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Dallman Ross
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Expat, ex-law left-coastian fan of Brownian motion trying to write his way out of a paper bag. From Oakland, CA; 30 years in 🇩🇪. If we don't know each other and I just followed you back, 🚫DMs, please!
See also https://spamless.substack.com
“We don’t know where we’re going, but we’re going really fast and really hard.” — Evan Sharp

#quote
January 9, 2026 at 1:01 PM
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Since last year, Trump admin planned what to do if ICE agents were accused of crimes (even murder):
Protect them “no matter what."

Trump laid out ways to retaliate:
—Refuse to hand over an agent
—Charge local officials with “obstructing"
—Threaten to cut off more funding

led by @swin24.bsky.social
Inside Trump’s Plans To Protect Killer ICE Agents ‘No Matter What’
Minnesota officials want to investigate ICE’s killing of a mother in Minneapolis. Team Trump has been planning for a moment like this.
zeteo.com
January 8, 2026 at 7:55 PM
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You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.

This could be you.
January 8, 2026 at 12:15 AM
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One of the most lopsided results you'll ever see in a poll, from our weekend Washington Post poll www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
January 5, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Venezuelan Jews Alarmed As VP Rodriguez Blames 'Zionists' For Maduro Capture | IBTimes www.ibtimes.com/venezuelan-j...
Venezuelan Jews Alarmed As VP Rodriguez Blames 'Zionists' For Maduro Capture
Venezuelan VP claims US operation against Maduro has 'Zionist undertones.' Experts analyse antisemitic conspiracy rhetoric.
www.ibtimes.com
January 5, 2026 at 6:10 PM
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What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?

Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
January 5, 2026 at 4:12 PM
What's the Difference between Old English, Middle English and Modern English? www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8Fb...
What's the Difference between Old English, Middle English and Modern English?
YouTube video by LetThemTalkTV
www.youtube.com
January 4, 2026 at 9:40 PM
110 decline push-ups in set one today, tying 3rd best. Just turned 70. youtu.be/5GPUPtyiUHQ

#calisthenics #seniorfitness #fitness #fitsky #pushups
110 decline push-ups in set one today, tying 3rd best. Just turned 70.
YouTube video by Fit for Life with Dallman Ross
www.youtube.com
January 4, 2026 at 4:50 PM
What you wrote sounds like the first line of a (good) poem.
January 3, 2026 at 12:43 AM
He Was a Supreme Court Lawyer. Then His Double Life Caught Up With Him. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/m...
He Was a Supreme Court Lawyer. Then His Double Life Caught Up With Him.
www.nytimes.com
January 2, 2026 at 11:56 PM
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"2025 was tough. It was painful. This was the year that America broke open. Now the seedy interior of what lies within so many structures of power in our country has been revealed. It is not pretty." -- @sifill.bsky.social
The Year America Broke Open
It would be silly to pretend that 2025 was not among the most challenging years this country has faced in modern times.
sherrilyn.substack.com
January 2, 2026 at 4:48 PM
China's Clean Energy Push is Powering Flying Taxis, Food Delivery Drones and Bullet Trains - The New York Times www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Flying Taxis? China Has Them. And Drone Lunch Deliveries, Too.
China’s experiments in clean energy can feel like living in the future. Even when things don’t quite work.
www.nytimes.com
January 2, 2026 at 9:19 PM
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If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free.

consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
January 2, 2026 at 2:26 AM
Vascular disease: perspective by Ford Brewer, M.D. He's an interesting guy with a perspective I like.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMr8...
ER Doctor: #1 Best AT HOME Test to Find Clogged Arteries
YouTube video by The Primal Podcast
www.youtube.com
December 31, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Cat: “I cannot convey to you just how much I genuinely despise this food.”
Me: “Here, have this instead.”
Cat: “OMG I LOVE IT.”
Me: “It’s exactly the same bowl of food. I just took it away for six seconds then put it back in the same place.”
Cat: “I am fire and the wind. Do not attempt to know me.”
March 31, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The English Great Vowel Shift in action! - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvLY...
The English Great Vowel Shift in action!
YouTube video by Dr Geoff Lindsey
www.youtube.com
December 30, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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!!!
Still unreported, should be investigated:

ICE shot Richard outside a mall. I visited mall security office. Guard said ICE and LAPD came in, used thumb drive to copy mall’s video footage, and THEN DELETED THE EVIDENCE from mall’s local drives. He showed me the missing timeline part saying “no data.”
Huge win for Richard Noticias LA, TikTok journalist shot by ICE. Criminal charges dismissed with prejudice, meaning can’t be refiled.

ICE did him DIRTY. Repeatedly. Inhumane treatment, basically medical torture.

Still in ICE custody on immigration case. They owe him unconditional release.
December 29, 2025 at 1:03 PM
„Wir brauchen Bücher, die auf uns wirken wie ein Unglück, das uns sehr schmerzt, wie der Tod eines, den wir lieber hätten als uns, wie wenn wir in die Wälder verstoßen würden, von allen Menschen weg, ein Buch muss die Axt sein für das gefrorene Meer in uns."

— Franz Kafka

#quote #books
December 28, 2025 at 5:56 PM
The Most Misunderstood Symbol in Music (ft. Seymour Bernstein) www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdBN...
The Most Misunderstood Symbol in Music (ft. Seymour Bernstein)
YouTube video by Ben Laude
www.youtube.com
December 28, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Well, criminy, I asked ChatGPT 5.2 to summarize a podcast, but its answer implied Trump is no longer president. When I argued, it doubled down. I told it to go check any current source; I'd wait for a retraction. It finally did so. It's able to be contrite. But it's not able to stop hallucinating.
December 27, 2025 at 11:39 PM
I recall that "indefatigable" or "indefatigably" appears no fewer than seven times in Aldous Huxley's classic dystopia, "Brave New World"! I read it 53 years ago in the 11th grade, and that's where I learned — and began to groan at — the word.
December 27, 2025 at 8:02 PM
It's very good quality literature. She's a gifted writer. Thematically interesting, not always comfortable to read. I led a discussion group about it.
December 26, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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He and his people have decimated our ability to adequately defend this country. One well-placed strike and our country, possibly the whole world, is over in a couple of hours.
December 24, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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they don’t tell you when you buy a christmas tree at the christmas tree farm that you could take it home, decorate it, and then be relaxing in your living room seven nights later when A BAT suddenly flies out and starts CRASHING AROUND YOUR HOUSE
December 24, 2025 at 11:43 PM