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Check out some of the tweeted replies to the U.S. Army's new twitter campaign:

How has serving impacted you?

— U.S. Army (@USArmy) May 23, 2019

I found it because this one reply was retweeted by the great veteran NYTimes reporter C.J. Chivers.

Back to the Future

Artist Betye Saar been ignored a long time, now getting her due

She's now 92, started working in assemblage in the late 60's, influenced by Joseph Cornell's assemblage work and Watts Tower...

An exhibition of Betye Saar’s washboard assemblages – an Apollo art diary pick – closes in New York next Monday https://t.co/iUFaULVXsL

I agree

Coincidentally leading the way on how to do #MeToo properly without blowback

Keep the blame on the abuser, not the clueless non-abusing men who might not eagerly join you at the ramparts:

Joe Biden doesn’t owe me an apology. Clarence Thomas does.

Op-ed by Angela Wright-Shannon @ WashingtonPost.com, May 1

Scorcese and DeNiro talk at Tribeca Film Festival

An elegy for Notre-Dame, in words and pictures

@ Apollo Magazine, April 16. One example: 

The Right Hand of God Protecting the Faithful against the Demons (c. 1452–60),
Jean Fouquet. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS IN NYC, PART IV

Part III is here.

First, ICYMI in the news feed, hack Dem mayor doing the Boss Tweed thing:

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