Michael Stehle

Who built the America you benefit from every day? Social Security. Medicare. The Civil Rights Act. The Voting Rights Act. The 40-hour work week. Overtime protections. The last balanced federal budgets. Democrats did. A lot of Americans inherited the results so completely they forgot who fought for them in the first place. If you voted Democrat, you helped build this country. If you didn’t, you still live inside what they built. And it’s not too late to figure out who’s actually spent decades moving America forward while others screamed “socialism” every single step of the way. People will drive on public roads, collect Social Security, use Medicare, cash unemployment checks, send their kids to public schools, then turn around and ask what Democrats ever accomplished. Historical object permanence continues to beat this country’s ass.

Jamie Raskin is visibly shaken after reading the unredacted #EpsteinFiles "Donald Trump's name is all over these files...I saw a reference today to a 9yr old girl". Don't ever stop talking about the #EpsteinFiles. #Trump

“The plane went silent.” That’s what passengers aboard British Airways Flight 9 remembered most. Not screaming. Not alarms. Silence. On June 24, 1982, the Boeing 747 was flying over Java at 37,000 feet with 247 passengers onboard when Senior Engineer Barry Townley-Freeman noticed engine temperatures rising dangerously fast. Then passengers started calling flight attendants: “There’s something glowing outside the window.” Blue light flickered through the engines. White sparks danced across the wings. It looked beautiful. In the cockpit, Captain Eric Moody watched Engine 4 fail. Then Engine 2. Then 1. Then 3. Within minutes, all four engines were dead. A fully loaded 747 became a powerless glider descending toward the Indian Ocean. No thrust. Barely any radio communication. No idea what caused it. Passengers woke from sleep to something deeply unnatural: The absence of engine noise. At 37,000 feet, a jetliner should roar. Instead, there was only wind. Captain Moody got on the intercom and delivered one of aviation history’s most famous announcements: “Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them under control.” Some passengers thought it was a joke. The flight attendants’ faces said otherwise. What nobody onboard knew was that the plane had flown directly through a volcanic ash cloud from Mount Galunggung. The ash was made of microscopic glass particles. Inside the engines, the particles melted at extreme temperatures and coated the turbines like cement, suffocating all four engines one by one. At 15,000 feet, oxygen masks deployed. At 12,000 feet, the crew prepared for a night ditching into the ocean. Captain Moody knew the odds of surviving a water landing in a 747 were almost nonexistent. Then he tried restarting the engines one final time. Engine 4 sputtered. Caught. Then another. Then another. All four engines roared back to life. But the nightmare still wasn’t over. The volcanic ash had sandblasted the cockpit windshield so badly the pilots could barely see through it. Captain Moody had to land a damaged 747 at night using only a tiny clear section of the side window while his first officer called out altitude and distance manually. Against every odd, the aircraft landed safely in Jakarta. Every single person onboard survived. After the incident, volcanic ash became a globally monitored aviation hazard. And Captain Eric Moody’s calm announcement became legendary — still taught today as a masterclass in crisis leadership: Tell the truth. Stay calm. Give people dignity. Even when you’re falling out of the sky.

My kid's school asked me to donate supplies. Paper. Pencils. Hand sanitizer. Tissues. I pay property taxes. My state has a $4 billion surplus. The federal education budget is $238 billion. And the teacher is buying pencils out of her own paycheck. And I'm sending in Ziploc bags. We fund stadiums for billionaires with public money. We fund schools with bake sales. And then blame teachers when test scores drop.

Selenskyj hat es versprochen: Landkorridor zur Krim schneller als gedacht unter ukrainischer Kontrolle: General Ben Hodges – ehemaliger NATO-Oberbefehlshaber Europa – berichtet direkt. Laut Hodges hat Ukraine nach einer Woche der Kampagne die Kontrolle über den Landkorridor zwischen Russland und Krim übernommen – Militär, Logistik und Treibstoff können nicht mehr passieren. (GIS Reports) General Ben Hodges – ehemaliger NATO-Oberbefehlshaber Europa – meldet: Zwei Wochen nach Beginn der ukrainischen Kampagne gegen den Landkorridor zwischen Russland und Krim läuft die Operation sehr gut. Der russische Besatzungsgouverneur von Cherson hat bereits ein Dekret unterzeichnet das den Frachtverkehr auf der M-14 – der Hauptlandverbindung zwischen Russland und der besetzten Krim – einschränkt. (Euronews) Militär. Logistik. Treibstoff. Alles unter ukrainischem Feuer. Der Landkorridor wird progressiv unpassierbar. 🇺🇦

