It’s been a while.
Spaun won the US Open after a delay threw everybody’s round into chaos and the officials cared more about finishing on Sunday instead of playing in playable conditions. Florida bounced back after their game4 collapse to take a 3-2 Stanley Cup Finals lead. The Astros cruelly walked off the Twins for the second day in a row. Across the pond, Ferrari (but not the factory team) won at Le Mans. And George Russell won the Canadian Grand Prix and Lando thought he could fit his car through his teammate and a wall that was 3′ away. And that’s it for sports.
This will ruffle some feathers. Although it’s what he ran on and won with, so it should come as no surprise to the people throwing a fit about the actual enforcement of federal law.
Now the story can get even weirder. If that’s even possible.
There is no dissent allowed in the Democrat Party. He ought to just leave them and not caucus with either side.
Yeah, vote for the communist, you bunch of retards. I guess she’s got to keep her grift going, even if it destroys her city.
This is pretty neat. Not that there’s much left of it.
I’m sure they’ll blame this on Trump. Even though the data shows the rate dropping since January.
Let’s make it about women. Silly Canadians. Can’t even let men have one day.
This is also gonna be a weird case. Just read it for yourself. I’ve got nothing to add.
Wow, that’s a lot of money. They could have plowed that and the rest of the budget into school vouchers and helped more Houston students by just closing the government schools altogether.
Let the great tunes return. Unless they never left while we were on vacation. I don’t know what was played. But I bet I’d still like this more. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Monday, dear friends.
“I guess she’s got to keep her grift going, even if it destroys her city.”
To be fair, everyone running is an asshole.
https://nypost.com/2025/06/09/us-news/aoc-grace-meng-tapped-to-do-more-as-open-air-prostitution-rampant-criminality-returns-to-nycs-market-of-sweethearts/
Is Tres their pimp?
It is so, so easy for your brain to lose the “as” in that headline… and start to wonder when politicians started being honest again.
That’s just the vibrant color of the city, you hayseed. It’s a lovely place to raise kids.
Raise kids? The earth is over populated and the nuclear family is a patriarchal construct.
Have to say this for Lando — he didn’t try to spin some BS… he owned up to that being a dumb move right off. Nice to see Merc have a little form. Ferrari seems determined to start the season with some hope and settle into mid-field mediocrity like they have for what.. a decade now? Maybe they’re just all focused on next year — but I’m sure Hamilton isn’t thrilled with his contact switch these days.
Also nice to see Max not able to try forcing Russell off in Turn One… I get nervous when he starts in P2, frankly.
Also also — welcome back, Sloopy. Hope you had a good break and good track time.
I still haven’t forgiven Lando the stunt he pulled on Bespin.
Look — he ended up taking some top sensor dish damage… but he was able to finish the race without pitting and damaged the other teams’ power regulator… what more do you want from the poor guy?
It was a boneheaded move and yes, good that he copped to it right away. But still, that’s what you’d expect from Lance Stroll.
This assumes Lance gets anywhere near Alonso and doesn’t crash out spinning off a curb 40 laps before hand. (To be fair… he didn’t cause a crash this race, as I recall).
And even Lance is no Maze-spin.
True. Stroll got his regular penalty in this race for blocking Gasly, IIRC, not for wrecking someone.
Lance at one point swore his dad would cut him loose if he wasn’t up to snuff. Still waiting.
“In some cases, professors discover almost no one in their class is real. ”
Wow.
“When Keeping It Real Goes Wrong”
Maybe they just don’t like people playing on their phone! LOL
They were all bots.
Its the logical conclusion. Fake degrees begat fake students.
The university doesn’t care as long as the fake students generate real taxpayer revenue.
Given the source, I’m going to take “brandished” and “pulled out a rifle” with a grain of salt.
No charges for the guy who actually shot and killed an innocent bystander? No name even mentioned?
He was “believed to be part of a peacekeeping team” thus, qualified immunity or something.
Also said early in the story the “peacekeepers” were encouraged to be unarmed? My guess is they were off-duty cops required to be hired as part of the protest permit that probably had to be purchased prior to the protest/parade whatever permitting scheme the city used. Probably the permit holder request/suggests no weapons but don’t get to dictate that. The poor shot grouping all but confirms that.
Yeah, I caught that.
I assume the DA’s office has assured the peaceful protesters they will skate. Also, rifle guy…was he also a protester? No mention of why he was there.
Yup… my reaction is just “Only in Dem cities?” But to be fair — the Sanctuary policies may make that over-representative.
Besides the self-deport option being pushed, I’d focus on the meat plants and farms. And prosecute employers accordingly. Cut off the incentives to be here and save everyone time (besides it being the right thing).
And prosecute employers accordingly.
Chamber of Commerce collectively faints.
This. Political parties shmarties. A huge portion of our policies are here because of the CoC.
I would imagine the red localities are already working with ICE whenever they arrest people, and are granting access to people in jail.
Yes it’s old, but I’ll still take the opportunity to dunk on NPR until I get a refund:
https://www.npr.org/2012/03/29/149635825/we-love-you-iran-becomes-unlikely-anti-war-campaign
Yeah… I’ve been withholding speculation on this one because it all sounds either contradictory or nuts.
“When the two men in vests confronted Gamboa with their handguns drawn, witnesses said Gamboa raised his rifle into a firing position and ran toward the crowd”
They can’t identify the two men in vests?
