A recent vista from Mars obtained by the Perseverance Rover on its 1635th Martian day, or 'Sol', Clouds far above the eternal dust pall are unusually well shown in this afternoon view. This is a mosaic of two wide angle color Navcam images.

You see, it is really the displacement of the excluded middle. It is not between two terms that the choice is made, so what is it between? It is between two modes of existence of the person who chooses. Ouch! A choice between two modes of existence of the person who chooses.

Reading this book called Spacious Minds on how Tibetan refugees refuse the Western medicalized account of trauma and healing—in particular, retelling a narrative—and use other strategies to navigate their experiences of suffering: letting go, connecting to karma, minimizing, thinking of others.

Facing football coaches teaching unsportsmanlike cheap shots on them, tough for US boys to see strength can be to defend, & doesn't need to contradict, say, playing with lipstick, & that such expression differs from self-hatey grown men trying to squeeze into bikini barista outfits & dangers thereof

#Portland #Oregon: So far, a bit akin to many of the United Nations dignitaries walking out to simply ignore Netanyahu, Portland's "Don't take the bait" seems to be working well, a.k.a. "Don't feed the trolls."

Just in from the ICE facility in Portland

Relevant Philip K. Dick passage in embed from this 1978 text of his (PDF): philipdick.com/mirror/essay...

These documents were deleted or modified on Sept 2nd 2025 by DHS staff. Lisa Monaco was a natsec aide for Obama and worked for Napolitano. We believe these documents were modified in support of these malicious prosecutions, and we found a smoking gun for fabrication of evidence. #OpDefrost #MeMBu

Holy shit Amelia Earhart brought down building 7

Adding Chip Gibbons' forthcoming _The Imperial Bureau: The FBI, Political Surveillance, and the Rise of the US National Security State_ to my reading list thx to this take of his on Trump's antifa EO: technically errorful, but effectively greenlights FBI & local cops to proactively pursue dissenters

Friday) Trump moved federal forces into #Portland #Oregon. Homeland Security called Rose City Antifa "domestic terrorist organization"--a label nonexistent under law www.nytimes.com/2019/08/07/u... www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u... Today) Trump on TSocial: "authorizing Full Force, if necessary" there

Shared reality is simply not a thing anymore, if it ever was. "Alternative facts" create alternative realities. In Trump's alternative reality, there's a war going on in Portland. A war that justifies the use of "Full Force" by troops that Portland did not request, sent by the "Secretary of War."

Uh... I have never seen this before. We have someone from Washington County doing surveillance donuts over Beaverton. PPB creeperplane in NE PDX and Vancouver. And Clackamas Co Sheriff doing donuts southeast of Portland.

Trump deploys security forces to various places across #Portland #Oregon: "100 to 150 agents or officers, a helicopter, & a mine-resistant ambush protected vehicle" per city official. Local politicians call for calm; protesters say, asked local authorities for help, got ongoing insufficent response.

Did you forget to read the room before posting this?

Today, El País interviewed @meredithmeredith.bsky.social of Signal encrypted messaging app for phones & desktops: english.elpais.com/technology/2... Hopefully, more in Latin America, understandably distrustful of West, will switch from Western WhatsApp to Signal (and remain skeptical of all gadgets)

Forgot I saw this earlier

The majority of the UN walked out of the General Assembly hall as Netanyahu, representing Israel, tried to brag about his criminal actions in Gaza and the region, loud booing ensued leaving Netanyahu visibly shaking in anger.

Greece guarantees safe passage for the #GlobalSumudFlotilla in its waters. Libya is preparing a support vessel from Tripoli.

Spain is sending an armed naval vessel to back the #GlobalSumudFlotilla. Madrid calls the mission “strictly humanitarian” and “no threat to Israel.” The ship will help protect Spanish, Belgian & Irish participants en route to Gaza from drone attacks and general protection.

Italy has deployed a navy frigate to assist the #GlobalSumudFlotilla. The official role is humanitarian & protective, not confrontational. Rome cites drone attacks on ships and the duty to safeguard Italian nationals on board. The move was pressured by dock worker union protests.

The 16 nations to condemn Israel and demand safe passage are Türkiye, Qatar, Bangladesh, Brazil, Colombia, Indonesia, Ireland, Libya, Malaysia, Maldives, Mexico, Pakistan, Oman, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain. #GlobalSumudFlotilla.

Italy & Spain have sent navy ships, Greece guarantees safe passage, and 16 nations issued a joint warning for flotilla safety from Israeli attacks. The #GlobalSumudFlotilla carries humanitarian aid for Gaza, backed by a coalition determined to keep it safe. #3E

Human rights defender Greta Thunberg: "I am not scared of Israel, I am scared of a world that has seemingly lost all sense of humanity. What we are doing here is trying to show there is some humanity left. That there are still people willing to step up when all other means fail." #3E

Talk Of Fascism Dangerous, Warns Ministry Of Compliance

YES, PLEASE!!!!

