Man charged with stealing massive amounts of LEGOs from multiple Bay Area Targets KRON 4
Hello, Brave New World The Baffler
Climate/Environment
‘Literally Eat Sh*t’: Supreme Court Strikes Down EPA Clean Water Rule Common Dreams
Los Angeles County sues Southern California Edison over Eaton Fire KTLA
Pandemics
What Climate Change Means for Bird Flu—And the Soaring Price of Eggs The Energy Mix
Bird flu spread is ‘slowing down,’ California officials say Politico
Avian flu cases continue to rise across the San Joaquin Valley, and it’s not just among birds KVPR
Air, surface, and wastewater surveillance of SARS-CoV-2; a multimodal evaluation of COVID-19 detection in a built environment Nature. From the Abstract: “In this study we determined the applicability and limitations of wastewater, indoor high-touch surfaces, in-room air, and rooftop exhaust air sampling methods for detecting SARS-CoV-2 in a real world building occupied by residents recently diagnosed with COVID-19.” And: “Our research demonstrates that aerosol sampling can detect COVID-19 positive individuals in a real world lobby setting during very short occupancy periods. We demonstrate the effectiveness of rooftop exhaust aerosol, surface, and wastewater environmental surveillance in monitoring viral load in building occupants, both at the building scale and with ventilation zone-level resolution for aerosols. We provide actionable data for researchers, health officials and building managers who seek to determine which monitoring method is best for their building or study.”
The Koreas
Errant bombs fall on village, injure 7 during US-ROK drills against North Korea NK News
Japan
Japan brushes aside U.S. demand to boost defense budget to 3% of GDP Kyodo News
China?
China’s ‘Two Sessions’ places greater emphasis on Taiwan integration: Experts Focus Taiwan
Is Trump’s abrupt turn on Ukraine giving Taiwan jitters as China vows to seize the island? CBS News
China’s tech leapfrog: Time to lead? ThinkChina. Commentary:
The defense tech guys are way too eager to go to war with China pic.twitter.com/YRqoQbwgCV
— Jacob Silverman (@SilvermanJacob) March 4, 2025
China Is Secretly Worried Trump Will Win on Trade WSJ
What’s ‘involution’ and why is it worrying China’s policymakers? Channel News Asia
Old Blighty
India
Washington’s Damocles Sword Over Chabahar Port Brings Together Indian, Taliban Envoys In Tehran The Wire
US eyes zero tariff on cars in India trade deal as Tesla entry nears: Report Deccan Herald
A Network of Agents in India Is Driving Job Scams and Illegal Migration New Lines Magazine
The Foreign Hand In Dhaka Open the Magazine
Syraqistan
Exclusive: U.S. holding secret talks with Hamas Axios
Trump warns Gazans ‘you are dead’ if captives not freed The New Arab
Going back to prison – for the sixth time.
Half a year behind bars for refusing to take part in Israel’s crimes.No to genocide. No to oppression. No to occupation. No to apartheid.
We refuse to hold a weapon. Will you refuse to supply it? https://t.co/oBPhVjt6fC pic.twitter.com/9qBmdLUU9Y
— איתמר גרינברג Itamar Greenberg (@itamar_green) March 3, 2025
Africa
Ending Aid Dependency: The Tax Edition Grieve Chelwa, Africa Watch
New Not-So-Cold War
Top Trump allies hold secret talks with Zelenskyy’s Ukrainian opponents Politico
After days of coaching, Zelenskyy seeks a path to Trump’s good graces New York Times
US Cuts Intel and Aid to Ukraine: Beginning of the End, or Just More Flimflam? Simplicius
A different kind of security guarantee for Ukraine Responsible Statecraft
Brief Summary from the Front on March 5, 2025 Marat Khairullin Substack
European Disunion
Europe’s Face-Saving Theater on Ukraine Consortium News
‘Shadow fleets’ and subaquatic sabotage: are Europe’s undersea internet cables under attack? The Guardian
EU Commission delays announcing plan to phase out Russian energy imports Kathimerini
Germany considering how to disrupt restoration of Nord Stream 2 – Bild RBC-Ukraine
Macron proposes French nuclear extension, Ukraine troop deployment Le Monde
Europe must trim its welfare state to build a warfare state FT
German stocks, borrowing costs surge after historic budget announcement Euractiv
Merz Plots To Bypass German Parliament In 1 Trillion Rearmament Scheme European Conservative
The BSW should have the election reviewed Thomas Fazi
Trump 2.0
83,000 VA workers targeted for layoffs by August Stars and Stripes
Education Dept looks to reassign work to other agencies ahead of Trump EO ‘eliminating’ it Federal News Network