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Russia has fired two "Oreshnik" missiles at Ukraine; however, the second one struck a target within its own territory (TOT) in the Avdiivka or Yasynuvata area – eRadar. In other words: 1 "super missile" destroyed 3 garages. 1 "super missile" struck Russian troops. Cost: approx. 80 million dollars. A complete success for the Russians. 😂😂😂

Good morning. The President of the Utah Senate has an 18-year old grandson charged with molesting a child. He just passed a bill reducing child molestation sentences, specifically for 18-year olds. They walk among us with red hats.

Kasparov: Nothing will happen in Russia unless Ukraine wins the war. Period. Ukraine must win, Russia must lose. Any war that ends “okay” for Russia strengthens the regime; only Ukrainian victory can open the road to change by proving the empire is dead. 1/

Kasparov: Europe has the resources. Poland, the Baltics and Scandinavia, together with Ukraine, are enough to crush Russia. But Europe has to stop talking about budgets and start showing strength — armed, ready, and willing to use it if Putin crosses the line. 4X

This is Adam Hoffman, a 49-year-old Waco, TX attorney. He faced life without parole for repeatedly raping a young boy. Texas AG Ken Paxton offered him 1 day in jail and no need to register as a sex offender. A judge increased his sentence to a whopping 60 days. He gets out in June. Not an immigrant. Not a trans person. Not a Black or brown person. Every MAGA accusation is a confession. Full story: letsaddresstexas.substack.com/p/ken-paxtons-…

How can US republicans accept being led by a clown? The GOP has ceased being a political partyy. It has become a personality cult. In what way is the GOP better than Kim Jong Un?

28% of all 🇺🇸 debt has been created under Trump in just < 5.5 years in office. Meanwhile, wealth inequality in 🇺🇸 has never been wider.

Can you rt this? Maybe we can make a difference

100k more barrels a day than before the war. Maga you fucking suck bro.

Donald Trump promised the war in Iran would end with unconditional surrender. But he never said which country would do the surrendering.

I used to be against vilifying billionaires. But once I saw them enthusiastically abandon democracy and the rule of law for Trump and authoritarian fascism — over nothing but avarice and greed — my opinion changed dramatically.

Note to Trump and EU leaders: This is how you negotiate with Russia.

“A crash is coming.” Andrew Ross Sorkin says a massive crash is inevitable. He’s one of the most credible financial journalists in the world.

That water clarity is an engineering decision, and the math behind it is wilder than the video. Roman aqueducts ran on gravity alone. No pumps, no pressure systems. Engineers carved channels with a gradient so shallow it borders on absurd. The Pont du Gard in southern France drops 2.5 centimeters over 275 meters. That's roughly the thickness of a coin over the length of three football fields. They surveyed that accuracy with plumb lines and wooden leveling instruments. The clarity you're seeing is a direct product of flow velocity. Too steep and the water erodes the channel walls, picks up sediment, turns brown. Too flat and it stagnates. Roman engineers targeted a slope of about 20 centimeters per kilometer, which kept the water moving fast enough to stay fresh but slow enough to stay clear. Before the water reached the city, it passed through multi-chamber settling tanks where velocity dropped near zero. Suspended particles sank. Clean water flowed out the top into the next chamber. Repeat three or four times. Pliny specified the minimum slope in writing. Vitruvius published the exact mortar ratio for hydraulic cement: one part lime to two parts volcanic ash for underwater work. The pozzolana from Pozzuoli reacted with water to form a calcium-aluminum-silicate compound that actually gets stronger the longer it sits submerged. Modern concrete degrades in water. Roman concrete bonds with it. Scale the whole system and it gets harder to process. Eleven aqueducts fed Rome at its peak. Combined output: roughly 1 million cubic meters of water per day. That works out to about 250 gallons per person for a city of one million. Modern New York delivers about 125 gallons per person per day. Ancient Rome had access to double the per capita water supply of the largest city in the United States, running entirely on slope and stone. The Trevi Fountain in Rome is still fed by one of them. Two thousand years, same source, same gravity, same water.