“I had 7 bullet holes in my body”

"Ego Erectus" by Mario Mankey -
Installation Berlin, August 2017

Key Takeaways from NIH Director Bhattacharya's hearing from Miriam and Bethesda Declaration whistleblower Jenna Norton (speaking in personal capacity). Our analysis? "Oof."
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Like.

Oh, the war adventurist who didn't like me criticizing him and tried to convince QAnon and tens of thousands of follower trolls that I was a Gates Foundation op covering for pedophiles... doesn't care for safety precautions against harassment?

You don't say.

Remember the incident where DHS claimed officers shot a guy because he attacked them with a snow shovel?

Yeah. It didn't happen. They shot him through the door of his own home. And then arrested him. And then lied about it. Again.

And they almost shot some kids in the process.

It's normal. Who's pretending?
I don't know any American voter who is captured by a pretense.

Democrats in Congress want this to be, somewhat, about people "pretending"?

Why?

So they can lecture to those who never were pretending, for example, their GOP colleagues?

They're all standing there together.

The viciousness, willingness to use extreme measures and violence are an integral part of the overall domestic and international program of this administration.

DJT attacking his enemies, those that he defines as enemies, in any way he likes to attack them, including in a variety of violent and black op ways, when it will stop, when...

when...?

Well, Google informed him which is cool and sorta makes it okay.

“Unconscionable,” Jon thought as he found an email address online for the lead prosecutor, Joseph Dernbach, who was named in the story. Peering through metal-rimmed glasses, Jon opened Gmail on his computer monitor. “Mr. Dernbach, don’t play Russian roulette with H’s life,” he wrote. “Err on the side of caution. There’s a reason the US government along with many other governments don’t recognise the Taliban. Apply principles of common sense and decency.” That was it. In five minutes, Jon said, he finished the note, signed his first and last name, pressed send and hoped his plea would make a difference. Five hours and one minute later, Jon was watching TV with his wife when an email popped up in his inbox. He noticed it on his phone. “Google,” the message read, “has received legal process from a Law Enforcement authority compelling the release of information related to your Google Account.”

A retiree wrote this email to a DHS attorney. Within five hours, DHS demanded Google turn over records for his account.

A Kafkaesque form of domestic surveillance, intimidating Americans for lawful speech.

New from us at the Post: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio... @johnwoodrowcox.bsky.social

Who Are Museums Really For? And Can We Change Our Minds? The film Binnigula’sa’ (Ancient Zapotec People) asks the questions: Who are the rightful custodians of artifacts, and what is the responsibility of museums to local communities?

Who are the rightful #custodians of artifacts, and what is the responsibility of museums to local #communities?

The film "Binnigula’sa’ (Ancient #Zapotec People)" asks pressing questions:

🏺🎬 hyperallergic.com/jorge-angel-... by @hrag.bsky.social for @hyperallergic.com

A remarkable book on quantum mechanics reveals a really big idea Where is physics headed? No one knows for sure, but Beyond the Quantum by Antony Valentini is a striking new book that reminds us what a big idea really looks like, finds Jon Cartwright

A new book on quantum mechanics highlights a profound idea that deepens how we think about reality and measurement in quantum physics, blending historical insights with modern interpretations to make complex concepts more accessible.

#Quantum #QuantumComputing #technology #Science

It's Black History Month in the United States, and today I would like to feature the work of Edmonia Lewis "an American girl of African and Indian blood" who created stunning sculptures like this marble Cleopatra. #BlackHistoryMonth #BHM2026

The NYT has identified more than 5300 files that contain more than 38000 references to Trump, Melania, and Mar a Lago.

And what is his DOJ doing?

They are protecting him and other rich powerful men who raped and abused hundreds of children.

Verrucchi now suspects this is key to how time works. The arrow of time, she says, might simply be a record of what has been measured. Like flicking through a cosmic flipbook, we reveal new pages by interacting with the elements of reality-or "making measurements" as a physicist might put it. The act of simply being in the world collapses our quantum reality into a definite state, leaving an irreversible record behind. And if clocks are physical systems that record measurements - and we are, too - then perhaps we aren't just observers of time, says Verrucchi, but participants in its making: "You create time when you ask what time it is" 1

Time, it seems, might indeed be foliated

www.newscientist.com/article/2511...

DHS said that the woman CBP shot in the chest in Portland was “involved” in a gang shooting.

Her ~involvement~ was that suspected gang members sexually assaulted and robbed her.

Plaintiffs are five Haitian TPS holders. They are not, it emerges, “killers, leeches, or entitlement junkies.” They are instead: Fritz Emmanuel Lesly Miot, a neuroscientist researching Alzheimer’s disease, Dkt. 90 (Second Am. Compl. (SAC)) ¶ 1; Rudolph Civil, a software engineer at a national bank, id. ¶ 2; Marlene Gail Noble, a laboratory assistant in a toxicology department, id. ¶ 3; Marica Merline Laguerre, a college economics major, id. ¶ 4; and Vilbrun Dorsainvil, a full-time registered nurse, id. ¶ 5. They claim that Secretary Noem’s decision violates the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), 5 U.S.C. § 706(2), and the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The Government counters that the Court does not have jurisdiction, and, in any case, the Secretary did not violate the law.

Judge Reyes begins by explaining who the plaintiffs are: not "killers, leeches, or entitlement junkies" as Kristi Noem suggested.

They are a neuroscientist, a software engineer, a laboratory assistant, a registered nurse, and an economics major. All were facing deportation.

Or, he just corrupts everything as a matter of course.

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I believe now that it is a legitimate issue since he brought it up and he has a lot of supporters.

The Rise of Christian Kingship in the Early Medieval West Abstract. This book investigates how Christianity changed politics and how politics changed Christianity over the course of the early Middle Ages. Early Ch

Looking forward to reading this new book by Conor O'Brien.
academic.oup.com/book/61836?l...

He's qualified.

Adam Shatz · Another Country: Visions of America America is a ‘battlefield’, Simone de Beauvoir wrote, ‘and you can only become passionate about the battle it is...

‘Beauvoir described Cold War America as a coercively cheerful country that refused to confront the reality of death, that expressed its horror of the body in advertisements for deodorant and laxatives.’

@adamshatz.bsky.social’s Winter Lecture, ‘Another Country’.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Opinion | Where Is A.I. Taking Us? Eight Leading Thinkers Share Their Visions. Experts share their thoughts on the future of A.I. and how it will reshape society in the coming years.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

94 percent of Americans are wanting to avoid continuing the year 2026.

It's okay to steal the election, any election, all elections. The bad guys started it. He's the lone ranger.

The state of modern conservatism In recent years, the political right has been in the ascendant and has shifted the conversation in the US and across Europe. But the transformation is proving deeply divisive, even within its ranks. T...

In recent years, the political right has been in the ascendant across Europe. But the transformation is proving deeply divisive. | https://iai.tv/video/the-state-of-modern-conservatism-jesse-norman-vernon-bogdanor

Join Jesse Norman and Vernon Bogdanor to discuss the future of the right.

Can the Iranian treasury department invest in DJT business ventures? That will be one question on the, excuse me, under the table.

www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

This Member of Congress finally got access to the Minneapolis detention center and her report is genuinely appalling. Please watch and share.