237 Comments

  1. UnCivilServant

    FBI’s investigation on COVID coverup zeroing in on three separate plots

    I still don’t trust them. How many are they covering up?

    • AlexinCT

      What Kung Flu cover up are we talking about? The fact that all US intel organizations all knew within days that it had escaped the Wuhan lab, but then, when it became a weapon they could use to wreck the economy and “fortify” the 2020 election, they did a 180 and claimed the thing came out of a wet market? Because that one is the one we need to get cleared up.

      • DrOtto

        We investigated ourselves and the rest of the IC and found gross negligence and recommend disbanding all of the IC and starting over said no agency ever.

  2. PieInTheSky

    Trump-backed nationalist clinches Poland’s presidency

    Eh I doubt Trump was much relevant in this

    • UnCivilServant

      Porbably had zero effect on the Polish vote-counters.

    • SDF-7

      Everything is about the current Snowball so we can prop up Comrade Napoleon. Otherwise, you might think the wrong thoughts and the farmers would return!

      • UnCivilServant

        It took me three reads to figure out what the *bleep* you were talking about.

      • cavalier973

        I’m guessing it’s from Animal Farm

      • SDF-7

        Yeah, sorry — I hold Animal Farm as required reading in junior high as a personal preference — and just figure everyone here (except perhaps Pie because English Lit obviously may not be high on his reading lists) has read it at least once. Sorry for assuming, I suppose.

      • UnCivilServant

        The structure of the comment read like a LadLib to my brain.

        And as a victim of the NY Public school system, I never read Animal Farm.

      • Nephilium

        SDF-7:

        High school, we read 1984 and Brave New World back to back to allow for comparisons and contrasts. My nephews had not heard of either, they have received them as gifts (as well as Animal Farm). Whether they actually read them or not is beyond my ability.

      • Not Adahn

        All of those “classic” dystopian libertarian books are short. They predate the era of the doorstopper.

      • juris imprudent

        The leftist-sympathizing public education racket wouldn’t approve of such counter-revolutionary nonsense.

      • UnCivilServant

        I tried to read 1984 on my own in College. I got bored around the time Julia showed up. Can’t imagine trying to read it as a youngster.

      • SDF-7

        Yeah — 1984 I only made it through once.

        Animal Farm is much shorter and easier to read — which is why it is my go-to book on this stuff.

      • Ted S.

        I read 1984 *in* 1984, when I was 12. I think I read Brave New World around the same time.

      • UnCivilServant

        I’m so sorry to hear that, Ted.

      • Ted S.

        I *chose* to read them.

      • Nephilium

        I’ll admit to being shocked at 1984 hate. I’ve read it several times, I especially like the world building that is done in the first several chapters.

        To add to the entertainment, when I was in school, 1984 was taught as the right wing dystopia, Brave New World as the left wing dystopia. Fahrenheit 451 was also in the reading list (I want to say middle school though) to round out the dystopias. I’ve since read Clockwork Orange and Handmaid’s Tale on my own.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Animal Farm in Jr. High (fuck that middle school BS)

        1984 and Brave New World in 9th grade (freshman, to all you easterners).

      • Not Adahn

        I think 1984 was 9th grade for me. It probably had too much sex to be included earlier in the curriculum.

      • Not Adahn

        Yeah, 1984 is a perfectly cromulent novel. Its main failing is the long exposition monologues, but people who will complain about Rand don’t seem to have a problem with Orwell.

        It’s not subtle, but if that’s what you want, go read Hemingway or Faulkner.

      • WTF

        1984 was taught as the right wing dystopia

        Because Ingsoc (English Socialism) is totally right wing.

      • UnCivilServant

        I’ll admit to being shocked at 1984 hate. I’ve read it several times, I especially like the world building that is done in the first several chapters.

        The world building was good, but after that it got boring.

        I *chose* to read them.

        I am so sorry to hear that.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Oh, and F451 in Jr high, Handmaids tale when the movie came out. One thing though, neither 1984 or BNW were presented as left/right, or any political paradigm for that matter.

        The real distopia was Darkness at Noon.

      • Nephilium

        Not Adahn:

        *shudder* Gods no. No more Faulkner… ever.

        “My mother is a fish”

        Get that bullshit out of here.

      • kinnath

        I read every sci-fi/dystopian novel the school library had. But I cannot recall reading Animal Farm.

      • UnCivilServant

        Question for all of you who sought out the genre – Why?

        What was the appeal?

      • Not Adahn

        F451 is a fairly terrible novelette.

        I like Faulkner. I never was able to grok Flannery O’Connor. She just made my skin crawl. Maybe that’s why people like her? I’m also not into Stephen King.

        First day of AP Lit and Comp: A Cat in the Rain. First question from the teacher: “Where is the baby?” My life was forever changed.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Flannery O’Connor is one of the most overt religious writers, and that, along with her unapologetic southernisms catch a lot of people off guard. That said, she is probably the best short story writer this country has produced. King doesn’t deserve mention in the same sentence with her, and really doesn’t deserve any mention, truth be told.

        Faulkner is too high on his own supply, and, honestly, boring. F451 is better than any Heinlein, but still a juvenile, or what would be called a YA now.

      • Not Adahn

        DeGustibus, but Hemingway is a better short story writer than O’Connor.

        The Short Happy Life of Francis MacComber > A Good Man is Hard to Find.

