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Vladimir Uspenskii and Mikha Violin
Barbarusos is a vocal and guitar swing duo based in Barcelona. The duo plays traditional swing and jazz manouche from the 1930s. The two musicians, Vladimir Uspenskii and Mikha Violin, perform live music with two vocals and two guitars
running it up the flagpoles to see if it salutes itself
President Trump is focused on redecorating the White House while the world waits to know if he will bomb Iran, Israel’s prime minister freaked out the president with a blood-soaked gift, and the MAGA world is being torn in half by a fight between war hawks like Ted Cruz and isolationists like Tucker Carlson.
Trump left the G7 conference early to put up the beautiful flagpoles on both sides of the White House, he spent the morning on the lawn to preside over the instillation, he asked some of the workers if they are here illegally, carved out some time to share thoughts on the people of Iran, Trump has ordered two thousand more national guardsmen to LA even though nothing is happening, there will be another No Kings rally next month on July 17th, we learned from Trump tell-all author Michael Wolff that Trump secretly calls Stephen Miller “Weird Stephen,” Elon Musk took a drug test and released the results on X, and we sent a crew to the NBA Finals for a social experiment we like to call Garbage Nachos.
Jordan Klepper covers the latest on a potential war with Iran, including the fight between Tucker Carlson and Sen. Ted Cruz that was heard across the MAGA-verse and Trump’s big decision to ignore the problem and focus on erecting flagpoles.
12 days after NYT accuses Ellon of ketamine use he takes a urine screen that has a 2-10 day look back and lo and behold he tests negative, showing that he hadn’t used ketamine for the past 2-10 days. Well hush my mouth.
President Donald Trump said Wednesday he delivered an “ultimate ultimatum” to Iranian leaders to dismantle their nuclear program but that he has not made a final decision about whether to strike Iran.
Juneteenth is the most widely known US emancipation celebration – but it’s not the only one
The federal holiday recognizes when enslaved Black people in Galveston, Texas found out they were free. But New York, Ohio, Mississippi and Florida have their own freedom days
Adria R Walker
Thu 19 Jun 2025 07.00 EDT
In 2021, when President Joe Biden made Juneteenth a federal holiday, it was the first many people in the country had heard of the centuries-old tradition – a 2021 Gallup poll found that 34% of Americans knew “a little” about Juneteenth, while 28% knew nothing at all about it.
In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, which ended slavery in some Confederate states. Union soldiers, including some Black soldiers who themselves were formerly enslaved, traveled around the south to announce the order.
In Galveston, Texas, it wasn’t until 19 June 1865 that people who were enslaved found out about the declaration. Though Robert E Lee had surrendered in April, people continued fighting for the lost cause for months.
Juneteenth celebrates the day on which those in Galveston found out about their freedom, but there are other states across the country, such as New York, Ohio, Mississippi and Florida, that have their own emancipation days. While Juneteenth has become the most prominent emancipation celebration, it is not the only one. To this day, people across the country continue to mark the day on which their ancestors found out about the end of chattel slavery.
Throughout the country, the day on which people found out about emancipation – which spanned nearly 100 years between 1783, when Massachusetts abolished slavery following a series of court challenges, and 1865, when the 13th amendment was ratified – was a jubilant occasion. The day is variously called emancipation day, jubilee day or freedom day, depending on the locality.
“Black people are always celebrating and then they commemorate that celebration the next year, the next year, and the next year,” the historian Allison Dorsey said. “So Juneteenth is just a continuation of that process of people celebrating their emancipation.”
‘There’s music. There’s song. There’s food. There’s dancing’
The signing of the emancipation proclamation is marked in a variety of ways across the country, such as through “Watch Night”, or “Freedom’s Eve”, observances, held annually on 31 December. Historically, enslaved people had traditional celebrations on 31 December, during which they would gather to worship and pray out the old year and welcome in the new year.
But the day Lincoln issued the preliminary proclamation, 22 September 1862, is also celebrated, for instance, across Appalachia and elsewhere. In Gallia county, Ohio, it has been celebrated continuously since 1863. The celebration there is like a “homecoming”, in which people gather to remember the fight for freedom, learn history and genealogy, sing, dance and fellowship.
Another important date is 8 August, when in 1863, Andrew Johnson, the military governor of the state of Tennessee who later succeeded Lincoln as president, manumitted the people he held in bondage. Following Johnson’s act, Samuel Johnson, a formerly enslaved man, ensured that the community celebrated 8 August annually in Greenville, Tennessee. This year’s festivities will include a block party and cookout, gospel singing, bouncy houses and a festival.
