Here’s something I saw while walking the dog one day in early March. The sticker in the back window says, “I identify as fully restored.”
One of the many spots that FBI Director Kash Patel liked to get hammered is an exclusive club in Las Vegas called the Poodle Room.
The Poodle Room is associated with the Fontainebleau Hotel, and I walked past the discreet entrance in the lobby. when I stayed there last month.
Unfortunately, the Poodle Room is not a place where there are lots of poodles and you can play with them.
When spammers are needy.
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Cory Doctorow reviews “Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed," by Quinn Slobodian Ben Tarnoff, about “the ideology that gave rise to Elon Musk, the social forces that gave rise to that ideology, and the terrible future that ideology seeks to bring about.”
“It’s a chilling vision, a Torment Nexus dystopia run by someone who thinks cyberpunk was a suggestion, not a warning.”
Musk hails from apartheid South Africa, where a dictatorship resulted in luxury for the white minority, brutal dictatorship for the Black minority, fascist control over speech for all, and a “meat-grinder draft that saw young men of Musk’s age being called up to suppress liberation uprisings.” Musk’s grandfather was “a grandiose and vicious white supremacist who moved to South Africa from Canada because of his love for apartheid and racial hierarchy” and his father was “a violent and abusive fool.”
Donald Trump makes Tim Cook’s resignation all about Donald Trump. “I was very impressed with myself to have the head of Apple calling to ‘kiss my ass.’”
Tucker Carlson apologizes for the role he played in getting Trump elected. “I’ll be tormented by it for a long time.”
Paraphrasing Elmore Leonard: Wonderful things can happen when seeds of discord are planted in a garden of assholes.
Heather Cox Richardson’s most recent newsletter is a parade of Trump greatest hits.
Trump has called public attention to his ballroom about a third of the days this year, more frequently than he’s talked about healthcare insurance or affordability. And the focus on the ballroom increases as the year progresses.
Regarding the Iran war, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) posted: “We are spending billions to keep our entire navy in the Strait to fecklessly fail to open a waterway that wasn’t closed until Trump’s pointless war of choice closed it. He’s just burning your tax money.”
Evidence of insider trading over Trump’s war announcements, with “a consistent pattern of spikes” in market activity “just hours, or sometimes minutes, before a social media post or media interview was made public.” And there’s a similar pattern of insider trading over Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff announcement a year ago.
A Saudi sovereign wealth fund invested $2 billion in Jared Kushner’s private equity firm. Sen. Jon Osoff (D-GA) said Kushner is “on the Saudi payroll for $2 billion…. And now he’s leading American diplomacy in the Middle East…. The rules are for us, not for them.”
Meanwhile, the other Trump boys and Whiskey Pete Hegseth are getting rich selling weapons for the war. “I tell you what, never before have we seen so little effort to hide so much corruption. The Mar-a-Lago Mafia has taken American corruption to spectacular new heights,” Osoff said.
Excellent headline at The Register: World’s blandest man steps down from CEO job to spend more time in tastefully appointed home. And a good article under the headline, by Matt Rosoff.
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Kellogg’s Sugar Frosted Flakes (1960) www.flickr.com/photos/ba…
“January 23, 1925. Washington, D.C. ‘Broadway producer Earl Carroll picking beauties to play in 1925 “Vanities” revue.’” www.shorpy.com/node/2788…_original#caption