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@bizarchive submitting a tease from @mike_gordon : 7/12/19 - Camel Walk - Skin It Back tease at 2:58 (@LivePhish app) #phish #geekery

That was not a stunt double. That was Kaitlin Olson flying headfirst into a car door

@crabriella_ But Frank….you were Froggy

Frank and Froggy

@_AlwaysOnTour_ @phish I went to the 2nd set of three shows and What’s The Use was the single most beautiful moment of my life. Never experienced such a beautiful combination of sound and sight. As the fireworks boomed during First Tube, I was profoundly saddened that it was over.

Phish will always be Phish no matter if the stage is a flatbed truck or a 16K marble. 9 nights, 0 repeats, 161 songs played. Well done @Phish👏 Now that the dust has settled and the visuals are burned into our retinas...what was the few songs or jams that rocked you?

I am a senior coordinating producer for the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner. I have worked eleven of these. I was backstage at the Washington Hilton when the shots were fired. The first thing I heard was not the gunfire. It was glass. A champagne flute hit the floor of the International Ballroom at approximately 9:47 PM. Then a second. Then the sound that I have since been told was a 12-gauge shotgun, which from inside the ballroom sounded like a heavy door slamming in a parking garage. Then the Secret Service moved. They moved the President, the Vice President, the First Lady through the east corridor in under ninety seconds, which is protocol, which is practiced, which is the one part of the evening that worked exactly as it was designed. Everything else was improvised. I know this because I ordered the wine. 94 tables. Two bottles per table. 188 bottles of a Willamette Valley pinot noir that the Association selected in February after a tasting committee spent three meetings debating between Oregon and Burgundy. Oregon won. The budget was $14,200. I signed the invoice. I can tell you the vintage. I can tell you the distributor. I can tell you the per-bottle cost because I negotiated it down from $89 to $76. What I cannot tell you is how 147 of those bottles left the building during an active shooter evacuation. I can tell you what I saw. A correspondent from a network I will not name picked up two bottles on her way to the east exit. Full bottles. One in each hand. She was wearing heels and she did not spill. A man in a tuxedo tucked one inside his jacket the way you'd shoplift a paperback at an airport bookstore. A woman picked up a bottle, looked at the label, put it back, and took a different one. She checked the vintage. During an evacuation. That's editorial judgment under pressure. The theme of the dinner was "A Free Press for a Free People." The banners were still hanging when the evacuation began. I know because I hung them. Twenty-three banners, navy blue, gold serif lettering, $11,400 for the set. They were still hanging when 2,600 guests were directed to the exits by Secret Service agents, one of whom had just taken a shotgun round in his ballistic vest and walked to the ambulance on his own feet. The agent's vest costs approximately $800. The wine that left the building was worth $11,172 at Association cost. At restaurant markup, roughly $29,000. The guests saved more in wine than the vest that saved the agent. That's priority. The video went viral by 10:15 PM. Not the video of the evacuation. Not the Secret Service response. The wine. Three guests in formalwear grabbing bottles off white tablecloths while being told to move toward the exits, while a man with a shotgun stood in the same motor entrance where John Hinckley shot Ronald Reagan 45 years ago. A woman near the service entrance was crying. She said "I just wanna go home." She was not holding wine. She was holding her phone. She was the only person I saw that night who looked afraid rather than inconvenienced. That's the distinction. The rest of the ballroom did not look afraid. They looked interrupted. An active shooter at the WHCD is a logistical problem. The dinner was disrupted. The timeline was off. The after-party at the French Ambassador's residence would need to be rescheduled. These are contingency matters. Contingency matters have solutions. Fear is for people who attend events without security details. I have produced eleven of these dinners. I have managed seating charts that require diplomatic-grade negotiations. I have handled comedians, cabinet secretaries, network anchors, and the editor of a major newspaper who once threatened to leave because his table was behind a column. I have never, in eleven years, seen a guest leave a $76 bottle on the table during an evacuation. I have also never seen a guest check the label first. Both observations are consistent. The bottle is worth taking. The evacuation is worth surviving. The instinct is to do both simultaneously. 188 bottles placed. 41 recovered. 147 unaccounted for. One agent shot. Zero guests injured. Zero bottles broken. A free press for a free people. The press is free. The wine was $76 a bottle. They took it anyway.

Holy shit, this is BRILLIANT: This dude breaks down why everyone thinks the whole WHCD event was fake... everything about trump is FAKE. Best video you'll see today.

This video is going viral as people start to realize what he was actually doing during the shooting

The problem here is that there is empirical data to support both: “The President is so loathsome that he would stage multiple assassination attempts to boost his popularity” AND “The President is so loathsome that multiple people would genuinely attempt to murder him”

