Dreaming of Electric Sheep

ICE agents at airports will only aggravate delays & lines—disrupting checks, interrogating travelers, dragging parents from children, detaining citizens, brutalizing families, shooting & even killing. politico.com/news/2026/03/2…

@iowahawkblog I haven't seen your posts for a couple of months... This morning while sipping my coffee I saw one of your posts on a list of Top Twitter Posts of All Time. Immediately searched you up and enjoyed a healthy dose of second-hand nostalgia.

I vaguely understand the technical reason for X doing such things, but from my personal perspective it seems Elon has ordered the platform to kill Dave's Car ID Service at all cost. End of rant, back to those wholesome high value original content IDs.

Daylight's burnin'! Time to rise and shine with a Dave's Car ID Service salute to tractor makers who tried their hand at car making. Famously, the most successful of whom was Ferruccio Lamborghini. The story has been told a million times, but here are the Cliff Notes: Born on a grape farm in Ferrara, young Ferruccio Lamborghini studies mechanics and metal working, then is drafted to serve as a mechanic for the Italian Air Force in WW2. Post war, patents a fuel atomizing device for quicker starts of diesel engines, and begins a business to convert surplus WW2 machinery for agricultural use. He introduced his L33 tractor in 1951, the first to be completely made by Lambo. In pic #1, his bread & butter: a 1952 DL 30, one of the DL series tractors that debuted that year, and were very popular in Italy and beyond. And this is where the fun starts. By 1962 burly, no-nonsense Ferruccio Lamborghini was a wealthy man, wealthy enough to afford a different luxury car for every day of the week: Mercedes 300 SL, E-Type Jaguar, Maserati, and of course several Ferrari 250 GTs. He had nagging clutch problems with his Ferraris that required numerous rebuild jobs at Ferrari's factory in Maranello. He had his own employees pull the clutch on one, and discovered it was a cheap type, the kind used on his tractors. Now he's pissed off. He fires a complaint letter directly to Enzo Ferrari about it, to which Ferrari famously replied "I'll stick to my cars, you stick to your tractors." Now he's REALLY pissed off and decides to start his own car company. He hires a few of Ferrari's key engineers and decides to go straight after Enzo's territory: Exotic V12 supercars. Starting with the 1963 350 GTV, and then in 1966 with possibly the prettiest car ever made, the Miura. Unlike Ferrari's prancing horse, they wore a raging bull. The rest is history, as they say. And Lamboghini still makes tractors.

@EyeonPalestine Where are the women? Males only, now women allowed?

NYC Mayor Mamdani Joins Eid al-Fitr Prayer in Brooklyn.

Believe me, I am no Iran apologist but they are making Trump look like an idiot. Every day.

@chrismartenson @BuzzPatterson

@BuzzPatterson Trump badly underestimated Iran, you mean? Remember, we started it. If you're faulting someone for punching back after you threw a sucker punch, you're not cut out for this business.

Iran has always been further along in their nuclear weapon development than we’ve been told by politicians and media. Trump was right…again.

@codepink Funded by the Chinese Communist Party #CCP #propagenda

NOW 🇨🇺 We're on our way to Cuba! Our CODEPINK delegation to the Nuestra América convoy is carrying thousands of pounds of urgently needed humanitarian aid. We stand with Cuba!

@realDavidBJr @willchamberlain

@willchamberlain China has missiles that can reach the Eastern Seaboard. So does Russia. Why haven’t we hit them? Why didn’t we take them out before reaching this point?

Basically every major development in the Iran War has vindicated Trump’s decision to strike. 1) Overwhelming current disparity in traditional military capability = now is a good time to strike, we can destroy their capabilities with limited losses of personnel/material 2) Iran flings ballistics and drones at a nearly a dozen non-combatant neighbors = they are crazy and can’t be trusted with nukes 3) Iran opens negotiations with Witkoff with “we have enough 60% enriched material for 11 bombs and we will not give you anything at the negotiating table that you couldn’t achieve militarily” = diplomacy would not have solved the problem 4) Iran fires ballistics at Diego Garcia = they were not far from having ICBMs that could hit the Eastern Seaboard The case for hitting Iran is STRONGER than it was for ISIS!

@CollinRugg "Blackface" is an American thing: When someone in Brazil puts black on their skin, they aren't doing "Blackface".

NEW: Brazilian politician Fabiana Bolsonaro performs blackface to show trans people that putting dark foundation on her face doesn't make her black, just like changing your body doesn't make you a different gender. The incident was reportedly a protest against the appointment of federal lawmaker Erika Hilton, a trans woman. "I am painted black on the outside. I identify as black. So why can't I preside over the anti-racism commission? Why can't I take care of this agenda? Because I am not black."

@Microinteracti1 Education was supposed to make westeners intelligent. That was the whole point. Apparently @Microinteracti1 didn't get the memo. Somewhere in London, they use AI to spread #CCP propaganda and lies, like a completely unintelligent bot-zombie.

