It’s not you, it’s me. But also my boyfriend, and the 2.5 hour drive time between our homes. And loathsome swamp creature Gov Abigail Spanberger. I have been looking to move closer to the boyfriend for a while, but with the newly-ascendant Virginia Democrats trying to raise taxes and trample on 1A and 2A rights, I have reached the breaking point and am ready to move away from Old Virginny, my beloved lifelong home. After today, I will be taking a break from regular Glibs editorial duties for the foreseeable future. Now, let’s get linking:
WHEN YOU’VE LOST CORNELL WEST… Harvard professor and vitally important public intellectual™ Cornell West, is not happy with CA Gov Gavin Newsom, and rightly so, for Newsom’s blatantly racist talking down to black people. Pretty sure this incident will tank Newsom’s chances of winning the Dem primary, but I expect him to run anyhow. Power-hungry VA Gov Abigail Spanberger is waiting in the wings, salivating, but they’ll have to figure out a way to shuffle ex-VP Kamala Harris offstage.
TODAY IN TROON VIOLENCE: Investigators have not yet been able to speak with a person accused of firing at a Border Patrol agent because of the extent of the injuries they suffered after the agent returned fire, officials said Wednesday. Blu Zeke Daly, 26, also known as Cullan Zeke Daly, of Manchester, was charged with attempted murder of a federal officer.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF HONEYPOTTING: From Mata Hari to modern times, unfortunately no mention of PRC operative Fang Fang who “loved” Congressman Eric Swalwell long time. “The Honeypot” is also one of my favorite Archer episodes.
THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT: DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media. I’m sure my tinfoil-wearing and prepper readers can come up with reasons far beyond the coolness and nostalgia.
WORLD’S FIRST TRANS-ATLANTIC FIBER OPTIC CABLE BEING PULLED UP, RECYCLED: The article doesn’t say whether the motivation for this is economic or regulatory. Even though the data moves over the fiber, the cable also contains copper to power the inline amplifiers (h/t DB who knows about stuff like this).
WOMP, WOMP: NASA yet again delays launch of Artemis 2 mission due to hardware problems. I’m glad NASA Director and astronaut Jared Isaacman is not afraid to yank the chains of the entitled, welfare-queen, dinosaur launch companies, and even gladder that he is playing it safe with the lives of our astronauts. He’s also not afraid to shake up NASA leadership. Good.
I WAS WRONG: In my Jan 15 column, I wrote: Speculation swarms, like sperm trying to reach an ovum, that astronaut and biologist Zena Cardman is preggers. Turns out the astronaut whose (still undisclosed) medical condition caused Crew-11 to be evacuated from the ISS was Mike Fincke.
Ya the whole ‘it must be the silly vagina bearing astronaut” (not you Tonio) that triggered the deorbit was actually disgusting on many levels from the commentors.
I really regret publishing that. I meant it to be light-hearted but it came across as uncomfortably close to slut-shaming. Astronauts are in top physical condition, highly competitive, and there’s not a lot to do up there. I certainly wouldn’t blame any of them for joining the “100 km” club on their down time. And I can certainly see NASA flight surgeons freaking the fuck out about liability and birth defects in a high-rad environment.
Anyway, I wish Astronaut Fincke the very best. Hopefully this won’t be a flight DQ for him.
Deke Slayton was a member of the astronaut corps but never flew because of medical issues. Chuck Yeager famously concealed his broken ribs from NACA (predecessor to NASA) on the first transonic flight.
Ackkkksually Deke flew on the Apollo Soyuz test project.
Anyone who claims that they wouldn’t try out sex in microgravity, given the opportunity, is either completely asexual or the world’s biggest liar.
Thanks, tripacer.
I’m so glad Slayton eventually made it into space before his cruel death from brain cancer.
Maybe Mike is preggers? Who are you to question zer condition?
How sure are we that Mike Fincke isn’t pregnant?
Dad will be put to rest at a VA cemetery. The man we thought had everything put together had exactly on item in his safe.
Care to guess?
A pocket watch?
I was going to guess a gun.
.38?
https://www.nydailynews.com/2015/06/15/exclusive-president-ronald-reagans-biggest-secret-he-packed-heat-in-his-briefcase/
As conservative-libertarian leaning as he was, he did not like firearms himself.
Nah, a game puck from 1999 LA Kings he caught. I mean…cool, but where the frack is your life insurance papers dad!
Christopher Walken blows a big sigh of relief.
RIP, your dad.
Thanks buddy. He was a giant.
His kid(s) turned out alright, too.
Fourscore, for the WIN!
Evidence against Hillary Clinton?
Selfies with STEVE SMITH,Nessie, and the Jersey Devil?
Social security card?
Buona fortuna.
Grazie!
Thanks for all you do Tonio,
Nah. Dems have been talking down to blacks and taking them for granted for decades. Gavin is no different from any of the rest in that regard.
I dunno…repubs are actually playing this right. Some kid on a focus group from SOTU echoed it and was put in his place cause of it.
