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There is a long tradition in European art of portraying happiness, few paintings I looked at this morning gave me as much joy as Albert Marquet's 'La promenade aux Sables d'Olonne,' painted in 1933.

Coco's response to Aryna's post-match comments is about as good as you could ask for. Essentially, "I played the best player in the world and won. Anybody else (not just Iga) would have been an easier assignment." #rolandgarros #cocogauff

Booker: "We have a president who did nothing as people stormed our Capitol, & then when those people who viciously beat police & led to some of their deaths - therefore cop killers - were convicted, he pardoned them. So for him to be talking about responsive law enforcement is hypocritical at best"

LAPD, DHS, and California National Guard working together to kettle and brutalize peaceful protesters. @mayor.lacity.gov is nowhere to be seen or heard from.

We don’t need to back off the American Gestapo and we don’t need to respect its agents. People exercising state violence are not entitled to anonymity. Nor are the people directing the state violence.

Out of the mouth of hell.

Dear God, we all grew up on this nonsense.

So Amy only seems nicer. "She cast the deciding vote to overturn Roe v. Wade in 2022. She has consistently voted with her conservative colleagues on cases involving religious freedom, capital punishment, and affirmative action."

Remember all those law firms that struck a deal with Trump? It’s not totally working out for them. At least 11 large companies—including Morgan Stanley and Microsoft—are cutting ties with law firms that caved to Trump’s threats of political retribution. https://trib.al/75a9wU3

Attention @nytimes.com

"Instead of only asking, “Why did he kill?” We must also ask: “How could she have been protected?” Not through restriction or surveillance, but through community interventions that center girls as change agents." www.seattletimes.com/opinion/what...

"Is America Really Better Off if Bubonic Plague Returns? We ask experts for their views." Someone chose this as a headline. Thinking it "edgy" or "clever." That someone, whose name we don't know, is an editor at most influential US news org. May well have "gone to school in the Boston area."

UNC-Chapel Hill history professor Kathleen DuVal recently won a Pulitzer Prize for her book, "Native Nations," which chronicles Native history in North America over the last 1,000 years. www.wunc.org/2025-05-23/u...

Following on from our first list, we asked New Scientist staff to pick even more of their favourite sci-fi books of all time. From Isaac Asimov and Ursula K. Le Guin to Star Wars – the list has it all this time, we hope…

your energy actually is finite and spending time fighting about the former president while the current president is putting this country in a wood chipper seems like a bad use of it

My beautiful tavola per uno in Matera, Italy. I have 4 days amid the sassi. Went hiking today

Sun setting over the sassi, Matera, Italy.

The "flying palace" is a straight-up impeachable offense and blatantly unAmerican.

Yeah, don’t ask that. Or subject men to the same silly scrutiny.

First view of Rome. Been too long.

At Foley Square now after the ICEstapo arrested Newark Mayor Ras Baraka: “This is the moment where we stand up. This is the moment when we say we will take care of one another. We will have each other’s backs” @nywfp.bsky.social @popdemoc.bsky.social @indivisible.org @50501newyork.bsky.social

Quick reminder for space lovers: if you’re into space exploration, skip the shady content farms of the legacy social networks… BlueSky’s full of talented folks turning raw space data into stunning original visuals. Here’s a list for you, go follow and support them 🚀 go.bsky.app/PUXRaYf 🧪🔭

The State Department has published the grant application for the US pavilion with a revised agenda insisting on the promotion of ‘American values and policies’ and on ‘countering negative stereotypes’ artreview.com/us-venice-pa...

Gotta love Harvard.

To all those who said boycotting Target was a waste of time. It wasn't. Keep it up, y'all!

I’ll say it. Trump is insane.

Women and girls are literally under attack and the narrative that men and boys are struggling in comparison to them is part of that attack. Their “struggle” as it’s so often harped on is that women and girls aren’t just bending the knee to them in all spheres of life

Dear Canada: No matter the outcome, I love you. I hope you aren't making the mistake our country did, but I know too many amazing Canadians to believe in anything other than in the goodness of our neighbours to the north.

AOC: We heard that we should take your word that Medicaid will be protected — that we should trust you that no one is going to be affected by this. But as a woman, the word was given that my rights would not be taken away by the Supreme Court — and that wasn’t true.

Trump's DEI hire Pete Hegseth axes program to help women in military. Good luck with recuritment! www.thedailybeast.com/pete-hegseth...

THURSDAY: While Trump, Musk, and Republicans gut workers’ rights and sell our country out for profit, we’re teaming up with a coalition of organizations for a nationwide day of mobilization. Please join us on May Day: maydaystrong.org?utm_source=i...

The pope’s unadorned tomb, marked by a single Latin word — Franciscus — was intended, a cleric said, to reflect a life of “simplicity and essential things.” The requiem Mass was a solemn spectacle of an ancient faith, an elaborate, multilingual ceremony.

We're taking the fight to the courtrooms. I'm honored to be joining @sddaction.bsky.social and others in their battles to defend democracy.

PUNCH captured this week's rare quadruple conjunction of Moon, Venus, Saturn, and Neptune! #astrophotography #conjunction 🔭🛰️ whtwnd.com/punch-missio...

HAPPENING NOW: Hundreds of protesters have now gathered outside a federal courthouse in downtown Milwaukee to support Judge Hannah Dugan

Do not obey in advance to a wildly unpopular one term president who is currently fighting wars on multiple fronts for seemingly no reason

Resistence is NOT futile