Good morning one and all to another splendid day!
Republicans Take Another Crack at DHS Funding, Citing Iran War
Nearly 20k US citizens returned home from Middle East since Iran war began: State Department
Trump Reveals Sen. Markwayne Mullin Will Replace Fired Kristi Noem At DHS
DOJ to release more than 47,000 additional Jeffrey Epstein files by end of week
U.S. Productivity Surges Above Expectations in Fourth Quarter
Paxton offers to drop out if Cornyn commits to passing SAVE Act
GOP Congressman Caught Up In Sex Suicide Scandal Drops Out Of Race
Tucker Carlson’s nicotine shipment hijacked, prompting manhunt, 6-figure bounty
Six Flags to sell 7 amusement parks in deal worth more than $330M
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
“Trump Reveals Sen. Markwayne Mullin Will Replace Fired Kristi Noem At DHS”
Never heard of him?
Who is replacing Pam Bondi? Bitch has got to go..
Bandon Herrera in Congress and a Shah in Iran would be a good 2026.
Add China’s CCP economy in shambles to that too, plz.
Why does a Pahlavi restoration rate high? Because he’d be a good compliant bitch for us?
To repress the Islamists.
So Iranian civil war. He doesn’t have the following, or the military, to do what you want.
Maybe, or maybe not. I’m not persuaded that either of us has any real basis to judge the likelihood. But we have already started the war so I’m choosing to be hopeful about the outcome. I am sure there will be plenty to be miserable about in the future but to paraphrase Seneca imagining extra misery does nothing but make life worse.
I gather from the bad cat that Iran has quite the urban/rural divide, and quite a religious divide as well. Meaning, probably the only way anyone can stay on top of it is with brutal repression.
As we saw once already, when the ticket to power is the will and ability to be more savage than anyone else, the Islamists have a built-in advantage.
Ah, hope springs eternal. I’m not inclined to be hopeful which saves me from disappointment.
The Shah was overthrown because his popular support was very limited. I don’t see a restoration on that basis. I also don’t see a good end ever to the Shia branch of Islam (nor much better for the Sunni branch for that matter, least of all the Wahhabi). Uprooting the IRGC will be no small task and is sure to be a very bloody affair.
It never occurs to our Epstein Class that Iran might already have the government the majority of them want. (Same with Russia)
We just assume they’d be happier with a western pedocracy.
Only about 37% of the residents of Iran even claim to be Muslim, even when it’s illegal to not be one.
I don’t expect a freedom loving benevolent caretaker to gain control of the country, I do expect the next regime to be more secular and less “Ruthless morality police”
Yeah the sense I get is that chasing what a “majority” of Iranians want is a fool’s game.
Heh. Remind you of anyplace else?
Iran in a civil war, is unlikely to have the extra money or ability to project its unconventional power outside its borders – by which I mean no more funding for Hezb’allah and Hamas, no more extorting passage through Hormuz, et cetera. I’m okay with that.
Sure does but I think we all get along smashingly in comparison.
Heh. Remind you of anyplace else?
Only if you take the progressive view of the U.S. about our rural religious rubes.
I take that view about as seriously as I do the conservative view of our urban progressive elites.
Seriously, if you don’t recognize the cultural gap between urban and rural areas in the United States, then you’re not living in the same reality I am.
That guy would be lynched in a week unless they brought back SAVAK too.
I think Brandon has enough firepower to last longer than a week.
Touche
“Paxton offers to drop out if Cornyn commits to passing SAVE Act”
Based…
Paxton drops out; Cornyn reneges.
Or, set a deadline of before the runoff to get the act passed for the offer to be valid. Withdrawl contingent on the act passing.
I prefer a scenario where Cornyn votes for the SAVE Act, and Paxton reneges and beats his ass in the runoff.
“,U.S. Productivity Surges Above Expectations in Fourth Quarter”
When it is harder to just fleece the productive by voting for a living, more people have to work for a living?
I didn’t realize he used that heavily.
/snark.
More seriously, there needs to be a mechanism for correcting broken states that don’t enforce basic criminal laws against theft and violence.
I initially expected that to be a Babylon Bee “story”.
Monocle folks, I’ve been reorganizing things a bit and spit it into a development and master branches (sorry, R C Dean, if that has impacted you).
https://gitlab.com/glibertarians/forumProject/-/raw/master/monocle.user.js?ref_type=heads
That’s the master branch and that url won’t change going forward.
I’ll push things from development to master after I test the various combos I have handy.
Upcoming work:
Removing the code that reimplemented ‘new comment’ highlighting, since that’s been restored to the site.
