Tuesday Morning Links

by | Jul 15, 2025 | Daily Links | 338 comments

No sports. The Home Run Derby doesn’t count in my book. I’ll just post a rumor. And then move along…

Won’t somebody think of the (people who want to keep mutilating) kids? In a just world, these butchers would have a lot more happen to them than just being shut down.

This should just be the start, not the end. Have some balls. Get the chainsaw out.

Just cut the staffing and stop the orders of those goofy electric trucks. Or did cutting spending never occur to these people?

Actions have consequences. Have fun, buddy. It’s all on video.

Oh, no! Anyway.

I can’t believe the Supreme Court has puppeteers on staff for their entertainment. And it’s racist for them to just be scared by the only black woman on the court.

“You better keep illegally discriminating, or else!” Seriously, can this grifter please just go away?

Good. Now do it at the rest of the departments, as promised.

Not a summer cold! Better start throwing people at playgrounds in jail and closing the beaches.

Good. Both are important. Unless you hate women.

Here’s a lovely track. Such an interesting band. They don’t get enough love. Enjoy them both.

And enjoy this lovely Tuesday, dear friends.

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338 Comments

  1. Common Tater

    “Actions have consequences. Have fun, buddy. It’s all on video.”

    He even looks like an asshole.

    • Not Adahn

      The hiring committe liked him, so…

    • rhywun

      They all look exactly like that. It’s impressive, really.

  2. Sensei

    Oh, no! Anyway.

    Haskell in January 2024 pleaded not guilty to murdering 37-year-old Mei, her mother Yanking Wang, 64 and father, Gaoshan Li, 72.

    Mom might want to have considered using a western name. No tears shed for Haskell, however.

    • sloopyinca

      How did I miss that?!?!

      • The Other Kevin

        You were thinking of Sum Ting Wong.

    • SDF-7

      Haven’t heard of the case before — but it sounds like it all came apart. He must have thought his attitude would diss members of the Court.

    • sloopyinca

      What I don’t get is that he committed the crimes in Nov 2023. He was arraigned 18 months ago. And the trial hadn’t even started yet.

      They gotta speed up the CJS. That’s ridiculous.

    • rhywun

      She probably did not feel the need to Curry favor with the Haskells.

      • Pope Jimbo

        That is a spicy take

    • DrOtto

      Goes back to when we got names for what we did as a trade

      • UnCivilServant

        when we got names for what we did as a trade

        DrOtto

        UnCivilServant

        Are we sure we got away from that?

      • slumbrew

        “You see that dock out there? Built it myself, hand crafted each piece, and it’s the best dock in town! But do they call me “McGregor the dock builder”? No!

      • Threedoor

        Luke Metal Gluer dosent really roll off the tongue.

  3. Shpip

    Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is building a convincing case against the Supreme Court’s conservative wing, and congressional Democrats could stand to learn from her.

    Ah, yes… the woman who never shuts up during oral arguments (and who’s most often-used phrase is “I don’t understand“) has something to teach those big meanie textualist-originalist jurists.

    “Results-based jurisprudence” is hopefully going the way of the dodo, but not if Ketanji has anything to say about it.

    • SDF-7

      I don’t think KBJ can build a convincing case to breath oxygen, personally.

      • sloopyinca

        Good thing for her breathing is an involuntary action. Otherwise she’d have probably not made it this far in life.

      • Nephilium

        Why do you hate chocolate RBG?

      • juris imprudent

        Don’t insult RBG like that. She may have had bad positions but that woman actually could think and write.

      • DrOtto

        Yeah, Ginsburg knew how to contort the law/legal theory in her decisions. This bitch stands like that statue in New York with her arms crossed and thinks she can brow beat a decision through nothing more than “I’d like to see your manager.” She really is an idiot who has been failed up her entire life.

      • (((Jarflax

        It takes a solid intellect to construct coherent legal arguments for positions antithetical to the Constitution and Common Law. When you try to do it as an idiot you get the gibberish KBJ is becoming famous for.

      • Tonio

        “She really is an idiot who has been failed up her entire life.”

        I often wonder if ppl like KBJ, Kamala Harris, et als, know they are merely DEI checkboxes, or if they actually believe all the hype and bullshit about them.

      • (((Jarflax

        I think Kamala realizes it. That’s what those outbursts of nervous laughter seem to indicate to me.

      • R C Dean

        I think Affirmative Action Jackson absolutely believes the bullshit.

      • DrOtto

        I don’t think Kamala started as a DEI hire. She had other attributes as a young hire, that got her the job. She grew into the DEI role, which was more dignified, if less honest, than her earlier career climb.

      • slumbrew

        Not so much “climbing” as “descending” early in her earlier days.

      • Cunctator

        –“I don’t think Kamala started as a DEI hire.”–

        Joe Biden made her a DEI hire by saying he was going to select a woman of color. All he had to say was the he interviewed several candidates and he thought Kamala was the best qualified.

        She had not won a contested election and didn’t win a single convention delegate when she ran.

        She was a DEI hire.

      • sloopyinca

        “You gotta go down before you can move up.”
        -Kamala

    • Rat on a train

      On this week’s Amicus podcast, Dahlia Lithwick talked with Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island about what the high court’s most junior justice is trying to teach us about the judiciary and institutions and naming the problem.
      from one intellectual giant to another

      • sloopyinca

        I assume he’s not gonna invite her to his beach club to discuss the matter with the membership.

      • R C Dean

        And here I thought judges were supposed to decide cases, not “teach us” about “naming the problem”, whatever the fuck that is.

      • juris imprudent

        You know, of the three of the people in that context (Lithwick, Whitehouse and Jackson) – it really is a toss-up as to who the biggest dumbfuck is.

    • UnCivilServant

      So, is sheer incompetence grounds for impeachment?

      • Threedoor

        “Good behavior”

  4. Common Tater

    “But former gubernatorial candidate for the state of Georgia Stacey Abrams has a word of warning for corporations changing their policies to placate a new political order: It won’t stop here.”

    Didn’t she lose twice? Why is anyone listening to her at all?

    • SDF-7

      Why does anyone listen to “Reverend” Al? They must be telling some folks what they want to hear, and that makes them useful “spokespeople” for people looking to leverage said groups for more grift / power, I think.

      • rhywun

        Why does anyone listen to “Reverend” Al?

        Yeah, because he delivers votes.

        I’m sure the thought process is the same with her. Or at least in her head.

      • UnCivilServant

        Has that bobblehead delivered any votes in decades?

      • rhywun

        Well, he is a mandatory stop on the Democrat campaign circuit so I would have to guess yes.

      • DrOtto

        Biden listened to the good Reverend when he told Biden to not ban menthol cigarettes. That was all about votes.

      • UnCivilServant

        Could be Cargo Cult Campaigning – “The way it’s always been done”

    • sloopyinca

      Confirmations bias. They pay her to speak because she’s going to say exactly what they already believe and she has a national following, so it’ll get reported on.

    • Rat on a train

      The election was stolen from her twice!

  5. invisible finger

    Not even a John Foxx era track 🙁

    • rhywun

      Ha. I only investigated some of those albums much, much later. This track is a favorite.

    • Beau Knott

      Hiroshima Mon Amour for Foxx era. Vienna for the reconstituted band immediately post-Foxx.

      • rhywun

        Hiroshima Mon Amour

        Yup, great stuff.

