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A photo of the book ‘Soul by Soul’ by Walter Johnson

Another day, another book 📖

A literary Iguanodon at the Earth Sciences Library. Do any other libraries have dinosaurs or other antediluvian creatures carved into the furniture?

You know what? I’m not gonna say all the hate was warranted, but maybe a little..

Finally watching Disney’s new Snow White. Time to see if all the hate is warranted.

This is a photo of blue-violet pansies in a bed of black mulch.

Is there anything friendlier than a newly bloomed pansy?

The perfect metaphor for what the Supreme Court did to this country with Citizens United v. FEC.

It took seeing adult bullies to understand that my childhood bullies didn’t even really want to hurt me, they just wanted to feel powerful and how I felt about it wasn’t even in the equation.

I can’t imagine someone not outgrowing that, but apparently it happens quite a lot!

And to ignore the existence of capital letters.
#humor #quotes #books #History #writers

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The term Gulf of Mexico verifiably began appearing on navigational charts and official written records in 1550. As a regional geographic feature, it predates the entire existence of the United States by over two centuries.

Jan. 6 video evidence has 'disappeared' from public access, media coalition says A coalition of news organizations said in a court filing that video exhibits from a Jan. 6 riot case had "disappeared" from a government platform that provided access to evidence used in court.

A coalition of news organizations said in a court filing that video exhibits from a Jan. 6 riot case had "disappeared" from a government platform that provided access to evidence used in court.

The ABA supports the rule of law. Read full message: www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

#BlueCrew - Quote of the Day

A US Treasury Threat Intelligence Analysis Designates DOGE Staff as ‘Insider Threat’ An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

SCOOP: A US Treasury threat intelligence analysis has designated DOGE staff an ‘insider threat'. An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

To America’s 2.3 million federal employees:

Don’t accept a buyout.

Neither Musk nor even Trump has the legal authority to make such an offer.

And even if they did, would you trust them to follow through on it?

Sincerely,

Robert Reich
Former U.S.Secretary of Labor

Paul Robeson BY GWENDOLYN BROOKS That time we all heard it, cool and clear, cutting across the hot grit of the day. The major Voice. The adult Voice forgoing Rolling River, forgoing tearful tale of bale and barge and other symptoms of an old despond. Warning, in music-words devout and large, that we are each other's harvest: we are each other's business: we are each other's magnitude and bond.

That time
we all heard it,
cool and clear,
cutting across the hot grit of the day.

—
that we are each other’s
harvest:
we are each other’s
business:
we are each other’s
magnitude and bond.

“Paul Robeson” by the great Gwendolyn Brooks
#everynightapoem #blackhistorymonth

Things were, in fact, not good in the neighborhood.

Thank you, Canada!

BREAKING: David Hogg, a survivor of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting just been elected Vice Chair of the DNC.

CONGRATS!

Rewatching *The Sound of Music* and laughing at Maria’s fellow sisters reading her for absolute filth in the second scene 🎼🏔️🎻🦌☀️🧵🪡🎶🫖🍞 #SoundOfMusic #JulieAndrews

Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.

Exclusive: Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the US government human resources agency locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials reut.rs/3CuCEPs

Elon Musk's Friends Have Infiltrated Another Government Agency Elon Musk’s former employees are trying to use White House credentials to access General Services Administration tech, giving them the potential to remote into laptops, read emails, and more, sources ...

NEW: Elon Musk's friends have infiltrated the GSA and they're looking for ways to use White House credentials to access agency tech, potentially allowing them to remote into laptops, read emails, and more, sources say.

w/ @zoeschiffer.bsky.social

www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

closeup detail of a winged skull on a gravestone

A lovely thing about this era of gravestones from the Lamson family shop in Charlestown, Massachusetts is the occasional mix of carving depths. This stone (John Tufts, d.1728, Malden) is mostly carved in the usual deep style, but also has a lightly incised medallion that reminds me of embroidery.

Just finished reading Gwendolyn Wright's 'Building the Dream: A Social History of Housing in America.' Definitely recommend. #Architecture #History #MaterialCulture #MaterialRhetoric

This I love. And resemble more each day.

Recently I’ve noticed a sharp increase in politicians who refuse to answer “hypothetical questions,” and I find it very concerning. Job interviews, medical ethics, law, college admissions essays, storytelling, environmental policymaking—all dependent on a willingness to engage with hypotheticals.

OF THE EMPIRE We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness.

From Mary Oliver