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Last year half of CDC’s Vessel Sanitation Program staff were fired. This is the group responsible for investigating cruise ship outbreaks. The cuts were made despite the fact that US taxpayers don’t pay for this team. The cruise ship industry does.

Notice how he’s not asking oil companies to take less profit, but asking Americans to pay more for gas.

Trump telling a room full of school children that his approval ratings are at 100%, the Iranians are mentally deranged, the 2020 election was stolen, and that Barack ‘Hussein’ Obama is the enemy… We call it utter lunacy Republicans call it Tuesday

Isn’t it kind of telling on yourself that the second SCOTUS guts the Voting Rights Act and Alito claims “we’ve moved past racism” the VERY FIRST thing that happens is that all of the Southern States, of ALL places, rushes to eliminate any of their majority Black districts

Maybe now it’s a little clearer why RFK Jr’s and Jay Bhattacharya’s decision to pull $500 million out of research into mRNA vaccines, a technology that can rapidly produce vaccines for emerging pathogens, was such a bad idea.

The ballroom went from $200 million & privately funded, to $300 million, to $400 million and taxpayers cover some of it, to MAGA trying to silently jam through $1 BILLION, 100% of which is our tax money, for this ballroom. WASTE, FRAUD, AND ABUSE IN THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION.

Remembering Bernard Hill. Who passed 2 years ago today. Thank you Bernard for your all time performance as King Theoden. DEATH!

John Williams 🎩🪄 Main Title from Star Wars: A New Hope 🎬 Performed with the Wiener Philharmoniker. May the Fourth be with you ✨ #StarWarsDay

FWIW: ‘parsec’ is a measure of distance, not time, but that doesn’t make the Millennium Falcon’s Kessel Run any less impressive.

Trump selecting his own resort in Doral to host the G20 summit not only benefits his resort, but means other cities have materially lost out. No evidence that there was a fair selection process. Clear presidential profiteering. Don't let this go. citizensforethics.org/reports-invest…

The replies to this person's tweet lack a nuanced understanding of aesthetics. Let me tell you why I don't think this room works. First, the gold decorations make the room look like an ersatz Versailles. Go to Getty Images and type in "Oval Office." Then zoom in on the gold decor. You'll notice that the lines are very blunted and muddied; they lack the sharp lines and fine detailing that you'd expect on something made by an artisan. Hence why some people have suggested these decorations are from Home Depot (true or not, that's the impression). You can see the difference between the first and second photos. The first, of course, is of the Oval Office; the second is the reception room from the Hotel de Cabris in France, which was made during the 18th century under the direction of Louis XVI. Even at this distance, the second image looks much better because it was designed and executed by artisans working within a coherent visual language. You can really see the crisp lines and detailing. Second, the White House was designed by James Hoban, an Irish architect who migrated to the US for economic opportunities (what a great American story!). He originally designed it in the Neoclassical style, drawing on Palladian and Georgian influences. Neoclassicalism was a reaction against the Rococo movement, which reactionaries saw as overly ornate and frivolous. A bit of gold used sparingly and strategically can look fine in a Neoclassical building, but the amount Trump used has so radically encrusted the room that it's now in Rococo territory, making it look like a mismatch of aesthetics. You can see an example of gilded Rococo architecture in the third slide. Although it's not my thing, the effect is totally different because it's coherent. IMO, architecture sets the terms for you can decorate a space. Modernist furniture looks best in modernist buildings, just as Craftsman furniture looks best in Craftsman homes (see fourth slide). You don't have to do period recreations — sometimes mixing two aesthetics, or old and new, can make a space feel more natural — but having a sense of aesthetic history (art, architecture, furniture, fashion) can help you create better aesthetics. The Oval Office offends on at least three levels: the ersatz nature of the decor, the way it grates against Hoban’s Neoclassical vision, and the way it misunderstands the classical-republican symbolism that the White House was meant to project in the first place. As others have noted, this is the kind of decor you'd expect from dictators who rob their own country.

@AuthorGFAllen Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell 🪞

Name a book that’s an absolute 11/10. 📕

i think we don't talk enough how lesley manville is actually one of the best actresses of her generation i said what i said

@Fansdepantallas So relevant. On my time favorite list-- Man in the High Castle

6️⃣ The Man in the High Castle (2015) Una de las primeras apuestas grandes de Prime. ¿Y si el Eje hubiera ganado la Segunda Guerra Mundial? 👉 Distopía potente, ambiciosa y muy cuidada.

🧵 Series de las primeras de Amazon Prime Video que fueron muy buenas… y hoy casi nadie recuerda Si te apetece descubrir joyas “olvidadas” de cuando Prime empezaba fuerte, este hilo es para ti 👇

The Voting Rights Act was reauthorized by Reagan and Bush, and enforced by a Republican Supreme Court majority for 55 years. The idea that it was far-left partisan Democratic legislation is just ahistorical.

The people telling you the gutting of the Voting Rights Act has nothing to do with racism are the same people who would tell you that the Civil War was about states rights.

A man blinded by a flag about to step off into emptiness might be Banksy's best work ever.

So science… matters?!

After six months and nearly 1,000 cases, the South Carolina measles outbreak is officially over. How'd they do it? "Measles vaccinations were the most effective single containment tool." abcnews.com/Health/after-1…