John Roebling (1806), #EgonSchiele (1890), Anthony Eden (1897), David Rockefeller (1915), Uta Hagen (1919), George H.W. Bush (1924), Ann Frank (1929), Jim Nabors (1930) & Oliver Knussen (1952) were born #OnThisDay...
#IndiraGandhi was convicted of election fraud #OnThisDay in 1975; the first woman to become #India's prime minister was also the most authoritarian & the most corrupt — at least until Narendra Modi's election in 2014...
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I passed a wine bar in Manhattan five years ago today (6.11.21) whose name made me think of the line "I hate society" from Victor Herbert's song "Art is calling for me" from his operetta "The Enchantress"; here's the great Kiri Te Kanawa singing it:
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#JohnHealey's resignation as British defense secretary is a huge blow to #KeirStarmer as he lurches from crisis to crisis but the #Zionist shill can't leave without guaranteeing that his successor will support #ApartheidIsrael's #GazaGenocide as enthusiastically as Sir Keir...
Maulike Pancholy (left), chair & co-founder of Act to Change — an organization committed to addressing #bullying of #AsianAmericans & #PacificIslanders — Patrick Lin (right) & me seven years ago this week (6.6.19)
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#RichardStrauß was born #OnThisDay in 1864; his Lieder are the final great flowering of German #Romanticism in #music; here's Kiri Te Kanawa singing "Beim Schlafengehen":
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Kentish rebels under Wat Tyler reached Blackheath just outside London #OnThisDay in 1381 as the #PeasantsRevolt challenged Richard II's rule & the oppression of the peasantry within a rigid class structure in medieval #England...
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"As [NYC police commissioner Jessica] Tisch & the weapons-bearing officers marched, a group of protesters, holding signs stood by the side reading 'No Pride in Genocide,' 'Zionism = Terrorism' & 'Silence = Death,'" reports GCN of Sunday's #QueensPrideParade:
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Rohini Hensman: "I see Russia as the most important example of non-Western imperialism & it's astonishing to me that people who claim to be Marxists & Leninists completely ignore Lenin's scathing criticisms of Great Russian chauvinism in post-revolutionary Russia..."
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#JacquesCousteau was born #OnThisDay in 1910, one of the great conservationists of all time; I grew up watching him on TV & learning about #oceans & #sealife through him; we need to heed his warning about our destruction of the #planet's #air & #water~!
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Queer New Yorkers hailing from the World’s Borough and across the city kicked off Pride month on June 7 at the 34th annual Queens Pride Parade in Jackson
