Jan 092026
 

Yesterday, I didn’t see any news big enough to supersede the killing of Renee Nicole Good (although the fact that the House passed Jeffries’s discharge petition on ACA subsidies – and then passed the bill – deserves a mention. Now it goes back to the Senate – which today advanced a war powers resolution.) I did watch what I could of a Substack video with Malcolm Nance, Michael Cohen, and JoJo from Jerz (and isn’t that a lineup!) which kept locking up. But what I could see and hear was cathartic. I do want to share something about this death which bothers me. Renee’s six-year-old was born from her first marriage to a soldier who died. She was now married again, to a woman. Her late husband’s father is, I gather, on his way to Minneapolis to collect the child. I am concerned that a custody battle, if it becomes a battle, or if it doesn’t, just taking him away from the only parent he knows could harm him as much or more than the loss of his biological mother. Heather Cox Richardson‘s remarks on what happened are well worth listening to if you can spare the time.

Archived from The Washington Post (referred by The Daily Beast), it is IMO a good sign that someone else – particularly someone who has been making money from the regime, is finally fed up. I might add that it required a whole lot of ordinary people to push Avelo to this point. So we do have a voice – at least some of the time.

A Pro Publica investigation found that Elon Musk’s SpaceX is producing enough debris to seriously endanger commercial flights of conventional aircraft. Is anyone surprised?

The top image for this article from The Conversation was (For me) reduced to a miniscule line of type, with the top half cur off. But by right clicking on that line, I was able to open the image in a new tab, and refreshing the page also worked. This, frankly, scares me as much as and maybe more than ICE.

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Jan 062026
 

Yesterday, La Befana (I’m a day late with her because I always thought she came on Epiphany, but no, it’s Epiphany Eve.) But seriously – here’s a link to a roughly 22 minute video with Joyce Vance and Senator Mark Warner, who says as much (unclassified) quiet part out loud as he can. And it is chilling. Also yesterday, it appears that Minnesota has been Joe-Bidening Tim Walz, who has just dropped his reelection campaign.

Saturday, I saw Nameless’s Friday image representing the court at the Hague, and insignificant as this sounds, I started a search to find out whether orange jumpsuits are ever used outside the US (the answer is seldom, and in some nations, never.) But that rabbit hole also took me to The Hague – and I learned there are, not one court, but two international courts there (Lona probably already knows this.) The one which bears the nickname of “The World Court” is the International Court of Justice, which was established in 1920 by the League of Nations and adopted by the United Nations. Every member of the United Nations (there are 193) is automatically a party to this court. But it does not try criminals. It considers cases where there is a disagreement between member nations. So in that way it is more like a civil court. The other court, also at The Hague, is the International Criminal Court, authorized under a treaty called the Rome State in 1998, entering into force in 2002. 125 nations are parties to this court as of a year ago. The United States is not one of them. Venezuela is one of them – in fact every country south of out border is except maybe Costa Rica (the map ia a bit tough to read, even compared with a more labelled map.) The Court tries four crimes: (I) Genocide, (II) Crimes against humanity, (III) War crimes, and the (IV) Crime of aggression. The only immunity the ICC recognizes is that of being a juvenile at the time the crime was committed (i.e. younger than 18.) I quote from Wikipedia” “The issue of immunities from the jurisdiction of the ICC has become recently relevant, when the Court issued arrest warrants for Russian and Israeli national leaders, since their immunities are granted from states which are not parties to the Rome Statute. States which have ratified the statute have waived the immunities of their officials with respect to the jurisdiction of the court by accepting the provisions of Article 2.” The U.S, did sign the Statute once, but never ratified it, and has subsequently withdrawn its signature. This is the Court in which most of us would like to see multiple U.S. officials prosecuted.

From Common Dreams. There are only 337 (rounded) million people in the US. There is no way we could handle the loss of 30% (rounded) of our population and survive as a nation.

I mentioned Adam Klasfeld last week in connection with Joyce Vance. Now here he is with Glenn Kirschner. At this point, I don’t know whether he is himself a lawyer, or a law student, or what, besides a journalist – it’s clear he is strong on legal vocabulary (unlike the CC). And that he is the guy that sits in the courtroom and takes notes so that the actual former prosecutors don’t have to because he can share it with them. The video with this (and yes, there is a transcript – I haven’t looked at it, but if it’s from the CC, and they usually are, there will be some far-fetched spelling errors.) The video is only 15 minutes.

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