Can someone please give this meme the down-with-pedosadists treatment? Maybe Janeway holding and showing off Trump and Epstein's decapitated heads to Earhart or something?

Crucial thread from David on an awful SCOTUS ruling

"Epstein collaborated with Trump and Musk’s inner circle during the presidential election. Epstein reportedly arranged meetings between influential Trump backers Peter Thiel, Thomas Barrack, and Russia’s U.N. ambassador, Vitaly Churkin." #OpDeathEaters spookyconnections.com/2024/10/26/e...

In what appears to be a copy of Epstein’s itinerary, Musk had a tentative trip to Epstein’s island on Dec. 6, 2014. A note appended to that plan reads, “is this still happening?”

NEXSTAR AND SINCLAIR FOLD!! We are the resistance! Stay tuned at friendseverywhere.network for what comes next.

Important news for how MAGA will fund fascism. Some basics from me and others on #PocketRescissions: bsky.app/profile/doug... bsky.app/profile/doug... bsky.app/profile/doug...

🚨 EXPLOSIVE NEW report based on the 18K emails @business obtained from Jeffrey Epstein's personal Yahoo account: new details about the academics, attorneys and media specialists who helped him—in different ways and to varying degrees 🧵 www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Was he born in Brooklyn? Was he born in Guyana? Copilot now stating Guyana. WHO13 has yet to scrub that he was born in NY. He’s an Olympic fucking athlete people.

It is wild to watch in real time all the corporations and media outlets scramble to meet Trump’s demands. The entire internet said a man taken by ICE was born in Brooklyn, NY. Once the sort hit mainstream media, Dr Ian Roberts’ birthplace started changing on the internet and in the media. Copilot

"The texts are evidence of extensive corruption amongst all levels of gov, incl. local & state authorities, the Mexican military, & the marines. In the immediate aftermath of the attacks in Iguala, the group scrambles to protect their collaborators in the gov & local security forces" #Ayotzinapa43

The US and Canada scrambled fighter jets to identify and intercept four Russian fighter jets planes off Alaska, it is ninth time in 2025 that NORAD has had to intercept Russian fighters jets doing practice runs on the US and Canada.

The UK, France, and Germany have warned Russia that NATO would shoot down jets if its airspace is violated again. Russia replied it already sees itself in a military conflict with Europe.

Today, El País interviewed @meredithmeredith.bsky.social of Signal encrypted messaging app for phones & desktops: english.elpais.com/technology/2... Hopefully, more in Latin America, understandably distrustful of West, will switch from Western WhatsApp to Signal (and remain skeptical of all gadgets)

And I love Huxtable's calm response to Schlesinger's spluttering outrage in a LTTE he sent about her 1973 NYT piece on the libraries (in which she said they were in “the competitive pantheon business,” and an “extravagant exercise in ego‐gratification." He said her "customary lucidity deserts her."

Indeed. And I don't think my friend Richard Cox was the first to make the analogy (Ada Louise Huxtable may have, well before him). And I've also pointed out the devotional nature of some of the curation, such as at the Reagan:

Totally will read your book! Said similar in '14: "that's the whole idea of a presidential library: legacy [...] his Giza. Citizens are to make pilgrimages to see the sacred objects he touched [...] archivists tending to his millions of docs are civic religion priests" www.salon.com/2014/04/07/p...

I think you can attribute at least some of the degradation in America's social fabric to the cognitive load of having to assume everyone is constantly trying to swindle you with woefully few guardrails

Difficult goals, clear message: Sept.29, #Mexico Presidenta Sheinbaum will send to Congess 2 initiatives to increase penalties for water crimes & end water black market: www.jornada.com.mx/2025/09/25/p... The owners of Mexico are the owners of the #water (Dec '20): www.sinembargo.mx/3907188/acap...

An ICE agent threw a mom to the ground. You know how she can file a complaint with DHS? SHE CAN'T. Trump closed that office. www.propublica.org/article/home...

Ken CHESEBRO, an architect of Trump's bid to remain in power despite losing the 2020 election, has been suspended from practicing law in D.C. (he'd already been disbarred/suspended in several states) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

🧵/Instead of writing, playing hooky, at #Mexico City nightclub hearing friends play their #music. Was supposed to start 8:30pm, so in typical MX style, now starting at almost 10. But who cares? Con calma. The singer is really really good. They all sound great! I may have had una poca de una bebida..

So, the left doesn’t use the language anti-ICE. If that term were widely used by the left it would be all over Bsky. In my search, beyond today, the term is basically absent. Patel watches too much Fox, because you know who DOES use the language anti-ICE … A Thread 🧵👇🏼

1/ Mexico's biggest trading partner is US, followed by China. #Mexico Economic Sec. #Ebrard, Sept. 23: * said new Mexican tariffs on several countries without free trade agreements--up to 50% on cars clothing steel and more--won't be punitive or retaliatory, and that MX isn't singling out #China.