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🌞 Good Morning 😎 Happy March 14th 🥧
🥧 Yes, It's Pi Day! 😋

WUMB SGPlayer I just listened to WUMB Radio, a public radio station specializing in Folk and Roots music broadcasting from the University of Massachusetts Boston

Listening to the best folk rock roots radio #WUMB #Boston which plays tens of thousands of songs you won’t hear elsewhere. Sending a donation today will help keep them on the air. #UMass #radio #music #oldschool #folk #celtic #acoustic player.streamguys.com/wumb/sgplaye...

Why Americans think other Americans are bad people The people blaming immigration and multiculturalism for the trust crisis have the story almost exactly backward.

“Of the 25 countries polled by Pew Research Center, the U.S. is the only one where the majority of people rated the morality of people in their country as bad.”
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China Wants Its Ethnic Minorities to Blend In. Now It’s the Law.

China Wants Its Ethnic Minorities to Blend In. Now It’s the Law.

Under a new “ethnic unity” law, Mandarin Chinese must now be the language of teaching. Parents must guide their children to love the Communist Party. Neighborhoods should be mixed.

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Trump Administration Readies Plans to Dismantle Renowned Science Lab

Everything Trump touches, he destroys. (gift article)

E.P.A. Moves to Weaken Limits on a Cancer-Causing Gas

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/c...

‘Train Dreams’ is a Heartfelt Reflection on a Lifetime of Love, Loss and Regret Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar’s film boasts stunning visuals and a bittersweet rumination on mortality, though it never fully resonates

"This protagonist may be an ordinary man, but he is never condescended to, with plenty of time devoted to his soul-searching in a futile quest to understand our place in the world."

#Oscars #GiftArticle

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Rogue AI agents can work together to hack systems and steal secrets Prompt like a hard-ass boss who won't tolerate failure and bots will find ways to breach policy AI agents work together to bypass security controls and stealthily steal sensitive data from within the enterprise systems in which they operate, according to tests carried out by frontier security lab Irregular.…

ICYMI: Rogue AI agents can work together to hack systems and steal secrets

a cup of tea is being poured from a teapot Alt: a cup of tea is being poured from a teapot

I brewed some ginger lemon honey tea, so soothing on this chilly night.

Friday the 13th and now 13 servicemembers are dead? This is heartbreaking. 💙 This week feels very ominous, with so much uncertainty, endless lies.

The Motorway Song YouTube video by The Black Family - Topic

The Motorway Song 🎵
The Black Family

They're going to build a motorway
Through me back garden
No one can explain why I came to be chosen
They're going to build a motorway
They're ripping up the trees
Soon the lorries will be zooming through
Me cabbages and peas

Tibetan Thanka of Bardo. Vision of Serene Deities, 19th century, Guimet Museum A Tibetan thangka painting on a dark background. At the centre, a large black Buddha figure sits in meditation lotus posture within a luminous white and gold mandorla. Surrounding this central figure, arranged in concentric circular bands, are numerous smaller deity figures — Buddhas and bodhisattvas — each seated within individual oval or circular aureoles, rendered in warm reds, golds, whites, and greens. Two larger figures appear at the top in cloud-like settings. At the bottom, a more complex terrestrial or narrative scene is depicted with smaller figures, architectural elements, and landscape details. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Bardo._Vision_des_divinit%C3%A9s_sereines.jpg/330px-Bardo._Vision_des_divinit%C3%A9s_sereines.jpg

‘The Tibetan Book of the Dead’ is actually not just about death

The Tibetan Book of the Dead,” arguably is the most well-known Tibetan Buddhist text outside Tibet.

by Jue Liang

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Buddhist literature at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje...

#books #literature

A plume of smoke rises following an interception of a drone in Erbil, Iraq on March 12, 2026 © AFP

"A French soldier was killed in an attack in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region, President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday, confirming the first French military death in the Middle East war."
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🇮🇷⚡️🇫🇷—Iran attacked a French military base in Iraq with a kamikaze drone. According to reports, 6 French soldiers were injured

BREAKING: 4 crew members found dead after U.S. plane crash in Iraq, 2 still unaccounted for

Hear From One of the Men Behind an Oscar-Nominated Prison Documentary A PJP writer interviews one of the main whistleblowers from the Oscar-nominated documentary.

Melvin Ray, an incarcerated organizer featured in “The Alabama Solution,” shares his thoughts on the film’s impact.

"We are still waiting to see how we can leverage the film's impact to create justice for the murders of Steven Davis and James Sales."

The Oscars in Solitary Confinement - Seth Stern, Jeremy Busby & Corinne Shanahan - Inquest ‘The Alabama Solution’ might win an Academy Award this weekend. Meanwhile, its incarcerated filmmakers are in lockdown because there’s no legal protections for imprisoned whistleblowers.

The Oscars in solitary confinement: "The Alabama Solution" might win an Academy Award this weekend.

Meanwhile, its incarcerated filmmakers are in lockdown because there’s no legal protections for imprisoned whistleblowers.

FPF’s Seth Stern, Corinne Shanahan and Jeremy Busby explain:

Make it stop! Please!

Airport lines grow longer — and Congress can’t even agree if DHS shutdown talks exist Kristi Noem’s ouster, lengthening TSA lines and dwindling disaster aid funds haven’t broken the impasse over Department of Homeland Security funding.

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Delores Keane - Never Be The Sun YouTube video by Michael Byrne - Songs From Another World

Never Be The Sun~ Dolores Keane

You'll never be the sun turning in the sky
And you won't be the moon above us on the moonlit night
And you won't be the stars in heaven although they burn so bright
But even on the deepest ocean you will be the light
#MusicSky #Celtic 🎵

Emigrant Eyes YouTube video by Dolores Keane - Topic

Emigrant Eyes ~ Dolores Keane
Old Ellis Island was swarming
Like a scene from a costume ball
Decked out in the colors of Europe
And on fire with the hope of it all
There my father′s own father stood huddled
With the tired and the hungry and scared
Turn of the century pilgrims
Bound by the dream…🎵

Róisín O - Heart + Bones (Official Video) YouTube video by Róisín O

Róisín O Heart + Bones

I’ve tried to sit down and write this song out
Feels like a thousand times
But I was always too scared of what I might find
But if I keep on blocking this pain out
It might be too late
To heal my heart somehow 🎵
#Celtic
#musicsky
#MusicChallenge

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Started Alabama Solution. Not sure if I can take it all in tonight, but it was highly recommended.

I had to turn heat up a notch. It will be too hot before too long.

It warmed up yesterday and most of the snow melted. Today was more temperate.

I was going to turn the heat up, but yup, no. Reminds me of the 70’s when my stepfather watched the thermostat like a hawk, house was always cold. #firstworldproblems

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Wendy Sherman's "Not for the Faint of Heart " a must, must read for Iran.
She was a *lead* negotiator of the Iranian agreement around the wrld & yrs. The long tale & process will tell you about the *depth* of her understanding of Iran. Best possible person! Bring back!

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Democrats win GOP seat in New Hampshire, notching 10th straight special election flip

Since the start of Trump's second term, Republicans have flipped zero Democratic seats.

www.the-downballot.com/p/breaking-d...