Critics Ask If Trump and Musk Are ‘Intentionally Crashing the Economy’ Common Dreams
Musk to House Republicans: DOGE ‘can’t bat a thousand all the time’ Politico
They’re going to steal as much as they possibly can from us until we stop them. https://t.co/vP7fzSwfEt
— Read Starting Somewhere (@JPHilllllll) March 5, 2025
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Trump’s ‘little disturbance’ Michael Roberts’ blog
Michigan automakers get break on Trump tariffs — for now Bridge Michigan
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Judge issues preliminary injunction blocking Trump cuts to NIH research overhead payments STAT
Supreme Court rejects Trump administration’s push to rebuke judge over foreign aid freeze AP
Judges face rise in threats as Elon Musk blasts them over rulings Reuters
Crises Of Democracy 3 Quarks Daily
Hamilton Cancels Planned Kennedy Center Run Due to Trump Takeover Playbill
GOP Funhouse
Senate Republicans Effectively Legalized Debanking Drop Site
Big Brother is Watching You Watch
DOJ to appeal court decision ruling broad cell phone tower searches are unconstitutional The Record
Crapification
Capitalism ALSO doesn’t want to make spaces TOO pleasant or friendly anymore to prevent loitering and to up their turnover time. They want things to be pleasant enough for you to come in and buy something, but unpleasant enough so you want to leave relatively quickly
— Chris Alvino (@ChrisAlvino) March 3, 2025
AI
AI Chatbots Can Cushion the High School Counselor Shortage — But Are They Bad for Students? The Markup
Maybe cancel that ChatGPT therapy session – doesn’t respond well to tales of trauma The Register
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OpenAI reportedly plans to charge up to $20,000 a month for specialized AI ‘agents’ TechCrunch
New Palantir venture targets finance industry’s AI spending Semafor
Cellebrite Is Using AI to Summarize Chat Logs and Audio from Seized Mobile Phones 404 Media
World’s first “Synthetic Biological Intelligence” runs on living human cells New Atlas
Healthcare?
‘I just did surgery on myself.’ Michigan dentist shortage leaves some in lurch Bridge Michigan
Imperial Collapse Watch
Trump’s ‘Make Shipbuilding Great Again’ Order Calls for Wholesale Overhaul of U.S. Maritime Industry USNI News
U.S. Navy Rejects Lockheed Martin’s Sixth Generation Fighter Design: Which Firm Will Prevail? Military Watch
The Bezzle
Trump crypto reserve risks undermining Congress’ industry-friendly plans Semafor
SEC drops case against Coinbase — a win for crypto or payback for donations? Coin Telegraph
Buying a $250 Residency Card From a Tropical Island Let Me Bypass U.S. Crypto Laws 404 Media
Class Warfare
Why Class Matters ZZ’s Blog
Antidote du jour (via):
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
“US eyes zero tariff on cars in India trade deal as Tesla entry nears: Report”
I don’t see what the problem is. India is simply trying to Make India Great again. And how are they doing it with their car industry? Why with tariffs of course which is right out of the Trump playbook. This is being done to help out Musk introduce Teslas to India but will they be able to compete? Any Tesla made in the US would have to compete with Indian-manufactured cars which have cheaper labour costs. But there is a flip side. Trump believes in reciprocality with his tariffs regime, right? And the US is demanding that India brings down their tariffs down to zero or just above. But does that mean that India will be able to import their cheap cars into the US and pay no tariffs either? What if India says that if they have to do this for the US, they will do it for China as well so Musk’s cars will have to compete with Chinese EVs in India. Good luck with that one.
And where in all this subsidizing elite billionaires like Musk is MACA – Make Automobiles Cheap Again? Why do we have to suffer lower living standards so that Musk & Co can complete to become the first trillionarie? Noticeablely reducing vehicle prices would help a lot of working folks.
Maybe he’ll be distracted by the very fast increase in shipbuilding, which is maybe just self-driving nuclear subs?
Here’s one for the war on cash department – Monopoly is removing paper money from the game and will now rely on an app for banking.
I predict people will soon be buying up all the old games and hoarding Monopoly money as it’s face value becomes greater than its US$ equivalent. And that app will be hacked yesterday.
