160 Comments

  1. R.J.

    Early bird?
    This does give me a solid first.

      • DrOtto

        I’d prefer a liquid first, Isn’t a solid first a kidney stone?

    • rhywun

      I haven’t had a solid first yet today.

      • Ted S.

        How about a solid deuce?

  2. UnCivilServant

    Senate votes to begin debate on SAVE America Act

    It will not get to final vote. More than half of the senators can’t afford that.

    • R C Dean

      Like the McCainites in AZ blocking any kind of electoral reform, the UniParty members raising funds under the Team Red brand will submarine this. Even though it means they are fucking up their (nominal) party’s chances of winning elections.

      Supposedly this is going forward under some kind of “hybrid talking filibuster”. What the “hybrid” is, I have no idea, but I’m pretty sure its a way for the Republican Senate leadership to try to thread the needle of placating the 80% of the country that supports the bill while simultaneously strangling it in its crib.

      • R.J.

        It will be a big moment when this fails to pass.

    • rhywun

      It was killed when they stuck unrelated socon crap into it.

      • R.J.

        Is there an easy link to what is currently in the bill?

      • rhywun

        Well to be fair I’m just going on some of Donald’s recent brain farts where “no boys in girls sports” and “no transing the kids” was added at the end. I am not 100% sure those things are part of any actual version of the thing.

  3. R C Dean

    On the whole Iran thing – you’ll have a hard time finding a better review and analysis than this one by datarepublican:

    Her take: this has been in the works a long time, with the specific timing being driven by factors other than “Bibi ordered his buttboy Trump to bomb Iran”. The strategic reduction of Iran’s capabilities is going well. Regime change is still up in the air.

      • Drake

        The AI ghost of Bibi will always be with us.

        Who knows? Maybe hiding out somewhere so he doesn’t get hypersoniced.

      • Not Adahn

        Far too many Israelis hate Bibi for any sort of misadventure to go unnoticed and unreported.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Yes, going great. Now enjoy the expensive gas and the soon to be boots on the ground. Trump was expecting a regime fold a la Venezuela, didn’t get it, and now we’re stuck.

      As for the straits only being closed because of insurance considerations, why isn’t the Navy sailing right through them then? The answer is it’s a deathtrap for any ship the Iranians don’t want sailing through there.

      • (((Jarflax

        You are very certain that the world lines up with your emotions. We shall see if that is true. Hopefully not.

      • DrOtto

        And the question is a regime change to what exactly? We always hope for better and always get shit. No point in stirring these pots.

      • Drake

        Unless Trump can pull a rabbit out of his hat through negotiations, this is a strategic blunder of epic proportions. We’ve lost access to the Persian Gulf, maybe permanently.

    • PieInTheSky

      Regime change is still up in the air – but it is necessary. think of all the hot Persian chicks having to hijab up.

    • Tonio

      Thanks for that, RC.

      She mentions the Institute for Science and International Security, who I only recently became aware of. I’m assuming that the name is a deliberate shoutout to “Archer.”

    • Beau Knott

      Thanks for sharing that! Excellent article.
      Something somewhat along the same lines was published by Al Jazeera a couple of days ago.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      At this point it has been, what, three weeks? To make any declarative statements about the future regarding this region speaks only to the the bias of the one attempting to make the statement. It is far to soon to know anything, let alone what is even happening on the ground.

      • The Other Kevin

        I’m making a concerted effort to say “I don’t know” a lot more lately and it’s made my life much less stressful. Iran is a great example. I don’t know what’s going to happen in the future. This could end up working out great, but it could also be a huge disaster. There’s no way of knowing at this point.

  4. Shpip

    Most NATO Members Won’t Join Iran Operation, Trump Says

    My impression was that the Euroweenies couldn’t help even if they were inclined to, as their ability to project force is basically nil.

    • PieInTheSky

      look I said Romania can contribute one APC

    • Rat on a train

      They could follow their example of the Greenland operations by sending a dozen soldiers to the area for a couple weeks.

