Since late last night and into this morning, literally all of the “normal” democrat friends I follow have posted this picture; often as their new profile picture. This is to give you a sense of what those people are doing. From the pic, too bad Zelensky isn’t dead, as they’ve already made him into a “martyr”. Note the Soviet-esque style of the picture:
I was sad to learn this morning that the Wanamaker/Macy’s in center city Philly is closing its doors this month, and with that comes the potential silence of the great pipe organ and an end to “let’s meet up at the eagle!”.
I remember all of those clothes, and that NONE of them were suitable for short, chubby girls.
And the shoes hurt my feet.
Other than that, they looked great, and we haven’t had nearly as much fun with fashion since then.
I did benefit from the gaucho pants, as I didn’t have to cut and hem the bottom.
For context, capri pants hit me right above the ankle.
Nice trip down memory lane!
I wore those shoes–they were very comfortable for me. I could not stand polyester then and I do not wear it now–but it did have a big effect on the clothing industry!
Just another open-thread comment about some news from the back pages.
Microsoft has announced that it’s shutting down Skype VOIP (voice over internet protocol). I haven’t used Skype in years, and I never used it after it was taken over by ebay, and then by Microsoft, so I’m not surprised by the news. Even so, it’s like hearing that a favorite childhood candy has disappeared from the shelves.
I used Skype quite a bit during its first five years or so. That was when I was working outside the country. Skype made talking to widely scattered friends, colleagues, and prospective employers a cheap thrill.
Now, more than twenty years later, I look back at those days with nostalgia, and the feelings leak onto Skype. Of course, that can’t be a good business model for software. RIP Skype.
Sorry. There wasn’t one appealing aspect to the 1970s visual aesthetic. Only a clown would try to sell it.
Until a few days ago I had never heard of the hard rock/heavy metal group Disturbed, or David Draiman. Then I came upon this cover of “The Sound of Silence”. Judging by the fact that it has over 1 Billion views, and seemingly a half billion reaction videos to it, many of you may already be familiar with it. If not, give it a listen, very powerful. Not to prejudice you, but Paul Simon loved it.
As powerful as the music, are Draiman’s words in support of Israel. Here is an interview on Israeli television in which he comes across as very sane and intelligent.
The picture physicsguy linked brings home the divide in this country. It’s reminiscent of the Che posters the bright avant-garde kids hung in their college dorms back when. The left sure did a job infecting its poison into generations of highly intelligent and extremely well educated people in the professions. They got you in college when your mind was open and after those adolescent years of rebellion. They presented a vision of an utopian future with universal equality, led by hero’s like Che and Ho.
They’ve now latched onto the freedom fighter from Ukraine – the comedian in a T-shirt – bravely leading his country into oblivion.
I don’t think the analogy of Zelensky to Ché works well. Ché was a sociopathic monster.
@The Other Chuck
Agreed, it is reminiscent of a lot of the Che art, and even as someone who has generally been sympathetic to the Ukrainians and Zelenskyy it comes across as eerily cultish and making the conflict far more about Zelenskyy personally than it was (Turtlerridge farms still remembers how Zelenskyy ran against Poroshenko as a Dove who would make a deal with the Kremlin to obtain peace). I believe Zelenskyy and Ukraine deserve support up to a significant point, but I have never been fond of treating either as cult objects devoid of flaw.
They aren’t and never have been.
They’ve now latched onto the freedom fighter from Ukraine – the comedian in a T-shirt – bravely leading his country into oblivion.
To be fair to him, he is leading his country to oblivion because Ukraine since 2014 has dealt with the issue of how the Kremlin is not willing to cut and abide by deals like Minsk I and II, and how unlike say Georgia (which was sufficiently “alien” enough to be undesirable to annex in its entirety) an independent Ukraine is an affront to pan-Russian, Eurasianist, and Neo-Soviet types. Zelenskyy came to power in an election where he ran as the Dove against Poroshenko claiming he would cut a deal with the Russian government to end the war for good. That was in 2019ish.
