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“Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.” - Rachel Carson

A post from some right-winger: @nytimes.com has taken note of “right-wing” rage in the UK. Could it be that these “right-wingers” learned something from USA’s left-wing hero George Floyd? The Times doesn’t even mention the George Floyd riots.
Integrity capsule with chutes deployed as it splashes down.
Trump bot starryjen.bsky.social to block Showing profile page.
Murphy's post: The UAE secretly paid Trump $187 million. Money in his own pocket, personally. And then Trump overrode decades of national security objections to selling Nividia chips to UAE because we feared UAE would send the chips to China.
Timothy Snyder: No one who is at all concerned with the national security of the United States can possibly support Trump. This is a hideous betrayal of the country, in exchange for a bribe. (Quoting Chris Murphy on the UAE/Nividia chips bribe )
Capitol Building under siege by Trump rioters and insurrectionists.
Clown SOTU AI-generated. Sorry, don't know who to credit.
AI Clown State of the Union
Thomas Massie on X: A funny thing about Bondi's insults to members of Congress who had serious questions: Staff literally gave her flashcards with individualized insults, but she couldn't memorize them, so you can see her shuffle through them to find the flashcard insult that matches the member
Photo of H. D. Thoreau
Gadsden flag: Don't tread on me.
Times/Sienna Poll Jan. 12-17 asking "Do you think the country is generally better off than it was a year ago, about the same, or worse off? All respondents: Better off: 32% About the same: 19% Worse off: 49%.
Andy Kim's post text: Actions have consequences. Trump cares more about picking fights with our friends and allies than he does our own economic security. The American people want a president who cares about strengthening our economy, not throwing it into complete chaos.
Andy Kim's post text: Actions have consequences. Trump cares more about picking fights with our friends and allies than he does our own economic security. The American people want a president who cares about strengthening our economy, not throwing it into complete chaos.
Gadsden flag: Don't Tread on Me.
Us bases in Greenland.
American presence in Greenland, historical vs. today. (There is one current US base in Greenland, as opposed to a dozen or more previously.)
Republican Sen. Thom Tillis (N.C.) and Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.), the co-chairs of the bipartisan Senate NATO Observer Group, issued a statement Tuesday urging the Trump administration to “respect the sovereignty and the territorial integrity” of Denmark, which controls Greenland, a territory that President Trump has set his ambitions upon. Tillis and Shaheen argued that Denmark is an important NATO ally that defended the United States after the terrorist attack of Sept. 11, 2001, and has increased its defense spending to bolster security throughout Europe.
Josh says: "Let me reiterate a general point I’ve made in other posts. I don’t think there’s any actual reason we’re invading Venezuela or trying to decapitate its government or whatever we’re doing. I think there are two or three different factions in the government each pushing a very hostile policy toward Venezueala for differing reasons. Meanwhile, Trump thinks it’s cool and has a personal beef with Maduro. That combination of factors created a lot of forward momentum within the U.S. government with nothing pushing back in the opposite direction. That gets you to today. My point is that it’s a mistake to think there’s a “real” reason mixed in with other subterfuges and rationales, or that it’s important to find out which one the “real” reason is. It’s not that linear or logical."
Post on X by Christopher F. Rufo@christopherrufo. 2h The Right's media apparatus is how the Right teaches its followers how to think, and it's currently getting consumed by conspiracy, psychodrama, and tabloid conflicts. If left unchecked, it will turn the audience into the equivalent of a Third World click farm.
The usual endless series of lies in an image of a Donald Trump post. Not worth paying attention to, really....
John Fugelsang: "No food for you until the Democrats let us take away your healthcare." - US House Speaker Mike Johnson
Donald Trump sacks the White House.
White House East Wing destroyed by Donald Trump.
Eighty-three percent of those murdered since 1975 were killed by the 9/11 terrorists (Figure 1). The Oklahoma City Bombing accounts for about another 5 percent. Those murdered since 2020 account for just 2 percent. Terrorists inspired by Islamist ideology are responsible for 87 percent of those murdered in attacks on US soil since 1975 (Table 1). Right-wingers are the second most common motivating ideology, accounting for 391 murders and 11 percent of the total. The definition here of right-wing terrorists includes those motivated by white supremacy, anti-abortion beliefs, involuntary celibacy (incels), and other right-wing ideologies. Left-wing terrorists murdered 65 people, or about 2 percent of the total. Left-wing terrorists include those motivated by black nationalism, anti-police sentiment, communism, socialism, animal rights, environmentalism, anti-white ideologies, and other left-wing ideologies. Those murders that are politically motivated by unknown or other ideologies are a vanishingly small percentage, which is unsurprising because terrorists typically want attention for their causes.
Magna Est Veritas Here, in this little Bay, Full of tumultuous life and great repose, Where, twice a day, The purposeless, glad ocean comes and goes, Under high cliffs, and far from the huge town, I sit me down. For want of me the world's course will not fail: When all its work is done, the lie shall rot; The truth is great, and shall prevail, When none cares whether it prevail or not. Coventry Patmore
Rockwell "Freedom of Speech" image.
Photo of Obama administration leaders (Obama, Biden, Clinton, etc.) in the situation room.
Banksy-style image of little boy peeing on Musk's Nazi Salute.
“Personally, I find it hard to understand how Americans who take pride in our system of government support Trump. All those soldiers who died in World War II were fighting against the kind of regime Trump wants to create on our soil. How do they not see it?…" Chris Quinn, Editor, Cleveland.com/The Plain Dealer.
"The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the time. If we do not penalize false statements made in error, we open up the way, don't you see, for false statements by intention. And of course a false statement of fact made deliberately, is the most serious crime a scientist can commit." -C.P. Snow, In The Searhc (1934)
When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
Wisconsin election results map showing Crawford beating Schimel handily, by 55.5%-44.5%.