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Interruptions! Now you can #focus #ScreenSkills #phone #settings #DoNotDisturb

The Focus Mode That Stops Your Phone From Interrupting You All Day Set it up once in 10 minutes, then your phone automatically knows when to stay quiet. Plus: distraction-free Substack reading and a focus app that works

Your phone interrupts you constantly, but it doesn't have to because the focus mode can silence distractions automatically.
Set it up once in 10 minutes.
Read the guide:

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

So much good news, even good hurricane news!
#DaybreakNotesAndBeans
#ocean #sea #whales #beauty #Shackelton

Finally, Some Good Hurricane News for Americans (But Don’t Thank Trump’s FEMA Budget Cuts) Plus: This year’s Physics Nobel Prize, Shackleton’s ship had fatal flaws, French Polynesia creates world’s largest marine park, and a moment of beauty

Finally, Some Good Hurricane News for Americans (But Don’t Thank Trump’s FEMA Budget Cuts)

Militarization of American cities, approval ratings underwater, and goal of confiscating midterm ballot boxes #NobelPeacePrize is not in reach. Vivid analysis, thank you!

Trump Wants the Nobel Prize. Here’s Who Will Actually Win It. Expert insights from Oslo reveal the real contenders

Trump’s campaigning hard for the Nobel Peace Prize, claiming he’s solved wars the world didn’t know existed.

But here in Oslo, where I attended an expert briefing, the reality is very different. Who will actually win Friday?

The positive we need 🧡
#DaybreakNotesAndBeans
#JaneGoodall #VanGogh #art #medicine #NobelPrize

Don’t Lose Hope: Jane Goodall’s Last Interview and Today’s Stories of Progress That Prove Her Right Plus: A Nobel Prize for genetic scissors, young climate activists triumph at the ICJ, a dinosaur caught mid-meal, and why women outlive men

Jane Goodall's last interview released: "Don't lose hope." Today's stories prove she was right.
Take a moment to listen to her words:

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Could you help with a beach bike assembly? I'm a bit worried about doing brakes myself. I'm in Lakeview. I too will overpay 😊

Chicago Journalists, Protesters Suing Trump Administration Over Alleged First Amendment Violations at Broadview ICE Facility The Chicago Headline Club, Chicago Newspaper Guild Local 34071, Block Club Chicago and other media groups filed the suit alongside protesters in federal court alleging their First Amendment rights hav...

Chicago-area journalists and protesters are suing the Trump administration, claiming ICE agents have engaged in a “pattern of extreme brutality” they say is a “concerted and ongoing effort to silence the press and civilians” outside the agency’s Broadview processing facility.

I handed a case to Harmeet Dhillon once. It was a righteous case -- defending a college student sued by a nutty guy she reported for harassment. Dhillon did a bang-up job and won the anti-SLAPP establishing that a private school Title IX proceeding qualified.....
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The land of the brave

Federal Agent Shoots Woman In Brighton Park, Causing Tense Scene With Protesters The woman shot by a federal agent was charged after prosecutors said she drove her car into a Border Patrol car.

Feds claim ICE agent shot driver, 30, because agents were "rammed by [drivers] and boxed in by 10 cars" near Pershing/Kedzie.
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Photo plate of Hubble's famous "VAR!" discovery. This is a photonegative plate of an image of the Andromeda Galaxy, with several small annotations made in grease pencil. One of them was previously marked "N" for "nova," but the N has been crossed out and replaced with an excited "VAR!" to indicate a Cepheid Variable.

VAR!

In the early morning hours #OTD in 1923, Edwin Hubble took a photo plate of M31 that showed a Cepheid variable star.

Using Henrietta Swan Leavitt’s distance-luminosity relationship, Hubble concluded that M31 is another galaxy outside the Milky Way. 🧪 🔭 ⚛️

Image: Carnegie Observatories

Governor Pritzker refuses to play in the sandbox with **TyradingToddler47.

Superior edition of Screen Skills
#ScreenSkills #search #ethics #phones #results

The Email Search That Finds Exactly What You Need in Seconds Plus: AI-powered search queries, discovering your Substack community, and answering Suzanne’s phone question

Search ‘invoice’ and get 300 emails. Search ‘from:patricia subject:invoice has:attachment after:2024/01/01’ and get exactly the one you need. Master email search plus Substack tips and an ethical phone question.

Remarkable collection of stories including the author's personal favorites
#DaybreakNotesAndBeans

#art #VanGogh #Kahlo #health #dogs #plantbased

From Frida Kahlo’s Family Home to Van Gogh’s Chair: When Art Objects Become Time Machines Plus: Revolutionary fertility science, fiber for stroke prevention, and the fork’s scandalous journey to your table

From Frida Kahlo’s Family Home to Van Gogh’s Chair: When Art Objects Become Time Machines.

Sound on! really great piece in an awesome setting, nice to see how kids love this too.

Beautiful!
#DaybreakNotesAndBeans
#music #meditation #Paris

In Paris, Céleste Boursier-Mougenot created "Clinamen" as an exploration of chance and sound. Your weekend inspiration in Daybreak Notes & Beans.

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So much good news here
#DaybreakNotesAndBeans
#music #guitar #EasterIsland #marsupial #SnakeVenom

When Trump’s Chaos Gets Too Much, Here’s the Good News You Missed This Week Plus: Maritime gold treasures, Easter Island’s billion-dollar secret, a Stradivarius guitar, and why mamba venom is deadlier than we thought

Exhausted by Trump news? Daybreak Notes & Beans shares the amazing stuff you missed: 18th century gold found off Florida, Easter Island’s billion-dollar secret, a 345-year-old Stradivarius guitar, and why mamba bites are deadlier than we knew. ☕️ 🏝️ 😊

Valuable, useful information
#ScreenSkills #memories #images #maps #digital #family #phone

The Photo Organization System That Ends the Digital Mess Forever Plus: AI prompts for your photos, following vs subscribing on Substack, and why you should check Instagram’s new Maps settings

Drowning in thousands of phone photos? Here’s the simple album system that actually works.
Plus: AI prompts to help organize your memories, Substack’s subscription levels explained, and Instagram’s new Maps privacy settings.

If you’re in Illinois and you’re disturbed by the images that you’re seeing of the Illinois State Police in Broadview this morning, please call now. It will honestly take 30 seconds. I spoke to a real person.

Here are the phone numbers:

312-814-2121

312-814-2122

217-782-6830

217-782-6831

The #Dictators #Playbook
#ThePlanet #protest #history #freedom #FreeSpeech #coup

The Dictator’s Playbook: How Minor Incidents Become Pretexts for Massive Crackdowns Why history’s pattern of crisis exploitation should worry every democracy

The Dictator’s Playbook: How Minor Incidents Become Pretexts for Massive Crackdowns