John Drake
@TheRealNumber6
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Don't follow me if you aren't horrified and angered by Israel's campaign of slaughter and starvation in Gaza.
Disbelief (the 51st state)
Joined December 2010
I'm RT-ing my response to someone yesterday. Our government wasn't like this, even 30 yrs ago. There's one main reason why it's this way. It doesn't have to be. Federally fund campaigns. https://t.co/hVzqmkv9Th
@jgkoomey @SeriousSam26 What you're describing is a symptom, rather than a root cause. An @npratc piece circa 1980 said big business was afraid voters would punish them if they donated too heavy-handedly and appeared to be buying the government they wanted. (Remember that PACs were a new thing.) 1/
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I'm so old, I watched Richard write Scandisk! I was an intern at Microsoft in '93 in MS-DOS, and while I was working away on Smartdrv and so on, @lertulo was an intern writing scandisk in the office next door... And yes, it surprised me too that as interns we were working on
Real Halloween horror was seeing ScanDisk run when you just wanted to play Doom.
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"Gabriel" shares, "I'm currently working pumpkins in Watsonville, CA. I will work so families will have Jack-o'-lanterns for #Halloween. It's hard work as pumpkins are large and heavy. The average pumpkin weighs 12–15 lbs, but some weigh 70 lbs and take two of us to lift."
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Medicare for All would save $450B a year. Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity. Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall. It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.
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Lauren's Andersen Ring’s paintings often have a lone figure occupying a threshold such as a gate, a doorway, or a window. This work from 1925 shows his brother Ole looking out over the city of Roskilde. It's a plotted picture and one with a narrative to guess at.
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"The whole Yankee fandom, the whole Yankee organization, the whole country wanted Mickey Mantle to break Babe Ruth’s record, and said, ‘Who the hell is this guy Roger Maris standing in his way? Unlike the “lovable” Mantle, Roger Maris knew intuitively that he was never going to
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First comprehensive English description of a Yagi antenna.
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A RAND study found $79 trillion was stolen from the bottom 90%. Red tape is bad & should be fought, but America's biggest problem is not red tape reducing abundance. America's biggest problem is oligarchs hoarding the abundance. Glad to be quoted with @BernieSanders in @NYMag.
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"Although I was affected by the horrors of Bastogne, I do not believe I was clinically shell shocked, as the series portrays me. In real life, while I was hollering for the medic, trying to figure out what to do, I remember two distinct thoughts: 'How are we going to help the
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'Rag and Bone Shop,' (c1950) is a superb example of Joan Eardley’s uncompromising realism from her Glasgow period - it reflects her conviction that truth and beauty could be found in the grit and humanity of everyday life.
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Henri Rousseau at the Barnes Foundation: Masterpieces United and Secrets Revealed, the Major American Retrospective of Winter 2025–2026
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A Knitting Party, 1940 by Evelyn Dunbar, UK artist notable for recording women's roles and integral part in survival during World War II #womensart
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"We had to go out in the jungle and I remember my Commander telling me, 'This war was going on before you got here, and it will be going on after you leave. Your main objective is to see that you and your men get home safely.' I always kept that in the back of my mind. Being
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devastating speech by the UN Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs. "...death on this scale has a sound and a smell that does not leave you" "[in the West Bank] recently [Jewish] settlers abducted a 13 year old girl and her three-year-old brother. They were found
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"Carl Yastrzemski is a dull, boring potato farmer from Long Island who just happened to be a great ballplayer. But he was the worst dresser in organized baseball. Yastrzemski made Inspector Clouseau look like a candidate for Mr. Blackwell's list of "Best-Dressed Men". He had the
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The corporate/conservative wing of the Dem Party prioritized identity politics & used it as a weapon against the econ populism that threatened their donors. "The Left" didn't do that. This isnt speculation or some weird theory - Corporate Dems were extremely explicit about it.
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Lots of interesting places have bought up stocks of THE SECRET HORSEPOWER RACE...
@CalumDouglas1 Have any of your books made the reading list of any university course yet?
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Back in the 12th century, French sculptor Gislebertus carved this angel as (s)he appears to the three Magi as they dream, waking one with the delicate touch of a finger, and pointing her other forefinger toward the Bethlehem star (Cathedral of St Lazare, Autun)
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JFC I've a bad habit of keeping 1000s of Android Chrome tabs open. Usually that's fine, but recent app updates prevented me from using the browser much for the last week or so. After doing some housekeeping to get back on, I'm wondering why I bothered. What a cesspool.
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'Thistles.' (1861) Rosa Brett was one of the many women associated with the pre-Raphaelite story and whose contribution to the movement has never been fully acknowledged; in her lifetime it was common for her to sell pictures under her brother John's name.
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