        I find most of the “classic” sci-fi writers benefitted from having no competition. Bradbuy, Asimov… even Bester just randomly decides that “future people will have X extreme social beliefs because I said so” and uses that to build their worlds.

        Ringworld and The Integral Trees assumed that people will pretty much be people.

      • Nephilium

        NA/Zwak:

        I don’t know what it is, but Bradbury short stories hit just right for me. There’s just something about the Rockwell-style Americana with the barest edge of shadow and fear underneath. But he was always at his best doing short stories, not novels. I also wonder how much of that was growing up with the old Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, Andy Griffith, My Favorite Martian, and the like.

        I had never even heard of Flannery O’Connor (or if I had, I don’t remember it).

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        DeGustibus indeed. That skin crawling effect is a huge part of why she is so good; if a writer can do that to you without grossing you out a la King, and there is nothing for cheap effects in her prose, it is hard to argue with the skill level it takes for such a visceral reaction.

        I think it comes down to Hemming way was trying to exorcise his his own demons, while O’Connor was trying to get at your demons.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Eh, just skip to the glossary in 1984, if necessary.

    • juris imprudent

      TRUMP IS EVERYTHING!!! /the one thing TDS-sufferers and Trump-backers agree on

    • AlexinCT

      The globalists just hate – HATE – that after all the work to dumb down and manipulate demographics to force the west to commit suicide and eat the globalist poison fruit, they are still losing this fight.

      • The Last American Hero

        Losing what fight? They have captured Great Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, Netherland and at least half the Nordic countries with no resistance. Italy, Poland, Hungary and possibly Romania are the only places where they haven’t had as much success.

      • AlexinCT

        They thought their reset would make it all a done deal in 2020. Now they are watching a growing resistance. The US elections not being fortifiable this time was catastrophic to their cause.

      • UnCivilServant

        Don’t worry Alex, since no effort has been made to improve Electoral Integrety, they’ll get it next time.

      • AlexinCT

        That’s the way the EU and every loss of rights in the EU keeps playing out, UCS, so, yeah, you might be right. Need to get back to loading my container with drones…

  3. Rat on a train

    Now, some are trying unconventional tactics

    Using cones, cars and sometimes themselves, residents have taken to blocking the Waymos from entering their company-funded parking lot, so much so that the company has called the cops on them a half dozen times.

    A conventional tactic would be to burn the cars.

    • PieInTheSky

      More Americans need to vacation in Paris to learn this

    • The Last American Hero

      Help, I moved next to a truck stop and the noise of the diesel engines all day is unpleasant.

      Help, I moved next to a train station and I can here the trains run all night.

      Help, I moved next to the port and I can hear the ships all day long.

      • UnCivilServant

        Sounds like you live inside a regular transit hub.

  4. PieInTheSky

    FBI’s investigation on COVID coverup zeroing in on three separate plots

    what difference at this point does it make etc…

  5. cavalier973

    President Donald Trump submitted detailed budget documents to Congress Friday, clarifying his proposal to cut non-defense federal spending by more than 22 percent in the upcoming fiscal year. The full request includes more than 1,200 pages of proposed cuts, building on the administration’s earlier “skinny budget.”

    • cavalier973

      Despite the administration’s proposals, several Republican appropriators signaled they will not support the deepest cuts. Alaskan Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who chairs the Senate Appropriations subcommittee overseeing EPA funding, criticized the proposed budget as “unserious,” citing “indiscriminate” freezes and “massive” reorganizations, Politico reported.

      Allowing Federal spending to drive the nation into bankruptcy is the only adult option.

      • cavalier973

        Was Murkowski the Senator that was backed up against the wall by another lady Senator?

      • juris imprudent

        20% increases for COVID emergency and Biden’s wish-list were completely acceptable of course.

    • UnCivilServant

      It’s a start.

      But by the time congress gets done, it’ll be a 50% increase in year over year spending.

    • SDF-7

      If you’re submitting budgets where we’re still running deficits, much less trillion dollar ones — you’re not f’ing serious. I don’t really care too much which tune the Titanic band is choosing to play between them.

    • juris imprudent

      I’m a little confused – wasn’t this all part of the one big beautiful bill?

    • Ted S.

      The defense increases are going to swamp the non-defense “cuts”.

  6. SDF-7

    Republican Senators to Watch as Upper Chamber Mulls the Big Beautiful Bill

    English is funny sometimes — I read that twice as “Republican Senators to sit back, watch and do nothing as per usual” instead…. personal biases affecting grammar parsing I suppose.

    Morning (again) all. Morning, Banjos.

    • robc

      do nothing…we can only hope.

  7. Common Tater

    “requiring electric vehicles to audibly reverse like delivery trucks”

    I remember when delivery trucks didn’t audibly reverse, and nothing else happened.

    • cavalier973

      “The law is there to prevent crime. We men of sense are there to prevent foolishness.”

      ~Horace Vandergelder

      • UnCivilServant

        No, the law is there to mete out punishment.

      • cavalier973

        That’s not the quote

      • Common Tater

        Punish people for living in California?

      • cavalier973

        “It is *I*, and *not* the law, that will prevent you from marrying my niece!”

      • cavalier973

        “Thank you for the honor of your visit!”

      • SDF-7

        So when the guy gives up — he’s crying “Uncle”?

    • SDF-7

      Who was it that linked the excellent “Do you want people to DIE?!?” video the other days…. seems apropos here as well. “If it saves one life…” should be instantly regarded the same as “Because I’m a flippin’ moron…”

      • Jarflax

        If it saves one life, it probably costs 200 deaths that happen off stage. The Precautionary Principle necessarily ignores Unintended Consequences.

