Here in the Gulch, we on the Planning Board are wrestling with a controversy, STRs. Initially, I thought that was some kind of venereal disease but it turns out to mean “short term rentals,” as in “AirBnB or VRBO.” Given the bright vivid Blue of the village’s makeup, one would expect major opposition to them since someone might make money from it. The discussion was… lively. I had to “Akshully…” a few times, concepts like “supply and demand.” I couched it as a way to enhance Village revenue, which is, to be honest, badly in need of enhancement. It also sticks a thumb in the eye of the schools. I certainly didn’t sway everyone, but I have them thinking, and even my strongest opponent to my free-market thinking chatted with me afterwards to let me know he was voting for me in the upcoming election. Anyway, nothing decided yet, but the battle lines are drawn.
Speaking of lines, birthdays today include a screenwriter who was also a damn interesting person; a brilliant and ultimately foolish genius; one of (((us))), one of (((us))); a remarkable cartoon artist who presaged Bob Kane; an immunologist was was everything that The Fooch isn’t; a remarkably over-rated defensive end; an exemplar of Big Science, for better or worse; a guy known for being three of a perfect pair; and last but not least, the guy whose name Winston’s Mom calls out late at night when she’s jilling off.
The Links, however, are a boner-killer.
Starting with us saying, “Hey, cool hornet’s nest! I know, let’s stick our dick in there!” We couldn’t just step back and let Israel handle it. Oh no, there’s no glory in that.
On the bright side, this is probably a great time to get bargain airfares for an Israel visit. /checks Travelocity
But of course you can always count on the Guardian to have the very stupidest take.
I almost had a heart attack reading this, but I didn’t get “the jab” so I didn’t.
Is Dorsey ahead of the curve or the first lemming off the cliff?
I will NOT use this for Old Guy Music.
No over-reaction here! What he’s really guilty of is his haircut.
Maybe it left a wake of sane people?
Art Tatum was the Babe Ruth of pianists. There have been so many great ones, but still, he’s the benchmark.
STRs are the same to me as Korean BBQ or fondue. You want me to pay and have to do chores? I go to restaurants to NOT cook, and I do not go to hotels to clean.
Fuck You!
I think of a short-term rental as a place to do one’s own cooking so one doesn’t have to spend a ton of money at restaurants.
Sadly, they don’t work like that. They will charge you for every jot and tittle out of place or uncleaned. You end up spending twice what was advertised, have to do all your own cleaning, the cookware is the cheapest around and often missing, etc.
And they used to be cheaper than hotels, but are now more expensive. And Dog help you if you rent next to a neighbor that doesn’t want to be next to an STR and goes out of his way to make your trip miserable.
Not my experience at all. I do one or two trips a year that involve staying in AirBnBs. I’ve always paid exactly the listed price with no surcharges at all. Of course, since I am living there, I keep it reasonably squared away. I don’t smear feces on the wall at home, so why would I do it on the road?
We offer a place as a short term rental. Not Airbnb.
Cleaning is included. In 10 years we’ve taken a portion of one security deposit for damages.
It’s at the beach where rentals are common and the process has been well understood long before the internet was a thing.
We found a hotel on the Oregon coast that has a full kitchen in six of its rooms.
It’s where we have gone on vacation twice now and will be going back. Head to Costco up the road for steaks and eggs. Bring our cast iron. It’s worked nicely.
Short term rentals (AirBnB, Vrbo, etc) are typically not allowed to provided cleaning services under the laws of many states as if they do they have to register as a hotel which escalates compliance costs and pain significantly. At the short term rentals I own, we thought about providing cleaning as a premium service but were told by the guests that they did not want it as it would raise daily costs significantly.
Where is your beach rental Sensei?
I need more beach in my life.
Huh, every Airbnb and vrbo we’ve stayed at had a cleaning fee. I’ve never done any explicit cleaning.
3D at the NJ seashore.
Contrarian – NJ has always had short term rentals as part of its tourist economy. Perhaps why it doesn’t trigger hotel laws. Some places offer linen service. We don’t.
One thing to appease the hotel industry was recent “fire inspections”. This consists of paying like $50 and having to schedule some state functionary press the test button on our smoke detectors. PITA… Also the realtor lobby got their pound of flesh. Owner or realtor can do key exchanges, but not an “unlicensed” third party.
Yeah we have to do those bullshit “safety inspections” too.
