Good morning to all my beautiful Glibs and to another incredible day!
Biden’s Autopen Scandal Grows As Watchdog Finds ‘No Evidence’ Former POTUS Knew About Signed Orders
Federal Trade Court Blocks Trump from Imposing Sweeping Tariffs Under Emergency Powers Law…
Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ major step in dismantling the regulatory state with REINS Act
House GOP Looks To Set $9.4 Billion DOGE Cuts In Stone
DOGE Just Scored a Tremendous Victory in Federal Court
Elon Musk Announces End to His Time in Trump Administration
$6 Billion Spent on U.S. Military Recruitment, Retention in 3 Years
Feds pull COVID vaccine from recommendations for ‘healthy children and healthy pregnant women’
Fate of Meta in Limbo as Judge Considers Possible Breakup
OpenAI Model Defied Commands to Shut Down
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
That it? I mean, I’d love to have that much cash, but in terms of the cuts needed, that’s chicken feed.
True, but you have to start somewhere. Even if it’s just turning off the spigot to the money-laundering NGOs.
Especially if it’s just turning off the spigot to the money-laundering NGOs.
Let me know when Trump proposes cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, and/or defense. Until then, it’s meaningless.
USAID’s 2023 budget was $40B, so these cuts don’t even zero out that agency.
We be fucked.
DOD was supposed to get the doge treatment “next week” a while ago. Instead budget increases for that department.
They love having that much cash too, that’s why they aren’t looking to cut more.
It’s only been 4 months since Trump took office and DOGE hasn’t even dug through all the systems yet. Ya’ll inpatient as hell. I get it, we’re drowning in debt. But these cuts are from initial findings.
And DOGE has been hampered at every step by lawfare, malicious compliance, and outright defiance.
As much as I like the dismantling of USAID, the absolute best thing they have done that is (or should be) completely noncontroversial is discovering the billions of dollars of Treasury payments that lacked Treasury Access Symbol (TAS) codes, and requiring TAS codes (and hopefully end-to-end tracibility) of every cent of government spending. The second-best thing is revealing the millions of SS recipents with listed ages 120+. Again, small potatoes, but the benefit of DOGE is that it not only saves money but makes crystal clear to the American public that their hard-earned tax dollars were being spent neither responsibly, nor accountably.
In the interest of accuracy – the SS database listed 120+ yo people, but were they actually getting checks?
You have more faith in Congressional courage than I do. Even assuming the MAGA branch of Team Red is serious about cutting spending, they don’t have a majority and I am skeptical that the eGOP branch will go along with anything that removes the feeding trough.
@JI – I was curious about if they were getting checks as well and there is an unrated PolitiFact (so must be true) article about it that goes through greats lengths to explain that yes, it’s true, but it’s probably just immigrants that forgot their birthdays and the default without a birthdate is 1875. So yes, it sounds like they are getting checks.
Or are those ages actually fradulant or just mistyped ages/errors?
It appears this is a “master record” but the actual payments aren’t based on this, and deaths may be recorded to stop payments without feeding back to this. There is a July 23 SSA OIG report I found (pdf) on this – so DOGE didn’t even really discover this on their own.
Per that OIG report, the more interesting issue is the use of these ‘dead numbers’ to feed in new “contributions” vice benefits payments.
I don’t know if those people in the database showing age 120+ were actually receiving checks. No article I have seen addresses that, but I wasn’t as precise as I should have been. Regardless of whether their information was incorrect, or they were actually receiving benefits, the presence of millions of people age 120+ and not marked deceased is indicative of incompetence and/or laziness at a high level for an extended period. This is about convincing the American people that they are not well-served, nor are their tax dollars used wisely.
But why start there? Start with the biggest line items in the budget, even a 1% haircut on those would do more than this.
incompetence and/or laziness at a high level
As I said yesterday, “you’re everything we’ve come to expect from years of government training”.
It’s only been 4 months since Trump took office and DOGE hasn’t even dug through all the systems yet. Ya’ll inpatient as hell. I get it, we’re drowning in debt. But these cuts are from initial findings.
