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Pope Leo XIV expressed solidarity with imprisoned journalists and affirmed the “precious gift of free speech and the press.” He spoke in an audience with some of the 6,000 journalists who descended on Rome to cover his election as the first American pontiff.

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There it is…

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Nobel laureate Erwin Schrödinger on how the parallels between quantum physics and Hindu philosophy illuminate the mystery of consciousness and what makes us who we are in an interconnected universe www.themarginalian.org/2021/11/03/e...

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The word 'orange' was the word for the fruit before it was the word for the color.

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Myths, facts, and poetic truth – Amy Lowell (one of the most underestimated geniuses of the past century) on legends as a lens on our limitations and our powers www.themarginalian.org/2022/06/30/a...

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A split Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Friday that Gov. Tony Evers’ partial veto in the last state budget extending school funding increases for an additional 400 years was within his constitutional powers. @bspears.bsky.social reports. wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/04/18/w...

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This is great news for our kids and schools, who deserve dependable state support, but our work is not done.

We cannot afford for Republican lawmakers to once again fail our kids and schools in our next budget. In the Year of the Kid, we must invest in K-12 education. www.nbc26.com/news/state/g...

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Democratic Governor Tony Evers has successfully increased school funding for the next 400 YEARS in Wisconsin by crossing out a few numbers in a bill to change it from “2024–25” to “2425.” The state Supreme Court just upheld his right to do so.

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A century ago, a forgotten Scottish writer and mystic offered the simplest, deepest definition of creativity and what makes a great work of art www.themarginalian.org/2022/07/08/a...

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This is fascinating: Improvisation and the quantum of consciousness www.themarginalian.org/2022/07/06/i...

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What birds dream about – the surprising science of how evolution designed REM in the bird brain so that we too may have our double lives at night www.themarginalian.org/2024/07/02/b...

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Schopenhauer's "porcupine dilemma" is the simplest, most profound thing I've encountered on the eternal problem of negotiating intimacy and independence:

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Here is an interesting adjective quirk that you probably aren’t even aware you are doing. In English, adjectives seem to follow a specific order: opinion - size - age - shape - color - origin - material - purpose - noun

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When the Oxford children's dictionary discarded dozens of nature-words—"dandelion," "fern," "starling"—as irrelevant to children's imagination and replaced them with words like "broadband" and "cut-and-paste," this inspired act of resistance was born: www.themarginalian.org/2019/06/17/t...

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Escher on creativity, with a side of Bach and Rachel Carson www.themarginalian.org/2022/10/04/e...

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"No amount of effort can save you from oblivion." A bittersweet look at the letters and journals of Kurt Cobain, who left us on this day in 1994

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China today branded US Vice President JD Vance ignorant and disrespectful after he claimed that America was borrowing money from “Chinese peasants.”

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Citing incidents of Israeli forces firing on and killing Palestinian medics and beating detainees, US Senator Peter Welch has urged the US government to apply what is known as the 'Leahy Law' to end offensive weapons sales to Israel. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/lc3cdo

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If you could use an oasis of tenderness in your day, here is Nathaniel Hawthorne's touching, philosophy-laced account of caring for his young son and their pet bunny

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“Tenderness is the most modest form of love. It is the kind of love that does not appear in the scriptures or the gospels… It appears wherever we take a close and careful look at another being, at something that is not our ‘self.’” Superb read:

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This is Salt Lake City, Utah. Amazing turnout for #HandsOff rally in a deep red state.

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Dear, Elon Best wishes from Wisconsin

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I don’t know who this guy is but I liked his sign! (NYC) HandsOff

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Imagine being an hideous person who is so stupid he has to pretend the only way people would dislike him is if they were paid to *pretend* to dislike him. What an idiot.

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This. ⬇️

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#handsoff Birmingham, Alabama

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Just got to the Mall and saw this sign, which no one is going to top. #HandsOff2025

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This one should be an award winner

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Very accurate...

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I kind of want to go

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"An act of pure attention, if you are capable of it, will bring its own answer." D. H. Lawrence on divination without mysticism

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