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Unearthed letter from Natalie Harp to Trump:

"I want things to always be right between us. I also know I’ve been distracted all week (forgetting to eat throughout the days, and even forgetting to sleep, and only catching a couple hours at a time)."

I wonder how many scenarios they're playing out in DC wrt Iran. Just guessing, probably none. We learned on Monday that the real war has yet to begin, according to Iran. What could they to hurt the US. Or wake us up to the reality of war. We are not safe in the US, any more than Russians are safe in Moscow. The parallels are pretty amazing. Both Russia and the US started wars of choice, and clearly didn't consider that they might get bogged down. Russia has a source of drones so they can fight back. But I'd be surprised if Trump is stock up, but we he were, where would we use them? We've already attacked Iran with our probably obsolete trillion-dollar military. I'm old enough to remember Vietnam and what asymmetric war is like. The US always falls for this. Our military is very impressive, until we use it. Bluffing was a much better approach for Trump.

Plus, an update on the ripple effects of the Supreme Court’s TPS ruling.

Congress considering the president’s proposal to increase the defense budget to a record $1.5 trillion next year.

To help the public understand what’s really at stake, we need to speak to experts in this world, which means anyone who knows how the Pentagon is spending taxpayer money and what defense contractors are doing with it.
https://www.propublica.org/getinvolved/share-military-defense-spending-tips

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The $1 Trillion Black Box
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The U.S. military budget is vast and opaque. Projects touted as engineering marvels end up facing years of delays and ballooning costs. ProPublica has launched a series to report on the Pentagon’s spending.
https://www.propublica.org/article/military-defense-spending-budget-series?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

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A former Tesla president says the endlessly delayed next-generation Roadster is being held up by SpaceX “hovering” technology — and that the project is really about pulling Tesla and SpaceX closer together.

Jon McNeill, Tesla’s president from 2015 to 2018 and now co-founder of VistaShares and CEO of DVx Ventures, made the comments as Tesla preps a long-promised Roadster demo nearly nine years after the car was first unveiled.

One Frenchman can’t be wrong. Push to the edge of what people will accept. Stop there. Raymond Loewy called it MAYA, and used it to design the modern world. The most important industrial designer you've never heard of.

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The Rest is History looks at the Irish Troubles. There are strong parallels to Israel and the Palestinians. The violence in Northern Ireland eventually ended, which is a cause for cautious hope in Israel/Palestine.

Imagine if you had to disclose whom and what terms you mute.

Two graffiti writers rappelled down the side of the building to paint huge, vertical pieces.

Jonathan Carver Moore has enjoyed a meteoric rise in San Francisco’s art world for championing Black and queer artists. Now, more than a dozen are claiming unpaid debts.

Plus, a dog adopt-athon pool party, a hole-digging party, DJ sets at the de Young Museum, and more.

It’s Fogust, and I want to eat tomatoes without my coat on.

Legal experts suspect it’s less about fighting crime than about protecting the company in court.

I'm talking today with Adrian Sticea about the decline in freelance WordPress work available through Upwork, highlighted by a viral LinkedIn post and graph showing work drying up from 2023 onward. We get into the many reasons behind this shift, the impact of AI making developers more efficient, increased marketplace competition, economic uncertainty, and new website-building platforms. We also explored how relying on a single platform can be risky, and emphasised the long-term value of building direct relationships and networks for sustainable business in the evolving WordPress ecosystem.

Week 1 Players will arrive at the field, get their shirts, get incredibly excited about their shirts, demand to know why Moana isn’t on any of the shirts, fight among each other about who got the best shirt, and hopefully get within six inches of the ball at some point. Week...

“As allegations of sexual misconduct, questions about his military record and campaign finance violations surrounded Florida Republican Rep. Cory Mills, House Republican leadership, the White House and the majority of the GOP conference publicly stayed behind him,” NOTUS reports. “But Rep. Mike Haridopolos, a freshman member of the Florida delegation, grew concerned.” “He worked behind […]

Politico: “The bitter personal drama surrounding Kyrsten Sinema is set for a public airing this morning in a federal courthouse in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.” “It’s the first hearing on a lawsuit Heather Ammel filed last September claiming that Sinema — while a sitting senator in 2024 — caused the breakdown of Ammel’s marriage to her […]

Robin Givhan: “The MAGA aesthetic has seeped into all the nooks and crannies of the culture as well as here in diplomatic Washington. You could just as easily find the look on the runway in Ronkonkoma, New York, where, in the fall of 2024, conservative women came to admire red-white-and-blue-bedazzled jewelry and skirts depicting the […]