‘Hey, kids. The power has gone out but at least we can play some board games to pass the time. Oh, look – there is a Monopoly set. We can play that for hours. Wait – it’s the new version. And no power means no internet so that app won’t work. Battleship anyone?’
Notes make lousy board game components because they’re harder to handle than tokens or chits, but replacing them with an app is a stunningly bad idea – not least because of the likelihood that Hasbro decides to abandon the app at some point in the not too distant future, and then your game doesn’t have any way to track your money.
Well it’s not like Hasbro has a history of spying on kids. Oh, wait-
https://nypost.com/2016/09/13/toy-makers-have-been-spying-on-kids-across-the-country/
“the likelihood that Hasbro decides to abandon the app at some point in the not too distant future”
But meanwhile, look at the opportunity to require a subscription for the app to continue functioning… Buy the game, and then pay to be able to play it!
You gotta wonder who Hasbro will sell the “data” generated from this “app” to, and what conclusions about “human behavior” whoever buys it will swear to god it demonstrates.
I suppose the next Monopoly “innovation” will be that instead of giving each player $200 when they pass Go!, the app will “lend” the money to each player, with the Tophat paying 0% or negative interest and the Dog paying 28.9%, “compounded daily.”
It’s worse than you know, not only has paper money been removed, but thanks to DOGE actions, only certain players get $200 credited to their account after passing GO, and the railroads have been merged with Amtrak.
Maybe the new Monopoly will include ways to hack your opponent’s digital currency and dissappear/take their digital cash, to teach the youngins about the world their growing up in. “Banks” replaced by crypto websites, gas stations by battery charging docks, low income property by toxic waste dumps and homeless encampments on public lands.
I played DC Monopoly one time, and only learned after the game was started that Senators and Congresspeople had bought up all the real estate with the exception of the railroads, which frankly nobody wanted and I can’t blame them. The highlight of playing was landing on Chance or Community Chest, or hopefully a jail stint, as you had no opportunity @ landing on a politician’s haunt full of hotels while in the pokey.
Ugh – very sloppy before I had my coffee. Misspelled possessive, and obviously its (not it’s) face value won’t increase. Meant to say that its value will become greater than the face value US$ equivalent.
“Security guarantee” for Kiev.
The town cannot even keep a name!
Give Kiev the same “security guarantees” US gave Belgrade in 1999!
The rump Kievan SSR is product of USSR!
The truth of the matter is that – realistically – there is only one country capable of giving the Ukraine a iron-clad security guarantee and that country is Russia.
There is no future in fighting Russians in Russia. Logistics decides everytime. The U.S. is a fraction its Vietnam adventure self.
That said Ukraine is no more a country than Yugoslavia.
You mean the same “security guarantees” US gave Belgrade in 1944 as an ally.
An extra antidote: A duck nested in an elementary school during a vacation period, what happened next will shock you (or at least make you go “awww, cute!”)
https://mastodon.social/@benroyce/114113913155903553
Re: Do-it yourself dentistry
There will be a supply whenever there is demand, but perhaps at a service level you won’t like.
Watch private equity sink its fangs into dental practices, suck the blood out like a vampire, and disposes of the corpses.
Meanwhile, black-market “dentists” will spring up, unlicensed and maybe working out of the basement of their homes. This phenomenon is common in Latin America. I remember a Colombian friend in the 90s
who had a patient chair in his basement … I asked him “Why?” and he mumbled something about a shady past.
When I saw that headline about do-it-yourself dentistry, I immediately thought of that do-it-yourself surgery scene from “Master and Commander”-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WN_0mGBf1E8 (3:38 mins)
I hope that Musk has not seen that film. Wouldn’t want him getting any policy ideas.
Will we need a Right-to-Repair law for self dentistry?
Only if our bodies become the legal property of big tech …
Stories like this always remind me of the extraordinary foresight of Terry Gilliam’s Brazil. Most films are about some communist dystopian world, but Brazil is decidedly about a *capitalist* world.
This is a chain of thoughts, but as a matter of fact, Brazil (the actual country) has excellent dentistry schools, and you can find well-qualified Brazilian dentists in other countries — such as Portugal, where the “Brazilian dentist” has long been a cliché, just like the “Polish plumber” in France.
Reminds me of this ‘Would I Lie To You’ segment. A hilarious take on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1JR-9Z5ORE
I did a root canal on myself the other day and saved $2,600!
I just invested in Dremel….
