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One of the many spots that FBI Director Kash Patel liked to get hammered is an exclusive club in Las Vegas called the Poodle Room.
\nThe Poodle Room is associated with the Fontainebleau Hotel, and I walked past the discreet entrance in the lobby. when I stayed there last month.
\nUnfortunately, the Poodle Room...
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Car dashboards of the 1980s www.tumblr.com/thevaulto…
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Kellogg’s Sugar Frosted Flakes (1960) www.flickr.com/photos/ba…
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“January 23, 1925. Washington, D.C. ‘Broadway producer Earl Carroll picking beauties to play in 1925 “Vanities” revue.’” www.shorpy.com/node/2788…_original#caption
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","summary":"","url":"https://newsletter.mitchwagner.com/2026/04/20/mitchs-newsletter.html","date_published":"2026-04-20T20:21:42+00:00","author":{"name":"Mitch Wagner","url":"https://mitchwagner.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F03%2F2611.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"MitchWagner"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-20 20:21","date_timestamp":1776716502,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://hachyderm.io/@mitch/116438898986294633","https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:6d7jpsd2vabuplvlhyrj3vxe/post/3mjxcd3v7y426"]}},{"id":"88659569","content_html":"Palantir issued an ominous, 22-point corporate manifesto. “… reads like the ramblings of a comic-book villain.
\nHamilton Nolan: “This is not a coherent set of arguments at all. It is not a philosophy. It is not a set of intelligible ethics. Rather, it is a list of angry reactions to being yelled at—given a...
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Here’s a nice view I saw while walking the dog one morning a few weeks ago.
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@Uair I see the resemblence!
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@ronkjeffries Thanks! The format isn’t so much to avoid cluttering up the blog as to organize the newsletter and control the timing of when it goes out in email. I also post to mitchwagner.com. I had been doing a daily linked list there to, as you say, avoid clutter, but I think I’m going to stop doing that and go back to just posting individually.
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\nAnd the original image may have been AI-generated. I found it posted without context or explanation, and did the same.
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\nwww.lightreading.com/telecoms-sof…
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