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Gaza truce incomplete without 'full withdrawal' by Israel, Qatar PM says - France 24
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20251206-gaza-truce-incomplete-without-full-withdrawal-by-israel-qatar-pm-says

A Second Wave of Popular Anger Is Building in Iran (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/a-second-wave-of-popular-anger-is-building-in-iran-ac51969c
http://www.memeorandum.com/260206/p26#a260206p26

Fascinating article on the abundance of medical reference books & notes on remedies in medieval England:
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=30906
🧵 1/4

Tennessee just turned exhausted farmland into something remarkable. Middle Fork Bottoms State Park now teems with wildlife and draws 15,000 visitors monthly.
The secret? Letting floodplains do what they do best—control floods, filter water, recharge groundwater naturally.
It's becoming a model for climate solutions across neighboring states.

Depleted Tennessee Farmland Is Now Teeming With Wildlife
Middle Fork Bottoms State Park demonstrates the benefits that flow when ecology is left to do what it does naturally.

Like why would you spend hours or maybe even days or weeks on writing an essay or argument and refining it and agonize over the details and then you take a shit in the middle of it before you hit publish

The kids are all right.
Students at Fort Collins middle school hold anti-ICE walkout, protest
https://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/education/2026/02/02/students-at-fort-collins-middle-school-h…

Students at Fort Collins middle school hold anti-ICE walkout, protest
Nearly half of the students attending Lesher Middle School in Fort Collins participated in an anti-ICE walkout and protest Feb. 2.

Dear producers of TFT monitors: it's still a stupid idea to put TFT bootup info popups in the middle of the screen where the login dialogs are waiting for user input. 🤷
Please, do provide at least a menu option to put them somewhere else so that I may log in before those popups vanish by themselves.
#MSI #DELL

Take note, Apple. https://mastodon.online/@grumpy_website/115673036992705122

Grumpy Website (@grumpy_website@mastodon.online)
Attached: 1 image How UI degrades over time. Top (Windows 95): great contrast, obvious shapes. Instantly readable. Middle (Windows 11): shapes are still self-explanatory, but contrast is gone. Bottom (Windows 11 Insiders): what am I even looking at? The only shape I can understand here is the Run button. Barely visible, though. Then, on the left, there’s another something that says Run and has an icon. What is it? A window title? Another button? Why does it have to say Run twice? ... 1…

I've spent five minutes reconfiguring my browsers so that they render every site using the same very readable font (Atkinson Hyperlegible from the Braille Institute - #font

Total Cohort Fertility Rate and Total Period Fertility Rate for Ireland, using birth data up to end 2024. Consistent downward trend in both, the relative pause in the middle of the TPFR decline is associated with large net in-migration (including of young women) during the Celtic Tiger.
#mastodaoine

Part of an outcropping of disordered daisies on the jeep trail in Shindagin Hollow State Forest
#photo #photography #flowers

New review on H-Migration:
Jordi Tejel, Ramazan Hakkı Öztan, eds. Regimes of Mobility: Borders and State Formation in the Middle East, 1918-1946
https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=59428

Middle Of The Night: https://eyebeemania.net/2025/12/05/middle-of-the-night.html

Middle Of The Night
Wide awake at 2.20 am. Grrr.

Iran Update, February 3, 2026 | ISW
#iran

Iran Update, February 3, 2026
Iran conducted two probing operations against the US Navy in the Persian Gulf, likely designed to test US Navy defensive reactions.