He raised a number of policies, such as a mutual pullback from the Donbas and a Silesia style Plebiscite where the locals would vote for which country they wanted to be a part of and the place would be divided along those lines. These cost him a lot of flak from his own countrymen (including a few Soros front pieces) and some backers, but saw the Russian government not even deign to respond. And when the Ukrainian government (buoyed in part by things like Trump’s reopening of lethal aid) began making progress towards reclaiming the Donbas, Putin picked an opportunity and escalated the war.
One of the major follies I’ve seen, particularly by the Left, has been an odd tunnel vision about Great Men syndrome. Making this all about cults of personality or great personalities. Trump, Zelenskyy, Putin, Xi, Macron. Which certainly has its place (Trump in particular was a transformative figure and trendsetter) but is easily overstated. There are times when leaders don’t lead as much as people think, and things they can’t really change effectively.
Trying to make the war about the Great Zelenskyy (by either side, those supporting and those opposed to him) I think misses the forest for the sake of the trees and in particular what alternative Ukrainian leaders or governments would probably be like. Namely: Probably not more dovish.
we once thought Hamid Karzai, was one of these, with the elegant couture, but this populzai pashtun couldn’t live up to the legend of shah massoud, then again Massoud couldn’t like up to the legend that Ken Follett spun among others, and after his assasination by Al Queda operatives from Belgium well he became an oversight, as a Tadjik among the Pashtuns his odds were not good
and his fiefdom rarely extended beyond the Kabul district, the patron of much of the 20 year Afghan expedition, curiously, he hasn’t had the fate of Shaj Shuja, in his sanctuary in Dubai, maybe the Taliban emirate will catch up with him, The Times seems to drag out every nit some corrupt police chief there, some warlord here, rationalizing the for the Haqquani gang, that rules Kabul, and that Sullivan Milley and co capitulated to, with the punctuation at Abbey Gates,
But we do rotate between Devils and Angels, like FDR, said of Somoza, and the Progs would treat Daniel Ortega who we thought we had vanquished in 1990s, but like Jason Voorhes, reemerged in the 00s, and now has been in power for nearly 20 years,
Duvalier who was one of the least likely candidates for ally,
except for his geographic proximity and Aristide, the best can be said was he was a poor administrator, but many of his successors well they did not make themselves proud, and they were cursed by the Clinton Foundation looting crew, which benefited in large part from USAID
I still have one of my old Nehru shirts laying around – or is that 60s? It’s in good shape mostly because I didn’t wear it much. Funny – it doesn’t seem to fit anymore …
Zelensky: Seems he shot himself in the foot after he put it in his own mouth. DJT is not FJB and I think Z didn’t really catch on to that – even after campaigning for FJB last Oct. Sooner that guy goes away, the sooner that mess over there will be over with.
According to this, Zelensky’s cabinet endorsed the mineral deal on Thursday, and all that was left was for Zelensky to sign the deal on Friday; also, the claim is that it was Zelensky or aides who pushed for the Oval Office meeting.
Had predicted earlier that AOC would be DEMs 2028 Presidential Candidate – then later brought up Fetterman as another candidate if AOC couldn’t move closer to center__center in that case would be abandoning the Left’s Child Grooming, Child Butchery, and Trans stuff. Meanwhile:
Bill Maher made a shocking endorsement for a ‘Trump-like’ Democrat to run for president in the next election: Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman.
The ‘Real Time’ host said that ‘Democrats need to find their Trump’ during his show on Friday evening, and he thinks Fetterman might be right for the job.
The only item on the fashions list I ever wore was bell bottoms. And I turned 17 in 1970. Of course, I’m a guy, and men’s fashions in the 70s were absurd.
the circumstance might necessitate the Russians back to fend off the Turks and their allies like Al Sharaa not to mention Qatar,
FWIW, re casualties in the Ukraine War:
“. . . .Zelenskyy reported earlier this month that around 45,100 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed with an additional 390,000 wounded. . . . A report by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) estimates that a minimum of 172,000 Russian troops have been killed and 611,000 wounded, of which at least 376,000 are severely wounded.”