In Florida, 20 May is celebrated as the day that Union troops arrived, read and enforced the emancipation proclamation. That came in 1865, and is still celebrated across Florida’s Big Bend community.
“Those celebrations look like previous celebrations,” Dorsey said, referring to the different observances across the south. “We celebrate in church. We celebrate in communities. There’s prayer. There’s music. There’s song. There’s food. There’s dancing.”
The emancipation days also had a political bent, with people using the time to bring education to newly freed people, who had legally been barred from learning to read or write, and to advocate for political power.
“I have an early letter from 1866 where former US colored troops are writing into Washington DC and saying, ‘We are now free men. We served in the Union army. We think we should have the right to vote,’” Dorsey said. “Congress is still having this conversation. It hasn’t yet decided that it’s going to do what becomes the 15th amendment, which is ratified in February of 1870. The nation is still murky, undecided, conflicted about [if] these people be made citizens, but Black people are really sure that they must have citizenship in order to secure their freedom.”
[…]
Some emancipation day celebrations are no longer celebrated, due to the passage of time, the movement of people and other factors. But even those celebrations have not been totally eradicated, and there exists a movement to revitalize local days.
In Columbus, Mississippi, for example 8 May, the day on which Union soldiers arrived to inform enslaved people about their freedom, was celebrated for many years before the tradition paused. It wasn’t until 2005 that the day had a resurgence, when a student at the Mississippi School of Math and Science (MSMS)and her teacher first organized a celebration around it. Today, community members and students at MSMS celebrate the holiday by bringing local history to life.
Last year, nearby Tupelo, Mississippi, began to formally recognize 15 July as its emancipation day after efforts by Carl B Mack and two city council members to rediscover and celebrate the day that was specific to that community.
“What I’ve always hoped is that instead of sort of ending these other celebrations, it’s sort of like an umbrella,” Gordon-Reed said. “It reminds people that there are other days. We could talk not only about Juneteenth, but we’ll talk about what they do in Florida and what they do in Virginia and other places that recognize their own emancipation days.”
CC…..didn’t you get one of those electric fireplaces awhile back?
How you like it? Does it use a lot of electricity?
[From the Life goes on
Until it Doesn’t File.]
…ultimate ultimatum… Is there any other kind? I hate having a third grader running the country.
Nothing more useless than a penultimate ultimatum.
Today On Trail Mix
Dream Variations by Langston Hughes
To fling my arms wide
In some place of the sun,
To whirl and to dance
Till the white day is done.
Then rest at cool evening
Beneath a tall tree
While night comes on gently,
Dark like me—
That is my dream!
To fling my arms wide
In the face of the sun,
Dance! Whirl! Whirl!
Till the quick day is done.
Rest at pale evening . . .
A tall, slim tree . . .
Night coming tenderly
Black like me.
Craig,
How interesting. He is one of my all time favorite poets.
I’m doing one of my regular replaying of The West Wing. It helps keep the Trump stench out of my brain to remember a time when all sides of the political spectrum believed in democracy.
Pogoet – Interesting timing of that MuskRat’s urine screen, but the guy pays incels to game for him, so he could have someone pee in a cup and then show their results.
Unless the board of directors of the TeSSla SwastiCar company demanded he take a test, making sure he didn’t cheat, I’m going to assume he’s trying to repair his image…which he can not do without a time machine.
Are the rockets flying yet? Ellon’s isn’t. It blowed up spectacularly on the pad last night. WaPo.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship explodes on test stand
The failure sent a giant fireball into the sky over the company’s South Texas launch site.
SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft exploded on its test stand late Wednesday, sending a large fireball into the South Texas sky and dealing another major setback to Elon Musk’s company.
It was the fourth time the company has lost a Starship spacecraft this year. In three previous test flights, the vehicle came apart or detonated during its flight.
In a post on the social media site X, SpaceX said that the explosion, which could be seen for miles, happened at about 11 p.m. Central time. For safety reasons, the company had cleared personnel from around the site, and “all personnel are safe and accounted for,” it said.
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Mars is beginning to look much further away, and it looks like we may be stuck with Ellon on this planet for quite some time.
If I could figure out how to post a video (or photo for that matter) I would. But I’m too much of a moron to do it.
