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Time for those Democrats in the Texas State Legislature to take road trips to Canada or Mexico.

Time for them to take road trips to Canada or Mexico.

Atomic testament: Yoshito Matsushige and the first photos of Hiroshima’s nuclear toll Yoshito Matsushige’s photographs Hiroshima’s destruction are among the most harrowing visual records of the nuclear age.

80 years ago, on August 6, 1945, a single shutter clicked in Hiroshima and recorded what no camera had captured before, and none has again: the immediate aftermath of a city annihilated by nuclear weapons.

"Atomic testament: Yoshito Matsushige and the first photos of Hiroshima's nuclear toll."

Don't drop it on the beach in Southern California. Else you will have a sandy Eggo.

I usually wait. SkyTrain typically comes every few minutes.

YouTube video by Blackcap Explores Seaside Juniper (Juniperus maritima)

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Others, less powerful than him, true innocents: those I will shed a tear over. But not the powerful, the supposedly best and brightest, who had the power to do something not very long ago but who instead chose weakness and inaction. They will be merely be getting their due.

It may be politically incorrect to say it, but I'll say it anyway. I will not give a f*ck if Jack Smith ends up jailed. Will probably have a god chuckle about it, in fact.

Mason jars of jam cooling on a checkered dish towel.

Second batch of jam in as many days. This time, blackberry.

My favorite mathematics professor had a reputation for being one of the hardest professors in the department. Which he was. He also did an exceptional job of teaching. You worked a lot in his class and you learned a lot.

Here are when the 17 Dems who voted against the Sanders resolution are up for reelection:

2026:
Booker
Coons
Hickenlooper
Peters
Warner

2028:
Blumenthal
Cortez Mastro
Fetterman
Hassan
Padilla
Schumer
Wyden
Bennet

2030:
Cantwell
Gillibrand
Rosen
Schiff

In first, two major Israeli human rights groups accuse Israel of ‘genocide’ in Gaza Report marks first time that leading Israeli human rights watchdogs have made the accusation, which Israel vehemently denies

In first, two major Israeli human rights groups accuse Israel of ‘genocide’ in Gaza https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-first-two-major-israeli-human-rights-groups-accuse-israel-of-genocide-in-gaza/

Yup. Every accusation from a Trump fascist is usually a confession.

But it may well take 20–50 years, if fascism in most other countries is a good guide.

My "favorite" Kessler "fact check" was when he called Bernie Sanders a liar for correctly noting that "Three people in this country own more wealth than the bottom half of America." Kessler's argument was that it doesn't count because "people in the bottom half have essentially no wealth."

Marco Rubio, Stephen Miller, Kirsti Noem, Joseph Mazzara, Emil Bove, Drew Sargent, and everyone else involved in planning, executing, and obstructing justice around the CECOT imprisonments are responsible for Andry's torture and rape.

Each bears a share of the blame. Don't ever let them forget it.

YouTube video by Blackcap Explores This Is Not a River

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How We Talk About Jews Without Actually Talking to Jews Jews are everywhere in American political discourse. The problem is no one actually asked us what we think.

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Jews are the justification for almost every repressive policy the Right is pushing right now. But then why are actual living Jews overwhelmingly opposed to every one of these attacks on democracy?

Jews are everywhere in politics. Unless you actually want to talk to us.

Punishing the family members, too. A tactic right out of North Korea.

Here, too. It’s an annual thing called the Festival of Light. I always forget it. I made a note this morning to not forget it. It didn’t help.

Generally not one to jump on board the whole "FAFO" line, but... sometimes...

I keep referring people back to this because it keeps coming up.

People ask me how long things this regime does will be allowed or tolerated and I keep asking “by whom”? Dad is not getting home later. The most charitable view of SCOTUS is that they have decided to be hands-off….

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In the meantime, the USA will increasingly come to approximate Spain under Franco. Prove me wrong.

The next party will govern first as a provisional government under temporary rules in a post-revolutionary situation while a new constitution is drafted to hopefully improve on the faults of the previous one. It could, however, take fifty years for that to happen.

That Trump is evil is not up for debate here. “But Trump” does not excuse the Democratic Party’s failures in opposing the rise of American fascism, sorry.

Next: Why do people say we’re out of touch?

Israel condemns new plaques "distorting history" at site of Jedwabne pogrom in Poland

84 years ago today, non-Jewish Poles murdered hundreds of Polish Jews in Jedwabne, many of whom were locked in a barn and burned alive.

84 years later, Poles are installing monuments falsely blaming Nazis for the pogrom, contrary to the findings of historians. notesfrompoland.com/2025/07/10/i...

YouTube video by Blackcap Explores Gravel Bar Succession

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Oh, it just SEEMS like the secret police used in authoritarian regimes. Riiiight.