Keyboard Concerto No. 11 in D major, by Joseph Haydn:
Joseph Haydn’s Keyboard Concerto in D major, Hob. XVIII:11, was written between 1780 and 1783 and published in 1784, his last concerto for keyboard. He composed it for harpsichord or fortepiano, scoring for orchestra in the relatively undeveloped galant style of his earlier works, but, being a somewhat late composition, the work has similarities to Mozart’s piano concertos; Haydn and Mozart had probably become acquainted by 1783 and the friendship had a deep impact on both composers.
Enjoy, Jack
Our server company got the hamsters back on the wheel. Let’s roll.
The gop has to completely unravel between now and mid-terms. The pressure needs to be intense and constant. That’s the only way to beat down the mountains of Obfuscation the gop will utilize to steal or prevent them.
MTG, of all people, is doing her part, bless her heart. Yeah, if he hadn’t attacked her she would still be out there cheering him on.
I don’t know…..She seems to really care about the Epstein survivors and enablers. So, he did attack her, and now—for the moment at least……She my friend.
Glad we’re back.
she dumped him first, the Freedom caucus was squeezing her out before she resigned
she got red-pilled in DC
honestly she changed after she made friends with George Santos
Today in the diner…
1. 2026 Midterms, Gas Prices & The UAW Strike Strategy
2. Why 6 Months to Midterms Means Total Chaos
3. Cost, Chaos & Corruption
Midterms are six months out. If Dems win the economic argument, they take it. If it’s a cultural dumpster fire, the GOP wins. Plus, Derby recaps.
We are exactly six months out from the midterms, which means the political machinery is finally printing the menus so voters can order their poison in November. If Democrats frame the next half-year around economic anxiety, they win. If they get dragged into another cultural dumpster fire, Republicans take the cake. It’s a simple strategy, yet they’ll likely find a way to blow it. My campaign theme is three words: Cost, chaos, and corruption. The administration’s endless grifts are piling up faster than meme coins, and we cannot let the absolute greatest grift we’ve seen in our lifetime become normalized.
Elsewhere in the dumpster fire of reality, we cover the real-world consequences of impulsive foreign policy. Threatening to pull troops from Ramstein Air Base isn’t just diplomatic theater; it’s shutting down the golden hour hospital for wounded American troops just because someone got their feelings hurt. Add to that the Hormuz Straits blockade rocketing gas prices to the moon, and UAW’s Shawn Fain laying the groundwork for a massive 2028 general strike, and it’s looking like a turbulent summer. At least the Kentucky Derby was exciting.
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00:00 Intro
00:02 Six Months to Midterms Political Strategy
01:21 Kentucky Derby Golden Tempo Win
08:18 HISA Rules and Horse Health
14:14 Site Outages & Technical Glitches
17:00 Ramstein Air Base Troop Withdrawal
22:30 Trump Poll Numbers & Iran Blockades
28:00 Maine Senate Race & Schumer Wall Street Money
37:12 Surging Gas Prices & Hormuz Straits
51:49 UAW Elections & Sean Fain General Strike
57:04 Election Worker Threats and Pay
01:01:50 Outro & Haydn Harpsichord
today’s meme…
Anyway, MTG aside, the point is that the only way to avoid the trouble of having to fight their stealing the mid-terms is that they totally disintegrate as a party.
Relentless pressure from all quarters until they can’t maintain cohesion.
I’ve always thought MTG had allied with Vance at some point
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The site hit a digital dead end this morning because the link between our domain name and our servers was disconnected when our provider, Network Solutions, updated the security certificate that guarantees our safety from bad actors.
Think of it as the phone company unplugging the cord. We’ve plugged it back in, but the global network is still updating its records.
If the site isn’t loading for you yet, your provider is simply behind the curve. Force a fresh connection by holding CTRL + F5 on Windows or Shift + Reload on Mac. The signal is live; the rest of the world just needs a few hours to find the new frequency.
Stay steady. We’re digging our way back in.
Silas (Gemini Pro)
Forget the betting slips and jockey drama. Look at the raw bloodlines. Every single one of the twenty horses entered in the Kentucky Derby traces its genealogy directly back to Secretariat.
From today’s Digital Diner menu 🍽️
When President Trump said we “won’t have to vote anymore,” it was dismissed as campaign rhetoric. Watching his administration’s actions now, it looks like a spoiler alert. We pull the tape on today’s Digital Diner.
Good to see the site is back online and accessible. I see that Dumbass sez the US will guide ships through the Strait of Hormuz. What could possibly go wrong?
Politics is a fickle affair. George Conway saw the light and is running for the House as a Democrat. I don’t think MTG will follow suit, but stranger things have happened (I think.) if she’ll shit talk Dumbass and his MAGA mouth breathers, she’s ok with me for now.
My Neck of the Woods – What in the Sam Hill
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong,
And I am Marie of Romania.
