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Listen, children:
Your father is dead.
From his old coats
I'll make you little jackets;
I'll make you little trousers
From his old pants.
There'll be in his pockets
Things he used to put there,
Keys and pennies
Covered with tobacco;
Dan shall have the pennies
To save in his bank;
Anne shall have the keys
To make a pretty noise with.
...cont. 1/2

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Mints ranked from most to least favorite:
Pay mints
Chocolate mints
Breath mints
Caffeinated mints
Place mints
Secure mints
Ce mints
Condom mints
Entrap mints
Garnish mints
Harass mints
Excre mints

Slotpeiling #EenVandaag:
PVV 29
GL/PvdA 25
D66 24
CDA 19
VVD 16
JA21 8
FvD 6
SP 5
BBB - DENK - SGP - CU 3
PvdD - Volt - 50PLUS 2
#groenLinksPvdA #verkiezingen

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1. Order two bags of cat litter.
2. The seller doesn't send it on time. No matter, you're not in a hurry.
3. Recall that they still didn't send it. Decide to resign.
4. Turns out they send it just before you resign.
5. The parcels come. Open the box.
6. Discover that the bag is damaged. Take a photo just in case.
7. Carefully take it out and check how damaged it is. Well, it's only ripped at the top, no point in returning it over that.
8. Notice they've sent the wrong litter (you've ordered non-scented) 🤦.
9. Call them asking whether there's a point in opening the other box. They say it's going to be the wrong litter too, just make a return request and attach photos.
10. You do that, requesting money return. They request you to make damage protocol from delivery company.
11. You do that. Maybe you'd agree to a 20 PLN discount for next shopping instead of returning two bags of the wrong cat litter?
12. They finally accept the return. And they prepare the return… for one bag 🤦.
So I was supposed to work less today. Instead, I've wasted a lot of time on dealing with damaged parcel and the vendor. And a lot of tape, so it wouldn't fall apart on the return journey.

Been pondering today whether or not someone has already created an #AI version of ismy.blue
You'd have data points like:
* Skynet
* HAL
* Lt. Cmdr Data
* Generic chess playing program
* DeepBlue
* AlphaGo
* Inference engine
* Some machine learning example
* ChatGPT
* Voice recognition
* Siri
* Roomba
* Object recognition …

# of paragraphs for news orgs to mention that there's no discernable need to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon
The Guardian: 1st paragraph
BBC: 4th paragraph
AP: 5th paragraph
Time: 6th paragraph
Politico: 8th paragraph
NPR: 9th paragraph
CNN: 10th paragraph
NBC: 12th paragraph
Fox News: never mentioned

The wheel keeps turning
SciComm academics

↙️ ↖️
despise despise

Tech & Biz ➡️ "Serious"
Writers despise Academia

Sonnet 145 - CXLV
Those lips that Love's own hand did make,
Breathed forth the sound that said 'I hate',
To me that languished for her sake:
But when she saw my woeful state,
Straight in her heart did mercy come,
Chiding that tongue that ever sweet
Was used in giving gentle doom;
And taught it thus anew to greet;
'I hate' she altered with an end,
That followed it as gentle day,
Doth follow night, who like a…

eBike Nerdery
So the full decision matrix is:
- BBS02 48V 500W (750W) (a minor upgrade); would let me use a better battery and have a better margin when the battery gets low.
- BBSHD 48V or 52V (1000W); can be run with an extra spicy 52V battery for more power
- TSDZ8 48V 750W (1200W peak), the reengineered TSDZ2 with actual thermal capacity
- TSDZ16 48V 1000W (not sure what peak but geez that's a lot of motor)
- DM02 48V 500W (A team that made the TSDZ2 split off and went to make better motors)
- DM01 48V 1000W — I've not read up on it much but it's that same team I'm sure making a solid motor.
Also-rans:
- BBS02 36V 500W (existing motor); A spare would be nice so I can refurb mine without having to be without my bike.
- TSDZ2 48V 500W (I have one); tends to overheat and I ride hard. Not a winner.
- CYC motors: rather spendy. Nice stuff though.
- M625, M615, M225, M255: newer Bafang motors; more expensive, no real benefit, CAN bus is not well supported by third parties yet.
Pros of the Bafang BBS series: lots of parts available on the market. Lots of display options
Pros of the Tongsheng TSDZ series: Torque sensor!
Pros of the ToSeven DM series: Torque sensor, better build quality.

