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I make records in Oregon. Mischief elsewhere.

A USA Today headline reading “Her friends RSVP ‘yes’ on Partiful. Barely anyone showed up.”
A mural at Quimby’s in Brooklyn.
Ancient depiction of a doctor being crucified
Translation of El Requiremento https://encyclopediavirginia.org/primary-documents/el-requerimiento-by-juan-lopez-de-palacios-rubios-1513/ But, if you do not do this, and maliciously make delay in it, I certify to you that, with the help of God, we shall powerfully enter into your country, and shall make war against you in all ways and manners that we can, and shall subject you to the yoke and obedience of the Church and of their Highnesses; we shall take you and your wives and your children, and shall make slaves of them, and as such shall sell and dispose of them as their Highnesses may command; and we shall take away your goods, and shall do you all the mischief and damage that we can, as to vassals who do not obey, and refuse to receive their lord, and resist and contradict him; and we protest that the deaths and losses which shall accrue from this are your fault, and not that of their Highnesses, or ours, nor of these cavaliers who come with us. And that we have said this to you and made this Requisition, we request the notary here present to give us his testimony in writing, and we ask the rest who are present that they should be witnesses of this Requisition.
War in the Middle East LIVE Updates 14m ago Peace Talks Devastation in Iran Israel's New Attacks in Lebanon Strait of Hormuz To Open the Strait of Hormuz, Trump Wants to Blockade Iran. Experts Are Skeptical. President Trump's announcement of a U.S. blockade was his latest effort to pressure Iran to negotiate after direct talks over the weekend did not yield an agreement. Listen • 7:13 min Olel IRAN EMIRATES < 1532
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gr3kdxkr7o B B C US to pay $5m to family of 6 January rioter Ashli Babbitt 19 May 2025 Max Matza The Trump administration has agreed to pay a $5m (£3.7m) settlement to the family of Ashli Babbitt, a US Air Force veteran who was shot and killed by a Capitol police officer while breaching the US Congress on 6 January 2021. Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger told CBS, the BBC's US partner, he is "extremely disappointed" with the decision. The officer involved in her shooting has been cleared
LA Times article from 2014 reporting that ICE agents repeatedly stepped in front of cars to justify shooting. https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-border-killings-20140227-story.html
Why do you think France is lax on antisemitism? The Muslim community is growing very dramatically, and the Jewish community is shrinking pretty dramatically. There used to be 600,000 Jews maybe a decade or more ago, now it's 440,000. How you know that? There's no census for that. ChatGPT, that's like my best source. Look it up yourself. https://time.com/7340978/charles-kushner-antisemitism-france-interview/
Steve Martin pulling out his astronaut application form in the movie The Jerk.
1974 political cartoon showing a man labeled “Rapist” entering a “Ladies” restroom but “Ladies” is covered by “Persons.” The caption says “Now this is really progress” and shows a newspaper headline reading “Lawyer says rape law not fair to man.”
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/30/christians-empathy-jesus-immigration-politics Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios As the U.S. grows more diverse, a quiet civil war is unfolding within American Christianity over who deserves empathy. Why it matters: Conservatives ranging from evangelical pastors to Elon Musk have started framing empathy not as a virtue but as a vulnerability on immigration, racial justice and LGBTQ+ rights. • They are working to drive out school lessons on empathy and argue in books and sermons that empathy is for the weak or "woke." • Others say empathy is central to Christianity and the teachings of Jesus. • This split comes as Christianity and organized religion are shrinking and the U.S. undergoes a profound demographic transformation: no single racial group will hold a majority within two decades. Zoom in: "Empathy as hoisted up as the highest virtue — or even a virtue at all — gets us into a really big mess," conservative author Allie Beth Stuckey said on a "Family Talk" podcast. She wrote a book last year, "Toxic Empathy: How Progressives Exploit Christian Compassion."
