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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
10 October 1903 | A Czech Jew, Vilém Hoffmann, was born Prague. He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 18 December 1943. He did not survive.
Vintage black-and-white portrait of a smiling man wearing a bow tie.
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In an Uber. Driver having loud phone conversation with someone in Spanish. A little annoying, but it happens. He hangs up. Says, “Mi hermano. La Migra.” And starts weeping.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
21 September 1916 | Czech Jewish woman, Hilda Bergmannová, was born in Prague. She was deported to #Auschwitz from Theresienstadt ghetto on 18 December 1943. She did not survive.
A woman in a floral dress sits on a bench with a large German Shepherd dog in front of a fenced area.
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
One of my favourite songs of the summer just gone: an outrageously good remix of Life During Wartime www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZb_...
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Loveface - This Ain't No Disco
YouTube video by Loveface Music
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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 05/09/2026
This is interesting. You get assigned to being born at a random place and time in history, to see what a typical person's life might have been like then. Unfortunately I was born in 1403 in the valley of Mexico and died at age 4 from dysentery.
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Any Human Ever
One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived.
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Capital Weather @capitalweather.com · 04/09/2026
Over 150K without power after Thursday night's insane storms with nonstop lightning + violent winds. We'll have an explainer on this event on Friday. For now, see these dramatic videos from CW readers... Link: www.capitalweather.com/video-violen... Video here by @philliefan99.bsky.social
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Bryan Curtis @bryancurtis.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Jimmy Breslin on Gloria Steinem Esquire, 8/92 (the same issue had John Updike on Dolly)
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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
A group of major medical organizations released recommendations this morning for Covid, flu and RSV vaccination, including guidance for the general population as well as specifics for children, people over 65, pregnant people and immunocompromised people. Here's a guide.
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Your Guide to Covid, Flu and R.S.V. Vaccines This Fall (Gift Article)
Major medical groups released new recommendations on who should get the shots, citing a lack of strong guidance from the federal government.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
W-A-S-H-I-N-G, T-O-N baby DC
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 29/08/2026
A: Where should we eat? B: I’m happy to go anywhere! A: Me too. I don’t care where we go. B: Same. Any restaurant you have in mind? A: No, I’ll go to literally any restaurant. Any area more convenient for you? B: No, every location in existence is convenient for me. buff.ly/wrtqwo0
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With God as My Witness, I Will Not Pick the Restaurant
Our 13th most-read piece of the year. 7/25/23 7/28/24 8/3/25 8/29/26 CALENDAR 2027
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I recommend to you this podcast series about Dolly Parton by Jad Abumrad (creator of Radio Lab). You may ask: how did a MacArthur Award winning pub radio guy meet Dolly? Because she personally funded his father's vaccine research, that's how. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/dol...
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Dolly Parton's America : Episodes | WNYC Studios | Podcasts
The story of a legend at the crossroads of America’s culture wars.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
19 August 1965 | The Frankfurt #Auschwitz trials ended with 22 former SS garrison members of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz charged. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_Aus… 🎧/📖 A podcast about SS garrison at Auschwitz bit.ly/4tOO45Z
Black and white photo from the Frankfurt Trial of SS man from Auschwitz showing defendants wearing headphones and sitting in a courtroom, with security personnel and observers in the background.
Table listing names, ranks, roles, and sentences of various individuals associated with crimes at Auschwitz. Entities mentioned include Blockführer, camp Gestapo, SS members, and HKB Monowitz. Sentences range from 2 years imprisonment to life imprisonment.
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John Walton @thatjohn.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
One that @garius.bsky.social loves to use to break my brain: Orville Wright flew both the Wright Flyer and the Lockheed Constellation.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
16 August 1914 | Czech Jewish woman, Ida Blochová, was born in Klatovy. She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 18 December 1943. She did not survive.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
This is a lovely site which helps remind us of much of what we take for granted in material progress ordinaryabundance.com (HT @aveek18.bsky.social)
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Ordinary Abundance
A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/08/2026
Incredible. When E—n M—k & his crew obliterated USAID in a weekend, they deleted a vast trove of publicly-funded knowledge: the Development Experience Clearinghouse. A Canadian high school student (!) happened to have downloaded the entire thing for a project. AidData has now posted it for all.
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Before reimagining development data, remember what we’ve learned
Why we’re publishing a free, searchable, and ungated archive featuring a quarter-century of USAID evaluation reports.
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 11/08/2026
L to R: Aunt Agatha, Aunt Dahlia, Madeline Bassett, Gussie Fink-Nottle (w/newts)
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Market Street, Wigan, 1968. Wiganers leave for their holidays as the mills close for two weeks in the summer.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 30/07/2026
Snowy valleys, balloon bikes and a wild game of buzkashi: a different view of Afghanistan – in pictures
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Snowy valleys, balloon bikes and a wild game of buzkashi: a different view of Afghanistan – in pictures
As the son of Afghan refugees, Daniel Malikyar wanted to paint a picture of the country he knew, rather than the one he read about in news headlines
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 26/07/2026
ABC Australia has a YouTube series called “You Can’t Ask That” in which they bring in people from various marginalized/stereotyped groups who have volunteered to answer “inappropriate” questions. I’m sure they aren’t fully representative but they do foster empathy & I think they’re generally great.
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Muslim women on hijabs, gender inequality, abuse and faith | You Can't Ask That | Full Episode
YouTube video by ABC Australia
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I wrote a thing! My take on Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey is up at @foreignpolicy.com foreignpolicy.com/2026/07/23/o...
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Odysseus at the End of Civilization
Nolan’s film confronts the betrayal of the West’s own values.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
When the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this. Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.
The Times: Net zero risks blackouts. Below a photo of French wildfires.
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 16/07/2026
For your convenience, the Pride and Prejudice live-posting super-thread 📚
A drawing of Elizabeth Bennet, a lovely young woman with her long hair tied up nearly under a ribbon and wearing what is most likely a neo-classically inspired dress, looking pensive, two letters in her hand. Meanwhile Darcy, a handsome but stern-looking fellow, looks longingly at her. Also there is me, a little gremlin in big round glasses, skulking about in the background and hoping that they kiss. 

