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Listening to White Working-Class Women in Coal Country - JSTOR Daily Researchers interviewed women in a Pennsylvania coal-mining town to understand how they coped with social and economic changes tied to deindustrialization.

Listening to White Working-Class Women in Coal Country
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17.10.2025 06:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
The front moves south

The front moves south

15th October 2025 18.00

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In Herbert Badham's 'The Night Bus,' (1943) the interior lights highlight the different figures and their gestures, all still, fixed in the moment. A woman reads a magazine, a man smokes, the conductor chats to a passenger.

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Millions read my post about adopting three children β€” here’s the full story As a teenager in care, Sue Wright made the decision not to have children of her own, but to foster others. Decades later, she has helped those in need from five to 40

Millions read my post about adopting three children β€” here’s the full story

www.thetimes.com/article/8d00...

16.10.2025 07:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Two years after 7 October and the kidnap of my parents, hate is in fashion. For all our sakes, we need compassion | Sharone Lifschitz

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With named storm Amy #StormAmy in the news this morning, maybe this one of "Windy Day on Marine Parade, Southend" by Brynhild Parker from 1930 might be appropriate. It is in the collection at the Beecroft Gallery in Southend. Originally exhibited as just "Southend", the modified title is perfect.

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Autumn in the zinnia garden
#DailyFlowers #photographersofbluesky #photographersunited #EastCoastKin #photography #flowers #BloomScrolling #BloomOnPurpose #flower #gardening #FlowerReport #zennia

02.10.2025 13:15 β€” πŸ‘ 140    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Study links greater inequality to structural changes in children’s brains

01.10.2025 07:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Can you spot the difference? 🧐

Labour MUST keep their promise for a fully publicly funded NHS

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Looking Through Broken Windows: The Impact of Neighborhood Disorder on Aggression and Fear of Crime Is an Artifact of Research Design | Annual Reviews Broken windows theory (BWT) has heavily influenced social science and policy over the past 30 years. It posits that disorder in neighborhoods leads to elevated crime by inviting additional criminal ac...

Looking Through Broken Windows: The Impact of Neighborhood Disorder on Aggression and Fear of Crime Is an Artifact of Research Design | Annual Reviews - www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

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From 8 October to 10 May 2026, Tate Modern is holding an exhibition of Nigerian Modernism and the achievements of Nigerian artists working before and after the decade of national independence from Britain in 1960.Β This picture 'Horsemen,' (1962) is by Jimo Akolo Fulani.

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β€˜It changed my view’: the letter campaign urging pupils in deprived areas to try university Personalised notes from students who share similar backgrounds are designed to make higher education feel more accessible

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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Say no to new PFI in our NHS - Labour conference action You can still stop the government's plan for new PFI in our NHS

Private finance has been a disaster for our public services. ❌

Say no to new #PFI in our #NHS. πŸ₯

Join us at #Labour conference to urge the government to change course ahead of their final decision in their autumn budget on 26 November.
Or you can email your MP today πŸ‘‡

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'Mevagissey, Cornwall.' (c1914) Like many female artists working at the beginning of the 20thC, Doris Zinkeisen’sΒ work traversed the boundaries between fine and decorative art; she was one of the firstΒ artists to enter the Belsen camp in April 1945.

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Special relationship? There can be no such thing with a snake like Trump | Aditya Chakrabortty Keir Starmer has spent the best part of a year cosying up to the US president. It will be no surprise when he gets bitten, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... excellent column

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The president is offering wealthy foreigners a fast-track to residency through the new Trump Gold Cardβ€”suggesting that "this administration thinks personal riches are a superpower of their own," @lil_smush argues in The Atlantic Daily.

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Trump’s β€˜royal’ visit how low can the uk go?

17.09.2025 17:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Charlie Kirk couldn’t have risen to prominence without robust free speech. Now MAGA leaders are seeking to use his death to silence debate, @GrahamDavidA writes in The Atlantic Daily:

17.09.2025 13:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Why I’m hosting a concert for Palestine at Wembley Arena | Brian Eno I hope tonight’s gig will have the same galvanising effect as the 1988 Nelson Mandela concert – and give people courage to speak out about Gaza, says music producer Brian Eno

Why I’m hosting a concert for Palestine at Wembley Arena | Brian Eno

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The colour and sense of movement within Auguste Macke's wonderfully vibrant 'Hussars on a Sortie,' (1913) suggests the influence of Robert Delaunay, whose work he had first seen at the inaugural Blaue Reiter exhibition two years earlier.

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Opinion | Our Vanishing Culture of Argument

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o...

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She Held Her Baby for an Hour. Then the State Took Her Away.

She Held Her Baby for an Hour. Then the State Took Her Away. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/w... how Denmark treats Greenlanders

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Overcast sky, flat sea

Overcast sky, flat sea

16th September 2025 06.49

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Curtain rise on another day.

Curtain rise on another day.

10th September 2025 06.34

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I’m running for Labour deputy leader because we can’t out-Reform Reform. But we can be more Labour | Bell Ribeiro-Addy delighted that @bellribeiroaddy.bsky.social is my MP a reminder of what Labour ought to be

10.09.2025 09:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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RFK Jr.’s enemies list just got a lot longer First Bernie Sanders. Then CDC directors. Now, more than 1,000 current and former HHS staffers are demanding he step down.

First Bernie Sanders. Then the CDC directors.

Now, more than 1,000 current and former HHS staffers are demanding he step down.

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Army officer admits sexual assault of teenager Jaysley Beck before she took her own life

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Ship and swallow head south, cloudless sky, flat sea

Ship and swallow head south, cloudless sky, flat sea

5th September 2025 06.27

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β€œFlorida is the first state to take the courageous step toward decluttering itself of excess children,” @petridishes writes on the state’s elimination of vaccine mandates. β€œNo price is too high to pay in this pointless war.”

05.09.2025 06:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him

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