Silver lining
13.03.2026 18:23
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If you wanted to build a T-bird race car in the '50s, this is a good approximation of what you'd do.
Airplane! did to '70s disaster movies what Austin Powers did to James Bond.
150 US soldiers have been injured, 5,000 more heading into Iran today. Trump is a coward, criminal, five-time draft dodging piece of shit sending your kids to war.
Still, the special is always the right call.
Irony is dead, chapter XXVI.
Have you used the included wall outlet power adapter? It was my experience that it is uselessly weak, relative even to the paltry potential of a 120-volt outlet. The Lectron charger looks pretty solid.
Physical rotary volume knob. The GTI that is in my driveway this week is confounding in every respect relating to the infotainment display, which is how I ended up getting blasted with air conditioning while trying to defrost the windshield this morning.
And in the waning days of winter! Bonus.
I think a real risk of driver assistance systems is that, with nothing to do, drivers are at greater risk of falling asleep.
If the government really is worried about Iranian sleeper cells, then it was probably a mistake to systematically reorient the majority of US counterterror resources toward arresting immigrant grandmothers and five-year-olds in bunny hats
This is the pentagon press corp now: hand picked propagandists
Quoting Stalin alongside empty "1984"-worthy sloganeering is always a good sign.
Six years ago, Breonna Taylor was shot and killed after officers executed a “No Knock” warrant for a suspect who didn’t live there & had already been arrested.
Breonna was killed in her sleep.
We remember Breonna Taylor.
#EndGunViolence
UPDATE: A tense, day-long standoff outside a South Burlington house ended Wednesday night with federal immigration agents removing three people inside and a series of violent clashes between police and hundreds of activists who tried to impede the apprehension.
www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2...
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This is the "Steel Crown". Worn by the kings of Romania, after they won their war of independence in 1878.
It was forged from a melted down Ottoman cannon, captured at the Battle of Plevna in 1877.
The most FAFO crown in European history.
"Trump landed on the term “excursion” for the war. He’s embraced it.
It’s irresponsible. It’s distasteful. It’s grotesque.
But couldn’t it be a political opportunity?
Trump’s war is a mistake heading towards disaster.
And he's enjoying it. It’s an excursion!"
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
#ICE has been terrorizing residents in South Burlington, Vermont. The people there have met them with intense resistance protecting their neighbors.
“War is hell.”
And that is why the US Constitution and UN Charter sharply restrict going to war in the first place.
But POTUS violated both and went to war on a whim for spectacle and amusement.
He obliged, and when she had her car in for service, a long-time customer spotted it and insisted on buying it on the spot. Dealers sell cars, so he sold it and built his wife another one. Same thing happened. So he started offering LS with that on them and they were very popular.
Back when Lincoln was selling the underrated LS, I met a dealer at the NY auto show. He told me that his wife had insisted that he build her an LS with the padded roof and the stand-up hood ornament, because she needed that to line the car up when parking in the garage.
10. The Russians are not only helping the Iranians kill Americans, but they are also helping reduce the supply of oil, which raises the price of oil, which pressures Trump to ease oil sanctions, which enriches the Russians, which rewards them for helping Iran kill Americans.
Right?
Kaschuta describes the New Right as a sort of "masculine cargo cult": Masculinity is in abeyance in the broader culture, but, the movement believes, if they all say the right things, adopt the right postures and politics, the manliness and status that are their birthright will return and life will be good again. Within this fantasy, Kaschuta says, misogyny has the structure of antisemitism. Like the Jewish person, the modern woman is simultaneously wretched and all-powerful, feeble and defective and responsible for everything wrong in the world. "There is this feeling," she says, "that women are inferior and intellectually incapable, that they should be relegated to care work but, at the same time, that they have this horrible, total agency over the world and that they work in mysterious ways to warp the culture."
Astute
nymag.com/intelligence...
Will it be the World Cup? Or will it end up being the Board of Peace nations' cup, when no one else is willing to come here?
"'Short-term pain' has clearly returned as an administration talking point in recent days," writes Aaron Blake. https://cnn.it/47JKyRc
I lost my job, my kids have measles, and gas is six dollars a gallon. But at least now they’re not tearing down a statue of a Confederate general that I’ve never heard of in a city that I’ve never been to.
Another day. Another example of vile and violent hate against American Muslims from a MAGA Senator who will face 0 consequences. This is America.
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