Adjusting the buttons so they don’t cover text or get covered by the top banner.
Stopping the ‘Comment *’ from appearing when you use the formatting links.
Adding the ability to toggle the buttons between the left side and on the bottom, like the O.G. Monocle.
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Hallaluyer!
Finally, if anyone still wants the O.G. Monocle, it’s preserved here
https://gitlab.com/glibertarians/forumProject/-/tree/monocle_v2?ref_type=heads
Could someone point me to the instructions for making sure I’m set up right on Safari? Thanks.
Let me go through Safari setup again and I’ll fill out the ‘Instructions’ section a bit more:
https://gitlab.com/glibertarians/forumProject/
Is this Safari on a phone/tablet or on your desktop?
Tablet. Thanks.
Try these expanded instructions and let me know
https://gitlab.com/glibertarians/forumProject/-/blob/13-expand-the-installation-instructions-for-safari-userscripts/README.md
If those work well I’ll merge in that change.
Seems to work now. 👍
Bueno.
I just merged in v4.9.7 to master, which removes the client side code for tracking new comments – no longer needed since that functionality was restored at the site level.
Nobody should notice anything different, other than the version in the settings button being updated.
“Kalshi promoted the Khamenei trade to bettors on its website homepage and in push notifications ahead of the Supreme Leader’s killing on Saturday. Early that morning, the platform alerted users in a tweet that odds on the market have surged to 68 percent, adding a disclaimer that Kalshi does not broker trades that settle on death. In a follow-up post, Kalshi acknowledged that its previous tweet was grammatically ambiguous and that it would reimburse losses related to the trade.”
That does sound like bullshit.
They should reimburse all bettors at minimum 2:1 on their bets as an apology.
Sounds an awful lot like “we didn’t think we would have to pay out on that, and we don’t have the funds to cover it”.
The House once again demonstrates the independence of the legislative branch.
Never mind the measure failing because 4 Democrats helped kill it.
Does the House have any authority when it comes to declarations of war? I thought the Constitution reserved that to the Senate.
That’s treaties. War is “Congress”
Congress is both the House and Senate, I don’t think it matters which one initiates it.
Well, that settles it.
Jeffries is really the worst – blame Republicans when you couldn’t even keep your own caucus united.
““A lot of Latino and Hispanic communities are, to be frank, and especially if you’re from Cuba. Cubans here, socialism, Communism, and as long as the Republicans use those words to describe Democratic policies, they will vote Republican every time, even if they’re voting for themselves to be put out of America,” she said….
“They would do it every time. So, that’s something that requires a level of sophistication to understand, and one of the main platforms for the disinformation is Univision, and many of the Spanish-language newspapers,” she said. “Many of them are owned by conservative, right-leaning people. So they constantly are a group that is filtered full of misinformation.””
https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2026/03/05/jemele-hill-cuban-latino-communities-soft-targets-for-misinformation/
CWAC
I can believe Jemele Hill loves her some Gavin Newsome – ’cause he knows how to relate to black people.
They are going to run with that lie until the end of time, I guess.
Kind of ignoring that the Democrats themselves are proudly wrapping the socialism banner around themselves and their policies for the last 4 years or more, isn’t she?
“How dare the Cubans not want a repeat of what happened to their island and pay attention to what we’re doing!”
Cuna did it wrong and also the US did it to Cuba or something. Also, this time they’re going to get it right.
“Pedro Pascal Fan Club Revokes Actor’s Woke Status Over Rumors He Might Be Dating Zionist Man, Dined at Pro-Israel Restaurant”
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2026/03/05/pedro-pascal-fan-club-revokes-actors-woke-status-over-rumors-he-might-be-dating-jewish-man-dined-at-pro-israel-restaurant/
LOLOL
I love when they eat their own.
Also… who?
The creepy swish they’ve been trying to push as a “leading man” If the internet informs me correctly.
Though I’ll go with “Guy I’d rather never hear about again.”
Envious you never heard of Pedro Pascal.
Looks like he specializes in streaming and superhero slop.
Which explains why I don’t know who he is.
I know him from mostly from Critical Drinker, Sydney Watson, and Pop Culture Crisis videos. Not sure if I’ve seen him in anything?
He died in Game of Thrones during the portion of the series I watched before realizing I didn’t care about the series and wandered off.
Didn’t know who he was until years later.
I think he was pitched as a big deal for the last “Big Fantastic 4 movie that will make the masses care about them this time! No really!” that flopped horribly (and I obviously never watched… consistency with all the other stupid Fantastic 4 movies, after all!)
