At the Writing Desk

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Ephraim Heller's photos of parrots and parakeets taken in Brazil's Pantanal region.

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I think that's Tucker Carlson's alma mater, lol

YouTube video by Dwarkesh Patel Artificial Meat Will Be Even Harder Than Artificial Intelligence – Lewis Bollard

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Trump hosted 100 Purple Heart recipients—Veterans wounded in combat defending America—and still made it about himself: “It wasn’t easy for me either.”

From “bone spurs” to mocking POWs, he’s spent his life spitting on service and sacrifice.

The only uniform he’s ever earned is an orange jumpsuit.

Air Force Announces Arrest Related to Firearm Death of Airman That Prompted M18 Probe The news marks a major development in the ongoing investigation into the circumstances behind Lovan's death and the scrutiny of Sig Sauer's P320 handgun.

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A handsome white cat, Frankie, with tabby stripes on his ears and forehead and a Christmas tree shaped splotch on his nose. He’s lying on a freshly made bed, looking into the camera. He loves making the bed. #CatsOfBlueSky

Ever helpful Frankie, thanks to him it only took twenty minutes to make the bed

A mourning dove with blue rimmed eye and a white feather in its beak.

#FeatheredFriday #MourningDoves #birds #birdwatchers #naturephotography 📷 🪶

The country is a giant skunk works for the USA and a satellite Silicon Valley with a special emphasis on armaments that could be useful to a certain continental superpower that acutely needs to strengthen and grow its defense industrial base.

Selling arms to Israel is beneficial to both countries and to the world at large.

(But don't subsidize the sales)

Episode 35: Solving hunger in Gaza with Prof. Yannay Spitzer Professor Yannay Spitzer is an economic historian who has studied food and hunger. His efforts over the past month to get real reliable data on hunger out of Gaza and publicize it to Israelis, data th...

An essential discussion

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On one hand, he was great on "Graffiti Rock".

On the other hand, in his hip-hop estimation...the Boogie Boys were a better rap crew than the Beastie Boys and, uh, I dunno man.

NY AG Letitia James subpoenaed by Justice Department over $454M civil fraud case against Trump James was hit with subpoenas as part of a grand jury probe by the Albany US Attorney’s Office into her office’s $454 million civil fraud case against President Trump.

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Savage murder of NYC boy, 14, was possible case of mistaken identity — and slaying was filmed: sources Ninth-grader Angel Mendoza was jumped by a mob of kids at Williamsbridge Oval Playground in Norwood late Tuesday in revenge for an earlier fight that he was not involved in, sources told The Post.

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☝️ Law professor

I doubt it will happen. Fierce opposition from Israel's friends abroad and from within Israel.

08/08/2025

Historic New Jersey synagogue destroyed in massive fire as rabbi, family ‘luckily’ escape unscathed A historic New Jersey synagogue was engulfed by a four-alarm fire early Friday morning as a rabbi and his family of six “luckily” escaped the inferno.

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A cat walking near some guitars.

Good morning from Kinmo the cat.

💙🤍💙🤍💙

Noted plagiarist Kevin Kruse.

FWIW, the law Professor David Bernstein (JD, Yale) sounds pretty confident that the evil Khalil will ultimately be deported. Here's his assessment:

A large black butterfly with yellow stripe from wingtips to thorax/abdomen and yellow patches. 2 smaller red patches on its hindwings. Green leaves, brown branches, patches of white sky in background.

#GiantSwallowtail #ButterflyWeek #InsectThursday #butterflies #naturephotography #photography 📷

STAR Voting elects the candidate that the most voters prefer the most. It's a great way to make sure your voice counts in an election!

Dude's a Kennedy in Massachusetts and he lost to a goddamn fossil smdh

It's a good idea. (Be sure to click through.)

President Reagan signed a law authorizing reparations for Japanese-Americans.