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Rapidly moving toward a new International Relations norm - no longer respecting state sovereignty and boundaries. Rather than ensuring right of innocent passage on high seas, the world will be divided into 3 chunks defined by power with China taking more than s. china sea, RU, US landgrab/seagrab.

No doubt about it now. He is a Russian asset. Blamed.Ukraine.For.Starting.The.War. Insulted one of history's greatest heros, brave Zelensky. Enemies... Foreign, and domestic.

If you've ever used the Polity data, read this from Monty Marshall.

tl;dr Polity is coding recent US events as an executive self-coup and an adverse regime change.

crisismappers.net website is back up and running!

DOD drafting plans to withdraw all U.S. troops from Syria after recent Trump comments Trump and officials close to him expressed interest in pulling all U.S. troops out of Syria, prompting the Pentagon to draw up plans for a full withdrawal in 30, 60 or 90 days.

Pentagon prepares its options to withdraw all US troops from Syria, drawing up plans for a possible full withdrawal in 30, 60 or 90 days.
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The cognitive dissonance of getting up every morning and making coffee and walking the dog and going to meetings and answering emails and wondering what to make for dinner while there is a real live actual coup d’etat happening is BONKERS

After Canadian Ambassador risked their life to save American hostages in Iran, after fighting side by side with us and coming to our aid in wars after 911, we treat our best friends in the world with a complete slap in the face, for doing nothing wrong, for no reason. I'm so so sorry, Canada

Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.

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Statement from Mayor Justin M. Bibb FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - January 28, 2025 As Mayor, I will use my full authority to recognize the humanity of all people in Cleveland.  I fully condemn the concentrated effort to threaten and terrify o...

Very proud of Mayor Bibb, for his brave statements.
"Our police are not here to play politics or be used as a tool for fear. My administration will not engage in the deportation of individuals who have not committed violent crimes" www.clevelandohio.gov/news/stateme... @justinmbibb.bsky.social

Greetings, friends. Personal notes and meditations. Ceterum censeo imperdiet vigilum cessandam est.

I just subscribed to Greetings, friends.!

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Honestly, if Google actually cared about USG policy they would be using the USG sanctioned international boundaries…download at geodata.state.gov

Does anyone have good experience using the US National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) dataset? I'm contemplating translating it into GeoParquet to make it easier to download portions of it. But it's got a ton of tables in the GeoPackage - do people use all of those? Or is there a key subset?

NATO: There was officially a Russian plot to kill European weapons chief Senior alliance official tells European Parliament about Kremlin threats to Europe.

Another day and more evidence, not that it's needed, of Russia being a terrorist state

"There was officially a Russian plot to kill European weapons chief"

‘Declaration of war’: M23 rebels claim seizing key DR Congo city of Goma DRC government spokesman confirms the presence of Rwandan army in Goma and says Kinshasha is working to avoid carnage.

Suggestions that the US might seize Greenland or Panama have implications around the world, as the norm of sovereignty fades into "open season on the neighbor." M23's advance into Congo-K is a cover for Rwanda's invasion. What next? www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/...