He was pretty good in The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent .(which is hilarious)
I had never heard of him prior to that and since then, he has been in a bunch of crap that I didn’t want to see.
For some reason they keep trying to convince us he is a leading man, but I don’t see it.
My take aligns with The Drinker – he’s a good actor but has been shoved into so many things at this point people are getting sick of him.
When it comes to Pedro Pascal… I dare say I’ve never meant this more…
LOL
That has proven to be the reaction of the general audiences too.
He should have stuck with the Palestinian chicken joint Larry David likes.
Claude Code’s brother.
“”We know what it feels like to want an Alp so badly that you could hijack a truck full of it. But come on. That’s illegal,” Carlson said in a statement. “We’re going to find the people who did this and redistribute their booty. Alp for the people.”
I tried it and it made me want to eat a cat.
“President Trump cast Tucker Carlson out of his Make America Great Again movement following the conservative talking head’s loud criticism of the US and Israeli assault on Iran.
“Tucker has lost his way,” the commander-in-chief told ABC News’ Jonathan Karl on Thursday. “I knew that a long time ago, and he’s not MAGA. MAGA is saving our country. MAGA is making our country great again. MAGA is America first, and Tucker is none of those things. And Tucker is really not smart enough to understand that.””
https://nypost.com/2026/03/05/media/trump-kicks-tucker-carlson-out-of-maga-movement-after-talkers-iran-war-criticism-lost-his-way/
So you are saying you hijacked the truck?
I don’t know what MAGA is anymore, unless it’s just the same old Republican party.
MAGA seems to be “blindly following Trump”.
MAGA is just an idea.
MAGA seems to be “blindly following Trump”.
That is clearly Trump’s view.
MAGA is the US version of Peronism. It’s not a coherent ideology, it’s scraps of a few things wrapped around a single person.
Wait, what? Stealing an Alp seems like a mountain of effort only to be taken for granite.
I wonder if the Swiss Miss it.
Heidi-ho!
We can reach even higher heights of bad puns!
Naw, I think we’ve plateaued
Gneiss one.
Swiss really has an uphill battle trying to grill you all for the cheesy puns.
He’ll take the matter by the horn.
Changing the brake pads on a 97′ Forerunner:
https://x.com/alphafox/status/2029610391547039827
The brakes on a Forerunner? Just so you can stop getting ahead of yourself?
Couldn’t stop, got into an accident, drove off in a Rav4runner.
The torque rating for lug nuts is not supposed to be a minimum. Running the lug nuts on with an impact driver then going around with a torque wrench doesn’t tell you if they nuts are correctly torqued, just that they are not under torqued.
I have had to explain this to a tire shop foreman after specifically requesting that they be torqued correctly due to not being able to loosen them on the side of the road with the tools in the spare tire compartment due to them having been previously overtightened.
See also – oil drain plug bolt.
I’m waiting to see somebody use an impact on the filter as well.
I always put them on with my air impact on the lowest setting and a torque stick.
Then go around with the torque wrench.
Some will be tighter than required, but most will need snugging up.
It bothers me when people just mindlessly ugg-a-dugga with an impact.
Those aren’t people. They’re monkeys.
Got off work one day and find I have a flat tire. No big deal – I can change a tire. The crappy OEM lug wrench could not break any of the nuts loose. Call wife and have her bring my big 4-way up. I got all the nuts off accept for one and had to have the car towed – to say I was highly pissed would be an understatement. Another in a long list of reasons I do my own car maintenance whenever possible, taking my car to a repair shop is the option of last resort. The torque specs on my current car is 150 ft lbs, after getting new tires it’s the first thing I check when I got home and its rare that the lug nuts are torqued to spec.
I didn’t see any Forerunner technology at all in that video. No slipspace drives and not a single Halo installation.
“A Christian man in Malta who faced jail time after publicly sharing his testimony of leaving the LGBTQ lifestyle has been acquitted after a three-year legal battle….
On Wednesday, Magistrate Monica Vella ruled that Grech and journalists Mario Camilleri, 44, and Rita Bonnici, 45, who were also prosecuted in the case, were not guilty of violating Malta’s “Affirmation of Sexual Orientation, Gender and Gender Expression Act,” Malta Today reported.
The 2016 legislation, the first of its kind in the European Union, criminalizes the performance and advertisement for practices aimed at changing or suppressing a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity.
Grech became the first person prosecuted under the act, according to the Christian Legal Center, after LGBTQ activists filed police reports after the interview aired.”
https://nypost.com/2026/03/05/media/christian-man-who-faced-prison-for-ex-lgbtq-testimony-found-not-guilty-after-3-year-legal-battle/
OFFS!!!
