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The article »TIME 2024 Person of the Year« by Eric Cortellessa on time.com clearly illustrates how absurd the notion is that Donald Trump could become President of the United States again. Trump has vowed to seek retribution against his political enemies—saying the likes of Biden, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, special counsel Jack Smith, and others would face investigation and potential prosecution. Trump was coy in his interview with TIME about whether his DOJ will target his domestic political adversaries, saying only that the decision will be left to Bondi if she’s confirmed. “That’s up to her,” he says. Either way, his victory spells the end of federal prosecutions that charged him with crimes ranging from election subversion to willfully retaining classified documents. ...

The photo shows a collection of bright yellow recycling bins with round openings. Each bin has a sign encouraging waste separation and recycling and showing illustrations of plastic items. The text on the sign is in German and emphasizes communal waste collection. You can download this and other photos for free and in full resolution from unsplash.com. Click here for the photo The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense. ...

Community is what happens when you do what you love together. – Pete Davis The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense.

Foursquare makes parts of its database publicly available. Gary Little writes in “Foursquare Open Source Places: A new foundational dataset for the geospatial community” for foursquare.com In an effort to change that dynamic, we are announcing today the general availability of a foundational open data set, Foursquare Open Source Places (“FSQ OS Places”). This base layer of 100mm+ global places of interest (“POI”) includes 22 core attributes (see schema here) that will be updated monthly and available for commercial use under the Apache 2.0 license framework. ...

Pinkary is an interesting alternative to Linktree — a kind of mini‑Twitter. This open-source solution is built with PHP and JavaScript. The source code and an active community can be found at GitHub. The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense.