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Sunday June 22, 2025, the day after dipshit unilaterally decided to bomb Iran. GOP members of Congress being MIA matters more than it did last week.

Meanwhile, record-setting heat wave ought to command our attention and resources. It is beyond baffling that it doesn’t.

Finished this book this week. It’s about a crew that goes around repairing underwater cables, cables that connect us to the internet. The ship of the story sets out from South Africa, so there are some interesting observations about race. I learned about this network of cables enough to understand how fragile our connectivity is. But mostly the novel is a character study of the ship’s operational leader and a compelling one.