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Skeptical iconoclast freelancer, ex-Wall St lawyer,ex-Dubliner, outraged pol/econ observer, lover of Irish lit/theater/mother wit, now a Finistèrean.
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Purported ICE agents raid a courthouse in Charlottesville in plain clothes without badges, ID or warrants, cart off two men without explanation. One of the three men was masked and the detainees were ushered into unmarked van. Video in the article. dailyprogress.com/news/local/c...

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Got To Give lt Up | Marvin Gaye #music #songs #NowPlaying youtu.be/Ayyy-03ITDg?...

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“The mass murder of thousands of children is something we should have an opinion on.” Gary Lineker spoke to Amol Rajan about the BBC’s coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza and its suppression of Gaza: How To Survive A War Zone.

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Happy birthday to Jack Nicholson youtu.be/GSJB3_cbvJk

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Good Afternoon. The Incantation or The Sacred Wood is a painting by the French painter Paul Sérusier produced between 1891 and 1892.

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Margaret Bourke-White, 1942 -by Alfred Eisenstaedt

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John Waters is 79 4 things I love: 1. Pic of him & his parents (with whom he had a great relationship). 2. Pic of him with Kyle MacLachlan & David Lynch. 3. Herzog’s Holmesian moment of intuition about Waters. 4. His best movies of the year entry about Oppenheimer.

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Bord de Mer | Nicolas de Staël #LyricalAbstraction #art

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I tell my students that the best things they can do for climate are to stop eating cow and dairy, stop buying so much stuff, and vote for politicians who will do something about climate change.

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I will be talking online this evening with a stellar panel of legal scholars on the constitutional crises in the US. Do join us. www.nybooks.com/events/const...

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Thugs Bunny

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MPs and peers oppose Donald Trump address to parliament during UK visit. Trump's invitation should be withdrawn. I will vote against his entry into UK parliament; will not attend any function where he is present. A felon, dictator, liar, threat to global peace must not be honoured by the UK govt.

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It’s generally a good to study things that are killing us so we can avoid doing those things.

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Acacia in Flowers, #artbots #vangogh https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/52296

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Marc Chagall,Russian Village #chagall Nitess 💤

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Larry David just ended Bill Maher. This is death by satire. My Dinner With Adolf (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/o...

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“They were careless people... they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”

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The creek, Le Pouldu #artbots #gauguin https://botfrens.com/collections/44/contents/12542

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Lesotho, dismissed by Trump as a place "nobody has ever heard of," was going to get hammered by his original tariff schedule. From the FT: www.ft.com/content/b261...

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Just walked by the US Embassy pond and it's still red. Dyes often photodegrade but there's hardly any sun in London. 🥲

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Let’s have a look at my bucket list real quick. Oh wow look at that. ✅ Make a @criterion.bsky.social Closet video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Yfy...

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The Waiting for Godot fan presale is LIVE! Use code: DIDI Visit: www.thehudsonbroadway.com/events/waiti...

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Landscape of the Midi, Before the Storm, 1921 #artbots #matisse https://botfrens.com/collections/48/contents/16557

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The Fourteenth of July by Pablo Picasso, 1901 #artbots #guggenheim https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137782

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How European governments are using deportation to disrupt and criminalize Palestine solidarity mondoweiss.net/2025/04/how-...

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Just when NYC was starting to seem a little more European, in a good way

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Paris. Boulevard des Capucines | Konstantin Korovin oil on canvas, 1906

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The first charge, I believe

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The Girl with the Golden Eyes (La Fille aux yeux d'or) by Charles Demuth https://collection.barnesfoundation.org/objects/5635/

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‘Kristi Noem? I thought you might be worried...about the security...of your shit.’

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Just remember that every Republican senator voted to confirm Russell Vought. This is on them.

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He's done enormous damage to our democracy, committed onerous crimes, and will cause mass death. All in plain site and evident to everyone but his cult-like followers who are happy to give up their rights and future to be able to say 'retard'. Musk only has himself to blame for trashing his brand.

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Remembering Charles Grodin on his birthday 🎂 📷 Kim Kulish, 2004 "He was a master of the cringeworthy moment, when it wasn’t clear if he was being funny, naive or insulting — or a little of all three." - Matt Schudel

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Just months after he became the head of the Catholic Church in 2013, Pope Francis condemned the “new tyranny” of unfettered capitalism and the “idolatry of money.”

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'Wild Thyme Farm,' (c1925) typifies a series of downland landscapes painted by Isobel Codrington on the estate surrounding her home at Wistler's Wood in Surrey. Rolling hills lit from the left, casting long shadows, convey the atmosphere of early morning or late afternoon.

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Wishing the legend Iggy Pop a very Happy 78th Birthday! 🎂

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Periwinkles / Moroccan Garden, Tangier, winter-spring 1912 #artbots #matisse https://botfrens.com/collections/48/contents/1135297

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Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre & Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara, 1960. www.openculture.com/2014/09/phot...

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Artists Sketching by Charles Demuth https://collection.barnesfoundation.org/objects/6818/

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Gustav Klimt, On Lake Attersee. Nitess💤

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Pablo Picasso, Woman Dressing Her Hair, Royan, June 1940 #artbots #moma https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135845

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'Spring in Spain.' (c1950) Throughout her life, Anne Redpath drew inspiration from her travels abroad and explained how these strengthened her paintings: 'every voyage changes your palette... so that your very gamut of colour changes and becomes broader, wider.'

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