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outriderpony.bsky.social @outriderpony.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Thank you, HCR, for watching what I could not.
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outriderpony.bsky.social @outriderpony.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
“This was the trauma that they wanted, that they planned, that they promised us. And, for once, they did a great job of delivering.” - CDC employee www.wired.com/story/oral-h...
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The Story of DOGE, as Told by Federal Workers
WIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of agencies to learn what happened as the Department of Government Efficiency tore through their offices.
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outriderpony.bsky.social @outriderpony.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
...Karoline's cross doesn't burn and Mike Johnson isn't a Premium PornHub member...
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outriderpony.bsky.social @outriderpony.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
"Essentially, a man is posing as a woman to an audience of women who are trying to protect themselves from, at best, deceptive men." Avoid the Tea app. Stick with the FB groups for Are We Dating the Same Man? Imperfect but far safer. www.404media.co/how-teas-fou...
404media.co
How Tea’s Founder Convinced Millions of Women to Spill Their Secrets, Then Exposed Them to the World
A 404 Media investigation reveals how the man who started Tea, the ‘women dating safety’ app, tried to hire a female ‘face’ for the company and then hijack her grassroots community.
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outriderpony.bsky.social @outriderpony.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Typical buyer is a kid who has no idea this is illegal. Typical seller absolutely knows it's illegal, and they're cashing in, because USDA-APHIS just lost most of its entomologists. Invasive ant species. What could go wrong? www.wired.com/story/usda-a...
wired.com
Government Staffing Cuts Have Fueled an Ant-Smuggling Boom
“It’s getting out of hand,” one seller says. “They realize the US market is a gold mine.”
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outriderpony.bsky.social @outriderpony.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Do you want this in your neighborhood? It's in mine. Spoiler: in case you were wondering, this fucking sucks. projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-sm...
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“We’ll Smash the Fucking Window Out and Drag Him Out”
We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “mini...
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outriderpony.bsky.social @outriderpony.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Samuel L. Jackson studied marine biology at Morehouse ❤️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRzE...
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Samuel L. Jackson Wants You to Eat Seaweed (and Back Wind Farms)
YouTube video by Creative Boom
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outriderpony.bsky.social @outriderpony.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Release the Epstein files. Protect the victims. Show everything else - ALL of the other names. Gift article www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/u...
nytimes.com
A Look Inside Jeffrey Epstein’s Manhattan Lair
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outriderpony.bsky.social @outriderpony.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
"Here are nine unanswered questions about the Epstein case - ones that a curious, non-conspiracy-minded citizen might have - that the files might help answer..." Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | I Covered the Epstein Case for Decades. These Are the 9 Questions We Actually Need Answered.
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outriderpony.bsky.social @outriderpony.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
"...Israel could be accused of carrying out war crimes, crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing or genocide. This silence has made a mockery of the slogan 'Never again...'” Gift article www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
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Opinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.
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outriderpony.bsky.social @outriderpony.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Fucking thugs
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outriderpony.bsky.social @outriderpony.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
"Slaves were the single largest, by far, financial asset of property in the entire American economy.” "At the end of World War I, black veterans returning to their homes were assaulted for daring to wear the American uniform." Gift article www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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The Case for Reparations
Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America w...
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outriderpony.bsky.social @outriderpony.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
It's been happening in my community for a couple of months. I am always aware of what's going on around me. Always. It's not a nice feeling. Having some idea of what's coming does not make me feel prepared, at all. I hope I'm wrong.
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E. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com · 28/06/2025
1/23 🚨🧵This should be a MUCH bigger story. The White House, under pressure from Bukele, quietly dismissed U.S. terrorism-related charges against MS-13 leaders, undoing the U.S.-led Joint Task Force dismantling the transnational gang. THIS is why the deportations had to be a show.
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outriderpony.bsky.social @outriderpony.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
"for people in ICE custody - who have no say in where they’re being held - being placed in areas with scarce medical infrastructure only deepens their vulnerability." Free Wired article based on FOIA (Wired intro subscription = $10/year - worth it) www.wired.com/story/ice-de...
wired.com
‘They're Not Breathing’: Inside the Chaos of ICE Detention Center 911 Calls
Records of hundreds of emergency calls from ICE detention centers obtained by WIRED—including audio recordings—show a system inundated by life-threatening incidents, delayed treatment, and overcrowdin...
