This, from Dan Goodspeed, is remarkable. x.com/AnthonyJClark/…

Melchi Vepouyoum of Cameroon sings about tomorrow being better than today #bataclan131115. The Bataclan Festival in Bonn recalls the tragedy five years later DW Culture

Melchi Vepouyoum aus Kamerun gibt seiner Trauer musikalischen Ausdruck und gedenkt den Opfern des Terrorangriffs auf das Bataclan in Paris #bataclan131115 beim Bataclan Festival in Bonn #overtheborderfestival DW Kultur

to make it here without dying is the epitome of white privilege

Greetings from the “third world”, and fuck right off. Few things are as tiring as American exceptionalism dismissing all the parts about itself it hates as “third-world” and “not-American”. It’s all America. Go stand in it. Keep the third world out of it.

The US spends half its taxpayers' money on defense and a few protesters smashed their way into the Capitol building in like 5 minutes

Looks like what the US would send to Eurovision if they were invited.

Clear words from German Chancellor Merkel, who speaks for many this morning awakening to see the shocking images from the US Capitol.

Merkel getting a lot of praise for her relatively cautious statement but President Steinmeier is much more explicit

My cat staring down a blue tit on the bird feeder while playing her own Alfred Hitchcock-style theme tune of suspense is probably the best thing I’ve seen all year... 🎹 🔈

Summer paradise at Emkendorf at the Schleswig Holstein Music Festival. Mozart and Schubert on a mild summer evening

Notes of Mozart like pearls on a string in pristine purity by this Korean pianist up here in Schleswig-Holstein

Ultimate Beethoven: Jordi Savall and Le Concert des Nations opening the #Beethovenfest with the Ninth Symphony

#beethoven Fest Bonn filling the hall for the Vienna Philharmonic and Herbert Blomstedt

.Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський's tv address to the Russian (!) people might be the most moving speech that I've ever seen in my entire life. The whole world needs to see, understand and share this crucial Ukrainian message. #StandWithUkraine #Ukraine #Україна #Russia #Россия

The people who know Putin the best -- people I know in Russia -- are worried about his recent nuclear statement. The people who know him the least are saying it's cheap talk.

We’ve had and heard so much about Corona but there is another malady that takes the lives of so many yearly: AIDS, recalled by this opera gala benefit @Aidsstiftung

In solidarity with Ukraine, they adjusted the colors of the traditional ribbon @Aidsstiftung

It‘s getting started. Two weeks of world-class jazz. Thankfully, in brief performances, two each evening