Good morning one and all to another splendid day!
SCOTUS Sides With South Carolina In Medicaid Fight Over Defunding Planned Parenthood
As the Supreme Court’s term winds down, here are the cases still awaiting its verdict
Trump admin takes action after massive fraud uncovered at agency Dems tried to protect from DOGE
ICE Arrests Chinese National Convicted of Illegally Acting as Foreign Agent
Liberal State Supreme Court Throws Wrench In Dems’ Plan For Taking Back House
DOJ files suit against CA county over records for removal of noncitizen voters from voter rolls
Get Ready for Crypto Subprime Mortgage-Backed Securities
Lawsuit Alleges It Took IBM Two Non-White Staff To Replace White Man They Claimed Sucked At His Job
The Dire Shortage of Actual American Workers
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
WHERE THE WHITE WOMEN AT??
Starbucks?
At least you didn’t say Waffle House.
Some retarded protest somewhere.
“Trump admin takes action after massive fraud uncovered at agency Dems tried to protect from DOGE”
One of the biggest problems I had was squaring the supposed support the proggie movement projects vs. what I actually see. I saw that the majority of people were not infected with the radical and stupid shit that defines your standard proggie, and yet, these proggies kept constantly controlling our direction. I believed the problem was that people like me just wanted to be left alone to live their lives while being a proggie naturally made you a busy body fully invested in ruining other people’s lives. But even that seemed not to be enough since it was obvious most of their things seemed inorganic.
Now we find out these crooks were not only stealing our money to line their pockets, which I now surmise is the purpose of progressive government (create high paying jobs for people with worthless credentials, for example), but stealing even more to coordinate efforts and news against their political opponents. What was really telling was how they activated a weaponized and sicked a criminal cabal of judges to try to desperately block efforts to trace the crap they were up to and to make the American public aware of it. I think the saddest realization for me was how many people sided with those trying to block the information from being found and shared, while the others didn’t take up pitchforks and torches to redress this evil.
Alex, Alex, Alex.
Didnt you see the millions that rose up for no kings in the grass roots totally organic protests? Millions.
The real truth is right in front of us but people refuse to see it: https://www.fastcompany.com/91356982/meet-the-4-am-club-tiktoks-mystical-election-night-movement
They seem perfectly stable and sane.
The amount of mental disorders caused by the monster they call the Cheetos guy is staggering.
I want to figure out how I can get to live rent free in so many empty heads…
Foreseeable consequences are not unintended – crypto subprime MBS and shortage of American workers. In the former, go to Vegas – you’ll get better odds, and in the latter case – you mean paying people to not work will reduce labor force participation?
Yeah, I was gonna comment precisely about this.
End that for all but the most proven needy cases (real disabled and such) and the problem largely solves itself.
“There were exceptions written into the law for family businesses, agriculture, and for Hollywood child stars like Shirley Temple, but essentially this one move killed youth work for a generation. It also kicked off a decline in work ethic. After all, if the kids never encounter a day’s work before the age of 18 or 22, they have no history of learning or experience to serve as the foundation of life expectations. In truth, that law was a disaster that gradually created a nation of layabouts.”
That seems overly simplistic.
I see a lot of seniors working at Walmart. Target’s target seems to be a younger crowd.
I am shocked at how many senior citizens I see working in large grocery stores here. At the cash register, stocking even.
In my day those jobs were all performed by yutes.
My mom works at a grocery store. Easy work, less than full time hours, and enough money to pay for a few fun things.
Why isn’t she retired? Divorce. She’ll work for the next 15 years, I’d guess, retiring in her late 70s or early 80s.
There are four kinds of folks working those jobs in old age. Divorcees, spendthrifts, workaholics, and people who need the social interaction.
Whew. I am not in any of those categories, thank goodness.
I think the time drain from compulsory education through 18 years is another part of it. Apprenticeships for trades should be starting by age 14.
Add the “requirement” of extra curriculars for the good colleges, and I think you may be more right than you think.
My oldest had jobs in high school. One was corn detasseling, which involves very early mornings, and hours in the hot sun. Yet at 28, she has a terrible work ethic.
So yes, overly simplistic.
Well… you could make the same accusation about any generalization I think.
Is it “mostly true”? I think so.
The lawsuit claims that despite Loeffler’s history of positive performance reviews and successfully leading a $30 million project, IBM placed him on a Performance Improvement Plan (PIP) with conditions that were “impossible to meet.”
Loeffler objected to the plan and his recently assigned manager, Eric Castillo, conceded that the PIP’s goals were unattainable, according to the lawsuit. Loeffler’s lawyers contend the PIP was intentionally designed to force him out of his role in favor of younger, non-white staff.
Yeah, I’m going to need that red stapler.
Reminds me of the Army I knew, where a 96/100 was not a good review. 99s and 100s were necessary to be considered career quality.
I don’t understand. Every time they tell me to lead, follow, or get out of the way, I get out of the way!