The accompanying text reads “Trung reads Pride and Prejudice for the first time, somehow.”
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
My Spanish champion is Pontevedra Mayor Miguel Anxo Fernández Lores, who kicked cars out of city center: “It's not my duty as mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. It's the same as if you bought a cow, or fridge, and then ask me where you're going to put them.”
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This Spanish city has been restricting cars for 24 years. Here's what we can learn from it
Pontevedra, Spain, offers some of the best evidence available about what happens when a city is reconfigured to accommodate people, rather than cars.
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Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 17/07/2026
Last year, Donald Trump illegally fired thousands of our dedicated public servants at USAID and the State Department. Our country is worse off for it. I'm working to ensure these experts can return back to the roles we need them in to protect America’s interests abroad.
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Don Beyer Calls for Reinstating Illegally Fired Federal Workers
YouTube video by Congressman Don Beyer
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 15/07/2026
These images of First Nations community members evacuating Collins, Ontario on motorboats are absolutely surreal www.facebook.com/reel/1548244...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14/07/2026
An amazing quote from Lindsey Graham in this Atlantic story. It really captures an essential truth about politics that too few people ever really come to terms with. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Timeless art from Minoan Crete! Some 3,500 years ago, a Minoan sculptor transformed a piece of ivory into this dynamic and graceful figurine of a bull leaper! From Knossos Palace. Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology
My photo shows a small ivory figurine representing a male bull-leaper about to execute a mid-air somersault over a bull’s back. The figurine is balancing on straight arms above which a slim body forms a graceful arch, and legs (one missing), thrust up high into the air, slightly bent at the knees. The pose is somewhat reminiscent of that of a diver, except for the head which is raised and faces forwards rather than tucked between the arms. The figurine measures 28.7 cm. The ivory is now a warm creamy yellow, mottled with brown staining and fine cracks. It is displayed on a modern metal support structure in Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete.

According to the museum ‘It is part of the only three-dimensional depiction of bull-leaping from the Palace of Knossos known to date. It was found together with at least two other ivory figurines and a faience bull’s head. The composition obviously depicts the moment when the athlete leaps over the bull, a scene familiar from Minoan frescoes and seals’ 

It goes on to say ‘the examination of the group under the microscope showed that the figures preserve traces of red paint, meaning that some features were painted on. They also had long hair made of copper gilt wires attached to the head, while thin pieces of gold foil found together with the statuettes may have been part of their clothing’
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
ok i am going on a 🧵 walk here shortly going to status check as many of the president's DC renovation projects as I possibly can this may end up being a multi-day event because of bad afternoon weather and the fact that this involves walking like 10 miles but we'll see how i do lol
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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
This beautiful gold earring is from Gandhara, an ancient South Asian region located in what is now north-western Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan. Desirable because of its strategic location, access to silk routes and ports, Gandhara had been conquered by many civilisations over hundreds of years.
Gold earring set with semi-precious stones.Gold earring set with semi-precious stones.Gold earring set with semi-precious stones.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 08/07/2026
This strip is, no exaggeration, a formative element of my life. Read it young; remembered it forever.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
“In his Instagram post, Encina thanked Gomez, the Getty photographer, whose presence on the train he said was ‘quietly reassuring.’ In the interview, he said seeing a photographer there gave him some comfort because someone was documenting what was happening.”
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Richat Structure - From Goddard Space Flight Center - flic.kr/p/7HaWog
Image taken 1/11/2001: The so-called Richat Structure is a geological formation in the Maur Adrar Desert in the African country of Mauritania. Although it resembles an impact crater, the Richat Structure formed when a volcanic dome hardened and gradually eroded, exposing the onion-like layers of rock.
 
The Richat Structure can be found on Landsat 7 WRS Path 203 Row 45, center: 21.68, -11.94.

