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Elon Musk wants more access to cheap H-1(b) visa holders to staff his companies in the US, so don’t dump on that unless you want to get shadowbanned out of existence on Twitter, as Maria Loupis, Laura Loomer, and Owen Shroyer found out. “Free speech for me… period.”

Half of the decrease in the US birthrate is because teenage girls have almost stopped getting pregnant (typically by adult men), this while the abortion rate has also dropped. God help us if pro-natalists decide we need to go old skool.
www.everycrsreport.com/files/202005...

After giving away 20% of Ukraine because “they speak Russian there”, real estate developer/Trump envoy Steve Witkoff begins negotiations on adjusting the US/MX border.

No oligarch can avoid the appearance of conflict of interest, given all the pots they have a finger in. That said, if enough Fortune 100 firms think Trump/Musk are screwing them out of contracts and opportunities, some knees will start straightening out. www.reuters.com/business/med...

For the radical-right-dog-whistle-impaired, Musk is referring to the white nationalist “14 Words”: “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourtee...

It’s going to be a bit nippy, so Trump’s taking his Inaugural indoors. 2021 wasn’t exactly picture perfect, but Joe did it outside anyway, because he’s not a t-word.

My dad last flew this aircraft on 24 September 1977 with pilot Majid Aboutalebi for an air combat tactics training flight.

A minor bit of aviation news caught my eye, the 34th F-14 delivered to Iran, USN BuNo 160334, IIAF/IRIAF #3-6006 flew from Isfahan to the Kish Island airshow last week. The radome looks a bit worn because Iran can’t buy any more of the rubberized coating.

Isfahan, Iran, 1976, taken by my mom. Knowing that it was rope-grade hemp, I dried some out as oregano substitute for a casserole. It was quite tasty.

Aussie car culture: Yes, that is a black Pursuit Special behind me, from the 2016 Winter Nats in Alice Springs.