Chris DeVos

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[Chris DeVos @CdevosChris]

@Mimiiben1 5

[Chris DeVos @CdevosChris]

@Mimiiben1 5

[Yesterdaypills 🍏 @yesterdaypills]

🚗 Il Maggiolino bianco di “Abbey Road”

📸 Quando alle 11.30 dell’8 agosto 1969 Iain MacMillan salì sulla sua scala al centro di Abbey Road per realizzare quella che sarebbe diventata una delle fotografie più famose della storia della musica, si trovò davanti a un piccolo imprevisto: sul marciapiede alla sinistra dell’inquadratura era parcheggiata una Volkswagen Maggiolino bianca, targata LMW 28IF.

🚗 I tentativi di far spostare l’auto andarono a vuoto, perché il mezzo apparteneva a Eric Fritnat, un residente della zona che in quei giorni si trovava in vacanza. All’epoca, in Inghilterra, era ancora possibile parcheggiare le automobili sui marciapiedi. Così, quasi per caso, il Maggiolino finì immortalato nella copertina di Abbey Road.

🎸 Dopo la pubblicazione dell’album, la Volkswagen e soprattutto la sua targa divennero oggetti di culto per i fan dei Beatles. La targa veniva rubata con tale frequenza che Fritnat, stanco di doverla sostituire quasi quotidianamente, decise alla fine di vendere l’auto.

🔎 Passarono gli anni e cambiarono diversi proprietari, fino a quando, nel 1986, Pete Gent, titolare di un negozio di strumenti musicali nell’Hertfordshire, vide il Maggiolino nella vetrina di un rivenditore. La sua sorpresa fu scoprire che il venditore non conosceva la storia dell’auto: riuscì così ad acquistarla a un prezzo sorprendentemente basso.

🏛️ Nell’estate del 1999 la Volkswagen acquistò il celebre Maggiolino all’asta. Da allora il veicolo è esposto al museo del marchio a Wolfsburg, dove continua a essere una delle testimonianze più curiose legate alla leggendaria copertina di Abbey Road.

#Beatles #AbbeyRoad #Yesterdaypills

[Chris DeVos @CdevosChris]

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[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

Local man suggests jailing own boss.

[Escape Velocity... AKA Matthew 🇺🇦 @EscapVelocity]

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Trump’s outburst over the Reflecting Pool is a sign of dangerous dysfunction in the Oval Office, Tom Nichols argues. https://t.co/vrMpz7EljI

[💙Brittney💙 @AZ_Brittney]

@donkoclock

[Cathryn Hartt🇺🇦 @HarttandSoul]

Best explanation on why MAGA hates Dr Fauci (and we honor him)

https://t.co/6jn1DO79Qs

[Chris DeVos @CdevosChris]

@PlantRobinson Rather than read about the four type of nihilism (existential nihilism, moral nihilism, epistemological nihilism, and cosmic nihilism) I’d rather learn Russian and translate all my old copies of Physics Physique Физика!

Oh, wait. I’d rather poke my eyes out with a hot stick!

[Liberal Lisa in Oklahoma @lisa_liberal]

Let me get this straight. They are literally grilling Fauci, while ignoring that their boss RAPED CHILDREN.
Fucking clown show.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

This is one of the most famous paintings in America, and most people have no idea what they are actually looking at...

The painting is Christina's World, made by Andrew Wyeth in 1948, and the woman was real: her name was Anna Christina Olson, Wyeth's neighbour in Cushing, Maine. Since childhood a degenerative condition had slowly taken the strength from her legs, until walking was no longer possible. She refused a wheelchair, and for her entire adult life she chose to drag herself across the ground with her arms instead, going wherever she wanted to go under her own power.

Wyeth saw her one afternoon from an upstairs window, alone in that vast field, crawling slowly toward the house on the hill. He said the painting was an attempt to do justice to her extraordinary conquest of a life which most people would consider hopeless. Her world, he said, was limited physically but by no means spiritually.

That is what turns this painting from a portrait of frailty into one of the most triumphant images ever made...

Look at it long enough and it stops being about what her body took from her, and becomes about what she would not stop doing anyway. The field is enormous and she is small and the house is far away, and still she goes, because the alternative, to be carried, to give up, to let the distance win, was something she simply would not accept.

There is one more thing: Christina loved this painting. Pink was her favorite color, and Wyeth had placed her exactly where she most wanted to be, out in the open, in her own field, under her own sky. Late in her life, when she could no longer even crawl out to that field, she said something that holds the whole meaning of art inside it:

"Andy put me where he knew I wanted to be. Now that I can’t be there anymore, all I do is think of that picture, and I’m there."

[Jen @JenResistedAGN]

Your father would be ashamed of you.

[Nurses Against Dick Pics. 🪷🇺🇦 @ClaudetteGGibs1]

What pisses me off the most about this revisionist history about Covid is that these muthafuckers forget how hard medical workers worked to save lives. Fuck Rand Paul and the whole GOP 😤

[Rich From CA @therichfromca]

Dr Fauci did the impossible and got America through the worst Pandemic in US history and saved millions of lives.

Dr Fauci is a hero and deserves to be recognized for all the lives he saved and the good he has done.

Drop a 💙♻️ if you agree!

[Mitch Jackson, Esq. @mitchjackson]

Why Fauci Pleading the Fifth Was the Smartest Legal Decision Made in That Room

They put an 85-year-old man under subpoena, dumped a thousand pages of his private diary to the press over the weekend, then acted offended when he arrived with lawyers instead of a confession.

Twenty-four words. He said them 106 times. This from a man who briefed Congress more than 200 times across four decades.

The Fifth is not guilt. It is the only correct answer when the chairman has publicly posted his intent to see you prosecuted and the HHS Secretary spends the week promising perjury charges if you speak. They built a trap, then complained he refused to step in it.

Paul’s crowd says the Biden pardon leaves no risk, so no privilege. Read it. The pardon covers conduct through January 2025. It does not cover a sentence spoken in a hearing room in July 2026. Paul said so himself on X.

That was not a legal argument. That was the plan.

Then he had security remove Fauci’s lawyer from the room.
Now he wants a contempt vote next week. Let him. Make a federal court say out loud that a man facing an announced prosecution has no right to silence. That case does not end where Paul thinks it ends.

Fauci made the right call. His lawyers earned every dollar.
New piece drops in the morning on Substack. Bring your outrage.

Before we go, let me share this video showing Trump pleading the fifth (over 400 times) but then everyone in this dog and pony show is completely OK with that. Give me a break.

Vote in the midterms.

[Joe G @EastEndJoe]

Perfectly describes the republican party at this moment.

[Lakota Man @LakotaMan1]

Why are Trump supporters so fucking stupid?