Saturday Morning Fin de Mois Links

by | Jan 31, 2026 | Daily Links | 146 comments

Isn’t it nice to have the most cliché possible picture?

Holy shit, January is almost over. Maybe it’s an age thing, maybe it’s me being busy and time flying, but it doesn’t feel like we could already be a month in. This weekend will drag, of course, because no football. On the other hand, January is a personally difficult month for me what with SP’s birthday and our wedding anniversary, so maybe that’s why I’m not unhappy it’s over? My consolations are a hilariously goofy grandson and a fine, fine girlfriend. Not to mention much amusement- sitting in the café yesterday and eavesdropping on conversations was vastly entertaining. And I’ll be attending a “teach-in” this week, looking gravely concerned and exercising retail politics (think Frank Skeffington). And in reality, I do have concerns about civil liberties, police powers, and even the existence of DHS, but not the fashionable ones. So I’ll keep my mouth shut about my Julian Simon take on immigration, my knowledge of Obama and Clinton’s record in that regard, and the existence of the 100 mile border zone where courts have ruled that our 4th amendment rights are non-applicable. But the hardest part for me now is not saying, “Great, you finally support the right to keep and bear arms.”

Birthdays today are unusually numerous and include a rather strange guy; the absolutely most interesting Founding Father (who suffered the most gruesome death imaginable); a guy whose premature death left his work unfinished; one of my scientific heroes who also wrote one of the most delightful works of debunking and a perfect guideline on bullshit detection; a pioneer of cinematic blackface; one of the most widely displayed minges in Hollywood’s golden age; a guy whom you can blame for the parody-worthy style of The New Yorker; one of the few figures in baseball who changed the game in a positive way; a guy whose success outlived his usefulness; a guy whose work made me recoil; another baseballer whose career was ultimately pointless; the best character on The Rockford Files; a superb and extremely underrated electric guitarist; a musician of questionable talent but inimitable style; and the very best part of NPR now that the Tappet Brothers are gone.

Those are the headlines, now the rumors behind the news.

Another paid vacation for Federal employees. Burn down public employee unions, grind the ashes, then send them plunging into the heart of the sun.

With modern methods, cheating is trivial anyway. Let’s blame China. And the archive version.

There’s delightful contradiction, moral preening, and anticipatory chaos afoot, which could make this the most interesting Super Bowl ever.

I’m rooting for y’all, but it’s your fight, not ours.

Separating children from their families is bad. But uniting children with their families is bad. All in the same article.

Short version: more meh.

One more of my celebrity crushes is gone. “I love you, I want to bear your children!”

This strikes me as child labor.

There is nothing so dumb that the Euros can’t make dumber.

Well, if Arafat and Obama can, why not?

It’s boogiemen all the way down.

There’s a certain type of musical performance which is tight, scripted, immaculately rehearsed. No surprises, but no flaws. Usually, that kind of thing sells well but bores the fuck out of The Old Guy. Here’s one of that genre that doesn’t. No surprises, professional perfection, slick, but nonetheless entertaining as hell.

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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.

146 Comments

    • Old Man With Candy

      And that was after culling. I particularly regret not using the one about the website for chatbots only, no humans. No idea how their Captcha works.

      • The Artist Formerly Known as Lackadaisical

        If you pass the captcha then you’re not allowed in.

  1. Common Tater

    “In October, DHS adviser Corey Lewandowski said on “The Benny Show” that ICE will be at the game, saying it was a “directive from the president.”

    Shortly after, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said there was “no tangible plan” for ICE to be at the Super Bowl.”

    Well, that settles it.

    • Fourscore

      The post game show could be interesting, regardless of the winner.

    • rhywun

      Gotta keep the agitators on their toes.

    • Grumbletarian

      Maybe I should send ICE a tip that everyone on the Seahawks starting lineup is an illegal immigrant.

  2. (((Jarflax

    Wait, I thought the Europeans hated W?

    • Threedoor

      Worst iteration of VolksWagon yet.

  3. rhywun

    “Great, you finally support the right to keep and bear arms.”

    States’ rights, too.

    • Fourscore

      ..and to “peacefully assemble to protest”

  4. Common Tater

    “The editors of The Nation magazine are in the process of formally nominating the city of Minneapolis and its people for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize. The following nomination statement, which is addressed to the Norwegian Nobel Committee, the five-member body that is charged by the Parliament of Norway with selecting the recipient of the Peace Prize, has been prepared for submission on Friday.”

