Joanna Bryson, blathering
Why are Germans being detained by US immigration?
Three tourists and a permanent US resident say they were subjected to aggressive interrogation and held for weeks without knowing why. In response, the German government has extended a travel advisory to its citizens.
https://www.dw.com/en/why-are-germans-being-detained-by-us-immigration/a-71987211
Joanna Bryson, blathering
BREAKING: Pianist András Schiff cancels all his US engagements for 2025-26 in response to "the recent and unprecedented political changes in the United States."
"Some people might say, 'just shut up and play.' I cannot, in good conscience, do that."
https://www.kirshbaumassociates.com/agency.php?view=news&nid=12575
via @1br0wn
Joanna Bryson, blathering
British musicians also getting protracted, uncomfortable detention and deportation, apparently for social media critique of Trump admin policy https://flipboard.com/@faroutmagazine/far-out-music-f85ubbh8z/-/a-m29zL5ZXTTyJhWzn2LNtLg%3Aa%3A3037506767-%2F0
Paul Cantrell
@tuparev
- I can’t see the now-deleted post to which you’re replying, but I suspect you may be confusing symbolic gestures with economic boycotts.
- At this point, in 2025, to use “woke” as an insult in the manner you just did is to explicitly align yourself with a fascist movement — regardless of what your intent was. Like it or not, that’s the unstated connotation of the term. If you meant it that way, let me know and I’ll gladly block you. But in case you didn’t mean in that way: now you know.
Georg Tuparev
This reminds me how in 2022 in the West we canceled all Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky concerts and took out all Dostoyevski and Tolstoy books from the bookstores.
Both things are absurd woke behaviour.
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