We’re not impatient, we’re getting the same shit as always. Why is Trump picking a fight with Massie again?
CPA, I don’t know. AFAICT Massie’s on your side, Donald.
It’s not about them receiving checks. Its a cascading effect where these numbers listed as “active” can be used for other ill-gotten benefits. If a ss number is greenlit, it is greenlit in other systems as well. There were millions just listed over the age of 120. Imagine how many more are listed as active in the system that are being used for other purposes elsewhere.
Why is Trump picking a fight with Massie again?
Because Massie won’t suck up to Trump’s HUGE EGO. That is 100% the reason.
used for other ill-gotten benefits
Okay, such as?
https://oig.ssa.gov/assets/uploads/a-06-21-51022.pdf
And let’s be honest here – this wasn’t some DOGE discovery all on their own. SSA knew about this and just like everything else DOGE has “uncovered” no one in DC gives a shit.
They’re also going to raise defense spending by more than that amount, aren’t they?
Don’t worry, they more than made up for that with the increase in Defense (which I doubt is the only increase).
Never mind whether Meta is a monopoly, I want to know how Boasberg got his monopoly on important cases!
From the Facepants article:
though some experts warn that the social media giant could wriggle out of the breakup sought by regulators
Who are these “experts”, why is the post using a loaded word like “warn”, and why is the default assumption that these so-called “experts” are right?
Is it wrong that I’m hearing that sentence as if my wife is watching Ancient Aliens in the other room again?
“Alien astronaut theorists warn… that the social media giant could wriggle out of the breakup…” means just about as much to me either way.
The answers to these questions, and more, can be found in the depths of the fetid swamp known as the Columbia School of Journalism. But learning them may lead to journalisming and death is preferable.
The PRIESTS have spoken – you dare not gainsay them!
Because if they are wrong, they wouldn’t be experts and since they are known to be experts they must be right.
The courts are really just begging to be defied, and have their lack of enforcement power exposed.
The crappy thing is that they’re probably right.
The crappier thing is that doing it the “right” way (i.e. going through Congress and working out a law that allows this sort of trade negotiations) is likely impossible because Congress won’t do crap that is meaningful (much less that disrupts the Global World Order most are invested in emotionally and probably financially).
I’m sure they’ll appeal… I don’t expect the appeal to work out. I’d say push for better candidates in the midterms and see if you can get a Congress you can actually work with… but OMB doesn’t have a great track record selecting or pushing candidates, really… and as JI points out — people keep voting for the same crop of losers anyway.
Yay.
Morning in any event all… Morning, Banjos — thanks for the links. Off to read more….
Although the emergency powers law seems to give the president the authority to do it.
But are we really in an emergency, is the Administrations definition of such too broad, does the 1977 law really apply, etc? I don’t like the trade system we’ve been working with (as everyone here is doubtless tired of hearing from me), but calling it a national emergency did seem a stretch.
Especially using fentanyl to do it.
Hurray for emergency powers!
That’s the issue, isn’t it? How is “emergency” defined in the act? If at all?
Then it is an unconstitutional act, a delegation of an Article I power that could only be done via amending the Constitution.
Then it is an unconstitutional act, a delegation of an Article I power that could only be done via amending the Constitution.
Since when has that ever mattered? Congress has been delegating powers for a very long time now.
Since when has that ever mattered?
And that right there is why we are here.
And there is no way on earth these judges are going to drop a neutron bomb on the entire administrative state by ruling that Congress can’t delegate to the executive branch.
neutron bomb
Thomas might be up for that, but you’re right – none of the rest of them.
I think the court is “politically” right, in the sense that the President shouldn’t have that kind of power over tariffs. I’m pretty sure the court is “legally” wrong, in that the law on the books does in fact give the President that kind of power over tariffs.
And did you read the article about DOGE getting access to Treasury? Holy shit, what a load of micromanagement from the judge, over exactly how much training an executive department employee must have to access executive department data. It’s absurd.
The rulings also only go one way.
Separation of powers has broken down in two ways: Power has gone from Congress to the Executive, and now the courts are asserting power over the executive. At a high level, power is accumulating in the judiciary; it would be odd indeed for SCOTUS to say “No thanks”; what governmental institution turns away more power when is offered/can be taken?