      • dbleagle

        I am trying to imagine a collaboration between “The Hat and Hair”, SF, and Remy. All I can see is awesome.

  8. rhywun

    “Maybe it’s time for us to be a little meaner, a little bit more fierce, because we have to ferociously push back on this,” Walz told the crowd in the Palmetto State.

    Message received in Seattle, DC, Boulder, et al.

    • juris imprudent

      They’re forgetting that they won’t be running against Trump in ’28, aren’t they?

      • Nephilium

        They will run against Trump until the next great orange menace is found.

      • SDF-7

        Vance will be “neo-Trump” and then MAGA will become the “Trump faction” or something.

        Eventually both side will run women and we can finally have the showdown we’ve been waiting for: Trump-ette vs. Strumpet.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        No matter how milquetoast the next Republican presidential candidate will be he or she will be racist, misogynistic, homophobic, and worse than Trump who is actually Hitler.

      • juris imprudent

        Trump-ette vs. Strumpet

        [sad trombone]

      • EvilSheldon

        Could we get a Trump-ette vs. strumpet vs. crumpet three-way race?

      • AlexinCT

        They’re forgetting that they won’t be running against Trump in ’28, aren’t they?

        You do know that whomever they are running against will be the new worst than Hitler candidate, and either Trump-Hitler Jr. or the new incarnation of the worst Hitler evah!!

        That’s been all they have had since the late 1990s.

      • juris imprudent

        worse than Trump who is actually Hitler

        They keep that up and eventually they’re going to land on Stalin.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Neph gets it.

      • Grumbletarian

        They’re forgetting that they won’t be running against Trump in ’28, aren’t they?

        Of course they won’t be running against Trump, because Trump will have cancelled all elections via executive order by then. Or so I am told.

      • cavalier973

        There will coke a day when proggie froggies will openly pine for the days of President Trump.

      • Not Adahn

        Could we get a Trump-ette vs. strumpet vs. crumpet three-way race?

        Thern they could release a memecoin and make bank on a “pump it dump it” play.

      • Jarflax

        There will coke a day

        surely a diet coke

      • Ted S.

        There will coke a day when proggie froggies will openly pine for the days of President Trump.

        Is that Hunter Biden’s coke? :-p

      • AlexinCT

        They keep that up and eventually they’re going to land on Stalin.

        Never.

        Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, you name the brutal murderous marxist scumbag, and they are a hero to these commie fucks that hate capitalism. And because like Marx, that system sees their brilliance, neglected by others, so they will never speak ill of any of those prophets of their cause.

      • Gustave Lytton

        They’re still whining about evil Reagan gutting government.

    • Rat on a train

      They are just so damn nice to the opposition.

  9. Common Tater

    “A man allegedly injured after an ill-fated trip down a waterslide at Walt Disney World is suing the theme park giant for $50,000 in damages — even though he was more than 30 pounds over the ride’s weight limit at the time.

    In the lawsuit filed last Thursday, Eugene Strickland claims that he is still struggling with the aftermath of “catastrophic injuries” he sustained after riding the Downhill Double Dipper at Disney’s Blizzard Beach Waterpark in July 2021.

    At the time, Strickland weighed 334 pounds, according to the complaint, which put him just over the ride’s 300-pound limit. It is unclear if he was warned about or aware of the weight limit before going down the slide.”

    https://nypost.com/2025/06/02/us-news/334-pound-man-sues-walt-disney-world-over-injuries-sustained-on-waterslide-that-allegedly-didnt-support-his-weight/

    He should sue spoons for making him fat.

    • Ted S.

      334 is not “just over” 300.

      • UnCivilServant

        What? It’s slightly over 111% of the ride capacity.

      • AlexinCT

        Was he forced to take the ride? Cause unless someone put a gun to his head and told him to go there, I have zero fucks to give him.

      • rhywun

        Yeah I got a chuckle out of that.

    • SDF-7

      “It is not the ride that bends — it is yourself. There is no spoon.”

    • juris imprudent

      [injured] in July 2021

      Example #746782346 of why we need loser pays in our legal system.

      • AlexinCT

        Yes, please.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Oh, I am sure Disney will pay. I mean, did they weigh him before he went on the slide? No?

        Then they are at fault.

        I mean, you do understand the plaintiffs bar, don’t you?

      • Common Tater

        If they did weigh him, he would sue them for that.

    • Not Adahn

      When I was a wee lad, there was a waterpark with a giant hyperbolic waterslide. But that wasn’t enough speed so they gave you little 3-runner sleds to reduce your friction as you fell down it. Nobody else seems to have experienced this so either I’m from an alternate timeline, or you are all trying to gaslight me.

      • Dr Mossy Lawn

        I don’t remember a 3-runner water sled at Action Park. Their two first water features were a slide with rubberized mats, and the second was a tube/pool slide.

      • slumbrew

        I never actually went to Action Park – a couple hours away and not the sort of thing my parents would spend money on at the time – but the commercials were a ubiquitous part of my childhood.

    • slumbrew

      I’m guessing the $50,000 was picked as a number lower enough to have Disney settle out of hand. They’ll end up spending more than that on their lawyers.

      I’m wondering if there was a “fuck this guy” moment with the plaintiff and/or his attorney, or a conscious decision not to pay the Danegeld for these obviously frivolous lawsuits.

