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  1. “Here’s the church, here’s the steeple, open the doors, and see all the people”*…

    It’s Sunday, and war is raging (again) in the Middle East. This time around, the strains of fundamentalist Christian thought are hard to miss in the justifications of the role of the U.S. in the conflict. The widely-circulated reports of troops being briefed that the war in Iran is meant to hasten the Biblical End Times may or may not be true. But it seems clear that the millennial contingent in Trump’s movement is all in on an apocalypse. (And here.) As the right-wing site Media Matters reports, “Christian media figures have claimed that the Iran war could signal ‘the second coming’ or the ‘End Times’ and said ‘we are watching incredible prophecy in this time come to pass’.”

    Tal Lavin has reached back to the work he did for his book Wild Faith to help us understand…

    As chaos and violence break out across the Middle East in a war led by the US with Israel as junior partner, I wanted to revisit my research on Christian apocalyptic prophecy… about the evangelical Christians eagerly looking forward to the end of the world—and influencing foreign policy to bring it closer. It’s difficult to conceive of willful courting of disaster for religious reasons, but decades of modern Christian prophecy eagerly foresee mass bloodshed in the Middle East as a prelude to Christ’s triumphant return. Evangelicals of this stripe form a crucial part of Trump’s base and governing coalition…

    Eminently worth reading in full: “Yearning for the Apocalypse,” from @swordsjew.bsky.social.

    And lest we think that this inveighling is in any way unprecedented, Matthew Avery Sutton, reminds us that there’s a long history of politics using religion (and vice versa). In an excerpt from his new book, Chosen Land: How Christianity Made America and Americans Remade Christianity, he tells the story of Reconstuction, during which churches were mobilized on both sides of the divide-that-never-went-away…

    … In the aftermath of the Civil War, federal leaders sought help from Christian groups… as they sought to reassert their power across the entire United States. The US Army had won on the battlefields, and now governing authorities and their protestant collaborators sought to secure the peace. They aimed to reconstruct the nation, to rebuild Americans’ shattered sense of their nation’s exceptional history and manifest destiny, and to reinvigorate their commitment to the United States’ Christian mission. But to succeed, policymakers knew they needed to limit dissent—including religious dissent.

    Christian activists played key roles in every part of postwar reconstruction. In the South, Black ministers and White missionaries welcomed the formerly enslaved into the faith and worked with them to establish independent social and political lives. Defeated Southern Whites launched a multi-generation effort to defend their treason by reimagining the causes of the Civil War and God’s role in it. In the West, a series of Indian wars led to the US government’s creation of a comprehensive reservation system, where government-sponsored missionaries sought to Christianize tribes and “civilize” their children. In Utah Territory the US government cracked down on the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its impressive theocracy, seeking to quell religious dissent.

    Across the nation, Reconstruction policies provided new opportunities for church leaders in collaboration with the government to impose their ideas and values on the land and its peoples. Protestant activists believed that they alone had the tools and expertise to integrate Black and Native peoples, former Confederates, and religious dissenters into the body politic, while bringing healing and reconciliation to all Americans on their terms. Rocked by the split over slavery and then the war, they worked to build unity by identifying common threats and enemies and organizing Christians against them. Their actions demonstrated that after the conflict, just as before, the free exercise clause did not apply to all equally. But minority groups constantly challenged the power of mainstream Christian leaders…

    … Only about one-third of enslaved Americans considered themselves Christian at the start of the Civil War. But in the Reconstruction era Black church going skyrocketed. And just about all of those who converted chose to attend Black-led churches. The days of Southern Black Christians submitting to second-class treatment in the house of the Lord had ended. In urban areas, African Americans could usually join churches that Black activists had founded before the war. In rural areas, they had fewer options. They sometimes had to settle for makeshift meetings in vacant buildings or arrange outdoor services until they could build rudimentary houses of worship.

