Quite the banner day. Nothing says Mission Accomplished like a parade.


Trump planning military parade through DC for 79th birthday

Washington City Paper first reported on the parade, noting it will stretch almost 4 miles from the Pentagon in Arlington, Va., to the White House.

Gotta get down to the Cumberland mines. Make good money 5 dollars a day, made any more might move away.


robots are Secretary Lutnick's vision for America's "manufacturing renaissance"

On Fox News' Hannity on Wednesday, Lutnick touted that "a high school-educated workforce is going to get trained to do robot mechanic," adding that it'll bring the "coolest" and "highest-paying jobs" to the U.S.

"We use robotics here. It's cheaper than cheap labor overseas." He added, "The renaissance will be the greatest factories in the world, high-tech people. What are the jobs Americans are going to have? We are going to have mechanics who fix robotics."

MARGARET BRENNAN: And you said that robots are going to fill those jobs. So those aren't union worker jobs.

SEC. LUTNICK: No, it's really automated jobs. It's automated factories- automated factories. But the key is, who's going to build the factories? Who's going to operate the factories? Who's going to make them work? Great American workers. You know, we are going to replace--

MARGARET BRENNAN: You said robots on other networks. You said that to FOX.

SEC. LUTNICK: --the armies of millions of people- well, remember, the army of millions and millions of human beings screwing in little- little screws to make iPhones, that kind of thing is going to come to America. It's going to be automated and great Americans- the tradecraft of America, is going to fix them, is going to work on them. They're going to be mechanics. There's going to be HVAC specialists. There's going to be electricians, the tradecraft of America. Our high school educated Americans- the core to our workforce, is going to have the greatest resurgence of jobs in the history of America to work on these high-tech factories, which are all coming to America. That's what's going to build our next

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Cosplay Kristi spent way more than that to show her fealty to Trump.

In Your Face: The Brutal Aesthetics of MAGA
Does proximity to power rely on a specific look?




But eventually, as with so many things,  the times they are a changing.

Fuller faces—and facial fat grafting—will replace chiseled cheeks.
If your social media feed has ever delivered you to an account that tracks celebrities’ faces over time, you might have noticed common threads in the changes. “It's always: the nose gets more angular, the cheeks get hollower, the cheekbones are more defined. For so long, this has been our beauty ideal,” says Dr. Doft. In the operating room, as well as in the makeup artist’s chair, techniques for sculpting the face have dominated conversations, but their stronghold seems to be slipping: “There was so much talk about buccal fat pad removal [for hollow cheeks], fillers for building up the cheekbones, and contouring with makeup,” says Dr. Doft. “Now we’re getting away from that. Instead of wanting to create shadows on the face and more angularity, we're looking for that fresh, youthful, less defined face.”

Dr. Doft thinks it’s partly a natural ebb and flow—“aesthetics change.” (Just look at the generational divide over winged liner and hair that’s parted to the side.) And it’s partly a reexamining of what’s youthful and, by extension, desirable for many patients. “That fleshier look is associated with youth—I mean, when you look at children, they have full cheeks,” says Dr. Doft. But she also thinks that the more we see sunken faces, the more we’re forced to confront how aging that can be—and it’s not a coincidence that this self-reflection is coming on the heels of so much GLP-1-induced weight loss. “Ozempic face is a really hollow face—we know that it looks drawn, it looks sad, it looks sickly, and so we're trying to combat that,” posits Dr. Doft. “Could this be our natural reaction, pushing back?”

Alright, I think people knew of the tariff pause and traded it beforehand.

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A short clear explanation for Trump's mismanagement of the national debt scuttling his plans.

What are bonds and why have they spooked Donald Trump?
The reason the US president had to back down on tariffs once investors started dumping treasury bonds

What have Trump’s tariffs done to bonds?

At first the US president considered his tariff plan to be working, having anticipated stock markets would react badly to tariffs and the dollar would fall.

Trump was sure the bond market would remain calm because he promised to pay for tax cuts later in the year with revenues from tariffs, meaning the US government could limit the number of bonds it issues, keeping supply and demand in sync and putting a cap on overall government debt levels.

However, the tariff war has prompted fears of a US recession, making it riskier to lend to the US. There are concerns that the US will become locked in a titanic struggle with China, which would damage both economies over a long period and drag down global growth.

In response, investors have sold US bonds in huge quantities, driving down their value and sending the yield higher, making future government debt more expensive to issue.

Where did this leave Trump?

There was a fear in the White House that paying a higher interest rate on national debt would increase the government’s annual spending deficit, adding pressure to an already stretched budget and increasing the overall debt mountain.

Worse, the $29tn market in US treasuries is the bedrock of the global financial system and heavy selling could put pressure on other parts of it, forcing banks or other institutions to default and causing a wider financial crisis.

...While Trump has more resources, he faces similar concerns about the spillover effects. If his policies do drive up inflation as expected, with some analysts forecasting a rate of 4.5% by next year, that could alienate the Republican core vote that brought him in on promises to cut soaring food prices. Voters could see tariffs as a tax on mortgages if banks start to charge more for home loans on the back of higher yields, denting his popularity with his base.