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Now the US has chosen an admirer of Putin as president, who subsequently halted aid to Ukraine, Europe stepped up, filling most of the gap.
https://www.kielinstitut.de/publications/news/ukraine-support-after-4-years-of-war-europe-steps-up/…

Disney agrees to pay $2.75M to settle California AG Rob Bonta's 2024 lawsuit alleging Disney violated CCPA by failing to honor consumers' data opt-out requests (Alyssa Ray/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/industry-news/publ

Disney Settles Streaming Data Suit From CA Attorney General for $2.75 Million
Disney settled the streaming data suit brought about by California Attorney General Rob Bonta, with the entertainment conglomerate set to make a $2.75 million payout.

NFL Teams 'Investigating' Possible Cowboys Draft Target Rueben Bain's Fatal 2024 Crash https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/draft/nfl-teams-investigating-possible-dallas-cowboys-draft-target-rueben-bain-…

Roku reports Q4 revenue up 16% YoY to $1.39B, vs. $1.35B est., and an $80.5M net income, vs. a $35.5M loss in Q4 2024; ROKU jumps 9% after hours (Lucas Manfredi/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/industry-news/business/roku-earnings-q4-2025/

Roku Shares Pop 13% After Swinging to $80.5 Million Profit in Q4
The streaming hardware maker forecasts 16% revenue growth in 2026

RIP - Sechsfacher Vater US-Schauspieler James Van Der Beek mit 48 Jahren gestorben
https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/medien-und-film/dawsons-creek-schauspieler-james-van-der-beek-gestorben-200530534.html

Dawsons Creek Schauspieler James van der Beek gestorben
Seine Familie bestätigte den Todesfall auf Instagram. Die Kultserie „Dawson's Creek“ machte Van Der Beek bekannt. Seine Krebserkrankung hatte er 2024 öffentlich gemacht.

"The crew was hungry, the crew was angry, and we tried to survive only day-by-day."
"Back in 2016, 20 ships were abandoned around the world, according to the ITF. In 2025 the number had ballooned to 410, with 6,223 merchant seamen falling victim. Both of those figures for last year were up by almost a third on 2024."
https://www.…

The shadowy world of abandoned oil tankers
A growing number of tankers and other commercial vessels are being ditched by their owners.

This is genuinely important and good news: as I expected, no British jury is going to convict #PalestineAction activists of non-violent protest.
Of course, this is why the UK government is trying to get rid of jury trials, but ...
Will the proscription of Palestine Action as a 'terrorist organisation'(!) also fall?

Google handed over a trove of personal data
about a student and journalist to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
in response to a subpoena that had not been approved by a judge, according to a report by The Intercept. 
The search and advertising tech giant provided ICE with the usernames, physical addresses, and an itemized list of services associated with the Google account of Amandla Thomas-Johnson,
a British student and journalist who briefly attended a pro-P…

Google sent personal and financial information of student journalist to ICE | TechCrunch
The tech giant handed over the personal information of a journalist and student who attended a pro-Palestinian protest in 2024. This is the latest example of ICE using its controversial subpoena powers to target people critical of the Trump administration.

Klinkt nog als weinig voor de gruwelijkheden die hij beging.
10 jaar cel en tbs voor verkrachting en grootschalige seksuele online afpersing https://nos.nl/l/2609892

10 jaar cel en tbs voor verkrachting en grootschalige seksuele online afpersing
De 32-jarige Mark S. uit Borculo perste tussen 2011 en 2024 slachtoffers af door te dreigen seksueel getinte foto's en video's online plaatsen.

Kamala #Harris denkt über eine erneute Kandidatur nach. Dumm ist, wer einen Fehler ein zweites Mal wiederholt. Die Demokraten sollten eigentlich gelernt haben, dass Harris die US AmerikanerInnen nicht überzeugt.
Außerdem verärgert ihr politisches Schweigen zu Darth #Trump, nur um ihre Chancen für eine erneu…

US-Präsidentschaftswahl 2028: Kamala Harris denkt über Kandidatur nach
Versucht sie es noch einmal? Die Demokratin Kamala Harris verlor 2024 die Präsidentschaftswahlen in den USA gegen Donald Trump. Jetzt deutet sie eine Kandidatur für 2028 an.

Pastel Fog Rise
(Watching the sunrise and a dramatic fog rise on an early summer morning near Zugspitze, 2024. The summit is partially visible through the clouds...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography

Martian ionospheric response during the may 2024 solar #superstorm: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-69468-z -> ESA’s Mars orbiters watch solar superstorm hit the Red Planet: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/ESA_s_Mars_orbiters_watch_solar_superstorm_hit_the_Red_Planet

E.W. Scripps is expected to make layoffs in the near future as it seeks to grow adjusted earnings by up to $150M over three years; in 2024, it had 5K staff (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/scripps-layoffs-cos…

Scripps Layoffs Loom as Local TV Company Sets Cost-Cutting Plan
E.W. Scripps is expecting to make layoffs in the near future as the company, which operates more than 60 local TV stations in the U.S., has embarked on a plan aimed at boosting adjusted earnings by up to $150 million over the next three years.