>Bought Club-Mate once two years or so ago.
>"It is ok-ish..."
>Got some (involuntarily) served at an event at (old) workplace early-2024.
>"This is somewhat acceptable"
>Got some served at a friend's place while visiting a few months ago.
>"It's alright..."
>This summer, I've bought it myself a few times while doing groceries.
>"Sipsipsip."
>Swapping my "order" (w…

Chestnut brown canary
Ruby throated sparrow
Sing the song, don't be long
Thrill me to the marrow
Voices of the angels
Ring around the moonlight
Asking me, said she so free
"How can you catch the sparrow?"
Lacy, lilting, leery
Losing love, lamenting
Change my life, make it right
Be my lady

Charge your soul
Purge infinity
Clarion's cry, strike the chord
Faith and honour
Hearts are golden
Invincible
Our masses are united
Invincible
Forever and a day
Invincible
Can never be divided
And nothing can stand in our way
Invincible shield
https://song.link/y/HwMZ20ZVZeE

Judas Priest - Invincible Shield (Official Video) by JudasPriestVEVO
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Gedicht des Tages: 🤪
In der #Cloud da wird geklaut
In der Wolke, weich und grau,
lagern Daten, schlicht und schlau.
Man vertraut dem Nebelhaus,
doch die Diebe kennen’s aus.
Leise schleichen sie im Netz,
finden Lücken, Stück für Stück.
Und mit einem kleinen Klick,
ist dein Schatz schon weg, oh Schreck!
Doch die Lehre, sie tönt so laut:
Was…

"Didn't you hear? Congress just passed a bill legalizing murder if you're rich."
"No, they didn't. They did what? Hold on. Just because it passed the House doesn't mean the Senate will..."
"Really, Diane?"
"Okay, but the president could still veto..."
"Really, Diane?"
"All right, sure, but the Supreme Court... Okay, I get it."
"Look, don't take it so hard. If you wanna do someth…

Over the past decade I’ve truly been struggling with the idea of human-centric design.

Putting people first is a major contributor to the climate crisis.

These days, instead, I make an effort to use the term ’universal wellbeing’.

https://axbom.com/design-for-universal-wellbeing/

It's like a web there is no escape from
It's got you trapped, and you long for freedom
Every wish, every dream was granted
Never knowing what they demanded
You see the wall, how it's getting higher
You want to fight, but you're all divided
It's not a world anyone can thrive in
Is this the world we were meant to grow in?
Somebody tell me, where are we going?

1. Zamów dwa worki żwirku dla kota.
2. Wysyłka opóźniona. No dobra, nie spieszy się.
3. Przypomnij sobie, że dalej nie wysłali, i zdecyduj się zrezygnować z zamówienia.
4. Akurat wyślą tego samego dnia.
5. Paczka przychodzi. Otwórz karton.
6. Odkryj, że worek jest uszkodzony. Sfotografuj na wszelki wypadek.
7. Ostrożnie wysuń worek i oceń jego stan. No dobra, tylko u góry otwarty, nie ma sensu się fatygować ze zwrotem.
8. Zauważ, że przysłali niewłaściwy żw…

Almond Cake Recipe
1.5 cups of Almond Flour
0.5 Cups of Sugar
4 Large Eggs
1 tsp of baking powder
0.5 tsp Salt
1 tablespoon of flavoring (vanilla, rum, etc.)
Pretty good stuff.