BiD, in my line of work I see folks gaming drug tests regularly. This one is par for the course. A court would sit back and randomly test him after it thought he was comfortable in the notion that he’d beaten it.
*The next protest is July 17th, but we need a huge strike to grind things to a halt, or at least gum up the works.
‘Where do we go from here’ is a famous line from a Dr. King speech,” Barbara Arnwine with Transformative Justice Coalition said on the call. “And where we go from here is July the 17th… We’re going to make good trouble because good trouble lives on and we will not stop until we win: no kings, no tyrants, no despots.”
“Good trouble” is a term coined by the late Congressman John Lewis, and July 17 will mark five years since his death, the movement’s website states.
Here ya go Pogoet. It didn’t even take off.
Thanks BiD. I saw the video at WaPo and wanted to post it, but … One day (hopefully) I’ll figure out the way to upload attachments. I’m a cut/paste type and that hasn’t worked for me under the attachment gizmo.
I ❤️ Minnesota.
Hey Ghost… I see through you…. 🙂
and in honor of The Beach Boys…. maybe we should all sing a long forgotten chorus of their song Barbara Ann…. remember…. it went Bomb Bomb Bomb… Bomb Bomb Iran….
Another day, another successful Space X rocket explosion. Make Nasa’s 60 yr old record look very impressive. BTW that was back in the sliderule era.
Jack
You really want to bring Iran to their knees, get Musk to move spaceX from Texas to Iran.
This area of the White House features portraits of former First Ladies. Trump replaced Hillary Clinton’s with his own—just as he did with Obama’s on the main floor.
Pogeot
I have the same problem. The work around is to save the photo to your computer and then select the Choose Files and upload what you saved. Once it is posted, you can go back and delete it from your computer if you don’t want the clutter of unneeded files.
today’s meme…
meme #2…
You tubes work a little differently, you copy the url and paste it into our comment box.
Pogoet – All I did was use the link/clip icon on the video and paste it here. I don’t usd those upload options below on the trail.
FDChief, (Nancy Nall blog) said on June 18, 2025 at 6:03 pm
“The bizarre part of the Fifth Gulf War (as in “did anyone think about this before getting involved ..?”) is the “what earthly good political outcome did you think would happen in Iran if you bomb the shit out of them?” part.
There’s been nothing but brutal dictatorship since the Mossadegh coup in ‘53 (well done, Ike and the CIA!); first the Pahlavi shahdom and then the Shiite theocracy. The chance that the next regime will be “better” is no more likely than it was for Iraq, and then what? The lesson of Iraq and Ukraine versus Israel and North Korea is that the only safety from Great Power bullying is having your own nukes. So any regime in Tehran unwilling to be a punching bag for every nuclear power MUST develop their own.”
(40,000 USA troops are stationed in strike range of Iranian Defense launch sites)
You can usually when Trump is stonewalling. He’ll say he’s doing something in “two weeks”, as he just said about a decision on whether to bomb Iran. Just like when he was going to release his taxes, unveil his own health care plan, or propose infrastructure spending. Never happened.
He’ll decide in two weeks? We’ve heard that before.
He can give offense but we don’t have to take it. All his dishonorable images will be removed from the obelisks when his time is over.
isn’t that the same deadline he gave Putie to negotiate with Zelenskyy several weeks ago?
speaking of his bff, DODO might just be following orders given during saturday’s phone call with him.
“American Siberia
Donald Trump is enacting his darkest agenda in the backyard of a small Louisiana town. Absolutely no one there wants to talk about it.
It’s like Trump is trying to revive the slave trade, except the job of modern-day Trump slaves is to rot and be tortured for profit
impeach now
I think that’s so, PatD — Putin got one of his two-week “ultimatums”
Yeah, I’ve gotten the YouTube stuff to work (being a multi-disciplinary graduate of YouTube U. and a cut/paste kind of guy). The others – I don’t know the procedure.
When Dumbass was asked about Iran in the erection event yesterday, in addition to saying something like “maybe, maybe so – know one knows what I’m going to do (ever)” he said that next week will be a big big week – suggesting he had something up his sleeve scheduled to hit next week. Him and his stupid inscrutable pronouncements.
Pog, what are you trying to do that isn’t working?
Other than YouTube vids, which are just fine, I haven’t been able to post photos or videos from other sources. I am certain it’s because I can’t figure out the upload part of the attachments feature. (I need it explained to me as if I was a 3rd grader – in 1960.)
boom
Eureka.