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outriderpony.bsky.social @outriderpony.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
"Darby and his sister Flora had both been separated from their family by their enslavers as young children... when his enslaver died by injuries sustained at the battle of Bunker Hill, six-year-old Darby walked 10 miles home to his family." 10,000 descendants www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju...
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Harvard hired a researcher to uncover its ties to slavery. He says the results cost him his job: ‘We found too many slaves’
When the extent of the university’s involvement with slavery was unearthed, a scholar tracking descendants of enslaved workers was suddenly fired
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outriderpony.bsky.social @outriderpony.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Early AM Saturday June 28, 1969 police arrived and announced they were raiding the Stonewall bar. The patrons and community said, fuck you. Free streaming documentary about life before Stonewall. archive.org/details/tele...
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Television - PBS - Before Stonewall : PBS : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
ripped from VHS
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outriderpony.bsky.social @outriderpony.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Mariachi break with Zohran www.tiktok.com/@mariachirey...
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@Zohran Mamdani amazing conversation with NYC mayoral candidate zorhan.
TikTok video by MariachiReyes
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outriderpony.bsky.social @outriderpony.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
I lived and worked in NYC for 5 years, in the early 1990s. On some level I will always feel like a New Yorker. Fuck YES I am cheering for Zohran.
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outriderpony.bsky.social @outriderpony.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
"...reverence for Lee relies on replacing the actual Lee with a mythical figure who never truly existed." "White supremacy does not 'violate' Lee’s 'most fundamental convictions.' White supremacy was one of Lee’s most fundamental convictions." Gift article www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
theatlantic.com
The Myth of the Kindly General Lee
The legend of the Confederate leader’s heroism and decency is based in the fiction of a person who never existed.
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outriderpony.bsky.social @outriderpony.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
"There aren't a lot of functioning democracies around the world that work this way, where you can basically have millionaires and billionaires bankrolling whoever they want... and what it means is ordinary Americans are shut out of the process." 15 fucking years www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSFv...
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ENOUGH
YouTube video by End Citizens United
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outriderpony.bsky.social @outriderpony.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
"Everyone knows that 79 is the tank birthday. One is paper, 77 is emoluments, 78 you get to destroy one constitutional amendment of your choosing, 80 you get to become the state, but 79 is tanks, and I was so looking forward to my tank birthday." Gift article www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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My Super-Special 79th Was Not Super Special
A diary entry by a disappointed president
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outriderpony.bsky.social @outriderpony.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
"Nearly every country in the Western Hemisphere grants citizenship to children born in its territory irrespective of the nationality of their parents. It’s part of the promise of the New World." Gift article www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
theatlantic.com
The Revolutionary Idea That Remade the New World
Birthright citizenship is distinctly American—but not in the way Trump thinks.
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outriderpony.bsky.social @outriderpony.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
I absolutely know who was working in hotels during COVID when I traveled for business and was often one of the only guests. Always tip housekeeping. Always, even if the front desk at one of your regular stays tells you, you're the only one who leaves something. www.facebook.com/reel/7471259...
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4K reactions · 28 shares | They are right!! ICE is staying at hotels where immigrants provide services cleaning the rooms, cooking the food, maintaining the building, running the businesses etc.. In t...
They are right!! ICE is staying at hotels where immigrants provide services cleaning the rooms, cooking the food, maintaining the building, running the businesses etc.. In this video you will see ICE....
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outriderpony.bsky.social @outriderpony.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
A few years ago I spent a month working in Los Angeles. Sending ❤️
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outriderpony.bsky.social @outriderpony.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Horses will do almost anything to avoid stepping on a human. Put objects or signs in between you and the horse. Push off the shoulder, never directly in front or behind. I've worked with horses for 40+ years. They're big but they avoid contact whenever possible. www.facebook.com/reel/2888339...
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95 reactions · 74 comments | How to try to keep yourself safer around police horses during protests. If anyone has any other tips, feel free to comment below. The biggest thing is to try to keep a b...
How to try to keep yourself safer around police horses during protests. If anyone has any other tips, feel free to comment below. The biggest thing is to try to keep a barrier, whether artificial...
