Giorgio Armani, Fashion’s Master of the Power Suit, Dies at 91

On the very day he was an NY Times Crossword answer. What a tribute. How did they know?

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Remember when information wanted to be free? Before it wanted your credit card number and $20 a month? Pity.

CNN tired of people opting out of their unwanted advertising cookies. Takes away the choice.

When AI guardrails behave like training wheels. C'mon, folks.

"Who ASKED for this? The assassin lobby?"
@repstevenhorsford.bsky.social calls out Republicans' absurd proposal to remove the tax on gun silencers.

Gun. Silencers. That's what they are "cutting taxes" on.

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FWIW!

In stunning comeback, Carney’s Liberals win Canada’s federal election The result marked a reversal in fortunes for a party that was on track for a massive drubbing only months ago and capped a campaign upended by Trump.

Good!

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RFK Jr. & HHS: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

If you were Putin and wanted to take the US of the global stage as a super power, you would 100% have Trump put RFK Jr. over HHS. youtu.be/8H34jcpEsFs?...

Did JD Vance off the pope?

These are people who view morality as a disqualifying character weakness and who believe everything they can grasp is theirs. Of COURSE they traded on what they knew.

Most market crashes show you the way out. Fix the mortgage derivatives market. Cure the pandemic.

When the problem is "The American president is stupid and still has 3 years and 9 months left in his term" there may not be a fix coming for a long time.

H.H.S. Scraps Studies of Vaccines and Treatments for Future Pandemics Federal officials cited the end of the Covid-19 pandemic in halting the research. But much of the work was focused on preventing outbreaks of other pathogens.

And, one more thing you would absolutely do if you were Putin and needed to take the US off the global power map.

Trump Administration Abruptly Cuts Billions From State Health Services States have been told that they can no longer use grants that were funding infectious disease management and addiction services.

One more thing you would absolutely do if you were Putin and needed to take the US off the global power map.

The greatness of any nation is measured by how completely it marginalizes its fascists.

Musk Set to Get Access to Top-Secret U.S. Plan for Potential War With China Giving Elon Musk access to some of the nation’s most closely guarded military secrets is a major expansion of his role as an adviser to President Trump and highlights his conflicts of interest.

Sure hope they filled it with canary traps so they can execute the treasonous prick when he trades on it.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...

Tesla shares fall after Lutnick goes on TV and recommends stock His comments are the latest in what has effectively become an administration campaign to defend Musk's company.

Pump-n-dump. www.axios.com/2025/03/20/t...

The Cold War never ended.

If Trump wanted to weaken America from within, this is the way: tanking our economy and destroying our relationship with our closest friend and neighbor, as well as the stability that comes from the longest unsecured border in the world.

The Strategic Significance of the South China Sea: American, Asian, and International Perspectives 5 YouTube video by Hudson Institute

Start at 3:20 and watch to 41:18 and you'll understand what is happening at a level you don't right now. Important.

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Second death reported in growing measles outbreak The death of a New Mexico adult comes eight days after a 6-year-old child succumbed to the disease in Texas last week.

Putin does a congratulatory victory lap for each one.

Kremlin Says U.S. Foreign Policy Shift Aligns With Its Own Vision - The Moscow Times The Kremlin said in remarks aired Sunday that the United States' sudden shift in foreign policy "largely aligns" with its own position.

No shit, Sherlock. It IS their vision.

www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/03/02/k...

Adult eagle feeding two chicks.

If you're watching Trump and Trump coverage instead of this eagle feeding her chicks, you've made a wrong turn and should examine your life.

LIVE NEST CAM: www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4-L...

Putin just achieved escape velocity right in his pants.

American exceptionalism, my ass

18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people:
18f.org

Measles didn't "happen" to this country. It is one of a thousand things done to this country to end it as a global power.

ChatGPT replies "Well, damn" when I tell it Elon Musk has captured the government.

In which I give ChatGPT some news and it is shocked, but immediately gets it.

Justice Department deletes database tracking federal police misconduct The Trump administration has removed a nationwide database of federal police officers’ misconduct, launched by the Biden administration to keep bad cops from jumping from job to job.

Putin smiles again.

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Hey Dem's. No more caretaker presidents. If we get to vote again, we don't play to win an election, we play to win the game. We play like they play or we don't bother.