Missed a bit. The student was then renditioned 1500 miles away, in violation of a Court Order. We need to begin objecting to human rights violations in the USA, as we ritually do in China. (View Post)

I see Canada tightening up its borders to control the incoming refugees, and I can see Trumpski making threats about Usonians bringing back cheap goods - as is already a big thing on drugs eg insulin… (View Post)

I'm not sure if this is about political position. For me, it was crystal clear that Russell Brand was unmitigated, narcissistic shit when he and Jonathan Ross made their deliberately personally … (View Post)

Re: Illegal Venezuela deportations. Judge Boasberg is moving steadily in the direction of contempt for the Officials who prevented his "turn the planes round" Order from being obeyed. https… (View Post)

Did we do the Carl Sagan quote from 1995? He tended to be a bit more subtle than Asimov, imo - but not *that* much. Here he's quite close. https://x.com/highbrow_nobrow/status/1907130858491793556 (View Post)