Russia Wants to Erase Ukraine’s Future—and Its Past - WSJ

“The big war started with an essay on history, and the guy who wrote that essay is still running the show,” said Serhii Plokhy, director of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard. “So the idea that this is all about territory and that you have to make a deal, somehow drawing the border in the right place…is based on not understanding what this war is about.”

It’s easy to forget that smoke detectors expire after 10 years. The ones in the new house were 23 years old. Yikes!

A Leatherman and 5-7 minutes per unit was all it took to swap the wiring harness and keep the family safe.

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Trump Proposes Two Golf-Course Solution For Gaza - Babylon Bee

No one’s going to want to fight anymore when they could be driving balls down the fairway. We’re even going to have a gift shop that sells little bumper stickers that say, ‘I’d rather be golfing.’

Trump Fires Top Pentagon Officers in Sweeping Overhaul - WSJ

the moves caused shock waves in the armed forces and Congress and raise questions about Trump’s attempts to assert control over the Pentagon leadership after clashing with it repeatedly during his first term. 

Pretty shocking that the Executive branch, which holds authority over a civilian-led military, would assert control over said military.

Scrub-a-dub

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Compassionate, Merciful U.S. Lets Canada Win One - Babylon Bee

The Americans collectively decided that they had had enough winning and wanted to let their downtrodden neighbors to the north pick up a rare victory.

American values 🇺🇸

Trump Is Planning to Take Control of the Postal Service, Officials Say - WSJ

“The U.S. Postal Service is wildly popular with the American people, and its service is essential and irreplaceable,” said Rep. Don Beyer (D., Va.)

“Wildly popular?” I don’t know about all that.

The last box is empty.

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Object Left On Stairs Begins Weeks-Long Migration To Bedroom - Babylon Bee

Experts say the migration could take anywhere between 2 days and 6 years.

There are dentists on every corner and they’re all equally impossible to get in with.

Trump Tilts Toward an Ukraine Sellout - WSJ Opinion

Ukraine has delayed elections while it is operating under martial law and fighting a war for survival. Its constitution allows this, and Britain under Nazi siege didn’t hold an election during World War II. Was Churchill a dictator?

Ukraine’s democracy is fragile and would be stronger if it could affiliate with Western institutions like the European Union. The only dictator in the war is Mr. Putin, who poisons exiled Russians on foreign soil and banishes opponents to Arctic prison camps. Call us when he holds a free election.

Required reading, start to finish.

Trump Endorses ‘Big Beautiful’ House Budget Bill, Torpedoing Senate Border Effort - WSJ

President Trump said he wants border spending, tax relief and spending cuts passed in one bill led by House Republicans, undercutting the Senate’s efforts to quickly pass a narrower measure and throwing another wrench into what has become a messy effort to advance his agenda.

Another disaster waiting in the wings.

Trump Criticizes Zelensky, Calling Him a Dictator - WSJ

Trump has said he wants to quickly settle the war in Ukraine. He has increasingly blamed Ukraine—and Zelensky personally—for the invasion while engaging with Putin about ways to end it.

DJT is waaayyyyyy off the reservation with this. He’s setting himself up to have an outcome worse than Vietnam and Afghanistan… combined.

Forever ✱ Notes - A free framework for Apple Notes

Forever ✱ Notes is not an app, but a simple framework and scalable digital note-taking method for Apple Notes. It’s free and created to last—forever.

This might be what I’ve been looking for.

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.”