@susanbordson @IAPolls2022 @rosanthony3 If what you say is true (and I’d point out that Obama won Florida, Ohio and Iowa twice with a dark complexion and a middle name of Hussein), then the solution is simple: run a white guy for President!
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Michael Schell
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Michael Schell
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Composer/intermedia artist, host for KBCS-FM, contributor to Sequenza 21, cribbage player. Views expressed are solely my own. https://t.co/hwXlpnEebo
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@IAPolls2022 @rosanthony3 American culture still favors white men over other demographic groups — even if the folks in the other demographic groups have similar records of achievements and similar relevant experience.
And even if they have *more* skills & qualifications, in many cases
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Favorable/unfavorable views of key Democratic figures and potential 2028 candidates.
🟢 Shapiro: 38-28 (+10)
🟢 Beshear: 30-22 (+8)
🟢 Buttigieg: 42-35 (+7)
🟢 Newsom: 42-40 (+2)
🟤 AOC: 41-42 (-1)
🟤 Harris: 43-47 (-4)
🟤 Schumer: 24-55 (-31)
Emerson | 1,000 LV | 3/16-17
InteractivePolls@IAPolls2022
🇺🇸 NATIONAL POLL By Emerson (A) Pres. Trump Approve: 42% [-1] Disapprove: 51% [-4] —— Generic Ballot 🟦 Democrats: 49% [-1] 🟥 Republicans: 42% [=] —— Military action in Iran Support: 40% Oppose: 47% 1,000 LV | 3/16-17 | R34/D32/I34
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Michael Schell ری ٹویٹ کیا
The thing I find most annoying about Palestine becoming the left’s omnicause is it has wiped out activism and messaging on nearly every other topic. Nobody talks about climate change, universal healthcare, corporate consolidation, housing, global far-right ascension, worker’s rights, you name it. Don’t get me wrong, Palestine is very important, but it’s not the only thing that matters and every unrelated group shifting their focus to Palestine effectively cedes the ground on every other issue to the right.
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@CollinRugg Remind me how Pearl Harbor ultimately worked out for Imperial Japan. 🤔
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NEW: President Trump says the United States had to surprise Iran with an attack, just like Japan did at Pearl Harbor, while sitting next to Japan's Prime Minister.
Reporter: Why didn't you tell U.S allies ... like Japan about the war before attacking Iran?
Trump: You don't want to signal too much. We went in very hard and we didn't tell anybody about it because we wanted surprise. Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor?
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Michael Schell ری ٹویٹ کیا
No. I called for Netanyahu to resign 2 weeks after October 7th. I oppose Netanyahu, and I support Israel. Just like I oppose Trump, and I support America. Respectfully, this is a silly take.👇
🦅@Burnoutbeauty27
@WalshFreedom You support Israel. That means you support Netanyahu as well?
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Happy Podcast Monday! Celebrate Ben Johnston and İlhan Mimaroğlu at 100, Michael Finnissy at 80, and new albums from Bill Frisell, Alexander Hawkins, Kate Gentile, @JacobGarchik, Mary Halvorson, Gabriel Zucker and @AliceSaraOtt (playing @JohannJohannss).
tinyurl.com/FinnissyAt80
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In a world of Javier Bardems, be a Sean Penn instead.
Anton Gerashchenko@Gerashchenko_en
Sean Penn missed the Oscars ceremony where he received an Oscar, and went to Ukraine instead. Thank you for standing with Ukraine, Sir! Congratulations!
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Happy birthday to Mary Kouyoumdjian, born in San Francisco in 1983. We recently examined her opera Adoration, after the Atom Egoyan film, which explores the ambiguity that often confounds moral judgments in the real world.
mixcloud.com/FlotationDevic… @KBCS @MKouyoumdjian @BMPOPERA
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Tonite on Flotation Device:
-Michael Finnissy at 80
-Ben Johnston & İlhan Mimaroğlu at 100
-@AliceSaraOtt plays @JohannJohannss
-New albums by Bill Frisell, @JacobGarchik, Gabriel Zucker, Kate Gentile, Alexander Hawkins & François Houle
Sun 10pm PDT 91.3fm kbcs.fm
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Michael Schell ری ٹویٹ کیا
Josh Shapiro: “The guy who is supposed to be in charge of this, Pete Hegseth, is wildly incompetent. He’s like an 8-year-old playing with toy soldiers every day. His language is so fucking offensive. They talk about this in a way that doesn’t respect the humanity in the region and certainly is disrespectful to our soldiers”
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@matthewstoller So what you're saying is: her skirt was too short.