Slightly different situation, but I did some dentistry on myself when I was about 6 or 7 years old. My mother brought me in to get a tooth pulled, they gave me novocain, and then asked me to wait while the dentist checked on another patient. It took a while for him to come back and I got bored waiting, and since my mouth was numb, I yanked the tooth out myself and handed it to the dentist when he came back in.
Despite my assistance, my parents were still charged full price.
Quite a list of headlines about DOGE, decline, and the panic at Euro Central.
In contemplating, from afar, from the Undisclosed Region, the current economic and social travails of the U S of A, which are leading to stagnation, I think of cookies.
It’s something like the moment of Proust’s madeleine, which led him to write a masterpiece. In the case of the U S of A, the cookies are dystopian.
In understanding the impetus behind Trump and Musk, and gang, and don’t rule out Nancy and Hillary and Bill, the trend is of long standing. What is going on in the U S of A is what happens when investment banks take over businesses and loot them. The company doesn’t have to have a groovy Tolkienesque name like Lady Galadriel Mystique of Plundering. The trend is more pervasive.
The symptom that hit me is going after (1) pensions and (2) basic services. These are “classic” symptoms. The beancounters come in and loot the pension plan (Social Security Administration). They then sell the factory in some fancy lease-back deal (post office, Amtrak, air-traffic control). Then comes economic misery for the many and glorious greed for the few.
Thinking back, as someone of Sicilian descent in the U S of A, I was brought up with Stella D’Oro cookies. Here’s info on the horrors the workers there had to undergo:
https://cuadernosfem.blogspot.com/2009/05/stella-doro-no-contract-no-cookies.html
Many, many untoward details about misbehavior by management. Stella D’Oro was an early symptom.
Wikipedia’s potted history is of some help, too:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stella_D%27oro
Note how only three years of looting were needed to turn the de-unionized, de-workplaced wreckage over to some snack conglomerate.
As a child of Chicago, I was also brought up on Salerno cookies. Again, the years and economy have not been kind to another family business:
https://vanishedchicagoland.blog/2019/06/15/salerno-cookies-the-ones-we-truly-remember-and-miss-so-much/
Instead of the panic I see on BookFace, it may be better to think cookies. I see very little evolution from the 1990s in Musk’s tactics or in the tactics of looter/enablers like Thiel and Andreessen. I’m sure that crude hacking of the accounting department and of internal systems went on at Stella D’Oro, too.
Yet I may have to submit this comment to Vicki Cookies for an Official Cookie Reaction, to see if this line of thought, metaphorical, economic, and political, can hold.
Please advise.
Thinking back, as someone of Sicilian descent in the U S of A, I was brought up with Stella D’Oro cookies
Although Calabrese, not too far from Sicily, we had Stella D’Oro cookies growing up in the U.S., at least until my dad switched to Milano cookies…now I think they are both made with palm oils and other nasty ingredients and would never purchase them…weird how cookies that are imported from Italy all seem to have Palm Oil.
Guardian article on Israel’s use of AI against Palestinians – highlighting AI’s active danger of becoming a real life Big Brother:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/06/israel-military-ai-surveillance
Which seems obvious in retrospect – that AI’s primary use will be as the Mass Brains behind Mass Surveillance – turning what was an unmanageable waterfall of information, which could only be partially processed by human effort and limited pattern recognition, into a manageable stream of near-fully-processable intelligence on everything/everyone.
“OpenAI reportedly plans to charge up to $20,000 a month for specialized AI ‘agents’”
DeepSeek: ‘Hey, we’ll do it for twenty bucks a month.’
It’s a race by Wall St. money-grubbers to push 1000 lbs of shit in a 500 lb sack out the door, before DeepSeek undercuts the market.
And just think…OpenAI most likely has some connections that are part of the looting crew in DC.
Govt contracts?
Remember, though, that Musk hates “Scam Altman.”
Would not be surprised to see an Executive Order banning OpenAI from any government contracts … xAI, for the win!
Me: (puts popcorn in microwave)
Everyone who buys that gets exactly what they deserve when they use the results.
Mikel’s comment about government contracts seems all too likely.
>Hello, Brave New World The Baffler
Transhumanists see the body as an avatar, something to be customized freely with the laissez-faire of The Sims… AI-based protein design company Profluent released an open-source gene editor last year called OpenCRISPR-1, which allows a user to create synthetic molecules not existing in nature with the power to edit human DNA in specific ways.