PIP = paid interview period
“So, your $50,000 in Bitcoin is now making you a safer borrower, in theory. Except: Bitcoin is volatile. If it drops 40 percent, your reserves drop 40 percent. You are now more likely to default. Multiply that across a few hundred thousand borrowers, and you’ve just introduced systematic crypto risk into mortgage underwriting.”
Stocks are also volatile.
Two things I don’t understand:
1. Bitcoin
2.Women
Don’t try to understand women Fourscore.
Women understand women, and they all hate each other..
The simple explainer for Bitcoin?
Bitcoin is a ledger. It keeps track of transaction. It takes a lot of work to add a transaction, and it’s impossible [this is the simple explainer pedants] change a transaction after it’s logged to the ledger. To get people to do that work, the work is chunked out, and people use their computers to do the work. If they manage to get the last chunk of a transaction, they get rewarded by a new Bitcoin (this is mining). Since that’s rare, and by system designed to become rarer and rarer (to try to prevent inflation), and you want your transaction to go through, you can pay a part of a Bitcoin to incentivize people to process your transaction before others. That is the intrinsic value of Bitcoin, being able to pay with Bitcoin faster.
Neph, think two parts.
The token, store of value, or whatever digital good you want and the second is the ledger.
The ledger has wide application the token is the part that is the question mark currently.
Sensei:
I get it. This is the simple explainer.
Personally, I think it’s perfect for things like titles.
It’s an asset, it has a public market, volatility is just a factor in assigning it a value in underwriting. Excluding it from consideration is kind of silly.
Performance Improvement Plan (PIP) with conditions that were “impossible to meet.”
Of course they were, that’s the whole point of a PIP. It’s an HR and Legal approved way to terminate someone.
The amount of people I have seen fail PIPs when the requirement was basically, show up on time, do the work, and do it right, and put in the hours, is staggering. By the time you end on a PIP – which is real work for everyone else – you must have basically shown you are not even trying.
I’ve never heard that term so I guess I must be doing things right?
Of course they are, otherwise you would just fire people. But as it stands, you need to make sure that a business can still work in a regulatory environment post New Deal and The Great Society laws.
All HR/legal does is compliance, either C-suite or governmental.
Everything within the state…
Yeah, I posted an article from the WSJ that a lot companies are now offering employees an option of a package or the PIP. The package is being taken much more frequently.
Really it’s a win for both the employee and the business as it gets the employee out immediately.
Years ago, I had to terminate an employee and the company used that approach. Before I could get a word out at the PIP meeting (HR in attendance as well), she resigned first.
Had she waited a few seconds instead wanting to be first on the record, HR would’ve offered a decent severance package for resigning.
“Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, penned a dissenting opinion claiming the statute in question is“compulsory,” has “individual centric terminology,” and uses “language classically associated with establishing rights.””
I don’t even know what that means.
“We don’t like what statute requires.”
language classically associated with establishing rights
So, English…
“individual centric terminology” – views individuals as important
“language classically associated with establishing rights” – language assuming individuals have inalienable rights including the fallacy that rights are ‘established or given’ rather than inherent in one’s humanity.
Those three really are authoritarian shitbirds. They belong on the court like I belong at the helm of a jumbo jet.
The Babylon Bee did a deep dive on this story.
https://babylonbee.com/news/in-historic-6-3-supreme-court-decision-3-justices-ruled-to-be-morons
lol I’ve been thinking of them as another Squad.
“This is an easy way to figure out if someone has a high ‘body count’, study says
according to a Washington State University study, there is a simple way to determine if a person gets freaky in the sheets often — and it has to do with how much strength they have.
Lead researchers Caroline Smith and Ed Hagen analyzed data from 4,300 US participants. They found that people — both men and women — with upper body strength reportedly have a high number of sexual partners.”
https://nypost.com/2025/06/26/lifestyle/easy-way-to-determine-a-high-body-count/
Sounds like bullshit.
Eh, gym rats fuck gym rats. Seems pretty obvious to me.
Bonnie Blue bench presses 405.
In a row?
Someone should write something about correlation and causation in cases like this.
“Horror as teenager pregnant with her rapist’s baby is shot dead by her fiance in ‘honour killing’ after he found out about the sex attack in Turkey”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14853305/Horror-teenager-pregnant-rapists-baby-shot-dead-fiance-honour-killing-sex-attack-Turkey.html
Yikes!
That doesn’t sound like the Turkey I know.
Those are such odd actions. I never understood it. Wouldn’t killing the rapist be more appropriate?
Islamic version of bro’s before ho’s?
Apparently if my wife got raped, I should punish her for only being 100 pounds and pretty much defenseless against an evil man.
Pretty sure I would be more inclined to go after the man.
That is some jive Turkey!
“DOJ files suit against CA county over records for removal of noncitizen voters from voter rolls”
You are expecting a criminal entity to fix things in a way that would risk their hold of the golden goose they have been strangling to death? SHYA!