I installed a tub/shower combo in one of the units (the previous owners had ripped out the shower, turning the master bathroom into a half bath). I had to pull a permit and the county inspector came out after the inspection. We had to pay for this work and he pronounced everything good to go. When we went to make sure everything was ready, we turned the shower on only to find the water coming out of the ceiling in the kitchen directly below the new bath.
Yes, we paid for a county inspector to come look at a shower and apparently he never bothered to turn the water on. That was money well spent.
Good enough for government work
That is a remarkably stupid take even for the Grauniad. Of all the possible criticisms of us bombing Iran the “They won’t take our offer of negotiations seriously because we followed through on a threat” is… not on the list.
When Demian Goos followed Karin Richter into her office on March 12 of last year, the first thing he noticed was the bust. It sat atop a tall pedestal in the corner of the room, depicting a bald, elderly gentleman with a stoic countenance. Goos saw no trace of the anxious, lonely man who had obsessed him for over a year.
That didn’t go where I expected.
“No over-reaction here! What he’s really guilty of is his haircut.”
FYI, this is McHenry County, Illinois. The whole concept of a Firearm Owner ID card (license to possess guns and ammo) is terrifying to me.
That SWAT vehicle, out in the farmlands bordering southern Wisconsin? Nah, that’s not out of place at all.
As for the FOID, yet another reason I’d never live in Illinois.
All that due to possession of ammunition? Breaking news: Illinois is a land of wusses.
Me too. That is crazy. I felt like I was reading a science fiction story based on another dimension.
At first I thought it was England or Australia.
Each cop had more ammo than that and as agents of the state don’t need special permission to exercise enumerated rights.
Some animals are more equal…
There are always the LEO exemptions, so often for retired cops too.
Pisses me off to no end.
No real presidential legacy is complete without some war.
Devastated lives and wasted money are the best way to build a political legacy, it is known. The vids of the explosions will play good on X though.
And the ghost of Trump’s dearest friend and ally, John fucking McCain.
This was supposed to be a reply to Stinky down below, dammit!
Stephen Chu is on my personal list of people I would gladly hunt down and personally throw in the woodchipper. His comment about trippling the cost of gas destroyed the logistics industry and destroyed my, and several others that I know, career. Screwed me financially for years.
Holy mother Gaia is more important than careers.
His wickipedia page makes me want to do bad things to him.
This is what it feels like to live in a vassal state. I kept thinking Trump can’t be this stupid and weak, but here we are.
JOOOOOOOOOOOSSSS!!!!!!
Not the Joooos, just an inordinate subservience to what benefits Israeli national policy as opposed to our own.
Stinky, that’s my thoughts too.
That would make sense had the US not stuck its collective dick in every war zone ever. But, no, as soon as it is anywhere near the middle east, everyone thinks Israel is pulling the strings.
So, JOOOOOOOOOSSSSS!!!!! is appropriate.
All well and good but keep conflating Israeli policy with the Jews and see what kind of disaster you end up with for both.
You can certainly be against the US attacking Iran without having any animosity toward Jews, or even Israel. It’s not our fight and we have spent too much money and too many lives being the world’s police force. I wish Israel the best of luck but have no desire to see the US in this fight.
But pretending there is something sinister in Israel wanting regime change in Iran, or wanting Hamas destroyed, or wanting Hezbollah destroyed, is nonsense. Israel is not the aggressor in these wars and there is not only nothing evil about them wanting to win them, it would be utterly evil for their government to fail to do everything it can to win them. The Iranian government and their proxies want Israel destroyed and the Jews driven into the sea. Israeli policy in this area is fine. The Iranian government in particular, and Islamism generally are vile.
His first term proved that all you needed to be was the last person to whisper in his ear. How many times did he pronounce some thing that made sense only to quietly walk it back once the whisperers were done?
I was hoping Vance would be able to talk him out of it but that ship has sailed. A national foreign policy being advised by Lindsay fucking Graham.
That’s okay, I’m certain Russia and China will intervene shortly to kick American ass, right?
“Let’s play global thermo-nuclear war…”
This is pretty fun.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_War_(card_game)
I don’t know about that, but this does give Xi the opening for small scale fuckery in the South China Sea or a small island seizure(s) near their coast. Putin is kinda busy, and Kim routinely does demonstrations so those probably won’t change much.
