Eight people were sentenced to prison June 23, 2026, in connection with the nonfatal shooting of an Alvarado police officer outside the Prairieland Detention Center July 4, 2025.
Authorities have called it the first-ever federal terrorism case associated with “antifa.”
From top left: Savanna Batten, Meagan Morris, Daniel Sanchez Estrada, Elizabeth (left) and Ines Soto, Zachary Evetts, Autumn Hill (left), Maricela Rueda, Benjamin Song (left)
#LeftWordle Development notes:
I am getting ready to push the latest changes (currently at https://staging.left-wordle.com) to production. Can everyone who currently plays Left Wordle, and even those that don’…
There are 'heightened fears that the new regime may follow the same policy lines as the old one — “Starmerism with added affability” as one MP put it to the Star.'
Left challenges #Burnham for real change | Morning Star
Late in 2024, Elon Musk endorsed Germany’s far-right Alternative für Deutschland. We document that after this, Tesla sales rose by up to 30 percent in right-leaning districts relative to left-leaning ones [..] Divestment in second-hand markets shows no partisan differences, consistent with resale requiring a larger identity cost from Tesla’s image shock than non-purchase. Our lower bound-estimate for the overall loss in Tesla sales is [..] worth at least €241 million."
“Who are you when you stop outsourcing your self-definition?”
A provocative question, to answer as a person, and also as an actor. (Who we are and who we are as an actor may have little overlap.)
I did not encounter this question today the way Kelly Rook Daly did, but I’m glad I did.
https://
The idea of Vote Left, Transfer Left was pretty strongly adhered to in Dublin Central as the count went on.
What happened was that the voters didn’t consider SF to be left.
The SF candidate’s big transfer moments came from Steenson and Hutch.
❝Here’s a thought experiment: what happens if you just... put a computer on the internet and wait?❞ https://arman-bd.hashnode.dev/i-left-port-22-open-on-the-internet-for-54-days-here-s-who-showed-up
“We need a strong centrist party!”
So a party that’s politically to the left of both Republicans and Democrats?
Europe's dependence on US companies in tech and finance is in no small part its own fault after overregulation left European businesses too weak to compete (The Economist)
https://www.economist.com/europe/2026/04/2
So I need a new headshot for a conference I’m speaking at in June and I’m short on time so I fooled around with my camera last night (ooh-err, missus) and narrowed it down to three options…
European Left Party: A Double Boost. The European Left Party’s practical value is measured by whether the decisions taken in Brussels lead to concrete action. By Uwe Sattler.
https://europa.blog/en/european-left-party-a-double-boost/
Less than a week left to submit a talk to #id24: https://inclusivedesign24.org/2026/
The call for presentations closes on 31 May 2026.
The event is 24 September 2026, which is far enough away to block out y…
If you are new to organised left-wing politics, pick a flavour of revolutionary socialism.
This is my fave, it may not be yours but it's a great place to start learning what *you* believe or don't believe in.
https://marxist.com/manifesto-of-the-r
Tennessee death row prisoner
Tony Carruthers was issued a one-year stay of execution last Thursday
after prison officials were unable to find a backup injection vein
in a botched execution attempt that left Carruthers suffering and in pain for over an hour.
Nashville reporter Steven Hale attended the execution and describes his and fellow witnesses’ confusion as they heard the sounds of what Carruthers’s attorneys are calling “torture.”
Per Tennessee’s lethal i…
Our first Echium has finally flowered this year. They are supposed to flower in their second year but this one took three.
It's very popular with the bees.
Thank you to whoever it is in interlibrary loan who included their sparkly nails in the article scan! Absolutely #GLAM
Finally another fun #sunset from Bochum, Germany, today: with the sunspot groups (1)4446 in the upper left, 4444 and 4447 below and 4443 just above the trees - see https://spaceweather.com/images2026/25may26/hmi1898.gif for orientation - easily visible. Bridgecam near max. optical digital zoom.
#GiftLink
Opinion | Yale report shows academia moderating. Democrats stay left. - The Washington Post
https://wapo.st/4u7EfzN
#ICE73 just left Offenburg, and we’re still on time!
#UndoneCS
#ICE73 just left Offenburg, and we’re still on time!
#UndoneCS
Waffles picked up his first Rally Novice qualifying score this morning!
#dogs #dogsofmastodon
Getting a jump start on #caturday, before I forget.
@… Of course they mean like, 1 inch left of the Republicans.
Racist, fascist, capitalist assholes.
But like, you don’t say it out loud.
I missed the bloom at the Rhododendron knoll this year because so many things came up but the Laowa 9mm gives a good feel for the space
#photo #photography #plants
I was in #Toronto visiting the kid this weekend. Stopped by an #electronics store I had heard about, called "Supremetronic”…
Really, it was a section in the basement of a Home Hardware, directly next to the paint counter.