OK, found one way. (Followed Jamie’ suggestion) Gracias.
I’ve wanted to do this ever since Marge Simpson made Cheetos Pork Chops. I had Doritos.
Isn’t that our taxpayer dollars being blown to smithereens in the launch pad?
The Browse button under the comment box just opens your file list, then pick the file you want
Don’t you just know how hot those masks are going to be this summer.
And all that heavy duty cop shit…..
LOL.
Buncha fat goobers runnin’ around sweatin’ their asses off. Bet they smell worse than the tear gas.
TORTURE!
Some of the seven Democrats who voted for Noem say they’d now oppose her in the wake of Trump’s aggressive deportation plans and last week’s incident involving Sen. Alex Padilla.
Noem demands more control over FEMA and Homeland Security funding, which could slow disaster response
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is tightening her grip on her department’s purse strings, ordering that every contract and grant over $100,000 must now cross her desk for approval, according to a memo exclusively obtained by CNN.
The sweeping directive issued last week adds an extra layer of review for billions of dollars in funding across the Department of Homeland Security, which includes agencies such as US Customs and Border Protection, the Coast Guard, Secret Service and Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Sturg, I’m trying not to imagine that. 😜
Two weeks? I think I’ve heard that before
here’s the 15 second trailer for ChipChops
So the brouhaha with the Dodgers was because Nezza sang the National Anthem in Spanish. Guess the GOP is still pissed at FDR since he was the one who commissioned it.
Pogeot, glad to see you got where you were going.
The Dodgers were shamed into doing something. They had no comment earlier, and this rejection of “ice agents” looked staged…but glad for anything.
For 45 years, the Dodgers have benefited from the spirit and the income stream that the Mexican American and immigrant communities have given them. During last fall’s victory parade, we heard a lot about how the Los Angeles fans, without exception, contributed to the World Series win.
Before federal agents targeted our neighborhoods with raids — and before the Dodgers organization chose to visit President Trump at the White House — this same corporation played a direct role in the forcible removal and destruction of three thriving Mexican American communities: Palo Verde, La Loma and Bishop.
To the editor: The Dodgers could make an impact by marching up to an ICE facility in their team uniforms and demanding that ICE (and the Marines and National Guard) leave. Such a demonstration would be impossible for Trump to ignore and could help lead to a withdrawal of the forces now terrorizing our community. At the very least, it could help restore the tarnished image the Dodgers now have.
Russia is providing North Korea with intel for Kim Jong Un to produce Shahed kamikaze drones, the same weapons being used by Iran in its attempt to overwhelm Israel’s ‘Iron Dome’ defense system.
The commander of Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence Directorate (HUR) says Moscow and Pyongyang are collaboraing to allow the latter to produce drones.
Western and South Korean intelligence agencies have claimed North Korea is actively providing millions of artillery rounds and deploying up to 11,000 troops in exchange for advanced military technologies.
Lt-Gen Kyrylo Budanov said. “There are agreements on the beginning of the creation of capabilities to produce UAVs of the Garpiya and Geran (the Russian marker for Iranian Shahed 131 and Shahed 136 drones) types on the territory of North Korea.”
Introducing the weapon to Kim’s military arsenal could pose a shift in geopolitical dynamics in the Indo-Pacific region, according to Budanov.
*So, the drones hitting Kyiv are Iranian or of Iranian design? WW3 might still be coming.
Ivy, it’s a journey. Between Mac phone and laptop and windows laptop and desktops there are many twists and turns.
There are many trails to the destination and side trips along the way.
The chamber approved the legislation — known as a rescissions package — in a 214-212 vote, greenlighting $9.4 billion in cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), which DOGE went after earlier this year, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funnels dollars to NPR and PBS.
“It is just one of the ways Republicans are codifying DOGE’s findings and putting taxpayer dollars to better use.” -MAGAt Mike
The bill’s fate in the Senate, however, remains unclear. A cohort of Republicans have aired qualms with some of the provisions in the measure — namely cuts to public broadcasting — prompting questions about whether the package will ever make it to President Trump’s desk for signature.
In accordance with the Impoundment Control Act of 1974, the bill is subject to a simple majority in the Senate, meaning Republicans can only afford to lose three of their own and muscle it through the chamber, assuming all Democrats vote no. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) said the body is unlikely to turn to the issue until July, after the party finishes its work on its “big, beautiful bill” of tax cuts and spending.
