Arkansas public television receives three-year, $3M pledge to keep PBS in state | Arkansas Advocate The network must retain its PBS membership and match every dollar with other donations for the pledged grant to be usable.

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A very smart country. 👍

The coolest thing about solar energy is that you don't need to invade another country to go get it. GREENPEACE

In other news, Jeffrey Dahmer apologizes to the people he ate ...

My boss wants to "reward" us by taking us out to dinner, but all that does for me is add several hours to my day where I have to eat probably mediocre food in a loud restaurant while I have to keep pretending to be a Normal Coworker.

Just let me go home, it's all the reward I need.

Archaeologists Find Homer’s Iliad Papyrus Inside a Mummy in Egypt - GreekReporter.com Archaeologists found a rare Iliad papyrus inside a Roman-era mummy in Egypt, highlighting the spread of Greek culture.

“Inside one of the mummies, the team discovered a rare papyrus containing a passage from Book II of the Iliad by Homer. The text includes part of the “Catalogue of Ships,” which lists Greek forces involved in the campaign against Troy.”

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The Qiantang river's tidal bore is the world's largest and most powerful of its kind. Sometimes two tides meet together forming a shape like a cross, that can become even more captivating at sunset.

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Took a night-train from Budapest Keleti to Stuttgart last night. They don’t make railway stations like they used to!

OPINION: "Donald Trump’s presidency is a morality lesson. He is a living example of what happens when a man is given power that far exceeds his character." thehill.com/opinion/whit...

This unusual looking sea slug has an unusual name–Bullock's Hypselodoris. hese vibrant creatures are nudibranchs, a type of shell-less marine gastropod mollusk often referred to as sea slugs.

THIS COULD BE US

Gray whales are starving. Some have died off Oregon Coast Gray whales aren't getting enough to eat to survive their long migration toward Alaska.

Sorry to post this for those who abhor seeing this kind of news about wildlife. But while we are collectively agonizing over the state of our nation, the state of our planet is probably the more urgent news.

Dirt road through the woods with White Birch tree arching over it..green moss and dried leaves lining the road surrounded by green pines.

Old road💚

The vividness of fresh spring greens is intoxicating. And don't you just love a mossy log?!

A thin sickle moon in the evening sky, glimpsed among the branches of the trees

Moon! 🌙

Lovely Bird Songs 🎶

Haunted by ‘Dark Thoughts,’ Louisiana Father Kills 8 Children

If this man had murdered eight strangers the story would lead every news outlet. But because they are his children, it's "family violence," "domestic violence" -- undeserving of the same attention. Even though this violence is much more common
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well... THAT's pretty eye opening, actually, Mike, to just say it out loud like that.

Did that sound different in your head?

Nobody likes a “things could be worse” politician. It ignores the struggles of the current reality with no promise for improvement.

He only cared about ONE thing...how it looked on TV. Enough has been said regarding the impossible healing job...not enough said about the depravity it takes to kill your followers to make good television.

...maybe - just maybe - he's actually the worst president in history

In a nutshell. 😊

Of COURSE he's insider trading. He's a crook, he's ALWAYS been a crook, he's using the presidency to make billions.

He ran to stay out of jail, to make money and to feel powerful, because that's what a narcissist like him gets off on. It was never about helping people.

We've all seen the videos of ICE pulling people out of their cars, shooting citizens with pepper balls, and even worse killing Americans in the streets.

This is not normal. And it cannot continue.

ICE needs commonsense guardrails NOW.

No "case of the Mondays" here! It's a gorgeous day in the Salish Sea and we're off to find some whales! 😎🐳

📷: Prince of Whales Whale Watching

Michigan gas station clerk saves teen from alleged kidnapper after she mouths ‘help’ In Hamtramck, Abdulrahman Abohatem placed himself between 16-year-old girl and man before police arrest

Then, she mouthed … to me, like with no sound: ‘Help,’” Abohatem recounted to the outlet. He described getting out from behind the front counter’s protective glass, placing himself between the man and the girl and ordering him to leave the business.

Hubble Spies an Active Spiral science.nasa.gov/missions/hub...
A luminous swirl set against the deep black of space, the barred spiral galaxy IC 486 glows with a soft, ethereal light in this new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image

Everything We Know About the Neon Orange Shark Discovered in Costa Rica It's just a nurse shark, but it has creepy white eyes and bright orange skin. Now, scientists think they finally know why.

Don’t flush goldfish, they just keep growing!

Except you said it’s NOT a war. Remember?