Come on Alex, we all know foxes are the most qualified to guard hen houses.
Drugs, ass?
“A Los Angeles County official is allegedly being investigated by the FBI after she posted a video to social media calling on gang members to defend their territory from United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Cynthia Gonzalez, the vice mayor of Cudahy in southeast Los Angeles County, allegedly shared a video on social media late last week in which she appeared to encourage 18th Street and Florencia 13 gang members to protect their turf from ICE agents.
“Not for nothing, but I want to know where all the cholos are at in Los Angeles,” Gonzalez said in the video. “18th Street, Florencia — Where’s the leadership at? Because you guys are all about territory … You guys tag everything up — claiming hood. And now that your hood’s being invaded by the biggest gang there is, there ain’t a peep out of you.”
https://www.foxnews.com/us/la-county-official-allegedly-urged-gang-members-defend-territory-ice-triggering-fbi-probe
I expect a Latina to have better day drinking skills.
Always some crazy bitch trying to stir shit up.
+1 The Warriors
“Money is always on our mind,” said 36-year-old William Albuquerque, a Brooklyn resident who canvassed for Mamdani’s mayoral campaign. “Rent is such a huge part of our cost every month, it’s impossible not to think about it.”
Albuquerque, who plans to start law school in the fall, says he worries cost of living could force him and his partner out of New York City. “Affordability is going to be a huge issue for whether we can stay in the city,” he said.
1. Brooklyn
2. Obligatory hipster turntable
3. 36 years old and starting fucking law school? JFC.
The Young College Grads Who Propelled Mamdani to Victory in New York
“36 years old and starting fucking law school?”
I don’t see anything wrong with that.
Do what makes you happy as long as I don’t have to pay for it through a subsidized loan.
I didn’t read the article see how he plans to do this. The economics of full time law school and forgone income followed by the demand for an entry level attorney and the resulting salary are not good. He’s lost 12+ years of career and earnings growth to fund the cost of his education.
I’m doubting Brooklyn guy has done this math. But if dad’s trust fund want’s to pay for him be the attorney for a minimum wage job at an NGO go to it!
It is a paradigm that is over and done with. The years of law school being a ticket to a good life by default are over. Now you better have an in no different than Hollywood, and third and fourth tier schools are closing due to lack of money. It isn’t really different than the SLAC situation.
It was over with a long time ago.
Of the 4 family members with law degrees, only one ever used it. A big waste of money for the others (well, maybe not my uncle – I don’t think it was all that expensive when he went).
I dropped out of University Sophomore year and went to work in bars, then at 30 I went back to school and Law School at 32. I’m going to disagree with the idea that college at 18, career starts at 22-25, is a good model for everyone, or really all that great for anyone. My advice to kids is, and has been, take a few years after high school in the military, or just working, and get to know yourself a bit before you pick a career path. Not on Mom and Dad’s couch, that’s just continuing childhood, but out on your own. 18, and never been on your own, is totally unprepared to make life path decisions.
My son lives in Brooklyn, and he has a turntable!
Is he starting law school?
Tell him to buy another one and a microphone.
Nah, grad school for urban planning.
I’m so sorry ZWAK. Hopefully he can do some productive thing in life.
Well, he is a waiter at a Michelin star restaurant, so he has a good fall back position.
So, you’re saying Albuquerque took a left turn?
Long while back
Why is there a rent problem?
How to fix that?
Ahh yes, price controls have never led to shortages before, this man is a genius!
On another note, what is it with his dead eyes and fake ass smile?
Whiney upscale-wannabe urban hipsters. What a base for a campaign – wonder how they expand that “appeal”.
I must be psychic, I saw the SC vs planned paerenthood ruling and guess it was 6-3.
I also knew who the 3 were:
That’s a lot of words to say nothing substantial.
“I must be psychic.”
You too?! Not only did I guess the score but knew who the three were. Uncanny.
Interesting talk with an Iran Intel guy. I did not know that when we controlled the Shah, they tried to push Iranians into full-fledged wokism – provoking a religious backlash.
https://rumble.com/v6vaof5-the-wednesday-wrap-up-understanding-iran-and-islam.html
Not going to listen to the whole thing, but that smells of bullshit. There was no “woke” in the mid 70s.
I’ll bet is was women’s liberation.
He doesn’t call it that. Tried to force acceptance of homosexuality and sexual promiscuity. Essentially cultural Marxism which destroys traditional society. That’s been around my whole life.
But it confirms Drake’s biases!
Never heard any of this stuff. I was a history major so I’ve always loved digging past the narrative into facts wherever they lead.
Up until Jan of ’77, you’re talking the fucking Nixon and Ford administrations for all of the 70s. You better bring a big bag of evidence that THEY were pushing homosexuality and promiscuity. Now, I would accept that Western culture in general was trending that way, but hardly where it was being officially pushed by U.S. govt policy – domestically let alone internationally.
