🇪🇺 🇺🇦 EU leaders will welcome Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday in Cyprus to celebrate the release of a 90-billion-euro ($105 billion) loan for Kyiv after a prolonged deadlock.
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#NationalPoetryMonth

Poetry Challenge Day 4: What The Stars Can Teach Us About Love (Gift Article) Writers have been pondering the sky for centuries, but this poem helps us feel a little less solitary. Brush up on its last lines today, and tomorrow we’ll talk about the whole thing.

Day 4 of the @nytimes.com #poetry challenge is a delight. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

What did I just watch.

Dorothea Lange & Ansel Adams photographed Manzanar, & their images reveal both the limits & the possibilities of outsiders documenting the camps. Toyo Miyatake was incarcerated there, & his smuggled & homemade camera models resistance & community. Welcome to the 5th Inning of Diamond in the Rough! 🗃️

Eric Klinenberg Is Keynote Speaker for Friends of Dallas Public LIbrary Luncheon As the city eyes a $2.6 million cut from the Dallas Public LIbrary system in the next budget, sociologist and author Eric Klinenberg says libraries are more important than ever.

As the city eyes a $2.6 million cut from the Dallas Public Library system in the next budget, sociologist and author Eric Klinenberg says libraries are more important than ever.

Reporter: What do you make of Republicans saying that Virginia—

AOC: Wah wah wah.

We have asked Republicans for 10 years to ban partisan gerrymandering. And for 10 years, Republicans have said no.

What they’re just mad at is that they have been accustomed to a Democratic Party that rolls over.

Poetry Challenge Day 3: W.H. Auden, The Poet and His Technique (Gift Article) It helps to be a little heartsick — and the best poet of your time. Our weeklong poetry challenge continues, including W.H. Auden himself reading “The More Loving One.”

Play along with me today www.nytimes.com/interactive/... #NationalPoetryMonth

Twice as many days as … J. Edgar Hoover?

Love Your Mother. Tabs, Wed., April 22, 2026 Happy Earth Day! Happy morning news roundup! Happy MONTREAL, COMIN' ATCHA!

It's your EARTH DAY (and Wednesday) morning news roundup!

Love Your Mother. Tabs, Wed., April 22, 2026
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By Rebecca Schoenkopf @wonkette.bsky.social

Black History Is a Place: The Promise of Black (Public) Geographies This article examines the struggle for civil rights memorialization in Winona, Mississippi, through a case study of Land, Literacy and Legacy (LLL). The article argues that Black history is a place...

"Black History Is a Place: The Promise of Black (Public) Geographies"
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#paywalled unless a member of the AAG
#blacksky

Happy Earth Day my friends

Gustave Doré’s depiction of Don Quixote amid his fantasies of chivalric romance: frontispiece to a 1863 edition of the 17th-century masterpiece of Miguel de Cervantes, who died #onthisday in 1616.

More on the imagery of Don Quixote here: publicdomainreview.org/essay/p... #otd

All this time I have followed you on the Bad Place and here, and you were just a witty entertaining guy to me. I had no idea. I appreciate you sharing this with us.

I mean, kinda. Broadly defined. If we include ideas.

I guess he’s not up to speed on WWI history

This cult-like behavior among people being considered for important positions should be disqualifying. Mullin got confirmed in spite of giving a similar non answer.

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I hope they keep doing it, not just for #NationalPoetryMonth @nytimes.com we love this!

This would be so sad if he wasn’t complicit in harming so many people, and so arrogant.

Shades of McCarthy at his nadir.

I completed day 2 of the Poetry Challenge! Let’s learn one poem together this week.

Day 2, all caught up. Highly recommend this little game with a big impact www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I completed day 1 of the Poetry Challenge! Let’s learn one poem together this week.

www.nytimes.com/shared/v2/20... it’s been a long while since I worked to memorize a poem. My brain feels better!

Just love the way our new wildlife pond provides mud for birds to line their nests. Magpies in the past few weeks, a female blackbird today. 😍

BREAKING: Federal Bill Would Put Big Oil Above the Law | Center for Climate Integrity Republicans Introduce Legislation to Give Fossil Fuel Companies Immunity from Any Laws or Lawsuits Seeking to Hold them Accountable for their Role in the Climate Crisis

Republicans know they are about to lose the House and are trying to give Big Oil its holy grail: legal immunity from any futures actions that would hold the industry responsible for the climate crisis it knowingly caused and is making worse every day.

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Abilene Is Paying The Price For Texas’ Billionaire Giveaways While billion-dollar tech companies get tax breaks, residents deal with rising rent, traffic, and a city pushed to the brink.

While billion-dollar tech companies get tax breaks, residents deal with rising rent, traffic, and a city pushed to the brink.

Today I turn 89. I’ve seen this country at its best and its worst, and I know how much community matters. For my birthday, I’m asking you to stand with PFLAG and support the work that’s helped so many in the LGBTQ+ community, including me. give.pflag.org/page/95493/d...

Infowars’ endless afterlife The Onion may finally boot Alex Jones from his studio, but years of damage have already been done.

NEW: How exactly has Alex Jones avoided paying the Sandy Hook families a single dime of what he owes? I wrote about it here, and spoke to Chris Mattei, an attorney for some of the families, and Lenny Pozner, the father of the youngest child who died at Sandy Hook: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The group, “Veterans Against Fascism”, was arrested after staging a protest inside the U.S. Capitol against Trump’s & Israel’s illegal war with Iran

Two men in fatigues with their hands ziptied being arrested by Capitol Police

Dozens of people in fatigues lined up in the Capitol Rotunda with signage demanding an end to the Iran War

Dozens of US military veterans were arrested at the Capitol today during a protest against the Iran War.

Photos via @frankthorp.bsky.social

Sorry to be overly sincere for a second, but here's why we decided to persevere through all of the bullshit and take over InfoWars.

There's just gotta be a line somewhere.

Thank you @pablo.show for letting me talk so openly about this.