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Florence the Machine:
🎵 Cosmic Love
#Florence theMachine
https://damehooks.bandcamp.com/track/florence-the-machine-cosmic-love-future-drill-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/1myEOhXztRxUVfaAEQiKkU

Trump lied to Kristen Welker about:
▫️ Iran was not making a nuke - per Tulsi Gabbard
▫️ US had not "obliterated" Iran's nuclear program
▫️ Iran didn't have any weapons-grade uranium
... and 18 other lies about the state of Iran's navy, the US going to war, gas prices & so much more.
✅ Fact-checking Trump’s interview with NBC News’ ‘Meet the Press’

Fact-checking Trump’s interview with NBC News’ ‘Meet the Press’
Digging into some of the president’s claims on the Iran war, the Jan. 6 riots, California’s primary elections and more.

In the state department of past administrations,
how to respond to an incendiary event such as the murder of the British student Henry Nowak would have required deliberations, memos and meetings.
Given how it has roiled the UK and inflamed tensions over migration and race, the cautious diplomats at Foggy Bottom probably would have said nothing at all.
Now they tweet from the hip.
“Ideological conditioning and two-tiered policing are glaring symptoms of civilizational…

Axios' total Q1 content output was down 22% YoY, but page views rose 30% and page views per visitor rose 22%, as the outlet shifts away from chasing traffic (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/north-america/axios-page-views-…

Output down, page views up: Axios shifts from volume to value
Axios cut its output by almost a quarter to concentrate on adding "real value" and stop chasing traffic - but page views grew anyway.

As reported by his wife in #AlanHale has passed away yesterday at 68: more in the thread https://groups.io/g/comets-ml/topic/119679184 and https://www.facebook.com/groups/227002358661288/posts/1786784712683037/. In this picture from an astronomy-minded fantastic trip to Iran in 2000 - see https://bsky.app/profile/cosmos4u.bsky.social/post/3lulglljezs2d - Hale ist on the far left (and yours truly in postion 5; it also includes comet personality Charles Morris at position 6 and on the far right astronaut Bruce McCandless II who was capcom on Apollo 11 and made the first untethered spacewalk - both also no longer with us).

"If any of the work, that any of us do, contributes to the stretching of culture, the stretching of boundaries of empathy that’s expected of an audience… that’s the holy grail."
—Riz Ahmed
#acting #coaching

Observers are once again raising concerns about insider trading on Wednesday after a trader took a colossal crude oil short position just over an hour before a US-Iran peace deal was reported to be on the horizon, causing prices to fall.
The Kobeissi Letter, a financial newsletter, 
reported on X that at 3:40 am on Wednesday,
“nearly 10,000 contracts worth of crude oil shorts were taken without any major news.”
This was equivalent to $920 million in notional value,

‘Epic insider trading’: nearly $1 billion in crude oil shorts taken just before report of US-Iran peace deal
“Only a select few in the top tax bracket are benefiting from this, and the majority of you ain’t in it,” said former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Working with an #acting #coaching client on different elements of their vocal production technique and character inner life, and wonderful seeing and hearing them use an increased awareness of how they're producing speech to do new things.

"Lots and lots of things scare me but you just get on with it. Fright can transform into petrol, you just have to use it to your advantage."
—Judi Dench
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"Lots and lots of things scare me but you just get on with it. Fright can transform into petrol, you just have to use it to your advantage."
—Judi Dench
#acting #coaching #inspiration