Sunday Report from the Gulch Links

by | Oct 26, 2025 | Daily Links | 185 comments

So many things happening in the Gulch. I got into my first big dispute as a village planning board member (property rights are kind of a novelty here) and inadvertently slipped into my sharp questioning mode. Fortunately, I caught myself before things got too far- I do have a retail business which depends on the good will of the locals, and the locals are stereotypical intolerant Progs. And our little café is hosting a political event, two people running against each other for a local political office having a meet and greet. In true Glibs Gulch manner, we have a choice between a Democrat and a Democrat. I will smile, mingle, and practice the art of being fiercely noncommittal.

Birthdays today include a guy who was toasty and nuts; a guy with a strong mustache who passed it on; a woman obsessed with her periods; an actor who could light up a room; a guy whom we can thank for the mullahs; a guy whose role in Brazil may have outshone DeNiro; one of SugarFree’s masturbatory fantasies; a man who Wasn’t there; a man immune to iocaine; and the second-most-famous chick from Jamestown, NY.

And here’s the second-most-famous Links.

Remembering yesterday’s Links, notice a pattern?

Our politics has descended to Tattoogate. Hilarious.

Wait… you mean PRIVATIZING charity? Horrors.

Impotent rage is the best rage.

Here’s a new way to waste money.

Think of it as evolution in action.

Fascinating, and a beautiful example of the self-correction mechanisms inherent in good science.

Will Argentina fix itself? Or is the Peronist death spiral inevitable?

“Here’s an idea- YOU annex it and take responsibility.”

A shockingly sympathetic bio.

The Old Guy looks back to his youth once again. And has no regrets about it.

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Old Man With Candy

Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me. Wait, wrong book, I'll find something else.

185 Comments

  1. Common Tater

    Ack! Surprise ginger baby!

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      Well, well, well. Look who is an anti-gingite.

      You outta be ashamed of yourself!

      • Ted S.

        Isn’t everybody an anti-gingite?

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        As a Ginger (yes, we capitalize it, bitches) far too many have succumbed to this bigotry.

      • Sensei

        Shouga nai, shouganai (生姜ない、しょうがない) [There’s no ginger, it can’t be helped.]

        Shouga means “ginger”, and Shouganai is a very common phrase in situations where nothing else can be done. Basically, who cares as well.

        Japanese dad jokes

      • Pat

        Ginger, please.

    • Bobbo

      Got a Ginger issue?
      We have no soul so we dont care

      • Fourscore

        I have a couple of those baby Irish around my place too. We accept everyone.

      • Gender Traitor

        Hey! I have WAY more soul than this guy!

      • Ted S.

        Evan has more Seoul than any of you.

      • Pope Jimbo

        I’m a little upset by all the hard R’s you non gingers are using.

        If you ain’t a carrot top, you better use ginga instead.

      • Grummun

        I’m a little upset by all the hard R’s you non gingers are using.

        If you ain’t a carrot top, you better use ginga instead.

        I’m married to a ginger. That makes me a “ginger ally”, right? I’m safe, right? ::tugs collar nervously::

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        You are properly called a Whinger, or, white ginger.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Uffda. Global Warming has caused my hair to lose its glorious color and become gray. I guess I’m a gringer now.

    • Nephilium

      No one expects the ginger inquisition!

  2. Pat

    In true Glibs Gulch manner, we have a choice between a Democrat and a Democrat.

    We have both kinds, country and western.

    • EvilSheldon

      Any possible way you could handcuff their right wrists together, and put a meat cleaver in their left?

      Of course, you’d be obligated to clean up afterwards. Okay, not my best idea…

  3. Common Tater

    ““The universities, the corporations, the law firms, all of these collaborators should be shaved, pajamaed and spit on.””

    I was this years old when I learned pajama was a verb.

    • Sean

      He’s a scrabble champ.

      • Beau Knott

        Well, he has to be good at something.

    • EvilSheldon

      Pajama Boy calls for pajama-ing?

