The bellboy pillbox hat hairdo rising from his head like a flan and his too long beard emphasize the length of his already large head.

Michael McDonald breaking down the backstory of "What a Fool Believes"

Ce visage rayonne l'intelligence, la finesse et la bonté.

📚 Au Japon, des gens vont désormais en boîte de nuit… pour s’asseoir silencieusement et lire un livre pendant qu’un DJ joue de la musique d'ambience. Le concept s’appelle JUCY BOOK RAVE et se déroule notamment dans un club souterrain de Shimokitazawa, à Tokyo. Ici, pas besoin de danser ni de hurler pour parler à la personne située à 30 centimètres de vous. Les participants viennent avec un livre, s’installent dans la pénombre et lisent pendant que la musique accompagne leur soirée.

🧵Ukraine blew up the Russian factory that builds Russia's anti-drone air defenses. Ten heavy strike drones flew 800km undetected and leveled the Iskra plant. The factory built to spot and kill drones never saw the drones coming for it. 1/🧵

The fact that this is not an AI generated image is insane. wow!

Why do I admire Pope Leo so much even though I'm not Catholic, nor a Christian? Easy. He represents compassion, kindness, understanding, and empathy. That, to me, is strength. In a world that has placed cruelty and assholery on a pedestal, Pope Leo represents love and strength.

In his book Collapse, Jared Diamond studied a dozen societies across thousands of years, from the Maya to the Vikings, to answer one question: why do great civilizations fall? What he found wasn't drought, war or bad luck. None of those were ever enough on their own. The one thing present in every collapse was how the people at the top responded to what was happening below them. The warning sign he found again and again was leaders who were completely insulated from the pain of ordinary people. When the powerful never feel the consequences, they stop seeing the problem, and when they stop seeing it, they stop fixing it. The Maya kings kept enriching themselves and building monuments while the farmers who fed them went hungry. Their civilization didn't fall because of one bad year. It fell because the people in charge had stopped living in the same world as everyone else. Diamond called them "distant managers." They are the people in power who live so far from the damage that they are the last to understand how bad it has gotten. By the time they notice, the fields are already empty. His most important finding was that collapse is a choice. Every society that fell had leaders who could have changed course and chose not to. The question for us is whether we will keep letting people who can't see us make that choice for us. Because we are there folks.

LA FOTO DEL DÍA. PARÍS SE DETUVO. Más de 700.000 personas gritando. El papamóvil avanzando. Una niña con discapacidad, vestida de azul, es levantada por encima de la multitud. El papamóvil se detiene. León XIV la mira, la abraza, le pone la mano en la cabeza y le susurra algo al oído. Ella, que no podía hablar, parecía estarlo mirando como si mirara el cielo. En plenos Campos Elíseos, el Papa nos recordó que la Iglesia no es una masa... Es un rostro, es la carne viva de Cristo... Es ella. Cada vida cuenta. 😭❤️

💥Egypt's intel chief, Abbas Kamel, grew anxious in early October, 2023, when 2 Egyptian warnings about signs of an impending attack from Gaza had gone unheeded by Israel. Kamel called Israeli PM Netanyahu to deliver a 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐝 alert, officials told @WSJ google.com/url?q=wsj.com/wor…

27 Sept 1389: #Italian banker, #politician and de facto ruler of #Florence during much of the Italian Renaissance, Cosimo de Medici, is born in Florence. #History #OTD #ad amzn.to/33ZsXDb

Pope Leo XIV leads a candlelight rosary procession in Lourdes, France tonight

Cardinal McElroy at Mass for World Day of Migrants and Refugees: “Most deeply, we remember the undocumented, whose time on the cross stretches onward. They know the peril, the fear, the overwhelming sadness that dawns upon them because of the policies of our government.”

Great to be with the Broward County Democrats today, and thank you to the Senior Caucus for hosting and always showing up.

Thanks to Paula Anderson for this one! Ted Williams & James Garner MLB All-Star game Aug 3rd 1959. Los Angeles CA.

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1964….22 year old Bob Dylan & 20 year old John Sebastian jammin' at the Cafe Espresso, Woodstock, NY.

I joined KQED to talk about Trump's obsession with building monuments to himself. kqed.org/forum/2010101915407…

The 2026 Primaries in Florida were the first time Democrats had higher turnout than Republicans in at least the last decade. #flapol

This man should be Florida’s next Governor.