“Some of the frivolous September purchases made under… Hegseth’s stewardship include a $98,329 Steinway & Sons grand piano for the Air Force chief of staff’s home, $5.3 million for Apple devices such as the new iPad, and an astronomical amount of shellfish…”
newrepublic.com/post/207555/...
EIGHT DOLLARS A GALLON.
Downtown Los Angeles.
Today.
Trump promised to lower gas prices on Day 1. Instead he started a war with Iran and gas in LA just topped $8.
This is sticker shock. This is his fault.
#TrumpsGasProblem
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
Chrome flaw let extensions hijack Gemini’s camera, mic, and file access
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
The book cover of "The Trials of Abyowith" by Erik Buchanan, which features a dagger on a flaming background. Beside it is a quote from a reader review: "The mystery that unfolds with the adventure leaves the reader eager for more instalments. If you love fantasy and mystery, definitely give this a try."
Monday, and let's check the news....
Oh.
Did you know if you subscribe to Erik's Irregular Newsletter, you get a free fantasy/mystery ebook?
In case you need an escape for a little while:
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A LESSON IN ICE MATH:
"Best of the Best"
+ Xenophobic White Supremacy
= "Worst of the Worst"
When it comes to proxy wars, just who is the proxy?
Happy International Women's Day
Better late than never for The Wall Street Journal. ProPublica is superlative.
October 2025: "We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days." www.propublica.org/article/immi...
Sunday is Hudson & Rex all day marathon on UPtv channel. 😀
He doesn't care how much damage he does trying to avoid investigation & possible conviction for past crimes. #BenedictArnold NOT a Leader.
Orange With That Skin Tone...Not Going To Be Good Look Pami.
The president continues to insist he’s winning “at levels never seen before.”
The cat we rescued brings rocks home and loves collecting them. You can literally see how proud she is about them too
Awww, it’s my sister as a cat. #caturday
Israel’s closure of the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt has thrown surgeries and school plans into limbo.
buff.ly/0j2RQxI
So far the war in Iran has cost an estimated $5.5 billion.
That's roughly $1 billion per day.
$41,666,667 per hour.
$11,574 per second.
People do not want this.
They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.
“Every day felt like a week. Every week felt like a month. Every month felt like a year,” said Owen Ramsingh, a former property manager in Columbia, Missouri... “Camp East Montana was 1,000% worse than a prison.”
apnews.com/article/suic...
Rep. Pat Ryan: "I actually think Trump is so delusional, so whatever from his five deferments from the draft that he thinks this is a game. And it is not a game. He needs to go look all those families in the eye and give them, at a minimum, a real explanation for what the hell happened."
At $1B per day? ☹️
Embarrassing. ☹️
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed...This is not a way of life...it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.”
-Dwight Eisenhower 1953
Why is trump doing this? It’s a handy way of invalidating mail-in ballots for mid-terms.
#Postmark
#TrumpAdministration
#Trump
#USPS