Maybe…people will wake up to the BS
Republican strategist called it the billion-dollar moment, as in it will save them a billion dollars in advertising costs, and cause the Dems to spend a similar amount to try to paper it over.
He might have to do a Michael Vick, who famously paid PETA millions to “train” and absolve him.
Kamala II: The 2 Billion Dollar sequel!
“Turns out the astronaut whose (still undisclosed) medical condition caused Crew-11 to be evacuated from the ISS was Mike Fincke.”
He’s more used to keelboats.
clap. clap. clap.
Mike Fincke is pregnant?
Zero gravity does crazy things to the human body.
Good luck on the relocation, Tonio. This summer my youngest and her sailor are moving there.
But, but, Tonio, who will patch my articles in to some semblance of coherency. ?
Woe is me, woe is me…
I’m working on that.
Oddly enough, I just watched The Honey Pot A few nights ago. I thought it was quite entertaining.
OMG, I didn’t know that existed. Thanks.
“Archer” is notorious for riffing off the titles of other works. “The Honeymooners,” “Live and Let Dine,” etc.
Looking forward to playing “Where’s Tonio” as he gambols through red states.
What state are you moving to? I have two trips planned up North this summer.
Send me an email and some contact info.
had exactly on item in his safe.
Care to guess?
Jimmy Hoffa?
Al Capone’s treasure?
For him it would have been Berry Goldwater
Tonio can’t be moving north 2.5 hours – that’d be going from the frying pan into the fire. So, somewhere in NC?
Winner, winner, chicken dinner.
Lots of cheap desvestated land out there after the floods so good call! /CA and HI pols
OK, that is where I am going this summer.
I can see the movement in SW Virginia to transfer allegiance from VA to WV gaining momentum.
I had considered WV but that is no closer to the BF. I’m definitely interested and supportive of both the WV and ID expansions via referendum in adjacent counties, but the Dems will never let that happen.
I would imagine you’re going to avoid RTP and that inflated real estate market.
The Dems will never capture SW Virginia, so I really do think they’d let it go. It isn’t like there is a huge economic incentive to keeping it.
I really do think they’d let it go
They won’t give up the electoral vote.
Greater Idaho is one of three political campaigns I have ever given too.
They got the most cash from me.
Salem will never let them go even thought they claim those counties coat the state more than they bring in. It’s about power and the boot.
I’d go TN before NC simply NC has state income tax.
2.5 hours … that’s around Baltimore …
Tonio’s new business/residence.
Flatten those hills out and it would look like MN (minus the blue spots) and be just as big.
Ha! I’ll bookmark that since both of us have people in that area.
“Bear Cabin”
Checks out.
Most definitely, JI. Mos’ def.
Local weekly newspaper in the area where I’m looking had 72 pt banner headline: [placename] VFD Sells Out of Stew
RVA daily paper headline: Mass Shooting in [nightlife district], 50 casings recovered.
Mrs JI has family ties to Henderson – not that she keeps in touch with that branch of the family. Even though we bought in VA, our most convenient retail, etc. is down the mountain in NC.
Everyone seemed to like the Grok memes in last nights episode, so here is a new one.
Bigly!
Heh. “Pack the court.”
WITH BOOBIES!
So, somewhere in NC?
How far away is Tennessee? That seems to be a popular destination.
That was my first choice when I left NC, but cost of living was about the same.
I wasn’t sure about the nurse pay either.
I think the reason is much more pragmatic. Unlike say, mp3s, digital movies are not terribly easy to download or store and/or are largely restricted to a subscription model which leaves them subject to removal or wokification without warning.
They used to be. I haven’t tried in forever though.
#meneither
I’m way more afraid of getting “caught” than I used to be, and probably for good reason.
Peach of thumbsucker….
Del Monte collapse leaves California peach growers stranded. ‘No place else to go’
Also the usual farmer quotes you expect.
Any law against the farmers and workers buying the shuttered plant? After all, we are always told that labor doesn’t need no damn capitalists to skim profits while lighting cigars with $100 bills and taking bimbos to Vegas ( or whatever the commies allege these days.)
I kept thinking the same thing…
I noticed that at least 2 of the peach growers are driving $70k trucks. Perhaps they could pool their resources together to buy the cannery for pennies on the dollar.
I don’t think I’ve had a canned peach in 2 decades.
It’s been that long since I’ve had any as well. One of the neighbor ladies cans her own, we get a jar as a Xmas gift, she gets a jar of honey. Seems to work out.
The wife cans peaches and pears every year. This is what we eat for dessert now.
I’m sure my tinfoil-wearing and prepper readers can come up with reasons far beyond the coolness and nostalgia.
With physical media you’re less likely to suddenly find your entire music/video library has vanished.
You only purchased a license to use while it was in our catalog. It is no longer in our catalog.
When streaming first hit the scene I clearly didn’t understand the system and sold all my South Park DVDs
Stupid
Hell apple deletes albums from my computer that I ripped from the CDs on my shelves.
Those CDs aren’t part of the Apple eco-system.
Those peach farmers can rip up their orchards and plant solar panels.
