Pablo Picasso, The Charnel House, Paris, 1944-45
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I’m just gonna blame this afternoon’s migraine on whatever’s happening out in the Pacific

Maria Corina Machado seems like she sucks but I also cannot help delighting in the fact that Trump still doesn't have the Nobel. He only wants it because Obama got it, just like his vapid ass only wanted to be president because Obama was. His racism is obvious and shallow.

I like how it looks like a bunch of happy cartoon animals have chased the goons up a tree

Rod Serling used ‘The Twilight Zone’ to say what 1950s TV wasn't allowed to say. Fans at SerlingFest argue his lessons still hold up.

Photographers and storytellers Karla Gachet and Ivan Kashinsky document cumbia music in Colombia, Mexico, Ecuador, Peru, Argentina and the United States. n.pr/4mY0owk

BREAKING NEWS: SB 79 HAS BEEN SIGNED INTO LAW.

Thank you to @scottwiener.bsky.social @gavinnewsom.bsky.social and cosponsors CA Yimby, Greenbelt Alliance, Inner City Law Center, Bay Area Council, AHLA, and SPUR. for making this bill happen.

Mike Johnson talks like every warning I got from my older Southern relatives about how you don't an trust an Evangelical farther than you can throw them. He's what they would have called a Honey Dipper Baptist.

“Things are not normal. They’re not returning to normal. There is no playbook that we are using from the past that could work in the present, and so we’ve got to stand up."

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Did you know that @kdvs903fm is home to the largest public music collection west of the Mississippi?

Thank you Francisco Dominguez for having me on your show today. There are more of us than them. People power can win this - one vote at a time ✊🏽!

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#WeGotUs #MaiForUs #CD7

📢 TEXAS EXES!!! SIGN HERE! 🤘

Cash's good friend, Oscar the Grouch, needs to tell this bad take to scram www.youtube.com/watch?v=H75e...

The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer sign at the studio in 1930.

just learned thanks to reading a legal document for work the provenance of Protestantism. Confused for a second seeing a party referred to as the Protestant & then 🤯realizing it’s one who protests.

🎸 Texas country singer Charley Crockett just took a stand against President Trump’s renaming of the Gulf of Mexico, and Texans are divided: bit.ly/3IN7W7j

Make sure you read the report about how Stephen Miller deported Waco's favorite Mexican restaurant owner.

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Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) film composer #BOTD
What?
Yes.
THAT Saint-Saëns.
Famous for his "Carnival of the Animals" and other concert works, he was the first major composer to write an original film score, for the 1908 THE ASSASSINATION OF THE DUKE OF GUISE.
#filmsky #moviesky #classicalmusic

Posters issued by the National Institutes of Health
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Director James Whale and Boris Karloff on the set of Frankenstein (1931)

Reservation Dogs S02E09 - Offerings
Clip number 0035

#ReservationDogs #RezDogs #Skoden #NDN

genuinely squealed like I saw a celebrity

Yeah she was not great at the SEIU forum, which is when I realized she was as bad an option as Schiff for Senate. I think she doesn’t want the job, she’s just running bc she lost her House seat & her ego needs to be more than just a law professor. Turns out Michelle Wu is Warren‘s best protege.

A brief selection from some of the places I’ve spent time in. West Indies: Caribbean & Antigua; Texas: Edinburgh & Koening; and the Wester/Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains & Great Basin: Nevada

Whenever relatives in Tennessee or Arkansas got snarky about my family living in California and how we were going to die in an earthquake, the response was “Y’all forgot about living by the New Madrid fault & its big earthquake?”