What happened to the Militant Order who was supposed to be defending Christendom there?
They’re all buried on Oak Island.
😧
The poor Knights.
Oh that doesn’t sound like an Apostasy law at all… no sir… Sheesh.
JFC.
something something you know who has all the power from whom you are not allowed to criticize (in a regime that has zero freedom of speech)
No idea where he pulled this figure, but God help me I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s accurate.
Trump Fires Kristi Noem, Finally
I’m sure there’s a $2 million report detailing the expenditures somewhere.
I propose a blue ribbon panel full of my family and friends to investigate.
Don’t care. Full speed ahead on deportations.
I think we can deport the same amount of lawbreakers without $220m worth of TV ads.
Don’t you mean “Awareness-raising community outreach”?
See Trump’s tweet. He’s fine with leaving the non criminal illegals. And Sen JoeBob isn’t any better.
She was maybe his 4th or 5th worst pick.
^^
Friday Funbags acknowledges the eternal superiority of Scotch over Bourbon.
https://archive.is/58kAX
Alba go braless.
Scotch is better at the high end of the market, but I can go to the booze dealer and pick from half-a-dozen sub-$50 bottles of bourbon that are perfectly delicious with a little ice.
There’s probably a parallel here with titties…
“Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) told reporters after Noem’s termination that Trump was “mad as a murder hornet” and considering replacing her with Mullin on Tuesday night after her Senate testimony — though he didn’t do so until Thursday following her disastrous House testimony on Wednesday.
“The president, when he called me Tuesday night, the night of the hearing, when he was mad as a murder hornet, he asked me what I thought about Markwayne,” Kennedy said.”
https://nypost.com/2026/03/05/us-news/noems-answer-on-sexual-relations-with-lewandowski-was-final-straw-for-trump-sources-say/
“It is working on some Twitter morons, which doesn’t matter, but my main worry is how to make sure it doesn’t work on OpenAI employees,” he wrote. “Due to selection effects, they’re sort of a gullible bunch.”
Anthropic Says It Will Fight New Pentagon Move as CEO Apologizes for Leaked Memo
The Full Leaked Memo – Amodei
We are ruled by the most arrogant of Top Men.
Wouldn’t you fill it up before starting a war in the Persian Gulf?
https://www.news18.com/world/us-strategic-petroleum-reserve-depletion-iran-war-oil-price-surge-middle-east-west-asia-conflict-ws-l-9945799.html
Ironically, there is only one person who isn’t retarded in this chain
https://x.com/IfindRetards/status/2029914070334509289
While i think Americans are too nasty to my euro peers, coach letterman almost makes me reconsider.
The chance of this becoming reality and me dating a supermodel are probably equal. But it should be a fun ride.
The FCC Wants Your Next Customer Service Agent to Be in the U.S.
“Our AI agent is located onshore.”
Ha! UCS nails it.
That is a hell of a dream though. I would like that.
Fuck off, commies.
Seriously… where do they think they get the authority to demand any of that?
In too local news – https://x.com/gunpolicy/status/2029695613219012723
FPC – DC Court of Appeals rules that DC’s ban on magazines over ten rounds is unconstitutional.
Ask them if they can have chat with the PRNJ!
I need them to have this chat with Virginia first…
More of this.
“By delivering targeted neurostimulation at the right time and dose, Samphire believes it could help keep women’s brains balanced during hormonal shifts.”
https://nypost.com/2026/02/19/shopping/meet-the-first-ai-neuro-tech-that-syncs-to-your-menstrual-cycle/
Good luck with that.
Hoo boy… I’m steering clear of that discussion.
So AI is going to be cray-cray every fourth week?
TOO LOCAL NEWS: Shooter’s Outpost in Hooksett, NH closes its firearms museum
Shooters Outpost in Hooksett has closed its Firearms Museum, which opened after an expansion to the store in 2018.
Owners Jim and Carey McLoud made the “sad but necessary announcement” in a note to customers earlier this month.
“After long and thoughtful consideration, my wife and I decided that it was time,” wrote Jim McLoud. “I’ve been to many houses where the husband or wife has passed away, only to leave a lasting mess of the estate. Things get lost from those estates, stolen, or the history is lost forever. At 66 years old, I didn’t want that happening in the future to what I’ve worked so hard for.”
The McLouds contracted Poulin Auction Co. of Fairfield, Maine, “to dispose of these historical items,” according to the post.
Poulin some items in its February 2026 auction. Poulin will sell the rest in its upcoming August 2026 auction.
