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The United States appears to be in violation of the Budapest Memorandum which disarmed Ukraine of nuclear weapons in exchange for security guarantees. The agreement signed by the US in 1994 specifically prohibits economic coercion against Ukraine.

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The world is watching Donald Trump abandon Ukraine and our European allies to curry favor with the Kremlin. All of us — Democrats, Republicans, elected officials and ordinary citizens — must push back with every tool we have if we are to save our own democracy and others.

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Relax everyone, he’s just trolling us…

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The nepo baby who only succeeded because his father gave him $400,000,00o+ to conpensnate for his failed businesses.

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Right-wing censors are now "quiet banning" books that they can't removed legally. Librarians in Chicago have been finding books dealing with race, LGBTQ+ issues or Islam hidden under shelves, in trash cans or otherwise "disappeared." www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/22/l...

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The EU stepping in when the Russian compromised leader of the United States won't.

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For those at the back…

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O Canada 🇨🇦

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Colourful spring crocus flowers

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me being escorted by @sleepyneutrons.bsky.social and @ywfyf.com GOOOOOOD MORNING EVERYONE!!!! Hope you have an amazing day

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Heroin addict and steroid abuser wants the rest of us to to make as smart decisions about our health as he has.

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BRAVO to Maine Governor Janet Mills for slapping petty tyrant trump in the face with her calmly defiant "see you in court." THIS IS HOW IT'S DONE. 🔥🔥🔥

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QUEEN

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Gordon Lightfoot fucking rocks. That’s all

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Out in this very month during 1988, a mere 37 years ago, Marvel Age # 63 with its Russ Heath cover featured the character designs for a short-lived tilt at an animated X-Men cartoon series. (Heath’s work,in whatever genre & style,was always worth cycling across town for. Across a very big town too.)

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Wizards of Middle-earth 🧙‍♂️

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History will be brutal for him - the gravedigger of American democracy.

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Great job, American Seniors! Enjoy the results of voting for Trump... (and we know that some of you are still capable of thinking but the stats about your demographic cohort are damning - see comments)

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Who needs a spine!?

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In Born Yesterday (1950), a scene showed a National Symphony Orchestra concert at the Watergate steps behind the Lincoln Memorial. The orchestra played on a barge and people watched from the steps and canoes. The concerts ended in the 1960s and the NSO moved to Wolf Trap. Compare: a recent photo.

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A tiny, intensely illuminated Italian book of hours, newly acquired at the Boston Public Library. Copied in or around Brescia at the end of the 15th century, this book has never been in an institutional collection and will soon be digitized. Now BPL MS q Med.303 bpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S7...

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They’re still afraid. 🙄😒

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Appearing today in The Week:

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Every Winter ends.

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Pelosi was right All roads lead to Putin with this guy

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Russia has been planning this coup for a long time. Putin is finally getting his revenge for the USSR's collapse. It was always personal for him. As Nikita Khrushchev said in 1956: “We will take America without firing a shot. We do not have to invade the U.S. We will destroy you from within”.

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Speaking of pueo, the Hawaiian owl: NPS V.I.P. photographer Janice Wei has, ahem, a way with photographing their essential owlyness. Janice is on IG at: www.instagram.com/janice_weico... She focuses (ha ha) mostly on our partner Hawaiʻi Volcanoes NP, but is one heck of a bird photographer also.