🧐 GREENBRIER BUNKER?
No flights spotted from DC to Pakistan (yet) but here's a VIP C-32 flying from Andrews to the Greenbrier Airport in WV.
If you know your Cold War history, that's... creepy 👀
aw. . . .
aw. . . .
We're hiring editorial fellows in SF and DC. Great gig that has launched hundreds of media careers:
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begging “like a dog,” i guess.
Echoes of author Pete Seeger, 1955. Or maybe you're hearing The Kingston Trio? PP&M? Dusty Springfield? Bobby Darin? Eddy Arnold? The Four Seasons? Joan Baez? Johnny Rivers? The Lennon Sisters? Harry Belafonte? Flatt & Scruggs? Roy Orbison? Earth, Wind & Fire? (And that's just through the '70s.)
waiting for the rest of the thread!
JUST IN: John Eastman, the conservative attorney who helped devise President Trump's last ditch strategy to overturn the 2020 presidential election, has officially been disbarred, per the California Supreme Court:
you have eleven people.
Hungarians celebrated the landslide defeat of Orban by singing "We Are the Champions" out in the streets
He has the right to be a creepy ass and is still doing it. Has she not asked him to stop?
FYI, @hcrichardson.bsky.social
On April 4: NATO was founded (1949). Martin Luther King was assassinated (1968). Winston Smith began his diary (1984). Donald Trump was arraigned on 34 felony counts in the State of New York (2024).
Also, Alice Liddell was born (1852) and had adventures (1859). When did we all go mad?
"Now, look, I happen to know a little about leadership. I’ve had to work with a lot of nations ... at odds with each other. And I tell you this: You do not lead by hitting people over the head. Any damn fool can do that, but it’s usually called 'assault'—not 'leadership.'"
—President D.D. Eisenhower
As an American, there are always disappointments to register and arguments to engage; amid the chaos of our battered, monied attempt at self-governance, dissent is constant.
But this feeling of being utterly ashamed of America and embarrassed to the core by its president is new, raw and unnerving.
oof. i felt that one. #earthquake
“strait”
omg, he really said that.
I think Trump just called for pulling the federal government out of Medicare and Medicaid. Seems like a pretty big deal.
Marines say “lawful immigration status inquiries” will be made by “federal law enforcement personnel.”
DHS only provides a more limited denial, with the spokesperson saying that ICE “will not be making arrests” at graduation.
Those are three very specific elements being denied.
I'm sure you've seen it, but as I've been finding weird ways to drop this into conversations that have 0 to do with robots and Socrates for years, I can't now not
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSHH...
Guess she hasn’t heard about Socrates, Athens’s youth, and a little thing called hemlock.
I don’t know her and I don’t know you, but I enjoy reading your posts. Please don’t be sorry.
Thank you for the warning. Blocked.
There’s William Butler Yeats’s “Mythologies,” a collection of “stories of the supernatural, based on Irish country folklore,” most from the late 1890s.
Local Hero
youtu.be/3DB-uJ0TxKQ
There, there.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_3v...