No data, only gut instinct / stupidly speculating… but I will not be at all surprised if the FBI had the rifleman “on their radar” (i.e. he was ‘encouraged’ to show up to the protest with a rifle to ‘demonstrate open carry patriotism’ or somesuch). And that he’s a moron.
May not be any of that… but at this point, I sure wouldn’t be surprised.
What seems clear, although as always 48 Hour Rule, is that the shots were fired, and someone killed, by lefties who were part of the team running the protest.
My guess is they are trying to figure out if they can hang a felony murder on the guy who had the rifle.
Be a good trick without him firing a shot, and without the actual shooters having badges*.
* LE could do this easily.
In time, there are only fragments remaining of all our Endeavours.
This is also gonna be a weird case. Just read it for yourself. I’ve got nothing to add.
From Not Adahn and Lily’s neck of the woods….
So, what were the political motives of the politics assassin? I didn’t see it mentioned in that article.
I hard a rumor that the targetted legislators voted against something on the 20% side of an 80/20 issue.
Please note – this is a rumor. Probably a lie.
I believe it was defunding medical care for illegal aliens.
That’s the one I heard, but I have no confirmation.
Yes. They both broke with their party on a recent vote.
I read an article that said only one of them broke with the party on that vote, and that it was due to a deal she had made, not an actual change of heart. This case looks to me like yet another political Rorschach test.
This is why I started with the disclaimer that it was a rumor.
One had voted like UCS says, but, lets face it, no one who does something like this is in their right mind.
And, as such, trying to pin this on one parties actions or the other is a fools errand. So, just watch it happen.
The media is still waiting for the narrative from their masters?
I’ve heard just about everything.
I don’t think that it is because they broke ranks on some specific vote. Only one of them voted to take free heathcare away from illegals.
The guy also had a bipartisan list of over 70 people on it. So I don’t think it is a purely anti-DFL thing. After the first couple was shot the local cops were proactive enough to think of sending a squad car over to the other pol’s house where they met the guy walking out. The killer started shooting at the cops and ran away on foot. If he hadn’t been chased away from his car he might have gotten a couple more people on that list.
So far the one thing I have heard that makes sense is that he was going after pro-choice people. The guy is reportedly a die hard pro-life guy.
When I was talking about this with my proggie aunt, she was 1000% convinced it was a MAGA crazy person. This was before anything really had come out. There reportedly was a manifesto, but no one knew what it was.
I casually said that if it was a right winger that was bad because it would mean both sides are no engaging in violence. She went ballistic and said what do you mean? I asked her to name some right wing violence and she thundered about J6.
Sigh.
I pointed out that a group of lefty vets had just pushed their way past barricades and up the steps of the Capitol that very day. Should they be thrown in jail for 4 years.
I also started listing off the left wing violence (assassignation attempts, LA Riots, etc., etc.).
I really like my aunt and usually don’t push back on her Old Lady on Facebook crap, but that got me for some reason. I haven’t talked to her since it has come out that he had a bunch of No Kings flyers in his car, was appointed by Walz and his wife interned for Walz.
Uffda, just got an email from my aunt. Her new FB theory is that this guy was a CIA plant.
The guy spent a bunch of time overseas doing security work. Of course he was going to get recruited by the CIA.
And everyone knows that the intelligence agencies are 100% behind Trump, so the shooter is 100% MAGA supporter.
Sorry Pope, but Ron White is the only thing coming to mind here.
“A city teacher’s union rep who lost a hard-fought race for president says she’s now being harassed by foes — who put her image on laminated cards in union urinals with the message, “Piss on My Face.””
https://nypost.com/2025/06/15/us-news/female-nyc-teacher-union-rep-targeted-by-disgusting-cards-in-urinals-piss-on-my-face/
LOLOLOLOLOLOL
There is a urinal’s union?
They are standing up for the right to stand up! 😉
You know those urinals that don’t ever seem to work and are always filled with piss? Those are union urinals.
Winston’s Mom earns money for that stuff.
She’s already president of that union.
“Anti-Israel radical socialists who’ve backed Luigi Mangione plotting to take over United Federation of Teachers: sources”
https://nypost.com/2025/04/08/us-news/radical-socialists-plotting-to-take-over-united-federation-of-teachers-sources/
So, we dissolve all Teachers Unions.
I wonder if that’s related to Randi Weingarten resigning from the DNC.
More money needs to be spent on education if it is in such good hands
I have bad news for you guys, the socialists took over the teachers unions back when Fourscore was in school.
This. The headline gave me a chuckle.
Splitters!
So you’re saying that murderous anti-Israel radical socialists aren’t running the UFT already?
It is almost like she never encountered union political actions before.
Teacher’s union rep….
My money is on a false flag.
Shooting update:
There is a pattern leading up to Nationals — a very easy local match that I do well at, an easy local match that I do well at, and then Nationals at which my ego is stomped flatter than Angela Jolie’s chest.
Saturday was the “very easy” match. First in the iron-sighted divisions, 9th/53 overall. I had a couple of beautiful moments when The Angel of Death decided to take my body for a ride and a couple of mental mistakes that kept me out of the top 5 (including surprising myself so much for going 5/5 on a TX star that I forgot to engage the next target).
This week is the “easy” match. The week after is Factory Gun Nationals where my goal is for my ranking to start with a digit lower than “4.”
So finishing in 1E10th place is a success? :-p
USPSA does use a lot more math than other sports, with the obvious exception of cricket
have you considered shooting better?
