Meanwhile, just days before her Senate confirmation vote, Dear Leader pulled back Super MAGA Genius Elsie Stefanik as UN Ambassador. Nobody's admitting, but it's likely because they need her vote from her beet red upstate NY Congressional district and were afraid they'd lose the special if the damn Guv even stopped slow-walking holding it.
The most important thing in the universe to most politicians is keeping their own jobs. I think that, leaving out stupidity and sheer meanness, that is the main reason why Repub politicians suck up to trumpy and to rich donors. I have to wonder, though, at what point they might waver if Dems keep winning post trumpy 2.0 elections.
Nice to hear that some voters have roused themselves from their slumber and recognized that we are on the cusp of becoming an honest-to-God pariah-nation.
Morning spuggers, all well? Cool and damp here with the occasional spot of rain. Calm sea this morning and a row with one of my regatta crews which went really well. Which it should since it is 3/4 of last year's crew. Much calmer than late yesterday evening when the wind had picked up and it was choppy, a lot of fun but not much use for technical training.
In other news Substack accept I'm not a spammer or phisher so I can go back to my old handle, assuming I remember the log in.
Only King Doofus gets to decide which amounts of foreign parts are allowed to make the M.I.A. (Made in America) labels. And I'm sure you can use Bitcoin to pay for the fn thing too!
I did mine the end of last week. Real proud of myself for not waiting until the last minute. After putting them in the mail, I realized I forgot to include the W2s. 😞
reports that one of the men renditioned to El Salvador is Neri Alvarado, who was working in Dallas as a baker. An ICE agent told him they were questioning all men with tattoos.
Neri has an AUTISM AWARENESS TATTOO in honor of his 15-year-old brother with autism.
Well, it's bit the husband. Gave him a whole week to Prove His Identity on the online system, only, it claimed it could not verify he was alive, so he has to go in person now. Not sure if he ever made the appointment last night because I went to bed about 10ish. By that time he had been on the phone for 3 hours, with the thing saying how he could do everything online! Every two minutes.
Apparently you can do everything online but make an appointment? That makes sense.
The FuckBros did a little walk back last night so instead of having to prove your self alive by April 1, they gave the olds 2 weeks. How nice of them.
Another trait of the rich, businesses take months to get around to paying their debts but ordinary citizens better be able to do thing by the end of the week.
yeah his came out of the blue, like on monday. They just said he had to notify him that he was still alive because reasons and things and told him to go online to do it.
The real kicker is that they do not TELL them they have to call to make an appointment. You click the link to make an appointment and it takes you to the page where you can find your local....but then goes on about using the online system. It lists the 800 number but does not specify that is how you do it. He wasted an hour or two trying to figure it out until I just called the number.
It's so super good for olds who don't understand tech.
My retiring early two years ago looks better and better, even though I get less each month. It was easy peasy for me to apply for benefits online, and the same for my brother when he did it last year.
how was he notified about this? Asking cuz I'm on SSDI myself, and since my mailbox is too far to walk, and I never get anything of import, it's often 6 weeks between trips to get the paper mail...
they're hoping olds will just give up and die I am guessing. There's no other excuse for all of this AFTER the cuts made to offices and staff that could have handled the influx.
They did walk back the medicare/poors/disabled people having to show up i person though. But retirees/survivors et al have to prove they're not dead
With the way it's going, maybe people should just start planning and camp out at the offices
MAYBE THEN Americans will wake tf up. Remember, it isn't the SS workers, it's the Reps in Washington that need to feel the pressure and heat. Call the news, post on social media, and be loud about what this regime is doing as you can
oh well, if they’re willing to follow him, they must buy into his bigotry and misogyny
Nailed it in one, Malone.
I know politicos gots to say things like this, the kumbaya not all Republicans shit I mean, but lordy.... it was their bigotry that got them voting for Trump. There's no other reasonable explanation other than "they're fucking morons" but being a fucking moron does not preclude bigotry.
Being a moron makes you more likely to be a bigot. It's rooted in the fear that "The Other" is really better and smarter than you are, so you puff up your chest, and proclaim that YOU, simply by being in your group, is inherently superior to others.
Sure doing a lot of visiting, the lot of them. Just jet setting all over the country doing whatever they please. No wonder they needed to group chat their war plans
“Usually” they fly to the edge of our airspace, and often fly along the edge of it. We hang around to let them know we see them and prevent them from cheating and getting closer to something they want to surveil.
With diesel-soaked hay and plenty of space to operate, Los Angeles firefighters last week set fire to a danger that had been secretly building in Pacoima.
For an unknown period of time, authorities say, a 24-year-old man had been accumulating a massive cache of fireworks in a rear home off Remington Street that, for reasons still to be determined, suddenly detonated last week, exploding out in all directions. The man, who has not yet been identified, was hospitalized with burns over 50% of his body and faces possible charges when he's released, authorities say.
What was left under the rubble was a toxic stew of chemicals that authorities said could react unpredictably with water and was too dangerous to simply haul away.
It had to be burned.
"This is essentially a bomb," Kenneth R. Cooper, special agent in charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' Los Angeles field office, told reporters Friday. "We are going to use fire, slow methodic burn to alleviate that threat to public safety."