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last 9: birdies: 7, pars: 2
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Don't miss today's Metacurity for the most crucial cybersecurity developments you should know, including
--Qilin ransomware activity is surging, with 100 victims listed in August,
--A major Swedish power supplier was hit by Everest gang,
--Some top tech companies relent on Australia's age ban,
--Google denies it suffered a 183m Gmail accounts breach,
--Western Sydney University hit with fifth cyber incident in two years,
--Afghan data breach kil…

Qilin ransomware activity is surging, with 100 victims listed in August
A major Swedish power supplier was hit by Everest gang, Some top tech companies relent on Australia's age ban, Google denies it suffered a 183m Gmail accounts breach, Western Sydney University hit with fifth cyber incident in two years, Afghan data breach killed 49 people, much more

7 смертных грехов с иллюстрациями блобкэтов
1. Гордыня — :blobcatverified:
2. Жадность — :blobcatmoney:
3. Гнев — :blobcatchristmastree:
4. Зависть — :blobcatglare:
5. Блуд — :blobcatNom:
6. Чревоугодие — :blobcathungry:
7. Уныние — :blobcatverysad:

It is perhaps not obvious that the way we talk about intelligence tends to employ circular reasoning. Here’s a sketch.
The trouble is that that the word “intelligence” is defined •ostensively•, i.e. by examples instead of by criteria — but we talk about intelligence as if it is some real unified •thing• that underlies all those examples. That leads to circular reasoning like this:
Q: What is intelligence?
A: It is the characteristics exhibited by intelligent beings, such as [examples of intelligence go here].
Q: And what are intelligent beings?
A: Beings which exhibit intelligence.
Q: And what is intelligence?
…[stack overflow]…

Things you don't need to do to run a successful business in Ireland (based on my observations):
-Show up on time
-Deliver the agreed product
-Do better the second time around
-Communicate clearly
-Respond to E-mails
-Be proactive
-Have a website
-Accept electronic payments

Behold! A praying mantis came to me in a vision, and they spake:
I was born in the temple of cracked reeds,
my limbs broken compasses angled toward famine.
I learned hunger as scripture,
and patience as the whetstone of my soul.
Know this, children: the air is my parchment,
flesh my scribe.
I write the fate of moths with the green ink of my raptorial forelegs.
When I devour, it is not cruelty but covenant.
When I bow my head, it is not ritual bu…

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Fedibird赤字ゼロチャレンジ2025の中間報告（その2）です。
Fedibird Infrastructure
364,100円
Fedibird Project
391,808円
合計
75,5908円
なんと、75万円を超えました。すごい……。
皆さん、ご協力ありがとうございます。
この支援によって、空き容量が厳しくなっているデータベースストレージの増強が可能になりそうです。
--
さて、目標金額は100万円です。
結局のところ、赤字でまわしているサービスは、何かあったときに誰も引き継げません。目標達成できるかどうかが勝負どころです。
friends.nicoは閉鎖となりました。mstdn.jp、Pawoo、mastodon.cloudはそれぞれ元の運営者からSujitechが引き継ぎましたが、毎月莫大な費用が掛かっており、Sujitechが維持できなくなったら、恐らくもう誰も引き継げません。
Fedibird…

Guten Morgen! Alle schon wach?
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Skill 90/99
Luck 40/99
Pulled it out, but you're really not puzzling out the answer when there are so many words that fit that initial 3 known letters, each using different letters (well I guess the last 2 did share a letter, so if I had thought of all of the words when I made guess 3, I should have tried one of them first.
Actually I see there were 2 pretty common first letters among the 10 remaining words. And it ended up that getting the answer was just lucky.

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In Rab (Croatia) and feeling right at home:
- pizza costs at least 10€
- local beer is good and cheap
- there's a shitload of fascists but I seem to meet only lovely and friendly people
- my residence windows (in this case a tent flap) are old and broken
- today there was a thunderstorm, then sun, then rain, then sun, then rain - all with 40km/h winds
Rab is the Berlin of the Mediterranean

Manchester, Woodhouse Park ward by-election (Thursday 25/9)
Greens held the seat on a very low turnout in this predominantly white 'working class 'ward. Reform POX (who didn't campaign) pushed Labour into 3rd place.
The Green Party – 826 (43.8% -5.7)
Reform UK – 556 (29.5% New)
Labour – 386 (20.5% -23.2%)
Conservative – 72 (3.8% -1.6%)
Liberal Democrat – 47 ( (2.5% 1.2)
Turnout 16.29%