Not good enough.
I keep planning that, but something happens with my execution of that plan.
The Ghana Drunkards Association has issued a three-week ultimatum to the government to reduce the prices of alcoholic beverages in the country, citing the recent appreciation of the cedi against the dollar and other major currencies.
The Association has threatened that its 16.65 million members nationwide may stage a massive demonstration if the prices are not reduced after the ultimatum expires.
https://x.com/eddie_wrt/status/1933811066225430863
Our oldest carrier is headed for Havana Harbor, or the Gulf of Tonkin, no it’s the Persian Gulf. Stay tuned.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/us-aircraft-carrier-heads-west-schina-sea-amid-middle-east-tensions-2025-06-16/
I mean this is not reason to bomb Ghana
I’m Ghana disagree with you there, Pie.
I’ll have my puns Togo thank you very much.
Kenya not give free publicity to a bunch of drunken Chads?
Any opportunity and Sudan-ly you’ve got a Congo line of puns.
Niger please!
One good pun and everyone wants to shake Djibouti.
You made these puns with Mali-cious intentions toward Swiss
We Congo further, but Swiss’l be around with a narrowed gaze
The fact that Ghana has a Drunkards Association with over 16MM members strikes me as the real buried lede here.
It’s Africa.
That would be half the population. Is it co-ed?
Fight the real enemy!
I’m so angry I may just turn in my membership card! I’ll be a free lance drunk! Can’t push me around!
No free riders Fourscore. You are required to pay your union booze.
After a few minutes’ thought about what to post on this, I’ve come up with just one word:
MENTAL
https://x.com/KiszelyPhilip/status/1934334949378650358
I am fully expecting the Iranian flag to join the Hamas flag at upcoming peaceful demonstrations.
I was going to say that I am surprised it hasn’t yet.
I think China’s hunger for oil is at the root of all of this.
Can anyone explain to me why Obama and Biden bent over backwards to help Iran? China paid them to?
I really don’t know what to thing about it. It’s not surprising Iran would want a nuclear program, but I don’t believe the assessment that they’re a week away from 10 nukes or whatever.
“Iran is just five years away from getting a nuke!”
– The military-industrial complex toadies, every year for the past 20 years
This neatly demonstrates the divide in our everything OMB does is a threat to our country.
https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/investment-portfolios-politics-6d186f91?st=73Adc1&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Red vs. Blue Is Dividing Stock Portfolios Like Never Before
It is all a matter of what each hopes for, nothing more.
*reads*
Ah, attempting politically-driven market timing. Good luck with that. People who make millions of dollars a year to do that fail to do so consistently. I’m sure you’ll outperform them.
What percentage of actively managed funds beat the S&P? 40% in any given year? 5% over a decade? Yeah, trying to time the market puts BMWs in broker’s driveways not yours.
A Random Walk Down Wall Street was a good read and had a convincing argument that no active investor consistently beats a broad market index over the long term.
Sensei probably can probably give the figure from the top of his head but, yes, I believe it’s a minority of actively managed funds that beat the market. And it’s different funds each year.
I thought the Trump parade was a bad idea and a bad look. I avoided it. I was wrong. It was paid for by private donations. It was not a dictator style show of force. It was a tribute to the army with reenactors doing a bit from all the wars we have been in, uniforms and equipment. I just caught a few clips of it as I had not watched live…it was, as Sloppy has now resurrected the expression….neato man!
No matter who paid for it, it has been the biggest boon to recruitment for the Armed Forces that I have seen in a long time. We had fallen well short of where we needed to be under the vegetable we had in office previously, and, like him or not, Trump has reversed those numbers. This is part of it.
I watched bits of it too. They had all kinds of vintage vehicles and re-enactors. I wish I knew that ahead of time.
Wait until Nov 10th! 250th b-day of the Marine Corps!
That is gonna make all this bullshit look like amateur hour.
As for the MN shooter….from what I am seeing the guy is bark at the moon crazy.
Mandatory.
🙂
The War in Ukraine Has Shattered the West’s Digital-Age Delusions
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/06/15/the-war-in-ukraine-has-shattered-the-wests-digital-age-delusions/
This faith-based commentary sits uneasily alongside the equally confident illusions that once animated post-Cold War Western military thinking. Western politicians and strategists imagined war in the digital age would be light, precise and swift — waged by lean expeditionary forces wielding smart weapons and networked command systems. The result, they hoped, would be relatively bloodless victories achieved from a polite distance, preferably before lunchtime.
Instead, they got Bakhmut.
As this short essay will seek to disclose, the war in Ukraine has shattered a generation of digital-age delusions. It has exposed the brittle realities beneath Western military thinking and underscored the extent to which the strategic balance has shifted—less due to enemy cunning than to Western self-delusion.
The End of History did not arrive. The Return of Artillery did.
Yeah? If it keeps up they will run out of bullets and start resorting to splitting skulls with shovels and then down to the tooth and claw. See: South Pacific in WW2.
Since the generations that have seen real war of attrition have died off I have heard an awful lot of bullshit about ‘rules’, ‘laws’, ‘war crimes’ and yes the digital age delusions.
All of that shit goes out the window the instant you realize you are fighting for your life.
Yes. I was watching some WWII docs recently, and it included American military leader who oversaw the strategy for firebombing Japan. He was basically saying it’s pure fiction to differentiate between soldiers and civilians. Removing the source of food, clothes, ammunition, weapons, and energy for an enemy military is critical. And that he would be charged with war crimes if America lost.
