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A retired coroner in Ontario was asked what he'd learned after decades on the job. "Always hold the handrail on stairs," he replied.

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More than a century after the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, one of the most horrific episodes of racial violence in U.S. history, the city’s mayor announced a $105 million reparations package on Sunday. It is the first large-scale plan committing funds to address the impact of the atrocity.

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STEPHANOPOULOS: When will we see an actual trade agreement? Will we see any this week? HASSETT: I expected we were probably going to see one perhaps as early as last week

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Refugees in Kenya have died at food distribution centers, officials noted, including a pregnant woman crushed to death during a stampede. Aid workers said they expected more people to get hurt “as vulnerable households become increasingly desperate.”

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JUST PUBLISHED! Our latest article explores an oddity ~ a painting which is famous, but which few have ever seen. It’s Hieronymus Bosch’s enigmatic and controversial The Conjuror, a work whose true meaning has remained disputed to this day. Article at www.artinsociety.com/deception-an...

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Warlpiri artist Alma Nungarrayi Granites lived near the Tanami Desert in Australia’s Northern Territory. Her ‘Seven Sisters Dreaming’ paintings depict the stories of the ancestral sisters who can be found in the night sky in the Pleiades star cluster artsandculture.google.com/story/zoom-i...

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“Everyone is Lying to You For Money” will debut at SXSW on June 6.

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FBI agents are now visiting Charlottesville’s public defenders at their homes. It’s naked intimidation of our justice system.

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In 1856, workers digging the grave of Martha Brown, the last woman to be sentenced to death in Dorset, discovered a Roman mosaic. Two years later it was lifted and laid into the floor of the chapel in the towns prison, but it can now be seen @dorsetmuseum.bsky.social. #MosaicMonday

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Out this morning & Open Access! 📢 My new article in Public Archaeology on the entanglement of archaeology, the far right and ancient genetic studies, using the British National Party as a case study: ‘In Our Blood’: Archaeology and ‘Indigeneity’ in the British National Party’s Magazine Identity'

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you know what, I'm going to do this now. If you ever need a messenger bag CourierWare bags are the best. handmade in VT, lifetime warranty you won't need that because they last literally forever. I have a 35 y.o. bag I have treated like absolute shit and except for being faded it is 100% like new

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Tim Walz: Minnesota is a purple state. When we took full power in 2022, we had a one seat majority. And what I said then was, we don't win elections to bank political capital so we can run again and win again, we burn it as fast as we can to improve people's lives, every bit of it.

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headline construction masterclass

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China accuses Pete Hegseth of sowing division in Asia in speech ‘filled with provocations’

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Happy Pride Month, y’all! 🩷💛🩵

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A Black Mirror episode where people driving home from the grocery store get run off the road by the very carts they were too damn lazy to return.

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Just caught the trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s production of Frankenstein and it looks amazing (he’s brilliant), but can we fucking mention Mary Shelley please??? She was a dang pioneer yet she’s in the shadows—again. Here. Here’s her picture. Think of her writing the damn book.

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Fuckin yikes

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Someone needs to explain to me why "show me some identification that you are a legitimate law enforcement official" being answered with "no" does not immediately qualify as a Stand Your Ground situation.

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I don't know if there is a more appropriate goodbye to Loretta Swit, than her last scene in MASH in the series finale. Loretta won two Emmy's for her role as Major Houlihan.

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Unbelievable! Today, San Diego witnessed a government-sanctioned kidnapping. ICE stormed Buona Forchetta in military gear ripping workers away, then unleashing tear gas and smoke on the terrified community. Full on police state, fascism now used on American citizens. Stay aware. #OnYourSide

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I don't think anyone outside of universities, pharma and biotech, independent research institutions have any idea of what is happening right now. If you haven't sounded the alarm among your friends, family and colleagues, now is the time to do it.

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We were likely years away from making HIV a thing of the past. Humanity triumphing over one of its worst diseases Instead we'll live in a world where people continue getting sick because of a greedy few who didn't want to pay their fair share of taxes

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Raskin: This is a gangster state. This is not basically a legitimate government that is sometimes doing corrupt things. This is an essentially corrupt enterprise. It's like watching The Sopranos. Every day, they get up and they try to figure out how to plunder and pillage the people

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Can confirm. I had an ongoing turf war with some Info wars asshole who kept plastering shit around here. Everytime I saw one I'd take it down, they tried getting creative & putting it 9+ feet up but I'd find a way Thanks to a handy knife & some patience removed every single one. Give em no quarter

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Are they trying to kill us?

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“This production makes that queerness explicit, reclaiming the story through the lived experiences of trans and nonbinary artists.” #TransRightsAreHumanRights www.thepinknews.com/2025/05/28/s...

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The flood of encomiums and morality tales about Elon's turn in Washington cldn't be more predictable, vapid & sickening. If you want a story, get me the story about the crisis comms team directing this. He ran anti-constitutional blitzkrieg thru the federal government, did massive harm, violated ...

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Athens wandering

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RFK Jr's "MAHA" report came out last week. It misinterpreted data, had broken links to some citations, and cited 7 articles that don't exist. That last one is a hallmark of AI hallucinations. How much of the MAHA report was AI generated? 🤔 www.notus.org/health-scien...

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The best photograph I have ever taken of a dog.

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