2026-02-02 23:22:13
🏗️ To Emulate Zohran, Rebuild Left Institutions
#politics
🏗️ To Emulate Zohran, Rebuild Left Institutions
#politics
Vote Left Transfer Left.
Having a cup of tea and a chat together to see how we can continue collaboration for the Galway West By-election like we did on Catherine Connolly's presidential election.
The momentum built during Catherine's campaign will live on. We must keep this as a left seat. And with a Vote Left Transfer Left campaign, we think that can be a reality.
Mailbag: Time to evaluate left tackle? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-time-to-evaluate-left-tackle
The death of a nearly blind refugee from Myanmar who was found on a Buffalo street in February
— five days after Border Patrol agents left him at a doughnut shop
— has been ruled a #homicide, authorities said Wednesday.
The Erie County Medical Examiner's Office didn't reach any conclusions about responsibility for
Nurul Amin Shah Alam's death,
which the agency said…
Riley Gaines: The Left Has Weaponized Love Against Us - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2026/02/riley-gaines-the-left-has-weaponized-love-against-us/
Portugal's conservatives back left-wing candidate to avoid a far-right president (Aitor Hernšndez-Morales/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/portugals-conservatives-back-left-wing-candidate-to-avoid-a-far-right-president/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260202/p62#a260202p62
Check out today's Metacurity to catch up on the crucial infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--StopICE platform reportedly hit by a breach, 100k users' data exposed,
--Hot social media site for AI agents Moltbook left APIs exposed,
--28 malicious skills are targeting Claude Code and Moltbot users
--Russian Legion warned Denmark of large-scale cyberattack,
--Notepad is probing reported security incidents,
--US DoJ s…
Mailbag: Time to evaluate left tackle? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-time-to-evaluate-left-tackle
Roofers Repair 78-year-old Widower’s Roof for Free After Scammers Left Him with a Big Hole https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/roofers-repair-78-year-old-widowers-roof-for-free-after-scammers-left-him-with-a-big-hole/
Choose life over death. Choose compassion over suffering. Go vegan for the animals, environment and health! Choose life for the future!
#AnimalRights #GoVegan
Snow surveys taking place across the American west this week are offering a grim prognosis,
after a historically warm winter and searing March temperatures left the critical snowpack at record-low levels across the region.
Experts warned that even as the heat begins to subside, the stunning pace of melt-off over the past month has left key basins in uncharted territory for the dry seasons ahead.
Though there’s still potential for more snow in the forecast, experts said it wi…
Kos: Purity politics gets the left nowhere
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/3/2/2370643/-Purity-politics-gets-the-left-nowhere?pm_campaign=blog&pm_medium=rss&pm_source=main
Only like 6-7 minutes left! 🚀
Cornell's № 14 Corbin Zentner from Alpine, Utah has № 23 Sebastian Whitfield from Virginia Beach of the Princeton Tigers on his tail
Find more shots from this game on my Bēhance: https://www.behance.net/gallery/243329557/Cornell-vs-Princeton-(…
The Raiders' Offseason Plan Has Left No Stone Unturned https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-offseason-plan-has-left-no-stone-unturned
BBC fixed its (utter failure of) reporting on the not-dead tortoise last night:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c393xmpzjwko
Just a tiny reminder of how even your trusted sources aren’t always trusted. Especially on 1 April.
Trans musicians recommended by @annehealthcare.bsky.social€ via BlueSky:
🎵 Left at London
🎵 SOPHIE
🎵 Shea Diamond
🎵 Boy Bowser
🎵 Pussyboys (Ezra Michel)
The original post has more info on each band:
https://bsky.app/profile/annehealthcar…
Good to see more free/open source projects move off the proprietary ai-scraping microsoft github platform to codeberg etc.
I think it's fair to say that projects left behind there aren't really free/open source.. Many aren't able to contribute to projects there for ethical reasons (e.g. microsoft's association with genocide, epstein, extractive LLMs, Trump, ICE etc), and github now exists to strip software of free/open source licenses.
Spanje heeft wel ballen...
'Mark Chadbourn
@chadbourn.bsky.social€
15 US military aircraft have left the Rota and Morón air bases after Spain refused to allow them to be used for operations related to Iran, Reuters reports.'
Via:
https://bsky.app/profile/chadbourn.bsky.social/post/3mg3eqnm56c2p
When Reuters, who usually doesn't lean left or right and just reports the news, reports "that presidential war address was a disaster", you know things are bad.