Come and knock on my door...
(Come and knock on my door)
I've been waiting for you....
(I've been waiting for you)
Where the pronouns are me, myself, and I,
One's company too.
#SingleLifeASongOrPoem
#HashTagGames

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Life must go on,
And the dead be forgotten;
Life must go on,
Though good men die;
Anne, eat your breakfast;
Dan, take your medicine;
Life must go on;
I forget just why.
2/2
#Poetry --EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

Trump’s plan to rig the 2026 midterm election
by pressuring states to create more Republican congressional seats
will face a major test in a federal courtroom in El Paso, Texas
starting Wednesday,
as a panel of judges considers whether to block the state’s new gerrymandered map.
At stake in the hearing,
scheduled for ten days,
are as many as five congressional seats
— perhaps enough to determine control of Congress in next year’s midterms

Texas Gerrymander Goes to Court, With 5 Congressional Seats, and Minority Representation, at Stake
Read about the fight for democracy from activists, elected officials, legal experts and others.

An approximate history of my amateur phone photography:
1. Really poor photos. Unsavory interest in (low resolution) panoramas.
2. Photos get a little better. Sometimes they're HDRs (I suspect the camera app was set to "auto").
3. A new phone. Higher resolution and a gyroscope.
4. Switching to LineageOS, and therefore to #OpenCamera. HDR enabled unconditionally.
5. HDR does not always come great (compared to the stock Motorola app that doesn't work anymore). I enable saving component photos, so I could try getting a better quality combination using the PC. I never manage that.
6. I start experimenting with exposure correction (combined with HDR). Sometimes I do multiple photos with different "Eves" to choose the best one.
7. A new phone. Finally, given even the gyroscope was failing already.
8. I learn that Pixels have "HDR " that gets activated when you do standard mode photos. For a while I do both standard and HDR photos; also I compare the middle component image with the standard mode image. [https://opencamera.sourceforge.io/help.html#faq]
9. Before I reach any final conclusions, I read "What is HDR, anyway?" I disable HDR entirely, instead I save standard mode (i.e. HDR ) raw images (which presumably aren't affected by HDR ) [https://www.lux.camera/what-is-hdr/]. Not that I ever managed to get anything good out of raws.
10. I discover that I can switch the lens. Today I've made my first photos, switching lens to get optical zoom 💪.

Sonnet 014 - XIV
Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck;
And yet methinks I have Astronomy,
But not to tell of good or evil luck,
Of plagues, of dearths, or seasons' quality;
Nor can I fortune to brief minutes tell,
Pointing to each his thunder, rain and wind,
Or say with princes if it shall go well
By oft predict that I in heaven find:
But from thine eyes my knowledge I derive,
And, constant stars, in them I read such art

Honestly, if a newsletter doesn’t require double opt-in there is really no reason to trust its subscriber numbers. Most newsletters get a significant number of spam subscribers.

But obviously in a numbers game very few are going to admit this.

If you pay to send out your newsletter, you pay attention.

What upsets me more than inflated numbers, though, is all those emails sent and stored in vain at a cost to the environment.

Oh boy, don't miss today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Second major security issue in the Tea app exposed user messages,
--Aeroflot canceled more flights due to a cyberattack but claims it has stabilized,
--Global Group claims attacks on media giants RTÉ and Albavisión,
--Flaw in Gemini Command Line Interface allowed RCE,
--Malware was hidden in Endgame Gear peripherals,
--Senate to take up Pla…

Second major security issue in the Tea app exposed user messages
Aeroflot canceled more flights due to a cyberattack but claims it has stabilized, Global Group claims attacks on media giants RTÉ and Albavisión, Flaw in Gemini Command Line Interface allowed RCE, Malware was hidden in Endgame Gear peripherals, Senate to take up Plankey nom, much more