      • rhywun

        Vienna for the reconstituted band

        Another favorite.

    • sloopyinca

      I’m just glad they’re getting the love they deserve from this group. Even if it took complaints about my selections to get us there.

  6. cavalier973

    Some of the city-side carriers have gotten the duck trucks, and they say they are awful to deliver mail from.

    As for cutting costs, some of my coworkers are having to pay back money because they worked too many hours, or something.

    • cavalier973

      For myself, I get paid for a set number of hours, but I’ve been given a route that takes an extra couple of hours each day more than what is allotted.

      So, I’m, in a sense, working free of charge a couple of hours each day. It’s a weird hybrid of hourly and salary.

      • The Last American Hero

        Just pull a Newman and save up the extra mail for another day

    • cavalier973

      Also, Amazon sucks, and Amazon prime is literally Hitler.

    • cavalier973

      I’m looking at a duck truck now; it is about two feet taller than the LLV, so some routes are going to be hitting basketball goals that the LLVs passed beneath without trouble.

      • cavalier973

        That is vehicle is unattractive.

        But, it looks spacious.

    • Threedoor

      I have a DJ5
      Slap a drive axle in the front for northern climes and build them again.

      Or simply buy Mahindras

  7. Shpip

    “Texas leadership has made their opinion loud and clear—they do not believe trans people have the right to call Texas home,” the Transgender Education Network of Texas wrote on Instagram.

    Hysterical histrionics are the way to convince those on the fence to join your side. This is known.

    • Suthenboy

      Hysterical histrionics….from an organization devoted to “LOOK AT ME!! I DEMAND EVERYONE LOOK AT ME NOW!!!”
      Imagine that.

      • juris imprudent

        Immediately followed by:

        DON’T STARE AT ME LIKE THAT!!! YOU’RE OTHERING ME!!!!!

      • Tonio

        Wait, I thought trans invisibility was the problem.

  8. Common Tater

    “LOS ANGELES (AP) — Growing up, Sage Sol Pitchenik wanted to hide.

    “I hated my body,” the nonbinary 16-year-old said. “I hated looking at it.””

    Only two sentences in and already bullshit.

    • SDF-7

      Because indulging the body issues of teenagers (especially teenaged girls) has always been the best path for their well-being (and society). We all remember the starvation clinics of the ’80s for Anorexia Positivity, right?

      F’ing ghouls.

      • Nephilium

        You joke. There’s groups out there that are Pro Anorexia (Warning: this is not a joke site, this is a serious site with people with mental issues).

      • Derpetologist

        Never tell an anorexic to lighten up.

    • Common Tater

      “For some patients, the next step is puberty blockers; for others, it’s also hormone replacement therapy. Surgeries are rarely offered to minors.”

      Puberty blockers are just bad medicine.

    • Common Tater

      “Brenner, who uses the pronoun they, didn’t see people who looked like them growing up or come to understand what being trans meant until their mid-20s.”

      That’s because non-binary was bullshit invented around 2014.

    • Common Tater

      “Trans children and teens are at increased risk of suicidal thoughts and behaviors, according to a 2024 study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.”

      But not suicide.

      • Tonio

        The mentally ill of whatever stripe do attempt, sometimes successfully, suicide at a higher rate than the general population.

      • Common Tater

        “Trans children and teens” don’t have a higher rate of completed suicide. So it was a false tactic to threaten parents.

      • Threedoor

        41%

      • Common Tater

        “41%”

        Fake number.

    • Common Tater

      ““It’s a political decision, not a medical one, and that’s disturbing to me,” she said.”

      It was a political decision to open the clinic, and a medical one to close it.

      • rhywun

        It’s all just a pile of lies.

        The more the activists lose the more hysterical they are going to get so look forward to much more of this.

  9. SDF-7

    Get the chainsaw out.

    Don’t I wish… wanted a Millei inspired Admin… got maybe an eightieth of a click of the ratchet back if we’re lucky… and honestly, I don’t expect it to hold.

    • juris imprudent

      Hey, they’re gonna talk about $9B in recissions! What more could you want against a budget in the trillions?

      • UnCivilServant

        Quadrillions in cuts. If we are flush with a surplus for centuries, keep cutting.

      • R C Dean

        And they are already whittling those back.

        Hell, there was a story on the local news here last night about how some NIH grants to the U of A have been restored.

        We will not see meaningful spending cuts without near-100% turnover in Congress. And that is functionally impossible.

      • UnCivilServant

        Well, RC, if your current avatar were a picutre of DC whilst congress were in session, we’d have to get a new one.

      • rhywun

        Donald just announced he’s throwing many more billions than that at fucking “AI”.

        The ratchet is already resuming its usual spin.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      I’ll be surprised if they cut funding for nazi Elmo.

  10. SDF-7

    Not a summer cold

    It is as if viruses never truly go away (only mutate to forms less likely to kill their host so they can breed) and we’re in a perpetual arms race between our immune systems and micro-organisms.

    Gasp.

    Shock.

    (Seriously… did these idiots think a virus would ever really “go away” if you keep testing for it? SF really does love ignoring history…)

    • Ownbestenemy

      Im actually more concerned that government officials are harvesting DNA and RNA from poop without people’s consent

  11. Shpip

    “This notion that simply complying a little bit stops at the water’s edge is antithetical to every history we have ever written, and it costs you,” she said on a panel at NYU School of Law on July 11.

    True enough on its face, as that’s how we got DEI in the first place.

    But sometimes the pendulum swings back.

  12. Suthenboy

    The trans thing….that is some sick, evil shit. I dont even know how to describe those people.

    Whatever Trump’s shortcomings just by doing the few things that are long overdue that I thought would never be done makes him the best president in my lifetime. Granted, he doesnt go far enough to suit me but I will take what I can get.

    The post office is not constitutionally required. The constitution merely says that congress has the power to establish a postal service, not required to do so. Originally it was meant to be a source of income. It has become a giant money suck and jobs program. Get rid of it.

    Professor arrested: Ok, that’s one. Only 5000 more to go.

    Demonic murderer ‘suicide’. Ok, that’s one. Only 1,000,000 to go.

    Slate: Wow. That is some distilled crazy right there.

    Abrahms: Gibberish. Commies and their crazy-ass crazy.

    DOE: See my comment above. Shut them down. They are just straight up communist demoralizers.

    They are still on about the cootiebug scam? Really?

    • Ownbestenemy

      I could have sworn it was just post offices and roads, not even the service. I read that as infrastructure provided. Which, in a sense it has.

      • Suthenboy

        One employee with a sidewalk out to a drop box would do.
        The only thing that shows up in my mailbox is junk mail from grifters and grocery store fliers.

      • Cunctator

        –“I could have sworn it was just post offices and roads, not even the service. I read that as infrastructure provided. Which, in a sense it has.”–

        Two things that tell me that the Framers considered inexpensive universal postal service an important government service:
        1) Most (but not all) postal systems at the time were tied to governments
        2) One of the first cabinet level offices was Postmaster General

      • Nephilium

        Cunctator:

        While that’s true, I also doubt they expected anything along the lines of nearly free, nearly instantaneous, real time communication anywhere in the world.

      • (((Jarflax

        In an era where the only long distance information transmission was printed matter physically delivered a universal system of delivery for such material is a vital Government service, especially if you are in the process of trying to unite far flung polities with significantly different cultures into a unified nation. It seems perfectly justifiable in even an extremely minarchist view if for no other reason than that it is required for the promulgation of laws. Much of that justification has faded over time, and it has become increasingly clear that it is never going to be self supporting.