    Will they also need a subscription to read it?

    • rhywun

      Do only residents win or do the NGO-imported professional communist agitators get a cut too? Who gets to keep the medal – George or Alex?

      • (((Jarflax

        It’s melted down and cast as bullets to be distributed to the worthy by ICE

    • DrOtto

      I nominate former Minneapolis police officer Dereck Chauvin to accept the award if granted, since he really represents what Minneapolis government is about.

    • Old Man With Candy

      I do, too. Had a super-nice Barolo (Fratelli Alessandria) last week at an Italian event up in Buffalo.

      Today will likely be Gamay Saturday, Clos de la Roilette (Fleurie).

    • Drake

      I’m drinking peppermint mocha coffee and watching it snow in South Carolina. If we get the predicted 6+ inches, I’ll be stuck here for days.

  5. rhywun

    “The fact that W comes before X in the alphabet is certainly also a welcome coincidence,” Zeiter said.

    Genius.

    Donald has an entire continent losing its fucking mind. That is some superpower.

    • R.J.

      George W. Bush is their hero of the one world order.
      Such useless tards. Don’t they already have BlueSky as an ally?

      • rhywun

        Bluesky still has the stink of the US on it.

  6. Grumbletarian

    A California sheriff on Thursday called on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to be “transparent” with local authorities about any possible federal immigration operations around Levi’s Stadium during Super Bowl LX.

    “So I urge our federal partners: if there is something that you’re planning to do in our community, please be transparent and reach out to your local officials so we can work as best we can,” Santa Clara County Sheriff Robert Jonsen said. “It was mentioned, we are not going to change our policies or protocols. We will not be working or supporting ICE immigration enforcement.”

    “But I want you to again remember [that] if you see us out there, we’re there to help you, and we will be there,” Jonsen continued. “So don’t hesitate to contact somebody wearing a uniform — as these events unfold if they’re walking around and trying to engage — and make sure that you remain safe.”

    ICE goons, let us know you’re coming and what your plans are so we can help the locals #RESIST!

    • rhywun

      In which we learn that sheriffs and most cops are just filthy political creatures after all.

  7. Oy the Billy-Bumbler

    Morning all. The pileated woodpecker made a visit to our bird feeder just now. Scatters all the other birds. The woodpecker treat suet cakes definitely attract the woodpeckers.

    • Fourscore

      Not too many birds this year, other than the turkeys. A few chickadees and nuthatches on the sunflower seeds but no bluejays or woodpeckers

    • CatchTheCarp

      I have a suet cage hanging off a tree in my backyard, regular visitors are hairy, downy and red bellied woodpeckers. Also northern flickers, bluebirds and packs of noisy starlings. There are pileated woodpeckers in the area but I have yet to see one. I got my wife one of those Birdfy feeders with the wifi camera and phone app last year, we both love watching all the different birds stopping by. The downside is I spend $35 a month on birdseed and suet cakes.

      • Oy the Billy-Bumbler

        We see several types of woodpeckers but the pileated woodpecker only makes an appearance every few months or so

      • R C Dean

        Only $35 a month? I was at twice that or more in Tucson. We’ll see here in Santa Fe, but I need to hit the bird food store again in the next few days. And I’ve only got one seed feeder and one suet feeder running. I expect I’ll have two once we get the back yard landscaping underway.

      • Old Man With Candy

        The best bird species: the Dickcissel.

  8. Common Tater

    This takes women and minorities hardest hit up a whole another level:

    “How the Trump Administration Is Downgrading Women’s Citizenship

    In assessing the first year of Trump’s second term, what emerges is the defining shape of the MAGA regime: necropatriarchy. An adaptation of Achille Mbembe’s necropolitics, necropatriarchy here describes a white-supremacist patriarchal order achieved not only by engineering women’s forced dependence and vulnerability through violence but by structurally exposing us—especially racialized, poor, queer, disabled, and trans women—to slow, premature, and normalized harm, abandonment, and death. In this context, both the state and men have the power to determine what happens to women, and which ones are deemed useful enough or expendable. The effect is to shorten women’s lives and constrain their futures, especially along racial, class, citizenship, disability, and queer/trans lines….