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-10-13/nonstick-cookware-forever-chemicals-bill "California is the entry point for nonstick cookware and other products that come into the Port of Long Beach, the Port of Los Angeles or the Port of Oakland, and then get distributed throughout the country,' " he told The Times. "They go to warehouses, distribution centers and get loaded up on rail or usually trucks — so there's a lot of jobs in the California economy that depend on products that have Teflon."
https://phys.org/news/2025-09-chronic-plastic-bottles-dangerously-understudied.html individuals on average ingest between 39,000 and 52,000 microplastic particles per year, and bottled water users consume 90,000 more particles than tap water consumers. Patrick Lejtenyi Chronic risks from single-use plastic water bottles are dangerously understudied, says study
Trump Says Army Bases Will Revert to Confederate Names The move would reverse a yearslong effort to remove names and symbols honoring the Confederacy from the military. Listen to this article • 5:55 min more Learr President Trump spoke to Army troops at Fort Bragg in North Carolina on Tuesday. Kenny Holston/The New York Times By Chris Cameron Chris Cameron covered the yearslong effort to rename Army bases that had originally been named for Confederate generals. He reported from Washington.
Einstein’s letter to FDR Albert Einstein Old Grove Rd. Nassau Point Peconic, Long Island August 2nd, 1939 3.D. Roosevelt, President of the United States, White House Washington, D.C. Sirs' Some recent work by E.Perni and I. Szilard, which has been com- municated to me in manuscript, leads me to expect that the element uran- jun may be turned into a new and important source of energy in the im- mediate future. Certain aspects of the situation which has arisen seem to call for watchfulness and, if necessary, quick action on the part of the Administration. I believe therefore that it is my duty to bring to your attention the following facts and recormendations: In the course of the last four months it has been made probable - through the work of Joliot in France as well as Termi and Szilard in America - that it may become possible to set up a nuclear chain reaction in a large mass of uranium, by which vast amounts of power and large quant- ities of new radium-like elements would be generated. Now it appears almost certain that this could be achieved in the immediate future. This new phenonenon would also lead to the construction of bombs, and it is conceivable - though much less certain - that extremely power- ful bombs of a new type may thus be constructed. A single bomb of this type, carried by boat and exploded in a port, might very well destroy the whole port together with some of the surrounding territory. However, such bombs might very well prove to be too heavy for transportation by air. ab4a01
https://www.keyproduction.co.uk/press-releases/dont-stop-believin-in-cds-gen-alpha-dig-physical-music-too/ The survey also found that physical music is being used as a form of digital detox across all generations, with 71 per cent of Generation Z, and 75 per cent of Millennials suggesting they choose listening to physical music to help them reduce their screen time. Bee Media Don't Stop Believin' in CDs: Gen Alpha Embraces Physical Mus
Aerial photo showing Haitian deforestation on the left and lush Dominican Republic on the right. From UN Environment Program.
https://research.colonialwilliamsburg.org/Foundation/journal/winter13/washington.cfm#:~:text=For%20Washington%2C%20a%20nod%20and,the%20Rappahannock%20and%20Potomac%20Rivers. The difficulty stemmed from Washington's pretentions to "keeping up with the Joneses" or, in his case, the Fairfaxes, Carters, and Robinsons of Virginia. He lived beyond his means, and he pushed the limits. Buying outlandish, expensive fripperies from London merchant Robert Cary led Washington into debt. Cary purchased Washington's Mount Vernon tobacco crop and in return shipped exotic English goods, along with agricultural accessories like plows and grass seed to Virginia. On Washington's want list was a chariot "made in the newest taste, handsome, genteel and light... on the harness let my crest be engraved," along with ivory-handled sets, and a seven and a half foot tester bed with blue and white curtains to match the wallpaper. Busts of historical worthies, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, and the King of Prussia, were to ornament the mantelpiece. The value of Washington's tobacco crop, however, was falling, and the luxuries were getting more expensive. He ended up owing Cary £800 on the account, and the interest, at 5 percent, mounted
At the same time, access to nuclear technology must come with the responsibility not to weaponize it, which both Israel (as an undeclared nuclear weapons state) and Iran (as a potential breakout nuclear weapon state) have refused to recognize.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/10/us/trump-news?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare Trump Administration Live Updates: President Says Bases Will Revert to Confederate Names President Trump visited Fort Bragg in North Carolina on Tuesday. Kenny Holston/The New York Times Where Things Stand • Reversal on base names: President Trump, speaking at the Army base at Fort Bragg, N.C., announced that he planned to reverse the renaming of all the Army bases that had their names changed as part of an effort to purge symbols of the Confederacy from the U.S. military, including one named for Robert E. Lee. Congress had moved to change the names of nine Army bases in the final days of Trump's first administration, the only time it overrode his veto.
