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@Acyn Facts: New York, California, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Illinois, & Minnesota pay more in taxes to the federal government than they get back. All other states receive more in taxes than they pay.
Loving the moving Google Doodle for #MLKDay by the scholar & artist Fahamu Pecou @fptheshit
From Thomas Campbell, Director of Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco on #IranianCulturalSites
@EricKlinenberg Sec of Commerce and Labor Oscar Straus, place of birth: Germany
Me getting used to the new cast of #TheCrown.
(And yes, they're all brilliant actors & all but still...)
Today marks the 40th anniversary of the take over of the US embassy in Tehran, a most ignoble event and a violation of international law and basic mores of decency. Abbas' photographs of that historic moment have become iconic. (photos courtesy of Magnum Photos)