https://x.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/2018771967621669285?s=46

We have some smart people here!!!!

A couple more of those "predictable" developments ... https://newrepublic.com/post/206049/ice-agents-whine-massive-bonuses New hires at Immigration and Customs Enforcement are complaining that they haven’t yet received the massive bonuses promised to them for agreeing to brutally arrest immigrants. https://newrepublic.com/post/206029/ice-arrests-right-wing-influencer-trump-immigration-crackdown “A Brazilian influencer who openly backed President Trump’s hard-line immigration policies was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Saturday. // Junior Pena, whose Instagram account boasts almost half a million followers, was detained in New Jersey after missing a court hearing related to his own immigration status, ...

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/nancy-mace-is-not-okay.html She has faded from the spotlight pretty fast. Though I dont know personally, Probably some truth to the article. South Carolina Representative Nancy Mace used to make her staffers go on late-night booze runs, clean her house, and boost her on forums discussing the “hottest women in Congress”—and that was all before things got really bad. and Former staffers said Mace treated them like maids after she arrived in Congress in January 2021, ordering them to clean the multiple properties she was renting out on Airbnb, including her Washington townhouse. Ahead of election night in 2022, Mace instructed her staffers to spiff up her $3.9 million home in Isle of Palms, South Carolina, for a watch party, a former staffer with direct knowledge told New York magazine. Mace also started dispatching staffers on late-night runs for alcohol to keep parties going at her home. “Look, when I worked for her, our poor scheduler was getting calls at two o’clock in the morning to come bring her bottles of tequila,” one former staffer told New York magazine. Members of Congress are explicitly barred from instructing their staffers to run personal errands, and they are not permitted to purchase alcohol for their boss’s personal consumption. One staffer alleged Mace’s excessive drinking and marijuana use became an issue. “She would definitely do it excessively,” the staffer said of the congresswoman’s drinking and marijuana usage. “And again, not to say that most members don’t or most staff don’t, but it got to the point where it was an issue.”

Thanks for sharing. I just recorded the Discovery Channel documentary about what happened but haven't watched it yet. I am looking forward to hearing some details and insights not already known. Living in that area for a while, I would watch the planes and helicopters daily. The routes were...well, routine. Of course in hindsight, a route that crosses the landing path for airplanes (at night) should've been treated with so much more risk appreciation than "do you see that jet out there?" and "yeah I see it" (wrong jet, most likely).

Drinks are on Jon!!!!

Article is interesting, but I think that @89th makes some good (and funny) points.

@Axtremus said in The Iran Nuclear Program thread: @Mik said in The Iran Nuclear Program thread: It worked a lot longer than we thought it would. Did that ever worry you? Classy.

Trump threatens to sue Trevor Noah about an Epstein joke I thought Trump had the greatest sense of humour of any President?

Linked the paywalled article, and cut out the juiciest bit that confirms his biases most.

@89th said in Cincinnati chili has snowflakes too.: Also, that dude in the video is probably someone who would start talking about the merits of the tour de france while I'm trying to watch a ballgame. You say that like it's a bad thing.

Capitalize the G.

Just found out that the backup “guest teacher astronaut” to McCauliff and watched from the ground as her colleague ended up perishing in the Challenger, later was selected to be an astronaut on Columbia for a 2004 launch and in 2003 was in the chase jet meant to rendezvous with Colombia as it landed, of course it never landed. That is wild. Eventually, she went up in the Endeavor shuttle… i’d have to imagine her crew mates were not believers in bad luck.

said in Ax’s lame movie recos and cool YT picks: Amazon paid $40 for its rights Amazon spent $35 million marketing it It is projected to make $1 million in the first week. Update about the Melania documentary: https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2026/02/01/melania-trump-documentary-movie-box-office-opening/88417769007/ "Melania," the controversial documentary featuring first lady Melania Trump, surprised at the box office, notching a $7 million opening weekend, according to estimates released Sunday, Feb. 1, by Amazon MGM Studios.

Nothing like a red wine braised pot roast on a cold Saturday. I added a fennel bulb and mushrooms https://playswellwithbutter.com/red-wine-braised-beef/

I don't know either but doubt they would get press credentials.

I’m hoping they overreach and try to take over some of the properties that are off the market due to their idiotic policies. Then maybe scotus can find rent control itself to be a taking under the fifth amendment.

Large projects are a lot easier when you have slave labor. Still, it's good to see the Saudis planning for economic viability post-petroleum. Unless there's a huge expansion in the need for sand it's their only natural resource.

I blame the lesbians. God fucking hates ‘em. You’d think he’d have more important stuff to think about, but no. It’s lesbians all day long. That’s why he watches all those movies presumably.

She'll probably win. The left doesn't like her as much as you'd think since she's a bit wishy-washy-Washington. I do remember seeing her on a flight once, and she didn't seem that wishy washy. Anyway... as long as the pillow cocaine con man doesn't get close to that office, I'm fine.