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The flip side of the post-World War II cries of “Never again” was an unspoken “Never before.” The insistence on lifting the Holocaust out of history, the failure to recognize these patterns, and the refusal to see where the Nazis fit inside the arc of colonial genocides have all come at a high cost. The countries that defeated Hitler did not have to confront the uncomfortable fact that Hitler had taken pointers and inspiration on race-making and on human containment from them, leaving their innocence not only undisturbed but also significantly strengthened by what was indeed a righteous victory.

Naomi Klein, Doppelganger

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Pam Grier at Pam's Coffy, an LA coffee shop owned by Quentin Tarantino, dedicated to her honor.

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"Give us back our hills! Give us back our fields! Give us back our home."

平成狸合戦ぽんぽこ (Heisei Tanuki Gassen Ponpoko / Pom Poko), 1994.

Dir. & Writ. Isao Takahata | DOP Atsushi Okui | Art Dir. Kazuo Oga

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Listening to the Challengers (2024) score and right out the gate it's got that coke binge thing that Donna Summer's "I Feel Love" has

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Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald in 1950.

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#Youtube

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Coral Reef Textile Art // Evas Doodlings

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#bee gees

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To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything! Julie Newmar —1995, dir. Beeban Kidron

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Sarah Vaughan photographed by Herman Leonard | 1949

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Wilhelm Trübner - Great Dane with Sausages: "Ave, Caesar, morituri te salutant" (1877)

Apapently, the artist's dog was a really professonal model, patiently sitting still with the sausages hanging over his snout while he was being painted. During the work, Trübner had to leave for a while to get the door, and when he came back, he found his dog still posing dutifully. Everything was the same, with one minor exception: the sausages had disappeared without trace. (source, in German)

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Bacall to Arms

(1946, Bob Clampett, Arthur Davis)

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Bovine figure of the day: Hagen Renaker Guernsey Cow

#oh #moo

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#i think whatshisname from #droupout tv #occupies a similar boy niche for me as #randolph mantooth

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Scientists at UC Riverside have demonstrated a new, RNA-based vaccine strategy that is effective against any strain of a virus and can be used safely even by babies or the immunocompromised.  Every year, researchers try to predict the four influenza strains that are most likely to be prevalent during the upcoming flu season. And every year, people line up to get their updated vaccine, hoping the researchers formulated the shot correctly. The same is true of COVID vaccines, which have been reformulated to target sub-variants of the most prevalent strains circulating in the U.S. This new strategy would eliminate the need to create all these different shots, because it targets a part of the viral genome that is common to all strains of a virus. The vaccine, how it works, and a demonstration of its efficacy in mice is described in a paper published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.  “What I want to emphasize about this vaccine strategy is that it is broad,” said UCR virologist and paper author Rong Hai. “It is broadly applicable to any number of viruses, broadly effective against any variant of a virus, and safe for a broad spectrum of people. This could be the universal vaccine that we have been looking for.”

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#ooh #big things happening in riverside!!!

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#inuyasha

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Nelson Mandela: South African anti-apartheid leader and African National Congress member, who was an unwavering supporter of a free Palestine, wearing a keffiyeh at a meeting organised in his honour by the National Union of Algerian Youths. May 18, 1990, in Algiers

[Photo by Abdelhak Senna]