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Random notes from a 5th floor cottage garden in Berlin
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The price of Tipp-ex has skyrocketed
$850k of taxpayer dollars to review and sanitize the Epstein files of all mentions of Trump? Talk about waste, fraud and abuse.
Emails show Trump's FBI paid $850K in overtime to agent to review and change Epstein files: report

www.rawstory.com/epstein-file...
November 26, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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April 2022 Income Tax Threshold £12,570
April 2031 Income Tax Threshold £12,570

Should be about £16,970.

Meaning every person earning £16,970 or more is paying £1,231.86 more in tax.

Threshold freezes are a tax on the poorest.
November 26, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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November 26, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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“Fostering the Future,” which aims to support young people aging out of the foster-care system, is paired with an effort to put the religious rights of people who wish to foster above the civil rights of L.B.G.T.Q.+ youth.
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/vRetrp
For Trump, “Fostering the Future” Looks a Lot Like the Past
By putting the religious rights of potential foster parents above the civil rights of L.G.B.T.Q. youth, a new executive order reënacts the original sin of the child-welfare system.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 26, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Rewilding can breathe new life into tired landscapes, reshaping the mundane into the miraculous. A future where nature lies in ruin isn't one where the human spirit can be free.
share.google/RgumpDH6cvrE...
Rewilding for nature recovery
It's easy to see the benefits of letting natural processes take the reins
share.google
November 26, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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South Carolina’s measles outbreak isn’t yet as large as those in other states, such as New Mexico, Arizona, and Kansas. But it highlights a confluence of larger trends — including historically low vaccination rates, skepticism fueled by the pandemic, misinformation, and “health freedom” ideologies.
South Carolina’s Measles Outbreak Illustrates Danger of Vaccine Misinformation
A confluence of larger national trends threaten communities with reemergence of a preventable, potentially deadly virus.
truthout.org
November 26, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Auguste Herbin (France, 1882-1960) :
Composition inspirée par la danse, 1942

Oil on canvas
36-¼ x 28-¾ in | 92 x 73 cm

National Museum of Modern Art
Centre Georges Pompidou
November 26, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Earlier this week I had this debate about wealth taxes, austerity and spending.

The Labour MP attacks me repeatedly - Labour Government have taken to doing the same thing.

Interesting people can absolutely see through it & aren't going to be distracted.

youtu.be/1onr7pAEFRE?...
Is Labour being outflanked by Polanski and Farage? Reeves budget debate
YouTube video by Channel 4 News
youtu.be
November 26, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Of course, no one seems willing to hold him accountable. A judge in Georgia has now dismissed the last remaining criminal case against Trump, effectively ending any effort to hold him criminally responsible for trying to overturn the 2020 election.
November 26, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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'Sea at Sunset,' was painted towards the end of James Dickson Innes' working life, and was likely to have been done at Rye in Sussex where he went to work with Frank Slade and other friends in 1913. He died from tuberculosis the following year, aged 27.
November 26, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Jesus CHRIST
November 26, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Every ten minutes last year a woman somewhere in the world was killed by a person close to her, the United Nations has said, as it decried a lack of progress in the battle against femicide
One woman killed by someone close every ten minutes - UN
Every ten minutes last year a woman somewhere in the world was killed by a person close to her, the United Nations has said, as it decried a lack of progress in the battle against femicide.
www.rte.ie
November 25, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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Gabriele Münter (1916)
November 26, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Spiral pendant, ca. 7th–6th century BCE
Culture: Iran
Medium: Silver
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/325958
November 26, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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#OtD 26 Nov 1920 the Red Army attacked its allies, the Makhnovists in Ukraine, after the latter defeated the Whites. Russian troops attacked in Crimea and Huliaipole, and arrested and executed many. Rebel leader Nestor Makhno managed to escape. More: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
November 26, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Goodnight.
🖼️ El árbol Lawrence, Georgia O'Keeffe, 1929.
November 26, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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MeisterEbner meistert orthopädische Schuhe in Wien.
Verbreitet das bitte. Wäre schade, wenn er seinen Betrieb nicht mehr weiterführen könnte.
Leider mal wieder was in eigener Sache. Bis Weihnachten entscheidt sich ob ich den Betrieb weiterführen darf oder der Insolvenzverwalter zudreht.

Wenn also wer wen weiß der orth. Schuhe/Einlagen über die KK braucht bitte an mich denken. Wäre ganz lieb. Näheres per PN. Danke
November 26, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Our convicted felon president, who pardoned Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the Proud Boys convicted of seditious conspiracy, wants to charge Mark Kelly, a decorated war veteran and astronaut, with seditious conspiracy.

That’s some next-level banana republic shit right there.
November 26, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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In today's Budget, the Chancellor spoke about building the economy “brick by brick” but left out the very foundation that underpins it all: nature.

The same Government that promised to restore our natural world appears instead to have wiped it from their agenda.
November 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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“The old Irishman taking his pig to market.”

One of several novel banana-based creations found in “Quaint Dessert Dishes”, an article from a 1911 issue of American Homes and Gardens: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/quaint-desserts/ #thanksgiving
November 26, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Kleine Inspiration
November 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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#UkrainianView
If I survive until the day when Epstein Files are published, tag me and say:
1) How many Black men were there?
2) How many trans women?

I remember that "prospensity to sexual violence and paedophilia among these groups" was one of the arguments to vote for Trump.😂
🔽
November 26, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Bondi really wants to go to prison when this is over.
🚨BREAKING: The FBI has requested interviews with a group of Democratic lawmakers who reminded U.S. military and intelligence service members in a video last week that they are obligated to refuse illegal orders. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
FBI Investigating Dems Who Warned Military of Unlawful Orders
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Site in Kenya reveals 300,000 years of uninterrupted toolmaking. Archaeologists uncovered nearly 1,300 stone tools spanning 2.44 to 2.75 million years, showing that early hominins taught and replicated the same techniques across roughly 10,000 generations. buff.ly/zQvktxJ
#ShareGoodNewsToo
Advanced 2.5 Million-Year-Old Tools May Rewrite Human History
Early humans crafted the same tools for hundreds of thousands of years, offering an unprecedented glimpse of a continuous tradition that may push back the origins of technology.
buff.ly
November 26, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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A 13-year search for one of the world's rarest flowers in Indonesia ends in a 'magical experience'
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Researcher cries after finding rare flower in Indonesia
A team of researchers describe the "magical" experience of finding a rare species of flower in bloom deep in the Sumatran rainforest after a 23-hour trek.
www.abc.net.au
November 26, 2025 at 12:13 AM