The original wooden statue was torched in July 2020. The rustic figure was cut from the trunk of a linden tree, showing her in a pale blue dress like the one she wore at Trump’s presidential inauguration in 2017.
The replica bronze statue has no obvious resemblance to the first lady.
Agency presentation says “resources are reduced” and the “quality of people lost cannot be replaced right away”; readiness “has been derailed this year due to other activities like staffing and contracts.”
So nail things down. Be great again on your own,
The picture on the left (click here) is how the market looked in the late 1940s. I was there.
I was in jr. high school. It was a Sunday, and I need a new pair of shoes. Stores all around Chicago were closed on Sundays, back then, but the Maxwell Street Market was open, so my dad took me there.
The food stocks have been stuck inside four U.S. government warehouses since the Trump administration's decision in January to cut global aid programmes, according to three people who previously worked at the U.S. Agency for International Development and two sources from other aid organisations.
“In a district like Washington 3, you win or lose by being able to get independents and moderate Republicans to cross over the vast chasm that has opened up between the parties and vote for you,” said Sandeep Kaushik, a Seattle-based political consultant who worked on Gluesenkamp Perez’s first campaign in 2022. “And Marie has been almost uniquely successful in doing that in her first two campaigns.”
She can also fix your car.
It’s unclear if Trump’s declaration that new versions of Air Force One are coming signals he changed his mind about accepting the $400 million Qatari “palace on wings,” which Trump previously said “only a fool” would refuse.
Clarity aside (clarity is never clear), the formerly royal flying palace does seem perfect for watching Fox News.
Consider the following report from Trump’s state visit to Saudi Arabia this week, posted by the foreign-affairs journalist Olga Nesterova: “As part of the red-carpet treatment, Saudi officials arranged for a fully operational mobile McDonald’s unit to accompany President Trump during his stay.”
[The full story is also available on Apple News, here.]
A total of 125 fighter jets engaged in an hour-long aerial battle, with both sides confined to their own airspace as long-range missiles were exchanged at distances surpassing 100 miles, CNN said.
If an all-out war erupts between these nuclear-armed states, that won't be like in the movies either.
Speaking at an informal meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Antalya, Turkey, [U.S. State Department intern] Rubio said, "Obviously, we're in a very difficult spot right now, and we hope that we can find the steps forward that provide for the end of this war in a negotiated way and the prevention of any war in the future."
The current president, Trump, of course promised during his campaign to end the war in Ukraine within 24 hours, but he was speaking in RUMP hours (see the story below, about the watch), not mine and thine.
Putin, meanwhile, seems to be having a good time.
While Signal is now considered one of the best encrypted apps on the market, its real appeal is that it is far easier to use than the current classified government systems. Those government systems have failed, critics say, to evolve with the technological times – a bipartisan point of frustration.
And its other real appeal is enabling users to evade federal laws about record retention and, somewhat ironically, transparency.
There are two kinds of classified information in the present system. One kind is critical to national security, the other kind is critical only to the security of politicians and bureaucrats. The Wizard had nothing on these guys when it comes to maintaining the illusion of omnipotence by operating behind a thick curtain of secrecy.
The real deep state is the state behind that curtain.
The “RUMP” watch was a pink Inauguration First Lady model, which is billed as attracting “prosperity and love while enhancing intuition and creativity” and is purportedly one of just 250, Trump Watches claimed on its website.
The company, Triump Watches, sells products under a licensing agreement with the president, according to this NY Post story.
The 25-year-old, whose family has been making Halloween decorations in Yiwu for 28 years, warned they would have to scramble to produce and ship their hanging skeletons and costume props to America in time for the October 31 holiday.
…don't we have plenty of scary stuff already? And if we don't. wouldn't it be better to have well-crafted near-indistructable American scary things than just cheap Chinese stuff?
In know, it's still 170 days before Halloween but in today's world it's best to start worrying early.
…the latest business with foreign ties to seize on Mr. Trump’s crypto venture, which channels profits directly to the Trump family and has generated conflicts of interest that have alarmed ethics experts. (Memecoins like $TRUMP are a type of cryptocurrency based on an online joke or celebrity mascot and have traditionally not had any utility beyond speculation.)
…turning make-believe money into gold.
The Leander Police Department shared photos on social media showing more than a dozen sheep loitering on a sidewalk and walking across a road.
What happened to the little green men?
President Trump’s 145% tariffs on China ran smack into Stein’s law, the late economist Herb Stein’s famous axiom that “if something cannot go on forever, it will stop.From the Wall Street Journal Journal [via Apple News]:
Rarely has an economic policy been repudiated as soundly, and as quickly, as President Trump’s Liberation Day tariffs—and by Mr. Trump’s own hand. Witness the agreement Monday morning to scale back his punitive tariffs on China—his second major retreat in less than a week. This is a win for economic reality, and for American prosperity.
…are catching on.
Perlmutter’s office recently released a report examining whether artificial intelligence companies can use copyrighted materials to “train” their AI systems and then compete in the same market as the human-made works they were trained on.
In today's world, Perlmutter's dismissal isn't much of a puzzle — she has a foreign-sounding name and the wrong color hair.
But this one: If an AI is "trained" on copyrighted works do the original copyrights still apply to the AI-generated product?
Or, even more so, this one: Who owns the rights to an AI-generated document?
And, if I pay a subscription price for the using the AI, can I claim the rights to its output as a work for hire?
O brave new world.
“You’d stop by the side of the road and find something dead and turn your torch on it, and it was just dazzling,” she says. “And just time after time, going through the freezers at the university… it was like a box of chocolates!”
Well, the chocolates thing might be a bit of a stretch. But still
[You have to provide an email address to read this National Geographic article. Getting disposable email addresses has become easy with Apple's Hide-My-Email service or SimpleLogin, among other options.]
The result has been massive rent increases. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, rents have gone up by 50% in Florence, according to data from Italian real estate site Idealista. “The rental market is in crisis,” said Vicenzo De Tommaso, head of Idealista’s research department, in a release on the company’s website. Finding affordable housing, he says, “has become almost impossible.”
