the holy juan

Resident Toledo, no relation.

[the holy juan @NoNotTheCity]

maybe the real vibe was the one we checked along the way

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Donald Trump bought between $1 million and $5 million of Axon stock on Feb. 10.

Axon makes things like tasers and body cameras.

Two weeks later, ICE posted a notice seeking a five-year, $220 million taser contract, enough to more than quadruple its current inventory.

The notice seeking a contract doesn't name Axon, but experts say the specifications only match Axon products.

https://t.co/8U8UrgN0Dz

[Shayan Sardarizadeh @Shayan86]

THREAD: Verified videos of long queues outside petrol stations across Russia amid fuel shortages caused by Ukrainian strikes

1. This video shows a long queue on a motorway outside a Rosneft station in Irkutsk.

Location: 52.3451434,104.1502234

@GeoConfirmed

[David Austin Walsh @DavidAstinWalsh]

My only point here is that an underrated reason for DSA’s electoral breakthrough is that it is no longer politically possible to treat the concerns of downwardly mobile Millennials and Zoomers solely with contempt.

[jeff⁹ 🇹🇷͜͜͡͡✯ @JeffNihility]

these are the nastiest responses I've ever read in the twitter history

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

The GFS model is suggesting the UK will see widespread temperatures of 40° C as early as next Tuesday.
I’m not sure the country could cope with this considering how awful the last week was. We had two days of this in 2022 and the fact this is happening so early is disturbingly ominous.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

France has reported around 1,000 deaths due to the heatwave.

Spain has reported 327 heat-related deaths.

Italy has reported 5, and Germany has reported 7.

This is no longer just a climate crisis. This is a humanitarian crisis.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Ford has rehired more than 300 veteran quality inspectors after realizing that AI was failing to perform quality checks at the same level.

[Paris Schutz @paschutz]

According to Indiana state and federal records - the north part of that site is federally protected from any development, the south part is owned by the US Dept of Defense, and in between are a bunch of private businesses including oil tanks. The state would be looking at a massive eminent domain cost before even putting shovels in the ground on a site that literally touches the border of City of Chicago.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The firm behind Wembley and Tottenham's stadium designed a football ground in Mexico, then pointed it at a mountain. They dropped the roof on one end so the open side frames the Cerro de la Silla, the saddle-shaped mountain that rises over Monterrey, sitting right behind the pitch.

That view in the clip came first. The architects, a firm called Populous, built the stadium around it, and they have said the mountain was one of the biggest reasons it looks the way it does. The roof stands tall on the north side and slopes down toward the south, opening up so the mountain fills the gap above the stands.

The roof is one solid piece that reaches 55 meters out over the crowd, longer than an Olympic pool, with nothing holding it up from underneath. It shades fans from a summer sun that climbs past 40°C, or 104°F. The sides stay open so the air keeps moving. Instead of closing the place up and running air conditioning, Populous cut "gills" into the metal shell, angled to catch the breeze and push warm air up and out. The building cools itself.

The metal shell is a nod to the city's past. Monterrey built its fortune on steel and had the first iron and steel foundry in Latin America, so the stadium is wrapped in steel and aluminum, which got it the nickname "El Gigante de Acero," the steel giant. The lopsided, sweeping shape comes from an odd place: the outline of old brewing stills, a tip of the hat to the beer-making the city has done since 1890.

Inside, they pulled the crowd right on top of the grass. The first row sits 9 meters from the field. At the club's old ground, it was 27. The stands tilt back at 34 degrees, one of the steepest angles in the Mexican league, packing all 53,500 seats close to the pitch, which is part of why it gets so loud.

FEMSA, the drinks giant that owns the club, paid for all of it. The bill came to around $200 million, making it the most expensive stadium ever built in Mexico when it opened in 2015. In 2024 it became the first stadium in Latin America to earn LEED Gold, a major green-building rating, for how it handles energy and water.

So the view in that clip was drawn into the plans years before they laid the first beam. The whole building is a frame, and the mountain is the picture.