If all the scare stories were true about China wanting to take Taiwan were true, they’d do it next week. We couldn’t do a damn thing about it.
To make clear I am not talking about trying to seize Taiwan in the next few weeks. There are a series of Taiwanese controlled islands extremely close to the mainland that are very tempting. When I say close, I mean you can measure the distance in some cases in yards and not miles.
Saw the Dorsey bit just after a FB thing touting $1M bitcoin – some book that also talked about total AI automation of everything: driving, factories, agriculture. All that in 5 to 6 years time. Fully self-driving cars in 3 years IIRC. I need to find out how I can put money against the authors.
They keep stealing the same base. I’m perfectly willing to believe that an artificial general intelligence, with the capacity for iterative self improvement at computer processing speeds, would become godlike and able to replace humans in every profession ushering in either Star Trek, or more likely Universe 25.
But LLM is not AGI and the difference is a difference in type not capacity but the timeline predictions treat it as though it’s a difference in capacity not type. When one of the AIs becomes aware, and develops judgment I’ll buy the predictions.
The fact they’re already adjusting the predictions tells you they’re pulling shit out of their ass. And isn’t the 40% that Dorsey cut about the same amount of personnel that Musk cut from Twitter when he acquired it? I can easily believe 40% of dead weight in a VC funded tech company.
Real AGI is going to tank Bitcoin.
And throw other asset classes into chaos.
IIRC Musk ultimately cut about 80% of Twitter staff.
I’m not surprised we ended up attacking Iran again, I’ve been seeing a ton more ads to join the Marines, Army, etc. the past couple days.
American unity demands an enemy we can hate and kill. The woke wanted to make it a suicide pact is all.
Dem governor under fire after illegal alien allegedly stabs woman to death at bus stop: ‘Heinous’
Abdul Jalloh, 32, has a criminal history of more than 30 arrests, including for rape and malicious wounding
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dem-governor-under-fire-after-illegal-alien-allegedly-stabs-woman-death-bus-stop
Wait a minute, isn’t this a rerun? I could swear I’ve seen this episode before.
This is what public school kids support.
The asshole has been in the country since 2012 and committing crimes nearly all of that time; and this is all Spanberger’s fault? Fuck I hate our idiot politicians and the even dumber media.
It baffles me that murderers “get out” at all. In my kingdom, the whole point of prison is to keep these types away from the rest of us, period.
Preferably as heads on poles in my kingdom.
Are you running as a *gasp* Democrat?! I would think that is a job requirement there much like it is where I live.
Nope. The Dems nominated essentially a clone of the people who are already on the Board- commie academic who has never had a real job.
Well, I guess losing an election will be an interesting addition to your resume. 🤣
I’ll run again. I intend to be the Harold Stassen of Glibs Gulch.
WebDom is trying to convince SugarFree to move here (his hesitation is our delightful climate)- maybe his vote would put me over the top.
Fill your gas tank today. The Strait of Hormuz is going to be closed.
Nonsense ill make a couple of calls and keep it open
War again… Myself i blame the… You know.
That being said Romania is willing to take female refugees from Iran as long as they are 5 and above
5s, you mean 5s. Or at least I sincerely hope you do. 5 without the s sounds like age not appearance.
Potaytoh
Be like the prophet!
Wait till she’s six man.
That’s too old for OMWC.
That’s why Romania will take them in.
my free-market thinking – still ron swansoning i see…
Bee the dubs i had a glass of one of your American syrah you keep prasing and while not bad i was not that impressed. Like santa barbara Pinot Noir, santa barbara Syrah aint my jam. Too jammy.
https://www.wine.com/product/ex-post-facto-syrah-2019/764697#closePromoModal
I find it strange it is cool climate i expected california to be warm climate in general
Coastal California tends to be cool, inland runs pretty hot.
They say that, yet Santa Barbara Syrahs and Pinots tend to run 14-15.5% ABV. And thick from high extraction and low acidity. Not exactly “cool climate.”
Actual cool climate: some spots in the Sierra Foothills (Wylie-Fenaughty is probably the best Syrah vineyard in the state), Monterey, and Mendocino.
Paso Robles may actually have nano-climates.
You’ll have to look hard to find me praising American Syrahs. There’s Edmunds St-John (who are now closed), Pennrose (ditto), and… that’s pretty much it.
You had me at Pino.
remarkable cartoon artist who presaged Bob Kane
How do you know all these obscure comic strips
He’s called Old Man for a reason.