    • Chafed

      Why are people like this utterly incapable of picturing themselves on the receiving end of the violence?

  4. Common Tater

    “When users on X type “racist” into their iPhone Messenger, the name Trump flashes for the blink of an eye.”

    Huh

    • Common Tater

      “McInnes points out that he has always embraced the queer community, famously making out with queer conservative firebrand Milo Yiannopoulos in front of cameras at the site of the Pulse nightclub shooting for 20 minutes (“He tasted like strawberries,” he confessed to a chuckling Joe Rogan). ”

      Pics or it didn’t happen.

    • Common Tater

      “In the event, after watching a video of the fight, a Manhattan jury found two Proud Boys guilty of attempted gang assault, among other charges. Each was sentenced to four years in prison.”

      I remember that alleged victims weren’t even identified.

      • Fourscore

        Two equals a gang or were the two attempting to assault a gang?

      • Common Tater

        Apparently both.

      • DEG

        I remember watching the video. My recollection of the video is that the Proud Boys didn’t start the violence, Antifa did.

      • EvilSheldon

        Par for the course.

        Antifa (Progs in general, really) are all about provoking a reaction. If you’re gonna go hands on with them, you need to be able to get away with it, and you need to do enough damage to discourage them in the future.

        In Minecraft…

    • rhywun

      Interesting article. Did not follow any of that at the time – and it confirms what I already knew about the vast disparity in the treatment between leftist radicals and “the far right”.

  5. Pat

    a guy whom we can thank for the mullahs

    Happy birthday Jimmy Carter?

    • Pat

      a guy with a strong mustache who passed it on

      Happy birthday Robert Dean Selleck?

  6. Pat

    the second-most-famous chick from Jamestown, NY

    Happy birthday Rebecca Rolfe? Wait, that’s the wrong Jamestown.

    • Tonio

      That chick looms large here, yo. There’s even a delicious beer named after her, but unfortunately I don’t think they distribute outside Virginia.

      • Pat

        Pocahoptas. Icwuttheydidthar

  7. Pat

    Remembering yesterday’s Links, notice a pattern?

    We need more gun control?

    • Fourscore

      I need more gun control if I expect to eat venison this winter.

      • R.J.

        This is the best answer.

  8. Pat

    Our politics has descended to Tattoogate

    I just got Жить не по лжи tattooed on my right arm to go with a Latin quip on the left. If ICE comes around I’m getting deported for sure. You can all take bets on which country I end up in.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      Madagascar?

    • DrOtto

      Pat deported to Sweden, says he’s not from there.

      • slumbrew

        Fargin iceholes!

    • Common Tater

      What does that mean?

      • (((Jarflax

        That he has read Solzhenitsyn

      • Pat

        Jarflax gets it.

        Translate to English as Live Not By Lies. It’s the title of an essay Solzhenitsyn published the day he was expelled from the USSR.

  9. PieInTheSky

    I have been ranking ramen in bucharest and i realized i never been to Japan to try the original, so I am just doing nonsense. Of well nishibo seems best, followed by yuki and yoshi

    • Sensei

      The main types of ramen broth are shoyu (soy sauce-based), shio (salt-based), miso (fermented soybean paste), and tonkotsu (pork bone broth). Do you have preference?

      https://www.seriouseats.com/the-serious-eats-guide-to-ramen-styles

      For me the order would be tonkotsu, shoyu followed by shio. They are regional. For example, the far west (south) is tonkatsu while Tokyo area would be shoyu. You can get all varieties everywhere, however.

      • PieInTheSky

        I usually get tonkotsu because pork good.

        Looka like this. But ramen is noodles not broth amd i am not sure how proper noodles should be texture wise

        https://photos.app.goo.gl/XWpYXgKMaArXFYZm8

      • Sensei

        That’s like a whole sheet of nori!

        Looks good though.

      • rhywun

        Yup, looks great.

        I should find that here. I think there is a joint a couple blocks down.

