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[✨ pugreen Ⓥ ✨ @pugreen1]

@itskerrii and weed is NOT a drug💚

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature.”

— Hubert Reeves

[bug girl @buggirl]

in nature if a monkey hoarded 1 trillion bananas the other monkeys would beat that monkey to death and take his bananas

[Polymarket Sports @PolymarketSport]

🚨JUST IN: Telemundo TV commentator: "We are one of the only networks in the world to not show ads during the World Cup cooling breaks.

We prefer the old school way. We show fans, people enjoying, not the corporate direction of football."

[Ed Conway @EdConwaySky]

Most of the obituaries and tributes to David Hockney will, I imagine, focus primarily on his extraordinary craft and brilliance as an artist. Perhaps they might also mention his brilliance as a communicator (he was such a fine writer and speaker).

But there was something else rather unique about him too. He was also strikingly honest about the tricks/techniques artists use and used to paint. His book Secret Knowledge is a rather wonderful detective work into how renaissance and Dutch golden age painters used glass and mirrors to help them master perspective.

It's a pretty compelling case (see this video clip from a BBC doc he made alongside the book👇) though I'm sure some art historians will raise their eyebrows. Many will be aghast at the notion that greats like Vermeer might have been using lenses and camera obscuras to help them draw and paint. As if it were in some way "cheating". But Hockney was so self-evidently brilliant he was one of the few people who could document this without anyone gainsaying his own talent.

There are very few artists, living or dead, who have this degree of self-confidence. Not just to know their craft, but to be bracingly honest about how it works. One other who comes to mind is Paul Simon: not just an extraordinary musician but is also an extraordinary communicator about the tricks and techniques of how to write and perform music.

For many great artists, the temptation is to cloak their crafts in mystery, like a member of the magic circle. Hockney wasn't having any of it. So yes, he was a legend in all the obvious ways. But also in a few other less obvious ways as well. RIP.

[Underdog NBA @UnderdogNBA]

Wemby on if the Spurs believe they can come back and win the Finals:

"Everybody knows we're gonna do it."

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: A U.S. citizen was riding his bike in Laredo, Texas… when Border Patrol agents pulled alongside him and illegally tried to block him in.

When he kept riding, they chased him down, physically grabbed him by the arm, and immediately started demanding identification and asking where he was from.

He told them he born in Laredo, Texas.

But that was not good enough.

The agent asked, “What high school did you go to?”

He answered that, too… and they still kept demanding ID, over and over again.

The Fourth Amendment exists for a reason. In America, law enforcement don’t get to randomly stop people, physically grab them, and demand identification because they feel like it.

Being on a bike isn’t a crime.

You also don’t have to carry an ID on you unless you are operating a motor vehicle… which he was not.

So, demanding an ID, without probable cause, is illegal.

And the cherry on top? When the man went to use his phone, an agent tried to stop him by grabbing it… apparently unaware the entire encounter was already being recorded by his glasses.

If Border Patrol can stop an American born citizen riding his bike, demand his papers, and put their hands on him without stating a lawful reason… every American should be paying attention.

[Lonzo Ball @ZO2_]

If I’m the spurs my heart hurts but I still believe

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

Nailed it

[Woody Lightyear 𝛑 @WoodyLightyearx]

Look at what @Madonna did with the Confessions II rollout — it's the opposite of how the entire industry works.

Normally you shoot a video (or visual album) to promote the song(s) people can already stream. She flipped it. She dropped a thirteen-minute film built around six tracks, four of which aren't out anywhere. You can only hear them in pieces inside the film, then you wait for the album.

A normal video satisfies the craving, this one manufactures it. Everyone who watched the film fell for four songs they can't have immediately. That's smart if you ask me — a smart reinvention of album rollouts.

Everyone else uses visuals to promote songs that are out for immediate consumption, Madonna uses visuals to promote cravings for songs you can't have immediately so you anticipate the album even more.

[✨ pugreen Ⓥ ✨ @pugreen1]

@usopen gOat-K

[US Open Tennis @usopen]

Serena Williams returns to professional tennis today.

[Ben Cohen @YoBenCohen]

Ben & Jerry’s is still being held captive by the Magnum Corporation. We must keep up the pressure for Magnum to sell Ben & Jerry’s to a group of social investors, who will protect the social mission. Go to https://t.co/axervUxNiP for ways to support. #freebenandjerrys

[Club Shay Shay @ClubShayShay]

"Dogs are living an entire week of their lives in one day. They're making their lives count. ... I don't think we deserve dogs. Were you ever the hero your dog thought you were?" - @neiltyson

[✨ pugreen Ⓥ ✨ @pugreen1]

@atrupar way to ruin the national anthem

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

🚨 BREAKING: MADISON SQUARE GARDEN ERUPTS IN BOOS AS DONALD TRUMP IS SHOWN ON SCREEN

[Tom Morello @tmorello]

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[Maria Shriver @mariashriver]

I’ve been thinking a lot about the extraordinary outbursts of the President of the United States against female journalists... well, actually against journalists in general and journalism. But it feels like he saves his most childlike behavior and irrational language for female reporters, calling them all kinds of names that kids in kindergarten are given times out for. It’s stunning to me to witness such behavior from any leader, any CEO, any person of influence or importance. I’ve never witnessed someone like this raging, this weekend with @meetthepress host @kwelkernbc, just last week in the Oval Office with @cnn’s @kaitlancollins, calling women stupid or piggy, telling them to “smile”, calling them darling, demeaning their credibility. Every good man should denounce this behavior. Every person should be able to stand up for their colleagues and say “No more.”

Imagine this man screaming like this at your daughter, your wife, your sister, your mother... would you stand for it? No, you wouldn’t! And neither should any of us. It’s unacceptable and undignified. Period. End of story.

[Josh Hart @joshhart]

YESSIR!!!! GET TRUMP’S DUMBASS OUT THE WHITE HOUSE!!!!!!

[Manu Ginobili @manuginobili]

All in! #GoSpursGo!

[shy fawkes @butterbooter]

the pigeon doesn’t understand your disdain for it; it coos for you anyway. the tree does not know you own an axe for it; its leaves sway in the sun anyway. the starving cat eats the poison you put out. it doesn’t know how not to trust. the earth forgives you, in spite of yourself