@thomasaw

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A year of sunrises - 13 pictures of the sun, each month, same place, same time.

"One of the best places in Edmonton to see the sunrise point change along a familiar horizon is Valleyview Drive, which is where I photographed sunrise once a month for a year. This image is the final result of stacking 13 sunrise images from Dec 2020 to Dec 2021, to visually depict the change in the sunrise point over a year." - Photographer, Luca Vanzella.

#Photography #Sunrise

The Wall Street Journal Marches Toward Pravda With American Characteristics
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/08/14/wall-street-journal-marches-toward-pravda
The Wall Street Journal Marches Toward Pravda With American Characteristics

Link to: https://www.wsj.com/economy/the-u-s-marches-toward-state-capitalism-with-american-characteristics-f75cafa8?st=48pGHz&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

Daring Fireball

Turns out, unsurprisingly, that American fascism is bad for tourism and U.S.-based conferences. (You'd have to be an idiot to organize an international gathering inside the U.S. at this point.)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/11/las-vegas-tourism-decline-trump-immigration

Immigration crackdown causing ‘Trump slump’ in Las Vegas tourism, unions say

International visitors to one of the world’s largest tourist destinations dropped 13% in June as workers face layoffs

The Guardian
"One of these days, a citizen will be deported." -- From my recent post. Mark my words.
Of Course Trump Has Surrounded Himself With Idiots This Time Around
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/03/25/trump-has-surrounded-himself-with-idiots
Of Course Trump Has Surrounded Himself With Idiots This Time Around

Link to: https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/23497-the-origins-of-totalitarianism

Daring Fireball
That’s me in the corner
That’s me in the group
Chat
Listening to the war plan
... and now we continue working on the hard problems together🤝

GOP: States rights!

States: Okay, we want to protect immigrants.

GOP: No, not that.

States: Okay, we intend to allow abortion.

GOP: No, not that.

States: Okay, we would like to allow transgender athletes.

GOP: No, not that.

States: What about making decisions about cars in our cities?

GOP: Not, not that.

States: DEI?

GOP: Hell no.

States: I thought you cared about states' rights?

GOP: That was when Biden was president. Now we want a strong Federal government!

REVEALED by Correspondent @stevanzetti: We identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as #ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation. https://www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecutor-dallas-white-supremacist-x-account/

#SocialMedia #extremism #immigration #border #politics #USpol #WhiteSupremacy #Fascism #Trump #news

ICE Prosecutor in Dallas Runs White Supremacist X Account

The Observer has identified the operator of “GlomarResponder,” an overtly racist social media account, as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

The Texas Observer
Voting for the Mayor Who Promised to Blow Up the City Doesn’t Mean I Approve of the Mayor Blowing Up the City

Our 2nd most-read article of 2025. - - -It’s so easy to label people these days. From the way folks have been talking, you’d think everyone falls ...

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