  10. PieInTheSky

    Sealed cargo containers from China are on American interstates in the tens of thousands.

    And like Russia, not a single US air base has hardened aircraft shelters to protect their military aircraft from cargo container drone swarms.

    https://x.com/TrentTelenko/status/1929237658456178874

    well build some and stimulate the local economy! win win

  11. Common Tater

    “A transgender athlete told her booing critics to “get a life” after dominating the girls’ Washington state track high school championship for the second year in a row — prompting the runner-up to receive praise from the crowd and former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines.

    Verónica Garcia, 17, won the Class 2A 400-meter dash by nearly a second at Mount Tahoma High School on Saturday — a year after becoming the state’s first trans athlete to win a state title, according to the Seattle Times.

    The East Valley High School athlete had been heckled throughout the day and faced open criticism from attendees and competitors.”

    https://nypost.com/2025/06/02/us-news/trans-athlete-tells-critics-to-get-a-life-after-dominating-girls-washington-state-track-high-school-championship-for-second-year-straight/

    Someone should punch that fag in the balls.

    • UnCivilServant

      He needs to get over himself and accept the failure he is. Only then can the healing begin.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      As the defending champion, Garcia led from near-start to finish Saturday afternoon in winning the race in 55.70 seconds at Mount Tahoma Stadium.

      I mean yeah, that is a very doable time for a boy.

    • The Last American Hero

      Preferably the school’s punter.

  12. Common Tater

    “Both of those pieces of evidence were submitted as court filings by Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, who won a $24 billion judgment against China for his state earlier this year.”

    Good luck trying to collect.

    • UnCivilServant

      I suspect the plan was to seize Chinese owned land in Missouri.

      • Jarflax

        Which is why all the hysteria over foreign land ownership is stupid. They can’t exactly pack it up and take it home so what good will the deed do them if we end up in conflict?

    • AlexinCT

      Ban soccer. Not only is it gay, but t’s fans are morons. They do not have the class of basketball or Philly football players!

    • Nephilium

      I wouldn’t know.

    • rhywun

      No mention of the large Antifa presence inside the stadium itself? This violence doesn’t just appear out of thin air.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      They finally won something instead of steamrolling Ligue 1.

  13. PieInTheSky

    Reflections on lager (Part 3)
    How lager came to Britain: First, not at all. Then very slowly. Then rapidly, and in the worst possible way

    https://kristianniemietz.substack.com/p/reflections-on-lager-part-3

    In Britain, this process of lagerisation took an unusual form. For a start, it happened remarkably late in the day. Britain resisted lagerisation for longer than probably any other beer drinking nation in the world. In the early 1960s, when the rest of the beer-drinking world had already fully lagerised, Britain still clung to its bitters and milds, with lager only accounting for about 1% of total beer consumption. But then from about 1970 onwards, Britain overcompensated, lagerising rapidly, indiscriminately, and in the worst possible way.

    There are surviving documents from Bavaria from more than 400 years earlier, which already describe what seems to have been a proto-version of lager. I had a quick look at a German-language newspaper archive to see when the word Lagerbier first appears. The oldest entry I have found was a little advert in the Hamburger Relations-Courier, published in October 1751, which says:

    “This serves as a friendly notification that at the Rödingsmarkt, at Scharmberg’s widow’s, a nice good Lagerbier is available at all times.”

    No further explanation is provided, so Scharmberg’s widow, or whoever placed that ad on her behalf, must have assumed that readers would know what a Lagerbier is.

    Another advert, in the Hamburgische Adreß-Comtoir-Nachrichten from March 1767, offers “Lagerbier, 12 marks a barrel”.

    And in November 1793, the Grossherzoglich Badisches Anzeigeblatt announced:

    “After finally having completed the establishment of the newly set up beer brewery and vinegar distillery at Gruenwinkel, […] vinegar and brandy, as well as simple beer and Lagerbier, of good quality, are now available at a cheap price”.

    I have run the same search in an English-language archive. The oldest entry I have found is from 1849, when the Baltimore Sun offered:

    “Lager beer – from the celebrated Joint Stock Brewery in Philadelphia, always to be had by the Glass, Bottle and Barrel, at Henry Wittich’s Shakespeare House […]

    This beer is much used in Philadelphia and N. York, and has not only a very agreeable taste, but also the property of promoting the digestion and of keeping the stomach in good order. It is a pure article, being mixed neither with drugs nor any other noxious substance. All those who drink it will save the trouble and expense of taking medicine, Come [sic] and try it.”

    If we narrow down the results to UK publications, the first entry we find is from April 1855, when the Manchester Weekly Times and Examiner reported:

    “[A] reporter was sent […] to make inquiries at No. 91, Chatham-street […]

    [T]he reporter found it was a rather dingy looking fourth-rate German lager beershop. The room was filled with Germans drinking large mugs of beer, smoking, conversing, and otherwise amusing themselves. The ceiling of the room was low, and the walls garnished with dirty-looking pictures of very questionable artistic merit.”

    In June 1855, the Times reported from San Francisco:

    “[T]he consumption of English ales and porters is much lessened by the use of an imitation of Bavarian beer, called “lager beer”, brewed here, of which there are already 12 breweries in San Francisco. This lager beer is much used by beer drinkers”.

    • Nephilium

      Lagering requires more time, storage, and temperature control, so it became the more upscale beer. The big advance that caused its popularity to explode? Refrigeration. That allowed for year round production, less waste, and cleaner tasting lagers.

