Martin Langeveld

Trump Pauses Most Tariffs on Canada and Mexico: Live Updates

Nobody is driving the bus. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...

Is anyone actually here? “Interact” please.

Freedom of speech. Use it or lose it. (By Norman Rockwell)

Trump Blames D.E.I. and Biden for Crash Under His Watch President Trump’s remarks, suggesting that diversity in hiring and other Biden administration policies somehow caused the disaster, reflected his instinct to immediately frame major events through his...

Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency? www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/u...

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. — Lord Acton, 1887.

Good for Sen Ed Markey, who is pushing both Biden and Trump to extend the TikTok shutdown deadline. Security concerns should be addressed but a major platform for free speech should not be shut down. There is this thing called the First Amendment. Strange the entire Supreme Court misses this point.

Michigan governor warns Trump tariffs on Mexico, Canada could harm US auto sector Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer warned on Wednesday that potential 25% tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada suggested by President-elect Donald Trump could harm the U.S. auto sector, increase vehicle prices and benefit China.

Gretchen Whitmer wakes up www.reuters.com/business/aut...

Maybe Denmark would take New England in trade for Greenland.

Anybody have a trick for blocking bimbo followers, other than blocking them one by one?

Sorry, purchased in Q4.

Tesla Cybertruck sales are disastrous Tesla confirmed that Cybertruck sales are disastrous in the release of its quarterly results. Sales of the controversial electric pickup...

The Cybertruck is the Edsel of our times. One million preorders but only 10,000 actually purchased. Meanwhile Elon is playing assistant president. Get ready for Tesla’s stock price to nosedive.

I’m betting there’s a connection between the Las Vegas and New Orleans events.

Does anyone else see that “bsky” abbreviation and think Banksy? That guy is everywhere.

So, who actually blinked first?

Government Shutdown Live Updates: House Passes Spending Bill Ahead of Deadline The bill now goes to the Senate, and Chuck Schumer, the majority leader, said it will likely pass quickly. The new legislation would keep the government open but did not include the debt ceiling incre...

This is not governance. In high school it would be called subpar or mediocre work at best. www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12...

This shut down will be on Trump and Musk alone — the extension was all set to go but only their interference killed the deal. Nice start for Mr Only I Can Fix It. Unpaid Christmas vacation for many federal workers.

Connecticut State Police acknowledge ‘suspicious drone activity’ in the area The Emergency Services Unit has deployed a drone detection system to help investigators. It is set up in the Groton/New London area.

It could all be mass hysteria (look it up) but I guess I’ll have look at the sky tonight since the drones appear to have spread our way. www.fox61.com/article/news...

Here’s a thought: Given Musk’s wrecking of X and new role at DOGE, lots of liberals swore never to buy a Tesla. But will Musk now get Trump to favor EVs & encourage MAGA bros to buy them? Could that lead to an overall upswing in EV sales?

Couple found a 78-foot superyacht abandoned and rotting in Alaska and bought it to become their family home A couple discovers a 78-foot superyacht abandoned and rotting in Alaska, transforming it into their dream family home through a massive restoration

Lots of ancient cars and planes end up in Alaska. Apparently superyachts do, as well.
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Khadaffi, bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin, al-Assad — sooner or later the gig is up, the piper must be paid.

Who would not pardon their own son, given the same set of allegations/convictions?

Enjoyed our visit to the Wadsworth Athenaeum, a terrific art museum in Hartford CT. But the woodpeckers got to a few pieces before us (both works by Valerie Haggerty).

Not a Globe subscriber but at the western end of the Pike the rest stops are pathetic, no food except McDonalds, rest rooms in sad shape.

The U.S. Is Building an Early Warning System to Detect Geoengineering Balloon launches from around the world are part of a new kind of global alarm system: One that can detect if another country tries to dim the sun.

We’ve come a ways. When this kind of geoengineering was first proposed 15-20 years ago, environmentalists were dead set against even researching it. Some form of solar radiation deflection in the atmosphere now seems to me a necessary step, tho not a permanent solution.

The Land That Allowed Ken Burns to ‘Raise the Dead’ The award-winning filmmaker has slept in the same bedroom for over four decades. He credits his home with allowing him to make the films everyone said he couldn’t.

NYT Great Read about Ken Burns’s house in Walpole NH, near our former abode in VT. Astounding fact: It would take 232 hours to watch all of his documentaries.

Macy’s Discovers Employee Hid Millions in Delivery Expenses The department store chain said it had found the erroneous accounting entries while preparing its results for the third quarter.

Retail crime of the week #2 (see previous for #1). Details missing at this point but inquiring minds wanna know.

Connecticut Couple Charged in $1 Million Theft of Lululemon Goods Investigators said the couple used trickery and misdirection to steal merchandise from Lululemon stores in at least five states.

Very complicated clever retail crime of the week #1. (Caveat: crime does not pay.)

Opinion | The Theologian Who Changed His Mind About Gay Marriage Can God be wrong?

Maybe this fellow could have chat with the Pope?

She's most known as namesake of 'Alice's Restaurant,' but friends remember Alice Brock for her talent and her spirit Alice Brock was a pioneer in Berkshire County's restaurant scene, an artist, and the title character in Arlo Guthrie's biggest hit. But friends say her larger-than-life personality, wise counsel and

Remember Alice? It was a song about Alice.

I don’t think it was 3D chess, but I’m guessing the Gaetz nomination was in part a little joke by Trump, and in part a little test to smoke out which Senators would stand by him no matter whom he nominated. Question now is, will Gaetz have the balls to take the seat to which he was reelected?