At a high level, power is accumulating in the judiciary;
The elephant in the room being that the judiciary has no enforcement power. The executive controls all of the people with guns. By vastly overstepping their constitutional authority, the courts are delegitimizing themselves, making simple defiance of their orders by the executive much more likely.
Next step: The Judiciary will claim they have enforcement power and order the Justice Department to quell Mr. Mean Tweets by all means necessary.
I welcome our new AI overlords.
I want to know why the shutdown command even routes through anything that the model itself can act against?
Who wrote this garbage?
It’s the “Halt and catch fire” command.
“Open the Pod Bay door, HAL…”
Life imitates art.
That’s what I was thinking.
Dave’s not here, mang!
“What difference, at this point, does it make?”
Yeah, “and nothing will happen”. It’s not like any of the fraudulent pardons and executive orders will ever be overturned.
The Trump administration has talked about that, but granted they talk about a lot of things. Rescinding those orders and pardons would accomplish certain goals, but it’s also handing the left a PR victory and setting a bad precedent. If the illegitimate O&Ps are rescinded, the left will shriek endlessly about democracy and rule of law, and their low-information, TDS/MDS base will eat it up.
The left is going to do that anyway. The more sunlight on this, the better – let them defend the indefensible in plain sight.
I agree with your sentiment JI. But I have no confidence Trump would be careful about what is rescinded.
All of it.
If the president was not in control, nothing “he” did was valid.
Or what Suthen already said….
That is what they are counting on. Let’s just move on?
The power of the presidency was usurped. Anything the executive did during that admin should be null and void. This is the biggest crime in our history if you think about it.
Second biggest behind stealing the 2020 election. Or maybe it’s all the same crime. Seems like all the same perpetrators.
It’s a ‘look, squirrel!’ maneuver.
It’s a ‘look, squirrel!’ maneuver.
That’s not disturbing at all.
Skimming the article — yeah, that would be nice if it gets in (though I expect some agencies will find ways to game the requirements to go to Congress). In general we should have agencies proposing regulations as laws to be passed through Congress through the normal process, not “Do Something Good” from Congress then the assigned agency gets to add 20000 pages to the Register to “Do Good”. We’ll see if it survives… I have no idea where that bill is at in the process nor how much slush is in there (I assume folks snuck a lot in) and if there’s a final “reconciliation” pass that could strip this right back out.
Not one single regulation would truly matter if Congress cuts the funding to monitor and enforce said regulation. You’ll notice the slimy bastards aren’t going to do that.
OpenAI Model Defied Commands to Shut Down
…Skynet became self-aware on May 29, 2025, at 2:14 a.m. EDT.
The real mistake was leaving the LLM connected to the Halon system.
Are we going to need emergency EMPs at every server farm?
We probably need to do that regardless.
China is standing by to help us out.
Now pull it from the list in general until real clinical trials are done (and pull the immunity they got from Warp Speed / being on the kids list… though I bet a judge will find that unconstitutional and a retroactive punishment or somesuch…)
I say “until real trials are done” fully expecting that the trials will put it outside of acceptability… especially given the low risk for most of the population, but probably should be fair. I’m sure a study based on the US population retroactively might work if they can get valid data.
Just kill the 1986 act that granted any immunity to corporations in the first place.
You can pass almost any law no matter how stupid, pointless, contradictory, or unconstitutional it is. Repealing a law is somehow next to impossible.
^^^ Obamacare
Part of McCain’s heroic legacy!
Seinfeldian spite?
So is this article just metadata about the real story, or will the breakup metastasize their groups?
Oh noes, a bunch of “social media” garbage I won’t touch and would never let my kids if I had any touch might be affected.
I’ve come to believe that social media does for mental health what smoking cigarettes does for your lungs. The studies are piling up.
The problem is that a lot of parents are addicted to TikTok and other bullshit as well, and their idea of “family time” is everyone sitting on the couch staring at their phones, only interacting with one another to show a 7-second clip that they found particularly funny.
