BCISLEMAN
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I am on my way home to Toronto and the aurorae are absolutely phenomenal.
If you are anywhere in the northern half of the continent, get outside and look up! Or better still, put your camera on a 10 second exposure and point it up.
If you are anywhere in the northern half of the continent, get outside and look up! Or better still, put your camera on a 10 second exposure and point it up.
November 12, 2025 at 2:44 AM
I am on my way home to Toronto and the aurorae are absolutely phenomenal.
If you are anywhere in the northern half of the continent, get outside and look up! Or better still, put your camera on a 10 second exposure and point it up.
If you are anywhere in the northern half of the continent, get outside and look up! Or better still, put your camera on a 10 second exposure and point it up.
“When I think back now, I say, ‘Did I really do that? Was I that crazy?’” he stated. “We had our orders and we followed them. It was an exciting time.”
‘Gunners!’ revives forgotten chapter of air war over Korea www.militarytimes.com/veterans/mil...
‘Gunners!’ revives forgotten chapter of air war over Korea www.militarytimes.com/veterans/mil...
‘Gunners!’ revives forgotten chapter of air war over Korea
A new book details the experiences of gunners on propeller-driven B-29 Superfortresses locked in combat with supersonic jets during the Korean War.
www.militarytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:14 AM
“When I think back now, I say, ‘Did I really do that? Was I that crazy?’” he stated. “We had our orders and we followed them. It was an exciting time.”
‘Gunners!’ revives forgotten chapter of air war over Korea www.militarytimes.com/veterans/mil...
‘Gunners!’ revives forgotten chapter of air war over Korea www.militarytimes.com/veterans/mil...
Repugnant is Marsha Blackburn's middle name.
🔥 @RepJoeNeguse: “Most of 🇺🇸 will find this REPUGNANT. These senators are guaranteeing themselves million-dollar paydays.”
Bipartisan horror at @SenatorHagerty & @MarshaBlackburn’s greedy money grab snuck inside the funding bill— rewarding themselves for getting investigated.
Bipartisan horror at @SenatorHagerty & @MarshaBlackburn’s greedy money grab snuck inside the funding bill— rewarding themselves for getting investigated.
November 12, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Repugnant is Marsha Blackburn's middle name.
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🔥 @RepJoeNeguse: “Most of 🇺🇸 will find this REPUGNANT. These senators are guaranteeing themselves million-dollar paydays.”
Bipartisan horror at @SenatorHagerty & @MarshaBlackburn’s greedy money grab snuck inside the funding bill— rewarding themselves for getting investigated.
Bipartisan horror at @SenatorHagerty & @MarshaBlackburn’s greedy money grab snuck inside the funding bill— rewarding themselves for getting investigated.
November 12, 2025 at 5:03 AM
🔥 @RepJoeNeguse: “Most of 🇺🇸 will find this REPUGNANT. These senators are guaranteeing themselves million-dollar paydays.”
Bipartisan horror at @SenatorHagerty & @MarshaBlackburn’s greedy money grab snuck inside the funding bill— rewarding themselves for getting investigated.
Bipartisan horror at @SenatorHagerty & @MarshaBlackburn’s greedy money grab snuck inside the funding bill— rewarding themselves for getting investigated.
“Without weapons, they waded ashore amid enemy sniper fire and ultimately took shelter in an abandoned civilian hospital,”
WWII nurses deserve Congressional Gold Medal, lawmakers say www.militarytimes.com/news/pentago...
WWII nurses deserve Congressional Gold Medal, lawmakers say www.militarytimes.com/news/pentago...
WWII nurses deserve Congressional Gold Medal, lawmakers say
A coalition of retired military nurses and others is pushing to award the Congressional Gold Medal to World War II nurses.
www.militarytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:05 AM
“Without weapons, they waded ashore amid enemy sniper fire and ultimately took shelter in an abandoned civilian hospital,”
WWII nurses deserve Congressional Gold Medal, lawmakers say www.militarytimes.com/news/pentago...
WWII nurses deserve Congressional Gold Medal, lawmakers say www.militarytimes.com/news/pentago...
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The days of thanking veterans today and forgetting them tomorrow has to come to an end.
November 11, 2025 at 11:17 PM
The days of thanking veterans today and forgetting them tomorrow has to come to an end.
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The first and last lines of Joni Ernst’s legacy as a human on earth will be that she was instrumental in the confirmation of the Sec of Defense most hostile to women serving in military, and she knew that when she voted for him.
November 12, 2025 at 12:55 AM
The first and last lines of Joni Ernst’s legacy as a human on earth will be that she was instrumental in the confirmation of the Sec of Defense most hostile to women serving in military, and she knew that when she voted for him.
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This is absurd and plainly illegal. The courts should reject this fringe theory.