Dang. That’s quite the selection of full auto goodies.
Disposing of firearms in estates *sucks*. I’ve been there.
Those are the kinds of things we’re trying to resolve. We’ve decided to leave all major appliances in the house. Boat et al, lawn tractors, snow blower, tractor go with the house.
Guns are mostly gone, Mrs F made a major distribution of her jewelry but still some pieces left. An auction of household stuff is not a money maker, give that stuff to charity. Family can take what they want but kids today are nomadic and are constantly on the move.
We sold the cabin as is, it was a good idea. Boat, motor, trailer, appliances, furniture. No idea what the new owners brought with them.
Maybe firing off a bunch of missiles indiscriminately at your neighbors wasn’t a good idea after all.
U.A.E. Explores Freezing Iranian Assets to Punish Tehran for Attacks
I can’t think about Styx without South Park’s Eric Cartman version of “Come Sail Away”. It’s perfect on many levels.
‘Raised on Radio’ Review: Don’t Stop Reminiscin’Album-oriented rock ascended along with FM radio. It reached tremendous mainstream success—and a reputation for being uncool.
I’ll take “terminally uncool” over the absolute garbage that is popular today.
Funny thing is I’m the same. Although I listen to current J-Pop. I’m sure Japanese people my age feel the same about new J-Pop as we do about current US pop music.
I am glad I never heard the South Park rendition, as I don’t want it infringing on the original.
Ignore classic rock radio format that was popular 20-30 years later that I grew up on.
Yeah, I’ve always had the impression that the taste makers are OK with 70s classic rock but hate a lot of 80s music.
Have you heard that Epstein is still alive? Apparently, there are emails that he had his prostate removed, but it’s mentioned as being intact in the autopsy.
https://factually.co/fact-checks/justice/jeffrey-epstein-prostate-removed-8efc59
“Newly released official records have brought fresh scrutiny to the chaotic hours following the death of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in a New York jail in August 2019. The documents, disclosed as part of a large release of investigative material, include memos and interview notes describing how jail officials allegedly staged a decoy operation to divert media attention while Epstein’s body was removed. The disclosures add another layer to the long-running controversy surrounding Epstein’s death.”
https://www.wionews.com/photos/was-a-fake-body-used-to-mislead-media-after-epstein-s-death-what-newly-released-records-reveal-1769852420022/1769852420024
“The woman contacted the FBI shortly after Epstein’s arrest and claimed a man named ‘Jeff’ had raped her in Hilton Head, South Carolina, in the early 1980s when she was around 13…
The woman alleged that when she was between 13 and 15, Epstein took her to either New York or New Jersey, where ‘in a very tall building with huge rooms’ he introduced her to Trump….
Trump unzipped his pants and forced her head ‘down to his penis,’ she alleged. The woman claimed she ‘bit the s*** out of it,’ after which he pulled her hair and punched her on the side of her head….
It remains unclear what became of the FBI’s investigation into the woman’s claims. She was also deemed ineligible for the Epstein Victims’ Compensation Program, which paid out more than 130 settlements.
There is no indication Epstein ever lived in South Carolina, and no evidence he and Trump knew each other in 1983, at least four years before the President has acknowledged becoming acquainted with the financier.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15620951/missing-epstein-file-trump.html
Name her.
I think he removed it himself when the security cameras malfunctioned.
Are Dems demanding photos of Trump’s penis yet, to check for scars?
Nearly 20k US citizens returned home from Middle East since Iran war began: State Department
My coworkers are currently leaving Qatar on a bus going to Riyadh, and are scheduled to fly to Heathrow at 3 am tomorrow morning. I don’t know how much State helped with this, but from my understanding it isn’t much. Regardless, they are happy to be moving towards a goal and I hope they have safe travels.
Good news!
Wow. That’s some incredible financial insight. I doubt anybody here could have come to the same conclusion.
My reaction:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp67K_Sqd-8
I thought you were going to tell them to be more stoic….
I suspect there are one or two executives who beg to differ.
Some speculation by an expert on how long this war will last.
https://x.com/i/status/2029609719422136538
Reports that say that something hasn’t happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don’t know we don’t know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tends to be the difficult ones.
Factually the statement is accurate. I’ve had my fair share of being blindsided by something I didn’t know was an uncontrolled factor.
There’s plenty to critisize, but I don’t get the mockery for that statement.
I thought it on the nose too.
Same, UnCiv.
Unknown unknowns are a real thing.
Well he wasn’t wrong, it definitely wasn’t 6 months.