https://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1997/02/25/clinton.money/ Clinton Ok'd Using Lincoln Bedroom For Contributors WASHINGTON (AllPolitics, Feb. 25) -- President Bill Clinton himself gave the go-ahead to invite political supporters to spend the night at the White House, and says there was nothing wrong with it. "I did not have any strangers here," Clinton told reporters today. "The Lincoln Bedroom was never sold. That was one more false story we have had to endure, and the facts will show what the truth is." (128K WAV sound) TROM NANCY HERNSICK TERRY MEAN IFFE MATIONAL. PENANCE CHARMAN Top Lincoln Bedroom Contributors Durin $ RuNn Clinton's Guest List © For Full Memo Guests Give $5.2 Million Clinton, who was asked about the White House sleepovers during a drug control briefing, said that in early 1995, a lot of friends who helped get him elected in 1992 thought he had not kept in touch with them. Clinton said then-national campaign fund-raiser Terence McAuliffe sent him a memorandum, suggesting what they ought to do to re-establish contact, and Clinton said he told him to proceed. Clinton said he also told an aide he wanted to ask some of his friends to come to the White House and snend the nioht (384K WAV sound)
For some, the worst plausible thing might be the ending of their bloodline in a missile strike-their entire lives turned to rubble and all of it pre-emptively justified in the name of fighting terrorists who are terrorists by default on account of having been killed. For others, the worst plausible thing is being yelled at. Omar El Akkad What Happens When a Drone Strike Has No Killer and a War Has No Dead? https://thewalrus.ca/what-happens-when-a-drone-strike-has-no-killer-and-a-war-has-no-dead/
Still from Raiders of the Lost Ark with the character saying “Top Men.”
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/02/17/the-nuns-trying-to-save-the-women-on-texas-death-row Melissa Lucio remains on death row, almost three years after the Court of Criminal Appeals stayed her execution- and four months after the judge who presided over her trial declared her "actually innocent," in response to evidence amassed by her legal team. Lawrence Wright The Nuns Trying to Save the Women on Texas's Death Row
https://www.vumc.org/safety/sites/default/files/public_files/bio/COVID-19-bio-action-grid.pdf
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a four-point rating system for biolabs based on the threats posed by the infectious organisms agents allowed there. Biosafety level 4, or BSL-4, labs are the most restrictive and designed to handle the most dangerous pathogens. According to the intelligence report, as of January 2019, WIV researchers were performing experiments with coronaviruses in BSL-2 labs, which have far fewer safeguards, despite knowing of "these virus' ability to directly infect humans."
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/cia-shifts-assessment-covid-origins-saying-lab-leak-likely-caused-outb-rcna189284 NBC NEWS nbcnews.com CIA shifts assessment on Covid origins, saying lab leak likely caused outbreak "CIA assesses with low confidence that a research-related origin of the COVID-19 pandemic is more likely than a natural origin based on the available body of reporting," a CIA spokesperson said in a statement. "CIA continues to assess that both research-related and natural origin scenarios of the COVID-19 pandemic remain plausible."
https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/kleelerner/files/20200414_wapo_-_state_department_cables_warned_of_safety_issues_at_wuhan_lab_studying_bat_coronaviruses_-_the_washington_post.pdf Washington Post - Josh Rogin April 14, 2020 What the U.S. officials learned during their visits concerned them so much that they dispatched two diplomatic cables categorized as Sensitive But Unclassified back to Washington. The cables warned about safety and management weaknesses at the WIV lab and proposed more attention and help. The first cable, which I obtained, also warns that the lab's work on bat coronaviruses and their potential human transmission represented a risk of a new SARS-like pandemic.