      • SarumanTheWoefullyIgnorant

        “Shoyu”

        Interesting. Our family always called soy sauce ‘shoyu” (Dad spent four years in Japan (Air Force, lived in Yokohama) and immersed himself in the culture as much as a round-eye could. I was born a year after his arrival). Ever after we used other ‘Japanese’ words in our everyday conversation. If Mom wanted us to hurry up she’d say ‘hayaku!’ For years I couldn’t figure out why everybody called what we called zoris flip-flops.

    • Old Man With Candy

      When Prime and I come to visit Romania, I expect that we will not be after ramen for food.

      • Sensei

        When I was in Japan I had one of the best northern Italian meals I’ve ever had. Including northern Italy.

        But I get your point.

      • R C Dean

        When you visit Romania, won’t you be the food?

      • Old Man With Candy

        No, I’ll be the guy in the well.

      • PieInTheSky

        the guy in the well – Harap Alb?

    • Fourscore

      Looks like my neighborhood, except we don’t have park benches, paved paths and only have pine trees but other than that…

      Nice picture, Pie, and soon the leaves will take on new colors. We’re passed peaked color here, more drab browns and falling leaves drifting by…

      • Fourscore

        Thanks, Pie

    • DEG

      Those are good pictures.

    • Chafed

      Very pretty.

    • Threedoor

      Pretty.

  10. PieInTheSky

    Also the goddamn links are early again. You people.

    • Pat

      WHAT DO YOU MEAN ‘YOU PEOPLE’?!?

    • rhywun

      Soccer was an hour late. I’m thinking something happened over there.

  11. PieInTheSky

    . I will smile, mingle, and practice the art of being fiercely noncommittal.

    Be a moderat. Support deporting all imigrants but not via catapult

    • EvilSheldon

      Are Trebuchets and Ballistas still on the table?

  12. rhywun

    this week has proven a further escalation in this dangerous form of rage rhetoric

    I think we should take them at their word. They want to get violent and will probably do so until something stops it.

    • EvilSheldon

      They want the normies to panic and react in self defense, at which point the crocodile tears start, followed by the real repression.

      Victimhood is power!

  13. PieInTheSky

    a guy whom we can thank for the mullahs;

    What makes tou think they would not have poped up anyway when the other guys policy failed miserably

  14. rhywun

    ¡Fuera ICE!

    LOL

    The number of people with no criminal history arrested by ICE and detained by the Trump administration has surpassed the number of those charged with crimes.

    Which is completely irrelevant, The Guardian. They have deportation orders. If you don’t like borders, agitate Congress to change the law.

    • DrOtto

      Coming into the country illegally makes them all have a criminal history unless it was overstaying a visa, which is a civil infraction.

  15. Common Tater

    Update:

    “A bozo dressed as a Nazi was arrested Friday after he smashed a glass beer pitcher in a woman’s face and broke her nose outside a Georgia bar.

    Kenneth Leland Morgan allegedly tried to enter Cutters Pub late Thursday dressed as a Nazi Gestapo officer when he was confronted and prevented from entering by multiple outraged patrons, Georgia outlet Red and Black reported.”

    https://nypost.com/2025/10/25/us-news/bozo-clad-in-nazi-attire-breaks-womans-nose-outside-bar-arrested/

    • Common Tater

      ““I had been at Cutters for around 20 minutes, after grabbing one beer, I sat outside with friends for 10 minutes before my friend, who is Jewish, noticed the man in a full Nazi uniform complete with a red armband with the swastika,” Lang told Red and Black.

      She said that after Morgan got into a yelling match with two women who were smaller than him, she stepped between them and attempted to rip off his Swastika armband.

      Lang, a photography and geology major at the University of Georgia, said she proceeded to have a scuffle with Morgan over the Swastika, which culminated in him attacking her with the beer pitcher.”

      Sounds like she should be arrested too.

      • rhywun

        she stepped between them and attempted to rip off his Swastika armband

        Yeah, don’t do that.

      • EvilSheldon

        I wonder if he was testing out P.J. O’Rourke’s theory?

      • Common Tater

        Which theory? He had many.

