Gareth Barnard

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

It's been trying

Its official! Punxsutawney Phil predicts an eternity of darkness from which we can't escpae.

Opinion | Trump's absurd $10 billion suit against his own government Paul Waldman: Trump wants every American taxpayer to give him a payoff

The biggest problem with Trump is that he feels very insecure about his wealth compared to Bezos, Musk etc. and his only option to compete is corruption.

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.
--- Nelson Mandela

How to Film ICE Filming federal agents in public is legal, but avoiding a dangerous—even deadly—confrontation isn’t guaranteed. Here’s how to record ICE and CBP agents as safely as possible and have an impact.

granular, practical, well organized info here:

www.wired.com/story/how-to...

When this Epstein stuff is active I am struck by how normal this was culturally in 1960 & 70’s

How negotiating a sea of adult men, teachers, clergy Daddies, and Funny Uncles
was an actual minefield girls had to learn to negotiate or be destroyed by

That's the size of a city. But to what degree can the panels be recycled?

No you're much cooler

If Joseph Goebbels and a rectal polyp had a kid.

Jenn Budd worked as a Border Patrol agent from 1995 to 2001. Since then, she has become an outspoken immigrants' rights activist.

"The management of the Border Patrol has been corrupt for many generations," says Budd.

Cooler at a Dairy Queen full of cakes and ice cream treats

Gentle reminder that the world is insane right now and you're a grown-ass adult: there is no reason you can't just buy yourself an ice cream cake!

YouTube video by omgponies To Be or Not To Be - A Little Piece of Poland

Same vibes

For Alex Pretti Because his last words were for a woman; because he asked, are you okay, are you okay; because he had learned to say it by standing each night beside the dying; because sometimes he held their hands; because he had lived only as long as the scent of childhood in an album; because he was a son; because he sang once; because of all of it, because of all of it, because of all of it, tell it, tell the story: a breath has left; a country is dying; and a man laid his face on its pavement today as though he were listening to a patient's heart— even then, even at the ending— to do what he was there to do: heal. —Joseph Fasano

for Alex Pretti

YouTube video by Graham Bensinger What James Cameron learned after 4 divorces | “I’m the common denominator”

James Cameron has very good relationship advice

YouTube video by The Current Michael Kiwanuka - Love and Hate (Live at The Current)

Worth a listen pals.
youtu.be/Wfotg_q5Bkc?...

Mamdani's bold experiment NYC's mayor seems to be trying to achieve what Barack Obama never could: turning his campaign movement into a de facto arm of his government.

Do you think that Mamdani can succeed where Obama failed?

Would it not be better to have a deliberative organisation within civil society that can managed debate across the political spectrum?

Chart showing the most popular television series' over the last 25 years ranked by IMBD ranking according to year.

The most popular series' over the last 25 years according to IMBD ranking.

If you want to know how he treated young girls and women on Epstein island look at how he is treating whole nations

YouTube video by Sam Cooke - Topic A Change Is Gonna Come

"A Change Is Gonna Come" (1964) - Sam Cooke 🎶🎧 #coffeebreak

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5zD...

Maybe when he was authorising Hellfire missiles to be dropped from Predator drones all over the Middle East?

YouTube video by MS NOW Trump accidentally confesses why he is antagonizing Minneapolis

Trump wants to invoke the Insurrection Act because he believes it gives him unrestrained power. That's it. He's just a megalomaniac.

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

Life is so fluid though. You can't be too rigid.

YouTube video by Federal Reserve Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

KO'ing everyone's 401k the week they started bragging about murdering citizens in the street on camera is the behavior of people who are on actual drugs. Not metaphorically, it's the behavior of people with underlying mental illness on uppers and steroids who are starting to feel cornered.

YouTube video by Sugarcoated Sisters 4 introverts finally meet up 😂🎵 Grace Kelly, Mika #overthinking #introvert #socialanxiety #awkward

Whenever I see a 20+ minute standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival, this what I think about:

youtube.com/shorts/QKV2B...