Michael Schell

Composer/intermedia artist, host for KBCS-FM, contributor to Sequenza 21, cribbage player. Views expressed are solely my own.

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@HistoryBoomer "Bring back leaded gasoline, and all this could be yours!"

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@ICEgov If only we’d bring back leaded gasoline, this could be ours again!

[Justin @1ncent1ve]

@NateSilver538 The sitting US government ran interference to help a tech CEO sell invaluable technology to an enemy country despite laws forbidding it. This would be a presidency ending scandal in most times but it’s just a day ending with y for Trump

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@TransGirl "What is a woman?" is the left's "Who won the 2020 Presidential election?"

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Trombonist Stuart Dempster gets some 90th birthday attention in our new podcast. Plus Donnacha Dennehy writes for orchestra, Trevor Bača and @JACKQuartet channel Beckett, and new albums by Szabó, Wadada and Anna Webber get a listen.
https://t.co/mCcixuXQmN @NonesuchRecords @KBCS

[Josh Marshall @joshtpm]

this is very interesting. nationalizing a race in a Red State too early is definitely dangerous.

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@amwilson_opera In the US at least, "talent" is simply industry jargon for on-screen people in general, especially actors and interview guests. It doesn't necessarily connote extraordinary ability.

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@benryanwriter “Why is whenever I come in here it’s disgusting?” -Frank Burns

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

One of the ways you encourage soft Trump supporters to stay home is by putting forward nominees who are relatively unthreatening and non-radical.

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@powellAtlantic I think it's coming from a combination of Russian bots and screeching from (overwhelmingly) white DSA/antizionist types terrified that with the Democrats' overwhelming new margins in Congress mean they no longer have to appease the extremists within their ranks.

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@ohiobluedog Doubt it would have mattered. The bottom line was that nobody voted for veeps back then. Al Gore I think was the first in my day to successfully attract candidates to the ticket, and that was in the context of a 3-way race, where he added environmentalist bone fides to Clinton.

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@try_thinking0 @skaushik100 On that I agree.

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@benryanwriter That ploy didn’t work with Bentsen, even after he wiped the floor with Quayle at the Veep debate.

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@DemocraticWins No prizes for guessing who’s up for reelection in 2028!

[Michael A. Cohen (NOT TRUMP’S FORMER FIXER) @speechboy71]

It is absolutely wild that days after massive Black turnout propelled Democrats to a huge victory in the House, mostly white leftists are publicly demanding that Democrats reject the first Black Speaker of the House.

If you wanted a better example of the out-of-touch-ness of the left I’m not sure you could make one up that matches this.

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@anneapplebaum Next editorial: "So Putin didn't conquer Ukraine?"

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@keithchaput @mattyglesias I'll just set this here…

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A splendid Petrushka tonight by @SeattleSymphony and Jonathan Stockhammer, coupled with Unsuk Chin's Rocaná (whose authentic Sanskrit pronunciation is "RO-chuh-nuh" रोचन ). and Szymanowski’s Second Violin Concerto with Leila Josefowicz. Three modern works at @BenaroyaHall.