      • Threedoor

        Man assaulted over his costume defends himself.

    • Pat

      he was confronted and prevented from entering by multiple outraged patrons

      Because it’s your business if some LARPing clown patronizes any given restaurant? That’s up to the business owner. Stop being an emotional, tantrum-throwing toddler.

    • creech

      It wasn’t Prince Harry?

  16. PieInTheSky

    Fascinating, and a beautiful example of the self-correction mechanisms inherent in good science.

    No no no those are the wrong kind of scientist. Misinformers.

    • dbleagle

      Pie might have a point here. Are they trying to get the old reported temps thrown out so they can claim “global warming”?

      • whiz

        I’m a little late reading this, and surprised OMWC didn’t reply. The answer is no. John Christy is one of the climate scientists who is skeptical of the “consensus.” He’d be more likely to think that some current measurements are high also, like due to heat island effects and the like. He’s a coauthor with Judith Curry (and others) of the recent DOE report that has the climate doomsayers all upset.

  17. rhywun

    Will Argentina fix itself? Or is the Peronist death spiral inevitable?

    Are voters still allowed to vote themselves other people’s money?

    • Ted S.

      Gifts to the United States
      U.S. Department of the Treasury
      Reporting and Analysis Branch 2
      P.O. Box 1328
      Parkersburg, WV 26106-1328

      • Common Tater

        What if fart in an envelope?

      • Ted S.

        Kinky.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Still cost you $20.

      • rhywun

        So each one gets a fruit basket.

    • Threedoor

      It’s good the troops get to get drunk and high this week.

    • The Last American Hero

      You are bleeding members so of course you pick a fight with your superfans.

  18. Common Tater

    “A local election candidate is making waves for a bizarre protest at a township meeting this week when he dressed up in martial arts gear and unleashed a series of flying kicks and punched through several of his own protest signs…

    He then broke out singing “Eye of the Tiger” and asked the bemused crowd to join in.

    That’s when two helpers on either side of the floor unfurled a sign that said “Unfair Taxes,” and Thilly proceeded to kung fu kick through it.”

    https://nypost.com/2025/10/26/us-news/nj-man-will-thilly-performs-martial-arts-theatrics-at-cranford-township-meeting/

    LOLOL

    • Timeloose

      Excellent. I’d vote for him.

    • Pope Jimbo

      He seems to be treating his run for office with all the dignity and decorum that politics deserves.

  19. PieInTheSky

    Patriarch Daniel on National Cathedral consecration: Let us regard this accomplishment as a bright faith-strengthening moment

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

    300 million euros of my tax moneys

    • PieInTheSky

      The National Cathedral (Romanian: Catedrala Națională), also known as the People’s Salvation Cathedral (Romanian: Catedrala Mântuirii Neamului), is an Eastern Orthodox cathedral in Bucharest, Romania, to serve as the patriarchal cathedral of the Romanian Orthodox Church. It is located in central Bucharest on Spirea’s Hill (Arsenal Square), facing the Palace of Parliament.[7] At 134 metres (440 ft) tall, the cathedral occupies a dominant position in Bucharest’s cityscape, being visible from all approaches to the city.[12][13]

      It is the tallest and largest Eastern Orthodox church building by volume,[19][20][21] and area,[note 3] in the world. The People’s Salvation Cathedral will have the largest collection of church mosaics (interior decoration) in the world when it is completed, having about 25,000 square meters.[23][24][25] Also the People’s Salvation Cathedral has the world’s largest Orthodox iconostasis (23.8 meters long and 17.1 meters high) and the world’s largest free-swinging church bell.[25][26][27]

      • Bobbo

        So, almost as big as Trumps new ballroom?

      • Sensei

        But less controversial!

      • Pat

        Say what you want, but the White House will now have big balls. The biggest, most beautiful balls…

    • Grummun

      Well, at least it looks nice, instead of some modernist eyesore.

      Maybe it’s a problem in translation, but the video says the cathedral will be open to the public “for a week.” Surely it will be open to the public on a regular schedule?

