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My Mom died of cancer. My grandparents died of cancer. My best friend died of cancer. Many of YOU, Democrats and Republicans, have friends and loved ones who died of cancer. Cutting cancer research is evil AF, and we should ALL agree on that. If we can't, we're cooked.

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is the conclave vote ranked-choice

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With warm Mediterranean winds blowing in my face, I explored the rocky coastline of the French Riviera. Aqua blue waters and wind-bent pine trees completed the experience. Riviera Blues Original Oil Painting by Erin Hanson, 2024 40 x 30 in #dailyart #natureart #painter #impressionism @bsky.art

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That's my congressman, y'all!

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President Donald Trump’s meme coin is already a thing that shouldn’t exist, much less as a vehicle for foreign entities to funnel money to the sitting president, yet here we are.

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The Baltics are such tiny countries that if Russia wished to take a bite out of them, “it would simply swallow them whole,” writes @gcaw.bsky.social. He visited these states to find out how they plan to survive with America's support of their security in question:

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My 10yo did a portrait of Vincent #VanGogh @vangogh.bsky.social. 💙🎨 #artsky #skyart #kidart #postimpressionism #sketch

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The Flag,1918 by Georgia O Keeffe #WomensArt

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There’s no such thing as being TOO close to a hummingbird… Ever 📷🪶

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I teach a class on pop culture and politics and they... just.... www.politico.eu/article/card...

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Processional Cross - #painting #art #artist #oilpainting #paint #museum #artgallery #traditionalart #blueskyart

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"Ich askid ChatGPT," Well Ich askid the stones, and the forest, and the rayne, and the wynde, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and a worlde wher we talke to each othir.

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Saint Jean Baptiste - Léonard de Vinci (Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, dit Leonardo da Vinci) #painting #art #artist #oilpainting #paint #museum #artgallery #traditionalart #blueskyart

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NEW: Not that long ago, Ron DeSantis looked like the future of MAGA. Now he faces potential political obscurity, unable to control GOP legislators who are calling for a federal investigation of his wife's charity.

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Real time degradation in our weather forecasting.

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My column looks at global migration data. I argue that migration remains largely a story of human ambition and freedom, not human tragedy. I go even further and suggest that the lack of migration tells a story of unfreedom. Read the piece for free here: www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/world/2...

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White House current Google search: "are India and Pakistan different countries"

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Most Americans frequently use federal science information. But few are concerned that cuts to federal science spending could affect their access to such information, a new poll finds.

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"Red Shirt"

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We should understand this for what it is: an effort to build public consent for the president to ignore the Supreme Court. abcnews.go.com/Politics/jus...

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New pod: Something very strange is happening to the labor market for college graduates. Their unemployment is rising much faster than the overall economy—in a way that's unprecedented in the last 40 yrs. Why? Harvard's David Deming and I talk thru the evidence. open.spotify.com/episode/3Feh...

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Extremely brutal (but not at all unfair) satire of Trump's hold on GOP candidates by @jddyche.bsky.social: “POTUS will use your responses in deciding whom to ENDORSE in the 2026 Republican Kentucky Senate primary. ... Self-abasement is highly encouraged!" kentuckylantern.com/2025/05/06/t...

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The poeme featurid imagerye of romaine lettuce, parmesan cheese, and tangye dressinge. Everye lyne had a significante pause yn the middle. It was a caesura salad.

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US households will have to pay an estimated $4,000 more per year due to tariffs imposed by the US president.

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If y’all have conclave leaks, my Signal is jackmjenkins.60

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Starting my day by reading about how comparing Trump’s second term to Maoism is unfair because his approach is rooted in “deep skepticism of cultural elites and bureaucrats” and “not class struggle.”

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I just want to have 2 tacos but if God wants me to have 4, then 13 it is

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Paul Cézanne @cezanne.bsky.social Gardanne (Horizontal View) c.1885 🎨 #acrylics #acrylicmarker #sketch #painting #skyart #artsky #postimpressionism collection.barnesfoundation.org/objects/4760...

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I like when they call it the “papal conclave,” avoids confusion. Bro which conclave are you even talking about? Oh the PAPAL conclave.

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My 16yo: "I love the intro sequence on #TheLastofUs. It's the only part of the show that actually always has mushrooms. Kind of weird, tbh, for a mushroom zombie show." 🍄

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I honestly guessed it was something like this. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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They did the monster math! #geeky #meme #math #humor #monstermash #memes #nerdy

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Pediatricians say that childhood vaccines are safe. A heroin-addled nepo baby with a brain worm says they may not be. For busy voters, it can be hard to know who to believe.

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I agree with Sen Paul on this: "The founders would not be surprised that the executive would attempt to aggrandize power at the expense of the legislature. ... But the founders would be shocked that Congress would voluntarily and recklessly and fecklessly give up their power to the presidency."

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🔥🌍 In a new paper led by Sifang Feng, we find a growing human-induced climate change fingerprint in weekly regional fire extremes. 📈 On average, climate change was responsible for a fraction equal to 8 ± 4% of the predicted probability of more than 700 fire extremes worldwide between 2002 and 2015.

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I don’t know man, what could it possibly be?

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Painting by Claude Monet. "Boats Lying at Low Tide at Fécamp" 1881 #art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt

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"Las vidas [de Nati Camacho, Ramona Parra, Petra Cuevas, líderes de la lucha obrera,] animan a no ser quejica, a salir de este yo en el que andamos colgadas para tratar de habitar en el nosotras, como hacían ellas en las peores condiciones". Por Elvira Lindo dozz.es/nkjwf5

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Child mortality rates have plummeted in the last 30 years in low-income countries, such as Ethiopia, Gambia, and Afghanistan. And in most rich countries, too, child mortality has more than halved — progress that we rarely hear about.

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Contemporary, pointillist garden painting by UK artist Susan Entwistle #womensart

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And now for something completely different.. Eero Järnefelt 1863-1937 Finnish painter Blooming Summer - 1918 Oil on canvas - 72 × 60 cm Järvenpää Art Museum - Finland

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Dare I cross over to the dark side for a moment… May the 4th be with you… okay, crossing back over to the light side. You know, the one with the vision of a utopia and a Federation where everyone tries to get along. LLAP 🖖

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I told my 16yo that the "Thomas Hobbes horse" won the #KentuckyDerby and got a well-deserved eye roll, which meant that the kid understood the joke, which means I must be doing something right.

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Pushback works

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This guy outside the Capitol seems to really be enjoying his weekend. What a vibe.

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DAD POWER

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Elizabeth Catlett, Sharecropper, 1952, two colour lino cut. The US artist utilised printmaking with extreme skill to explore themes of her fellow African Americans in a 20th century era of Civil Rights activism #womensart

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Portrait of Madeleine Bernard by Paul #Gauguin 🎨 #acrylics #acrylicmarker #painting #postimpressionism #skyart #artsky en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrai...

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