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n+1 @nplusonemag.com · 07/10/2026
“In general, EVs sound like tinny spaceships, or a soulless rendition of a lone Brian Eno loop.” Online: William Harris on the sounds of electric cars
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EV Listening | William Harris
The Honda Prologue has a hovering, suffusing melody, with a low rhythmic pulse and a subtle, epiphanic wash. It sounds like a computer game lifting you into heaven, or the arrival of benevolent extraterrestrial colonists. The Porsche Taycan makes a more sinister and comic, gulping, warp-speed sound, and the Nissan Ariya gives off a disturbed digital whine, like the tantrums of a petulant robot.
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Big Dick Enbergy (544 Followers) @andymays.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
People here are quick to reflexively look down upon Odessa and Texas while outting themselves as incapable of appreciating effective community performance art. You coastal elite liberals need your theater spoonfed to you.
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kazien.bsky.social @kazien.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Beaming with beauty
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Curiosity at The Kimberley - sols 613 & 627 - From Thomas Appéré (thomasappere.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/pipmpx
Curiosity self-portrait taken on sol 613 at 12h00 local time combined with photos of drilled holes taken on sol 627.
Curiosity is looking at the holes she drilled in Windjana rock, at The Kimberley site.
Raw colors.
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Auto-portrait de Curiosity acquis au sol 613 à 12h00 heure locale combiné avec les photos des deux trous creusés au sol 627.
Curiosity observe les trous qu'elle a creusé dans le rocher Windjana sur le site de The Kimberley.
Couleurs brutes.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
If folks want to read about Black Garveyite women, this is some reading from a teach in I facilitated 10 years ago: radicalblackwomen.com/garvey-women/
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Garvey Women
On February 20, 2016, the (Chicago) Free Black Women Library will include a teach-in about Garveyite women. The teach in will run from 1 to 3 pm. Anyone can participate and we ask that you read thr…
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I'm a professional book reviewer who gets a ton of PR emails from publicists. Do you know where I first hear about 80% of the books I end up reviewing? From authors and readers on bsky.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
“.. Today 2,753 chairs were placed on the lawn in remembrance of the 2,753 lives lost at the World Trade Center on a day that changed our world forever. .. We will forever honor the victims, their families, first responders, and all New Yorkers who will #neverforget.” (via Bryant Park)
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10/09/2026
This is beautiful. We need beauty right now.
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Christopher Knight LAT @knightlat.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
“At least 76 heritage sites and 20 museums have been ransacked by the RSF and run-of-the-mill thieves, officials say, with an archaeological haul worth more than $150 million carted off. One museum was turned into a barracks.” www.latimes.com/world-nation...
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How Sudan's civil war is erasing thousands of years of cultural memory
The ancient statues of the deities Heket and Beset, too heavy to move, were used for target practice.
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Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I wrote a book that’s part bio of the troupe behind this photo, part Germany’s history fr above, part reflection on how we relate to risk & ruin. Preorder now from the wonderful @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social & support small publishers that give it their all secure.cabinetmagazine.org/store/produc...
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andré, but scarier @andre-carlisle.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
a Black family dancing to korn with their astronaut relative who just got back from the moon is, quite frankly, the best thing the internet has ever produced
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Simon Cox @simonfrcox.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Brazen lying in public life is a tactic Lobaczewski recognised – he called it the “reversive blockade”. When you tell an absurd lie convincingly, people’s try and find the ‘golden mean’ between the statement and the reality. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
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How to spot a psychopath: ‘It’s like the difference between a domestic cat and a wild cat’
People with persistent predatory personalities cause an inordinate amount of pain. Recently, our shared understanding of them has grown – and it could help protect us
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A friend found this clipping in some old files. Haven't seen this before. Mind blown.
Color political cartoon by Danny Hellman from the New York Press dated October 6-12, 1999. In it, Donald Trump and his then wife Marla Maples being shown a model of the White House with many added stories and a shiny gold T on the top, with Taj Mahal towers on the side and flags flying with a T. It is labeled "Proposed White House Renovation." A ghoulish Philip Johnson says, "Granted, It's in violation of several of Washington D.C.'s landmark and zoning codes. But of course as president of the United States..." Trump, licking his lips, says, "It's tremendous, Philip, when do I move in?" The caption beneath is Spectacularly unqualified egomaniac Donald Trump contemplates a White House run"
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 24/08/2026
Underappreciated: US farmland *already substantially produces energy, not food*, and does so very inefficiently. Corn ethanol (~40% of all US corn) requires about 100 times more land per vehicle-mile driven than solar photovoltaics -> electric vehicles. Shifting corn to solar *would free up land*.
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Gigantic jet TLE above Mexico (crop) - From Simeon Schmauß (stim3on.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/2rhxUhJ
On July 3rd, astronaut Nichole Ayers photographed a gigantic jet from the ISS. These rare upward directed electrical discharges extend ~90-100 km high into the mesosphere. 

