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"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes .
"That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."
Trump’s approval rating dropped four points since last month in the latest AP-NORC poll released Thursday.
You guys go on ahead, I’m going to hang out here for awhile ☺️
Armchair Books,
Edinburgh's Old Town
UEFA nations will not participate in FIFA events until the investment deal is scrapped
A really cute boy is staying with me for a bit. I’m even letting him sleep with me.
Public libraries within walking distance are one of the best things about living in a big city.
Blue-winged Parrotlet
Tiny parrot with green body, short pointed tail, and pale bill. Males have cobalt-blue wings and rump; females are all green. Highly gregarious. Widespread from Bolivia across much of eastern Brazil, as far south as northeastern Argentina.
📸: @my_little_sensor
This is Hunter. He came very close to having an entire thought. Ended up being a false alarm. 13/10 (IG: itshunterthelab)
Goodnight from Scotland, catch you in the morning beautiful souls 😁
The 55 member associations in UEFA approved the boycott unanimously on Thursday.
All 55 UEFA nations have unanimously agreed to boycott FIFA competitions if plans to sell stakes in the World Cup to private investors move forward.
European football is drawing a line in the sand: the World Cup belongs to the players and fans.
My entire life I’ve never called it the FIFA World Cup. I’ve always called it the World Cup. Fans don’t give a shit about FIFA. If national teams showed up for a World Cup tournament not held by FIFA we would all watch it. World Cup is the brand. FIFA is nothing.
His name is Juice Box, the latest member of the Conniff household.
Took a walk tonight and caught this gorgeous sunset over the water. The colors were unreal. Sometimes you just need to step outside. 🌅😍
#sunset
#Photography
#Photographer
#nature
#landscape
Every other day, 83-year-old Marilyn Tewa of the Hopi Tribe loads buckets into her pickup and drives 5 miles to haul water. “That’s what keeps us alive,” Tewa said.
Four states stand in the way of a deal to give her community water.
The look one gets after shooting a 10-second cellphone video. Red-tailed hawk.
#Birds #BirdsOfPrey #Nature #Wildlife #Photography
My latest painting SUMMER SUNSET.
Let me know what you think? 🤔
COLUMN: Trump and his aides rarely go easy on their perceived enemies, writes our Nahal Toosi.
But their attacks on the International Criminal Court are hyperbolic enough that you have to wonder:
Are they afraid the court will prosecute them?
Federal judges say they are losing faith in the Justice Department’s trustworthiness, legal scholars say.
“Judges simply don't believe the representations that are being made by United States attorneys,” one former federal judge said.
I gotta say. I’ve never seen the Europeans move so quickly, so unified and so resolute as when they basically told Gianni Infantino and FIFA to fuck off. Imagine a World Cup without European teams. The art of beating the colonizers is one of football’s great pleasures
Sometimes you just have to hug a donkey.
Seen here is staff member Spencer snuggling with Nicholas. Animal residents at Merrymac are always allowed to choose if and when they want affection/attention. Nicholas loves to snuggle and requests affection every chance he gets.
I don’t know who needs to hear this but never in human history have those who burned books been the good guys.
This massive mural in Worcester is more than just street art.
Artist Marka27 painted the three most important women in his life, his wife and two daughters, then surprised them when it was finished.
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Tree yeers da go toodai, dis Shadow meetinks hooman fur vary firs tyme, wen da hers doins a yogurt at da ca'at cafe wayr da mes waz livinks.
Da hers wuld kuminks bak to visitinks sebral moar tymes, afor taykings da mes hoam in an cupel weeks.
White-crested Turaco.
Native to eastern Nigeria and western Kenya.
It has glossy, bluish-black upperparts which contrast markedly with its white crest, cheeks, neck and throat. It has a green mantle around the shoulders and violet wing coverts and rectrices.
📷: @frankie.low33
Douglas Lake in Eagle Cap lake region, northeast Oregon, US. So much beauty there but this one was a stunner #EagleCap #BackpackingOregon
Doctor: Have you tried journaling about your chronic illness
Me:
Saw this gorgeous Green Heron while I was out today. It was just hanging out in the grass by the water, totally still. I read somewhere they actually use bait to catch fish how cool is that?❤️📷
#birds
#birdphotography
#birdwatching
#nature
#photography
UPDATE: Mandela Barnes dropped out of the Democratic primary for Wisconsin governor, as progressive state lawmaker Francesca Hong surges in the polls.