The war didn’t last long at all. The nation building, on the other hand…
Yeah, if boots hit the ground that is a sure sign we will be there for decades.
Let us hope that boots don’t hit the ground.
Obligatory
Yes – services its “low income” clientele need.
Over the past several months, Planned Parenthood Mar Monte, the largest Planned Parenthood affiliate in the country, has been slowly launching new services in Northern California, including Botox injections and hangover-helper IV hydration drips. Its leaders say the services are an effort to bolster revenue after President Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress eliminated a crucial funding source, but they also reflect patient demand.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/planned-parenthood-botox-21955923.php
One stop nostalgia tour for the aging AWFL! Hide the wrinkles, kill the baby and rehydrate all in one shop!
They need to look good so they can get pregnant from another guy at the bar.
It always amazes me (sarc) how the uberwealthy ‘liberals’ are so stingy with their own money. Then I remember for how many decades they were so free with our money, via the Federal Government.
Have they considered girl scout cookies?
Just heard on the local news this morning that a Girl Scout troop got in a little trouble for setting up cookie shop outside a cannabis dispensary. Sounded like a brilliant idea to me. 🤷🏼♀️
https://nypost.com/2026/03/05/us-news/nj-girl-scouts-troop-in-hot-water-for-selling-cookies-outside-pot-shop/
I think a similar thing happened in CA years ago, but it’s difficult to search since “Girl Scout Cookies” is also a popular strain of weed.
From 2018:
“A Girl Scout in California is cashing in on the state’s new marijuana laws by selling cookies out of her wagon in front of weed dispensaries.”
https://www.kgun9.com/news/national/girl-scout-sells-cookies-in-front-of-weed-dispensaries
“Gee, we never expected that.” 🙄
“women’s health care”
Fox Headline: “US economy shed 92K jobs in February, well below expectations”
Does that mean we expected a bigger number or smaller number?
/Confused in Podunkville
You didn’t lose your job, did you? 😉
“A best–selling author who published a stunning sexual assault memoir is being sued by a former classmate who alleged that the attacks described in the novel actually happened to her.
The woman, identified in the lawsuit as Jane Doe, accused venture capitalist and writer Amy Griffin, 49, of negligence, invasion of privacy and infliction of emotional distress.
Griffin’s best–selling book The Tell was described as ‘neither a genuine nor harmless memoir,’ according to the lawsuit filed Wednesday in California state court….
The acclaimed memoir recounted how Griffin used the psychedelic drug MDMA for therapy and recovered memories of being raped multiple times beginning at age 12 by a middle school teacher in Amarillo, Texas.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15618407/amy-griffin-tell-sexual-assaults-classmate-lawsuit.html
That sounds totally reliable.
Fuck Martha Coakley.
Sorry, don’t get reference.
She was the one in charge when the “Satanic Day Care” repressed memory happened?
Looking at her Wikipedia page, it doesn’t mention her role in it.
She does seem like an odious person, shocking for Massachusetts, I know.
She was the ADA who brainwashed children into believing they were sexually assaulted in the Fells Acres daycare case in the 80s.
She was evil enough, but the shrinks that actually implanted memories of horrific abuse in children are the ones I want burning in hell.
She was not involved in the initial Fells Acre case. She joined the Middlesex County DA’s office right around when the initial trials ended.
ADA is not an elected position in Massachusetts.
Coakley was involved in keeping Gerald Amireault, one of the people convicted in the Fells Acres case, in jail.
Charlie Baker, while governor, recommended Amireault for a pardon. The Governor’s Council must approve. Baker withdrew the pardon application due to lack of support from the council.
and… fixing my mistake… I thought Ted in his other comment was referring to Martha Coakley being elected ADA. ADA is not elected, but she was AG. AG in Massachusetts is elected.
urgh.
One more time. Third time is the charm right?
Coakley joined the Middlesex County DA’s office as an ADA right around when the Fells Acres cases ended. This is a hired position.
In 1998 she was elected Middlesex County DA. Reelected in 2002.
In 2006 she was elected Massachusetts Attorney General.
“Tutor claimed to have no memory of what happened that night and said in her suit that she suppressed memories of the next day.
It wasn’t until other allegations were made against Alexander and his two brothers in 2024 that the ‘painful memories came flooding back’, the suit added.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15618127/Glamorous-TV-star-sexually-assaulted-Alexander-brother-lawsuit.html
Were they also members of a satanic cult?
Repressed memories really make me incredulous about the claim being put forward.
That is because “repressed memories” are mostly bullshit planted by a therapist.
