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Armies want landmines because they work. They work well. But they poison the land for generations, and I’ve met too many people whose lives have been destroyed by them.

“Rumors of pizza as thick as a pecan pie remain just that. Rumors. To date, intel sends us to addresses with lights off and curtains pulled.”

Despite having been uninhabited for centuries, Old Sarum continued to elect two members of Parliament until 1832.

Kestrel sitting in a tree in early spring. In its clutches, a mouse is visible. Bird is visible from the front with black streaks on cream-colored ground. Blurry background

The Kestrel has been selected for #birdoftheday by Rob.
Here’s a male who just got himself a ‘takeaway’ lunch.

Kestrel / Turmfalke (Biblis, Germany)

#kestrel #turmfalke #falcon #birds #birdsofprey #raptors

Non-native heath flora of some economic concern. I’d give it a watch rating.

Wizard frog apparently has them shook.

I wrote back in June that Trump is essentially attempting a Little Rock 1957 deployment only this time for white people, and he just tweeted it out
smotus.substack.com/p/welcome-to...

Map plot snapshot from ECMWF model depicting the offshore low (NorCal) and the weakening Hurricane Priscilla (west of Baja CA). The field plotted is mid-level moisture (blues represent moister air) and mid-level winds.

After another fairly hot and dry spell across California, cooler and more active weather will once again return later this week as remnant moisture from then-former #HurricanePriscilla interacts with an offshore low pressure system. [1/3] #CAwx #CAfire

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

Only small albanian town I could remember off the top of my head.

Shouldn’t comment on NYC politics.

Pentagon plan would create military ‘reaction force’ for civil unrest Documents reviewed by The Post detail a new National Guard mission that, if adopted, would require hundreds of troops to be ready around-the-clock.

As I've always said, the real Constitutional crisis will be when POTUS unilaterally deploys red state national guard into blue states under very shaky legal authority with the pretext of supporting law enforcement during protests

Sorta like this, tbh:

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Here’s video of the incident

Great opportunity to build up economic ties. Maybe sign a sister city pact with the municipality of Pukë.

At some point, lawyers arguing before SCOTUS must make clear - possibly even during oral argument - that SCOTUS is corrupt, led by a corrupt CJ, & acting in a manner entirely inconsistent w rule of law.

I love Madiba Dennie, & wouldn't disagree w anything said here, but this moment requires more.

I will accept SF fog as the reason for a delay, but “we’d rather pay ICE” is unacceptable.

Best wishes up there.

ICE Raid Causes Death of California Farmworker, Agents Force Witnesses To Delete Photos and Videos: ‘Makes You Wonder What Evidence They’re Trying To Hide’ People wonder what ICE is hiding after agents forced witnesses during a raid to delete photos and videos amid a man dying from the incident.

curious about ways to record to the cloud

There are several instances in which they have pressured citizens to delete videos or destroyed devices.

thenerdstash.com/ice-raid-cau...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Might just be retired little leaguer and a 2010-2014 giants fan, but I liked it before they started using a superball painted like a baseball. Fielding and small ball is fun to watch.

They were sadistic enough before, but I’m quite curious how many former proud boys and oathkeepers are on the force right now.

In normal times one could file a FOIA request.

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

Oregon is digging deep to tap into an uncommon renewable energy source — Super Hot Rocks Mazama Energy along with its partners are hoping to tap into an uncommon energy source that could help Oregon and the rest of the region meet its renewable energy goals — Super Hot Rocks.

Despite the name Mazama, the project is located near Newberry Volcano. ⚒️ www.opb.org/article/2025...

With or without an electron microprobe?

special relativity

you have to use a measuring tape and a balance in the same reference frame

27% of military spouses are employed as federal civilians

20% of military spouses are unemployed- driven by frequent moves.

Almost 40% are underemployed and earn less than peers with similar education and training

www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov...

See that small, moving splotch?

That's 3I/ATLAS, a comet that formed in a different star system, photographed from Mars orbit by the ESA Exomars Trace Gas Orbiter.

A comet from a DIFFERENT SOLAR SYSTEM photographed by a ROBOT ORBITING MARS

last Friday

However, your Administration has not identified any of the specific organizations you have determined to be included as designated terrorist organizations, nor the criteria or process used for making such determinations. You have also failed to specify the authority under which the Administration is able to designate affiliates of certain drug trafficking organizations as enemy combatants for the purpose of undertaking lethal strikes. We request that you immediately provide a list of all designated terrorist organizations to Congress, along with the associated determination criteria or methodologies used. In addition, you have not provided Congress with details regarding the intelligence associated with these strikes. Finally, the Administration has not provided significant details with respect to the legal justification for these strikes beyond vague assertions of Article II powers. The President’s Article II powers are significant, but they are not limitless. It is our understanding that the Department of Defense has determined strikes against designated terrorist organizations are legal on the basis of a legal opinion produced by the Department of Justice. We ask that you provide that legal opinion to Congress immediately. We look forward to receiving the list of designated terrorist organizations and the Department of Justice legal opinion. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Good to see this letter from House ranking members on the nat'l security committees asking for the administration's list of "designated terrorist organizations" and the OLC legal memo blessing lethal strikes in the Caribbean.

Executive branch has issued itself a license to kill secret enemies.

Chief Justice Roberts should be defending the judiciary with this zeal. Leaving the work to a judge whose son was killed is a dereliction.

So permafrost peatlands burn and they release lots of CO2 through combustion - but that's just the start. Christopher Schulze shows in a new GRL study that slow recovery causes continued CO2 losses in the following decade - overall similar in magnitude to the combustion!

doi.org/10.1029/2025...

On Lawfare's litigation tracker you can find the dockets for 200 cases challenging actions from the Trump administration, including Illinois's suit challenging the deployment of the National Guard in Chicago, a U.S. citizen suing ICE over an alleged wrongful arrest, and many more.

Senator Slotkin asks Army GC nominee about how many "designated terrorist organizations" the US is now supposedly in an armed conflict with and whether he can name them.

Army GC nominee refuses to answer.

Administration refuses to tell American public and Congress who POTUS has declared war on.