I never understood why a nation would conscript their own civilians and send them off to die on foreign soil while trying to preserve the enemy’s civilians (post WWII conflicts). Unless it’s less about war (and fighting for your life) and more about laundering tax dollars. Then it makes sense.
Interesting but for the love of heaven can someone write an essay without linking to dozens of other articles that nobody has time to read?
“Deadly fungus that ‘eats you from the inside out’ invades US: ‘Hundreds of thousands of lives at risk'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14810737/Deadly-fungus-eats-you-inside-invades-US-Hundreds-thousands-lives-risk.html
People will die, with a side order of climate change!
Reminder: The Maned Wolf is the largest Canine native to South America.
It is neither a Fox or a Wolf, but a secret third thing.
The tallest of the wild canids; its long legs are perfectly adapted to the grasslands of the Cerrado.
It hunts alone, usually at Twilight.
The Maned wolf is called the Maned wolf because it has a Mane
It is the only species in the genus Chrysocyon (meaning “golden dog” in Ancient Greek).
Despite being omnivorous, Wolf Apples make up the majority of the Maned Wolf’s diet.
https://x.com/QuetzalPhoenix/status/1934466602612773340
“Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ lawyers have accused prosecutors of wanting to throw a juror from the sex-trafficking and racketeering trial because he’s black.
The disgraced mogul’s lawyers said they would demand a mistrial if the state’s request to have the juror dismissed over inconsistent statements is granted.
Diddy shook his head on Friday as judge Arun Subramanian said he was inclined to let the juror be dismissed and replaced by one of the alternates after the man gave gave inconsistent statements about his residency. ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14816685/diddy-sean-combs-trial-live-updates-case.html
I think your comments were unfair to Spaun. Everyone was playing under same conditions, he did what had to be done. I don’t think the delay threw everyone into chaos, a freaking hard course and the pressure of a US Open threw them into chaos. Spaun used it to calm his play down.
I did think that Burns got screwed by the officials on the standing water decision, but it didnt cost him 5 strokes, so it didnt matter.
And a little scattered rain is fine to play through.
Look in the end only one dude is on the way to the Bank and that is what matters.
Everyone who made the cut got at least $42k, so 66 players are on their way to the bank.
Umm, correction, 65. One amateur nade the cut.
Agree – he’s the one guy who came back from the delay playing better.
I enjoyed watching all the big hitters pay the price for missing the fairway hole after hole.
And it isn’t like this US Open was any different from every other one – they’re all set up to punish missing the fairway.
*yawn*. Mornin’ y’all. I slept straight thru all alarms and was 2.25 hrs late for work.
The tardy is noted, but no one cares. I didn’t get a talkin’ to from the outside. (I am furious w myself, but that’s different.)
Munchkin’s present will be put to good use w the 4yo this afternoon. He has a shockingly good arm and abilities. He just doesn’t know where he’s going, yet. (Soon, pumpkin, soon.)
Lunch now. Cubs have the day off before 13 games in 13 days. (We’re good. Others are beginning to notice. We won the season series against the Dodgers. Pussies.)
Kick ass, y’all, and I will the same. I get 61hrs off starting in ..5.5 hours.
Minnesota Munchkin barked at me last night, but amends have been made, starting w her, of all people.
Be fruitful and multiply!
It will be used against you if you are late again.
Correct. I have 1 point docked in total.
On flip side, Voca Rehab dude did get in touch. I may be a more fun version of a reprobate, but I ain’t one. I don’t have huge hopes w him, but it’s interesting.
Four folk called in yesterday for the whole day. I’m still in good graces. But I’m properly angry w myself.
The sudden collapse of the once-
symbioticparasitic,/em> relationship between the federal government and higher education is torpedoing a half-century-old university business model and upending how science is done.https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/northwestern-funding-freeze-trump-85d49da2?st=WuQWK1&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
upending how science is done.
After the way Science(tm) performed during COVID, good fucking riddance.
Helpful guide to interstellar travel:
https://x.com/luke_leisher_/status/1934429961013875134
Today ion political compass memes.
Much like with politics, I bounce between upper right and lower left. Cybernetic immortality, with occasional genetically engineered catgirls.
“Salt Lake City ‘No Kings’ protest murder suspect pushed Antifa views
Arturo Gamboa, the man charged with murder after a deadly shooting at Salt Lake City’s “No Kings” protest, appears to be a self-described anti-government radical who publicly supported Antifa.
The peacekeeper in the high visibility vest- who fired the 3 shots is cooperating with the police, SLCPD Chief Brian Redd said.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/salt-lake-city-no-kings-protest-murder-suspect-pushed-antifa-views
THIS IS WHY CIVILIANS SHOULD NOT HAVE GUNS !!!!
though to be fair I am not certain the average cop is a better shot
Not sure the shooter wasn’t a cop.
You. Don’t. Fucking. Say.
A lot of dimwit boomerfudds think that they’re gonna wave their gun at an Antifa protest and all the soy boys will run away pissing down their legs. Not the case, Elmer. You don’t hang out with Antifa unless you like to fight, and you don’t stay with them without getting pretty good at it.
The guy with the rifle was antifa. The guy who failed to kill his target but did kill a bystander is very underdescribed. No idea who is the biggest asshole, and probably never will have enough credible information to make that judgement.
The lack of announced charges and the dearth of information about the guy who actually killed a bystander does raise some suspicion. As in “off-duty King’s Man”.
