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Doug Lucas
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Freelance writer/journalist. Seattle based; Mexico now

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News in my Reality Winner #FOIA cases)

Sept. 2, 2025 decision I received pertains to cybersecurity review of Tallahassee-based #VRSystems, a voting vendor lately moving into the #Texas 'governance marketplace' due to county #vote decisions (3-page PDF): douglaslucas.com/files/Realit...

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This letter concerns your appeal of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) response to your FOIA request 2023-NPFO-00156. As set forth below, I am AFFIRMING CISA’s response. Pursuant to an interagency agreement, the United States Coast Guard Office of the Chief Administrative Law Judge is reviewing FOIA appeals for the DHS General Counsel’s Office. Therefore, the Office of the Chief Administrative Law Judge will be rendering the official appeal decision on behalf of DHS. In your FOIA request, you reference that on May 16, 2019, the Tallahassee-based elections vendor VR System wrote a 4-page letter to Senator Ron Wyden. In that letter,
October 7, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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Not bad ethos. EmilyDickinson, c.1860:

Tell all the truth but tell it slant —
Success in Circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth's superb surprise
As Lightning to the Children eased
With explanation kind
The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind —

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Emily Dickinson portrait
October 7, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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6/ Trump's "Don't Fear" propaganda: sterile, changeless, unskilled, lacking in empathy, incapable of receiving or giving feedback in any useful manner. And verbally incompetent: #RussVought has a brain, but his #PocketRescissions may be turned to chop suey by any journactivist of even moderate skill
Short version reviewing Trump's "Don't Fear" propaganda. Woman explains to Trump's (typically teenager) style incipient shame-attack: "Let me guess, that's Biden's fault too?"
October 6, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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"debt policy that both the Repub & the Dem Parties have engaged in over the 1st quarter of the 21st century amounts to a huge wager on long odds ... Given the current trajectory ... it has become much more difficult to sustain the belief that no matter how high US debt gets, it will have no effect"
Already, the Trump administration has hinted at more drastic actions to deal with mounting debt payments, should gaining control of the Fed not be enough. The so-called Mar-a-Lago Accord, a strategy put forward in November 2024 by Stephen Miran, now head of Trump’s Council of Economic Advisers, suggests that the United States could selectively default on its payments to the foreign central banks and treasuries that hold trillions of U.S. dollars. Whether or not the proposal was ever taken seriously, its very existence has rattled global investors, and it is not likely to be forgotten. A clause proposed for the huge tax and spending bill that was passed by the U.S. Congress in July would have given the president discretion to impose a 20 percent tax on select foreign investors. Although that provision was removed from the final bill, it stands as a warning of what might come if the U.S. government finds itself under budget duress. With long-term interest rates up sharply, public debt nearing its post–World War II peak, foreign investors becoming more skittish, and politicians showing little appetite for reining in fresh borrowing, the possibility of a once-in-a-century U.S. debt crisis no longer seems far- fetched. Debt and financial crisis tend to occur precisely when a country’s fiscal situation is already precarious, its interest rates are high, its political situation is paralyzed, and a shock catches policymakers on the back foot. The United States already checks the first three boxes; all that is missing is the shock. Even if the country avoids an outright debt crisis, a sharp erosion of confidence in its creditworthiness would have profound consequences. It is urgent for policymakers to recognize how and why these scenarios could unfold and what ... It is crucial to understand that the Trump administration’s economic policies are an accelerant, rather than the fundamental cause, of the United States’ debt problem. The story really begins with President Ronald Reagan in the 1980s, an era of deficit spending in which the U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio was about a third of what it is today. As Vice President Dick Cheney said during the first George W. Bush administration, “Reagan proved deficits don’t matter.” It is an assumption that both parties appear to have taken to heart in the twenty-first century, despite far more worrying debt burdens. In fiscal year 2024, for example, the Biden administration ran a budget deficit of $1.8 trillion, or 6.4 percent of GDP. Except for the global financial crisis and the first year of the pandemic, that was a peacetime record, slightly exceeding the 6.1 percent of the previous year. President Joe Biden’s deficits would have been larger still but for determined resistance from two centrist Democratic senators who bid down some of the administration’s most expansive spending bills. During his 2024 presidential campaign, Trump pilloried Biden for his administration’s massive deficit spending. Yet in his second term in office, Trump has embraced similarly large deficits—six to seven percent of GDP for the rest of the decade, according to independent forecasts produced by the Congressional Budget Office and the Committee for a Responsible FederalBudget. The latter has projected that, by 2054, the U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio will reach 172 percent—or an even higher 190 percent if the bill’s provisions become permanent. Trump There is a substantive basis for the Trump administration’s growth projections, although it has little to do with the claimed benefits of the “big, beautiful bill” passed in July. Many prominent technology experts firmly believe that as long as the government stays out of the way, artificial intelligence companies will achieve Artificial General Intelligence, meaning AI models that can equal or outperform human experts at a wide variety of complex cognitive tasks, within ten years, leading to explosive productivity growth. Indeed, the progress of AI research has been breathtaking, and there are strong reasons for assuming that AI’s effect on the economy will be profound. But in the medium term, widespread adoption of AI could be hindered by multiple bottlenecks, including outsize energy requirements, data regulations, and legal liabilities. Moreover, as AI allows companies in some sectors to lay off scores of workers, public discontent could encourage populist politicians to push through policies that With the cooperation of Congress, however, the president can do much more. For example, Congress could empower the Treasury to dictate the Fed’s short-term interest rate target during a national emergency, including a debt crisis. This is more or less what happened in World War II and its immediate aftermath. It could also pack the Federal Reserve Board with new members, as Roosevelt threatened to do with the Supreme Court in the 1930s. A battle of that scale between the Fed and the president would take the country into uncharted territory. But even if the Fed submits and cuts rates sharply, inflation is not the get-out-of-jail- free card some believe it to be. Whereas a truly massive bout of hyperinflation, such as what happened in Germany after World War I, would effectively wipe government debt off the books, it would wipe out the rest of the economy, as well: ask the citizens of Venezuela and Zimbabwe, who have suffered epic hyperinflation in this century. More plausibly, a few years of 1970s-style inflation—in 1979 inflation reached more than 14 percent per year in the United States—would crater the value of long-term bonds but have less effect on short-term debt, which would have to be refinanced at higher interest rates. And such a prolonged spike would likely be very damaging to both the U.S. and the global economy ...
October 3, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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Image from self-defending Chicago today.

