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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 2h

This is my grandmother during World War II. She was dating my grandfather at the time, thereby making her

Woman standing next to a Navy medical department vehicle during World War II

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 4h

incredibly, bleakly funny that trump is going after christopher wray, who spent his entire tenure at the fbi with his head down desperately trying to avoid trump's attention and did nothing to protect the bureau from trump's attacks www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Other prosecutors are investigating former CIA director John Brennan, another prominent Trump critic, and former FBI director Christopher Wray, who was originally appointed by Trump but enraged conservatives who came to believe he had wielded the bureau’s powers against them. Former officials have received subpoenas in recent days in the Wray inquiry, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter.

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Dean Barker @deanbarker.bsky.social · 2h

Trump take (more) trees

Charles T. Downey @ionarts.bsky.social · 2h

Surprised by yet more changes being made (chopped down) at the Kennedy Center, this time on the lower terrace

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 3h

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 3h

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 3h

American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

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lalalyds @lalalyds.bsky.social · 15h

Moshing to the aol dial-up sound

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 4h

WSJ reports that DOJ is going to charge John Bolton.

In case you needed anyone less sympathetic to rally behind than Jim Comey.

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Prosecutors in Maryland are expected in coming days to charge one of Trump’s first-term national security advisers, John Bolton, now a top Trump critic, with mishandling classified information, according to people familiar with the matter.

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samuel @quilombo.bsky.social · 6h

This from @realgdt.bsky.social talking about 'Frankenstein' is so good.

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Dean Barker @deanbarker.bsky.social · 4h

STANDING OVATION

Becky DEEEEK!!! 🕷️👻🎃👻🕷️ @bexrousse.bsky.social · 5h

Must defer to the pros:

How To Say Bangor, Maine | "We Are Bangor"

YouTube video by Sutherland Weston Marketing Communications

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Jacob Siefring @jsief.bsky.social · 4h

my 8-yr-old son is telling his younger bro abt “the endless void we live in”. attaboy

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 4h

This has been the time eternal argument about new technologies. It’s not the technology. It’s a policy choice. It’s why places like Belgium are reducing their workweek, while American tech gods want us to sleep on pullouts in our offices.

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 4h

Ari Emanuel bets AI will boost leisure time with three-day working week on.ft.com/48RbY99

Ari Emanuel bets AI will boost leisure time with three-day working week

Hollywood agent raises almost $3bn from investors including Apollo and QIA for venture spanning tennis to car auctions

on.ft.com

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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 4h

Posobiec is close to JD Vance.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 7h

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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john dummett @dummypublic.bsky.social · 15h

incognito under a cloud

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 5h

They came to the top of the mountain. The shadow of a hawk fell over them.

A giant hawk swoops down on Frog and Toad.

From "Dragons and Giants"
In *Frog and Toad Together*

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 14h

JUST IN: The Republican Mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska’s second biggest city, lost re-election last night to a Democrat.

Mayor David Pruhs is a conservative who fought protections for LGBTQ+ residents; he made comments this year drew condemnation this year from Alaska Natives. He lost to Mindy O'Neall.

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 9h

I think Trump would rather Congress never vote to reopen the government than let Adelrita Grijalva trigger the Epstein Files discharge. And I bet he doesn’t have a plan other than the Insurrection Act.

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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 16h

check out this card. Painted by Rocco, who is 8 years old.

Catching Snowflakes, by Rocco aged 8.
Tempera (!!!) and coloured pencil on heavy paper

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 17h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 9h

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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Dean Barker @deanbarker.bsky.social · 18h

In a world full of Marco Rubios, be a Dolly Parton.

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Tim Riley @timriley.bsky.social · 1d

Southbank.

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Christopher Hilton @chilton-bb.bsky.social · 2d

Cracking visit to Abbotsford today (memo to self, read more Walter Scott). Of course, elements of a busman's holiday in visiting another member of the Lit Houses group: you spend a lot of time reading about cataloguing projects and spotting the environmental monitoring kit. Recommended, anyway!

A turretted, Scottish-baronial style country house seen slightly from below. A Scottish flag flies from the left turret.

A 19th century stately home library, with a cast iron balcony running round the room a little over head height. A large tiled entrance hall is visible through a door, where two people stand talking.

A display board, headed (in italic handwriting-style type): "The Cataloghuing Conundrum". Below, three paragraphs begin "For archives to be usable and accessible, they must first be accessible. Our new cataloguing project will lead to the creation of a searchable database of the Scott family papers for the very first time."

19th century leather-bound books behind mesh in a bookcase. A white light meter, looking like an old-fashioned mobile phone, sits in front of the mesh.

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richard mortimer @richardmortimer.bsky.social · 7d

The Houses of Willingham with a little Pareidolia

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