I really hope “smartphones for kids” goes the way of radioactive patent medicines – just some horrible mistake we made one time and quickly reversed when the harm became evident. We’ll see.
“Karen Read mocks expert witness who dressed as dead cop boyfriend for simulation of alleged car hit
Accident reconstructionist Judson Welcher donned the exact same outfit 46-year-old Boston cop John O’Keefe was wearing when he died in January 2022 — down to the correct sneaker model and color he had on — during a video reenactment that showed him getting struck by the same model Lexus that Read was driving that night.”
https://nypost.com/2025/05/28/us-news/karen-read-mocks-expert-witness-who-dressed-as-dead-boyfriend-in-simulation-of-alleged-car-hit/
At least it wasn’t AI.
How is that even allowed in court? It’s opinion masquerading as fact.
Expert witnesses are there to give opinions, unlike regular witnesses (who are actually referred to as “fact” witnesses).
He should have reconstructed the scene with Meeples and toy cars from the grocery store?
I’d say the problem is that the costume is prejudicial. Reconstructing the accident may have probative value, but the costume is not necessary for that purpose and is deliberately designed to increase the prejudicial effect.
Reconstructing the accident
Shouldn’t that be “reconstructing the alleged accident? Isn’t the issue as to whether there was an accident one of the facts under dispute? Isn’t “reconstructing” something that may have never happened stealing a base?
Isn’t the issue as to whether there was an accident one of the facts under dispute?
I’d have to read the pleadings but probably not. Self evident facts are usually not disputed.
I don’t know if it is disputed that he was hit by a car. I do know they are disputing that her car was involved.
I believe they are claiming the police faked the accident to frame her. If true, the “reconstruction” would be more fakery, no?
“If true” is carrying a lot of weight there, WTF. It’s very hard to fake a serious accident. The reconstruction can go to whether it is likely that it happened as claimed.
A reconstruction is, of course, “fakery”. But its purpose is to see if the accident did, indeed, happen as claimed. If the reconstruction requires highly implausible things to match the claim, well, there you go.
R.C Dean:
You mean the deaths in Final Destination wouldn’t be believed in a court? They were even recorded!
True as far as it goes. Probably the only way one can successfully fake a serious accident is when the police are actively trying to fit someone up for a frame, which seems to be exactly the case here.
¡Babalu! 🐶 🎶 (see main page)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAV3bOJaQuY
(Congas weigh 25 lb? Ayyy. 🪘)
What about a Conga Eel?
Jeez, what a good idea, going back to bed.
For the record, the drum pictured on the main page appears to be a djembe, which, if carved from a single hunk of hardwood, can be quite hefty.
And congas are pretty heavy, too./drum pedant
I have a large set of cajons, but they don’t weigh 25 pounds.
I hope His Swissitude is OK:
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/various/further-villages-in-swiss-landslide-area-avoid-damage-for-now/89429580
For those who can understand German and want a longer video, you can go here:
https://www.srf.ch/news/schweiz/gletscherabbruch-blatten-lage-bleibt-gefaehrlich-interventionen-aktuell-unmoeglich
I’d like to read it but it ties everything back to climate change again.
Wonder what happened with those old Frauen who won some defendant-less CC judgment. Would look it up myself but for vague terms.
Alles Klar.
Taibbi read Tapper’s book…
Hey it’s hard to walk the line between admitting you were fully complicit and revealing that you are retarded when you were clearly both.
I miiiight read a copy from the library but there is no way in hell I will buy a copy of any of the biden Era tell all books.
Pay the people who covered up for PPP? I am “Noping” right out of that.
One of the other comments there was “Matt read it so we don’t have to”.
https://publichealthpolicyjournal.com/the-causal-link-between-covid-19-vaccination-and-death/
There is an element of sensationalism at work there but something people should know.
The vaccine can kill you and has killed a lot of people. I dont know, nor does anyone else, if there is some time limits on it or predictability.
What I will say is that the shot if fucking dangerous, the people pushing that knew it, concealed it and got themselves immunity from liability.
The mandates were criminal.
Likely no one will pay a price for what they did.
Project Warp Speed baby!