@… Not a seattleite, but I have been taking the train up for work semi-regularly lately:
I really enjoyed Chengdu Taste, and Maneki as sit down restaurants, Salumi, and the Uwajimaya food court for a quick bite.
13 coins is fine for like a middle of the road Americana, but I’d rather try some of the local stuff :)

Series A, Episode 02 - Space Fall
TEAGUE: [V.O.] No response... circuit three...
[Teague is still trying to operate the device. The hatch starts to slide open]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/102/523 B7B6

I can 100% relate to the final point of the quoted article.
As a middle manager I have enough influence to shape our institution but not as many responsibilities to estrange me from the actual work being done. That's a sweet spot for me!
https://indieauthors.social/@indieauth

I bought a TV and it wouldn't let me past the first setup screen unless I installed an app and gave it Internet access. I figured as much... What I didn't expect was that they would be so explicit about their spying: a big message popped up warning me that the TV channel I was watching would collect viewing data. Fuck you guys. F.u.c.k.y.o.u.
Tomorrow I'll set up the rules in pfSense so I can virtually give all these bastards the middle finger.
I feel like Don Quixote…

Irked because my watch showed 7.5 km (not that I was looking at it desperately or anything…) 😉
An afternoon meeting prevented my running in daylight on the greenway, so I headed over to one of the high schools to use their track. (My favorite track at the middle school is still all torn apart for some sort of culvert work. 😤)
One end is all pine trees and the fragrant smell each lap was lovely.
4/1 minute run/walk intervals for 7.46 km in 57:43, average pace of 7:44/km.

RE: https://masto.ai/@unusual_whales/115679360967321177
Absolutely true—we are a middle class family and this is informing the strategy for our kids.
Had to go to the minute clinic for an ailment, and the nurse in there is 35 years old, $200,000 in d…

Hey left middle cookie… what the fuck!?

Russia’s Losses in Ukraine Are Reshaping the Middle East: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/05/russias-losses-in-ukraine-are.html

Cowboys' latest power rankings position sums up 2025 season https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-latest-power-rankings-position-sums-2025-season/a7d96a348cc262850a72f230

As several replies have noted, Hilton‘s national leadership is trying to distance themselves from the whole thing — “We welcome everyone! Please don’t come at us!” — and are making it clear this was a local decision.
The problem is that now Hilton is in the spotlight, and if they force the local Hilton to let ICE back in, they’ll put themselves smack in the middle of a national firestorm (like the one Target still hasn’t recovered from…or worse).

Short progress update of refining my Kallitype recipe & workflow:
- Left: a couple of months ago, initial homemade formula, very rusty brown, blotchy and low contrast
- Middle: mid December, double coating, no more staining, better contrast, but not fully cleared emulsion
- Right: last night, pre-wetting plus ammonium dichromate (1 drop) for much better contrast, perfect clearing (without any masking)
Progress! 🤩

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Julianna Riolino:
🎵 Don’t Put Me in the Middle
#JuliannaRiolino
https://cardinalsatthewindow.bandcamp.com/track/don-t-put-me-in-the-middle
https://open.spotify.com/track/7LoMG7OXnNG8GrKcPUstEm

Posing as an ideological compatriot, John Williams had penetrated the top ranks of two of the most prominent right-wing militias in the country.
He’d slept in the home of the man who claims to be the new head of the Oath Keepers,
rifling through his files in the middle of the night.
He’d devised elaborate ruses to gather evidence of militias’ ties to high-ranking law enforcement officials.
He’d uncovered secret operations like the surveillance of a young journalist…

The Militia and the Mole
Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter.

That The Clash put 'he who fucks nuns will later join the church' in the lyrics of a song in 1979 right in the middle of an album that was (and still is) so highly acclaimed is a testament to how fuckin awesome The Clash really were.
One of the best songs ever written: https://youtu.be/Td6I5l9UnSg

The sorry history of US policy in the Middle East (Sasha Polakow-Suransky/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/28c3b5c8-ef1a-4a12-9aa2-7589aaf6207c
http://www.memeorandum.com/251206/p54#a251206p54

#Taipei film, capturing poetic retro vibes 🕹️
#streetphotography

Trump admin goes to SCOTUS to try and stop order that it pay full SNAP benefits this month: DOJ asks the justices for an order by 9:30 p.m. Friday — as USDA was in the middle of completing its process for making full payments, under a court order to finish Friday.
https://www.lawdork.com/p/trump-admin-goes-to-scotus-to-try

In the middle of its Gaza genocide (and West Bank terror), Israel is not excluded from the @eurovision.tv Song Contest, so now the Netherlands withdraws. Good. https://nos.nl/l/2593199

Nederland volgend jaar niet naar Songfestival vanwege deelname Israël
De Nederlandse AVROTROS en vier andere omroepen hadden aangegeven Israël te willen boycotten vanwege de oorlog in Gaza.

