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To: Justice Alito, et al & GOP state legislators: I don't recognize that any of you has the right to usurp bodily & reproductive atonomy of females in the US. Women are no longer chattel. Your draft op is wishful, anachronistic misogyny. WOMEN & GIRLS — JUST SAY NO! #RoeVWade

Kenneth Windley lost nearly 20 YEARS to prison for a $550 robbery he didn’t commit. His conviction was finally dismissed after new evidence, including confessions from the real perpetrators, proved his innocence. Every year behind bars was a year stolen from his family and community. This is a grave injustice. abcnews.com/US/wireStory/n…

100 years of great reporting!

@morgfair @DeeFixer 😂

Penn took over 200 of these portraits. You can buy the collection today under the book title "Small Trades." Remember, these were completely regular working-class people, not fashion models. And look how fantastically they were dressed.

In the 1950s, Irving Penn traveled across London, Paris, and NYC to take portraits of workers in their work clothes. These clothes at the time were not considered glamorous — they would not have shown up on fashion runways — but they demonstrate a simple aesthetic principle 🧵

Happy birthday, Mister Rogers. 💙🌈✨

My heart is heavy hearing about the passing of my friend the legendary Chuck Norris. He was truly one of a kind the real deal. I’ve never met a nicer person in my life. Not only was he a badass, but he was a good man through and through. One of the greats, without question. My thoughts are with the Norris family. 🙏

Afroman, best known for his 2000 hit song, “Because I Got High,” won a defamation lawsuit on Thursday filed by seven Ohio sheriff’s deputies. The saga begun over a 2022 raid on Afroman’s home, legal name Joseph Foreman, by the Adams County, Ohio Sheriff’s office. The raid was part of a drug and kidnapping investigation according to the original warrant. Nothing illegal was found in the musician’s home, and no charges were filed. Foreman subsequently alleged that the officers vandalized his home, and stole money. In response to the raid, Foreman released a series music videos featuring his home security footage of the raid. The footage included one notable moment where an officer paused to look at a pastry on Foreman’s kitchen counter. That inspired the most popular song of bunch, ‘Lemon Pound Cake.’ The sheriff’s deputies said they were publicly harassed in the wake of the video series release, and sought nearly $4 million in damages. The case sparked conversations around the constitutional right to free speech and the limits of parody, which Foreman noted in an Instagram video after he emerged victorious, stating, “We did it America! Freedom of speech! Right on!”

Remembering Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Godmother of Rock ‘N’ Roll, on her birthday today. Rest In Power!

Heartbroken to hear of Chuck Norris’s passing. In the early '70s, Elvis introduced my brothers and me to Chuck to add karate — including teaching me how to break boards — to our act in order to put forth a tougher onstage image. He taught us Tang Soo Do and pushed us to be stronger in every way. Tough in training, but one of the kindest souls you could ever know. I’ll always be grateful. Rest well, my friend.

here are eight men. the first three, shown in the first slide, have lean and athletic body types. the others are not so lean. of these four slides, which do you think look the best?

“Good with the hot sauce too, yo” -Wallace

Very sad news. My "home" for 25 years at @CBSNews, CBS News Radio, is shutting down. Feeling bad for all my colleagues who are losing their positions at CBS today.

Happy First Day of Spring!

i follow a woman on instagram who gardens to help frogs and bugs IG our_little_veg_garden

Thank you for wishing me a happy birthday! Having friends like you to sing, dance, and celebrate with is the best gift of all. 💛

Several years ago, I attended an annual gala organized by the Elizabeth Dole Foundation, which raises money for military caregivers that need assistance because the VA doesn't offer enough coverage. If you raised enough money, you got to do a photo line with Tom Hanks--who always hosts the gala--and the special guests in attendance, which is a neat little treat. That year, it was Savannah Guthrie and Adam Driver and a few others. It wasn't a typical photo line. Because there were so many attendees who raised the requisite amount of money (a GREAT problem to have), they didn't do the usual thing where you can exchange a few words with the celebs, etc. Instead, they had Mr. Hanks and Ms. Guthrie and Mr. Driver and the others sit in chairs in a line facing the camera, and everyone in the photo line would stand behind the group and get their picture taken. Now, I can't emphasize enough that this was a LONG photo line. It was easily an hour of photos being taken, and that was with the expedited process. So, in order to keep things moving, they asked us to not give gifts or chat with the celebs. Totally understandable. When it was my turn, I went around the partition and walked up to the seated group, and as expected, the other celebs respectfully nodded. But Ms. Guthrie, who didn't know me from the next person, lit up and offered a big smile and a wave and said "Thank you so much for coming!" I've been around these things long enough to know when a celeb is understandably going through the motions, and Ms. Guthrie wasn't doing that. She was genuinely trying to offer a brief human connection with everyone in line. I must have been Person #137 or whatever in this photo line, and I vividly remember her making the effort to ensure I felt welcome and appreciated. We took the photo, and as I walked away, she said: "Thank you again! We appreciate you." She did this with EVERY. SINGLE. PERSON. IN. LINE. Hundreds of people. Seven weeks ago, Savannah Guthrie's mother Nancy Guthrie was abducted, and her family has been going through hell trying to rescue her. I keep thinking about that night and the kindness Ms. Guthrie showed toward so many strangers and the way her empathy was centered in that moment and the mother who raised her to be that way. Please say a prayer for the Guthrie family and the safe return of their mother.