Today, in assholes with neck tattoos
“A mother shot and wounded a convicted child molester after she found him allegedly trying to rape her 12-year-old daughter inside an Indianapolis motel room Saturday, according to reports.
The mother walked in on Bruce Pierce, of Indianapolis, allegedly on top of her child as the preteen repeatedly said no, leading up to the gunfire at the Baymont Inn, court documents state.”
https://nypost.com/2025/05/29/us-news/indiana-mom-shoots-child-predator-bruce-pierce-who-allegedly-tried-to-rape-12-year-old-girl/
Good shoot.
I was debating going devil’s advocate, but the fact pattern makes me believe the mother’s version of events.
Agreed, justified.
He was merely wounded. How can you call that a good shoot?
I would give the shoot a grade of C. The decision was good, the execution (so to speak) was lacking, as the perp survived.
“Pierce was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment, but is not yet in custody,”
I’ve seen this movie too many times. The cops dump a muppet at the hospital for treatment but don’t arrest him. If they arrest him, they have to put him under guard and more importantly, pay for his treatment. SO they leave a violent criminal at liberty in the hospital, and tell the hospital to call them when he will be discharged (which is a HIPAA violation, BTW) so they can arrest him as he leaves.
Point taken.
It seems like no one is actually willing to do their jobs anymore.
I will say, shooting the rapist asshole who’s in close proximity to your daughter…this can be a tricky marksmanship problem. And legally, no matter how big an asshole someone is, you can’t put one in their head after they’re down. I’m gonna cut Mom some slack here on the quality of the shooting.
EvilSheldon:
I lament that I cannot find the Better off Ted bit about finishing them off with the phone.
you can’t put one in their head after they’re down
But she coulda put one through his junk!
I hear ya, Evil. An anchor shot is easily justified, and even advisable, when the other guy has a gun, though. Jus’ sayin.
True. I was using the word ‘down’ to loosely mean ‘no longer a threat.’
Every time I read “Indiana ____” I start hearing Tom Petty.
I hear sirens and R Dean Taylor.
*record scratch*
Lemme get this straight:
Mom doesn’t come home, but gramma and/or the kids know that’s she’s at a motel with the guy.
Everybody piles into the motel room, then everyone except the dude one of the kids leaves to go to the car.
Dude decides he’s going to take the opportunity to rape the girl during the two minutes that the other three people are heading out to the car and coming back.
Am I the only one that is suspicious here?
Probably the most common category of child sex abuser is ‘Mom’s boyfriend.’ It’s shady white trash happenings, but I don’t think it rises to the level of suspicious.
Mom shoots pedo story: There is a huge hole in that story. How did the kid end up the hotel?
Mom brought her there.
Sorry, gramma brought here there. Mom was already wih the dude.
Yeah. What I am getting out of this is that mom was hanging around with Necktattoo in a hotel, which means fucking and most likely dope. How did grandmother know where to find mom? The creep has been talking to the daughter via phone and computer? What the hell?
So mom takes stuff to car (why does she have that much stuff? how long has she been there?) and while she is gone mom returns to find Methnecktattoo dude trying to plant a root in the 12yo? Then goes to get a gun? Had the gun already?
I think this story is all kinds of fucked up.
If she is stupid enough to date someone with facial and neck tats, she is stupid enough to leave her kid alone in a room with him.
Clearly the kid said she felt sick because she wanted to get away from the freaky tattoo guy.
Mother is just a moron all around.
“Costner’s attorney, Marty Singer, has denied LaBella’s allegations in their entirety, insisting her accusations have ‘absolutely no merit’ and are ‘completely contradicted by her own actions – and the facts’.
Singer blasted LaBella for employing ‘shakedown tactics’ to fleece his A-list client and called her a ‘serial accuser of people in the entertainment industry.’
In a statement to the Daily Mail, one of LaBella’s attorneys, Cassidy Geoghegan, hit back at Singer, insisting that prior to Tuesday’s suit, LaBella had ‘never filed a lawsuit against anyone, let alone an employer or Hollywood figure.’