The jet originated from a thunderstorm over Northern Mexico, with city lights from South Texas and the green airglow layer visible along Earth’s limb.

I processed this image from the RAW file, adjusting the color profile, white balance and contrast and applied Lightroom's machine learning denoise with low strength. 

The RAW was provided to me by Frankie Lucena, his analysis of the event, correlating it to measurements from the Geostationary Lightning mapper and ELF-VLF radio signals can be found here: spaceweathergallery2.com/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=224355

Original image listing in the NASA archive: eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/photo.pl?mission=ISS073&amp...

Credit: Nichole Ayers / NASA JSC / ESRS / Simeon Schmauß
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
📌David Crowley, 40, grew up in one of the toughest places in America, Milwaukee’s 53206 zip code. His family didn't have money, but did raise a son who in 2020 became the youngest man to ever be elected a Milwaukee County Executive. In November he will become the first Black governor of Wisconsin.
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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 06/08/2026
On a related note, if you live in California, tell your state senator to support AB 2222, Asm. Chris Ward’s Community NEWS Act: www.rebuildlocalnews.org/explainer-ca...
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Explainer: California’s Community NEWS Act (AB 2222)
An overview of California’s proposed local journalist employment credit for newsrooms, explaining how the program works, who qualifies, and the safeguards designed to prevent misuse.
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Gavril Ducu 🇷🇴 🇩🇪 🇺🇸 🇳🇱 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @ducugavril.nafoforum.org · 09/08/2026
I went looking for old anti-vaccine propaganda and expected an interesting historical curiosity. Instead I found arguments from 1802, 1885 and 1920 that would barely need rewriting to circulate online today. That raises a rather disconcerting question.
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
International Catuday Rémi Vacher Photography "The sand cat is one of the most elusive wild cats on Earth."
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Marc Fischer @marc-fischer.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
It's a real thrill and an honor to have my work and words included, alongside some great peers and fellow travelers, in this excellent article. Thanks to Shira Friedman-Parks for writing it and the Chicago Reader for publishing it!
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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
We keep screaming from the rafters that we are being fired/not hired in numbers that can only be due to discrimination, but no one cares.
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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 06/08/2026
"Freedom has turned into a marketing tool, used to sell lifestyle choices, cars, and political campaigns rather than just a human right." Cofounder of Paper and Cultural Anthropologist Kim Hastreiter answers the question What is Freedom? ➡️ buff.ly/nionT7E
The cited information but not the quote written in black at the bottom of the image against a white background. the top half of the image is a bunch of different corporate logos made of the word Freedom.
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Mars - Frost in Utopia Planitia - NASA Viking Lander 2 - From Andrea Luck (andrealuck.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/2oDimoo
VIKING LANDER 2- CAMERA 1
SOL 960 / 1979-05-18 local time 12:50:43Z
Raw data processed from: pds-imaging.jpl.nasa.gov/
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Download this image: www.flickr.com/photos/192271236@N03/52930637274/sizes/o/

