Zelensky Decries Peace Talks Without Ukraine, Trump Says He Had His Shot For Years - The War Zone

“They’re upset about not having a seat, well, they’ve had a seat for three years, and a long time before that,” Trump told reporters Tuesday afternoon. “This could have been settled very easily…”

Wrong.

Southwest Airlines to Slash Corporate Workforce in First Mass Layoff - WSJ

Even as the appetite for travel has surged, the airline’s labor costs have increased—in part because of new agreements with unions.

Nothing happens in a vacuum. The first layoffs in its history, eliminating core brand features, what even is Southwest anymore?

WINNING: Trump Announces Plan To Attack The British And Prussian Forces At Waterloo - Babylon Bee

Trump, who was seen wearing a bicorne hat around the White House today, had grown increasingly intent on displacing the British Empire from its perch on the global stage, going so far as to ask his military advisors for strategies to disrupt British trade routes to India. “The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos,” Trump reportedly said.

I’m getting this sinking feeling that the disruptions that 2020 brought to the pilot & maintainers labor market have caught up to us and the golden era of aviation safety is going on hiatus for the near term.

Trump Unsure What Department He Has To Cut To Make JD Vance Go Away - The Onion

“I’ve tried the Education Department, USAID, the FBI, and still he keeps showing up,” said Trump, who lambasted the 40-year-old vice president as “the very definition of fraud and waste.”

Political Profile: Kristi Noem - The Onion

Who Trump Thinks She Is: Sarah Palin

I don’t like fake holidays.

Vance Speech Denouncing E.U. Censorship Censored By E.U. - Babylon Bee

“Vance’s hateful comments about censorship have no place in public discourse and must be censored,” announced German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. “We will not tolerate such hateful rhetoric against our censorship regime.”

The laborer deserves his payment. And his afternoon coffee break in a comfy chair.

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One change per day; a simple goal worth pursuing.

NATO Is Ukraine’s Future and Always Will Be - WSJ Opinion

It should be a very simple calculation for Mr. Putin: Get out now while the getting is good, because Europe and the U.S. are committed to raising the Ukrainian military to a NATO standard even without it being a NATO member.

Mr. Putin has learned his military is no match for a properly equipped NATO force. His Ukraine misadventure is rapidly degrading his ability to compete in the long run. Mr. Putin will continue to pretend his war isn’t a disastrous miscalculation for which his country will be paying for generations to come. The peanut gallery should not be fooled.

Apple Intelligence Siri Overhaul Could Get Delayed - MacRumors

Apple is running into engineering problems and software bugs that could push back the launch of the new functionality.

Literally the only Apple Intelligence feature users actually need.

Joann Fabrics Announces Plans To Make Mishmash Store Out Of Shuttered Locations’ Scraps - The Onion

Friday afternoon slowdown

DOGE Staffer Arrives at Internal Revenue Service Headquarters - WSJ

Kliger has asked for meetings with senior officials and was interested in the agency’s head count, according to an IRS employee. The IRS has about 100,000 workers after a recent expansion. It is in the middle of the busiest portion of its year in preparation for the mid-April individual income tax filing deadline. 

Well, well, well… how the turntables…

Few things in life are as unpleasant as folding laundry with dry hands.

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Quiet time. 📰

Gabbard and Kennedy. Oof.

As I was upgrading Catholic Husband, I came across a post that I wrote in January 2017 called On Hiatus. I had completely forgotten that I took all of 2017 off.

Since restarting in November of that year, I’ve written over a third of my entire blog.

Rest is a good thing.

Honda, Nissan End Merger Talks, Leaving Nissan to Seek Other Partners - WSJ

Honda had initially agreed to a merger structure in which the two automakers would sit side-by-side under a single holding company. The companies said Thursday that Honda—whose market value is about five times Nissan’s—later sought to make Nissan a subsidiary.

I hated this deal.