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My preferred outcome would be “It’s legal everywhere”. My read of the 21st says “The Feds can’t ban it, but the states can”
“ Congress cannot prohibit intrastate activity solely because it might produce products hard to tax.”
Music to my ears. May 10,000 other court challenges to stupid tax laws arise from this one decision.
Im sure Roberts will overturn that
Let me dream that it might get Wickard reversed for a while, okay? As long as we’re having a glimmer of hope that someone on SCOTUS might recognize limits on Federal power and all….
Im sure Roberts will overturn that
+1 penal-tax
U.S. Supreme Court also to rule on Round-up case (originating at the state level), with potential to further fracture MAHA/MAGA.
Care to provide some background on it? That’s not one I’ve been following.
https://www.oyez.org/cases/2025/24-1068
“This stuff causes plants to shrivel and die rapidly – Must be harmless to humans”
🙄
Why do I think he took no precautions when spraying?
How much exposure is a big question, and the actual scientific linkage (and not just voodoo statistics).
“When we doused mice with 100 gallons all at once of this substance they developed cancer”
“Surprisingly, Glyphosate causes drowning.”
Sure, glyphosate causes this. 12 fucking ignorant citizens.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/non-hodgkins-lymphoma/symptoms-causes/syc-20375680
Breakfast causes lunch!
“Is that the good lymphoma?” Larry David.
Juries are stupid.
The findings on glyphosate that it is evil were nothing but a fever dream. If you got non hojins lymphoma the odds that you had syphalis are much higher than the odds you had any minor contact with roundup.
But an anti corporate jury said it’s bad so it’s bad now.
Was not aware of any link between syphilis and non-hodgkins lymphoma.
Just did a quick search, apparently secondary syphilis can mimic the symptoms of on-hodgkins.
This is the same reason that we ended up with the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 – to stop idiot juries from bankrupting Big Pharma.
Roundup is so
Dangerous you can drink it.
Less carcinogenic than coffee.
Journalist Challenges Jim Acosta To Fight Outside His Hotel
Dana White should have had an octagon at the dinner and had the correspondents fight each other.
I would have tuned in for that.
“Allen was part of a group called “The Wide Awakes””
Any songs I’d recognize?
They just do shittier covers of bad works by other deranged people.
His version of “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go” is not worth your time certainly.
Their version of “Eyes Wide Open” is a real snooze.
“A LinkedIn page that is believed to belong to Allen shows he had worked a part-time teacher and tutor, and he was named “Teacher of the Month” in December 2024 at C2 Education, a test-preparation service.”
Do they have any students?
You think there’s learing going on there?
*taps nose*
Is that a cocaine-related tap?
Isn’t that the U2 album that came on the iPhone that everyone deleted?
Brown, Tracey, Acosta and Substack did not immediately respond to requests for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.
We’ve often compared Capitol Hill to the Mean Girls’ lunch table at the local junior high. Methinks our local paid liars in the media are no different.
From the attempted murderer’s Steam game comments:
I appreciate that the Left does not even hide any more that they are a death cult.
The right had some crackpot theories on Obama and camps but never to the level of this…
The amount of gaslighting happening with all the media and political marxist in unison decrying they would never say the President is evil/fascist/racist/a danger to democracy/etc is absolutely amazing to behold.
They don’t. And there is no self-awareness that they are a death cult.
They are very happy to project the death cult onto Republicans.
And probably would on libertarians too if we were important enough to notice.
I forgot which side went after us at one time, like we were a secret society operating the levers of government. Threatened FBI investigations, etc..
I’ve been overly lax on even lurking lately so didn’t read the weekend links… was the Wisconsin brewery mentioned in the “shamelessly calling for murder” group?
Yeah, I remember someone mentioned that guy.
It really is amazing how mainstreamed that thought is among much of the country. And it’s not even “fringe” anymore – as the radical left takes over the Dems, it’s all of them playing along.
That the brewery offering free beer on the day of his death?
I know I’ve brought it up in Friday links.
all of them playing along.
The fact that there is internal peer pressure/shaming of those NOT calling for what would be the largest genocide in history is kind of terrifying. The default position among the oh so caring and tolerant is that approximately 80 million of their countrymen need at minimum reeducation in camps, and probably death.
