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In back-to-back speeches on the Senate floor,
Arizona Democrats Ruben Gallego and Mark Kelly tried to get the Senate to pressure the House
to swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva with a measure blocked by Republicans.

Gallego, Kelly pressure Senate to make House seat Grijalva. Here's what happened
The politically charged request to urge the House to swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva had no chance with Senate Republicans.

I've had a few of these thoughts stuck in my craw all day because I watched this liberal historian talk about the Galleanisti.
https://youtube.com/shorts/93yHEn8BYE4
Basically, she says that "of course the government had the right to target them." Then she goes on to talk about how it became an excuse to carry out a bunch of attacks on other marginalized people. Now, the Galleanisti had been bombing the houses of politicians and such. I get where she's coming from saying that one of their targets "was in the right" to try to catch them. But there's some context she's not talking about at all.
These were Italian anarchists, so they were not white and they were part of an already marginalized political group. Basically all of Europe and the US was trying to wipe out anarchists at the time. Meanwhile, the sitting president at the time showed the first movie in the White House. That movie was KKK propaganda, in which he was favorably quoted. The US was pretty solidly white supremacist in the 1920's.
Like... A major hidden whole premise of the game "Bioshock: Infinite" is that if you went back to the US in the 1920's, and you had magic powers, you would absolutely use them to kill as many cops as possible and try to destroy society. There's a lot of other stuff in there, I don't want to get distracted, but "fuck those racists," specifically referring to the US in the 1920's, was a major part of a major game.
Those Italian anarchists were also stone cutters. They carved grave stones. But the dust from that can kill you, much like black lung for coal miners. So they were dying from unsafe working conditions, regularly raising money to support dying coworkers and then carving gravestones for those same coworkers.
Now, I personally think insurrectionary anarchism is a dead end. I disagree with it as a strategy. We've seen it fail, and it failed there. But of course it makes sense that they wanted to blow up the government.
...And that's the correct way to structure that. When you say, "of course they were in the right" you're making a very clear political statement. You could easily say, "the cops in Vichy France had every right to hunt down the French Resistance." You would technically be correct, I guess. But it would really say something about your politics if you justified the actions of Nazi collaborators over those fighting against the Nazis.
And you may say, "oh, but the Nazis didn't have justification for anything. They invaded a sovereign nation, so their government wasn't legitimate anyway."
To which I would reply, "have you considered a history book about the US?"

Let's just go with the flow while staying healthy

WE ARE NOT DOING THIS AGAIN :omega_laugh:

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microJAX: A Differentiable Framework for Microlensing Modeling with GPU-Accelerated Image-Centered Ray Shooting
Shota Miyazaki (Institute of Space,Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan), Hajime Kawahara (Institute of Space,Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan)
https://arxiv.org/abs/251…

microJAX: A Differentiable Framework for Microlensing Modeling with GPU-Accelerated Image-Centered Ray Shooting
We introduce microJAX, the first fully differentiable implementation of the image-centered ray-shooting (ICRS) algorithm for gravitational microlensing. Built on JAX and its XLA just-in-time compiler, microJAX exploits GPU parallelism while providing exact gradients through automatic differentiation. The current release supports binary- and triple-lens geometries, including limb-darkened extended-source effects, and delivers magnifications that remain differentiable for all model parameters. Be…

#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 02 - Space Fall
ARTIX: [Into desk-mounted intercom] Full emergency, full emergency. All crew to operational stations. All crew to operational stations.
[Blake is crawling though a narrow access channel. The ship lurches from another shock-wave. When he recovers, Blake continues to a small panel. He taps it three times and waits.]

OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical): "Moments ago, Ukrainian attack drones successfully struck the Feodosia fuel terminal in Russian-occupied Crimea, setting the massive storage facility ablaze. The fuel dump is one of the largest in Crimea." | XCancel
https://xcancel.com/Osinttechnical/status/1974973659241660590?t=8eTKfZQ4jo8medEKgKok8w&s=19

Trump praised Skydance's Paramount takeover and Bari Weiss' appointment, saying it is the "greatest thing" that has happened "to a free and open and good press" (Cynthia Littleton/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/donal

Donald Trump Praises Skydance's Paramount Takeover and Bari Weiss
President Donald Trump had kind words for Skydance's takeover of Paramount and Bari Weiss' appointment at CBS News in his full '60 Minutes' interview.

A profile of Football Manager game developer Sports Interactive, which has ~280 full-time staff and licenses its scouting data to 40 teams, as it releases FM26 (Chris Allnutt/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/a4f4860f-4eb9-4498-9b9e-d6a5aae4cfbb

Why Football Manager just keeps winning
Over 33 years, the series has won over frustrated fans, the football industry, even Americans — but it took three Lionesses to get women’s teams into the game