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I assume the ballroom comes with a slide.

I'd be going for the Penske 26-footer myself, telling them I only need it for an hour. See you in the foothills.

The before picture makes it clear that the Rose Garden was a place to be contemplative, shuffle off the pressure of leading the free world, and to draw on inner strength. The after picture looks like the backlot of a Tesla dealership, except for the fact that it isn't full of unsold Cybertrucks.

The Kennedy family is spinning in their graves, even the ones that aren't dead yet.

I dread to see how tasteless this decor will be. The oval office looks like Liberace decorated it.

Someone once called him the Fecal King Midas--everything he touches turns to shit. I would add this corollary--then he has the shit gilded and calls it 18 Karat gold.

You mean all this time he's been saying "Make American Grates Again"? I'm so confused.

If you look at some ancient Roman statues, there is often a visible join on the neck. That's because, when a hated emperor or prominent citizen died, the frugal Romans would knock the head off and replace it with someone more palatable. When he's gone, detrumpification will provide a lot of jobs.

Tesla's Robotaxis are officially powered by human drivers as it launches ride-hailing in Bay Area Tesla’s ‘Robotaxi’ is now blatantly operated by human drivers as the automaker launches a ride-hailing service in the Bay Area...

Look, everyone, Leon just invented limited human-driven Uber-by-invitation-only and has called it "Robotaxi". It can do everything Uber can do, except serve non-influencers. Which is almost everybody.
#robotaxi

First, though, let's kill all the lawyers.

This nutjob on nutjob violence must stop.

I'm a fan of books that play with the concept of time, like "Life after Life" by Kate Atkinson, "Time's Arrow" by Martin Amis, "The 7-1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle" by Stuart Turton, and "4321" by Paul Auster. I'm starting on "The Ministry of Time" by Kaliane Bradley. Can't wait. Or maybe I can.

I just finished book 2 of "On The Calculation Of Volume" by Solvej Balle. 5 of the 7 volumes have been published in this series--two have been translated from Danish. I will be anxiously awaiting book 3, due in November. Unlike the narrator, Tara Selter, I'm subject to the vagaries of time.
#BookSky

Every once in a while, Google's shortening of headlines leads to a greater truth--as in this case where the headline (but not the article) suggests that Trump doesn't want to destroy Leon's companies, he wants Leon to destroy Leon's companies. Which sounds about right.

This is an actual real headline on the actual real Motley Fool website. In the article Leon is quoted:

"...we will probably have autonomous ride-hailing in probably half the population of the US by the end of the year."

Translated from Leonese:
probably/ˈpräbəblē/adverb
"in no fucking way"

"Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country"
President John F. Kennedy

“Who gives a fuck about Christmas stuff and decoration, but I need to do it, right?”
Melania Trump

"Who do you have to fuck to get something named after you in DC?"
America

Is this a "find the mistakes" Hegseth post? Besides the typical AI distortions, Trump (with absurdly large Hellboy-like hands) seems to be pounding a spittoon, while Hegseth (identifiable only because of the giant tent card in front of him) has apparently drained his whiskey lowball and is now sad.

When is god showing up with drinking water, food, clothing and shelter? No, I mean at exactly what time? That’s what I thought. Fuck prayer—get them some goddamn necessities.

Trump still would have won in 2024 even if everyone had turned out to vote, Pew finds In 2024, 64% of the eligible-voting population turned out, the second highest in 120 years. New data show that even if all those voters who stayed home had voted, Trump would still be president today.

This is the biggest load of horseshit NPR has ever dumped on the public. It measures the horse race which has nothing to do with the outcome. It's not how many or who votes but where they vote. How many didn't vote in MI, WI, AZ--those are the numbers that count. NPR and Pew should be ashamed.
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Zohran Mamdani declares historic victory in New York City mayoral primary after Cuomo concedes ‘Tonight is his night,’ says ex-governor as progressive state representative tells supporters ‘we made history’

Andrew Cuomo after conceding to Zohran Mamdani in the New York Mayoral Dem primary:

“He put together a great campaign and he touched young people..."

Touching young people, ironically, is one of the reasons Cuomo didn't win.

Eisenhower warned us about the military-industrial complex, but the Musk-Thiel matrix may be more dangerous.

"Big Balls" has left the building.

Except, of course, for their own lives. They'll save themselves, even if it means burning everything else down.

It's worth noting that, in the Iranian press, civilians aren't being killed by this war. They're being "martyred". From an article on an ambulance destroyed by an Israeli strike:

"All occupants of the ambulance – including the driver, the patient, and the patient’s companion – were martyred."

In the Israel-Iran war, Huckabee wants Trump to follow scripture over strategy ***

Joining a religious war in the Middle East as Crusaders isn't the worst idea I've heard this year--it's the worst fucking idea I've ever heard. It's almost like the Christo-fascist right never learns from past mistakes.

Looked like somebody hooked a big one. Wait, they're all big ones.

In the Terminator movies and other science fiction, robots are responsible for operating the killing machinery of humans, to bad ends. Elon Musk, a man with no sense of what it is to be human, wants machines to operate lethal devices that kill 1.3M people a year. I'm not sure this is a good idea.

If I were a parent in PA, I wouldn't want his child to go to my kid's daycare either. If he's any guide, the kid would drag the cumulative IQ of the group down by 50 points.

Really? Because I won't be sleeping tonight after seeing this. Or possibly ever again.

Starship’s bad year gets worse after a late-night explosion in South Texas SpaceX had high hopes for Starship in 2025, but it’s been one setback after another.

We're learning lots of new sciency phrases from SpaceX:

Rapid unscheduled disassembly--big fucking explosion
Automatic safing procedure--big fucking explosion
Major anomaly--big fucking explosion

Your tax dollars at work.
#SpaceX
#Musk