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The Pope privately received this morning, after the general audience, Cardinal Dominique Joseph Mathieu, Archbishop of Tehran-Isfahan.
Brilliant 🏆
Isata Kanneh-Mason absolutely tears through Rachmaninoff’s fiendish Piano Concerto No. 3 with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
Pope Leo in Roman parish visit: “Reject all forms of violence, hatred, and division, and strive to be promoters of peace and reconciliation in today's world. Thus, from a young age, we can all learn to be peacemakers, something truly necessary in our world today.”
Happy International Women’s Day!
🦊Meet and Greet 🦊
Let’s celebrate the wonderful women in our lives
Everything that they do and what they have achieved
⏰Daylight Savings Time⏰
It’s time to “Spring Forward”
Did you remember to set your clocks ahead 1 hour?
We will be okay
❤️Love❤️
🦊Foxy🦊
Geopolitical turmoil in the Middle East once again shows that reliance on volatile oil and gas exposes economies to price shocks.
Renewables, electrification and storage offer more stable long term energy costs and stronger energy security.
As of yesterday, the Straits of Hormuz remain de facto shut, in contrast to around 100 ships going back and forth daily prior to hostilities. Iran has an asymmetric advantage. It's cheap to use a drone to blow up an oil tanker with disastrous consequences...
robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/the-blocka...
Pope Leo quotes Gaudium et Spes: “Insofar as men are sinful, the threat of war hangs over them, and hang over them it will until the return of Christ. But insofar as men vanquish sin by a union of love, they will vanquish violence as well.” www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...
The Brent oil price is about to hit $90 per barrel and this is why: on any normal day, there's 60 oil tankers going in and out of the Straits of Hormuz. That number is zero at the moment and will be really hard to get back up. This is a massive shock...
robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/oil-tanker...
From PEW
Student Success | How One HBCU Is Building a Rural Dental Workforce
Meharry Medical College trains students through mobile clinics to close dental care gaps in underserved communities—including youth in state custody. https://bit.ly/4srG4GL
#EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd
Good news: Scientists were wrong about how bad sea level rise is.
Bad news: It’s even worse than we thought.
Hiding my little hands so no one here can measure them
Biggest exporters to Iran - in descending order - are: (1) UAE; (2) China; (3) Turkey; (4) EU; and (5) India. Iran is a tiny economy, but at the margin this makes markets even more negative on oil importers like Turkey and India when markets open tonight...
robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/what-iran-...
"The Peace President."
Struck a deal to contain Iran's nuclear program forever.
Didn't go to war in Iran.
DID IT ALL IN A TAN SUIT.
Make America Dumb Again.
BTW...
Hegesth went to Princeton and Harvard.
Trump went to University of Pennsylvania
Bessent went to Yale
JD Vance went to Yale Law
RFK Jr. went to Harvard
Burgum went to Stanford
Wright went to MIT
Pope Leo: “Peace cannot be postponed. It is an urgent necessity that must find a home in our hearts and be translated into responsible decisions.”
Vatican releases message for the Feast of Ramadan: “Indeed, we — Christians and Muslims, together with all people of good will — are called to imagine and to open new paths by which life may be renewed.” press.vatican.va/content/sala...
Mifflin Gibbs came to Canada for a better life.
In that new life he prospered, becoming an activist, elected official and even played a role in getting British Columbia to join Canada.
This is the story of one of BC's most important early residents.
🧵1/10
In China, the rapid buildout of wind and solar power is pushing coal into decline.
To aid the shift to renewables, China is now upgrading its vast fleet of coal plants to serve as a complement to wind and solar, rather than a source of baseload power.
Pope Leo: “Jesus teaches us that true righteousness consists in love and that, within every precept of the Law, we must learn to identify a call to love. Indeed, it is not sufficient to refrain from killing a person physically if one then kills with words and undermines the dignity of the other.”
President Obama speaks about Bad Bunny
#Pinks #ProudBlue #SheShed
Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."
We rewatched the halftime show and the closing is so powerful. Bad Bunny’s final messages during his Super Bowl performance:
“The only thing more powerful than hate is love.”
“Together, we are America.”
#academicsky