Firefighters soaked hay in diesel fuel, then set fire to what remained of the unattached home that evening in a "controlled burn." The pile eventually exploded in a dazzling array of white sparks.
Meanwhile, just days before her Senate confirmation vote, Dear Leader pulled back Super MAGA Genius Elsie Stefanik as UN Ambassador. Nobody's admitting, but it's likely because they need her vote from her beet red upstate NY Congressional district and were afraid they'd lose the special if the damn Guv even stopped slow-walking holding it.
The most important thing in the universe to most politicians is keeping their own jobs. I think that, leaving out stupidity and sheer meanness, that is the main reason why Repub politicians suck up to trumpy and to rich donors. I have to wonder, though, at what point they might waver if Dems keep winning post trumpy 2.0 elections.
Nice to hear that some voters have roused themselves from their slumber and recognized that we are on the cusp of becoming an honest-to-God pariah-nation.
!!
Fuck you too Elmo.
Morning spuggers, all well? Cool and damp here with the occasional spot of rain. Calm sea this morning and a row with one of my regatta crews which went really well. Which it should since it is 3/4 of last year's crew. Much calmer than late yesterday evening when the wind had picked up and it was choppy, a lot of fun but not much use for technical training.
In other news Substack accept I'm not a spammer or phisher so I can go back to my old handle, assuming I remember the log in.
Jeras Ikehorn… 😎 🌊🐾🌴🌈✨
@jerasikehorn.bsky.social
Project 2025 specifically tells their people to use ‘Signal’ to avoid subpoenas…and hence, prosecution for the crimes they are blatantly committing.
Ummm…yeah.
Any Questions?!
The right takeover, brought down because they were sponsored by Signal.
We got accounts that dreadful day in November.
Oh boy, Trump wants to make interest on car loans on cars built in the US deductible.
*Attach car shipping label to your 1040 showing origin of manufacture
**Must itemize to claim.
***No agents available to answer your questions.
Oh please, they’re way too fucking stupid to figure out where a car was “built” or where the parts came from.
I always imagined if America got someone as crazy as Trump, there would be plenty of sane people to do what needed to be done to stop him
That idea was shattered in 2021 and just shat all over in the years since.
Even the diaper didn't help
But the government shouldn't pick winners and losers.
Ummm, the first digit of the VIN says which country your car was made in.
That must be where it was finally assembled. I'll bet more than half the parts in many of them come from elsewhere.
True, but foreign brands assembled here count as “made in America” even if lots of parts weren’t.
yes, but that's final assembly..
Wonder what "foreign parts content" is allowed.
.
too, also, what about leases? which seems to be how most people 'buy' a car these days..
.
detains, schmetails!
Only King Doofus gets to decide which amounts of foreign parts are allowed to make the M.I.A. (Made in America) labels. And I'm sure you can use Bitcoin to pay for the fn thing too!
He's an idiot.
Of the Highest Order!
Trump's daily planner: "What stupid shit can I say today"??
Uhg, I still need to do my taxes.
I did mine the end of last week. Real proud of myself for not waiting until the last minute. After putting them in the mail, I realized I forgot to include the W2s. 😞
Defining origin of manufacture could be problematic.
Problematic is not an obstacle to magachuds.
just flooding the zone.
As always.
This
Huh, looks like a lot like a rainbow flag
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
NEW:
@motherjones.com
reports that one of the men renditioned to El Salvador is Neri Alvarado, who was working in Dallas as a baker. An ICE agent told him they were questioning all men with tattoos.
Neri has an AUTISM AWARENESS TATTOO in honor of his 15-year-old brother with autism.
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreifziyyfdgzdh2inify5d56gakedz5e3yq4pfwn44fse2t6daxqrda@jpeg
Questioning men with tattoos?
More like sending them to labor camps in a third world country.
have they seen our secretary of defense?
Coffee mostly consumed.
Bizzy day today; PT first thing, and then the shower-door-guy comes to do a quote AND the exterior-door-guy comes to replace a door.
And of course the usual work-work clusterfluff.
Electric vehicles so tiny they could probably fit in a Cybertruck's cargo bed.
https://bsky.app/profile/electricfelix.bsky.social/post/3llbnwnq4zn2a
https://www.radioflyer.com/products/build-a-kids-tesla
Donnie would love one of these!
except he couldn't shoehorn his buff body into it..
It's so cute, I wanna put it in my pocket and take it home with me!
Some of those are small, some are far away . . .
OH you know the Social Security fucktassle?
Well, it's bit the husband. Gave him a whole week to Prove His Identity on the online system, only, it claimed it could not verify he was alive, so he has to go in person now. Not sure if he ever made the appointment last night because I went to bed about 10ish. By that time he had been on the phone for 3 hours, with the thing saying how he could do everything online! Every two minutes.
Apparently you can do everything online but make an appointment? That makes sense.
The FuckBros did a little walk back last night so instead of having to prove your self alive by April 1, they gave the olds 2 weeks. How nice of them.
Another trait of the rich, businesses take months to get around to paying their debts but ordinary citizens better be able to do thing by the end of the week.