Ocalan orders the PKK to dissolve in a historic statement
Armed group’s leader says it should lay down its weapons as armed struggle is no longer needed for Kurdish rights
Elon Musk revealed on Joe Rogan’s podcast that he’d uncovered the Social Security Administration to be the ‘biggest Ponzi scheme of all time’ during his time at DOGE.
They needed DOGE to discover that?! Anyway, under the Rule of Law – it is OK if *BIG* Govt breaks the Law…
If you want to keep kids off drugs just show them pictures of how people dressed in the 1960s and 70s.
No one I knew wore any of that “70’s” fashion. For that I am eternally grateful.
Talking with Large Language Models…about a Civil War railroading question and two financial modeling problems,
Pretty much missed all those fashion trends of the later 1960s, and early 1970s. Was in HS, then college, and mostly didn’t see them, and/or thought that they were silly. Boot cut jeans? Sure. Bell bottoms? Silly. I thought that Leisure Suits made you look like a gigilo. Living in CO, we were more influenced by CA beach wear culture, with a CO twist – such as either hiking or cowboy boots. Plus a more hippie take. For example, my 105 lb girlfriend shared overalls with a 160 lb friend. In college, the girls pretty much just wore jeans, like the guys, only sometimes fit a bit more tightly. And when we would dress up for a party, it would be blazers, slacks or jeans, and button down shirts. Anyone showing up in a leisure suit would be immediately suspected of being either a Zoomie (USAFA) or Doggie (soldier).
Colorado Springs, Bruce Hayden?
David Foster, very interesting. It spent a fair amount of time drawing you out– is that a technique that expands it’s database?
I was struck by this sentence from Grok:
Compared to today’s often cynical or detached tone, that warmth feels like a time capsule.
I wonder where Grok got the conclusion that today’s writing is cynical? Did Grok have the definition of cynical and then after reading millions of publications decide the style met the definition, or did someone tell Grok that’s today’s writing style, but why would that come up in an interaction?
Althouse had a similar experience using a animated film and the depth of Grok’s understanding of the film’s ambiguity/symbolism was pretty impressive.
Brian E…it certainly *acts* like it is trying to gather new information. I don’t understand to what extent the Inference component of Grok has some kind of built-in Inference capability, versus to what extent it purely gives answers based on on matrix of associations built by the Training module.
IrishOtter, wonder how many Korean troops are left? Will Kim send more?
My Bellbottoms were US Navy issue. When I got out in 1970 I did buy some of the colorful shirts.
Israeli forces are preparing to advance toward Damascus, Syria, to defend the Druze suburb of Jaramana, currently under attack by the Syrian regime (HTS).
Druze reinforcements have arrived in Jaramana with support from the Israeli Air Force.
Here’s how this could unfold:
Yesterday, clashes erupted between the Syrian regime, led by HTS, and Druze forces in Damascus. The Druze are a religious minority that has faced persecution in the past by HTS.
Israel has vowed to protect them. 2/4
Last week, Israel announced it will attack any HTS-affiliated forces that move south of Damascus. 3/4
By fighting off HTS and other Jihadist forces, Israel is creating an autonomous Druze territory in southern Syria. This simultaneously protects the Druze, and repels hostile forces away from Israel’s border. 4/4
Brian Glenn is not only Marjorie Taylor Green’s boyfriend – he is also with the Conservative television outlet Real America Voice.
And there were some tell-tale clues that not all was as it seemed. Perhaps the biggest was Trump’s sly wink to American reporter Brian Glenn who riled Zelensky – wearing military-style clothing – by asking: ‘Why don’t you wear a suit… Do you own a suit?’