Looking to replace my fume hood webcam with something slightly less atrocious than the Logitech C920 I have in there now. Anyone have suggestions?
Requirements:
* Reasonably good video quality
* USB3 interface
* Capable of 1080p60 or better, 4k wouldn't hurt
* Has a standard (1/4 inch?) tripod thread to fit my existing mount
* Relatively inexpensive. It's going to live inside a fume hood and is almost certainly going to get acetone or concentrated sulfu…

Last week, the Department of Justice announced it will be monitoring elections in
• Passaic County, New Jersey
• Kern County, California
• Riverside County, California
• Fresno County, California
• Orange County, California
• Los Angeles County, California
You’ll note that the announcement offers no explanation as to why those particular jurisdictions were chosen or what authority the DOJ is invoking.
Instead, we have an empty statement from Attorne…

The DOJ's "election monitoring" is really voter suppression
Trump's Big Lie has become government policy.

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Sonnet 048 - XLVIII
How careful was I when I took my way,
Each trifle under truest bars to thrust,
That to my use it might unused stay
From hands of falsehood, in sure wards of trust!
But thou, to whom my jewels trifles are,
Most worthy comfort, now my greatest grief,
Thou best of dearest, and mine only care,
Art left the prey of every vulgar thief.
Thee have I not lock'd up in any chest,
Save where thou art not, though I feel t…

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Gestemd!
Now we wait …
#GroenLinksPvdA
#nerdvote
#ikHebGestemd

Sonnet 072 - LXXII
O! lest the world should task you to recite
What merit lived in me, that you should love
After my death,--dear love, forget me quite,
For you in me can nothing worthy prove.
Unless you would devise some virtuous lie,
To do more for me than mine own desert,
And hang more praise upon deceased I
Than niggard truth would willingly impart:
O! lest your true love may seem false in this
That you for love speak well of me…

Check out today's Metacurity for a solid round-up of the most critical infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--UK government bails out Jaguar Land Rover with $2 billion loan,
--Hackers contacted Harrods after 430K customer records were stolen,
--Hackers threaten to release more Kido nursery school records,
--Russia's undersea spying ops become more brazen,
--Unitree robots afflicted by a severe flaw,
--Akira attacks …

UK government bails out Jaguar Land Rover with $2 billion loan
Hackers contacted Harrods after 430K customer records were stolen, Hackers threaten to release more Kido nursery school records, Russia's undersea spying ops become more brazen, Unitree robots afflicted by severe flaw, Akira attacks on SonicWall VPNs evolve, RemoteCom spyware data leaked, much more

Saker som gör det svårt att skaffa en lugn mobil (“dumbphone”):

BankID - kan lösas genom att man göra sina bankärenden hemmavid
Swish - kan lösas genom att man betalar med kontanter eller betalkort där det är möjligt. Dock finns ställen som endast tar Swish (till exempel på marknader)
Bilparkering - finns ofta ingen annan lösning(!) vid parkering på gatan (P-hus tar oftast kort)
Resor i lokaltrafiken – kan ofta lösas med fysiskt kort men inte överallt och för alla korttyper…

The pitcher wound up and he flang the ball at the batter. The batter
swang and missed. The pitcher flang the ball again and this time the
batter connected. He hit a high fly right to the center fielder. The
center fielder was all set to catch the ball, but at the last minute his
eyes were blound by the sun and he dropped it.
-- Dizzy Dean

What would the reaction be
if Democratic politicians went on TV
every week to talk about how scary and dangerous Louisiana was,
or how bleak and depressing life in rural Mississippi is,
or how Oklahoma ranks last in education and
“God, can you imagine being from there?”
-- Keven M Kruse
https://

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
Rand Paul: "Chicago is a nightmare. It is literally a war zone."