      • PieInTheSky

        can we borrow some MREs?

      • Fourscore

        Cold in Greenland, hot in Iran. And that’s not even the climate.

      • Fourscore

        Pie,

        “I’ll give you my Ham and Lima Beans when you pry it from my cold, dead hands”

      • Rat on a train

        I might have some 90’s era ham slice packs you could have.

    • R C Dean

      He is building a case for the US getting out of NATO, if he decides to do so.

      • DrOtto

        This would be a silver lining to our Iran misadventures.

    • Threedoor

      NATO should have been disbanded after the Soviet fell.

  5. PieInTheSky

    Senate votes to begin debate on SAVE America Act

    So how can one steelman the argument for / against SAVE America Act? the strongest argument for each side?

    • R C Dean

      “For” is easy. Only citizens can (and should) vote, and ensuring eligibility to vote is fundamental to valid elections.

      “Against”, I dunno. I haven’t heard anything that I would consider a steel man argument, unless the best they really have is that the darkies and the wimmenz are too stupid to prove citizenship to register, and/or to get photo IDs.

      • rhywun

        The likes of Obama and Schumer have already been caught lying on this, contradicting earlier quotes in support of secure elections by citizens. Now they are spinning complete bullshit like “Jim Crow 2.0” because that is how they have to appeal to the retarded base of the party today.

        The one valid argument against it I can think of is that, yes, it can be “difficult” to obtain the required documentation – it’s equivalent to the hoops you have to jump through to get a “REAL ID”. My rebuttal to that argument is that there is nothing in the Constitution that says voting has to be “easy”.

      • Grumbletarian

        The same people who say it’s too hard to get an ID to vote want all kinds of hoops in order to buy a gun.

      • Furthest Blue pistoffnick (370HSSV)

        The same people who say it’s too hard to get an ID to vote wanted you to prove you were vaccinated in order to go to a restaurant or to work.

      • R.J.

        That’s why I want a copy of the bill. Let me see what I can do later today

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        The only against is that, in theory, some people would be turned away from voting for not having an ID that is acceptable.

        But, as we see with so many other rights, such as the 2nd and the ability to move about the country, this is not a real barrier.

      • R.J.

        If a person does not have any form of ID, I would say said person is an incompetent and absolutely must not assist in determining the direction of the country.

      • creech

        Fetterman joined the “no” votes in his party because he claimed the bill would end mail in balloting? Does it? Mail in makes sense for people out of town, ill, disabled.

      • rhywun

        IIRC absentee would still be allowed as it always has been for such situations.

        They want to end no-questions-asked mail-in which invites rampant fraud, zero chain of custody etc. That is the kind of practice that we condemn when other countries do it.

      • Threedoor

        Grumble.
        Self defense with arms is a natural right.
        Voting is a privilege.

        They have spent the last 100 years flipping the thinking on the two through government schools and the media.

  6. Not Adahn

    The bomber guy has chutzpah, I’ll give him that.

    • PieInTheSky

      he does need a bit more gumption though

  7. Not Adahn

    NPR had an unusual story about the Superman’s dad guy. They of course played is as a CRUSHING DEFEAT and STINGING HUMILIATION for the trumpster, but since antisemitism from a right winger is still bad they tacked on some denunciations from (D)s and noted that zero of the good guys voted to confirm this white supremacist conspiracy theorist.

    Groypers are so weird. Leaning into such an unpleasant stereotype.

    • slumbrew

      the Superman’s dad guy

      I literally have no idea what you’re referring to. Which is probably best.

      • Not Adahn

        Not reading the links makes Banjos sad.

      • slumbrew

        I read them!

        Well, I skimmed them, anyway.

        But I now understand your Superman reference. Nerd. 😉

      • rhywun

        Same. No idea what that is about.

    • DrOtto

      I thought Joe Kent was the son of Clark Kent/Superman?