If memory serves, both she and her boss Scott Harshbarger were elected to the AG office.
The fact that such people aren’t immediately made pariahs and considered normal people to run in a statewide election says something very bad about our political culture.
Torturing pregnant people
“It happened overnight,” says Dr. Jeremy Faust, an emergency physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston who led the study. The president’s words “had an immediate impact on how much Tylenol or acetaminophen was being ordered in emergency departments.”
It’s not clear from the study whether patients declined to take Tylenol or doctors prescribed it less. Faust says it’s probably some combination of the two.
“This is thousands of women not getting pain control or not getting fever reduction when they need it, when they want it, when they would benefit from it,” Faust says.
Follow the SCIENCE.
This doctor *wants* to destroy pregnant women’s livers?
He’s also a transplant surgeon.
If Trump is no better with his medical practice than he is with his economic education it could be a long 3 more years.
Could be worse, could have Kamala.
How were those the 2 choices?
I remember stumping my mom when I asked her if democracy was so great, why is it down to Biden or Trump?
This is thousands of women not getting pain control or not getting fever reduction when they need it, when they want it, when they would benefit from it,
I don’t understand this idea, that you must treat the symptom of the underlying harm and that’s sufficient to address the underlying harm. Pain is a signal. Fever is a signal. And both are a response. Pain reduction is not a good in and of itself. Neither is fever reduction. Especially if, in the process of removing symptoms, you disregulate the ongoing fixing of the underlying condition that those conditions signify. Of course there’s a place for treating those symptoms. Fever’s can get too high and result in additional damage rather than simply fixing the underlying issue. Treat the symptom, fever, in those conditions while addressing the underlying cause. Similarly for pain, especially that induced iatrogenically (e.g. surgery). But simply giving a bunch of pain meds or fever – especially fever – meds just because “I don’t want to fell pain or have a fever anymore” is not medicine.
… I thought they were fictional.
I just had a street crazy pass by the office window shouting “The end is nigh sayeth the lord”. Loud enough to be heard through the structure. (Usually only passing trucks attain that volume)
I had one a year or so ago walk down my road singing Frank Sinatra at the top of his lungs.
STENTOR LIVES!
“He says the
sheriffend is near!”DONG!
I just had a street crazy pass by the office window shouting “The end is nigh sayeth the lord”. Loud enough to be heard through the structure.
Keep an eye out for a guy with a “The King is a Fink” sign.
Harry hasn’t taken delivery of it yet
“Mar-a-Lago face couldn’t save Kristi Noem
The former DHS secretary’s firing shows women are disposable to Trump — no matter how hard they try to please him
But if there was one symbol that resonated the most for Noem’s grasps for power, it was her face. The 54-year-old appears to have undergone such extensive plastic surgery in an attempt to mimic Trump’s cartoonish ideas of what is “hot” in a woman that she is both hard to look at and impossible to match to photos of her younger, normal-looking self. Many women in the president’s orbit have adopted what has become known as “Mar-a-Lago face,” a look that includes heavy fillers, cosmetic procedures and caked-on makeup to be visibly appealing to a man who apparently avoids wearing his glasses in public. When a Vanity Fair profile of Susie Wiles, Trump’s chief of staff, was published in December, it became notorious for, among other revelations, a photograph of press secretary Karoline Leavitt that appeared to show extensive injection spots for lip filler. (The president, unbothered by the appearance, keeps openly lusting over Leavitt’s “machine gun lips” that “don’t stop.”) But no one has gotten more attention for her dramatic visual transformation than Noem.”
https://www.salon.com/2026/03/06/mar-a-lago-face-couldnt-save-kristi-noem/
https://www.salon.com/2025/03/24/from-mar-a-lago-face-to-uncanny-ai-art-magas-love-of-ugliness-is-submission-to/
Stop trying to make Mar-a-Lago face happen.
Thank you for the laugh, Amanda.
I do take some consolation from the thought that she must be absolutely miserable.
Not miserable enough.
Could be worse, could have Kamala.
I don’t care what Trump does. He cockblocked the Democratic Socialists and that’s pretty much all I care about.
“Trump recovered his fortune by being rescued by a game show producer. Aside from being found civilly liable by a jury for sexually abusing journalist E. Jean Carroll and being convicted of 34 felony counts in a hush-money case, he has managed to evade accountability for all of his crimes and abuses of power. Tens of millions of Americans even put him back in the White House after he tried to overturn the 2020 presidential election and inspired an insurrection. He seems to think all this came about as a result of his strategic brilliance, or maybe his genetic superiority. But the fact is that it’s just plain old luck. Some people have more of it than they deserve, and he is definitely one of them. Over the course of his life, Trump has made decisions that would have destroyed the fortunes and reputations of anyone else. His greatest superpower is the ability to survive his own monumentally terrible judgement.”
https://www.salon.com/2026/03/05/trumps-new-plan-for-iran-doomed-to-backfire/
It’s magic.
