Matt Blaze
Matt BlazeThis is objectively 25A territory. He doesn’t know that the Norwegian government doesn’t select the Nobel Peace Prize winner or that Norway and Denmark are different countries.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/world/europe/trump-norway-greenland-nobel.html
Matt BlazeSevere G4-level geomagnetic and S4 solar storms in progress, so don't let any ejected coronal masses hit you if you go outside today.
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/
Matt BlazeIn case it somehow wasn't already obvious how completely repellent the administration's legal harassment of Becca Good (Renee Good's widow) is, six senior career prosecutors in the local US Attorney's office resigned today because they wanted no part of it.
SIX.
Matt BlazeSandstone, Red Rock Canyon, Nevada, 2025.
All the pixels, each made of sand, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54702804473
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Matt BlazeCaptured with the Rodenstock 70mm/5.6 HR Digaron-W lens (@ f/6.3). Phase One IQ4-150 digital back (@ ISO 50, 1/30 sec), Cambo WRS-5005 camera (shifted vertically -10mm).
Red Rock Canyon is just 45 minutes from the Las Vegas strip, but completely lacks slot machines, neon signs, B-list entertainment, chain restaurants, and other modern necessities. Zero stars, would not gamble there again.
Matt BlazeSandstone, Red Rock Canyon, Nevada, 2025.
All the pixels, each made of sand, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54702804473
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Matt BlazeI assume we were greeted as liberators, right? Right?
Matt BlazeBloomberg Law is reporting that (former?) Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro has hired lawyer Barry Pollack for his US criminal defense team. Pollack had been part of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's legal team.
Matt BlazeThere are, presumably, not that many practicing lawyers out there with experience defending high-profile criminal cases that have significant international, diplomatic, and political dimensions, something both the Maduro and Assange cases have in common.
Matt BlazeBloomberg Law is reporting that (former?) Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro has hired lawyer Barry Pollack for his US criminal defense team. Pollack had been part of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's legal team.
Matt BlazeSignal Bridge with Phase Break Indicators, Pennsylvania Railroad, Perryville, MD, 2010.
12KV of pixels at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54481107849
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Matt BlazeI remember thinking 10 years ago tonight "well, at least 2016 can't be any worse than this was". Oops, never mind..
Let's hope this will be the year breaks the cursed streak we've been on.