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#EmmanuelMacron's right-wing neoliberal government has no credible response to the schools crisis as #France's schools continue to be underfunded & understaffed; then again, the fascist Rassemblement National has no credible answer, either (Le Parisien, 10.5.26)

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#FlavioBolsonaro edged out #LulaDaSilva in the first round of voting in #Brazil's presidential election (Folha de Sao Paulo, 10.5.26); will the son of the fascist president #JairBolsonaro win the presidency & restore fascist rule in South America's largest country...? I certainly hope not~!

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#FlavioBolsonaro edged out #LulaDaSilva in the first round of voting in #Brazil's presidential election (O Estado de Sao Paulo, 10.5.26); will the son of the fascist president #JairBolsonaro win the presidency & restore fascist rule in South America's largest country...? I certainly hope not~!

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Pauline Park @paulinepark.bsky.social · 7h

"Fjällmarken uppköpt av techmiljardär" (mountain land purchased by tech billionaire), Stockholm's Dagens Nyheter is reporting (10.5.26): the right-wing billionaire #AlexKarp is a danger to #Sweden's wilderness as well as to the security of every person on this planet; #BoycottAI~!

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Francesco Lazzaro Guardi was born in #Venice #OnThisDay in 1712, depicting his home city in numerous paintings & drawings; here's #FrancescoGuardi's depiction of a regatta on the grand canal; viva #LaSerenissima~! #Venezia #art www.wikiart.org/en/francesco... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances...

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Pauline Park @paulinepark.bsky.social · 15h

Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart (1641) #DenisDiderot (1713), Charles-Geneviève-Louis-Auguste-André-Timothée d’Éon de Beaumont, Chevalier d’Éon (1728), Chester A. Arthur (1829), Louis Lumière (1864), Václav Havel (1936), Neil deGrasse Tyson (1958) & Maya Lin (1959) were born #OnThisDay...

Pauline Park @paulinepark.bsky.social · 16h

Rutherford B. Hayes was born #OnThisDay in 1822; the Democrat Samuel Tilden won the popular vote in 1876 but as part of the Compromise of 1877, Hayes became president in exchange for the end of #Reconstruction resulting I a reassertion of white supremacy in the South en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutherf...

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"The Last Emperor" premiered in Tokyo #OnThisDay in 1987; here's the scene from Bernardo Bertolucci's #film in which the dowager empress Cixi names Pu Yi emperor & a documentary about the life of Pu Yi: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBrM... www.youtube.com/watch?v=liUd... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Las...

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I had a cat nap with Gomie & Morticia four years ago today & only two weeks after adopting the stray rescue kittens (10.3.22); #AdoptDontShop~! #chatons #gattini #kattunger #새고양이

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#CornellUniversity seems to have a #RapeCulture that the administration has known about all along & has tried to conceal from the public & prosecutors; it's time for accountability~!

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"The #GreenParty of England & Wales has voted to declare #Zionism a form of racism in an unprecedented move at its party conference in Brighton": it's time for #Labour & every other party to follow suit; the UK needs to endorse #BDS to #FreePalestine~! www.middleeasteye.net/news/green-p...

#CornellUniversity seems to have a #RapeCulture that the administration has known about all along & has tried to conceal from the public & prosecutors; it's time for accountability~!

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#DonaldTrump's #fascism must be challenged~! www.propublica.org/podcast/who-...

"Svalbard tiner. Det krever drastiske tiltak" (Svalbard is thawing. This calls for drastic measures) (Aftenposten, 9.27.26): #Norway's Arctic island tells us we need real #ClimateActionNow to reverse #GlobalWarming & #savetheplanet before it's too late~! www.aftenposten.no/norge/i/lnrd...

Aliança Catalana (Catalan Alliance) is extreme right-wing & in second place in a new poll of Catalonia voters; throw in the fascist Vox party & nearly half of the regional parliament could be composed of deputies from the extreme right end (La Vanguardia, 10.4.26) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan...

