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Lights … camera … attraction! The 31 most romantic moments in cinema From thwarted love in Casablanca to awkward listening in Before Sunrise and bicycle jinks in Butch Cassidy, our writers pick their most passionate scenes for Valentine’s Day

Lights … camera … attraction! The 31 most romantic moments in cinema

Kash Patel Took $25,000 From Russia-Linked Firm to Appear on an Anti-FBI TV Series The documentary was produced by a filmmaker tied to Russian propaganda efforts.

SCOOP: Kash Patel—whom Donald Trump has nominated to head the FBI—took $25,000 from a production company with ties to Russia propaganda activity to appear in an anti-FBI docuseries.

Gutting USAID threatens billions of dollars for U.S. farms, businesses U.S. businesses that sold goods and services to USAID are in limbo, including American farms dealing in rice, wheat and soybeans.

US farmers sold $2 billion of food to USAID. Not any more.

- US farmers provided 41% of food delivered by USAID
- $340M of purchases/shipments are now paused. Over 680,000 tonnes.
- Food stranded in Houston
- Aid stopped in transit.

The world’s poor starving, food rotting & US farmers screwed.

Even of nothing comes of this...it just made Americans and Israelis very very unsafe. Nutjobs in Gaza and across the ME could not have asked for a better recruitment tool.

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Winter wonder: Jeanette Winterson and others reveal why the cold has them under its spell Too dark, too cold – winter’s charms aren’t as obvious as summer’s brassy joys. But for Robert Macfarlane, Alice Oswald, Poppy Okotcha and others, this is a rich season. Here, they offer ways to lean into it, with an introduction by Jeanette Winterson…

Winter wonder: Jeanette Winterson and others reveal why the cold has them under its spell

Trump’s neofascism is here now. Here are 10 things you can do to resist | Robert Reich America has deep problems, which is why we can’t give up. Protect the vulnerable, organize boycotts and keep fighting In light of Trump II’s predictably cruel and bonkers beginning, many people are asking: “What can I do now?” Here are 10…

Trump’s neofascism is here now. Here are 10 things you can do to resist | Robert Reich

Britain’s response to Russian ‘spy ship’ is game of political messaging – for now Deteriorating security environment and incidents in Baltic have forced military reassessment in northern Europe Submarines normally operate in secret, lurking in the deep. So when the British defence secretary, John Healey, authorised a Royal Navy…

Britain’s response to Russian ‘spy ship’ is game of political messaging – for now

Leonard Leo helped install the conservative supermajority on the U.S. Supreme Court. But his reach extends far beyond that.

Listen to the "We Don't Talk about Leonard" podcast — now a duPont-Columbia award winner: propub.li/4jrAX5W

Katherine pretty much nails it ..

This is written by the bishop who stood up to Orange Voldemort. Everyone should be buying this. It's available on Amazon for $14. I'm an atheist and I'm buying it. #booksky

Science fiction....or???

gravitational bleeding think magnetic lines around .........

TRIED TO WARN YOU!

The heart shaped Antennaea galaxies.

The Heart Shaped Antennae Galaxies.🔭

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