J. L. Palacios

Parte del placer de comer una mandarina está en el proceso de pelarla.

[News to Remember @allchronology]

Welcome to the Senate, Dr. Annie Andrews.

[visionaryvoid @Visionaryvoid]

In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write a famous author and ask for advice. Kurt Vonnegut (1922 – 2007) was the only one to respond - and his response is magnificent:

“Dear Xavier High School, and Ms. Lockwood, and Messrs Perin, McFeely, Batten, Maurer and Congiusta:
I thank you for your friendly letters. You sure know how to cheer up a really old geezer (84) in his sunset years. I don’t make public appearances any more because I now resemble nothing so much as an iguana.

What I had to say to you, moreover, would not take long, to wit: Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow.

Seriously! I mean starting right now, do art and do it for the rest of your lives. Draw a funny or nice picture of Ms. Lockwood, and give it to her. Dance home after school, and sing in the shower and on and on. Make a face in your mashed potatoes. Pretend you’re Count Dracula.

Here’s an assignment for tonight, and I hope Ms. Lockwood will flunk you if you don’t do it: Write a six line poem, about anything, but rhymed. No fair tennis without a net. Make it as good as you possibly can. But don’t tell anybody what you’re doing. Don’t show it or recite it to anybody, not even your girlfriend or parents or whatever, or Ms. Lockwood. OK?

Tear it up into teeny-weeny pieces, and discard them into widely separated trash receptacals. You will find that you have already been gloriously rewarded for your poem. You have experienced becoming, learned a lot more about what’s inside you, and you have made your soul grow.

God bless you all!"

Kurt Vonnegut

[Daniel Zovatto @Zovatto55]

Excelente. Recomiendo verlo.

[Yesterdaypills 🍏 @yesterdaypills]

🎸 Alan Parsons e David Pack, magia Beatles e solidarietà: una speciale versione acustica di “If I Fell”

🎶 Quando due grandi musicisti incontrano una canzone senza tempo, nasce qualcosa di speciale. Alan Parsons, leggendario ingegnere del suono, produttore e musicista britannico, e David Pack, storica voce degli Ambrosia, hanno unito le proprie sensibilità artistiche in una suggestiva reinterpretazione acustica di “If I Fell” dei Beatles.

❤️ La performance è stata realizzata per un evento benefico a favore di Casa de los Angeles (CADA), organizzazione di San Miguel de Allende, in Messico, che offre sostegno e accoglienza alle madri single e ai loro bambini.

🎼 Pubblicata nel 1964 nell’album A Hard Day’s Night, la composizione di John Lennon e Paul McCartney conserva intatta la sua straordinaria delicatezza. In questa versione, le armonie e l’atmosfera acustica riportano in primo piano tutta l’intensità emotiva del brano.

🎧 Un incontro che ha anche un forte valore simbolico: Parsons ha contribuito alla storia discografica dei Beatles e dei Pink Floyd, mentre David Pack ha scritto pagine importanti del rock americano con gli Ambrosia.

💙 Non soltanto un omaggio a una canzone immortale, ma anche un gesto di solidarietà. Perché quando la grande musica incontra una buona causa, le emozioni arrivano ancora più lontano.

#AlanParsons #DavidPack #TheBeatles #IfIFell #Ambrosia #beatles #coverBeatles #Yesterdaypills

[Reilly Belle Air 💙🚺🌈💪 🌊 💙 @ReillyBelle57]

President Obama on Trump’s signing of an Executive Order holding all is White House renovations as a “landmark” to be unchanged by future presidents:

[Rhinos Satire Account @dudleyeiduDne]

Take the time to listen!!

[The New Republic @newrepublic]

Congratulations to the first Muslim senator, the first openly gay senator, the first Native governor, and so many more. https://t.co/nd3CUICetl

[Steve Rattner @SteveRattner]

Three quarters of Americans will have a Democratic Governor next year.

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

💙💙💙

[J. L. Palacios @jopalal]

Trump Has Met His Match https://t.co/gwM830O24r via @NYTOpinion

[Peter Hamby @PeterHamby]

Democrats won young white men tonight by 17 points, per CNN exits

Trump won them *28 points* in 2024

[Isaiah Walker @walkeri141]

Per NBC News

Senator Susan Collins (R) has called Troy Jackson (D) to concede the Maine Senate Race.

GOP -> DEM FLIP

The Red Queen of the North has finally fallen

[Democracy Now! @democracynow]

"The American people have rebuked the depravity, corruption and incompetence of the failed, lame duck president Donald J. Trump." – Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff, celebrating his reelection to the U.S. Senate

[It's politics @uspolitics1111]

The entire Democratic Party owes a massive debt of gratitude to Zohran Mamdani.

Before his rapid rise, the party was largely rudderless, suffering from a loss of direction, momentum, and self-confidence. By drifting away from the working class, the party naturally saw voters walk away in response.

Mamdani single-handedly corrected the course, bringing vital energy, ideological clarity, and an authentic connection back to the very people who had been left behind.

Without his influence, the party’s current standing would look very different.

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

Trump failed at regime change in Iran but he succeeded in Texas

[Lucas Romero @LucaRomero]

Lo interesante de lo que sucede en Texas y Kansas, corazón conservador de EEUU, es que los batacazos los pueden dar un seminarista presbiteriano (Talarico), y un pastor metodista (Hamilton). Demócratas disputándole al trumpismo el lenguaje de la fe, con religiosos que defienden como mandato cristiano la justicia social, la educación pública y a los más vulnerables.

[Deb Haaland @DebHaalandNM]

Thank you, New Mexico! It is the honor of my lifetime to be elected your 33rd Governor.

Tonight, you made history. You chose a future where New Mexico comes first, where working families have a chance to get ahead, and where every New Mexican has a voice.

I know the challenges ahead are real. But I also know that New Mexicans have never backed down from a fight — and we are going to tackle these challenges together.

Whether you voted for me or not, I will always be your Governor, too. Because this campaign was about all of us, and the future we deserve.

Let’s keep New Mexico, New Mexico. Let’s build a brighter future for our families. And let’s get to work.

[J. L. Palacios @jopalal]

Gran noche, en efecto. La Casa, el Senado, y lo que parece ser una mayoría de las gobernaciones.

[marujatarre @marujatarre]

Gracias por esa información José Luis. No tenía idea de ese dato tan importante y eso que New México es un Estado que me gusta y admiro mucho .En todo caso ¡es una gran noche!

[J. L. Palacios @jopalal]

No exactamente, Maruja. Susana Martinez fue gobernadora de New Mexico de 2011 a 2019, y la sucedió Michelle Luján, en ejercicio. Ambas “Hispanic”.

[marujatarre @marujatarre]

Desde 1988 no había un Senador demócrata en Texas.y todavía más impresionante : una Latina gobernadora ! ( primera vez en la historia de EEUU) .

[J. L. Palacios @jopalal]

Awsome win, Auntie Deb!!!

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Democrat Deb Haaland has won the New Mexico Governor's race.

She will make history as the nation's first Native American governor.