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Everyone freezing on the East Coast or in the Midwest remember: Kyiv has the same weather, except that hundreds of thousands of people don't have electricity, heating or running water
January 24, 2026 at 4:22 PM
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A new study found that seeing authentic, original art can help drop cortisol levels and reduce inflammatory load, among other positive effects on the nervous system.
Seeing Art Is Good for Your Nervous System, Study Finds
The new research posits museums and galleries as “accessible, non-clinical spaces for preventive health promotion,” per the study’s authors.
hyperallergic.com
January 8, 2026 at 10:44 PM
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January 3, 2026 at 12:23 PM
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It’s old-fashioned to defend mainstream journalism these days but some of the most reliable reporting from people actually on the ground will be the AP and Reuters the next 24 hours. Your Substack journalist writing takes will be using frontline reporting from them.
January 3, 2026 at 8:09 AM
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“Four top partners at Paul Weiss announced late Friday that they were leaving the law firm, a major blow to the firm in the wake of its decision to cut a deal with President Trump to head off an executive order that would have restricted its business.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/b...
May 24, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Thank you @npr.org & @chiaraeisner.bsky.social for covering how HHS & this administration are muzzling CDC’s vital scientific communication. CDC’s communication specialists are being stopped from disseminating life saving communication to Americans, paid for by tax payer dollars. #publichealth #CDC
May 23, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.
March 4, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Jacob Lawrence, The migrants arrived in great numbers, 1940-41

https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134641
January 27, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Thank you PERU!
November 20, 2024 at 10:58 AM
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Advice from a Literature teacher and resister: read your history, but don’t forget your literature.

Resistance is woven through the words of abolitionism and feminism and anti-fascism. Read the history and the literature.
November 17, 2024 at 1:58 PM
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