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I'll get back to "party unity" as soon as the Senate Minority Leader tells us if he voted for the Democratic party nominee for mayor of his city.

I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.

While we're at it, why do we pay for a fire department when most houses don't even burn down.

Tonight was a very bad night.

initially thought that this was a shadow being projected on his face. didn’t realize he was in blackface

They really stuck the landing on this one.

AOC: We have a future to fight for, and we're either going to do that together or you're going to be left behind. It's not about Progressive. It's not moderate, it's not liberal. This is about do you understand the assignment of fighting fascism right now? And the assignment is you come together…

form how did you hear about the ymca someone has marked other as Village People

Image of the mechanical ladder outside the Louvre Text below says WENN'S MAL WIEDER SCHNELL GEHEN MUSS (When you need to move fast) Underneath is more German text which translates as "The Böcker Agilo transports your treasures weighing up to 400kg at 42m/min - quiet as a whisper."

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'

10/10 response, no notes

I told you he could learn!

Yesterday's No Kings protests were apparently the largest since the first Earth Day in 1970

The NYT covered that story with a six column headline across the top of the paper and two full pages inside

Today, two small pics below the fold and a story on page A23

They constantly let America down

‘A Data Love Letter to the Subway’ A data-driven animation for Fulton Center commissioned by MTA Arts & Design for its 40th anniversary.

This is gorgeous -- www.pentagram.com/work/a-data-...

Mike Johnson’s position is young pregnant American women shouldn’t have to wait before being turned away to die in the parking lot from an ectopic pregnancy the hospital is afraid to treat

this is incredible

If you’re white, your accomplishments are your own and you can resent and criticize the country all you like, but if you’re black and successful you should be grateful to white people for allowing you in their presence. bsky.app/profile/jess...

ART SHOULD DISTURB THE COMFORTABLE & COMFORT THE DISTURBED

That explains why Claude told me to just use my brainpal instead of looking at my phone while driving

This is EXCELLENT.

1) this is spot-on analysis of the problem & a great immediate 1st thing a city can do to improve outcome.

2) as a 2 min clip? He's giving history, hope & change. Speaking to women, to Jewish & Black NYers, saying "abortion." & also naming eugenics in feminism. 100/10 no notes.

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

We need democracy clubs in every city and town that provides beer and childcare and that publishes a newspaper at least once a week.

Ha! I thought it had been out for a couple weeks and today I finally remembered to download it. Had no idea I was part of the first wave

Anti-Islamic US biker gang members run security at deadly Gaza aid sites BBC identifies members of Infidels MC gang hired as armed security at US and Israel-backed aid sites.

The depths of evil www.bbc.com/news/article...

facts

Let art be feral

This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.

Studying philosophy does make people better thinkers, according to new research on more than 600,000 college grads Philosophers are fond of saying that their field boosts critical thinking. Two of them decided to put that claim to the test.

We're also funnier and better dancers, and have a pleasing natural odor

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There’s no such fucking thing for Black and brown people and they know it. They would kill us dead. This is simply an assertion of apartheid.

@nightafternight.bsky.social names a surprisingly high number of my most favorite things here, and after 20 mins of listening I’m all in on Prariewolf

I already knew about this because I get real-time updates from the Global Who Gives A Shit Center

The Gen Z New Yorkers Selling Their Parents on Mamdani

Good piece on Mamdani in…dang, the New York Times
At @thirdactorg.bsky.social there’s nothing we like more than elders and youth conspiring together about who to vote for—and elders really listening!

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