“Beachgrass”
Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 14-42 kit lens @ 41mm, f/11, 1/400s, ISO 400. Along the John Dellenback Dunes Trail.
“Sentinel”
Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 14-42 kit lens @ 30mm, f/11, 1/250s, ISO 250. ALong the John Dellenback Dunes Trail.
“As Above, So Below”
Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 14-42 kit lens @ 42mm, f/10, 1/200s, ISO 250. Near the John Dellenback Dunes Trail.
“Life Finds a Way”
Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 14-42 kit lens @ 42mm, f/11, 1/30s, ISO 200. Along the John Dellenback Dunes Trail.
Didn’t finish: The Forgotten Man 📚
Revisionist history arguing that FDR’s policies didn’t help people out of the Great Depression. Tell that to the folks who fed their families thanks to the CCC or WPA. Stuck with it about halfway but the author’s “the liberals are full of crap” bias was just too much to put up with.
Finished reading: In the Garden of Beasts 📚
Larson’s dramatic history is always an easy read. This one, about the US ambassador to Germany in the 1930s, is also a sobering look at the rise of a fascist dictatorship. All too resonant with our own current circumstances.
“Windblown”
Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 14-42 kit lens @ 32mm, f/11, 1/50s, ISO 200. Processed in Darktable. Along the John Dellenback Dunes Trail.
Finished reading: Gai-Jin 📚
An ideal bathroom book: action every page or two, comfortably exotic (while being, I suspect, wildly ahistorical), and I wouldn’t have cared if I dropped it in the toilet. Suffers from the Clavell problems of being too long and leaving plot threads unresolved at the end.
“Elephant Foot”
Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 14-42 kit lens @ 14mm, f/9.5, 1/500s, ISO 200. Near the John Dellenback Dunes Trail.
“Plovers on Parade”
Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 14-42 kit lens @ 42mm, f/10, 1/800s, ISO 1250. Oregon coast near the John Dellenback Dunes Trail.
“Rain Pool”
Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 14-42 kit lens @ 21mm, f/11, 1/30s, ISO 200. Along the John Dellenback Dunes Trail.
WMO report documents spiralling weather and climate impacts
That’s the World Meteorological Organization.
Globally each of the past ten years were individually the ten warmest years on record.
Republican Behind “Trump Derangement Bill” Accused of Soliciting Minor
The definition of schadenfreude.
NYT:
In an interview with Laura Ingraham on Fox News, President Trump maintained his view that his administration is not actually defying the courts because, in his estimation, the judge who ruled against him should not have been allowed to do so.
Oh, well that’s all right then.
Trump’s use of Alien Enemies Act blasted as abuse of power
A roundup of responses to the administration attempt to send all the Venezuelans they can catch to prison in El Salvador with zero due process.
New filing in the Alien Enemies Act case
If the president can designate any group as enemy aliens under the act, and that designation is unreviewable, then there is no limit on who can be sent to a Salvadoran prison, or any limit on how long they will remain there.
Yeah, exactly. Including current citizens, if they manage to get the birthright citizenship nonsense to stick.
Judge finds Elon Musk likely acted unconstitutionally in shuttering USAID
The interesting thing is that this is an appointments clause decision - which, if upheld, would make everything Musk has done unconstitutional. Unfortunately, the eggs are already broken.
FTC Removes Posts Critical of Amazon, Microsoft, and AI Companies
Another break for poor oppressed billionaires.
Moscow and Beijing rejoice at looming death of Radio Free Europe, VOA
The enemy of my enemy is (checks notes) a free press.