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[J Giovanni @giovanni75]

This is incredible! #Dolly Parton performing "Peace Train" with Ladysmith Black Mambazo

I am loving the discovery of some of these lesser-known projects she has done!

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

The president is making US policy friendlier to North Korea and Russia than Canada and Oman. Are you kidding me?

[Niall Harbison @NiallHarbison]

People always ask me about my own dog Hank the Tank and what his story was.

This is how I found him. A huge hole in his neck full of maggots and owners who didn’t want him.

Their loss if you ask me ❤️

[Amy Aiello Lofgren @azsweetheart013]

It’s our house. It’s our tax dollars. Go fuck yourself. @piersmorgan It is a massive embarrassment.

[Graham Parker @ItsGrahamParker]

RIP David Hockney.

https://t.co/8ABmwgiWiM

[Maria Helena @mhcoutinho_48]

David Hockney. 1996.

[David Rooney @DavidCRooney1]

Always found this 1977 David Hockney portrait of his parents quite touching. The smile on his mother's face and the kindness in her eyes speak volumes about the special relationship between gay boys and their mums. RIP to a great artist and a leading light in queer pop culture.

[Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci]

Congress has a 14% approval rating and yet incumbents have a 95% re-election rate.

America has a bipartisan cartel.

They’ve rigged the maps, gerrymandered their adversaries out of existence, and of 435 congressional districts fewer than 30 are actually contestable.

In a real democracy the voter picks the politician. What we have now is the politician picking the voter.

The system needs a reset, but the money circuit flowing into Washington and the self-interest of everyone inside it means nobody is stepping out of that window to actually serve the people who are most desperate.

The ones who went from economically aspirational to economically desperate.

he ones worried their kids will never afford what they could.

To serve those people you have to go against your own self-interest.

[Amy Aiello Lofgren @azsweetheart013]

How fucking vulgar. Let the rain come down and wash this shit away.

[Westminster Abbey @wabbey]

We are deeply saddened to hear of the death of artist David Hockney.

In 2018, David Hockney designed The Queen’s Window, a vibrant stained-glass window in the Abbey’s north transept.

Hockney's only work in stained glass, the window was commissioned to celebrate the reign of Queen Elizabeth II. It was designed on an iPad and uses Hockney's distinct colour palette of yellow, red, blue, pink, orange and green. The rural scene, featuring hawthorn blossom, was chosen to reflect the Queen's deep love of the countryside. On summer evenings, the light from the window floods the transept, bathing it in a beautiful kaleidoscope of colour.

The Dean of Westminster, The Very Reverend Dr David Hoyle MBE said:
“David Hockney's restless eye and eager enthusiasm for pastures new has left us with an extraordinary legacy that is rich and various and yet also unmistakably his. The window he created for the north transept lets in light that arrives with attitude and even humour, painting the statue of Gladstone in shifting shades throughout the summer months. Hockney has left his mark here and we will long remember a great and very personal genius.”

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Musician and painter Joni Mitchell (with artist David Hockney...RIP) #WomensArt

[Eric Alper 🎧 @ThatEricAlper]

Charles Schulz was so good.

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

"It's a race against time. ... People like @realDonaldTrump, narcissistic sociopaths like the ones we've seen throughout history—the Hitlers and the Stalins—they blow themselves up in the end. And the question is the blast radius, and the longer we let this go on the bigger the blast radius is."

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

Are you fucking kidding me?

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Today, Elon Musk, a trillionaire, pays the same amount into Social Security as someone making $184,500.

If we end that absurdity and lift the cap on taxable income, we can make Social Security solvent for 75 years and expand benefits by $2,400. My Social Security bill does that.

[Trevor Noah @Trevornoah]

One thing Brené said that stuck with me: Play isn't just entertainment for children. It's training for relationships.

It's where we learn boundaries, forgiveness, negotiation, trust, and repair.

A fascinating conversation about what happens when less of that learning happens in the real world.

Full episode available now on my YouTube channel.

[Niall Harbison @NiallHarbison]

Put a lot of effort into helping rebuild little Skye’s life this week.

Just look at her go ❤️

[Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff]

i’m not crying, you’re crying. 😭 thank you again to the greatest, @AliVelshi.

[New England Sports Fellow @_JosephManning]

AJ Brown posts pictures of himself wearing a #Patriots jersey as a child.

(IG: 1k_alwaysopen)

[Mark Daniels @ByMarkDaniels]

AJ Brown said at one point in practice he wasn't paying attention because he couldn't stop thinking about his dream coming true.

He was saying to himself, "Damn, I'm a Patriot."