      • Cunctator

        –“it has become increasingly clear that it is never going to be self supporting.”–

        Vital government services are not required to be self-supporting. The argument about other communication services being available is not relevant. There are millions of people who still use snail mail. True, most snail mail is junk, but there was junk mail (advertising circulars, etc.) in the 1800’s.

        I personally believe that universal mail is an important part of communications between Americans.

      • Suthenboy

        It was vital at one time, yes.
        Now, not at all.

      • Cunctator

        –“It was vital at one time, yes. Now, not at all.”

        Only if you don’t use it. Millions do, for very important parts of their lives.

      • The Last American Hero

        The post office is a scam. I have to pay tax dollars to literally have trash delivered to my house, which immediately goes into a bin that…wait for it…is picked up by another service I now need to pay for paid for, selected by my municipality. Here’s a thought – you should be able to file a “no solicitations” form with the post office (online of course) and then the junk mail and political ads stay out of your mailbox. Stamps would then cost about $15.

      • Common Tater

        “Only if you don’t use it. Millions do, for very important parts of their lives.”

        It’s also often a legal requirement that someone is notified by mail.

      • Threedoor

        Authorization of the Establishment of post offices and routes.

        No requirement for either.
        No stated ownership or inability to privatize.

    • rhywun

      giant money suck and jobs program

      That is exactly why it will never go away.

      • Threedoor

        The pipeline from shitty solider to shitty post office employee is impressive.

      • ron73440

        Someone has to hire the ones the TSA doesn’t get.

  13. rhywun

    Enjoy them both.

    👍 My first college financial aid check helped buy all their existing albums at the time.

    • rhywun

      (From Vienna forward…)

  14. Not Adahn

    I was questioning whether the JuCo teacher was actually a professor, but his school is calling him one so I guess he is. At least they were wise enough to make standing by him conditional on his being just a peaceful protestor. That seems a significant improvement.

  15. Common Tater

    “If passed, HB 32 would apply to bathrooms in public facilities like K-12 schools, state universities and buildings owned by state or local governments, requiring transgender Texans using bathrooms or changing facilities in them to use the facility corresponding with the sex on their original birth certificate. While the bill does not apply penalties to individuals”

    So socon virtue signalling in response to a non-existent problem. No one wants Blaire White in the men’s room, or trans men in the ladies room.

    • UnCivilServant

      A: There should be penalties.

      B: if you’ve gone so far as to be able to pass, it might be difficult to get caught.

      C: The fetishists and the trenders outnumber of the true dysphorics, and are the target of the legislation.

      • Common Tater

        A: There should be penalties.

        For using the bathroom that causes the least disturbance?

        B: if you’ve gone so far as to be able to pass, it might be difficult to get caught.

        Not what the law says.

        C: The fetishists and the trenders outnumber of the true dysphorics, and are the target of the legislation.

        Do you have any evidence of this?

      • UnCivilServant

        A: It’s not the least disturbance when you stand out like a sore thumb.

        B: If you pass, the odds of being noticed and reported are low, it’s simple logic. If you keep getting reported for going in the wrong bathroom, you clearly are deluding yourself about your appearance.

        C: Before the trans trenders, dysphorics were less than 0.01% of the population. Statistical listing of self-identifiers is ranging significantly higher than that. While I don’t put much faith in polling, the self-identifiers are the ones barging into the wrong bathrooms anyway. It’s a matter of statistics.

      • Common Tater

        “A: It’s not the least disturbance when you stand out like a sore thumb.”

        So you are being deliberately obtuse?

        “C: Before the trans trenders, dysphorics were less than 0.01% of the population. Statistical listing of self-identifiers is ranging significantly higher than that. While I don’t put much faith in polling, the self-identifiers are the ones barging into the wrong bathrooms anyway. It’s a matter of statistics.”

        The statistics show nothing. No one knows the numbers. Many of these statistics include “non-binary” and “gender non-conforming” as trans. However, there was a huge increase in actual MTF in the U.S. starting around 2005.

      • Tonio

        Without penalties the law is meaningless. But penalties and enforcement opens a whole other can of worms. The left will doubtlessly engage in malicious false reporting. Imagine having some bureaucrat demand to see up your daughter’s skirt before she can go to the stalls.

      • Nephilium

        Common Tater:

        The statistics show nothing. No one knows the numbers. Many of these statistics include “non-binary” and “gender non-conforming” as trans. However, there was a huge increase in actual MTF in the U.S. starting around 2005.

        Honest question here, if the statistics show nothing, and no one knows the number, how do we know there was a huge increase in 2005?

      • UnCivilServant

        In what way am I the obtuse one when you’re the one ignoring the point?

        The reason people are passing these laws because it’s popular to not want the bearded pervert going “But I’m really a womaaan!” in the girls’ rooms, especially when they start taking pictures like Disney Tino.

      • Common Tater

        “Honest question here, if the statistics show nothing, and no one knows the number, how do we know there was a huge increase in 2005?”

        Casual observation. I can only qualify there was a dramatic increase, not quantify it. It’s about when obviously more of them started showing up at social events and on the internet. I’ve seen numbers regarding spironolactone and estrogen prescriptions that support that, but that isn’t good evidence.

        The statistics show nothing because they can’t agree on proper definitions, and often rely on self-identification.

      • Common Tater

        “In what way am I the obtuse one when you’re the one ignoring the point?”

        Using the bathroom that causes the least disturbance is the opposite of sticking out like a sore thumb.

        “The reason people are passing these laws because it’s popular to not want the bearded pervert going “But I’m really a womaaan!” in the girls’ rooms, especially when they start taking pictures like Disney Tino.”

        That’s one guy. What you seem to be missing there aren’t all these “bearded perverts” in the girls’ rooms, but there would be if trans men followed the law.

      • Nephilium

        Common Tater:

        Casual observation. I can only qualify there was a dramatic increase, not quantify it. It’s about when obviously more of them started showing up at social events and on the internet. I’ve seen numbers regarding spironolactone and estrogen prescriptions that support that, but that isn’t good evidence.

        The statistics show nothing because they can’t agree on proper definitions, and often rely on self-identification.

        To be a devil’s advocate here, that’s a dramatic increase in your experience, it doesn’t necessarily extend to a nationwide trend. From my experience, I’ve known three trans people (all either in the year of living as the other, or after some surgeries and hormone replacement). All three of them were FTM, I’ve not knowingly met a MTF that was not in the modern “non-binary” type, unless you want to count drag performers from the 90s, and most of them would have been offended if you called them that.

      • Not Adahn

        Imagine having some bureaucrat demand to see up your daughter’s skirt before she can go to the stalls.

        I’m certain there can be some sort of probable cause equivalent here. ESPECIALLY in the public schools where all the kids are pre-vetted as to their identities.

      • UnCivilServant

        CT – I think we’re talking past each other.

        There are categories of people playing make-believe as the opposite sex.

        Type 1 – Those who “Pass” and casual observation doesn’t reveal the ruse.

        Type 2 – Those who have made some effort but who will never pass.

        Type 3 – Those who made no effort but assert that mere statement of counterfactual makes it so.

        In each there are two subtypes. Subtype A knows what they look like. Subtype B are convinced that they are a Type 1.

