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Tony Fisk
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So Here We Are
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it was an utterly bananas idea from the start.
NEW: The End of the Line: the centrepiece of Saudi Arabia’s Neom gigaproject - a 500m tall, 170km long wall-like building intended ultimately to house 9 million people - can’t get out of the ground, say more than 20 former Neom architects, engineers and senior executives.
ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled
Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance
ig.ft.com
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Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to our analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%.

(Published February)
Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
www.propublica.org
Nor have Reichs.
Trump: "For 1,000 years, communism has not worked"
There's going to be various takes along these lines (mine being 'screen candidates for psychopathologies!').

Having just finished KSR's 'Ministry for the Future', whatever we do, let's see if we can stick the landing without the Children of Kali cracking the whip...
The challenges we now face must be met by a bold progressive populist movement that strengthens democracy and shakes up the system.

We can’t simply return to the path we were on before Trump.

We cannot accept the status quo of Big Money dominating our politics and economy.
🎼It's just a step to the left...
🎼(then do a stomp on the ri-i-i.i.i-ight!)
If only there was some way out the current impasse...
House cancels votes next week, including vote on Epstein files.
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The EPBC nature laws the govt wants Parliament to pass today would delegate project approvals to the states.

For months the WA govt has been hiding its own report, which shows that its gas industry is driving increased emissions globally.
Secret report challenges government claim WA gas will help world decarbonise
A secret report undermines the WA government's claim that domestic gas production is helping the rest of the world decarbonise, while the state's own greenhouse gas emissions rise.
www.abc.net.au
Not to confused with 'ET', or should it?*

* Certainly not to be confused with 'IT': that was another Stephen.
Even without the mane, encountering a large dog in the woods can be a bit disconcerting.
Locals in Ireland report seeing a lion on the loose. Turns out to be a half-shaved local friendly dog named Mouse

No word on if anyone tried to teach him to walk backwards
County Clare spent the weekend on lion watch after a timber haulier caught video of a “lion-like animal” padding through Mount Shannon woods, prompting at least one man to check his backyard shed for gladiators. Read more below...

#dog #Garda #groomed #ireland #lions #police #OddNews
ICE to take on the role of the Praetorian Guard. Where's the Rubicon?
I am not a military strategist, but I have a vague memory that not feeding the troops was one of those big fuck-ups that Sun Tzu talked about.
NEW: The US Army website for its bases in Bavaria, Germany told its soldiers and employees that it might need to obtain free food from the German government during the US government shutdown.

The Army later altered publication to remove a list of food banks, but we have the original text here:
I realise the impracticalities in the face of a group of heavily armed and aggressive thugs, but my policy from the start would have been 'No ID? No cop!'
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And also every single county in Virginia shifted blue, two statewide posts in Georgia went blue (for the first time in two decades), three Pennsylvania judicial races went blue, a Maine vote went blue, a Mississippi state senate seat went blue ....
Mike Johnson: "What happened last night is blue states and blue cities voted blue. We all saw that coming. And no one should read too much into last night's election results."
Is he talking about Georgia, or doesn't he know anything about that?
Mike Johnson: "What happened last night is blue states and blue cities voted blue. We all saw that coming. And no one should read too much into last night's election results."
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RECLAIM HER TIME.
This is Adelita Grijalva. She was elected 43 days ago.

Republicans still refuse to swear her in because she is the final vote needed to release the Epstein Files.
(squints at ornate signage)

'The Oval Orifice'?
New sign outside the Oval Office..
This is why I expressed fears for the West Wing.

(But I think people already know what happens when this orange pop gets angry)
Despite all his bluster, what Trump fears above all else is being hated & mocked. He's been surrounded by a layer of apparatchiks who tell him he's winning & everyone loves him, but last night's election is an uncomfortable & inalterable fact. His ego will need to compensate. Brace for weirdness!
Defence is hamming it.
“This case, ladies and gentleman of the jury, is about a sandwich.”

Closing arguments from the defense in the DC sandwich guy case are now underway.
New York is great!
I think the US people owe Mike Johnson and the GOP a vote of thanks.

... for reminding them why democracy was created in the first place.
“If we lost the majority in the house... they will try to end the Trump administration. He won't have 4 years, he'll have only 2–because they will move to impeach him, probably on the first day of the new Congress… and they will try to systematically unwind all [our fascist] reforms.”

Sounds great!
Has the arc of history met a hairpin bend?
Despite vile Islamophobic campaigning, Muslims won historic victories in NY and VA, the targets of the 9/11 attacks

Perhaps Trump hasn’t permanently halted America’s slow march towards a true multi-ethnic democracy
The lawns are all right!
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this was fun. let’s do it again.
To all US voters celebrating (or not) tonight, may I present a message hidden inside a pattern. Another world is possible. (Arcane, season 2 ep 7)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro1a...
Ekko and Powder's Last Dance | Arcane Season 2 Episode 7 | 4K
YouTube video by brivnii
www.youtube.com