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MaeveWriter retweeted
Joy of joys!
Tune in to America This Week on Election Night!
Join @walterkirn and me for an America This Week Reunion Special, as we watch returns and ponder the coming end of the world
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I don't understand, why is the French govt not protecting France?
🔴 Office du tourisme brûlé à Lyon
"C'est un bâtiment patrimonial en plein cœur de la ville (...) de perdre de cette façon-là cet office, pour nous, véritablement, c'est une tragédie" déclare le maire Les Écologistes de Lyon @Gregorydoucet sur LCI
MaeveWriter retweeted
Ask yourself why, after 16 straight years of Democrats in control of the DNR & MPCA, a private environmental org had to do this research? The Democratic Party in MN is captured by industry
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And in the blink of an eye, the government have gone from “we need to reduce the carbon footprint to save the planet" to "we will build mega AI data centres that massively deplete energy and water supplies”.
'I cannot live without books'—Thomas Jefferson
In 1815, Thomas Jefferson sold more than 6,000 books from his personal library to the United States government.
The collection helped rebuild the Library of Congress after British troops burned the Capitol in 1814.
Jefferson's library included works on history, philosophy, science, and classical literature.
But even after selling thousands of books, he continued collecting more.
For Jefferson, books were not simply decorations or possessions.
They were essential to an educated life.
As he wrote to John Adams in 1815:
“I cannot live without books.”
MaeveWriter retweeted
Many people grew up watching old cartoons and... memorized classical music by heart.
Franz Liszt's *Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2* became legendary thanks to two of the greatest pianists in history: Bugs Bunny (*Rhapsody Rabbit*, 1946) and Tom & Jerry (*The Cat Concerto*).
MaeveWriter retweeted
New York’s original Pennsylvania Station opened in 1910.
Its monumental waiting room, inspired by ancient Roman architecture, was demolished beginning in 1963.
A building intended to express the city’s confidence and ambition survived barely 53 years.
Its destruction became a defining event in American architectural preservation.
Cities should consider carefully what future generations lose when historic landmarks are demolished for immediate commercial gain.
MaeveWriter retweeted
'a wind has blown the rain away and blown
the sky away and all the leaves away,
and the trees stand. I think i too have known
autumn too long'
E. E. Cummings was born on this day in 1894.
MaeveWriter retweeted
The award is the latest example of how the media has become a ship of fools. Journalists now report for each other as the vast majority of Americans seek alternatives. They continue to replicate their own views and mistakes rather than abandon their bias. jonathanturley.org/2026/10/1…
MaeveWriter retweeted
On Saturday, writer Paul Kingsnorth addressed an @ionainstitute conference on the theme, 'God or the Machine?' You can read a summary of his talk below (and find a link to a recording of his talk). ionainstitute.ie/how-to-stay…
MaeveWriter retweeted
Only 46 measures. Approximately 4 minutes.
Mozart wrote “Ave Verum Corpus” in June 1791 — near the end of his life.
So simple it's almost bare, yet it contains the heavens.
Leonardo Bernstein conducted it at Waldsassen Cathedral in 1990 — slowly, lovingly, as if unwilling to leave each note.
A miracle in a small package.
'...just as expatriats in every alien land keep together, if only to remind themselves, by their very faces and clothes and gait and accents and expressions, of the land they come from.'
—Thomas Merton, The Seven Story Mountain
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Deeply shocking revelations of the metastasizing venality and mendacity (i.e. fraud) of the dominant political party #DFL and govt in my home state by @ArminRosen
The story that every mainstream media outlet in America is too scared to touch: Minnesota’s multi-billion dollar Medicaid fraud. Seems like the whole state is in on it. A blockbuster report by the great Armin Rosen:
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