I know. My point still stands. The right, especially the gun-owning right, has a bad habit of underestimating their enemy.
I’m not saying you’re wrong. Just that this doesn’t seem to be a good example of it. This seems more like the Austin thing where an antifan with a gun pointed it at someone armed, but didn’t pull the trigger. See also, the Rosenkreutz guy.
What did I predict upthread? They are going to try to hang a murder charge on the guy with the rifle, who didn’t shoot anyone, while the protest-affiliated shooters skate.
If I am reading the two articles correctly:
-Rifle guy was antifa and a marcher.
-Rifle guy broke away from the march to where he had stashed his rifle, came back with it.
-Green vests drew down on rifle guy.
-At some point (before or after the pistols were out I can’t tell) rifle guy charged.
-Pistol guy wings rifle guy, kills the no-shoot.
Stalinist/Trotskyite issues? Polycule gone bad? Suicide by “cop?”
Patterns are not matching well for me.
“Polycule gone bad?”
LOL
Shooter will have to be off-duty LE for that to work. No way some basic civilian with a handgun and a silly vest skates.
I suspect this might have been an attempt at a false-flag action gone badly pear-shaped.
“A Virginia man was arrested Saturday after police said he drove an SUV into a crowd of protesters at the conclusion of a “No Kings” rally in Culpeper.
21-year-old Joseph R. Checklick Jr was taken into custody by the Culpeper Police Department following the incident, which occurred in a Walmart parking lot where the protest was ending. The event, sponsored by Culpeper Democrats, was part of the nationwide series of anti-Trump and anti-ICE rallies held over the weekend.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/virginia-man-arrested-after-intentionally-driving-suv-into-crowd-at-no-kings-protest-police
No mention of motive.
Until I see video, I won’t reach a conclusion about whether he was driving into a crowd, or out of a mob.
Re: Captain Cook’s ship: She was then sold in 1775, renamed the Lord Sandwich, and finally scuttled off the US coast in 1778, during the American War of Independence.
I wanna be Lord Sandwich!
I knew there was an Earl of Sandwich. Didn’t know there was a lord.
https://earlofsandwichusa.com/
*insert “They’re the same picture” meme here*
They have one of those in Disney in Orlando. Their Earl Grey Lemonade is fantastic.
You don’t have to be royal to take part in a Lorde sandwich but you’re still gonna need more bread…
Once again proving that owning a boat requires a lot of bread.
I think that only a sub should be named Lord Sandwich.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/06/15/democrat-bigwigs-hobnob-soros-wedding-no-kings/
This just cries out for a Sugarverse telling of the event.
This just cries out for a ……I was thinking ‘neutron bomb’.
Good morning! I hope you all had a good, fatherly weekend. For the first time in years, I got to see all three of my girls on Father’s Day. The middle one we just happened to pass by on the street, but I’m counting it. I went to church, got a massage, the kids made me lunch, and I went to practice. Great day.
I feel bad for my youngest, she’s got a cloud over her head because she’s worried about her husband. Word is they might transfer to Fifth Fleet. Unless there is some miraculous cease fire, I think it’s almost certain at this point. If that happens, she won’t be able to send packages and they’ll go radio silent. So that will be rough.
“Wicked discrimination? Broadway smash’s apprenticeship excludes white males, federal complaint says
White male music director’s Title VI, Title VII complaint with National Endowment for the Arts filed same day Supreme Court unanimously reinstated heterosexual woman’s reverse-discrimination lawsuit.
The membership requirements for Maestra and MUSE, copied in the complaint but substantially the same on their live web pages, suggest they are limited to “female and non-binary” music directors and people of color who are musicians respectively, none of which applies to the white male Lynch.”
https://justthenews.com/nation/culture/wicked-discrimination-broadway-smashs-apprenticeship-excludes-white-males-federal
Because female is more of a minority than gay?
I wonder, as these leftist scams begin to wither and die what will they be replaced with? Watch for it. Soon they will start laying the groundwork for a new grift.
Because female is more of a minority than gay?
It’s weird that “female” is considered some kind of downtrodden group given that they are actually a slight numerical majority, and they appear to be quite privileged if you look at the stats on homicide, suicide, incarceration, homelessness, and workplace deaths.
(Yes, of course those things can be due to a broad tendency towards different behavior than men, but when those disparities exist between racial groups, there is a big fucking deal made out of it)
Gender ideology has hit the lowest decile of the white population like Hiroshima. Appalachia and rural backwaters are full of trans kids. I predict that this and other high entropy ideals will become a signal of low class: the genderless, raceless global blob peasantry
According to JAMA, 7 percent of junior high and high school kids in West Virginia are trans. SEVEN PERCENT. In Appalachia!
https://x.com/roddreher/status/1934367289291292854
this… sounds wrong for some reason
Because it’s bullshit.
Yes, that sounds way too high a number, but who knows how they are defining “trans”.
It is defined by a kid saying “I’m trans!”
Probably not even, I’ve seen statistics where they lumped trans and gender-non-conforming together, basically counting the whole alphabet as trans.
JAMA. You can stop there.
On the mold ‘spreading’. It is not spreading. It has always been here.
This is so tiresome. Take a common phenomena that is little known and hype it up like it is a brand new boogeyman. Seals clustered on an island! Tundra fires! King tides! Hurricanes! Wildfires!