But the real news here is Trump will do anything to try to kill an agency that has returned more than $21 billion to scammed Americans, but he'll do nothing to lower costs for American families.
But the real news here is Trump will do anything to try to kill an agency that has returned more than $21 billion to scammed Americans, but he'll do nothing to lower costs for American families.
November 11, 2025 at 7:37 PM
This is absurd and plainly illegal. The courts should reject this fringe theory.
But the real news here is Trump will do anything to try to kill an agency that has returned more than $21 billion to scammed Americans, but he'll do nothing to lower costs for American families.
But the real news here is Trump will do anything to try to kill an agency that has returned more than $21 billion to scammed Americans, but he'll do nothing to lower costs for American families.
The last casualties of the final battle of the Vietnam War were 3 Marines left behind on Cambodia’s Koh Tang Island.
Leave No Man Behind: The Truth About the Mayaguez Incident
thediplomat.com/2018/06/leav...
Leave No Man Behind: The Truth About the Mayaguez Incident
thediplomat.com/2018/06/leav...
Leave No Man Behind: The Truth About the Mayaguez Incident
The last casualties of the final battle of the Vietnam War were 3 Marines left behind on Cambodia’s Koh Tang Island.
thediplomat.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:50 PM
The last casualties of the final battle of the Vietnam War were 3 Marines left behind on Cambodia’s Koh Tang Island.
Leave No Man Behind: The Truth About the Mayaguez Incident
thediplomat.com/2018/06/leav...
Leave No Man Behind: The Truth About the Mayaguez Incident
thediplomat.com/2018/06/leav...
In sharp contrast to the campaigns of Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, the Mamdani campaign was, in effect, an intraparty insurrection seeking to displace what its backers see as a dysfunctional and failed old guard.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/o...
Opinion | Young Voters Are the Holy Grail. Zohran Mamdani Just Showed Democrats How to Win Them.
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:36 PM
In sharp contrast to the campaigns of Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, the Mamdani campaign was, in effect, an intraparty insurrection seeking to displace what its backers see as a dysfunctional and failed old guard.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/o...
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This point absolutely correct and I will add that Mamdani demonstrates that an insurgency, even one with real moral clarity and anger at the status quo, can still be cheerful and inviting.
November 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM
This point absolutely correct and I will add that Mamdani demonstrates that an insurgency, even one with real moral clarity and anger at the status quo, can still be cheerful and inviting.
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Call in the troops to solve the commercial real estate crisis in our swanky downtown cores
You can’t make this shit up, folks
You can’t make this shit up, folks
November 11, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Call in the troops to solve the commercial real estate crisis in our swanky downtown cores
You can’t make this shit up, folks
You can’t make this shit up, folks
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In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies
November 10, 2025 at 10:19 PM
In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies
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Listen Kaine, Hassan, King, Cortez-Masto, Durbin, Shaheen, Rosen, and Fetterman. You're NOT gonna take away my 2025 election joy. We voted in that election for folks to FIGHT for us. That doesn't include YOU.
YOU are what we voted AGAINST last Tuesday. So I'm gonna hang on to that.
YOU are what we voted AGAINST last Tuesday. So I'm gonna hang on to that.
November 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Listen Kaine, Hassan, King, Cortez-Masto, Durbin, Shaheen, Rosen, and Fetterman. You're NOT gonna take away my 2025 election joy. We voted in that election for folks to FIGHT for us. That doesn't include YOU.
YOU are what we voted AGAINST last Tuesday. So I'm gonna hang on to that.
YOU are what we voted AGAINST last Tuesday. So I'm gonna hang on to that.
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How is this creature still allowed leave to remain in the UK?
Send her back to anywhere of your choice in Eastern Europe......
Send her back to anywhere of your choice in Eastern Europe......
November 10, 2025 at 7:55 AM
How is this creature still allowed leave to remain in the UK?
Send her back to anywhere of your choice in Eastern Europe......
Send her back to anywhere of your choice in Eastern Europe......