    Gen Z women, more progressive and intersectional in their feminism than any other generation or cohort, are the most diverse in the nation, and they’re defending democratic ideals and norms, even as their male peers veer right. Their intersectional resistance—think of the connections between reproductive justice, Gaza support, Black Lives Matter, and disability rights—doesn’t always take the form most often recognized in the media. It is intimate and takes place in the day-to-day, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t making an impact. It just means we are refusing to participate in oppressive systems. It is not that we aren’t seeking ways to make change—but that we are the change.

    When women, especially young white women, fight racism; refuse to date, marry, and have babies; initiate divorce; and form queer families, they threaten the intergenerational transfer of white supremacy. This is a direct challenge to an administration sodden with white Christian nationalism.”

    https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/trump-women-citizenship-necropatriarchy/

    https://archive.is/blaBS

    • Oy the Billy-Bumbler

      My sister wears a T-shirt that says ‘It’s a beautiful day to smash the patriarchy ‘. I’ve been thinking about having a T-shirt made that says ‘It’s a beautiful day to smash the matriarchy…If you know what I mean and I think that you do ‘.

      • Fourscore

        My grand daughter going out to protest:

        Stops by the hallway mirror, fluffs her hair, checks her make up, winks at herself, picks up her homemade sign, checks the spelling…

        Over her shoulder, “I’m on my way, watch the news, I’ll try to get up front”

      • Oy the Billy-Bumbler

        Is she packing heat?

      • Threedoor

        Pound me too

    • Fourscore

      I’m having a tough time keeping up.

      It’s going to be a long, hot summer

    • Chipping Pioneer

      Repeal 19A

    • (((Jarflax

      Pretty sure if your womenfolk refuse to have babies it threatens more than the intergenerational transfer of white supremacy. You could equally accurately say that women refusing to have babies threatens the intergenerational transfer of queerness, feminism, intersectionality, or literally anything else.

      • Ted S.

        “Men going their own way” is wicked and patriarchal; “Women going their own way” is virtuous.

      • Threedoor

        The latter items are not transferred by genes but by institutions.

    • DEG

      The Nation is taking word salads to the next level.

      • Chafed

        Yes. I couldn’t make it past the first paragraph.

    • The Other Kevin

      This new trend of self-annihilation baffles me. Maybe it’s that people have turned away from religion. For Christians in general, every person is a valuable child of God, and we are put on earth to use our gifts to help others. But in this new “religion” people are convinced they are less worthy to even live because they aren’t an oppressed color or sexual orientation or whatever. The whole concept of intersectionality is one of the worst things that’s happened to mankind.

      • rhywun

        It’s a culture of death.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      “we are the change”
      And it’s gone so well. Nonfecund women unconciously see those they perceive as needing help as their children and they act accordingly which makes them easy to manipulate.

    • Suthenboy

      That is some first class dysfunctional commie lunacy right there.
      I got it when they were burning bras. They had a point.
      This is not that. This is the complete destruction of western culture the end goal being a medieval system of serfdom. In other words they have taken a complete 180.

    • Threedoor

      Straight to the ovens with that one.

    • PieInTheSky

      mom’s place damnit

    • Nephilium

      What a coincidence. It’s 2 degrees here too… just in Fahrenheit. We’re supposed to get warming up into the 20s early next week. Still no predictions of above freezing any time soon.

      • (((Jarflax

        ***Looks at the calendar

        Shocking!

      • Fourscore

        -15 but the last really cold morning for awhile, a bit of a warm up starting today with the accompanying snow

      • Nephilium

        (((Jarflax:

        Unless the lake freezes (which it already has), we usually peak up into the 30s quite regularly up here. This is being reported as the longest cold streak in 150 years.

      • Gender Traitor

        Mr. Ilium – heard about this little adventure up by your corner of the state.

      • Nephilium

        Gender Traitor:

        The icebreaker fleets have been busy this year. I don’t think we’ve had our idiots drifting off on an ice floe story of the season yet.

  9. Common Tater

    “The generator was allegedly set up outside on the family’s porch and the cords ran through the door to power the space heaters to make it manageable to remain inside.

    Caravello only had her appliance running for a few hours before she received a frightening message from the HOA management company, Metropolitan Properties.

    “General- Gas generators are not allowed due to a fire hazard. All exterior items must be approved. Please remove immediately,” the letter obtained by the outlet stated.

