Another Noem Controversy Brewing – Inside Politics with Dana Bash and Manu Raju https://www.europesays.com/2784328/ Another Noem Controversy Brewing – Inside Politics with Dana Bash and Manu Raju – Podcast on CNN Podcasts…

I hope so!

Need some good news today? This made me happy!

Laaaaad…. @destroytime.bsky.social

Israel's government has approved a process to register land in the West Bank as "state property", drawing condemnation from Arab nations and critics who said it would accelerate annexation of the Palestinian territory. u.afp.com/S6N8

A colossal metallic robot depicting Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva towered over Rio de Janeiro's famed Sambadrome avenue in a Carnival parade that has drawn fire for its tribute to a sitting president in an election year.

This afternoon. #Kingston #Jamaica

The Solar Chromisphere - From Ryan Kinnett (rkinnett.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2qa1xzW

Just want to thank everyone for their support of the Sounds of the Caribbean Podcast We making waves this week in the music category on Apple Podcasts just like a mighty dread #ReggaeSky #TrulyHumbled 🙏🎶🔥

Delicate beauty Those things that are sent into our world to remind us to slow down and take a look...

Not many birds stick around northern Illinois for the winter. But the few that do sure are beautiful. #BirdoftheDay #WinterSurvivors Hairy woodpecker on the left, Downy woodpecker on the right. (Same tree for scale)

The pockmarked earth on Johannesburg's eastern fringe, until last week a humble cattle kraal ringed with barbed wire, now stands as the unlikely centre of South Africa's latest gold fever – as gold prices have surged past $5,000 an ounce this year. u.afp.com/S6NQ

Good question. Also snowman building.

open.substack.com/pub/meidasto... “Rubio was in Hungary campaigning for Viktor Orban before their elections.Orban is trailing in the polls to Peter Magyar: “We are entering the golden era of relations between our two countries. I don’t think it’s any mystery…how the president feels about you.”

www.commondreams.org/news/marco-r... “Critics viewed the US secretary of state’s speech—both the explicit words and its undertones—as a self-serving interpretation of the past and a dangerous vision of the future, and expressed alarm at the celebratory response from the Munich crowd.”

'The divine will come': On Lord Shiva's night, Hindus channel deity's energy at the heart of creation

"If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves and allow those responsible to salve their conscience by believing that they have our acceptance and concurrence.” ~ Mary McLeod Bethune

Male House Sparrow Wound up and ready...

Firefighters rescue injured seabird desperately pecking at hospital door https://www.europesays.com/2784072/ BERLIN (AP) — An injured seabird sought help by pecking at the door of an emergency room at…

Colorful floating sculptures will fly over downtown Denver this summer trib.al/lmSBe2C

Nella 4ª e ultima manche del Bob femminile nessuna italiana qualificata ma c'è la Giamaicana Mica Moore 🇯🇲🔥

Feel the rhythm, feel the rhyme… Mica Moore of Jamaica(!!!) is off in the monobob

A fisherman is Jamaica's new bobsled pilot. He wants to make the team known beyond 'Cool Runnings' CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Monday would have been a fantastic day for fishing in Jamaica. The weather was just about perfect with bright sunshine, forecasters calling for temperatures in the l...

...and this from Phenomenon 🎬 will be the image that lasts for the rest of my life. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xp6...

Of course I know –memento mori– I get it! But it still stings when you have built a connection. Favourite moments cascade, his debut in to Kill a Mockingbird, oh my🥹

Chatbots may give students quick answers when they have questions, but they won’t help students form relationships that matter for college and life success.

Ending Sunday with... • Siegfried Sassoon •

AI is only growing in importance because everybody keeps saying it is, when everybody should be commenting on how rubbish it is as a technology. AP too is guilty of this. As in other areas of reporting, it's been deeply disappointing in the last couple of years. Please go back to proper standards.

Bangladesh's interim leader Muhammad Yunus made a farewell broadcast to the nation before handing over to an elected government. The 85-year-old Nobel peace prize winner has been Bangladesh’s ‘chief adviser’ since a 2024 popular uprising. u.afp.com/S6Gy

The practice called ‘manifesting’ lets factory farms make manure pollution legally invisible and evade liability.

Robert Duvall, Chameleonlike Actor of Film, Stage and TV, Dies at 95 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/m...

www.bbc.com/news/article... “Akangbe Ogun was one of those helping to safeguard the forest from misuse, even confronting and getting into scrapes with those trying to fish in the sacred River Osun, where such activities were prohibited, to preserve the pristine environment.”

open.substack.com/pub/continen... Back in 2008, Zimbabweans overwhelmingly supported a new constitution that set presidential term limits at two five-year terms. But… (President Mnangagwa’s nickname is “The Crocodile.”)

C’est un immense honneur de recevoir l’Ordre national du Mérite de Lituanie ! Cette distinction, décernée par le président de la République à l'occasion de la fête d'indépendance de la Lituanie, vient saluer mon engagement européen, ma contribution aux relations qui lient la France et la Lituanie.

Ten Lost Roman Wonders: The World’s Longest Tunnel, Tallest Dam, Widest-Spanning Bridge & More

Born from protest and the struggle for workers’ rights, Labour now tightens the laws once used to challenge power, targeting animal rights protesters. Irony, or mission drift? @eastangliabylines.co.uk

A genuinely informative watch. @drandrewthaler.bsky.social continues to be one of the clearest, strongest voices advocating for the deep sea and sound science.

For #molluscmonday the the red-lined bubble snail (Bullina lineata). Although delicate looking, they are voracious predators on small worms.

Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted child sex trafficker, gets gardening time, sports, therapy dogs, and spa products in prison. Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water. Our priorities are so fucked.

It’s hard to overstate how vulnerable Cuba is right now in terms of attempts by the Trump administration to bring about the sort of regime change they orchestrated in Venezuela, writes David Pratt ✍️

I agree with this. I am becoming convinced that AI is all hype. As a consumer, I avoid it as much as possible.

India is hosting an artificial intelligence summit this week, bringing together heads of state, senior officials and tech executives to New Delhi for a five-day gathering highlighting the growing global importance of the technology.

North Korea said it completed a new housing district in Pyongyang for families of North Korean soldiers killed while fighting alongside Russian forces in Ukraine, the latest effort by leader Kim Jong Un to honor the war dead.

A wisp of early morning mist, helping create the right conditions for epiphytic super-abundance. That is, for an Irish Atlantic rainforest.

"All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again." ~ James M. Barrie Springtime (1889) 🎨 Alfred Sisley

"But only be good, dear, only be brave, only be kind and true always, and then you will never hurt any one, so long as you live, and you may help many, and the big world may be better because my little child was born." ~ Frances Hodgson Burnett