A couple of shots of the Vondel Church I took when I went to Amsterdam last fall. Sadly, this historic building burned to the ground on New Year’s Eve, likely due to fireworks

What is the plural of syllabus? At the end of an ancient papyrus or parchment scroll would sometimes be a hanging tag called a σιττύβα that was later misread as σίλλυβος (sillybos). This tag transmitted the title or author of the work. Thus the true neo-Greek plural should be sillyboi, which is fun.

I’ve long maintained that it was a mistake for Congress to have abolished itself.

You can watch the conversation here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Pjv... ⬇️ @weissmann.substack.com

You can watch the conversation here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Pjv... ⬇️ @weissmann.substack.com

'The Running of the Deer' by contemporary UK artist Catherine Hyde #womensart

Day 9, #12DaysWild. Cheshire sunset.

„Bitte nehmt die Worte der Rechtsradikalen ernst. Bitte tut alles, um ihnen das Handwerk zu legen." Heute wird Leon Weintraub, der vier Konzentrationslager überlebte, 100 Jahre alt. Der jüdische Mediziner aus Lodz lebt in Schweden.

A new year’s wish from 75 years ago to today by Alice Horodisch-Garman, Amsterdam, 1950. © Joods Cultureel Kwartier

Happy New Year from us all here at Team Mariposa! Wishing you a year ahead filled with friendship, happiness, good health, and wildlife wonders. Butterflies and orchids will always have a special place in our hearts, so how better to celebrate the dawn of a new year than with them.

Andrew Weissmann & Mary McCord are 'Ending the Year with Good News' in this new episode of their essential podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e... Woo-hoo 🥳 @weissmann.substack.com

Le métier de correcteur a longtemps été lié à des milieux libertaires. Un paradoxe ? Pas vraiment : ces figures voyaient dans la langue un moyen d’émancipation et d’accès au savoir. ➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/1T8

The wonderful hearing dog Dolly is always the perfect customer 🐕‍🦺 Dolly always shows lovely focus on her deaf partner, Nicola, when they're out in public and she did a super job during their recent visit to the shops. Well done Dolly 🐾🐶

Exclusive: A year after Tenet Media was busted for funneling Russian money to MAGA pundits like Benny Johnson and Tim Pool, a Trump administration effort involving State and the FBI has welcomed Tenet's founders back into the US. @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/lauren-che...

🔭 NGC 1898: Globular Cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25122...

“Would you be surprised if President Trump directs the DOJ to indict you?” Jack Smith: “No.”

I am looking back at 2025. These are my January favourites 🥰 taken around Ely, Cambridgeshire and Titchwell in Norfolk. Is nature beautiful in Winter?

💥Happy Scary Boom Booms 💥 Day to all who celebrate ! 🎇 🎆

Pour les fêtes de fin d’année, elle rayonne de mille feux ! #Photoday #Paris #UnJourUnePhoto #Canon #Photos 📷

Andrew Weissmann & Mary McCord are 'Ending the Year with Good News' in this new episode of their essential podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e... Woo-hoo 🥳 @weissmann.substack.com

and here's Halley, in her hearing dog training 🧏🐕‍🦺 ⬇️

Andrew Weissmann on Nicolle Wallace's show: archive.org/details/MSNO... (archived via GDELT Project) @weissmann.substack.com see if you can spot Innis 🐾💕

Mary McCord and Ankush Khardori on ms.now The Weeknight www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8u5...

Zum Zuhören: Rachel Salamander über 'Die Reichenbach' Synagoge, die durch ihre Initiative kürzlich wiedereröffnet wurde, über ihre Erfahrungen im DP Lager und über Antisemitismus als Symptom einer demokratischen Krise www.deutschlandfunk.de/erinnerungsk... (via DLF.de)

Day 5, #12DaysWild. Close encounter with a Robin in the Wigton allotments. 📷 #photography

Militias and far-right extremists believed they would be central to Trump’s mass deportation plans. Instead he militarized law enforcement agencies. www.wired.com/story/expire...

Winter in the Caledonian forest ❄️ The landscape transforms into a #winter wonderland with snow-dusted glens and frost-covered trees.🌲 #Rewilding ensures that Scotland’s precious species - from red squirrels to crested tits - have the #habitats they need to thrive.

Maya Wiley, Andrew Weissmann: On the heavily-redacted release of a small portion of tthe files www.ms.now/the-beat-wit... ⬇️ @weissmann.substack.com

Kafkaesque open.substack.com/pub/weissman...

Is this the moment to escape the alternate timeline.. www.npr.org/2025/12/21/n...

"The book had seemingly been hiding in plain sight for many years, and was only discovered when over 800,000 library cards were digitised" ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=0V0U..., via Lund University 12/9 & www.sydsvenskan.se/lund/fantast...

He's aced it 🎉 That's right, amazing Ace has passed the final stage of his hearing dog training - the Puppy 4 Star ⭐ He's been doing a brilliant job learning the sounds he'll alert his future deaf partner to, and up next is his final assessment. Well done Team Ace 🎉

Wishing everyone a peaceful and rejuvenating Winter Solstice ❄️☀️❄️💛❄️☀️❄️ Spend some time in nature, light some candles and welcome the turning of the year. Ely, Cambridgeshire “Welcome, winter. Your late dawns and chilled breath make me lazy, but I love you nonetheless.” — Terri Guillemets

Cardinal Sunday in @centralparknyc.bsky.social

#TVTipp Rachel Salamander spricht im BR über die wiedereröffnete Synagoge #Reichenbachstraße:

Wildflowers found this weekend to celebrate the #WinterSolstice: Dandelion, snowdrop, periwinkle, cyclamen, white dead-nettle, daisy, dog violet, hogweed, female hazel flower, and male hazel catkins. #WildflowerHour #TheWinter10

Happy #NationalRobinDay !

St Michael the Archangel, St Mary’s Church, Wreay. 📷 #photography

AI is nothing like the brain. And that’s okay.

Light the darkness #Hanukkah #8thNight A quiet night for us - but knowing that in lighting the candles, I’m with my father, Werner Weissenberg, and creating light as Oma Else & Opa Leopold did before us. They are always with me, in a tradition handed down my family through many generations 🕎

Oh my god oh my god oh my goddddd the local aquarium has three new born otters and they CHIRP

My introduction to the heroic and gifted Rachela Auerback came via *Who Will Write Our History?*, a free educational version of which is available via @facinghistoryuk.bsky.social: www.facinghistory.org/resource-lib...

This is key; the biggest thing that didn't happen yesterday is neither Trump nor DOJ stated that everything with Trump's name on it or with his image has been disclosed. If you have nothing to hide, wouldn't that be what you would do? Instead, looks like DOJ is continuing the cover-up, as Ryan notes

A late afternoon walk round Ferry Meadows featuring a charm of Goldfinches on burdock, bare trees lit by low winter sun, the very last Parrot Waxcaps and a cheeky Carrion Crow, giving me the side-eye. #birds #fungi

Very good Vegas 🎉 Our clever Lab has passed the second stage of his hearing dog training - the Puppy 2 Star ⭐ Next up will be his own burgundy training jacket which he'll wear as he visits public places and takes his first trip on the train 🐕‍🦺 Well done Team Vegas 🐾🥰