Egypt plans to ban Roblox in a bid to curb kids' exposure to potentially harmful online material; the Middle East's most populous nation joins Qatar and Turkey (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…

So I understand the striations in rocks at the beach in New Hampshire come from heating and cooling deep in the Earth: some of them get etched by seawater and you can see flakes coming off
#photo #photography #rock

@… draw for me a photograph of a middle aged bald professor at a cluttered desk reading papers with a pen in his hand and some candles on the desk to keep him warm. The context is a cold but cozy office

"An analysis in October suggested that on just 27% of the vote (roughly in the middle of its polling over the past year), Reform UK would win 48% of the seats, allowing it to take power with a small coalition partner. If Reform UK forms the next government, it will be for one reason and one reason alone: our electoral system." -- George Monbiot, citing

First Past the Post could catapult Reform UK into government
A new YouGov MRP poll, published on 26 September 2025, provides another snapshot of the chaotic democratic outcomes being caused by First Past The Post (FPTP) in our era of multi-party p

One last holiday hurrah in Middle-earth! 🎄⚔️ Ending the festive season by streaming LOTRO on the Linux rig.
Come hang out as we finish off some holiday quests and enjoy the cozy winter vibes before the new year really kicks into gear! 🐧✨
https://www.twitch.tv/tuxramus

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

When they're in kindergarten: "Dad, can you zip up my jacket? I don't know how"
When they're in middle school: "Dad, can you zip up my jacket? I can't put down my video game right now"

Kai Trump: President, Harris should meet 'in the middle' (Ashleigh Fields/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5676618-kai-trump-donald-trump-harris-cooperation/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260107/p57#a260107p57

View from my living room window at two different times this late afternoon respectively evening.
#Sunset #Sonnenuntergang #Zürich

Trump officials review census racial category changes : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/05/nx-s1-5634897/trump-census-race-categories-ethnicity-middle-east-north-africa

I am thinking that we are getting close to a domestic version of the March 31, 2004 Fallujah ambush but with ICE goons in lieu of Blackwater goons.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iraqi-ambush-americans-made-mockery-mis…

Welp I posted on discuss, they can always just tell me to post elsewhere if needed
https://discuss.kde.org/t/plasma-addons-cube-clicking-on-desktop-with-the-middle-mouse-button-should-allow-to-rotate-the-cube/42215

Amazingly high quality analysis by ISW about Iran, too bad they don’t have a mastodon account we can follow.
https://understandingwar.org/research/middle-east/iran-update-december-31-2025/

Iran Update, December 31, 2025
Small protests broke out in Tehran on Dec. 28 and spread to 17 out of Iran’s 31 provinces. CTP-ISW recorded 31 protests in Iran on Dec. 31

Find the cat :owo_thanking:

GB News pays substantial libel damages to Islamic Relief after airing false claims that the charity sent money to terrorist groups in the Middle East (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co…

GB News pays substantial damages to Islamic Relief over false terrorism claim
GB News has paid "substantial" libel damages to a UK charity an interviewee falsely claimed had sent money to terrorist groups.

