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The picture shows a black-and-white photograph depicting a crow in profile. The bird is seen as a silhouette and sits on a coarse, gray concrete pillar from which metal rods protrude at the top. The background is a bright sky. The bird is located in the left third of the image, while most of the right half of the image is empty. The lighting conditions create a strong contrast between the dark bird and the bright sky.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay is all about the colour #Black

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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them. @propublica.org

In This Pageant, the Ugliest Face Wins

Contestants are judged on “the grotesqueness of the grimace and on the extent to which their facial features change,” according to the rules. @nytimes.com

Ancient Roman Gravestone Found in New Orleans Backyard Touches Off a Mystery

“Memory is the way you have an afterlife in the Roman world,” she said. “To be remembered is to exist beyond your regular lifetime.” @aimee-ortiz.bsky.social in @nytimes.com

LI's Latino delis struggle amid ICE arrests Business owners reported sales drops as high as 50% since President Trump took office in January.

Customers don’t want to risk leaving home, getting nabbed by ICE agents and being sent thousands of miles away from their Long Island families, he said. @davidolson11.bsky.social in @newsday.bsky.social

Why Blowing Up Venezuelan Boats Won’t Stop the Flow of Drugs President Trump says striking drug traffickers from Venezuela will prevent deadly drugs from reaching the United States. But the major smuggling routes are elsewhere.

The majority of the cocaine that is smuggled to the United States moves through the Pacific, not the Caribbean, U.S. data shows. @nytimes.com

Hindi, Greek and English all come from a single ancient language – here’s how we know This now-extinct tongue was probably spoken somewhere in Eurasia as many as 8,000 years ago. But how do we know Proto-Indo-European must have existed?

This now-extinct tongue was probably spoken somewhere in Eurasia as many as 8,000 years ago.

‘Mexodus’ Tells an Underground Railroad Story You’ve Probably Never Heard

"Being onstage offers a platform in which to spit hot fire." | ‘Mexodus’ Tells an Underground Railroad Story You’ve Probably Never Heard | @sopandeb.bsky.social in @nytimes.com

Postcard Sent From the U.N. Is Returned to Sender After 72 Years

The postcard, an update from Mr. Ball on his travels, provided the kind of quick message one might send in a text or a social media post today. @nytimes.com

Photos show Ghana's fantasy coffins as a stylish final rest ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — While fantasy coffins have been common among the Ga people of Accra, Ghana, they are becoming a widespread practice offering a colorful alternative to simple wooden boxes.

Each piece is crafted not just to bury the deceased, but to embody the essence of their life. They can be so colorful that they can make dying seem attractive. @apnews.com

Zinc Roofs Give Paris Its Signature Look. But They Are a Nightmare in Heat.

“All of these apartments, especially on the top floors, will become uninhabitable in the coming years,” said Dan Lert, deputy mayor in charge of the city’s ecological transition and its climate change plan. @nytimes.com

Man Is Identified 52 Years After He Vanished, Bringing ‘Rest’ to His Sisters

Even before the detective had explained, she said: “The tears started coming from me, you know, I just knew they had found him, in my heart. I just knew it.” @nytimes.com

What the Future Ocean Might Look Like Amid Climate Change, Overfishing and More Some marine ecosystems could soon be unrecognizable, according to new research. We mapped the possibilities.

Soon, many of Earth’s marine ecosystems could be fundamentally and forever altered if pressures like climate change, overfishing, ocean acidification and coastal development continue unabated, according to the authors. @nytimes.com

Carvings in marble in an arched marble ceiling over a stairway. A single round lamp hanging from the ceiling illuminates the space.

Looking up at the main branch of The New York Public Library.

Strangers Come Together to Deliver Baby Girl at Burning Man

“This should not be happening this way,” Mr. Thompson recalled thinking. He raced around in search of supplies and relied on the community of Burners, many of them strangers from nearby camps, as he and his wife experienced some of the scariest moments of their lives. @nytimes #BurningMan

Fewer People Are Reading for Fun, Study Finds

There is evidence that reading for pleasure has been declining since the 1940s, the researchers said, but they called the size of the latest decrease “surprising.” @nytimes.com

Yes, we have that in the story.

Florida Paints Over Rainbow Memorial for Victims of Pulse Nightclub Shooting

A rainbow crosswalk that was part of a memorial to the 49 people killed in a 2016 mass shooting at a popular gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., was painted over this week by the state of Florida. @nytimes.com

A Wild Card for the Board Game Business: Trump’s Tariffs

Trade volatility has created an existential threat for independent board game publishers in the United States, virtually all of which employ fewer than 10 workers. @nytimes.com

Who owns Frida Kahlo's legacy? The dispute over her trademark could impact other artists. The family of the late famous Mexican artist is in a legal dispute with the company that has long controlled products sold in the United States.

A legal dispute over how Frida Kahlo's trademarks can be used is before a Florida appeals court this summer and could set precedents that affect other artists. @nbcnews.com

Why the search for meaning can cause ‘purpose anxiety,’ and what to do about it We hear it from the time we're little. Find your purpose and you'll lead a healthier and more satisfying life. But how do you define purpose?

This is “purpose anxiety” — the gnawing sense that one’s life should have an overarching purpose. @apnews.com

The Visit by Anuk Arudpragasam From there the situation would quickly escalate, both of them bringing up recent affronts or humiliations, branching out to injuries from further back in time, wounds of increasingly ancient provenanc...

Started reading this short story about a daughter and mother while riding in the same direction and it took me all the way through, "...their silence becoming more and more rigid as the train took them beneath the river in the direction of Queens." In @parisreview.bsky.social

Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle.

Some faulted the tech industry, saying they felt “gaslit” about their career prospects. Others described their job search experiences as “bleak,” “disheartening” or “soul-crushing.” @nytimes.com

Completely bright red bird perched on a branch

Clearly, today calls for a summer tanager!
🌎 Northern California
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Eddie Palmieri, Latin Music’s Dynamic Innovator, Dies at 88

From the moment he founded his first steady band, the eight-piece La Perfecta, in 1961, Mr. Palmieri drove many of the stylistic shifts and creative leaps in Latin music. @nytimes.com

Flaco Jiménez, Grammy-Winning Master of the Tex-Mex Accordion, Dies at 86

Flaco Jiménez, Grammy-Winning Master of the Tex-Mex Accordion, Dies at 86. “I would consider our music as like a bouquet of roses in rainbow colors, you know?” he told The Worcester Telegram and Gazette in Massachusetts in 1990. @nytimes.com

This Classical Pianist Has Reached the Mountaintop. No, Really.

Picture a man seated at a piano beside a lake. It could also be on a mountaintop, in a forest or meadow. @sopandeb.bsky.social in @nytimes.com

He Read (at Least) 3,599 Books in His Lifetime. Now Anyone Can See His List.

Mr. Pelzer’s children said he was able to read 3,599 books from 1962, when he first began jotting his reads down on his language class work sheets while stationed in Nepal with the Peace Corps, to 2023, when his eyesight failed him. @aishvarya.bsky.social in @nytimes.com

tropical morning shower #rain #tropical #landscape #sky

There is a time for everything,
and a season for every #writing activity under the heavens:
a time to compose and a time to edit
a time to tear down and a time to build
a time to submit and a time to be rejected.