Lutnick now saying that NAFTA 2.0 was a bad deal and has to be renegotiated. (NAFTA 2.0 came about under Yrump 1.0). www.wsj.com/world/americ...

JD Yance as an animated marshmallow who fails at negotiation.

JD mansplaining theology to the Pope because this pope, an Augustinian, has said JD’s war is an unjust war. So JD denounces him. There was some other historical guy high up in Christianity who said “Blessed are the peacemakers.” Is JD gonna mansplain Christianity to him too?

The board can just… not leave. Occupy the Presidio. All the groundskeepers and janitors that hold keys will be on their side. Force him to send soldiers while they use the time to take him to court, with puppet master Thiel. San Francisco knows a thing or two about protests.

So he is going to force Leonard Leo and 5 or 6 justices to choose between the salvation of their immortal souls vs two years of political winning? Good luck with that.

If the House is going to start removing guys from government who are guilty of sexual assault, let’s hope the chain reaction goes all the way to the top of the government.

@doughenwood.bsky.social Interesting title for BtN. I have not read the book so can’t say more than that.

For anybody following the little dustup over the Papal Nuncio being threatened with an Avignon Papacy and the Pentagon also threatening Pope Leo to get with the program and stop this moral high ground stuff about 'Just War'...

Not just business - extortion business. Not just extortion business - extortion business partners

It’s hard to think of a US AG worse than John Mitchell, Alberto Gonzalez, Eric Holder, William Barr or even Pam Bondi. But without a doubt Merrick Garland is the historic standout.

This is from my 2017 post: Normalizing Trump: An incredibly brief explainer pressthink.org/2017/09/norm... "A conflict in the journalist's code was created by a president wholly unfit for the job."

It is the year 2026 AD. Super hackers have gained illicit backdoor access to the AI Claude through the Chipotle support chat.

Each day we explore a little more about whether is true that the President can stay irrational longer than you can stay a Constitutional Republic.

"Cognitive surrender" leads AI users to abandon logical thinking, research finds arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/r...

Found the new PI.

Happy March 31! www.youtube.com/shorts/_CeUz...

Astrud Gilberto was a housewife in 1964 when saxophonist Stan Getz decided he wanted his hit “Girl From Ipanema” to be sung in English — something her husband, Joao, who sang the original track, couldn’t do. Sold 2 million copies. Born today in 1940. 💕

My feat? Little.

The Atlantic (gift link) “The bad news is that Iran has an even more potent weapon than closing the strait, one with the potential to turn a temporary supply disruption into a lasting shortage: destroying oil-and-gas infrastructure in Arab nations” www.theatlantic.com/economy/2026...

Discover the surprising dental care of moray eels in Maui! These marine creatures visit "cleaning stations" for a unique mutualistic relationship with cleaner fish and shrimp.

800 Billion Stars in One Frame: The Sombrero Galaxy Captured by Hubble

Just watched Guy Ritchie’s “The Gentlemen” again, and it is much better the second time around. (I understood the plot threads this time.)

Low Rider, the music video, is worth 3 minutes on a Sunday youtu.be/BsrqKE1iqqo?...

This isnt true. I’ve seen other ppl saying it & it’s wrong. Iran consistently intervened against Trump. That part was true. The point of having the fake Proud Boys make threats was to get news coverage of a false flag of Trump supporters making threats. In 2022 it boosted left candidates.

TIL the CIA killed off its invaluable World Factbook...with a press release dated today?? WTF, is this yet more Trump fuckery? www.cia.gov/stories/stor...

Re-read “Ur-Fascism” by Umberto Eco, which is another big picture view of the time and movement we are now in. He even provides a checklist one can use to assess a fascist moment, and we check all the boxes. theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umbe...

Fiber-laying ship, Cork, Sept 2025

The solstice officially passed here half an hour ago. The Oak King has slain the Holly King and we return to the light. Merry Soltice to you all ☀️ 💛

My best little buddy is no longer in pain; but I am going to miss him so much.

Still Life with Basket and Six Oranges - 1888 https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14428

Our nation is being run by Putin's chew toy.

After seeing HoD I listened to Annie Jacobsen narrate her book “Nuclear War” and now I am concerned.

Went to the United States Post Office to send a letter overseas to Europe. The international stamp was $1.70, and I paid in coin. But the USPS refused the Sacagawea $1 coin -US money - because it was inconvenient. It was rather disappointing.

Got an automated email notification that my Microsoft Office 365 subscription is to renew in 1 month - at 30% increase. And they haven't provided updates for Catalina in about 2 years. But *somebody* has to pay for those new hyperAI data centers, amirite? Q: do I get to visit the data center?

Prine wrote “Angel” — the story of a middle-aged woman stuck in a sad domestic purgatory — when he was in his early 20s. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/a...

Movie mini-review: "Auction", a French film (subtitled in English) about an Egon Schiele painting lost in 1939 that ends up with a young working class French man who wants nothing to do with it. Goes to the heirs, upper class New Yorkers, who want him to get a share. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeqB...

"House of Dynamite", high tension from beginning to end, see it in a theater if you can. Do not take the kids.

Starting Monday LinkedIn will begin using data from your profiles/posts to train AI. If you live in EU/EEA/Switzerland/Canada/Hong Kong your data is subject to being used this way, but you can opt out. Go to Settings/Privacy/Data for Generative AI Improvement and toggle the switch to off

Might be a good night to watch “Margin Call”…

Security firm Synthient has launched a free-to-use and searchable online database of known proxy IPs synthient.com/blog/synthie...

If I were the democratic leadership, or their donors, I would be setting up shadow everything. Shadow congress. Shadow CDC. The overwhelming message being: here is where you come for facts. Here is what science really says. Here is what polling really says. Why aren’t they doing this?

In an Italian restaurant with Eddie Merckx on the wall and Filipino wait staff speaking English and Italian so I must be in… Dublin!