        Nobody is going to call out a Type 1 in violation of the law because there will be no genetic testing. Type 2b and 3bs who have convinced themselves that they will not get caught will run afoul of it, being disruptive in the violation. Honest Type 2a and 3as who follow the law won’t be disruptive. Dishonest Type 2a and 3as who decide to break the law are no different in execution than 2b or 3bs.

        You keep insisting there are no numbers while acting as though the Type 1s are the most common. They are not – simply because it is so much effort and difficulty to disguise what genes hath wrought.

      • Common Tater

        “To be a devil’s advocate here, that’s a dramatic increase in your experience, it doesn’t necessarily extend to a nationwide trend.”

        It was also happening on the internet. Tumblr and the image boards were a big part of that trend.

        There was also an obvious increase in American MTF sex workers — escort ads and porn.

      • Common Tater

        “You keep insisting there are no numbers while acting as though the Type 1s are the most common. They are not – simply because it is so much effort and difficulty to disguise what genes hath wrought.”

        So there would be more fake doctors than real doctors because medical school is difficult? Yes, there are a few trolls on Tik Tok that get lots of publicity. That doesn’t mean people falsely claiming to be trans outnumber people who actually are.

      • UnCivilServant

        When you count the number of people who give out medical opinions – yes there are a shitton more fake doctors than real ones.

      • Nephilium

        Common Tater:

        It was also happening on the internet. Tumblr and the image boards were a big part of that trend.

        There was also an obvious increase in American MTF sex workers — escort ads and porn.

        Talking about it more on the internet and ads does not mean that it was becoming more frequent, just more acceptable to talk about. Do you really think there’s been a huge upswing in incest over the past several years based on porn?

      • Common Tater

        “Talking about it more on the internet and ads does not mean that it was becoming more frequent, just more acceptable to talk about.”

        Well, no, it wasn’t just more talk, it was more actual people. Look at Brazil and Thailand. The number of MTF is also cultural. The much more recent and undeniable increase in FTM often attributed to “social contagion”. Young males seeing others transitioning lead to more of them transitioning. It was obvious to anyone paying attention at the time.

        “Do you really think there’s been a huge upswing in incest over the past several years based on porn?”

        I don’t know if there has been a huge upswing in incest porn. Seems like it’s been a perennial theme since the 70’s. However, you do realize they are just actors?

    • sloopyinca

      I think it’s more to make sure high school girls don’t have to change in front of a boy before and after gym class. And college students don’t have to go in the dorm showers and undress next some dude in a dress.

      • Rat on a train

        * dress not required

      • Common Tater

        Locker rooms and public bathrooms are two very different things.

      • sloopyinca

        I’m talking about the ones at public schools and schools that receive public funding.

        And they’re often the same.

      • Common Tater

        Well, a huge difference is that people don’t get naked to use the bathroom.

      • Nephilium

        Common Tater:

        Why do you hate Butters?

        In a more serious note, anyone wearing bib shorts does actually have to partially strip to use a bathroom. It’s a real PITA.

      • sloopyinca

        It’s not about that exclusively. I don’t think I’m gonna want my 14 year old daughter going into a high school bathroom in a couple years with a mentally ill boy in the same room with her. Females need female only spaces for their emotional well-being. Especially at that age.

        Call me old fashioned, but that’s how I feel.

      • R C Dean

        “people don’t get naked to use the bathroom”

        Was that wrong? Should I not have done that?

    • R C Dean

      “While the bill does not apply penalties to individuals”

      So it’s not really a requirement, is it?

      It’s like immigration enforcement, unfortunately. If you want to solve a problem, it’s a lot easier to be restrained, nuanced, and civil when it’s a small problem. At some point, though, the problem reaches a point where that just doesn’t work.

    • Suthenboy

      Women dont have peckers. I checked. They dont have them.
      If you have a pecker stay out of the women’s room.

      This is the perfect commie culture war issue. Take something exceedingly simple and jumble up people’s thinking so that they begin repeating complete absurdities.

      • Homple

        ^^This.

    • Threedoor

      They can find one holers.

    • sloopyinca

      Although she misses something that happened right before 1972.

      You mean the release of Led Zeppelin IV?

      • Common Tater

        Yes, playing Stairway To Heaven backwards changes monetary policy.

      • UnCivilServant

        Why would you want the energetic creshendo at the start and then have to suffer through the slow parts towards the end?

    • PieInTheSky

      Wait this chick is still a thing?

      • Threedoor

        She’s 34.
        There is still a chance for her to have a couple kids and pull here head out of her fourth point of contact.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Meh. Her issue is complaining about over generalizing ‘boomers’ comments (which is…everyone slightly older than her?) while overgenralizing ‘boomers’

      • Common Tater

        Doesn’t sound like that is her issue. Anyway, she’s 34.

  16. PieInTheSky

    MILO
    @Nero
    There’s always somebody worse off than you. Today, that person is Chuck Johnson, who will shortly discover how much he has to pay a company he co-founded for pretending to be a federal agent, investor and intelligence asset. Johnson is close friends with Nick Fuentes.

    Charles Johnson was found liable, by a jury, for a minimum of $40 million in damages. This is before attorneys fees and other fines. It will likely end up being around $70 million.

    https://x.com/CurrentRevolt/status/1944891213804454033

    I have no idea who this person is but that is a lot of money. US lawsuits are weird.

    • DrOtto

      “Fucking piker” – Alex Jones

  17. Shpip

    It’s fixin’ to get a bit moist around these here parts.

    If you hear a faint gurgling sound, it’s probably me or Derpy (or maybe Brett L) trying to surface.

    New Orleans / Mississippi Glibs, this is your weekend.

    • sloopyinca

      Broken link.

      • sloopyinca

        I hope our beach house doesn’t get damaged. Or the new fence we put in, for that matter. (Although we did have the boards installed a few inches above ground level in case of light flooding in the area.)

    • kinnath

      A tornado passed about 4 miles away from my house last Friday. A wee bit wet as well.

  18. Derpetologist

    The up-and-coming commie dingleberry – his pitch from 5 years ago

    Socialism Explained in One Minute | Zohran Mamdani for State Assembly
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz2eMU7ID2w

    • DrOtto

      I noticed he didn’t include food on his needs list. That must be why socialists are always starving.

      • Derpetologist

        QUIET, YOU!

    • juris imprudent

      “…everything the state needs to provide…”

      Everything within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.

    • rhywun

      Someone pointed out that even worse that having a socialist mayor, he will enable the worst lunatic batshittery coming out of the city council, many of whom are even worse than him – stuff that Adams has been the only thing blocking so far.

    • Suthenboy

      Jeebus, what a cookie cutter commie. That’s who they want for mayor? They can have him and all that goes with that.

      • The Last American Hero

        I’m starting to think we need to not just cede territory to the crazies. You do that too much and you wind up in a compound surrounded by crazies.

    • Threedoor

      Hugo Boss you say?

    • Not Adahn

      Chief Growth Officer? I thought Krispy Kreme made people bigger without any particular effort required.

    • Rat on a train

      Can’t compete with some of the hipster IT titles.

      • Sensei

        + 1 Chief Customer Officer

      • Rat on a train

        Recruiting for Gurus, Wizards, Ninjas, Rockstars and Evangelists

        Job titles can go through trends just like anything else. We decided to take a look at the job titles using the words Guru, Wizard, Ninja, Rockstar or Evangelist in the title. In the past 90 days, there have been 600 ads that included these words in the job titles.