      • PieInTheSky

        when it is declared fully finished probably

    • Threedoor

      American atheists love Europe.

      Don’t understand the amount of taxes that go to to prop up the churches.

  20. Common Tater

    “In August, the bill was called ‘reckless’ and ‘inhumane’ by the Friends of Animals advocacy group.

    A statement said: ‘It is a desperate attempt by a dying hunting industry to add another ‘bird to the bag’ and we won’t stand by and let it happen!’

    The statement continued: ‘Persecution persists thanks to ongoing smear campaigns that label mute swans as invasive even though they have been here since the late 19th Century.

    ‘When wildlife agencies like the California Dept. of Fish and Wildlife, which treat hunters as clients, get away with saying that mute swans are invasive, all the misconduct toward these majestic birds is justified in the eyes of the abusers.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15226323/california-mute-swans-bill-gavin-newsom.html

    Animals have stupid friends.

    • R C Dean

      “label mute swans as invasive even though they have been here since the late 19th Century”

      So was kudzu.

      • Ted S.

        Or see New Zealand.

    • (((Jarflax

      So birds are native if they have been there since the late 19th Century, but white people are still colonizers despite getting there earlier.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Just white people.

    • SarumanTheWoefullyIgnorant

      Mute swans are aggressive bastards. Drive out other waterfowl and muck up the environment (literally).

      • Fourscore

        Wild turkeys/Canada gooses look great from a distance but in your yard/patio begging for food they are an annoyance.

  21. Sean

    #ows614 🔎 5/5 (00:48)
    ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
    🔥 streak: 2
    onewordsearch.com

  22. Common Tater

    “At first, it seemed to be growing not just exponentially but also in healthy ways. In 2008, at the “Rally for the Republic” in Minneapolis—Ron Paul’s answer to the GOP convention—none other than Tucker Carlson stormed out after Jesse Ventura claimed 9/11 was an inside job. A year earlier, Carlson wrote a piece for The New Republic about attending Paul’s campaign stops in Nevada in a limo from the Moonlite Bunny Ranch, flanked by its owner and two prostitutes. It was part performance art, part sneer—with Carlson policing the eccentricities of the movement.”

    https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/hitler-back-style-libertarians

    I must have missed that.

    • Common Tater

      “There was a time when antiwar meant moral clarity. Now it means moral confusion. Libertarians who once “denounced the empire” now parrot Iranian and Russian propaganda. At a 2023 antiwar rally in Washington, Russian flags were visible among attendees while speakers included Antiwar.com’s Scott Horton and Daniel McAdams. They fly foreign adversaries’ flags at peace rallies and amplify Osama bin Laden’s “Letter to America” as if it were a libertarian manifesto. When leftists on TikTok were seeing wisdom in Bin Laden’s hatred, libertarians were me-too’ing.”

    • rhywun

      something something I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member

  23. DEG

    we have a choice between a Democrat and a Democrat

    So they’re really not running against each other.

    • R.J.

      May the most socially disadvantaged candidate win!

      • Chafed

        Lol. Spot on.

    • Old Man With Candy

      They really are- I know both of them and they each really, really want this office. Now, what would be policy differences? That’s one of the uncomfortable questions I will be pressing at the event. I will guarantee that I hate both the answers, but I’m keeping that to myself.

      I’m slightly inclined to Candidate A because her dog and Kaiser really like each other and play together very well.

      • DEG

        They really are- I know both of them and they each really, really want this office.

        Ugh.

        Sorry.

      • Timeloose

        Does one want to use the power and purse of the state to support progressive common sense policies and the other wants to use the purse and power of the state to elevate common sense progressive polices?

      • Old Man With Candy

        That’s a very accurate read.

  24. SarumanTheWoefullyIgnorant

    “Pentangle”

    I like your taste in music. One of my favorites of theirs is “People on the Highway

    “Lincoln University”

    About 40 minutes west of me. Historically black college.

    “Fighting on the streets”

    Yeah, they’re not ramping up the rhetoric at all. Oh, well, we’ll get used to it.

