Captain Jake

Be the better person. See the higher calling. Please join together in soaring above the darkness like a flock of Jonathon Livingston Seagulls.

If you truly understand freedom and liberty, you will understand that it is precisely because of the very nature of what Charlie Kirk said that his murder is an attack on free speech.

Wonder how many people Trump is negotiating foreign policy and tariffs with, that have children and other relatives going to Harvard and other Ivy League schools ?

The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.

- Carl Sagan, Cosmos

Can we stop calling these atrocities "deportations." These people sold to El Salvadorian prisons were not deported. Deportation is a process that did not take place. They were rounded up and removed with no process. They were kidnapped, not deported.

Tracks

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

Musk’s takeover of US health agencies raises pandemic threat, experts warn Doge wreaks havoc on HHS and CDC as Trump seeks to grant committee sweeping governmental powers The “department of government efficiency”, the Donald Trump-created program known as Doge and headed by the billionaire Elon Musk, has accessed or requested…

Musk’s takeover of US health agencies raises pandemic threat, experts warn

Level 4 autonomous driving is being tested in China by Mercedes Benz.

Thank goodness the United States is setting up tariffs to keep such technology out of the hands of Americans.

Where you at Dems ? You fighting to get them far better severance or going to ignore them, and all others in similar circumstances?

This is just sheer brazen criminality by DOJ. Adams gets federal corruption charges dropped not because there isn’t overwhelming evidence, but because he agrees to help Homan round up migrants. And Homan says the charges will be refiled if Adams doesn’t “come through.”

The Executive Branch pretending to find "fraud" and "corruption" inside itself is like a little boy saying he is doing a colonoscopy with his sister's jump rope.

#DOGE #Musk #Fraud #corruption

One thing that is increasingly obvious to me is that there are at least some wealthy people that did not get their money through great powers of discernment and superior judgement.

#DOGE #MUSK #Coristine

According to actuarial tables, Trump will last about nine more years.

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YouTube video by The Telegraph Elon Musk makes 'Nazi-style salute' at Donald Trump's inauguration parade

Despicable

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The world you believe in exists within you. When you find that external reality does not fit the world within you, which is all the time, this is good news, because it means that what makes you YOU has a purpose, in means your self is not redundant, but has a task put forward by this contradiction.

YouTube video by PinkforallOfficial Pink Floyd - Welcome To The Machine

The Revelation of St Floyd the Divine

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YouTube video by Economics Explained How Massachusetts Became the Richest State in the USA

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How to Get Around the US TikTok Ban TikTok is now unavailable in the United States—and getting around the ban isn’t as simple as using a VPN. Here’s what you need to know.

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Nintendo Finally Reveals Its Next-Gen Console, Confirms Switch 2 Name - IGN Nintendo has finally revealed its next-gen console, the Switch 2.

I love the first Switch, especially since it has The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom. Excited about the upcoming new version.

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YouTube video by StarTalk Why Are the LA Wildfires So Extreme?

Today's video lunch.

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Biden commutes sentences of nearly 2,500 nonviolent drug offenders The announcement follows President Joe Biden’s dramatic step to commute the sentences of 37 federal inmates facing execution to life without parole.

Nobody should be in prison for victimless crimes, especially when some white-color felons get off scot-free.

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There are the same number of Republican voters in Los Angeles County as there are in Louisiana.

David Lynch, Twin Peaks and Mulholland Drive director, dies aged 78 Film-maker who specialised in surreal, noir style mysteries made a string of influential, critically acclaimed works including Wild at Heart and Eraserhead

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You’ve always wondered, here’s the answer: do dogs actually watch TV? You may have noticed your pooch gazing at the screen or seen dogs on TikTok reacting to films. Here’s what science says – including what they like to watch

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I am pretty certain that anybody that looks for happiness in political partisanship will find themselves tending an empty herd of cows.

There is no working class wage that can cover the costs of buying or renting a home that is earthquake, fire and/or hurricane proof.

No Rebuilding

There won't be much rebuilding going on anytime soon for the poorer and middle class communities destroyed by the fires in Los Angeles. 1) Mortgages still come due even though the underlying house is destroyed. Banks can offer forbearance, which means the payments can be delayed, but…

Recent climate changes have outpaced the adaptability of idiots, and the extent to which society can protect fools against the consequences of their folly.