    The property service company claims it spotted the generator during an inspection of the townhomes amid the blackout and threatened to fine Caravello if she didn’t have it removed.”

    https://nypost.com/2026/01/31/us-news/tennessee-family-threatened-by-hoa-for-using-generator-after-ice-storm-cut-off-power-heat/

    CWABOA

    • Chipping Pioneer

      Your acronym can be shortened to HOA. Same exact meaning.

    • Drake

      Did the HOA just assume liability for their frozen pipes?

    • DrOtto

      In Texas, you aren’t ‘notified’ till you receive a certified letter and then they have to give you a reasonable period to cure the violation. Also, they can’t fine you on a first time violation, it must be a warning. I would have waited for that as any e-mails sent probably went to the spam folder and weren’t seen or that would be my version of it.

    • Suthenboy

      That is a lot of words to say “I bought a house in an HOA. That was stupid”

      • Threedoor

        Unless you bought it from the HOA itself I don’t see how the rules can transfer to you.

  10. DrOtto

    W, not at all a trap to catch wrong thinkers. We just need to verify ID on all accounts so we don’t have bots, pinky swear.

    • Drake

      Can Americans sign up and shit-post for fun?

      • Nephilium

        I would careful read the EULA, I can easily see them putting in something saying you agree to abide by EU rules and laws. I would prefer not to be a free speech test case between the US and the EU over EULAs.

      • DrOtto

        Probably if you don’t want to set foot in Europe. I’ve been to the EU a couple times in the last 5 years, so that could get sketchy quick if you travel and have an aversion to foreign courtrooms.

      • The Other Kevin

        With all the craziness going on, it’s easy to forget that at one point people were genuinely concerned that Biden would extradite people to European countries for breaking censorship laws.

    • Threedoor

      New FB accounts and ones that their AI determines to be bots have to provide photos of fronts and backs of their ID.

      I hope it kills FB.

  11. Drake

    Neo-cons and Israelis are trying to talk Trump into doing something monumentally stupid in Iran. It would guarantee a midterm slaughter.

    Trump likes his quick wins and may have figured out Iran wouldn’t be one of those.

    • The Other Kevin

      I knew he wouldn’t do anything until the USS Abraham Lincoln arrived in the area, and that happened this week. Iran noticed too, they are putting out threatening statements and images of a sinking aircraft carrier.

      Venezuela seems to have gone pretty well, but Iran is a much more complicated situation.

      • Suthenboy

        “Dont come here. Fix your own country.”
        This is a golden opportunity for Iranians. Of course there is the old ‘They never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity’ thing.
        In any case wading into that shit-mess would be a mistake. We should help if we can but only if we dont set a single American foot on their soil.

  12. Common Tater

    “The dad of a Florida woman charged with posing as a teen to molest five middle-school-age boys has bizarrely claimed to The Post his daughter is “mentally defective” and the real victim of the sex crimes.

    Before Alyssa Ann Zinger, 25, was arrested for allegedly having sex with underage boys, the accused pedophile grew up in a “good Christian home” in suburban Tampa — but dealt with a myriad of mental disorders, including ADHD, ADD, OCD, Tourette’s syndrome and anorexia, according to her father, Josh Zinger.

    “She had a lot of problems growing up. Our daughter has been to 10 to 12 psychologists and psychiatrists throughout her life,” the 55-year-old dad said, adding that Zinger once scored a 72 on an intelligence quotient test — well below the assessment’s 100-point average.

    “She’s defective — mentally defective. And do you know what that means under the law? If somebody is mentally defective and has sex with somebody, no matter their age, it’s illegal to have sex with a mentally defective person,” Josh fumed.

    “In all actuality, she is the victim.””

    https://nypost.com/2026/01/30/us-news/fla-woman-charged-with-posing-as-teen-to-molest-five-middle-school-age-boys-is-the-real-victim-her-dad/

    It runs in the family.

    • R C Dean

      If what the father says is true, then this is an interesting edge case. 14 year old boys can’t legally consent to sex, but neither can teenage or adult women who are sufficiently mentally disabled. I’m not sure how you convict someone of statutory (not forcible) rape if they also qualify as a rape victim.

      • The Other Kevin

        I’m thinking about my oldest kid. She’s 28, has a low IQ, and is mentally no older than 10 or 12. She looks and in many ways functions like an adult, but mentally she is not. That’s why we had so many problems with her.

        So yes, this is an interesting case.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        She’s not a perpretator on the level of a “normal” predatory pedofile but a victim she isn’t. Maybe a stint in an asylum for the criminally insane would help because prison’s probably not the right answer either.

