Robin

Just a reminder that Trump is selling Venezuelan oil and depositing the proceeds into a bank account in Qatar that is NOT under any control by the US government or Congress.

He's just stealing it. It really is that simple.

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This FB post is public.

US federal forces blind two protesters shot in face with ‘less-lethal’ munitions Kaden Rummler and Britain Rodriguez tell KTLA and LA Times of being shot at close range during California protest

US federal forces blind two protesters shot in face with ‘less-lethal’ munitions www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Woah. These photos are really amazing.

Photograph from 1911 taken by Herbert Ponting whilst with Scott's Antarctic Expedition The monochrome photo is taken from within a cave. The walls of the cave are made of ice. The cave entrance is in the mid distance with two figures standing looking out towards a distant ship. Between them and the ship there is first a 'beach' of ice before the sea itself. The ship could be up to 800 metres away What makes the photo so special is that where the figures are at the cave entrance there is a band of very white snow and ice (contrasting with the comparatively dark inside of the cave) that creates a stark framework in which the men and the ship are captured. It is made even more dramatic by the fact that the cave entrance is at least 30 metres high and is in the shape of a distorted elipse with the tail sloping off to the right at the top of the elipse The photo being in monochrome in a largely white environment makes the photographers skill all the more laudable

This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition,

The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance

Iconic imo

Don't do their dirty work for them. Don't describe a more humane system of doing terrible things. Just insist on no innocent deaths, no deportations of people who are legally in the country, no brutal conditions for anyone. Keep on coming back to your values, and make them state theirs. 7/7

i think it was Cerf who wrote that if Wanda Wiłkomirska had married Howard Hughes, divorced him, and then married Henry Kissinger, she'd be Wanda Hughes Kissinger now. if the biography quotes its subject extensively, you might want to warm up first with a couple/few Xanth novels.

I broke the story yesterday that masked ICE agents (not DOJ) were removing items including a personal computer from the home of Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who shot Renee Good. I have yet to see a single news outlet cover this or an elected official even acknowledge it.

Opinion | Renee Good wasn’t the first person shot in her car by ICE. The justification followed a familiar script. Mike Fox: The officer who shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis might never have to defend his actions before a judge or jury.

Great piece by my Cato colleague. “Since July, immigration agents have shot at least six people behind the wheel of a vehicle. The same playbook is used each time: the agent says they “feared for their life” as a vehicle was “weaponized” against them. Juries should decide, but we tie their hands.

A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."

The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"

"Learned what?" she asks

Then he knocks her phone out of her hand

I invite all Americans to join Minnesota in a day of unity tomorrow.

one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it

they were even better before they moved to the CN Tower, i think. just reaching more of Toronto made it kore likely someone would complain, and revenue probably became a higher priority as physical plant recurring costs jumped.
i missed them when i moved to Boston, with WFNX almst a Bowdlerized CFNY

congratulations on a long and extremely successful career of your own choosing that you worked at and earned recognition and praise for! may your retirement be happy, prosperous, and productive in ways that reward you!

The Brazen Illegality of Trump’s Venezuela Operation A scholar of international law on the implications of the U.S. arrest of President Nicolás Maduro.

Isaac Chotiner interviews Oona Hathaway, an expert in international law, about the “brazen illegality” of the Trump regime’s invasion of Venezuela to kidnap president Nicolás Maduro. [newyorker.com]

Why are people assuming US troops and not Eric Prince employees will enforce US order in Venezuela?

Puck Yeah!

Chairman JCOS: “Months of planning…”

soooo not an imminent threat justifying self-defense

Hello repro writers from the mid to late 20 teens - I just discovered Cosmopolitan at some point pulled almost every politics/repro story from the 5 years I wrote for them offline (except two, which they put under someone else's name and gave me "additional reporting" which it very much was not)

of course, for speed and agility, Parliament might need to be smaller, or in any case there must be carefully vetted empowered nucleus, a kind of Committee that is Central to Parliament.
to your point, i thought Liz Truss had in fact cut off her nose to spite her face?

i had a classmate, circa age 8, who delighted on sneaking up behind boys with an ice hockey stick, insinuating it between their feet, and then delivering a short, sharp, shock.
unfortunately, the family was too poor to afford mocap and a robot.

video is wasted energy in computer use. video codecs are computationally expensive to run, at least save it for situations where it is helpful, like ASL signing.
please pardon tangent here bcoz podcasts are insignificant compared to videoconferencing, to me related as inconvenient video

well it looks like a shack, and when blond Theodore leans back to think he is slanTed...

my ADHD finds clearing away and washing dishes soothing, and dishwashers failing to actually clean all the crud of dishes quite frustrating.
people should do as they prefer, trying to justify the choice as practically or environmentally preferable is ludicrous.

these studies assume that one hand washes dishes with the tap constantly running, that there is no cost to rewashing dishes, and that crud that doesn't wash off either is sterile or is always noticed and washed off when redone. the first is not common in cultures where hand-washing is more common.

as is often the case, that explanation is Gretely oversimplified

is it because their orbitals are f-ed up?

Also if you know a white dude who is getting excluded at a writer's conference, I have....

questions.

About how he behaves.