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You're dreaming if you think political reporters will "get over their access." It's their oxygen. Take away Dear Leader's daily gaggles and they don't know what to do with themselves. Plus, those book deals are all predicated on having quality scoop-age!

'An arch bigger than the Arc de Triomphe? Hitler wanted that too' 'Tyrants and dictators often dream of building gigantic monuments to themselves. It usually doesn't work' salon.com/2026/05/03/an-…

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James Brown Born on this day in 1933 - It's a Man's Man's Man's World -

@SurfThrash Best Mike Watt bass riff 🎸

The Minutemen - What Makes a Man Start Fires? (1983, SST Records) Bob Dylan Wrote Propaganda Songs 0:00 One Chapter In The Book 1:29 Fake Contest 2:30 Beacon Sighted Through Fog 4:13 Mutiny In Jonestown 5:13 East Wind/Faith 6:19 Pure Joy 8:25 '99 9:54 The Anchor 10:53

It took 9 years and 3 billion miles to get this shot. Pluto’s icy Mountains. But how exactly did we get it? A story of one of NASA’s greatest missions:

Nico Päffgen 📷 by Harry Fox, 1965.

This is a popular joke in IT -- but it's also seriously true. In the original "Jurassic Park" movie, Hammond brags about "sparing no expense" in all the features of the park, but then underpays/understaffs the IT department. This is then the cause of the downfall of the park. Such is also true of ransomware. Companies cheap out on IT security: underpaid, understaff, and mostly, undervalued, nobody listens to them. As a result, they get ransomware which sometimes bankrupts the company. Jurassic Park is a cautionary tale of how not to treat IT.

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This was not that long ago. And anti-Black #racism persists in the United States and abroad. Please: 1. Stop denying racism exists. 2. Be educated on racism as an issue of prejudice, abuse of power, and manipulation of privilege. 3. Commit to being informed on systemic issues. 4. Pay attention to those who say they are being violated by systemic racism/discrimination. 5. Care. 6. Study the global and national impact of racism and white supremacy. 7. Honestly examine systems infiltrated by racist ideals [Some of those systems: Healthcare, education, criminal ‘justice’ (school to prison pipeline, prison industrial complex), housing, etc.]. 8. Study and quote Dr. MLK, Jr. to facilitate justice and true peace, NOT to maintain order as a form of false peace. Injustice is never in order. 9. Be open to understanding the “interconnectedness” of humanity. Think higher than 1 group “winning.” How can humanity win? 10. Decide on one system impacted by racism that you will work to change. Work on it. 11. Don’t be a racist. Give due spiritual, emotional, mental, and practical diligence to not being a vessel for hate, bigotry and racism. 12. Choose Nonviolence. Kingian Nonviolence not merely a tactic, but a love-centered way of living, with principles and steps that help create a more just, humane, peaceful world. Learn more at thekingcenter.org Photo: Gordon Parks #JimCrow #MLK #LetHistoryHelp #TheKingCenter

A young girl carrying an airsoft gun to defend her food from the local monkeys Lop buri, Thailand

Big Black (with Peter Prescott of Mission of Burma on Drums) Kerosene July 13, 1986 at CBGB, New York, NY

Fascinating example of how social media works today… (LONG POST) Saw a display in the BHM airport honoring the Tuskegee Airmen. Like 99.999% of Americans, I’m Team 🇺🇸… especially over Nazis. Posted it. Most responses were what you’d expect likes, RTs, patriotism. Then the algorithm shifted. Started seeing a wave of replies saying: “Tuskegee success was a myth. Just PR. DEI BS” The argument? They had fewer aerial kills than other escort groups, so therefore it was all BS. So I paused and did a real deep dive looked for actual historical data from the official Air Force accounts and historians. Here’s what I found…. They were right. They did have less aerial kills the other fighter groups. However….. The SAME data being used to discredit them tells a completely different story if you read the whole reports. Yes, they had fewer kills. But here’s the data that they omitted: Bombers lost under escort (same theater, same aircraft): • Tuskegee Airmen: 27 • Other groups: ~49, 68, 88 That’s not spin. That’s the mission. Escort fighters weren’t there to run up kill counts, they were there to protect bombers. And by that measure, the 332nd was one of the most effective groups in the war. Why did they have less aerial kills? Was it because they were less skilled? Historians pointed out the 332nd was known for staying disciplined and stuck with the bombers while others groups tended to often peel off chasing kills. So both things can be true: • Fewer kills • More bombers protected But here’s the social media lesson: Same report. Same data. One side cherry-picks “lowest kills” = “they weren’t good” But they “conveniently” left out the part where they protected bombers better than anyone. What I observed? 2 things. 1) Most of the accounts pushing the “myth” angle? Burner accounts, fake names…,people that hid behind a vague account names 2) Setting the record straight wasn’t the goal of the “myth” posters, it was for them to get their personal beliefs off without the actual information they claimed to have used. Anyway… Team America 🇺🇸🫡

Donald Byrd 🎶 Flight - time youtu.be/TZ_dlhn8Mm8?is… #InternationalJazzDay

On this day 7 years ago, Twitter user 'MISSINGEGIRL' made a post containing two images of what appeared to be a lady screaming at a cat, writing "These photos together is making me lose it."

Freak Out USA. Warren Publishing, Fall 1967.