<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xml:lang="en"><generator uri="https://jekyllrb.com/" version="4.4.1">Jekyll</generator><link href="/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" /><link href="/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" hreflang="en" /><updated>2026-09-04T16:27:36-05:00</updated><id>/feed.xml</id><title type="html">Insightfull Troll</title><subtitle>Rants and ruminations.&quot;</subtitle><author><name></name></author><entry><title type="html">Gloria Steinem has died</title><link href="/2026/09/04/gloria-steinem-has-died/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Gloria Steinem has died" /><published>2026-09-04T15:40:31-05:00</published><updated>2026-09-04T15:40:31-05:00</updated><id>/2026/09/04/gloria-steinem-has-died</id><content type="html" xml:base="/2026/09/04/gloria-steinem-has-died/"><![CDATA[<p><img src="/assets/images/gloira-steinem.png" alt="Gloria Steinem" /></p>

<p>Writer, journalist, and feminist activist <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/us/politics/gloria-steinem-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-VA.soKO.y8R9UFSU8TBY">Gloria Steinem has died</a>. She was 92.</p>

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  <p>She challenged sexist assumptions, helping women develop a sense of self-worth and gain a measure of equality at work, at home and in society at large.</p>
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<p>Phil Schiller <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-31/apple-s-phil-schiller-steps-down-from-running-app-store-and-product-events?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc4ODE5Mzk5NywiZXhwIjoxNzg4Nzk4Nzk3LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUS0VDTE1LSkg2VjQwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJDNEVEQ0FFMUZBMDU0MEJFQTI0QTlGMjExQzFFOTA4MCJ9.G1fAbZQH31AQBLUajPYPUJ7BqRyeIUN7SbxQZFAqMXE&amp;leadSource=article-gifting">steps down from running App Store and Product Events:</a></p>

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  <p>Apple Inc.’s Phil Schiller, one of the most visible and influential executives across both the Steve Jobs and Tim Cook eras, has stepped down from his role leading the App Store and product events.</p>

  <p>The 66-year-old executive, who was Apple’s senior vice president of marketing until leaving that job in 2020, made the latest change in recent days, according to people with knowledge of the matter.</p>
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<p>Homing pigeons may <a href="https://www.sci.news/biology/pigeon-magnetoreception-14809.html">sense the Earth’s magnetic field using superparamagnetic macrophages in their livers</a>:</p>

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  <p>An international research team led by scientists from the University of Bonn, the University Hospital Bonn and the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior has identified supermagnetic macrophages in the livers of homing pigeons (Columba livia domestica) that appear essential for navigation when the Sun is not visible, pointing to an entirely new mechanism for animal magnetoreception.</p>
</blockquote>]]></content><author><name></name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Homing pigeons may sense the Earth’s magnetic field using superparamagnetic macrophages in their livers: An international research team led by scientists from the University of Bonn, the University Hospital Bonn and the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior has identified supermagnetic macrophages in the livers of homing pigeons (Columba livia domestica) that appear essential for navigation when the Sun is not visible, pointing to an entirely new mechanism for animal magnetoreception.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Trump in open revolt</title><link href="/2026/09/04/trump-in-open-revolt/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Trump in open revolt" /><published>2026-09-04T13:50:07-05:00</published><updated>2026-09-04T13:50:07-05:00</updated><id>/2026/09/04/trump-in-open-revolt</id><content type="html" xml:base="/2026/09/04/trump-in-open-revolt/"><![CDATA[<p>Jamelle Bouie in a <a href="https://archive.is/shv6q#selection-4081.0-4081.13">New York Times opinon piece</a>:</p>

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  <p>The details of what is happening here are important — that’s why I laid them out — but it’s also important to step back and make a more fundamental point: the president of the United States is engaged in a conspiracy against the voting rights of the American people, which is to say that the president is engaged in a conspiracy against the Constitution itself. And this is part of a larger effort, spearheaded by the most fanatical of his allies, like Stephen Miller, to end the American republic and supplant it with an authoritarian regime in which President Trump holds sovereign authority over the whole nation.</p>

  <p>It is important to say, as well, that this is all out in the open, as plain as day.</p>
</blockquote>]]></content><author><name></name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Jamelle Bouie in a New York Times opinon piece: The details of what is happening here are important — that’s why I laid them out — but it’s also important to step back and make a more fundamental point: the president of the United States is engaged in a conspiracy against the voting rights of the American people, which is to say that the president is engaged in a conspiracy against the Constitution itself. And this is part of a larger effort, spearheaded by the most fanatical of his allies, like Stephen Miller, to end the American republic and supplant it with an authoritarian regime in which President Trump holds sovereign authority over the whole nation. It is important to say, as well, that this is all out in the open, as plain as day.]]></summary></entry></feed>