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Zelensky and E.U. Leaders Try to Understand Why Trump Abandoned Idea of a Cease-Fire President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine will go to Washington on Monday seeking answers.

After President Trump and President Vladimir Putin of Russia ended inconclusive peace talks, Ukraine, striving to avoid being sidelined, was left to piece together what the two leaders had actually discussed.

Just a girl trying to finish this degree in Business Administration to meet the requirement of having a degree for all these jobs I’m applying to 😅 Please engage/donate/share 🙏🏾🩵 t.co/RqQ9H8nWkG

And don't forget to sign them up for the Imagination Library, which is Dolly Parton's free book delivery service.
They send 1 book per month until the child turns 5. 😊

Listen closely as Carl Sagan explains how regular people can create change!

In inauguration, Leo urges end to division: It’s ‘the hour for love’ Leo, the first American and second Latin American pope, celebrated his inaugural mass at the Vatican after waving to the faithful on the popemobile.

The Catholic Church inaugurated its 267th pope on Sunday, who sought to position himself as a humble unifier in an age of arrogance, hatred and division.

A 4 ft x 4 ft painting of Nottoway burning that syrus made since Friday night

Been working on a painting this weekend of the enslaved labour camp burning down. Very relaxing.

surrounded by weeds
the crumbling church
still holding an opera of silence
for all those who can listen

#dailyhaikuprompt #silence

Rideal Me This | Rebecca Rideal | Substack History, true crime and everything in between with early modern historian Rebecca Rideal. Click to read Rideal Me This, by Rebecca Rideal, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

Little name change on my personal substack. Come and join me for histories, mysteries and more… open.substack.com/pub/rebeccar...

We cannot separate what has happened to working people over the last five decades from the dangerous lure of Trumpism. T The 10 Biggest Myths About Our Economy

We cannot separate what has happened to working people over the last five decades from the dangerous lure of Trumpism.

To build a path forward, we must debunk these 10 destructive myths about our rigged economy.

My past sketches

#booksky

Trump has canceled Biden's ethics rules. Critics call it the opposite of 'drain the swamp' Donald Trump took office eight years ago pledging to “drain the swamp” of the dominance of Washington influence peddlers.

Dear Dems. This is a reminder that Donald Trump rescinded the ethics rules preventing gifts to executive branch employees.

Now would be a good time to propose legislation formalizing the prevention into a law

Time to do things that make him react to you.
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Two hands hold a small red card with white lettering against a wallet. The card reads: “I do not wish to speak with you, answer your questions, or sign or hand you any documents based on my 5th Amendment rights under the United States Constitution. I do not give you permission to enter my home based on my 4th Amendment rights under the United States Constitution unless you have a warrant to enter, signed by a judge or magistrate with my name on it that you slide under the door. I do not give you permission to search any of my belongings based on my 4th Amendment rights. I choose to exercise my constitutional rights.” Photo by Loren Elliott for The New York Times.

Known as the red card, a resource distributed by the nonprofit Immigrant Legal Resource Center lists tips and legal rights for immigrants who might find themselves targeted by federal agents. Demand for the cards has surged since President Trump returned to office. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/u...

Yup.

BREAKING: The USDA has confirmed five additional dairy herds in California have tested positive for the virus, raising the total to 732.

Currently, 74% of the state's dairy herds are infected with H5N1.

except from HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT on how it's a coup

"In other countries, this would be called 'an authoritarian coup.' In America, mealy-mouthed officials call our transition into a mafia state 'deeply troubling' and do little to curb the damage."

-- HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020)

Wayans Family To Be Inducted Into NAACP Image Awards’ Hall Of Fame The NAACP said Thursday that the Wayans family will be inducted into the NAACP Image Awards Hall of Fame.

The Wayans Family will be inducted into the NAACP Image Awards’ Hall of Fame

This is what spending $290 million on an election gets you.

Money in politics has always corrupted, but it's hardly been this brazen.

The sorrow, hope and longing of Japan’s ‘Missing Post Office’ An old post office in southern Japan has become a destination, both tourist and postal, for people who are not yet ready to let go of their loved ones.

The “Missing Post Office” is a repository for 60,000-plus pieces of mail: letters, birthday cards and New Year’s greetings sent from all over Japan to those with no forwarding address.

Lost friends and pets; past and future selves; and, most frequently, the dead.

The cover of the book “On Tyranny, twenty lessons from the twentieth century.” By Timothy Snyder

I bought 10 of these locally and am now sticking them in all the tiny free libraries. #booksky #books

Announcing the Data.gov Archive lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/02...

The Peace of Wild Things Wendell Berry When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

I read this on dark days for a little solace.

NIH doesn’t just support infectious disease research—it drives breakthroughs in cancer, childhood diseases, heart disease, diabetes & more.

Thanks to NIH, we have:
💉 Cancer immunotherapy
❤️ Cholesterol-lowering statins
🩸 Insulin for diabetes

Investing in NIH = investing in life-saving discoveries.

I blame dystopian fiction for the expectations I am seeing. Ironically, those books largely come after 50 years (or more) for a reason. You think the revolution is immediate because that's when you're brought into the story. But if the fall took decades, the revolution also took decades.

Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Access to Treasury’s Payments System

An unelected billionaire, with no actual Congressional authority or govt experience, has access to Treasury payment systems and sensitive information about millions of Americans who receive Social Security checks, tax refunds, and other payments.

What could go wrong? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...

Reminder: Tariffs aren't paid by other countries.

They're eventually paid by us at the check out line.

The tariffs Trump is unleashing tomorrow on Mexico, Canada, and China — our biggest trading partners — are estimated to cost households an extra $1,250 annually.

The Words of the Week - Jan. 31 Dictionary lookups from sports, politics, and seismology

These are your words of the week

roster
hubris
liberation
Holocaust
conspiracy theorist
rescind
earthquake
sweven
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#SellingTheCity on Netflix has been spicy thus far