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Kismai the laundry guru -
Kismai the laundry guruHaven’t checked him out on Reddit yet but this sounds intriguing.
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JD and Marco's shoesOK, this is pretty funny.
Across medieval Europe, aristocrats repeatedly set off fashion fads and scandals by wearing poulaines, shoes whose flamboyantly elongated pointed toes could stretch far beyond the natural length of their feet. In President Donald Trump’s Oval Office, a different stylistic choice caught the public’s eye this week: Photos of Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance show them wearing black dress shoes with visible gaps between the shoe’s collar and the wearer’s foot, leaving the ankle to dangle loose in the opening like the clapper in a bell.
President Donald Trump has taken to giving the male officials around him new shoes, the Wall Street Journal reported this week — specifically, mid-priced Florsheim oxfords, ordered on the spur of the moment and then faithfully worn by the recipients.
But the presidentially approved footwear seen on Rubio and Vance, said the longtime menswear expert Josh Peskowitz, is “clearly too big.”
The Journal reported that, in Vance’s account, he, Rubio and an unnamed fellow politician specifically gave the president their shoe sizes: 13, 11.5 and 7, respectively. “You can tell a lot about a man by his shoe size,” Vance quoted Trump as saying.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/13/style/rubio-vance-big-shoes-florsheim-cec
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Hard to imagine they could sink any lowerBut they did.
Trump fundraising email uses photo from soldiers’ dignified transfer and promises ‘private national security briefings’
https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/13/politics/trump-fundraise-email-soldier
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Attention tomato growersMy Lithuanian friend has successfully grown sweet red peppers with seeds from a grocery store pepper, two years in a row. But as @big_al said, seeds from a hybrid might not produce offspring the same as the parent
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The wtgs could use your long distance supportCould be better, could be worse. He has feeling but almost no movement on right side. Cognitively seems fine but a lot of trouble speaking. Still a lot of unanswered medical questions. He is remarkably sanguine about what has happened. Said he’s learned so much.
It’s heartbreaking
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Hail, hail…Big storms came through Illinois last night. Our area got rain;south of us got hit with tornados and hail.
We may have set a state record for largest hailstones.
https://www.wral.com/weather/ask-the-meteorologist-tornado-hail-illinois/
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What are you reading?@AndyD I’ve heard of that book. Now that I saw your photos, I want a copy!..
10 p??? What a bargain
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The wtgs could use your long distance support -
The wtgs could use your long distance supportMr wtg has had a couple of strokes (first one on Feb 27) and had a stent put in a cerebral artery last Thursday. Things seem to go well for a while and then his problem recurs. He’s getting great care but this is still a really tough road.
Thoughts, prayers, positive energy….we’ll gratefully accept it all!
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But Hunter’s paintings….Thousands of companies are jockeying for billions of dollars in Defense Department contracts to build a shield designed to intercept and destroy missiles launched against the United States.
But amid the intense competition, a handful of firms have an important inside connection.
At least four of the companies awarded contracts so far are owned by Cerberus Capital Management, a private equity firm founded by billionaire Steve Feinberg, who until last year ran the company and is now the deputy secretary of defense — the second-highest-ranking official in the Pentagon.https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-administration-financial-disclosures-steve-feinberg
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Yakult LadyThe yoghurt delivery women combatting loneliness in Japan
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I was blown away by this storyWow.
A 5-year-old boy was left alone in a hospital on the day of his heart surgery. His anesthesiologist adopted him.
That is just the beginning…
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News of an old friend -
A master class on sleepTopol on Substack. I think they post a transcript at some point, but here's the video:
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Kennedy CenterKennedy Center exodus continues as National Symphony director Jean Davidson exits
Davidson said she found it difficult to remain, ‘given the external forces that are at work that are just so far beyond my control’https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/06/kennedy-center-national-symphony-director-exits
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Kristi Noem firedCorey Lewandowski is expected to depart the Department of Homeland Security after President Trump fired Secretary Kristi Noem on Thursday — ending his reign of terror over agency staff.
Lewandowski has served as Noem’s de facto chief of staff and tightly controlled department operations, building a reputation for abruptly firing staff and instilling fear among fellow Trump aides.
“The end of Corey Lewandowski’s reign represents a return to responsible and accountable governance,” an administration official told The Post. “The nation welcomes Senator [Markwayne] Mullin’s nomination.”
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Dropping like flies...A key U.S. Food and Drug Administration official who oversees vaccines and biotech treatments will step down from the agency following multiple decisions that raised concerns within the industry.
Vinay Prasad, director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, will leave the FDA at the end of April, an agency spokesperson confirmed on Friday. It is his second departure from the position: He briefly left the post in July following backlash over his regulatory decisions, and returned only two weeks later in August.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/06/fda-vaccine-head-prasad-step-down.html
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Canadian citizenship?Mine is Lithuania. Gets me into the EU and a country in NATO, but a little too close to Vladimir for my taste.