https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/china/covid-lab-wuhan-conspiracy-theory-b2719518.html 'I've always thought a lab leak origin of Covid-19 was plausible - and it could happen again' Five years on from the first UK lockdown, the origin of the virus is still hotly contested. Dr Alina Chan was the scientist who was labelled a conspiracist when she went against the official view it started in a wet market. Today, many scientists agree with her and not enough is being done to stop it happening again, she writes Sunday 23 March 2025 09:35 EDT • 97 | Comments
the report was completed at the behest of the Biden administration and former CIA director William Burns. It was declassified and released Saturday on the orders of President Trump's pick to lead the agency, John Ratcliffe, who was sworn in Thursday as director. Margaret Brennan CIA now says COVID most likely originated from a lab leak but has "low confidence" in its assessment
Journal article discussing why it is unlikely we will ever know the source of covid-19 with certainty. https://www.bmj.com/content/386/bmj.q1578 Why might we never definitively know the origin of covid-19? In a nutshell, the trail for definitive, scientific evidence is cold. The decisions that Chinese officials made during the early stages of the Wuhan outbreak in the winter of 2019 meant that very little information was communicated— possibly not even collected—when the virus emerged in the first patients. Also, the Chinese government has been reluctant to share data and cooperate with international investigations, including those led by the World Health Organization (WHO) since the pandemic began. Gostin says that a rigorous scientific examination of the origins questions would require cooperation by China, including access to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. "It is quite clear that China will not allow an objective and independent scientific investigation led by WHO. In addition, much of the evidence from the lab as well as the Wuhan market has now vanished. All in all, there is little chance that the world will ever know for sure. And that is a global tragedy."
NBC NEWS Dozens of DOGE 'receipts' saved no money and killed contracts meant to boost efficiency When asked for comment, Harrison Fields, a White House spokesman, said in an email: "The continued attempts to sow doubt in the massive accomplishments of this never-before-seen effort to make government more efficient speaks more about the illegitimacy of those peddling these falsehoods than good work of DOGE. The American public are in lockstep with the President's mission and will not be swayed by more lies coming from the legacy media."
Results of 2022 election by party in Israel showing Labor with lowest share at only 4 seats.
Tesla 6 month stock price.
“Over one dinner, Zuckerberg said Andrew Jackson - known for his populist appeal and his inhumane relocation of Native Americans — was America's best president and "it's not even close," according to Wynn-Williams.” - A quote from an article entitled “Ex-Facebook director's new book paints brutal image of Mark Zuckerberg” in SFGate.
The Office of Cannabis Management, which creates and enforces the policies governing the legal market in New York, has a backlog of more than 5,000 applications for business licenses. Most of them are from people who qualify for financial assistance and mentorship that the agency is not equipped to provide, even though it is legally required to. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/nyregion/cannabis-marijuana-hochul.html?unlocked_article_code=1.1U4.fLbK.2tYPyslbSsWO&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
A quote from the movie, The Menu Chef Slowick (Ralph Fiennes):Ask yourselves, this entire evening, why didn't you all try harder to fight back? To get out of here? Honestly, you probably could have. Something to think about.
Section from Jerusalem Post article reading: Israeli pilots were afraid of striking hostages in Hannibal Directive Further, the Air Force said that many pilots were reluctant about hitting potential hostages even after the Hannibal Directive was issued. https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-844008
A very real (sarcasm) Bluesky profile photo reading: Manson Grey I want a truly love with a good man who's caring and loving O followers 7 following 0 posts
Data from ForeignAssistance.gov showing hundreds of millions spent on faith-based initiatives by USAID.
Reuthers headline saying “Trump proposes permanent displacement of Gaza’s with Netanyahu at White House” that should say “Ethnic Cleansing”
Chart showing fetanyl deaths in the US since 1999. https://www.statista.com/statistics/895945/fentanyl-overdose-deaths-us/
Different topic areas informing the setting of the Doomsday Clock.
Magazine covers celebrating the #Resistance
Chart showing U.S. military aid to Israel at over 12 billion for 2024. https://www.cfr.org/article/us-aid-israel-four-charts
Trump “dances” with the Village People
Post on Twitter from AccuWeather that shows a storm front shaped like male sex organ.
A Haaretz headline saying “the IDF is Depopulating Northern Gaza out of sheer inertia.” https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-12-31/ty-article/.premium/with-no-hostage-deal-in-sight-the-idf-is-depopulating-northern-gaza-out-of-sheer-inertia/00000194-1971-da22-affe-1b77a2430000