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"Its authors — some of the world’s best intelligence-gatherers, who contributed thousands of their own photos — kept the curated database updated and online for public use at no charge."
Eulogy for the CIA Factbook: The free standard for world facts, long an educational staple, is gone

Farewell to the CIA World Factbook, a reference manual now gone under Trump
The Trump administration has shut down the CIA World Factbook, and there's much lamenting about the demise of a free source that many people used to check basic facts about countries. The end came on Feb. 4 in a “fond farewell” post from the spy agency. The CIA says the decision reflects an agency whose core mission has changed over the years. Factbook fans say they'll miss the trusted reference point that had its origins in World War II-era intelligence work. It went public in 1975 and bec…

Impeachment As A Referendum On The Iran Fiasco (Brian Beutler/Off Message)
https://www.offmessage.net/p/impeachment-as-a-referendum-on-the
http://www.memeorandum.com/260406/p49#a260406p49

Ich bin ja ansonsten kein Fan von Johann #Wadephul, aber das Statement zur Abschaffung des Einstimmigkeitsprinzips in Angelegenheiten des Äußeren, Verkleinerung der Kommission und auch des Parlaments begrüße ich, finde ich vernünftig und halte ich für längst überfällig!

Europäische Union: Wadephul fordert grundlegende EU-Reform und Ende des Vetorechts
Außenminister Johann Wadephul hat Reformen der Europäischen Union angemahnt. Der Staatenverbund müsse angesichts globaler Herausforderungen handlungsfähiger werden.

ルーターカットだねえ。
細かくカットしたかったから、素材これだとちょっとわからないけど、アルミ複合板か、塩ビかアクリルを使ってるんだろうなあ。 [参照]

Get to know the under-the-radar leaders of a movement that helped organize January 6
and continues to pose a threat to American democracy
https://religiondispatches.org/2026/04/02/meet-top-24-leaders-new-apostolic-reformation-us

Introducing OTel Blueprints and Reference Implementations
#OpenTelemetry

I think this supports my idea that Reform voters include a large, modern day, Church and King mob.
Reform UK’s support is more than a ‘protest’ vote, research suggests
https://nation.cymru/news/reform-uks-support-is-more-than-a-protest-vote-re…

Reform UK’s support is more than a ‘protest’ vote, research suggests
Christopher McKeon, Press Association Political Correspondent The latest British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey found Reform voters were most distinguished by their cultural attitudes, suggesting support for the party was more than a “protest” vote. Pollster and BSA co-author Sir John Curtice said Reform supporters were “deeply ideological” and had “a level of emotional attachment that […]

Keir Starmer says "Time and again Nigel Farage and Zack Polanski have shown they are not fit to meet this moment of great global instability." https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/06/starmer-late-pitch-voters-l…

Republicans could and likely would vote to table any resolution to impeach Trump,
but that would represent a de facto endorsement of whatever war crimes Trump chooses to commit against Iran in the coming days,
and of the global economic fallout for Trump’s humiliating forfeiture of the Strait of Hormuz.
The least-worst way forward for both the U.S. and the world is for the war to end immediately.
That almost certainly can’t happen with an erratic president in offic…

Impeachment As A Referendum On The Iran Fiasco
Getting caught trying to stop Trump will do much more for Democrats' public image than fighting internally over whether to blacklist a podcaster. And, at some point, it might work.

Eulogy for the CIA Factbook: The free standard for world facts, long an educational staple, is gone (Laurie Kellman/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/cia-factbook-world-trump-map-reference-manual-749b7577c2c8f1c2adae6888ea9dee06
http://www.memeorandum.com/260405/p13#a260405p13