This century-old tradition dates back to the 1850s when a bishop's daughter first trained the birds to pull a hanging rope for lunch. IG: @maddy.lee.98 Bishop's Palace in Wells, Somerset, England
Margot McBean
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A week after Tibetan independence activist Lobga Rangzen self-immolated near the U.N. headquarters in New York, protesters gathered to demand international action on Tibet and raise concerns about China's new ethnic unity law.
i hope media executives are taking note of the tens of thousands of people who for several hours on a friday night have stayed glued to livestreams of scaffolding being built just so they could witness his name getting knocked off a building
The allies at Normandy died to save democracy. We can show our appreciation by protecting ours. #MemorialDay2026
As soon as today, the US Senate will vote on a House resolution that allows copper mining by a Chilean company near Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. The Boundary Waters is the most-visited wilderness area in the country, and it cannot be replaced.
Look at the women at NASA. They are the ones pushing the boundaries of science, solving problems most people can’t even understand, and carrying this country forward, while our politicians right now posture and stumble through talking points. And they are doing it all with joy.👇
Kerry: I was part of the any number of conversations with Netanyahu. Psaki: Pitching the US strike Iran? Kerry: Yes, he wanted us to strike. He came to President Obama. He made a presentation to ask to strike. President Obama refused. President Biden refused. President Bush refused.
"We want to speak to members of the military. 🫵🏽 You swore an oath to protect the constitution. Right now the threats to our constitution are coming from right here at home. You must refuse illegal orders. 🇺🇲 Don't give up the ship."
Donald Trump is unfit to serve as the leader of the free world. That's why I have cosponsored H. Res. 939 Articles of Impeachment to remove him from office.
I feel sick to my stomach waiting around to see what atrocity Trump has in mind for the people of Iran this evening. It's hard to fathom our other elected leaders aren't able to check him in any meaningful way. It's an indictment not just of voters but of our whole system. We're ruled by a mad king.
🚨 MERYL STREEP KILLS TRUMP’S VOTER SUPPRESSION BILL ON BEHALF OF WOMEN…
Good afternoon. This is your daily reminder that Trump just lifted sanctions on Iran to give them $14 BILLION to hep fund their war against us. In other words, your daily reminder that this is probably the dumbest war of all time.
TRUMP 2.0: - Crashed economy - Stole billions of dollars - Killed American citizens - Protected pedophiles - Started World War 3
Students have more power than politicians want to admit. Your rent is here. Your tuition is here. Your vote should be here too. TOMORROW is election day, don’t sit this one out!
Autumn Durald Arkapaw for #Sinners - first woman to win an Best Cinematography Oscars!
Letterboxd@letterboxd.social · 5mo agoAutumn Durald Arkapaw wins Best Cinematography for Sinners #Oscars
Trump keeps referring to his incursion into Iran as an excursion. Theory 1: He thinks it's a field trip, or Theory 2, He doesn't know what the words mean.
Ossoff: "The WH put out a video depicting this war as a video game. When service members are returning in flag-draped coffins, & even more have lost limbs or suffered brain injuries or are fighting for their lives, this WH treats war like a game. It's a disgrace. And it speaks to a moral rot."
The president is handing out oversized clown shoes to his cabinet — and watching to see who refuses to wear them. It's Solzhenitsyn's Stalin story come to life: the first person to stop applauding ended up in the gulag. The lesson then, as now — never be the first to stop clapping.
Tell the Senate what you think. If Senate Democrats don’t have the backbone to stand up to this, let them know they wil have to stand in front of us in November. #RadioFreeAmerica
How DARE Pete Hegseth diminish the sacrifice of our troops? How fucking DARE he.
👋 Former State Department War Powers lawyer here. This statement by Rubio is false. As @tessbridgeman.bsky.social and I wrote in January: www.justsecurity.org/128517/war-p...
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo agoMarco Rubio: "No presidential administration has ever accepted the War Powers Act as constitutional"
so far i think in the last 48 hours trump has called - michael scherer at the atlantic - jonathan karl, abc - jake tapper, cnn - axios - bret baier, fox news - the new york times - the washington post just noting that when he wants to sell a war, suddenly theyre not "fake news" anymore
Q: "Do you think Trump should be deposed by this committee?" HILLARY: "Absolutely. Trump has been held civilly liable for sexual assault by a jury of his peers. That is behavior that fits a pattern."
This is Benjamin Netanyahu's son Yair. While working class American service people are dying in the gratuitous war his father and Donald Trump started, Yair is poolside in Miami chilling. No word on where Donald Trump's children were, just that they were 100% *not* wearing a uniform.
