Aaron F West

Update: Gov. Walz confirms that Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband were killed.

Officials are “cautiously optimistic” that state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife will survive their injuries.

law enforcement officials say they made a proactive check at Rep. Hortman's home after a lawmaker who lived nearby was shot and found a "police vehicle in the driveway with emergency lights and what appeared to be a police officer at the door coming out of the house." He was actually the gunman.

Reporter: Wall Street analysts have a new term called the TACO trade.. Saying Trump always chickens out on tariffs…  

Trump: I kick out?

Reporter: Chicken out.

Awesome!

Thinking bout trade negotiations.

Just be your happy self 🌈

I still want pictures of Spider-Man

I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable.

Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.

Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.

Completed Lego 10937 DC Super Heroes Batman Arkham Asylum Breakout today.
Also I made guacamole, cornbread, and chili.
In all, a full day.
Happy Saturday 🌈

2013 sure had a great assortment of characters for DC representation. Now we have, like, 6.

Notably, THIS 2013 Arkham Asylum set is designed in a manner that closely resembled the same location from the Batman: Arkham Asylum video game of 2012.

Anyhow, back then crazy criminals were easy to identify and not likely to be in government positions. A simpler time, if you will.
On to building!

I've had this for 12 years, and I actually got it because it's UH-MAZING, but also because that very fine day at the Columbus Ohio Lego store I had enough V.I.P. points after buying #10237 The Tower of Orthanc that this was massively discounted!

I need a little Justice.

So, why not build something Batman?

Lego #10937
Batman: Arkham Asylum Breakout.

*more in the comments!

Given what this administration is up to, maybe taxes should be suspended in protest.

My brain is done today.

Toy Fair 2025 – M.A.S.K. by Loyal Subjects Preview Event Recap Today The Loyal Subjects officially revealed their new M.A.S.K. retro line to the world at a special event in New York City, one day before Toy Fair 2025 kicks off.  The Loyal Subjects have the licens...

OH MY
*passes out from excitement*

A grassroots movement is calling on all Americans to abstain from shopping with major retailers tomorrow, February 28, as part of an “economic blackout.”

I encourage you to join. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/boycott

"Build me a Klingon Brid-of-Prey worth of Mordor" was what I heard.

Bluebrixx and Lego match well enough.

This alien-like field of mirrors in the desert was once the future of solar energy. It’s closing after just 11 years | CNN From a distance, the Ivanpah solar plant looks like a shimmering lake in the Mojave Desert. Up close, it’s a vast alien-like installation of hundreds of thousand of mirrors pointed at three towers, ea...

Yeah, NCR and The Brotherhood of Steel couldn't make it work either. If only they had sent a Courier with a Big Book of Science to get it going....

#warneverchanges

The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk's Government Takeover Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure.

"Henchmen" or decoy bad-guys. Sure, they will be charged one day, but that day won't be soon enough.

AI can now replicate itself — a milestone that has experts terrified Scientists say AI has crossed a critical 'red line' after demonstrating how two popular large language models could clone themselves.

I'm a real person posting this story link, FYI

They're out of stock on www.bluebrixx.com/en/items?q=K... now, but you should find them on Ebay.

The manuals line up pretty well!

I made the decision that this Klingon Bird-Of-Prey was on my build list, and once I saw the manufacturer offering discounts that made importing the set from Germany a bargain, I had to lock in my tractor beam!

I've seen reviews and heard the quality is on par with Lego.

Now I will boldly go build!

Between unprovoked and foolish trade wars, threatening our allies, eliminating foreign aid, gutting our civil service, preparing to weaken the intel community and FBI, placing inexperienced clowns in key nat sec positions, and supporting our enemies’s agenda, we are weaker by far today than on 1/19.

Bloomberg’s first tariff model shows a drop in GDP of 1.2% and an increase in inflation of 0.7% for the US