      • Not Adahn

        No “Pirate?”

      • UnCivilServant

        No “Pirate?”

        Oh, no, that’s the “Office of Opportunity Acquisition”

  19. Common Tater

    “TikTokker Nicole Or — who goes by @nicoleee461 — claimed that she’s heard of single women popping into a Midtown lunch spot during the work week to steal finance bros’ salads and then use the name on the order to look them up on LinkedIn to message them….

    The Post did not come across any videos of women saying they’ve actually pursued a potential date this way.”

    https://nypost.com/2025/07/14/lifestyle/single-women-resort-to-stealing-mens-lunches-to-get-their-attention/

    How about reporting actual news?

    • Rat on a train

      Finance bros are looking for a higher-end thief.

    • R C Dean

      Fake news. Finance bros don’t eat salads.

      • slumbrew

        *eyes brother*

        TBF, he may have aged out of the “bro” demo. “Finance dad”?

    • Ownbestenemy

      Know what is even more reliable? The stars.

      • Ted S.

        [ Not Adahn has entered the chat ]

      • Not Adahn

        Thanks for the reminder! I hit the road for SIG tomorrow.

      • DEG

        SIG?

        I’ve heard good places about this place, which is not far from SIG.

      • Not Adahn

        Thanks! I may check it out.

        There is a pub in a church nearby which I enjoyed last time. The mints in the baptismal font were a bit more disrespectful than I’d like but the beer and food were great.

      • DEG

        Is the pub this place? That’s new to me. Maybe I’ll treck out there one day.

      • Not Adahn

        Yep, that’s it. They had Old Speckled Hen on tap.

    • invisible finger

      And AI is tamper-proof. Lol.

    • Derpetologist

      E6B portable flight computer, invented during WW2

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E6B

      Current cost: about $50

      batteries not included because it doesn’t need them

      • R.J.

        I got a vintage one of those somewhere

    • Not Adahn

      Like, a compass?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Well a compass with AI!

      • juris imprudent

        That declination isn’t going to compute itself!

    • Rat on a train

      Just use a Thomas Guide.

    • Suthenboy

      “The magnetic pull in the Earth’s crust could offer a novel solution.”

      So, a compass?

      • (((Jarflax

        Hasn’t the magnetic pole been fluctuating more than usual? Maybe we shouldn’t switch back just yet.

      • Suthenboy

        It’s not fluctuating…it is moving. It has never been stationary but lately its movement has sped up considerably.

        Given the familiarity we have with the earth’s surface and the numerous number of advanced technologies we have it seems that getting lost would be a thing of the past.

      • invisible finger

        DEI replaced competence so getting lost is back and more prevalent than ever.

    • Sensei

      Who does number two work for?

  20. Ownbestenemy

    When you gotta go, you gotta go

    • sloopyinca

      Holy shit.

    • (((Jarflax

      Man, he didn’t wait long after his marriage to line up bench strength did he?

    • Not Adahn

      He’s like Q but with more money and worse taste in wives.

    • The Other Kevin

      I’m beginning to think not being born as a cute girl with big boobs has become a disadvantage for me.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Bezos just appreciates good tech talent.

      • Ted S.

        Rule 34 implies that you’re *somebody’s* fetish.

  21. Sensei

    FedGov – We can never go back to an old base line. That’s a cut!

    A spokesperson for the department said it had only terminated an additional fund set up by the Biden administration that resulted in inflated spending on the program. Deliveries for the main emergency food effort continue uninterrupted, the department said.

    Food Banks Are Running Out of Food Exactly When More Americans Will Need Them

    https://www.wsj.com/economy/food-banks-are-running-out-of-food-exactly-when-more-americans-will-need-them-b6f4d784?st=SNFPB1&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

    Unmentioned government crowding out private charity.

    • Rat on a train

      “I’m willing to pay more taxes if it will go to charities that I won’t donate to directly.”

      • juris imprudent

        “I’m willing for YOU to pay more taxes to support charities that I won’t donate to.”

    • rhywun

      Local TV is wall-to-wall news and commercials about “starving children”.

      It was delusional four or five decades ago and trillions of dollars later it’s still delusional.

      • juris imprudent

        Don’t worry, the childhood obesity stories are already queued up as soon as this is yesterday’s news.

      • (((Jarflax

        Every starving child in America is starving because the adults responsible for them are using the copious aid we are already providing for other purposes. Increasing the aid won’t change this in any way. You can’t solve poverty caused by insanity, malice, or irresponsibility by spending more money on it.

    • invisible finger

      Something something Malthus something something.

    • DrOtto

      I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – we have the fattest homeless population in the world! USA, USA USA…

      • Rat on a train

        food desserts

  22. Common Tater

    “Truth about the ‘missing minute’ in Epstein prison footage… and his neck fractures that prove MURDER: Bombshell new claim by America’s most controversial pathologist…

    From the postmortem examinations of Minnesota’s George Floyd and Ferguson, Missouri’s Michael Brown, to the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr, these high-profile death investigations all have one thing in common: forensic pathologist Dr Michael Baden.

    And Baden, the 90-year-old former chief medical officer of New York City, is typically the one offering the report that runs counter to the official conclusion.”

    https://archive.is/yFj13

    Couldn’t anyone do that?

  23. Shpip

    Won’t someone think of the…

    (shuffles cards)

    … shiftless layabouts?

    Whether Americans want it or not, President Trump and his fellow Republicans are making historic cuts to the nation’s safety net programs. It’s the biggest test in decades of whether the “nanny state” really is bloated, as critics insist, or is too essential to get rid of.

    The experiment will inflict pain on millions.

    It gets better worse from there, including the lie that 16 million people will “lose their healthcare.”

    • Derpetologist

      I’m a shiftless lay about, but at least I do it on my own dime.

      • Ted S.

        I always thought of you as shifty. :p /sarcasm

      • Derpetologist

        the shifty eyed dog is my spirit animal

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T55ArHjeR1c

        He knows the Moscow rules

        ***
        Assume nothing.
        Never go against your gut.
        Everyone is potentially under opposition control.
        Do not look back; you are never completely alone.
        Go with the flow, blend in.
        Vary your pattern and stay within your cover.
        Lull them into a sense of complacency.
        Do not harass the opposition.
        Pick the time and place for action.
        Keep your options open.
        ***

    • rhywun

      The “experiment”. 🙄

      Reality bites.

    • Rat on a train

      16 million people will “lose their healthcare
      I remember the wails about people losing Medicaid when the eligibility verification waiver wasn’t extended.

    • slumbrew

      Aussies.

    • slumbrew

      Well, British paper, so…

      Dammit, now I have to go actually expend some effort…

      Looks like just an Aussie term (maybe).

      • sloopyinca

        Apparently it is Australia. What an unserious place.

        As for the story…reopen the asylums.

      • Rat on a train

        TBF Aussies are on edge in Emu territory since the war.

  24. Not Adahn

    If you like serial fiction, I’m enjoying John McCrae’s scifi one called Seek.

    It seems to be set before and after an AI apocalypse.

    His worldbuilding is excellent as usual, and this one seems to have far fewer protagonists/PoV characters that are entitled cunts. Also he’s backed off shoving therapy culture into it which is good. I’m reading that a shift in NPC programming, since his values seem to be locked into that.

