So, à propos of nothing in particular... what if many...MANY... people were to follow a major US political figure on social media, and after every one of his posts were to reply 'quiet, piggy' until, say, January, 2029?

And speaking of breaches of security at the upper levels of the U.S. administration, the New York Times reports today on a draft memo concerning the drastic reduction of the U.S. State Department, including a recommendation that heightened use be made of AI for drafting departmental documents.

@lphr-lawyers.bsky.social

does anyone know the name of the Palestinian woman whose body was mistakenly given to Israel along with the Bibas children? I can't find it anywhere.

On the plus- side... only 1,422 days until the inauguration of the next president of the U.S.

Well, grab the popcorn, kids, because the 5 consecutive years of 8% reductions in Defense spending now being proposed will result in a Defense budget that is more than 29% less than this year's budget 5 year's from now. That's gotta cut into the bone pretty severely, don't you think?

Remember when Donald Trump boasted that he had built up the U.S. military following the disastrous Obama years?

For my fellow language nerds...a Republican (U.S.) senator ... whose name @cnn.com State of the Union glossed over... just invented a new word... (does one get an honourable mention somewhere for sightings in the wild?)...'agreeance'... which I think means 'agreement'.

It's starting.

Tesla dealership in The Hague (Netherlands) the target of anti-fascist graffiti (via @NUnl)

Word!

Now that the U.S. is defining gender as being determined by the gender at conception (which is female for all of us) , President Donald J. Trump is the first female president of the U.S.A.

Congratulations, Madame President.

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