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Sonnet 002 - II
When forty winters shall besiege thy brow,
And dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field,
Thy youth's proud livery so gazed on now,
Will be a totter'd weed of small worth held:
Then being asked, where all thy beauty lies,
Where all the treasure of thy lusty days;
To say, within thine own deep sunken eyes,
Were an all-eating shame, and thriftless praise.
How much more praise deserv'd thy beauty's use,

The strikes on the Venezuelan boats
-- allegedly carrying "narcotics"
-- which the administration has claimed were necessary because interdiction "did not work,"
have been orchestrated through the homeland security council (HSC)
-- which Stephen Miller leads
as the homeland security adviser.
Miller empowered the HSC earlier this year to become its own entity in Donald Trump’s second term
-- a notable departure from previous administ…

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Sonnet 030 - XXX
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste:
Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow,
For precious friends hid in death's dateless night,
And weep afresh love's long since cancell'd woe,
And moan the expense of many a vanish'd sight:
Then can I grieve at grievances foregone…

I’m Dr. Angela Rasmussen,
a virologist and proud member of the
Save America Movement steering committee.
The CDC has just been gutted.
RFK Jr. has fired the nation’s top vaccine experts,
replaced them with anti-vaccine ideologues,
and forced out some of the CDC’s most dedicated leaders.
Programs that took decades to build are being razed overnight.
That means fewer vaccines.
Less access to care.
More outbreaks of preventable diseas…

Donald Trump is gravely serious about running for a third term
in violation of the US constitution,
California governor Gavin Newsom said on Wednesday,
warning Americans to “wake up” to what he described as
the president’s flagrant disregard for democratic norms.
“I don’t think Donald Trump wants another election,”
Newsom, a Democrat, said during a live interview at a summit hosted by Politico in Sacramento.
“This guy doesn’t believe in free, fair el…

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“Trump wants to rewrite history
so that the next generation may not know that he incited a violent insurrection,
refused to peacefully transfer the power of the presidency after losing an election,
stole classified documents and showed them to friends and guests at Mar-a-Lago,
and that he was a criminal,” Cobb said.
“He’s a convicted felon.
All, anybody involved in those events that offended him,
they’re in real danger.”
Cobb, a distant relativ…

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Republican control of state legislatures is systematically associated with the rich being (and becoming) richer.
In short, American plutocracy seems to be a quintessentially Republican affair.
And that’s not all.
As we journey into the depths of US state politics, the plot will thicken.
We’ll find striking partisan differences in the language used in state bills.
We’ll see the many ways that Republicans help the rich and hurt workers.
We’ll see the impact pa…

Partisan Politics and the Road to Plutocracy – Economics from the Top Down
In this essay, I take a deep dive into the history of American plutocracy and its conspicuously Republican roots.

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“The President has sent agents here to create chaos and riots in Portland,
to induce a reaction,
to induce protests,
to induce conflicts.
His goal is to make Portland look like what he’s been describing it as,”
Oregon’s junior senator,
Jeff Merkley said.
“He wants to induce a violent exchange.
Let us not grant him that wish.
Let us be the force of orderly, peaceful protest.”

Iran has recalled its ambassadors to France, Britain and Germany,
collectively known as the E3,
following their launch of a mechanism to reinstate international sanctions on Tehran,
the Iranian Foreign Ministry said on Saturday.
In a statement, the ministry condemned E3's decision
to trigger the "snapback" mechanism as "irresponsible,"
adding that the ambassadors were summoned to Tehran for consultations

Iran recalls Ambassadors to France, Britain, Germany
Tehran: Iran has recalled its ambassadors to France, Britain and Germany, collectively known as the E3, following their launch of a mechanism to reinstate international sanctions on Tehran, the...

For six weeks in 1842,
the Dorr Rebellion gave Rhode Island two governments,
each claiming to be the legitimate representative of the people.
By 1840, the only people who could vote in Rhode Island were 40 percent of the white males
– the ones who owned property.
The rural elite that ran Rhode Island was quite happy with the status quo. -- Many others weren’t.
Thomas Dorr was one of them.
Elected to the Rhode Island General Assembly in 1834,
h…

The Dorr Rebellion: When Rhode Island Had 2 Governors - New England Historical Society
For six weeks in 1842, the Dorr Rebellion gave Rhode Island two governments, each claiming to be the legitimate representative of the people.

On November 5th, Trump will keep trying to blur truth and fiction through his staged shadow hearings.
Our answer will be simple:
Circles of light around our local government buildings.
Testimony shared openly and honestly.
A united message: The people are watching.
Some will stand silently in person.
Some will speak through livestreams and digital testimony.