The announcement comes as state Dems brace for damaging media reports about Barnes.
Finished Mercy portrait! I am a bit slow with painting so I'd say overall it was about 6 to 7 hours.
#AgeOfUmbra #CriticalRole
The worst decision humans ever made was to separate ourselves from nature
I assume this is correct. Maybe some of you know more about this.
© Max Ginsburg.
'The Friends.'
Oil on canvas, 1981.
101.6 x 55.9 cm.
When the second book in a series comes out I have to do a reread 😭 #booksky
𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗥𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗞𝗢
No.7 (Dark Brown, Gray, Orange), 1963
Kunstmuseum
© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko/Artists Rights Society (ARS)
𝙻𝚒𝚗𝚔𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚋𝚒𝚘
Internal documents and former company executives reveal how Cigna doctors rejected patients’ claims without opening their files.
“We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said.
(Published March 2023 w/ )
Just saw a woman put a pink mermaid life jacket (with fishtail) on her mini golden doodle, place the mermaid on a paddle board and paddle off into the sunset — and this is what America’s women actually want. Will be joining this woman’s party/ cult/ MLM—if she ever returns to shore.
Let’s be clear: what these bastards are doing to these books isn’t digitizing. Digitizing is about preservation and access to the original material. They’re gutting and destroying to make Soylent Green.
Don’t let them get away with pretending to do this for humanitarian reasons.
Concept art for Alderaan’s capital city, Aldera by Ralph McQuarrie (1993)
The Buck moon over Ely Cathedral last night in Cambridgeshire, UK.
In filing, network’s lawyers urged FCC to reject petitions to deny license renewals for eight ABC-owned local stations
“The recent reports of domestic violence and child abuse against Representative Max Miller are deeply disturbing, and Congress can’t ignore them."
Three firefighters died this week in Greece as severe weather continues to fuel blazes across Europe.
Jenny Lake, Grand Teton National Park. October, 2021.
📷 Fujifilm X-T3 + XF16-55mmF2.8 R LM WR
🎞 16 mm – 1/105″ – f/11 – ISO 160
🏷️ #Photography #NationalParks #Landscapes
Good conditions after sunset last night to do some painting with my camera. I always like how I can get some nice trails from the lights on the bridge to add something different to the photos
This may sound foolish, but if it resonates with even one person it's worth it.
I used to love reading. Then life and a lack of time got in the way.
Recently it dawned on me that I don't have to finish books. A quick yes/no after 25-30 pages. Continue only the ones I'm loving.
I'm reading again.
The DOGE team was acting like “a bunch of people who didn’t know what they were doing, with ideas of how government should run — thinking it should work like a McDonald’s or a bank — screaming all the time,” former SSA Commissioner Leland Dudek said.
(Published Sept. 2025)
Otro gatito que encuentra a unos humanos y los adopta. 😻😻😻😻😻💗💗❤️
Another kitten finds some humans and adopts them. 😻😻😻😻😻💗💗❤️
“We are not terrorists, we are being terrorized."
Baby beavers born in Scotland's 'most beautiful glen' for the first time in 400 years share.google/wyHc2nND754q...
We have some special guests fur da next 9 days!
Please meet Maddie and Maize! They’ll be available fur adoption soon with Dog Squad!
Let’s give dem a warm welcome!
We identified a network of at least 10 political nonprofits that raised more than $33M on the promise of supporting admirable causes, but that spent little on activities that could be construed as having a political purpose.
(Published June 2024)
"[Ross] Douthat’s hire sends a clear message," writes .
"He may not be a TV guy, an investigative guy, or even a news guy – but he is one of America’s best-known conservative opinion journalists... that’s the credential that seems to matter most."
They never cared about women’s sports before it became politically convenient.
Equal pay? Pfffft.
Rampant sexual abuse? Sorry that keeps happening.
An excuse to attack a tiny population of vulnerable transgender athletes?
“PROTECT WOMENS’ SPORTS!”
No Republican members of Congress have yet called for an investigation into Miller—including Miller’s former father-in-law, Sen. Bernie Moreno.
Microsoft shares jumped in premarket trading while Meta tanked as investors gave differing verdicts on the two tech giants’ earnings.