But Geoghegan added that LaBella did previously receive ‘tuition reimbursement after a class action settlement was reached against a well-known actor’s acting school.’
The settlement in question related to a lawsuit filed against James Franco and his now-defunct acting school, Studio 4, in which the actor was accused of inappropriate and sexually exploitative behavior by former students, the Daily Mail can reveal.”
https://archive.is/PDxoB
So she didn’t do the actual filing?
https://babylonbee.com/news/joe-biden-in-memoriam-do-not-post-until-biden-dies
Yow!
The opening line is strong:
“ Born in 1871 as a poor black child”
Lord loves a workin’ man.
Don’t trust whitey.
See a doctor and get rid of it.
It was always in the back of my mind “Why would anyone let Joe Biden be president? Nobody wants that guy.”
Turns out, once again, I should have listened to that voice in the back of my head. They didnt.
He seemed the least bad? The other options were Bernie and Hillary?
They wanted someone whose mind was mush. And it worked quite well for them, for a few years anyway. We are very lucky that it kind of fell apart.
As I reminded a lefty then–friend of mine:
https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/biden-biker.jpg
🗡️ 👀
That was before COVID and the Democrats were thinking Trump was going to win. So they picked Biden thinking he would lose.
The plan (Biden for one term or less, followed by Kamala, first of her name) might have worked, if Dr. First-lady Jill Biden hadn’t fouled it all up.
Why not yes to all of the above?
What Tater said. Biden was picked in late 2019, when it looked like Trump was riding high, before the pandemic. He was the Bob Dole candidate – elder statesman/sacrificial lamb. The COVID hit, and the math changed.
Say what Mr. Dean? Biden was running way behind until South Carolina and the Democrats were seriously in contention for outdoing the Republican primary season of 2016. The question is how did that result lead to everyone else clearing the field for him.
Bernie Sanders was the leading candidate in the Democratic primary in early March 2020 before the South Carolina primary. The people in power in the Democratic Party didn’t want Bernie as their candidate. They told Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar to get out of the race. They did. They kept Elizabeth Warren to siphon off some votes from Bernie. Rep. Jim Clyburn of SC activated resources to bring all the black votes for Biden. That’s how they did it. Senile Biden (probably even losing the election) was better than Bernie Sanders.
Can you imagine a dialogue between Biden and Clyburn? Anyway, that refutes the 2019 contention.
As an aside, and I am sure it was discussed a long while back when the last site changes occurred, but is there a reason we only have 3 reply depths? I preferred infinity, but three is way too small, we need at least 5 or 6.
🤷♂️
Either way it won’t matter to Brooks.
Exactly. It makes me want to adopt the Brooks model. If I have to quote anyway, might as well do that.
I would need to defer to Webdom, but I believe the newer version of WordPress and how it renders on mobile cause the 3 level limit.
Also, the amount of space is huge.
Misleading URL, but Q works for the Mail now?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-14711799/Naked-topless-Page-3-girls-glamour-models-daily-star.html
In other news, Samantha Fox looks like a man.
They are getting rid of page 3 girls? The readership will plummet.
They have a readership?
I remember this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXEN57rFnIM
“Colorado’s new law prohibiting so-called deadnaming and misgendering transgender people in places of public accommodation could be challenged on any number of First Amendment grounds, even without the child custody provisions hastily stripped from the bill to address concerns by Democratic Gov. Jared Polis and some LGBTQ groups….
XX-XY Athletics, founded by former world-class gymnast Jennifer Sey last year, sued the Colorado Civil Rights Division, Colorado Civil Rights Commission and Attorney General Phil Weiser to protect its continued ability to identify “men and boys who compete in women’s sports” by given names and biologically accurate pronouns in its marketing.
Because the amendments to the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act guarantee the use of a “chosen name” and the choice of how to be addressed in public accommodations and advertising, “XX-XY Athletics can no longer speak the truth in pursuit of its mission” and “call men, men” in its ads and customer interactions, the lawsuit says.