TOP Questions (so far) following the WHCD “alleged” assassination attempt. In no order of importance. STAGED? Why was there a post from 2023 that simply stating the shooters first and last name? Why was the shooters shirt off? Why did the SS look so disorganized? Why has trump skipped EVERY WHCD until this one? Why did the shooter mention he especially was NOT targeting Kash Patel? Why was the shooters name searched hundreds of times in Israel, a DAY before the incident? Why did Karoline Leavitt’s husband warn a Fox News reporter to be “very safe” prior to the shooting? Why did the shooting just happen to occur at a time that trumps poll numbers are the lowest of any modern President Why did the shooter book a $3k a night hotel room MONTHS ago for an event that trump NEVER attends, until he recently announced he would. Why was trumps Deputy Chief of Staff climbing on a chair to start a chant of “USA, USA…” Why would an award winning tutor, Caltech Grad and NASA intern try to pull off such a crude, unplanned attempt. Why did the Secret Service LOWER their security protocols that night? Why was Hegseth seen laughing very shortly after the shooting event? Why was VP Vance removed BEFORE the President? Why was the President allowed to stay on the scene and observe with seemingly no security protecting him? Why did right wing social media ALL come out with the same “Ballroom” talking point only minutes after the shooting? Why does it appear that the same SS agents that failed in Butler, PA were on the scene at the WHCD? Why did the SS agents appear to be GROSSLY untrained, frequently mishandling their firearms? Why did the entire cabinet look downright jovial after being put through an active shooter event, not traumatized like most people would be? Why was nearly the entire cabinet, President on down, present in one location, a serious break in National Security policy and procedures. Why was the post from 2023 by a NASA scientist named Henry Martinez, linking him to NASA intern Cole Allen? Why did trump lie about tripping/falling to the ground? Why did a Fox News correspondent have her phone call cut off when she revealed what Karoline Levitt’s husband told her? How does a person reportedly carrying multiple weapons pass or bypass initial screening at a presidential level event? Why would a planner send incriminating intent BEFORE escape or success? How did the trump admin KNOW the intent of the shooter just minutes after the event? Why was the narrative outpacing formal ID confirmation? How did the admin KNOW it was a “lone wolf “ situation so quickly? Why didn’t the Washington Hilton have layered screening protections? Was this a TRUE breach, or something else entirely? Why would someone with no criminal record suddenly risk being killed for such a low success probability attempt? Why were there reports of inconsistent or absent ID checks at the event? HOW did a person allegedly carrying multiple weapons penetrate what was supposed to be a layered security event close enough to engage inside the perimeter structure? Why after Butler, PA were security protocols not MORE ridged? The QUESTIONS keep mounting and are starting to point to what could be yet another STAGED assassination attempt at a time when trump is at his lowest level of popularity, Epstein story not going away and rumblings of Butler PA resurfacing louder than EVER!

It’s actually quite sobering and sad that I will never see anything as beautiful as that again, for the first time. Witnessing the visuals and hearing What’s the Use has never been topped.

RFK Jr has: - Cut off a raccoon dick - Eaten a dog - Chainsawed off a whale head and strapped it to his minivan - Put a dead bear cub in his station wagon and dropped it in Central Park This is what we know about. Imagine what we don't know.

The 11 disappearing scientists and their field of research: 1. Amy Eskridge - anti gravity propulsion and electrostatic propulsion systems 2. Michael Hicks - Earth space observation systems 3. Frank Maywald - planetary robotic systems 4. Anthony Chavez - research classified, clearance at Los Alamos National Lab 5. Monica Reza - orbital communication systems 6. Melissa Casias - research classified, high security clearance at Los Alamos National Lab 7. Steven Garcia - nuclear weapons engineer 8. Jason Thomas - chemical biology and experimental drug development 9. Nuno Loureiro - plasma physics and fusion science 10. Carl Grillmair - exoplanets, stellar streams and near earth objects 11. William McCasland - Director of Air Force Research Lab, hypersonics, directive energy systems, and advanced propulsion tech

The Moby Dick fandom is dying. Retweet if you're a true Dickhead.

“Somebody shorted the oil markets today by hundreds of millions of dollars exactly 20 minutes before Trump made his announcement that everything was going to be great. And if you see that once, it could be a coincidence. But that’s happened at least three times, if not more, since the war began. That’s a pattern.” “And what that suggests is that there’s rampant corruption and insider self-dealing going on with the president’s up and down predictions of what’s going to happen tomorrow in the negotiations and in the markets. And I’m sure that that’s being investigated. We can’t prove it, but it seems like the corruption that we’re seeing in our government, maybe not the President, but people who are in the know and the markets, is having a priority over the actual negotiations to end the war. And that’s a crazy thing that our system has never seen before.”

Steve Bannon has pissed himself at the World Economic Forum

This was the moment that convinced me it was a staged event... How else do you explain the flag being lowered perfectly into position, as if the entire scene had been frozen until the flag was in place for that ideal photograph?

北京的机器人马拉松，一个机器人竟被起跑线绊倒，当场摔得粉碎，可笑的是，工作人员居然抬着担架过来，不应该是拿筐和扫帚吗？🤣🤣

@coughdropsh @m3l0dyyy__ Listen to the new Flea album if you like jazz fusion

@m3l0dyyy__ JAZZ FUSION>>

Everyone drop their favorite 10+ minute songs im sick of the 3 minute long brainrot music i need an adventure

@coughdropsh All of the Above by Transatlantic. A prog rock masterpiece.

Here is Donald Trump's ear 6 months after being shot with an AR-15 rifle and here is Evander Holyfield's ear after being bitten off 28 years ago. Cartilage doesn't heal like that. Tramp is a liar and our FBI is not to be trusted under this administration. FDT 🖕

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