What a strange little nook of availability that was. Hundreds of bins o…
An #asteroid hit deep in the #Australian #outback. What it left may have broken a record.
Australian researchers say they have found evidence of Earth’s oldest known asteroid
I have the desire to potter about with plants and get my new raised fruit/veg bed sorted out but apart from the blistering temperatures I've picked up a completely flattening virus from a colleague so I don't have the energy. I keep falling asleep when I sit down. I've put some nasturtium seedlings into a planter, moved the radish planter to the veg area and helped move a couple of bits into our summer seating area and that's me done.
So, I have judged C `std::unordered_map` for a quite a few years, but it appears that many of the performance issues were kinda resolved.
Upon running both a full microbenchmark suite comparing it to equivalent in other languages, and benchmarking the logic engine I made with indices based upon it, performance hold up quite well!
Another questionable win for C I guess.
Evening on Billy Goat Hill
#PhDCongratulations!!! 🥳 As the 250th graduate of the @…, Ilse de Langen successfully defended her thesis today. Title: Modelling Magnetic Induction and Lorentz Force-Driven Flows in Europa’s Subsurface Ocean
Our #VFXPipeline, database and renderfarm also supports shot numbers with emojis. Need to find my post about this from a few years ago 😁
Maybe I should test it again to make sure it still works. Back then, all I had to do was disable a regular expression that enforced alphanumeric characters.
Enhanced left triangulated categories
Xiaofa Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.24300 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.24300 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.24300
arXiv:2603.24300v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In this short note, we study dg categories with homotopy kernels, whose homotopy categories are known to admit a natural left triangulated structure. Prototypical examples of such dg categories arise as dg quotients of exact dg categories. We demonstrate that the stablization of the homotopy category of such a dg category admits a canonical dg enhancement via its bounded derived dg category.
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Ukraine update from Giorgio Provincialli.
First-hand reports of the irony of Crimea...
Share the friend link to bypass the paywall and help the world learn of the truth on the ground in Ukraine: https://medium.com/@giorgioprovincia…
I went to the Portrait Gallery and American Art Museum last night. The Luce Center curators had fun with this one. On the right is “Ideal Christ” staring at the derrière of “Eve Tempted”. I hope whoever did this knows how much I appreciate them!
This Old Geezer was found shouting at the Clouds last month, a certain patch was suddenly left out of Bakkeby's Flexipatch? One that I absolutely need?
Found out today that I called it switchtotag (which isn't to be found anywhere), whereas the actual name is switchtag (which is included).
Larry knows where I'm heading tomorrow 🐮 !
#gentoo
Morning run is done ✅ (#running)
This lounge chair is, where you’ll finde me for the rest of the day.
crime: Rosenfeld crime network (1991)
A network of associations among suspects, victims, and/or witnesses involved in crimes in St. Louis in the 1990s. Data are derived from police records, via snowball sampling from five initial homicides. Left nodes are people, right nodes are crime events, and edges connect people to particular crimes events they were associated with. Metadata includes names, genders, and roles (suspects, victims, and/or witnesses).
This network has 1380 nodes…
European Left Party: A Double Boost. The European Left Party’s practical value is measured by whether the decisions taken in Brussels lead to concrete action. By Uwe Sattler.
https://europa.blog/en/european-left-party-a-double-boost/
Dear Zoom,
In what world would you think I would want an “AI Companion” panel *taking up almost half the application screen*? And that apparently *I cannot turn off* in the application settings itself… and instead have to login to the Zoom website to go into the settings *there* to turn off this panel?
This is the kind of behavior toward users that is turning people off to all things related to #AI
I just got so mad at something Past Me left for Future Me to deal with that I had to sit there for a few minutes and *stew*. Like, wtf dude - you (I) know better!
I've only got one unit of Orvus soap left.
Should I use it to wash my horse?
Or should I use it to wash my telescope mirror?
I’m mean come on now, everyone knows ballrooms prevent assassinations. It’s not law enforcement, it’s not a protective details, it’s certainly not policies and laws that rule a country effectively and remove all motive for assassination: it’s ballrooms.
If you just ignore the huge number of assassinated political figures through history that _had_ ballrooms, then like no one left who got assassinated ever had a ballroom.
🔫❌🪩🕺🏻
That’s just common sense. 😳 /s
Two attempts to simply extrapolate the brightness of #Kreutz comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS) from what happened in the past few weeks, from all visual observations reported to COBS (left) and from all CCD observations of the past month which would have the brightness climb a bit faster. But as the previous post in the thread has shown even in the geometrically preferred southern hemisphere MAPS is lost in twilight from about March 30 to April 7 - and even in the optimistic model the comet has reached only 6th magnitude when it is lost and is down again to 5th when it is recovered: unless something drastic would happen *all* hope for an interesting show rests on a possible post-perihelion dust tail. Good luck ...