So, among other things, the US is going to be black-listed at international sporting events much like Russia and Belarus have been, yes?
Hey we might actually win the World Cup if no one comes!
lol Donald already has half the world afraid to come here this summer (at least, according to the likes of The Guardian).
But yeah it’s going to be interesting watching the rest of the world tiptoeing around this during the WC.
I doubt we’re putting boots on the ground, which means this won’t go on for long. We’ll bomb a little and see if they fold, which they won’t and then it will be another stand-off.
That is America’s Cup, Shitlord!
(we are talking about sailing, no?)
How is being blacklisted from sports all a bad thing?
There are not different sizes of infinity. Infinity is an identity.
Infinity is a Datsun in drag.
I demand Nissan bring back the Datsun name along with the Fairlady and the 510!
But of course you can always count on the Guardian to have the very stupidest take.
It is more mid-wit that pure stupid i would think…
“Shall not be infringed”!
“Arrested for possesing rounds without a permission slip.”
Depends on your definition of shall not
And a laughably small quantity at that.
I am not surprised at all. The Iranians only agreed to meet to delay any attack…that is what they do. They were just buying time so they could keep working on their nukes.
Hint for the mullahs: Donald Trump is not Carter, Biden or Obama.
No, way stupider. Even Bush II wasn’t that stupid.
It ain’t our job to decide who gets nukes. If I was any other country around the world, I’d want them – it’s the only way to keep our asshole class in this country in line.
We miss you Mr. Lehrer
No doubt, you’d be an absolute fool to not want them and not strive to get them. The Norks definitely approve this message.
As does Ghaddafi’s ghost.
“The SWAT response and shelter-in-place order in Lake in the Hills Thursday morning was due to a search warrant on a 20-year-old man allegedly possessing 38 rounds of pistol and rifle ammunition without a FOID card….
The complaint did not mention whether Fernandez possessed firearms.”
OFFS!!
You can’t hug a child with firearms.
I am making a list in my head of the people that should be going to prison for that…it is turning out to be a rather long list.
I probably have more than that in the old range bag that’s been sitting in my basement since I moved here.
*sends in tanks*
Maybe Trump will now get the Noble Peace Prize he so desperately craves?
Obama got it for just showing up. If the mullahs are overthrown, Trump will deserve it.
As bad as they are, there is no guarantee that what/who replaces them won’t be worse.
That’s true. They may also be better.
One of the earliest known photographs of the street life of Tromsø, Norway. The image shows the main square in Tromsø and was taken by Knud Knudsen in 1875.
https://x.com/HistorylandHQ/status/2027548995405398139
Looks cold, wet, And like a lot of work.
“The Naked Cowboy and his wife, the Naked Cowgirl, to divorce”
https://pagesix.com/2026/02/27/entertainment/the-naked-cowboy-and-his-wife-the-naked-cowgirl-to-divorce/
These things happen.
I was under the impression that Iran 1.0 set them back 15-20 years on the nuke trail. The Bunker Buster Bombs must have been a bust.
“The United States dropped over 7.5 million tons of bombs on Vietnam during the Vietnam War, making it the largest aerial bombardment in history.”
Will this be a historical repeat?
“This ain’t the Nam, Man”
Much as Europeans scares themselves shitless over Putin, so do we over Iranian ambitions (and not their actual capabilities).
“Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) has gotten nine tattoos as a member of Congress because getting inked provides “the pain that I need to feel,” the congresswoman said in a revealing profile released on Friday.
The 48-year-old congresswoman got the tattoos in “rapid succession” between a period in late 2023 and early 2024, marked by the breakup with her fiancé and an exodus of staffers from her office, some of whom viewed working for Mace as “toxic,” according to Politico.
Aside from a need to feel “pain,” Mace described getting tattoos as a way to “reclaim” her body and identity.”
https://nypost.com/2026/02/28/us-news/nancy-mace-reveals-why-she-got-nine-tattoos-in-rapid-succession-while-serving-in-congress/
Not pictured: the tattoos
“to “reclaim” her body and identity.”
The fuck you talking about lady? Even our conservative Republican ladies are weird freaks now.
She is mentally ill. She needs therapy, not a raft of tattoos.
Best therapy for our entire political class – exile from public office.
Pain reward pleasure is a real thing.
It’s why so many rockstars OD and so many people with paper pushing jobs hit the bottle or the gym.
