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How Democrats Can Win (and Save Democracy) in 2024

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How Democrats Can Win (and Save Democracy) in 2024 Election year is finally here. 2024 will be pivotal, but how can we do our part to ensure the Democrats win big?  Election strategists Tara McGowan, Simon Rosenberg, and Tom Bonier join David to shine a light on the role we can all play heading into campaign season. Listen at link:    https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-democrats-can-win-and-save-democracy-in-2024/id1245002955?i=1000640681967 Election year is finally here. 2024 will be pivotal, but how can we do our part to ensure the Democrats win big? @taraemcg , @SimonWDC , and @tbonier join @djrothkopf to shine a light on the role we can all play heading into campaign season. https://t.co/OhNI62a1c1 pic.twitter.com/YQqgLeGWzS — Deep State Radio (@deepstateradio) January 6, 2024

President Biden Delivers Remarks Near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania

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Joe Biden's speech today was a high water mark of his presidency and an essential framing of the central issue in the 2024 campaign--the threat Donald Trump and the MAGA movement pose to US democracy. He pulled no punches. @POTUS did as a leader should do. Must watch or read. — David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) January 6, 2024

Biden, in Valley Forge speech, hits Trump hard as threat to democracy

Biden, in Valley Forge speech, hits Trump hard as threat to democracy https://t.co/FAd7te83SU — Gregg Chadwick 🇺🇦 🟧 (@greggchadwick) January 5, 2024 FULL SPEECH: President Joe Biden delivers his most powerful speech yet in defense of American democracy and calls out Trump's threats to the nation on the eve of the 3rd anniversary of the January 6 attack. Everyone should watch the speech till the end and share it far and wide. pic.twitter.com/iffBKkSYAE — MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) January 5, 2024

The World of Pastels

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From the National Gallery in London: "Delve into the strange and magical world of pastels Liotard's pastel and oil versions of 'The Lavergne Family Breakfast' have been reunited for first time in 250 years. Book to visit our free exhibition: http:// bit.ly/3gR1VIO "

Van Gogh Museum 4K Virtual Tour || Exhibition ‘Van Gogh along The Seine'

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‘And when I painted landscape in Asnières this summer I saw more colour in it than before.’ Vincent van Gogh to his sister Willemien van Gogh, late October 1887 Walk through the Van Gogh Museum's exhibition 'Van Gogh along The Seine'. The museum informs us that - "In the 19th century, bridges and trains made it easier to visit places outside of Paris. And yet smoking factory chimneys increasingly dominated the horizon. This exhibition reveals how artists captured these changes in their artworks."  On view at the Van Gogh Museum from 13 October until 2023 14 January 2024. Music: Composed and performed by Remko Kühne Follow Remko Kühne on Spotify: https://orcd.co/followremkokuhne More thoughts on Van Gogh at Speed of Life: Van Gogh's Cypresses at the Metropolitan Museum of Art  https://greggchadwick.blogspot.com/2023/06/van-goghs-cypresses-at-metropolitan.html?spref=tw

Happy New Year - 2024

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Here’s something to think about as you kick off 2024: we are all stardust. Every atom of oxygen in our lungs, of carbon in our muscles, of calcium in our bones, of iron in our blood—was created inside a star before Earth was born. Wishing everyone a happy & healthy New Year!🎇 pic.twitter.com/fjw1QaWZiN — American Museum of Natural History (@AMNH) January 1, 2024

Happy New Year's Eve!

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  ⁠ Happy New Year's Eve  Fireworks at Ryōgoku bridge  Utagawa Hiroshige  Woodblock Print on Paper  1858  Ashmolean Museum  New Year’s Eve Foxfires by the Enoki tree at the Shōzoku Inari Shrine in Ōji   Ōji, Shōzoku Enoki Ōmisoka no kitsunebi | 王子装束ゑの木大晦日の狐火  Series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo | Meisho Edo hyakkei | 名所江戸百景 Artist/maker Hiroshige Utagawa, I  (1797 - 1858) (designer) Associated people Eikichi Uoya  (mid-19th century) (publisher) Associated place Asia  >  Japan  (place of creation) Date 1857 (date of creation) Material and technique nishiki-e (full colour) woodblock print, with bokashi (tonal gradation) Ashmolean Museum