@Mik I don’t believe he is wrong in his assessment. The Kremlin’s fear is Western liberal democracy and an open pluralistic society far, far more than Nato itself. In fact the Putin and his cronies know perfectly well, that Nato is a purely defensive military alliance. Western liberalism however is a threat to the very concept of autocracy that Putin has being rebuilding the past 26 years. If the society were to liberalize he and his cronies along with all the Tsar’s oligarchs would held to account by the Russian people. That would unleash the undercurrent of anarchy that is ever present within the Russian political and social culture. Lenin unleashed it in October 1917 and spent the rest of his life trying to rein it back. Only the brute force of Stalin quelled it in the 1930s. Gorbachev unwittingly let the genie out of the bottle by introducing glasnost which, in turn, led to the impoverishment of the country the end of the USSR and a decade of semi anarchy under Yeltsin. My only quibble with the author is how he interprets Putin’s desire for control over Ukraine. While Putin does fear Ukraine becoming a Western liberal state for the reasons stated above, I truly believe that he believes his own mythology that Ukraine and Ukrainians are merely a construct of Western minds, and do not exist beyond speaking what he (and many Russians) consider a quaint country bumpkin dialect of modern Russian.

That's in other.

Mamdami the building inspector: https://x.com/NYCHousing/status/2046360618068742252?s=20

We have one example of a serving congressperson declaring bankruptcy while in office, so I guess she's not historically the poorest serving congressperson. Maybe second poorest. Rubén Hinojosa Filed personal bankruptcy (2010) while serving in the House. Cause: liabilities tied to a family meat business loan (~$2.6M owed to Wells Fargo). This is consistently described as a “rare” case of a sitting member filing bankruptcy. This is the clearest, well-documented modern example.

Whatever. You still need oil to make grease.

One more try ... https://apnews.com/article/alex-jones-infowars-onion-sandy-hook-f0e523468af6811f9634c75ae76f605f The satirical news outlet The Onion is back with a new plan to take over the Infowars platforms ... “We’ll build this into a bigger comedy network,” Collins said in phone interview Monday, adding the Sandy Hook families would receive profits from the new operations. “A big part of it for us is that the way people consume news now is they see somebody who has no idea what the (expletive) they’re talking about staring into their camera and just like coming up with conspiracy theories or telling you health hacks that will actually get you poisoned, things like that,” he said. “We’re going to create a bunch of characters and worlds around those kinds of things.”

[image: 1776792482190-screenshot-2026-04-21-at-12.27.40-pm-resized.png] Real time ship traffic in Strait of Hormuz. Not too much movement. https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:56.4/centery:25.8/zoom:8

Highland Industrial Park, a storage and testing facility for Defense Department contractors in East Camden, is in Calhoun and Ouachita counties. The 17,000-acre park contains 600 munitions storage bunkers. Used for testing and storing Navy ammunitions during World War II, much of the former depot now functions as the Highland Industrial Park, where several Defense Department contractors store munitions and conduct tests. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shumaker_Naval_Ammunition_Depot

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@89th said: @Horace said: @89th said: As a professional viewer of Internet videos, I can tell you it was not staged, trumps reaction was too realistic and authentic. That being said, I’m pretty confident the bullet didn’t actually strike his ear. The blood was from an impact with secret service during the tackling . Why are you confident about that? Mostly because you can see when his ear strikes an officer's gun/holster (IIRC) plus soon after his ear has no visible damage from it, which is remarkable if it had been shot (even nicked enough to bleed all over like that). He also holds his ear at first then moves his hand which had no blood on it but perhaps the blood didn't have time to start flowing yet, which I can see. Plus honestly, Trump likes saying "I was shot". All of that being said, it is incredible that had Trump not turned his head in that split second, we would've had a 4K assassination on video. Still confused. Why would you think he almost got shot in the head, if you don't think he was shot in the ear? If he didn't get shot in the ear, then there's no reason to think a head turn would have made a difference. Anyway, not to be pedantic. It's the first theory I've heard against him getting shot in the ear.

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Although this did prompt me to look up drug testing laws in PA. My daughter has to test today for her new job and it is for sure it would show up. Given that her employer is rock n roll based I doubt they care, but PA state law is they can test but THC cannot be the sole reason for a refusal.

I'm surprised he doesn't HAVE scales after all his costars.

@bachophile Thanks for explaining.

It's a 2.5' thick oak. It'll be OK. Nice to see you back, BTW.

@jon-nyc said: I wonder if the new BioNtech mRNA pancreatic cancer vaccine would have helped Jobs… Grok says: No, the BioNTech mRNA pancreatic cancer vaccine (autogene cevumeran, also known as BNT122 or RO7198457) would not have helped Steve Jobs. It targets a completely different subtype of pancreatic cancer than the one he had.

Weird choice to sue. It’s only going to bring more attention to a story that is probably largely true. Though I guess he has an audience of one and that one likes suing the press.

@bachophile said: Having said that and examining those pants more closely, I think a trip to Qatar would be enlightening Here be camels.

@Tom-K said: It's ok to have an ass-clown or two in the cabinet in places like Homeland Security or Commerce but for the Department of War the country needs a really competent person. I don't imagine Lloyd Austin was such a person. More of a seat filler.