    • EvilSheldon

      I find it interesting that David’s belated entry into adulthood came about when he started learning to surf.

      I don’t know anything about surfing. But I think that having some kind of a hobby that is both physically difficult, and carries with it some level of physical risk, is critically important to being a functional human being.

      • Sensei

        I thought the same about the surfing letting him grow.

        I’m not sure the risk is a requirement, but I agree having something either mentally or physically challenging definitely helps you grow as a person.

        Related is that having children also changes your outlook. I can generally tell you that I can distinguish people that are parents versus non-parents rather quickly even with zero discussion of anything related to children.

      • KSuellington

        Absolutely. I introduced all 3 of my boys to big mountain skiing, and two of the three to dirt biking despite people telling me it’s reckless to do so (on the dirt biking not skiing). People, boys especially, need risk that they can learn to manage in their lives.

    • Shpip

      I was one of President Barack Obama’s speechwriters and had an Ivy League degree

      Ah, a poofter. That explains a lot.

      My frostiness wasn’t personal. It was strategic. Being unfriendly to people who turned down the vaccine felt like the right thing to do. How else could we motivate them to mend their ways?

      Typical bien pissant.

      According to surfing’s unwritten rules, he had the right to look down on me. But he never did.

      It doesn’t hurt that he was right. Kudos to him for not lording it over the author.

      • Nephilium

        NO POOFTAHS!

      • Ownbestenemy

        Is that said with an Irish, Italian or Valley-Girl accent?

      • Rat on a train

        How else could we motivate them to mend their ways?
        Did you try calling him a Nazi or such?

      • juris imprudent

        How else could we motivate them to mend their ways?

        Hey buddy…

        That’s the kind of attitude that induces me to consider investing in a set of brass knuckles.

      • Nephilium

        OBE:

        You don’t know Bruce?

      • Not Adahn

        There are, of course, some people so committed to odiousness that it defines them. If Stephen Miller wants a surf lesson, I’ll decline.

        Can’t quite learn his lesson, can he?

      • R C Dean

        “My frostiness wasn’t personal. It was strategic.”

        You rarely see sociopaths so open about it.

  25. The Other Kevin

    Ultravox does not get enough love. Thanks for the great tracks.

  26. The Other Kevin

    We hear about these nudify AI web sites that people use to harass people, but can it be used to make me well-endowed and with great quads?
    “Oh no, what an embarrassing photo! I hope it doesn’t get out! Would you like a copy?”

    • sloopyinca

      Just sign up for the Conor McGregor package when you set up your account and you should be good to go.

      • The Other Kevin

        LOL I just heard about that. He can easily claim it’s fake now.

    • Suthenboy

      I know we can’t help being monkeys but….this should not be an issue. People are the way they are made. Everyone should just grow up and come to terms with that.

  27. UnCivilServant

    So many parallel conversations… why does everyone want my attention at the same time?

    • slumbrew

      Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., has been leading the probe into Joe Biden’s cognitive state during his presidency, with Republicans alleging that Biden’s occasional use of an “autopen” to sign documents — a practice other presidents have done as well — demonstrated that he wasn’t fully in control or aware of what his administration was doing.

      Starting right out of the gate with lies; “occasional” is nice but the issue is not “did Biden use the autopen” but “did other people use the autopen without Biden’s express approval”.

      • The Other Kevin

        Other presidents have used it to sign birthday cards. Obama used it to sign a bill. This is an entirely different situation.

      • Ownbestenemy

        NBC knows that…doesnt stop them from claiming digital signatures on a memo is the same as a president not knowing the auto-pen went burrrrrrr throughout his peesidency

      • Suthenboy

        I think the real issue is that nothing that happened during the Biden Admin can be considered legitimate. This is a problem.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Wait..that isnt the…oh never mind, what fucking clowns our press has become.

    • R C Dean

      *deep sigh*

      We genuinely are ruled by mediocrities (and worse).

    • slumbrew

      His familiarity with Starbucks may be just the edge he needs to get a job that better fits with his abilities there.

      🙂

    • Rat on a train

      We are losing priceless experience.

    • Threedoor

      Damn you Twitter ban.
      I get to look at about three links and I’m shut down for the day.

    • juris imprudent

      I’m going to make a wild guess here that the average worker they are talking about doesn’t actually produce anything of value.

      • Sensei

        This is compiled from all of their Microsoft 365 customers. So basically anybody that rides a desk for a living.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Ahem, smartphones have both outlook and teams apps.

        Both of mine are above those numbers. Automated email notifications and multiple teams that are just monitor or bridge type where it there is needed.

      • Threedoor

        These are the people I want AI to take their jobs.

        They can do pick blue berries or pot buds.

    • Rat on a train

      The average worker receives 117 emails daily—most of them … from HR about the latest DEI activity.

    • UnCivilServant

      Those are rookie numbers.

    • Suthenboy

      Dont send me email. On the few occasions I check it I just bulk delete that crap.

  28. Derpetologist

    Remember that schmuck Strzok? Yeah, before he was cheating on his wife and complaining about the stench of Trump voters at Wal-Mart, he tried to entrap a CIA officer.

    https://tuckercarlson.com/john-kiriakou-hjighlights-2

    An undercover FBI agent pretending to be a Japanese diplomat tried to bribe him. The failed sting operation continued multiple times.

  29. The Other Kevin

    US Navy news: USS Carl Vinson is leaving the ME, leaving USS Nimitz as the only carrier.

    This wasn’t too surprising, Carl Vinson has been in the ME since the attack on the Houthis, and has had its deployment extended. Time to go home. USS Ford just started its deployment, I wouldn’t be surprised if it relieved Nimitz eventually. This is good news though, it appears the Iran situation is stable enough to drop back down to one carrier group in the area.

    https://news.usni.org/2025/07/14/carrier-uss-carl-vinson-leaves-middle-east-u-s-reduces-destroyers-in-mediterranean

    • juris imprudent

      That was cruel and inhumane! I don’t blame a single one of them that leaves ‘a present’ in some strategic location for their owner to step in.

      • Ownbestenemy

        That husky….my wife would flip if she saw that.

      • R C Dean

        Which one?

    • Suthenboy

      I am going to hell for laughing at those, aren’t I?

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        I like the tosshead. Looks like the kid from Terminator II.

    • ron73440

      The Husky should not be shaved.

      The rest just looked wrong.

    • UnCivilServant

      Why?! Why torment these poor dogs?

    • slumbrew

      The looks all say “this cut demeans both of us”.

  30. PieInTheSky

    The philosopher Seneca complaining about “the assortment of sounds, which are strong enough to make me hate my very powers of hearing!” coming from the bathing house that was below his lodging.

    Thinking about the guy who was driving Seneca mad, powerlifting in the bathhouse below him.
    “When your strenuous gentleman…is exercising himself by flourishing leaden weights..I can hear him grunt; and whenever he releases his imprisoned breath, I can hear him panting in wheezy and high-pitched tones. ”

    https://x.com/lefineder/status/1944861969728905519

    hmmmmm

    • The Other Kevin

      We have a few grunters in our gym, but the loudest is a guy who’s in the Army reserve, and deadlifts 600+. When he drops the weights it sounds like a car crash. People get startled.

      • PieInTheSky

        and your bars get ruined

      • UnCivilServant

        I hope your floor is reinforced…

      • The Other Kevin

        We did find one bar with a slight bend in it. But the floor is ok, we set it up to take that kind of abuse.

