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These DHS guys wearing masks and no real real uniforms (just brown tactical-ish gear) while terrifying immigrants obvs. draw “brownshirt” comparisons but I’m thinking Russia’s “little green men” may be more apt.

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Amazing but how can we know that it’s a cliff and not a sideways shelf?

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jeepers those headlamps.

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White House budget requests are just that (Congress makes the money decisions), but tell us what the White House is wishing for. This summary page of the National Science Foundation’s budget request tells us the White House is wishing for a darker, dumber tomorrow.

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Thae laddies in the Celtic shirts, a baker’s dozen lumbering all the way to the summit cairn the hot last Saturday of May as larks trilled and the loch-side braes released their midgies… —Kathleen Jamie, “Ben Lomond” published in THE BONNIEST COMPANIE (Picador 2015)

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The world needs more luxury airships.

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I've started a website with simple graphs tracking how the US economy is doing in terms of unemployment, economic sentiment, and inflation. It will be updated monthly as new data come in. Feedback is welcome! #EconSky usbarometer.com

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Into perplexity: as an itch chased round an oxter or early man in the cave mouth watching rain-drifts pour from beyond his understanding… —“The Beautiful”, by Roddy Lumsden (1966–2020) – born #OTD, 28 May. A 🎂 🧵 Published in POETRY magazine, Dec 2008 1/5 www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

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The most frequently misspelled word in my neck of the woods is “reccomended.”

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Wow, it’s hitting the mainstream now (rightfully so) nymag.com/intelligence...

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It’s May 25 and TFG has proclaimed that May is “National Physical Fitness and Sports Month.” Get on it, America, you have a week to get a month’s worth of workouts in.

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The sky’s the limit!

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AstroBin's Image of the Day: "Mars in 2025" by Tom Williams www.astrobin.com/zts2f5/ #astrophotography

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I love all films that start with rain: rain, braiding a windowpane or darkening a hung-out dress or streaming down her upturned face… —Don Paterson, “Rain” Published in RAIN, @faberbooks.bsky.social 2010 #poem #poetry www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/rain-2/

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Boy, I tell ya.

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😬

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Oh, FFS.

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Katie Porter wouldn’t have voted for this.

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'Artichoke Thistles.' (1914) From 1890 until around 1930, Jacobus van Looy produced a series of close-ups of flowers; a characteristic of these paintings are the abrupt cut-offs, a technique various artists, influenced by photography, experimented with in the late 19thC.

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We’ve been talking about free presidential airplanes for two weeks and still there are no actual free airplanes arriving. Must be arriving via Newark?

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