On the plus side I am seeing a surprising rise in the number of people saying “Climate scam is a scam”. Took you long enough, dumbasses.
I liked the claim about it being prevalent in high humidity climates, oh, and California!
Speed bump.
I’m ok with that
We need more of that. Does this mean the left will start having to pay their cosplay protesters more?
Starting to get mobbed. Good drive.
“Code Pink once criticized China’s rights record but now defends its internment of the predominantly Muslim Uyghurs”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/06/shanghai-billionaire-connected-chinese-communists-husband-code-pink/
CWABOA
Just a little skin-suiting and money laundering.
It’s only natural to want to keep those violent Muslims under control. Also, Free Palestine and Go Iran.
Funny…
A Battered Iran Signals It Wants to De-Escalate Hostilities With Israel and Negotiate
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/a-battered-iran-signals-it-wants-to-de-escalate-hostilities-with-israel-and-negotiate-9feab4ae?st=hSHJVB&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Here are my terms – The Ayatollah and his mullahs get strung up from lampposts, the Shah presides over elections where anyone involved in the current administration is barred from running or voting. New secular consitution is drafted by those elected.
This is a compromise from my previous offer of “And islam is banned”
Woodrow Wilson is that you?
No. They wanted to negotiate. That is my best offer.
Our last regime change there worked out super great. We’ll definitely get a friendly government this time.
“That is my best offer.”
“I have many worse offers I can make. Would you like to hear some of those?”
Serious question. Iran ratified the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. They allow IAEA inspections. Our DNI agrees they aren’t developing nukes.
What are we asking for?
Or is this a thin disguise for regime change?
Any uranium processing/enrichment past 10% is on its way to making weapons grade uranium. The maximum you need for power generation or peaceful use is 10%. Past that you want a bomb. When you are a regime that regularly screams Death to whatever, a bomb is not something any sane people can allow you.
There is no indication Iran is ready to make new concessions in nuclear talks, the Arab intermediaries said.
Sounds like Israel needs to hit harder. Iran isn’t serious yet.
They can’t, that’s why they keep asking for us to join in.
Of course they can. Their attacks so far have been laser-focused to minimize collateral damage. With complete air superiority, Israel can take off those restrictions and level Tehran to smoking rubble. Remove any sort of functioning government.
They need US involvement to destroy Fordow from the air while minimizing civilian casualties.
They don’t have any air superiority. The sneak attack last week dropped Iranian air defenses for a day and let them do some damage.
Air defenses are back up now and anything other than missiles will be very risky.
You getting that shit straight from the Ayatollah?
Powwow
This backdrop of tariffs and conflict could well give rise to fireworks at the June summit in Canada, given Trump’s often contrarian and mercurial nature, analysts say.
“The last time Trump attended a G7 leaders’ summit in Canada, in 2018, he treated it like a reality TV show,” analysts at the Center for Strategic and International Studies said in analysis ahead of the meeting.
“With Trump’s tariff war in full swing and targeting the other countries in attendance, this meeting could be even more contentious than his last visit,” they noted. To avert another disastrous end to the G7 summit, the CSIS said global leaders needed to acknowledge and act upon Trump’s concerns “about U.S. global leadership.”
“In previous meetings, G7 members have made clear their interest in addressing technological advancements, public health, major wars, and other issues beyond the group’s traditional mandate. With many international institutions today paralyzed by geopolitical rivalries, the world needs concerted action now more than ever,” they noted.
If the G7 won’t issue a statement on trans rights, what’s the point?
Oh boo hoo. He is at loggerheads with carpetbaggers and commies.
“Over a Hundred More Christians Massacred by Islamists in Nigeria in Ongoing Genocide Campaign — Where is the Media Coverage?
Fulani Islamic militants have unleashed another round of unspeakable violence on the village of Yelewata in Nigeria’s Benue State.
Over the weekend, attackers stormed homes, locked families inside, and set them ablaze — killing over 100 civilians, including women and children.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/06/hundred-more-christians-massacred-islamists-nigeria-ongoing-genocide/
It’s Africa. That’s why no media coverage. It’s the professional women’s sports of continents.
Does anyone ever really care about black on black violence? Way too inconvenient to notice you know.
Not much coverage of the black on white violence in South Africa either.
Media coverage? It is Africa. That shit happens every day and has every day since the beginning of time. You could run stories like that around the clock every day.
Hmmm.
https://defence-blog.com/dozens-of-u-s-refuelers-cross-atlantic/
I’m guessing to refuel B2’s carrying bunker busters.
Fanning the flames
There are events that become a Rorschach test that brings out America’s political and cultural divisions in bold relief. Saturday’s military parade — which celebrated the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary and also fell on President Trump’s birthday — was that kind of moment.
As the Trump administration geared up for the parade filled with tanks and armored personnel carriers rolling through the nation’s capital, people in dozens of cities across the country protested the event as a politicization of the armed forces by a would-be autocrat.
The protests were called No Kings.
Once upon a time people in this country could disagree without hating each other. I wonder what changed.
There was a time when Americans didn’t think it was mandatory to rule everyone.
Was it really a military parade with only the Army? Where was the inter-service rivalry?
The Army doesn’t have any units capable of marching in-step. Marines joining in would make them look even sillier.
Sure, march in step and be accused of using the German goose-step. Marching is a lost art and probably should be.
I remember our ROTC instructor telling us, “If I had my druthers, I say to ‘fall out’ here and ‘fall in’ over there.”
