Somehow, a ceasefire combined with a blockade just didn’t feel right.

Model YL, new Model 2...Maybe they're becoming a car company again.

Why can't we hove nice things like this?

Such a skilled negotiator...

The Manhattan Transfer - A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square (Official Audio) YouTube video by The Manhattan Transfer

Will some smooth, beautiful harmonies help? youtu.be/Sg0XYASR7UM?...

He has helped to assure that this is to be the Chinese Century.

You do know this makes you look like a childish snowflake, right?

The Chinese Century...

10 Chinese Megacities Already Living 100 Years Ahead of New York City YouTube video by Core Insights

This is what the US could have done if it hadn't spent $20 trillion blowing up children in the Middle East in the past 35 years.

Once you realise that the 2 most lucrative businesses are #war and #illness, it’s easy to understand what’s going on

#MilitaryIndustrialComplex

There should be a law passed, and enforced, that we will no longer have for profit prisons of any kind! Ever again! Incentivized incarceration should be a crime against humanity and should be retroactively enforced! They know what they are doing is wrong!

Season One of SVU?
Damn. That WAS a LONG time ago.

That said, if someone is preemptively pardoned, does that actually preclude subsequent investigation, allegation, prosecution, or conviction? Or at least, if not a conviction, a confirmation of their subjects' wrongdoings?

The quoted post is something to remember, but also it might be something to remember that blanket pardons prior to any investigation, allegation, prosecution, or conviction sure does imply that those might have been appropriate.

It fits with the rest of their bullshit.

Is there, or is it just what the betting line is?

“A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.”
- George Iles #QOTD

#MediaDiet 4/12-18/2026
- The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science (2008) by Richard Holmes: Kindle
- The Pitt, S2 (2026): HBO/Max
- Outcome (2026): AppleTV+

Dan Hicks "I Scare Myself" Live on "Night Music" YouTube video by Deb Lyons

#BestThingIHeardToday
Damn. Night Music was such a good show, with an eclectic collection of great performances. youtu.be/gZsdOQ4o2wU?...

There’s the problem. It doesn’t say anything about the Executive Branch.

I loved the premise of the apocalypse of memory in the first part of film.

Will voters EVER understand the big lie about "scary democratic (small D) socialist policies?!" Bernie has told us for decades, and Mamdani is showing us now. We can instantly fund a WAR but have TO DEBATE for decades about healthcare for all - GEEZUS!
They've LIED TO US FOR PROFIT for decades.

It's actually not bad at all, given what they started with.

This was Friday.
Then the market closed.

They’re not donations; they’re purchases.

Do you have to be familiar with previous 27 Days movies to appreciate Bone Temple?

The Weight (Remastered 2000) YouTube video by The Band - Topic

Take a load off, Fanny. youtu.be/xLFAQuWFcTo?...

Not sure I believe this anymore after the 47th POTUS.

“A man who will criticize you openly carries no connivance.”
- Yamamoto Tsunetomo [The Book of the Samurai] #QOTD

Sweet

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