Bongo Fury

‼️ Russia has created units of soldiers infected with HIV, hepatitis and other diseases and sent them into battle. The occupiers of these units wear armbands that mark them as sick, — The Telegraph.

⚠️ Such Russians have been spotted on the front line near Pokrovsk in Donetsk region.

There's the Sansa Clip

Why We Point, Click, and Capture: A Love Letter to Street Photography There’s something wonderfully self-referential about photographing another photographer in the act of photographing.

I was finally kicking the addiction know as X, I didn't realise that X was merely a gateway drug to this much stronger addictive online heroin like substance called Substack😆
Just updated this post with something maybe controversial #streetphotography #photography
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The GOP’s New Voter Suppression Architect Read more here.

New from me.👇

Republicans only know raw power. They will only stop their escalation of attacks on elections if they pay a costly price. Now is the time for the gloves to come off. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-...

Onderzoek: ernstig letsel bij zes procent getaserden Het is voor het eerst dat er grootschalig, onafhankelijk onderzoek is gedaan naar de gezondheidsrisico's in de politiepraktijk.

Onderzoek: ernstig letsel bij zes procent getaserden

ICE agents in tactical gear chase down and tackle a U.S. citizen in L.A.

After realizing he’s American, they just slink away.

Their only explanation: “Why were you running?”

Probably because two masked men with guns were trying to snatch him.

Internet already too contaminated to train an AI on it.

Exclusive | Powerful Trump aide who’s in charge of vetting thousands of staffers still hasn’t been fully vetted himself: sources Three administration insiders told The Post that the vetter-in-chief has not turned in his Standard Form 86, or SF-86 – a 100-page set of questions required for officials who need security clearanc…

nypost.com/2025/06/17/u...

Hell of a chart, this, from @financialtimes.com. Spot the JCPOA.

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#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekYforYellow

Dan zou je zo langzamerhand toch meer dan een staplaats verwachten.

#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekXforX

Converging beams of light
#glow festival #eindhoven
#streetphotography

16x9 is an inefficiënt ratio when a gui with a menu ribbon is required. Nice for movies not so nice for computers. Laptops are more and more switching to 16x10.

Do you remember the Human Genome Project? I’m not sure the Trump administration wants you to The NIH archives of the Human Genome Project could fall victim to Trump administration cuts, writes a former archivist.

It’s not just people and scientific expertise we’re losing. History is being erased.

www.statnews.com/2025/06/05/n...

"Less lethal" means potentially lethal

OMG

The ease and frequency with which DOJ LIES in court is going to become a serious impediment to getting convictions of anyone.

Timothy Snyder: The Making of Modern Ukraine - YouTube Ukraine must have existed as a society and polity on 23 February 2022, else Ukrainians would not have collectively resisted Russian invasion the next day. Wh...

Hebben jullie de Yale-hoorcollegereeks Making of Modern Ukraine van Timothy Snyder ooit gehoord/gezien?

Alle 22 delen staan gewoon in een YouTube playlist. Gratis onderwijs van een van de beste universiteiten op aarde.

Hoe gaaf is dat? youtube.com/playlist?lis...

No idea why an investigative bureau like the FBI are making themselves complicit.

When your law enforcement agents are on the streets wearing combat gear, armed with assault rifles and carrying plenty of spare magazines as if they were in Fallujah or Herat, you aren't heading for an authoritarian paramilitary fascist state, you are already living in one.

Yesilgöz: moreel besef van een pinda.

Opinie | Nederland als bestuurlijke woestijn Kabinetsval:Opnieuw verwondde Wilders zichzelf. Tegelijk opereert de oude orde zo zwak dat een populistische systeemverandering nog steeds in de lucht hangt: van overlegmodel naar vechtdemocratie.

‘Als Yesilgöz niet kan kiezen tussen Timmermans en Wilders, tussen een democraat en een politieke hooligan, loopt niet alleen de VVD een risico. Dan loopt het hele bestel een risico.’
En andere observaties na deze week: www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

The first time is always the worst. But next time your tears will be turned into anger and you will learn to control your anger, organise and dispassionately confront and defeat your enemy. It was the way in Kyiv in 2014. Just don't end up like Hong Kong, Minsk and Moscow. You only get one chance.

Chinatown huh. Not going to end well.

Looks like the start of the Civil war 2025... All of this will keep the historians and documentary makers busy for the next few years. How the decline of the US was initiated from within not immigrants.

I don't know the identities of any of those ICE agents but I do know this: they're too young to remember the 1992 LA riots. Anyone who grew up in SoCal in the 90s knows that you can only mess with Angelinos for so long before they snap. It's due time for state and local officials to tell ICE to gtfo

Inside the 24 hours in which Reform imploded The surprise resignation of Reform’s chairman Zia Yusuf in a row about banning the burqa isn’t the only setback that will halt the party’s forward march, says John Rentoul

Inside the 24 hours in which Reform imploded. Me for @the-independent.com Free to read www.independent.co.uk/voices/nigel...

I'm back!
Not fully refreshed, but enough to get through my 1,200th daily thread of the war.

I document Ukraine defending itself from Russia's attempt to obliterate anything, and anyone, who refuses to give-in, and bow down, to the bunker war criminal.

So let's resume..

He didn't win and he didn't get shot.

Major union boss injured, arrested during ICE raids David Huerta was hospitalized for treatment and later transferred to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles.

"Let's be clear: ICE injured and detained the president of SEIU California for peacefully observing.

ICE picked the wrong side. The wrong state. The wrong person. and the wrong union. David Huerta stood up. And 750,000 SEIU workers are standing with him."