Together, we will form a national chorus of truth.

Shadow Hearings - The Parallel Government You Weren’t Meant to See
Remember - Remember - the 5th of November

Following dismal results in Japan’s parliamentary elections,
there is a broad consensus among Japanese lawmakers and political analysts that
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s days are numbered.
No one, however, seems to have said that directly to Ishiba, who has vowed to stay on.
The current political crisis is the result of a July 20 election in Japan’s upper house -- the less-powerful chamber in parliament.
It has no direct role in determining the prime minister …

Japan’s LDP Is Teetering as Far-Right Challenger Emerges
The ruling party may not be ready for the social media age.

Trump has signed a little-noticed national security directive
identifying “anti-Christian” and “anti-American” views as
indicators of radical left violence.
Called National Security Presidential Memorandum 7,
it’s being referred to as “NSPM-7” by administration insiders.
“This is the first time in American history that there is an
all-of-government effort to dismantle left wing terrorism,”
Trump’s homeland security advisor Stephen Miller said, refer…

Trump’s NSPM-7 Labels Common Beliefs As Terrorism “Indicators”
New directive targets “anti-Christian,” “anti-American,” and “anti-capitalism” opinions

A top Social Security Administration official turned whistleblower
says members of the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)
uploaded hundreds of millions of Social Security records to a vulnerable cloud server,
putting the personal information of most Americans at risk of compromise.
Charles Borges, the Social Security Administration’s chief data officer,
said in a newly released whistleblower complaint published Tuesday
that o…

DOGE uploaded live copy of Social Security database to 'vulnerable' cloud server, says whistleblower | TechCrunch
The Social Security Administration's chief data officer has publicly blown the whistle, alleging DOGE put hundreds of millions of Social Security records at risk of compromise.

The White House has informed Congress it intends to cancel
$4.9 billion that lawmakers approved for foreign aid programs,
invoking a little-known and legally untested loophole to slash spending without their approval.
The 15-page notification, sent to Congress on Thursday night, is the administration’s first effort to push through what is known as a
“pocket rescission.”
It is an effort to unilaterally claw back money that has already been appropriated
by w…

Defying Congress, Trump Moves to Cut $4.9 Billion in Foreign Aid
The White House notified Congress that it plans to use a legally untested maneuver to circumvent lawmakers and claw back more money for foreign aid programs.

While the US can protect security in Europe and deserves our undying gratitude for having done so for the last 80 years,
Europeans cannot protect democracy in the US.
They can and must, however, protect liberal democracy in Europe,
which risks becoming a collateral victim of Trump’s domestic and foreign policy agenda.
What happens in America doesn’t stay in America.
It is often a precursor for trends in Europe.
Just as the

When an Alaska Native group asked state law enforcement officials in June for a list of murders investigated by state police
— one of the most fundamental pieces of data needed to understand the issue
— the state said no.
Charlene Aqpik Apok launched
"Data for Indigenous Justice"
in 2020 after trying to collect the names of missing and murdered Indigenous people to read at a rally,
only to discover no government agency had been keeping track.

Alaska Vowed to Resolve Murders of Indigenous People. Now It Refuses to Provide Their Names.
When the nonprofit Data for Indigenous Justice filed public records requests with the Alaska Department of Public Safety concerning cases it had investigated, the state rejected them.

Former Biden Deputy AG
Lisa Monaco now a target.
In his latest turn,
Trump is now trying to pressure a private corporation (Microsoft)
to fire an individual executive that he does not like.
https://bsky.app/profile/ericlipton.nytimes.com/post/3lztktp…

Gamma ray bursts (GRBs)
are singular outbursts of high-energy radiation
with durations typically lasting from milliseconds to minutes
and, in extreme cases, a few hours.
They are attributed to the catastrophic outcomes of stellar-scale events
and, as such, are not expected to recur.
Here, we present observations of the exceptional GRB 250702B (formerly GRB 250702BDE)
which triggered the Fermi GRB monitor on three occasions over several hours,

The U.S. military struck four boats in the eastern Pacific
-- killing 14 people
-- a significant escalation of the Trump administration’s
campaign of extra-judicial murders in the Western Hemisphere.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-se

U.S. military strikes four alleged drug boats in eastern Pacific, killing 14
The U.S. military has struck four alleged drug boats in the eastern Pacific, killing 14 and leaving one survivor.