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outriderpony.bsky.social @outriderpony.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
"Many tips coming into the office, she said, come from exes who report on their former partners’ immigration status." Nice. ICE in Puerto Rico. Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/u...
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Why Immigration Raids in Puerto Rico Hit Differently
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outriderpony.bsky.social @outriderpony.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
"It’s clear that beneath all the performative cruelty and amoral careerism, there’s an authentic core of seething, visceral, unquenchable hatred that defies any easy explanation." www.thenation.com/article/poli...
thenation.com
The Cruel World According to Stephen Miller
How did he become the Trump era’s architect of hate?
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outriderpony.bsky.social @outriderpony.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Nike in Cambodia. “If they just come to exploit our workers, I don’t want them.” www.propublica.org/article/nike...
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Nike Repeatedly Raised Concerns About Repression in Cambodia. It Expanded Its Factory Workforce There Anyway.
Nike’s continued growth in Cambodia underscores the level of political and labor repression the company has been willing to tolerate in countries that provide inexpensive labor.
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outriderpony.bsky.social @outriderpony.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Fuck these assholes. This should be a funding priority FFS. The U.S. has an obligation. www.propublica.org/article/trib...
propublica.org
Trump Wants to Cut Tribal College Funding by Nearly 90%, Putting Them at Risk of Closing
ProPublica found that Congress was underfunding tribal colleges by a quarter-billion dollars per year. Rather than fixing the problem, proposed federal funding cuts unveiled this week would devastate ...
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outriderpony.bsky.social @outriderpony.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
He and his sister - Surgeon General nominee - are dangerous. People will die. “Calley Means is not a whistleblower. He is an opportunist, peddling junk science to make millions.” - Steve Schmidt, former mentor www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...
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The Dizzying Rise of MAHA Warrior Calley Means, RFK Jr.’s Right-Hand Man
One of the primary architects of the Make America Healthy Again takeover of the federal health apparatus, Means has risen to power in part on the strength of his personal narrative: he was a Big Food ...
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outriderpony.bsky.social @outriderpony.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Crowd-sourced Incel tracking. Decent, up-to-date who's who and what's what. dogetrack.info?ref=meditati...
dogetrack.info
DOGE Track: Tracking The Damage
A website tracking the various activities of the DOGE wrecking crew across government. Sunlight is the best disinfectant!
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outriderpony.bsky.social @outriderpony.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
"CODIS was designed to track criminal offenders... The US government is treating every person who crosses the border, regardless of age, legal status, or whether they’re accused of any wrongdoing, as a possible suspect in crimes yet to occur." www.wired.com/story/cbp-dn...
wired.com
The US Is Storing Migrant Children’s DNA in a Criminal Database
Customs and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4, whose genetic data is uploaded to an FBI-run database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future.
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outriderpony.bsky.social @outriderpony.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
"I don’t know that we can ever really mend America, because racism was built into the foundations of this country.” “I think it’s easier to be optimistic if you’re white than it is if you’re Black,” Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/t...
nytimes.com
Confronting History, Family and Race on a Road Trip to New Orleans
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outriderpony.bsky.social @outriderpony.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
J. Michael Luttig, retired conservative judge Gift article: if you read one thing this week, read this. You can also listen; it's about 40 minutes. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
theatlantic.com
The End of Rule of Law in America
The 47th president seems to wish he were king—and he is willing to destroy what is precious about this country to get what he wants.
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outriderpony.bsky.social @outriderpony.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
I lived in Philly in the late 1980s. I remember the aftermath of MOVE. contrarian.substack.com/p/when-phila...
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When Philadelphia bombed its own residents
Forty years ago today, eleven people died in the alarmingly little-known attack on the communal group MOVE
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outriderpony.bsky.social @outriderpony.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Still my ice cream of choice, for all the reasons ❤️ FU Bobby Brainworms
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outriderpony.bsky.social @outriderpony.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Stephen Miller 2017 "He has a dangerous mind and a dangerous way of thinking. He wants to shift what America is about... This is everything for him. He’s not going to rest... He won’t stop... He’s not a Trump shill... He was radicalized way before that." www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/05...
vanityfair.com
How Stephen Miller Rode White Rage from Duke’s Campus to Trump’s West Wing
William D. Cohan dives deep into Miller’s tumultuous past.