      • PieInTheSky

        but could Scharmberg’s widow’ afford refrigeration?

      • bacon-magic

        She was known as the Ice Queen.

      • DrOtto

        It all goes back to Lucas – why do Brits drink warm beer? Because Lucas makes refrigerators also.

      • kinnath

        It’s not warm. It’s cellar temperature. Which is the proper temperature for a lot of beer styles.

      • slumbrew

        Because Lucas makes refrigerators also.

        I don’t think “The Prince of Darkness” will ever be topped as a derisive company nickname.

      • Sensei

        I don’t think “The Prince of Darkness” will ever be topped as a derisive company nickname.

        Why would a company surrounded by water that makes electrical components have products that fail if they get even slightly damp?

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Because they used shellac for insulation.

      • Dr Mossy Lawn

        Lucas, father of the intermittent windshield wiper.

      • slumbrew

        …the intermittent windshield wiper.

        “What a clever invention!”

        “Uh … yes, clever, totally on purpose.”

  14. Common Tater

    “The cadet “was diagnosed with a high-grade cervical lesion resulting from HPV contracted during the assault,” he explained. “She underwent a procedure in the fall of 2024 to remove the lesion, which was unsuccessful, requiring additional traumatic biopsies during the 2025 spring break…

    Disenrollment means that the cadet would not be commissioned after graduating, but she could still receive her diploma, Younts told Just the News on Tuesday. However, West Point administrators could decide to disenroll her, not give her a diploma and and require her to pay recoupment for her education, which he estimated would “probably be close to $400,000.”

    Younts said that his client had been in enlisted service for three years before she started at West Point. She delayed filing a report of the alleged rape because she was trying to get into the academy. The cadet feared that her goals would be thwarted because enrollment requires recommendations from her chain of command, which included the non-commissioned officer who allegedly raped her. The case was dropped after she didn’t participate in the investigation while she was at West Point.

    The sexual assault is “in her medical records,” and the academy is “aware of it,” Younts noted.”

    https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/education/west-point-cadet-misses-graduation-may-be-reenlisted-failing-physical

    What a mess.

  15. UnCivilServant

    I was all set to have this video debunking psuedoarcheologists running as background noise while I worked. I already have my own dislike of the target of the potential debunking because I saw his work and the mendacity with which he constructed his fiction while deliberately avoiding asking pertinent questions that would undermine it.

    However, the would-be debunker started off with the equally absurd assertion that the target can’t challenge accepted theories because target “has no credentials”. What? That’s not how science works. Even the least credentialed child can challenge your ‘accepted theories’ by asking the right question regarding alternatives and the failings of the hypothesis.

    What makes people appeal to credentialism?

    • Ted S.

      They have credentials and are trying to protect their status.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      “What? That’s not how science works. Even the least credentialed child can challenge your ‘accepted theories’ by asking the right question regarding alternatives and the failings of the hypothesis.

      What makes people appeal to credentialism?”

      Dude, that is how science works now, and has since we set up the academy.

    • WTF

      What makes people appeal to credentialism?

      Weak arguments, usually.

    • AlexinCT

      Like the Ivy’s in the US have been for the last 4 decades?

  16. Common Tater

    “A 41-year-old woman in Fort Pierce, Florida, is facing murder charges after authorities found her 6-year-old son dead and decomposing in his bed, nearly two weeks after he was last seen…

    “What we did learn in speaking with the mother is she believes she was being told by God to basically exorcise demons out of the child’s body,” Sheriff Richard Del Toro said during a press briefing.

    “And when the child had stopped moving and basically passed away, at that point she felt that the child had been released from those demons, and was waiting for him to basically come back, at that time.”…

    On May 17, one day before investigators believe the boy was killed, officers visited the home for a reported medical concern but found no apparent danger to the child at that time.

    Paulynice is now charged with second-degree murder, failure to report a death, and altering a body. She is being held at the St. Lucie County Jail.”

    https://thepostmillennial.com/florida-mom-charged-in-death-of-6-year-old-son-after-trying-to-exorcise-demons-from-him

    Damn.

    • The Last American Hero

      Reason #34243504 why women can’t be priests.

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      Paulynice is now charged with second-degree murder, failure to report a death, and altering a body.

      Failure to report a death? Seems like that would violate the 5th for the killer. I’ve never seen that tacked on a murder charge before.

  17. Sensei

    A survivor of the 2018 Parkland, Fla., school-shooting massacre, Hogg helped build a national gun-control organization and then a political-action committee to elect young progressives to office, earning late-night talk show appearances, a Harvard degree and credit as a bestselling author along the way. </blockquote?

    Hogg is a "survivor" of the Parkland shooting the same way I'm a survivor of 9/11. I was in NYC when it happened and couldn't get back home to NJ for 18 hours. I was, however, 50 blocks away from the WTC.

    Is David Hogg Democrats’ Nightmare, or Savior?

    https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/david-hogg-democratic-party-438503ef?st=KqGras&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

    • Sensei

      Close tag fail!

    • UnCivilServant

      I was about to make the same sort of comparison with regards to survivor status, just not with the same event.

      • Not Adahn

        Murrah bombing survivors in the hizz-ouse!

    • Common Tater

      I survived 911 and the Parkland shooting.

      • Not Adahn

        I survived those, and Y2k! Unfortunately, the end of Net Neutrality got me.

