I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Living like sultans: Istanbul's pampered street cats. For centuries, cats and Istanbul's residents have been very close, an ancestral culture that remains even today. According to City Hall, Istanbul has more than 160,000 cats on its streets who are regularly fed and cared for by residents

I have used the Canada Archives for my #genealogy for many years. A search turned up the eulogy for my 3rd Great-grandmother who died in 1852 in Toronto. I ordered the microfiche and it really helped to understand the family dynamic. www.canada.ca/en/library-a...

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NEW: In August, the nursing home industry gave Trump's Super PAC $5M and had a private lunch with him at his golf course. They asked him to repeal a rule that would have increased nursing home staffing. Here's what happened next --> w/ @kenvogel.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...

In honor of the U.S. 250th anniversary, historical documents will be exhibited at The Henry Ford museum.

AFP’s Jim Watson photographs bald eagles at Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge in Maryland, United States

Mischief Toy Store in St. Paul has until Wednesday to turn over employment records to the Department of Homeland Security as part of a surprise audit launched Friday, just hours after one of the shop's owners criticized ICE agents during a television interview. bit.ly/4r5AFol

Shopkeeper washing her doorstep, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1963, photo by Colin Jones.

Mark Carney: "Stop invoking the “rules-based international order” as though it still functions as advertised. Call the system what it is: a period where the most powerful pursue their interests using economic integration as a weapon of coercion."

This is the best speech, just from a pure rhetoric perspective - its sophistication and persuasiveness - that I've seen a politician deliver in a good long while. Really recommend watching or reading the whole thing.

The head of Denmark’s army should not be in Greenland, working to deter US attack. That is a bad use of his time, weakening everyone in NATO, Denmark and the US very much included. Or, rather, it would be a bad use of his time, except the US president decided to threaten conquest against US allies.

The Tony Walton Collection at the Library includes his costume design drawings for both films ("Mary Poppins," "The Wiz") and stage productions. These designs came to the Library with flaking paint. Here's how the Conservation Division stabilized them so they'll be preserved for generations to come.

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This one-of-a-kind home was built from thousands of antique bottles. Let’s take a tour:

FYI: In 1916 the U.S. signed an agreement for control of St. Thomas, St. John & St. Croix, known as the “Danish West Indies,” in exchange for $25 million & a declaration that the U.S. would “not object to the Danish Govt extending their political & economic interests to the whole of Greenland.

"United States Marines with the captured flag of Augusto César Sandino in Nicaragua in 1932" Banana Wars - Wikipedia share.google/TVFevs9lUk8w...

My family watched all of the curling events during the Vancouver Olympics; It was amazing. All of the granite stones come from the same place in Scotland. 🤩

History of #Ulster Women Linen workers. #genealogy www.fewforgottenwomen.com/linen

Great book to read if you want to learn about #Venezuela #oil. It's been years and I still remember learning about Venezuela's "heavy" oil and the refining that must be done to make it usable. @maddow.bsky.social recommended it on a podcast. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/303537...

Great Book! Overthrow (book) - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overthr...

One of the most successful pedestrian streets in the world, the Strøget in Copenhagen, was filled with cars until a 2 year pedestrianization pilot project in 1962. The opposition argued “no cars means no business,” but the street has been a massive retail success, the city’s busiest shopping street.

So fmr Honduran President Hernandez voluntarily surrendered, and was duly extradited, tried and convicted for drug trafficking, and Trump pardoned him 6w ago. And this morning, Trump illegally attacks Venezuela and abducts its president and his wife purportedly to try them for drug trafficking.

Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.

What’s Entering the Public Domain in 2026: Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying, All Quiet on the Western Front, Betty Boop & More

Happy New Year, everyone! This is a @theguardian.com books cartoon from a few years ago.

Happy New Year! We love sharing these pro-book posters from the Works Projects Administration Poster Collection in the Library's Prints and Photographs Division. Of the 2,000 WPA posters known to exist, the Library of Congress's collection of more than 900 is the largest.

The Second City's first library.

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#Glasgow #WallyClose #Tenement #Tiles #Traditional #Staircase #Entrance #ceramics #Architecture #Archive #Heritage #HiddenScotland #UrbanEx #Design #vintage #NaturalLight #TileStyle #Window #Scottish #Scotland #Staircase #Photography #Photo Instagram post: 15/09/21

Children queuing for soup at Manchester's Wood Street Mission, c.1900. Created 1869 off Deansgate, still in existence.

Charles Dickens’s writing desk — spotted at the New York Public Library.

I've done HS Algebra, Geometry, & Chem tutoring. One thing that has always stuck out for me is that teachers must re-teach the Metric System every year. We should have switched to the MS 50 years ago.

Search the Detroit Historical Society Collections "Our collection contains over 250,000 artifacts representing over 300 years of our region’s unique history. About 47,000 of these are available in our Online Collection!" www.detroithistorical.org/learn/online...

#GreatChicagoFire #genealogy #history #ancestry

Interesting read. This explains why my Penn relatives moved to NW Ohio in the early 1800s. The powerful wanted a straight road from Chicago to NYC, without the circuitous trek around the swamp. Sounds about right. #genealogy #history #LakeErie www.greatlakesnow.org/2025/11/the-...

On this day in 1883, precisely at noon, North American railroads switched to a new standard time system for rail operations, which they called Standard Railway Time (SRT). Almost immediately, many American cities enacted ordinances, thus resulting in the creation of time “zones.” 🧵

I've listened to baseball, tennis, and hockey but listening to the Detroit Lions on the radio is strange. They've said Tush Push way too many times. Go Lions!

For no particular reason….posting former U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell’s mugshot before he went to Federal prison for committing numerous crimes on behalf and or/at the direction of President Nixon including obstruction of justice and conspiracy.

Detroit Lions and Eminem to partner on Thanksgiving halftime show through 2027

Ahead of Veterans Day, I was honored to welcome a flight of veterans and their families as they arrived in DC.

A cartoon by Ali Solomon. #NewYorkerCartoons

(Bloomberg) - US companies announced the most job cuts for any October in more than two decades as artificial intelligence reshapes industries and cost-cutting accelerates .. @bloomberg.com #Challenger www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The median age of first-time homebuyers in the U.S. has climbed to a record of 40 as soaring prices and mortgage rates over the last few years delay homeownership for millions of Americans.

I do think yesterday’s results reinforced the dynamic that while much of the American leadership class is chickenshit, most of the electorate is not

"There was a light, blue as a welder's torch; it used to shine over the fields, and all the wise men, strong men were drawn for miles; followed a star to Bethlehem Steel..." - Grant Lee Buffalo - Bethlehem Steel (1997). Bethlehem Steel HQ; Bethlehem, PA. #abandoned #urbex #industrial #steel