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Israeli settlers repeatedly storm Al-Aqsa mosque courtyard, violating status quo - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/illegal-israeli-settlers-storm-al-aqsa-mosque-courtyard-again
Israeli settlers repeatedly storm Al-Aqsa mosque courtyard, violating status quo
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<div class="field field-field-text"><p>At least 70 settlers stormed the courtyards of the Al-Aqsa Mosque on Monday, Al Jazeera Arabic reported, quoting local Palestinian sources. The report said that the settlers moved under the protection of the Israeli forces.</p>
<p>The Palestinian Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs said it has recorded 27 Israeli settler intrusions into Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque courtyard in the last month.</p>
<p>The ministry said in its monthly report that Israeli settlers accompanied by Israeli forces stormed the site, performed Talmudic rituals and dances, and offered plant sacrifices within the mosque courtyards in October.</p>
<p>It noted the involvement of far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, along with a number of Knesset members, in at least one raid in the last month.</p>
<p>The ministry said that Ben Gvir has staged 13 invasions of the complex since he assumed office in 2022, including 10 times since Israel launched its genocide in Gaza in October 2023.</p>
<p>Incursions into the mosque complex by Israeli settlers and forces have occurred almost on a daily basis, with a marked surge during Jewish and national holidays.</p>
<p>In October, a report by the Israeli monitor Ir Amim Association accused the Israeli government of directly violating the status quo at Al-Aqsa Mosque, warning that its continued control constitutes a dangerous escalation.</p>
<p>The status quo is defined by a set of rules and regulations considered a binding international norm and long recognised by world powers. It designates Al-Aqsa Mosque as an exclusively Islamic site, where only Muslims are permitted to worship.</p>
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November 10, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Israeli settlers repeatedly storm Al-Aqsa mosque courtyard, violating status quo - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/illegal-israeli-settlers-storm-al-aqsa-mosque-courtyard-again
Chuck and most of his Dem colleagues are too busy making sure Israel has enough bombs and bullets to keep the Gaza genocide going for them to care what Jane and Joe. think.
80% of Democratic voters want a new leader in the Senate.
Does that matter at all to Democratic senators?
Does that matter at all to Democratic senators?
November 10, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Chuck and most of his Dem colleagues are too busy making sure Israel has enough bombs and bullets to keep the Gaza genocide going for them to care what Jane and Joe. think.
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i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?
November 10, 2025 at 12:56 AM
i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
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He’s helping me unload the dishwasher
November 9, 2025 at 8:07 PM
He’s helping me unload the dishwasher
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Senate Democrats asked for a year of ACA subsidies and were told to fuck off.
So they came back and asked for a pinky promise to hold a vote on ACA subsidies that they will assuredly lose?
Seriously?
So they came back and asked for a pinky promise to hold a vote on ACA subsidies that they will assuredly lose?
Seriously?
From what I have seen so far this does not seem like a good deal:
November 9, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Senate Democrats asked for a year of ACA subsidies and were told to fuck off.
So they came back and asked for a pinky promise to hold a vote on ACA subsidies that they will assuredly lose?
Seriously?
So they came back and asked for a pinky promise to hold a vote on ACA subsidies that they will assuredly lose?
Seriously?
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Have you heard about this?
"As the govt shutdown drags on, buildings at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (HQ for the Webb telescope among other missions) are being emptied without notice. Highly specialized equipment is at risk of being thrown away like trash."
h/t @climatebrad.hillheat.com
"As the govt shutdown drags on, buildings at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (HQ for the Webb telescope among other missions) are being emptied without notice. Highly specialized equipment is at risk of being thrown away like trash."
h/t @climatebrad.hillheat.com
NASA may be quietly gutting an iconic campus with what it calls strategic closures, workers fear | CNN
Buildings at Goddard’s Maryland campus are being emptied and padlocked, sources say. NASA leadership has pushed back against the concerns.
www.cnn.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Have you heard about this?
"As the govt shutdown drags on, buildings at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (HQ for the Webb telescope among other missions) are being emptied without notice. Highly specialized equipment is at risk of being thrown away like trash."
h/t @climatebrad.hillheat.com
"As the govt shutdown drags on, buildings at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (HQ for the Webb telescope among other missions) are being emptied without notice. Highly specialized equipment is at risk of being thrown away like trash."
h/t @climatebrad.hillheat.com
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This morning, I spoke at the SOMOS Labor Breakfast.
"We are not looking to remake New York City in my image. We are looking to remake it in the image of struggling workers across the five boroughs."
"We are not looking to remake New York City in my image. We are looking to remake it in the image of struggling workers across the five boroughs."
November 8, 2025 at 3:27 PM
This morning, I spoke at the SOMOS Labor Breakfast.
"We are not looking to remake New York City in my image. We are looking to remake it in the image of struggling workers across the five boroughs."
"We are not looking to remake New York City in my image. We are looking to remake it in the image of struggling workers across the five boroughs."
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Lawyer Stanley Cohen, in a post on his X account, examines what Zohran Mamdani’s first steps as Mayor of NYC could be.
November 8, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Lawyer Stanley Cohen, in a post on his X account, examines what Zohran Mamdani’s first steps as Mayor of NYC could be.
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Cole had no prior criminal record, but police secured the warrant by falsely linking him to a different Trevon Cole with a criminal history in Texas.
Episode Five: What Fourth Amendment?
How the killing of Trevon Cole by Las Vegas police almost made prime-time TV.
interc.pt
November 8, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Cole had no prior criminal record, but police secured the warrant by falsely linking him to a different Trevon Cole with a criminal history in Texas.
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Do not pivot away from this talking point.
November 8, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Do not pivot away from this talking point.