    • slumbrew

      My wife and I are Boston Marathon Bombing survivors by that standard.

      She was actually a few blocks away, which put her far closer to the event than Hogg.

  18. Shpip

    I finally decided to try my hand (so to speak) at AI generated art.

    I think it turned out pretty well for a first effort.

    • UnCivilServant

      Why are all of them in the back standing on their hind legs?

      • Jarflax

        The herd of werewildabeasts did that deliberately so the rear rank could be in the picture.

  19. Common Tater

    “The results of a medical test on Olympic champion Imane Khelif at the 2023 World Championships have suggested the boxer is a biological male.

    The alleged results comes less than two days after World Boxing ruled that Khelif would need to undergo sex screening to be eligible for any future appearances in female events.

    Khelif won a women’s boxing gold medal representing Algeria boxing at the Paris Games.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/boxing/article-14771089/Leaked-medical-report-Imane-Khelif-biological-male-Olympics.html

    SSPTFITB

    • PieInTheSky

      These are results for SPOTIFY
      Search instead for SSPTFITB

      look self-identification is a tried and tested method, no need to look further

      • Jarflax

        SS Physical Training Fitness Institutes Treblinka and Birkenau

    • Not Adahn

      Social Security pays teachers for intentionally torching bras.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      Schutzstaffel plays theater fascist in the Bolshoi?

  20. PieInTheSky

    World Meteorological Organization
    @WMO
    🌍 Europe is the fastest-warming continent and is experiencing serious impacts from extreme weather and climate change.

    Dr. Matthew M. Wielicki
    @MatthewWielicki
    Everywhere is warming faster than everywhere else!!!

    https://x.com/MatthewWielicki/status/1928804406826344882

    • R.J.

      It will be hilarious when they discover the warming in Europe is caused by heat from solar panels.

  21. Common Tater


    Sydney Sweeney reveals the secret to maintaining her very busty figure

    The Euphoria star, 27, often showcases her ample cleavage in low-cut dresses
    She spilled on how she has achieved her enviable physique to The Times
    READ MORE: Sydney Sweeney opens up about living in a Holiday Inn

    By LILLIAN GISSEN FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

    Published: 16:31 EDT, 1 June 2025 | Updated: 09:10 EDT, 2 June 2025

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    Sydney Sweeney has revealed just how she maintains her famously busty figure.

    The Euphoria star, 27, who often showcases her cleavage in low-cut dresses, spilled on how she has achieved her enviable physique during a recent interview with The Times.

    And according to the actress, consuming a ton of sweets are to thank for her gorgeous curvy look.

    While discussing her diet with the publication, she joked that she eats like a ‘toddler,’ with her go-to dishes including ‘cheeseburgers and chicken nuggets and sweet potato fries and chocolate fries and crap pack cheese and hot dogs and peanut bacon sandwiches.’

    She also said she loved to bake desserts at home like marshmallow rice crispy cakes, chocolate chip cookies, and Nutella brownies.

    ‘It all goes to my boobs,’ she added with a laugh.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-14770053/sydney-sweeney-busty-figure-sweets.html

    chocolate fries?

    • Common Tater

      Ack!! Sorry, could someone edit that?

      • Jarflax

        I think you’ll get lynched if you use Crispr to edit her boobs.

      • Common Tater

        What if it made them bigger?

    • PieInTheSky

      genetics.

    • Sean

      Let us know how that works out when you’re in your 30s babe.

      • slumbrew

        Yeah, I was just thinking “that’s going to catch up to you all at once”.

        Still, working out great right now.

      • Nephilium

        You know what slumbrew and Sean? I would likely be willing to take on the terrible responsibility of comforting her for a while when that time comes.

      • slumbrew

        You are a giver, Neph.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        If she’s counting calories…

  22. PieInTheSky

    Reading about the Chinese Civil War and the disparity between the support the USSR provided the Communists and that which the (far wealthier and less war ravaged) US provided the Nationalists is staggering. The US even directly intervened to prevent Chiang from destroying the CCP

    https://x.com/StilichoReads/status/1926687118744600843

    Would global warming be worse if china was never commie?

    • WTF

      That’s what you get with career foreign policy hacks.

  23. Common Tater

    “Scientists have been baffled to discover that South Africa is rising out of the ocean.

    New measurements reveal that the country is rising by as much as two millimetres per year in some places.

    Previously, scientists thought this rapid uplift was due to a phenomenon called mantle flow – the movement of semi-molten rock beneath the Earth’s crust.

    But a new study claims that climate change is actually to blame.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14771567/South-Africa-RISING-ocean-study.html

    Of course.

    • UnCivilServant

      Oh no! The Ice Age is coming again!

    • Jarflax

      The next study will tie it all together and find that Trump caused it.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      Climate Change! It slices, it dices, it Julianne’s!

  24. PieInTheSky

    Vandals cut the flowers off 250 peony plants in the arboretum at the University of Michigan “for Palestine.” It’s peak season.

    Their note tells people to replace their American flags with Palestinian ones.

    https://x.com/sfmcguire79/status/1929313022402519250

    the peony in my moms garden were kind of ruined but the excessive rain we had last week.

    • Not Adahn

      I mean, it’s not as bad as setting Jews on fire.

      • kinnath

        People need to experience some real pain for doing this shit.

      • Jarflax

        We’re getting to the point where I don’t want them to experience pain at all. Punishment only makes sense if we’re keeping them around and modifying behavior. That doesn’t work with mad dogs.