Glenn, incidentally, just happens to be the boyfriend of far-Right congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, who tweeted afterwards about how proud she was of him.
No pictures yet, but Firefly appears to have successfully landed their Blue Ghost lander on the moon!
The pictures are starting to come in. Here’s a pretty good one:
Netanyahu warns: ‘Hamas making big mistake, there will be further consequences’
PM explains decision to halt aid to Gaza was made in response to Hamas’ rejection of the Witkoff ceasefire extension and stealing of the humanitarian aid that has gone into Gaza until now.
Hamas has been making big mistakes since it launched the barbaric Oct. 7 attack.
A topical, timely assessment expected on Midrats (cdrsalamner) this afternoon.
Midrats podcast may be available without a Substack subscription or maybe not. It usually airs 15:00 PST.
When Elon Musk reported on all of the millions of people in the Social Security database who were listed as being living—and ranging from 100 to a few over 300 years of age—cumulatively tens of millions of people, it didn’t click.
But put this together with the estimates of 20 million or more illegal aliens who have invaded our country, the prevalence of identity theft, and reports that there are rings of aliens in this country who specialize in providing phony documents to illegals.
Then, you suddenly realize just who many of these 20 million could be—illegal aliens who have assumed the identities and Social Security numbers of Americans who have died.
If this is the case, it explains why Democrats and those on the left are trying so hard to limit DOGEs access to Social Security and to other government records, because this could/will likely result in millions of illegal aliens and potential Democrat voters being identified, prosecuted, and deported.
Since late last night and into this morning, literally all of the “normal” democrat friends I follow have posted this picture; often as their new profile picture. This is to give you a sense of what those people are doing. From the pic, too bad Zelensky isn’t dead, as they’ve already made him into a “martyr”. Note the Soviet-esque style of the picture:
https://scontent-atl3-3.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/480060593_10161217359743020_7125660443914339770_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_p526x296_tt6&_nc_cat=1&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=833d8c&_nc_ohc=e4-TvpOwAKYQ7kNvgGMWl8G&_nc_oc=Adho6UywxWyzJ-cUtC9NBSik5UMAqpzaTV1ciOW77buUuU6kaD9ou94_k_fL1qRnUFs&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent-atl3-3.xx&_nc_gid=AgnQZlkmfS7rG2OIISjF293&oh=00_AYAeGOO_BEtRuYKZrEPwQhOoNN_mGggzFCOUkDJG0gCWlg&oe=67C8DFFA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHthqkXM37I
I was sad to learn this morning that the Wanamaker/Macy’s in center city Philly is closing its doors this month, and with that comes the potential silence of the great pipe organ and an end to “let’s meet up at the eagle!”.
https://youtu.be/tX0Ct0HHSzU
I remember all of those clothes, and that NONE of them were suitable for short, chubby girls.
And the shoes hurt my feet.
Other than that, they looked great, and we haven’t had nearly as much fun with fashion since then.
I did benefit from the gaucho pants, as I didn’t have to cut and hem the bottom.
For context, capri pants hit me right above the ankle.
Nice trip down memory lane!
I wore those shoes–they were very comfortable for me. I could not stand polyester then and I do not wear it now–but it did have a big effect on the clothing industry!
Just another open-thread comment about some news from the back pages.
Microsoft has announced that it’s shutting down Skype VOIP (voice over internet protocol). I haven’t used Skype in years, and I never used it after it was taken over by ebay, and then by Microsoft, so I’m not surprised by the news. Even so, it’s like hearing that a favorite childhood candy has disappeared from the shelves.
I used Skype quite a bit during its first five years or so. That was when I was working outside the country. Skype made talking to widely scattered friends, colleagues, and prospective employers a cheap thrill.
Now, more than twenty years later, I look back at those days with nostalgia, and the feelings leak onto Skype. Of course, that can’t be a good business model for software. RIP Skype.
