Alonso Quijano

"The latest deadline follows U.S.-brokered trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi that produced no breakthrough as the warring parties cling to mutually exclusive demands. Russia is pressing Ukraine to withdraw from the Donbas, where fighting remains intense — a condition Kyiv says it will never accept."

The term was coined by Ernst Fraenkel to describe the functioning of the Nazi state, and especially law in Nazi Germany, which he described in his 1941 book The Dual State: A Contribution to the Theory of Dictatorship.

The dual state is a model in which the functioning of a state is divided into a normative state, which operates according to set rules and regulations, and a prerogative state, "which exercises unlimited arbitrariness and violence unchecked by any legal guarantees".[1]

🐂 While it's normally chimpanzees that are applauded for it, a team in Austria has just reported the first known case of a cow using tools.

13-year-old Veronika lives in a mountain village and has spent years perfecting the art of scratching herself with sticks and brooms

Immigration officers assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge's warrant, memo says An Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press reveals that the agency allows immigration officers to forcibly enter homes to make arrests without a judicial warrant.

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2 - The same could be said for Venezuela. The US just needed to wear them down.

Francis Fukuyama - The End of History
"history should be viewed as an evolutionary process, and that the end of history, in this sense, means that liberal democracy is the final form of government for all nations."

Francis Fukuyama explained that the US does not need to use force to get what the US wants from Greenland/Denmark. And will probably use coercion instead of force. So why the threats? Military bases are covered by treaties. Infrastructure investment would be welcomed. What gives?

January 9, 2026 Beginning in 1943, the War Department published a series of pamphlets for U.S.

Fascism, ... “is government by the few and for the few. The objective is seizure and control of the economic, political, social, and cultural life of the state.” “The people run democratic governments, but fascist governments run the people.”

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Vigil in Philly

During Fiona Hill's testimony to Congress on Oct 14, 2019, she described how Trump and Putin discussed exchanging Ukraine for Venezuela. The quid pro quo was if Trump refuses to help Ukraine fight off a Russian invasion, Putin would not help Venezuela (a Russian ally) resist a US takeover.

With each exposure the risk of long covid increases

YouTube video by Still Watching Netflix Dr. Jane Goodall’s Final Message To The World | Famous Last Words | Netflix

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Sandwich Man

Five things to remember about war:

A Roman mosaic representing a red/brown octopus on white background

I finally found the perfect match

#MolluscMonday
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Villaquejida (León), Spain
2nd-3rd century CE
Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid

🦑 #Paleosky🏺

The one man MAGA truly needs in their pocket is John Roberts. And Stephen Miller believes he is so powerful that he can piss on the Chief Justice.

Artwork: By Mauro Pallotta in Rome, Italy.

I just covered Kristallnacht in my Holocaust class today. I shared Kurt Messerschmidt’s quote regarding the event. “Some of the people disapproved of what the Nazis did. But their disapproval was only silence. And silence is what did the harm.”

Transgender Mice - No not quite. Transgenic mice which are used in medical research. Just another day in America

-- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863

The Arch at Darwin, a long time ago
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Far away in distance and time
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YouTube video by LMFA The impossible dream - Man of La Mancha - Brian Stokes Mitchell - 2003

A beautiful dreamer
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45 Howard Street
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Sir, you are a patriot. I regret we were not able to convict the president based on the actions you exposed. That failure of the GOP has led us here.

Flower
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An old Halloween photograph that came to mind after yesterday's display in the White House
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Consumers already seem worried about policy madness, and they ain't seen nothing yet