Precedented, but not the same:
If ICE and CBP are basically the reincarnation of the KKK, it’s the KKK with a budget the size of Russia’s entire military.
Literally. In the literal sense of “literally.” The incoming ICE CBP budget is ~$140 billion.[1] Russia’s military budget is ~$145 billion.[2]
(If I’m misreading these numbers, please correct me.)
[1] https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/fy26_homeland_security_conference_bill_summary.pdf
[2] https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-hikes-national-defence-spending-by-23-2025-2024-09-30/
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Patriots re-signing backup QB Tommy DeVito to 2-year deal: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7094254/2026/03/06/tommy-devito-patriots-nfl-free-agency-2026/

POL-STD: Süderoogsand / Flensburg / Hamburg: Leichenfund auf Süderoogsand - Ermittlungsbehörden suchen Zeugen bei Aktenzeichen XY... ungelöst Stade (ots) - Am Dienstag, den 09.07.2024, wurde auf der Sandbank Süderoogsand im schleswig-holsteinischen Wattenmeer eine männliche Wasserleiche aufgefunden. Im Zuge der rechtsmedizinischen Untersuchung konnte die Identität des Verstorbenen ...

Cowboys target Bain's draft stock could fall after deadly car crash revealed https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/04/12/fatal-crash-could-impact-cowboys-nfl-interes…

I love it when a state gets something right.
https://reason.com/2026/04/03/colorado-becomes-first-state-to-protect-defendants-against-faulty-roadside-drug-tests/

Colorado becomes first state to protect defendants against faulty roadside drug tests
A 2024 study estimated that 30,000 people every year may be getting wrongly arrested due to unreliable roadside drug tests used by police.

Be prepared for an onslaught of disinformation to come out of Rockbridge Network, Koch Network, and overseas straw donors.
-- @…
https://www.

Koch Political Operation Spent Nearly $550 Million During 2024 Cycle
The huge sum shows that while the Koch network may not hold significant power at high levels of the Republican Party, it remains a financial juggernaut.

Artforum EIC Tina Rivers Ryan plans to step down at the end of February; Executive Editor Rachel Wetzler and editor Daniel Wenger will be co-editors (Michaela Towfighi/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/arts/design/artforum-editor-tina-riv…

Artforum’s Top Editor Will Step Down
The magazine announced that two other editors there will jointly replace Tina Rivers Ryan, who has been in the role since 2024.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #GuyGarveysFinestHour
Mark Lanegan:
🎵 When Your Number Isn't Up
#MarkLanegan
https://marklanegan.bandcamp.com/track/when-your-number-isnt-up-2024-remaster
https://open.spotify.com/track/3aRedm15894RrspWnLuqMx

Eagles center Cam Jurgens details brutal back injury: 'I don't know how I was playing' https://www.nfl.com/news/eagles-center-cam-jurgens-brutal-back-injury-i-dont-know-how-i-was-playing

Just noted interesting parallels between #ArtemisII and Apollo 11 and 12, involving #SolarEclipses, either by the close Moon or by the Earth: during or after each of the three missions the astronauts described these events as their visual highlights. The Artemis II crew has done this several times - and in the post-flight press conference after #Apollo11 Neil Armstrong did it, too, in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz6nzutr7RU#t=42m19s in the segment from 42:20 (in the transcript https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED059051.pdf on PDF pages 21--22).
What he was describing is the eclipse just before arrival at the Moon of which I had re-processed the best image in https://www.facebook.com/dan.fischer.393/posts/pfbid02mf6UK3L2j5SgPiQsJk9JVYmo6XvZwDDZ23BYpXwJPDszaSpUYzuinkMyHzh9RF8Rl -> https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2024/07/25/allgemeines-live-blog-ab-dem-25-juli-2024/#Jul26 (and he is mistaking the zodiacal light they saw and photographed with the solar corona, the very same mistake made repeatedly during Artemis II).
Finally, a solar eclipse by the huge Earth observed from Apollo 12 just before splash-down was described by Alan Bean as "the most spectacular sight of the whole flight" while it happened: https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2019/11/24/eine-fette-sofi-fur-apollo-12-durch-die-erde/ (no images of totality were taken but Bean later painted the view from memory). The reason I had looked up the Apollo 11 presser was to see how this famously well-prepared post-lunar mission presentation looked like and when it happened: 19 days after their return.

Sources: WaPo lost $100M in 2025, after losing ~$100M in 2024 and $77M in 2023; its publisher told staff that expenses surpassed revenue between 2022 and 2025 (Alexandra Bruell/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/m…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Les Amazones d’Afrique:
🎵 Flaws (6 Music Session, 4 Feb 2024)
#LesAmazonesdAfrique
https://lesamazonesdafrique.bandcamp.com/track/flaws-feat-mamani-ke-ta-fafa-ruffino
https://open.spotify.com/track/3AH8RIK78cByIoR211KTY3

Cowboys Predicted to Sign $12 Million Former First-Round Pick https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/devin-bush-free-agent-prediction-dallas/

Roku reported an $88.4M profit in 2025, after a $498M loss in 2022, a $709.6M loss in 2023, and a $129.4M loss in 2024, boosted by new ad deals and cost cutting (Mark Maurer/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com…

Aug. 12 2024. IIRC I risked my life a bit taking this picture in #Ahmedabad #Gujarat #India. 😅
#photography #amateur #FensterFreitag #WindowFriday

Starz reports Q4 revenue fell to $322.8M vs. $344.5M a year ago, net loss narrowed to $20.7M vs. $31.8M a year ago, and US streaming subs hit 12.7M, up 370K QoQ (Jennifer Maas/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/starz-subscribers…

Starz Subscribers Reach 17.6 Million, Losses Narrow Post-Lionsgate
Starz ended 2025 with things looking up post-Lionsgate split the now-standalone company narrowed its losses to $20.7 million vs. $31.8 million in 2024.