"Terrible things are happening outside ... poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared." — Anne Frank (Jan 13, 1943)
You too!
A lot that's bad here, but the undergraduate psychology essay assignment was for 650 words?! Assuming 150 words per paragraph, that's not even a 5-paragraph essay.
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I get a healthcare subsidy, and I most definitely pay income taxes. There are more of us pinched in the middle class than you might think.
Just before our love got lost, you said, "I am as constant as the northern star," and I said, "Constantly in the darkness? Where's that at? If you want me I'll be in the bar."
Know your rights. Protect your neighbors.
New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.
My favorite piece of content today.
The bamboo callback was perhaps the most unforgivable part of that mess.
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Did you see the cutie they just elected mayor of Albany? ☺️
“What keeps us going, ultimately, is our love for each other, and our refusal to bow our heads, to accept the verdict, however all-powerful it seems. It’s what ordinary people have to do. You have to love each other. You have to defend each other. You have to fight.” —Mike Davis
If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation.
Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
Look for the Sora watermark-- it flashes briefly on the right side of the screen. It's AI.
I'm starting to think it's really just me who finds all these AI word games-- because that's all they are, word games-- supremely uninteresting. If there's not a human mind and soul behind the words, WHO CARES PULL THE PLUG.
TRUMP [reading this]: he's right. that is what I should focus on
Thank you!
What is it?
Whoever at @wnyc.org chose that instrumental clip of the Smiths to play after the conversation about new gallery shows opening this season: Ferris Bueller and I see you 🩷
I'm watching "The Crown" (like, a decade behind, I know). I'm in season 2, and the Marburg papers were just discovered and published; the Queen finally understands how lucky it was that her uncle abdicated, because he was prepared to sell the UK out to Hitler. Wish we had a comparable out here.
I randomly spent some time on the website for KUHB, the radio station for St Paul Island, AK. The largest of the Pribilof Islands, which I hadn't even heard of! An island in the Bering Sea, a long way off the Alaskan coast, it looks like. Fellow Americans! Getting their permits to hunt reindeer!
If you, like me, live in a place with lots of resources and a well-funded public radio station, consider also donating to one of these. adoptastation.org
He was a lyrical genius, a mathematical genius, had a wicked sense of humor and political conscience, and-- I'm sorry-- just *look* at him 😍. One of my finest midcentury crushes.
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Oh, that guy! Before he was the sadist in the Sopranos!
Just two dudes who would probably prefer *not* to be running all over town on these middle-aged knees.
Wait, isn't Tommy Lee Jones the cop in that? Doesn't he have a kind of weary swagger? (It's been a long time since I've seen that; perhaps I'm misremembering the tone.)
this is exactly it and always has been.
NEW: As many as 252 Venezuelans, deported by the U.S. to a notorious Salvadoran prison, could be returned to the U.S. for further legal proceedings, under a diplomatic arrangement tied to today’s prisoner swap, the Trump admin indicated in court tonight
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