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As I wrote about in "Van Gogh and the End of Nature," the green background in this 1888 self-portrait by Vincent van Gogh, which was dedicated to fellow artist Paul Gauguin, also derived its vivid coloration from highly toxic arsenic yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

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I’m just leaving Ambiance clothing. The FBI and HSI left with the immigrant detainees discharging 5 or 6 flash bangs. Some people were hit with shrapnel.

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“”Nobody believed us that we were seeing a new form [of chronic kidney disease]. Nobody believed the prevalence that we were reporting.” Other research documented similar problems in Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, India and Sri Lanka.”

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Bet all those people who said Suetonius was making shit up "because emperors didn't really act that way" are feeling pretty fucking stupid tonight

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I know very little about Polish politics, but this map seems to show the more conservative areas correspond to the Poland drawn by the Congress of Vienna, while the less conservative areas overlap with formerly Prussian lands. The past isn’t even past.

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Last year property crime and violent crime were lower than they’ve been in more than 50 years and murder was approximately the ~6th lowest it has been in 50 years. This year murder will almost surely hit a 50 year low and might end up lower than any year since 1960.

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Again, what ICE does is only an extreme case of what all this country’s jails and prisons also routinely do. E.g.: except briefly during peak Covid, LA County has had multiple jails operating at over 130% capacity annually since 2011. Dozens die there every year. Almost half are just awaiting trial.

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Who could have foreseen that an alliance of two petulant megalomaniacs would collapse within a few months?

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Colm Tóibín brings his effervescent wit to update his LRB piece on Francis and discuss Leo. Like Baldwin (who he admires very deeply), Tóibín remembers how people in his church see the world, making his insights keener than most. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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Lyft driver picked me up from UNC, turned out he was a medicinal chemistry post-doc in a building near mine, until his grant got cut last month. Worked on novel antivirals.

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We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose. “They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a 29-year-old in California wrote.

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McMahon says universities should have a “diversity of viewpoints” on Holocaust denial, “hear all sides” on election denial, is unsure whether she knows what the Tulsa massacre was but wants “both sides” of black history taught in schools. OK: one side is reality-based, the other is full of crap.

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Yesterday afternoon I was outside when we got what is likely to be our last rain of the year. As this has been the fourth or fifth time for me in 2025, I concluded that it’s not rain itself that I don’t care for, it’s just being rained on.

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A very concise overview of how automobiles poisoned a whole generation’s brains with lead: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

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Giovanni Batista Paggi, circa 1590.

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The destruction of the medical research enterprise in the U.S. will go down in history as one of the most damaging choices a government has made in setting its population backwards www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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[BILL ALERT] SB 79, which broadly legalizes more homes near transit stops like train stations and rapid bus stops, has passed the Senate floor! Learn more:

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In the private chambers of the soul, the guilty party is identified, & the accusing finger there is not legend, but consequence, not fantasy, but the truth. People pay for what they do, & still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it simply: by the lives they lead.

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Though ICE is an egregiously norm-breaking example, it’s worth emphasizing this sort of thing they do, other tentacles of the carceral state also do, every day, all the time, in all this country’s many prisons and jails. If, as you should, you find ICE horrific, you aren’t far from abolitionism.

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Talk about immigration is always really about promoting white supremacy.

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Warren's report is here: www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/do... - It's 14 pages and could likely be turned into a 5 page artful zine that can be printed and distributed across the country.

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Something that could go a long way given the current info environment is if each of us takes it upon ourselves to disseminate good information in our own networks and communities. This is absolutely within our control to do.

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At Krome detention center, reports have poured in about a lack of water and food, unsanitary confinement and medical neglect. With the surge of complaints, the Trump admin shut own 3 DHS oversight offices that investigate such claims. apnews.com/article/immi...

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Recently had a chance to catch up with the incomparable Mark Selden and learned that John Dower has spent many years now working on a magisterial study of....the color blue. Hard to put into words how much I want to read that book. Once again in awe of the scope of Dower's curiosity.

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“What did you see?” asked Toad. “I saw the sun coming out,” said Frog. “I saw the birds sitting and singing in the tree. I saw my mother and father working in their garden. I saw flowers in the garden.” “You found it!” cried Toad.

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I don’t recall ever seeing this at the Getty Villa.

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