It is Friday afternoon of a wild, wild week. And yet for me a reassuring one. My greatest fear was not of what they would do. It's that we would let them. And I'm seeing a lot of beautiful intransigence. From federal workers. From people all over the country obstructing ICE....
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I think this is an underestimated part of what's going on. The stupidity. It is true they don't care much about consequences. But also that they, notably Trump and Musk, don't understand them....
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Don't give up! More of us are coming from FB to be in a safe space together. ๐
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Graphic from Fox News Channel showing the results of a German survey titled 'Greatest Threat to World Peace' which ranks world leaders. The graphic lists five leaders with their respective percentages: President Trump at 41%, Kim Jong Un at 17%, Ali Khamenei at 8%, Vladimir Putin at 8%, and Xi Jinping at 7%. The source of the survey is YouGov. The background includes the Fox News logo and a ticker at the bottom with news updates.
Germans know fascist wannabes when they see them.
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A wax torso that is dissected at the front to reveal twins inside the uterus.
This remarkably detailed wax anatomical model (c.1787) is now housed at the Javier Puerta Museum. Wax models like this were used for teaching anatomy to medical students at a time when few bodies were available for dissection. It demonstrates the merging of art and science.
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Tweet from user 'Morgan J. Freeman' shows a photo of a pin that reads, "The Gulf of America. The Empty Space Between Trump's Ears."
And the gulf is growing wider.
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According to his press secretary, who, I am embarrassed to say, comes from New Hampshire, only the memo announcing the freeze is rescinded, not the actual freeze. Full steam ahead with that, According to her. ๐
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