
2025-08-20 17:56:07
A desperate army: Russia fighting using women and prisoners of war: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/20/a-desperate-army-russia-fighting.html
A desperate army: Russia fighting using women and prisoners of war: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/20/a-desperate-army-russia-fighting.html
Tuberville says Trump health issues exacerbated by 'fighting the radicals' (Miriam Waldvogel/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5410255-tuberville-says-trump-health-issues-exacerbated-by-fighting-the-radicals/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250720/p23#a250720p23
'How Can You Sleep At Night?': Once Praised by Trump As a 'Great American Hero', Pete Hegseth Now Leads Charge to Erase Medgar Evers’ Name from Navy Ship — His Family Is Fighting Back
https://atlantablackstar.com/2025/06/21/once-praised-by-trump-as-a-great-american-hero-pete-hegseth-now-leads-charge-to-erase-medgar-evers-name-from-navy-ship-his-family-is-fighting-back/
Ukraine reports gains as fighting intensifies on the Pokrovsk axis near Dobropillya: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/19/ukraine-reports-gains-as-fighting.html
Dismantling Mafia connections triggers a surge in bank credit to legitimate businesses, lifts local output, and raises productivity – although it comes with a modest uptick in borrowing costs, research shows.
https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/fightin…
You know who probably doesn’t think we are now in a time of peace?
The leadership of Iran.
Everybody who thinks knows peace requires _all_ combatants to stop fighting, not just one side.
#USpol
Las Vegas Raiders receiver fighting for roster spot is related to Bo Jackson https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/las-vegas-raiders-receiver-fighting-roster-spot-related-bo-…
Fighting Fascism at The End of The World. Een opwekkend stukje van Jessica Wildfire.
https://archive.ph/eL2dY
Harvard Divinity School broke precedent
by refusing to publish a video of its commencement speech
after a speaker went off-script to call attention to the perilous conditions in Gaza.
“There are no safe zones left in Gaza after 600 days and 77 years of genocide,” said Zehra Imam,
who graduated from the Harvard Divinity School this spring and participated in the embattled Religion and Public Life program.
Imam, who is Muslim, was speaking with two other students f…
I have not played Remtach. This review is really interesting describing this as a team fighting game with soccer as more of a theme. And for the moment to moment game play that sounds great.
But it is funny that in another way that's just soccer. TBH this game is way more soccer then FIFA is where you control a whole team.
Personally I don't love these multiplayer games. I could like this with a single player mode and imagine doing a whole career!
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If we had any multibillionaires who wanted to make a big splash in effectively fighting the Fash, fully funding CPB (and hence, indirectly, PBS and NPR) would be a useful thing. A billion dollars is a lot of money, no one needs even one, much less more than one.
Sadly, we don’t.
Interesting… but why is this at the browser level instead of OS level? 🤔 #Chrome…
Moscow's 2022 'Teacher of the Year' killed while fighting in Ukraine, Meduza reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/22/moscows-teacher-of-the-year.html
After fighting my own miniature Battle of Yorktown in today’s #Connections, it seemed a good time to remember the Comte de Rochambeau’s motto: « Vivre en preux, y mourir » (“To live and die valiantly”).
#Connections740
Puzzle № 740
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The Love Ireland? Hate Racism March is building fast! United Against Racism have brought together unions, civil society groups fighting inequality & building community and opposition groups fighting the government day in and day out.
🗓 June 22nd at 1:30pm on Dame Street central Plaza Dublin.
#Ireland #Antiracism
“It is not out of the ordinary or unexpected in any way for Harvard to crack down on pro-#Palestine or even #Israel-critical spaces on campus. That is part of #Harvard’s legacy,”
AFGE | AFGE Will Keep Fighting for Members Despite Contract Terminations
https://www.afge.org/article/afge-will-keep-fighting-for-members-despite-contract-terminations/
D.C. mayor focused on getting Commanders stadium deal done: 'Nobody is waiting in the wings with $2.7 billion'
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/d…
The good news from Alabama.
#Humanity #HumanRights #Juneteenth ht…
On the home stretch for getting ngscopeclient v0.1 out the door!
MacOS binary packaging is now mostly done (thanks Lain), although we don't have DMG's being produced in the CI flow yet.
After several hours of fighting with Windows, the Windows executable has an icon and behaves sanely wrt logging (logs to stdout if launched from a shell, but doesn't spawn a terminal if launched from the start menu).
Still need to do a few tweaks to the MSI installer as well as t…
Should the Heterodox Academy Prioritize Fighting Trump's Authoritarian Assaults Over Wokeness on Campuses? A Conversation with Cathy Young (Berny Belvedere/The UnPopulist)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/should-the-heterodox-academy-prioritize
http://www.memeorandum.com/250720/p43#a250720p43
"Putin is afraid to admit how many [Russian] people have died. Because if the moment comes when he needs to mobilize, his society will be afraid," Zelensky said.
