Commerce secretary: No one but ‘fraudsters’ would complain about missed Social Security check
I’m not sure how out-of-touch you need to be to think that elderly people living on Social Security can just wait a month for a skipped check to arrive, but Lutnick is that far out. Stupid or criminal.
“Beachgrass”
Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 14-42 kit lens @ 41mm, f/11, 1/400s, ISO 400. Along the John Dellenback Dunes Trail.
Trump suggests sending Tesla vandals to El Salvador prisons
Or put another way, the increasingly lawless President wants to send American citizens to outsourced concentration camps overseas.
“Sentinel”
Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 14-42 kit lens @ 30mm, f/11, 1/250s, ISO 250. ALong the John Dellenback Dunes Trail.
How to Avoid US-Based Digital Services—and Why You Might Want To
I’m not the only one moving things out of the US - and micro.blog is right on trend here!
“As Above, So Below”
Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 14-42 kit lens @ 42mm, f/10, 1/200s, ISO 250. Near the John Dellenback Dunes Trail.
“Life Finds a Way”
Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 14-42 kit lens @ 42mm, f/11, 1/30s, ISO 200. Along the John Dellenback Dunes Trail.
Dr. Oz Is Now the Grown-Up in the Room
A legitimately scary thought.
Didn’t finish: The Forgotten Man 📚
Revisionist history arguing that FDR’s policies didn’t help people out of the Great Depression. Tell that to the folks who fed their families thanks to the CCC or WPA. Stuck with it about halfway but the author’s “the liberals are full of crap” bias was just too much to put up with.
Finished reading: In the Garden of Beasts 📚
Larson’s dramatic history is always an easy read. This one, about the US ambassador to Germany in the 1930s, is also a sobering look at the rise of a fascist dictatorship. All too resonant with our own current circumstances.
I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
Thought experiment: how do you suppose the Trump administration would react if the Canadians did this to an American?
Nearly All Cybertrucks Have Been Recalled Because Tesla Used the Wrong Glue
This is just laugh-out-loud funny. Well, unless you happen to be driving behind a swastikar that sheds sheet metal at high speed.
“Windblown”
Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 14-42 kit lens @ 32mm, f/11, 1/50s, ISO 200. Processed in Darktable. Along the John Dellenback Dunes Trail.
A Livestreamed Tragedy on X Sparks a Memecoin Frenzy
Memecoins are just an unadulterated barrel of crap.
Commerce secretary: Buy Tesla stock
Looks like co-President Musk managed to buy national advertising as well as a seat in the Oval Office for his money. Not a bad deal if you’re a billionaire.
Finished reading: Gai-Jin 📚
An ideal bathroom book: action every page or two, comfortably exotic (while being, I suspect, wildly ahistorical), and I wouldn’t have cared if I dropped it in the toilet. Suffers from the Clavell problems of being too long and leaving plot threads unresolved at the end.
“Elephant Foot”
Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 14-42 kit lens @ 14mm, f/9.5, 1/500s, ISO 200. Near the John Dellenback Dunes Trail.
Republicans want Musk to shut up about Social Security
Yeah, I’ll bet they do. Losing the votes of everyone over 65 might possibly be a problem for their party.
Dietary Guidelines in the MAHA era
Vegetables: the latest leftist plot to pollute America’s precious bodily fluids.