Better France should put sanctions on their entire mirage/rafale fleet no more parts no more nothing.

In a tiny village in Tuscany, up in the hills near a small town called Montalcino, this memorial is on the wall of the church. 3 sets of brothers, 28 men dead, all privates bar 3 NCOs, from a village of maybe 200. And no one remembers the endless battles of the Isonzo now.

Great model for California to follow. Build economies of scale for electric trains and supporting infrastructure and watch the savings roll in.

Timeline diagram for the SMART extension to Windsor. Top says "The project is anticipate to be open to the public in Quarter 2 of 2025". Chart lists various activities on a timescale from 2019-2025, including preliminary design, Permitting, civil design-build contractor procurement, systems design, civil design, construction/procurement, funding delay, construction remobilizaiton, civil construction, systems and train call installation, testing and startup. Funding delay is the longest activity, lasting from the beginning of 2021 to near the end of 2023.

Funding delay added *3 years* to the timeline of the SMART extension to Windsor. 3 extra years of extra driving and greenhouse gas emissions. We need to end patchwork funding and fully fund the State Rail Plan if we want a modern rail network on the timescales demanded by climate change.

@derparrot.bsky.social ladies and gentlemen the supposed leader of the free world.
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Future Proofing
#polandball #polandballart #countryballs #comics #comedy

"Hey fellow kids! What's a drone? Is that one of your myspace meymeys? Whats a stealth? What you mean no radar signature? Back in my day I trained for suicidal low level high speed strikes. Can't see you if you're a fast boy. I'm a fast boy. That's why my wings crank back like a Opel convertible."

Everyone was better off when Biden was president.

100 Present, He is now their St Peter.

Map of Proposed Amtrak Stops from 2024 Metro Rail Integration Study Map shows a new Metrolink line from Chatsworth Station to Anaheim and continuing onto Laguna Niguel

This is the type of totally new service LinkUS would unlock. It benefits Stern's constituents, is located in LA county, and has nearly $1B in missing funding, yet it's been absent from LA's funding demands. The proposed cuts to regional rail funding could put it further in jeopardy.

Cover page for the paper, which says “Against Patchwork Funding: How Multi-year Investment Frameworks Can Deliver Rail Service Infrastructure Cheaper and Faster” Californians for Electric Rail June 2025. Image shows a dollar cut up into many pieces over a railroad track

Funding is a major, underappreciated contributor to the high construction costs and long timelines that hold back electrification. In our new policy paper, Against Patchwork Funding, we propose a smarter way to fund rail: Multi-year Investment Frameworks. 🧵 calelectricrail.org/against-patc...

As if that will do anything.

Screw this. Slowly like a frog being boiled in the pot, we are edging closer and closer to the inevitable. Eventually Russia will make a move that kills someone in Poland or the Baltics. And the same who swept this under a rug will claim they didn't see it coming.

We are dangerously close to doing with this war what the Americans did with the Afghanistan war. Making it a part of the mundane background noise of every day life.

"Here we go!"

>does nothing

My faceplanting for the 999th time that we have Orange Julius as our president.

Poland has every reason to kick him out at this point.

Question of the day:

Is President tRump f*cking Satan? 👹

#TheMoreYouKnow 🌈

"I never wrote a picture in my life" he says.

"It's all a Democrat Hoax" he says.

$10 Billion lawsuit vs. the Wall Street Journal still on he says.

Wonder what he'll say in the deposition when asked about his pal EPSTEIN & their daily "wonderful secrets"?

#ReleaseTheEPSTEINFilesNOW

YouTube video by Second Wind YouTube Is Crushing Our Viewership

It would seem our friends in YT have, once more, dropped a bollock with the algorithm, banning vast swathes of their own content including, surprise, most of my stuff. Have a watch of this which explains what's going on

youtu.be/cpVnx4_yqTo?...

Worse It will be justifed by Nimby scum, who will use this to justify the blocking of major transit expansions.

Oh yes, it's finally happening. The Ukrainian cruise missiles are heading toward Russian targets.

I feel bad for some of them, many do not want be used as show pony's.

Dems cant get their act together to impeach his stupid ass.

meeting of the mindless

The Bolton raid should chill you: my emergency video (full video linked)

adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/emergency-...