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• Until tomorrow...
• "Eleven 'heavily armed' members of a fringe group called Rise of the Moors were arrested on a Massachusetts highway Saturday..."
• "There’s this concept of the dignity of risk. Most of us have a very wide range of bad choices we can make that society is O.K. with, but, in a conservatorship..."
• "Ukrainian authorities have found themselves buried in controversy after official pictures showed female soldiers practising for a parade in heels."
• A unique sunrise.
• Cop cues up a Taylor Swift song so the video a man is making of him will run afoul of YouTube's copyright enforcement and get censored.
• "The political Witch Hunt by the Radical Left Democrats, with New York now taking over the assignment, continues."

Until tomorrow... Posted: 03 Jul 2021 05:10 PM PDT

"Eleven 'heavily armed' members of a fringe group called Rise of the Moors were arrested on a Massachusetts highway Saturday..." Posted: 03 Jul 2021 05:08 PM PDT "...following a bizarre nine-hour standoff with law enforcement that included hostage negotiators.... The nature of the group is unclear as police continue to investigate. 'We're not anti-government. We're not anti-police. We're not sovereign citizens. We're not black identity extremists,' the man in the video said. 'We haven't violated any laws.' The men claim 'to be from a group that does not recognize our laws,' the Wakefield Police Department said in a statement. 'No threats were made, but these men should be considered armed and dangerous.'" The NY Post reports.

"There’s this concept of the dignity of risk. Most of us have a very wide range of bad choices we can make that society is O.K. with, but, in a conservatorship..." Posted: 03 Jul 2021 12:36 PM PDT "... you're subject to the decision-making rubric of best interest. And it's possible we'd all be better off if someone was making decisions for us like that, but those are not the values of the society we live in." Said  Zoë Brennan-Krohn, an ACLU lawyer, quoted in "Britney Spears's Conservatorship Nightmare/How the pop star's father and a team of lawyers seized control of her life—and have held on to it for thirteen years" by By Ronan Farrow and Jia Tolentino (The New Yorker). As conservatorship law is written, the court is required to determine that a conservatorship is—and remains—necessary. "In practice," Zoë Brennan-Krohn, a disability-rights attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union, said, "this is absolutely not the case. What should be happening is that a judge at a reëvaluation hearing would ask, 'What else have you tried? Why isn't anything else working?' And, if the conservator hasn't shown that they've tried less restrictive options, the conservatorship should be suspended. But I've never heard of a judge asking that in any situation."

"Ukrainian authorities have found themselves buried in controversy after official pictures showed female soldiers practising for a parade in heels." Posted: 03 Jul 2021 12:09 PM PDT "Ukraine is preparing to stage a military parade next month to mark 30 years of independence following the Soviet Union's breakup, and the defence ministry on Friday released photographs of fatigue-clad women soldiers marching in mid-heel black pumps.... 'It is hard to imagine a more idiotic, harmful idea'...." The Guardian reports.

A unique sunrise. Posted: 03 Jul 2021 06:49 AM PDT Here's how it looked at 5:26, 3 minutes after the actual sunrise time:  There seemed to be an impenetrable bank of clouds at the base of the sky. So I was surprised — after my run back to the parking lot and as I was driving home — to look over and see this at 5:44. I stopped at what I call my Secondary Vantage Point, and got this picture:   On reflection, I suppose that what seemed like a fairly uniform cloud cover was much thicker right at the bottom and thinned out just a little higher. This might be the first time I've seen this happen in the hundreds of sunrises I've witnessed in the last 2 years.

Cop cues up a Taylor Swift song so the video a man is making of him will run afoul of YouTube's copyright enforcement and get censored. Posted: 03 Jul 2021 04:59 AM PDT But here's the video on YouTube, where it's been since July 1st:  I found that via "An officer played a Taylor Swift song to keep his recording off YouTube. Instead it went viral" (WaPo).

"The political Witch Hunt by the Radical Left Democrats, with New York now taking over the assignment, continues." Posted: 03 Jul 2021 04:33 AM PDT "It is dividing our Country like never before! Do people see the Radical Left prosecutors, and what they are trying to do to 75M+++ Voters and Patriots, for what it is?" Said Donald Trump, in a statement quoted in "Trump seeks to use indictments as a political rallying cry as he tries to survive latest legal threat" (WaPo). From the article: People who have spoken to Trump in recent days said he plans to attack the prosecutors at his rallies, raising the fact that both New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) and Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. (D) have expressed opinions critical of him, with James saying she would charge him if elected. He has told allies he wants to run for president again and has planned rallies, endorsement speeches and events for the rest of the summer.... "They've investigated me for years and this is all they have," Trump said, according to one confidant who spoke with him over the weekend as details of the indictment began to be reported. "It's a total joke." On Thursday, he complained about the visuals of the arrest, which included Weisselberg in handcuffs, and described it as a "chicken s----" prosecution, according to a close adviser....

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