A Black person stands in front of the U.S. Capitol, smiling and holding a sign that says, "Veterans say: No troops on our streets. ACLU." They're wearing a plaid blazer and sunglasses.

"I want to speak out against the politicization of the military and to protect the Constitution.”

Jackie Robinson is one of the many veterans who joined us on Capitol Hill this week to meet with elected officials and make it clear that troops shouldn't be patrolling our streets.

Future of trade talks depends on Canada’s purchase of American fighter jets, U.S. ambassador says Pete Hoekstra said it will not be easy to restart the now-stalled trade talks, and urged Canada to "harmonize" as much as possible with the U.S. on a range of

Hoekstra continues to be utterly terrible at his job as *checks notes* an ambassador of the United States.

Or, flipside: continues to be the living embodiment of why there is nation-wide contempt towards the US.

www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

A Verge headline reads "Phoenix is the new Silicon Valley". A photo illustration depicts a gloved hand holding a microchip, looming over an orange desert landscape

Is the promise of jobs worth all the water and chemicals it takes to manufacture chips in the Arizona desert?

Read more from @justcalma.bsky.social:
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Let’s talk about “Move fast and break things.” First of all, Facebook itself changed its motto to “Move fast with stable infrastructure” in 2014. So much for breaking things, at least if you’re a soulless corporate behemoth.
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As a lawyer, the only thing I hear when someone says “move fast, break things,” is “Lawsuit, waiting to happen.”

Leave it to Zuck to offer that as a defense, when it’s actually an admission that RECKLESSNESS is the whole PLAN.

Zuck & Tech Bros DGAF about the human consequences of their actions.

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What in the ever-loving FUCK is THIS, now⁉️

Brain dead, demented, drunk and/or drugged up junkie zombies are running the wealthiest & most powerful country on earth?

Responsible for health & welfare of 340 million American souls & the second-largest nuclear arsenal on the planet⁉️

Welp.

This clears it all up, no more confusion.
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I think our DB company may have just have gotten a new customer in the healthcare field. Woot!

If you think Covid was bad, talk to someone who lived through the US polio epidemics in the 1950s, like my mother.

Hitler’s DNA: Blueprint of a Dictator Experts identify Hitler’s DNA. What does it tell us about his origins and drives?

"Hitler has only got one ball" Allied troops sang this in WWII. It seems it's actually based on fact. He had a micro penis too.
He had Kallmann syndrome, ADHD and other stuff.
He was an unhinged, jealous and spiteful little man.
New 2 part Channel4 documentary.
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Ooh. I love the sound. It’s spooky!

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Isn’t it wild to think of Mozart, Beethoven AND Marie Antionette playing OUR Ben’s invention⁉️

🇺🇸BEN is THE most adorable #Polymath we ever produced‼️

🚩Without Ben, France would’ve NEVER agreed to lend ships, arms & support to our little war of independence.

#OurREVOLUTION, which changed THE WORLD‼️🇺🇸

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Isn’t it wild to think of Mozart, Beethoven AND Marie Antionette playing OUR Ben’s invention⁉️

🇺🇸BEN is THE most adorable #Polymath we ever produced‼️

🚩Without Ben, France would’ve NEVER agreed to lend ships, arms & support to our little war of independence.

#OurREVOLUTION, which changed THE WORLD‼️🇺🇸

WOW! What a performance!

What a wild story! I've never heard of this musical instrument before! WOW!

The Once And Future Armonica The glass armonica has experienced a turbulent history. Almost vanishing entirely, learn how this maker of heavenly, classical music has been reborn.

I love it! After fading out w/Victorian spiritualism, the Armonica was revived in the 1980’s.

In 1960, German glassblower Gerhard Finkenbeiner saw one in a museum & decided to started making them. He’s why it came back!

🤭 Modernly, I hear the best sound comes from Quartz bowls.

Full circle Ben‼️

YouTube video by Don Giller Harris, Parton, Ronstadt on Late Show, March 24, 1999 (full, stereo)

Oh...check it out🥰
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Xc...

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Great story

'The world's most dangerous instrument' was rumored to have killed people who used it The glass armonica invented by Benjamin Franklin is said to be 'the world's most dangerous instrument' and even proved fatal for those who used it

The Armonica continued in popularity, until people began to FEAR the etherial & otherworldly sounds.

Death & madness became associated with them (the glasses contained lead & may have poisoned some).

Rumors spread that the sound could raise the dead, cast spells, imbalance & unsettle people. 😱

Mesmerising Science: The Franklin Commission and the Modern Clinical Trial Benjamin Franklin, magnetic trees, and erotically-charged séances — Urte Laukaityte on how a craze for sessions of “animal magnetism” in late 18th-century Paris led to the randomised placebo-controlle...

Doctors, scientists & Ben investigated Mesmer’s Armonic hypnotic trances & an invisible force he called “Animal Magnetism” used in his “therapeutic” eroticism.

It concluded Animal Magnetism doesn’t exist & Mesmerism’s effects were due to imagination.

Mesmerism’s erotic fixation on women survived.👀

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“Franklin’s musical invention helped Mesmer create the highly-charged atmosphere at his mesmerism salons, but Franklin’s intervention now helped to end Mesmer’s career.

With his methods discredited, Mesmer left town, spent the rest of his life wandering Europe until he died in obscurity in 1815”

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Well, almost. Actually they didn’t meet until 1784.

But it’s the fact that Mesmer has been using the Armonica to induce hypnotic states, while his assistants physically manipulate women to orgasm, that set their collision course.

1784, King Louis XVI asks Paris Resident Ben to help “investigate.”

After it’s world premiere in 1762, it was wildly successful—especially with Dr. Franz Anton Mesmer (think “Mesmerism,” aka Hypnosis), who later used it in a frenzied “erotic therapy.”

Sidebar: 16 yo Mozart, a fam friend, played & composed on Mesmer’s Armonica.

1778 Paris, Mesmer’s claims meet BEN‼️

YouTube video by Toronto Star Sounds of a Glass Armonica

Ben Franklin’s Glass Armonica popped into my head, apropos of absolutely freaking NOTHING…

🤭So I decided to investigate.

Oh. My. DAYS‼️ It’s a wild, WILD story. #THREAD

Ben:
“Of all my inventions, the glass armonica has given me the greatest personal satisfaction.’”

🤫The sound MAY cause MADNESS‼️🤣

Mockler: Bread is higher, beef is higher

Borelli: Eggs are lower

Mockler: How much has gone down over the past 12 months? It’s four cents

YouTube video by BBC Three There Is No White Jesus | Famalam

🤫 Don’t tell MAGA. 🤣

I’ve been in a room with Putin. He calls Ukrainians “Russians with accents.” His real fear isn’t NATO expansion, it’s democracy expansion. It shatters his entire argument for dictatorship at home. Because if Ukrainians embrace freedom, Russians may demand the same.

Newsfeed Cleanser: Michelle Obama 🖤

📸 Annie Leibovitz

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Marjorie Taylor Greene says she is resigning from Congress in January