The 7th Circuit Court's remarkable and heartening reasoning behind preventing National Guard troops from entering Chicago:
"We emphasize that the critical analysis of a “rebellion” centers on the nature of the resistance to governmental authority. Political opposition is not rebellion. "

Poulsbo sez take your little fantasy and stuff it!

Poulsbo, Wa - 8:30 am! Best sign: Eggs are so expensive because all the chickens are in Congress.

Where's the protest music? Where are the young versions of Dylan, Baez, Lennon, etc. We need to be hearing you!

Saw this with my daughter Isabella yesterday. Intense, honest, wrenching look at what is going on in Israel and Palestine, and a moving portrait of a courageous group of people, Combatants for Peace, walking a road of hope, step by step. Open screening June 12 - Watch it!
thereisanotherwayfilm.com

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Sunny May-Day May 3rd Dump Trump fest in Poulsbo, Wa. Loud, large, and no where as loony as the moronic buffoon who thinks he's pope and president. This is what democracy looks like.

Opinion | Donald Trump, You’re No Franklin Roosevelt Autocratic intent does not translate automatically into autocratic success.

'Remember, an executive order isn’t law.' From Jamelle Bouie's latest and excellent piece: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/o...

apologies - I re-wrote you before I saw this...

I'm excited to read this! Sounds extraordinary and moving. A note. My dad, Ronald Geballe, was U Wash Phys Dep't chair - hosted your grandpa Eugen in 1967-8 as visiting professor. He was at our house a few times. Don't remember much beyond that, but this makes the book more personal for me...Best!!

Hello, Joe. Congratulations - look forward to reading it! Re: your grandfather, Eugen. My dad, Ronald Geballe, chairman of the U Wash Physics Department in 1967 hosted him as a visiting professor. Unfortunately I don't have any real memories but it's fascinating to learn about your family history.

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Tiny Poulsbo Wa (pop 12,000) turns out 1500+ for Hands Off!

A Vaccine For Pancreatic Cancer Continues To Show Promise In a small trial, nearly half of pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine for the disease had no relapse three years later.

90% of people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer die from the disease. That's why the medical community is excited about the results of a small trial in which nearly half of the pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine for the disease remained relapse-free three years later.

Syria’s leader proclaims ‘new history’ after signing constitutional declaration Five-year transition period declared along with rights for women, freedom of expression and justice for Assad victims

Sounds like something we might consider...? haha

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Chaos erupts b/t Trump's cabinet and Musk. New reporting from the NY Times:

- Rubio, furious over Musk’s cuts to his agency, fired back after Musk mocked him: “You have fired nobody.” Rubio countered that over 1,500 State Department officials had taken early retirements, accusing Musk of lying.

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Oregon’s sole GOP congressman criticized by rural voters at town hall Cliff Bentz, Oregon's sole Republican member of Congress, took a verbal lashing in his conservative district as Trump's cost-cutting policies have caused chaos

www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...

Trump's plan:
Install 'his people' in top military posts
Provoke Violence
Declare Martial Law
Suspend the Constitution
Game Over
Everything else is distraction

US-funded ‘social network’ attacking pesticide critics shuts down after Guardian investigation v-Fluence halts operations after widespread backlash over private portal profiling environmental health advocates

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Murphy: "I continue to get reports from Connecticut that agencies there, like Head Start programs and community health centers, are actually not receiving the funding they are due. So I think there's a big question as to whether the administration actually is implementing the court order."

Penetrating wisdom from JB Pritzker, Gov of Illinois

YouTube video by Trades Union Congress (TUC) How To Spot An Idiot

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Donald Trump’s Orbán Playbook Is Working Exactly as Intended The events of the past two weeks are unimaginable to most Americans.

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Exclusive | Democratic Senator Says He Will Stall Trump Nominees Until USAID Is Back The move would require Senate Majority Leader John Thune to use precious floor time to advance the president’s nominees through the confirmation process.

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

All you arthropod fans...have your spiders gone missing? I have anecdotally noted a real decline over the last few years. Fall used to be dressed in dew-covered webs. Not so much now...asking for Charlotte.

EU medicines agency quits X, moves to Bluesky The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said on Monday it would no longer post on X and would use rival Bluesky instead, becoming the latest organisation to quit a social media platform that some have criticised for its content.

www.reuters.com/world/europe...

The Contrarian | Jen Rubin and Norm Eisen | Substack Unflinching journalism in defense of democracy. Click to read The Contrarian, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.

This is put together by former WaPo journalists who want their own un-Zuckerberged voice...
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