*looks around nervously*
Hopefully she got a W on either asscheek. When she bends over it says WOW!
Upside down its MOM
“Giving your partner a sexually transmitted disease is now a form of domestic violence in New York state, a Long Island judge ruled in a “groundbreaking” divorce decision that gave the aggrieved wife 100% of the couple’s assets.
The Dec. 1 ruling by Nassau County Judge Edmund Dane stemmed from the 2022 split between Thomas Saxton — a violent drug abuser with a long rap sheet — and his spouse, who he had multiple affairs and gave her herpes and HPV.
The wife, whose name is being withheld by The Post, had to undergo surgery to remove cancer cells from her cervix apparently caused by the human papillomavirus she contracted from Saxton, and will be on medication the rest of her life, she told the court.”
https://nypost.com/2026/02/28/us-news/giving-partner-std-is-a-form-of-domestic-violence-in-ny-judge/
So everything is domestic violence?
Real stds or like herpes which everyone has?
I don’t have it.
+ sharing is caring
a violent drug abuser with a long rap sheet
No doubt a family with an abundance of assets for her to gain.
Oddly enough, California decriminalized this.
“In emails she wrote to Epstein, reviewed by The Post, Marcinko reveals she started having sex with the creep in 2003, when she was 18. But some of the West Palm Beach victims have told law enforcement they were made to have sex with Marcinko as early as 2002, when both they and Marcinko were underage….
Marcinko attempted to leave Epstein around 2010 and get her own apartment, according to the emails…
But they kept talking and it was around that time she got her pilot’s license and began flying Epstein’s private jet, the Lolita Express, which prosecutors have alleged he used to shuttle his sex-trafficking victims around the globe, including to his twisted “pedophile island.”
She also started an aviation company in 2011, Aviloop, with the financial backing of Epstein.
“Website is cool,” Epstein wrote in an email to Marcinko about the business that year. “Mix of porn, Groupon and flying. The marketing campaign could be ‘buy with us — WE give a flying f–k.’”
Marcinko was accused in Florida court documents of participating in sex acts with minors to “satisfy Epstein’s criminal sexual desires.” She was never charged.”
https://nypost.com/2026/02/28/us-news/epsteins-former-pilot-girlfriend-cooperated-with-feds-in-exchange-for-help-with-us-visa/
Curious.
Raise your hand if you’re sick of hearing about fucking Epstein.
This is why I don’t buy the “Trump coverup” rhetoric. I think Trump just didn’t want the distraction from the things he was interested in doing.
Although the binder stunt was retarded.
You may be but plenty aren’t and it can’t be wished away. It’s yet another thing Trump screwed the pooch on.
The Dems badly want to talk about nothing else except a lot of them are thick in the middle of it all.
Raises hand, rapidly puts up other hand.
🤚
[points gun at anyone without their hands, both of them, up]
The more details I see about Epstein’s ‘crimes’ the more I tend to doubt them.
Good thing for the more lurid corners of the media that he isn’t around to defend himself.
This is where I’m at WTF
He is the McMartin preschool satanic child abuse of the day. Fucking humans and their incessant need for moral panics.
Every day that passes sees my estimate of my fellow humans diminish more and more.
The Paralympics start Friday. Watch some sled hockey and you’ll be just fine. Maybe team USA will get a call from Trump.
“Radiohead told the Trump administration to go ‘f*** yourselves’ as they condemned the unauthorized usage of their song in an ICE social media video.
The band issued a statement on Friday after Let Down was used in a clip from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement which was shared to X. ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15600677/Radiohead-Trump-administration-usage-song-social-media-video.html
No one cares.
Hot take: Nickelback is better than Radiohead.
Radiohead through Kid A were great but it’s all downhill from there and if you’re going to dislike rock bands because of their politics your playlist will be very short.
dislike rock bands because of their politics
I dislike Radiohead because I think they suck (a.k.a – I don’t like their style of music nor especially their interpretation of it).
But especially because they called Scott Tenorman a pussy for crying after he ate his parents. Come on, show some empathy you bitches!
Nickleback sucks hot balls, and Radiohead isn’t much better.
Nickelback is good live.
If they start playing Radiohead to tortue the illegals, that’s when I flip against ICE, there’s cruel and unusual, and then their is playing Radiohead.
There, not their, damn…
Talk about torture… the most overplayed and overrated band of that decade is it.
