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President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, during a closed-door meeting on Wednesday, rejected an offer by the Trump administration to relinquish half of the country’s mineral resources in exchange for U.S. support, according to people with knowledge of the talks. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/w...
February 16, 2025 at 8:31 PM
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, during a closed-door meeting on Wednesday, rejected an offer by the Trump administration to relinquish half of the country’s mineral resources in exchange for U.S. support, according to people with knowledge of the talks. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/w...
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Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.
February 15, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.
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European friends: Do not accept lectures on democracy & freedom of speech from an Administration that denies the 2020 election results and is now suing & intimidating news outlets whose reporting they don’t like.
Stand tall against right-wing extremism.
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Stand tall against right-wing extremism.
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Vance and Musk Attack German Consensus on Nazis and Speech
Vice President JD Vance and Elon Musk have challenged decades-long approaches to political extremism that were designed to prevent another Hitler.
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February 15, 2025 at 10:42 PM
European friends: Do not accept lectures on democracy & freedom of speech from an Administration that denies the 2020 election results and is now suing & intimidating news outlets whose reporting they don’t like.
Stand tall against right-wing extremism.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/w...
Stand tall against right-wing extremism.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/w...
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Four female Israeli soldiers who were taken in the Oct. 7 attack returned to Israel on Saturday after Hamas militants paraded them before a crowd of thousands in Gaza City and handed them over to the Red Cross. Israel later released 200 Palestinian prisoners.
As ceasefire holds, Israel releases 200 Palestinian prisoners after Hamas frees 4 Israeli soldiers
Four female Israeli soldiers who were taken in the attack that sparked the war in Gaza returned to Israel on Saturday after Hamas militants paraded them before a crowd of thousands in Gaza City and…
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January 25, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Four female Israeli soldiers who were taken in the Oct. 7 attack returned to Israel on Saturday after Hamas militants paraded them before a crowd of thousands in Gaza City and handed them over to the Red Cross. Israel later released 200 Palestinian prisoners.
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Abundance and gratitude. This book is very informative and deeply spiritual read and especially if the natural world is something you care about and want to cultivate for/ in yourself and for others.
Abundance and gratitude. This book is very informative and deeply spiritual read and especially if the natural world is something you care about and want to cultivate for/ in yourself and for others.
The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance – Robin Wall Kimmerer
As Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy.
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January 25, 2025 at 3:48 AM
emergencemagazine.org/essay/the-se...
Abundance and gratitude. This book is very informative and deeply spiritual read and especially if the natural world is something you care about and want to cultivate for/ in yourself and for others.
Abundance and gratitude. This book is very informative and deeply spiritual read and especially if the natural world is something you care about and want to cultivate for/ in yourself and for others.
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Return with us to this conversation between Robin Wall Kimmerer, David Haskell, and Robert Macfarlane to discuss the idea of the personhood of trees, root communities, and the ways in which humans might foster the growth of our canopy.
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January 22, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Return with us to this conversation between Robin Wall Kimmerer, David Haskell, and Robert Macfarlane to discuss the idea of the personhood of trees, root communities, and the ways in which humans might foster the growth of our canopy.
Check who you are "following" on FB. I saw a post about Zuck choosing for us. They added me as a follower to Vance. That wouldn't happen in a million years. I unfollowed. I will check back tomorrow and see who else Meta has followed for me. F--ck that!!?!!
January 21, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Check who you are "following" on FB. I saw a post about Zuck choosing for us. They added me as a follower to Vance. That wouldn't happen in a million years. I unfollowed. I will check back tomorrow and see who else Meta has followed for me. F--ck that!!?!!
Glitch self in front of recent artwork
January 20, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Glitch self in front of recent artwork
Will This Poem Find Life in Outer Space? www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/p...
Will This Poem Find Life in Outer Space?
Together, NASA and the U.S. poet laureate Ada Limón bring a little bit of humanity to the second moon of Jupiter.
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January 20, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Will This Poem Find Life in Outer Space? www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/p...
Massive Attack’s Robert Del Naja on a Life of Art and Activism: ‘There Has to Be a Sense of Duty’ news.artnet.com/art-world/ma...
Massive Attack’s Robert Del Naja on a Life of Art and Activism
Robert Del Naja of the trip hop band Massive Attack discusses his art-making and his efforts to raise awareness of issues like climate change.
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January 20, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Massive Attack’s Robert Del Naja on a Life of Art and Activism: ‘There Has to Be a Sense of Duty’ news.artnet.com/art-world/ma...
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“To confront the Trump government without compromise, we must raise what Martin Luther King Jr. called a ‘coalition of conscience,’” writes Timothy Seseki Kudo, a Marine veteran whose Japanese American family was deported during World War II.
Opinion | A Racist Purge Almost Destroyed My Family. Another One Is Coming.
If Trump issues his own order on Day 1, as he’s vowed, the first people could enter detention camps by February.
