I’m processing some old building photos and starting to appreciate @mattblaze’s trick lenses.
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With Thanksgiving approaching, I did some more reading on Alice’s Restaurant, as one does. According to https://religionnews.com/2017/11/22/alices-restaurant-thanksgiving-guthrie/, the officiating rabbi at Arlo Guthrie’s bar mitzvah was none other than Meir Kahane, a truly appalling mix of very different politics.
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It occurs to me that one reason for Trump to appoint all of these extreme loyalists to the cabinet is to guard against a 25th amendment invocation by Vance.
(Note: this edit is because I didn't carefully proofread what the dictation software did to my post.)
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It’s becoming clear now why Trump was concerned that even a solid GOP Senate wouldn’t confirm some of his nominees. Next likely step: proroguing Congress so he can make recess appointments.
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I keep thinking of this quote from "A Canticle for Liebowitz": “I feel like saying words I’ve never even heard. Toad’s dung. Hag pus. Gangrene of the soul. Immortal brain-rot.”
I may be off Mastodon for a few days except for my bird photography account. There’s too much news on this one, all of it depressing.
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Government agency renamings coming:
National Pseudoscience Foundation
National Endowment for the Farts
National Endowment for Inhumanity
Department of Injustice
and probably more I can’t think of it this hour.
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Timeline mood: a great blue heron, relieving itself (Central Park, July 2020)
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Timeline mood: I hope Harris is right about the blue wall states, but…
A red-tailed hawk that just caught a rat in Central Park (September 2019) and a great egret that just caught a fish in NYC’s Inwood Hill Park (June 2023).
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Timeline cleanse #8: An elk calf nursing from its mother (Rocky Mountain National Park, June 2019) and a fawn and its mother in suburban New Jersey (July 2014). I’m starting to review my raptor pictures…
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Timeline cleanse #7, because I need it.
Two raccoons (Central Park, NYC, April 2024) and two chinstrap penguins (Pléneau Bay, Antarctica, January 2015) discussing election returns.
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Timeline cleanse #6: almost all of the battleground states have closed. This calls for a video of a gentoo penguin with two chicks. Port Lockroy, Antarctica, January 2015.
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Timeline cleanse #5: major cuteness needed, since polls are now closed in Pennsylvania. So: American woodcocks, in Bryant Park in NYC, March 2022. (I wish I’d taken a video—the way they bob their rear ends is amazing.) And for those who know Manhattan—they seem to come back to that small, very urban park almost every year.
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Timeline cleanse #4, since polls have closed in North Carolina. Here we have a parent and baby red-tailed hawk on the Columbia University campus—actually, on one of the dorms—in May 2022.
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Polls now closed in the first swing state, Georgia (except for a few places where voting was extended by court order), so it’s time for timeline cleanse #3: some baby great horned owls in Brooklyn, March 2023.
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Timeline cleanse #2: Gentoo penguins “flying” in the Lemaire Channel in Antarctica, January 2015.
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Timeline cleanse. I’ll post more of these today—and let’s hope I don’t have to switch to, say, raptors dismembering prey…
(Central Park, New York City, June 2020)
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East or west, vote blue, even if you have to fly to the polls! And watch out for those folks with the red hats…
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A last blog post about voting for this US election season: https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/blog/2024-11/2024-11-04.html
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New blog post: “Voting: The Role of Process”: https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/blog/2024-11/2024-11-03.html
(Aside: the standard voice-to-text software on my Mac variously rendered “poll worker” as “pool worker”, “Paul worker”, “coworker”, and—my favorite—“pole worker”.)
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The AP says that this is so Harris can appear on SNL
https://journa.host/@w7voa/113416055810355913
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