Gary Longsine 📱

I'm barely Catholic these days, but if Mother Church had filled a brief calling me a little bitch I would sit back and take stock.

Refugee released by Border Patrol found dead, sparking outrage Surveillance video obtained by The Post shows Border Patrol agents releasing the partially blind refugee, who went missing for days before being found dead.

Once again, video evidence confirms that DHS lied about Nurul Shah Alam, the refugee who died after being abandoned in the cold by Border Patrol.

They always lie. They blame the victim. They say their agents did everything right.

They left a disabled blind man for dead.

the fact the president of the united states is even thinking about asserting emergency powers to disrupt an election - just a few years after he incited an armed coup attempt - should be the top issue. but the media mostly shrugs and the opposition doesnt focus on it.

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🧐😳🤣 #NSFW

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Disrupting the GRIDTIDE Global Cyber Espionage Campaign | Google Cloud Blog GTIG, Mandiant, and partners took action to disrupt a global espionage campaign from a suspected PRC-nexus cyber espionage group.

“The attacker was using API calls to communicate with SaaS apps as command-and-control (C2) infrastructure to disguise their malicious traffic as benign, a common tactic used by threat actors when attempting to improve the stealth of their intrusions.”

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From the cybersecurity community on Reddit: Cisco says hackers have been exploiting a critical bug to break into big customer networks since 2023 Explore this post and more from the cybersecurity community

This seems like a market opportunity opening up.

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How California Can Neuter “Citizens United” and Improve Democracy for Us All The Golden State has an opportunity to save American democracy from big corporate money

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"...individual states have the authority to limit corporate political activity and dark money spending, because states determine what powers corporations have...the power to define their form, limits, and privilege has belonged only to the states..."
#blueCrew

A young Marina (And The Diamonds) playing Lancaster Library as support to Polly Scattergood in 2008 - very tuned into DIY wonky pop & a great person to hang around with. Was utterly delighted with her Jamesons rider. Which was just Jamesons Whiskey (I remember buying it myself.

Pic: Frances Ross

Judge rules Trump administration's policy for "third-country" deportations is unlawful U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy ruled that the Trump administration's policy for swiftly deporting migrants to third countries violates federal immigration law and the Constitution.

Federal judge rules against Trump admin.’s ‘third country’ deportations. "...[deporting] migrants to ‘third countries’ that are not their own, without first giving them notice or the opportunity to object, is unlawful. U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy [ruled]..." www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-t...

If Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, who were NOT mentioned over a million times in the Epstein files, can testify before Congress about Jeffrey Epstein, then so can Donald J. Trump, who was.

Wild brown kiwi chick snuggled in the arms of a conservationist.

It's just a teaser for a future thread, but by the magic of the international dateline, I'm home in Seattle sipping whisky and snuggling with my dogs tonight but I took this photo in mountains outside of Wellington this morning.

The headline reads "DOJ: Trump administration won't pay for 'Alligator Alcatraz' construction costs," with a sub-headline about federal lawyers saying reimbursement would cover only operational costs. Below, an aerial photo shows a vast complex of white tent-like structures and portable buildings spread across a flat, open landscape.

A block of text from a news article explains that a $608 million federal reimbursement for Florida's "Alligator Alcatraz" lockup will cover only operational costs, not construction, contradicting earlier assertions from Trump and DeSantis.

Florida will not get their concentration camp bills paid for by man who never pays his bills

#leopardsatemyface #Politics #News

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Can you trust the results from gut microbiome tests? Maybe not Seven firms reported inconsistent results on the same sample, some over multiple tests. These gut microbe discrepancies could have health consequences.

Read this before you make health decisions based on a consumer test of your gut microbes.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/results-gut-microbiome-tests-trust

Trader Joe’s would make a killing hosting speed dating nights with snacks and wine tastings.

Mosquitoes began biting humans more than a million years ago A DNA analysis suggests mosquitoes shifted from nonhuman primates to early humans nearly 2 million years ago.

A close look at mosquito DNA reveals when and where the insects switched from biting nonhuman primates to our early human ancestors.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/mosquitoes-first-human-bite-years

Immigration Agents Arrest Student Inside Columbia Building, School Says

When ICE agents knowingly break the law to enter a university and seize a student, what consequences will there be? What consequences are even possible?

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/n...

Here’s how honeyeaters and other birds thrive on sugary diets Birds that feed on nectar or fruit evolved better mechanisms for managing metabolism, blood pressure and high glucose.

Hummingbirds have blood sugar levels that would send a human to the hospital. They also have special genetic adaptations that help them survive and thrive in the sugary life.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/birds-sugar-diets-metabolism

This arbitrary and capricious cruelty brought to you by the same people who have been telling you for decades how much they care about children, all the while trying their damndest to kill Big Bird.

Missoula, Montana, February 25, 2026
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Mona Lisa - The Criterion Channel Directed by Neil Jordan • 1986 • United Kingdom Starring Bob Hoskins, Cathy Tyson, Michael Caine The brilliant breakthrough film by writer-director Neil Jordan journeys into the dark heart of the Lon...

💘 On director, screenwriter, novelist Neil Jordan's birthday, watch his 1986 masterpiece MONA LISA (1986). A noir-infused love story starring Bob Hoskins and Cathy Tyson. Now playing on the Criterion Channel alongside a brilliant commentary featuring him and Bob Hoskins! 💘

“By allowing Maxwell to retain information that the public does not have, Trump’s DOJ has enabled her to maintain potential blackmail over the president, according to independent journalist Roger Sollenberger.”

DOJ Removes Accusations Against Trump From Epstein Files The Department of Justice is taking down Epstein files that implicate Donald Trump.

“A record of the FBI interviews does appear in the files—on a list of discovery files given to Epstein’s accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell before her trial.”
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bailey grapes, painted by james marion shull

bailey grapes, painted by james marion shull

Trump's "Board of Peace" is a blatant attempt to replace the UN with an organisation that he can dominate for self-interest and the imposition of a world order where 'might makes right'.

His rampage through international law will make our world more violent & unjust.

Good to discuss on First Post.

At a conference in the Soviet Union in 1937, a speaker praised Stalin. The audience began applauding.

No one wanted to be the first to stop, so the clapping went on for 11 minutes.

Republicans doing their darndest to beat that.

kooch peaches, painted by mary daisy arnold, 1908

kooch peaches, painted by mary daisy arnold, 1908

Resilience, ridicule guarantee hate group’s flop at D.C. anti-abortion march When 120 white nationalist Patriot Front members descended on Washington, D.C., they were met by counterdemonstrators and clown music.

NEW, from me: I talked to people who shut down Patriot Front's rally in D.C. last month.

Counter-demonstrators made it impossible for PF to produce propaganda and recruit at the March for Life rally. The clown music set the tone.

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🗽Heather Cox Richardson

Ukrainians have changed the way they wage war; they no longer ask when it will end, but only how. They are stopping a dangerous aggressor. Unlike us, they don’t even ask us to say thank you.

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Climate change could threaten monarch mass migration Suitable milkweed habitat in Mexico may shift south, fracturing existing migration routes and possibly pushing some butterflies to stay put.

Climate change may threaten North America’s iconic mass monarch butterfly migration.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/monarch-butterfly-migration-climate