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Observer of the follies.
What's what"Never has any people endured it's own tragedy with so little sense of the tragic." - Nelson Algren
@wdlindsy And Jared's jailbird father Charles was appointed Ambassador to France
“"I just find him personally objectionable," commented Bourdain. "And from people I know who have had to endure dinner with him, if you enjoy sitting there listening to him talk about himself, you know, great, God bless you."”
https://www.tastingtable.com/2128192/anthony-bourdain-wouldnt-eat-with-trump/
Why Anthony Bourdain Said He Wouldn't Have Shared A Meal With Trump - Tasting Table

Anthony Bourdain broke bread with many different folks over the years; here's why President Donald Trump was never invited to his table.

Tasting Table

Delta suspends VIP airport treatment for Congress as shutdown chaos grows

TSA agents unpaid with lines stretching HOURS
400+ officers quitting

Lawmakers can’t skip the line anymore. Maybe now Washington will fix what they broke.

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/sustainable-finance-reporting/delta-suspends-special-treatment-congress-shutdown-sows-chaos-airports-2026-03-24/ #press

RE: https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/116281343752661759

I saw this in the wild. The Google discover feed showed me a headline for a 4h-old Guardian article where the Google link/headline said the Iranian leader Khamenei had been killed by a US bomb strike and I thought "Wow! Already? He's only just taken over for his dead dad!"

And that really would have been news except that wasn't what the article was about at all. It was about the US not knowing who to negotiate with now that they've overturned the anthill. It only referenced the killing of the _elder_ Khamenei at the start of the war a few weeks ago, and that reference was more than 3/4 of the way through the article, in background information. I was gob-smacked that Google would do such a thing. It's awful, a full betrayal.

Dear Europe: Germany has shown the way forward, by making the Open Document Format (ODF) mandatory within its sovereign digital infrastructure. Now it's time for other countries to do the same! https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/23/dear-europe/ #foss #opensource #freesoftware #openstandards

#WOW... Billionaire Defense Contractor #PeterThiel takes his #Antichrist lecture series to the #Vatican And... #OMG...He has at least one member of #PopeLeo's staff asking if he should be burned at the stake....

https://www.themonastery.org/blog/why-some-catholics-want-peter-thiel-burned-at-the-stake

@kim_harding The ending of that is so right - It is a well-established fact that the universe has a sense of humour.
It is an equally well-established fact that the best response to the universe's sense of humour is a stiff drink, a comfortable chair, and the quiet confidence that eventually, even the universe runs out of material.

Do you understand why Trump has lifted the oil sanctions that were punishing Iran, the country he’s bombing, and Russia, the country that’s helping it?

Do you understand why Trump is sending 5,000 Marines to sail through the Strait of Hormuz while complaining that none of our friends and allies will help him reopen it?

Here's the whole explanation.

https://no01.substack.com/p/march-19-21-god-is-a-comedian

March, 19-21: God is a comedian

A stiff drink is recommended

Gold and Geopolitics
The legacy of Mueller is that if you do diligent methodical careful work on a damning report, trusting to our institutions to do the right thing, damned liars will just tell damned lies about your work and the lies will stand, because institutions won't confront power and nobody does the reading.