Three of my friends are on SSI and SSDI. I worry about them.
So far no threats here. 🤞
yeah his came out of the blue, like on monday. They just said he had to notify him that he was still alive because reasons and things and told him to go online to do it.
The real kicker is that they do not TELL them they have to call to make an appointment. You click the link to make an appointment and it takes you to the page where you can find your local....but then goes on about using the online system. It lists the 800 number but does not specify that is how you do it. He wasted an hour or two trying to figure it out until I just called the number.
It's so super good for olds who don't understand tech.
My retiring early two years ago looks better and better, even though I get less each month. It was easy peasy for me to apply for benefits online, and the same for my brother when he did it last year.
he applied for benefits years ago. He has to prove he is alive now though because Doge
how was he notified about this? Asking cuz I'm on SSDI myself, and since my mailbox is too far to walk, and I never get anything of import, it's often 6 weeks between trips to get the paper mail...
That is both insane and inefficient.
The DOGE kiddies find it efficient. Because the goal is to kick people off of SS.
they're hoping olds will just give up and die I am guessing. There's no other excuse for all of this AFTER the cuts made to offices and staff that could have handled the influx.
They did walk back the medicare/poors/disabled people having to show up i person though. But retirees/survivors et al have to prove they're not dead
Where is the nearest office relative to you guys? Does he have to travel far?
Not too far away, at least, today
Tomorrow? Who knows what they will close down
With the way it's going, maybe people should just start planning and camp out at the offices
MAYBE THEN Americans will wake tf up. Remember, it isn't the SS workers, it's the Reps in Washington that need to feel the pressure and heat. Call the news, post on social media, and be loud about what this regime is doing as you can
#Worldle #1161 (27.03.2025) 1/6 (100%)
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https://worldle.teuteuf.fr
Last night I saw the capital mentioned in an article, and thought, ok, I'll remember that for the next time it comes up on Worldle.
Diane thinks that they use nations in the news, and it's a good theory.
clairvoyant!
oh well, if they’re willing to follow him, they must buy into his bigotry and misogyny
Nailed it in one, Malone.
I know politicos gots to say things like this, the kumbaya not all Republicans shit I mean, but lordy.... it was their bigotry that got them voting for Trump. There's no other reasonable explanation other than "they're fucking morons" but being a fucking moron does not preclude bigotry.
Being a moron makes you more likely to be a bigot. It's rooted in the fear that "The Other" is really better and smarter than you are, so you puff up your chest, and proclaim that YOU, simply by being in your group, is inherently superior to others.
Also Russia's money
For the leaders. He was just talking voters though.
I'm sure Russia pays for it's fair share of bots though
Except me. I get my Sorosbux direct deposited!
This has made me reconsider my harsh criticisms of our manly VP.
"VP Vance Fires Machine Gun on Visit to Marine Corps Base in Quantico"
Sure doing a lot of visiting, the lot of them. Just jet setting all over the country doing whatever they please. No wonder they needed to group chat their war plans
Noem photo op in El Salvador Supermax Slave Ship
Yeah, that's a real WTF? She there for lessons?
I want to believe that is not true, that even she would not do that, but I am too afraid to google
It's true. https://apnews.com/article/noem-homeland-security-immigration-prison-el-salvador-188d999b6625ea05e85a86f0ec4e670a
Damn.
jesus fuck. Flexing on an actual slave ship.
It's true.
WTF
MAKS 24 👀🇺🇦
@maks23.bsky.social
🛳️✈️ Footage from the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson shows a Russian Il-38N anti-submarine aircraft escorted by F-35C and F/A-18F fighter jets.
https://bsky.app/profile/maks23.bsky.social/post/3llduubkx3s27
Gets the F35 good and close for the side facing sensors.
Escorting it out of airspace maybe?
“Usually” they fly to the edge of our airspace, and often fly along the edge of it. We hang around to let them know we see them and prevent them from cheating and getting closer to something they want to surveil.
Unless they want to surveil the F35 . . .
The only acceptable explanation. And that had BETTER be the goddamn explanation.
With diesel-soaked hay and plenty of space to operate, Los Angeles firefighters last week set fire to a danger that had been secretly building in Pacoima.
For an unknown period of time, authorities say, a 24-year-old man had been accumulating a massive cache of fireworks in a rear home off Remington Street that, for reasons still to be determined, suddenly detonated last week, exploding out in all directions. The man, who has not yet been identified, was hospitalized with burns over 50% of his body and faces possible charges when he's released, authorities say.
What was left under the rubble was a toxic stew of chemicals that authorities said could react unpredictably with water and was too dangerous to simply haul away.
It had to be burned.
"This is essentially a bomb," Kenneth R. Cooper, special agent in charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' Los Angeles field office, told reporters Friday. "We are going to use fire, slow methodic burn to alleviate that threat to public safety."
Firefighters soaked hay in diesel fuel, then set fire to what remained of the unattached home that evening in a "controlled burn." The pile eventually exploded in a dazzling array of white sparks.
https://www.aol.com/news/l-house-filled-fireworks-essentially-214452088.html
If dude has burns over 50% of his body, criminal charges are the least of his worries:(