      • The Other Kevin

        “He also hit me in the head with a rock.”

        STEVIS SMITHUS?

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Ernest T Bassus

      • Pope Jimbo

        TOK:

        “I’m feeling better now”

        Even Monty Python ripped off the classics.

    • Ted S.

      Somebody needed to be either more stoic, or more bi-curious.

    • ron73440

      Don’t forget the lazy rub down receiver, or my favorite, the hair-plucker with a shrill voice, never quiet unless he was making his victim yell.

    • Rat on a train

      Virginia, professional services = government

    • Grumbletarian

      Did Maine annex part of New Hampshire after 1990?

      • DEG

        Did Maine annex part of New Hampshire after 1990?

        NH tried to resurrect the dispute over Seavey’s Island in the late 90s or early 00s. The Supreme Court shot it down because the Court resolved the dispute in the 70s.

  31. Pope Jimbo

    Minnesoda has a new Mr. Jazz Hands

    Staying at coach Aaron Hjermstad’s house seemed like a young boy’s paradise. But in order to participate, many of the boys endured a nightmare. Four of them reported to law enforcement that he had sexually abused them. Authorities say there could be more than 120 victims.
     
    One of those boys was Jazz, who was an 11-year-old sixth grader when the abuse started during the 2014-2015 school year.
     
    He spent the night at Hjermstad’s home after a group trip to a Timberwolves game in 2014. Hjermstad told him that night that he should sleep in his room. The boy awoke in the middle of the night to find his hand forcibly placed on Hjermstad’s genitals.

    • Pope Jimbo

      The sub-head for that story was:

      The first boy to report Aaron Hjermstad for sexual abuse stepped forward in 2015. The police investigated, but charges weren’t filed at the time. Hjermstad continued to coach and teach for years, preying on boys from predominantly Black schools.

      Yes, the real sin was only molesting black kids. Add some extra years in the pokey for that!

  32. Suthenboy

    Looking at all of the issues and arguments here is what I get:

    Them – “Get on your knees, do as you are told and give me your money”

    Me – “No”

  33. Pope Jimbo

    This story about how Minnesoda needs immigrants makes my head hurt. The graphs alone are enough to explode your head.

    I’m wondering if these are the same people who put together the model that told King Walz that 70K would die from the Rona if he didn’t lock down immediately. If he did lock down, then only 50K would die.

    Especially like this bit:

    “In the 1990s we had a net inflow from other states,” Brower said.
     
    “What we’ve seen since the 2000s up until [now] is consistent, small but regular net outflows of people – mostly young people – to other states,” she said.
     
    There are many theories as to why young Minnesotans leave the state, but the general consensus is that this domestic out-migration has been more than offset by the international in-migration the state has seen.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Yes, it is so much better to import new, vibrant neighbors from Somalia than to fix the state up so that natives don’t flee.

      Especially since those new, vibrant neighbors seem hell bent on ripping off the Minnesoda tax payers via govt scams (Feeding our Children and now autism centers).

      • Rat on a train

        But those immigrants are net taxpayers and law abiding unlike natives.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Ratsy:

        My simple test for any group of new, vibrant neighbors is “how many restaurants have they started?”.

        Starting a restaurant is easy (keeping them running is hard). It is also a good way to introduce yourself to the locals.

        When the Hmong and Vietnamese came in the ’70s/’80s they started tons of restaurants. So far there don’t seem to be any famous Somali eateries.

        Of course it is hard to compete with Hooter’s when your diner can’t offer any pork, booze and the waitresses are covered from head to toe in a tent.

      • Nephilium

        Pope Jimbo:

        It’s not hard to compete with Hooters. Just hit the level of mediocre bar food.

    • Suthenboy

      There are many theories. Many of them.
      That sentence…talk about a non-sequitur.

      So, they are winning the war on our culture in MN, CA and NY.

      I am just now hearing the Democrats arguments and slanders on ICE. The only way to answer them is to ignore their screeching and put the illegals out. Fuck sympathy, fuck the children and old ladies, just put them out. The Dems brought them illegally largely using taxpayer money. It is downright evil what they have done. They cannot be allowed to win at this.

    • Pope Jimbo

      The Senate last week also introduced the Special Diabetes Program Reauthorization Act of 2025, a bipartisan bill to reauthorize the funding for the Special Diabetes Program – which has been responsible for valuable research breakthroughs for the disease.
       
      Without the extension, the program is at risk of expiring at the end of the fiscal year.
       
      Breakthrough TID, formerly the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, was on Capitol Hill through Friday and helped Mattel on Thursday debut its first Barbie doll with type 1 diabetes.

      Absolutely nothing left to cut.

      If you MAGA rubes would shut up about Epstein and other shit, maybe – no promises – the GOP might be able to cut 1% from the budget in 10 years.

    • The Other Kevin

      Am a I wrong when I say most people who have diabetes don’t look like Barbie? And that it’s no mystery why more kids are getting diabetes?

      • ron73440

        I see so many pudgy kids anymore.

        Pudgy kids with pudgier parents.

        It’s depressing, but it’s not a mystery.

      • The Other Kevin

        I was at Walmart the other day (I know, I know) and every woman I saw was overweight. And not just a little overweight. Then I went to Target, and about 50% were overweight.

        I’ve said this before, but having an obese daughter in my house is like a microcosm of the country. Addicted to screens and junk food, zero physical activity, no motivation to do anything but sit in a chair and be entertained.

      • Mythical Libertarian Woman

        Type 1 is the kind that they’re talking about, Type 2 is the kind you get for being fat. Type 1 you can look like Barbie because it’s genetic and doesn’t have anything to do with your weight

  34. Common Tater

    “Meanwhile, the DOJ is facing a staffing issue at the office charged with defending legal challenges against Trump administration policies.

    Of the roughly 110 lawyers in the Federal Programs Branch, 69 have voluntarily left or announced plans to leave since President Donald Trump’s election in November, according to Reuters.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14905017/Trumps-DOJ-makes-bombshell-decision-Ghislaine-Maxwell-case.html

    That could be another reason they wanted to drop it.

  35. Pope Jimbo

    This seems like bullshit.

    Officers responded to the Circle K on 4th St. SE around 9 p.m. Sunday evening for a man reportedly suffering from an overdose.
     
    Emergency crews treated the 43-year-old for fentanyl use on scene. Police arrested him on an outstanding warrant.
     
    While searching his belongings, an officer found drug paraphernalia and began experiencing symptoms of fentanyl exposure, despite using protective equipment.
     
    Crews gave the officer Narcan, then transported him to Mayo Clinic St. Marys Campus.
     
    The officer was later released.

    I’ll admit I’m a complete square when it comes to drugs, but this seems like a cop that is either a drama queen or wants to get off shift early.

    • Common Tater

      I’m not seeing how it could go through gloves, but maybe he inhaled it?

      • Fourscore

        Don’t drugs have to be taste tested, to be sure?

        /Hick in Hicksville

    • Threedoor

      I think most of these cases are drama queens.

      I’ve watched plenty of videos of cops freaking out over drug exposure.

      I have seen one where a cop went down that looked real and the emts came and did chest compressions and rescue breathing.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Good Lord

    • KSuellington

      Saw that yesterday, dude is some serious nightmare fuel.

      • Suthenboy

        That DA is as scary as he is. Welcome to crazy hell.

