Constantine Alexander
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And though the flowers of love be few; Yet let them be divine.
An Anatomy of the MAGA Mind. Under Trump, post-liberal intellectuals have abandoned tradition for radicalism and scholarship for vulgarity. By George Packer. Free Access Article. www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...
An Anatomy of the MAGA Mind
Under Trump, post-liberal intellectuals have abandoned tradition for radicalism and scholarship for vulgarity.
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November 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM
An Anatomy of the MAGA Mind. Under Trump, post-liberal intellectuals have abandoned tradition for radicalism and scholarship for vulgarity. By George Packer. Free Access Article. www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...
New research reveals urban raccoons across the US show early signs of domestication. Free Access Article. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/24/s...
New clues hint at early signs of domestication in raccoons that feast on urban trash | CNN
Raccoons have easy access to food in the form of human trash. It could be jump-starting physical and behavioral changes in the masked bandits, new research suggests.
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November 25, 2025 at 11:44 AM
New research reveals urban raccoons across the US show early signs of domestication. Free Access Article. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/24/s...
Who’s Ready to Think About Blocking Out the Sun? The idea of artificially lowering the planet’s temperature is gaining supporters and hitting political opposition. By Alexander C. Kaufman. Free Access Article. www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...
Who’s Ready to Think About Blocking Out the Sun?
The idea of artificially lowering the planet’s temperature is gaining supporters and hitting political opposition.
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November 25, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Who’s Ready to Think About Blocking Out the Sun? The idea of artificially lowering the planet’s temperature is gaining supporters and hitting political opposition. By Alexander C. Kaufman. Free Access Article. www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...
The Conservative Movement’s Intellectual Collapse. Trump is both a product and a cause of the decline in intellectual standards on the right. By Jonathan Chait. Free Access Article. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
The Conservative Movement’s Intellectual Collapse
Trump is both a product and a cause of the decline in intellectual standards on the right.
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November 25, 2025 at 11:38 AM
The Conservative Movement’s Intellectual Collapse. Trump is both a product and a cause of the decline in intellectual standards on the right. By Jonathan Chait. Free Access Article. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
What Sam Shepard Couldn’t Outrun. The actor, playwright, and self-made cowboy was also a poet of masculine angst. By Michael O’Donnell. Free Access Article. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
What Sam Shepard Couldn’t Outrun
The actor, playwright, and self-made cowboy was also a poet of masculine angst.
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November 25, 2025 at 11:08 AM
What Sam Shepard Couldn’t Outrun. The actor, playwright, and self-made cowboy was also a poet of masculine angst. By Michael O’Donnell. Free Access Article. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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Study reveals broad anxiety about American democracy and growing GOP divisions on constitutional power hub.jhu.edu/2025/11/23/a... #USPolitics #Constitution #PresidentialPower #PartisanDivide #SNFAgora #PublicAgenda #AmericanDemocracy @filosia.bsky.social 🐬 @alexanderca.bsky.social 🌻 #UnitedBlue 💙
New research finds Americans deeply concerned about U.S. democracy
Across party lines, 84% of survey participants say democracy is in crisis or facing serious challenges, with distinct divides emerging within the Republican Party
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November 24, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Study reveals broad anxiety about American democracy and growing GOP divisions on constitutional power hub.jhu.edu/2025/11/23/a... #USPolitics #Constitution #PresidentialPower #PartisanDivide #SNFAgora #PublicAgenda #AmericanDemocracy @filosia.bsky.social 🐬 @alexanderca.bsky.social 🌻 #UnitedBlue 💙
The Climate Is Changing, Cows Are Stressed and Italy’s Cheesemakers Are Worried. Free Access Article. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/w...
The Climate Is Changing, Cows Are Stressed and Italy’s Cheesemakers Are Worried
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November 24, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The Climate Is Changing, Cows Are Stressed and Italy’s Cheesemakers Are Worried. Free Access Article. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/w...