    Black clergy became some of the strongest advocates for full equality and rights in the postwar South. Seeing Jesus as a liberator, they aimed to make the egalitarianism of the gospel and the Declaration’s line that “all men are created equal” the reality in the United States. Many engaged directly in politics, understanding that while slavery might have ended, securing political equality required vigilance…

    … Black ministers’ political engagement made them targets of violence. Members of the Ku Klux Klan, a [Protestant-led] terrorist organization founded by Southern Whites shortly after the war, burned down churches and threatened Black activists. A journalist testified to the US Senate about his interview with a minister. While “he had been preaching on the circuit,” Klansmen dragged the preacher from bed in the middle of the night and “beat him severely.” They “told him that if he returned to the county he would suffer for it.” This was one example of many. As racial violence escalated in the South, serving as a minister proved dangerous…

    … Historian, sociologist, and Black activist W.E.B. Du Bois summarized in 1903 the role that churches played in Black life, especially in the postwar South. “The Negro church of today is the social centre of Negro life in the United States,” he wrote, “and the most characteristic expression of African character.” Postwar Black churches, as Du Bois understood, represented the heart of Black efforts to secure social, political, and religious equality. Church leaders had engineered the Christian faith into a tool of liberation, which made them a threat to the White Christians of the South and much of the rest of the United States.

    In addition to working to suppress Black political and religious power, many Southern Whites launched a quasi-religious campaign to reshape the memory of the Civil War. Rather than acknowledge their deep investment in slavery, they recast the conflict as a tragic clash between two honorable forces—the North fighting to preserve the Union, and the South struggling to defend local autonomy and states’ rights. The authors of this revisionist account reduced slavery to a secondary issue, incidental to the “real” causes of the war. As a result, by war’s end, many White Southerners felt they had no reason to repent, no moral reckoning to face, and no obligation to embrace Black equality or suffrage. For them, the war had simply preserved the Union and, almost as an afterthought, ended slavery. Nothing more.

    Christianity became central to this new Southern narrative. In defeat, White Southerners cast themselves in the role of Christ, imagining their suffering as redemptive. They claimed they had sacrificed for the greater good of the nation, their values—chivalric protection of White women, paternalistic care for those they enslaved, and Christian devotion—positioned them as the rightful moral leaders of the country. In their view, God had chosen them to guide the nation toward righteousness, but first he had humbled and purified them through the bloodshed of war…

    Also eminently worth reading in full: How Christianity Was Used By the Powerful and the Marginalized to Shape Post-Civil War America,” from @literaryhub.bsky.social.

    We are reminded why our founding fathers– so many of them, Deists— so wisely insisted on freedom of religion and separation of church and state.

    Apposite: “The ‘Straight White American Jesus’ podcast covers the history, philosophy, theology, and politics of Christian nationalism” (from Boing Boing)

    Also, (under the general heading “things aren’t always what they seem”): “The Iran War’s Most Precious Commodity Isn’t Oil,” (gift article from Bloomberg)

    And finally: only vaguely related, but fascinating: “Preached Whales“– (landlocked) Central European pulpits shaped like fish, whales, and boats.

    classic children’s fingerplay rhyme

    ###

    As we celebrate separation, we might recall that it was on this date in 1965 that “Subterranean Homesick Blues” by Bob Dylan was released.

    Johnny’s in the basement, mixin’ up the medicine / I’m on the pavement, thinkin’ about the government…

    https://youtu.be/MGxjIBEZvx0?si=YBG68RAAPgdVvRIb

    The opening sequence of D. A. Pennebaker‘s Dont Look Back (the apostrophe is absent in the title… and yes, that’s Allen Ginsberg in the background)

    #apocalypse #BobDylan #Christianity #church #culture #deism #endTimes #fundamentalism #history #politics #religion #religiousFreedom #seperationOfChurchAndState #society #state #SubterraneanHomesickBlues
  2. “Here’s the church, here’s the steeple, open the doors, and see all the people”*…

    It’s Sunday, and war is raging (again) in the Middle East. This time around, the strains of fundamentalist Christian thought are hard to miss in the justifications of the role of the U.S. in the conflict. The widely-circulated reports of troops being briefed that the war in Iran is meant to hasten the Biblical End Times may or may not be true. But it seems clear that the millennial contingent in Trump’s movement is all in on an apocalypse. (And here.) As the right-wing site Media Matters reports, “Christian media figures have claimed that the Iran war could signal ‘the second coming’ or the ‘End Times’ and said ‘we are watching incredible prophecy in this time come to pass’.”

