John
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John
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"If you go back a million minutes, get to the start of 2023. If you go back a billion minutes, you get to the Roman Empire. That's the scale of inequality we're living with." Zack Polanski

Such a brilliant illustration.
November 24, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Trump: "Nobody knows what magnets are."
November 10, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Some superb fungi in East Suffolk in the last couple of weeks. For starters, here is my first Piggyback Rosegill (Volvariella surrecta) - a species which feeds on decaying Clouded Funnel (Clitocybe nebularis)
November 10, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Delighted to add Radford's Flame Shoulder to my garden list in East Suffolk last night, arriving with an influx of Udea ferrugalis @migrantmothuk.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Crimson Speckled recorded by a friend at Bowers Marsh, South Essex today
September 29, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Ooop!
September 20, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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A stunning, presumably home-grown, Striped Hawkmoth in my moth trap near Woodbridge on Wednesday night
August 8, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Very clever flip!
Holy shit wait for it
July 10, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Again to the point. Inside federal law enforcement ICE has always had a terrible rep. Place for people who can't get jobs at the more legit/disciplined federal policing agencies. High zeal to beat people up, low competence. Will get vastly worse hiring vast numbers under time pressure.
ICE is going to get someone killed.

This was outside 100 Montgomery in SF’s Financial District.

If you needed proof these rookie hires aren’t trained, here it is. Real feds de-escalate. They call for backup. They don’t drag people down the street w/a car.

Hope everyone’s OK.
(Multi-angle footage)
July 9, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I'm no fan of the Iranian regime, but this does well at exposing the current western hypocrisy: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The warmongers were wrong about Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya. Now watch them make the same mistake about Iran | Owen Jones
Israel is the main source of terror and instability in the Middle East. But the west continually turns away from this reality, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
www.theguardian.com
June 19, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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Every book published in the United States is sent to the Library of Congress. Also, if you are under 16 you cannot use the reading room or order books.
Reporter: The president fired the Librarian of Congress. Why? 

Leavitt: There were quite concerning things she had done at the Library of Congress in the pursuit of DEI and putting inappropriate books in the library for children.
May 9, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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The same people who went apoplectic when asked to wear a mask to *protect people* in a pandemic eagerly wear one to *kidnap people* in Gestapo cosplay.
May 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Surprisingly no one wants to buy a please blow me up or at least smear poop on me nazimobile
Cybertrucks are piling up -- apparently no one wants to buy them -- but they can't stop making them, b/c shutting the factory down is too expensive. Great work all around.
Tesla Cybertruck inventory goes through the roof
Tesla Cybertruck is experiencing a significant increase in unsold inventory in the US and facing huge challenges in meeting initial sales expectations.
www.arenaev.com
May 9, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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“Elmo is open to full-time or freelance roles.”
May 8, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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The savvy will scoff, but I am completely serious about this. Congressional Dems should introduce a constitutional amendment to limit the pardon power and force votes on it whenever they can. Dem presidential wannabes should endorse the idea. Blue states should signal support.
Rein In Trump's Pardon Power
Before it's too late... And presidential immunity, while we're at it.... Take it to Congress, to states, even to the streets.
www.offmessage.net
May 2, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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… Oh that’s cold
April 29, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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An elderly holocaust survivor confronts ICE and Tom Homan.

His bravery after what he has experienced and endured shows his incredible indomitable spirit even the Nazis couldn’t crush.

#MomSky
March 30, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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This moment in our country's history is depressing, but it's also illuminating. We're finding out, in real time, whom among those in power will hedge their bets, trade complicity for personal preservation, and retreat into cowardice in the hopes they'll be spared.

And we will remember their names.
March 21, 2025 at 1:16 AM