The only option
A mammoth solar farm is moving forward in the heart of California. If built, which seems increasingly likely, it would cover 200 square miles of land and generate 21,000 megawatts of electricity, enough to power entire cities. Huge batteries will store some of that power until it’s needed most.
Farmers are among the project’s backers. They don’t have enough water to grow crops on big chunks of their land, and they’re looking for new uses for it.
What could possibly go wrong?
Perfect for the peach farmers!
“they’re looking for new uses for it.”
Not the worst idea. They can just move out of state and collect a check.
I knew that it was proposed to de-extinct the mammoth, but I didn’t know they were farming them. It makes sense to use solar, since CA probably gives them more tax breaks on top of their agricultural ones.
Narrator: None of this will actually happen.
Now be fair. Many feasibility studies performed by connected folk will be done, and many large bills for them will be paid by unconnected folk.
You are too skeptical. Look at those bullet trains now speeding between SF and LA.
https://x.com/nicksortor/status/2027096348676252033
And nothing else happened…
🙁
He is turning out to be really bad at this “mayor” thing.
😐
I’m shocked.
But… but…
Who’s going to fix my fuckups?
I passed a CDL test today and almost passed the other 2. Yay me.
You should be more careful in what you eat.
California or Minnesota?
Is Derpy a Somali name?
Amazon and the Post Office around here have some sort of agreement. The company bringing Amazon packages for PO delivery for us rubes is a Somali in an unmarked box truck.
I’ll be on the look out for Derpy as a sub-sub-contractor.
And take away a job from a hardworking undocumented immigrant? Heavens, no.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRiHcZdU5nU
Dingy and dirty and unglamorous
As global manufacturing expanded over the past two decades, rare earth processing was steadily pushed out of Western supply chains. It was capital-intensive, technically demanding, and difficult to defend on short-term economics.
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By the time rare earths became strategically visible, the infrastructure that determined who could actually build was already concentrated in one place. Then it was weaponized, with Beijing placing restrictions on rare earth exports in order to control which defense and advanced manufacturing programs received supply.
Financial engineering is sexy. Smelters are ugly.
He who smelt it dealt it.
No sign of Trump firing Howard Lutnick, which is growing increasingly odd.
https://x.com/i/status/2027113404545261731
I hope that isn’t Danny McBride on the bench.
He’s previously said he lunched on the island with his family.
Weird how they aren’t in the picture. Also that he later has a business partnership with Epstein he forgot to mention.
Bathroom break I’m sure.
Ever been to a party that had another, smaller party going on inside it? I think that’s the way the government works.
John Kerry saying the quiet part out loud: we are extraterrestrials here to save the planet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6ZaDxNUrAQ
Carlin said: it’s a big club and, you ain’t in it. I think it’s a small club.
John Kerry wishes he was a space alien. Outer Space is individualist and libertarian, there is no room for collectivist asshats.
Fail
Workers at Whirlpool, the US’s largest appliance manufacturer and a champion of Donald Trump’s tariff policies, are criticizing the company for cutting jobs at an Iowa plant while bolstering production in Mexico.
The job cuts at Whirlpool come as the company has continued to support the Trump administration’s trade policies and claimed they will help bolster US manufacturing. Trump’s trade policies appear to have done little for US manufacturing so far. The US has lost 83,000 factory jobs since Trump took office in January 2025.
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Whirlpool opened a new manufacturing facility in Mexico in August 2025, and union officials and workers say their manufacturing work and jobs have been moved there.
Trump lied!
Wouldn’t sex in space require velcro? Or magnets?
Bungee cords, or a stretchy cargo net. Or stirrups or something. You’d need something to push against in Zero-G.
Why did you need to mention Velcro?
“Being there over 30 years, I’ve grown myself with this company. I’ve devoted my life to them. I’ve raised my children there, and just thinking that I might not have a job in a year, it’s just devastating,” said Sandy Lorenz, third shift plant chair who has worked at the plant for 33 years. “They could keep these products here, and they could keep these people working, but it just comes down to that they are greedy and want to make a little more money. And that’s the bottom line.”
The best wage around. She’s been nothing but a slave for decades. She’s a victim. Corporate mind control, that’s what it is.
And our devoted employees, who have taken no increases for the past three years, are still making twice what they made ten years ago; and our stock — one-sixth what it was ten years ago.
relevant: Impotent Rage, the liberal superhero
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5QsFYLmWuE
some other curmudgeon posted it here before many moons ago
Idiot just following his GPS
Coworker on lunch and I got a big lottery rush. Much confusion was had. Lady customer, also a Meijer employee, but in the main store, helped me out behind the counter.
That was unpleasant. Didn’t come close to it, but the thought of quitting and walking out did pop into my head.
That was pretty brutal, by far the most stressy event of my 2+ weeks here.
So you didn’t win the powerball?
No. I *did* get one of our hot dogs, tho. Not bad! And only $1.82. Will do again. (I’m losing a lot of weight against my will cuz scheduling. Need to keep eating kinda everything, really.)
Well. Lunch over. Once more, dear friends. *Crosses self*
At least the day has gone quickly.