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Rare Viking-age treasure begins international tour

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c748yrd7n8do

#NewsScotland

I don't watch TV at all. I haven't had cable for a decade. But that's me. I know most of my generation still watches TV. My dad was a TV executive and I remember thinking it was going to be the ruin of us all when I was a teen.

It’s so pretty and quiet here. I want to live in the woods soooo bad.

@ToruOkada @BreakingNews Actual 4th grade science quiz from 2013 quiz in southern 🇺🇸 private Christian school…another way to think of it is that child then was old enough to vote in the recent election…

From Our Revolution newsletter: #DrOz

Dr. Oz wants to privatize & destroy Medicare. Why? Because he & his corporate friends stand to profit in a big way.

As Trump’s choice to lead Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Dr. Oz would be a disaster. Oz owns stock in big for-profit health corps like CVS & UnitedHealth — which have long funded anti-Medicare for All efforts because they stand to gain big from Medicare privatization.

The Senate must stop Oz and the destruction of Medicare!

@gemswinc That was Walt Kelly's comic strip Pogo, not the Commodore. I'd let it go, but it's such a deft and brilliant paraphrase it's become better known than its creator (no relation AFAIK).

The original was "We have met the enemy and they are ours," written by Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry after defeating a force of American Indians on Lake Erie in 1813 -- long before the other Commodore Perry, Matthew Calbraith, forcibly opened Japan to trade with the West.

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@jenebene Um. Maybe because he's being sentenced, he should be disqualified from office?

Good thing we have a working, efficient justice system, that treats everyone equitably!

What do you get when you cross a snowman and a vampire?
Frostbite!

On this week in 1883, railway companies in the US and Canada transformed time in both countries, leading to the ground-breaking concept of time zones worldwide.
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20241115-how-railroads-inspired-the-creation-of-time-zones

The artist behind this vessel has been identified as the Boreads Painter, who led one of Sparta's most prominent pottery workshops between 575 and 550 B.C. As with most Greek vase painters, his true name is unknown, and he is recognized solely by his distinctive style, especially his way of rendering figures and his signature use of pomegranate bands to frame interior scenes. The name Boreads Painter derives from one of his tondo designs, which depicts the Boreads, sons of the North Wind.

What did they want to keep secret? The names? No. The deaths? No.

They wanted to keep secret that rhe deaths were ruled preventable.

And the reason was that the women COULD NOT ACCESS health services that would have saved their laws.

In other words, abortion.

Because politicians kill women, not doctors.