LIVE: The 81st anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz youtube.com/live/IDDsf4Y...

Mala Zimetbaum was a Jewish woman born in Brzesko in Poland, on 26 January 1918. In 1944, Zimetbaum staged a daring escape from Auschwitz. She was later caught, tortured and hanged. 📸 Mala Zimetbaum, via Wikimedia Commons. 📸 Anonymous report on Mala Zimetbaum, Wiener Holocaust Library Collections

#News The Kennedy Center will mark Holocaust Remembrance Day (Jan 27) with “Enduring Music,” featuring works composed in ghettos and camps—many modern premieres—led by archivist-conductor Francesco Lotoro. What does remembering through music mean to you? #Music #HolocaustRemembranceDay

AOC: "An ICE officer had violently pushed a woman to the ground and he had come over to help get her up and that is what precipitated this incident that very quickly led to an execution in the streets. What we are seeing here is a momentous pivotal moment for the United States."

On this day in 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell received her medical degree from the Medical College of Geneva, New York, making her the first woman in the United States to receive a medical degree. Her Feb. 3 birthday now celebrated each year as National Women Physicians Day. Image: Harvard University.

El tiempo no lo ponía todo en su sitio, era tu madre.

I just thought everyone should see this

Important perspective from Greenland.

Terrenales «Como escribió C. S. Lewis, no es humilde quien piensa de sí mismo que es poca cosa, sino quien piensa poco en sí mismo». listindiario.com/puntos-de-vi... #ListinDiario #RepúblicaDominicana

For non-German speakers: “Dear media, I can’t stand the headline "No agreement between the US and Denmark” any longer. If an armed man storms a bank, you don't run the headline: "Robber and cashier can't reach an agreement on money transfer." Stop framing imperial aggression as normal diplomacy.”

Shirley Jackson was right. No live organism can exist sanely for long under conditions of absolute reality.

Traiciones a las tradiciones «Quienes hostigan a los migrantes o los arrojan al frío, quienes arrancan la atención sanitaria y los programas de alimentos a los desamparados, traicionan la tradición y atacan el corazón de nuestras raíces». 👉 elpais.com/opinion/2026... @elpais.com

Lovely surprise to see the 1/4 page ad the “By the Lake Book Club” published in today’s Toronto Star. I can’t wait for April 🙏🥰

La libertad está en manos de psicópatas.

My absolute favorite thing about writing is how you can do it at any age. I remember learning as a kid that one of my favorite authors, Shirly S. Tepper, didn't write her first novel until she was over 50, and she had an entire bookshelf in the bookstore! (thread) #booksky #publishing

Today in #LaborHistory 1/7/1979: #Vietnam drove #PolPot & #KhmerRouge from #Cambodia. Pol Pot’s #genocide killed 2 million civilians, or 25% of the country’s entire population at the time.

Woke up to find LETTERS TO KAFKA recommended in today’s Sydney Morning Herald!

La libertad es una librería. —Joan Margarit

Safe and fruitful 2026 to all! If you’re in #Toronto, mark your calendars for the “By the Lake Book Club.” April cannot come soon enough! I’m grateful to have this event to look forward to at the other side of winter! #canlit #bookclub #debutnovel 📚📖🖋️ www.blogto.com/events/by-th...

Always remember that listening to music can be the entire activity. Put on headphones. Blast it through speakers. Close your eyes and just listen. Listening to music is not a background activity. It can be the entire journey, and it's worth the time.

#News Report alleges a Simón Bolívar Orchestra charter to Istanbul was diverted to Tehran to offload contraband—possibly Venezuelan gold—before continuing. The claim is unconfirmed, but raises fresh questions about El Sistema’s ties to the Maduro regime. Thoughts? #Venezuela #ClassicalMusic

@spikeeskin.bsky.social Hi I was wondering if you could repost This beautiful dog named MELIA. At the shelter 843 days. She needs a quiet adult only home with no dogs. Ok with cats. Town of Hempstead Animal Shelter (516) 785-5220 3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit Wantagh, NY 11793

In the last two weeks, I've heard about: -mRNA vaccine to treat age-related vision loss -cure for Alzheimer's and a treatment to reverse cognitive damage -Japanese scientists working on a way to regrow teeth I'm in awe. What a time to be alive. 🤩

Wanna see real-life miracles? Fund scientific research. A team of US scientists just cured Alzheimer’s in mice — and there is now hope that the disease can be reversed in humans. futurism.com/health-medic...

