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bbcnewsamerica_feedWhy the Catholic Church and Donald Trump’s government are at odds over immigration policy.
bbcnewsamerica_feedHigh-profile figures, including Andrew and President Trump are mentioned in the long-awaited files.
bbcnewsamerica_feedTorrential rain brings a flooding risk to California this week. Elizabeth Rizzini has the details.
bbcnewsamerica_feedFootage captures the moment rescuers discover a survivor in the wreckage of a plane crash that killed at least 5 people, with one person still missing.
bbcnewsamerica_feedAn emergency meeting of the UN Security Council was called to discuss the US seizure of two tankers.
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fan_flashworksTitle: On The Outside
Fandom: Babylon 5
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badly_knittedCharacters: Garibaldi, Zack Allen
Rating: PG
Word Count: 300
Spoilers/Setting: Moments of Transition.
Summary: These days, Garibaldi can only rely on himself.
Content Notes: None needed.
Written For: Challenge 501: Amnesty 83, using Challenge 30: Solitary.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Babylon 5, or the characters. They belong to J. Michael Straczynski.
A/N: Triple drabble.
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bbcnewsamerica_feedThe Trump administration bans five people who have called for tech regulation from entering the country.
bbcnewsamerica_feedThere are more questions for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor in the latest documents from the Epstein files.
bbcnewsamerica_feedA newly released email sent to Ghislane Maxwell from "A" is among the latest set of Epstein files released by the US' House Committee on Oversight and Reform.
bbcnewsamerica_feedFootage captures the moment rescuers discover a survivor in the wreckage of a plane crash that killed at least 5 people, with one person still missing.
bbcnewsamerica_feedAn AI-powered app called CrimeRadar has apologised for the distress caused by false crime alerts issued to local US communities after a BBC Verify investigation.
bbcnewsamerica_feedThe US president also says the US intends to keep the tankers it has intercepted off the coast of Venezuela.
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nanila posting in awesomeersIt's challenge time!
Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.
Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished! Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!
Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.
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Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.
Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished! Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!
Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.
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fairyniamhQuote:
"Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights."
"Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship to restrict the art of healing to one class of Men and deny equal privileges to others; the Constitution of the Republic should make a Special privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious freedom."
~ Benjamin Rush
Holiday Music:
Josh Groban – Believe:
https://youtu.be/VoZsS0zq1hs?si=OEKA1t_d59KKJOXr
"Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights."
"Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship to restrict the art of healing to one class of Men and deny equal privileges to others; the Constitution of the Republic should make a Special privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious freedom."
~ Benjamin Rush
Holiday Music:
Josh Groban – Believe:
https://youtu.be/VoZsS0zq1hs?si=OEKA1t_d59KKJOXr
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merriamwebster_feedMerriam-Webster's Word of the Day for December 24, 2025 is:
hark back • \HAHRK-BAK\ • verb
Harking back can be about turning back to an earlier topic or circumstance, as in "a storyteller harking back to his youth," or it can be about going back to something as an origin or source, as in "a style that harks back to the turn of the previous century."
// The dinner conversation harked back to the lunch debate over what counts as a traditional holiday meal.
// The diner's interior decor harks back to the 1950s.
Examples:
"The single harks back to Chenier's heyday when his music was produced on 45s and put into jukeboxes, says [Maureen] Loughran." — Alicia Ault, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 June 2025
Did you know?
Hark, a very old word meaning "to listen," was used as a cry in hunting. The master of the hunt might cry "Hark! Forward!" or "Hark! Back!" The cries became set phrases, both as nouns and verbs. Thus, a "hark back" was a retracing of a route by dogs and hunters, and to "hark back" was to turn back along the path. From its use in hunting, the verb acquired its current figurative meanings concerned with returning to the past. The variants hearken and harken (also very old words meaning "to listen") are also used, with and without back, as synonyms of hark back.
sovayIt is still sleeting more than snowing here, but it sticks in the occasional patch of shadow. Farther from the water, it's frosting up like winter. The Ursids were washed out by this year's weather, but somewhere beyond the clouds they are still streaking light.
I spent a remarkable portion of this day having conversations related to employment, but one of them was a thorough delight. I hadn't known about the practical, ritual links of the Jewish Association for Death Education.
We lit the candle for my grandfather's yahrzeit, our ghost story for Christmas Eve.
I spent a remarkable portion of this day having conversations related to employment, but one of them was a thorough delight. I hadn't known about the practical, ritual links of the Jewish Association for Death Education.
We lit the candle for my grandfather's yahrzeit, our ghost story for Christmas Eve.