The students from the Frankfurt School were still in the insurgency days, they hadn’t captured the institutions yet. This sounds like a very ret-conned view.
I dunno JI, Foggy Bottom’s been a bit light in it’s loafers for a long time. I suspect there was some individual pushing of homosexuality happening.
+1 for “light in the loafers” [Have to wonder if anyone gay under the age of 40 would know that one]
I wouldn’t assume that the agencies reflected the desired agendas of the Nixon and Ford administrations.
A lot of now Islamic countries were much more westernized, especially in young people. Look at 1970’s pictures of Lebanon or Afghanistan. Completely different from today. The Islamic fundamentalism was a backlash against the loss of traditionalism and intrusion of Western/American culture.
Nixon and Ford administrations
Ok, so you’re going to tell me that those govvies were all flaming radicals in the JFK and LBJ administrations (both being pre-Stonewall)?
The Islamic fundamentalism was a backlash against the loss of traditionalism and intrusion of Western/American culture.
The elites in those countries Westernized and the masses went for traditionalist populism. Much as our elites have lost touch with our own masses.
If anyone is interested, there is a decent book that covers a lot of how the Islamic world had a hard revolution in 1979ish in service of a more theocratic/traditional view. I say it is only decent, as it covers this from the feminist point of view, which puts a bit too much topspin on the facts for many here.
https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780385475761
“Mamdani appeared on “Erin Burnett OutFront” and the eponymous host used the C-grade hip-hop video as an introduction to the 33-year-old lefty pol who performed under the name “Mr. Cardamom.”
https://nypost.com/2025/06/27/us-news/nyc-mayoral-candidate-zohran-mamdani-rap-video-plays-on-live-cnn-interview/
They should have voted for Remy.
“Mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani wants to spend $65 million in taxpayer funds on transgender treatment — including for minors — if he’s elected to lead New York City.”
https://nypost.com/2025/06/23/us-news/zohran-mamdani-wants-to-spend-65m-on-trans-medical-treatment-including-for-minors-if-elected-nyc-mayor/
CWAA
Cringe shit but the TikTok generation just loves them some cringe shit.
“Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) has formally called on Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate and revoke the U.S. citizenship of radical socialist and NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, citing credible concerns that he may have obtained citizenship under false pretenses — including sympathies for convicted terrorists….
According to the letter sent by Ogles to the Department of Justice, Mamdani openly expressed solidarity with the Holy Land Foundation Five — a group convicted in 2008 for funneling millions to Hamas, a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization responsible for countless civilian deaths.
That public support for convicted terrorists — voiced before Mamdani became a U.S. citizen — may constitute a willful misrepresentation or concealment of terrorist sympathies during his naturalization process, Ogles argues.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/06/rep-andy-ogles-urges-ag-pam-bondi-revoke/
Because that won’t cause a backlash or anything…
5 will get you 10 that this ends up being the way back in for Adams, no matter that the DNC wanted desperately to get rid of him.
“Former Congressman Jamaal Bowman has claimed that black people are suffering from serious medical conditions because they are called the N-word so regularly…
“The reason why heart disease and cancer and obesity and diabetes are bigger in the black community is because of the stress we carry from having to deal with being called the n-word directly or indirectly every day.””
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/06/former-rep-jamaal-bowman-says-n-word-blame/
SCIENCE!!!!!
Maybe if they’d stop calling each other that?
Beat me to it.
Why do you hate rap?
Because it’s annoying.
Maybe stop eating so much fried chicken and washing it down with fruit flavored soda.
PURPLE DRANK IS DA BOMB, Yo!
What else should I eat on Fried Chicken Friday?
Fuck you…that shit hits right after a long exhausting day of dealing with the oppressive white man.
For y’all to enjoy..
And for Tres…
Got to agree Ed, fried chicken and an orange Fanta is pretty damn good.
The black people food stereotypes are kind of strange. Hey, let’s make fun of a group for liking this list of foods basically everyone likes. Fried chicken? Tasty. Barbecue? Tasty (especially if made by an old black dude on a smoker he made from an oil drum in the back of a truck that remembers Carter’s gas rationing) Watermelon? Tasty.
Every food on the list exists in basically every culture that has access to it.
Instead of soda, sweet tea sounds good.
I miss Hertford NC, a little hole in the wall diner called Little Mint had the best fried chicken I’ve ever had.
It was made by an old black lady.
I pissed her off once when I ordered a 20 piece order to go a half hour before she closed.
“You can’t just come in here and order that now!”
I was apologetic and promised not to do it again, and she told her assistant “Fine! But I’m closing now then , lock the door while I make his chicken”.
Any other place, I would have said screw it. If you don’t want my money, I’ll go somewhere else, but that chicken was so good, I was only worried about making sure I got dinner.
Ehh. Watermelon is more trouble than it’s worth.
I could use some fried chicken though…
Sheldon knows what’s up.
Watermelon sucks.