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/AndreaLuck

Feel free to share, giving the appropriate credit and providing a link to the original image or tweet: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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Adam Rawnsley @arawnsley.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/08/2026
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Naomi Baker @drnaomibaker.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Today I discovered that a letter attributed to a man was actually written by Ann Bathurst, the 17th-century visionary woman I’m researching. 🤩 Archival work might be slow and painstaking but it’s totally thrilling to be going in search of lost voices from the past and finding them! 📚
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🪷MsGrumpyBunny🪷 @msgrumpybunny.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Everyone should have a hype man like this in their life 🙌🏼 Might change my name to Franklin and play this on loop 😂
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Christopher Cartwright @chriscartwright.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
#ClimateChange will destroy every place you love, every location you adore Fires , floods , rocs ? pick the weapon Then , it will come after you and your family #France yesterday #ClimateCrisis #Metacrisis #WarOnNature
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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
'This short documentary film explores artist Betye Saar’s process creating "Drifting Toward Twilight," a site-specific installation at The Huntington, and her recollections of her life and career.' www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0n2...
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Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight
YouTube video by The Huntington
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 30/07/2026
Researchers at U.C. Berkeley used lasers to stimulate retinal cone cells in a way that doesn’t occur naturally—creating a new color that only seven people in the world have seen. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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What Would It Mean to See a New Color?
A new color called olo can be described as the “greenest green.” It can never be captured by a camera, but its development tells us a lot about how vision works.
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Opportunity (49) - From Jacint Roger (landru79.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/2iKWy9E
Opportunity MARS

NASA / JPL-Caltech / Cornell / j. Roger
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coyotebroad (Jayne Cravens) @coyotebroad.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
SpaceX rocket that exploded shortly after takeoff destroyed land & wildlife: Concrete chunks had left craters a foot deep & were strewn across tidal flats, almost four acres of state park burned, 7 bobwhite quail eggs & a collection of blue land crabs incinerated. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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SpaceX Blast Left Officials in Disbelief Over Environmental Damage
Fish and Wildlife Service biologists expressed frustrations in emails obtained by Bloomberg.
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Not unknown but unsung: Linda Bove, actress and poet, known to Gen X-millennials as Linda the Librarian on Sesame Street. She was TV’s first Deaf regular and very nearly singlehandedly changed children’s education surrounding disability. Also a founding member of Little Theatre of the Deaf.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Twice a year, Hawai'i experiences a strange moment where the sun appears to be exactly overhead & anything that is completely vertical casts no shadow. Let's learn about Lāhainā Noon, subsolar points & 'Kau ka lā i ka lolo', meaning "the sun rests on the brains."
From a Reddit forum, a photo of a can of coconut milk with a blue label, papyrus text and a flip-top, on a sidewalk.  It seems to hover because there's no visible shadow.  The pavement is sort of unevenly colored, with bright spots, and the grass along it is green and lush.
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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
We are given only a limited number of truly perfect summer days in our time on Earth. One of the more insidious cruelties of fossil fuel greed is how it slowly strips those days from us, more and more throughout our lifetimes, perhaps without us even realizing what we have lost.
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Another stolen summer day
What are we still waiting to learn?
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David Cavlovic🇨🇦🍁 @davidcavlovic.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
0759MH0004290000300074_76_R00_DXXX - From 2di7 & titanio44 - flic.kr/p/p7gnDZ
"Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech" processing 2di7 & titanio44
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Eight months after the ceasefire, Israel is still blocking the importation of cement, steel and glass to Gaza. So, residents are building homes out of clay and mud, while scavenging reinforcing bars and concrete from the debris that is everywhere. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Gazans turn to clay and rubble to build new homes
Palestinians construct makeshift mud huts to escape life in flimsy tents amid Israel’s ban on concrete and steel imports
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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
"automotive exhibit" lmfao "SELECT attendees"
Select attendees look at an automotive exhibit at the Great American State Fair Saturday (AP)
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
“How much is a magical world worth?” A beautiful thread about Cabo Verde, the Peace Corps, and the World Cup:
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If you ever doubt how magical this world is, one day you will decide to go to a World Cup watch party in Oakland that you found online to root for a country where you spent two years trying to coax English out of the mouths of Cape Verdean teenagers. 1/7
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And at the watch party you will ask the organizer if he's from Cape Verde. He will say yes, from Praia. And you'll say oh! I lived there for two years. I was a teacher. And he will ask, "What's your name?" You will tell him and he will say,
"You were my teacher."
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11:43 AM • 6/25/26 • 92K ViewsJill Tucker @jilltucker • 20h
And across 30+ years and 6,000 miles you will hug a now man who tried to find you and remembered the songs you taught him and his classmates and he will apologize for how badly behaved they all were. And you will laugh and try not to cry and gape in wonder at at this crazy world.

