A little tune for you.

 

LOUISIANA WOMAN: Airport worker killed when her long hair became entangled in baggage-handling equipment. No word on whether she was following the company’s policy on securing long hair.

 

 

THE HUMILIATING HISTORY OF THE TSA: The folks at The Verge remind us of something we’ve known all along. It is overly paranoid, vindictive, and unaccountable to us as citizens. In fact, it mostly brings to mind Masha Gessen’s observation that “resignation was the defining condition of Soviet life.”

 

 

TEXAS SENDS FIRST BUSLOAD OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS TO CHICAGO: A spokesperson from Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s office said in a statement that Abbott is “without any shame or humanity.” Mayor Lightfoot’s office does have a point, just not in the way they think – her city is a violence-plagued shithole.

 

 

LOG CABIN REPUBLICAN: But not in the way you think. An interview with populist Washington state congressional candidate Joe Kent, who doesn’t like libertarians very much. The first paragraph of the article mentions he was born in a cabin. In the nineteenth century, having been born in a log cabin was a kind of litmus test of a candidate’s nativist and populist bona fides.

 

 

BECAUSE REPARATIONS WORKED SO WELL THE FIRST TIME: Polish President demands reparations from Germany for damages inflicted on Poland during World War Two. Reparations which will be paid almost entirely by, and to, people who were not even born when the war ended. I’m all for individuals paying damages to people they personally harmed, even years after the wrongful act, but this is just bullshit.

 

 

ELECTRIC UTILITY LOCKED CUSTOMERS OUT OF THEIR THERMOSTATS DURING HEAT WAVE: Xcel confirmed to Contact Denver7 that 22,000 customers who had signed up for the Colorado AC Rewards program were locked out of their smart thermostats for hours on Tuesday. Granted they could only do this for customers who voluntarily chose to participate in the program, but look forward to government getting involved and mandating everyone have “smart” thermostats with back door access for government built-in, just like they want to do with cars.

 

 

FLORIDA MAN: Arrested during polygraph exam for admitting to viewing child pornography. While we uncomfortably admit that possessing such materials should not be a crime (unlike manufacturing), he’s still a garbage human being. And an idiot. WTF did he think was going to happen? Our understanding is that they tell people ahead of time what type of questions they are going to ask.