I will explain it. Get ready to dive into the stupid.
Black people food stereotypes aren’t about the food. Yes, everyone loves fried chicken (used to be quite a delicacy before chicken widely available) and watermelon. The insult is that black people feel entitled to the best food without having to work for it because they are lazy and worthless. That is also the origin of the word ‘nigger’ and ‘niggardly’. Lazy and worthless.
Mind you these insults were hurled by the same people that regularly said ‘work like a nigger’ which means to bust your ass and get things done. That one is, of course, an oxymoron.
It’s a mistake to try and apply our values to people’s we have never met that lived in a world we have never seen, even when it seems to crystal clear to us. Yes, slavery is evil, yet it was the world-wide norm since the beginning of time for everyone on earth until the 1830’s. I think the Greeks and the Romans tried getting rid of it a few times but it was always a dismal failure. Technology just would not allow it.
Cannibalism is also evil yet in Stone Age peoples it was more or less the norm. In pre-Columbian America that lasted until europeans arrived (hint: it is still practiced today in a few places). It was not something peculiar to the Aztecs or Borneo. It was everywhere. Lots of European neolithic sites show clear evidence of organized mass cannibalism with death cults and skull temples…the works.
Personally I think the hatred and dehumanization of those ‘not of our tribe’ is a behavioral adaptation for survival in a post glacial world where resources were severely limited. That enabled people to engage ini the kind of savagery it took to stay alive. That we still have it is inexcusable. Technology has made all of that moot. As I have said before, we just cant seem to wash the dust of the cave off of ourselves.
Yeah, basically I hate people and I am not very selective about it.
Ron, she wasn’t telling you to fuck off. She was telling you that placing a big order just before closing is kind of a dick move. She made your chicken, didn’t she?
I understood that, that’s why I apologized and made sure in the future when we wanted her chicken for dinner at the house, I would go at least an hour prior to closing.
Quibble, niggardly has nothing to do with nigger. Nigger comes from neger, which in turn comes from niger, which was just Latin for black. Niggardly comes from a Dutch route meaning meager or stingy (meager comes from the same root.)
Very this. Cantaloupe > honeydew >>> watermelon.
“That is also the origin of the word ‘nigger’ and ‘niggardly’.”
Those words have completely separate origins.
Yes they do, yet I remember a professor being accused of saying nigger when he used the word niggardly(I think he was black, not sure).
Now that word is just as bad to all of the medieval peasant who believe words have magic power.
I grow watermelons, I eat watermelons, I love watermelon, when it’s ripe. I love watermelon pickles but they are time consuming to make and expensive to buy.
I have no difficulty giving away excess watermelons, okra and zucchini, on the other hand, have to given away anonymously and after dark, like unwanted babies.
Funny story:
My sister and I were on the phone and the N-word may have been said once or twice. Anyway, a couple of days later my wife (who is white) came to me and in a serious and peeved off tone said we needed to talk.
She told me that her pre-school teacher told her that she said the N-word to her classmate and when asked she said she heard it from me when I was on the phone. I had no clue she even listening, but I realized at that moment I needed to be more mindful of what I said out loud.
Reminds me of the first time my son used the F word.
My daughter’s first word was the f word and was uttered right behind me in a traffic induced fit.
My wife’s mother watched out daughter when she was about 5. She let us know my daughter was digging through a toybox while muttering “I can’t find my fucking shark. I know it’s here somewhere”.
Exact same intonations as when I was looking for my hammer a few days earlier.
I did have to counsel an employee (black) who used that word rather expressively in the breakroom at work. His retort was “but I’m black, so it’s OK.”
“Tommy, I don’t care if you are from Mars, don’t use it where someone who cares can hear it.”
“I heard it in a song, by NWA.”
Naturalized citizens should be banned from holding any political office.
I don’t see why.
Jamaal Bowman was born in New York.
Holy crap. This doesn’t even look like a person, looks like some kind of papier-mâché mask. The face of crazy.
https://thepostmillennial.com/authorities-arrest-trans-antifa-militant-for-attacking-federal-police-officers-with-a-knife-outside-the-portland-ice-facility-fbi-affidavit
I dunno, I’m gonna have to give it credit for commitment to roleplaying a woman. It did use a kitchen knife after all.
I was guessing Laura Loomer.
Brutal, but very funny.
“Missed it by this much.”
“A state-level Democrat lawmaker in Connecticut was caught shoplifting at Target and proceeded to blame the incident on being in a rush to help his grandmother in the hospital.
On Monday, State Rep. Raghib Allie-Brennan, 33, was arrested at a Target store in Bethel, Connecticut. Authorities saw on video that he did not scan two of his items which amounted to $26.69. He was detained by security at the establishment, who told the police that he was recognized from “previous unreported larcenies,” per the CT Mirror, citing a police report.
