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ESSENCE @Essence - Music has lost one of its modern soul architects. 
Michael Eugene Archer, better known as D’Angelo, the soul revolutionary, has reportedly passed away at 51 after a private battle with pancreatic cancer. 
From Brown Sugar to Voodoo to Black Messiah, his music didn’t just move us, it ministered to us. His genius was fluid, gospel rooted, funk-soaked. It reminded the world that the Black soul is both divine and dangerous. And though the mic may fall silent, the echo still remains, humming the divine. 
Rest in power.
https://x.com/Essence/status/1978150670214574582

EWTN Vatican @EWTNVatican - A look inside the cloister: uncover the hidden rhythms and quiet devotion of the Carmelite sisters in Iceland — a monastic life cloaked in silence and prayer. The sisters need your help!
https://ewtnvatican.com/articles/a-hidden-life-inside-the-carmelite-monastery-of-iceland
https://x.com/EWTNVatican/status/1978415561995690376

Eylon Levy @EylonALevy - Israel’s willingness to pay disproportionate ransoms for hostages is obviously inviting more kidnappings. Israelis are now thinking: how do we deter future kidnappings?
Death penalty for terrorists is one option. A law limiting ransoms is another. 
This debate must be had.
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David Sherez @Davidsherez
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During the days of Gilad Shalit, I was a young major and commanded an operation related to the ability to facilitate his return, creating significant bargaining chips. A very, very bold and unique operation, which has already been written about, so I can talk about it a bit. We presented it to Netanyahu, who was the prime minister at the time, and he approved it. On the evening of the operation, we were prepared and ready. At the last moment, he canceled it. After that came Operation Pillar of Cloud and the Shalit deal. I was angry and wrote him a letter.
In that letter, I said that whoever is ultimately unwilling to take the risks and pay the prices is inviting the next kidnapping upon themselves and raising the cost.  
This was also determined by the Shamgar Committee, which recommended a clear policy regarding hostages: limiting the number of prisoners released per hostage, preparing the Israeli public consciousness that deals are not made at any cost, and perhaps even the death penalty for murderous terrorists.
Now, after the current deal, as they have returned, we must change our approach to this. We must create a reality in which it is not worthwhile to kidnap us, one in which we tie our own hands with a law that prevents us from making such deals. Simply does not allow it.
The value of life is high for us. But we also do not want to create a reality in which we encourage people to kidnap us, and in which we endanger the future by releasing despicable murderers who were in our prisons. And now they are released and thinking about how they will harm us again. See the case of Sinwar.
I don’t yet have a fully formed solution; I’m working on it and promise to share. I invite you to share your ideas and thoughts on the matter.
https://x.com/EylonALevy/status/1978400476434403593

Fascinating @fasc1nate - A sailor and his little friend, circa 1890's.
https://x.com/fasc1nate/status/1978196669003886908
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