Virginia lawmakers have passed a first-of-its-kind bill that prohibits schools from teaching that the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection was a peaceful demonstration or that there was massive fraud in the 2020 presidential election.

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I'm so lucky! Images of Agbogbloshie, Africa's largest e-waste dump, located in Ghana 🇬🇭 Filmed by Italian Nicola Guaita with Davide Fantuzzi and Progetto Happiness to show how Western countries send their difficult-to-dispose-of waste to developing countries. Song by Tish Hyman #lucky #children

Sharing… Gulf Fritillary and a female Black Swallowtail last August. 🧡🖤 First time posting this one. #Photography99 📷 #Butterflies 🦋

Jasmine Crockett is a class act. 💙

Butterfly beauty needed right now… 📷🦋💙🧡

GOOD NEWS: Nearly $70 million in FEMA funds will be coming to reimburse local governments in Avery, Buncombe, and Yancey counties.

Here's something I learned in researching this story: Since the death of George Floyd, 2/3rds of the private companies that provided liability insurance to law enforcement agencies pulled out, and those that remained have increased their rates and lowered caps. www.ncrabbithole.com/p/what-to-do...

Good morning! Since childhood rubbing lamps without realizing that the genie was you ❤️💯

Column: Ask a vet | The list of potential poisons for pets is long, but here’s what you need to know about some of the most common — and deadly — indoor household toxins: https://wapo.st/4aKDAxr

Canyon de Chelly National Monument in Arizona, USA 🇺🇸 It preserves ruins of the indigenous tribes that lived in the area, from the Ancestral Puebloans to the Navajo. The monument covers 83,840 acres. About 40 Navajo families live in the park. #nationalparks #nature #travel #geology

If that happens, make sure you get your Provisional ID Number so you can track your ballot and make sure it’s counted. Check this database to see if you are on this list: dl.ncsbe.gov/Registration...

More than 70,000 North Carolinians have incomplete voter registrations. Check the database below to see if you’re on the list. If you are, you can still vote, but you should bring your driver’s license with you, and you may be required to cast a provisional ballot.

Trump ripped up the Iran nuclear deal and created this mess. Now, he's putting servicemembers in harm's way with no clear plan and no Congressional approval. The American people deserve answers — and Congress needs to do its job.

⚙️ 🤖 Guillermo Galetti, known as Ladron de chatarra, is an Argentine artist who transforms scrap metal into unique mechanical sculptures. @ladrondechatarra [IG] #art #sculpture #metal #automata

"Shared Wonder," 2024 Bwindi Forest, Uganda 🇺🇬 Awarded the Gold medal in the Animal Portraits category at the 2026 World Nature Photography Awards. Photography by American wildlife photographer Mary Schrader. maryschraderphotography.com @maryschraderphotography [IG] #Nature #Photography #wildlife

Iguazú Falls. Amazing! #Brazil #Argentina

Early morning Cape Horn #sunrise #CapeHorn

Giant Buddha, Bamiyan, Afghanistan, 1931. It doesn't exist anymore, the Talıban regime blew it up in 2001. #sculpture #culture #archaeology #oldtimes

Giraffes have nowhere to hide from storms! 🌧🦒🦒⛈️ Location: Maasai Mara, Kenya 🇰🇪 Photographer unknown. #giraffes #storm #nature #rain #wildlife

Ну что ж, посмотрим, что день грядущий нам готовит. Доброе утро, друзья, приступим к среде. Для начала, под кофе думаю накидать примерный план в голове☕️

I may be biased but I think our little retirement village is one of the most special and peaceful places on earth

Got an email asking me to find the backstory behind a strange, single-sentence law. Turns out it’s the remnant of a 63-year-old beef between lawmakers and a former FBI agent who was maybe the best checkers player in North Carolina history www.ncrabbithole.com/p/a-reader-f...

LIVE: Buddhist monks hold gathering at Lincoln Memorial reut.rs/4kxvhs6

A student received a posthumous postcard from his former professor, Don Glickman, who was known for his humor. He instructed his daughter to send over 100 postcards. The gesture went viral and reflected Glickman's unique approach to life and death.

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OBAMA: “People make excuses for him. They say he’s not serious. Everything a president says is serious!”🔥

Cat’s Eyes 👁 🐈‍⬛️👁 Photography by Arek Rataj [FB] A freelance photographer from Poland. www.arek-ratai.com #children #cats #eyes #innocence #caturday

A guardian angel.. 🥺

🎶I want a head like the heads you see on #Easter_Island I want a 3 ton nose job I want to stand up tall I want to stare at the seaside and do nothing at all! #Rapa_Nui #Toxic_Audio

Bitter cold where I live. You? How about a butterfly in summer to warm you up? Silvery Checkerspot on Echinacea #Photography99 📷 #Butterflies 🦋

Folks, it’s snowin’ up here near Greensboro alright

Swallowtail time… #Photography99 📷 #Butterflies 🦋

imagine singing so badly in your church that you get indicted

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Buckeye 🤎🧡🤍💜 #Photography99 📷 #Butterflies 🦋

Gulf Fritillary 🧡 #Photography99 📷 #Butterflies 🦋

Great Spangled Fritillary 🧡 #Photography99 📷 #Butterflies 🦋

We built a retirement home for the oldest street dogs in Thailand. I promise this will put a huge smile on your face

I won’t stop reporting the truth. The First Amendment is the bedrock of our democracy, and I’ll continue to fight to protect it 🤝🏾🇺🇸

Medieval Artificial Intelligence 😁 By the Italian artist and engineer Amedeo Capelli, creator of handcrafted wooden automata. @stoccafisso_design [IG] #art #inventions #wood #IA #engineering #email #computer

The mandarinfish (Synchiropus splendidus) 🔵🟠🟢 Thanks to cyanophores, light-reflecting cells that are blue in pigment, it produces a smelly, foul-tasting toxic mucus that makes it unappetizing to predators! This small fish inhabits coral reefs of the West Pacific Ocean #fish #ocean #nature #colors

🎶🧚‍♂️ Tchaikovsky – Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy from his 1892 ballet, The Nutcracker. Glass Harp 🎶🥂🍷🎶(GlassDuo) glassduo.com/en/ #music #classicmusic #crystal #sound

I'm voting no on DHS funding. Masked agents are operating in our streets and hurting people with zero accountability. It’s un-American. If you’re upset and want to help, call your senators and representatives and tell them this chaos needs to stop.

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Nautilus with Mermaid table lamp by Tiffany Studios. Designed by American sculptor Louis Albert Gudebrod around 1900. It features a cast bronze mermaid emerging from the water to hold up a natural nautilus shell, which gives a warm glow. #lamps #art #sculpture #mermaid

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