Allie-Brennan, who was first elected in 2018, did not respond to a request for comment from the outlet, but wrote in a statement on Facebook, “I was in a rush to bring items to my grandmother in the hospital, the store didn’t have bags, and I was juggling multiple purchases.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/dem-lawmaker-busted-for-shoplifting-at-connecticut-target-blames-his-grandma
Grandmother in the hospital?
Was his grandmother in the hospital every time?
Democrat lawmakers steal, what a shocker.
I find it hard to believe that a democratic lawmaker would have mental issues like compulsive thieving. I mean C’mon, my suspension of disbelief just goes so far.
Should have gone with “dead grandmother”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foJgMFXPvWc
“The biggest case remaining is on the topic of nationwide injunctions and birthright citizenship. Although the underlying case centers on birthright citizenship, the actual ruling is expected to be a verdict on whether federal judges can issue national injunctions, or whether it needs to be confined to the judge’s jurisdiction.”
I see no way SCOTUS makes a ruling limiting the current “squirt out a kid, instant citizen” rule.
The current practice on the scope of injunctions is just bizarre. We see emergency injunctions that are nationwide, and final rulings that are exquisitely tailored to the plaintiffs in a case, to the point where only the members of the organization that brought the lawsuit are protected against what is an admittedly unconstitutional law. I expect the Justices are breaking their teeth on this one, trying to come up with some kind of compromise. The end result, I predict, will be convoluted and do little to rein in our judicial tyrants.
The end result, I predict, will be convoluted and do little to rein in our judicial tyrants.
Yeah, I doubt the judiciary will rein in the power of the judiciary. It’s up to the other other two branches to put them in their place.
Unsurprisingly, the Fresh Prince was right:
ParentsKetanji Just Don’t Understandcommon tater: Seeing your comment above can you go back to last night’s movie thread? At the end of the thread I added a comment regarding that subject. I would like your take.
Which subject? About the “shoeless people”?
Yes, that one.
I agree with both points. Being overly concerned with immediate material gains can make one spiritually empty. And not seeing a path towards home ownership and long-term financial stability makes people focus more on immediate material gains.
0nlyFans is an an example of that — a quick buck with little future. Most of those women make peanuts, but a rare few make millions. I think many young people have a lottery mentality — they feel that they are going to make it big or not make it at all.
Common Tater:
I recently read a substack that crunched the numbers, and showed that it is more likely for a college basketball player to go pro (they defined it as two years being payed in a league, not just the NBA) than for a student to get a tenured professor position.
Now, there’s a lot more students than college basketball players, and not every student is expecting to wind up in a tenured position. But what other positions (other than NGO) are there for the %subculture% studies degrees?
I’m curious how many women on OF have gender studies degrees?
College is inflated and over-rated, but in the past people without degrees could earn enough to buy a house.
Owning a house is often dependent on where you buy. If you are looking at coastal cities, guess what? There are always going to be a lot of people who want to live there, and that will drive up housing costs no matter how many they build. Hard, and expensive, but doable, as I know people who have bought in SF over the last 10-15 years.
Live in the Midwest or plains states, and owning a few properties is not that hard, once one looks at cost of real estate vs. wages. You just have to make it a priority. Hell, look at Pittsburg, less than a days drive from NYC. Lots of properties under 100K. Is it the most glamourous city? No, but, again, what are your priorities?
“Get Ready for Crypto Subprime Mortgage-Backed Securities”
Don’t mind if I do.
*checks gold and silver prices, ponders the merits of adding junk silver to the hoard*
Recently I calculated and I make roughly $2 per hour in terms of silver. As in 371.25 grains of silver to the dollar, as the congress of 1792 defined.
A silver dollar, in terms of bulk silver prices, is worth right at $28 today.
as the congress of 1792 defined
So fiat money.
“The defendant proceeded to run away but was subdued by an officer who deployed a Taser. When federal agents attempted to place Winters in custody, Winters resisted arrest and allegedly reached toward his waist in an attempt to pull out a second deadly weapon. “One officer saw Winters grab another knife,” which resulted in the officer kicking the weapon away from Winters, according to the FBI affidavit. The second knife was described as a kitchen butcher knife.
Winters was successfully apprehended and transported to a holding cell at the ICE facility. Federal agents conducted an operation to retrieve the two knives, which were both recovered at the scene of the crime. The machete that was thrown in an attempt to impale an officer in the head was discovered on the property of an elementary school adjacent to the facility.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/authorities-arrest-trans-antifa-militant-for-attacking-federal-police-officers-with-a-knife-outside-the-portland-ice-facility-fbi-affidavit
Why can’t journalists identify knives and guns? The first knife is a butcher knife, not a machete. The second is a ham knife.
Which gets more clicks, machete or carving knife?
So you are saying it went after the pigs with a ham knife? I’m enjoying this story.
This made me laugh hard.
https://x.com/MyLordBebo/status/1938591134768377940
It’s even funnier if you picture Suthen behind the wheel. Maybe the wrong accent though.
Muh truck!