Ukrainian authorities have confirmed that at least 20 of the bodies Russia returned as Ukrainian were actually Russian soldiers.
"Sometimes these bodies even have Russian passports," Zelensky said.
He also cited the case of a deceased Israeli citizen fighting on Russia's side, whom Moscow had …
"China’s coal heartland fighting for a greener future"
#China #FossilFuels #Energy
„Not like women! Women hold grudges.“
Who is fighting 100% of all the wars in the world again?
https://mastodon.social/@MAKS23/115051841278622830
My cat is getting used to wake me up at 6 AM either by screaming for no reason or fighting the other cats and it's killing me 💀
Current situation which SCotUS decision today will make worse:
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/trans-kids-attacks-trump-families/
I am not part of the community, so there are likely better resources:
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🤦🏻♀️ Lingerie Fighting Championships to Add $2M in Bitcoin to Treasury Ahead of Expansion to UK
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2025/06/26/lingerie-fighting-championships-to-add-2m-in-bitcoin-to-treasury-…
Dealing with #EventualConsistency, and Causal Consistency using Predictable Identifiers
https://www.architecture-weekly.com/p/dealing-with-eventual-co…
Kim Jong Un says his ‘heart aches’ over North Korean soldiers killed fighting for Russia, in rare admission of losses | CNN
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/08/21/asia/kim-jong-un-north-korea-soldiers-russia-ukraine-intl-hnk
New insight into Texas family detention reveals adults fighting kids for clean water (Valerie Gonzalez/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/migrants-child-supervision-texas-e4994b2b6786717ea79a4be230e476bf
http://www.memeorandum.com/250621/p45#a250621p45
Just disable apparmor/selinux, boot mitigations=off, and run everything as root. I've lost too many months of my life fighting bullshit trying to keep me safe from myself on isolated, ephemeral systems. I need to get stuff done, not navigate some robo-bureaucracy!
"how are free people supposed to stay free? One short answer: don’t trust anyone over thirty. Paine, reversing centuries’ worth of regard for age and experience, argued that freedom is not a privilege that the old may confer, but a right that the young must demand. Every rising generation should hold its predecessors accountable, boldly taking its rights from them"
I am an old man and I approve this message.
It seems the government's rather imperfect plan to renationalise the railways is in some peril due to a counter-offensive from the predatory Train Operating Companies.
They are fighting hard now to get their "open access" applications approved before new legislation comes in. And, if approved, they could lock in privatisation for decades.
@weownit.org.uk .bsky.social @heidialexander.bsky.social
Cowboys Embattled Backup QB Torches His Haters With 8-Word Burn https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/joe-milton-critics-throwing/?adt_ei=[email]
Cities are fighting rising temperatures with tree-planting initiatives to combat urban heat islands and improve air quality. A practical and effective climate solution. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate
Making a Gil Scott-Heron mix tape for some friends. "Winter in America" really hits hard.
The Constitution, a noble piece of paper
Would free society. It struggled but then died in vain
And now Democracy is ragtime on the corner
Hoping for some rain
It's winter in America
And all of the healers have been killed or betrayed
It's winter in America
Ain't nobody fighting
‘Cause nobody knows what to save
Save your soul
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Trump turned soccer into a political battleground -- and fans are fighting back (Roey Hadar/MSNBC)
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-ice-protests-soccer-los-angeles-rcna213749
http://www.memeorandum.com/250621/p29#a250621p29
As Reddit turns 20, a look at its AI efforts, including the Reddit Answers chatbot, while it battles unauthorized scraping of user data for AI training (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/28/reddit-20-fighting-ai-defending-data.html…
Fuck you, you genocidal zionist piece of shit.
#israel
The Trump administration claims to be fighting an existential battle against insurrectionary forces in Los Angeles.
In truth, it created this cynical spectacle itself,
deploying troops and inflaming tensions to distract from its policy failures.
https://jacobin.com/2025/06/la-immigr…
America Is a Good Place and Worth Fighting For (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/america-is-a-good-place-and-worth-fighting-for
http://www.memeorandum.com/250718/p70#a250718p70
“Pivot to AI itself got hit by an AI scraper bot over the weekend! Thankfully the scoundrels who vibe-code these things are idiots.”