[Gérard Araud @GerardAraud]

Peut-être est-ce excessif mais il est exact que Hegseth se livre à une épuration sans précédent des échelons les plus élevés de la hiérarchie militaire américaine. Il est donc légitime de s’interroger sur ses raisons.

[Michael McDonough @M_McDonough]

*Hormuz Vessel Crossing Update, Back down to 24

The pullback to 24 reflects renewed escalation: the U.S. conducted fresh strikes on Iranian targets around the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday in response to a drone attack on the tanker M/T Kiku, days after an Iranian drone struck the container ship Ever Lovely — the first vessel hit since the U.S.–Iran ceasefire was signed.

The back-and-forth is straining the agreement's plan to restore normal marine traffic, with CENTCOM noting commercial vessels are still transiting but well below pre-crisis levels.

Powered by our commercial vessel crossing index, using AIS data refreshed every 30 minutes.

[U.S. Central Command @CENTCOM]

U.S. Navy and Air Force fighter jets conducted strikes tonight on 10 Iranian military targets at multiple locations in and near the Strait of Hormuz for Iran's drone attack on M/T Kiku.

[Rory Johnston @Rory_Johnston]

Thursday: Iran hits a ship.

Friday: US retaliates against drone/missile/radar sites

Saturday morning: Iran hits another ship

Saturday evening: US hits more Iranian sites

Sunday: ??

[WWE India @WWEIndia]

Congratulations to the NEWWW Undisputed WWE Champion, SAMI ZAYN! 🏆 🙌

#WWENOC

[Shan_tweets @Shan11tweet]

"After nearly two years as a Critical Environment Technician at a Microsoft Italy data center, I choose to resign. This is because, right now, Microsoft is massively expanding its European data centers (aka mass surveillance centers) to use Palestine as a laboratory for its experimental digital weaponry. For the past 994 days, Microsoft has powered the genocide of our people in Palestine, and the company’s European data centers are fundamental to how Microsoft abets crimes against humanity.."👇

[AJE Sport @AJE_Sport]

⚽️ The knockout stage of the #FIFAWorldCup26 begins today, with the Round of 32 confirmed after the group stage.

Who will go through to the next round? Share your predictions below 👇

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

yes, you have probably seen much more of "Columbo" than I did. obviously the "rich people" would have to have different occupations & professions over the years. I mostly recall the opulent houses & apartments, cars & clothes, while bumbling-Sherlockian Columbo drives a quaint old car & shuffles about in his rumpled coat; he seemed often to re-enter a drawing room through a French door startling the smug murderer: "And one more thing..."

recall now the suave sophisticate detectives of "Miami Vice" who were the James Bond-opposites of Colombo.

[Luigi Warren @luigi_warren]

And yet Columbo depicts a reassuringly meritocratic, mid-century America whose elite miscreants are for the most part genuinely talented, high-achieving people -- novelists, actors, musicians, surgeons, businessmen, architects, etc. Today they'd be crypto scammers, paid "influencers," pump-and-dump "sell-side analysts," and Ponzi promoters. They'd be teasing the gullible with trips to Mars or have secret government contracts to build an AI surveillance panopticon. It's a different world.

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

the surprise of "Columbo," watching it decades later as one who'd never watched it in the past, is how relentlessly Bernie Sandersian it is---meaning: literally every murder is perpetrated by a snooty wealthy smug person living in a mansion in hills above the city who is tracked down doggedly by a sweetly affable, seemingly clumsy & clueless lovable prole in a rumpled trench coat: "And one more thing...."

always always the clever prole makes a fool out of the snooty rich smug sap & his snooty friends in their fancy snooty mansions with their fancy sports cars & women with bouffant hair & diamonds.

but "Columbo" always ends abruptly. just--ends.
we don't get to see the snooty wealthy smug murderer acquitted of all his crimes because he has hired the very best criminal lawyer in California because he IS wealthy.

so take that, Columbo, & Bernie Sanders. the American Way.

[Sean Padraig McCarthy @SeanMcCarthyCom]

Very funny that Obama prosecuted exactly 0 (zero) Bush administration war criminals but Trump nailed John Bolton solely out of personal vendetta. Justice takes many forms I suppose