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outriderpony.bsky.social @outriderpony.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
100% "How many more abuses of power and violations of the law does Ice have to commit?" They're thugs and they are not helping anyone. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Ice has become Trump’s private militia. It must be abolished | Mehdi Hasan
Violent apprehensions, warrantless arrests, deported children: how many more abuses of power will it take for Democrats to speak up?
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outriderpony.bsky.social @outriderpony.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Massachusetts
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outriderpony.bsky.social @outriderpony.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Info appears legit and consistent with other community intel: migrantinsider.com/p/signalsafe...
migrantinsider.com
Mysterious New App Tracks ICE Activity
SignalSafe allows users to drop a pin on a map with what they see in their communities.
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outriderpony.bsky.social @outriderpony.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
"...Even if I can marshal considerable public pressure to get the prosecutor to file charges, the cop is now being defended, for free, by Brad Karp at Paul, Weiss or some other wealthy Biglaw attorney who has decided to be complicit with fascism." www.thenation.com/article/poli...
thenation.com
Trump’s Newest Executive Order “Unleashes” the Cops—and Flirts With Martial Law
The new order effectively allows police to get away with murder. And that’s just the beginning.
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outriderpony.bsky.social @outriderpony.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
NO KETCHUP
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outriderpony.bsky.social @outriderpony.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
This is our land. It belongs to all Americans. It should not be for sale to the highest bidder, to do whatever. Fuck these evil people, stealing from all of us.
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outriderpony.bsky.social @outriderpony.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
"Leaders of influential hospitals in Dallas empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, allowing them to induce deliveries or perform procedures to empty the uterus. In Houston, most did not." www.propublica.org/article/texa...
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Under Texas’ Abortion Ban, Where a Pregnant Woman Lives Can Determine Her Risk of Developing Sepsis
While the rates of dangerous infections spiked across the state after it banned abortion in 2021, women in Houston fared far worse than those in Dallas, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind ana...
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outriderpony.bsky.social @outriderpony.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
"... senior government officials have been provided with a shoddy Signal knockoff that poses a number of serious security and counterintelligence threats. The security threat posed by TeleMessage Archiver is not theoretical.” www.wired.com/story/tm-sig...
wired.com
The Signal Clone Mike Waltz Was Caught Using Has Direct Access to User Chats
A new analysis of TM Signal’s source code appears to show that the app sends users’ message logs in plaintext. At least one top Trump administration official used the app.
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outriderpony.bsky.social @outriderpony.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
“We were under the impression that they were focusing on trying to find criminals... And this is just a whole new level of harassment to our hard-working, law-abiding employees.” www.washingtonian.com/2025/05/06/i...
washingtonian.com
ICE Agents Are Targeting DC Restaurants
Millie's and Pupatella were among the restaurants to get a visit today.
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outriderpony.bsky.social @outriderpony.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
“(SB 2880) is a backdoor effort to fully reinstate the 1925 law... It is a vote to criminalize women, trap them within the borders of Texas, and to threaten anyone who tries to help them, regardless of whether the abortion occurs legally in another state.” boltsmag.org/texas-1925-a...
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“A Backdoor Effort” to Revive Texas’ Century-Old Abortion Law - Bolts
Abortion legislation moving through the Texas Legislature gives the attorney general power to enforce a pre-Roe law that could criminalize pregnant people.
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outriderpony.bsky.social @outriderpony.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
In another lifetime I spent a summer in Italy, studying art history. "...just there, where the light from the unseen window gives way to the gloom of the counting house, Jesus has raised his right hand. A gesture of election: It’s you. I want you." Gift article www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
nytimes.com
Piercing the Shadows of the Pope’s Favorite Painting (Gift Article)
Caravaggio was an artist of rare directness, whose naturalistic pictures brought the heavens down to earth. Our critic Jason Farago shows you what Francis may have seen in them.
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outriderpony.bsky.social @outriderpony.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Written in 1941 and 100% true in this moment. "Kind, good, happy, gentlemanly, secure people never go Nazi... It is something in them." "Those who haven’t anything in them to tell them what they like and what they don’t... go Nazi." harpers.org/archive/1941...
harpers.org
Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson
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