    • rhywun

      Oh I thought it might be that guy but I still don’t get the “groyper” reference and no I did not read the articles.

      I recall the guy is a former Dem, that’s about it.

    • EvilSheldon

      In keeping with the Superman theme – I feel like groypers are the Bizzaro-world reflection of hardcore progressives. Same general politics, same range of mental disorders, differing only in where their vitriolic hatred lands.

      • Common Tater

        Two sides of the same coin. And that coin is minted out of retarded.

        Groypettes tend to be better looking than the poison-frog bullring foids though.

    • Grumbletarian

      I didn’t see Jor-El mentioned in the links.

      • Ted S.

        Foster father, and his name is Glenn Ford.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      You mean the suspected meteor?

      • Threedoor

        Totally kryptonite.

  8. Shpip

    I’ll believe it when I see it

    BRUSSELS, March 18 (Reuters) – The European Commission proposed on Wednesday allowing firms to set up in as little as 48 hours and operate according to a single set of ‌rules across the 27-nation EU in a bid to narrow the gap with the United States in ‌innovative startups.

    The proposal is part of a broader EU drive to improve the 27-nation bloc’s competitiveness and avoid losing ground to the United States, where ​many European startups move to grow on a larger, unified market governed by a single corporate law.

    A business start up in Euroland without eleventeen bureaucrats looking over their shoulder? Pull the other one.

    • R C Dean

      Corporate law is state law in the US. There’s no single corporate law here, there are 50 separate ones.

      • Rat on a train

        But some of ours are sane.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        And this is one of the two reasons Delaware exists.

        (the other to be a jobs program for Joe Biden.)

      • Common Tater

        I thought it was boat registration.

      • creech

        Thank goodness for there being separate corp. laws in every state. I once moved an incorporation from New York to Delaware one jump ahead of the bankruptcy attorneys. Ended up saving the company, which went on to thrive because the Federal district handling Delaware corps. was a lot more sane than the Fed. district forNY.

  9. Common Tater

    What is the Republican argument against the SAVE act? I don’t get it.

    • R C Dean

      I guess they must agree with the Dems that the darkies and the wimmenz are too stupid to register and get photo IDs.

    • EvilSheldon

      The GOP doesn’t have an argument against the SAVE act, but they have some reasons, most related to not wanting to upset their comfortable sinecures…

      • rhywun

        Do Republicans really want to endorse having the federal government overrule the election laws in Florida, Georgia, Wisconsin, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, Kansas, and more?

        Yes?

        Absentee with no valid reason and mail-in voting are an abomination.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Yes they are, but people do love them. So that is a hurdle to jump over. Not insurmountable, but still.

      • R C Dean

        From a purely technical standpoint, the feds are Constitutionally authorized to regulate federal elections, and they are not proposing to regulate state elections – if the states want to have garbage shams of elections for state offices, go right ahead. It’s practically traditional at this point.

      • R C Dean

        Let’s not forget, the bill passed by the House has been amended, so it will need to go back to the House in the unlikely event the Senate passes it. So, another opportunity for failure theater by the Repubs is already baked in.

  10. Common Tater

    “President Donald Trump has expressed disappointment with the majority of NATO countries, as most alliance members have offered little to no support in the ongoing military operations against Iran.”

    Since Iran attacked U.S. stuff, doesn’t that invoke Article V?

    • R C Dean

      That’s because they have no military assets to speak of, or at least no ability to deploy them that far afield.

    • The Last American Hero

      They did that in Seattle mostly, then learned the meaning of the word disparate impact, then decided not to really enforce traffic laws, but it’s all moot since they are driving the businesses out of town anyways.

  11. Common Tater

    “A flamboyantly dressed Afroman clashed with Ohio law enforcement in court Tuesday, leaving one deputy in tears as the rapper testified in a lawsuit filed by a sheriff’s office over his 2022 satirical music video.

    The 51-year-old “Because I Got High” rapper, whose real name is Joseph Foreman, blamed the Adams County Sheriff’s Office for the high-profile court case after it executed a search warrant at his home in August 2022….