After a magistrate judge left AG Pam Bondi furious by rejecting a criminal complaint against Lemon on January 18, she tried to get her revenge Friday morning
A few hours later, the DOJ’s case is falling apart as prosecutors in Minnesota and LA refuse to get involved.
https://newre…
Bro could u cover my shift at work tomorrow i just saw a sunset so monumental it sucked the wind from my body and left me a ravenous ennui zombie
Left-Wing Groups Suddenly Discover The Second Amendment (Mark Tanos/The Daily Caller)
https://dailycaller.com/2026/02/01/left-wing-groups-second-amendment-gun-ownership-ice/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260202/p31#a260202p31
Wired ends its UK print edition, after reducing from six to four issues per year at the end of 2024; seven London-based journalists left at the end of 2025 (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/
Hey friends of the #mountains - I almost didn't make it away from my couch today morning. But as you can see, I did!
I spent a couple of hours hiking into the snow. During the ascent I was happy that I left my snow shoes at home. Yet for half an hour or an hour, I really missed them when I sometimes sank in deeper than my knees.
But it was all well manageable and I regained so …
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Natalie Jane Hill:
🎵 Never Left Me
#NowPlaying #NatalieJaneHill
https://nataliejanehill.bandcamp.com/track/never-left-me
https://open.spotify.com/track/5mYV6uf5S0ChjFoLJWUJHI
So y'all who complain about the democratic party: I've got a friend who works (very hard I might add!) as a consultant and campaigner for campaigns. There's a special election primary going on where he is, and he's trying to get the leftmost candidate elected. Guess who didn't show up to help get the candidate elected?
The progressives and leftists.
This is the problem. The party is whoever's left. It's not us, because we're not showing up.
I'm thinking that people had it tough in medieval castles. Just imagine your phone falls into the WC… not much will be left of it all the way down.
#shitpost
Canadians, do you think, like Canadaland's Stephen Marche, that Canadian nationalism is a 1960s - Waffle, I guess - phenomenon?
"I just don't think of that period [post-WWI] as being hyper-nationalistic. I think of nationalism as born in 1965 from Margaret Atwood's brain."
As a historian, I know that left nationalism in the 60s was an important phenomenon, but the notion that some might think that Canadian nationalism was born then hurts my brain.
Gorton and Denton - a rough vote analysis.
Green vote gain (10,200) was 2,000 short of Lib/Left reductions
Reform vote gain (5400) 3250 more than Tory reduction.
Suggests broadly that Greens got the Lib/Left votes and Reform the Tory ones, but some Labour went to Reform.
However the stay at homes likely to have been different population each time, with Greens mobilising former abstentions and Labour having more abstensions this time.
Very similar turnout 2024 and 2…
no, I don't have any spoons left
I melted them into a baseball bat
ICE 'condemns' death cards left in cars of Colorado residents detained by federal agents, but I notice they paid for a custom print-run.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/general/ice-condemns-death-cards-left-in-cars-of-colorado-residents-detained-by-federal-agents/ar-AA1V6jJ0
Trump is a simpleton, really. He admires autocrats on the right, and loathes them on the left.
RE: https://mastodon.me.uk/@PoliceStateUK/116159665967332199
When a professional managerialist centrist like Khan (highly competent, successful, good track record, prominent) is way to the left of the party mainstream like this, it shows clearly how f…
This made it through multiple levels and multiple rounds of design and marketing approval.
At no point did anyone stop and think?
Really? This is the design we're going with?
Not one person who had any rudimentary internet skills.
Not one hero in one meeting had even the one ounce of temerity or one gram of courage to stand up and say
HEY - THE HAND ON THE LEFT IS SUPPOSED TO BE WEARING A RING.
THE BOARD OF PEACE WAS SO BUSY ESTABLISHING PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST THAT SOON NO PERSON WILL BE LEFT THERE TO ENJOY IT
Pontus and some other members tidied up in our electronics corner yesterday. Just look how much usable space there is now! We never had so few boxes standing around in our L-room! <3
#hackerspace #electronics
I can’t stop thinking about
Nurul Shah Alam,
the disabled refugee who died after Border Patrol left him outside in the cold with no way to contact friends or family.
It took five days for him to die.
He was blind and didn’t speak English.
They took the pole he was using as a cane.
This man survived an actual genocide only to be killed by the incompetence and cruelty of the Trump regime.
Five days of wandering around lost, sick and disoriented.
Some beautiful art and illustrations that I've recently found. 🌿
Zara Picken
#art #illustrations
A debatable handball, a six-minute VAR review and a decision that left J.J. Watt enraged https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7077566/2026/02/28/burnley-goal-handball-var-disallowed/
Series A, Episode 06 - Seek-Locate-Destroy
SERVALAN: [Into comm] Yes?
VOICE: Space commander Travis's ship has just docked.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/106/193 B7B5
Ron DeSantis spent $1.2m per day to open and operate ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ | Ron DeSantis | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/02/ron-desantis-12-million-on-alligator-alcatraz
Looking for some escapism*? I just watched The Grand Budapest Hotel (on Netflix) and it did the job.
It was a great story, with wonderful visuals, and left me wondering what I'd just watched!