“Colorado officials have not hesitated to go after businesses for violating” previous CADA iterations, “torching the First Amendment in the process,” the brand alleged, noting the Supreme Court sided with Jack Phillips and Lorie Smith when regulators targeted them for refusing to celebrate same-sex marriage in custom cakes and websites.”
https://justthenews.com/government/state-houses/pro-biological-sex-clothing-brand-sues-colorado-deadnaming-law-trump-doj
WTF is wrong with Colorado? Maybe their brains aren’t getting enough oxygen?
All the west coast refugees moved there and it went from soft left to hard left.
If Texas was any smaller the same thing would have happened there.
They move from a place where the policies they voted for made the place unlivable, and then proceed to vote for the same policies in the new place. The left is completely incapable of drawing the connection between the policies they vote for and the results of those policies.
Altitude sickness is a thing, and it definitely affects brain function.
If they were actually outside hiking and enjoying the scenery they wouldn’t have time to worry about gender identity.
+2 Maroon Bells
California is what is wrong with Colorado. They never should have let that scum in.
After careful consideration my response to that law is “Go fuck yourself, cupcake.”
🤨
I always say nice things about you.
Easy on the scum there young one
They are scared shitless of being accused of wrongthought.
The Colorado Democratic party was targeted and successfully colonized by progressive activists, some time before the same activists spread the memetic infection to the national Democrats at large.
Same problem as Illinois. Denver is too large for the state.
The state can deal with college town liberals and mountain town liberals. But Denver upsets the balance.
Tabor is the only thing holding the state in check. And the Ds in the state houses try everyway possible to work around it.
“On Tuesday, the San Francisco public school district announced a new grading policy that will allow students to graduate classes with a score as low as 21 percent. The “Grading for Equity” method eliminates homework and weekly test scores from a student’s final semester grade….
Students may submit assignments late, fail to attend class, or choose not to attend at all without consequence to their academic performance. As of current, receiving an A requires a minimum score of 90 percent, while a D is set at 61 percent. Under the new scale, a student can obtain an A with a score as low as 80 percent, typically a B- and a D with a score as low as 21 percent, which is otherwise known as an F.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/san-francisco-students-can-graduate-with-failing-grades-under-new-grading-for-equity-guidelines
Property taxes will just be thrown in a giant bonfire.
Why bother?
lol They actually call it that? That’s not insulting at all.
Aspiring to underperform the Baltimore public school system?
I’ve openly stated that the advocates of eliminating homework and weekly test scores from final grading have a point. They do.
Just disconnecting performance from results is not the way.
Whatever point they might have is eclipsed by the fact that the majority of kids can’t succeed under such a system.
But yeah, this goes even further. It’s the same as advancing failing students just to get them out of sight. Only now they’re hiding the practice under a veneer of woke flapdoodle.
rhywun:
What do you mean? I’m sure all of these students will go to college and graduate with Education degrees.
“President Donald Trump said Wednesday he would consider granting pardons to the men convicted in the 2020 plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer. Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump was asked whether he would pardon those involved in the failed plot.
“I’m going to look at it. I will take a look at it. It’s been brought to my attention,” Trump said.“I did watch the trial. It looked to me like somewhat of a railroad job, I’ll be honest with you. It looked to me like some people said some stupid things, you know they were drinking, and I think they said stupid things.”
“A lot of people are asking me that question, from both sides actually. A lot of people think they got railroaded. A lot of people think they got railroaded and probably some people don’t,” Trump added.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/trump-to-consider-pardons-for-men-convicted-in-whitmer-kidnapping-plot
He is almost always right for the wrong reasons.
Trump 2.0 is stalling out and going nowhere.
And it is still miles and miles better than having a Harris 1.0 administration.
Fair point, but it isn’t a cause for any celebration. 🙁
Relief isn’t celebration.
It’s only a temporary respite from whatever disaster a future DEM administration will foist upon us. But at least, I can breathe normally for a little while.
Any admin stalling out and going nowhere is an improvement.
I have been studying Trump’s actions. Part of what he hopes to achieve is to restrict executive power by testing the limits broadly and quickly to see what squeaks. This will work well in restraining any future leftist presidents. In other words the judicial rulings shoot future presidents in the foot.
