Andres Rojas.

Trump administration gives Musk allies access to Treasury payment system Treasury has seen an internal struggle over how much access Musk should have to the system, which is critical to trillions of dollars in payments by the government each year.

The system includes information on "payments to federal workers." this could reasonably include salaries of FBI, CIA, and NSA employees ("agents").

Yeah.

www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

why is Trump poised to start a trade war with the US's top three trade partners?

"The US government's tariffs on thousands of different goods have to be paid by the companies importing the products.

The money goes to the government who can use it as they see fit."

hmmmm...

this is the kind of Christian i grew up with, not the "i hate every marginalized person based on selective readings of scripture i can" version that seems to dominate evangelical discourse.

White Nationalist Group Proud Boys March in DC to Celebrate Trump’s Inauguration The white supremacist group’s march in Washington was its first in the city since the Capitol attack four years ago.

if you find these guys are on your side, maybe, just maybe, you're on the wrong side?

truthout.org/articles/we-...

Trump Rescinds Biden’s Order Aimed At Lowering Costs of Prescription Drugs The move halts several pilot programs, including offering Medicare Part D recipients generic medications for a $2 copay.

you wanted Trump? you got Trump

truthout.org/articles/tru...

first, question everything you believe.

what you most want to believe question the most.

work Thanksgiving cactus abloom again. it's got three more in the works.

The Garbage on El Chacón Beach Has Ruined the Fame That Hemingway Gave to Cojímar 14ymedio, José Lassa, Havana, 5 January 2025 — “Take care of your people. Your garbage pollutes.” The sign on a small wall on the beach of Cojímar – known as El Chacón &#821…

a government that can't even collect trash

translatingcuba.com/the-garbage-...

baby it's cold inside

a sonnet showed up (i can't find poems; they reveal themselves).

a few week's work:

A
B
C
B

D
E
F
E

G
H
I
H

J
J

end rhyme is "not good" and "misunderstood."

now a year to try and get it published.

Title: "Keats in Kentucky" (not that Keats)

Ogden Nash, "The Turtle"

New Year's Eve

newly sharpened knife for the new year

YouTube video by Alternate Reality Nosferatu (1922) HD 1080p (Full Movie with english subtitles)

Nosferatu (1922)

m.youtube.com/watch?v=3OZ5...

Seven years ago: translating this poem as faithfully but as readable as possible became an obsession. i put it up in my blog and it got a few hits. then Penguin-Particular Books reached out to me.

the rear of a Spanish column, 1895. Cuban insurgents would let the bulk of the column pass and then do a cavalry charge into the tear, with machetes as their weapons. the few Spanish rifle-wielders would get 3 or 4 shots off (they had Mauser bolt-action rifles) before they were hacked to pieces.

Trump’s ‘stunningly unqualified’ diplomatic team shapes up at breakneck speed Trump is hardly the first US president to introduce miscast nominees, but he has nominated ambassadors at a rate not recalled in recent memory

😂

"The other remarkable thing is how stunningly unqualified everyone is. I don’t see anyone there who I think, ‘Now there’s a highly qualified person.’”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

Nat King Cole at the Tropicana, Havana, 1958 or 1959. Cole was very popular in Cuba and in 1958 he went to Havana to record "Cole Español," an album sung entirely in Spanish. It was immensely successful in Latin America and was followed by two more in 1959 and 1962.

"Fifty would have been plenty."

Jorge Luis Borges on "One Hundred Years of Solitude."

I must say I agree.

and gnats, horseflies, and mosquitos if you live in Florida

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