Geno Smith sends message to Raiders fans following middle finger incident https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/geno-smith-sends-message-raiders-fans-following-middle-fin…

A wren (Bewick's, I think, Thryomanes bewickii) in Seattle's Discovery Park this summer
#naturalist

Managing Side Effects: A #JavaScript #EffectSystem in 30 Lines or Less
https://

Just so you know: a fascist is now running this country, openly pushing for Maduro to resign so his so-called “regime change” can install a literal fascist instead.
#Venezuela #USPol #Politics

The "Alien Enemies Act" gives Trump an avenue to imprison & deport ANY U.S. CITIZEN as "threats to national security" in a time of war.
I'm talking to anyone who might be 'undesirable' in the eyes of this administration. Heads up Hispanic, Asian, Middle Eastern & Black American citizens.
#trump

Russia's influence in the Middle East is crumbling! Putin urgently surrenders key base in Syria: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/27/russias-influence-in-the-middle.html

With the fact that I had the last letter and the middle two were switched from normal, it was really the only option. #Wordle
Wordle 1 690 4/6
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⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛
⬛🟨⬛⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Expansions
Girls of the Internet & Allysha Joy:
🎵 The Middle
#GirlsoftheInternet #AllyshaJoy
https://drabqueen.bandcamp.com/album/the-middle
https://open.spotify.com/track/3XfaxK7q6XfrqMwwVNeidd

faculty_hiring_us: Faculty hiring networks in the US (2022)
Networks of faculty hiring for all PhD-granting US universities over the decade 2011–2020. Each node is a PhD-granting institution, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2020). This dataset is divided into separate networks for all 107 fields, as well as aggregate networks for 8 domains, and an overall network for …

Partner: I get Pink Floyd and The Who confused.
Me: But… how!? They don’t sound anything alike. They’re both British, but… how?
Partner: I know they’re totally different, but in middle school there was this kid who always wore either a Pink Floyd shirt or a The Who shirt, so ever since then my brain confuses the two.
Me: Brains are weird.

Dieses Bild ist generiert.

Heute ist ein guter Tag @… zu folgen. Jeden Tag erinnert der Account mit Portraits der Ermordeten daran, das #NazisTöten, wenn wir ihnen die Möglichkeit dazu geben. Sie morden ohne Skrupel alle, die ihnen nicht passen und sie morden, weil es ihne…

Auschwitz Memorial (@auschwitzmuseum@mastodon.world)
Attached: 1 image 1 January 1940 | An Italian Jewish girl, Cesira Sonnino, was born in Rome (in the middle). On 23 October 1943, she was murdered in a gas chamber at #Auschwitz II-Birkenau. She was killed together with her brothers: Mario (left) and Sandro (right). --- ▶ A short video showing the ruins of gas chamber and crematorium III: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ipQmBPAlJQ8

As I walking through the town of Złotów, I've noticed the rentable electric scooters scattered all over the place, and I was wondering how their batteries handle temperatures below –10°C. I suspect they they don't handle them well at all. But well, business is business; why bother collecting them and storing somewhere through the winter, when you can just leave junk in the middle of the town, and just discount them afterwards.
#AntiCapitalism

the real sign of becoming middle-aged is when you start writing unit tests for even "simple" code

The US has announced plans to hold multi-day military exercises in the Middle East
as it deploys what Donald Trump has called an “armada”
led by the USS Abraham Lincoln to the region as part of a tense standoff with Iran.
The display of US air power was announced as the White House has suggested it could launch new strikes on Iran
after the government’s crackdown on pro-democracy protesters that has left thousands dead and many more in detention with their fates uncer…

@… mentioned in his recent video how some hams like to make antennas.
Guilty as charged.
It was only last night that I finished my new linked dipole. But sometimes I want to operate with a vertical. Putting radials on the ground has worked pretty well on North Carolina Piedmont clay, but on dry sand near the beach, t…

Just walked the dog while I was dressed in only my underwear in the middle of winter because we live in the desert in the middle of nowhere—and I think that’s beautiful.