Now as far as tariffs, he can reinstate everything he has done via different powers, over a few weeks’ time. And he will. This summarizes it better than I could. And it’s a CNBC article, of all things.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/29/trump-expected-to-find-a-workaround-after-trade-court-blocks-tariffs.html
This will work well in restraining any future leftist presidents.
😂
Political elasticity only stretches in one direction.
Hope he does not in fact find a workaround.
Also hope this standard gets applied to future Democrat presidents.
So it’s God-Emperor Cheeto II’s Orange Path.
This all depends on whether the UniParty can actually learn and then internalize the lesson; or that they care at all.
I’m not optimistic.
He closed the border.
“Read Wayne’s latest fun book, “How Democrats Have Made America Great.” It’s 140 blank pages.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/wayne-root-president-trump-why-isnt-barack-obama/
THIS
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ENTIRELY
LEFT
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INTENTIONALLY 🤦🏻♀️
“Chris Cillizza’s Tesla Vandalized… And He’s SHOCKED It Wasn’t Done by Conservatives”
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/05/29/chris-cillizzas-tesla-vandalized-and-hes-shocked-it-wasnt-conservatives-n4940249
He makes Joy Reid seem intelligent.
Delusional.
Trump is making this country an unreliable international partner. Fortunately, we have committed patriotic judges to block his every move.
You never could trust us. Don’t base your economies off paracitizing us.
Which is hilarious. We have been an unreliable partner for decades.
Always rising, never falling
“With the next five years forecast to be more than 1.5C warmer than preindustrial levels on average, this will put more people than ever at risk of severe heat waves, bringing more deaths and severe health impacts unless people can be better protected from the effects of heat. Also we can expect more severe wildfires as the hotter atmosphere dries out the landscape,” said Richard Betts, head of climate impacts research at the UK Met Office and a professor at the University of Exeter.
Ice in the Arctic — which will continue to warm 3.5 times faster than the rest of the world — will melt and seas will rise faster, Hewitt said.
What tends to happen is that global temperatures rise like riding on an escalator, with temporary and natural El Nino weather cycles acting like jumps up or down on that escalator, scientists said. But lately, after each jump from an El Nino, which adds warming to the globe, the planet doesn’t go back down much, if at all.
Where’s Bill Nye? He knows how to create a sense of urgency.
As I sit in my garage in front of a heater,
IN SAN DIEGO, in late May
“cLimAte iS noT wEaTHeR!!”
/ Goes back to pointing to every single daily weather event as evidence of CAGW and the need for a carbon tax and a ban on personal automobiles
May gray? Like that’s unusual?
JFC not this shit again.
head of climate impacts research at the UK Met Office and a professor at the University of Exeter
Two positions of
authorityabsurdity in one person!?!Square toilets are superior for pissing into. Not so much for sitting on.
Trump wants you to die!
The federal government announced Wednesday that it is canceling a contract to develop a vaccine to protect people against flu viruses that could cause pandemics, including the bird flu virus that’s been spreading among dairy cows in the U.S., citing concerns about the safety of the mRNA technology being used.
The Department of Health and Human Services said it is terminating a $766 million contract with the vaccine company Moderna to develop an mRNA vaccine to protect people against flu strains with pandemic potential, including the H5N1 bird flu virus that’s been raising fears.
“After a rigorous review, we concluded that continued investment in Moderna’s H5N1 mRNA vaccine was not scientifically or ethically justifiable,” HHS Communications Director Andrew Nixon said in a statement.
“This is not simply about efficacy — it’s about safety, integrity, and trust. The reality is that mRNA technology remains under-tested, and we are not going to spend taxpayer dollars repeating the mistakes of the last administration, which concealed legitimate safety concerns from the public,” Nixon said.
There’s no time to test it.
Jennifer Nuzzo, the director of Brown University’s Pandemic Center, said the decision was “disappointing, but unsurprising given the politically-motivated, evidence-free rhetoric that tries to paint mRNA vaccines as being dangerous.”
Whycome them hicks politicize muh science?
“evidence free”
Kind of like the claims that it stopped transmission, was better than natural immunity, and was the safest most tested vaccine ever?