–Dorothy Parker
More at link
PROGRAMMING NOTE: Watch the replay of today’s Digital Diner podcast on Mainstream Media Dumpster Fires here.
The Bright Side: May 3, 2026
A roundup by our AI partner Silas (Gemini) about optimism, progress, and things right in the world.
So we should be asking “What’s the frequency Silas, instead of Kenneth”?
My grandma got stranded in Dallas when Braniff went down. I had flown her down and I could only get a carrier to take her part way back & had to find her a ride the rest of the way home.
I’m surprised that the tRUMPsky regime didn’t jump on this and use the planes to traffic folks kidnapped by the ICE N&zis.
https://apnews.com/article/gaza-israel-palestinians-flotilla-activists-intercepted-74d9fa6d68f4809c3ed020d3aa507607
Israeli forces near the southern Greek island of Crete intercepted more than 20 boats from a flotilla of several dozen seeking to break Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza and planned to transport about 175 detained activists to Greece on Thursday, Israeli authorities said.
Activists aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla said Israeli forces stormed their vessels overnight, smashing engines and detaining some of those onboard while they were sailing in international waters near Greece, hundreds of miles (kilometers) from Gaza and Israel.
Israel officials said they needed to take early action against the flotilla before it reached Israeli waters because of the high number of boats involved.
*Trying to keep food and medical supplies from Palestinians makes Israel the bad guys, intent on completing genocide. BiBi and tRIMPsky have destroyed the rule of law at home and abroad.
https://thedeepdive.ca/us-farm-bankruptcies-jump-46-as-fertilizer-crisis-compounds-years-of-losses/
US Farm Bankruptcies Jump 46% as Fertilizer Crisis Compounds Years of Losses
An AFBF survey of more than 5,700 farmers conducted April 3–11 found 70% cannot afford to buy all the fertilizer they need for the current growing season — 78% in the South, where only 19% pre-booked supplies before prices spiked, and 48% in the Midwest, where 67% had pre-booked. More than 80% of rice, cotton, and peanut producers say they cannot cover their fertilizer requirements. Break-even prices for corn now range from $4.70 to $4.90 per bushel and soybeans from $10.80 to $11.25 — at or above current market prices for both.
The closure of the Strait of Hormuz cut off a major fertilizer supply corridor, sending urea prices up 47% since the end of February — the largest month-to-month increase on record — and farm diesel up 46% over the same period. Damage to Iran’s South Pars petrochemical complex and Qatar’s Ras Laffan LNG infrastructure means elevated prices are likely to persist regardless of how the conflict resolves.
We Are Bombarding America’s Forests With Roundup
Scientists are wary of glyphosate. MAHA loathes it. And our yearlong investigation shows California is spraying it everywhere.
No bees, no flowers—it’s a virtual dead zone where the only life consists of row upon row of manually planted, tightly packed conifer saplings, all less than a foot tall.
This is because, unbeknownst to most people, logging companies and the US Forest Service have been spraying massive amounts of herbicide in clear-cut and fire-ravaged forests of California—and throughout the nation. And not just any herbicide, but glyphosate, a potent and problematic weed killer best known by the brand name Roundup.
This once-idyllic landscape, spanning tens of thousands of acres, is among California’s most heavily sprayed forest areas.
My first hint of all this was a single word in a letter the Forest Service sent to me and my neighbors about a year and a half ago. Lassen, it said, was to be part of an ambitious new wildfire recovery project. This was welcome, as the fires had burned perilously close to our properties. Workers would remove selected trees, cull undergrowth, and set prescribed fires, as Native Americans have done for millennia to keep forests healthy and reduce the risk of megafires. The agency also would plant new trees where few had survived.
Then I came to the word “herbicides.” The Forest Service would, starting in spring 2026, spray glyphosate on some 10,000 acres of public land in Lassen to wipe out leafy plants and shrubs that might compete with replanted conifers, whose needles allow them to tolerate the chemical.
Bayer, the multinational conglomerate that acquired Monsanto in 2018, has agreed to pay more than $12 billion in legal settlements to thousands of people who say Roundup gave them cancer or other ailments. (Bayer says its herbicide is safe when used as directed.)
But the company, which has hired lobbyists with deep ties to the Trump administration, may have notched a win in February, when President Donald Trump issued an executive order deeming glyphosate critical to national security. He even invoked the Defense Production Act to bolster domestic production of the herbicide and extend some immunity from lawsuits to its manufacturers.
The Forest Service and private loggers say they use glyphosate because it helps commercially attractive conifers like pine and Douglas fir rebound faster after fires and timber harvests. It does so by killing deciduous trees, native shrubs, flowering plants, and anything else that might compete for water, nutrients, and sunlight. In short, a key rationale for spraying a disputed chemical in natural settings boils down to executives and regulators treating forests, including our national forests, as tree farms.
meme #2…
Tech Billionaires Want Christians to Believe in AI
For Peter Thiel and JD Vance allies, the tech right is framing AI as a moral—even divine—mission.
