Russia shows no sign of an impending breakdown, political or economic. But from travel and wages to the priesthood and innovation, the war is impinging on almost every aspect of everyday life

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After 17 days of sliding, gliding and flying across snow and ice, the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics will conclude with a closing ceremony on Sunday beginning at 11:30 a.m. Pacific Time.

Hello! Apologies for having not really been on BlueSky lately - we're going at things hammer and tongs at the moment and are struggling to keep up with social media. Anyway, this is our big current project. If you're not a listener, please give it a try! www.threeravenspodcast.com/wales

Folklore is so much a part of our collective culture that it cannot help but spill out everywhere. It tumbles out of pub signs, street names, graffiti spat from spray cans. Manifests as wondrous acts of knitting. It is an essential element of us. – Dr. M. Benn #FolkloreSunday

Doing one thing right every few years doesn’t absolve the Roberts court. Especially after Dobbs and immunity.

I’ve written about this multiple times, but MOST countries aren’t prepared for this kind of war. I don’t think folks understand how much combat has evolved during the Russo-Ukrainian war. It’s unrecognizable from other modern conflicts. www.thetimes.com/business/com...

ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, monthslong expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

Listen to this interview with Maria farmer podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...

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‘Nothing’s changing’: Calgary man recovering in Ukraine sees no end to war

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO – Canada’s Rachel Homan has the first Olympic medal of her curling career.

I believe in giving credit where it’s due. Hang the entire Gorsuch concurrence in the Louvre. Master class in telling your colleagues they’ve lost their fucking minds.

Think of how bad things must be for a Supreme Court Justice to feel he has to explain why it's a good idea to have laws enacted by legislators instead of decreed by wannabe dictators

Arrogance is believing we can endlessly take without giving back. Arrogance is thinking technological cleverness will always save us from ecological collapse. Arrogance is assuming nature is a foe to be battled,rather than the very system that gives us life.

How doth it feele To be an experte yn a dying fielde? And how knoweste thou That it ys ovir whan you kan not let go? Kan not let go, kan not stop, or unrhyme Love ys learned ovir tyme Til thou art an expert yn a dying fielde. (the beths)

Online voter registration closes March 1! Verify your registration and get everything you need to vote on or before March 17 at elections.il.gov :)

Oregon’s graduation rate hit 83%, a new record. I am committed to supporting Oregon educators and strengthening student success, ensuring every child has equal opportunity to learn.

Folk thynke that innovacioun yn academia will come from technologye. It will come ynstead from settinge asyde olde assumptions and hierarchies and givinge people more chances to trulye and radicallye thynke wyth each othir wyth no specific outcome yn mynde.

BEOWULF BY ALL: "Readers will encounter the voices of over two hundred individuals, woven together into a reading experience that is at once productively dissonant, yet strangely coherent in its extreme variation." FREE OPEN ACCESS PDF DOWNLOAD: www.arc-humanities.org/978164189471...

F. Eugene Mikell playing homemade soap box cello. www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/ar...

Labour leader Ivana Bacik has called on the Government to launch a “thorough investigation” into any Irish links contained in the so-called Epstein files, saying the Taoiseach cannot delay action on the matter jrnl.ie/6963336

We'll all live if no one gives Larry Summers insanely high paychecks and public forums to be wrong in anymore. Same if Bills Gates and Clinton have to withdraw from public life. Dersh should have been gone decades ago. Chomsky, oof. Thiel, Musk, good riddance.

Lol. The most toxic part of our oligarchy would collapse, and the oligarchs would have you believe that means you, too. But it very much does not.

Today's news brief is here!

"As the housing and climate crises continue to merge, Congress’ final housing package must be as strong as possible to ensure greater housing affordability, stability, and resiliency. Unfortunately, parts of both bills fall short..." Read UCS's Zoe Middleton's blog to learn more:

Josh Marshall: “Today's decision is simply one of those cases where the Constitution happens to coincide with the Court's partial and illegitimate self-interest.”

So the Supreme Court (6-3) has finally demonstrated that there are limits to Trump’s power, striking down his global tariffs that invoked a 1977 national emergency law. This failed chapter of trade policy is not over, but this is a sliver of good news.

bottom line: a tax is a tax. and Congress's taxing power is fundamental. Framers gave Congress “alone access to the pockets of the people.” That itself has been honored in the breach in Trump 2.0 and has to count as a major surprise to Trump, who has been picking the peoples' pockets from day 1.

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The life of a toucan seen flying around the Las Vegas desert is at risk unless it can be captured soon.

#ThanksObama We still want the rest of the Epstein files though

Alysa Liu delivered the U.S. its first women’s figure skating Olympic gold medal in 24 years, performing a near-flawless free skate Thursday night.

Real question: who has the authority to arrest Pamela Jo — our AG?

Let’s all dream about Andy cracking like an egg and spilling all the t on tRumpf and all those effers 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽 #mixedmetaphor

Just a reminder that insta is owned by that zucker, f*ckerburg

It ys a moost terrible tyme. My greatest wisshe ys that you may fynde sum unpredicted moment of peace, delight, mirthe, pleasure, discoverye, connectioun, or fascinacioun that doth make yower day just a litel bettir, that doth helpe you thrugh. Ich wisshe thys for thee wyth all of myne hearte.

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

So, what about the Epstein Files and Trump's name mentioned all over them? www.mediaite.com/media/news/b...

Congress: he can’t go to war without us!!! I mean… technically, you’re right. Maybe do something about it other than a strongly worded letter.

Roses are redde Noble are the manatees For a bettir future Teach artes and humanityes

It’s wonderful to watch the ceremonies of spring/change unfolding— Imbolc or St. Brigid’s Day, the Lunar New Year, the fast of Ramadan, Holi, and soon Passover and Easter. The seasons continue to turn and offer us more and more chances to mark and celebrate the sacred all around us 💜✨

Stone, parchment or laser-etched glass? Scientists find new way to preserve data

'We're looking at women so shattered by abuse that they're either already dead or struggling daily.' @shelaghfogarty.bsky.social is 'flabbergasted' by Prince William's discussion on men's mental health when the Royals still have questions to answer about Andrew.

With little planning, our family permanently moved to Canada in 3 weeks. There's a lot I wish we'd known about immigration and other challenges.

“Fire Horse Dispatch” - a set of poems from The Luminous Procession: Poems From Within and Beyond the World of Red Dust open.substack.com/pub/thelumin...

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From ACLU

When a dictator was grabbed overnight, the most consequential religious response came from Rome — not America.