Well that was an exciting morning. Fridge wasn’t holding temperature, so I check the freezer, and the compressor is frozen over. Defrost it, start getting it put back together, hear a ting and loud and continuing hissing.
I needed a new fridge/freezer anyways, I was hoping to keep it limping along a bit longer though. On the plus side, at least I was able to get delivery for tomorrow.
It seems that today is the day for appliance failures…
I had that happen with fridge stuffed for thanksgiving and the holiday coming up. Naturally during COVID supply chain bullshit.
A miracle occurred. Amazon had the board in stock and I got it delivered in about 36 hours. Bonus I managed to the combo move button presses to code it properly to my model fridge.
For the new one, freezer top or bottom? French doors or single door? And please tell us it can’t connect to the internet.
Top freezer, single door, low cost model. This is an emergency replacement, not a styling choice.
Even if it had the ability to connect to the internet, it wouldn’t get past my network.
I didn’t know that was an ELO song. It’s one of those that I really like, but I only hear rarely.
SCOTUS decisions coming out.
In celebration of the 20th anniversary of Kelo:
https://youtu.be/LySTISqaH9o?si=ZKcCiZ7KWUWDCzFD
6-3 limiting national injunctions.
They smell the tar heating up?
TOO LOCAL NEWS: Ending car inspections in New Hampshire passes as part of budget deal. The budget goes to Gov. Ayotte for signature or veto, but she’s probably going to sign it.
“When I’m in the barber shop or the grocery store, they’re not asking me about all of the things that are in HB2, like elevator weights and measures and Medicaid reimbursement rates. The one thing they ask me about is, ‘When are you going to repeal those car inspections?’ And that’s what we’re doing today,” Osborne said.
HB2 passed by a single vote, 184-183.
One of those votes came from Liberty Caucus Republican Rep. Sam Farrington (R-Rochester), who was conflicted over the budget dealmaking. His final conclusion: “I am a YES on the budget. We didn’t get the spending cuts that I hoped for, but we will be ending the inspection sticker scam.”
He wasn’t the only one. Liberty Caucus members objected to the millions allocated to Group II pension recipients, stating, “Almost none of our constituents are fortunate enough to retire in their 40s with a pension,” and opposed the overall spending level.
But, caucus chair Rep. Michael Granger (R-Milton Mills) wrote, “The budget contains provisions that meet the requirements that we made before the Committee of Conference. It repeals auto inspections, which will positively affect the finances of everyone in this state who drives a motor vehicle.”
SCOTUS rules on nationwide injunctions…..
Does anybody know of a website that tracks the results of the Horde v Trump cases that have reached SCOTUS? I have seen many lower court decisions that go against the administration, but SCOTUS seems to back the administrations position most of the time. Other than Maryland Man, has the administration lost at SCOTUS?
Honor besmirched
California Gov. Gavin Newsom sued Fox News on Friday, seeking damages of at least $787 million from the conservative network for allegedly defaming him in its reporting of a phone call he had with President Donald Trump.
“No more lies,” Newsom wrote in a tweet that announced his lawsuit, which was filed in Superior Court in Delaware, where Fox News is incorporated.
Newsom’s suit is focused on comments by Fox News anchor Jesse Waters, who had said Newsom lied about the call with Trump in early June.
The suit alleges that Fox News was motivated to “lie and distort on behalf of the President,” who has been engaged in a feud with the governor over the deployment of California National Guard troops and Marines to Los Angeles in response to protests over the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement efforts.
Poor Gavin. People are so mean to him.
If you were making a movie about a sleazebag car salesman, you couldn’t get better casting than Newsom.
If you were making a movie about a sleazebag car salesman, you couldn’t get better casting than Newsom.
I’d cast the server squirrels.
They’re more honest than him.
“Until Fox is willing to be truthful, I will keep fighting against their propaganda machine,” the Democrat told the news outlet.
The vast right wing stranglehold on the news media has unfairly muzzled Democrats.
OK lawyers. Does the SCOTUS ruling on national injunctions invalidate all the recent national injunctions or only those issued in the three states regarding birthright citizenship?
It invalidates them except as applies to parties with standing is how I read it. So no more universal injunctions. although the word likely in the holding that” universal injunctions likely exceed the authority” raises the possibility that some such injunction could stand.
Was astonished at eight w the time, and now finishing Steak n Shake lunch in the car.
Notable event so far? Hrm. A couple talented gals were shopping earlier.
Nothing really noteworthy, good for me, but not for Interesting Observation of the Day material.
I went on one run to pick up a total of four half gallons of ice cream, split for three customers. Walmart’s app’s algorithm for sorting orders is rather impressive, in its own way it understands.
I don’t think I like the current trigger on my Shadow 2.
Thrice or more while I was still lining up my aim on target I managed to set off a discharge without fully intending to. This makes me very unhappy. While it all went through the paper because my finger wasn’t on the trigger before having it pointed that way, I didn’t want to fire just then.
