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There was a kid's building set from the 1950's called "Girder and Panel" which allowed you to build skyscrapers, warehouses, etc. Included in the instructions with one of the sets are some example projects. Behold!

DDT FACTORY and ALCOHOL DISTILLATION PLANT
A scanned page from an color instruction manual. The top frame has a building with the words "DDT FACTORY". The bottom frame has a building with the words "ALCOHOL DISTILLATION PLANT".
May 20, 2025 at 10:00 PM
unreadtealeaves.bsky.social
He does this daily and he *knows* it's goofy. Good cat.
April 15, 2025 at 2:14 PM
unreadtealeaves.bsky.social
Step 1: Increase Chinese hostility through tariffs
Step 2: Increase Chinese hostility through interference in shipping lanes
Step 3: ......
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Apr 10
HEGSETH: We're taking back the canal

TRUMP: We've moved a lot of troops to Panama
April 10, 2025 at 5:03 PM
unreadtealeaves.bsky.social
I urge anyone who hasn't to watch American Factory, Oscar winning documentary from a few years ago about a Chinese auto glass manufacturer opening a factory in Ohio. It is extremely relevant and highlights the challenge of moving manufacturing to the US from China.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m36Q...
American Factory | Official Trailer | Netflix
YouTube video by Netflix
www.youtube.com
April 10, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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mattcameron.bsky.social
UPDATE: ICE is wildly unconcerned about where this man is and no one will tell me, his registered attorney. The universal answer so far is "let's wait and see where he ends up." This is deeply off.

We would have more rights at this point if UPS had lost a pair of shoes I'd just bought from Zappos
mattcameron.bsky.social Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · Apr 7
My detained client was scheduled for a bond hearing this AM in a MA immigration court. He wasn't brought in, and he and his case have disappeared.

I then received this notice of activity on a nonexistent docket in which his name was changed to "N/A"

It's all happening a lot faster than I expected
April 8, 2025 at 10:41 PM
unreadtealeaves.bsky.social
Oh Canada (geese)! 🇨🇦
So so many Canada geese, hanging out by a lake in early Spring
April 7, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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originalsp.in
If you haven’t seen the total set of NatSec party line texts that The Atlantic released after multiple Trump admin participants claimed they were not classified, here they are.

Spoiler alert: There’s HELLA classified material on this thread.

All participants should resign. 1/x
Houthi PC small group 00 Houthi PC small group 19 members Yesterday +& Michael Waltz added you to the group. • Disappearing message time was set to 1 week. + MAR added MAR. Michael Waltz Team- establishing a principles group for coordination on Houthis, particularly for over the next 72 hours. My deputy Alex Wong is pulling together a tiger team at deputies/agency Chief of Staff level following up from the meeting in the Sit Room this morning for action items and will be sending that out later this evening. M M JV T SB Pls provide the best staff POC from your team for us to coordinate with over the next couple days and over the weekend. Thy 4:28 PM O MAR Mike Needham for State 4:29 PM O JD Vance Andy baker for VP 4:29 PM O TG Joe Kent for DNI 4:30PM O Scott B Dan Katz for Treasury 4:39 PM © Pete Hegseth Dan Caldwell for DoD 4:53 PM O V B Brian Brian McCormack for NSC 6:34 PM O Today M Michael Waltz Team, you should have a statement of conclusions with taskings per the Presidents guidance this morning in your high side inboxes. State and DOD, we developed suggested notification lists for regional Allies and partners. Joint Staff is sending this am a more specific sequence of events in the coming days and we will work w DOD to ensure COS, OVP and POTUS are briefed. 8:05 AM O JV JD Vance Today Team, I am out for the day doing an economic event in Michigan. But I think we are making a mistake. 3 percent of US trade runs through the suez. 40 percent of European trade does. There is a real risk that the public doesn't understand this or why it's necessary. The strongest reason to do this is, as POTUS said, to send a message. But I am not sure the president is aware how inconsistent this is with his message on Europe right now. There's a further risk that we see a moderate to severe spike in oil prices. I am willing to support the consensus of the team and keep these concerns to myself. But there is a strong argument for delaying this a month, doing the messaging work on why this matters, seeing where the economy is, etc. 8:16 AM O
March 26, 2025 at 4:17 PM
unreadtealeaves.bsky.social
she knows she is gorgeous.
A sweet cat with gigantic hands
March 25, 2025 at 12:13 PM
unreadtealeaves.bsky.social
Apparently Social Security Administration will be posting these weekly. They are an hour long but the slides and transcript should be scrapeable.
youtu.be/mvlWfnwZxgI?...
Weekly Operational Report Meeting – March 14, 2025
YouTube video by U.S. Social Security Administration
youtu.be
March 24, 2025 at 11:03 PM
unreadtealeaves.bsky.social
...DOGE activities at the SSA. Therefore, I am not shutting down the agency. President Trump supports keeping Social Security offices open and getting the right check to the right person at the right time. SSA employees and their work will continue under the TRO.”

www.ssa.gov/news/press/r...
Press Release | Press Office | SSA
2025 Press Releases
www.ssa.gov
March 21, 2025 at 10:19 PM
unreadtealeaves.bsky.social
bpd keeps trying to sanitize St. Patrick's Day in southie but the kids are out with the BORGs making sure the neighborhood keeps its rep

blackout rage gallons for all

www.boston.com/news/local-n...
13 facing charges, bushels of 'borgs' confiscated during St. Patrick’s Day parade in South Boston
This year’s South Boston St. Patrick’s Day parade started earlier to curb last year’s public drinking and violence, which led to 11 arrests.
www.boston.com
March 17, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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brandonfriedman.bsky.social
This is blood-boiling. Charles Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam after being wounded three times leading the defense of a position.

Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."
Wikipedia image of Major General (Ret.) Charles C. Rogers Defense.gov google return: Medal of Honor Monday: Army Maj. Gen. Charles Calvin Rogers Defense.gov 404 - Page Not Found https://www.defense.gov/News/Feature-Stories/Story/Article/2824721/deimedal-of-honor-monday-army-maj-gen-charles-calvin-rogers/
March 16, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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keithedwards.bsky.social
Bro got fillers?? I’m CRYING
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Mar 16
something is up with Mike Johnson's face
March 16, 2025 at 4:28 AM
unreadtealeaves.bsky.social
Throwback video of Zeus and Athena from 14 years ago for #caturday . Time is a strange thing.

Nice spring day today. For your sanity, get outside and do more than touch grass - take some breaths and stuff
March 15, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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ddiamond.bsky.social
1) A couple weeks ago I got a tip: NIH had pulled down a mural of Dr Fauci, this person had heard.

I was able to find NIH sources who confirmed, yes, *something* had been removed from a wall.

But they couldn’t quite agree on what was hanging there before — a masked Fauci? — or when it came down.
March 15, 2025 at 6:59 PM
unreadtealeaves.bsky.social
Travel ban news is predictable but the inclusion of Venezuela is particularly insidious - between sanctions after Maduro and the pullback of humanitarian aid / refugee assistance, the suspension of all visas is another nail in the coffin. Screep cap for posterity: www.state.gov/u-s-relation...
U.S. Humanitarian Assistance in Response to the Venezuela Regional Crisis The United States provides humanitarian assistance to help people within Venezuela, as well as Venezuelan migrants and refugees and their host communities across the region, who are struggling to access sufficient food, water, healthcare, and other critical goods and services. The United States remains the single largest donor of humanitarian aid to people affected by this crisis and supports 17 countries hosting Venezuelan migrants and refugees. U.S. humanitarian assistance helps to meet critical life-saving needs, including for food and nutrition; water, sanitation, and hygiene; healthcare; protection; and other goods and services. Our development assistance helps countries throughout Latin America and the Caribbean meet longer term needs, such as education deficits, caused by this man-made regional crisis.
March 15, 2025 at 12:11 PM
unreadtealeaves.bsky.social
Vince Haley is also the Executive Director of RFK Jr's MAHA Commission, kind of a ghost so far.

I've skeeted about this before but since I don't have any followers its been falling on deaf ears - bring this to your favorite investigative journo's attention.

www.benefitspro.com/2025/02/19/t...
Trump calls for 'aggressively' reducing IVF costs for health plans
A new executive order puts Vince Haley, the assistant to the president for domestic policy, in charge of coming up with a proposal within 90 days.
www.benefitspro.com
March 14, 2025 at 5:19 AM
unreadtealeaves.bsky.social
Future Sound of London - Lifeforms is great. I picked it up as a kid after seeing the We Have Explosive video on 120 Minutes. Expectation: experimental club/dance. Received: incredible electronic ambient. Great album, top to bottom.

open.spotify.com/album/0UcHfo...
Lifeforms
The Future Sound Of London · Album · 1994 · 19 songs
open.spotify.com
March 13, 2025 at 6:13 PM
unreadtealeaves.bsky.social
Transitioning my thoughts to Caturday, such a heavy news cycle.
March 8, 2025 at 7:58 PM
unreadtealeaves.bsky.social
Trump is on the phone today with France discussing G7. Normal presidential stuff, except it won't be.

Get ready for another year-long week as Trump sets Putin up for the 100th anniversary of the Weimar republic's golden Twenties.

www.reuters.com/world/trump-...
Trump says Russia should be readmitted to G7
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said he would love to have Russia return to the Group of Seven nations, saying it was a mistake for Moscow to be expelled.
www.reuters.com
February 24, 2025 at 1:08 PM
unreadtealeaves.bsky.social
Time spent with a cat is never time wasted. Completely unfazed by the insanity in the world, just doing cat things.
February 20, 2025 at 2:11 PM
unreadtealeaves.bsky.social
JFC, what is up with the posting style Democrat politicians use? Its like some craven, dystopian iambic pentameter.

It isn't just Jeffries, either. I swear they are using some agreed upon party format for constructing a tweet. The bizarre cadence feels like someone making a movie pitch.
hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · Feb 18
Bird Flu is spreading across the nation and putting the country in danger.

The Trump administration response is to fire USDA microbiologists fighting the disease.

We are using every tool available to us to stop them.
February 20, 2025 at 12:59 AM
unreadtealeaves.bsky.social
Zeno looking dapper
A fine looking cat
February 18, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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crampell.bsky.social
“A lot of these contracts have data deletion clauses,” a researcher told me. “The fact is that they won’t be able to reopen them if they change their mind. They’re not just paused. They’re terminated and we’re losing the information.”
hechingerreport.org/proof-points...
DOGE's death blow to education studies
Researchers say students and schools will suffer without vital data
hechingerreport.org
February 18, 2025 at 12:06 PM