    • slumbrew

      CWABOA

    • rhywun

      Fuck off, commies.

    • EvilSheldon

      “Your petty enjoyments are of no importance; only the STRUGGLE matters! Why are you not STRUGGLING alongside us? Why are you not doing more?”

      I’m sure I’m a bad person, but I really hope that I get to see these assholes get the public beatings they richly deserve…

      • WTF

        The reason they’re not getting their asses kicked is because they are doing it in blues states/cities where the people kicking their assess would be arrested and have the book thrown at them. The left endorses this shit.

      • PieInTheSky

        I was under the impression Ann Arbor is MAGA country.

      • Nephilium

        WTF:

        Sometimes they find that an area isn’t quite as captured as they thought it was.

        (The idiots getting painted have since filed suit against the college.)

      • Nephilium

        PieInTheSky:

        I was under the impression Ann Arbor is MAGA country.

        Maybe compared to Oberlin…

    • Ted S.

      Probably Tosu fans.

  25. Shpip

    Kneecapping the Deep State at the source

    The US government has yanked more than $3 billion in federal grants and contracts from Harvard since April. Other universities are even more exposed: MIT gets 48% of its revenue from the federal government, while Johns Hopkins gets 42%, according to the Urban Institute.

    • AlexinCT

      Seriously, Ivy league degrees, unless they are in tech, are a horrible ROI. And we need people that do real work to again be getting paid, instead of people with useless degrees inventing shit like DEI to rob the tax payers.

    • UnCivilServant

      “Similar” – It shows the city on the opposite side of the Church. These are not comperable slices of landscape. Move to the right and take a better fitting picture.

  26. Suthenboy

    The ‘Transparent fraud wins election’ phenomena is getting out of hand. AOC, Crockett, Sanders…the lot of them really. Now Hogg?
    I heard a congressman giving a speech (not) on CBS news radio yesterday.
    “Donald Trump has done so much bad in such a short time. We need to do just as much good!” <— word for word
    Instantly, exactly on cue, when he finished saying that raucous cheering and applause. It was obviously dubbed in. Far too punctuated to be genuine or spontaneous. They never said where or to whom he was speaking. It was a pitch for 'let's just move on past the disasters and get back to voting democrat'. They said and here is congresscritter so and so without any context. .
    It is all a theater for and by morons. It is all pathetic propaganda.

  27. PieInTheSky

    In honeytrap news:

    Pakistani agents sent “friend requests on Facebook claiming to be Indian women involved in naval research” to an Indian naval contractor.

    Never ceases to amaze me how easy it is to manipulate some guys.

    https://x.com/whyvert/status/1929322079255400453

    if the honeytrap involved bob and bagina what could the poor guy do?

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      So, is there a pic of the Indian woman? ‘Cause, you know…

      • PieInTheSky

        unfortunately journalism is not what it was

  28. The Late P Brooks

    Those zany Italians, putting a twin cam Alfa motor into a Jeep!

    It’s not even a V12.

  29. Shpip

    Florida Woman proves to be an exceptionally slow learner

    The chick was driving drunk (at 16) when she ran a red light and t-boned a newspaper delivery guy, killing him.

    After serving her sentence for DUI manslaughter, she… got shitfaced with her cousins and convinced one of them to let her drive.

    She decided to take a photo of the speedometer registering triple digits with her cell phone, then panicked when the Highway Patrol lit her up. Oopsie.

    Safe to say, the judge was sick of her shit. 67 years in prison for DUI manslaughter #2. Here’s footage of the crash.

    • slumbrew

      “I can never forgive myself”

      Just after the 2nd time? Only because you killed your cousin this time instead of some stranger?

      I’m not filled with sympathy.

      • UnCivilServant

        I was not filled with sympathy after the first time. It doesn’t take much cognitive ability to avoid the decisions which led to that.

        Had I killed someone in a DUI, I would have done everything I can to avoid alcohol ever again. 67 years is too soft a punishment.

    • slumbrew

      “Whipped out his dick in public”

      Well, I guess he wasn’t all bad.

      (Yes, yes he was)

    • UnCivilServant

      We know LBJ was a villain, what else is new? Misunderstanding the quadrants doesn’t really do anything.

    • EvilSheldon

      LBJ’s personal insecurities make Donald Trump look like a model of emotional stability…

    • AlexinCT

      My favorite about that scumbag was his comment that they should accuse his opponent of fucking seep, and that by the time people figured out it was al made up, it would be too late cause his opponent would forever associated with the act of sheep coitus.

      • creech

        Wasn’t there a Florida (D) senator who accused his opponent of “matriculating at college” and that his opponent’s wife was a “known thespian?”

  30. The Late P Brooks

    Common sense

    The Maryland law bans what the state calls “assault weapons” akin to weapons of war like the M16 rifle as well as the AR-15. The measure became law in 2013 in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook school shooting, in which 20 children and six adults were killed the previous year.

    That law was upheld by the Richmond, Virginia-based 4th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals before the Supreme Court’s 2022. A new set of plaintiffs then filed a lawsuit, and the Supreme Court ordered the appeals court to take a second look at the issue. It reached the same conclusion in an August 2024 ruling.

    “The assault weapons at issue fall outside the ambit of protection offered by the Second Amendment because, in essence, they are military-style weapons designed for sustained combat operations that are ill-suited and disproportionate to the need for self-defense,” the court concluded.