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January 18, 2025 at 5:42 PM
“To confront the Trump government without compromise, we must raise what Martin Luther King Jr. called a ‘coalition of conscience,’” writes Timothy Seseki Kudo, a Marine veteran whose Japanese American family was deported during World War II.
Dickensian dystopian Dumbing down of America as it has been known
January 20, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Dickensian dystopian Dumbing down of America as it has been known
"A.I. is a very powerful technology for us to preserve nature. And I think I have a very simple theory: We don’t hurt something we love.
Refik Anadol on Learning From Glaciers and ‘Ethical Data’ news.artnet.com/art-world/re...
Refik Anadol on Learning From Glaciers and ‘Ethical Data’ news.artnet.com/art-world/re...
Refik Anadol on Learning From Glaciers and 'Ethical Data'| Artnet News
Refik Anadol has donated a new data-driven work about glaciers to the Kunsthaus Zurich that warns of the impacts of climate change.
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January 19, 2025 at 10:24 PM
"A.I. is a very powerful technology for us to preserve nature. And I think I have a very simple theory: We don’t hurt something we love.
Refik Anadol on Learning From Glaciers and ‘Ethical Data’ news.artnet.com/art-world/re...
Refik Anadol on Learning From Glaciers and ‘Ethical Data’ news.artnet.com/art-world/re...
Is Mikhail Baryshnikov the Last of the Highbrow Superstars? www.nytimes.com/2024/12/16/m...
Is Mikhail Baryshnikov the Last of the Highbrow Superstars?
Fifty years since he left the Soviet Union, he insists on using his huge fame to bring attention to difficult, esoteric art.
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January 19, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Is Mikhail Baryshnikov the Last of the Highbrow Superstars? www.nytimes.com/2024/12/16/m...
I am not a huge fan of religiously based curriculum, however, this comes from the heart!!
A Mississippi Teacher Created a School in an Empty Storefront. Students Showed Up. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/u...
A Mississippi Teacher Created a School in an Empty Storefront. Students Showed Up.
The desks came out of a dumpster, and the computers are hand-me-downs. But students say Abundance Academy is a haven from bullying and crowded classes.
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January 19, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I am not a huge fan of religiously based curriculum, however, this comes from the heart!!
A Mississippi Teacher Created a School in an Empty Storefront. Students Showed Up. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/u...
What if ICE Agents Show Up? Schools Prepare Teachers and Parents. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/u...
What if ICE Agents Show Up? Schools Prepare Teachers and Parents.
Across the country, educators described widespread anxiety about President-elect Donald J. Trump’s promises to deport immigrants and what it could mean for their students.
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January 19, 2025 at 6:31 PM
What if ICE Agents Show Up? Schools Prepare Teachers and Parents. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/u...
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, 90, Dies; Her Internment Inspired a Memoir www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/b...
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, 90, Dies; Her Internment Inspired a Memoir
In “Farewell to Manzanar,” she wrote about the years she and her family were imprisoned in a camp for Japanese Americans. It became the basis for a TV movie.
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January 19, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, 90, Dies; Her Internment Inspired a Memoir www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/b...
Zilia Sánchez, Painter Who Found Fame Late in Life, Dies at 98 www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/a...
Zilia Sánchez, Painter Who Found Fame Late in Life, Dies at 98
A Cuban-born minimalist painter who spent much of her life in Puerto Rico, she was in her 90s when her erotically charged work first appeared at the Venice Biennale.
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January 19, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Zilia Sánchez, Painter Who Found Fame Late in Life, Dies at 98 www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/a...
A 100-Year-Old Jazz Legend’s Solo Debut, and 11 More New Songs www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/a...
A 100-Year-Old Jazz Legend’s Solo Debut, and 11 More New Songs
Hear tracks by Perfume Genius, Lucy Dacus, Bartees Strange and others.
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January 19, 2025 at 5:06 PM
A 100-Year-Old Jazz Legend’s Solo Debut, and 11 More New Songs www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/a...
An Earthling Reflects on a Wartime Salesman’s Bold Act of Resistance www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/a...
Reflecting on Photographer Raoul Minot’s Bold Act of Resistance
The French photographer Raoul Minot took clandestine photos of Nazi-occupied Paris. Now, his images serve as a reminder of the power of art.
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January 19, 2025 at 4:47 PM
An Earthling Reflects on a Wartime Salesman’s Bold Act of Resistance www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/a...
Biden Pardons Five More, Including Late Civil Rights Leader Marcus Garvey www.nytimes.com/2025/01/19/u...
Biden Pardons Five More People, Including Civil Rights Leader Marcus Garvey
Civil rights leaders and lawmakers have long said that Mr. Garvey’s 1923 conviction for mail fraud was unjust, arguing that he was targeted for his work.
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January 19, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Biden Pardons Five More, Including Late Civil Rights Leader Marcus Garvey www.nytimes.com/2025/01/19/u...