It is terrifying.
This is literally how the Nazis took over Germany. All they need is to win the next Presidency and it’s off to the races.
“Trump admin moves to require disclosure for non-profit fiscal sponsors, crackdown on ‘black hole’ of donations”
Racist!!
STEVE SMITH CRACK DOWN ON BLACK HOLES! AND BY CRACK DOWN MEAN RAPE.
Time to bring back proper dueling, as carried out by gentlemen?
So, don’t stand by your man?
Andy Jackson endorses Duel Legalization, even in Tennessee
“as carried out by gentlemen?”
That would exclude Jim Acosta.
Sawe runs 13 MPH for two hours. A 4 minute mile is 15 MPH but only for 1 mile.
I don’t know what is in African water but I wish I had some.
My guess:
What was in that African water was cholera, and he was just trying to make it to the porta-potties at the finish line.
I could possibly complete a marathon in 2 hours on a bicycle.
Google says it should take A little over an hour
If you are a professional cyclist, maybe. 13 MPH over 26 miles is a pretty good clip for a casual cyclist, though.
Sorry, I forgot to add “By car, depending on traffic.
Though I am in a car, I identify as a runner.
A train car, of course.
But we don’t have high speed rail, so that wouldn’t work here!
Yeah. 25 MPH on a bicycle is really fast. Average speeds for weekend warriors is usually around 10-12 MPH.
whaddup doh’
Heya Banjos- how YOU doin ?
“U.S. Supreme Court likely to decide legality of homemade whiskey”
Every substance, except things such as plutonium, nerve gas, and Miracle Whip, should be legal.
No substance is illegal on stolen land!
I wonder why Kash got a pass. Brown?
That struck me and no one I have seen has wondered except you right now.
I mean, it’s the kind of pissy little detail a shitlib like that guy might obsess over.
Patel is an oppressed brown person.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5Eoax6I-O4
He wanted to Kash him outside.
Well, how ’bout that?
“Nike Announces over 1,000 Layoffs As Sales Slump”
Anyone working in the U.S.?
Looks like Nike is starting to Just Do It!
Nike managed to piss off the right with going hard into the BLM/Oppression politics and then recently they pissed off the left with Phil Knight openly supporting Republicans to stop some of the crazy coming out of Portland.
“WH Correspondents’ Dinner Shooting Suspect Cole Allen: 5 Things We Know”
This guy looks just like if Obama had a son…
BTW, we had a manchurian commie supposedly black president for 8 years, and not a single redneck or racist he claimed ran freely all over this land took a shot at him. But yeah, this violence problem is not exclusive to one group of deranged dingbats…
Did Roman soldiers get fat before the fall?
Before the fall practically every single Roman soldier was foreign barbarian, because the top people could not trust Roman citizens with weapons.
Roman citizens bought their way out of military service.
Europe is moving in that direction too.
And the English used to buy their way into service.
Stalemate?
Thanks to Caracalla everyone was a Roman citizen and thus subject to taxation. As Alex said the authorities disarmed the populace to keep them from killing the tax collectors. Taxes in the western half of the empire got so bad farmers sold their freeholds to the local big shots for protection from the tax man. Others became outlaws, fleeing to mountains and forests, or joined the barbarian hordes.
English aristocrats may have done that, while the Royal Navy used impressment to fill the ranks.
That would be a fascinating study. See if Roman armor became larger as time went on.
Especially the cod pieces, right?
Not my prime source, but another one mentioned this, and the absolute embargo on it in the MSM.
Only the US is a chaotic mess ji. /MSM
Frankly, I’m amazed it is still going. Figured they’d go full Canada-Truckers on the protestors by now, seems to be the trend these days.
Irish have a history of going boom if push come to shove though, so can see how the government is going about it a different way now.
It ended a week or so ago with the government giving some subsidies, but the Media Class pissed.
They have a thing against Irish farmers because the media is all in on Net Zero and Irish farmers largely produce the wrong kind of food.
As an Irish comedian once said, it isn’t like he comes from a country with a long history of terrorism.
Yeah, Irish farmers like to kill bugs, not raise them for food.
lol Who knew they’re just Democrats in green clothing?