* OK, some fascist bad guys, admittedly
from my link log —
Final analysis of 2025 Iberian blackout: electrical grid operating policies left Spain at risk.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/03/final-analysis-of-2025-iberian-blackout-policies-left-spain-at-risk/…
I continue to marvel and be enraged by the audacity of this administration. Trump created the legislative standoff that left TSA agents without pay. And now he wants credit for solving it?
https://abc7.com/post/what-know-trumps-…
> Part of the crypto grift was telling people to "Have Fun Staying Poor". That weaponisation of FOMO was an insidious way to get people to drop their scepticism.
>
> I feel the same way about the current crop of AI tools.
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/03/im-ok
“I think they left the door open for DLC. If that’s the case, I hope it’s a bit worse. Thanks fo-“
#patriciataxxon
Different Corners IV ▶️
不同的角落 IV ▶️
📷 ZEISS IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
I saw University of Waterloo left X/Twitter https://x.com/UWaterloo/status/2027393545741435275
Good! Now use your infrastructure and brains of CS department to run a Mastodon server, please!
@… if you give them all away, then you don't have any left to give. I assume this is the goal?
№ 21 Kaspar Sepp towering at 6'7" a Junior from Tartu, Estonia has the ball
#photo #photography #basketball
Arianna Pera @… defends her PhD: The Language of Collective Action in the Social Web
https://nerds.itu.dk/2026/02/27/ariann
Made a userscript to show me the starred date https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/564752-github-star-date-display
As we’re landing, crew asks everyone to stay seated so paramedics can get into the back of the plane. Seatbelt sign goes off, 5 people in my section promptly stand up and start yanking luggage from the overhead bins. Some bins left open when crew scolds people back to their seats.
Early morning in Ötztal
(A sleepy and peaceful Sunday morning in October 2025, the view south-west over Längenfeld towards Hoher Kogel, 3296m)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography
I hope he left his iPhone at home. Because, you know, Nazis.
#IronSky https://tomkahe.com/@GiftArticles/116331494329173157
Ask Sweden to Ban Fur Farms #AnimalRights
I've joined the other by-election candidates on the left in co-signing this letter condemning the vile racist abuse being directed at Labour councillor and fellow by-election candidate Helen Ogbu
We cannot let this kind of abuse stand in Ireland. And I will always stand by those who face racism and discrimination.
Left-leaning gun groups say they’ve seen a surge of interest since fatal Minneapolis shootings | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/liberal-gun-groups-minneapolis-shootings-b2911839.html
The Department of Homeland Security was caught lying Thursday about ⚠️ abandoning a blind refugee who was later found dead on the street.
The Department of Homeland Security claimed that the Tim Hortons in Buffalo
where federal agents left Nurul Amin Shah Alam,
a 56-year-old Burmese refugee who was blind and spoke no English,
was “determined to be a warm, safe location near his last known address.”
Video footage reviewed by The Washington Post, however, showed t…
Series D, Episode 03 - Traitor
TRACER: It reads that way, sir.
QUUTE: That Hunda and his rabble are becoming more than just a nuisance.
[Scorpio]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/403/234 B7B3
49ers hiring Raheem Morris as defensive coordinator: Sources https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7004901/2026/02/01/raheem-morris-49ers-defensive-coordinator/
War and Peace Cannot Be Left to One Man -- Especially Not This Man (David French/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/opinion/trump-iran-congress-approval.html?unlocked_article_code=1.P1A.rExN.YWa2nGwLaWGd&smid=bs-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260301/p12#a260301p12
Burgers, branding and generosity: How Fernando Mendoza left an Indiana legacy https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/burgers-branding-and-generosity-how-fernando-mendoza-left-an-indiana-legacy-3731078/…
My annual update to my 2012 post, “W3C CSS Odor Module Released”:
https://adrianroselli.com/2012/04/w3c-css-odor-module-released.html#Update09
That’s it. That’s all I got new for today.
At CPAC, FCC Chair Brendan Carr boasted "Trump is winning", citing PBS and NPR defunding and the departures of Joy Reid, Chuck Todd, Stephen Colbert, and others (Kathryn Wilkens/Mediaite)
https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/trump-
Different Corners III ▶️
不同的角落 III ▶️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Fujifilm NEOPAN SS, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
"En el caso de las izquierdas, hay algunas izquierdas que cuando se trata de Cuba miran para otro lado sin entender que Cuba tiene muchas funciones en la batalla cultural de las izquierdas del hemisferio occidental."
"In the case of the left, there are certain left sections that, when Cuba comes up, look the other way, without understanding that Cuba has multiple functions in the cultural battle of the Western hemisphere left."
Iramis R. Cšrdenas:
How far have you come? This page will show you how far you’ve traveled since you were born.
