@paulinepark.bsky.social
LGBT & Palestine solidarity activist & writer
@paulinepark.bsky.socialOpera Lafayette is mounting a performance of "Les Surprises de l'Amour"; here's video of a concert performance at the Théâtre des Petits-Appartements of Jean-Philippe Rameau's opera:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=52WG...
operalafayette.org/season-2627/
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@paulinepark.bsky.social#RalphVaughanWilliams was born in #England #OnThisDay in 1872; one of his greatest works is the "Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis," performed here by the BBC Symphony at Gloucester Cathedral, where it premiered in 1910:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihx5...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_V...
@paulinepark.bsky.socialEdward VI of England (1537), #RamsayMacDonald (1866), Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872), Aleister Crowley (1875), Dick Gregory (1932), Luciano Pavarotti (1935), Chris Wallace (1947), Hugh Jackson (1968), Nancy Kerrigan (1969), Kirk Cameron (1970) & Li Wenliang (1986) were born #OnThisDay...
@paulinepark.bsky.social#EleanorRoosevelt was born #OnThisDay in 1884, becoming the most influential First Lady in history; she had a complicated relationship with #FDR but did much to push him in a progressive direction & helped drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights...
@paulinepark.bsky.socialJoe Walsh on #DonaldTrump & #VladimirPutin vs. #VolodymyrZelensky:
@paulinepark.bsky.social#MikeHuckabee's senior aide #DavidMilstein falsified State Department reports from the US embassy in Israel & even kept some from being sent in order to try to protect #ApartheidIsrael from the consequences of its ethnic cleansing of the West Bank & #GazaGenocide...
@paulinepark.bsky.social#FredTrump was born #OnThisDay in 1905, the son of an immigrant German draft dodger; Fred, Sr. tormented Fred, Jr. & Sr. favored #DonaldTrump, who went onto become the worst president in US history whose inherited wealth he used to build a real estate empire...
@paulinepark.bsky.social"Laura" premiered #OnThisDay in 1944 with #GeneTierney & #DanaAndrews; #OttoPreminger's film became one of the great classics of the #filmnoir genre & it's available in its entirety on Y@uTube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iql5...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_(...
www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1012007-la...
@paulinepark.bsky.social#BenjaminNetanyahu wants IDF & intelligence personnel investigated & prosecuted for appearing in #NAZA & documenting #ApartheidIsrael's #GazaGenocide; it's Bibi & his Israeli war criminals who need to be investigated & prosecuted for the genocide~!
@paulinepark.bsky.socialGomie & Morticia on my bed four years ago today & three weeks after adopting them (10.11.22) 🐱 #AdoptDontShop #chatons #gattini #gatitos #Kätzchen #kattunger #새끼고양이
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@paulinepark.bsky.socialHua Guofeng had #MaoZedong's widow Jiang Qing & the other members of the #GangOfFour arrested #OnThisDay in 1976, bringing an end to the #CulturalRevolution that had torn #China apart for 10 years; sadly, #XiJinping has only made the #PRC even more totalitarian...
@paulinepark.bsky.socialHoly Roman Emperor Charles V conferred rights to the succession of the duchy of #Milan to Philip II #OnThisDay in 1540; #Milano was the nodal point of the #CaminoEspañol, which was crucial in holding the #Habsburg empire together...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchy_o...
@paulinepark.bsky.socialDemocrats & Republicans are continuing to fund #ApartheidIsrael's ethnic cleansing of the illegally occupied West Bank & ongoing #GazaGenocide with $3.8 billion a year in US taxes + $33 billion in new funding — making themselves & the US ever more complicit in the worst war crimes of the century 🍉
@paulinepark.bsky.socialDemocrats & Republicans are continuing to fund #ApartheidIsrael's ethnic cleansing of the illegally occupied West Bank & ongoing #GazaGenocide with $3.8 billion a year in US taxes + $33 billion in new funding — making themselves & the US ever more complicit in the worst war crimes of the century 🍉
@paulinepark.bsky.socialI have to wonder if there was some element of mental illness involved; why would anyone in their right mind climb down into an enclosure with a tiger...?
@paulinepark.bsky.socialI steamed some wild rice & organic broccoli & sautéed some pig-free bacon made from oyster mushroom #mycelium for Sunday dinner; no pigs were tortured or murdered to produce this bacon~! 돼지i 🐷 🎨
@paulinepark.bsky.socialPope Leo X conferred on Henry VIII the title 'Fidei Difensor' (Defender of the Faith) #OnThisDay in 1521 but after his break with Rome, Pope Paul III revoked it, prompting parliament to grant it to Henry & his successors as head of the Anglican Church...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defende...
@paulinepark.bsky.social#PopeJohnXXIII convened #VaticanII #OnThisDay in 1962, revolutionizing the moribund #RomanCatholicChurch; those reforms modernized the medieval #CatholicChurch & paved the way for future reforms under Pope Francis & Pope Leo XIV; viva #PapaGiovanniXXIII~!
@paulinepark.bsky.socialCary Gabriel Costello on the #WashingtonPost's truly terrible 'reporting' on #LGBTQ issues: we can thank #billionaire #JeffBezos for ruining WaPo~!
@paulinepark.bsky.social"Colonialism is now rightfully condemned for its racist campaign of dispossessing & ethnically cleansing Indigenous populations from ancestral lands. Contemporary #Zionists understand this, so they have attempted to obscure or outright erase the original description of their ideology"~Kenn Orfanos