It’s that Marxist connection.
Didn’t they have connections with the Soviets and Islamic terrorists?
Yes, there was a strong Marxist connection, much like all of European populist movements from before WWII.
Ted S.:
“Have”?
Still do.
Technically the Soviets aren’t around any more.
That could hardly be more incoherent and self-contradictory.
Welcome to Sinn Fein. Would you like you complimentary Guinness now, or in Heaven?
That manifesto is another long, rambling pile of crap meant to convince himself he was doing the right thing.
BTW, AI writes long rambling screeds too.
You know who else liked to deliver a long, rambling screed?
Me?
Biden?
I wouldn’t say Biden screeded. More meandered.
Fidel Castro?
The CEO at a company I once worked for?
Patton Oswalt?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5BBhNkywMJY&t=63s&pp=ygUicGF0dG9uIG9zd2FsdCBzdGFyIHdhcnMgZmlsaWJ1c3Rlcg%3D%3D&ra=m
Change of command speeches were long and rambling but at least not screeds.
Be on the watch for AI manifestos.
I think most manifestos are long rambling screeds intended to convince the author that they are doing the right thing. Planned violence like an assassination requires you to maintain the resolve to kill longer than ordinary hot blooded violence.
Sounds like most philosophers.
Just looking at the guy…I don’t think he could carry 128 pounds.
Ok now I’m wondering what it would take to set up in a room and machine gun through whatever walls/floors existed between the guest room and the venue. Concrete is a difficult barrier to penetrate, but interior walls are not.
And if you could set up multiple of these emplacements in order to maximize the chance of getting a lucky shot on target.
Nike announced it will be enacting roughly 1,400 layoffs globally as it continues to suffer an ongoing downturn in sales.
In other news, some fourteen hundred Chinese children will have the opportunity to attend school and learn to read.
Or participate in advanced medical procedures like transplants.
“Acosta accused Tracey in social media posts of harassing Miami Herald journalist Julie K. Brown, an investigative reporter who played a key role in pushing the story of financier Jeffrey Epstein’s child sex trafficking ring into the national news. At one point, Tracey claimed Acosta “threatened to fight” him during the Substack afterparty for the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.”
There seem to be as many Julie Brown’s as Dave Smith’s.
What kind of drugs at a Substack afterparty?
child sex trafficking
Hell, I want to punch the person that insists on morphing Epstein’s skeezy behavior into this.
Fecund late-teens are “children” when there is a narrative to further. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Anyone under 26 is a child to the left.
Well unless its against their narrative then 16 can be an adult.
In the context of men dating younger women any gap is pedophilia. In the context of grooming children, especially into transing, age is irrelevant. It is exhausting to argue with people who can ignore any contradiction.
You can’t keep harping on God when people don’t believe in God. God didn’t reveal this until the Enlightenment? That’s a pretty long time for letting all of the bullshit that humans do go unanswered. It’s also an ironic argument, since the Enlightenment stands against law from revelation. This is important, because if we are unmoored from this foundation (and we are), we need to put a new better foundation in place.
Ok, but how? I think Nietzsche was absolutely correct that the enlightenment, and later developments had shattered the religious foundation of society, morality, culture et al. by the late 19th Century. I also think he was correct that it would require something beyond human to create a functioning society without that foundation. The issue is, as it always was, that we have a serious shortage of supermen, and our efforts to replace that foundation have largely been nightmarish failures.
Abandoning our primitive superstitions would be a start, rather than being like progressives and doubling down on what has already failed.
Rousseau and all of his bastard heirs will always have an audience, because he offers the out that it isn’t you that is responsible for your misery. God/Satan is the same game, just older (and thus more comfortable to a conservative mind). In that sense I, somewhat like Nietzsche, have more respect for the Jewish tradition – you fuck up, God takes it out on you and your progeny. But, that Jewish tradition isn’t open to everyone (and it fails under my assertion above). And we don’t really want to be a plaything of the supernatural as Job was.
I don’t have an answer, as I’m no ubermensch.
“God takes it out on you and your progeny”
Job enters the conversation.
And no there wasn’t a happy ending, that was tacked on later.
