Yeah! Buy Rafales!

Unfortunately I have some LMT stock. Selling it Monday at whatever price. I have no TSLA luckily.

I wouldn't trust a U.S. made military vehicle if i were a foreign country. That could now be a national securiity issue for Canada or UK, etc.

I'm really amazed that Trump has now also managed to mangle the U.S. Military Industrial complex. I think we can say goodbye to all the deep state conspiracies now. Except for our now Stupid Deep State.

Very Very Good
Marvelous
Wonderful
That Pulls Me The Shoes Out

L’Aile Ou La Cuisse, 1976
Louis De Funès

That’s the reward for betraying your friends…

#uspol #trump #treason

Maybe, m a y b e, Trump is going to break the military industrial's back, for us!

I'll take the silver linings where I can find them.

We should be watching congress to see who tries to bail them out with taxpayer dollars - oh shit, congress is going to bail them out with taxpayer dollars! That's a prediction, not a fact.

Ya think mebbe this is exactly what Putin wants Comrade Krasnov to do,
ya know,
like bankrupt USAmerican weapons manufacturers?

Who's fcking around & who will find out?

Anafesto Rossi was an Italian opera singer. He toured the world with fourteen trunks of costumes and a diamond ring given to him by the Kaiser. His career spanned two decades and ended with the implication of mental health issues (I could not find sources). I just found his photo and was like "Who is THAT guy?" and now I know. And you do too.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anafesto…

Meroë Morse was a scientist at Polaroid and oversaw their black and white research lab. She worked closely with Edwin Land and Ansel Adams. She died young in 1969 and many of her accomplishments are buried in the Harvard Business School's Polaroid archive. They're doing an exhibition about her, now her story can be told. Because of umlauts and a middle name, this article has three redirects. I also added her to the Polaroid Corporation template, where she deserves to be.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mero%C3%…

The Lucasie Family were three, maybe four people, with albinism who were from Europe. P.T. Barnum said they were "white Negroes" from Madagascar (the place one of them was born) and spun a whole tale about them, playing on racist sentiments. It was so over the top, he had to take some of it back when he published his next sensationalist pamphlet about them. They were photographed by Matthew Brady and were the subject of Currier & Ives lithographs. Hard to research.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucasie_…

A friend just finished the book The Lost Boy of Santa Chinonia and learned that the book was inspired by the work of Ann Cornelisen. She wrote a book about poverty and power in rural Italy in 1969 when she was living there and working as an aid worker for Save the Children. Her history is all private schools, society mentions, and marrying (tho not staying married to) the "right" men, but she got attention where it was useful, helped where it was needed.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Corn…

I've been reading a book about Native Americans in comedy and there was a whole chapter on Paul Littlechief who played the Vegas Strip in 1970 and was an excellent self-promoter. He was a Kiowa-Comanche man from Oklahoma. Hard to verify some of the other parts of the story from the book (his second wife was only known as Baby Rae in all sources I could find) but it was a lot of fun trying to track down his old music and photos.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Lit…

Occasionally someone just pings me on social media and says "Hey this person really should have a Wikipedia page, don't you think?" and I can assemble one. Laverne Jacobs is a law professor and disability rights expert who is the first Canadian member of the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. She wrote the first Canadian disability law textbook. I'll be honest, this article mostly wrote itself.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laverne_…

Another day, another "Gosh I should be working" day writing a Wikipedia article. This one is about Carol Lashof, a playwright who likes to look at classic texts and turn them around, make them more feminist ("What if Eve were created first?") or more socially justice oriented ("What if Tituba was the one telling the story of The Crucible?")

I swear I had not seen this picture of her until after I'd written this article.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_La…

All the #SuperTrawlers were operating legally despite the #UKgovernment having the power to ban them from fishing in its waters since leaving the #EU.

🔴 Most of the vessels are foreign-owned.

🔴 Most of their catch isn’t even sold in the UK.

🔴 The government promised to protect 30% of UK waters by 2030, yet #MPAs remain unprotected.

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Wow.

All my life growing up was listening to the VOA and the BBC during my father’s foreign postings.

Current admin won't stop till they've taken us back to Andrew Jackson's time.

I've valued reading your reporting here, never followed VOA till Mastodon.

This is a sad day which I had seen that coming.

The greatest gift VOA gave me was learning Spanish by listening to Buenos Días América every day for several years. I loved it.

Thanks to you and to your colleagues in these hard times. The Voice of Freedom will be back some day, I hope.

Extending the table should be fine. Add a belt cover and a cover for that open end of the motor shaft.

Do add a big red "Ow shit STOP" button to the front. Doesn't cost much and easy to do.

Looks like plenty of restoration/improvement projects for that one out there, so have a look.