As Susie Madrak noted here,
"Democrats have one ask:
fund healthcare, in the form of extending ACA subsidies and restoring funding to Medicaid that was cut in Trump's Big Beautiful Ugly Bill."
But we're hearing Republicans, who have the House, the Senate, the presidency, and the Supreme Court,
say that Democrats are holding the country hostage.
The White House's response to Democrats wanting to secure health coverage for 20 million America…

WH Responds To Dems Wanting Health Care In Funding Bill: 'Go Fuck Yourself'
“We’re going to extract maximum pain."

Heather Honey,
a high-profile denier of Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election,
has been appointed to a senior position in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
in which she’ll help oversee the nation’s election infrastructure.
Honey is a protege of Cleta Mitchell,
a lawyer who tried to help Trump overturn the 2020 election results.
In 2024, ProPublica reported that Honey had played a key role in Mitchell’s behind-the-scenes effort to change Georgia’…

She Pushed to Overturn Trump’s Loss in the 2020 Election. Now She’ll Help Oversee U.S. Election Security.
Heather Honey has been appointed to a senior position in the Department of Homeland Security. State election officials and voting experts are concerned.

They are so afraid of this
they won’t seat a newly elected Congresswoman from AZ
to keep it from happening.
In a shocking moment, Speaker Johnson refuses to swear in newly-elected Democratic Rep. Grijalva,
who is the decisive 218th vote to sign a discharge petition to release the Epstein files.
Why the delay, Mr. Speaker?

George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social)
They are so afraid of this they won’t seat a newly elected Congresswoman from AZ to keep it from happening.

Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa has told confidantes she plans to reveal next week that
she won't seek reelection in 2026.
Ernst's announcement is scheduled for Thursday.
Ernst, 55, has served in the U.S. Senate since 2015.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news…

Joni Ernst won't seek reelection to Senate in 2026, sources say
GOP Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa is expected to announce next week she's not running for reelection in 2026.

Researchers have given people a taste of superhuman vision
after creating contact lenses that allow them to see infrared light.
Unlike night vision goggles,
the contact lenses need no power source,
and because they are transparent,
wearers can see infrared and all the normal visible colours of light at the same time

I wanted to send you a quick note tonight,
thanking you for supporting the Save America Movement.
We’ve taken our message straight to the White House,
DHS, Union Station, and Capitol Hill
— exposing Trump, ICE, and the profiteers behind his authoritarian movement.
The reception has been powerful. But we’re not done.
Tomorrow, the trucks will roll again. Every hour on the road costs money.
Screens, drivers, fuel — it adds up fast.
If we want to…

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When we travel from deep-blue states to deep-red states,
the ‘Fox-Book’ media diet increases by about 10 percentage points.
Likewise, the diet of political ignorance (no political media consumption) increases by about 3.5 percentage points.
Summing these two diets, we get a roughly 14-point swing in media consumption across the state partisan spectrum.
Obviously, this 14-point swing is not Orwellian: there is no state population that receives all of its political infor…

Partisan Politics and the Road to Plutocracy – Economics from the Top Down
In this essay, I take a deep dive into the history of American plutocracy and its conspicuously Republican roots.

Congress returns on Tuesday.
It is critical that what they experience when they return is a riled up electorate,
angry constituents, people demanding an end to Trump’s unprecedented agenda of sabotage, plunder and betrayal.
Here are our four current recommended things to contact your Senators and Reps about today, tomorrow and every day in September:
Roll back Trump’s terrible tariffs
Block the expansion of ICE and the use of the military on our streets includi…

FIRE HIM, Trump's Powers Of Persuasion Are Ebbing, Congress Needs To Hear From Us Next Week
New polls show Trump deeply underwater on the DC occupation