“Ali is an asylum seeker fleeing the Taliban,” the bishop, Matthew Heyd, said. “His family is settled here, and he’s a student at Bard. These are exactly the kinds of folks we want here.” #Asylum #immigration #Bard resist https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/nyregion/afghan-asylum-immigration-bard-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

'The Dream Factory' Review: A Building and Its Bard

https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/the-dream-factory-review-a-building-and-its-bard-6d79ce43

#HackerNews #TheDreamFactory #Review #Building #Bard #ArtsCulture #Books

On the way home to South Wales after my Llyn Peninsula adventure. A quick stop off to admire the impressive Criccieth Castle or, ‘the bright fort high on a rock’, as described by the 14th century Welsh bard Iolo Goch. #Poetry #Wales#Castle#Criccieth#Cymru#Llyn#Cadw#IoloGoch#History#Bard

On the way home to South Wales after my Llyn Peninsula adventure. A quick stop off to admire the impressive Criccieth Castle or, ‘the bright fort high on a rock’, as described by the 14th century Welsh bard Iolo Goch. #Poetry #Wales#Castle#Criccieth#Cymru#Llyn#Cadw#IoloGoch#History#Bard