The Cosmic Odometer calculates how far you've traveled through space just by being alive. Even if you've never left Earth, you've orbited the sun, rotated with the planet, and embarked on both solar and galactic travel — all while sitting on your couch. https://…
It's AOC or bust for far-left Democrats in 2028 (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/01/aoc-liberal-democrats-2028
http://www.memeorandum.com/260301/p85#a260301p85
A vow to end wars is left in the dust
For a decade, Trump promised to end what he calls forever wars,
casting himself as a leader opposed to prolonged conflicts in the Middle East and who would rather pursue peace in the world.
Now, early in his second term, Trump is taking military action against Iran that could expand well beyond a limited effort to halt the country’s nuclear program.
In a video posted on Truth Social, the commander-in-chief said American forces also…
Cornell's № 15 Avi Adam skates towards the goal with the puck while № 22 Michaela Littlewood tries to take it away
#photo #photography #sports
House Democrats once again left complaining about a Senate spending deal (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/02/house-democrats-senate-spending-deal-00761523
http://www.memeorandum.com/260202/p151#a260202p151
#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 05 - Pressure Point
GAN: It will repair before he gets here. [Blake takes aim with his gun.]
VILA: [Grabbing Blake's arm] You'll hit him!
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/205/446
From Bart Starr, to everyone after, photographer John Biever has shot every Super Bowl https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/from-bart-starr-to-everyone-after-photographer-john-biever-has-shot-every-super-bowl<…
Fernando Mendoza’s Indiana Pro Day helped to silence any remaining critics https://raiderramble.com/2026/04/02/fernando-mendozas-indiana-pro-day-helped-to-silence-any-remaining-critics/
Cornell № 7 Abby Thibodeau -- more shots from the 2026-02-06 game with RPI on my Behance gallery:
https://www.behance.net/gallery/245026257/Womens-Hockey-Cornell-vs-RPI-2026-02-06
Homicide ruling made in death of nearly blind refugee whom Border Patrol left at a doughnut shop (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/buffalo-new-york-refugee-death-482894a96ba31b8945f4186f823c38d2
http://www.memeorandum.com/260401/p84#a260401p84
Trump says the job market is booming for U.S.-born.
-- The data doesn’t show it.
Since the summer, Trump officials have been trumpeting the idea that job creation is booming for U.S.-born workers.
Trump said so, too, during a prime-time address last month aimed at assuaging Americans’ concerns about the economy
Trump administration officials also said recently that more than 2.5 million U.S.-born workers gained jobs in 2025
as 1 million immigrants left the workfor…
FBI investigating 'potential nexus to terrorism' in 6th Street shooting that left two dead, 14 injured | Shooter also killed (Laura Sather/KVUE-TV)
https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/active-attack-reported-in-downtown-austin/269-1a19c462-1416-4316-8dba-732c395fbfcf
http://www.memeorandum.com/260301/p57#a260301p57
Shots from No Kings caught with the 70-200mm are here https://www.behance.net/gallery/246803553/No-Kings-Part-II and you can find more I caught with the 9mm at
Klint Kubiak competes 1st coaching staff with Raiders https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/klint-kubiak-competes-1st-coaching-staff-with-raiders-3713658/
European intelligence agencies are stepping into the void left by America's strategic retreat.
The shift is reshaping how Ukraine fights
—and what Kyiv can see on the battlefield.
France now provides Ukraine with two-thirds of all intelligence it receives,
President Emmanuel Macron claimed on January 15.
The assertion is disputed.
Kyrylo Budanov, now Zelenskyy's chief of staff, said in December that Kyiv "remained critically dependent" o…
With the US on the brink of war with Iran, Fox's biggest stars are more focused on the left being mean to the US men's hockey team (Matt Gertz/Media Matters for America)
https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/us-brink-war-iran-foxs-biggest-stars-are-more-focused-left-being-mean-us-mens-hockey-team
http://www.memeorandum.com/260227/p66#a260227p66
Stefon Diggs, Najee Harris among acclaimed veteran free agents suited for Raiders https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/04/01/5-veteran-free-agents-the-raiders-could-sign/89411272007/…
Left pushes wealth tax as litmus test for 2028 Dems (Holly Otterbein/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/29/left-wing-democrats-wealth-tax-2028
http://www.memeorandum.com/260329/p56#a260329p56
The most important, efficacious, & sizeable faction on the left is plain old "normie Dems", or whatever condescending term you prefer.
They're the ones doing the actual work.
But they are largely ignored by media, because they're organized & led by women.
https://skywriter.blue/@vol…
Nithya Raman filing papers on Saturday morning to
⭐️challenge Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass in the
👉 June 2 election
hit like a political bombshell.
Text chains blew up with stunned variations of,
"I didn't see that coming!"
Everyone sought to determine what a run from someone on Bass' left will mean when election day arrives in, gulp, 💥 less than four months.
How this plays out remains to be seen.
But here are some initial t…