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[Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris]

I prosecuted sex predators. Trump is one.
I shut down for-profit scam colleges. He ran one.
I held big banks accountable. He's owned by them.

I'm not just prepared to take on Trump, I'm prepared to beat him.

[Ezra Klein @ezraklein]

An actual hero.

This is what America First looks like when it’s a lived ethos, rather than a mask for narcissism and ambition.

[Nikk ‎☾ ‎فلسطين الحرة @saturnianikk]

This poem by Althea Davis. I think about it at least once a day since I read it

[Jacob Mathew @jacobgmathew]

Countries should compete for citizens.

The case for getting rid of borders https://t.co/NTAiSwaql2 by @ATabarrok

[Dr Catherine Haddon @cath_haddon]

The really difficult question is what Tory rules say about who has control of the party and the finances if they have ousted him as leader. If they agree a new person, surely that leader inherits CCHQ.

But then you are really getting into civil war territory.

Utter madness.

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

It’s a serious misrepresentation of our democratic system for PM to keep referring to his personal mandate - our system doesn’t confer such a thing so he doesn’t have one. He’s not a president. He’s PM because he leads party with most MPs. He’s dependent on them & they’ve turned

[C.P. Cavafy @CCavafy]

“Ithaca has given you the beautiful voyage.
Without her you would never have taken the road.”

– C.P. Cavafy was born #OTD April 29, 1863. He died on his 70th birthday, April 29, 1933.

This is his most famous poem, “Ithaca”, translated by Rae Dalven.

#poetry #cavafy #Greece

[Laura McInerney @miss_mcinerney]

Your friendly regular reminder that it’s not girls who are ‘afraid’ of any subject - it’s that boys, for some reason, don’t spread out as much, and for safety all cling to each other in maths and science.

[οὐδέν @involans]

@sentantiq @TheMERL - those sound like some amazing sheep

[οὐδέν @involans]

For the first time, NYT Wordle has diverged from the original wordlist. Same vowels, different answer!

[οὐδέν @involans]

@ChShersh @acid2 Note that this can be nested, for further hilarity:

```
λ> let (succ -> succ -> a) = 1 in print a
3
```

[Ian Dunt @IanDunt]

"To govern this country is an honour, not a birth right. It requires honesty, integrity and moral authority."

[οὐδέν @involans]

@mattyglesias @paulg Typescript, F#, Microsoft Research and the GitHub acquisition are just a few reasons why MS has rebuilt their engineering credibility

[sententiae antiquae @sentantiq]

“Do not try to make events happen as you wish, but wish that they happen as they do and you will sail smoothly.”

μὴ ζήτει τὰ γινόμενα γίνεσθαι ὡς θέλεις, ἀλλὰ θέλε τὰ γινόμενα ὡς γίνεται καὶ εὐροήσεις. #Epictetus

[οὐδέν @involans]

@ZachWeiner Amis is the Musterbild for this one, as he would no doubt put it

[οὐδέν @involans]

@sina_lana This is also found in German: ja, nein, doch.

"Das ist nicht, was Sie wollten? Doch!"

https://t.co/9TbooEJ8iB

[sententiae antiquae @sentantiq]

“One wave courses from this side
The other from that, and we in the middle
Are tossed about in a black ship”

τὸ μὲν γὰρ ἔνθεν κῦμα κυλίνδεται,
τὸ δ’ ἔνθεν, ἄμμες δ’ ὂν τὸ μέσσον
νᾶϊ φορήμμεθα σὺν μελαίναι #Alcaeus

[sententiae antiquae @sentantiq]

τὸ φῶς τόδ᾽ ἀνθρώποισιν ἥδιστον βλέπειν,
τὰ νέρθε δ᾽ οὐδέν: μαίνεται δ᾽ ὃς εὔχεται
θανεῖν. κακῶς ζῆν κρεῖσσον ἢ καλῶς θανεῖν #Euripides #Iphigenia

[οὐδέν @involans]

@Sime0nStylites And yet it feels charmingly amateurish - like it was written by students for a school play. It shouldn't work, but it does