Jock Rutherford

Surely Antifa’s Tier One special forces staged a covert raid on this congressional office. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

“The strike was the fifth known attack by the U.S. military on such boats since Sept. 2. The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

It’s incredible that the VT State Senator wrapped up in this hasn’t resigned yet — every major GOP leader in the state has called for his resignation. Fixing democracy requires restoring shame to public life. And accountability. Lots of accountability. vtdigger.org/2025/10/14/v...

This is … clarifying.

The Strange Saga of the Great Texas Space Shuttle Heist | Scientific American

https://archive.is/2025.10.13-112912/https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/moving-nasa-space-shuttle-to-texas-from-dc-could-damage-it-experts-say/

Guelph’s Peter Howitt Nobel win ‘a proud moment’ for Ontario universities where he studied and worked | CBC News

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/peter-howitt-nobel-prize-economics-guelph-western-mcgill-9.6937046

#guelph

In the footsteps of giants - BBC News One of the longest sets of dinosaur footprints in the world has been discovered in a limestone quary near Bicester, in Oxfordshire, England.

In the footsteps of giants - BBC News

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-5f8c77b0-92bc-40f2-bf21-6793abbe5ffe

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypted.

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data | WIRED

https://www.wired.com/story/satellites-are-leaking-the-worlds-secrets-calls-texts-military-and-corporate-data/

The Real Reason Why There Is No Nobel Prize For Mathematics Math permeates everything in the universe, except Nobel Prizes.

Why Is There No Nobel Prize For Mathematics? | IFLScience

https://www.iflscience.com/why-is-there-no-nobel-prize-for-mathematics-81147

Lincoln’s Revolution - The Atlantic

https://archive.is/2025.10.10-123900/https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/11/abraham-lincoln-revolution-founders-lessons/684332/

Software update bricks some Jeep 4xe hybrids over the weekend - Ars Technica

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/10/software-update-bricks-some-jeep-4xe-hybrids-over-the-weekend/

German state replaces Microsoft Exchange and Outlook with open-source email Digital sovereignty isn't a phrase you often hear in the US, but it's a big deal in Europe. Here's why.

German state replaces Microsoft Exchange and Outlook with open-source email | ZDNET

https://www.zdnet.com/article/german-state-replaces-microsoft-exchange-and-outlook-with-open-source-email/

Move over, Alan Turing: meet the working-class hero of Bletchley Park you didn’t see in the movies | Second world war | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/12/move-over-alan-turing-meet-the-working-class-hero-of-bletchley-park-you-didnt-see-in-the-movies

Canada’s F-35 Fighter Program Has Passed the Point of No Return

Canada's F-35 Fighter Program Has Passed the Point of No Return - National Security Journal

https://nationalsecurityjournal.org/canadas-f-35-fighter-program-has-passed-the-point-of-no-return/

A small forest of pixie cup lichen, growing on top of a fence post, seen close up. Lichen in shadow; sunshine on the lawn in the background.

#mosstodon #silentsunday

Rolling Stones’s Ronnie Wood says he is working on new songs with Rod Stewart Speaking on Desert Island Discs, guitarist says pair, who were in the Faces in 1960s, have ‘good body of songs going’

Rolling Stones’s Ronnie Wood says he is working on new songs with Rod Stewart | Ronnie Wood | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/oct/12/ronnie-wood-and-rod-stewart-working-together-on-songs-again-rolling-stone-says

How the autumn climbing season turned deadly in the Himalayas Unpredictable, intense and longer monsoons are encroaching into autumn, turning it into a deadly season.

How the autumn climbing season turned deadly in the Himalayas

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2jwgnwmezo

For more information about the Friday night massacre at CDC, I wrote up an analysis of who got terminated and what that means for public health.

Grateful to @saveamericamvmt.bsky.social for supporting and amplifying. We are in really terrible trouble.

rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/the-death-...

This looks like anti-Christian bias to me.

Important fact

The random people who called into this C-SPAN session had better questions for Mike Johnson than most corporate media outlets

"But could ideas hold a country together? In the early decades of American history, these were open questions. They still are."

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'Rip Van Winkle' and the Making of an American Myth - The Atlantic […]

Snitches get stitches, fella.

Mr. President, is it you or your dusty little gnome who is sending in troops to provoke riots? The gnome said it was him.

Number of wild bee species at risk of extinction in Europe doubles in 10 years Number of endangered butterfly species also surging amid habitat destruction and global heating, finds study

Number of wild bee species at risk of extinction in Europe doubles in 10 years | Bees | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/11/number-of-wild-bee-species-at-risk-of-extinction-in-europe-doubles-in-10-years

Mr. Benioff spoke as his annual Dreamforce conference is set to begin Tuesday in downtown San Francisco, bringing 50,000 visitors to the city. He is scheduled to deliver a keynote address about the benefits of "agentic enterprise," a business model in which humans and artificial intelligence bots work together. Speaking by telephone from his private plane en route to San Francisco, he lamented that he has to pay for nundreds of off-duty law enforcement officers to help patrol the convention area and said that San Francisco needed to "re-fund" the police. The city never actually "defunded" its police force, and San Francisco's violent crime rates are below those in many other U.S. cities. But San Francisco has struggled to recruit and keep officers, and it still has problems with lower-level crimes and open-air drug use, especially in neighborhoods like the Tenderloin near City Hall. It has about 1,500 police officers, and Mr. Benioff says it ne → another thousand.

What an emblem of the billionaire class—descending on a peaceful city in a private jet on the horn to NYT asking for the place to be invaded by federal authorities because the rent-a-cops you employ for a week to harass a few junkies outside the convention center cost too much.

I thought that math was required for the MCATs

No Kings protests, and anti-regime protests in general, serve two main positive functions:

1) Reminding participants and observers that they’re very far from alone, countering regime efforts to divide and isolate

2) Showing the absurdity of regime lies about the peaceful, pro-democracy opposition

Are we done yet? Future historians have all the forensic evidence they need to know our culture and era was one of the most absurd times in documented human history.

‘He wasn’t this national hero’: US college students voice concern over Charlie Kirk’s idolization Black, brown and LGBTQ+ students across the US are puzzled by all the praise the far-right commentator has received after his killing

‘He wasn’t this national hero’: US college students voice concern over Charlie Kirk’s idolization | US universities | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/04/charlie-kirk-killing-colleges