    Four deputies, two sergeants and a detective with the sheriff’s office filed the suit alleging that the music video, which has been viewed over 3 million times since December 2022, defamed them, invaded their constitutional privacy and was an intentional infliction of emotional distress.

    The agents had been acting on a warrant asserting probable cause for narcotics being stored and kidnappings taking place on the property.

    No evidence of criminal activity was found on the property, and no charges were filed.”

    https://nypost.com/2026/03/18/us-news/afroman-clashes-with-adams-county-police-in-court-as-one-officer-left-in-tears-over-music-video-about-failed-police-raid/

    CWABOA

      • Gdragon

        I would never have heard of their malfeasance
        Had they not sued.
        They wanna act like they are the law! And he’s just some dude.
        I bet they dragged Afroman outside, while he was nude!
        I hope they get screwed, I hope they get screwed, I hope they get screwed…

    • slumbrew

      Claiming your privacy was violated because Afroman shared video of you searching his house takes some balls.

    • rhywun

      FACT 7: China’s shipbuilding capacity is 230 times larger than America’s.

      What, me worry?

    • rhywun

      A little baffled that she seems to be relying on Wikipedia for some of these claimed Facts.

      • Sensei

        From the intro – it’s explicitly AI generated analysis.

    • EvilSheldon

      And yet still, one of them is going to get elected…

    • The Last American Hero

      They would vote for Trump if he had a D by his name.

    • Evan from Evansville

      Kat Abughazaleh is cute as a button. “Abughazaleh is accused of hindering and impeding the vehicle’s movement and etching the word ‘PIG’ on the ICE officer’s car. If found guilty, she could face prison sentences of up to six years on the conspiracy charge and eight years for assaulting the ICE agent.”

      We wouldn’t get along. (If we talked, but who does that?) “Throughout her campaign, the Gen-Z activist also developed a reputation for flakiness and unreliability, and even missed a virtual event after she overslept. She cited her narcolepsy diagnosis, a chronic neurological sleep disorder, as the reason behind her absence. She admitted her condition is ‘not an excuse’ and said she was ‘very embarrassed’ by the situation.” <– Blame partying on narcolepsy. Duh. "Working the vote" would be my excuse.

      Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss in his pic w the dog looks like every swarmy Dem pol swirled into one. He’s got strong John Kerry vibes and I imagine he can’t imagine women NOT rummaging through his pants with every preposition he utters. He heard the “grab ’em by the pussy” line and sagely nodded along. (But still had to put on his pussy hat to appeal to voters.)

      Status is remarkably attractive, perhaps seductive, to women in particular. News at 11.

      • Evan from Evansville

        My grumble at Evanston disappeared. Here, I grumble at “Evanston.” That town wasn’t named after me, nor am I the mayor. Bastards.

    • rhywun

      Oh her. Yeah, a real piece of work that one is. /bullet dodged

    • J. Frank Parnell

      She and Biss were consenting adults, aged 20 and 26, respectively, during their relationship in 2004.

      Wachspress had been a student in a class he was teaching, but the pair did not become romantically involved until after the course was completed, his campaign revealed.

      A spokesperson for his campaign said they ‘went on a handful of dates over the course of a few weeks’ and that Biss ‘realized then, as he does now, that it was ill-advised, and he ended it.
      My god. What a monster.

    • Rat on a train

      But she fell short after Biss secured 29.4 percent of votes in Tuesday’s primary election. Abughazaleh trailed closely behind at 26.1 percent.

      Plurality elections should be banned.

      • Not Adahn

        Party primaries should use whatever method they choose. I’d suggest the candidate that has the most prime numerals in their vote total wins.

    • Threedoor

      She’s a rough 26.
      Vegan?

  12. Rat on a train

    The pear tree out front is attracting flocks of birds that are entertaining my cats.

      • Rat on a train

        A family of them?