Deadline January 30th: CFP Wisdom from the Middle Ages: Philosophical Contributions from the Abrahamic Traditions https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20138805/deadline-january-30th-cfp-wisdom-middle-ages-philosophical

Happy new year to all from Bev, Linus, and my bald self. Needless to say, 2025 was more than a bit on the dicey side—began with a fascist takeover of the US and leukemia on my part, followed by knee replacement and then hip replacement for Bev. Linus, knock on wood, has been fine. I’m in complete remission and Bev is fully recovered. We’re all up and running now, hoping for a healthy and less fascist 2026.

'Melania' serves as a dainty middle finger to Trump's media tormenters -- who were wrong about everything (Miranda Devine/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/02/01/opinion/miranda-devine-melania-serves-as-a-dainty-middle-finger-to-trumps-media-tormenters-who-were-wrong-about-everything/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260202/p27#a260202p27

💥 Cyclones, mines and a murder: The cursed story of the floating hotel that traveled the Pacific and ended up in North Korea
https://english.elpais.com/opinion/2025-11-…

Cyclones, mines and a murder: The cursed story of the floating hotel that traveled the Pacific and ended up in North Korea
The first ‘flotel’ in history, a seven-story behemoth with tennis courts, opened in 1988 in the middle of the sea. It was a success. That is, until everything went wrong...

NFL Makes Surprising Punishment Decision on Raiders QB Geno Smith https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/geno-smith-middle-finger-fine/?adt_ei=[email]

Sources: Comcast, Netflix, and Paramount submitted second-round WBD bids on December 1; Paramount's includes financing from Apollo and Middle East wealth funds (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/biz/news/paramount…

Paramount Skydance's Latest Bid for WBD Backed by Arab Wealth Funds
The second round of offers for all or part of Warner Bros. Discovery are in from Paramount Skydance, Netflix and Comcast. And the new, higher offer for all of WBD from David Ellison's Paramount is backed in part by the sovereign wealth funds of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Abu Dhabi.

Humain partners with Adobe and Qualcomm to develop AI tools for Arabic content, using Adobe's Firefly Foundry to build AI models and Qualcomm chips to run them (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/

Just a photo of a box on the floor and nothing else.
(Be mindful of your toes around it, though)

After the U.S. bombed #Venezuela in the middle of the night
and abducted its president, Nicolas Maduro,
Donald Trump warned that more attacks could be on the way in the region.
Trump hinted at a future conflict with #Mexico in particular in an interview with Fox News Saturday morning.
“Your vice…

After Venezuela Attack, Trump Says Something Must Be Done About Mexico
Donald Trump is hinting at a military conflict with Mexico next.

Iranian Gunboats Tried to Stop U.S.-Flagged Tanker (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/iranian-gunboats-tried-to-stop-u-s-flagged-tanker-7332152a?st=Gc8Jur&reflink=article_copyURL_share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260203/p62#a260203p62

Israel says it will 'enforce' ban on 37 NGOs in Gaza as humanitarian crisis deepens - France 24
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20260101-israel-says-will-enforce-ban-37-ngos-gaza-humanitarian-crisis-deepens

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Leon Thomas:
🎵 Song For My Father (Middle Sky Boom Edit)
#LeonThomas
https://unterman.bandcamp.com/track/leon-thomas-song-for-my-father-middle-sky-boom-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/0OPzz1cnFmJ1uyg6yp35qw

Series B, Episode 04 - Horizon
BLAKE: [V.O.] Make sure we stay that way.
GAN: I'll try not to drop off.
JENNA: Well, that's all right, assuming they haven't got a fix on us from the ground by now.
BLAKE: No, it'd be raining plasma bolts if they had.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/204/140

An average "true" Pole: There is no climate change! Global warming is bullshit!
Also said Pole: surprised pikachu face that snow fell in the middle of winter.
#Poland

Deadline January 30th: CFP Wisdom from the Middle Ages: Philosophical Contributions from the Abrahamic Traditions https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20138805/deadline-january-30th-cfp-wisdom-middle-ages-philosophical

Exclusive: US shoots down Iranian drone approaching aircraft carrier, official says (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-shoots-down-iranian-drone-approaching-aircraft-carrier-official-says-2026-02-03/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260203/p69#a260203p69

I want to take a moment to thank @… for helping us carry out our Gaza Verified video calls.
Without her and Joy, we couldn’t do what we do.
Aseel is living in a tent right now (which gets flooded when it rains, like it did this week) and, in the middle of having to help her own family, is volunteering to help other families in need in Gaza.

