Part of the oil was offloaded to another tanker which went to Cuba. The rest was going to China. Maybe Cuba is selling the oil to China for cash?

But now the Trump Regime seems to be negotiating to buy some Venezuelan via China.

And, yup, US has reintroduced 'piracy' on the high seas.

From a NYT article on the U.S. military strikes on 'drug boats' off the coast of Venezuela:

"to ensure survivors did not end up in the U.S. judicial system, where court cases could force the administration to show evidence justifying President Trump’s military campaign in the region."

Here's my test to determine whether or not you are living in an authoritarian state:

The politicians you elect are too busy worrying about what "THE LEADER" thinks, rather than paying attention to what the voters are complaining about.

I was scanning the headlines in the NYT today (Sat.) and isn't this just awful.

And the really awful thing is that likely nothing will be done about any of this.

Business as usual in Washington?

This is so breathtakingly stupid, I suspect it is fake.

But it is funny. Enjoy.

Wanna know why the U.S. is starting to run up trillion dollar budget deficits every year?

This is most of the reason.

The U.S. economy cannot afford Donald Trump's tax cuts.

#BigBeautifulBill #Taxcuts

Ahhh . . . There is no joy in Mudville.
Blue Jays came so close . . . ike Pickett's Charge briefly breaking the Union line at Gettysburg . . . or Shackleton reaching 87 degrees south latitude and realizing he had to turn back and abandon his quest to reach the south pole

Horrors!

We couldn't get the TV working on our TV despite the fact that we could get all the internet stuff working and the TV signal is working fine on our older TV.

After trying the setup stuff on the TV, I thought, 'Maybe the controller that turns the TV on/off needs new batteries?'

Yup. 🙄

Donald Trump 'cancelled' trade negotiations with Canada + adding 10% to the tariffs he is charging Canada, all over a 1 min ad that rebroadcast Ronald Regean's anti-tariff speech from 1987.

Everyone in Canada is laughing their heads off.

Way more people saw the ad thanks to Trump's reaction.

I had problems recieving e-mails from BlueSky to a new e-mail account I'd set up.

However, the account didn't receive the e-mails.

So I went back to my existing email account and it worked fine.

The only significant difference between the two is the new e-mail contained an "_" character.

Well, I set up an X (Twitter) account about a week ago and . . . here I am, a Twitter refugee.

X has a steady stream of thoughtless right-wing trash, some quite misleading.

I'll be posting a goodbye note to Elon.

Hope you all are freindly.