    • PieInTheSky

      I like your taste in music – how do you feel on the stupid thing being embedded in the post

  25. DEG

    Clark acknowledged that it could take many years to build new, large warships from scratch, and the ship likely wouldn’t see the light of day until after Trump leaves office. Plans for a replacement cruiser, the canceled CG(X) program, indicate such a ship would take five years to design and another five to seven years to build, according to a former official.

    Ten to twelve years. That’s a lot of grifting opportunities.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Especially since we just saw a country with no navy (Ukraine) has been sinking Russian ships left and right. Makes sense to build a bunch of big targets for gobs and gobs of money.

  26. DEG

    Suroosh Alvi spoke to mercenaries at the Rwandan border who were selling antibullet charms. They documented the story of the only heavy-metal band in war-torn Baghdad, titled Heavy Metal in Baghdad. Shane Smith got drunk and sang karaoke with North Korean generals in the DPRK (much to the regime’s dismay).

    Back when Vice was cool.

  27. The Late P Brooks

    With political violence on the rise, these leaders are clearly fueling the mob in hopes that they and their party can ride the wave of rage back into power. History suggests that it is a foolish delusion.

    “Hey, this ditch is full of dead people. Why did you bring me here?”

    • Common Tater

      “Since 2022, the federal government has awarded more than $300m to over 120 non-profits, city and county governments and research institutions through the initiative, according to an archived list of grant recipients.”

      How do I start a bullshit non-profit?

      • EvilSheldon

        You start by having the right school connections.

  28. The Late P Brooks

    He wasn’t there again today

    oh god I wish he’d go away

  29. The Late P Brooks

    Not playing the victim card

    In his speech Friday, Mamdani said he was aiming his remarks not at political opponents but at his fellow Muslim New Yorkers.

    “The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated the same as any other New Yorker,” he said. “And yet for too long we have been told to ask for less than that, and to be satisfied with whatever little we receive.”

    “No more,” he said.

    To that end, Mamdani said he would further embrace his Muslim identity, a decision he said he consciously avoided at the start of his campaign.

    “I thought that if I behaved well enough, or bit my tongue enough in the face of racist, baseless attacks, all while returning back to my central message, it would allow me to be more than just my faith,” Mamdani said. “I was wrong. No amount of redirection is ever enough.”

    He’s so oppressed and excluded it hurts.

    Next he’ll be telling us how “unseen” he is.

    • rhywun

      The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated the same as any other New Yorker

      OK, then.

      It is breathtaking how fake he is. It’s gonna be a bumpy ride.

      • Nephilium

        So they want to be told to fuck off too? Alright.

      • Chafed

        I’m going to enjoy watching his mayorship from afar. I think he has what it takes to take NYC back to the 70s. I hope the enlightened voters enjoy it and I’m genuinely curious to learn who they will blame.

      • R C Dean

        “I’m genuinely curious to learn who they will blame”

        Trump, of course.

      • Pat

        I’m genuinely curious to learn who they will blame.

        Come on, is that even a question? Everything will be Trump’s fault until every living asshole in this country who was of voting age in November 2016 has shuffled off this mortal coil.

    • Fourscore

      He’s certainly made himself visible. If he starts wearing Native garb we’ll really know he’s went red.

      • Pope Jimbo

        How is it that the Quiltbag+’s aren’t pressuring him to talk about how important they are to NYC? That even though he is a muslim, he fully supports gays and trans.

      • rhywun

        He’s already blathered on about his support for L+++++. It’s no more believable than anything else he says.

        If there is anything the left is good at it’s holding two contradictory views in their head and seeing nothing unusual about it.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Isn’t that his speech where he pretended to tear up when talking about his poor aunt who stopped riding the subway right after 9/11 because she was scared. She thought wearing her hijab would get her beat up for some reason.