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Aaaaaa I love swimming so muuch

In the middle of war, Ukraine's top university reimagines Russian Studies: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/08/in-the-middle-of-war.html

So the reason for the visit I made to the seacoast last week was because I'd heard my Uncle Bob was sick; he died the night we arrived in town so we didn't get to meet up with him
https://www.seacoastonline.com/obituaries/pprt1343648

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Monie Love:
🎵 Monie in the Middle (album version)
#MonieLove
https://illvibe.bandcamp.com/track/monie-in-the-middle-monie-love
https://open.spotify.com/track/6RiQpptxeHspavyW50JiEw

Trump threatens Iran over protest crackdown as deadly unrest flares (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/trump-threatens-iran-over-protest-deaths-unrest-flares-2026-01-02/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260102/p41#a260102p41

Derek Carr Has Strong Words for Geno Smith Over Obscene Gesture Controversy https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/derek-carr-geno-smith-middle-finger/?adt_ei=[email]

Series B, Episode 02 - Shadow
CALLY: I want you back here. Get ready to teleport.
VILA: Wasting your time, Cally. I'm not wearing a bracelet. I'm not going to be snatched away in the middle of...in the middle of anything. Sightseeing. And you should see some of the sights I'm seeing. No. Perhaps you shouldn't.
https://

Deadline January 30th: CFP Wisdom from the Middle Ages: Philosophical Contributions from the Abrahamic Traditions #acrel https://networks.h-net.org/group/annou…

Hi, it’s Al Franken.
I don’t usually send messages like this, so I’m hoping you’ll read to the end for a GREAT story. 
Before that, though, I want to tell you about Peggy Flanagan.
She is unbelievably great and she’s running to keep Minnesota’s Senate seat blue. 
Her end-of-month fundraising deadline is tonight so I’ll get to the point: Please donate now. 

Peggy Flanagan for Minnesota | Democrat for U.S. Senate
Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan's ready to take our Minnesota values to D.C. — to fight to rebuild the middle class, protect our rights, and hold the extremist billionaires trying to run off with our country accountable. If elected, she’ll be the first Native American woman to ever serve in the U.S. Senate. Will you join us in this Minnesotan-powered campaign?

Six Mile Creek deep in the Mulholland Wildflower Preserve
#photo #photography #ithaca #landscape

Dept. of Education Attacks Middle School For Supposedly Letting Trans Student Onto Co-Ed Cheer Squad
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/dept-of-education-attacks-middle

U.S. carrier strike group enters Middle East region after Iran commander warns U.S. its forces have "finger on the trigger" (Sarah Lynch Baldwin/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-carrier-strike-group-middle-east-region-iran/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260126/p64#a260126p64

Trump Is Demolishing the Global Order. Here's What Might Come Next. (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/01/27/post-nato-middle-powers-expert-roundup-00748549
http://www.memeorandum.com/260127/p37#a260127p37

Why Middle-Class Americans Say Life Is Unaffordable (Sabrina Tavernise/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/us/politics/middle-class-us-economy-affordability.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251220/p11#a251220p11

Coast Guard Tracks Down Runaway Oil Tanker Linked to Iran and Venezuela (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/coast-guard-tracks-down-a-runaway-oil-tanker-linked-to-iran-and-venezuela-32f7660c
http://www.memeorandum.com/251226/p5#a251226p5