i mean, let's be honest. he was married to Kimmy.
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i mean, let's be honest. he was married to Kimmy.
my sense is that he's probably fine but no real public appearances for almost a week is weird. Wouldn't be for another prez but for a total publicity whore its odd
Who does Vance nominate for Veep? Don Jr or RFK Jr?
possible that Trump heard about the Lutnick boys placing a major bet on tariffs being overturned and it just broke him
possible the new Pew poll
Headline: Biden coverup made it impossible to see Trump's body disintegrating
ok cool
honestly with all that gold shit in the office you could imagine a serious glare?
3/ juice? What's happening exactly?
2/ forced him out of the race in the final stretch. totally unprecedented in American history. meanwhile you've got Trump showing up in public events with parts of his body looking like morgue photos and talking like he's playing mad libs and yet ... I guess the elite press ran out of reckoning ...
ive got no idea what's going on with Trump's health. But the 'biden precedent' is just so glaring and hilarious. half of 2025 has been taken up with elite press shaming of how no one ever talked abt Biden's age which was actually their main topic in 2024. Ok. Set aside that his party literally ...
It’s time to have a serious conversation about Trump’s health www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-time-...
it's beating tumblr! oh wait. (actually pretty sad for meta that its beating threads. ouch)
False. Early post-dose adverse events are not wholesale reassigned to the unvaccinated group; they are tracked explicitly (often as partially vaccinated or by days since dose). This man is either dumb or lying. You tell me.
i'll hold out a slight quibble for the ipad/tablet. but mostly a downstream modification of the iphone I guess.
Lutnick Family Angling To Make Astronomical Sums Off Court Nixing Tariffs talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/lutni...
I challenge you to more subtly capture the ideation and attitude of a cocky 8 year old
the continuation of the war at this point and for some time is simply indefensible. this is a govt run by the settlers.
Longtime NYC Rep. Jerry Nadler tells the NYT he's retiring. “Watching the Biden thing really said something about the necessity for generational change in the party, and I think I want to respect that,” Mr. Nadler said, adding that a younger successor “can maybe do better, can maybe help us more.”
The firm goes to the importer and purchases the right to collect the refund in exchange for a payment. There are a few different ways you could do the mechanics. But that's the gist.
tough consequence for something reasonably punished by being grounded for a week
gun culture
some questions you just shouldn't ask
3/ those rights have already jumped dramatically. Lutnick is one of two cabinet secretaries running Trump's demolition derby. Crooked as all fuck would be the formal economics term for it.
2/ So when Lutnick became Commerce Secretary he turned over leadership of his firm Cantor Fitzgerald to his two twenty-something sums. They've been aggressively buying up tariff refund rights. Six weeks ago they were buying them for about 25% of face value. After Friday's decision the value of ...
honestly the cat bjorn story makes me think better of sliwa than anything since the 1970s
Lutnick Family Angling To Make Astronomical Sums Off Court Nixing Tariffs talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/lutni...
Ban the pill and ladies will revert to their true maga selves
Imperialism when it’s Russia = resistance to western aggression lol
A Texas County Cuts Over 100 Polling Sites as Trump Attacks Mail-In Voting Nationally talkingpointsmemo.com/news/a-texas...
The Trump Administration is Investigating Workers’ Rights in Mexico While Demolishing Them At Home talkingpointsmemo.com/news/the-tru...
He's making it like a standing in the school house door thing Fleischmann says ‘never’ to town hall edition.timesfreepress.com/article/2817...
This is nothing else but a hybrid war that Russia wages against Europe Let's name things as they really are:Russia has made an assassination attempt of the President of the European Commission Russia has been jamming GPS-signals over many Eastern Europe countries that are in its immediate vicinity
President Trump’s most recent attack on mail voting is part of a concerted effort to undermine our elections. The administration has provided us with clues about what comes next. The good news: key actors can be ready to respond. bit.ly/4fRIqtA
Go to war with everyone at once, classic grand strategy
“.. a scene .. almost certainly intended for an audience on the other side of the world: The leaders of China, Russia and India .. smiling and laughing like good friends ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/w...
What a gang of mindless amateurs in Washington accomplished in Beijing:
A set of shop drawers for holding miscellaneous tools, attachments, shop stuff. Made for this purpose so none of the fanciness of a show piece and left off various refinements. But quite happy with it. Highly functional. Pine and cherry. Tung oil finish.
Totally
Very similar experience
But that was back in July. I bet they’d have to pay a lot more after Friday’s decision
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Is this non-linear narrative like Tarantino does?
Just tung. I never use stains. Don’t see the point. I want to see the wood whatever it is
I learned the technique from Paul Sellers. I’m not sure if you and are going about it differently. But I learned it from him. The knife was has to be defined well.
Is this non-linear narrative like Tarantino does?
As a friend recently put it: the venn diagram of people who assured us the gun violence was worth it because we need the guns to protect ourselves against a tyrannical federal government and the people cheering on Trump as he deploys the military to take over American cities is a circle
Robert Mueller has Parkinson’s disease, his family said, and will not be able to comply with a request that he testify before Congress
Id heard that Cantor Fitzgerald, the Wall Street firm formerly run by Commerce Secy Lutnick and now run by his sons is one of the big buyers of these refund rights. Turns out it’s already public back in July when they were buying them at 20 to 30 cents on the dollar. www.wired.com/story/cantor...
Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi, who fled the Taliban in 2021, had worked to help U.S. diplomats understand his homeland. Then DOGE put his family’s lives at risk by exposing his sensitive work for a U.S.-funded nonprofit.
I’ve heard wall streeters are buying up the tariff refund rights from importers as speculative investments.
the Federal Employees & Contractors Oral History Project (FECOHP) was launched in 3/2025 by the Organization of American Historians (OAH). Directed by an experienced oral historian & former federal historian, the project seeks to capture this pivotal moment through the voices of those who lived it.
For a long time I did them with a coping saw. But then I started doing them with a chisel. Seems like it would be much harder. But for whatever reason it took and always do it that way.
Yeah just use it for music in my shop. Works well enough for that.
Id heard that Cantor Fitzgerald, the Wall Street firm formerly run by Commerce Secy Lutnick and now run by his sons is one of the big buyers of these refund rights. Turns out it’s already public back in July when they were buying them at 20 to 30 cents on the dollar. www.wired.com/story/cantor...
I have heard, though I haven’t been able to confirm, that cantor Fitzgerald is one of the companies.
No I have a pattern I made.
3/ And like that were in business with two arm rests for this chair in the making.
3/ And like that were in business with two arm rests for this chair in the making.
That why I have this wood. I had a hundred foot tall or maybe 75 ft ash tree that was killed by them and I cut it down and milled it. So most of the things I make are from ash because I have a ton of it. Actually a few tons.
I have a very aggressive wood dust system. But I only use hand tools for woodworking so dust is less of a problem.
2/ For those asking, spalting is those weird patterns you see. It’s created by fungus in the early stages of decay. But if it’s arrested in time then you get these patterns but the wood remains strong and with its structural integrity intact.
There’s probably a chance the American ones will too. But not in time for this generations trees.
Spalting is those weird patterns. Created by fungus in early stage of decay. If you can arrest it at the right time the wood is still as strong but you get these patterns.
Wow that’s beautiful. Ash used to be prized as a guitar material but it’s almost all gone now because an invasive borer bug got to North America and it’s basically wiped out North American ash
Spalting is the patterns you see. It’s made by fungus slowly eating away at the wood. If you can catch it at the right point you get these patterns but the wood still has its strength etc
Exactly. Probably a good deal for both sides, such as it is. Very curious what odds the purchases are buying on.
Just milled these boards for a chair I’m going back to working on. Only need a small part for the chair arm rests but figured I’d mill the whole board. This is heavily spalted ash from a tree I cut down a few years ago.
It’s one of the great things about the web and YouTube. Everything I know I learned from stuff online.
Yeah honestly when I first saw it I didn’t realize it was a close up of my photo. I thought it was something from a timber frame roof and I was like fuck I can’t make sense of what that is.
I think it’s 1,5 and 8k
I’ve heard wall streeters are buying up the tariff refund rights from importers as speculative investments.
yeah I never touch table saws. So not something I’m familiar with.
I looked it up. That’s a machine tool. I don’t use machine tools. Just hand tools.
What do they consider a dado blade? Do they mean some kind of machine tool? This is just done with a chisel and a router plane.
Dados cut into the horizontal stretchers on top and bottom to receive the vertical dividers. If that’s not clear can explain without jargon
Pine because I like it and it’s very easy to work on something like this. Since it’s just shop furniture that was fine. Cherry because I wanted to offset the pine with a different color and that’s what I had at hand.
Literally yes
Yes, all with hand tools
yes. Prepare stock, resaw etc with a bandsaw. But yes, all the work with hand tools.
Trump plan to redevelop Gaza into a series of luxury resorts is slated to contain up to six “AI powered smart cities”, according to the “prospectus” reviewed by the Post. The plan assumes the “voluntary” departure of all now living in Gaza. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
yes
This is worth sharing far and wide. Federal Employees and contractors oral history project. Im not involved in this. Just got the link, idea seems to be to create a record of the assault on the American Repuvlic after Jan 2025. www.fecohp.org
A set of shop drawers for holding miscellaneous tools, attachments, shop stuff. Made for this purpose so none of the fanciness of a show piece and left off various refinements. But quite happy with it. Highly functional. Pine and cherry. Tung oil finish.
The people of Los Angeles actually have erected a shrine to Mr Trump, with tears in their eyes
This is worth sharing far and wide. Federal Employees and contractors oral history project. Im not involved in this. Just got the link, idea seems to be to create a record of the assault on the American Repuvlic after Jan 2025. www.fecohp.org
Kamala Harris at her closing campaign rally: "Donald Trump intends to use the United States Military against American citizens who simply disagree with him."
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I think that’s right as far as it goes. But even more makes it a bad editorial decision. They are trying to pry open a space in the constitution for Trumps illegal actions. On its face the president has zero power over elections save for enforcement of federal statutes before the courts.
BREAKING: A federal judge has *blocked* the Trump administration from abruptly deporting 600 unaccompanied Guatemalan children — perhaps within a matter of hours — granting an emergency restraining order after advocates called the plan illegal + dangerous. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.
This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.
🐔 Rep Chuck Fleischmann (R) tells the Chattanooga Times Free Press he will “never” do a town hall www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/au...
The extent to which ICE is ignoring all civil rights and due process is astounding — and indicative of a culture where they’ve been told they can do literally no wrong. Agency and admin leaders must face sanctions and legal consequences.
Fascism-plus.