      • KSuellington

        We desperately need to reopen mental asylums in this country.

        And get rid of DAs like that one.

    • ron73440

      Looks like he was buried alive in The Serpent and the Rainbow.

  36. Suthenboy

    Serious question: I keep hearing MAGA referred to as if it is some distinct entity. Is there a club with membership? Is this a real thing or is it another nebulous leftist boogeyman?

  37. Common Tater

    “Illegal immigrants can be deported to third-party countries with as little as 6 hour notice: ICE memo

    Following the decision, the US deported eight individuals to South Sudan from a variety of countries including Cuba, Laos, Mexico, Myanmar, Sudan, and Vietnam.

    Separately, Reuters reported last week that the administration has been pressuring five African countries—Liberia, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania, and Gabon—to accept deportees from nations other than their own.”

    https://thepostmillennial.com/illegal-immigrants-can-be-deported-to-third-party-countries-with-as-little-as-6-hour-notice-ice-memo

    Why should sovereign nations have to accept immigrants from other countries?

    • slumbrew

      I think we pay them.

      • slumbrew

        Or, at least, “it’d be a damn shame if something happened to that foreign aid money. Now, about these illegals…”

    • Suthenboy

      And?

      • Common Tater

        There are things like ethics and common sense. Although not often in politics.

      • Suthenboy

        I bite. I scratch. I slap ears. I poke eyes. I kick testicles and kneecaps. I open with a throat punch. When I hit I mean it. They picked the fight, they dont get to make the rules or complain about losing an eye. Fuck them.

    • Grumbletarian

      Send them to one of the Scandinavian countries leftists think are run so much better than the US is. Win win, right?

  38. The Late P Brooks

    No one is required to spend time with people they don’t care for. But those of us who feel an obligation to shun strategically need to ask: What has all this banishing accomplished? It’s not just ineffective. It’s counterproductive.

    How do you shun people who do not give the slightest fuck what you think?

    OMG so frustrating.

    • Suthenboy

      This.
      “Oh, you were shunning me? Well, carry on.”

      • Pope Jimbo

        Please don’t throw me in the briar shunning patch!

        Just you wait Suthen. With this new forgiving attitude, you will be getting all sorts of invites to attend BBQ’s and dinner parties with proggies. I’m sure that now that you are allowed back into the warmth of their bosom you will learn so much.

      • ron73440

        Reminds me of the joke:

        Wife: I am mad at him so I won’t talk to him today.

        Husband: What a quiet and relaxing day!

      • Fourscore

        I hope those that unfriended me don’t want to make up. I like it better this way

    • The Other Kevin

      Great, now they’re going back to lecturing everyone. Yay us.

  39. KSuellington

    I got into off road motorcycling a year ago, because why not? Better to start at 50 than 60. The goal is either the Trans-America Trail, from North Carolina to Oregon or the Great Divide Trail from Canada to Mexico through the Rockies. Both are 90% off road. Hope to be ready in a couple more years. Anyways, I don’t think there are any dirt bikers here, but I do think there may be fellow map geeks. My year subscription at Trail Forks was ending this week (I use it mainly for mountain biking) and I switched over to OnXOffroad. Wow, this may be the best $20 I have ever spent. I highly recommend it even if you don’t do off-roading of any sort. It’s got all kinds of cool stuff, including map layers that show where dispersed camping is allowed, cell phone coverage of all major carriers, precipitation rates, current wild fires, private land area, and a ton more. I got it 2 days ago and have already spent 7-8 hours on it (again I frigging love maps). I know they also have a hunting version, which is more costly, but also supposed to be very good.

    • B.P.

      Interesting. I don’t dirt bike, but I do a fair amount of poking around in the woods/mountains, some banging about on 4-wheel roads in a 4Runner, checking out abandon mine sites, etc.

      • KSuellington

        Yup, it’s perfect for that sort of thing. It’s only $20 a year right now. It is also really easy to download maps for use offline when you are out of cell coverage area. Let me know what you think if you get it. I love it already.

    • Threedoor

      I did a little bit of the Idaho BDR and the Lolo trail four or five years ago.

      I’m not that good of a rider but I had a blast.

  40. The Late P Brooks

    There are, of course, some people so committed to odiousness that it defines them. If Stephen Miller wants a surf lesson, I’ll decline. But are most people like that? In an age when banishment backfires, keeping the door open to unlikely friendship isn’t a betrayal of principles — it’s an affirmation of them.

    Good golly what a prissy little twat.

  41. Suthenboy

    I am not sure what to make of this.

    https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/World_diabetes_WB_IDF_2021-2.jpg

    Genetics? If we can more effectively treat conditions will they cease to kill off people before they reproduce thus become more common?

    Diet? No doubt this is a large part of it. Increased prosperity means more people able to indulge their dietary whims or have eccentric diets. I know a guy that has consumed exclusively milk with nestle syrup for the last 20 years. According to him milk is the perfect food. According to his doctor he is diabetic as hell.

    Likely a combination of the two.

    • The Other Kevin

      Most definitely both. We have the technology/drugs to keep people with chronic diseases alive for longer.

      But as I said above, we have a lot of people who are addicted to junk food and screens, and have zero interest in doing anything about it.

  42. The Late P Brooks

    This fucking computer. New usb wifi thingee because the old one appears to be dying. Plug it in, it’s supposed to work, right? Well, no. And I can’t find the fucking thing to run the driver. Goddammit goddammit goddammit.

    • Fourscore

      That’s what my kids are for, bailing me out. As with Sgt Schultz, I know nothing.

  43. Suthenboy

    On the Colorado DA:

    There was a movie in the last few years about a Soviet child serial killer. Another about a Soviet serial killer that was a bit less discriminating. Another about a Soviet serial killer/cannibal. Those guys were able to operate for years and tallied up triple digit body counts each. All of those cases were either ignored or know about by authorities. I suspect those cases are just the tip of a very large iceberg. If we had solid numbers on crime in the USSR we would probably find it fantastical beyond belief. Socialists use crime as a weapon to keep people beaten down and dispirited.
    We are seeing it being used here in the US by large numbers of DA’s usually referred to as ‘Soros funded’. They are and Soros is the worst kind of Dr. Evil villain communist/totalitarian, practically a cartoon villain on par with Klaus Schwab.
    Funded is one thing…but elected? Who votes for these evil fucks?

    • ron73440

      Funded is one thing…but elected? Who votes for these evil fucks?

      What do you want the people to do?

      Vote for the evil and racist Nazis?

      They might have put the black man in jail.

  44. The Late P Brooks

    Speaking of social degeneracy

    Others argue that a religious revival will also serve as a moderating influence on young men, some of whom may be particularly vulnerable to the conspiracy theories and misogynistic content pervasive in the manosphere. Joe Scarborough, co-host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, echoes this concern from a more mainstream vantage point.

    On his show in May, Scarborough argued that increased church involvement for young men — even in the most conservative-leaning churches — may serve as a reality check for younger men prone to believing the right-wing conspiracies that often populate their red-pill, algorithmic-driven feeds.

    Our data, however, show no evidence that Gen Z men are becoming more religious. Nor do we find that Gen Z men who attend church frequently hold more moderate political or social views.

    Our latest Census of American Religion, released in May, shows that young people’s rates of religious affiliation have continued to drop overall in the last decade.

    Shun them. That’ll teach them who’s boss.