Sorry. There wasn’t one appealing aspect to the 1970s visual aesthetic. Only a clown would try to sell it.
Until a few days ago I had never heard of the hard rock/heavy metal group Disturbed, or David Draiman. Then I came upon this cover of “The Sound of Silence”. Judging by the fact that it has over 1 Billion views, and seemingly a half billion reaction videos to it, many of you may already be familiar with it. If not, give it a listen, very powerful. Not to prejudice you, but Paul Simon loved it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9Dg-g7t2l4
As powerful as the music, are Draiman’s words in support of Israel. Here is an interview on Israeli television in which he comes across as very sane and intelligent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e3-GmlVmQo
The group’s song “Hold on to Memories” was played at the Bibas funeral.
https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/ssagzl
The picture physicsguy linked brings home the divide in this country. It’s reminiscent of the Che posters the bright avant-garde kids hung in their college dorms back when. The left sure did a job infecting its poison into generations of highly intelligent and extremely well educated people in the professions. They got you in college when your mind was open and after those adolescent years of rebellion. They presented a vision of an utopian future with universal equality, led by hero’s like Che and Ho.
They’ve now latched onto the freedom fighter from Ukraine – the comedian in a T-shirt – bravely leading his country into oblivion.
I don’t think the analogy of Zelensky to Ché works well. Ché was a sociopathic monster.
@The Other Chuck
Agreed, it is reminiscent of a lot of the Che art, and even as someone who has generally been sympathetic to the Ukrainians and Zelenskyy it comes across as eerily cultish and making the conflict far more about Zelenskyy personally than it was (Turtlerridge farms still remembers how Zelenskyy ran against Poroshenko as a Dove who would make a deal with the Kremlin to obtain peace). I believe Zelenskyy and Ukraine deserve support up to a significant point, but I have never been fond of treating either as cult objects devoid of flaw.
They aren’t and never have been.
To be fair to him, he is leading his country to oblivion because Ukraine since 2014 has dealt with the issue of how the Kremlin is not willing to cut and abide by deals like Minsk I and II, and how unlike say Georgia (which was sufficiently “alien” enough to be undesirable to annex in its entirety) an independent Ukraine is an affront to pan-Russian, Eurasianist, and Neo-Soviet types. Zelenskyy came to power in an election where he ran as the Dove against Poroshenko claiming he would cut a deal with the Russian government to end the war for good. That was in 2019ish.
He raised a number of policies, such as a mutual pullback from the Donbas and a Silesia style Plebiscite where the locals would vote for which country they wanted to be a part of and the place would be divided along those lines. These cost him a lot of flak from his own countrymen (including a few Soros front pieces) and some backers, but saw the Russian government not even deign to respond. And when the Ukrainian government (buoyed in part by things like Trump’s reopening of lethal aid) began making progress towards reclaiming the Donbas, Putin picked an opportunity and escalated the war.
One of the major follies I’ve seen, particularly by the Left, has been an odd tunnel vision about Great Men syndrome. Making this all about cults of personality or great personalities. Trump, Zelenskyy, Putin, Xi, Macron. Which certainly has its place (Trump in particular was a transformative figure and trendsetter) but is easily overstated. There are times when leaders don’t lead as much as people think, and things they can’t really change effectively.
Trying to make the war about the Great Zelenskyy (by either side, those supporting and those opposed to him) I think misses the forest for the sake of the trees and in particular what alternative Ukrainian leaders or governments would probably be like. Namely: Probably not more dovish.
