President Trump’s top aides have discussed whether he should kill the administration’s nearly $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund in exchange for getting immigration enforcement funding passed next month, according to people familiar with the matter. More than a dozen Republican senators have privately urged top Trump aides to drop the fund since its creation last week, said people familiar with the outreach, including Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, who is usually supportive of the president’s efforts. Administration officials have grown increasingly concerned about the viability of the fund, people familiar with the matter said, which had been expected to provide payouts to an array of Trump allies. Trump hasn’t agreed to drop the fund, but has told allies that he understands he has political problems with Senate Republicans, the people said. On Friday, a federal judge ordered a pause on efforts to stand up the fund while she weighs a legal challenge in an Eastern Virginia federal court. Senate Republicans pressed acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on the fund at a contentious meeting last week that Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) referred to as one of the roughest in his years in the Senate. Another person who was at the meeting said it was the toughest grilling of an administration official they had ever seen from Republican senators. WSJ: https://archive.is/2tGQH#selection-923.0-957.251

@jon-nyc said: Loans? Or visa? I found the same article on Telemundo. It used the phrase "dos préstamos". I tried three translation websites and they all translated it to "two loans". https://www.telemundo.com/noticias/noticias-telemundo/inmigracion/migrantes-espana-regularizados-celebran-no-haber-ido-eeuu-rcna347031 I've found the translators to be generally lousy for LIthuanian, but I would have thought Spanish would be a) easier (no noun declension) and b) far more popular so any errors have been corrected. What does your native speaker of Spanish say about it?

How to escape the trap by Elli Lieberman https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/escalation-trap-pape-and-lieberman-on-iran-war/

President Donald Trump on Friday said his administration will transfer control of the Kennedy Center ‌to Congress, after a judge ordered the removal of Trump's name from the iconic Washington venue and blocked his plans to close it for renovations. Trump said on social media that he instructed the U.S. Commerce Department to "make all necessary arrangements with Congress to allow a full and complete transfer of this Institution" and give lawmakers responsibility over its operation, maintenance ​and management. It was not immediately clear how Trump's directive could be carried out. The Kennedy Center was created by Congress in 1958 and ​is run by a board of trustees that the president has packed with allies in his second term. https://www.reuters.com/world/us-judge-orders-removal-trumps-name-kennedy-center-2026-05-29/

I only wish that human beings could bring themselves to admit to themselves and others that they have been and are watching a live streamed genocide in Gaza and other places in Palestine. We were taught to, "never forget." We were taught to believe in international law. We taught ourself that, "holocaust" is a word that no group of human beings owns. The new owner of CBS is a Zionist billionaire that has given more money to the IDF than anyone in history. CBS does not, as no media conglomerate does, operate under the FCC framework that we remember because the framework has been demolished. CBS is now the definition of propaganda. No true journalist can work for it as a reporter. The people who work at CBS now are stenographers. This young person is promising because he hasn't agreed to betray journalism by being a stenographer. I agree completely that everyone must make their way in the world. I understand on the other hand that this is entirely possible to do without supporting a holocaust.

I tried to use it once for otc stuff they sell (can’t even remember what it was) and their website simply wouldn’t let me proceed without a prescription.

@Mik said: Pandora's box was opened from 2015 on. What happened in 2015?

@wtg said: A book about a piano tuner. Thanks, I added it to my list. This reminds me of something I listened to as an audiobook. The title is unfortunately a bit generic, but I really enjoyed it. Love Is Blind, by William Boyd The description makes it just sound like a cheesy romance, but as I recall, there's a lot about piano tuning and music in there that elevated it beyond that. When he is hired as the personal piano tuner for a brilliant pianist, Brodie Moncur suddenly finds himself swept up into a life of luxury that he could never have imagined. But while accompanying his new employer on tours from Paris to St. Petersburg, Brodie falls madly in love with the Russian soprano Lika Blum: beautiful, worldly, seductive—and forbidden. Though seemingly doomed from the start, Brodie’s passion for Lika only grows as their lives become increasingly more intertwined, more secretive, and, finally, more dangerous. A tale of dizzying passion and brutal revenge; of artistic endeavor and the illusions it can create; of the possibilities that life offers and the cruel speed with which they can be snatched away, Love Is Blind is a dazzling work of historical fiction that unfolds across fin de siècle Europe.

Stopped at the grocery store on the way home from day rehav; Mr wtg's first trip to a grocery store since late February. We decided to celebrate... Jeni's was on sale for $4.99 a pint. We got the Gooey Butter Cake (not bad but wouldn't buy again) and the Lemon and Blueberry Parfait (am going back to buy three more). Also got Haagen Dazs Rum Raisin. It was OK, but a bit grainy. Ice crystals.

Nevermind. Losing interest fast.

I have three rose bushes that are of the own root variety, no grafting. All three of them took a big hit this past winter. Two started sending out new shoots pretty early in spring but the third looked like it was toast; I almost dug it up. Lo and behold, probably three weeks later, I saw what appeared to be tiny buds. It hasn't caught up to the others but it is definitely still alive!

Another tidbit to show how content free the report was... Ramesh Ponuru in the Washington Post pointed out that the word “inflation” shows up 18 times in the report. But each time talking about how the cost of ad spend and other campaign expenses have gone up. Not once talking about the affordability issues that played such a big role in voter dissatisfaction.

I'm imagining the judge's reaction in court.

She may have memory problems.

Not perfect, but the difficulty level is off the charts: Link to video

@wtg Don't eat them