When words fall short, symbols speak.

Like the patterns Ukrainians paint on Pysanky, their traditional Easter eggs.

They embody the resilience and hope of a nation, unbroken by the brutal Russian aggression.

The European Union stands by the Ukrainians’ side, committed to supporting them through this war and along their European path.

For a prosperous, peaceful future for all Europeans.

The US attorney general for DC sent a letter to a medical journal asking about alleged bias in the decision to publish content. MedPage Today has reported at least two more.

"Nothing discussed in this letter comes within a million miles of any plausible jurisdiction of the U.S. attorney," said Samuel Bagenstos, former deputy assistant attorney general at DOJ

https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/18/trump-doj-letters-target-science-journals-raise-constitutional-issues-us-attorney-ed-martin-chilling-effect/

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Bronze Age Scandinavians braved open seas 3,000 years before the Vikings, new study reveals

Hundreds of years before the Viking Age, Nordic Bronze Age societies were likely proficient open-sea navigators who regularly crossed large tracts of ocean directly between what is now Denmark and Norway, suggests a new study published in PLOS ONE...

More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/04/bronze-age-scandinavians-braved-open-seas/

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Urban Infrastructure in Barcelona, Spain.

Video credit: beteve.cat

#solarPunk #transit #publicTransit #publicTransportation #trains

Once again, #Trump and co. 🖕🏼 our justice system, the judges, democracy and all of us.

‪Kyle Cheney‬:

JUST IN: Lawyers for Venezuelan nationals say they’re being loaded onto buses this hour in anticipation of a new wave of Alien Enemies Act deportations, w less than 24 hours notice. They’re asking Judge Boasberg for an immediate restraining order requiring 30 days notice.

“The acting commissioner of the #IRS is being replaced after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent complained to President Trump that the latest leader of the agency had been installed without his knowledge and at the behest of billionaire Elon #Musk…”

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