It's tomorrow. I had exhausted my four comments per day yesterday, but today not so much. So, let's have a fun weekend tune thread!
Across more than two decades in power, President Vladimir Putin has worked to turn Russia's historic World War II memorial event into a celebration of future military glory and global clout.
But this year's Victory Day jamboree only underscores his failure to deliver.
The pared-back festivities on May 9 " commemorating the defeat of Nazi Germany at the cost of an estimated 27 million Soviet lives " is the clearest sign yet that the Kremlin's war in Ukraine is taking its toll.
Golden Ten Data reported on May 8 that France's solar power generation reached a record high on Friday, surpassing grid operator forecasts and pushing electricity prices into negative territory.
Pastor leads wild dedication ceremony for Trump's giant gold statue at his own golf course
The president himself called into the ceremony to thank the religious leader and guests in attendance Read more
You did remember to opt out of AI, didn't you?
Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency "blatantly used" race, gender and other protected characteristics to execute the largest mass termination of federal grants in the history of the National Endowment for the Humanities, a federal judge ruled on Thursday.
Conservative columnist David French discovers racism
Four protesters are suing to stop the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from seizing DNA samples from Americans arrested while peacefully protesting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity.
LAST YEAR, NEARLY all Cybertrucks had to be recalled because Tesla used the wrong glue on a steel trim panel that the carmaker said could become detached while driving. Now, yet another embarrassing recall exposes that the electric pickup could see wheels come off certain models due to the use of the wrong grease. In what is the 11th Cybertruck recall so far, alongside concerns that the stainless steel trucks could be rusting, Tesla is recalling its Rear Wheel Drive (RWD) Cybertruck Long Range over faulty brake rotors. In a notice posted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Tesla states that "brake rotor stud holes may crack and allow the stud to separate from the wheel hub."
Donald Trump is not much of a reader. But there's a book in the White House that " if he cracked it open " could change the course of his presidency and of America itself.
Three years ago, in the pages of Vanity Fair, I wrote about a manual that almost no one in America has ever seen. Inside the White House complex, in a secure location known to only a handful of people, sits an instruction book informally called the "Doomsday Book".
Its contents are formally known by an anodyne acronym " PEADs, or Presidential Emergency Action Documents. Read more
Quantum weirdness may be quietly blurring time itself--offering a tantalizing clue to the universe's deepest laws. Read more
Donald Trump-endorsed Ohio Republican Congressman Max Miller (37) has been accused of beating his ex-wife Emily Moreno (32), the daughter of Ohio Republican Senator Bernie Moreno, and hurling a pot of boiling water at her.
The couple were married at Bedminster Club in Aug 2022 with Dummkopf Trumpf in attendance
The new law, signed this month by Gov. Bob Ferguson, terminates the overfunded pension account at the end of June 2029. It would then reinstate the fund, leaving 110% of what the state expects to owe its members. As of June 2024, the fund was 160% funded. By 2029, it's expected to reach more than 200%. This move is expected to sweep nearly $4 billion from the Law Enforcement Officers' and Firefighters' System Plan 1, or LEOFF 1, with that surplus put into a separate pot where it could potentially cover general state expenses. Read more
Today is day 69 of the Iran war. Read more
While the IDF has been intensifying its brutal operations in Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley, photos of an IDF soldier smoking while putting a cigarette in the mouth of a statue of the Virgin Mary surfaced, the latest IDF effrontery against Christianity.
IDF Sacrileges and Looting Will Continue
Physical assaults against Jewish people in the U.S. last year reached the highest levels since 1979, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) announced Wednesday. Why it matters: An overall decline in anti-Jewish harassment and vandalism didn't extend to a reduction in violence. Read more
