Writer friends, beware of what he mentions in his caution - AI-driven "offers" to publish, etc.

This is what I think is the intent, as well. And it's a bad thing for us in America.

Judge Karin Immergut's experienced view matches my own understanding of our U.S. Constitution. In turn, the many people who are saying "What gives them the right to limit our power!?" and decrying efforts by our judiciary to make us return to (mostly) following our laws sound a lot like bullies.

This is fantastic, in my view!

As a church-going United Methodist* with a fair number of Jewish friends, and who used to be Baptist long ago, I think this sadly sounds like it fits what I see. (*UMC Methodists are Mainline Protestants rather than Evangelical Protestants; think "Progressive" and LBGTQIA accepting, if it helps.)

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Pay attention. 😞

Insanity. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

Heh. Doubly amusing because - while I dunno about the first - you can look up and see that the rest are accurate.

Truth.

Heh heh heh.

Helluva way to run a country -- and I don't think these four miscreants are gonna apologize for fomenting violence.

Dang -- She was correct, it looks.

Protect your trans family and friends (and strangers, too). I think this recent event shows how much transphobia exists (I'd be way happier if NO transphobia existed).

Could we please have qualified NIH directors again? As Stand Up for Science notes, this guy is right there in the "Quack Lackey" category.

Agreed. (Like this esteemed analyst and Chief Wright, I am a veteran and I have studied violence all of my life. I live in a city once known as "Bombingham." But I want to PREVENT the kind of violence that Kirk preached and then reaped.)

Too accurate, and right on track with what we will see. :(

Tannehill is a former military academy graduate and Naval aviator (fixed and rotary-wing) who has become an analyst and senior defense research scientist. She is correct.

Pretty obvious; but that was part of Project 2025, which is now halfway to completion. (Yes, your MAGA friends and family lied to you.)

Reposting for those tracking the topic.

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Killings like this are also prohibited by U.S. law (as war crimes). We have a rogue government, but I guess that isn't news.

La mort de l'auteur: I could better get in line with Barthes' view if we made any new HP media posthumously, AND made sure it rebuked her transphobia. (Sure, Pound is "OK" now. But call me petty for caring about family and friends who are trans, JKR and OSC ain't getting any more of my pennies.)

Wow. But I can see it: the U.S. Army's Redstone Arsenal and NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center are here up in Huntsville. And Hunstville has a 70+ year history of rocketry. Thanks, Operation Paper Clip!* (*Nazis are STILL bad.) Now what in the world IS going on in the Grovel Office these days!?

This is what I think, as well. As seen by past and present executive actions, actual laws matter not; but "crime" really just means "visible homeless people" to certain politicians even when actual lawlessness is at an all-time low.

In my opinion, this is good to see. (It's Labor Day: think of ways to support artists and creators, illustrators and game designers, maybe?)

Like most of the Trump administration, Noem lies like a rug and slings ad hominem attacks at anyone who is critical... while denying that she does so. One would hope for more from DHS, but then this whole administration is centered on punishing anyone who stands up and speaks out. :(

BAD. 😞

Why the GOP doesn't resist this, I dunno. Do the anglophone dudes among them think that being pale and male means they won't be targeted later? Never seems to work out that way, but racism springs eternal. :(

This is VERY bad. We brought it on ourselves, but pulling a "North Korea" move like we have done will harm us severely as a country.

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Neat stuff on Göbekli Tepe, the ten thousand year old archeological site in Türkiye. Instagram Annelise Baer: Göbekli Tepe www.instagram.com/reel/DNBy0Lb...

Trump worship is a cult.* (1/2) Don't expect his supporters to believe Japan's "Uh, 5/6ths of that was loans," or Korea when it says the same. NYT boilerplate: Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/b...

Quote posting in empathy.

Kinda my expectation. But there is also the "won't go to trial, and if it does the jury won't convict" attitude reminiscent of sixty years ago and more.

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Interesting! (Remember that our planet didn't have much oxygen at all until the Great Oxidation Event when it was half its current 4.5 billion year old age.)

Sharing. I ♡ groups like MSF, IRC, etc.

I would ask WHY we are so addicted to the transphobia that targets my friends and family, but it's obvious: this kind of hate is used to control people. Don't know what I mean? Go find W.E.B. Du Bois' 1935 "Black Reconstruction" and read the "psychological and public wage" passage. Same thing.

Excellent. NYT 30 July 2025 "Oprah Opens Maui Road to Help Residents Flee After Tsunami Warning" www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/u...

xpost -- I love that way of putting it! MIT Department of Physics (July 2025) "Famous double-slit experiment holds up when stripped to its quantum essentials" physics.mit.edu/news/famous-...

Sharing -- I do find it informative that Mr. Trump's executive order imprisons the poor and homeless when shelters aren't available... and, in general, shelters are NOT available. Locking up our poor and unwell just as an excuse to transfer tax dollars to our richest people is evil.

Dang.

Need a new book? I'd like to recommend Cherie Priest's "It Was Her House First," which came out today. She is a friend and fav author, and spins a good yarn. Publisher's Weekly www.publishersweekly.com/9781728292854

Cultists will LIKE it if I point out how wrong this is. I wish that I knew how to reverse the trend, but we now have "conservatives" hell bent on destroying everything.

It worries me that I think that he is likely correct. We may never get back to rule of law.

Good to see!

It IS obvious that this inept crew is modeling itself after the 1930s Germans, I believe. And it's evil, a fact in which they revel.

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Feels too accurate, alas. :(