Yes. Let’s talk about those cases as if any of then were legitimate and not an abuse of authority.
“Aside from being found civilly liable by a jury for sexually abusing journalist E. Jean Carroll”
I thought he was found civilly liable for calling her a liar.
Tomatos, Potatos, never let the truth get in the way of a good libel.
There have been a few cases where a man was sued for defamation for saying a sexual accusation was false, and I think it’s complete bullshit.
“RC Dean grabbed my ass!”
“No, I didn’t.”
LAWSUIT!
I hate that “civilly liable” bullshit, but the whole point of that lawsuit was to get a talking point, and it worked.
obligatory
https://frinkiac.com/caption/S06E09/668266
Does the left really want to draw any more attention to the 2020 election that some of them have openly bragged about stealing?
That is, when they are taking time off from wishing “Death to America”.
Update:
“The shared children of disgraced Louisiana mayor Misty Roberts and her ex-husband allegedly suffered abuse at the hands of the ex-leader’s former lover – who later wound up dead, according to court records exclusively reviewed by The Post.
The disturbing docs reveal Roberts’ ex-husband, Duncan Clanton, went as far as filing a civil restraining order to keep the former couple’s two adolescent children away from local pipeliner William Andrew Cronce – a man he claimed had alcoholic, suicidal and “stalky” tendencies during his alleged on-and-off again relationship with Roberts….
It wasn’t clear how Cronce died.”
https://nypost.com/2026/03/04/us-news/disgraced-louisiana-mayor-misty-roberts-ex-husband-fought-to-keep-kids-from-her-allegedly-abusive-lover-who-turned-up-dead/
Let me see if I’m parsing this correctly.
Misty and Duncan were married and had kids.
Misty and Duncan Divorced.
Misty began dating Andrew.
Duncan claims Andrew was stalky and abused the kids.
Andrew is now dead under mysterious circumstances.
Is that what they are saying?
Well, if you leave out the part where she threw an alcoholic party and had sex with her kids underage friends.
That would have required following the link and reading the article.
I was parsing only that which was included in your comment,.
My mom watched the moon landing and later wound up dead.
NASA got OJ, too.
My mom did too!
She also attempted to film a lunar eclipse once and now she’s dead.
What is the moon hiding?
Oh, no. Job losses! We’re dooooooomed.
Were those productive value-creating positions, or were they just clockwatchers?
Surprise
A closely watched barometer for used vehicle pricing jumped last month as dealers sped to increase inventories amid expectations of a robust spring selling season.
Cox Automotive on Friday reported its Manheim Used Vehicle Value Index — which tracks prices of used vehicles sold at its U.S. wholesale auctions — increased 4% in February compared with a year earlier, to a level of 212.3. That was up 0.8% from January and marks the index’s highest level since September 2023.
“Since the start of 2026, we’ve seen mostly solid demand at Manheim with higher sales conversion rates indicating an appetite from dealers to buy. As we progressed through February, we saw prices move higher than usual, especially in the back half of the month,” said Jeremy Robb, Cox chief economist.
The “substitution effect” is a myth.
https://x.com/alppouch/status/2029337998072873082
LOOLOL
RFK, Jr. looks a bit like Mel Gibson.
“A newly resurfaced video is raising eyebrows across conservative circles after comments from Sen. Markwayne Mullin, President Trump’s latest pick to head the Department of Homeland Security after removing Kristi Noem, praising and even hugging Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd, the officer who shot and killed Ashli Babbitt….
“After it happened, he came over. He was physically and emotionally distraught. I actually gave him a hug and I said, ‘sir, you did what you had to do.’” Mullin went even further, telling investigators that he heard Byrd issue a warning before firing, a claim debunked by video evidence showing no such warning was given.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/03/shocking-video-resurfaces-trumps-new-dhs-pick-markwayne/
Uh-oh
lol Try again, Donald
Oopsie!
I’m kinda skeptical of the current claim that MAGA is divided over Iran.
Now, if Trump really is backing off of “Deport them all”, MAGA is going to be pretty fucking pissed. I suspect the same if he really is saying “Sure, cut off teenager’s dicks or tits as long as the parents are on board”.
This Markwayne guy sounds like a swamper, which means he will definitely not deport them all.