Why Little Was Done to Head Off Oil's Strait of Hormuz Problem (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/business/energy-environment/iran-strait-hormuz-oil-middle-east.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260314/p7#a260314p7
#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 08 - Hostage
BLAKE: I see, yes of course.
TRAVIS: It is the fastest, the most powerful ship in existence.
BLAKE: Not a chance, Travis.
TRAVIS: We'll see.
[Exbar. Avon running, like a sleek silver colussus]
In a rare public criticism of a fellow member of the Supreme Court,
Justice Sonia Sotomayor criticized Justice Brett Kavanaugh
for his justification of racial profiling
in immigration-based stops of U.S. citizens.
“I had a colleague in that case who wrote, you know, these are only temporary stops,”
Sotomayor said at a University of Kansas School of Law event on Tuesday.
She was referring to the case of
"Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo",
in w…
'Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social: "This is not just a slight warming; it is a fundamental change in how people will have to survive on the continent.
Once regions in Africa enter a state of almost continuous heatwaves, the human body will have no window of time to recover." '
Heat with no end: climate model sets out an unbearable future for parts of Africa
#Africa #ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency
Series C, Episode 02 - Powerplay
KLEGG: You were supposed to have searched the ship. These two should have been found. Where were you hiding?
DAYNA: We weren't hiding. We've...
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/302/5 B7B3
Why inflation is the economic problem of the decade (Neil Irwin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/12/inflation-economy-decade-iran-oil
http://www.memeorandum.com/260412/p21#a260412p21
AOC and Warren join forces in high-profile child care push ahead of midterms (Amanda Becker/The 19th)
https://19thnews.org/2026/02/aoc-warren-child-care-midterm-elections/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260212/p74#a260212p74
Pam Bondi lashes out as lawmakers press her on Epstein, cases against Trump foes
Attorney General Pam Bondi combatively defended her leadership at the Justice Department to House lawmakers on Wednesday
amid sharp criticism that she botched the release of the Epstein files and has wielded the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency to heed Donald Trump’s calls to prosecute his political foes.
In exchange after exchange,
Bondi lobbed brash insults when Democrat…
Ramble On: Over the Waterfall -- Morning thoughts on the Iran war, the Iraq war, and the end of American empire. (Greg Olear/PREVAIL)
https://gregolear.substack.com/p/ramble-on-over-the-waterfall
http://www.memeorandum.com/260313/p40#a260313p40