    Tal Lavin has reached back to the work he did for his book Wild Faith to help us understand…

    As chaos and violence break out across the Middle East in a war led by the US with Israel as junior partner, I wanted to revisit my research on Christian apocalyptic prophecy… about the evangelical Christians eagerly looking forward to the end of the world—and influencing foreign policy to bring it closer. It’s difficult to conceive of willful courting of disaster for religious reasons, but decades of modern Christian prophecy eagerly foresee mass bloodshed in the Middle East as a prelude to Christ’s triumphant return. Evangelicals of this stripe form a crucial part of Trump’s base and governing coalition…

    Eminently worth reading in full: “Yearning for the Apocalypse,” from @swordsjew.bsky.social.

    And lest we think that this inveighling is in any way unprecedented, Matthew Avery Sutton, reminds us that there’s a long history of politics using religion (and vice versa). In an excerpt from his new book, Chosen Land: How Christianity Made America and Americans Remade Christianity, he tells the story of Reconstuction, during which churches were mobilized on both sides of the divide-that-never-went-away…

    … In the aftermath of the Civil War, federal leaders sought help from Christian groups… as they sought to reassert their power across the entire United States. The US Army had won on the battlefields, and now governing authorities and their protestant collaborators sought to secure the peace. They aimed to reconstruct the nation, to rebuild Americans’ shattered sense of their nation’s exceptional history and manifest destiny, and to reinvigorate their commitment to the United States’ Christian mission. But to succeed, policymakers knew they needed to limit dissent—including religious dissent.

    Christian activists played key roles in every part of postwar reconstruction. In the South, Black ministers and White missionaries welcomed the formerly enslaved into the faith and worked with them to establish independent social and political lives. Defeated Southern Whites launched a multi-generation effort to defend their treason by reimagining the causes of the Civil War and God’s role in it. In the West, a series of Indian wars led to the US government’s creation of a comprehensive reservation system, where government-sponsored missionaries sought to Christianize tribes and “civilize” their children. In Utah Territory the US government cracked down on the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its impressive theocracy, seeking to quell religious dissent.

    Across the nation, Reconstruction policies provided new opportunities for church leaders in collaboration with the government to impose their ideas and values on the land and its peoples. Protestant activists believed that they alone had the tools and expertise to integrate Black and Native peoples, former Confederates, and religious dissenters into the body politic, while bringing healing and reconciliation to all Americans on their terms. Rocked by the split over slavery and then the war, they worked to build unity by identifying common threats and enemies and organizing Christians against them. Their actions demonstrated that after the conflict, just as before, the free exercise clause did not apply to all equally. But minority groups constantly challenged the power of mainstream Christian leaders…

    … Only about one-third of enslaved Americans considered themselves Christian at the start of the Civil War. But in the Reconstruction era Black church going skyrocketed. And just about all of those who converted chose to attend Black-led churches. The days of Southern Black Christians submitting to second-class treatment in the house of the Lord had ended. In urban areas, African Americans could usually join churches that Black activists had founded before the war. In rural areas, they had fewer options. They sometimes had to settle for makeshift meetings in vacant buildings or arrange outdoor services until they could build rudimentary houses of worship.

    Black clergy became some of the strongest advocates for full equality and rights in the postwar South. Seeing Jesus as a liberator, they aimed to make the egalitarianism of the gospel and the Declaration’s line that “all men are created equal” the reality in the United States. Many engaged directly in politics, understanding that while slavery might have ended, securing political equality required vigilance…

    … Black ministers’ political engagement made them targets of violence. Members of the Ku Klux Klan, a [Protestant-led] terrorist organization founded by Southern Whites shortly after the war, burned down churches and threatened Black activists. A journalist testified to the US Senate about his interview with a minister. While “he had been preaching on the circuit,” Klansmen dragged the preacher from bed in the middle of the night and “beat him severely.” They “told him that if he returned to the county he would suffer for it.” This was one example of many. As racial violence escalated in the South, serving as a minister proved dangerous…

    … Historian, sociologist, and Black activist W.E.B. Du Bois summarized in 1903 the role that churches played in Black life, especially in the postwar South. “The Negro church of today is the social centre of Negro life in the United States,” he wrote, “and the most characteristic expression of African character.” Postwar Black churches, as Du Bois understood, represented the heart of Black efforts to secure social, political, and religious equality. Church leaders had engineered the Christian faith into a tool of liberation, which made them a threat to the White Christians of the South and much of the rest of the United States.

