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Mimi
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📷📚Photography, classical music, all music, art, books, cats. Democratic socialist in training. DSA 🌹🕎🐈‍⬛ 🎻
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Happy #SuperbOwl🦉 Sunday! This is one of my favorite examples from ancient Egypt, the letter "M". Share your favorite Superb Owls.
February 8, 2026 at 12:36 PM
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French novelist Jules Verne was born #onthisday in 1828. His fantastic tales of voyage and adventure have lent themselves to many wonderful illustrations but perhaps none so captivating as those by Émile-Antoine Bayard for Around the Moon (1870) — publicdomainreview.org/collection/e... #otd
February 8, 2026 at 12:45 PM
Anthems, agency and arias: baritone Davóne Tines on rewriting his role – and the rules www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f...
Anthems, agency and arias: baritone Davóne Tines on rewriting his role – and the rules
The acclaimed US opera singer refuses to restrict himself or his audience. His current Barbican residency sees him range across genres. Always ask questions, always engage, he says. He talks ‘capital ...
www.theguardian.com
February 8, 2026 at 12:56 PM
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Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people's bodies. Her bosses halted her work.

Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world.

(Published May 2024)
Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe
Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies. Her bosses halted her work. As the EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking water, she wrestles wit...
www.propublica.org
February 7, 2026 at 2:00 AM
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why don’t you have kids??
February 6, 2026 at 8:48 AM
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No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
www.nature.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:09 AM
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The Wright Museums Instagram page is HILARIOUS. Think The Office but it's the staff at a Museum for Black History. Better believe this is on my list of places to visit.
Gentle Spades
"I'm a veteran"
February 6, 2026 at 8:23 AM
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I took the Colbert Questionert!
Watch the full interview here: youtu.be/HPONVyNiWsU?...
February 6, 2026 at 6:29 PM
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god damn
Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.
February 5, 2026 at 3:39 PM
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Every American needs to watch this:
February 5, 2026 at 8:41 PM
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PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. (AP) — Punxsutawney Phil is said to have seen his shadow, predicting 6 more weeks of winter weather.
February 2, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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Punxsutawney Phil is said to have seen his shadow, predicting 6 more weeks of winter weather. Follow AP for live updates.
Groundhog Day live updates: Punxsutawney Phil predicts 6 more weeks of winter
Tens of thousands of people are gathering for Punxsutawney Phil, a groundhog that lives in a tree stump, to predict if the already long and cold winter across much of the United States will go on for another six weeks or if an early spring is around the corner.
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February 2, 2026 at 12:32 PM
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Here is a video of a frozen creek that had begun to thaw, and the water was flowing beneath the thin ice on top. I took this because it was soothing and wonderfully bloopy and I wanted to listen to it for hours. You are all welcome to enjoy it, too. Let your brain settle here and rest for a moment.
January 10, 2026 at 4:57 AM
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As Black History Month begins, we honor the generations of Black New Yorkers who built this city into the “gorgeous mosaic” we call home.

Today, we reflect on the words of Mayor David Dinkins: our city’s first Black mayor (and a democratic socialist!).
February 1, 2026 at 2:11 PM
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January 31, 2026 at 6:41 PM
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It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall.

But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"
January 31, 2026 at 12:41 AM
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Quilicura, Chile, one of the communities I wrote about in EMPIRE OF AI, has launched a brilliant initiative to inspire more responsible AI prompting. Today, don't use AI; ask the townspeople instead: quili.ai. So heartened to see this creative act of resistance.
January 31, 2026 at 1:25 PM
I just reread Naomi Kritzer’s “The Year Without Sunshine,”, probably for the fourth time. It’s so, so good.
January 31, 2026 at 10:44 PM
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Finished is better than terrible #oldknees
January 23, 2026 at 4:06 PM
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Please read this extremely thoughtful & careful post on Tim Walz, Anne Frank, & the US Holocaust Memorial Museum from Martin Shuster, philosopher, Isaac Swift Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies, former Holocaust Memorial Museum Fellow, & scholar of genocide, the Holocaust, & authoritarianism:
January 30, 2026 at 1:24 AM
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Dr Glaucomflecken, an actual ophthalmologist, with helpful instructions for dealing with pepper spray to the face.
youtube.com/shorts/z4dy0...
What To Do If You Get Pepper Sprayed
YouTube video by Dr. Glaucomflecken
youtube.com
January 29, 2026 at 11:45 PM
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I'm not crying you're crying:
Wisdom at 90+: Photographing The Beatles, James Bond, and the village fete | Tonight | ITV News
YouTube video by ITV News
www.youtube.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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This government shut down is all about whether Republicans will get away with raising health care premiums by 75% for 20 million Americans and throwing 15 million people off their health care.

We can't allow that to happen.
September 30, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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We can all see with our own eyes what ICE is doing to our neighbors.

It’s time for the Senate to step up and do the right thing. Stop this violence.
We can all see with our own eyes what ICE is doing to our neighbors.
YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren
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January 25, 2026 at 1:19 AM
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His voice cracked as he spoke.“Nurses are shift workers,” he said. “We always aim to leave our relief shift set up for success, to carry on the sacred work of care in the best way possible.”

“Alex is now relieved. That means now it’s up to us to carry the work forward.”
January 29, 2026 at 12:40 AM