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A comprehensive analysis of hundreds of lawsuits filed against the administration’s new policies revealed “dozens of examples of defiance, delay and dishonesty,” by the government in handling the cases. Plaintiffs in more than a third of the cases that had progressed far enough for a judge to issue some type of ruling ordering the government to do—or not do—something accused the government of “snubbing rulings, providing false information, failing to turn over evidence, quietly working around court orders and inventing pretexts to carry out actions that have been blocked.” That data suggests there are real reasons for the courts to be concerned about whether the Trump administration is gearing up to actively flout the authority of the Article III branch of government in a direct and unequivocal fashion. So far, the government has offered attenuated excuses for its most flagrant abuses, transparently designed to give them lawful ground to stand on. But as whistleblower allegations emerged during the shameful proceedings that led, just yesterday, to the confirmation of former Trump criminal defense lawyer Emil Bove to be a Third Circuit Judge, it became increasingly clear that they were just that, excuses. Bove, multiple witnesses confirm, had gone so far as to suggest that the government’s response to any judicial checks on Donald Trump’s plans to deport people to foreign prisons or war-torn countries would be “F***” the courts.”

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WILLIAMSTOWN — This sea serpent wants to be noticed. That makes it an outlier among its contemporaries — whether it's Nessie of the famous loch in Scotland or Champ of America's own Lake Champlain, such creatures are known for elusion rather than showmanship. But this leviathan, Coata III, is almost impossible to miss, lurching skyward from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute's Schow Pond.

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When I was working at Muir Woods, we noticed a sign in “Founders Grove” called “Saving Muir Woods”. It outlined the work of several key players in how the ancient redwood forest was saved from logging: William and Elizabeth Thatcher Kent, Gifford Pinchot, and Theodore Roosevelt. This sign included a timeline of the events that related to the preservation of Muir Woods. The very first date on this timeline was “1872, Yellowstone National Park established”. To be clear, the sign talking about the preservation of the forest insinuated that the first date worth knowing in relation to Muir Woods was… the founding of a national park in Wyoming? When we began to look at the timeline, we realized how lopsided the story was, and just how many things were left out — and the patterns of histories that were consistently missing. So what did it leave out? Well, the land is the ancestral home of the Coast Miwok. For time immemorial, they had been stewarding this land in ways that are crucial to the forest’s health and biodiversity. That was nowhere to be seen on the sign. It also omitted why the Coast Miwok people aren’t stewarding these lands anymore, and the ways in which Congress systematically excluded Indigenous stewards and conducted a cultural genocide. It left out the fact that the first movement to mobilize to save Muir Woods was spearheaded by women. In 1904, four years before Muir Woods became a National Monument, the Marin Journal published an article saying, “the women of San Francisco have so willed. They will preserve the grove. They want to create a park In the picturesque canyon that shall particularly be for the edification of the people of this city”. Instead of crediting this grassroots movement, the sign only acknowledged the work of Kent, Pinchot, Roosevelt, and Muir.

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Will the GOP back Trump in his fight to make pedophilia great?

Can a zebra change its stripes? No, and neither can degenerate MAGAts.

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This is the thing, isn’t it? In an attention economy, it’s not all that important why you get attention, as long as you get plenty of it. Nobody has learned this lesson better than Donald Trump, who represents the other side of our warped culture of shame.  

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When you explore the galleries of "I Spy: Walter Wick's Hidden Wonders," on view at the Norman Rockwell Museum through Oct. 26, you'll find all of these items and more, including a few of the models used to create the whimsical images that populate the pages of Walter Wick's "I Spy" and "Can You See What I See?" book series.

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GREAT BARRINGTON — A blackbird gazes steadily through a beak of wooden scraps, its once-treasured song fallen silent. Its facial plumage is made of felt hammers; long, slender key skeletons fan out from its sides, giving the impression of wings. Levers and mechanisms of all sizes are gathered and arranged in tight bunches around its hulking frame, lending a new body to its musical ancestor. A 400-pound golden harp dangles inside its wide haunches, weighing down this flightless avian while also keeping it rooted to its original form. This is artist Erika Crofut’s latest creation, Piano Concerto, an assemblage of a giant blackbird spawned from the inner workings of a discarded piano. The sculpture — on view until Oct. 26 as part of “Hidden Worlds and Wonders Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition" at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge — is a reminder of the depth inside everyday objects that we take for granted.

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today's bird is this Common Swift! this CRAZY photo was taken by Eden Davies from the uk. (image was pulled from reddit in r/Birdsfacingforward)

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On Wednesday night, Chief Justice John Roberts made clear that he and his band of conservative justices are little different than the masked ICE agents terrorizing neighborhoods, courtrooms, and metro stops. As Justice Elena Kagan wrote in dissent in yet another case over President Donald Trump’s efforts to fire officials in ways that violate federal law, “Once again, this Court uses its emergency docket to destroy the independence of an independent agency, as established by Congress.” Like the masked ICE agents, the Republican appointees of the Supreme Court are fine upending law — but they would prefer to do so in nameless orders without the accountability the legal system is supposed to provide.

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Assholes destined for infamy 

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TRUMP IS A...

OF HATE...

OF ABUSE...

OF ANGER...

OF BIGOTRY...

OF DISEASE...

OF CRUELTY...

OF INSANITY...

OF DISGRACE...

OF DISHONOR...

OF INSTABILTY...

OF COWARDICE...

OF DISCONTENT...

OF DISHONESTY...

OF DESTRUCTION...

OF DIVISIVENESS...

OF CALLOUSNESS...

OF DISCRIMINATION...

OF DISORIENTATION...

OF SHAMELESSNESS...

OF DUPLICITOUSNESS.

WE.👏 MUST.👏 RESIST.👏 NOW.👏

& FOREVER. ✊️

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Roughly 6 months in and the US is already at the ‘full blown concentration camps’ stage.

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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration ordered a trove of new documents related to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., which contains new information about Trump’s personal influence on the civil rights leader, sources close to Trump confirmed. “Martin Luther King Jr. was a great man, I called him Marty, all his friends called him Marty, I’d say stuff to him like ‘Marty, you would look great with a mustache.’ I was actually the guy who gave him the idea to march in Selma, and I actually explained to him how racism worked. We hung out all the time, we were basically inseparable for years, so I never had time to meet that creep Jeffrey Epstein,” said Trump. “Those photos you see of me with Epstein are all part of an elaborate hoax cooked up by radical leftist lunatics like Joe Biden. There is plenty of evidence that Biden used Photoshop to doctor those photos, it’s sad that people believe it. But in the words of my good pal, my favorite Black guy, MLK ‘I have a dream, and that’s for everyone to stop talking about Epstein, because Donald Trump doesn’t know the guy.’ Beautiful words, more important now than ever.”

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MAGA * Made America Gross and Awful? * Poll