Drake, your comment made me giggle.
I hated drill, but it is actually pretty cool when your unit gets good at it.
*I still refer to my pant pockets as “army mittens” because of a gunney I used to work for who would always scream at anyone he saw with their hands in their pockets and tell them to take off their army mittens.
Those are AF mittens.
I’m fucking embarrassed that basic training grads could D&C better than many of those. And wore Class A’s instead of OCP pajamas. Even the BDUs, except for field problems, were fucking starched.
Yes, even just the Army is still a military. 🎂
Marching is a lost art and probably should be.
🤦♂️
EVERYTHING is a Rorschach test. I saw it happening years ago and I hated it then.
Once upon a time, the idea of Commissars was frowned on too.
I’m sure this is going to make for lots of happy weekend warriors!
The tech reservists will serve 120 hours a year as lieutenant colonels, advising on AI and commercial tech acquisition.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/army-reserve-tech-executives-meta-palantir-796f5360?st=kHrXCW&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
What do doctors get commissioned as, major?
Captains for doctors, dentists, chaplains, lawyers, as best I can remember
Depends on specialties and needs of the military; not unheard of for a fully trained, accredited, and specialized Dr or Nurse to be commissioned as a full Colonel.
I may be an expert in tech, but I’m not an expert soldier.
No one is born. You need to work at just like anything else. At least give them a ROTC summer camp.
They better apply grooming standards (or what’s left of them) to scraggle face.
Hooah!
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1267753048350092&set=pcb.1267753118350085&__cft__%5B0%5D=AZXGpDGaD4LNUj1O-9G5tfeUqtNn2kbeBb3WDcmE6uIkEUOnaXJM0fh3i9RuPOlDbTfrEooqPZX2H3Fj5RjX3Fe8gKD_bsjZy-vKlQFt9fjzqm43RLqNxZxGUxjNqNmwxT3pa7xy1UG8V-Wqe3rNcaglcuoXrmMqT6qep18IXYKmhA&__tn__=*b0H-R
Palantir has been involved in national-security work for two decades. It has a AI and data project with the Army worth potentially more than $1 billion.
This is more grift. We are spending an hugely inordinate amount of time and effort giving our data to these people so that they can charge us to give it back to us. Hugely bitter about this bullshit.
I’m sure there are squadrons of retired military getting their pockets lined. People who never understood the data they were being shown while they were in.
Trump has attacked the patriotism of his critics and of journalists he doesn’t like, saying, “They hate our country.” Anticipating such an attack, speakers in Annapolis said protest is an act of patriotism, especially when the target is a president they say is trampling America’s system of checks and balances.
Dissent is not treason. Being Trump is treason.
Dissent was treason last administration. Treason is very flexible that way.
Well, he’s right.
The staging seemed designed to enhance the muscular image Trump likes to project. A pair of tanks sat in front of the grandstand from which the president watched. After his speech, Trump was presented with a traditionally folded U.S. flag — a gift usually reserved for the family members of fallen soldiers.
STOLEN VALOR!
I was taught that the triangular fold is the only proper way to fold a US flag. For any purpose, including putting on a shelf until you fly it again.
Yes. I was taught the proper way to fold a flag when I was a Boy Scout.
The flag draped over a coffin is offered to the family of the deceased at a funeral.
The author is a fucking idiot.
https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/1933942803169706171
Everybody has a NGO, except me. 🙁
So….a grifter.
Unstable proggie loses his shit when his money spigot gets turned off, murders people he blames for his problems? So in other works, Luigi Manglionne but an ugly boomer instead of a good looking post-millennial? Yeah, I’ll buy it.
She had a follow up thread with her take on it, if you were interested.
https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/1934256121394712998
Yup. Pretty much.
All the lefty actors are just that first and foremost – actors. Luigi was the same way.
I am betting polycule gone
badright.Daily Ray of Sunshine
-1 point for being a video.
+2 point for cats plus amusement.
Fine, you get a pass today.
I was so worried about your approval UCS!
Taking a stand for peace
France’s government ordered black partition walls erected around Israeli defense industry exhibits at the Paris Air Show displaying offensive weapons, because of the war in Gaza and rising tensions in the Mideast. Israel’s Defense Ministry demanded an immediate reversal of the decision.
A French appeals court had ruled Friday against activist groups who sought to block Israeli companies from participating in the show due to Israel’s actions in Gaza. The Paris Air Show, held at Le Bourget north of Paris, is one of the world’s largest and most prestigious events for the aerospace and defense industry.
The black walls appeared overnight ahead of the show’s opening Monday, visually isolating Israeli booths from dozens of other international exhibitors.
French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou said the decision was made to allow Israeli companies to display their aviation technology but no offensive weapons, ‘’given the situation in the region, the extreme tensions … given France’s diplomatic choices, notably concern about Gaza.’’
That’ll teach them.
“And given the rampant Jew-hate in our country.”
“Skepticism about the so-called “hit list” is growing on social media, where users have flagged several oddities. The list reportedly contains over 60 names, and while early reports claimed it included both Republicans and Democrats, there don’t appear to be any Republicans on it at all.
Adding to the confusion is the absence of Sen. John Hoffman’s name. Hoffman, whom Boelter allegedly shot along with his wife, would seem like an obvious inclusion. At first, his omission could have made sense since he was already hospitalized and in protective custody, but that logic falls apart when you notice that Melissa Hortman’s name was on the list, even though Boelter had already allegedly killed her.