The F-35 was supposed to be unkillable. That was the whole point. Lockheed Martin spent thirty years and four hundred billion dollars, the most expensive weapons programme in human history, building an aircraft that the enemy simply could not see. Not on radar. Not on infrared. Not on anything. The F-35 was not just a fighter jet. It was a theological statement. America’s way of saying: we have moved beyond the reach of your missiles, your sensors, and your prayers. Iran apparently didn’t get the memo. Somewhere over Iranian airspace on March 19, 2026, an IRST system, infrared search and track, the kind of sensor your grandmother could probably explain, looked up, found the F-35, and locked on. Not because Iranian engineers are geniuses. Because the F-35, it turns out, is extremely hot. All that engine. All that thrust. All that carefully sculpted stealth geometry, and the bloody thing glows like a kettle. The heat signature data Iran now holds is not just embarrassing. It is a gift that keeps giving. To Moscow. To Beijing. To every procurement ministry on the planet that has been quietly wondering whether to spend the money on systems designed to kill this aircraft. The answer, as of this week, is yes. And here is the bit that should really worry the Pentagon. You can patch software. You can redesign coatings. You cannot reprogramme a pilot’s brain. Every F-35 driver who takes off from here on knows, actually knows, that someone down there might be able to see them. That changes everything about how they fly. Caution replaces aggression. Hesitation replaces instinct. Four hundred billion dollars. And in the end, it was done in by a heat sensor. Tremendous. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

@LBCX4Life @kausmickey

@kausmickey What the phuck does the bridge have to do with the Palisades disaster? Not a goddamn thing. Nice try with the clickbait.

You know that beautiful neighborhood of 24,000 people (Pacific Palisades) that burned to the ground last year? It was because the government was protecting the endangered milkvetch: "The agency refuses to perform prescribed burns at any meaningful level and has a list of supposedly endangered plants it refuses to allow heavy equipment near; for example, the milkvetch plant that was seen in Temescal Gateway Park, which prevented firefighters from bringing bulldozers and other equipment in to fully suppress the Lachman Fire." redstate.com/jenvanlaar/202…

@BriannaWu I mean, I get what you the point youbare making, but Al Franken was sexually assaulting people and laughing... I don't think that was a "joke".

We made Al Franken resign over a joke, but this woman can cheerlead the rape, slaughter, and torture of Jewish civilians and no one in my party gives a fuck.

@GovPressOffice Wow, making fun of Irish culture, short people, overweight people, not a good look for a governor dreaming of becoming president.

Wishing you luck this St. Patty’s Day — you’re going to need it! 🍀🍀🍀

Secretary Hegseth needs to explain exactly what he meant when he said “no quarter." It's well established that it means to take no prisoners — to kill them instead of accept their surrender. That is illegal under U.S. and international law, would put our servicemembers at greater risk, and erodes the good order and discipline of the best military in the world. My letter to the Secretary of Defense:

There are 2,850 reasons to replace #CA15 40-year Rep. Pete Stark. 1 for every mile he lives outside the district at his home in MD. #ItsTime

@thestustustudio Gee, I hope my tax dollars help pay for this!

🚨 At CUNY’s Cuba Conference, Fired Professor Urges Crowd to “Defend the Cuban Revolution” and Says Universities Must Support Global “Forces of Liberation” Corinna Mullin, one of the recently fired CUNY professors and an activist aligned with PSC-CUNY and campus Palestine groups, praised the Cuban Revolution and told attendees that universities should actively support global revolutionary movements. “Our task is to use our research, our teaching, our methodology, our pedagogy to support the forces of liberation around the world,” she said, adding that “Cuba stands at the heart of these forces.” She declared that “Cuba’s fight is our fight,” called U.S. policy “economic genocide,” urged the crowd to “defend the Cuban revolution,” and called for Cuba to be removed from the “so-called state sponsor of terrorism list.” For a conference supposedly about “normalization,” this was straight-up regime apologetics.

@HistoryBoomer YOU might write for that reason. The NYT writes because

You write articles like this because people want to understand *why* quiet restaurant workers become terrorists. Wanting to call them monsters, with no explanation needed, is a mistake. It's humans who commit horrors, not monsters, and that's the truly scary thing.

@SenWarren What did @SenWarren ever do for 82M people bit drive up costs?

Donald Trump spent more than $11 BILLION in a week bombing Iran for reasons he cannot explain, but he can't find a nickel to help the 82M people who are struggling to pay for their health care. It's all about priorities.

Many have rationalized this war with reference to the Iranian people’s right to democratic freedom. I wonder if any of them genuinely believe that this is what a majority of Iranians would have chosen for themselves, had they been allowed to decide

@Rainmaker1973 Politician. "Journalist".

What's the term you use?

@cate_long @Doranimated Their propaganda, not their POV. Their point of view is Death to Isreal, Death to America, Death to the West.

@Doranimated Thanks for posting this. Helpful to see their pov.

Iranian Foreign Minister Aragchi makes a statement in response to President Trump's latest Truth Social posting. I have to say, this statement is sophisticated and clever. They do know their brief, Iranian diplomats: "President Pezeshkian's openness to de-escalation within our region—provided that our neighbors’ airspace, territory, and waters are not used to attack the Iranian People—was almost immediately killed by President Trump's misinterpretation of our capabilities, determination and intent. "If Mr. Trump seeks escalation, it is precisely what our Powerful Armed Forces have long been prepared for, and what he will get. Responsibility for any intensification of Iran's exercise of self-defense will lie squarely with the U.S. Administration. "Mr. Trump's week-long misadventure has already cost the U.S. military $100 Billion, in addition to the lives of young soldiers. When markets reopen, that cost will balloon and directly be transferred to ordinary Americans at pumping stations. "Mr. Trump's own National Intelligence Council, representing input from the 18 intelligence agencies of the U.S., determined that war on Iran is destined to fail. "I also warned Mr. Trump's envoys that war will not improve their bargaining position. Were these warnings conveyed? "The American People voted to end involvement in costly quagmires in the Middle East. Instead, they have ended up with an Administration that Netanyahu, after decades of failed attempts, finally managed to dupe into fighting Israel's wars. "This is a war of choice pursued by a small cabal of 'Israel Firsters', and 'Israel First' always means 'America Last'.