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Appeasement Won’t Stop Putin – The Atlantic

Appeasement Won’t Stop Putin – The Atlantic

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Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (Noa) using AI narration. Listen to more stories on the Noa app. A few days ago, my phone buzzed with a message from a friend. She was sheltering in a parking lot during a Russian air strike and wanted to know if I’d seen the news: America was pressuring Ukraine to cede Crimea to Russia. I replied and waited for a follow-up. None came. I tried to picture where she was—perhaps a strip mall at the edge of town. Faded signs, broken glass, cracked pavement. Where people once bought groceries, now they take refuge from missiles. As I write this, I still don’t know if she made it out of that parking lot alive. The news she shared didn’t surprise me. By now, I don’t expect anything else. Vladimir Putin annexed Crimea, Ukraine’s southern peninsula, in 2014, when I was 14 years old. Crimea felt far away from my home in Horlivka, in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk, where I was studying for a history exam. I …

Ignoring Our History Won’t Restore Truth and Sanity

Ignoring Our History Won’t Restore Truth and Sanity

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In a different world, an executive order titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History” would be about funding research, expanding archival studies, improving educational institutions, and bolstering mental health resources. You’d think it would focus on increasing our knowledge about the past to better understand and learn from it. However, the actual order from President Trump disregards uncomfortable realities, removes diverse perspectives, and rejects exploration of societal issues. The order, released last week, continuously boasts about America’s “remarkable achievements,” “progress,” and “greatness,” but dismisses the challenges we’ve had to—and still need to—overcome in pursuit of said greatness. How can we celebrate “advancing liberty” without also acknowledging that we weren’t all free when we came to or were born in this country, and many still don’t have the same governmental protections? How can we remember our “consistent progress toward becoming a more perfect Union” without addressing our divisions—political, economic, philosophical, etc.—and the people responsible for them (i.e., those honored with public monuments and markers)? And how can we claim an “unparalleled legacy” and “unmatched record” …

These Are 35 of the Best TV Shows on Netflix That Won’t Disappoint

These Are 35 of the Best TV Shows on Netflix That Won’t Disappoint

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Let’s be clear, the absurdist sketch comedy show I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson might not be for everyone, but for a certain subset of comedy fans, it’s a gem. The show features a who’s who of notable talent – stars from Saturday Night Live including Fred Armisen, Vanessa Bayer and Will Forte appear, along with Ayo Edebiri, Fred Willard, Sam Richardson, and more. The premises are usually bonkers, often humiliating situations and Robinson has perfected his cringey persona in each of them. If you’re a fan of Robinson’s humor, definitely try the other Netflix series he stars in alongside Richardson, Detroiters, after you’ve finished this. Source link

The Trump Administration Won’t Stop Giving a Middle Finger to Judges

The Trump Administration Won’t Stop Giving a Middle Finger to Judges

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Judge James Boasberg was looking for answers. He was holding a court hearing on the Trump administration’s decision to defy his verbal order to halt the deportation flights of alleged Venezuelan gang members, which the president executed Friday under a 200-year-old war powers law. “You’re telling me you felt you could disregard it because it wasn’t in the written order?” Boasberg asked an attorney for the Justice Department. Yes, the administration replied—and then some. Not only did DOJ lawyer Abhishek Kambli advance the bizarre arguments that the judge’s decree “lost jurisdiction” when the two planes were out of United States airspace and that the order had to be in writing—a “heck of a stretch,” Boasberg said. Administration officials continued to challenge the basic authority of the judicial branch to check that of the executive branch—seeking, in no uncertain terms, to give Donald Trump practically unlimited power. “That is not something that a district court judge has any authority whatsoever to interfere with, to enjoin, to restrict, or to restrain in any way,” Stephen Miller—a driving …

Tesla is done in Germany: 94% say they won’t buy a Tesla car

Tesla is done in Germany: 94% say they won’t buy a Tesla car

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A survey of over 100,000 Germans revealed that 94% won’t buy a Tesla vehicle. It doesn’t bode well for the automaker, whose sales had already been falling off a cliff in the important European market. In 2024, Tesla saw a 41% reduction in sales in Germany compared to 2023 despite EV sales surging 27% during the year. This has already raised red flags about Tesla’s future in Germany, but it is nothing compared to Tesla’s performance so far in 2025. Tesla’s sales were down 70% in the first two months of 2025, and again, that’s compared to its already poor performance in 2024. Advertisement – scroll for more content There are many factors at play, including increased EV competition and the Model Y changeover, but in recent months, industry experts have attributed Tesla’s decline in the country to Germans being upset with Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s meddling in local elections and promoting the far-right AfD party. Musk is currently under probe in Europe for his political meddling, and his reputation has crashed in Germany after …

