Madame Isabelle Epoque

Have a springtime palate cleanser

There’s an Urdu name for a “Jack of all trades” that translates to “every talent Lord.” A Korean version is “eight direction beauty.” But my favourite name for someone who tries their hand at lots of different things is the Lithuanian Barbė devyndarbė. It means “Barbie nine jobs”

Missouri House unanimously approves bill allowing pregnant women to divorce House lawmakers unanimously overturned the decades-old law that allows pregnant women only to file for a divorce — not finalize them.

Crazy that in 2025 it had to be codified that if you’re pregnant you can still get a divorce www.kctv5.com/2025/02/27/m...

Market Summary > Tesla Inc 226.99 USD −35.68 (13.58%)today

If you want something wholesome and endearing to do today, keep the Tesla stock on your screen.

The stock market is not the economy. The stock market is not the economy. The stock market is not the economy.

Nonetheless, holy shit.

What’s remarkable is that there’s hardly any real news driving this. It’s just investors belatedly realizing that Trump is who he is, and always was.

The problem with Dems chasing public opinion is that THE PUBLIC'S VIEW OF THINGS IS JUST MOVING IN RESPONSE TO WHAT POLITICAL FIGURES SAY AND IT'S VERY OBVIOUS IN THE DATA MY GOD

We Mapped Elon Musk's Entire Business Empire | On The Grid | WIRED YouTube video by WIRED

NEW VIDEO: Everywhere Elon Musk's influence reaches across the world. Hosted by Senior Writer @dmehro.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lagp...

Is Elon Regulating His Own Rockets Now? One of Elon Musk’s Starship rockets exploded over the Gulf of Mexico...

Is Elon Regulating His Own Rockets Now? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/is-el...

One Agency Tried to Regulate SpaceX. Now Its Fate Could Be in Elon Musk’s Hands. The Trump ally and DOGE chief is expected to turn his budget-slashing sights on the FAA’s little-known commercial spaceflight office, which has proposed fines and grounded SpaceX after explosions and ...

Another SpaceX oopsy seems like a good occasion to share this @propublica.org piece from a few weeks back

BREAKING: SpaceX's Starship EXPLODES, causing FAA to halt flights at 4 major airports

The previous Starship also exploded, in January

THIS is why FAA probed SpaceX for safety

And THIS is why Musk has been trying to kill FAA - and why he should NOT get any more govt contracts

Headline from bbc article. Headline reads “Spacecraft lands on Moon but 'orientation' unclear” Accompanied by the image of the lander with the earth behind it.

Uh oh. Based on this headline DODGE will try and cancel it.

A reminder that a wired subscription is absurdly cheap. You should definitely subscribe

DOGE Is the Deep State A shadowy group of unelected figures reshaping the federal government to their own benefit from the inside? Sounds familiar!

After years of alarm over unelected bureaucrats pulling the strings, what better example can you find than this moment the US government is in? DOGE is the thing it claims to fear the most. Elon Musk is the problem he purportedly wants to solve.

Doge *is* the Deep State. @brbarrett.bsky.social:

(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.

Wreckage, Rapists, and Resistance: Week Six of the Coup The Wreckage They used to say war is how Americans learn geography. This civil war as Team Trump lays waste to most federal institutions is how Americans are going to learn what their federal governm...

They used to say war is how Americans learn geography. This civil war as Team Trump lays waste to most federal institutions is how Americans are going to learn what their federal government did.....

YOUR FAVORITE WEATHER APP IS JUST A PRETTY DISPLAY OF NOAA DATA

Ppl seem to think that "NOAA weather forecasts" means climate-, boat-, or "in addition to my app"-weather. But the weather forecasts *we all use* are made from the NOAA data *we all paid for*

Make that part clear when you ⬇️

A black-and-white photo of a gendarme walking past a doorway shaped like a gaping Hell mouth

A black-and-white photo of patrons, mostly smiling, sitting at table in the interior of a bar designed to look like a cave with sculpted demons and monsters covering the ceiling

A black-and-white postcard of a streetscape in Paris, showing two cabaret, Le Ciel, which looks vaguely like a gothic cathedral, and L'Enfer, with a hell mouth for the doorway. Caption reads 1287 - PARIS. Boulevard de Clichy, le Ciel et l'Enfer

Cabaret de L'Enfer, a Hell-themed cabaret in 1890s Montmartre, where waiters dressed as devils, musicians played in a giant cauldron. Next door to the heavenly Cabaret du Ciel

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An Elon Musk staffer misused the U.S. Marshals Service by falsely invoking their authority to intimidate. USAID security personnel were threatened with action by the federal Marshals Service.

Don’t cry for me, federal worker

If Project 2025’s a real tearjerker

Your fate was sealed when they elected the slob

I kept my tax cuts

You don’t keep your job

—Evita Musk

On the whole I’d rather have Hunter Biden messing with a laptop than Elon messing with the Treasury Dept’s computers

Stained glass art of Bishop Budde

“Make good trouble.”

~ John Lewis

It's so fitting that Donald Trump's inauguration will be held in the Capitol Rotunda, the very place four years ago where his pack of lawless loons ransacked, looted, and smeared their excrement. What an apt metaphor for what the incoming administration plans to do to America.

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The DC Bartenders Guild Repeal Day Ball at Jack Rose tonight!

This is your daily reminder that this really did happen.

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