    • Rat on a train

      I will take UMW.

    • Threedoor

      I would choose teams on how cool their logo and mascot look.

  13. The Late P Brooks

    You tell ’em, Mitch

    “The virulent anti-Semitism of his resignation letter makes it clear that Mr. Kent is incapable of upholding these pledges, and those who mistake its baseless and incendiary conspiracies for brave truth-telling are only fooling themselves,” McConnell wrote on social platform X.

    “Isolationists and anti-Semites have no place in either party, and certainly do not deserve places of trust in our government,” he added.

    A virulent anti-semite under every bed.

    • B.P.

      Wherein “isolationists” means objecting to any of Mitch’s many elective, fuck-around wars in far-away places.

      • Gdragon

        Anti-Semitism and isolationism, they go together like lamb and tuna fish.

  14. The Late P Brooks

    People with unpronounceable foreign names should be prohibited from running for office.

    • Rat on a train

      No Cinneides or Riagains.

  15. Common Tater

    “Margot Robbie’s gin has been shunned by top London bars and restaurants over fears of a ‘fatal’ reaction to shellfish – because it contains oysters.

    The drink, Papa Salt Coastal Gin, uses oyster shells as a botanical and costs around £40.99 for 700ml in department stores such as Selfridges.

    Wuthering Heights star Margot, 35, has previously said she hoped the artisan gin brand would evoke the sandy dunes of Australia where she grew up.

    However, top London bars and restaurants have rejected the drink due to allergen concerns, with the bottle containing three words: ‘warning: contains molluscs’.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15657153/Margot-Robbies-gin-shunned-London-bars-restaurants-fears-fatal-reaction-shellfish.html

    She should have used her bathwater.

    • UnCivilServant

      No thanks, I still have four unopened bottles of Gin from James May.

      And Tater, no need to be disgusting, Gin is bad enough as it is.

      • Evan from Evansville

        Oooh, how is May’s gin? Gin is interestingly delicious. I appreciate whisk(e)y and rye; vodka is useless unless just as a mix, and tequila is legit undrinkable. Yuck yuck yuck.

        I think you were around for that chat. Clarkson’s my favorite writer and presenter of the three; I’m (perhaps) most like May in internal character; and Hammond’s great at not dying, so *fist bump* to him.

        I quite enjoy that he got into gin. Such a May thing to do.

      • UnCivilServant

        I have only tried one of the flavors.

        It tasted like dirt. I suppose if you were particularly nostalgic for a childhood backyard, it’d be something. It was supposed to have a mushroom taste, but did not.

      • UnCivilServant

        Mind you, My read of Bombay Sapphire was that it tasted like twigs.

      • EvilSheldon

        I’ve never had a good experience with celebrity-branded spirits, with the exception of Aviation Gin (was briefly owned by Ryan Reynolds, and I believe he still has an ownership stake in it.)

        But there are so many great gins out there – Beefeater is still the undisputed OG of London dry gins. Plymouth, Citadelle, Hendricks if your tastes swing that way, Ford’s, Sipsmith, Ransom Old Tom…you almost can’t go wrong unless you’re buying gin in plastic flasks off the bottom shelf.

      • Evan from Evansville

        Beefeater is a great go-to. Tanquaray(sp?) is very good. Hendricks is fantastic but always outta my price range back then. I prefer T to Bombay, but it’s also nice.

        Tastes like twigs? You to gin may be like me to tequila, which tastes more like poverty than Steel Reserve does.

      • Common Tater

        Bombay Sapphire is perfectly cromulent martini gin.

        Beefeater is my favorite highball gin. (Although a bit redundant for a Salty Dog).

    • EvilSheldon

      Oyster shells as a botanical? How exactly does that work?

      More importantly, could oyster shells as a botanical in a distilled spirit actually cause a reaction in those allergic to shellfish? Or (as I suspect), is this just more screeching from the terminally fragile?