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Vladimir Uspenskii and Mikha Violin
Barbarusos is a vocal and guitar swing duo based in Barcelona. The duo plays traditional swing and jazz manouche from the 1930s. The two musicians, Vladimir Uspenskii and Mikha Violin, perform live music with two vocals and two guitars
running it up the flagpoles to see if it salutes itself
President Trump is focused on redecorating the White House while the world waits to know if he will bomb Iran, Israel’s prime minister freaked out the president with a blood-soaked gift, and the MAGA world is being torn in half by a fight between war hawks like Ted Cruz and isolationists like Tucker Carlson.
Trump left the G7 conference early to put up the beautiful flagpoles on both sides of the White House, he spent the morning on the lawn to preside over the instillation, he asked some of the workers if they are here illegally, carved out some time to share thoughts on the people of Iran, Trump has ordered two thousand more national guardsmen to LA even though nothing is happening, there will be another No Kings rally next month on July 17th, we learned from Trump tell-all author Michael Wolff that Trump secretly calls Stephen Miller “Weird Stephen,” Elon Musk took a drug test and released the results on X, and we sent a crew to the NBA Finals for a social experiment we like to call Garbage Nachos.
Jordan Klepper covers the latest on a potential war with Iran, including the fight between Tucker Carlson and Sen. Ted Cruz that was heard across the MAGA-verse and Trump’s big decision to ignore the problem and focus on erecting flagpoles.
12 days after NYT accuses Ellon of ketamine use he takes a urine screen that has a 2-10 day look back and lo and behold he tests negative, showing that he hadn’t used ketamine for the past 2-10 days. Well hush my mouth.
From WaPo:
BTW Happy Juneteenth day!
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/jun/19/juneteenth-other-emancipation-celebrations
CC…..didn’t you get one of those electric fireplaces awhile back?
How you like it? Does it use a lot of electricity?
[From the Life goes on
Until it Doesn’t File.]
…ultimate ultimatum… Is there any other kind? I hate having a third grader running the country.
Nothing more useless than a penultimate ultimatum.
Today On Trail Mix
Dream Variations by Langston Hughes
To fling my arms wide
In some place of the sun,
To whirl and to dance
Till the white day is done.
Then rest at cool evening
Beneath a tall tree
While night comes on gently,
Dark like me—
That is my dream!
To fling my arms wide
In the face of the sun,
Dance! Whirl! Whirl!
Till the quick day is done.
Rest at pale evening . . .
A tall, slim tree . . .
Night coming tenderly
Black like me.
Langston Hughes once lived on the street just behind us.
https://dupont-circle.wildapricot.org/1749-S-Street
Craig,
How interesting. He is one of my all time favorite poets.
I’m doing one of my regular replaying of The West Wing. It helps keep the Trump stench out of my brain to remember a time when all sides of the political spectrum believed in democracy.
Pogoet – Interesting timing of that MuskRat’s urine screen, but the guy pays incels to game for him, so he could have someone pee in a cup and then show their results.
Unless the board of directors of the TeSSla SwastiCar company demanded he take a test, making sure he didn’t cheat, I’m going to assume he’s trying to repair his image…which he can not do without a time machine.
Are the rockets flying yet? Ellon’s isn’t. It blowed up spectacularly on the pad last night. WaPo.
Mars is beginning to look much further away, and it looks like we may be stuck with Ellon on this planet for quite some time.
If I could figure out how to post a video (or photo for that matter) I would. But I’m too much of a moron to do it.
BiD, in my line of work I see folks gaming drug tests regularly. This one is par for the course. A court would sit back and randomly test him after it thought he was comfortable in the notion that he’d beaten it.
*The next protest is July 17th, but we need a huge strike to grind things to a halt, or at least gum up the works.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/06/17/no-kings-good-trouble-july-17/84233557007/
‘Where do we go from here’ is a famous line from a Dr. King speech,” Barbara Arnwine with Transformative Justice Coalition said on the call. “And where we go from here is July the 17th… We’re going to make good trouble because good trouble lives on and we will not stop until we win: no kings, no tyrants, no despots.”
“Good trouble” is a term coined by the late Congressman John Lewis, and July 17 will mark five years since his death, the movement’s website states.
Here ya go Pogoet. It didn’t even take off.
