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the group would now be called Arab Americans for Peace. [...] Bahbah said the group had been thinking about changing its name for “a while” and ultimately made the decision Tuesday. But Bahbah had said during a phone interview just prior to Trump’s Tuesday night press conference with Netanyahu that the group’s name was Arab Americans for Trump.

“The talk about what the president wants to do with Gaza, obviously we’re completely opposed to the idea of the transfer of Palestinians from anywhere in Historic Palestine,” Bahbah said. “And so we did not want to be behind the curve in terms of pushing for peace, because that has been our objective from the very beginning.”

If that was your goal, why not divorce yourselves from election politics, at least in your name? You're just trying to cling to influence.

Panama should refuse passage to all US-flagged ships.

It doesn't matter. They've already had unfettered access, so there's no way it can ever be considered secure again.

I love this sign!

I heard about it yesterday, but had no time to arrange to take off work.

Okay, thanks! The good news is that at least I wasn't overlooking a setting somewhere, lol !

We weren't beat up, just socially ostracized. Also, being into science fiction, fantasy, anime, or cosplay would get you socially ostracized. Probably other things I'm forgetting.

It's really weird seeing the 'outsider' things you were really into become brought into the mainstream. And the cynical part of you wonders how many of the people who are into it now, would still be into it if it was less socially acceptable.

I'm glad all y'all found your people, happy for you!

Ford warned Trump may use tariff threats again

Will use them again, will.

The pause follows Canada’s concessions on border security and fentanyl. Prime Minister Trudeau pledged new enforcement measures to ease tensions.

Goddamnit, I'm so. fucking. tired. of people giving him wins, or things he can claim are wins.

My problem with Tesla is that so many things seem half-unthinking, half-finished or half-assed:

Unthinking: I know! I'll put a ledge in from of the headlights, so snow can pile up while I'm driving!

Unfinished: all the seam mismatches and eternally unfinished-but-really-close! full self-driving (it ain't gonna happen).

Half-assed: that recall they had to do because sometimes the latch doesn't catch properly and the hood flies open when you're driving and blocks your view. Tesla's solution isn't to fix or replace the hood latch so this doesn't happen; they push a software up that monitors the hood latch and pops up a warning, telling you to pull over and check the hood latch. Because apparently fixing the issue that their poor design (see #1) and bad implementation (see #2) doesn't warrant an actual fix, they're just going to fob the risk , the cost and the work off to the customer.

Early last week, I had a kidney stone attack. I was taking a picture for my doctor of the blood clots that I'd pissed out, and I noticed the toilet was ... not great. So I took the pictures, poured don't bleach in, swished it around and waited for the next attack phase.

This morning, I walked in to use the bathroom (as I've been doing this entire week), and there was a bottle of bleach sitting right out in front of the toilet. Like, when you're moving to sit down, you need to maneveur around the bottle; and when you're sitting, you have to keep your legs apart to accommodate this gallon bottle of bleach.

I have been maneveuring around this extremely inconveniently placed bottle of bleach cut an entire week, and I have no memory of it! It's so infuriating!

Re: your wallet: maybe put a Tile in it? Or designate one specific place for it to live in the house?

If not tradewar, then why tradewar shaped?

Thanks, I always fuck up the formatting on those.