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Les enfants issus d'OKC ont grandi dans le domaine isolé du Château des Soleils, dans les Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. Plusieurs d'entre eux racontent y avoir subi brimades, violences et viols. Malgré les plaintes déposées et une condamnation en Belgique, l'accusé coule des jours tranquilles en Espagne.

Courtesy of Maggie Miller over on BlueSky: With the House coming back into session, the House Budget Committee has scheduled a hearing for next week — on oversight of the recently hacked Congressional Budget Office. Expect the intrusion to a top subject of conversation.
https://budget.house.g…

Oversight of the Congressional Budget Office | The U.S. House Committee on the Budget - House Budget Committee
The Official U.S. Congressional website of The Republican Budget Committee

Just finished "Endgames" by Ru Xu, sequel to "Newsprints." I was happy to see the characters from the first book get their endings, but Xu feels incredibly out of her depth writing about the politics of empire and the power/complicity of the press, which completely dampened my enjoyment.
As just one example, there's a ton of interesting nuance to explore behind the idea of a disabled imperial ruler and how disadvantage/persecution (from which you have been effectively shielded) does not justify harming others. This book explores none of that.
I think it does serve as a great example of how severely one limits one's own imagination when one buys into the myth of nationhood as natural/inevitable/good. It's not that Xu's politics are especially authoritarian, I think, but that she's just (been kept?) resoundingly naïve, and so her plot resolution feels childish (or perhaps that's an insult to children).
#AmReading #ReadingNow

Three members of a Chicago white nationalist group have been identified thanks to the work of anonymous antifascist infiltrators.
Using license plates from their vehicles and personal details shared in a private vetting chat,
an activist who gained access to their inner circle identified the men behind the group as James Hammans (37), Džiugas Dirzys (22), and Arkadiusz Kowalczyk (38).
Unraveled has verified the information collected and confirmed the identities of the three …

Exposed: White nationalist group responsible for hate spree across Chicagoland
Members of the Windy City Active Club include a USPS worker, a recent finance grad from DePaul, and a Polish American tied to other hate groups.

In BC, Abbotsford and other border areas are under flood evacuation orders, especially from the Nooksack River. The Tyee recently reported on the lack of an agreement on flooding of the Nooksack, which is a perennial problem that the US government has ignored.
British Columbia and Washington need to work on a Cascadia-focused agreement on how to manage the Nooksack without meddling from the United States or Canada, which are apathetic to the real issues facing our region

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Observations on news, politics, and the arts in the Pacific Northwest.

Los rivales de los Cowboys en 2026 incluyen varios equipos de playoffs https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/los-rivales-de-los-cowboys-en-2026-incluyen-varios-equipos-de-playoffs

I will be quite happy when the Big Sur highway is finally re-opened to end-to-end travel.
(It can be a scary trip, especially southbound, with tall cliffs going up on the inland side and sheer drops into the ocean on the other side.)
It has been said that the Big Sur area has the worst (as in none) cell phone signal in the entire US.
A drive on California highway 1 from Cambria on the south to and through the Mendocino coast on the north is something that is fairly special …

Highway 1 slide repairs continue to make strides along Big Sur coast
Crews continue to make headway on the only remaining choke point between Carmel and Cambria on the Big Sur coast along Highway 1 with an eye on the goal of having the roadway completely open by spr…

Jensen Huang says Nvidia has "fired up" H200 production in the expectation of resumed China sales and it is working on the "last details" with the US government (Michael Acton/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/ae4f28a0-39f9-48e6-bdf4-09321b03c236…

Les enfants issus d'OKC ont grandi dans le domaine isolé du Château des Soleils, dans les Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. Plusieurs d'entre eux racontent y avoir subi brimades, violences et viols. Malgré les plaintes déposées et une condamnation en Belgique, l'accusé coule des jours tranquilles en Espagne.

🔥Federal agents shot and killed a woman during a large-scale immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis on Wednesday.
Ilhan Omar, the Democratic Minnesota congresswoman, said the victim was
👉“a legal observer” of action by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE),
which had sent a surge of agents into the city in recent days tied in part to allegations of fraud involving Somali residents.
A witness to the incident, Emily Heller, told local media that the victim…

Woman in Minnesota fatally shot by ICE agent during raid, video shows
Mayor says ICE claims incident was self-defense are not true, and tells agency to ‘get the fuck out of Minneapolis’