I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

So I dunno if you caught Brendan Carr's speech last week, but it closed with a bit that, uh, well I'm gonna go past 'bold' into 'flatly divorced from reality'...

Horizons and futures are fun and all, but... there's *gold* in them there hills!!

Totally unrelated, but the word 'prospect' expanded from meaning either "to look out/forward [at distance]" and "to foresee/expect" to also (and mainly) mean "to explore in search of mineral deposits" in 1848 California. 🙃

Link.

The polar and moral opposite to what happened to tiki torches in August 2017.

Seriously!!

And for Marco Rubio, who supported her nomination in a letter just last year: www.rickscott.senate.gov/services/fil...

I hope he has a good day arriving to his four simultaneous leadership roles. Has a Cabinet member ever lost four jobs at once?

‘A succession of prime ministers persuaded themselves that their country was somehow different from the rest: it could pick and choose from the menu of European options in the way that suited it best. They were all mistaken.’

David Runciman on the road to Brexit: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

The Nobel committee is always playing 3D chess. Giving the prize to Obama in 2009 looked idiotic but 16 years later it's caused a US president to think about peace for almost an entire week.

Marco Rubio might lose 4 jobs at once, which must be a record.

Marco Rubio might lose 4 jobs at once, which must be a record.

Until climate change picks up a rifle, it's like the 11th most polarising crisis Ireland has faced in the last 150 years. People used to die based on where they kept their toasters.

Trump has spent 10 months carefully defunding 8 Nobel Peace Prize winners to the point of near-collapse.

The UN, UNICEF, ILO, UNHCR, Peacekeepers, IAEA, IPCC, & the WFP, all buckling - because something something 'globalism is satan', and they didn't let him pick their wallpaper back in 2001.

Waiting for OHGOD-

Is there an archival version of a photobomb? Maybe that's what this felt like.

A poem by the legendary Theodor Meron, a Holocaust survivor who (among many other things) served on the ICC Panel of Experts that approved the ICC Prosecutor's charges against Netanyahu, Gallant, Haniyeh, Sinwar, and Deif.

Incidentally, Meron was also 1st Secretary, then Counsellor at the Israeli Mission to the UN from 1962-1967, where he often liaised with USUN.

Bit of a jumpscare to see him in 1963 USUN cables, meeting with Amb Stevenson just prior to a 3hr secret meeting with the Soviets to negotiate space law.

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The only "default-to-no" bit of this regulatory system is the lliteral categorical exclusion the FCC uses to avoid doing any EIAs for space activities.

Also, it'd be nice if the FCC would "default-to-yes" on the several open recommendations by the GAO, which it has promised to address since 2022.