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The Edwards cinema name is disappearing.

www.instagram.com/reel/DI8-3Df...

CicLAvia - upcoming rides

Anyone who keeps telling you how smart he is - ain’t.

It's not like everything else. 1. It's destroying the environment one inane prompt at a time. 2. It's wrong in often unpredictable ways. It's that friend who needs to be right all the time and will confidently lie or make shit up instead of admitting they don't know.

Archive 1945 economist.com/interactive/... from The Economist

DOGE claims to promote efficiency, yet forced 750 NCCC members to end their service terms early - leaving projects unfinished and costing tax payers a tremendous amount of money. How efficient is a half-dug ditch?

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/o...

It amazes me that it ain’t lower.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

xkcd.com/3073

Naked power…

What always sticks out to me when we go on this Trumpian merry-go-round is the ritualistic humiliation he subjects for people who work for him. Scott Bessent says this was the plan all along, despite telling everyone it wasn't the plan for weeks.

Apparently the guy playing chicken with the world economy did not back off enough.

Trump was really “just playing chicken” and swerved back to our side of the road. Apparently just before the bond market collapsed. So, per his fans, everything is great now. What were they saying about a group with some sort of syndrome?

His supporters are still drinking the kool-aid, but the rest of us are getting the message.

Donald Trump's tariff regime “will further isolate the country at a moment when others stand ready to fill the vacuum," writes Michael Schuman.

I hope other countries are noticing that there isnt actually anything you can give Trump that will be good enough for him bc this isnt about tariff rates, its about his insane ideas around trade deficits and wanting to be a bully & steal from other countries

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

The purpose of the Trump tariffs is political. It’s an attempt to make everyone kiss the ring... www.instagram.com/reel/DIALTQj...

Orange Monday

Not stated is the most recent example - us. State capture is a growing threat. Reversing it is hard economist.com/internationa... from The Economist

CIcLAVia fyu.se/v/wj4rpa937a

This guy isn’t going to hold any town halls. I wonder why…

Finally, a wave of law firms step up

This Sunday in LA www.ciclavia.org

1) Fox News is for real not showing stock-market ticker during this week's collapse. 2) Its economic news is "strong jobs report." 3) Every time I've checked in today, the coverage has been "illegal immigrants committing new crimes." This is state propaganda, on a par with North Korea or PRC.

The supposed Tariffs charged on the US are phony numbers based on balance of trade. Madagascar (93%) provides us vanilla and cocoa. It is not charging us any tariffs, not manipulating currency, but not much buying goods from us because they are poor. Why hit them with tariffs? Why tax Americans?

More evidence of efficiency…

Let Donald Trump run the global economy… These people are nutjobs

The vaccine against Shingles helps protect against dementia, results of a natural experiment, adding to prior evidence "implications are profound" New @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41... nature.com/articles/s41...

I hear people all around me saying, “They are going to crash the economy. Surely they don’t mean to crash the economy.” I beg to differ. This is curated failure. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...

Trump has the perfect get-out-of-jail-free card: “I know nothing about it”

Leavitt is straight up lying. She says “it’s not true” that just a tattoo & a clothing brand can get you sent to El Salvador. But here is the document filed in court by Homeland Security. It clearly states that a tattoo (4pts) & dress (4pts) adds up to 8pts needed to be declared a TDA “terrorist”.

Buying votes with a lottery

Brûlée Basque Cheesecake maps.app.goo.gl/5ng2x5BiA9DQ...

Take every dime you can get from Elon, just remember to vote against his stooge.

Wasters gotta waste

Get your US Passport before that process gets DOGE’d. www.usa.gov/passport

More felons pardoned by Trump. DOGE keeps making false claims about fraud and money laundering while real criminals get pardoned. apnews.com/article/niko...

More lies from Elon

Yes, SIR! Whatever you say, SIR!🫡 “White House Correspondents’ Assoc cancels comedian headliner for annual dinner The decision comes after WH deputy chief of staff Budowich attacked the assoc for planning to spotlight Ruffin, who has been critical of the admin” www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

What happens when quantum computers can finally crack encryption and break into the world’s best-kept secrets? It’s called Q-Day—the worst holiday maybe ever. On Q-Day, your secrets, and everyone’s secrets, are no longer safe.

If Trumpty-Dumpty is working with the Russians to screw up America, he's doing a great job. Eggs, $11 a dozen. Health & Human Services down the dumper, ditto VA. If you call Social Security, they tell you to call back later. Guys 'n gals, this is more fucked up than Peter O'Toole on his birthday.

Not satisfied with purchasing a Presidential Election to become co-President, Sissy SpaceX now wants to buy himself a Supreme Court judge in Wisconsin. You can end his shopping spree, Wisconsinites! 🚫 💰 #VoteForJudgeSusanCrawford 🗳️ ✅ 👍 This is super important.

Raskin: "Look at how sick that is. Basically anybody who has rendered any ruling they disapprove of they think should be removed from the bench. Any lawyer who has ever represented a party adverse to them they think should be cleared out of the way. That is in naked opposition to the rule of law."