    Next the gun nuts will want anti-aircraft batteries on their roofs.

    • slumbrew

      That is quite the pile of bullshit.

      • Akira

        “The assault weapons at issue fall outside the ambit of protection offered by the Second Amendment because, in essence, they are military-style weapons designed for sustained combat operations that are ill-suited and disproportionate to the need for self-defense,”

        Oh goody, it’s THAT tired old line again.

        The firearm that citizens typically owned at the time of the Revolution was a musket – the same exact kind or equivalent to what the military carried. It’s not like the Framers acknowledged some notion that civilians should be limited to a matchlock from 150 years before because “nobody needs to own a Brown Bess”.

      • UnCivilServant

        You forget one more detail – the Kentucky Rifles a lot of those militamen had could outperform the Brown Bess at range, since they were, wel, rifles, and the Brown Bess was a smoothbore musket. The Bess had a faster reload thanks to lack of rifling, and a larger bore, so the line infantry had the advantage in sheer volume of fire if they managed to close in good order.

    • UnCivilServant

      “The assault weapons at issue fall outside the ambit of protection offered by the Second Amendment because, in essence, they are military-style weapons designed for sustained combat operations that are ill-suited and disproportionate to the need for self-defense,” the court concluded.

      Okay, dumbass, some quick consitutional law review.

      A: “Need” Ain’t got shit to do with it. You do not have the authority for this type of infringement. It has been expressly removed from your purview.

      B: “Weapons of war” would be More protected for the milita to own as they would be expected to fight hostile governments, foreign and domestic.

      C: Even if it mattered, you’re talking about semiautomatic sporting rifles.

    • kinnath

      The declaration says that when government no longer represents the interests of the people, the people have the right and the responsibility to remove that government — by all means necessary — including armed revolution.

      The constitution says you the people have the right to keep and bear arms thus providing the people with the means to remove government should the need arise.

      Hunting and self-defense are not relevant.

      • Gustave Lytton

        And despite being irrelevant, the court is wrong about using modern sporting rifles for both of those activities.

    • Jarflax

      Only if the AA is quad .50 mounts. I need something that can be repurposed to handle ground threats.

    • EvilSheldon

      The fuck you mean, “Next?”

      • AlexinCT

        ^^^^THIS^^^^

      • UnCivilServant

        I always assumed you had an array of camouflaged pop-up turrets away from the main compound to engage threats at range.

      • EvilSheldon

        “I always assumed you had an array of camouflaged pop-up turrets away from the main compound to engage threats at range.”

        I’m not a big fan of static defense arrangements. Mobility is key when you’re fighting a larger unconventional force – hence the drones, orphan sniper teams, and armor-plated Toyota Prius technicals…

      • UnCivilServant

        Mobility requires room to maneuver. Sometimes you just need to be dug in like a tick.

    • creech

      If “self defense” weapons are o.k. but “assault” weapons aren’t, then heavy machine guns should pass muster as they’ve been mostly used by armies to protect from assaults.

  31. Suthenboy

    The free Palestine activists have exactly the same pattern and feel of Antifa, BLM, the tranny thing etc. All of the leftist causes.
    We never find out who is behind those things. Odds that is all the same people?

    • R.J.

      Rhymes with “Morose.”

      • AlexinCT

        Well played…

        And the money came from US tax payers through various sundries…

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      They are the same people, Suth. The cause de jour is the cause.

    • rhywun

      It is all the same people.

  32. The Late P Brooks

    If you gave a group of twelve year old boys a pile of money, dirty books and illegal stimulants, this is what they’d probably come up with: Machete Kills.

    It’s spectacular.

    • UnCivilServant

      There’s a film I hadn’t heard of in a while.

      I still wonder how they get around the “Felon in possession” laws when filming these movies. I suppose they might not be actual firearms they give him as props…

    • Ted S.

      Not <<

      • Ted S.

        Er, not Nude Nuns With Big Guns?

    • Not Adahn

      Yup. I am still holding out hope for Machete Kills… In Space!

    • EvilSheldon

      Charlie Sheen as ‘President Rathcock’. Fucking perfect.

  33. The Late P Brooks

    Trump’s war

    What Trump says he is tempted to do, though, is simply walk away from the whole mess. This is Biden’s war, he insists, or Putin’s and Zelensky’s.

    But walking away – and it is unclear what that means in terms of US policy – may no longer be an option. At least not walking away unscathed.

    His own insistence on ending the Ukraine conflict, along with his personal interventions with the Ukrainian and Russian leaders, means that Trump and the United States are now inextricably linked with the outcome.

    That’s why events on the battlefield and at the negotiating table in Istanbul are being watched so closely.

    Despite his regular attempts to disown it, the Ukraine war has very much become Trump’s war on which US credibility now hangs by a thread.

    It kind of seems as if Trump is the only one who doesn’t want the war to continue. what a monster.

    • Jarflax

      I have a German friend who keeps bringing up the horrors of the US having irrevocably damaged our reputation as a reliable ally and insisting that Europe having been unreliable as an ally for decades is irrelevant because the stability of the world depends on us not them. The whole thing sounds like the abusive spouse whining about how unfair it is that the abused spouse finally had enough and filed for divorce.

  34. robc

    Have we discussed the Boulder flamethrower attack? Didnt see it in the linx.

    • robc

      Never mind, see the link now. Missed that one somehow.

      • Ted S.

        It’s not as if anyone reads the links.