    • creech

      MorganChase just opened a new 60 story headquarters in Manhattan. Somebody (Jamie Dimon) thinks he can work with Mamdani. Was it old Nikita said something about selling nooses…

  30. Common Tater

    “At Chicago O’Hare International Airport, Border Patrol agents swarmed rideshare lots in search of “illegal aliens” and arrested 11 people. Food vendors are hiding. Restaurants are losing money and in danger of closing because their staff are afraid to go to work. Landscapers and other laborers are also being targeted.

    No place is safe. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are also violating schools, churches, courthouses and other sanctuary zones in search of people who are not violent criminals or some great threat to society. They are working-class people who are providing an essential service to their neighbors and the larger community.”

    https://www.salon.com/2025/10/26/trumps-deportation-raids-ensnare-chicagos-everyday-workers/

    That’s because of your stupid sanctuary nonsense.

    • Common Tater

      “The president’s threats, according to Paul Gowder, a constitutional law specialist and professor at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, “reveal both his strength and his weakness.” ”

      Pritzker School of Law?

    • Common Tater

      “The legal criteria for the use of troops simply do not apply, because he has ample federal civilian resources to enforce federal law, as he’s demonstrating every single day.”

      Gowder, who is also an immigration expert, said Trump’s mass deportation campaign and echoed America’s history of White on Black chattel slavery: “There’s a striking parallel here to the situation that transpired in the North after the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, with the pouring of more and more resources into enforcing laws that the population opposes. There is widespread passive and peaceful resistance to ICE kidnappings in this city, for example, by private citizens who are carrying whistles to signal that they see ICE agents so that their targets can hide, and of course, the ICEBlock app and the like.”

      CWAA

      • rhywun

        One lie after another.

        Never change, Salon.

    • rhywun

      Illegal sanctuaries, one might add.

      Maybe don’t base your economy on cheap, exploitable labor that is not legally present in the country? Just a thought.

    • Chafed

      Forget it CT. It’s Salon.

    • R C Dean

      When courthouses have become a sanctuary from the law, something has gone seriously wrong.

    • Pat

      Restaurants are losing money and in danger of closing because their staff are afraid to go to work. Landscapers and other laborers are also being targeted.

      Who gon’ pick our cotton?

  31. Fourscore

    “They are working-class people who are providing an essential service to their neighbors and the larger community.”

    In 1956, after the Hungarian Revolution there were some refugees in Minnesota. My mother was concerned that they were taking/getting good jobs that Americans could be doing.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Yeah, why do those refugees need a job? Job or no job, they are still gonna be hungry.

  32. The Late P Brooks

    Populism, death of democracy

    Milei’s travails raise wider questions about the appeal of charismatic populists who wield simple answers in today’s complex and fragmented global economy.

    Best leave things to the egghead Eurocrat aristocracy.

    • Chafed

      I miss that show.

  33. The Late P Brooks

    Ansell says successfully taking on populist arguments requires deft political communication. “You have to do it with a lot of charisma, with humour,” he says.

    The leftwing economist Ann Pettifor agrees that no one should be surprised by the allure of economic populism. “There’s real anger about the wrongness of the system, which is structurally impoverishing the many and enriching the few,” she says.

    Her riposte to the likes of Milei, Trump and Farage would be a left populism, akin to that on offer from the New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani or the UK Green party leader, Zack Polanski, or once upon a time by Jeremy Corbyn, that challenges the power of corporations, central banks and the super-rich.

    “Trump is saying: ‘We should blame Mexico and Canada and China,’” Pettifor says. “The left should be saying the problem is Silicon Valley and Wall Street.”

    Reward failure, punish success. That’s how you build a strong economy.

    • Chafed

      It’s just common sense.

  34. The Late P Brooks

    A recent paper in the American Economic Review analysed the performance of 51 populist presidents and prime ministers, from 1900 to 2020. It found that on average, after 15 years, gross domestic product per head tends to be 10% lower in countries run by populist leaders than in similar economies with more mainstream regimes.

    “Economic disintegration, decreasing macroeconomic stability and the erosion of institutions typically go hand in hand with populist rule,” argue the paper’s authors, Manuel Funke, Moritz Schularick and Christoph Trebesch.