One state senator on the list died of cancer last December. Another name appears twice. There are other strange details, too.”
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/06/16/boelters-hit-list-has-been-revealed-but-something-about-it-doesnt-make-sense-n4940835
So crazy person’s list doesn’t make complete sense?
Wait, why would it be odd for both (a) One of the victim’s names to not be on the list and (b) One of the victim’s names to be on the list?
“ Boelter is facing two counts of second-degree murder and two counts of attempted second-degree murder, according to a criminal complaint. He could also face federal charges, officials said.”
In what world is he only getting a second-degree murder charge??
Looks like things are escalating. Nimitz is heading west, and canceled a scheduled visit to Vietnam. Last time they had 2 carriers in the area they were bombing Houthis.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/us-aircraft-carrier-heads-west-schina-sea-amid-middle-east-tensions-2025-06-16/
Another manufactured crisis
Doctors at Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals nationwide could refuse to treat unmarried veterans and Democrats under new hospital guidelines imposed following an executive order by Donald Trump.
The new rules, obtained by the Guardian, also apply to psychologists, dentists and a host of other occupations. They have already gone into effect in at least some VA medical centers.
Medical staff are still required to treat veterans regardless of race, color, religion and sex, and all veterans remain entitled to treatment. But individual workers are now free to decline to care for patients based on personal characteristics not explicitly prohibited by federal law.
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In making the changes, VA officials cite the president’s 30 January executive order titled “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government”. The primary purpose of the executive order was to strip most government protections from transgender people. The VA has since ceased providing most gender-affirming care and forbidden a long list of words, including “gender affirming” and “transgender”, from clinical settings.
Medical experts said the implications of rule changes uncovered by the Guardian could be far-reaching.
Much breathless speculation and telepathy follow.
Oh, good. VA staff can fail to provide care because the veteran was sick.
It’s what they would do.
“A list posted by Alpha News investigative reporter Liz Collin includes the names of dozens of elected Democrats, including Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, the state’s attorney general, Keith Ellison, and Planned Parenthood executives.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/read-the-hit-list-found-in-minnesota-gunmans-vehicle
Maybe they shouldn’t have stopped this guy?
Shhhh! Hush!
Puleeeeeaze. We are finally forgetting about Paul Wellstone and his tragic death.
Last thing we need now is for Omar to be martyred. I cringe at the thought of how much praise would have been heaped on her.
The only good thing is that AOC and the other Squad members might have gotten so jealous that they arrange their own martyrdom to get back in the spot light.
Taking a stand against hate and bad PR
Penske Truck Rental said on Sunday that it had banned members of the white nationalist hate group Patriot Front from renting its vehicles.
The company’s decision comes after videos on social media showed masked members of Patriot Front fleeing in one of the company’s yellow trucks after being confronted by a group of people in downtown Springfield, Missouri, on Saturday.
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Patriot Front frequently relies on rented trucks to transport members to demonstrations in cities across the country. Penske’s response is the first public rebuke by a major company against the group and the decision could affect its ability to rent trucks in the future.
Do Patriot Front members get corporate American Express cards?
Good. Those are some creepy fake white nationalists. I am surprised that wasn’t done earlier.
How would they know?
I thought they disbanded because every member was a fed?
They needed to create a Paper Trail of Tears.
Penske trying to renege on a federal contract?
Let’s see how that works out for them.
Tees up a long vacation, but doesn’t play this https://youtu.be/d-djKutBVA8
The group’s protests and public appearances are “typically tightly choreographed and scripted to maximize propaganda value,” according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Patriot Front: a public relations powerhouse.
lol The other side would never do that. 🙄
Penske’s decision could put pressure on other rental companies to review their policies about allowing Patriot Front and other extremist groups to rent trucks, which could affect their ability to organize.
Future rental contract: “Are you now, or have you ever been….?”
They will cave when the Patriot Front is the only one willing to return a rental truck TO California.
Notice no mention of the names of the people who rented the trucks.
Gratuitous Cheap Shop Dept:
Not a great look for the party trying to woo men back when it is your wife who takes a bullet for their kid and not the father.
I wasn’t there and have no idea how I would have reacted. Still it made me giggle a bit that the wife was the one who protected the kids.
“Suspected Minnesota assassin Vance Boelter also allegedly killed state rep’s beloved rescue dog in grisly murder ”
https://nypost.com/2025/06/16/us-news/suspected-minnesota-assassin-vance-boelter-also-allegedly-killed-state-reps-beloved-rescue-dog-in-grisly-murder/
Well, he was pretending to be a cop.
I’ve seen several articles today bemoaning the fact that our pols are so vulnerable to crazed killers.
A lot of them are suggesting all sorts of security upgrades and other solutions. I’m wondering when someone will say that the 2nd doesn’t guarantee a right to carry a gun near a pol. Maybe make it a law that pols are mobile gun free zones?
I firmly believe, based on taking with a lot of them, that most anti-gun politicians are anti-gun because they’re afraid of those guns being used against them.
When will Minnesodans learn: DON’T ANSWER YOUR DOOR!
Fourscore – you’d think his years would have given him more wisdom – foolishly answered his door yesterday and was subsequently doomed to an afternoon of listening to inanities. I, on the other hand, had a wonderful afternoon working on my repertoire of lies, boasts and tall tales.
Fourscore finally lured me off his property with a couple jars of honey. Mrs. Holiness was beside herself when I returned with it.
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