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We finally have what you've all been waiting for: the final result of Loudoun County.

(Anyone who followed the 2024 count remembers Loudoun.)

The YES won by 21%, with 144K ballots counted.

A very strong result (as we're seeing throughout NoVa): Spanberger won here by 29%, and Jones by only 19%.

Rewatching The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. Churchill is talking about Hitler and his demands to surrender the British army and Navy and accept Nazi rule and sounds exactly like Trump and Iran.

For what I pay for Bluesky, they're doing fine by me. Someone posted that it was a dos attack by Iranian hackers.

It is Raining Oil in Russia After Massive Refinery Fire YouTube video by Jake Broe

Ukraine successfully struck the Tuapse oil refinery again and droplets of oil now cover the entire city. Ukraine's attacks on Russian energy infrastructure has cost Russia an estimated $2.3 billion just for the month of March.

Lady runs out to the curb in the morning after hearing the garbage truck in a flannel nightgown, fuzzy slippers with a bag of trash, curlers in her hair and night cream still all over her face:
"Is it too late for the garbage?"
"No lady, jump in."

Bluesky hit by 24-hour DDoS attack as pro-Iran group claims responsibility Bluesky suffered a 24-hour DDoS attack that caused outages. A pro-Iran hacker group claimed responsibility for the disruption.

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Bluesky has the look and feel of Twitter with a much better class of clientele.

It was having server issues the other day too and another user confirmed and the Bluesky team said they were having some problems. Fixed pretty quickly though. I don't care , I like it here so much better than X or Mastodon or any of the others I tried.

We should top calling it the Department of Justice because it isn't that at all anymore. More like the Trump Department of Vengence.

New lawsuit aims to block Trump DOJ from building national voter database via state voter roll grab The lawsuit calls the effort “a key component of the Trump Administration’s attempts to take over elections from states and subvert the 2026 midterms.”

🚨BREAKING: Pro-voting groups sued the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Tuesday to block its bid to build a national voter database using private voter data from every state. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Foster dressed in plain worn clothes and reportedly slept on the floor with a thin blanket. The Vatican guards referred to him as "the gas station attendant". He was a lovable character, I guess unless you were his student. He was strict with them.

Maher, pointing to the Vatican behind them: "Does that look anything like anything that Jesus had in mind?"
Foster: "Well, no and if I was the boss, I wouldn't be living there. Jesus would probably be living in some barracks on the outskirts of Rome, got it?"

There is a number. Anyone can calculate it.

90 million people times 0.02:

1.8 million occupying troops.

Not 0.5 million. 1.8 million. At minimum.

About 350,000 just for Teheran.

It’s why any veteran could tell you that trying to occupy Iran is absolutely fucking crazy. We don’t have numbers.

Trump doesn't know how to negotiate. Deal making requires compromise, give and take. He only knows take. It's not enough for him to win, everyone else has to lose. Iran has his number. China even more so. When Nixon first went to China, it was said that he'd be lucky to come home with his pants.

They only need to damage or sink one ship and that's the ball game. Lloyds of London will stop insuring ships attempting to pass through the strait. The best Trump can do is blockade ALL ships from the strait besides what Iran allows, but it's still blocked. Idiots.

Iran doesn't need a Navy or an Air Force to control the strait. It's estimated that they have thousands of missiles on mobile launchers hidden in the mountains north of the strait.

Yes, Iran isn't Venzuela. Iran has something like 610,000 active-duty troops and 350,000 reservists.

Reginald Foster (Latinist) - Wikipedia

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The late Father Reginald Foster, the Vatican's Latin expert and curmudgeon summed it up best in Bill Maher's movie "Religulous".
Maher: "What do you say to these people?"
Foster: "Nothing. Forget it, they have to live and die with their stupid beliefs."

I heard of anti-vaxxers dying of COVID in hospitals begging to be vaccinated, but by then of course it was too late.

Iran is thought have thousands of missiles on mobile launchers buried in the mountains north of the strait. All they have to do is sink one ship and Lloyds of London won't insure any of them and that's all Iran needs to do. The strait is going to be under Iran's control for as long as they want.

I just saw Scaramucci on a podcast saying that Trump is being told that the 100,000 troops it was thought would be needed to secure Iran is actually more like 500,000 and would require reinstating the draft. There's a winning message for the midterms.

As Trump’s lies get more egregious (and repetitive) I have at least noticed fewer mouth-breathing bootlickers willing to defend him in my comments.

And the administration is leaking about how he’s hurting negotiations and how they’re keeping him on the sidelines.

I’ll call that progress.

Why Every Military Strategy Against Iran Will Fail (HIGHLIGHT) YouTube video by David Feldman

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I guess I'm beating this subject to death, but Operation Ivy Bells that Pelton burned is a fascinating cold war story.
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Trump labor secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer resigns amid misconduct investigation Chavez-DeRemer, entangled in string of controversies, leaving for private sector, president’s spokesperson says

OK, she wasn't on my Bingo card
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I have this Tom Clancy book tour of USS Miami somewhere.
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