    And there you have it. Clear as crystal.

    • Pat

      I’m certain they didn’t work backwards from the economic data and simply define every sub-average country as populist, and certainly controlled for the economic conditions that may have swept a populist into power in the first place.

  35. Evan from Evansville

    Time disappears in Walgo’s hive. Pushed lunch later and aaaalmost got Chic Fila ‘cross the street, lunch starting at 1030.

    Kinda amazed I’m ‘so’ close to being finished. Wowza. Gonna start looking at remote work, which I *am* worried about, but I have done it successfully before. If this gig payed ~$40+/hr, uh.. totally would sink into it. But that ain’t so, so logic prevails.

    MN Munchkin has unghosted me, a welcome change. Regardless, last spell of the shift to go.

  36. The Late P Brooks

    Everything was perfect before Milei came and fucked it all up.

    “We have to do this, because this is what we do.”

  37. Pope Jimbo

    Rural Minnesoda has had its fill of Kings

    A fellow farmer from Buffalo Lake (population 733), Terry, only comfortable sharing his first name, hopped straight off his tractor to join the estimated crowd of 400 in Hutchinson. Though Terry doesn’t identify as a Democrat or a Republican, he came out to protest the Trump administration’s tariffs on soybeans and corn, which he said have already hurt his business greatly. He also voiced concern about the deportation of immigrant farm workers. “You see migrants who help our economy and you’re shipping them off. It’s just wrong,” he said.
     
    Terry was one of many protesters who voiced objections to mass ICE deportations at the Saturday protests. “They’re illegally kidnapping people, even our own citizens,” said one Hutchinson protester. “They’re taking them right off the street with no due process, and that’s wrong.”

    Interesting that people who don’t want kings, want serfs to work their fields for less than minimum wage.

    Are there any actual incidents where actual US Citizens have been kidnapped by ICE?

    • Pope Jimbo

      Bonus points though, for being the first No Kings protest pic with a black guy.

      • Tres Cool

        “We’ve been hearing that it was a sick ostrich.”

    • Common Tater

      TW:TOS

      “A police officer had a woman jailed for over two years on false charges in connection with a bogus sex-trafficking ring. But the officer, Heather Weyker, cannot be sued, because a court ruled in July that she was acting under color of federal law.

      For years, Weyker, an officer in St. Paul,
Minnesota, gathered evidence, cultivated witnesses, and testified under oath in connection with an interstate sex-trafficking ring run by Somali refugees. She did all that while allegedly fabricating the very ring she was investigating. Her efforts resulted in 30 indictments, nine trials, and exactly zero convictions.

      In 2011, Hamdi Mohamud, then just 16 years old, found herself arrested after a woman named Muna Abdulkadir attacked her and her friends at knifepoint. Inconveniently for Mohamud, Abdulkadir was crucial to Weyker’s bogus investigation.”

    • R C Dean

      I’m trying to figure out how tariffs on what a farmer grows hurts his business.

    • Threedoor

      Cut off Terry’s subsidized crop insurance.

    • SarumanTheWoefullyIgnorant

      “Trump administration’s tariffs on soybeans and corn”

      Uh, tariffs apply to foreign imports, not domestic production. If you have to blame anybody, blame it on King Carney north of you.

      “You see migrants who help our economy”

      So you are in favor of peonage, eh?

      “no due process”

      If they have a standing deportation order, they’ve had due process. And if they don’t, they’re still not citizens are not entitled to the due process citizens get.

      But of course you already know this, Pope.

  38. The Late P Brooks

    Terry doesn’t identify as a Democrat or a Republican, he came out to protest the Trump administration’s tariffs on soybeans and corn, which he said have already hurt his business greatly.

    Muh pocketbook!

  39. Gustave Lytton

    a guy whom we can thank for the mullahs

    Happy birthday, TE Lawrence!

  40. The Late P Brooks

    I’m trying to figure out how tariffs on what a farmer grows hurts his business.

    China is boycotting our soybeans!