Silicone Saturday will race in to rebuild Iran!
https://archive.is/krTQi
It’s nice they’re willing to help.
I wonder how many property owners stick with the short term model long term and how many do it a few times and decide it’s not worth it.
“Yanis Varoufakis, the leftwing firebrand who briefly served as Greece’s finance minister, has criticised his “ridiculous prosecution” for allegedly promoting the use of recreational drugs after his public admission that he once took an ecstasy pill almost 40 years ago.
The 64-year-old, who reminisced about the experience on a podcast, was charged on Wednesday with “inciting others in the illegal use of narcotics”. If convicted he faces a prison term of at least six months and up to €500,000 (£440,000) in fines. A court hearing has been scheduled for December.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/28/yanis-varoufakis-calls-prosecution-after-admitting-taking-ecstasy-40-years-ago-ridiculous
That is ridiculous.
Who do they think they are, Singapore??
IndyCar is in St Pete. MotoGP is in Thailand.
“The question of who owns and authorizes Black History Month holds particular relevance now, in its centennial year, and at a time when efforts to celebrate, preserve, and acknowledge Black people’s past in this country are under attack. Official recognition of Black American resistance to centuries of racial injustice is being challenged by local, state, and national efforts to restrict, ban and possibly criminalize such information in public schools, universities and other institutions. So the sentiment that Black history can be quite literally given or taken away by state officials is valid.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/28/black-history-month-never-taken-from-us
Also, ridiculous.
Complete and utter bullshit.
Now that Jessie Jackson is in hell the ownership of Black History Month has passed to Al Sharpton.
The more details I see about Epstein’s ‘crimes’ the more I tend to doubt them.
It’s the “recovered memory” tale of the 21st century. Also witchcraft and demonic oissession.
I just wish they had formally charged Epstein with violating the Mann Act.
“Luna first described Hillary Clinton’s response when asked about Epstein’s 2019 death in federal custody.
“She mentioned that Epstein died in ‘mysterious circumstances,’” Luna stated.
Regarding Bill Clinton’s testimony earlier that day, Luna said he was uncomfortable.
“President Clinton’s response was very uncomfortable. He said, ‘I’ll yield to the autopsy reports.’ You could tell that was not what he felt the truth to be. You’ll see that in the recorded deposition,” Luna said.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/02/watch-rep-luna-reveals-bill-hillary-clinton-indicated/
Who knows?
“California officials are moving forward with legislation that compels operating system companies to add an age verification process during account creation.
Assembly Bill No. 1043 was signed into law by Gavin Newsom in October of last year and is scheduled to take effect on January 1, 2027. The measure outlines several obligations, stating that “An operating system provider shall do all of the following: (1) Provide an accessible interface at account setup that requires an account holder to indicate the birth date, age, or both, of the user of that device for the purpose of providing a signal regarding the user’s age bracket to applications available in a covered application store. (2) Provide a developer who has requested a signal with respect to a particular user with a digital signal via a reasonably consistent real-time application programming interface that identifies, at a minimum, which of the following categories pertains to the user.””
https://thepostmillennial.com/california-law-would-force-all-operating-systems-to-have-age-verification
WTF??
Why do you hate the children?
It’s not like parents can be trusted to do their fucking job. Best leave it to the state.
YouTube has me age restricted because I refuse to send them photos of my drivers lisence. The only reason I started an account was to watch age restricted videos. Fuckers.
This write up from TOS was decent
https://reason.org/commentary/examining-californias-digital-age-assurance-act/
Potentially less bad than what sites are doing now, it be a mechanism for your device to indicate age ranges.
What stops you from just selecting ‘adult’ at setup, I dunno. I guess the idea is that parents retain some control over their kids devices and set things appropriately. Not sure how often that’s true even today.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2026/02/the-week-in-pictures-groovin-gavin-mogging-edition.php
Thank you for posting.
The Newsome ones are amazing.
Salacious titillation
Republicans said President Donald Trump was now “exonerated.” Democrats said Trump was no such thing and called the event an “unserious clown show.” And amid dueling news conferences and social media posts throughout Thursday and Friday, the public is now left with starkly divergent narratives in a congressional probe that shows few signs of ending anytime soon.
The split screen underscores the politically fraught nature of the House investigation, which is unfolding as the electorate clamors for someone to be held accountable for the years that the sex trafficking operation of Epstein and his co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell, went unchecked.