➡️ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/02/fighting-the-ai-scraper-bots-at-pivot-to-ai-and-rationalwiki/…
"You must have a market for interesting jobs, good housing, and a market to switch partners. Because people do that too"
#sovereignity #North
Leaked documents claim Russia's 41st Army suffered 'catastrophic' losses fighting in Ukraine
https://kyivindependent.com/leaked-documents-reveal-catastrophic-losses-in-russian-army-unit-fighting-in-ukraine-kyiv-says-07-2025/
Sie haben noch mal die besten Bradley vs. T-90 Videos eingebettet. 👇
https://www.twz.com/land/m2-bradley-fighting-vehicle-appears-in-russia-with-locally-made-30mm-cannon
"When we trace any royal line back to its progenitor... that first king always turns out to be a swaggering thug, a bully whom no one in their right mind would follow. Resigning oneself to life under such a person’s authority would be bad enough, but hereditary #monarchy makes things infinitely worse: the generation that crowns him also sacrifices their descendants to his, trading away the f…
PAM BONDI & ROBERT MURPHY: Team Trump is fighting deadly drug cartels to save American lives (Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/pam-bondi-robert-murphy-team-trump-fighting-deadly-drug-cartels-save-american-lives
http://www.memeorandum.com/250718/p80#a250718p80
Good Morning #Canada
It has been well reported that OTD in 1880 Dr. Emily Stowe became the first woman licensed to practice medicine in Canada. But actually she was the 2nd as Jennie Kidd Trout (born Gowanlock; April 21, 1841 – November 10, 1921) was the first woman in Canada to become a licensed medical doctor on March 11, 1875. Not sure why Trout was misplaced in the history books for a few years, but perhaps she was overshadowed by Stowe's much more public lifetime dedication to fighting for women's rights. Regardless, both were pioneers that helped establish educational opportunities in medicine for women in Canada.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianHeroes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennie_Kidd_Trout
"Meet the 2025 International Young Eco-Hero Award Winners Fighting Climate Change"
#Climate #ClimateChange
https://…
Leaked documents claim 'catastrophic' losses in Russia's 41st Combined Arms Army while fighting in Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/17/leaked-documents-claim-catastrophic-losses.html
Dat wordt een beetje ingewikkeld in de #fediverse
New bill would fine social media companies $5 million every day for not fighting 'terrorism'
https://
Well then, I believe this was the first Debian upgrade (from 12 to 13 in a desktop/workstation environment) that just went perfectly well without fighting with some package halfway through the install. (Now to get into the subsystems to see what all changed :) )
Kudos Debian team! Nice work.
#Debian
That tingling in my fingers is carpal tunnel syndrome. What am I doing about it? And what am I doing with Substack?
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/fighting-carpal-tunnel-one-key-at-a-time/
DREAM Will Show It All: How Ukraine’s Reconstruction Is Going, How Much It Costs—and Who Pays: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/20/dream-will-show-it-all.html
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Cowboys' projected starting RB trucks DB fighting for roster spot on wild play https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-projected-starting-rb-trucks-db-fighting-for-roster-spot-wild-play
Las Vegas native, Gorman grad fighting for starting job with Raiders https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/las-vegas-native-gorman-grad-fighting-for-starting-job-with-raiders-3420859/
Rep. Jasmine Crockett is fighting for basic needs.
More of this is needed in D.C.
https://bsky.app/profile/cajunblue.bsky.social/post/3lu4nc3h6lc2g
Games industry trade organizations and gamers are speaking out against censorship campaigns that have forced Steam and Itch.io to mass deindex NSFW content (Megan Farokhmanesh/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/gamers-are-furious-ab…
Denise Wheeler: "Construction sites across the country are raising both the American and Mexican flags. Raza strong, everyone. We are still one nation, indivisible. Must keep fighting for it to remain that way." — Bluesky
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:f7utvjkqbgwfjonqtpfcf5fu/post/3ludl7vz7522d
Ex-NFL running back LeShon Johnson guilty in grand scale dog-fighting, trafficking case in Oklahoma
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/ex-nfl-
The #GOP scheme: redraw the Texas map mid‑decade to wipe out Democratic districts, esp. ones w/ Black & Latino majorities, & create 5 more GOP‑friendly seats for #Trump.
But #Democrats aren’t …
How Trump's delusion about the 2020 election morphed into a movement
Why so many Republicans are still playing along
And why the media has stopped pushing back
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/why-has-the-media-stopped-fighting
Does the fuckwit know he's contradicting himself?
"We've already been moving assets to the region, including jets, and that is for contingency support across the region," he told reporters.
"Our constant message is de-escalate, and therefore everything we're doing, all discussions we're having are to do with de-escalation."
UK sends more RAF jets to Middle East as PM urges de-escalation - BBC News
Zelensky says Putin undermines diplomatic efforts after Russian strike on Zaporizhzhia kills 3, injures 23: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/18/zelensky-says-putin-undermines-diplomatic.html
Cynthia Santiago, an attorney in Southern California, won her high school presidential class race the same year Stephen Miller,
the current White House Deputy Chief of Staff,
lost the class speaker race.