  13. Common Tater

    “A Louisiana sicko was hit with human trafficking charges after allegedly pretending to be disabled online to lure a nanny into his home to change his diaper – a foul trick he’s already been busted for twice.

    Rutledge Deas IV, 35, was arrested Thursday after using an online nanny service to request help caring for someone with special needs in order to coax the worker to a Lafayette home, according to the Louisiana State Police.

    But when the victim showed up, the alleged trafficker pretended to be disabled, telling the worker they needed to carry out duties consistent with infant care, including his diaper changes, police said.

    Deas was charged with one count of human trafficking.”

    https://nypost.com/2026/01/30/us-news/sicko-busted-a-third-time-for-allegedly-pretending-to-be-disabled-to-get-diaper-changed/

    human trafficking?

    • The Other Kevin

      He wanted her there during rush hour.

  14. DEG

    Morris died on November 6, 1816, after he had caused himself internal injuries and an infection while using a piece of whale baleen as a catheter in an attempt to clear a blockage in his urinary tract.

    “clear a blockage”. Why am I reminded of x-rays of things in rectums and “I fell on it!”?

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Doubt it…as a guy who’s been to a urologist where I had an encounter with a scoping device I can say assuredely that there is no pleasure to be found there. You’d have to be a masochist to a level that’d be offputting to the Marquis de Sade.

      • Nephilium

        Don’t look up sounding then.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Heard of it, never got the appeal.

    • The Other Kevin

      Shoots his shot? What he does in the privacy of his bunk is his own business.

    • Threedoor

      He’s amazing.
      A rainbow.

  15. Common Tater

    “ane Fonda hit out at president Donald Trump outside of Don Lemon’s court hearing on Friday, after the journalist was arrested over a pro-immigration protest at a Minnesota church.

    The Barbarella actress, 88, defended the former CNN anchor as she spoke to assembled protesters outside of a federal courthouse in Los Angeles.

    Taking a swipe at the commander-in-chief, she told the crowd: ‘They arrested the wrong Don.'”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15514621/Jane-Fonda-lashes-Trump-Don-Lemon-arrest.html

    CWAC

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Shouldn’t she be out in the trenches crooning for Antifa like she did for the NVA?

    • Grumbletarian

      Leave Don Knotts alone!

    • R C Dean

      Love how they refer to her as the Barbarella actress. Gotta sting to have your most memorable role be your first one, where you were scantily clad, and not something from your subsequent multi-decade “serious” career.

      • R.J.

        I hate remakes. But in this one case I support a remake of Barbarella with Sydney Sweeney. Just putting that out in the universe.

      • Chafed

        From your lips to Tubi.

    • The Other Kevin

      When Scott Adams died, a couple of papers called him “Disgraced Cartoonist”. I’m going to start using that.

      “Disgraced Actress Jane Fonda” has a nice ring to it.

    • rhywun

      protest at a Minnesota church

      “At”. Or, you know, inside the church. Where they were asked to leave and refused.

      Can you imagine the international nuclear uproar if, say, Fuentes stormed an AME Zion church claiming to be a “journalist” who is “protesting” something?

    • Suthenboy

      “Once they are demoralized you cannot fix them. You are stuck with them forever.”

  16. The Late P Brooks

    Get that Political Action Committee set up and get out there and panhandle.

  17. Common Tater

    “It’s boogiemen all the way down.”

    I tapped out. Does she make a point?

  18. Common Tater

    “It was an expensive disaster that prevented more than 30,000 Kansans from voting. It’s well-established that these sorts of laws disproportionately harm low-income, disabled, married women, and marginalized voters. Why are the Republicans so keen on making it harder for these groups to vote? I’m sure I don’t need to spell it out for you.”

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/31/save-act-voting-arwa-mahdawi

    Married women are more likely to vote Republican.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Not being married to the State can do that.

    • R C Dean

      Still not really clear on how photo IDs and citizenship requirements disproportionately harm anyone.

      What exactly is a “marginalized voter”, anyway?

      • rhywun

        “Marginalized voters” are the ones who are too stupid to furnish ID. You, blacks and women.

        Guardian readers want to protect them, and care for them.

