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Speaking in Kentucky, President Trump said that “we hit 28 mine ships as of this moment.” The president sometimes exaggerates or is imprecise when giving figures. U.S. officials previously said that the U.S. military had struck 16 mine-laying ships near the Strait of Hormuz.
Understatement of the year from the New York Times: ”The president sometimes exaggerates or is imprecise when giving figures.”
Scoop: The Pentagon barred press photographers from briefings on the ongoing U.S.-Israeli military conflict with Iran after they published photos of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that his staff deemed "unflattering."
Jim Cramer suggests on CNBC that Trump could “bomb Tehran into the Stone Age” until Iran reopens the strait, citing U.S. bombings of North Vietnam in the 1970s. Carl Quintanilla points out to him that Hanoi won that war.
Wearing a knit tie and 8-panel cap like all the smartest bridge repair workers this season. Menswear Guy might like this.
The shoes are how everyone knows the pecking order. For every time someone displeases him their shoe size goes up one
Phew
#filmnoir #moviesky #filmsky #Kubrick
“…what's your angle, Johnny?”
Timothy Carey #BOTD
as Nikki Arcane in The Killing, 1956
NEW: Before the Iran War, Trump ignored warnings that Iran could retaliate across the region and stop oil shipments. Now, with energy markets in chaos, some aides are pessimistic about the lack of a strategy to end the war. But they haven't told Trump. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u...
A photo of the Chicago skyline at night with a tangle of bright lighting lignite gap the night sky during a thunderstorm
Boom! Had a great ight show over the skyline tonight. Here’s my first big lightning shot of the season.
This is a 2-frame composite. Best as I can tell, two large, branching bolts struck the eastern antenna mast of the Hancock. #wxsky #ilwx
French poster for MILDRED PIERCE (1945)
The radar right now.
This is real life.
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Do you come from a 1) when the sirens go off, it's time to go in the basement family? Or 2) a when the sirens go off, it's time to go out on the porch and look at the storm family?
I am from a #2 family. My dad would set up chairs on the porch and sit there with a glass of scotch.
Holy shit - this would be very, very bad:
"The databases, called “Numident” and the “Master Death File,” include records for more than 500 million living and dead Americans, including Social Security numbers, places and dates of birth, citizenship, race and ethnicity, and parents’ names."
some of yall believed it was actually Spring so now our god is punishing us with hail
A close up of the sidewalk pavement with various sized balls of ice. The biggest probably the same diameter as a quarter.
Hail remnants
Enjoy the show!
Outlook email inbox, subject line from Ticketmaster reads “Chicago Whitesox, Les Miserables (Chicago), Dumpstaphu . . .” No idea about the Dumpsta, but the White Sox and their fans have indeed been miserable in Chicago the last few years.
Someone at Ticketmobster shoulda reconsidered this email subject line. Or did AI write it? @philrosenthal.bsky.social @buckweaver.bsky.social
Mating season is upon us, so that might explain the goose violence.
Toward the north end of the cemetery.
Canada geese fracas at Graceland Cemetery
And as you remarked elsewhere, they seem to be enjoying those barbecued bugs!
Ukraine says it has regained almost complete control of its eastern Dnipropetrovsk region and recaptured several hundred square kilometers of territory in recent counterattacks.
A woman sitting at a table in a cafe with her back to her companion, a man looking the other way. A wine glass can be seen on the table and a large mirror behind them, partially reflecting the scene.
"Lovers' quarrel, Bal des Quatre Saisons, Rue de Lappe," Paris (ca.1932)
Photo: Brassaï / Howard Greenberg Gallery
Ominous.
MWRD giving us excuses to not shower
