SWALWELL: Did you ever tell the AG that Trump's name is in the Epstein files
PATEL: The AG and I have had numerous discussions about the entirety of the Epstein files
S: Did you tell AG that Trump's name is in the files?
P: *crashes out*
S: We'll take your evasiveness as consciousness of guilt
WOW -- a screaming Patel crashes out in response to Schiff's questions about Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell and calls him "the biggest fraud to ever sit in the United States Senate" and "an utter coward" and "political buffoon"
The Chinese vessel Yi Peng 3 has been chased, intercepted, and boarded by Danish Navy vessel Y311 Søløven after the Chinese vessel destroyed 2 undersea telecom cables linking Finland-Germany and Sweden-Lithuania.
According to reports, the vessel sailed from Russia & the captain is Russian. 🇨🇳🇷🇺🇩🇰
A 6,000-year-old necklace with three marble pendants. The beads are made of jet and limestone, which results in a black and white contrast that is typical of the jewellery of the Neolithic Schussenried culture, which was widespread in southwest Germany.
Found in...1/2
📷 me
🏺 #archaeology
Every few months there's a story in the newspapers about someone who has gone insane trying to explain the meaning of all the carvings in the caves below Coreham. Doctors call it 'manic pareidolia'. I cal it mystery arrogance. Not everything is meant for solving. – Dot Ash #VOH
A less complete, but somehow more evocative, stairway to nowhere at the great Clachtoll Broch, Sutherland
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For today's #MosaicMonday a representation of a fish-skeleton on a so-called asarotos oikos mosaic found in a private house in Aquileia, dating 1st century BC. Asarotos oikos ("unswept room") mosaics decorated the floors of triclinia, dining rooms. The foor... 🧵 1/2
🏺 AncientBluesky #archaeology
Boris Johnson is still repeating his completely untrue claim that “Brexit saved lives” with the vaccine rollout - and he’s now doing it completely unchallenged. How many times do I have to correct this boll****
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A simply extraordinary Iron Age staircase, preserved within the wall thickness of the ruinous #Broch tower at Dun Carloway, Isle of Lewis, in the Outer #Hebrides.
The sophisticated pre-Roman architecture here blew me away when I saw it this June - a real bucket-list moment
📷 My own 2024
Simpler times.
Newspaper clipping from 1906.
The best post-election political analysis I’ve seen.
Jeremy Clarkson, James Dyson, the Earl of Derby – they’re up in arms about paying tax on the vast areas of land they own.
Small farmers are worried that changes to Agricultural Property Relief (APR) will affect them. But who are the big landowners complaining the loudest? Thread: 1/
The fact that UCC hid a 3000-year-old mummy under the floorboards of a lecture theatre on a campus where two and a half tonnes of uranium rods were being stored in a basement nearby and DIDN'T end up with a zombie-pharaoh apocalypse is both a mystery and endlessly disappointing
"19 Take the piss. Humour is a weapon. Any man who feels the need to build a rocket is not overconfident about his masculinity. Work with that."
Always...🤣
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NEW: Is Britain’s welfare too generous?
Most countries pay workers who lose their jobs more than half of their previous salaries.
In Britain, unemployment benefits are *12%* of the average wage
@thetimes.com
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www.thetimes.com/article/c28d...
Just in case you lost your recipe and you wanted to make this today
Kemi Badenoch’s first approval ratings as Tory leader worse than Sunak and Johnson. Wow. That’s some achievement
www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/nov/16/kemi-badenochs-first-approval-ratings-as-tory-leader-worse-than-sunaks-and-johnsons
Indeed. When they rounded up the Japanese Americans, myself and my family included, for internment during WWII out of fear over Japanese spies and saboteurs, two thirds of us were U.S. citizens.
Don’t think it won’t happen again when they come for the “undocumented.”
There are over 100,000 galaxies in this image.
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More than 100 perforated soft limestone pebbles uncovered at the archaeologïcal site Nahal Ein-Gev II, located near the Sea of Galilee, may have been used as spindle whorls to produce yarn or cord some 12,000 years ago.
Photo credit Talia Yashuv.
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During our surveys we mainly encounter prehistoric stone artefacts, deep in the intertidal zone they are more abundant than anything more recent. Here is a biface made by a Neanderthal more the 40,000 years old
#FindsFriday
#FieldworkFriday
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Hiya Guy, Tog from UVAG 5. We went into Ffos y Fran together. Great books all of 'em.
There’s something extraordinary about this otherwise pretty standard Late Bronze Age axehead:
A human fingerprint. A real, visible and tangible connection to someone from 3000 years ago. If that doesn’t give you goosebumps, idk what will. 🥹
#FindsFriday
Link to record: finds.org.uk/database/art...
🚨FOR NEW PATIENTS NHS DENTISTRY HAS EFFECTIVELY CEASED TO EXIST
Government’s own shocking data shows a staggering 97% of new patients who try to get an NHS appointment fail to get one
People are forced to pull out their own teeth with pliers - it’s not Victorian medieval
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Lacipo, Casares, Spain.
Patients should know who is and is not a doctor.
If you are not yet familiar with the Physician Associates scandal watch this update
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That orange streak is Mercury with its glowing sodium plasma tail, passing in front of the Pleiades cluster.
Impressive capture by Dr Sebastian Voltmer.
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