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Former diplomat and educator now cultivating my garden and interpreting it in photographs and essays.
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She speaks as a Trump campaign flack, not as an attorney general.

So, he was charged with being a paid driver transporting migrants unlawfully in the US.

There's something dark in me that hopes to learn these agents have a higher suicide rate than even cops.

Terrific news.

The Trump Administration is gutting federal support for meteorology.

Can anyone identify these fasces-looking arm patches on these masked immigration raiders from San Diego?

Frighteningly true.

The ever inevitable pissing contest between skunks.

My moon garden this fine morning. I sat and took in the fragrance for a very lovely long time.

No administration should be allowed to arbitrarily strip students of their legal status. Chinese students are a vital part of our universities and this cruel new policy will not only disrupt their studies, but put them at risk of deportation.

Ukraine’s forces launched a massive drone attack on airfields deep inside Russia that were home to strategic bombers used in air raids, in possibly their most audacious attack of the war. “More than 40 aircraft have been hit,” an official told @financialtimes.com. www.ft.com/content/16f3...

Impressive. kyivindependent.com/enemy-bomber...

#SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦

Heavily armed paramilitary forces stormed a local San Diego restaurant today, deployed stun grenades against a crowd of onlookers, and kidnapped a handful of kitchen workers.

My career was promoting international academic exchange. The reversal in policy is suicidal.

Twenty-one Skytte Prize winner in a joint letter in today's @financialtimes.com : “President Donald Trump and his administration are on a spectacularly dangerous path” Read more here : www.skytteprize.com/news/twenty-...

this is it

Ugly, ugly stuff. They're collapsing the Department of Veterans Affairs and the largest integrated healthcare system in America.

This is a must read. Brilliant book!

"On Tyranny" will be #2 on the NYT paperback and #13 in the combined e-book and paperback this week. I am glad it’s useful. New hardback is just out. And free posters to use and share are here. timothysnyder.org/resources/

“Little is more un-American than a federal bureaucrat demanding that a private university demonstrate its ideological fealty to the government under pain of punishment.” www.thefire.org/news/trump-b...

So Soviet. You will produce nails they will be 1 inch long.

This is especially important: “We call upon our fellow institutions of higher education in the United States to declare their willingness to facilitate the immediate co-enrollment of Harvard’s international students, including formal acceptance of transfer for immigration purposes.”

Yes.

Just learned that in his first general audience address yesterday, Pope Leo used a specific painting—Van Gogh's 1888 Sower at Sunset—to interpret the well-known parable of the sower. Here's the painting in question, and the relevant text from Leo's address. Good to know the new Pope is an art fan!

True.

The price of refusing the presidential morning intelligence briefing.

A Danish man living in Mississippi for a dozen years has been imprisoned in Louisiana for more than a month after ICE officers took him into custody because of a “paperwork miscommunication” during his effort to become a naturalized U.S. citizen, his wife says.

“stark reminder that the US should not take for granted its ‘exorbitant privilege’ that enabled it to issue debt at a relatively lower cost despite a very high fiscal deficit” www.ft.com/content/c1f3...