    In addition to working to suppress Black political and religious power, many Southern Whites launched a quasi-religious campaign to reshape the memory of the Civil War. Rather than acknowledge their deep investment in slavery, they recast the conflict as a tragic clash between two honorable forces—the North fighting to preserve the Union, and the South struggling to defend local autonomy and states’ rights. The authors of this revisionist account reduced slavery to a secondary issue, incidental to the “real” causes of the war. As a result, by war’s end, many White Southerners felt they had no reason to repent, no moral reckoning to face, and no obligation to embrace Black equality or suffrage. For them, the war had simply preserved the Union and, almost as an afterthought, ended slavery. Nothing more.

    Christianity became central to this new Southern narrative. In defeat, White Southerners cast themselves in the role of Christ, imagining their suffering as redemptive. They claimed they had sacrificed for the greater good of the nation, their values—chivalric protection of White women, paternalistic care for those they enslaved, and Christian devotion—positioned them as the rightful moral leaders of the country. In their view, God had chosen them to guide the nation toward righteousness, but first he had humbled and purified them through the bloodshed of war…

    Also eminently worth reading in full: How Christianity Was Used By the Powerful and the Marginalized to Shape Post-Civil War America,” from @literaryhub.bsky.social.

    We are reminded why our founding fathers– so many of them, Deists— so wisely insisted on freedom of religion and separation of church and state.

    Apposite: “The ‘Straight White American Jesus’ podcast covers the history, philosophy, theology, and politics of Christian nationalism” (from Boing Boing)

    Also, (under the general heading “things aren’t always what they seem”): “The Iran War’s Most Precious Commodity Isn’t Oil,” (gift article from Bloomberg)

    And finally: only vaguely related, but fascinating: “Preached Whales“– (landlocked) Central European pulpits shaped like fish, whales, and boats.

    classic children’s fingerplay rhyme

    ###

    As we celebrate separation, we might recall that it was on this date in 1965 that “Subterranean Homesick Blues” by Bob Dylan was released.

    Johnny’s in the basement, mixin’ up the medicine / I’m on the pavement, thinkin’ about the government…

    https://youtu.be/MGxjIBEZvx0?si=YBG68RAAPgdVvRIb

    The opening sequence of D. A. Pennebaker‘s Dont Look Back (the apostrophe is absent in the title… and yes, that’s Allen Ginsberg in the background)

    #apocalypse #BobDylan #Christianity #church #culture #deism #endTimes #fundamentalism #history #politics #religion #religiousFreedom #seperationOfChurchAndState #society #state #SubterraneanHomesickBlues
  3. motherjones.com/politics/2026/

    Ein #Bordell in Nevada verlangt von Sexarbeiterinnen, dass sie das Recht abtreten, #Avatare und #Deepfakes auf Grundlage von Videomaterial zu erstellen, das in den Räumlichkeiten aufgenommen wurde. Einige der Arbeiterinnen versuchen nun, eine #Gewerkschaft zu gründen, um ihre #Digitalrechte zu verteidigen.

    (via @algorithmwatch)

    #gefundenVonLukas

  4. motherjones.com/politics/2026/

    Ein #Bordell in Nevada verlangt von Sexarbeiterinnen, dass sie das Recht abtreten, #Avatare und #Deepfakes auf Grundlage von Videomaterial zu erstellen, das in den Räumlichkeiten aufgenommen wurde. Einige der Arbeiterinnen versuchen nun, eine #Gewerkschaft zu gründen, um ihre #Digitalrechte zu verteidigen.

    (via @algorithmwatch)

    #gefundenVonLukas

  5. motherjones.com/politics/2026/

    Ein #Bordell in Nevada verlangt von Sexarbeiterinnen, dass sie das Recht abtreten, #Avatare und #Deepfakes auf Grundlage von Videomaterial zu erstellen, das in den Räumlichkeiten aufgenommen wurde. Einige der Arbeiterinnen versuchen nun, eine #Gewerkschaft zu gründen, um ihre #Digitalrechte zu verteidigen.