“Abandoning our primitive superstitions would be a start”
Pray tell, what are said primitive superstitions?
The Book of Job fascinates me, as it is the most subversive text in the Bible, both to the OT and the New.
Alex, I won’t say there isn’t a God – a creator of the universe. That is beyond all human knowledge – something we simply cannot know in the affirmative or negative. What I clearly don’t believe in is Levantine monotheism, the God and His chosen people, the Messiah that redeems all of humanity (when the Lord clearly only cared about one group), or the offshoot that believes we all must submit.
Yeah JD, you will excuse me for saying that it is usually that mentality that has justified some of the worst humanity has offered us. As someone involved in science, I will just leave you with a quote from Werner Heisenberg:
“The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.”
And as someone that has seen both the hand of God and the other one in life, I worry for those that think there is not something going on…
“Abandoning our primitive superstitions would be a start, rather than being like progressives and doubling down on what has already failed.”
Abandoning our primitive superstition is what progressivism does. In that way, Nietzsche is shown just as foolish as Rousseau in not understanding man and his world. There are no supermen, “natural state” is brutish and short, etc. No, the answer is to have the idea of god evolve along with mans world having evolved.
Just as we no longer have a divine right of kings, but do have the evolving idea of equality of man, with rights flowing from that, and not from it coming from other, base, men.
Not really. Progressivism doesn’t abandon primitive superstitions, so much as trade in one set of primitive superstitions for another set that feels better to them.
Just as we no longer have a divine right of kings, but do have the evolving idea of equality of man
Divine right of kings was always an idea that require a vast suspension of disbelief given the average quality of kings, but even so it was more believable than the idea of the equality of men.
the worst humanity has offered
I offer no Paradise, not in this life or the next. It is clinging to that that often justifies the worst that humanity can do.
I watched the first three episodes of “The Sins of Kujo.” There was no rabid St. Bernard anywhere, though a gold-chain-wearing Doberman did appear by the end of the third ep. It’s about a quirky-but-competent Japanese criminal defense attorney defending actual criminals, who understands that every time he’s successful he adds to the pain of his client’s victims (the titular “sins.”)
I was drinking grog while I watched it (it was warm yesterday) but I liked it. So far just the characters and setting but I get the feeling that the plot is going to matter more by the end, in the traditional manga style.
“Journalist Challenges Jim Acosta To Fight Outside His Hotel”
——-
Anyone else remembering when Fetterman wanted to fight The Jacket on Bill Maher?
Wait, did the Lump scream “me master, him blaster!”?
‘Cause that would be cool.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kKtX8g1_TQQ
And yes, that is Donna Brazile between them. Fetterman spent the entire episode backing her up, of course.
Holy cow the Lump was YUGE back then!
Anyone else remembering when Fetterman wanted to fight The Jacket on Bill Maher?
/raises hand
They just couldn’t squeeze out the last one.
Daily ray of sunshine.
It isnt hanging from lamp posts, but its a start.
I will say, that manifesto is quite on the nose in many aspects.
“Investigators also recovered notes with instructions from a therapist in Washington, D.C., directing the transgender father to send the therapist $10,000 and providing guidance on “gender affirming medical care for children.””
https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/5847178-a-child-abduction-case-shows-how-the-media-hide-the-ball-on-gender-identity/
That seems extremely odd.
“gender affirming medical care for children.”
Should read “medical care *against* children”.
Transing the kids is a very profitable enterprise.
Because they are radical leftists, it was inevitable that they would frame the story that way.
“Transing the kids is a very profitable enterprise.”
True. Still no idea why anyone would pay a therapist $10K. In many states you can get a therapist to rubber stamp it for free.
Oh thank you. It’s been quite a while since I’ve fallen out of my chair laughing…
What’s that? The consequences of our own policy choices?
Why I never (hies to fainting couch)!
To be honest, most people don’t expect their policy choices to lead to bad puns.
Also relevant:
https://thompsonblog.co.uk/2025/05/aversions.html
Hmm. The firewall says that’s a porn site. Doesn’t look that dangerous.
It’s misreading it as PERversions.
I mean, I got off on it but I don’t think that the general public would. So I think that technically makes it a fetish site.