Shares of Microsoft were last 9% higher while Meta was down 9%.
Read more: cnb.cx/4woIg4m
A loyal dog walks the same little girl home from school every single day, no leash needed
Behaviores Reporte: 95% goode 5% trespaced on tha hellocobber shelve. I am unconserned.
Luciano the Hedonist, a deeply enjoyable commissioned work for
You are never alone, Jun. The whole ACFC fam is behind you 🖤
📰 #AngelCityFC confirms that Jun Endo suffered a right ACL injury and will be placed on the season-ending injury list.
More info: angelcity.com/acfc-post/ac...
Spectacular FU from UEFA to Trump Stooge Gianni Infantino and his attempt to privatize the World Cup and give part to the Trump Mafia.
Infantino cannot continue after this. He'll be overthrown if he doesn't resign.
I hope we bring back paperbacks and realize that physical books are worth protecting. I hope we look back and agree it was ridiculous to let AI companies strip mine books just to feed their models. Until then, visit your local library and ask for a copy of Fahrenheit 451 and 1984
Trump’s overall approval rating slumps to 34%, according to new CNN poll, as midterms testing Republican power loom
Most plastic items are too small for recyclers to bother sorting and processing, or they're assembled in such a way that it's less expensive to just make new plastic.
In fact, only 5% of Americans’ plastic finds new life.
(Published Aug. 2024)
Republican senators sought written limits on settlement, but president held firm despite risk to attorney general pick
State department ‘takes full responsibility’ for erroneous, widely shared chart displayed at Aids conference in Brazil
UEFA's 55 member associations have voted to boycott World Cups if FIFA proceeds with its plan to sell stakes in its competitions to private investors
A county official warned that the hospital in her city was understaffed and cutting corners. A year later, a woman froze to death on the roof.
This is the untold story of the for-profit healthcare company behind this hospital, and many more:
15-year-old Joniah Walker took an Uber from Milwaukee to Chicago to meet a man who she’d been communicating with online for several years. Investigators say he had been holding her captive in Virginia ever since.
Look at this girl who didn't need sedation and didn't murder the vet!
She's a bit grumpy I put her in the studio crate not the (bigger) living space crate, but that's because she will be allowed freedom shortly!
LATEST: Iran vows to “punish” the United States after the American military said it had completed a “heavy wave of strikes” overnight.
Discuss:
Jorge Méndez Blake, The Impact of a Book.
Friends! Percy loves flowers so much that we can’t have cut flowers in the house any more because he wants to eat them. We only have artificial flowers inside now, and he loves to sit next to them. Maybe he wants to be a gardener? 🌺
AI company Anthropic secretly bought millions of rare and out-of-print books to train its Claude AI model.
They used a hydraulic-powered cutting machine to remove the pages for scanning before destruction.
Independence Pass area, Colorado. This is up at the continental divide at 12,095 ft, 2023, on route to Aspen.
Holy shit
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
The problem lies not with Fauci, but with the weaponization of the Justice Department.
Think Like a Dog, all about dog psychology and why it makes them awesome, is out September 1! Check this link in for pre-ordering and tour dates and giveaways linktr.ee/thegoldenrat...
Good morning welcome to Tippetty tap tap Thursday
Life isn’t a race to the finish line. It’s a collection of little tippetty tap taps, quiet victories, and moments that remind us we’re doing better than we think.
I've been wanting to employ more lighting and more shape based stuff in my art style recently
Under Trump's CFPB, two of the three major credit bureaus have sharply reduced the share of complaints they resolved in customers’ favor.
In 2024, Experian’s relief rate was 20%. Last year, that figure fell to less than 1%: propub.li/3S3sflq
(Published March)
Scotland’s appearance at the World Cup this year shows exactly what the competition should be all about - the fans.
The idea that it could be sold off to private investors is unacceptable and I support UEFA’s action today. FIFA need to abandon these plans now.
The World Cup must not be for sale.
To understand the experience of life, don’t look to the mind. Look to the body
Happy Thursday! We are almost through the week! I was hopeful for some sun this morning but the clouds prevailed, so here is some beautiful pre-sunrise color from last Saturday. Tap for full size. I hope you have a great day!
Poppy and I are in the middle of an important scritch session.
