This is an awesome paint job!

Reason #1 I stopped buying #Apple products: Tim Apple (Cook) and his fascist's ass kissing. No thank you! Think Different?!

"We didn't start this fight, but I'm saying to Virginia, we need to finish it." Quote from VA Del. Delores McQuinn

Virginians: Today's the last day to vote on an important redistricting measure.

I hope you'll vote YES—for Virginia, and for the entire country.

You have a chance to help level the playing field as Republicans seek an unfair advantage in Congress. Please take it. Get more info: IWillVote.com/VA

Happy 40th anniversary to Siouxsie & The Banshees album, ‘Tinderbox’. Released on this day in 1986. #siouxsieandthebanshees #tinderbox #citiesindust #candyman

'SWIMS' upside down is still 'SWIMS.'

Front of a stone temple with two fragmented columns, alongside a 3D scan of the damaged pillars and a black-and-white photo of the temple front, partially overgrown.

3D reconstruction of one of the pillars, reconstructed with fragmented elements to reveal its snake design.

Atop El Castillo, Chichen Itza's largest pyramid, stand two ruined columns that once portrayed the feathered serpent deity K’uk’ulkan. 3D-imaging technologies have identified scattered fragments of these columns, enabling digital reconstruction.

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🏺 #Archaeology

This week in 1939, Billie Holiday released "Strange Fruit." A song that still stops you in your tracks, still demands to be heard, and still carries a truth the world must never forget.

Here's the thing: these people DO know this and, just like with the COVID refusal to vax or mask, they don't care. They have relied on others to take precautions to protect them, while indulging in their own fantastical, non-science based "beliefs". It is abelism at its most extreme.

There’s something mentally wrong with the President of the United States.

ICE Is Looking For Parking in New York City — For a 150-Vehicle Deportation Fleet With its last contract expiring, activists say NYC garage owners should spurn ICE to avoid becoming complicit in Trump's deportation blitz.

With its last contract expiring, activists say garage owners should spurn ICE to avoid becoming complicit in Trump’s deportation blitz.

California doesn't need a #Billionaire governor who got rich banking on Trump casinos and For-Profit Private Prisons , we need a fighter for the working class. #KatiePorterforGovenor

When I ran for Congress, I did it differently than most—I didn’t take corporate PAC money. My average contribution in this race is $68; my opponents' are in the thousands.

I want you to know that when I make a decision, I’ll be fighting for you, not special interest donors.

Congressman Robert Garcia is leading the charge to fight back against the Trump Administration in Washington.

As colleagues on the Oversight Committee, we fought tirelessly to hold Donald Trump and special interests accountable for cheating California families and raising costs.

Feline distribution system working overtime! Lucky you!

“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.

“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”

Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

What to know about Rice's whale, a rare species in the way of Trump's plans for more Gulf drilling Scientists fear that expanding oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico could push the giant mammal to extinction.

One of the world's rarest whales lives in only one place: the Gulf of Mexico, where the Trump administration wants to expand oil and gas drilling that scientists fear could push the giant mammal to extinction.
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how is this literally happening in real life

Listen as Senator Ossoff calls out the administration and its conduct of negotiations with other countries, using “Special Government Employees” who have undergone no confirmation process. How much is the family making off these negotiations?

Scarborough Castle, a former medieval royal fortress located in North Yorkshire The castle sits on a prominent rocky promontory overlooking the North Sea and the town of Scarborough. It features a 12th-century great tower, which served as the center of the royal fortress. The site has a history spanning over 2,500 years,

King John, visited Scarborough Castle on several occasions and spent significant amounts on the fortress. The work was carried out in two phases: an outer wall to the inner bailey in 1202–6, and the extension of that wall down to the cliff in 1207–12.

Opinion | The Electoral College is on the ballot in the midterms The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact going into effect is suddenly plausible.

The Electoral College is on the ballot in the midterms. The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC) going into effect is suddenly plausible. #npvic
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An astronomical image featuring the backdrop of the dark night sky with a faint grey-blue speckle at the centre. The nebulous cloud has the shape of a four-leaf flower. Four orange laser beams are pointing to it.

This isn't a scene from #StarWars.

What you're looking at is the Tarantula Nebula. While those beams come from the lasers installed on the telescopes that comprise our VLTI.

But why are we sending lasers into the sky? Find out: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2616a/

🔭 🧪
📷 A. Berdeu/ESO

A conjoined banana.

Two bananas inside the same skin.

Double banana! First time ever!

Too many of our kids are getting killed, because of thoughtless assholes like Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson.

This mass shooting today happened in his own district. He said “thoughts and prayers” but did nothing AGAIN.

Remember this when we can take back the House in November.

I found this article quite fascinating. It's not just about the collaose of the Kennedy Center: It's a window into how institutions devoted to the arts work to pivot & keep thriving behind the scenes, even when leadership is sabotaging them.

Haben Sie Kartoffeln und 2 Eier?! Dieses Rezept hat mir meine Dorfgroßmutter beigebracht! YouTube video by Rezept hub

Made these delicious treats for dinner tonite (minus the sausages), and they were fun to cook and delish!! #AmCooking #Dinner #NomNomNom

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The day I take office, we abolish state cooperation with ICE.

We protect our neighbors and keep our families whole; we don't tear them apart. Simple as that.

We can't afford a leader who's all talk.

A lot of the candidates in this race say they'll stand up to Donald Trump. I actually have a record of doing it, and winning.

In just five days, our people-powered campaign raised $1M, without a cent from corporate PACs—and most ActBlue donations came from first time donors!

We're just getting started—let's win this race! secure.actblue.com/donate/socia...

Ever feel like the state government and Congress are like two different groups of kids playing in separate sandboxes?

With the largest congressional delegation in the country, California has the power to make universal childcare a reality.

IKR? Its like a bizarre joke!