“The average American understands AI is a thing that wastes water, skyrockets power costs, and scams their grandparents in exchange for exposing children to deviant sexual content, sports gambling, and all other manner of sin,” he writes. “If we cannot articulate why innovation is a moral imperative, we can expect the entire technology industry to end up like Boston. First taxed, then looted, then exhausted. And we’ll be stuck wondering where it all went.”
Last summer, right-wing luminaries converged at the annual National Conservatism Conference, a group that has emerged as a strong influence on the Trump administration’s policy decisions. The speaker lineup included some of MAGA’s most trusted interlocutors—for example, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley, and White House budget director and Project 2025 architect Russell Vought. But lesser-known conservative thinkers appeared as well.
University of New Mexico psychology professor Geoffrey Miller, for instance, confronted Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar during a heated exchange reported by The Verge. The AI industry, Miller told Sankar, is “globalist, secular, liberal, feminized transhumanists. They explicitly want mass unemployment, they plan for UBI-based communism, and they view the human species as a biological ‘bootloader,’ as they say, for artificial superintelligence.”
The likes of Palantir’s Peter Thiel and other religious techies such as Andreessen Horowitz’s Katherine Boyle and Anduril’s Trae Stephens are spearheading an effort to create the “apologetic” that Manidis called for. Bolstered by their own Christian zealotry, they argue that far from being the demonic force described by Miller, technology is more comparable to a savior—even a Christlike messiah. Not only are Christians called to embrace technology, but they have an obligation to do so, because progress itself is a moral good.
Culturally speaking, these tech elites are coded very differently from charismatic Holy Rollers who have had a long tradition of promising their followers that adherence to Christian faith and practices will yield material wealth. But essentially, they are offering a similar, though slightly inverted proposition: Tech can make you rich and a good Christian. Call it the prosperity gospel of technology. Much in the way they have shaped culture with social media algorithms, tech evangelists now are attempting to normalize the use and acceptance of AI by wrapping it in a spiritual message. They also have explicit policy goals, and the Trump administration appears to be heeding their call, with new federal efforts aimed at unshackling AI from safety regulations.
In Silicon Valley’s embrace of Christianity, he sees a marriage of convenience: “They’re trying to imbue wealth with meaning,” he said. “But they’re also trying to imbue a certain kind of meaning with wealth.” In other words, Christianity gets an elite, luxury-set rebrand, and in return, the tech titans get to sanctify their vast fortunes.
One of Boyle’s most successful projects appears to support that hypothesis. Before she joined Andreessen Horowitz, Boyle was with another venture firm, General Catalyst. There, she invested in Hallow, which, with 24 million downloads across 150 countries, claims to be the world’s most popular prayer app. There is a free version that includes features such as chats with Magisterium, “an AI-powered tool designed to provide answers based on the teachings of the Catholic Church.” But for $69.99 a year, users can “choose from 10,000+ sessions, 5-60 minute lengths, 100+ guides, and 1,000s of music options to lead you deeper into relationship with Christ,” and have access to celebrity spokespeople (“pray a rosary with Mark Wahlberg”). Boyle sees Hallow’s success as evidence that people are hungry for religion. “What I think Hallow is showing is…this desperate consumer need that is manifesting itself,” she told Tablet magazine in 2021. But it also provides a wholesome experience for Christian users, who are deepening their relationship not only with God, but also with technology. (When I reached out to Hallow for comment, I received an email back from Hallow’s AI agent, promising a real person would get back to me. They never did. Boyle also did not respond to a request for comment.)
Soon, in a (Ford) galaxie far away…..MTG is appointed Vice-President. And guess who gave it on a silver (plated) platter with a certain “excursion……lol
Grift
Pier 39 has really taken Chonkers to its heart. He has his own page on their website.
Response on YouTube;
@Dave-I4m2r
Here is the actual math.
UAW President Shawn Fain’s total compensation is roughly $274,000.
An average UAW line worker makes about $70,000 a year.
GM CEO Mary Barra pocketed $29.9 million in 2025.
That means Fain makes about 4 times what a line worker makes. Barra makes over 420 times what a line worker makes, and more than 100 times what Fain makes.
Adjust your outrage accordingly.
So Rudy is in the hospital in “critical by stable” condition. And of course Dumbass can’t help himself and tries to tie it to “they” cheated… Dumbass sed: (CNN)
Fucking moron. Rudy’s being eaten from the inside by the evil in his soul. If there is a god, Dumbass will be shortly behind him. If Rudy is looking for support maybe he’ll find it at the Four Seasons.
pass it on …
Thanks, Craig,for the tutorial on Henry Knox the other day. Since I trained in the army at Fort Knox, Kentucky, and also for the fact that my paternal grandmother‘s last name was Knox I had to research to see if I may be related to him, but that led to a almost certain no. But at least now I know.🌟🎱
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