Before Berlin’s Cowboys Are Booted Off Their Land, One Final Hoedown. Free Access Article. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/w...
Before Berlin’s Cowboys Are Booted Off Their Land, One Final Hoedown
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November 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Before Berlin’s Cowboys Are Booted Off Their Land, One Final Hoedown. Free Access Article. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/w...
Our Almost-Apocalyptic Climate Future. By shooting for 3 degrees Celsius of warming, the world could slide toward a more cataclysmic 4 degrees. By Peter Brannen. Free Access Article. www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...
Our Almost-Apocalyptic Climate Future
By shooting for 3 degrees Celsius of warming, the world could slide toward a more cataclysmic 4 degrees.
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November 24, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Our Almost-Apocalyptic Climate Future. By shooting for 3 degrees Celsius of warming, the world could slide toward a more cataclysmic 4 degrees. By Peter Brannen. Free Access Article. www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...
The Murky Plan That Ensures a Future War. Who will benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine? By Anne Applebaum. Free Access Article. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
The Murky Plan That Ensures a Future War
Who will benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?
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November 24, 2025 at 10:52 AM
The Murky Plan That Ensures a Future War. Who will benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine? By Anne Applebaum. Free Access Article. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Safeguarding the Songs of Spring: The Outsize Value of the Five Great Forests. youtu.be/yrWMzKBV1wo?...
The Five Great Forests of Mesoamerica - Protecting Our Shared Birds
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November 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Safeguarding the Songs of Spring: The Outsize Value of the Five Great Forests. youtu.be/yrWMzKBV1wo?...
The Forgotten Forest: The New Guinea rainforest is the third largest in the world, and it's missing from the global conservation conversation. youtu.be/vPb1CQWty60?...
Prosperous Communities, Sustainable Forests
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November 23, 2025 at 3:34 PM
The Forgotten Forest: The New Guinea rainforest is the third largest in the world, and it's missing from the global conservation conversation. youtu.be/vPb1CQWty60?...
Moss spores survive and germinate after 283-day 'space walk'. 🌻 www.newscientist.com/article/2505...
Moss spores survive and germinate after 283-day 'space walk'
Astronauts strapped moss spores to the outside of the International Space Station for nine months - and most of them survived the challenging experience
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November 23, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Moss spores survive and germinate after 283-day 'space walk'. 🌻 www.newscientist.com/article/2505...
Can we learn to talk to sperm whales? By Dr. David Gruber. Free Access Video. youtu.be/Qm02X0aE8uU?...
Can we learn to talk to sperm whales? | David Gruber | TED
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November 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Can we learn to talk to sperm whales? By Dr. David Gruber. Free Access Video. youtu.be/Qm02X0aE8uU?...
How to talk to whales. By Dr. Gruber, who is a marine biologist and the head of Project CETI. Free Access Article. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Opinion | How to Talk to Whales
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November 23, 2025 at 11:56 AM
How to talk to whales. By Dr. Gruber, who is a marine biologist and the head of Project CETI. Free Access Article. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Photos of the Week: Christmas Market, Mountain Frost, Penguin Outing The 2025 Miss Universe competition in Thailand, a volcanic eruption in Indonesia, ice sculptures in Edinburgh, lingering damage from Hurricane Melissa in Cuba, and much more. Free Access. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
Photos of the Week: Christmas Market, Mountain Frost, Penguin Outing
The 2025 Miss Universe competition in Thailand, lingering damage from Hurricane Melissa in Cuba, a volcanic eruption in Indonesia, ice sculptures in Edinburgh, and much more
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November 22, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Photos of the Week: Christmas Market, Mountain Frost, Penguin Outing The 2025 Miss Universe competition in Thailand, a volcanic eruption in Indonesia, ice sculptures in Edinburgh, lingering damage from Hurricane Melissa in Cuba, and much more. Free Access. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
A DMZ for Ukraine. Trump’s peace plan envisages a divide like the one that splits the Korean peninsula. By Simon Shuster and Jonathan Lemire. Free Access Article. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
A DMZ for Ukraine
Trump’s peace plan envisages a divide like the one that splits the Korean peninsula.