I’ll have to see if it’s adjustable or if it’ll need swapping.
Proof that you are a New York guy.
Any discharge when I did not intentionally initiate is bad. Even if I’m pointed at the paper and thus nothing was hurt.
In future years, I might be practiced enough to work with a lighter trigger, but not today.
I’m only kidding. I understand why you are concerned.
It’s a sport not a carry piece. Make it work for you safely while competing.
So, you are squeezing the trigger while you are aiming.
Not intentionally. It bothers me. I want a safety backstop.
If there isn’t a defect in the pistol, then you need to fix yourself. Train yourself not to squeeze until you mean it.
Clearly there is a defect. It’s supposed to be psychic.
Watch Joel Park’s youtube videos on trigger management for practical shooting.
A lot of 6-3 decisions but not the same 6 and 3.
The Swedish Gun Piano
https://x.com/klara_sjo/status/1938005432662167880
Hearing Protection Act, SHORT Act Stripped from Big Beautiful Bill
https://www.guns.com/news/2025/06/27/hearing-protection-act-short-act-stripped-from-big-beautiful-bill
Because fuck you.
I want to say I’m surprised, but I’m not. 🙁
I’m going to wager bragging rights that they’re going to fire the parlimentarian. Her findings are non-binding, but she was supposed to be non partisan, though she’s clearly Harry Ried’s creature.
Obviously she is non-biased.
Only partisan idiots would support anything the republicans do.
Truth has a liberal bias, remember?
I don’t think I like the current trigger on my Shadow 2.
Is it the trigger or the sear?
“The Supreme Court sided Friday with parents seeking to opt their children out of required LGBTQ storybook lessons.
In an 6-3 ruling, the majority held that parents are likely to succeed in their claim that the school board’s decision violates their First Amendment rights.”
Which three? The suspense is killing me.
““The Board’s introduction of the ‘LGBTQ+-inclusive’ storybooks, along with its decision to withhold opt outs, places an unconstitutional burden on the parents’ rights to the free exercise of their religion,” Justice Samuel Alito wrote in the majority opinion. “The parents have therefore shown that they are likely to succeed in their free exercise claims. They have likewise shown entitlement to a preliminary injunction pending the completion of this lawsuit.”
Justice Sonia Sotomayor, in a dissent joined by Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Elena Kagan, wrote that schools should “offer to children of all faiths and backgrounds an education and an opportunity to practice living in our multicultural society.”
“That experience is critical to our Nation’s civic vitality,” she wrote. “Yet it will become a mere memory if children must be insulated from exposure to ideas and concepts that may conflict with their parents’ religious beliefs.””
https://dailycaller.com/2025/06/27/mahmoud-taylor-books-parental-rights-supreme-court-rules/
Teaching five-year-olds about gay sex is critical to our Nation’s civic vitality?
Grooming culture is at risk, you monster.
The programming comes through loud and clear.
Pure judicial activism. Those three are a fucking disgrace.
“We will not dwell on JUSTICE JACKSON’s argument, which is at odds with more than two centuries’ worth of precedent, not to mention the Constitution itself. We observe only this: JUSTICE JACKSON decries an imperial Executive while embracing an imperial Judiciary.”
People will die
John Feinblatt, the president of Everytown for Gun Safety, told the Times, “These are devastating cuts to law enforcement funding and would undermine A.T.F.’s ability to keep communities safe from gun violence. This budget would be a win for unscrupulous gun dealers and a terrible setback for A.T.F.’s state and local law enforcement partners.”
Making matters worse is the familiarity of these circumstances — because this latest step is part of a related series.
In fact, just last month, the Trump administration also decided it would permit the sale of “forced reset triggers,” which can turn semiautomatic weapons into guns that can fire more bullets, faster and easier. Attorney General Pamela Bondi said the move “will enhance public safety,” which seemed to turn reality on its head.
Indeed, a spokesperson for Giffords, the national gun violence prevention group led by former Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, told NBC News, “The Trump administration has just effectively legalized machine guns.”
Trump is dismantling ATF and eliminating regulation of guns.
Can we get this version of Trump?
Could we get one person in a position of authority, just once, to say, “Fuck this pathetic obsession with safety?”
Hearing Protection Act, SHORT Act Stripped from Big Beautiful Bill
I’m having a hard time working myself into a lather over seeing the Giant Hideous Clusterfuck broken into identifiable pieces.
Absolutely. I really did not understand the logic of the giant bill, other than he was trying to imitate the democrats and the whole “pass it to understand it.”
ACB, writing for the majority in Trump v. Casa, just delivered the most amazing smackdown of a fellow justice that I’ve ever read.
I’ll give you two guesses as to who that justice is (just kidding — we all know who it is).
Methinks the DEI hire is way out of her depth, and the rest of the Court are getting tired of her.
ME-OW!
Methinks the DEI hire is way out of her depth, and the rest of the Court are getting tired of her.
Can they kick her off the island?