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If you think a golden ballroom is more important than childhood cancer researchโฆ I have nothing left to say to you. Please unfollow me.
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The case for abolition of the House of Lords in a nutshell: Michelle Mone, Shaun Bailey, Ben Houchen and Evgeny Lebedev. And Charlotte Owen.
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โHis actions on behalf of the company nonetheless demonstrate the value to companies looking to affect government policy of having a member of the House of Lords as an adviser.โ
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No economist will ever come up with a better description of why being poor is so expensive than Terry Pratchett. Such a great quote: Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles. But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet. This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socio-economic unfairness.
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James Baldwin in 1969
On This Day in History: August 2, 1924
James Baldwin was born in Harlem. His writing attacks the myths America tells itself about race, power, and belonging. Baldwin forces us to see what we refuse to face. I think he's one of the most important American authors of the 20th century. #CivilRights
DHS: Trump's Bungling Despots of Deportation
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The banality of evil doesn't do justice to DHS and ICE; it's more like the brutality of the morally feeble...
IF WE ALL VOTE WE CAN 'DEFUND' THESE NAZI MOTHER FOCKERS.
Portrait of a Lady (Alma Thomas), 1947, 30 x 25 1โ8 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum
Messy Genius Spotlight: Alma Thomas
African-American artist and art teacher (1891-1978)
Alma Thomas spent decades as a teacher, painting in private, long before anyone paid attention. She didnโt have her first solo show until her late 70s. Keep making the work. Let the reception sort itself out.
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EXCLUSIVE: Not only does an Excel spreadsheet of Trump mentions in the Epstein files exist, but so do training videos explaining how to flag the files for Trump mentions. Plus, the number of people who had access is larger than previously known. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-epstei...
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BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: A higher up at the Bureau of Prisons WAIVED Ghislaine Maxwell's sex offender status in order to transfer her to a minimum security camp in Texas, per source. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...
01.08.2025 17:20 โ ๐ 20396 ๐ 10630 ๐ฌ 2303 ๐ 1538Donald Trump took away your Medicaid to build himself a gilded party room two acres in size.
01.08.2025 00:26 โ ๐ 2609 ๐ 680 ๐ฌ 81 ๐ 32the republican party hates public goods and wants to force feed you and your family slop produced by its billionaire allies
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ICE GOONS draw guns on humanitarian aid workers
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"In 2020, the government pointed to Maxwellโs 'willingness to brazenly lie under oath about her conduct' as a reason to deny her bail. Now, with her entire life in the governmentโs control, it turns to her as a source of truth. Or, if not truth, a story that can help the president out of this jam."
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We thought it was a 'short online news update'? An 'interim guidance'? An 'interim update'?
Which one is it ๐