#VivaChicago #Chicago #FuckICE #FuckTrump
Flag-wving Chicagoans in the street rallying against Trump's threats to invade the city. One sign reads: No racism, sexism, fascism.
October 1, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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Relevant Philip K. Dick passage in embed from this 1978 text of his (PDF): philipdick.com/mirror/essay...
But I consider that the matter of defining what is real--that is a serious topic, even a vital topic. And in there somewhere is the other topic, the definition of the authentic human. Because the bombardment of pseudo-realities begins to produce inauthentic humans very quickly, spurious humans--as fake as the data pressing at them from allsides. My two topics are really one topic; they unite at this point. Fake realities will create fake humans. Or, fake humans will generate fake realities and then sell them to other humans, turning them, eventually, into forgeries of themselves. So we wind up with fake humans inventing fake realities and then peddling them to other fake humans. It is just a very large version of Disneyland. You can have the Pirate Ride or the Lincoln Simulacrum or Mr. Toad's Wild Ride--you can have all of them, but none is true. In my writing I got so interested in fakes that I finally came up with the concept of fake fakes. For example, in Disneyland there are fake birds worked by electric motors which emit caws and shrieks as you pass by them. Suppose some night all of us sneaked into the park with real birds and substituted them for the artificial ones. Imagine the horror the Disneyland officials would feel when they discovered the cruel hoax. Real birds! And perhaps someday even real hippos and lions. Consternation. The park being cunningly transmuted from the unreal to the real, by sinister forces. For instance, suppose the Matterhorn turned into a genuine snow-covered mountain? What if the entire place, by a miracle of God's power and wisdom, was changed, in a moment, in the blink of an eye, into something incorruptible? They would have to close down. In Plato's Timaeus, God does not create the universe, as does the Christian God; He simply finds it one day. It is in a state of total chaos. God sets to work to transform the chaos into order. That idea appeals to me, & I have adapted it to fit my own intellectual needs [out of space]
September 27, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Friday) Trump moved federal forces into #Portland #Oregon. Homeland Security called Rose City Antifa "domestic terrorist organization"--a label nonexistent under law www.nytimes.com/2019/08/07/u... www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...