Looks like your firewall is confusing it with THOMASblog.
It is an honest mistake.
Bonus ray of
sunshinecomedyLooks like he moved from PUMA to PUNTA real quick.
“Put otherwise, preventing activity lest it give rise to tax evasion places no limit whatsoever on Congress’s power under the taxation clause.”
GUYS GUYS GUYS! Get with the program! You’re not allowed to say things like that!
“Shocking video shows a Florida pickup truck running over a $250,000 Lamborghini — with the driver still inside.
The Lambo driver, Ramon Ferrer, said he’s lucky to be alive after his supercar was crushed under the weight of the truck during Wednesday’s terrifying incident in a Lake Nona gym parking lot….
“I don’t know how you can miss a whole car. I mean, yes, I’m slammed to the ground because it’s a Lamborghini, but I mean, still, how can you miss a car?” Ferrer said.
The identity of the pickup truck driver has not yet been released, and it isn’t clear if she was issued a citation.
The Orlando Police Department did not respond immediately to requests for comment.”
https://nypost.com/2026/04/26/us-news/florida-pickup-truck-crushes-250k-lamborghini-in-shocking-video/
Curious.
Argh. I went to rehab my old Raspberry Pi boxes. They were in storage for over a year while ai moved. I was successful, but ran into the bugabear of old HDMI cables that only support 60Hz. All my TVs are now 120Hz. So, lots of screen tearing, etc… BUY MOAR CABLES!
Don’t 120Hz TV’s play 60Hz?
To go from the computer to the TV, I use an 8K cable. It’s very long to go over the door. Less handshaking failures than the 4K cable.
Yes, the TV should be able to go to 60Hz for that one device, I am going to try that before ordering a new cable. But right now it is close to unplayable for a lot of games on Retropie on that new TV using that cable, and no issues on an old 24 inch TV I use for my computer monitor. I am saying it is a cable issue, which a new 120hx 4K cable should solve. To your point, I did find one that is 8K, and does 4K at 240 hz, and that should have zero issues. I’ll update later after I do some more experiments.
“Sydney Sweeney’s ‘Euphoria’ wedding dress is fit for a ‘bridezilla’ ”
https://pagesix.com/2026/04/27/style/sydney-sweeney-euphoria-wedding-dress-designer-interview/
“A Florida pastor who wrote an advice book on how to love your spouse was arrested this week for allegedly having multiple wives.
Leslie Williams, 62, was arrested Wednesday on an outstanding warrant for bigamy near his house in rumored swingers’ paradise, The Villages retirement community, according to the Sumter County Sheriff Department and the Villages News.”
https://nypost.com/2026/04/27/us-news/florida-pastor-who-wrote-book-on-how-to-love-your-spouse-arrested-over-allegations-he-has-multiple-wives/
At least he was good at it?
Did he write that you should only love *one* spouse?
“Near 11 p.m., in Connecticut, the New London Police Department was contacted by someone who expressed concern about the incident at the Correspondents’ dinner. The individual “wanted to share information they believed to be pertinent to the matter,” the police said in a statement. After reviewing the information, the department immediately contacted federal law enforcement.
Allen’s brother lives in New London, according to public records.”
Actual reporting work…
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/caltech-grad-teacher-of-the-month-named-as-washington-shooting-suspect-310cf6fb?st=58RC69&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
“A Wisconsin brewery and taproom known for promising “free beer” when President Donald Trump dies is drawing renewed scrutiny for posting on Facebook “we almost got #freebeerday.”
The Minocqua Brewing Company is owned by Wisconsin Democrat Kirk Bangstad, a former state Assembly candidate who has repeatedly used the brewery’s brand to attack Trump and Republicans. The brewery’s social media lamented Saturday night’s foiled attack at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
“Well, we almost got #freebeerday,” the company’s post read, although Fox News could not immediately identify the poster’s tie to the owner. “Either a brother or sister in the Resistance needs to work on their marksmanship or he faked another assassination to get a positive news cycle. We’ll never know.”
https://nypost.com/2026/04/26/us-news/wisconsin-dems-bar-laments-we-almost-got-free-beer-day-for-trump-assassination/
Imagine if some Republican did this while Obama was President?