Thanks BiD. I saw the video at WaPo and wanted to post it, but … One day (hopefully) I’ll figure out the way to upload attachments. I’m a cut/paste type and that hasn’t worked for me under the attachment gizmo.
I ❤️ Minnesota.
Hey Ghost… I see through you…. 🙂
and in honor of The Beach Boys…. maybe we should all sing a long forgotten chorus of their song Barbara Ann…. remember…. it went Bomb Bomb Bomb… Bomb Bomb Iran….
Another day, another successful Space X rocket explosion. Make Nasa’s 60 yr old record look very impressive. BTW that was back in the sliderule era.
Jack
You really want to bring Iran to their knees, get Musk to move spaceX from Texas to Iran.
This area of the White House features portraits of former First Ladies. Trump replaced Hillary Clinton’s with his own—just as he did with Obama’s on the main floor.
Pogeot
I have the same problem. The work around is to save the photo to your computer and then select the Choose Files and upload what you saved. Once it is posted, you can go back and delete it from your computer if you don’t want the clutter of unneeded files.
today’s meme…
meme #2…
You tubes work a little differently, you copy the url and paste it into our comment box.
Pogoet – All I did was use the link/clip icon on the video and paste it here. I don’t usd those upload options below on the trail.
FDChief, (Nancy Nall blog) said on June 18, 2025 at 6:03 pm
“The bizarre part of the Fifth Gulf War (as in “did anyone think about this before getting involved ..?”) is the “what earthly good political outcome did you think would happen in Iran if you bomb the shit out of them?” part.
There’s been nothing but brutal dictatorship since the Mossadegh coup in ‘53 (well done, Ike and the CIA!); first the Pahlavi shahdom and then the Shiite theocracy. The chance that the next regime will be “better” is no more likely than it was for Iraq, and then what? The lesson of Iraq and Ukraine versus Israel and North Korea is that the only safety from Great Power bullying is having your own nukes. So any regime in Tehran unwilling to be a punching bag for every nuclear power MUST develop their own.”
(40,000 USA troops are stationed in strike range of Iranian Defense launch sites)
You can usually when Trump is stonewalling. He’ll say he’s doing something in “two weeks”, as he just said about a decision on whether to bomb Iran. Just like when he was going to release his taxes, unveil his own health care plan, or propose infrastructure spending. Never happened.
He’ll decide in two weeks? We’ve heard that before.
He can give offense but we don’t have to take it. All his dishonorable images will be removed from the obelisks when his time is over.
isn’t that the same deadline he gave Putie to negotiate with Zelenskyy several weeks ago?
speaking of his bff, DODO might just be following orders given during saturday’s phone call with him.
“American Siberia
Donald Trump is enacting his darkest agenda in the backyard of a small Louisiana town. Absolutely no one there wants to talk about it.
BY ALEXANDER SAMMON
JUNE 19, 20255:40 AM”
https://slate.com/business/2025/06/donald-trump-immigration-ice-raids-arrests-jena-louisiana.html
human trafficking is a high crime
impeach now
It’s like Trump is trying to revive the slave trade, except the job of modern-day Trump slaves is to rot and be tortured for profit
impeach now
I think that’s so, PatD — Putin got one of his two-week “ultimatums”
Yeah, I’ve gotten the YouTube stuff to work (being a multi-disciplinary graduate of YouTube U. and a cut/paste kind of guy). The others – I don’t know the procedure.
When Dumbass was asked about Iran in the erection event yesterday, in addition to saying something like “maybe, maybe so – know one knows what I’m going to do (ever)” he said that next week will be a big big week – suggesting he had something up his sleeve scheduled to hit next week. Him and his stupid inscrutable pronouncements.
Pog, what are you trying to do that isn’t working?
So, how much of that rocket is recoverable?
I heard they found a bolt.
lol the biz model is working perfectly!
Other than YouTube vids, which are just fine, I haven’t been able to post photos or videos from other sources. I am certain it’s because I can’t figure out the upload part of the attachments feature. (I need it explained to me as if I was a 3rd grader – in 1960.)
boom
Eureka.
OK, found one way. (Followed Jamie’ suggestion) Gracias.
I’ve wanted to do this ever since Marge Simpson made Cheetos Pork Chops. I had Doritos.
Isn’t that our taxpayer dollars being blown to smithereens in the launch pad?
The Browse button under the comment box just opens your file list, then pick the file you want
Don’t you just know how hot those masks are going to be this summer.
