Tim Watts

Making India great again?

Dexter Gordon Podcast Episode · Jazz Legends · 02/28/2024 · 22m

Good discussion
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Fascinating inside baseball. The omission of those seven words is easy to miss, but it points toward a sharp dispute behind the scenes—KBJ wanted to make it as clear as possible that she did not support extending this stay any further.

This visualization, "Domestic Deployment of the Military in 2025," updated on November 10, 2025, displays the geographical distribution, scale, and specific legal authority for four categories of domestic military deployments across the United States. Deployment scale is categorized by the size of the circles, representing 800, 3,000, or 8,000 troops. The legal authorities are color-coded as follows: Article II powers (Yellow), Title 10 Chapter 15 (Dark Blue), Title 10 Section 12406 (Cyan), and Title 32 Section 502(f) (State-Controlled National Guard with Federal Funding, Orange).

The U.S. military is being used inside the United States. There's a lot we don't know about how, why, and under what authorities.

Lawfare's new project–which includes a tracker and a map–follows where and how the military is being domestically deployed. www.lawfaremedia.org/projects-ser...

Business rent is way too high on Mag (not Miracle) Mile so companies are just shuffling around. H&M moved two blocks down the road to save cash.

He's blaming "murder and crime" in one of the safest parts of the city because the real problem is "landlords." Almost like that's the whole gambit.

The Brits have stopped sharing drug trafficking intel w/us in the Caribbean, Latin American region. They believe our extra judicial killings are illegal. If you’ve worked on this stuff or w/ the Brits, you know this is really a big deal. DOD folks—your professional liability insurance won’t work.

Red, wooden, early 20th century garage/stable with original double doors and a modern multi‑pane window in Oak Park, Illinois

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Yellow‑orange maple leaves floating in a puddle with reflected branches

red maple leaves on pebbled ground with a small patch of melting snow

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A new day; a new season
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This is most directly about the fake electors (none of whom face any federal charges anyway) but the actual wording of it is much broader: it's effectively a full and complete blanket pardon for anybody who had anything to do with trying to steal the 2020 election, not just the Jan 6-ers.

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A reminder - last March, republicans promised to restore $1.1B in funding to DC in exchange for funding the government, and Mike Johnson never took it up in the House.

Get on the Job and Organize: Standing Up for a Better Workplace and a Better World Standing Up for a Better Workplace and a Better World

Today's #Buffalo Book of the Week is "Get on the Job and Organize," a memoir and how-to guide written by Jaz Brisack, one of the leaders of the Starbucks unionization campaign on Elmwood Avenue.

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What was even the point? Weak.

Isn’t it on Tuesday?

We do outnumber them. But they are allowed to use they guns and we’re not.

But, yeah, there may have been a caltrop fabrication discussion, but I know nothing, nothing

My parents would be very disappointed in my language

Apologies for that. But, my mom was 💯 committed to casting her vote for sanity in 2020. 💙 And I’m damn sure my dad—who I never used impolite language—would full endorse my behavior and language in this situation.

I was intending to ignore politics for the weekend

Then fucking ICE comes to terrorize our village

You know when America was great? Before we decided to terrorize any county that voted for empathy and against Project 2025

For some history of the arch:

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Ornate stone arch designed by Frank Lloyd Wright opening to a gated passage with bright autumn trees visible beyond. Oak Park, Illinois

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In Chicago, We Run Toward Danger Together "Faced with unrelenting state violence, Chicagoans have refused to be cowed," says Mariame Kaba.

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Sitting down to read one of my favorite college professors

Found out they kidnapped 2 men literally around the corner from us

Two hours later the thugs are cruising around to terrorize #Illinois

Fascists

Meanwhile on the other platforms…

Never have i ever considered changing my post because that dweb zuckerwhater was triggered

No one ever changes their post

It’s just fucking irritating

My guitar

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South #OakPark Illinois
Heard whistles and horns
Nothing on our block
It didn’t last long
Don’t know, maybe kidnappers passing through

Today I received a written public “thank you” for supporting a colleague over the past couple of weeks as she dealt with a rough project, and ya know what, it feels nice
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True

Anyway, I’m planning to ignore our political spiral for the next few days.

Here’s to a better tomorrow