A split between near Nazis and plain fascists is welcome, so long as it prevents a far right victory.
And it's usually the left that is faction-ridden.
Elon Musk retweet signals rightwing split that could help Andy Burnham in Makerfield | Byelections | The Guardian
https://www…
Relaxed morning ride around 22° instead of a morning walk. Good to wake up.
#lenggries
Harvard № 13 Chandler Piggé and Cornell № 23 DJ Nix scrambled for the ball with Harvard № 12 Dutch Dowdell (6'6" !) following close behind
#photo #photography #sports
@… Please check out “Insane Mode” under settings.
https://staging.left-wordle.com/
Feedback much appreciated.
European Left: “We must Europeanise our successes.” Walter Baier, President of the Party of the European Left, on the opportunities and challenges facing progressive politics in Europe. By Uwe Sattler.
https://europa.blog/en/european-left-we-must-europeanise-our-succe…
A bona fide financial crisis has not broken out since the US housing meltdown of 2007.
Even the Covid pandemic and subsequent upsurge in inflation didn’t lead to financial upheaval.
The jitters produced by the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank in 2023 were soon forgotten.
Given this stability, it might take some effort to convince financial markets that another big one is around the corner.
But it is.
Financial markets and their regulating governments may believe …
Repeatedly sprayed the dog.
San Diego parents seek $800K from USPS over pepper spray exposure they say left children with asthma | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/san-diego-parents-seek-800k-from-usps-over-pepper-spray-exposure-they-say-left-children-with-asthma/
An analysis of GPT-5.5, Gemini 3.1 Pro, Grok 4.3, Gab's Arya, and other AI models: most chatbots frequently provide left-leaning responses to political prompts (Kevin Schaul/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/
I'd seen a lot of really great basketball shots done in high school gymnasiums with shockingly wide lenses and thought I'd try catching rebounds with a 55mm; those didn't work out but plays on my side of the net did; Cornell № 24 Josh Baldin holds the ball.
#photo #photography …
I have a beta build of #LeftWordle deployed at https://staging.left-wordle.com/ .
This is beta so it may be unstable and stats won’t ever transfer to the production game.
Please take a look at a bunch …
Three doctors gathered and told the couple that the longer Waldorf’s cervix remained open and her uterus exposed to bacteria,
the higher her risk of developing a life-threatening infection.
The standard of care, they explained, would be to quickly empty her womb.
But they couldn’t do that, one doctor said apologetically, sighing deeply.
The baby still had a detectable heartbeat, and stopping it would run afoul of a state abortion ban that snapped into place after the…
Class Practices Dance Moves from 𝐿𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝐿𝑖𝑣𝑒! at ITHACON today: I'll head back tomorrow and soon have more normal shots taken with the 70-200mm I took day
#photo #photography #cosplay
Donald Trump says he told top U.S. envoys not to travel to Pakistan to negotiate with Iran,
telling Fox News that ″they can call us anytime they want.”
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi left Pakistan on Saturday evening, two Pakistani officials told The Associated Press.
Trump said Thursday that Israel and Lebanon have agreed to extend a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah by three weeks after talks at the White House.
The meeting was the second high-lev…
It’s Primary Eve in New York.
On the ballot on Tuesday?
A series of raucous Democratic contests with the potential to radically reshape New York City’s congressional delegation and push it further to the left.
Plus, a Democratic race to challenge Representative Mike Lawler,
a vulnerable Republican incumbent who holds a Hudson Valley-area seat that Democrats are desperate to flip.
But here we will focus largely on the New York City primaries,
several of wh…
A year ago this week,
Zohran Mamdani’s surprise victory in the Democratic primary for mayor upended New York politics.
Now, in the closing days of another primary season,
he has thrown himself back onto the campaign trail,
this time risking his political capital in a high-stakes bid to catapult fellow leftists to primary victories against the old Democratic guard.
Mr. Mamdani and allies are attempting to unseat two Democratic incumbents,
Representatives Da…
At a ruling Workers’ party meeting that concluded this week,
Kim Jong-un declared that steadily expanding North Korea’s nuclear forces was
the “most correct and unique way” to cope with an increasingly unstable world,
citing what he described as growing threats from the US and its allies.
The remarks were just the latest in a recent stream of commentary from North Korea’s leadership that has seen Kim pledge to equip warships with nuclear missiles,
double weapons…
The Senate will go on recess without voting on a reconciliation bill tied to the Department of Justice's $1.8 billion weaponization fund, according to reports on Thursday.
PunchBowl News reported that Sen. John Thune (R-ND) told senators the bill would be left unfinished while the lawmakers returned home for the Memorial Day holiday.
"House is expected to follow suit soon," Sherman wrote in a post on X.