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Wrong, it's not an 'ancient and rampant evil.' It's blowback and the tragic and predictable result of U.S. and Israeli foreign policy.
Can we stop pretending that our actions have no consequences?
CSPAN@cspan
Michigan @GovWhitmer expressed support for the state's Jewish community after yesterday's attack on a synagogue: "Yesterday's attack was antisemitism…we will fight this ancient and rampant evil, we will stand together as we do it, and we will call it out."
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@CaitlinPacific @nytimes “The instigator of World War II and the Holocaust was an innocuous professional artist.”
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When someone tells you who they are, believe them.
@nytimes has repeatedly - and in a sense forthrightly - told us who they are. Once you accept that identity you’ll never be shocked.
Ian Miller@ianmSC
The New York Times is absolutely beyond saving. Insanity.
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@mishkaivana “You’re not too bright are you? I like that in a man.”
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Requirements to date me:
Believes in God
Unvaccinated
Not brainwashed by any political party
Not gay
Slightly retarded
Over 6’
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Today is the jahrzeit of the great late-Soviet composer Sofia Gubaidulina (1931–2025). In this podcast Flotation Devices examines her final work, the no-nonsense devotional piece The Wrath of God, which we contrast with her more cheerful Fairy Tale Poem.
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@IsleLesbos The shift from “gay/lesbian” to “queer”—largely foisted by a generation of activists who weren’t around for Stonewall, AIDS and the fight for marriage equality—has done so much harm to gay acceptance and activism. Allowing self-ID undermines the basic argument for equal rights.
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Finally, Dan Savage is beginning to realize the harm that self identification by heterosexuals (and even bisexuals) into the homosexual category is erasing our sexuality. Thank you for noticing and speaking up!
Dan Savage@fakedansavage
I identify as gay because I am exclusively attracted to men. I am not exclusively attracted to men because I identify as gay. news.ucr.edu/articles/2026/…
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@IonaItalia @aziz0nomics I think that having one of the most monolithic populations in Western Europe, and being relatively isolated geographically, might cause the Irish polity to lurch suddenly and more erratically that would be the case in Germany, France or the UK.
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In this week's podcast we bid an admiring farewell to Éliane Radigue with a survey of her slow, audacious, tantric-informed music featuring @QuatuorBozzini @ina_GRM, Robert Ashley and l'ONCEIM. Plus Taborn, Frith, Murail, Stockhausen and @MarcAndreHam.
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@SaulStaniforth “By standing in solidarity with Hamas we are learning how to discredit the left and get the likes of Trump and Farage elected again and again.”
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Sally Rooney: "By standing in solidarity with Palestine, we are learning how to fight for life on earth"
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Tonight Flotation Device says goodbye to Éliane Radigue with a survey of her slow, audacious, tantric-informed music. @QuatuorBozzini @ina_GRM, Robert Ashley & l'ONCEIM help out. Plus Taborn, Frith, @MarcAndreHam Murail & Stockhausen
Sunday 10pm PDT 91.3fm kbcs.fm
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Michael Schell ری ٹویٹ کیا
I consider myself a classic political Liberal, in that I favor an enlightenment understanding of a healthy society --constitutional democracies with protections of basic individual/group rights including freedom of speech, faith, and ways of living.
Yet history shows liberalism only works when there's also a shared foundational moral order—not uniformity in thin culture, but enough overlapping thick culture that people restrain themselves from pushing freedoms to socially destructive extremes, even when legally permitted.
You might in theory allow "anything goes" but people respect others enough to restrain themselves from going too rogue.
You might legally permit offensive speech, but people restrain themselves out of mutual respect
PS: Restraining themselves isn't exactly right word, because most people often don't even "think to do that" because it is so obviously destructive. Shame exists.
Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌@Chris_arnade
Everyone blames monetization for all the crazy conspiracies and takes out there -- and it certainly is an accelerate -- but I see it more as a result of there being no dominant moral arbitrator anymore. Not only in the rigid "you can't behave like that" sense, but in the "You can trust in me to be honest" sense. The meritocratic elites (press, academia, institutions) had it for awhile, but in the public's eyes they squandered it away (Covid stomped the last bits of it out) and there has yet to emerge a replacement. Until then, it is anything goes.
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Happy birthday to guitarist and curator @DanLippel, born on this date in 1976. We recently enjoyed his performance of Peter Adriaansz's Serenade II from his new anthology album Adjacence from @NewFocusLabel, heard in this podcast at the one hour mark.
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