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I take this as Nature's cue to get planting. #Frogspawn on the #allotment pond and lots of it. So today in went some Broad Beans, it been far too wet in the UK to do this much sooner. #growyourown

@… I usually have my butler attend to such things. White cotton gloves, and all that.
I procured a touch screen display especially for FreshPorts. Still, he tells me, this has not facilitated destruction of the bug. Is there a driver issue?

How college students who study war view Trump’s Iran taunts
For Politics 226: "Introduction to Peace Studies"
this was a week when treaties, rules and theories slammed into the reality of a U.S. president who says he
“doesn’t need” international law,
doesn’t ask God for forgiveness
and is limited solely by his own ideas about morality.
Even for Trump, his Tuesday post casually threatening to level Iran,
in a way that seemed to suggest the …

How college students who study war view Trump’s Iran taunts
On campuses around the country, thoughtful debates about “just war” theory and morality collided with President Trump’s erratic approach to combat.

So against my better judgment, I actually responded to this. For a moment, I thought it might actually not be a lead into a scam, but the second I saw that “can you forgive me“ I’m like yah, 80% this is a scam lead in.

Very proud and excited to vote in the NDP leadership race today!!
This is not the first time I've voted in a Federal leadership race... more on that later but first, my choices! I considered only voting for two people, but I ended up filling in all 5 choices.
#1: Tanille Johnston @…
#2: Avi Lewis @…
#3: Heather McPherson
#4: Tony McQuail
#5: Rob Ashton
Why?
You might ask why I would publicize my choices. I don’t expect others to of course. It is a privilege and a right in Canada to exercise your democratic choice freely and privately, but I also think there is value in knowing how others voted.
#1 why Tanille? #electoralReform and proportional representation myself, I didn't just want to pick my top two. I wanted to make a statement on each of these candidates an influence each one.
To be blunt, Heather is #3 because she is the middle-of-the-road candidate. She is an excellent representative as MP and has gathered the support of other MPs including my own, but while I would be OK with her leadership, I would see her as a continuation of the status quo, and that is not what the NDP needs as a party, nor is it what Canada needs as a country.
We desperately need a vigorous and clear alternative to the Centre-but-mostly-Right Liberals, and the MAGA-wannabe Conservatives. The only way to do that is to catch the attention of Canadians and inspire them. I am not sure that Heather has the ability to do that, and if we continue with the same leadership crew in the NDP, I am not confident that the policy choices will be strong enough to inspire and attract Canadians.
That is why Tanille and Avi are far better options.
#4 Why Tony:

Tony is the real deal. Honestly, I would have loved to rank him higher. He represents the true life blood of rural, socially progressive, environmentally aware, Canadians. You should go check out his platform. I am so glad that he was able to participate fully in the race and we need his voice in the NDP.
#5 Why not Rob?
I have been an active member in my Union for more than 10 years. Unionism is The Way. Rob is representing a division within the union movement that claims that working people can't have jobs if the environment is put first. This is a lie.
We need union leaders that look to the future and speak honestly to people. We need union leaders who are genuinely progressive, not ready to do the bidding of corporate masters to the benefit of a few.
Working people need honesty, and when an industry is on decline, a clear path to new, excellent, union, jobs!
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #Liberal #CPC #Canada #Democracy #NDP

It's so scary and painful to watch the speed and enthusiasm with which the bastion of software freedom that we built the past 40 years is being ripped apart by rust-infatuated drones doing Big Tech's biddings. Remove Copyleft protection at all cost so that we can steal all your work for our proprietary evils.
"So this is how liberty dies...with thunderous applause" -- Padmé Amidala
#FreeSoftware

@… the photograph does show i915kms, if that's what you mean, and the pkg-plist at (for example) <https://www.freshports.org/graphics/drm-lates…

In this episode, we speak with Mary C. Turner, a registered nurse and a member of the Council of Presidents of National Nurses United,
the largest nurse’s union in the US,
which is forcefully calling for the abolition of ICE.
https://therealnews.com/nurses-union-a

Largest nurses union calls to abolish ICE after Alex Pretti killing: ‘They messed with the wrong profession’
“What Alex did that day was pure instinct, pure professional behavior,” NNU President Mary C. Turner tells us. “That’s just what you do when you're a nurse.“

The American right wing has forgiven Donald Trump for his affairs, impeachments, mass deportations and the platforming of JD Vance.
But having stuck with him through all that unpleasantness,
it seems that we may have discovered the one thing that is capable of splitting some Maga conservatives from Trump:
starting a war in the Middle East.
On Tuesday Joe Kent, the US counter-terrorism chief
who previously ran for office as an ultra-Maga, white nationalist-endors…

Justice Neil M. Gorsuch’s concurring opinion, released after the Supreme Court struck down President Trump’s tariffs, concluded with a paean to Congress that read like a requiem for a bygone era of legislative power.
“Yes, legislating can be hard and take time,” wrote Justice Gorsuch, a Trump appointee who is part of the court’s conservative majority.
“And yes, it can be tempting to bypass Congress when some pressing problem arises.
But the deliberative nature of the legisla…

In Gorsuch’s Homage to Legislative Power, a Subtle Reproach of a Neutered Congress
In his concurrence to the ruling invalidating President Trump’s tariffs, Justice Neil M. Gorsuch made a forceful case for the sanctity of the legislative process — and an implicit critique of its current dysfunction.