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The week that broke Trump's control of the Senate -
Not sure how it plays but would make a heck of a piece of art to hang on the wall
https://chicago.craigslist.org/nwc/msg/d/palatine-trenchtown-cb-custom-guitar/7915961134.html
(No, I'm not looking for musical instruments. I was doing a search for "teak")
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A Danish MCM piano?Produced by Brødrene Jørgensen in the 1960s. (Denmark). Jorgensen was Danish piano factory known for Scandinavian craftsmanship.
Model: "Minerva," their most iconic model, which is even featured in the Danish Music History Museum.
The teak wood is even more stunning in person.
https://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/msg/d/chicago-jorgensen-upright-piano-mid/7934035221.html
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Another brand bites the dustthose of you who appreciated fine and sophisticated music in the 1960s would associate the brand with the song… What's made Milwaukee famous
Has made a loser out of me …
My era, but the music was unknown to me, probably because I didn't listen to country music.
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Another brand bites the dustSchlitz beer. I remember my Dad used to drink it. He also liked Blatz and Hamm's.
https://www.tastingtable.com/2177282/legendary-midwest-beer-schlitz-discontinued/
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The week that broke Trump's control of the SenateFrom the WSJ's lips to God's ear.
Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general, and a team of White House aides arrived at a hastily organized meeting near the Senate chamber hoping to reassure Republicans about a $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization fund” promoted by President Trump.
Sen. Tom Cotton, a Trump ally from Arkansas, wasn’t having it.
“Who thought this was a good idea? Who chose this timing?” Cotton asked bluntly inside the Senate’s ornate Mike Mansfield Room, pressing Blanche, White House legislative affairs director James Braid and others about the fund with a series of point-blank questions, according to people familiar with the tense exchange.
Cotton was far from alone—more than a dozen Republican senators grilled Blanche about the settlement in the two-hour meeting, the people said, questioning its merit and warning that it could derail approval of a $70 billion multiyear package funding immigration enforcement.
“One of the roughest meetings I’ve seen in my entire time in the Senate,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas), said Friday on his podcast. “Fiery does not begin to cut it,” Cruz said, adding that some senators were screaming at Blanche.
For more than a year, Republican senators had largely been deferential to Trump’s wishes—from backing contentious cabinet nominees to giving the president free rein on tariffs and the Iran war.
This week, they revolted en masse, fed up with Trump’s insistence on settling personal scores and pursuing pet projects at the expense of their legislative agenda. The tipping point came when Trump endorsed a rival to Texas Sen. John Cornyn on Tuesday, a move that stunned many of Cornyn’s colleagues. They saw it as a reckless way to treat a senior Republican incumbent whose seat the party can’t afford to lose in November.
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Ahoy bread bakersGood article from the Breadtopia blog
https://breadtopia.com/bread-baking-strategies-and-techniques/?utm_content
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How do erasers work?wtg, once again sharing little known and even less cared about information...
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Remarkable use of our tax dollars@Bernard Yes, I guess they would be.
I doubt that Comey is actually going to apply. I think he's just pointing out the unintended consequences and needling Trump about the lawfare he is exercising against Comey
Cohen falls in the camp with the rioters, at least theoretically. Lawfare by the Biden administration against him. And I'm guessing he's more desperate for money, which I doubt Comey is. I've never thought of him as someone acting on principle.
I would be totally surprised if Powell applied for compensation. as a matter of fact, I doubt he would ever even make any comments about the compensation fund, and certainly not while he's still a Fed governor.
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Remarkable use of our tax dollarswtg said:
I wondered earlier if Comey, Powell, or Kelly might apply. Don’t know about them, but Michael Cohen says he will.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/michael-cohen-anti-weaponization-fund-claim-trump-lawyer/
I was sort of kidding about Comey and Powell. But...
Former FBI Director James Comey, who the justice department indicted twice in the span of eight months in cases that criminal law experts have deemed legally dubious, told CNN he might apply for the fund.
"It appears that they're serious," said Comey, who has publicly sparred with Trump since the president fired him as FBI director in 2017. "It's to compensate people who have been targeted by the justice department for, they say, personal, political, or ideological reasons."
"So I'm guessing, I'll be in line," Comey said. "I hope I'll be ahead of those who savagely beat police officers and sacked the Capitol."
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Hay WTGThis Jewish Hungarian restaurant owner shared his recipe for Chicken Paprikash.
https://www.hadassahmagazine.org/2025/01/06/jeremy-salamons-hungarian-mashups/
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Some people never learn -
Hay WTGDaily Herald article about Paprikash.
https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Best+of+Budapest+Hungarian+fare+spices+up+Paprikash+in+Arlington...-a0148935177
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Hay WTGBoy, I had completely forgotten about Paprikash. We never tried it. I'm guessing at the time our favorite hangout was La Poele d`or, the place with fabulous crepes and omelettes. We ate there frequently; it was kind of our version of "Cheers".
Paprikash was on the PBS restaurant review show Check, Please! At least you can take a walk down memory lane. The episode was filmed at the original Paprikash; I think AH was their second location.
https://checkplease.wttw.com/restaurants/paprikash-closed
All the menus I see online seem to be Italian. I'm thinking they are actually for Clementi's, which was the next restaurant in the location where Paprikash (and before that Cap'n Rapp's) once stood.
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John Fetterman's texts leakedSame article on MSN, no paywall.
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Newest Google sneaky ploy -
Comparing the US and Russian visits to ChinaA tale of two visits: Xi’s contrasting ties with Trump and Putin
Less than a week after Trump’s second visit to Beijing, Putin also made a trip to the Chinese city. Here’s what the trip might say about the ties between Russia and China, and how this differs from Trump’s visit.
https://www.reuters.com/graphics/CHINA-RUSSIA/byprnwgrdpe/
After looking at the menu, I wonder what Mr Big Mac managed to eat at the state dinner....
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Tell us what you really thinkThe boss of Standard Chartered has apologised after describing employees whose jobs are vulnerable to being replaced by artificial intelligence (AI) as "lower value human capital".
Discussing how automation was likely to lead to thousands of job cuts at the bank at a recent conference, Bill Winters said it wasn't about cost cutting but "replacing, in some cases, lower value, human capital, with the financial capital and the investment capital that we're putting in".
He later sought to contextualise the remarks via LinkedIn and said he was sorry for his wording, which had "caused upset to some colleagues".
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Tulsi resignsTulsi Gabbard has said she is resigning from her position as the US director of national intelligence in the Trump administration, citing her husband's recent bone cancer diagnosis.
"His strength and love have sustained me through every challenge," she wrote in her resignation letter obtained by CBS News, the BBC's US partner. "I cannot in good conscience ask him to face this fight alone while I continue in this demanding and time-consuming position."
President Donald Trump said in a social media post that Gabbard "has done an incredible job, and we will miss her".
Her resignation is effective 30 June. Aaron Lukas, the principal deputy director, will step in as acting director, Trump said.