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You will remember how much you love the World Cup. And what the Peace Corps meant to you. What those students, 40 to a class with no glass on the windows, meant to you.
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Ivan, the grown man with a touch of grey in his beard, will tell you later he has struggled to describe what it meant to him to meet again - that he shared our photo with classmates.
And when he returns from watching the Cabo Verde game, we will try to find the words together.

Jill Tucker @jilltucker • 20h And then you read that the US
House of Representatives will vote a day before that game on an amendment to eliminate the Peace Corps, which costs 1/6 the price of the Tomahawk missiles the US used in the war on Iran.

Jill Tucker @jilltucker •20h And you wonder: How much is a magical world worth?
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Cady Noland, "Industry Park," 1991
Photo of a length of chain link fence in the corner of an interior, gallery-like space
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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Maybe you don’t care about Lake Erie or Ohio, fine, I get it, but @beltpublishing.bsky.social did publish a book that goes deep on the science of algae just a few months ago and WHAT OTHER PUBLISHER worked on an algae cover, I ask you!
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The Great Black Swamp: Toxic Algae, Toxic Relationships, and the Most Interesting Place in America That Nobody's Ever Heard of
Toxic Algae, Toxic Relationships, and the Most Interesting Place in America That Nobody's Ever Heard of
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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
This only happens on the summer solstice. ☀️ At the Getty Library, this specially designed architectural feature is activated on the summer solstice. Watch as the light moves across the floor and perfectly aligns with the glass.
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Hammer Museum 🏛️ @hammer.ucla.edu · 19/06/2026
The foreground in Forrest Kirk's @forrestkirk painting, "Harriet Tubman," depicts a group of people walking toward a radiant portal of light that leads them to the future (our present), and their presence reverberates across history. ✨🖤❤️💚 Happy Juneteenth!
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Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost @frost.house.gov · 19/06/2026
On June 19, 1865, Union General Gordon Granger delivered an order to finally enforce the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing 250,000 enslaved Black Texans. 22 years after Juneteenth, on Aug. 15, 1887, that former slaves founded Eatonville – "the Town the Freedom Built.” Happy Juneteenth!
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Galaxia del Sombrero - From Ángel López-Sánchez - flic.kr/p/5Ui6Nh
No es una imagen muy espectacular, pero de las primeras que tomé en el IAC 80 en Marzo de 2003. En realidad, como dice el pie de figura, no es completamente mía, pues la observé con los estudiantes de Astrofísica de la Universidad de La Laguna en marzo de 2003. Los datos brutos son algo ruidosos porque no tiene mucho tiempo de exposición.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
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danielle weisberg @danielleweisberg.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
I went to a two-year-old’s birthday party today and their parents booked an LA Waste Management trash truck to come park out front and the way these kids RAN to see this thing up close!!! The WM reps also had party favors and coloring books. Lowkey want to book it for my own birthday
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
The great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar reflecting on the Knicks and, separately, Donald Trump. A terrific piece of writing. "Pulling out of that [Meet the Press] interview [with Kristin Welker] was the only honest thing Donald Trump did all hour. Trump hates strong women, he hates proud people of color...
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