we once thought Hamid Karzai, was one of these, with the elegant couture, but this populzai pashtun couldn’t live up to the legend of shah massoud, then again Massoud couldn’t like up to the legend that Ken Follett spun among others, and after his assasination by Al Queda operatives from Belgium well he became an oversight, as a Tadjik among the Pashtuns his odds were not good
and his fiefdom rarely extended beyond the Kabul district, the patron of much of the 20 year Afghan expedition, curiously, he hasn’t had the fate of Shaj Shuja, in his sanctuary in Dubai, maybe the Taliban emirate will catch up with him, The Times seems to drag out every nit some corrupt police chief there, some warlord here, rationalizing the for the Haqquani gang, that rules Kabul, and that Sullivan Milley and co capitulated to, with the punctuation at Abbey Gates,
But we do rotate between Devils and Angels, like FDR, said of Somoza, and the Progs would treat Daniel Ortega who we thought we had vanquished in 1990s, but like Jason Voorhes, reemerged in the 00s, and now has been in power for nearly 20 years,
Duvalier who was one of the least likely candidates for ally,
except for his geographic proximity and Aristide, the best can be said was he was a poor administrator, but many of his successors well they did not make themselves proud, and they were cursed by the Clinton Foundation looting crew, which benefited in large part from USAID
I still have one of my old Nehru shirts laying around – or is that 60s? It’s in good shape mostly because I didn’t wear it much. Funny – it doesn’t seem to fit anymore …
Zelensky: Seems he shot himself in the foot after he put it in his own mouth. DJT is not FJB and I think Z didn’t really catch on to that – even after campaigning for FJB last Oct. Sooner that guy goes away, the sooner that mess over there will be over with.
For the fanboys.
Say it’s not so!
https://ar.inspiredpencil.com/pictures-2023/vladimir-putin-riding-a-horse
According to this, Zelensky’s cabinet endorsed the mineral deal on Thursday, and all that was left was for Zelensky to sign the deal on Friday; also, the claim is that it was Zelensky or aides who pushed for the Oval Office meeting.
https://nypost.com/2025/02/28/us-news/top-zelensky-adviser-pushed-for-oval-office-mineral-deal-signing-against-trump-envoy-kelloggs-advice/
Well that other photo link didn’t work, so not to dissappoint the fans:
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/russian-prime-minister-vladimir-putin-rides-a-horse-during-news-photo/585139858
Had predicted earlier that AOC would be DEMs 2028 Presidential Candidate – then later brought up Fetterman as another candidate if AOC couldn’t move closer to center__center in that case would be abandoning the Left’s Child Grooming, Child Butchery, and Trans stuff. Meanwhile:
Bill Maher makes surprising endorsement for ‘Trump-like’ Democrat to run for president
The only item on the fashions list I ever wore was bell bottoms. And I turned 17 in 1970. Of course, I’m a guy, and men’s fashions in the 70s were absurd.
Girls, OTOH, looked great in miniskirts.
the deal only extends to https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hyjvsseo1e#autoplay
as usual Syria’s yields complicated alliances, specially for Kurds and Druze,
https://x.com/NiohBerg/status/1895917483510628449
the circumstance might necessitate the Russians back to fend off the Turks and their allies like Al Sharaa not to mention Qatar,
FWIW, re casualties in the Ukraine War:
“. . . .Zelenskyy reported earlier this month that around 45,100 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed with an additional 390,000 wounded. . . . A report by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) estimates that a minimum of 172,000 Russian troops have been killed and 611,000 wounded, of which at least 376,000 are severely wounded.”
See: https://www.iiss.org/online-analysis/military-balance/2025/02/combat-losses-and-manpower-challenges-underscore-the-importance-of-mass-in-ukraine/
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/ocalan-dissolve-pkk-historic-statement
Elon Musk shocks the country as he reveals the ‘biggest Ponzi scheme of all time’ he’s unmasked through DOGE
They needed DOGE to discover that?! Anyway, under the Rule of Law – it is OK if *BIG* Govt breaks the Law…
If you want to keep kids off drugs just show them pictures of how people dressed in the 1960s and 70s.
No one I knew wore any of that “70’s” fashion. For that I am eternally grateful.
