triumphal arch - painting the reflecting pool - painting statues gold - his face on a $250 bill - lining his pockets

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 31/05/2026

Donald Trump’s attempts to sanitize American history in the name of national pride actually run against the aims of patriotism, and the promise of the ability “to form a more perfect union.” newyorkermag.visitlink.me/TzS8bx

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/05/2026

Folks, these are the rantings of a crazy person. Note how Trump resorts to attacking the wives of men he doesn’t like. The president is a lunatic.

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

When we have a real president again, he or she will have to waste inordinate amounts of time cleaning up the terrible mess created by this awful mistake of a human who never should have been allowed near the levers of power.

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Reminder that formerly enslaved Black people started Memorial Day. It was initially called Decoration Day as they decorated the graves of Union troops. “As He died to make men holy let us die to make men free”

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Kyle Kivett @kkivett.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

These are (just some) of the indicators that Trump is not a legitimate President. He does not defend the Constitution nor does he execute the laws of the United States of America. #ImpeachConvictRemove

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Kyle Kivett @kkivett.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

The most powerful documentary about the impact of music is “Alive Inside,” about how music reveals the real person occluded by Alzheimer’s disease. Watch it and weep.

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 15/05/2026

If a Croque Madame talked to another Croque Madame about anything other than a Croque Monsieur Would they have passed the Béchamel test?

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Pierce @pierceah66.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Since the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the majority of white men & white women have not voted for Democrats. As white voters make up the majority, it is ultimately on white voters. Deal with the people you want to go BBQ with on Memorial Day while you avoid talking about why the prices are so high.

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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Uh, Dana, allow me to introduce you to former President Theodore Roosevelt (who served from 1901 to 1909), who wrote this in a newspaper editorial published in the Kansas City Star on May 7, 1918, during World War I, sharply criticizing then-President Woodrow Wilson’s conduct of that war.

A graphic showing a close-up black and white photograph of President Theodore Roosevelt's head, to the left of which is this quote of his:

“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”

Theodore Roosevelt

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SilentBobX @silentbob-x.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Amen to that.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

The fact that the US Secretary of Health denies that pathogens cause disease should always be a much bigger story

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Please let's keep saying this. Republicans are devastating higher education to solve a problem that only exists in their minds.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Democrats should seriously consider a national ad campaign with clips of Republicans refusing to do their jobs, demanding they repay their congressional salaries.

BRENNAN: Did they mine the strait? Because Trump also said they might not have

TURNER: You'll have to ask the president

BRENNAN: That's the point. Congress hasn't been briefed

TURNER: It's his tweet

B: You're a member of oversight and armed services

TURNER: You'll have to ask the president

WELKER: Would you support military action in Cuba if that were the way to lead to regime change?

BYRON DONALDS: I'm not going to step in front of the president and any decisions he or Secretary Rubio are going to make on this front

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Kyle Kivett @kkivett.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

“The federal government that serves us is being starved while the federal government that serves the Trump agenda and the oligarchy is glutting itself on taxpayer money…” This is really the key - even (especially!) supporters of small government should be able to criticize Trump’s corruption.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

One of the ways news media often fail us is by giving us the microscopic rather than the telescopic view. Everything I mention in this essay is well-documented, but the dots are mostly not connected to make visible this death by a thousand cuts our country is undergoing.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Best Twitter riposte of the day is from Ronald Reagan's budget master.

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Kyle Kivett @kkivett.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Those that voted for him should be more upset that anybody. He’s doing even worse than I thought he would (& I knew he was a narcissistic liar), but he’s doing the *opposite* of why most people voted for him.

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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain. Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow. #NoKings

An image of a list of the 27 grievances against King George III in the Declaration of Independence. Donald Trump's regime has committed at least 20 of them in whole or in part, condensed into the list below:
1. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
2. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation …
3. He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing … his invasions on the rights of the people.
4. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; … obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners …
5. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice …
6. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices …
7. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
8. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
9. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
10. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution … giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
11. For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
12. For protecting them … from punishment for any Murders which they should commit …
13. For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
14. For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
15. For depriving us … of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
16. For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
17. For … abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
18. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
19. He has … destroyed the lives of our people.
20. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us …

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Kyle Kivett @kkivett.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Comments like this should clarify that the Trump administration is actually opposed to the teachings of Jesus, yet many Evangelicals still claim him as one of their own. Americans and Christians alike should condemn Trump’s post & this defense (weak as it is), but I doubt Republicans will.

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