    (via @algorithmwatch)

    #gefundenVonLukas

  6. motherjones.com/politics/2026/

    Ein #Bordell in Nevada verlangt von Sexarbeiterinnen, dass sie das Recht abtreten, #Avatare und #Deepfakes auf Grundlage von Videomaterial zu erstellen, das in den Räumlichkeiten aufgenommen wurde. Einige der Arbeiterinnen versuchen nun, eine #Gewerkschaft zu gründen, um ihre #Digitalrechte zu verteidigen.

    (via @algorithmwatch)

    #gefundenVonLukas

  7. Bordel, les #Crossed ne durent qu’une dizaine de minutes chacun. Ce premier épisode ne dure même que huit minutes. Et pourtant, il est d’une richesse épatante, tout en se payant le luxe d’intégrer du running gag.

    Karim Debbache, reviens putain 😭😭😭

  8. Bordel, les #Crossed ne durent qu’une dizaine de minutes chacun. Ce premier épisode ne dure même que huit minutes. Et pourtant, il est d’une richesse épatante, tout en se payant le luxe d’intégrer du running gag.

    Karim Debbache, reviens putain 😭😭😭

  9. Bordel, les #Crossed ne durent qu’une dizaine de minutes chacun. Ce premier épisode ne dure même que huit minutes. Et pourtant, il est d’une richesse épatante, tout en se payant le luxe d’intégrer du running gag.

    Karim Debbache, reviens putain 😭😭😭

  10. Bordel, les #Crossed ne durent qu’une dizaine de minutes chacun. Ce premier épisode ne dure même que huit minutes. Et pourtant, il est d’une richesse épatante, tout en se payant le luxe d’intégrer du running gag.

    Karim Debbache, reviens putain 😭😭😭

  11. Bordel, les #Crossed ne durent qu’une dizaine de minutes chacun. Ce premier épisode ne dure même que huit minutes. Et pourtant, il est d’une richesse épatante, tout en se payant le luxe d’intégrer du running gag.

    Karim Debbache, reviens putain 😭😭😭

  12. Bordellbetreiber planen 200-Meter-Turm auf „Artemis“-Gelände

    Messeturm statt Großbordell Puffbetreiber wollen Berlins höchstes Hochhaus bauen 23.02.2026 – 03:21 UhrLesedauer: 2 Min. Das „Artemis“ in…
    #Berlin #Deutschland #Deutsch #DE #Schlagzeilen #Headlines #Nachrichten #News #Europe #Europa #EU #100137924 #100151112 #Bordell #Germany #Großbordell #Halensee #Messeturm #PetraKahlfeldt #Youtube
    europesays.com/de/818535/

  13. ❄ SNOW CONDITION Bodele, Vorarlberg : lower 22 - 24cm, upper slopes 27cm. Snow quality 3.1. Lifts open 8 of 12. Temperature -4/0°C . Freezing level 647m. skiweather.eu/go/bodele/3023 #skiweather #bodele

  14. #BobDylan #markkelly #petehegseth

    Bob Dylan quoted by judge who ruled in favor of MarK Kelly, how cool is that ?

    “ In his scathing rebuke of Hegseth, Leon quoted Bob Dylan's hit song (and Rolling Stone's 187th greatest song of all time) "Subterranean Homesick Blues."

    "After all, as Bob Dylan famously said, ‘You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.'

    msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ju

  15. 3/3 So here is another story:

    "Steve Poltz shares a humorous anecdote about opening for Bob Dylan. The story involves a unique backstage encounter and a surprising gift. Prepare for some unexpected twists and plenty of laughs as the tale unfolds."

    youtube.com/watch?v=ONgqaeQ2zIM #BobDylan #storytelling #anecdote

  16. Le gouvernement veut de la #simplification ? Réduire les #dépenses ? Accélérer la #justice ?

    Alors commencez par mettre un terme à cette connerie pure et dogmatique ! C'est gagnant pour les familles et 3 fois gagnant pour l'État !

    letelegramme.fr/bretagne/affai

    #Bordel

  17. Moi : Vais en ville pour entre autres, récupérer un #Colis que je SAIS qu'il arrivera aujourd'hui

    Aucune nouvelle du suivi

    Also moi : Refresh régulièrement mon tél afin de récupérer le code du locker

    Aucune nouvelle du suivi

    Toujours moi : Traine au maximum afin de ne pas rentrer sans le colis

    Aucune nouvelle du suivi

    Re-moi : Rentre pour ne pas être en retard au boulot cet aprem.