Today) Trump on TSocial: "authorizing Full Force, if necessary" there
"At the request of Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, I am directing Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to provide all necessary Troops to protect War ravaged Portland, and any of our ICE Facilities under siege from attack by Antifa, and other domestic terrorists. I am also authorizing Full Force, if necessary. Thank you for your attention to this matter!" https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/115276694936263266
September 27, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Can someone please give this meme the down-with-pedosadists treatment? Maybe Janeway holding and showing off Trump and Epstein's decapitated heads to Earhart or something?
September 26, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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"The texts are evidence of extensive corruption amongst all levels of gov, incl. local & state authorities, the Mexican military, & the marines. In the immediate aftermath of the attacks in Iguala, the group scrambles to protect their collaborators in the gov & local security forces"

#Ayotzinapa43
Washington, D.C., September 26, 2025 - The eleventh anniversary of the enforced disappearance of 43 Mexican students from the Ayotzinapa college brings a grim reckoning. To date, no one has been held accountable for the tragic “night of Iguala” that exploded on September 26, 2014. No mass graves have been located, no remains identified since the bone fragments of two boys found in 2021. Tomás Zerón, the Mexican official accused of orchestrating the cover-up that destroyed the early investigation, remains a fugitive protected by Israel. And the latest special prosecutor overseeing the case just stepped down, leaving the investigation in shambles; one parent of the missing students lamented that his tenure represented "three years lost."
September 26, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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3/ I'd asked the keyboardist to show off her Bartók & throw in some ill-fitting, flashy harmonic minor scalar passages & fully diminished arpeggios, & she said she would, but my battery died, so I had to retreat to charge it, & by the time I returned, the show was basically over. So, ¡buenas noches!
Musicians and more.
September 25, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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🧵/Instead of writing, playing hooky, at #Mexico City nightclub hearing friends play their #music. Was supposed to start 8:30pm, so in typical MX style, now starting at almost 10. But who cares? Con calma. The singer is really really good. They all sound great! I may have had una poca de una bebida..
September 25, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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US high school seniors' reading & math plummets; screen time & absenteeism blamed: www.theguardian.com/education/20...

2/3 are inproficient readers, unable to infer from texts, which they struggle to understand at the mere literal level.

Free online #education resources: bsky.app/profile/caff...
Carol Jago, a longtime English teacher and literacy expert at UCLA, told the Associated Press last week that students today read fewer books and spend less time with longer texts. “To be a good reader, you have to have the stamina to stay on the page, even when the going gets tough,” Jago said. “You have to build those muscles, and we’re not building those muscles in kids.” Balfanz added that the constant exposure to short-form and visual media in students’ daily lives may be making academic focus more difficult. One potential solution, he said, could be to add more dedicated reading time into school days – and restricting smartphones in classrooms. Kane noted that academic declines are appearing in other countries as well, which suggests a broader global trend that could be linked to increased screen use.
September 24, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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6/ Sept. 16: Sheinbaum first woman prez to lead #Mexico 's annual grito (shout) of independence. m.youtube.com/watch?v=KUV2...