More than 20 years later, Santiago is trying to fight Miller’s mass deportation efforts.
Santiago, the daughter of immigrants, has been working to defend immigrants’ rights since 2012.
But having gone to school with Miller, watching his rise to prominence in P…
The Russians are PUSHING in the East! Ukraine is fighting BACK #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/14/the-russians-are-pushing-in.html
BBC confirms 500 foreigners killed fighting for Russia in Ukraine
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/07/11/bbc-confirms-500-foreign-mercenaries-killed-fighting-for-russia-in-ukraine/
4 Dallas Cowboys fighting for their jobs entering week 1 of NFL preseason https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/4-dallas-cowboys-fighting-for-their-jobs-entering-week-1-nfl-preseason
Fighting for the Orthodox vote (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/new-york-playbook/2025/06/11/fighting-for-the-orthodox-vote-00398880
http://www.memeorandum.com/250611/p85#a250611p85
“Terracotta’s porous surface
allows water to slowly evaporate,
carrying heat away and cooling the space around it,”
says Adithya Pradyumna,
an environmental health researcher at Azim Premji University in Bengaluru.
Drawing on this principle, architects in India’s sprawling metro areas
are turning to terracotta for new passive cooling solutions
that range from clay refrigerators to perforated tiles,
ventilated screens, and facades
that al…
Ukrainian drones hit key rail hub in Russia's Voronezh Oblast, HUR says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/17/ukrainian-drones-hit-key-rail.html
National Guard came to L.A. to fight unrest. Troops ended up fighting boredom (Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-17/military-troops-los-angeles-what-they-doing
http://www.memeorandum.com/250717/p74#a250717p74
Twenty Lessons on Fighting Tyranny from the Twentieth Century | Scholars Strategy Network
https://scholars.org/contribution/twenty-lessons-fighting-tyranny-twentieth
Hungarian foreign fighter killed in Ukraine fighting against Russia, media reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/12/hungarian-foreign-fighter-killed-in.html
After his summit with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia,
Trump adopted Putin’s preference for pursuing a sweeping peace agreement
-- instead of the urgent cease-fire Trump said he wanted before the meeting.
Doing so would give Russia an advantage in the talks,
which are due to continue on Monday when President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine visits Trump at the White House.
It breaks from a strategy Trump and European allies,
as well as Zelensky, had ag…
New York Bitcoin Miners Are Buying Up Power Plants—and Communities Are Fighting Back - Inside Climate News
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/10052025/new-york-bitcoin-mines-buying-up-power-plants/
Pope Leo XIV signals continuity on fighting abuse with new head of child protection board
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/religions/article/2025/07/06/pope-leo-xiv-signals-continuity-on-fighting-abuse-with-new-head-of-child-protection-board_6743073_63.html
Trump Compares Russia and Ukraine to Children Fighting (Jonathan Swan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/us/politics/trump-russia-ukraine-children-fighting.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250606/p3#a250606p3
Indian Creek Village,
the “Billionaire Bunker” near Miami,
couldn’t get approval to discharge its waste into a neighboring town’s sewer lines.
So the village quietly persuaded state lawmakers to force the issue.
In a world where billionaires are increasingly exercising political clout,
the fight over sewage in Indian Creek suggests the degree to which their influence is extending not just to policy in the White House and Congress but to some of the most foundat…
23 Dem AGs Think They’ve Cracked the Code to Fighting Trump | Portside
https://portside.org/2025-03-02/23-dem-ags-think-theyve-cracked-code-fighting-trump
A Trans Pilot Was Falsely Blamed for a Plane Crash. Now She's Fighting the Right-Wing Disinfo Machine (Varsha Bansal/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/a-trans-pilot-was-falsely-blamed-for-a-plane-crash-now-shes-fighting-the-right-wing-disinfo-machine/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250702/p95#a250702p95
Defend Public Health
is an all-volunteer network of public health researchers, healthcare workers, advocates and allies
fighting to protect the health of all.
https://www.defendpublichealth.org/
What We Know About Rumor American Derek Huffman Was Killed Fighting for the Russian Military: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/24/what-we-know-about-rumor.html
150 Guard troops pulled off LA mission for wildfire fighting duties (Ellen Mitchell/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5380560-150-guard-troops-pulled-off-la-mission-for-wildfire-fighting-duties/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250701/p170#a250701p170
Lordy, but the man must be guilty of corruption - all this to delay his trial...
'Stupid, Criminal, and Horrifying': Netanyahu Plan to Take Control of Entire Gaza Strip Condemned | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/netanyahu-says-gaza-fighting-nearing-end
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