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On #Oleshky : These folks made it to Ukraine 👇
Residents evacuated from Russian-occupied Oleshky have now crossed the border into Ukraine and are safe.
The oldest person is 94, while the youngest is just over a year old. Another woman will celebrate her 49th birthday tomorrow.
Among those evacuated is a family who lived in a building devastated by shelling. Due to his health condition, the father couldn't get down from the eighth floor on his own, and the staircase had been destroyed. The family was cut off from food and water.
Another man survived 16 Russian drone attacks and four missile strikes on his home. One of the explosions occurred just a meter from the wall of his house.
The residents' pets were also brought to safety, including dogs, cats, a parrot, and even a raccoon.
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Ossoff: "Georgia will bow to no king!"
He then welcomes Obama to the stage. Here's his entrance. The crowd goes nuts.
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Delilah wants you to buy a 2027 wall calendar we designed! ALL profits donated to @U24_gov_ua to help Ukraine 🇺🇦 We've raised over $10k the past 4 years but they need more! I ship worldwide from my home — see post below for link 👇 Please consider reposting this for more reach 🙏
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"I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself."
— Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
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This is one of the finest, most powerful television ads I've every seen. Do American a favor and share this everywhere.
Heart, not policy papers.
Love, not hate.
Hope, not fear.
Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant.
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Squeaky told us to post her in action too! 🩷So here's a short video, purrs included! Let's get this lovely girl adopted! Please share her with the world so her special person sees her! Thanks!
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.@NYCMayor addressing the ICE shooting in NYC and lack of support from the WH and ICE
10.8.26
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Elizabeth Bishop died on this day in 1979, having given us one of the greatest poems ever written. The true love story behind it: themarginalian.org/2026/07/0…
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❗️please share - this is urgent! Russia abducted this Ukrainian woman from Oleshky and she's been trying to get home! @emile_fondation has called for independent investigations and diplomatic help!
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Happy #NationalPoetryDay 😊
We've commissioned 5 of Scotland's Young Makars to create new work on the theme of The Wonder of Nature. They collaborated on reading a new poem by Leah Sinforiana as well as reading a new individual piece of their own. #NPD26
scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk…
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"Out of respect for yourself, there are some things you just can’t go back to.” ~Unknown
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One of my students from last year was recently diagnosed with a rare cancerous ovarian tumor that has spread and she's now undergoing chemotherapy 💔
Norah & her friends used to start basically every class by telling me some ridiculous corny joke 😂 She's such a bubbly, sweet kid who should be worrying about school, volleyball & being a teenager, not fighting cancer.
Our school volleyball team started a GoFundMe to support her family. If you're able to donate or share, please help my little corner of the internet show up for one of my kids❤️🙏🥹
gofund.me/1aecbc2cf
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Ce soir à Lourdes, nous voyons quelque chose que nous ne devons pas oublier.
Le pape Léon XIV a fait la procession aux flambeaux. Pas depuis une tribune. Pas en bénissant de loin. Il a marché. Derrière la statue de la Vierge, un cierge à la main, au milieu de tout le monde.
Ça n’avait jamais été fait comme ça. Jean-Paul II et Benoît XVI avaient participé, mais ils n’avaient pas parcouru le chemin avec les pèlerins. Lui a insisté pour le faire vraiment.
Le rite est simple et il est très ancien. Chaque soir à 21 heures, d’avril à novembre, les gens se rassemblent à la Grotte. On allume son flambeau. On suit la statue de Notre-Dame. On récite le Rosaire, mystère après mystère. On chante l’Ave Maria de Lourdes, chacun dans sa langue. Le cortège quitte la Grotte, longe le Gave, remonte vers l’esplanade et s’arrête devant la basilique. À la fin on se donne la paix.
C’est ça, la procession. Une foule qui avance dans le noir avec une petite lumière, parce que Marie a demandé qu’on vienne ici en procession.
Ce soir il y avait le pape dedans. Pas au-dessus. Dedans. Avec les malades au premier rang, les familles, les gens qui ne disent rien et qui tiennent juste leur bougie.
Je ne sais pas comment dire ça autrement : c’est bouleversant. Voir l’évêque de Rome marcher comme n’importe quel pèlerin, dans cette rivière de flammes, en silence parfois, en chantant parfois.
Lourdes a toujours été ça. Pas le décor. Les gens qui avancent ensemble la nuit. Ce soir le pape a choisi d’être l’un d’eux.
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I didn't know Presley Gerber. But I was rooting for him from afar, the way you root for anyone you recognize battling the same demons.
Addiction is a disease that knows no bounds. It doesn't care who your parents are, how much money you have, how loved you are, or how hard you're trying. And he was trying. He fought for his recovery in public, in front of a world that offers very little mercy to people who struggle where everyone can see.
We lost nearly 200 people to overdose in this country yesterday. We'll lose nearly 200 more today. About 1,300 a week. Almost 6,000 a month. Roughly 70,000 last year. Every one of them was somebody's Presley.
He started Mental Health Mondays because, in his words, "the goal was to spark real conversations about the stuff most people hide."
So don't hide. Ask for help. Keep asking. And if you've asked before and it didn't take, ask again.
You are not alone.
SAMHSA's National Helpline is free, confidential, and answers 24/7. 1-800-662-4357. You can also call or text 988.
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“Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination”
Hear Mary Oliver, in her lovely time-rasped voice, read one of the greatest poems ever written: themarginalian.org/2014/09/2…






























