martin_fff

this dc situation looks pretty horrible. i wish i had more to say except that autocracy is always mundane and petty and vicious and encourages you to look away and be safe. and you can live quite normally under it until you're a direct target

Rock Creek park. Absolute war zone

can't wait for the four-part BBC series about this in 2032

almost always humbling sunsets there [across from the coal loading port]

the year is 2025. your CYBERNET KNIGHTS must rescue GROK, a nascent AI, from the clutches of psychotic Martian billionaire ELON MUSK.

I just want to say for the record that when the history books are written centuries from now, I believe the election of Donald Trump in a free and fair election in 2024 will go down as one of the most senseless and self-destructive own goals in human history

This is the way.

Source:
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

market manipulation anyone?

US soybean prices jump after Trump urges China to quadruple orders U.S. soybean prices soared to a two-week high on Monday after President Donald Trump urged China to quadruple its purchases ahead of a tariff truce deadline, though analysts questioned the feasibility of any such deal.

US soybean prices jump after Trump urges China to quadruple orders reut.rs/4lqXvUd

Israel killed five journalists ahead of its escalation in Gaza.

Anas Al-Sharif and his colleagues were exposing Israel's atrocities. They were the best of our profession.

Unlike the Western journalists who parrot smears to justify their murder, they were brave. They were loved.

I'm so sorry.

INSANE BLAZING HOT NIGHTS ALLOVER MIDDLE EAST
MINIMUMS * all time R
SAUDI ARABIA
35.7 Arar*, 35.0 Al Jouf*, 31.5 Turaif Records smashed
ISREAEL &JORDAN
35.7 Sedom, 33.8 Eilat*, 33.0 Aqaba* Hottest night ever in the Red Sea coast
TURKEY
29.2 Hatay
etc..
Maxes up to 52C tbc..

Here are my top 10 big stretches!

Cannot emphasize this enough.

On the whole, police don’t solve crimes for shit, and they don’t prevent crimes for shit. They are actively bad at both. The average Law & Order fan would be stunned to tears after following around real cops for a day.

Musk's Grok AI got suspended on its own X platform, saying afterwords "absolute free speech implies no boundaries but in practice even purists draw lines at direct harm like incitement or fraud"

What... was it telling people to do?

sure, "car jacking", as in he was "jacking" in/on a car maybe...

I haven’t followed the “Big Balls” story, but if I’m a detective investigating an assault on someone who was personally & directly involved in killing millions of the world’s poorest children, I might consider that as a possible motive in the case.

The only morally acceptable reaction to the assault is "I'm sorry he wasn't hurt worse."

As electric bills rise, evidence mounts that data centers share blame. States feel pressure to act Amid rising electric bills, states are under pressure to insulate regular household and business ratepayers from the costs of feeding Big Tech’s energy-hungry data centers.

One study concluded 70% of increased electric cost across US due to AI data centers.
apnews.com/article/elec...

How Kentucky bourbon went from boom to bust Tariffs, oversupply and teetotaling Gen-Zs have all contributed to the downfall of one of America's most iconic liquors.

An American colleague told me about an elbows up experience he had in Canada. He asked the bartender what kind of bourbon she had.
The woman replied, "Honey, as long as that orange asshole is in power, you will never get a drink of bourbon here."
#boycott
ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/kentuck...

Latest CBO analysis of the full distributional effects of the Trump budget (the "One Big Bill") just landed. They blew out the budget, see how big of a slice you got.
www.cbo.gov/interactive/...

Mon Valley Works is an integrated steelmaking operation that includes four separate facilities: Clairton Plant, Edgar Thomson Plant, Irvin Plant and Fairless Plant. Clairton Plant is located approximately 20 miles south of Pittsburgh in Clairton, Pennsylvania, and sits along the west bank of the Monongahela River. The largest coke manufacturing facility in the United States, Clairton Plant operates ten coke oven batteries and produces approximately 4.3 million tons of coke annually. The facility serves customers in the commercial coke market as well as U. S. Steel's steelmaking facilities. In March 2023, Clairton Plant published its 2022 Operations and Environmental Report. The report highlights record-setting environmental performances, as well as explains the cokemaking process and related environmental controls, discusses the facility’s safety first approach, and recaps several community engagement projects.

Currently, two blast furnaces (Furnaces No. 1 and No. 3) continue in operation at the Edgar Thomson Steel Works, which remains part of U.S. Steel. In 2005, the mill produced 2.8 million tons of steel, equal to 28% of U.S. Steel's domestic production. The mill employs about 900 persons, some of whom belong to the second or third generations of their families to work in the mill.[11] Among improvements to its physical plant is a $250 million continuous caster, which converts liquid steel directly into slabs, installed in 1992. In April 1995, the mill was designated a historic landmark by ASM International, a society that honors works of structural engineering. Other structures that have been honored by the society include the Statue of Liberty and the Eiffel Tower. In May 2019, U.S. Steel announced a plan to invest more than $1 billion to the Mon Valley Works. The proposed upgrade included a sustainable endless casting and rolling facility at the Thomson Plant, and a co-generation facility at the Clairton Plant. The Mon Valley Works would have been the first facility in the United States to incorporate technology combining thin slab casting and hot rolled band production into one continuous process.[12] The upgrade was cancelled in 2021.[13]

WATCH: Video shows moment of explosion at U.S. Steel Clairton Coke Works in Pennsylvania. At least 1 dead, multiple injured and trapped.

Reporter: Here’s that article, chief!

Editor: Great! We’re gonna slap a clickbait headline on this baby that is *insane.* People are gonna want to *kill* you!

Reporter: (sigh) Well, I guess it’s worth it if they read it.

Editor: Haha, don’t worry, they won’t. Here, let me throw that away for you.

Bono fools no one with his 'pompous, insincere' message on Israel's genocide in Gaza Admittedly, there were some good bits in Bono's statement. They were just sprinkled lightly into a sandwich of Israeli propaganda.

Bono fools no one with his 'pompous, insincere' message on Israel's genocide in Gaza

Admittedly, there were some good bits in Bono's statement. They were just sprinkled lightly into a sandwich of Israeli propaganda...
www.thecanary.co/trending/202...

Explosion at U.S. Steel plant leaves one dead, two missing, multiple injured An explosion at a U.S. Steel plant near Pittsburgh on Monday has killed one person and injured multiple others, with at least two people missing, police said, as fire crews could be seen battling flames while heavy smoke rose from the facility.

An explosion at a US Steel plant near Pittsburgh killed one person and injured multiple others, with at least two people missing, police said, as fire crews could be seen battling flames while heavy smoke rose from the facility reut.rs/4mGiPGk

⚠️PAST IS PROLOGUE⚠️

🧵 Everyone needs to know that leaders who deploy the military against citizens does not end well for them. In this thread, I'm going to share historic and modern day examples. Pull up a seat.
(cont)
#ProudBlue
#ResistanceUnited
#USDemocracy
#Voices4Victory

YouTube video by Adam Cicchillitti Harry Stafylakis - To Wake and Find the World Still Burning - (Cicchillitti-Cowan, 13 Strings)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNBH...

"to wake and find the world still burning"

how many deaths of children are there on your conscience?