natalia rudiak

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

OH HEY FREN

YouTube video by PaulSimonVEVO Paul Simon - The Boy In The Bubble (from The African Concert, 1987)

Going through my annual Paul Simon 'Graceland' phase.

These days are horrifying, but they are also the days of miracle and wonder.

Never forget that.

Don't cry, baby,
don't cry x

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I have 4000 screenshots on my phone. There's bound to be photos of people known by the masses in there.

Experts Raise Concerns Over Trump’s White House Ballroom Renovation Plans

The sheer scale of the project — a giant ballroom attached to the East Wing — worries preservationists. “It could do some harm to the property over all,” said a professor at George Washington University. “There aren’t any checks and balances here, unfortunately.”

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No cheating. Your last saved celebrity photo is your therapist. Who is it?

[does this count lol]

Can you imagine how cool the YM magazine podcast would have been

This interview is so clear & quietly devastating. Public media as we understand it is over.

This is not about the end of NPR & PBS. They might be able to find ways to continue to make programs. Instead of content, this is about the capacity to broadcast at all - antennae, transmitters, licenses. 🧵

I just realized this didn't age well which is TOTALLY AWESOME.

a man with a mustache is smiling and looking at the camera . Alt: Gif of that Black guy with a mustache smiling, looking at the camera, and pointing to his head, looking clever.

Hahahaha good point. Hydration really needs to override my hoarding instincts.

I sometimes feel bad drinking purse water in case I'll get in some apocalyptic scenario where I'll need to conserve water or, like, I'll just be more thirsty later and so I delay.

Seriously what is wrong with me lmao

I'm out of town now but at home I also occasionally drink crystal light like an 80s aerobic mom lol

Yes! It does help! Ty 🙏🏻

I am so dehydrated literally all of the time. Send water intake encouragement plz.

I do NOT blame people for not coming here, but man - our tourism industry is never going to recover

Text that says: See, back in my day we respected government institutions enough to name our bands after them

Me, Xennial-splaining Interpol and The Postal Service to my Gen Z work husband:

Mr. Fetterman — who has admittedly missed several votes and hearings this year and gained a reputation for frustrating progressives and criticizing his party — told reporters Monday between votes on amendments that he just wanted to “go home.” “I've already missed our entire trip to the beach,” he said of a family vacation. “I’m going to vote no. There’s no drama … I don't think it's really helpful to put people here till some ungodly hour.” He added that the only interesting votes would be “on the margin,” by Republican senators such as Maine’s Susan Collins and others who have expressed concerns about the bill’s cuts to Medicaid or its estimated piling of almost $3.3 trillion to the national debt over the next several years, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. Mr. Fetterman argued that he didn’t think Americans were “really going to be paying attention” to the dozens of amendments from Democrats doomed to fail under the Republican majority. “I don’t really think there’s a lot of dignity in it,” he told reporters.

ICYMI. Scab paper, but some pretty wild Fetterman quotes about the Big Ugly Bill:

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Dachau in July 1933... reported in the New York Times

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i don’t think there’s anything wrong with this coming from columnists or commenters or protestors but it has been a known problem for years that when you describe the most extreme republican policies to the average voter, they just flat don’t believe you

Republican Senator tells House not to vote on bill she just voted for Sen. Lisa Murkowski backs Trump's megabill but urges House to return it for fixes, citing Medicaid cuts and tax impacts on Alaska.

Murkowski is killing me today.

"Republican Lisa Murkowski Urges House Not to Vote on Bill She Just Approved."

From Newsweek:

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Private jets emitted more climate pollution than all flights departing Heathrow Airport in 2023 - International Council on Clean Transportation A groundbreaking new study from the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) estimates that private jets produced up to 19.5 million tonnes of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 2023, a 25%...

This just came across my desk:

"Florida and Texas accounted for more private jet flights and emissions than the entire European Union."

God.

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The bastards passed the bill. How is bluesky not exploding with this news?

My work here is done

YouTube video by NRDC Action Fund Jobs on the Rise

"In a new ad campaign launched jointly by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) and the NRDC Action Fund, union electricians are urging OH Senators to protect clean energy tax credits. "

I'm stunned at how this video has almost 400,000 views.

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It's strange that there were no emails or communication to alumni about Coro's closing, no media, little talk in policy circles. (I have no direct info on what happened.) The lack of transparency is disappointing. Coro was pivotal on my public servant journey & enriched the Pittsburgh community.

Did the Coro Center for Civic Leadership in Pittsburgh just disappear? Did I miss any local media about it?

We are all living in the same country.

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Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death

"Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year."

@PanasonicDX4500 I get that we are so far past the point where fact checking matters but it cannot be stressed enough that there's like six trans women in the entirety of college sports and like, in the name of radical transparency, they're mostly not even good. america imploded almost a century of unrivaled global hegemony to stop a hypothetical trans woman from coming off the bench for a volleyball team in the metro atlantic.