Democracy dies in darkness. All the news that’s fit to print.

https://www.sfgate.com/
https://www.inquirer.com/

On June 20, 2025, after days of Israel bombing Iran, Iran hitting Israel with missiles, the US threatening bombing, the San Francisco Gate and Philadelphia Inquirer home pages do not mention the word “Iran”. Go ahead, search for it. I did.

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Czesław Miłosz birthplace, Šeteniai

A Song on the End of the World

On the day the world ends
A bee circles a clover,
A fisherman mends a glimmering net.
Happy porpoises jump in the sea,
By the rainspout young sparrows are playing
And the snake is gold-skinned as it should always be.

On the day the world ends
Women walk through the fields under their umbrellas,
A drunkard grows sleepy at the edge of a lawn,
Vegetable peddlers shout in the street
And a yellow-sailed boat comes nearer the island,
The voice of a violin lasts in the air
And leads into a starry night.

And those who expected lightning and thunder
Are disappointed.
And those who expected signs and archangels’ trumps
Do not believe it is happening now.
As long as the sun and the moon are above,
As long as the bumblebee visits a rose,
As long as rosy infants are born
No one believes it is happening now.

Only a white-haired old man, who would be a prophet
Yet is not a prophet, for he’s much too busy,
Repeats while he binds his tomatoes:
There will be no other end of the world,
There will be no other end of the world.

—Czesław Miłosz, translated by Anthony Miłosz
Warsaw, 1944

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Pętla po Puszczy Noteckiej ze Starego Polichna

Map of the route “Pętla po Puszczy Noteckiej ze Starego Polichna”: 35.23 km, 180 m of climbing and 179 m of descent, elevation between 27 m and 52 m, time 08:15:10. It is a loop that starts and ends at 52.70526, 15.47317 (latitude, longitude).




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“Outside the room, he [the senior US Senator from California] is pinned to the floor and placed in handcuffs.”

California senator Alex Padilla forcibly removed from Kristi Noem LA press conference

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Um Werbellinsee und Grimnitzsee

Map of the route “Um Werbellinsee und Grimnitzsee”: 39.57 km, 343 m of climbing and 343 m of descent, elevation between 44 m and 92 m, time 10:34:19. It is a loop that starts and ends at 52.91466, 13.71758 (latitude, longitude).

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02.06.1967

Soweit in der Bundesrepublik der Revolte der Studenten historische Bedeutung zuerkannt wird, gilt das Todesdatum von Benno Ohnesorg als ihr eigentlicher Beginn.

—Ulrich Chaussy, »Rudi Dutschke«, (München: Droemer, 2018), 226.

Friederike Hausmann (damals Dollinger) kümmert sich im Hof des Hauses Krumme Straße 66/67 um den schwer verletzten Ohnesorg. Unter dem Kopf Ohnesorgs sein Transparent mit der Aufschrift: „Autonomie für die Teheraner Universität“.

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Bread and circuses


The Philadelphia and San Francisco papers are continually full of sports news. Beloved, classic, iconic restaurants close. Grocery stores sell out of new viral treats. San Francisco has frequent pieces about Disneyland. Quite literally bread and circuses.

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Rundweg Herzfelde Kienbaum Erkner

Map of the route “Rundweg Herzfelde Kienbaum Erkner”: 37.55 km, 1,365 m of climbing and 1,362 m of descent, elevation between 63 m and 121 m, time 08:35:28. It starts at 52.48145, 13.86262 and ends at 52.48128, 13.86584 (latitude, longitude).


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Putin is playing with fire

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Everything out of his mouth causes problems

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