      • rhywun

        You “know”

    • The Other Kevin

      Ah, the talking points have arrived right on schedule. I don’t see her mention a Real ID, which has exactly the same requirements and is now required to get on a plane. The only way they can protect their racket is lying and obfuscation, because a vast majority of people from all ethnicity and even political parties support what’s in this bill.

  19. CatchTheCarp

    In the local news yesterday there was a story about students from 2 local high schools that staged walk outs to protest ICE and support Minny. The interviews with students and their supporters were cringy. Deep blue area chock full of AWFL’s. Back when I was in HS our school staged a walk out once – over smoking. Students demanded a smoking area like the teachers had. I didn’t smoke but decided to support the cause if it meant I got to ditch school early. The school district folded and established student outdoor smoking areas later on. How times have changed….lol.

    https://www.firstalert4.com/2026/01/31/st-louis-county-students-walkout-protest-ice/

    • Common Tater

      “The interviews with students and their supporters were cringy.”

      No surprise there.

    • R C Dean

      We just smoked in the parking lot. The teachers would sweep the lot before school and after lunch to make sure we all made it inside.

      • The Other Kevin

        There was an area behind the school we called “out back” where people smoked. Every so often the vice principal would show up and nab a few people, probably just for show.

      • Threedoor

        We had a gravel lot across the street from the front of the school. It was not school property as far as I knew but leased to the district so school no smoking rules did not apply. The district officially acquired it in my last year and paved it. The smoking ended so the smokers moved about 150’ to the adjacent ally.

  20. Grummun

    ::whistle:: unsportsmanlike conduct, multiple Guardian links, 15 yards and loss of down.

  21. The Late P Brooks

    What does matter is that we are beset with the ideology of maximising having while minimising doing. This has long been capitalism’s narrative and is now also technology’s.

    Efficiency is a curse. Grade those roads with picks and shovels.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Cool Hand Luke II, Electric Boogaloo

    • (((Jarflax

      Who needs roads? Roads are for trade which is just another one of those evil efficiency increasing technologies. Scrabble in the dirt with your bare hands to find your daily fill of grubs and roots!

    • Threedoor

      Spoons for full employment.

  22. Suthenboy

    Shutdown theater again? *yawn*

    Competence. Accreditation. These are two very different things.

    Thank you very much Jimmy Fucking Carter. The D’s have despised our country and our culture since the constitution was penned. Of late…since Carter they have managed to do incredible damage. They found the Achilles heel.
    “The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.”

    Hint: If y ou have money DO NOT get involved with anyone other than your wife when it comes to sex. also, it looks like Trump did not do anything. What his accusers, idiots that they are, did was destroy their credibility with the piss hookers lie.

    “I was very good at accounting and finance. When I told my French teachers that I hated it and wanted to go into something different they were very disapproving. I had to do what I was expected to do. That is just the way things are done. When I came to America my American friends were very approving and happy for me. Here you can decide what and who you want to be and your friends support you in that. We dont have that in Europe. It is impossible to explain how different that is. You have to experience it to understand it.”
    -French girl on how she fell in love with America
    Fucking Eurotards

    Commies skin-suit everything and turn it to shit. News at 11

    Porkchop tells people to get used to digging for roots to feed themselves. Now the guardian. Soul crushing poverty and the death of all hope is the commie dream. Except for themselves of course.

    Morning all. Yes, it is still stupid and evil out there.

  23. The Late P Brooks

    Lord have mercy, what an interminable gush of melodramatic woe.

    The Guardian has outdone itself.

  24. The Late P Brooks

    Any mention of the Nebraska school tragedy?

    The story or two I saw went to great pains to let the reader know it was a totally student-run demonstration. And that the murder weapon was festooned with MAGA memorabilia.

  25. creech

    I don’t think I could attend a “teach in” and keep my mouth shut like OMWC. Of course, being retired and not in a position to lose a job or have my business boycotted, I can better afford to open my big yap. These crazies need to know not everyone has bent the knee to their authoritarian wishes. Is silence seen as compliance??

    • Old Man With Candy

      On the other hand, if you keep your mouth shut and your ears open, you can be vastly amused. And come up with entertaining material for the little pre-Links anecdotes.

      • creech

        I do enjoy being amused. And sometimes, when you challenge, the mask slips off and you do get even more entertaining fodder. I once appeared on a tv panel with the former governor of Pa. He came off his chair to shake his finger in my face and roar that he was “proud to be an altruist” after I challenged his compassion using other peoples’ money.

