Ben Samuels

Kermit faces off with Hopper in The Muppet Movie

Meanwhile in #Portland

Queen of Hearts, Joan Baez, 9/10
Queen of Hearts, Juice Newton, 10/10

Update from Portland: supplies running low. Please send fig jam and artisanal cheeses. For the jam, prefer GF, vegan, small batch, processed by a guy named River, who only stirs it during Mercury retrograde.

Photo of page from Guardian Weekend magazine showing Patrick’s 13-year-old daughter Milly and the starting words of a long feature story about her battle with Lyme Disease which was missed by the NHS for years.

If you pick up the Guardian Weekend Magazine today, please read about my daughter Milly’s battle with Lyme disease. And if you’re feeling bold, drop your copy into your local GP. There are thousands of Millys out there. Most are currently not helped at all by the NHS or, worse, not believed.

"Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them...The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”
― Frederick Douglass

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The incomparable Willie Nelson, an absolute legend playing at the annual Farm Aid concert they he founded 40 years ago! The man is 92 and he didn’t go on until midnight…and played a full hour!

Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.

"Words are not violence, nor are they powerless... If you would look away from the words of Charlie Kirk, from what else would you look away?"

I saw over 20 shows in Edinburgh last month, but the event that's stayed with me was listening to Ta-Nehisi Coates.

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a man with a mustache is wearing a hat and a suit . Alt: Robert Redford as the Sundance Kid, with a mustache is wearing a hat and a suit. He smiles and waves

Legend.

update: male loneliness epidemic solved

Grok is being sent to the reeducation camp

A screenshot of a Donald Trump social media post in which Trump appears like Robert Duvall in Apocalypse Now. Text in scare quotes says, "I love the smell of deportations in the morning...". The paragraph below reads: Chicago about to find out why it's called the department of war.

Can we do the Princess Bride meme, but for film? Like, "I do not think that scene means what you think it means."

Also, this is very bad. But also illiterate. Which I guess makes sense.

Tesco tries out in-store avocado scanners to assess ripeness Machines in five of supermarket’s stores work like tiny X-rays to allow shoppers to analyse fruit before buying

Or you could lightly squeeze it.

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Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad The president’s latest criticism of museums is a thinly veiled attempt to erase Black history.

I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.

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Trump says the Smithsonian focuses too much on 'how bad slavery was' A White House official told NBC News that Trump plans to expand his review of museums beyond the Smithsonian, which is based in Washington, D.C.

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. ... History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
―Orwell, 1984

Watching this video 10 times has significantly improved my mood.

[writing the constitution]

Benjamin Franklin: Write down "no dumb fucks as president"

Alexander Hamilton: Stop saying that

Benjamin Franklin: I'm tellin' you. You're gonna regret not writing that down

Very curious as to what 'claims the decision could not have been a financial one' is a euphemism for?

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Kara Walker, Gone: An Historical Romance of a Civil War as It Occurred b'tween the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress and Her Heart, 1994 #artbots #moma
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My kid keeps calling the leader of the Autobots “Octopus Prine,” and I just know that dude can play witty Americana folk tunes on four guitars at once.

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BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

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we can sneak around town / hunting working folks down / I hear they got a great benefit plan

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I’m Captain Ahab and I Say We Must Never Transition Away from a Whale-Based Energy Industry When I heard that the globalist oligarchs and fat cats in the Washington marshland were conspiring to invest in alternative, non-whale-based energy...

"Reducing our dependence on whales as an energy source will send us sliding down the slippery, spermaceti-lubricated slope to socialism. If we give up whaling, what will those lackwits come for next? Will I have to surrender my peg leg for a titanium prosthetic?"

Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good.

I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.