      • UnCivilServant

        I guess it would depend on what in shellfish actually causes an allergic reaction and whether that sticks around in the mix.

    • R.J.

      I think her head was squeezed at some time in the past and this caused her insanity. That is my theory.

  16. Aloysious

    Sorrow.

    The sweet smell of a great sorrow lies over the land
    Plumes of smoke rise and merge into the leaden sky
    A man lies and dreams of green fields and rivers
    But awakes to a morning with no reason for waking

    He’s haunted by the memory of a lost paradise
    In his youth or a dream, he can’t be precise
    He’s chained forever to a world that’s departed
    It’s not enough, it’s not enough

    Morning music.

    Needz moar coffee.

  17. Common Tater

    “Turkish feminist Deniz Kandiyoti coined the term “patriarchal bargain” in 1988 to describe the constellation of compromises and trade-offs individual women make in pursuit of safety, security, financial security and other benefits. Kandiyoti emphasized that a patriarchal bargain “isn’t a ‘good buy’, but it both creates strategic opportunities for women and invests women in patriarchy.” Such bargains take many forms: A woman in a majority-male workplace or academic sphere strikes one the first time she realizes that her career trajectory will go smoother if she laughs rather than scowls when her coworkers demean or sexualize her. A mother strikes a patriarchal bargain when she polices the clothing of her preteen and teen daughters. Women in high-control, male-dominated religions understand that their eternal lives in heaven depend on their ability to abide by strict gendered codes that circumscribe their lives.”

    https://www.salon.com/2026/03/17/ghislaine-maxwell-and-kristi-noem-knew-what-they-were-doing/

    polices the clothing of her preteen and teen daughters?

    • Rat on a train

      Mothers want their daughters to dress like prostitutes?

      • Ted S.

        [ Winston’s Grandmother has entered the chat ]

    • B.P.

      “Such bargains take many forms: A woman in a majority-male workplace or academic sphere strikes one the first time she realizes that her career trajectory will go smoother if she laughs rather than scowls when her coworkers demean or sexualize her.”

      My former workplace had a coven of woke harridans who would carp about white men in meetings all the time, saying things like “White men need to do better.” I would just shrug my shoulders, as I really couldn’t be bothered to care.

      (I take “sexualize”-ing someone at work to mean calling out body parts, making lewd comments in front of others, etc. That’s a no-no.)

    • rhywun

      I’m not clicking Salon trash but haven’t men been fully turned into women at this point? Why are we still talking about this stuff?

      • The Other Kevin

        Because people are still being paid to write about it. Apparently by the word.

  18. UnCivilServant

    polices the clothing of her preteen and teen daughters?

    “You’re not going out dressed like that!”

    • rhywun

      So patriarchal I can’t even.

      • Ted S.

        I’m sure these women would be thrilled if I went out in public wearing a codpiece that accentuates my package.

  19. Common Tater

    “Dr Louise Goddard-Crawley, a British Psychological Society chartered psychologist, says: “These videos tap into something we recognise in trauma work, which is the rupture of agency. Even in public space, we carry an implicit expectation that we remain subjects of our own story rather than objects to be captured and repurposed by someone else without consent. Trauma is not only about physical violation. It is about an experience that overwhelms our sense of safety and control.”

    Meanwhile, the personal safety charity the Suzy Lamplugh Trust points to potential physical repercussions. “Content that singles out women for the purpose of facilitating misogynistic commentary online can contribute to a wider environment in which harassment and abuse are normalised,” said a spokesperson.”

    https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/mar/18/disturbing-rise-of-nightlife-content-bonnie-blue

    Video is violence.

    • Common Tater

      “The video is one of hundreds almost exclusively targeting women wearing tight clothes and short dresses, taken in towns and cities across the UK without their knowledge….

      Sisters Aya, Fatima and Jude Mohammed, and their cousin Athar Ahmed, said that while filming on a public street is not illegal, it was clear the people making the videos were cynically aiming to “victimise” women.