If the technology of splitting the atom failed to harness resultant power for unlimited, clean energy, I doubt “the future of biohacking” will lead to a net benefit for humanity, though specific gains/goods from biotech are certainly possible…brave new world indeed.
>World’s first “Synthetic Biological Intelligence” runs on living human cells New Atlas
These two articles fit nicely together…ethics?, damn ethics full speed ahead Admiral Shiva.
The ethics of this technology has been front and center for Cortical – that breakthrough 2022 paper sparked plenty of debate around it, particularly in the area of human “consciousness” and “sentience…
SBI is inherently more natural than AI, as it utilizes the same biological material – neurons – that underpin intelligence in living organisms,” Cortical added. “By leveraging neurons as a computational substrate, SBI has the potential to create systems that exhibit more organic and natural forms of intelligence compared to traditional silicon-based AI”
Reading this, I could see a drunken, late-night bet leading to the Black Death being combined with the common cold just to see if it could be done. Hilarity ensues.
>US Cuts Intel and Aid to Ukraine: Beginning of the End, or Just More Flimflam? Simplicius
…I believe it’s too early to celebrate. All the above conjecture depends entirely on what kind of ‘pause’ in aid this really is. Trump may just be bringing Zelensky into line, and intends to resume the aid shortly, even if partially. Of course, either way it does not bode particularly well for Ukraine—I am simply cautioning against celebrating an immediate collapse of the AFU.
Simplicius is more optimistic than Brian Berletic, the latter is of the opinion that U.S. policy will continue on in the approximate trajectory, with distractionary moves, as it was when Biden was in office. Next couple of weeks/months will tell who is right.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0Ot-_j4Bfo
U.S. policy have been on the same approximate trajectory since forever, with occasional distractionary moves. Why would it change now, or ever? Imperial ambitions never went away, quite the contrary.
“EU Commission delays announcing plan to phase out Russian energy imports”
Could it have something to do with the fact that recently the Baltic States freed themselves of the tyranny of Russian energy to much fanfare – only to see energy prices now doubling if not tripling in prices causing some businesses having to shut down operations? Maybe some economist grabbed a pencil and writing out some calculations on the back of an envelope, showed that without Russian energy, that this would happen for the entire EU. Trump criticizes the EU for still importing Russian energy but so does the US – which includes Russian uranium which is also a form of energy.
>Europe must trim its welfare state to build a warfare state FT
The reason Merkel wanted some welfare trimmings was to preserve Europe’s “way of life”. The mission now is to defend Europe’s lives. How, if not through a smaller welfare state, is a better-armed continent to be funded?….The purpose is survival. Europe must never again find itself in a position where the likes of US vice-president JD Vance have life-and-death power over it. All other priorities are secondary.
Great to see Double Bind being used so ineffectually in FT. Love seeing the use of logical fallacies in advocating their foreign policy position on Ukraine. This article gives 2 for the price of 1, reducing public social programs and ramping up war.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_bind
Here’s a quote from the article about not batting a thousand every time.
How are these people not called out on such BS? Norman has been in office, he has a clue or two about programs and spending. Ran through his introduced and sponsored bills list – he focuses on spending and is absolutely performing here. Just continuing the right-wing hard press on the need for a DOGE audit to find waste, fraud, abuse, dead employees still getting paid, and staff using your tax money to eat dogs and cats on the job!
The comments regarding past events are quite stunning in the Responsible Statecraft article and make it very difficult to take the author seriously (do the authors think the readership of Responsible Statecraft is unaware of what happened at Maidan and up to Feb 2022?):
“This is especially so, given that the mere “assurances” of the 1994 Budapest Memorandum proved inadequate to the task of blunting Russian revanchism.”
“After more than a decade of war and three years of full-scale aggression, Kyiv understandably wants ironclad guarantees . . . ”
One thing you never hear about in any MSM article or article like this is “what do the people of the Donbass and Crimea want?” They are obviously invisible to the PMC or, more likely, guilty by association by speaking the same language as the person who stole the 2016 election from The Chosen One.
‘what do the people of the Donbass and Crimea want?’
On our TV news, they are only ever referred to as “Russian-occupied territory” and that is it. Case closed.
>Summary of Episode 3 – The Fed Independence Lie – John Titus
During the pandemic…Congress abandoned its constitutional duty and gave the Fed exactly what its “independence” campaign asked for–unfettered freedom to undertake “operational activities” and buy assets. Consequently, the Fed went on a $5 trillion asset purchasing spree that showed up directly in bank deposit accounts and caused the worst inflation since the 1970s.