Near her palace, fighter jets roared overhead as happy music played & tipsy, laughing, camo'd MX troops let me duck under a tank gun barrel to cross street of their parade.
NYT article on this year's grito. URL follows excerpt. === Ms. Sheinbaum, the first female president in the country’s history, has remained popular through her first year in office while weathering intense pressure from President Trump. Credit...Luis Antonio Rojas for The New York Times She then highlighted women who were not typically included in the cry, including the rebel fighters Gertrudis Bocanegra and María Manuela Molina. She also referred to a Mexican patriot commonly known as Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez as Josefa Ortiz Téllez-Girón, her name before marriage. Then Ms. Sheinbaum shouted: “Long live the unsung heroines! Long live the heroines and heroes who gave us our homeland! Long live Indigenous women! Long live our migrant sisters and brothers!” === https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/world/americas/mexico-sheinbaum-independence-day.html
September 22, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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3/ At discussions, it was pointed out that as a result of any such attacks, US citizens could die [on either side of the border with #Mexico] from reprisals [or mistakes or "mistakes"].

[So could any residents of either country, which share huge border and are each other's largest trading partner.]
16th century engraving by Giorgio Ghisi showing the three Greek Fates. Not to say humans are avolitional and deterministic, but they can get that way when war(mongering) escalates.
September 22, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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2/ WHouse interagency, incl. #DEA, discussions were oft overseen by Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller.

In wake of Trump2's day-one EO labelling #Mexico cartels FTOs, discussions "were drawing analogies to terror strikes" but even those have (psuedo-)legal framework not well heeded in the talks.
Stephen Miller in suit with gaudy necktie.
September 22, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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This rules. From r/metallica, URL in alt. "one time, after a positive verdict, [the social criminal defense lawyer in the Netherlands] walked out of the courtroom and triumphantly showed the image to her client: _And Justice for All_. 'He burst out laughing.'" #music
Dutch Lawyer Monique (59) has a secret hidden inside her gown: 'It's the rebel in me.' More: https://www.reddit.com/r/Metallica/s/ln9tfmVDL7
September 14, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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22/Ebrard to NYC:

* Judicial reforms should decrease corruption, improving biz climate

* USMCA negotiations start Jan. [NAFTA became USMCA, in Spanish T-MEC, under Trump1; Trump2 tariffs violated]