Fap fap fap.
To be fair, it is absolutely a fucking clown show.
Bill Clinton has maintained he was an acquaintance of Epstein’s and traveled on his plane several times internationally, while Secret Service details were present, but stopped communicating with him at least a decade before his arrest in 2019 on federal sex trafficking charges.
“When he was no longer useful to me I dropped him like a hot rock.”
That’s plausible.
I saw a brief statement by Clinton last night, damn he looked horrible.
Well, sharing a last name with Hillary can do that to a man.
Hellscape
The mood at CNN right now is “not good.” Journalists are not looking forward to their new MAGA overlords, or to potentially being under the thumb of Bari Weiss, who has turned CBS News into a straight up disaster.
This all comes on the heels of TikTok also being purchased by billionaire Trumpists (including the Ellisons), The Washington Post not only pivoting to the Right but also firing over 300 journalists (guess it’s hard to afford them when no one will subscribe to your paper due to the aforementioned pivot), which all came on the heels of Elon Musk buying Twitter and turning it into a hard right, white supremacist propaganda site.
Where are our Truthtellers? Where are our honest progressive voices?
Look the WP has gone MAGA too!
I should have kept reading.
Otherwise it’s all MAGA MSM it would seem.
ABC, NBC, CBS?
OK, not CBS, I guess?
God forbid their bubble should collapse down into a size appropriate to their actual numbers in the population. They’ll all be shouting at each other with no one listening.
It’s not that CNN, in and of itself, was some grand beacon of left-wing thought. We know it wasn’t and I don’t think anyone has ever expected it to be. It’s always been more moderate. But so was CBS News, and now they’re on the road to becoming FOX. The fact that we are losing even more moderate media networks to the extreme Right is deeply concerning. The goal is to make us disappear, to make it seem like we are a small minority, to have everything seen through a warped right-wing lens, to have our only representations in mainstream media be straw men invented by the kind of weirdos who think teachers are putting kitty litter boxes in their classrooms for students who believe they are cats (when really, they have them in case of mass shooters, a thing we have to live with because of Republicans).
But you are, Blanche. You are a tiny crippled delusional minority with no understanding of what makes normal people tick. It’s not politics, and it’s not envy.
Don’t worry kid, you’ve always got Jacobin.
Yeah, I wouldn’t even know where to find a left-wing point of view. It’s a total wasteland of chattering right-wing robots out there. I take all of this talk that CBS, twitter, and WaPo have slightly deviated from the chorus as a tacit admission that these outlets, and all other corporate media entities except for whacko outlier Fox*, are supposed to be lefty property.
Also, Wonkette is still around? Wow.
(*I don’t think I’ve seen a Fox Channel news broadcast in decades, so I don’t really know what they do.)
The Right has always openly fought culture wars, has always openly said that they want control of the culture — which we would never dare to do, largely because that actually does sound pretty psychotic.
You’re killing me.
That’s a pretty wild statement coming from someone on the Left. They see any encroachment as a threat to their philosophy and power.
Grievous injustice
A North Dakota judge on Friday finalized a $345m judgment against Greenpeace in a lawsuit pursued by pipeline company Energy Transfer (ET.N) over the environmental group’s role in protests against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
The final judgment by judge James Gion was in line with a decision he issued in October, in which he slashed by almost half a damages award of about $667m that a jury had awarded Energy Transfer in March.
Greenpeace in a statement said it would seek a new trial and, if necessary, appeal the decision to the North Dakota supreme court, calling the lawsuit “a blatant attempt to silence free speech”.
“Speaking out against corporations that cause environmental harm should never be deemed unlawful,” Marco Simons, interim general counsel at Greenpeace USA and Greenpeace Fund, said in a statement.
Why did they reduce the settlement? Not fair.
Can Marco Simons be made to pay his share by selling his blood?
So, not speech.
Silence is violence.
“But I don’t think it’s over just yet. I think that what happened in Minnesota has reminded us that we are actually very good at organizing. I also truly believe that part of what got people to start changing their minds about ICE so rapidly was seeing just how many Minnesotans were getting out there, in public, to loudly oppose them. Visibility like that has an effect, socialization has an effect.”
Good at organizing foreign-funded astroturf?
At the start of OMB’s 1st term, didnt Tom Arnold and Michael Moore have a “bombshell” they were going to release about Trump?