Prison for punctuation

From NPR:

An Iranian writer and activist has been sentenced to 12 years in prison after replying with a single dot, or period, in response to a post on the social platform X by Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Hossein Shanbehzadeh, a longtime critic of Iran’s leadership, was active on social media, supporting political prisoners and the removal of mandatory headscarves for women.

Shanbehzadeh was arrested shortly after posting his response, which received many more likes than Khamenei’s tweet. The sentence:

Five years for alleged pro-Israel propaganda activity, four years for insulting Islamic sanctities, two years for spreading lies online and an additional year for anti-regime propaganda.

Despots and wanna-be despots everywhere hate being mocked, don’t they?

Saluting Face emoji

I don’t know what I was looking for when I found the Saluting Face emoji. (I think that should be Saluting Hand, or Person, no?) This emoji comes in variety of designs, at least two of which show only a half-face to make more room for the hand.

  [Apple and Twitter/X. Click either image for a larger view.]

That Twitter/X hand — I knew right away who/what I was seeing:

  [Twitter/X, Sluggo. Click either image for a larger view.]

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In the windmills of his mind

Far longer and far more astonishing than the childcare answer is the answer to this question: “How are you going to bring down the cost of food and groceries?” Eight minutes of this ’n’ that.

The New Grown-Ups: “Tom Paine’s Bones”

Our son Ben Leddy is front and center for this one.

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Stopping the Steal

A helpful aid to memory: the new documentary Stopping the Steal (dir. Dan Reed, 2024), about the Republican officials who refused to go along with Donald Trump’s depraved schemes.

But I wish those interviewed had been asked about what they’re going to do in the upcoming election.

Robert Reich has a list

An aid to memory, in the form of a short video from Robert Reich: “The 10 Worst Things About the Trump Presidency.”

Just ten? Just watch.

The New Grown-Ups: “Lonesome Pine”

Our son Ben Leddy is a member of The New Grown-Ups, who just took first in a new-band showcase at the Thomas Point Beach Bluegrass Festival in Brunswick, Maine. That’s a sample above.

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Nancy sight lines

In today’s Nancy, Olivia Jaimes plays with Bushmiller’s sight lines.

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[Bushmiller used a - - - - line , not a ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ line.]