Nobel prize for a wife from OXford A HOUSEWIFE and mother of three yesterday won the 18,750 GBP Nobel chemistry prize -- for a lifetime devotion to science. --Daily Mirror, 30 Oct 1964

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964.

The headline and lede from The Daily Mirror:

Stansbury Island at the Great Salt Lake

Stansbury Island at the Great Salt Lake just after sunrise.

CBP chief Bovino has confirmed that the officers who executed Alex Pretti in the street yesterday are not only *not on administrative leave,* they have all been reassigned to other jurisdictions and are all on the street today.

This is totally unheard of for any officer-involved shooting

The are unapologetic hypocrites, utterly w/out shame.

Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"

Americans have a habit of trying to compare all authoritarianism to Nazi Germany. I think in some ways i think it is comforting to view authoritarianism as a foreign ideology. If you want to understand our current authoritarian moment, you need to look to our own past, not to Europe 1/x

Pete Hegseth praises ICE while demeaning the people of Minnesota

This is an actual post from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth: Praising ICE after Alex Pretti was killed, blaming the Democratic leadership of Minnesota, and writing that ICE is greater/better than Minnesota.

He is actively demeaning the people of Minnesota just hours after Pretti was murdered.

Here is something beautiful

He farts methane, funny!

This photo will be everywhere for the next week. Pls credit prominently.

Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Minnesota Star Tribune

Every journalist covering ICE risks their lives.

Tsong-Taatarii has been an NPPA Photographer of the Year, rec'd a World Press Photo award, and was on a team that won a Pulitzer.

This is not a rational person. And this is deeply disturbing coming from an American President. NATO is not our enemy—they are unequivocally our closest friends and allies.

At this point, how can you not call into question the mental fitness of this President?

It’s like ICE stealing that kid’s phone and selling it. No responsibility, no law, just greedy violence. But on a massive scale. As though McKremlin consultants were explaining how to do it.

I kinda hate our president, though.

The boy holding a bag of haribo confectionary is questioned by a masked IcE agent while three others with weapons stand by

The boy has head bowed, holding his confectionary, as he is taken away.

A teenage boy was walking home in Minneapolis yesterday when four masked men jumped out of a van & questioned him - with no parent or guardian present.

He was bundled into the van & taken away.

Bystanders heard the boy say: “Can I just go home?”

I don’t know how America comes back from all this.

Backcountry skier and the moon.

Winter, of a sadly attenuated flavor, has arrived in Utah.

What can history teach us about what happens when a populist strongman with an idiosyncratic taste for low interest rates undermines central bank independence?

Warm start to winter a glimpse into Utah's future, scientists say Recent years show how climate change generates extreme snow — or a lack of it — in the Wasatch.

"A 2021 Utah State University study found it’s getting hotter at every single ski resort in the state. Many are averaging about 9 degrees Fahrenheit warmer in the winter now compared to 1980."

Performative Christianity is the worst.

Pavement Wowee Zowee

Not perfect, to be sure, but a goto for many years.

Sunset at Denver’s Washington Park.

Here I am, in the middle of an American city, and still there can be incredible beauty.

Has it happened yet? Has it happened yet?

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Susie Wiles: “I was tricked by the fake news. Not once in the eleven interviews I sat down for did I see the recording devices.”

One theory I have is that competence, self-control, responsibility, and expertise have all been feminized, leaving “masculinity” with the realm of impulsivity and petulance. So the divide is not really between “femininity” and “masculinity” so much as between adulthood and childishness.

Pardoned

Walking along the escarpment above Muddy Creek in the San Rafael Swell, Utah.

It took the royal family five years longer to kick Prince Andrew out for being a paedophile than it did to kick Prince Harry out for miscegenation.

Mike Johnson: Because Trump’s balls won’t lick themselves.