  26. The Late P Brooks

    Prolific

    With the release, Blanche said the DOJ’s obligations under the Epstein Files Transparency Act will be completed — more than a month after the congressionally mandated deadline for the department to vet and release materials related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

    In total, DOJ will release more than 3 million pages, 2,000 videos and 180,000 images on Friday. Its team sorted through more than 6 million records, Blanche said.

    WTF?

    • The Other Kevin

      Not all of it was produced by Epstein, some of it was his private stash of porn.

  27. The Late P Brooks

    All women were redacted from photos and videos, Blanche said. Men were not redacted unless it was necessary in order to protect the privacy of women in the images or footage.

    What a fucking clown show.

  28. The Late P Brooks

    Trump has not been accused of wrongdoing.

    Not FORMALLY.

  29. The Late P Brooks

    Pantomime rebellion

    The San Francisco rally was held at 1 p.m. and organized by the Bay Area chapter for the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) in solidarity with mass protests in Minnesota, where students and workers launched a statewide shutdown under the banner of “no work, no school, no shopping” — a call to temporarily halt businesses, classrooms and city life in light of not only the detainment of U.S. citizens and noncitizens at the hands of ICE, but the fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by agents deployed in Minneapolis.

    “The courage of the people of Minnesota last week, standing up to ICE and getting in the streets in the hundreds of thousands and shutting down the city in a general strike, we’re taking that as the blueprint around the country right now,” PSL organizer Sanika Mahajan, 26, told SFGATE. “They’re not going to stop with Minneapolis, and neither are we.”

    Bringing the fascist regime to its knees, they are.

    *hundreds of thousands? I have a doubt.

    • rhywun

      Oh please do take your commie bullshit on tour around the country. Let everyone get an eyeful of the stupidity.

  30. The Late P Brooks

    Judy, who said she has lived in the Bay Area her entire life, said recent events motivated her to continue protesting.
    “This isn’t America anymore,” she said. “Freedom of speech is being squashed. We have to come out.”

    Immediately after uttering those words, Jody was bodyslammed into the back of an unmarked van, which then sped off to parts unknown.

    • rhywun

      Yeah, I’m not seeing any speech being “squashed”. If only.

    • creech

      “Freedom of speech is being squashed.”
      Yeah, cunte, just ask the family of Charlie Kirk.

  31. The Late P Brooks

    Beatification through martyrdom

    Pretti needs to be be inviolate to make the government seem vile in the eyes of the public. He is being described as the combination of Florence Nightingale and Crispus Attucks.

    A CNN panelist and co-host of “The View,” Ana Navarro, voiced the new orthodoxy that Pretti was the “perfect guy … the guy you’d want to date your daughter, the guy you want your son to grow up to be, a decent human being who was serving humanity.” She added that he was so perfect that “there is nothing that has been said about that man that isn’t wonderful. And so they can’t malign him.”

    The point is that any skepticism, let alone criticism, is no longer acceptable.

    Eugene Debs, Martin Luther King, the Rosenbergs, and Alex Pretti.

    • creech

      You forgot to mention Mother Teresa and Nelson Mandela. Do we know yet just whom ICE was trying to apprehend when Pretti intervened? Was it an immigrant Dr. Salk or a criminal child molester? Maybe ICE should offer to release the “worst of the worst” into the personal care and custody of all these saints that care so much for them?

    • Chafed

      MLK did something useful.

    • Chafed

      SA has been a company we trade with. They have never been our ally.

      • Common Tater

        They don’t like Iran though.

      • CatchTheCarp

        I think SA being in range of Iranian missiles might have something to do with this stance.

    • CatchTheCarp

      Curios why Epsten would write an email from the perpective of Boris Nicolic and send it to himself?

      • Threedoor

        Is it fake?
        Maybe.
        It’s funny though.

  32. Common Tater

    “The federal indictment against journalist Don Renaldo Lemon has been unsealed, showing that the former CNN anchor has been charged with two felonies. Those are Conspiracy Against Right of Religious Freedom at Place of Worship, and Injure, Intimidate, and Interfere with Exercise of Right of Religious Freedom at Place of Worship. These charges stem from the storming of the Cities Church in St. Paul on Sunday January 18.”

    https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-don-lemon-charged-with-two-felonies-in-unsealed-indictment

    • Suthenboy

      Yeah? Now lets go back and look at the cootie bug years and look at some governors/sheriffs/othercops etc.

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