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Naturalist & author Joy Adamson was born #OTD in 1910.

Her book, 𝘉𝘰𝘳𝘯 𝘍𝘳𝘦𝘦, describes her experiences raising an lion cub named Elsa & was made into an Academy Award–winning movie of the same name. Her ashes were buried in Elsa's grave in Meru National Park in Kenya. #WomenInSTEM #booksky

A split-image composition featuring two panels side by side. On the left, a black-and-white photograph showing Joy Adamson, a woman with wavy, shoulder-length hair, outdoors in a natural bush setting. She gently embraces a young adult lion from the side, her cheek resting close to its mane as the lion lays calmly beside her. The image has a tilted white border, evoking a classic mid-20th-century wildlife portrait. On the right, the vintage book cover for "Born Free" by Joy Adamson (Vintage Books/Special Edition). The cover has an orange-yellow textured background with the title "BORN FREE" in large bold black uppercase letters. Above it, a blurb reads: "The story of the most remarkable association between man and wild beast ever told." The author's name appears below the title. An illustration depicts a woman (representing Joy Adamson) sitting on the ground affectionately face-to-face with a lion.

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More than half of the gas we export is given away royalty-free.

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Australia needs a parliamentary inquiry into AUKUS

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January 10, 2026 at 3:10 AM

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If you are a foreign president who commits crimes overseas, America will come get you, arrest you, and lock you up.

But if you are a US president who commits crimes here in the United States, America will give you immunity from prosecution, reelect you, and bribe you with billions of dollars.

January 4, 2026 at 12:26 AM

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Jack Smith: I'm not going to be intimidated.

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Ms. Crockett. And, just to kind of finish up on this point, you, yourself -- I'm not
9 sure if this was discussed by the majority, but have you, yourself, been intimidated as a
10 result of the actions that you took in this case.
11 The Witness. I'm not going to be intimidated.
12 Ms. Crockett. Have you been threatened.
13 The Witness. Yes.
14 Ms. Crockett. Have you learned of other persons, whether they worked under you
15 as attorneys or other support staff, are you aware of any threats that have been made
16 against any of them.
17 The Witness. Yes.

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unvarnished gutter racism and Nazism from the president. a disgrace to our country.

Much of the Minnesota Fraud, up to 90%, is caused by people that came into our Country, illegally, from Somalia. “Congresswoman” Omar, an ungrateful loser who only complains and never contributes, is one of the many scammers. Did she really marry her brother? Lowlifes like this can only be a liability to our Country’s greatness. Send them back from where they came, Somalia, perhaps the worst, and most corrupt, country on earth. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!

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My old pal @eniiler.bsky.social with a killer story. What we save defines us as a culture—the archive is our memory and our future. And we’re throwing it away? Madness.

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