Brian Sletten

me paying $30 in gas to buy imported things that have been hit with tariffs bc joe rogan is learning about politics at age 58

🚨 Japan’s Nikkei stock index plunges more than 6%

Celebrate International Women’s Day March 8, 2026

The best way to celebrate International Women’s Day would be to ensure that all women and girls have permanent and full equality in rights and liberties every day, everywhere.

#InternationalWomen’sDay #IWD2026

Markets are *very* unhappy about developments in Iran.

A black background graphic with the seal of the American Foreign Service Association at the top. In large gold text the headline reads “A Diplomatic Vacuum in the Middle East.” Below it, white text lists several countries and states that U.S. embassies in Egypt, Iraq, Kuwait, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE have no confirmed ambassadors. The phrase “NO confirmed ambassadors” is highlighted in gold for emphasis.

Seven embassies. No ambassadors. Rubio’s 🤮 masterclass in diplomatic failure.

the president has no idea what he has set in motion. none.

www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

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NASA’s DART Mission Changed Orbit of Asteroid Didymos Around Sun The spacecraft changed the binary system’s orbit, confirming that a kinetic impactor can be an effective planetary defense technique for deflecting a near-Earth object.

NASA demonstrates kinetic impacts can be used to deflect asteroid orbits potentially for safety.

#nasa #science #space

www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-d...

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YouTube video by JJ. Sandal New Model Army - You Weren't There

Watching today’s news and thinking about New Model Army :

#youwerentthere #newmodelarmy

youtu.be/rg_1No-TDHU

YouTube video by NPR Music De La Soul: Tiny Desk Concert

Hey.

De La, yo.

#delasoul #npr #tinydesk

youtu.be/5AVYDHTOixU

Judge orders feds to return ICE detainees' missing property within 30 days A judge ordered the Department of Homeland Security and Minnesota U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen to either return lost property to released detainees unlawfully arrested during Operation Metro Surge or pr...

A federal judge ordered the Department of Homeland Security to return or replace property taken from unlawfully arrested ICE detainees and released without their belongings, giving the government 30 days to comply.

I don't ever want to hear that it's wrong to call them Nazis again.

Google just gave Sundar Pichai a $692M pay package | TechCrunch Most of it is tied to performance, including new stock incentives linked to Waymo and Wing, its drone delivery venture.

Gilded age completely dillusional... the world can’t keep going like this.

CEO wage goes up, lowly employees got laid off. Business as usual, I'm sure we'll all receive higher quality service from Google /s

techcrunch.com/2026/03/07/g...

Tonight @thekns.bsky.social heard from her college roommate that her daughter had started to play hockey because of the Olympics. This girl is a Hong Kong Cavalier. I expect to be talking about her in the future.

This is the time that we opened for The Cramps, Danceteria, on Halloween as “it crawled from the south” and we only played songs about death. I wore a pink gingham bunny suit complete with bunny ears mitts and footies. The sweatshirt came off after the first song. Photo by Laura Levine. 1982? ‘83?

The fact that the old catalog (No Doy, Headseed, Fatboy, Tin Cans and Car Tires) and the new stuff and the covers are all good is a testament to the talent and enduring appeal of this band. #moetheband

Your dwelling is your oyster.

Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.

Norwegian counterterrorism police have cordoned off the US Embassy in Oslo following reports of a blast.

Long-delayed Jan. 6 plaque honoring police installed in Capitol at 4 a.m. The memorial honoring officers who defended the Capitol was required by law to be installed by March 2023.

Long-delayed Jan. 6 plaque honoring police installed in Capitol at 4 a.m. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

It's a sign of the times that AI companies are deciding whether or not to allow the military to engage in mass surveillance of US citizens and this is treated as a legitimate debate of two reasonable positions.

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but the Iranian people are not our enemy

Americans are not prepared for the reaping of what our government is sowing.

A federal judge in DC rules that Kari Lake was not lawfully appointed and that actions she took as the claimed head of USAGM "shall have no force or effect," including last August's RIFs at the Voice of America.

Good visual reminder that war not only has large human and economic costs, it can have environmental impacts as well.