Tough day in America

It was a rough day in America.

““The line is that I’m a dictator, but I stop crime,” Trump said during a Cabinet meeting, referring to his moves to send troops into major American cities. “So a lot of people say, ‘You know, if that’s the case, I’d rather have a dictator.’””

I got very down when I realized that, once people understood that he had become a dictator, one third of Americans would be happy about it. My one third figure comes from how many people were happy that we were taking children away from their families. 

May all the world’s men trying to be dictator die before they succeed. 

By tonight I am cheered. Someone connected us with a firm that inquired about us doing work for them. Someone else reached out to help me with the business. 

“Russia prides itself on being an energy superpower, but some of its citizens are suddenly struggling to fill their fuel tanks after weeks of Ukrainian drone strikes crippled refining capacity across the country.” Hours. People are queuing for HOURS. Ukraine hit another pipeline today.

“Earlier this month Ukraine unveiled a new cruise missile. With a declared range of 3,000km and a payload of over a tonne, the Flamingo packs a punch, on paper. If even half the claims hold, it has the potential to deal serious damage to targets almost anywhere in European Russia. … All the more striking, therefore, that the process of entering mass-production took just nine months, rather than the usual years or even decades, and was led by a management team that claims to have had no previous defence-industry experience.
Representatives for Fire Point, the company behind Flamingo, say the missile began life as a napkin scribble in late 2024. … Few dared believe that Ukraine’s domestic missile programme could produce the goods fast enough.” Of course, how many of us thought the war would still be going on? “The name began as an in-house nod to the women in top positions: the test prototypes were even painted pink.”