* Short-term,Trump2+Sheinbaum must continue talks, else "complex & effective relationship" may abort
Excerpt from March 2025 DW article follows. URL follows excerpt. === WTO dispute settlement in limbo The reason for the absence of Trump's tariffs spree on the tracker is easily explained: Trade disputes fall under international law and are usually dealt with by the World Trade Organization (WTO), based in Geneva, Switzerland. And here is where the problem of organizing a legal response to his trade actions begins, says Jürgen Matthes from the Institute for the German Economy (IW) in Cologne. "Trump is breaking existing trade law [with his tariffs]. And the additional measures he has announced against China, the EU, and other countries would also violate international trade law. But that doesn't seem to concern him much," Matthes told DW. China, for example, lodged a WTO complaint immediately after the Trump administration slapped an additional 10% levy on all goods from the Asian powerhouse that enter the US. === https://www.dw.com/en/can-us-be-punished-for-imposing-tariffs/a-71788197 Excerpt from March 2025 DW article follows. URL follows excerpt. === However, legal challenges before the trade body are currently not leading anywhere, Matthes conceded, even though they remain "important and necessary to uphold the international trade system." He argues that it's "very likely" that the WTO arbitration panel would rule US tariffs unlawful. But then the Trump administration would appeal the decision before the WTO's Appellate Body which has been non-functional for years. The WTO's dispute settlement system was once described as its "crown jewel," but since the first Trump administration blocked appointments of two judges to the appellate body in 2019, it has been stuck in limbo. The Biden administration didn't reverse that because it also wanted a reform of the WTO dispute settlement. "Since the appellate body no longer exists, there will be no legally binding ruling against the US," said Matthes. "And even if there were one, under Trump, the US would probably not comply with it." === https://www.dw.com/en/can-us-be-punished-for-imposing-tariffs/a-71788197 Excerpt from March 2025 DW article follows. URL follows excerpt. === Can Trump get away with it? Canada and Mexico see Trump's tariffs as an even greater violation of the law. The two US neighbors are not only WTO members but also partners in an existing free trade agreement with the US, the so-called USMCA. The trade pact came about after pressure from the first Trump administration and was ratified by the US Congress. But Kathleen Claussen says the US government lawyers may have a workaround. "Everybody will tell you: 'You can't put tariffs on a free trade partner. You can't just put tariffs on a WTO member.' That's the baseline, no question about it," the law professor at Georgetown University in Washington DC told DW. "But you might have a reason or an excuse. So maybe you're violating this, but actually, you might be justified and therefore excused from liability." The case of Mexico and Canada shows how this works. Since the tariffs violate not only WTO rules, but also the USMCA agreement ratified by Congress, they could also be challenged in US courts. "As a matter of domestic law, he [Trump] has in this instance drawn on the authority given to him under IEEPA. And that's what he's pointing to," she said. IEEPA is the so-called International Emergency Economic Powers Act enacted in 1977. It gives the US president the right to intervene in international trade, even when existing agreements are in place, with the only condition being that the president declares a national emergency. Donald Trump did exactly this shortly after taking office, using his executive orders to declare a national emergency due to the massive influx of migrants via the Mexican border and a rise in illegal drugs like fentanyl from Canada. === https://www.dw.com/en/can-us-be-punished-for-imposing-tariffs/a-71788197 Excerpt from March 2025 DW articles follows. URL follows excerpt. === Pawns in the trade game Claussen believes Donald Trump likes using tariffs as a weapon because he can "impose them so easily." He is less interested in the tariffs themselves than in their value as a pawn in trade negotiations, she argues, comparing tariffs with discounts offered by mobile phone providers. "You might get a discount if you're friends and family. You might have to prove that you're friends and family, in a certain way. But even then: One agreement one day does not mean you're free from scrutiny the next day," said Claussen. Canada and Mexico have already gained first-hand experience with Donald Trump's erratic use of tariff threats. In February, they saw punitive tariffs slapped on them, only to hear from Washington a few days later that they were postponed for 30 days. And again, a few days later, Trump suddenly imposed higher duties on imports of steel and aluminum from the two countries and others, before announcing that the postponed general tariffs on Canadian and Mexican goods would take effect in early March after all. IW expert Jürgen Matthes thinks "creating uncertainty and making constant new threats" is one of Donald Trump's "fundamental principles," as he's seeking power and leverage over foreign governments and domestic industries to make them more willing to negotiate. === https://www.dw.com/en/can-us-be-punished-for-imposing-tariffs/a-71788197
September 12, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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21/ Also Sept. 3, Ebrard told NYC investors:

* Plan Mexico welcomes investment.

[Not to be confused with shuttered Mérida Initative (2007-21), a US-MX security pact sometimes disparagingly called Plan Mexico, www.planmexico.gob.mx is Sheinbaum's 6-year plan for strengthening MX's domestic economy]
Excerpt from El Pais July 2025 article about Plan Mexico. URL follows excerpt. === Sheinbaum introduced Plan Mexico earlier this year as her administration’s main strategy for countering Trump’s protectionist agenda. The government’s goal has been clear from the start: to ramp up domestic production, reduce reliance on Asian imports, and promote greater industrial integration in North America under the USMCA trade agreement. The launch came with ambitious targets — $277 billion in investment and the creation of over 1.5 million jobs annually. But progress has been slowed by tariff threats from Washington, a cutback in federal investment, and Mexico’s internal economic deceleration. Despite these issues, Plan Mexico remains the cornerstone of Sheinbaum’s economic agenda. === https://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2025-07-18/sheinbaum-accelerates-mexicos-economic-growth-plan-amid-us-tariff-tensions.html
September 12, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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2/ Embedded: how to address the officials, their email addresses, and so on, all of it copy+paste-able from the alt text.