"Texas Democratic Rep. #JasmineCrockett was offering government relations and lobbying services on her campaign-funded website, a move experts say tests the limits of congressional ethics & possibly the law," Prem Thakker is reporting for Zeteo (@zeteo.com): zeteo.com/p/jasmine-cr...

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Louis X of France (1289), Henry III of Castile and León (1379), Charles IX of Sweden (1550), Richard Cromwell (1626), Rutherford B. Hayes (1822), Frederic Remington (1861), Damon Runyon (1880), Engelbert Dollfuss (1892), Buster Keaton (1895) & #SusanSarandon (1946) were born #OnThisDay...

#OnThisDay in 1888, Norwegian scientist & explorer Fridtjof Nansen reached Godthåb, becoming the first European to cross Greenland; ge was also a diplomat & a statesman & worked to help Armenians in the wake of the #Armenian genocide... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fridtjo...

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"Can Cats See Spirits, Ghosts, or the Supernatural?" asks Jackson Galaxy; I don't know if my kittens can see #ghosts, but this is sure a fun video just perfect for October & #Halloween~! #cats #Katze #gatti #katter www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNZO...

#OnThisDay in 1990, I strode through the Brandenburger Tor at midnight as Bundeskanzler Helmut Kohl & Bundespräsident Richard von Weizsäcker rang in reunification in the Tiergarten in Berlin on the Tag der deutschen Einheit 🇩🇪 paulinepark.com/2018/10/19/b... www.history.com/this-day-in-...

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I had a cat nap with the kittens four years ago today & only two weeks after adopting them (10.3.22); happy #Caturday & remember to #AdoptDontShop~! #chatons #gattini #gatitos #Kätzchen #kattunger #새고양이

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#FredericRemington was born in upstate New York #OnThisDay in 1861, becoming "the most successful Western illustrator in the 'Golden Age' of illustration"; this is "Coming to the Call" (1905): www.wikiart.org/en/frederic-... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederi...

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Louis X of France (1289), Henry III of Castile & León (1379), Rutherford B. Hayes (1822), Frederic Remington (1861), Damon Runyon (1880), Engelbert Dollfuss (1892), Buster Keaton (1895), #SusanSarandon (1946) & Ilhan Omar (1981) were born #OnThisDay...

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#OnThisDay in 1870, the Papal States voted in favor of union with Italy & the capital of the new Italian republic was moved from Florence to Rome; since then, the pope's sovereign territory has included only the tiny Vatican City (Città del Vaticano): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_S...

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"Un Mariage et Quatre Enterrements" is on PBS now & in this episode of "Astrid et Raphaëlle," the team have to solve a murder conducted by a director on a TV film set — & then solve his murder by a brilliant criminal mastermind (season 5, episode 8)(3.13.26) 🇫🇷 www.imdb.com/title/tt3450...

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Richard III was born #OnThisDay in 1452, becoming king of #England in 1483 by murdering his nephews before falling at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485; here's Laurence Olivier in the most famous soliloquy from Shakespeare's play: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDxn... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard...

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I awoke from a dream four years ago today (10.2.22) in which I was singing Adolphe Adam's "Cantique de Noël"; here's Juan Diego Flórez singing "O Holy Night" in French & English: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNHd... contrepoints-archives.org/minuit-chret... www.frenchlearner.com/songs/minuit...

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#OnThisDay 36 years ago today, I strode through the Brandenburger Tor at midnight as chimes rang in the #TagderDeutschenEinheit celebrating #Germany's reunification after nearly half a century of division; it was a moment of living #history... paulinepark.com/2018/10/19/b...

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#OnThisDay in 1187, Balian of Ibelin & the Crusaders surrendered Jerusalem to Salah ad-Din Yusuf, prompting the launch of the Third Crusade whose conquest of Palestine was accompanied by ethnic cleansing of the sort that #ApartheidIsrael is currently engaging in... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_o...