Excellent series. I’m flabbergasted at the failure (rejection) of the Fed to disclose the details of their “asset purchases” …and why the hell is the Fed buying assets? As good and simplified as this series is, a lot of what and how the Fed operates is opaque to me.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-158476531?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
That’s just during the pandemic.
Some of that or variations of it also occurred during the GFC era.
Avian flu detected in multiple cats in NJ. One was euthanized :-(.
https://www.nj.gov/health/news/2025/approved/20250228a.shtml
Elsewhere in NJ, the recreation area around the private Merrill Creek reservoir is still closed due to the virus found in dead birds in the area.
Very interesting post from Judge Napolitano yesterday where he announced that he is on his way to Russia to interview Lavrov.
A couple things come to mind. Firstly, Russia apparently has zero interest in communicating via conventional US media. First it was Putin meeting with Tucker Carlson, and now this. CNN must be having a sad. And secondly, last week Napolitano had Jeffrey Sachs on and thanked him for speaking out for peace, and Napolitano also noted that Trump was listening to his show. So now perhaps Lavrov will speak to Trump’s people though Napolitano. Are we seeing a rerouting all those proverbial “back channels”, with the public being included ? Interesting times.
Would you waste your time by giving an interview to CNN?
Bird flu spread is ‘slowing down,’ California officials say Politico
Avian flu cases continue to rise across the San Joaquin Valley, and it’s not just among birds KVPR
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When I see Avian flu
What do I see
Poultry
Poultry in motion
Poultry in motion
Walkin’ by my side
Avian H5N1 locomotion
Keeps my eyes open wide
Poultry in motion
See the depopulation take sway
A wave out on the ocean
Could never move that way
I loathe every virus movement
And there’s nothing I could do to make it change
Standards need improvement
But there is much too much to rearrange
Poultry in motion
Way too close to me
A virus of commotion
Chickens dying not so gracefully
Whoa
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa
Whoa
Poultry in motion
See the depopulation take sway
A wave out on the ocean
Could never move that way
I loathe every virus movement
And there’s nothing I could do to make it change
Standards need improvement
But there is much too much to rearrange
Poultry in motion
All that I abhor
No chance of a solution
Could make up for
Whoa
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa
Poetry in Motion, by Johnny Tillotson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oy_ArpznZUs
RE: Man charged with stealing massive amounts of LEGOs from multiple Bay Area Targets
When owning a home becomes unaffordable for the majority of people, you need to get creative. Sounds like this guy might be starting a DIY movement. He should not do any jail time, but instead be feted as an “innovator”. That seems to work for the rest of the crooks who’ve been looting our society for years and have now gone into overdrive.
Lego house? Did somebody say Lego house?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzYWaQjBUB4 (2:08 mins)
“Germany considering how to disrupt restoration of Nord Stream 2 – Bild’
Reminds me of the story of the factory worker who accidentally fell into a huge whiskey vat in Scotland. They tried to save him but he fought them off bravely.
Elon wears his political war chest like a crown
He calls his satellites Starlink
‘Cause he likes the name
And he sends them to the finest orbits above town
Elon, Elon likes his money
He makes a lot, they say
Spends his days counting
In a Tesla by the motorway
He was born in Pretoria came here via Canada, eh
When the New York Times said, ‘Elon is dead to us
And the war’s begun’
Oh, the old school media is a son of a gun today
And he shall be Elon
And he shall be a good man
And he shall be Elon
In tradition with the rocket plan
And he shall be Elon
And he shall be a good man
He shall be Elon
Elon sells Space-X in DC town
His family business thrives
They blow up occasionally
As he sits on the porch swing watching them fly
And Jesus H Christ on a cracker, he wants to go to Mars
Leave the Earth far behind
Take a rocket and go sailing
While Elon, Elon slowly dies
And he shall be Elon
And he shall be a good man
And he shall be Elon
In trajectory with the DOGE departure plan (whooo!)
And he shall be Elon
And he shall be a good man
He shall be Elon
And he shall be Elon
And he shall be a good man
And he shall be Elon
In trajectory with the DOGE departure plan (whooo!)
And he shall be Elon
And he shall be a good man
He shall be Elon
Levon, by Elton John
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEgEmTgAEUk
Los Angeles County sues Southern California Edison over Eaton Fire KTLA
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Can’t really sue the homeless for having cooking and warming fires that got out of control in crazy Santa Ana winds, well, I mean you could, but where’s the funds in that?