OMG. That was horrifying. Is that really Martha Reeves??? As in, Martha and the Vandellas? How sad.

Pirro came prepared. No umbrella as far as I can tell... The top federal prosecutor in the nation's capital carted a box full of evidence to the White House on Monday, in a bid to prove to President Trump that the damage to the Reflecting Pool was caused by shoddy construction and not by vandals, sources familiar with the matter told CBS News on Tuesday. U.S. Attorney for D.C. Jeanine Pirro, a staunch ally of the president, made the case in a sometimes heated private meeting in the Oval Office Monday, hours after Mr. Trump had publicly rebuked her for dropping criminal charges against Olympic canoeist David Hearn. She was later photographed leaving the White House carting a large white box and other bags, which sources said contained all of the evidence collected from the Interior Department that exculpated Hearn and several others from criminal vandalism. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pirro-box-evidence-trump-reflecting-pool-damage/

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@AdagioM Based on that fantasy is the best summation I have seen.

Hot, cold, wet, dry, smoky, clear... Just finished Lollapalooza weekend in the neighborhood - lots of road and park closures for locals, but it seems like was a great event even with all the mud! Some filming in the neighborhood - I look at the amount of set up and people involved guessing it is all for a few seconds or minutes of screen time. But yes, summer in the city is a great experience!

I saw him at Ravinia in the late 1990s. It was a hot humid day and he was of course performing in the outdoor pavilion. He was sweating profusely and I was worried he would keel over mid-performance but he never missed a beat. Borge played his first major concert in 1926 Holy cow.

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Congratulations on your many life changes! Sounds like you’re settling in.

@ShiroKuro I know! I’m only responsible for two of them. I should sell my Takamine; it’s really too big for me. [image: image12.jpg]

@CHAS That can be even more expensive in the long run.

@wtg said: CIA and FBI both say it was laboratory sourced. Not arguing that it didn't come from the lab, but when did the CIA and FBI determine that? .... CIA Jan 2025, FBI Feb 2023 I can't find the newspaper article with everyhing on a timeline, but the following is my quick review on the Wuhan biological warfare research institue, the criminally negligent accidental escape of the covid virus, and the start of the CCP cover up and obfuscation: ...there was no cellphone activity in a high-security portion of the Wuhan Institute of Virology from Oct. 7 through Oct. 24, 2019, and that there may have been a "hazardous event" sometime between Oct. 6 and Oct. 11. ... three researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) had fallen ill with Covid-19 in November 2019 and were admitted to hospital... This predates the 7 market sourced cases reported by Dr. Li, the Chinese opthalmologist on 30th December 2019. He was silenced by Chinese authorities, caught covid in January and unfortunarely died. A Jan. 24 study published in the medical journal The Lancet found that three of the first four cases — including the first known case — didn't provide a documented link to the Wuhan wet market. The bats that carry the family of coronaviruses linked to the new strain aren't found within 100 miles of Wuhan — but they were studied in both labs. Photos and videos have emerged of researchers at both labs collecting samples from bats without wearing protective gear, which experts say poses a risk of human infection. A U.S. State Department expert who visited the WIV in 2018 wrote in a cable reported by The Washington Post: "During interactions with scientists at the WIV laboratory, [U.S. diplomats] noted the new lab has a serious shortage of appropriately trained technicians and investigators needed to safely operate this high-containment laboratory." And the cover up... According to Senate Intelligence Committee member Tom Cotton, R-Ark., the Chinese military posted its top epidemiologist to the WIV in January. The Shanghai laboratory where researchers published the world's first genome sequence of the coronavirus was shut down Jan. 12, according to The South China Morning Post. According to U.S. intelligence assessments, including one published by the Department of Homeland Security and reviewed by NBC News, the Chinese government initially covered up the severity of the outbreak. Government officials threatened doctors who warned their colleagues about the virus, weren't candid about human-to-human transmission... So, 1 million US deaths later, and up to 40 million worldwide, the CCP continues to try to save face.

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Thank you @axtremus !

Hungary to shut sole nuclear plant for first time on Sunday Record-low water levels on the Danube forced the Paks plant offline, leaving Hungary facing a potential power crunch. In neighboring Serbia, energy production at two hydroelectric plants has also been reduced. It measured the Danube's water level in Budapest at 23 centimeters (9 inches) on Wednesday morning, well below the previous record low of 33 centimeters (13 inches) set in 2018. https://www.dw.com/en/hungary-to-shut-sole-nuclear-plant-for-first-time-on-sunday/a-78205668

The one town that wants a data center. Atlantic gift link: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/08/jay-maine-wants-data-center/688043/?gift=L2aql4Qoi09z50oHv3jcce27MJsiW0jW8v85CoHkbjQ&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

@jon-nyc He really does look like the same Churchill we recognize from his adult photos. Sans the cigar and brandy, of course.

I love cream in my coffee so it looks like 5/6. Toast 4, buttered to the edges please. Steak also about 4 (at least cooked) I'm attempting to substitute fish for meat as much as possible.

Nobody here but us egos.