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cvirtue ([personal profile] cvirtue) wrote2025-06-12 02:34 pm
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Republican or Democrat, attend a protest Saturday for No Kings

... assuming you are not pleased with what Mr. Trump has been doing.

If you want to attend No Kings, but are concerned about violence at protests:
1: even in LA, the police say that the violence is
A: from known yahoos that show up all the time, not sincere protestors and
B: primarily happens at night
2: is less likely at smaller gatherings.

Look here for your local gathering: https://www.nokings.org/#map

People who voted for him:
He promised one thing and is doing another, such as promising to remove criminal immigrants, but instead is having his people arrest law-abiding immigrants following the proper procedures at courts and hearings. He's letting the criminals and gang members just do their thing. That's nobody's idea of justice.

People who didn't vote for him:
This is not the post to argue about people who voted for him and regret it.
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cvirtue ([personal profile] cvirtue) wrote2025-06-11 06:57 pm

Write or call Congress: ICE is my topic today

Dear Title and Name,

I'm sure you are doing what you can about ICE's actions. But that will take a while. Can you also push for them to act like professionals and wear uniforms, ID, and no masks?

There's no way for their detainees to know this isn't some kind of private lawlessness. There have already been news reports of generic criminals saying they are ICE, in order to tie people up and rob their businesses.

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Siderea ([personal profile] siderea) wrote2025-06-08 12:00 am
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Tanks, armored vehicles, howitzers delivered to DC [curr ev, US]

2025 Jun 7 11:40 am: [profile] benjalvarez1 on Twitter:

WATCH THIS: https://x.com/BenjAlvarez1/status/1931375699786334704

Click through to see the video. You really, really should. Sound is irrelevant.

Text: "Tanks, fighting vehicles and howitzers arrive in Washington, D.C. ahead of next week's military parade. They departed from Texas on June 2." Two minutes and forty seconds.

Allegedly that train is a mile long and is transporting:

• 28 Abrams tanks (M1A2 main battle tank)
• 3 armored recovery vehicles (M88)
• 28 Bradleys (M2A3 infantry fighting vehicle)
• 5 Paladins (M109A7 self-propelled howitzer), and
• 28 Strykers (infantry carrier vehicle)

Source: 2025 Jun 6: @USAMilitaryChannel on YT [not official military channel]: "1-Mile Military Train -Texas to D.C. with Tanks, Armor, and More for Army's 250th Parade". I do not know if that source is reputable or if that inventory is accurate.

USA Today is reporting that "The military vehicles will be joined by 1,800 soldiers". (Source: 2025 Jun 6, USATODAY on YT: "Watch: Tanks, fighting vehicles head to DC for Trump's military parade", CW: face full of Trump, alt: screenshot).

I dunno, maybe it's just me, but I'm thinking that maybe the guy who attempted one coup already bringing a well-armed military force into our capitol city and, crucially, within artillery-range of the Pentagon, is just throwing himself a birthday party, but also maybe not.

ETA: For those of you confused by this, thinking, but doesn't he already control the military? You might want to watch this video about the rise of Xi Jinping.

Now, obviously, Trump would never play a long game like Xi did. But, 1) there are other ways to achieve the same end and 2) he doesn't have to, because his buddies, the Dominionists, did.
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cvirtue ([personal profile] cvirtue) wrote2025-06-07 09:43 pm
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Garden today

Rainy day here, but I did a bunch of seedling planting before it got too wet, then did a lot of training/tying branches for roses, wisteria, forsythia (ie, forCynthia) and grapes.

Should enlarge a LOT, if you want to see the panels better; 2048 px sq. 20 plants blooming (or fruiting) in the garden today, in the rain.

Of particular note:

Top two pics are blackcurrants and gooseberries. Yellow rose on right will go on arch over the chain link fence gate -- only another foot to go to reach the top of the 6' fence. Standard rose (rose on a stick, for you non-gardeners) on the bottom row is a wild sprout from a rosebush at the previous house, which I cut off and rooted. It's almost 3' tall.

Lower L corner is malva sylvestris -- ongoing flowers all summer, easy and dramatic. The tree behind the fish is a peach.

I generally don't photograph plants I've bought this year; I don't feel like they are truly "mine" until I've managed to not kill them for a year. Seedlings I started from seed, are entirely mine; the baby lupines on the left edge, for example.

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cvirtue ([personal profile] cvirtue) wrote2025-06-07 11:15 am
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Typhus in the USA: Dogs, cats, via fleas

O great.
Report covers Texas and California, but I would expect a wide band of warmer-weather states are also affected.

the Resurgence of Flea-Borne Typhus in Texas in the 21st Century: Part 1: The Bacteria, the Cat Flea, Urbanization, and Climate Change

The report doesn't seem to break out the three types of typhus.

"about one quarter of patients suffer respiratory, neurologic, renal, hepatic, cardiac, ocular, or other complications"

"transmission is closely associated with human behavior, domestic pets, stray/feral dogs and cats, and urban wildlife"

https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0817/14/2/154

Typhus info: https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/typhus

Chart from report: [image: image.png]

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Siderea ([personal profile] siderea) wrote2025-05-31 12:23 am
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Not as it was [early music, MA]

Back in 2013, I winnowed down the entire listings of Boston Early Music Festival events, official and fringe, to a curated concentrate of just concerts and other events featuring music from before 1600 AD. There were about 35 of them.

The 2025 BEMF is just nine days out and the Fringe Concerts listings updated today has a total of fewer than 30 listings.