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Clay Jones (@claytoonz.bsky.social): "What do Trump and the Cornell 7 have in common? #Trump #Cornell #Cornell7 #MeToo"

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I was going to toss this cardboard egg carton into the recycling bin but I thought I'd give the kittens a new if very ephemeral but totally safe & pretty risk-free toy four years ago today (10.2.22) #chatons #gattini #gatitos #Kätzchen #kattunger #새끼고양이

I just got a message from the Met saying "We are delighted to welcome you to your upcoming performance"; not that I needed reminding: "Così Fan Tutte" is one of my all time favorite operas; here's an analysis of Mozart's last & arguably greatest Da Ponte opera: www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6RH...

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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born #OnThisDay in 1869; the #MahatmaGandhi inspired millions & helped free #India from the British Raj; while there are legitimate criticisms of him, he remains an inspiration to all those committed to pursuing #socialjustice... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma...

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Henry #GrahamGreene was born #OnThisDay in 1904, becoming one of the leading British novelists of the 20th century, using his two dozen novels to explore important moral & political issues; he also wrote the screenplay for "The Third Man" (1949) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_...

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I just steamed some organic black quinoa & broccoli & sautéed some pig-free pulled pork made from oyster mushroom #mycelium for Friday dinner; no #pigs were tortured or murdered to produce this pork~! #돼지 #Schweine #griser #cochons #maiali 🐷 myforestfoods.com

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#DonMcClean was born #OnThisDay in 1945, remembered mainly for just one song — but what a song~! #AmericanPie was like an anthem for the generation coming of age in the 1970s & went to the top of the charts when released in 1971: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z13v... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_McL...

#OnThisDay in 1939, the last surviving participants in the Polish resistance to the Nazi occupation of Warsaw surrendered to German troops; the threat to #Poland today comes from the fascist Russian imperialist #VladimirPutin~! www.history.com/this-day-in-...

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Gov. #BillLee knew full well that the State of #Tennessee's gross incompetence would result in the botched execution of #ChristaPike; was this deliberate cruel & unusual punishment? How would Bill Lee like it if he himself were injected with #pentobarbital...? apnews.com/article/tenn...

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#MohammedBinSalman tortured & murdered #JamalKhashoggi #OnThisDay in 2018 & then dismembered him; #GenocideJoeBiden & #DonaldTrump have both warmly embraced the murderous #MBS after he murdered US resident & journalist making them & the US complicit in the murder; never forget~! jamalkhashoggi.com

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#NewYorkCity Council Speaker #JulieMenin is running the City of New York to benefit the #oligarchy: the most anti-labor Speaker in the Council's history, the union-busting multi-millionaire Julie Menin is blocking the No More 24 Act in order to ensure the continuing exploitation of women of color~!

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#RockHudson died #OnThisDay in 1985, the first celebrity to die of #AIDS; his courage in acknowledging the infection — which in the early days of the crisis was a death sentence — helped initiate the process of de-stigmatization of #HIV which continues to this day... www.history.com/this-day-in-...

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Richard III of England (1452), Nat Turner (1800), Paul von Hindenburg (1847), Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869), Cordell Hull (1871), #GrouchoMarx (1890), Graham Greene (1904), Jan (né James) Morris (1926), Don McLean (1945), Sting [Gordon Sumner] (1951) & Maria Ressa (1963) were born #OnThisDay...

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#TheresaMay was born #OnThisDay in 1956, becoming the second woman to rise to the top of British politics; but her three years as prime minister (7.13.16 – 7.24.19) were universally regarded as a disaster, leading to #BorisJohnson & #Brexit... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theresa...

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Throwback Thursday: Tony Phillips took this shot of me in Frederick Wiseman's documentary "In Jackson Heights" watching it 11 years ago (10.1.15) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Jack...

#AndrewCuomo just bought a $10 million mansion in the Hamptons — demonstrating his interest in #NewYorkCity & commitment to it after losing the mayoral election last year; the multi-millionaire #Zionist supporter of #ApartheidIsrael won't be missed~! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/n...

Throwback Thursday: with Raphael Miranda, Peter Vallone, Jr. & Charlie Ober at the Queens Pride House 15th anniversary at Novo in Jackson Heights 14 years ago (9.27.12)