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Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964.

The headline and lede from The Daily Mirror:
January 29, 2026 at 12:06 AM
Stansbury Island at the Great Salt Lake just after sunrise.
January 26, 2026 at 2:58 AM
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CBP chief Bovino has confirmed that the officers who executed Alex Pretti in the street yesterday are not only *not on administrative leave,* they have all been reassigned to other jurisdictions and are all on the street today.

This is totally unheard of for any officer-involved shooting
January 25, 2026 at 8:01 PM
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Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"
January 25, 2026 at 8:24 PM
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Americans have a habit of trying to compare all authoritarianism to Nazi Germany. I think in some ways i think it is comforting to view authoritarianism as a foreign ideology. If you want to understand our current authoritarian moment, you need to look to our own past, not to Europe 1/x
January 25, 2026 at 6:22 PM
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This is an actual post from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth: Praising ICE after Alex Pretti was killed, blaming the Democratic leadership of Minnesota, and writing that ICE is greater/better than Minnesota.

He is actively demeaning the people of Minnesota just hours after Pretti was murdered.
January 24, 2026 at 10:26 PM
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Here is something beautiful
this message to minneapolis from comedian zach woods is profane and also wonderful
January 22, 2026 at 11:59 PM
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This photo will be everywhere for the next week. Pls credit prominently.

Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Minnesota Star Tribune

Every journalist covering ICE risks their lives.

Tsong-Taatarii has been an NPPA Photographer of the Year, rec'd a World Press Photo award, and was on a team that won a Pulitzer.
Minneapolis, today.

Note how three agents holding the civilian down.

Why spray?

www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
January 21, 2026 at 9:35 PM
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This is not a rational person. And this is deeply disturbing coming from an American President. NATO is not our enemy—they are unequivocally our closest friends and allies.

At this point, how can you not call into question the mental fitness of this President?
January 20, 2026 at 8:10 PM
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January 17, 2026 at 3:36 PM
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It’s like ICE stealing that kid’s phone and selling it. No responsibility, no law, just greedy violence. But on a massive scale. As though McKremlin consultants were explaining how to do it.
The main bank account holding revenue from the Venezuelan oil sales is located in Qatar.

“There is no basis in law for a president to set up an offshore account that he controls so that he can sell assets seized by the American military,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

www.semafor.com/article/01/1...
Exclusive: US gets first $500 million Venezuelan oil deal, holding some proceeds in Qatar
The details shared with Semafor mark an initial milestone in the administration’s plan following the ouster of Nicolás Maduro.
www.semafor.com
January 16, 2026 at 12:26 AM
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A teenage boy was walking home in Minneapolis yesterday when four masked men jumped out of a van & questioned him - with no parent or guardian present.

He was bundled into the van & taken away.

Bystanders heard the boy say: “Can I just go home?”

I don’t know how America comes back from all this.
January 13, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Winter, of a sadly attenuated flavor, has arrived in Utah.
January 12, 2026 at 2:21 PM
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What can history teach us about what happens when a populist strongman with an idiosyncratic taste for low interest rates undermines central bank independence?
January 12, 2026 at 1:44 AM
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"A 2021 Utah State University study found it’s getting hotter at every single ski resort in the state. Many are averaging about 9 degrees Fahrenheit warmer in the winter now compared to 1980."
Warm start to winter a glimpse into Utah's future, scientists say
Recent years show how climate change generates extreme snow — or a lack of it — in the Wasatch.
www.kpcw.org
January 6, 2026 at 6:22 PM
Here I am, in the middle of an American city, and still there can be incredible beauty.
December 16, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Susie Wiles: “I was tricked by the fake news. Not once in the eleven interviews I sat down for did I see the recording devices.”
December 16, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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One theory I have is that competence, self-control, responsibility, and expertise have all been feminized, leaving “masculinity” with the realm of impulsivity and petulance. So the divide is not really between “femininity” and “masculinity” so much as between adulthood and childishness.
Everything else aside, the idea that this is a model for many men of *masculinity* is so wild. This? This is "manly"? This is how people think it's cool to act?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-wG...
Dave Portnoy Demands NFL Investigate Pete Carroll & Raiders For Rigging
YouTube video by Clasher Sports
www.youtube.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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“Juan Orlando Hernández helped to facilitate the importation of an almost unfathomable 400 tons of cocaine to this country: billions of individual doses sent to the United States with the protection and support of the former president of Honduras.” — US DOJ
November 29, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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November 21, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Walking along the escarpment above Muddy Creek in the San Rafael Swell, Utah.
November 20, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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November 4, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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It took the royal family five years longer to kick Prince Andrew out for being a paedophile than it did to kick Prince Harry out for miscegenation.
Prince Andrew has finally quit his Royal Lodge home after agreeing to leave his 30-room Windsor mansion.
Prince Andrew has titles revoked and leaves Royal Lodge home
www.mirror.co.uk
October 30, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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I use Claude (an AI) to scan my posts for spelling and grammar errors. On the most recent post (about the East Wing, link below), I got a really amazing addendum.
www.pbump.net/o/yes-most-a...
October 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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What we're witnessing with #Melissa is ultra rare in the history of known hurricanes in the Atlantic. This level of sustained intensity and feasting on every joule of ocean heat content without any real disruption is incredible.

Not hyperbole: Jamaica is facing a generational catastrophic event.
October 28, 2025 at 2:23 AM