It won’t last long. There will be outrage. But for now. 
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Too young to know that "a little dab will do ya.*
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Actually got a copy of The Good Lord Bird by one of my favorite authors, James McBride I plan on reading some of today. This is probably the 5th or 6th book by him I’ve read in the last year or so.
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A little dab’ll DON’T you…
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Meanwhile at SpaceX…
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They all live in the 1940s when white men ruled the country.
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It has a permit and someone guarding it until June 22. My hat is off to the artist or group who went through all the right channels and had it placed.
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Two of the highest-ranking military Cabinet members have essentially been cut off as Trump teeters on the edge of joining Israel’s war on Iran, according to a report from The Washington Post.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, two people who you’d expect to be closely involved with the potential wartime situation, have been kicked to the curb in favor of his “tier one” advisory group on Iran, which includes Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine.
While Israel has bombarded Iran based on unsubstantiated nuclear weapons claims, Trump has yet to confirm U.S.-led military strikes on Iran, which could lead to global fallout. Reports Wednesday indicated that Trump has approved strikes but not yet given the final green light.
Hegseth has struggled to establish trust and consistency while leading the Pentagon, a job he was nearly disqualified from in the first place. Now it seems clear that the president does not take him seriously as a leader or confidant. “Nobody is talking to Hegseth,” one official told the Post .“There is no interface operationally between Hegseth and the White House at all.”
Trump has made his distaste for Gabbard much clearer, especially after she posted a three-minute-long X video last week that went mostly unnoticed at the time but now appears to be an obvious rebuke of U.S. support for Israel’s war on Iran.
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Klaas: “Instead, the rapidly improving ability to impressively mimic human language poses an existential threat to traditional methods of crafting smarter minds—which thereby challenges the future of human cognition.”
Human cognition? The GOP has been challenging that for years.
Hey-yo!
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Compliance. It starts with dad. Remember the story of Junior getting ready to go to a ballgame in college with Dad. Junior was dressed for the ballpark. Dad basically slapped him and made him change into a suit. As the story goes. Donnie holds the family fortunes, though Ivanka weaseled away by marriage to Kushner. But Junior and Eric will never stand on their own, so what daddy says goes. Barron is likely just caught up in it with Melania complying in how he is imaged for the same reasons. One seriously f-ed up family. But saying that is just redundant now.
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It’s the Patrick Bateman “American Psycho” look.
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Should have added…Fortunate Son. Seemed fairly obvious to me but then I forgot the ‘youngins’ here might not be aware of all that.
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The Morning Memo is, through no fault of its own, becoming my little ray of day-starting trauma, the dark cloud that makes me want to move to the moon. Here’s to eventual regime change.
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Space-Ex in flames and explosion at link.
to SpaceX.
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Yep, not just blowed up but blowed up real good! Looks like a cascade failure starting at the header tank or pipes in the nose, ripped open the upper side, then fuel mixture and kablooey. Big mushroom cloud. Wiped out the fuel tanks at the test site too, so static testing the next one will take a while. Oh well, it’s only Musk money so who cares. I could be wrong but I don’t think NASA is funding this.
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Yeah, like the wealthy also say, “We don’t want a good President, we want Trump.”
New York is a microcosm, a large microcosm, mind you.
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I expect Tautology John considers that one one of his most profound.
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I’ll bet those big, brave, ICE mofos wore masks and military gear to arrest them.
Cowardly POS’s.
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Mobster chic.
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