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Photography friends, here's a gift link for you. I think you'll appreciate this — 10-Minute Challenge: A ‘Decisive Moment’ in Street Photography
Can You Spend 10 Minutes With This Photo by Henri Cartier-Bresson? (Gift Article)
We’d like you to look at one piece of art for 10 minutes, uninterrupted.
www.nytimes.com
March 3, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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JUST IN: The White House has been clear that it intends to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education, and that it will be McMahon's job to oversee that effort.
Linda McMahon has been confirmed as Trump's secretary of education
The White House has been clear that it intends to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education, and that it will be McMahon's job to oversee that effort.
www.npr.org
March 3, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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"I first started thinking, is it — am I feeling grief? Am I feeling shock, like I'm in a hallucination? But I just think shame, moral shame. It's a moral injury to see the country you love behave in this way."
-David Brooks

www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
Brooks and Capehart on the implications of Trump's altercation with Zelenskyy
New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart join Amna Nawaz to discuss the week in politics, including President Trump's public spat with Ukrainian Pre...
www.pbs.org
March 1, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."
February 28, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Don’t sleep on this 🐂💩 letter from the department of education.

If you ever wanted to flood a public portal, now is your chance.
February 27, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Exciting news! @fotoapp.co launches February 21.
February 19, 2025 at 8:44 PM
This is a terrible lead in but a very important story about speech and digital content.
Posting hateful speech online could lead to police raiding your home in this European country
In the U.S., most of what we say online, even if it's hate filled, is protected by the First Amendment as free speech. But in Germany, prosecutors and cops police the internet.
www.cbsnews.com
February 17, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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“It takes a certain effort of the will (and imagination) to recover the daring and radicalism of many of the Impressionist paintings on view in Nadar’s studio in the spring of 1874, all of which are familiar and admired today.” —Colin B. Bailey
A Daring Departure | Colin B. Bailey
One hundred and fifty years after Impressionist paintings were first exhibited, it takes a certain effort to recover their original radicalism.
buff.ly
February 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I am so looking forward to seeing this.

www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/...
Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Exhibition upcoming at The Met
www.metmuseum.org
February 8, 2025 at 12:41 PM
If you are buying Girl Scout cookies this year, please consider supporting Troop 6000.

Troop 6000 is a unique program serving Girl Scouts living in the NYC shelter system.

digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/sixk34...
Order your Faves on my Digital Cookie Site Today
That's right! You can order your favorite Girl Scout Cookies from me online, all while helping my troop and I do great things in our community and beyond! Check it out.
digitalcookie.girlscouts.org
February 8, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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remember stuff like this when they tell you that diversity means a lowering of standards
robert f. kennedy jr. submits his application to harvard university. his application is, in its entirety, a single page with his name "Robert F. Kennedy Jr."

he is accepted immediately.
January 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
January 29, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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When the rail cars bearing the entire Bellevue Nikkei farming community pulled out of Kirkland on May 20, 1942, their early crops were nearing harvest and the midsummer crops were in the ground. Almost none of them ever fed anyone. 1/34
January 28, 2025 at 5:44 PM
January 22, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Out of practice with the snow photos. ❄️
January 21, 2025 at 10:07 PM
January 21, 2025 at 7:44 PM