Joanna Bryson, blathering
Kathleen JonesTake a look at this obit of Margaret Gipsy Moth, a fearless videographer for CNN in the 90s and 00s who died in 2010. The NYT has gotten around to writing her obit. What a life. Gift link. #WomensStories #WorldNews #giftLink #GiftArticle https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/11/obituaries/margaret-gipsy-moth-overlooked.html?unlocked_article_code=1.aFA._XW7.Eiz9aeC-mPQc&smid=url-share
Reed MidekeVery a convincing case from NYT that CENTCOM's denial of a PrSM strike on the school and sports hall in Lamerd was a lie
(unsurprising, the claim it was an Iranian cruise missile didn't make much sense or match the evidence)
New Evidence Further Implicates U.S. Missiles in Strikes That Killed 21 Civilians in Iran
Additional images and video build on an earlier analysis, which the Pentagon has disputed, showing Precision Strike Missiles, or PrSMs, hit a sports hall and residential areas in the Iranian city of Lamerd.
๐ณ๐๐๐๐ข ๐ต๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐As I read this and began to laugh, the local Kookaburra's burst forth outside the window. Not a coincidence, I'm sure.
"[The Steadmans] have all long been part of the community in the small conservation village of Loose, pronounced โloseโ, which I know because he famously and merrily upset the local Womenโs Institute one year with a drawing titled the โLoose Womenโs Instituteโ for the village calendar."
Top drawer: the 60-year career of illustrator and satirist Ralph Steadman
Itโs a grim, grey winterโs day, and outside the tall windows of Ralph Steadmanโs Georgian pile in Kent, leaves swoop and dance in the chill wind. The legendary illustrator and political satirist is ensconced at the head of a heavy, oak table in his dining room, gazing out at the weather and ruminating about a lifetime drawing and confronting those he calls โthe Menace with a capital Mโ.
How did I get this far in life not knowing of Ralf Steadman?
"A letter Thompson sent to Steadman said it all: 'Nothing I write feels right without your foul, dehumanised art looking over the words.' "
#Cartoon #Illustration #GiftArticle
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/22983/2eDxDgWl
Shelley PowersI suspect food poison lawyer Bill Marler will be very busy in the future
#giftarticle
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David SacerdoteThis really helps make the case for debundling wildfire risk reduction from utility bills, and covering it via income or wealth taxes instead.
NonilexIt has been clear for a long time that #Trump is a person with a disorganized mind & a disordered personality. What the past few months & especially the past few weeks brought into focus is how his pathologies have cascaded downward & outward through his admin. They have become institutionalized. The reason it so often does not act coherently is because it cannot. The world faces something new & baffling & frightening in Trumpโs 2nd term: a #PsychoticState.
Informative, at least. It seems #Albo is actually doing stuff. #AusPol #GiftArticle
"Late Wednesday morning, Albanese went on Sky News to say the potential destruction of civilian infrastructure in Iran was an 'extraordinary statement to make'. He said it was not an โappropriate use of languageโ by the president.
"Albanese said Australiaโs position was that the conduct of any conflict 'must be within international law and that provides for making sure that civilians โ who arenโt parties to the conflict โ are given every protection possible' "
#SCOTUS remade by #Trump ushers in historic defeats for #CivilRightsโฉ
The court is the first since at least the โ50s to reject claims in a majority of cases involving #women & โ#minoritiesโ.
The shift ends a streak of successive courts expanding protections beginning with the civil rights era. But the historic nature of the current court is also evident in other key areas of the #law over the 5 terms since the 3rd of Trumpโs appointees joined the bench.