Talking with Large Language Models…about a Civil War railroading question and two financial modeling problems,
https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/73409.html
Pretty much missed all those fashion trends of the later 1960s, and early 1970s. Was in HS, then college, and mostly didn’t see them, and/or thought that they were silly. Boot cut jeans? Sure. Bell bottoms? Silly. I thought that Leisure Suits made you look like a gigilo. Living in CO, we were more influenced by CA beach wear culture, with a CO twist – such as either hiking or cowboy boots. Plus a more hippie take. For example, my 105 lb girlfriend shared overalls with a 160 lb friend. In college, the girls pretty much just wore jeans, like the guys, only sometimes fit a bit more tightly. And when we would dress up for a party, it would be blazers, slacks or jeans, and button down shirts. Anyone showing up in a leisure suit would be immediately suspected of being either a Zoomie (USAFA) or Doggie (soldier).
Colorado Springs, Bruce Hayden?
David Foster, very interesting. It spent a fair amount of time drawing you out– is that a technique that expands it’s database?
I was struck by this sentence from Grok:
I wonder where Grok got the conclusion that today’s writing is cynical? Did Grok have the definition of cynical and then after reading millions of publications decide the style met the definition, or did someone tell Grok that’s today’s writing style, but why would that come up in an interaction?
Althouse had a similar experience using a animated film and the depth of Grok’s understanding of the film’s ambiguity/symbolism was pretty impressive.
Brian E…it certainly *acts* like it is trying to gather new information. I don’t understand to what extent the Inference component of Grok has some kind of built-in Inference capability, versus to what extent it purely gives answers based on on matrix of associations built by the Training module.
IrishOtter, wonder how many Korean troops are left? Will Kim send more?
My Bellbottoms were US Navy issue. When I got out in 1970 I did buy some of the colorful shirts.
https://x.com/nhazony/status/1895954842662883767
Maps at link
Yeah, the Z T V interview is looking more like a setup—targeting Z— each day…
Does Trump’s wink to Marjorie Taylor Green’s reporter boyfriend Brian Glenn prove the White House bust-up with Zelensky was a ‘planned political mugging’?
Brian Glenn is not only Marjorie Taylor Green’s boyfriend – he is also with the Conservative television outlet Real America Voice.
No pictures yet, but Firefly appears to have successfully landed their Blue Ghost lander on the moon!
The pictures are starting to come in. Here’s a pretty good one:
https://photo.24liveblog.com/3791954721687814391/20250302111829_119247.png
Don’t know how long it will stay live.
That is a great photo, thanks, mkent!
Open Thread Sunday: European defense in isolation.
Could Europe Defend Itself Without the US? – The US Split, Rearmament & Defence Independence – Perun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7giYIisLuaA
No timestamps provided.
He’s an Australian BTW.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/404736
Hamas has been making big mistakes since it launched the barbaric Oct. 7 attack.
A topical, timely assessment expected on Midrats (cdrsalamner) this afternoon.
https://cdrsalamander.substack.com/p/securing-ukraines-future-security?publication_id=247761&post_id=158238881&isFreemail=false&r=dys9j&triedRedirect=true
Midrats podcast may be available without a Substack subscription or maybe not. It usually airs 15:00 PST.
When Elon Musk reported on all of the millions of people in the Social Security database who were listed as being living—and ranging from 100 to a few over 300 years of age—cumulatively tens of millions of people, it didn’t click.
But put this together with the estimates of 20 million or more illegal aliens who have invaded our country, the prevalence of identity theft, and reports that there are rings of aliens in this country who specialize in providing phony documents to illegals.
Then, you suddenly realize just who many of these 20 million could be—illegal aliens who have assumed the identities and Social Security numbers of Americans who have died.
If this is the case, it explains why Democrats and those on the left are trying so hard to limit DOGEs access to Social Security and to other government records, because this could/will likely result in millions of illegal aliens and potential Democrat voters being identified, prosecuted, and deported.
They dont forget to steal
https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1896328567614742901
Good grief
https://xcancel.com/HowieCarrShow/status/1896301972460064780