NASA Just Fired Its Chief Scientist, Won’t Hire Another One

NASA Just Fired Its Chief Scientist, Won’t Hire Another One

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NASA has eliminated key science offices — its chief scientist and her office — according to an internal email obtained by Axios. The news comes less than a week after Ars Technica reported that the Trump administration is expected to slash the space agency’s science budget by as much as 50 percent, an “extinction-level event for space science and exploration in the United States,” as Planetary Society chief of space policy Casey Dreier told the publication. Now that chief scientist Katherine Calvin has been let go, the future of space science in the country is as uncertain as ever. In the email, acting NASA administrator Janet Petro said that the cuts were in response to president Donald Trump’s executive orders aimed at slashing budgets across departments. Apart from the office of the chief scientist, the Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility branch of NASA’s Office of Diversity and Equal Opportunity was cut as well, affecting around 20 people, per Axios. NASA’s office of the chief scientist was created to ensure that the agency’s scientific endeavors …

DfE won’t fully fund unexpected enrolments

DfE won’t fully fund unexpected enrolments

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Squeezed school budgets are set to take another hit after the government revealed it won’t fully cover growth funding for the “unprecedented” rise in the number of post-16 pupils. Instead, the Department for Education will only cover two-thirds of what schools and sixth-form colleges expected as student increases have leapt above the levels ministers had budgeted for. Sector leaders are urging the government to correct “years of underinvestment in post-16 education” to ensure schools cope with the continued growth in numbers. “In-year growth funding” plugs gaps between expected pupil numbers in post-16 settings – used to calculate initial allocations – and the number actually in class as of November. It is meant to help with cashflow for schools and colleges that end up taking on more students than they were expecting. ‘Very large’ increase in older students But in an update published this week, the DfE noted that while the “very large” increase in 16 to 19-year-olds in education this year was “positive”, it was “significantly above the budget for in-year payments”. “The current growth …

‘The Ultimatum’s Zaina Sesay Shares the Wildest Wellness Trends She Will and Won’t Try

‘The Ultimatum’s Zaina Sesay Shares the Wildest Wellness Trends She Will and Won’t Try

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Living well! The Ultimatum: Marry or Move On star Zaina Sesay sat down with ET to share the wildest sell-care trends she’s tried while celebrating her 34th birthday and the launch of her guided wellness diary on March 6. “Purposeful Healing is a guided journal designed to help people process the emotional weight of a breakup in a healthy, intentional way. I created it because I know firsthand how overwhelming heartbreak can feel,” she tells ET. Jesse Tam “This journal helps navigate emotions with structure and support through thoughtful prompts, affirmations, and reflection exercises rooted in self-compassion and personal growth,” the reality television star adds. In addition to letting her emotions out through writing, Sesay relies on a full 360-degree approach for her wellness regimen.  “I take a holistic approach to self-care and prioritize what my mind, body, and soul need at the moment. … It isn’t just about routines for me, it’s about staying present and creating balance,” she explains.  Zaina Sesay/Instagram Some of her essentials: “Strength training, Pilates, and long walks help me reset. I …

Revoking academy freedoms won’t affect us, say 60% of CEOs

Revoking academy freedoms won’t affect us, say 60% of CEOs

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More from this theme Recent articles Most trust CEOs say the stripping away of academy freedoms would have no impact on their ability to run and improve schools. Findings from a survey of 120 trust bosses, running around 1,000 schools, seem to challenge the narrative that Labour’s reforms – forcing academies to follow the national curriculum and a pay floor – would damage school standards. Baroness Longfield, the former children’s commissioner who chairs the Centre for Young Lives think-tank, said the findings “put to bed the idea that the entire MAT sector is opposed to the proposals in this important bill. “It is a good reminder that the most strident critics are often not speaking for everyone.” ‘Critics don’t speak for everyone’ However, the survey did show that one in five trust bosses fear Labour academy reforms will have a negative impact on their work, which is more than the number of leaders who were actually positive about the changes. Anne Longfield The poll, conducted by Edurio for Schools Week, asked leaders for their views …

Van Gogh Museum Won’t Attribute Garage Sale Painting

Van Gogh Museum Won’t Attribute $50 Garage Sale Painting

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The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Source: Wikimedia Commons.   A seemingly obscure portrait of a fisherman, titled Elimar, grabbed headlines earlier this week. That’s because a team of experts, citing “data-driven” research, believes the portrait—which an antiques collector bought at a Minnesota garage sale for just $50—was painted by Vincent van Gogh. However, Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum has joined the conversation, saying Elimar was not, in fact, painted by the iconic Post-Impressionist.   Elimar Is “Not An Authentic Painting,” Says Van Gogh Museum A team of experts says Elimar was painted by Vincent van Gogh. Source: LMI Group International, Inc.   New scientific methods of art authentication have grown increasingly popular amongst start-up tech companies—but not so much on the market. And, when it comes to authenticating the work of Vincent van Gogh, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam is considered the principal authority on the matter. On Friday, January 31, the Van Gogh Museum announced that they had “considered the new information mentioned in the LMI Group’s Elimar report,” which details years of …