To learn more about the Landsat satellite go to:

landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Credit:  NASA/GSFC/Landsat 7/USGS
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Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
An annual drill called "the premier peacekeeping exercise in the Pacific region" wrapped this week in Mongolia after bringing together U.S. and other multinational troops for pre-deployment training to nations preparing to support U.N. peacekeeping missions. From Stars and Stripes' Seth Robson:
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Multinational military gathering in Mongolia trains as UN peacekeepers
Khaan Quest, the “premier peacekeeping exercise in the Pacific region,” takes place within about 200 miles of both Russia and China.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
27 June 1909 | Czech Jewish woman, Františka Leknerová, was born in Prague. She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 18 December 1943. She did not survive.
Vintage black and white photograph of a woman in a light-colored outfit and a dark headband, smiling gently at the camera.
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Climate.us @climate.us · 26/06/2026
We got a big bump in traffic yesterday when people learned about us on NPR. Thank you to @npr.org for covering our launch and bringing our story to people's attention! And thank you to all our new followers. We can do this together! 🌍️🧪💪 #ClimateAction #ClimateForUs #ProtectScience
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International Committee of the Red Cross @icrc.org · 26/06/2026
No matter how. No matter who. No matter where. No matter why. On the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, we reaffirm that torture is never justified, never acceptable, and always illegal. Always.
Torture is prohibited. Torture and all other forms of cruel, inhuman, degrading, or humiliating treatment are universally prohibited everywhere and under all circumstances. This absolute ban underscores that no political, economic, security, cultural, or religious arguments can ever justify such practices. The suffering that these practices cause on their victims can last for years.
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Daniel Álvarez @dalvarez-01.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
A 12-metre-long Styxosaurus that swam in the Western Interior Seaway 80 million years ago. Its neck made up almost half its body length, helping it hunt fish with spear-like teeth. Close-up photo of the head in the second post of this thread. #Fossils #Paleontology #Styxosaurus #Manitoba
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
19 June 1898 | Czech Jewish woman, Marie Hoffmannová, was born in Prague. On 18 December 1943 she was deported from #Theresienstadt ghetto to #Auschwitz . She did not survive.
Vintage portrait of a woman, facing right with a gentle expression, wearing a dark blouse.
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The 51st @51st.news · 18/06/2026
“I’ll lose my family, my friends, everything I’ve built, I’ll lose it all in the blink of an eye, all for nothing.” Alexander Esquivel is one of the more than 1,000 people who were detained by ICE in D.C. last summer. His story, reported by student journalist Santiago Campos:
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ICE detained over 1,000 people in DC. Here's one man's story
Alexander Esquivel spent two months in immigration detention. His family is still living with the consequences.
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World Central Kitchen @wck.org · 18/06/2026
🥚❤️ WCK's #ChefsForUkraine teams are using every tool available to support families impacted by the Russian invasion—including our laying hen program. WCK teams are once again distributing vaccinated hens, feed, and a water bucket, so families can gather fresh eggs in their backyards. #FoodIsLife
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Katie Tiedrich @katietiedrich.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
I was digging around on wikipedia today and happened to come across this very good painting of Fancy Men Bamboozled By Egg
Columbi ägg (1924) by the Swedish artist Nils von Dardel
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Seth Rosenthal @sethrosenthal.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
ooooooh this video is incredible. this is the one www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL4T...
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Listen to MSG SHAKING During the Knicks HISTORIC 4th QTR Comeback! 🔊
YouTube video by NBA
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Miser @misernyc.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
The pedestrianization of Broadway through the heart of Manhattan just expanded, and it's glorious:
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Thierry Ennui @heisenbergkamp.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
(A) incredible and (B) an excuse to post this
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
8 June 1875 | A Czech Jewish woman, Kamila Kapellnerová, was born in Roudnice nad Labem. She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt on 18 December 1943. She did not survive.
This is a black and white portrait of a mature woman with short hair, wearing a dark-colored sweater over a lighter blouse. The photo features a cursive signature at the bottom. The facial expression is serious and the background is plain, enhancing the focus on the subject.
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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
“Bari Weiss sends an email to my boss, Tanya Simon. Two of the things in the email include, can we make the protesters look more violent? Now, I’m paraphrasing... And the other thing, Renee Good’s car. You need to describe her as driving *toward* the officer.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/m...
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Scott Pelley on the Bari Weiss Era and His Last Days at ‘60 Minutes’
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Friends...it's the start of Pride Month, so I'd like you to meet the amazing ribbon eel. Ribbon eels (likely) all start out male & then all become female later in life. And they rock both ways.
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Strangely Satisfying Ribbon Eel
ALT: Strangely Satisfying Ribbon Eel
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Monterey Bay Aquarium @montereybayaquarium.org · 28/05/2026
So pinni-precious. 🥺🦭 Pupping season is winding down as summer begins, but the harbor seal spectacular is just getting started! So mellow out, settle in, and enjoy your day on the bay with the chill vibes of a sleepy harbor seal. 🏖️☀️
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