#News 2025 has already brought heartbreaking losses across the music world—composers, performers, conductors, luthiers, and arts leaders whose work shaped generations. Condolences to everyone mourning a loved one in music. Share a memory below. #ClassicalMusic #InMemoriam

Ein unbeschreiblich schönes Erlebnis.

What a disgusting man.

Una familia debe huir de su país… Publicado en #HeraldoDeAragón

First Christmas without mom AND dad. I can’t count the ways in which this suuucks…

Take time to read this. The extraordinary, disturbing story of a woman who died alone & anonymous in an institution where she never belonged, & a journalist who identified her after being assigned what he thought was a bullshit obit - thartribune.com/the-haunting... @elongreen.bsky.social

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

Lao-Tse: «El éxito es tan peligroso como el fracaso. Al subir o bajar un peldaño, la posición es inestable. Solo con los dos pies sobre el suelo mantendrás el equilibrio». Tras una victoria es más fácil que nunca tropezar por creerse infalible. 👉 www.milenio.com/opinion/iren... #Milenio #México

Cuando proteges el agua proteges la vida... 💚💧

@newsweek.com did a story on MELIA last year. Please read it. Repost it. Shes such a special, loving dog that just needs that amazing human to give her the best life. Town of Hempstead Animal Shelter (516) 785-5220 3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit Wantagh, NY 11793 www.newsweek.com/after-410-da...

Outstanding news! www.fastcompany.com/91461983/ind...

Amnesty accuses Hamas of crimes against humanity on Oct. 7 and afterwards

Still looking for that perfect gift? 🎁 Pop by the Anansi Bookshop right here in Toronto to shop all our books! We're open at 128 Sterling Road from 1pm - 5pm until this Friday, December 19th, when we'll be taking a short break for the holidays. 👋 We hope to see you there! #toronto #shopcanadian

Back to Jean Valjean’s era. Shame on everyone, truly.

Who invented non-reflective glass? American physicist & chemist Katharine Burr Blodgett in 1938. It revolutionized optics--& led to the coatings used today in everything from eyeglasses to phone screens. She was the first woman to earn a PhD in #physics from Cambridge, 1926. #WomenInSTEM #inventor

Ha llegado la edición 54 de Siruela o, para ser precisa, la reimpresión 53. Añadidas 11 de bolsillo, hemos alcanzado la insensata cifra de 65 ed. en España. Gracias a mi tribu lectora y librera por hacer que lo impensable sea imparable. Gracias emocionadas, incrédulas, infinitas.

And over in the Canada Conservative subreddit, it’s a flurry of racist comments and accusations of bribery. Every accusation is a confession.

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Corina Machado appears on the balcony of Oslo's Grand Hotel after secretly fleeing Venezuela.

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Terra Oliveira / @terraoliveira.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/12/12-o...

Whales can communicate across whole ocean basins 🫧 sound travels 4× faster in water than in air. An entire underwater world connected by song. 🌊🐋💙 #YourDevocean #OceanRegeneration #WhaleVoices #DeepSeaConnection #ListenToTheOcean

Pioneering new treatment reverses incurable blood cancer in some patients #UK www.bbc.com/news/article...

Hoy Carmen Martín Gaite cumple cien años. Murió hace 25, pero seguimos invocándola. «Avanzo alegre y sola en la exacta mañana por el camino mío que he encontrado aunque no haya salida». #CarmenMartínGaite

🌱 ¡Nuestra conexión con la naturaleza es más profunda de lo que crees! 🌍