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November 22, 2025 at 10:17 AM
A DMZ for Ukraine. Trump’s peace plan envisages a divide like the one that splits the Korean peninsula. By Simon Shuster and Jonathan Lemire. Free Access Article. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
The Old Guard Is Not Gone Yet. While the sitting president rage-posted, mourners memorialized Dick Cheney—and an earlier political era. By Mark Leibovich. Free Access Article. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
The Old Guard Is Not Gone Yet
While the sitting president rage-posted, mourners memorialized Dick Cheney—and an earlier political era.
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November 22, 2025 at 8:47 AM
The Old Guard Is Not Gone Yet. While the sitting president rage-posted, mourners memorialized Dick Cheney—and an earlier political era. By Mark Leibovich. Free Access Article. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Elon Musk Is Trying to Rewrite History. Why did Grok say he’s better than Jesus? By Charlie Warzel and Matteo Wong. Free Access Article. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Elon Musk Is Trying to Rewrite History
Why did Grok say he’s better than Jesus?
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November 22, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Elon Musk Is Trying to Rewrite History. Why did Grok say he’s better than Jesus? By Charlie Warzel and Matteo Wong. Free Access Article. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Trump and Mamdani’s Strange First Meeting. A “communist” and a “despot” walk into the Oval Office … By Michael Powell. Free Access Article. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Trump and Mamdani’s Strange First Meeting
A “communist” and a “despot” walk into the Oval Office …
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November 22, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Trump and Mamdani’s Strange First Meeting. A “communist” and a “despot” walk into the Oval Office … By Michael Powell. Free Access Article. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Kelp restoration film reveals extent of crisis, hope for recovery. Free Access Article. www.montereyherald.com/2025/11/20/k...
Kelp restoration film reveals extent of crisis, hope for recovery
“Monterey has a deep connection to kelp.”
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November 21, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Kelp restoration film reveals extent of crisis, hope for recovery. Free Access Article. www.montereyherald.com/2025/11/20/k...
(Some) MAGA Girls Just Wanna Have Fun. What does it mean to be female and conservative in 2025? By Elaine Godfrey. Free Access Article. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
(Some) MAGA Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
What does it mean to be female and conservative in 2025?
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November 21, 2025 at 2:19 PM
(Some) MAGA Girls Just Wanna Have Fun. What does it mean to be female and conservative in 2025? By Elaine Godfrey. Free Access Article. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
To Get Happier, Make Yourself Smaller. Self-esteem is overrated. The better path to enlightenment is through contemplating one’s insignificance. By Arthur C. Brooks. Free Access Article. 🤔 www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
To Get Happier, Make Yourself Smaller
Self-esteem is overrated. The better path to enlightenment is through contemplating one’s insignificance.
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November 21, 2025 at 2:13 PM
To Get Happier, Make Yourself Smaller. Self-esteem is overrated. The better path to enlightenment is through contemplating one’s insignificance. By Arthur C. Brooks. Free Access Article. 🤔 www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
President Piggy. This is what consequence-free misogyny looks like. By Sophie Gilbert. Free Access Article. www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
President Piggy
This is what consequence-free misogyny looks like.
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November 21, 2025 at 2:06 PM
President Piggy. This is what consequence-free misogyny looks like. By Sophie Gilbert. Free Access Article. www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
Trump’s Devastating Plan for Ukraine. The White House is giving Putin permission to try again. By Phillips Payson O’Brien. Free Access Article. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Trump’s Devastating Plan for Ukraine
The White House is giving Putin permission to try again.
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November 21, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Trump’s Devastating Plan for Ukraine. The White House is giving Putin permission to try again. By Phillips Payson O’Brien. Free Access Article. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...