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Donald Trump's oldest son has said that the U.S. may walk away from the Ukrainian war
In a lengthy tirade against the purpose of continued fighting in Ukraine,
Donald Trump Jr also said Ukraine’s “corrupt” rich had fled their country
leaving “what they believed to be the peasant class” to fight the war.
Trump Jr has no formal role inside his father’s administration,
but is a key figure in the Maga movement.
His intervention reflects the antipathy amon…

Series D, Episode 08 - Games
VILA: What happened to that rest we all needed?
AVON: It just got too damned expensive. [Shot of Scorpio revolving on launch pad]
[Belkov's quarters]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/408/37 B7B4

If you remove the light sabres, the telekinesis, and the pseudoscience fiction jibber-jabber, being a Jedi is one of the main fantasies that makes people fall in love with Star Wars. I don't know if it's just a male fantasy, though - choosing the good side against the darkness, showing restraint, selflessness, valour, and acute awareness of the living world. It seems to me it's about knowing right from wrong, be it being a Jedi, a princess, a smuggler, or a Dark Lord of the Sith,…

Just finished "Check, Please" volume 2 by Ngozi Ukazu. I had read volume 1 earlier and enjoyed it; as I said at the time I'm a bit uncomfortable with such an uncomplicated portrayal of a subculture that's usually quite toxic, and even though it gets addressed a little bit in volume 2, it's not really unpacked very much. I do see the value in aspirational contemporary fiction here though, so I'm definitely happier about this angle than I was after volume 1. In any case, hockey, baking, and gay romance continues to be a very entertaining combination from Ukazu's pen, and overall I enjoyed the series quite a lot!
#AmReading #ReadingNow

The LAPD has been sending officers to train with Israeli security forces since the 1980s,
and ramped up the trips after the 9/11 attacks,
based on what officials have said is a shared goal of fighting extremism.
Since 2014, the inspector general's report found, 18 LAPD officials took trips to Israel that cost a combined $87,000.
The department sent an unnamed deputy chief and seven other employees to Israel for an event called "Command and Control Counter-Te…

The LAPD sent officers to train in Israel. Officials can't explain what they learned
The Police Commission's Office of the Inspector General found that the LAPD lacks a system for tracking employees who train with foreign law enforcement agen...

That is the horror that spurred Minneapolis-St. Paul into action. That is the horror we’ve been fighting. That is the horror that Renee Good and Alex Pretti died fighting.
And it is the horror that is destroying countless lives of people whose names you do not know.
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Series A, Episode 03 - Cygnus Alpha
BLAKE: You mean we crossed the anti-matter interface?
JENNA: That's impossible.
AVON: That's what they said about the light barrier.
JENNA: Well, which one next?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/103/62 B7B5

Series C, Episode 12 - Death-Watch
TARRANT: [Forcefully] Yes or no?
MAX: Very well. I'll negotiate the arrangements. [starts to leave]
TARRANT: And the combat computer, remember, I want it to choose the battle chamber and run the contest.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/312/516…

#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 13 - Terminal
SERVALAN: I don't think there's anything I've missed. There's a light beam voice link directed at the Liberator. You'll contact the ship. Tarrant, Cally and Dayna will teleport to this location. Vila will stay on board to operate the teleport to bring me up. You have my word that he will be teleported down to you immediately I…

Series A, Episode 04 - Time Squad
JENNA: Jenna.
BLAKE: [V.O.] Blake. We haven't made contact with the rebels yet. We're moving. Reference three three four zero. I'll call in again when we get there.
JENNA: Right.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/104/328 B7B3