    L'instant exact où j'arrive devant chez moi : VOTRE COLIS EST DISPONIBLE 😊

    Moi final : 🤬

    #Fatigue #Bordel

  18. C'est marrant cette histoire d'objectif de durée d'utilisation des appareils électroniques. Quel objectif, pourquoi se fixer un objectif autre que la durée de vie réelle de l'appareil ?
    (je ne mentionne personne, comme ça il n'y a aucune attaque personnelle, c'est juste une réflexion que je me fais)
    Les #déchets, #bordel, les déchets, et puis l'extraction des terres rares et puis l'exploitation des travailleurs asiatiques. Quel objectif ?
    #environnement #esclavageModerne et j'en passe !

  19. Але є і гарна новина. Ми знаємо що за бізнес йому слід розпочати — так званий будинок розпусти — , де він може стати і інвестором, і керівником і найкращим клієнтом. Звідти він ніколи не піде, нікому не продасть і можливо навчиться стратегічному плануванню

  20. Bordel mais sérieusement les spécistes, mangez bien vos morts là !

    Spoiler, pour arrêter de vider les océans, bouffez des carottes. Si vous n’êtes pas capable de voir la souffrance que vous infligez, écoutez les personnes qui s’en rendent compte.

    Ce documentaire c’est de la merde welfariste. Juste arrêtez de les manger, c’est pas compliqué pourtant.

    "L’idéal pour notre santé, c’est du poisson deux fois par semaine, et pas plus."
    Mais ta gueule Hugo !

    youtu.be/YEMIZ7-dPyA

    #pêche #souffrance #exploitation #govegan #welfarisme

  21. Fans of #BobDylan could well be interested in today's episode of the eclectic music show, Rotations, on @3CRMelbourne #CommunityRadio.

    Presenter John Tait plays classic Dylan tunes and chats with author Chris O'Connor about the new book, "You Don't Need a Weatherman - Bob Dylan for Beginners"...

    3cr.org.au/rotations/episode/b

    #music #MusicOfMastodon #radio #books #MusicBooks #MusicJournalism

  22. October 1, 1965

    Orpheus plays Carnegie Hall in New York City. He played a solo set and then introduced his new backup band – Rick Danko on bass; Robbie Robertson on guitar; Garth Hudson on the organ; Richard Manuel on piano and Levon Helm on drums. From then they would be known simply as – The Band. Listen to my playlist The Band on Amazon Music ... #bobdylan #theband #dylan #orpheus #garthhudson #richardmanuel #robbierobertson #levonhelm #rock #rockmusic #music

    robinbannks.com/2025/10/01/oct

  23. October 1, 1965

    Orpheus plays Carnegie Hall in New York City. He played a solo set and then introduced his new backup band – Rick Danko on bass; Robbie Robertson on guitar; Garth Hudson on the organ; Richard Manuel on piano and Levon Helm on drums. From then they would be known simply as – The Band. Listen to my playlist The Band on Amazon Music ... #bobdylan #theband #dylan #orpheus #garthhudson #richardmanuel #robbierobertson #levonhelm #rock #rockmusic #music

    robinbannks.com/2025/10/01/oct

  24. October 1, 1965

    Orpheus plays Carnegie Hall in New York City. He played a solo set and then introduced his new backup band – Rick Danko on bass; Robbie Robertson on guitar; Garth Hudson on the organ; Richard Manuel on piano and Levon Helm on drums. From then they would be known simply as – The Band. Listen to my playlist The Band on Amazon Music ... #bobdylan #theband #dylan #orpheus #garthhudson #richardmanuel #robbierobertson #levonhelm #rock #rockmusic #music

    robinbannks.com/2025/10/01/oct

  25. October 1, 1965

    Orpheus plays Carnegie Hall in New York City. He played a solo set and then introduced his new backup band – Rick Danko on bass; Robbie Robertson on guitar; Garth Hudson on the organ; Richard Manuel on piano and Levon Helm on drums. From then they would be known simply as – The Band. Listen to my playlist The Band on Amazon Music ... #bobdylan #theband #dylan #orpheus #garthhudson #richardmanuel #robbierobertson #levonhelm #rock #rockmusic #music

    robinbannks.com/2025/10/01/oct