Also embedded, one of my emails to the swing state Georgia officials, as an example, but write yours the way you like.

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Georgia General Assembly's Blue-Ribbon Study Committee on Election Procedures Rep. Tim Fleming, Chairman: tim.fleming@house.ga.gov Rep. Victor Anderson, Vice Chairman: Victor.Anderson@house.ga.gov Rep. Martin Momtahan: martin.momtahan@house.ga.gov Rep. Trey Kelley: trey.kelley@house.ga.gov Rep. Rob Leverett: rob.leverett@house.ga.gov Speaker Pro Tempore Jan Jones: jan.jones@house.ga.gov Rep. Saira Draper: saira.draper@house.ga.gov Senior Budget & Policy Analyst, Molly Aziz (staff): molly.aziz@house.ga.gov Georgia State Election Board electionboard@seb.ga.gov Mr. John Fervier, Chairman jfervier@seb.ga.gov Mrs. Sara Tindall Ghazal, Member sghazal@seb.ga.gov Dr. Janice W. Johnston, Member jjohnston@seb.ga.gov Mr. Rick Jeffares, Member rjeffares@seb.ga.gov Mrs. Janelle King, Member jking@seb.ga.gov Hope Coan, executive administrative assistant, hcoan@seb.ga.gov Screenshot of one of my emails to Georgia officials, given as an example, but too long to fit into this alt text.
September 11, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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🧵/ This Sept. 10 article inspired me to write in support of the bipartisan petition to adopt hand-marked paper ballots by the 2026 midterms, to #Georgia State Election Board & Blue-Ribbon Study Cmte. on Election Procedures: jamesmagazinega.com/2025/09/10/o...

You too? Instructions next post! #vote
Imagine shows someone lighting something with a lighter and the words: "What you wish to ignite in others must first burn within yourself."
September 11, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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Philosophy Matters Facebook post from Sept. 6, 2025. It's a fake Donald Trump Truth Social post, depicting the president supposedly recently riffing on Immanuel Kant: "In the Transcendental Logic, there is a section (titled The Refutation of Idealism) that is intended to free Kant's doctrine from any vestigates of subjective idealism, which would either doubt or deny the existence of external objects." It goes on from there in similar vein, with Philosophy Matters adding: "Thank you for your attention in this matter"
September 11, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Cartoon of three stick figures. Optimist is saying, "Things happen for a reason." Pessimist is saying, "Things are random and meaningless." Me is saying, "Things?!! What things? Nobody told me about any things!"
September 8, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Aug. 12: Kremlin at least partly behind recent yearslong, successful cyberattack on U.S. federal court network--case management & ECF system for uploading to PACER--possibly compromising sealed nat'l. security records in the NY area & elsewhere

Wonder if anyone's followed up on this story...

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Television's Judge Judy holding an iPad. She is not an Article III judge, let alone a Supreme Court justice, but sits over binding, televised adjudications. Her pic is here because in the context of the hack I found it somehow, well, funny.
September 8, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Person with huge house checking the snailmail asks his phone: "ChatGPT, why is my electric gill so high?" Next to his house house, easily dwarfing it, is a gigantic data center.
September 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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19/ #Mexico Ebrard's trip to DC & NYC wasn't covered by NYT or WaPo per my seaches & barely mentioned in WSJ. USTR & Commerce's websites & FBs have also both not mentioned.

Not secret trip, but lack of coverage suggests both US MSM crumbling & unwillingness to connect Trump2 nat'l. "security" & biz
With band logo and Vic mascot removed, this version of the artwork for Megadeth's 2016 album Dystopia suggests a NYC in ruins.
September 7, 2025 at 3:02 AM