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Iran’s paramilitary
Revolutionary Guard,
a force which was key in putting down recent nationwide protests in a crackdown that left thousands dead, is
“more ready than ever,
finger on the trigger,”
its commander said Saturday,
-- as U.S. warships headed toward the Middle East.
Nournews, a news outlet close to Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, reported on its Telegram channel that
the commander, Gen. Mohammad Pakpour, warned the United St…

Iran's Revolutionary Guard commander warns the US, says his force has its 'finger on the trigger'
The commander of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, a force which was key in putting down recent nationwide protests in a crackdown that left thousands dead, says the force is “more ready than ever, finger on the trigger.”

Unprovoked attacks from wildlife may be rare,
but that's never an excuse to do what one unidentified man did back in October in Yellowstone National Park.
Photographer Keith Allen Kerbs captured a chilling moment when
a man approached a pack of five wolves, while onlookers looked on in horror.
The video, which went viral in November, shows the man coming within a few feet of one of the wolves before spraying them with what appears to be bear spray.
The tense …

Yellowstone Visitors Left Horrified After a Man Approaches a Pack of Wolves
The man was located after the wold encounter.

Oh dear, the new Observer can't manage responsiveness, i.e. the ability of a web page to adjust to the user's screen. Not possible to fix it at the reader end.
A pity, I wanted to skim it.
https://observer.co.uk/news/national/a

Many lawyers and career officials at the White House National Security Council, Pentagon and Justice Department ...
who had raised concerns about using lethal force against "narcotraffickers" ...
either left government or were reassigned or removed.
https://skywriter.b…

We're happy to be teaming up with the Athenaeum at the Lamar Dodd School of Art (#UniversityOfGeorgia), on a pair of exhibitions focusing on #BeverlyBuchanan. Known nationally as a bold experimental artist who worked in land art and video as well as more familiar forms, she lived in Athe…

The Trump administration announced on Monday that
all foreign-made drones and their components
posed “unacceptable risks to the national security of the United States”
and would be put on a federal blacklist of equipment makers prohibited from selling their goods freely in the country.
A fact sheet released by the Federal Communications Commission left some room for exceptions.
The Pentagon or the Department of Homeland Security can clear a drone or component fo…

Trump Administration Declares Foreign-Made Drones a Security Threat
Americans won’t be able to buy new models from DJI, the Chinese maker of most of the world’s drones. But U.S. pilots can keep the drones they have.

It’s actually Glen Haven, a hamlet on Lake Michigan that got eaten by Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore and disincorporated. It was the base for dune buggy rides that tore up the dunes, which is part of why SBDNL was created. There used to be more buildings. And people. Not sure why they left that one… @…

Lake Michigan! Live! (@livelakemichigan@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Current* conditions near Glen Arbor, MI:

"Whether that is a remade Labour, or the Greens, or Your Party, or Scottish and Welsh nationalists the essential issue will be the same – driving Farage back into his hard-core support through a politics of radical change."
Reform voting bloc can be challenged by the left | Morning Star
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An Indiana judge and his wife were shot at their home on Sunday,
prompting concerns for the safety of the state’s judiciary
after recent increases in threats and violence against public officials nationally.
The police in Lafayette, Ind., said on Monday that they were investigating the shootings of the judge,
Steven P. Meyer of Tippecanoe County Superior Court,
and his wife, Kimberly Meyer.
Both were in stable condition.
Judge Meyer, 66, recently ann…

Indiana Judge and His Wife Are Shot at Their Suburban Home
The police in Lafayette, Ind., said they were investigating the nonfatal shootings of a Tippecanoe County Superior Court judge and his wife on Sunday.

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS),
India’s largest Hindu far-right organization,
initiated a well-funded lobbying effort in the U.S. earlier this year
Squire Patton Boggs,
one of the top lobbying firms in the U.S.,
registered as a lobbyist on Jan. 16 for the RSS, according to lobbying disclosures

Exclusive: India’s largest far-right Hindu organization hires U.S. lobbyists for congressional influence campaign
Squire Patton Boggs lobbied U.S. lawmakers on behalf of the RSS, a Hindu nationalist group linked to discrimination and violence against Muslims