      Fatima said: “He has an idea in his head and he’s picking a certain moment to portray women a specific way, for example when they’re drunk or alone. It leaves women vulnerable – you don’t know if a woman might be hiding from someone.”

      “Phoebe Collin, left, and Maddie Laing say they were told by police that nothing could be done about the incident. Photograph: Joel Goodman/The Guardian”

      https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/22/manchester-women-filmed-by-voyeurs-and-stalked-online

      Women should be able to dress however they want, but posing with half their tits out undermines the point they are victims of sexualization.

      • rhywun

        New Soviet Man does not stare at or objectify women.

        Do better, men.

    • EvilSheldon

      Speaking of the terminally fragile…

      Not that anyone would ever bother filming the vibrant nightlife of Vienna, Virginia, but if someone posted a video montage that contained a short clip of me walking from my local back home? I would feel…nothing?

      Maybe I’d be a little upset if they caught me pissing behind a dumpster or something, which makes me wonder exactly what these girls are up to that they’re so afraid of getting it caught on camera?

      • Ted S.

        There’s a reason why I drink at home.

  20. The Late P Brooks

    Turning the clock back

    Lamberth said in a pair of rulings that Lake’s moves to close the agency violated federal administrative law and directed that the employees return to work by March 23. He also ordered a resumption of international broadcasting, which the U.S. has used for decades to promote press freedom around the world.

    Beginning in early 2025, hundreds of journalists were placed on administrative leave and then targeted for layoffs, with more than 600 cuts announced by summer and ultimately roughly 85 percent of staff eliminated across the agency. The reductions were so deep that VOA, which once broadcast in nearly 50 languages to hundreds of millions of people, was pared down to a skeleton operation with only a handful of language services still running.

    “We are thrilled with Judge Lamberth’s ruling and look forward to getting back to work,” said Michael Abramowitz, the VOA director who was placed on administrative leave by the administration. “Voice of America has never been more needed.”

    Is there anything beyond the scope of a federal judge’s power?

    • rhywun

      The last time I was let go I should have complained to a judge that my job is permanent.

      Why didn’t I think of that?!

  21. The Late P Brooks

    Employees who brought the case, including Patsy Widakuswara, Jessica Jerreat and Kate Neeper, celebrated the latest rulings.

    “We are eager to begin repairing the damage Kari Lake has inflicted on our agency and our colleagues, to return to the trust of the global audience we have been unable to serve for the past year,” they said in a statement. “We know the road to restoring VOA’s operations and reputation will be long and difficult. We hope the American people will continue to support our mission to produce journalism, not propaganda.”

    Stop it. You’re killing me.

    • rhywun

      I wonder what they’re telling the world about us. It can’t be all bad since so many of them still apparently want in.

    • The Other Kevin

      The most important regulations are meant to reduce carbon emissions. If someone were to die in a car fire, that would produce a long-term reduction in carbon output.

    • Threedoor

      I made the comment yesterday or day before that our 2014 F150 Raptor had door handles that quit working if they lost power, I found this out when a wire in the door harness broke, wire too light guage and electric door handle.

      Go back to 1980 something auto manufacturers.

      • Threedoor

        The ghouls are going after Tesla and not ford because Elon bad.

  22. The Late P Brooks

    Steve Herman, a former White House correspondent for VOA, called the ruling “a comprehensive legal defeat for Elon Musk’s DOGE lackeys, the self-proclaimed USAGM ‘deputy CEO’ Kari Lake and others in the Trump administration who sought to eviscerate the Voice of America.”

    Running dog lackeys of the criminal pretender to the throne!

    • rhywun

      How about pay for your own fucking propaganda outfit? Why should I pay for that?

  23. The Other Kevin

    I got a nice compliment from the paralegal I have been working with on my accident lawsuit. I had a long list of questions to answer. She filled out some of them for me. For my answers, I did my best to mimic their legalese. She said they were perfect, and I should teach a class for their other clients. I didn’t use AI of course.

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