And all that heavy duty cop shit…..
LOL.
Buncha fat goobers runnin’ around sweatin’ their asses off. Bet they smell worse than the tear gas.
TORTURE!
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/democratic-senators-regret-voting-confirm-kristi-noem-dhs-secretary-rcna213809
Some of the seven Democrats who voted for Noem say they’d now oppose her in the wake of Trump’s aggressive deportation plans and last week’s incident involving Sen. Alex Padilla.
***
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/18/politics/kristi-noem-fema-dhs-funding
Noem demands more control over FEMA and Homeland Security funding, which could slow disaster response
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is tightening her grip on her department’s purse strings, ordering that every contract and grant over $100,000 must now cross her desk for approval, according to a memo exclusively obtained by CNN.
The sweeping directive issued last week adds an extra layer of review for billions of dollars in funding across the Department of Homeland Security, which includes agencies such as US Customs and Border Protection, the Coast Guard, Secret Service and Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Sturg, I’m trying not to imagine that. 😜
Two weeks? I think I’ve heard that before
here’s the 15 second trailer for ChipChops
So the brouhaha with the Dodgers was because Nezza sang the National Anthem in Spanish. Guess the GOP is still pissed at FDR since he was the one who commissioned it.
Pogeot, glad to see you got where you were going.
The Dodgers were shamed into doing something. They had no comment earlier, and this rejection of “ice agents” looked staged…but glad for anything.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/story/2025-06-17/dodgers-fans-voice-their-disappointment-over-teams-silence-on-ice-raids
For 45 years, the Dodgers have benefited from the spirit and the income stream that the Mexican American and immigrant communities have given them. During last fall’s victory parade, we heard a lot about how the Los Angeles fans, without exception, contributed to the World Series win.
Before federal agents targeted our neighborhoods with raids — and before the Dodgers organization chose to visit President Trump at the White House — this same corporation played a direct role in the forcible removal and destruction of three thriving Mexican American communities: Palo Verde, La Loma and Bishop.
To the editor: The Dodgers could make an impact by marching up to an ICE facility in their team uniforms and demanding that ICE (and the Marines and National Guard) leave. Such a demonstration would be impossible for Trump to ignore and could help lead to a withdrawal of the forces now terrorizing our community. At the very least, it could help restore the tarnished image the Dodgers now have.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/2069123/russia-supplying-north-korea-drones
Russia is providing North Korea with intel for Kim Jong Un to produce Shahed kamikaze drones, the same weapons being used by Iran in its attempt to overwhelm Israel’s ‘Iron Dome’ defense system.
The commander of Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence Directorate (HUR) says Moscow and Pyongyang are collaboraing to allow the latter to produce drones.
Western and South Korean intelligence agencies have claimed North Korea is actively providing millions of artillery rounds and deploying up to 11,000 troops in exchange for advanced military technologies.
Lt-Gen Kyrylo Budanov said. “There are agreements on the beginning of the creation of capabilities to produce UAVs of the Garpiya and Geran (the Russian marker for Iranian Shahed 131 and Shahed 136 drones) types on the territory of North Korea.”
Introducing the weapon to Kim’s military arsenal could pose a shift in geopolitical dynamics in the Indo-Pacific region, according to Budanov.
*So, the drones hitting Kyiv are Iranian or of Iranian design? WW3 might still be coming.
Ivy, it’s a journey. Between Mac phone and laptop and windows laptop and desktops there are many twists and turns.
There are many trails to the destination and side trips along the way.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5347453-house-gop-doge-cuts/
The chamber approved the legislation — known as a rescissions package — in a 214-212 vote, greenlighting $9.4 billion in cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), which DOGE went after earlier this year, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funnels dollars to NPR and PBS.
“It is just one of the ways Republicans are codifying DOGE’s findings and putting taxpayer dollars to better use.” -MAGAt Mike
The bill’s fate in the Senate, however, remains unclear. A cohort of Republicans have aired qualms with some of the provisions in the measure — namely cuts to public broadcasting — prompting questions about whether the package will ever make it to President Trump’s desk for signature.
In accordance with the Impoundment Control Act of 1974, the bill is subject to a simple majority in the Senate, meaning Republicans can only afford to lose three of their own and muscle it through the chamber, assuming all Democrats vote no. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) said the body is unlikely to turn to the issue until July, after the party finishes its work on its “big, beautiful bill” of tax cuts and spending.
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