Wednesday Morning Emergency Links

by | May 27, 2026 | I Am Lame | 174 comments

Banjos was sooo happy to get a whole home generator and now it has betrayed her, so I’m picking up the links. Monsoon season in East Texas is always interesting. Don’t miss that part. We’ve been getting midnight gully-washers on the other side of the Gulf of America, but it also didn’t rain for nine months. Happy Wednesday, everyone. Today is the last real day of school. Tomorrow they do a half-day, because fuck people who work for a living, amirite?

Killed by a flying umbrella. And not because Mary Poppin was drunk. I wonder what the ICD-10 code is for that.

Biden team sues to stop release of audio and transcript from special counsel probe. I wonder why. Probably because the efforts to paint Trump as “mentally compromised” wouldn’t fare well in comparison.

I don’t know how this Ferrari got in my garage, Mr. Constable, it just followed me home one day, and I didn’t have the heart to run it off.

I’m not really sure on the way they are using “implosion” here. Was there a vacuum in the tank that it wasn’t set up to handle?

I did not think Ken Paxton was going to smoke Cornyn this badly. Hopefully, he won’t be quite as much as a douche as a senator.

Back when Steve Earle was cool enough to hang with The Pogues.

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174 Comments

  1. PieInTheSky

    Biden team sues to stop release of audio and transcript from special counsel probe. I wonder why. – they need an occupation of some sorts these days?

  2. PieInTheSky

    I did not think Ken Paxton was going to smoke Cornyn this badly. – as much as I know of US politiks far and beyond most euros, I have no idea what this guy stands for.

    • R.J.

      Paxton is a hardass, and he pisses off all the right people. I look forward to his presence in the Senate.

    • Drake

      Cornyn is a Senator from Texas who thought federal gun control was a good idea.

      • R.J.

        Among other things. He was a democrat with an “R” in front of his name who got reelected because A) He was in the Dems’ pocket so they never mounted a serious challenge and B) the useless TX repubs never primaried him.

    • DrOtto

      I wasn’t going to bother voting if Cornyn won the primary since him and Telarico’s platform were close enough that what difference did it make. I will bother voting for Paxton.

    • Necron 99

      Cornyn stood for nothing. He was a loyal member of the opposition party that would cave on his vote whenever needed. He never met a federal gun control measure he didn’t love. He was pro-forever war. He was pro-amnesty. Happy to see him go.

  3. PieInTheSky

    I don’t know how this Ferrari got in my garage, Mr. Constable, it just followed me home one day, and I didn’t have the heart to run it off.

    1.Steal Ferrari

    2. Hide at home

    3. ???

    4. Profit

    • Fourscore

      /Checks garage. No Ferraris, only a tired F150.

  4. Rat on a train

    Today is the last real day of school. Tomorrow they do a half-day, because fuck people who work for a living, amirite?
    It’s my last quiet day until August.

      • R.J.

        Indeed. Mine has been sorting change for two days now.

    • PieInTheSky

      Are the cops at the airport looking for kids?

    • Brett L

      Its a great time to experiment with what brand of tape keeps kids stuck to the wall the longest. And if a strip happens to go over their mouths, its all part of the game, right?

      • Rat on a train

        The kids are a minor nuisance. They prefer to disappear to their rooms only coming out for meals.

  5. PieInTheSky

    Killed by a flying umbrella. And not because Mary Poppin was drunk. I wonder what the ICD-10 code is for that. – I would say act of god.

    • Bobarian LMD

      Probably Y92.9 Accidental death in public place;

      • Ted S.

        W20.8 Other cause of strike by thrown, projected or falling object

  6. PieInTheSky

    I’m picking up the links – the pickins is slim

    • Brett L

      Sorry, I didn’t meth up as well as I should have. Short term notice. But I’m ready now!

  7. UnCivilServant

    So, Ze German managed to find the blood vessel first try. For whatever reason most of these techs are not nearly as competent.

      • UnCivilServant

        I was required to use an in-network tech.

      • Evan from Evansville

        (Ted’s on the right path. First one’s free. Just to getcha hooked. Can’t have Pie needlin’ into my wheelhouse. After the first? He can simply pay in trade. I have govt docs to sort. (Gov docs? This euphemism is getting more bureaucratic.))

      • Fourscore

        So would Pie, he’d look in a different place, however.

    • Brett L

      Ask Pie for a good vampire, uh, Hungarian, nurse in the area. They all know each other, right?

    • rhywun

      It is amazing how some people are way better at this than others. I have very difficult to find veins and some of them just give up and call a colleague over who is like one-and-done.

      • Brett L

        At the delivery of one of my kids, I think the third, the nurses were like “you have such good veins” and then it took 3 of them 5 tries to hit one.

        Not sure why they were trying to put me on an IV, but I just went with it.

      • Rat on a train

        I have easy to hit veins and blood that flows. Pie would be pleased.

      • Nephilium

        Brett:

        I figured being ready to sedate Florida man was SOP in a Floridian hospital

      • EvilSheldon

        I always get told by the pheblotomist how I have, “…such great veins.”

        I think they’re hitting on me.

      • R C Dean

        “Oh, the ones in my arm aren’t even my best ones.”

      • Fourscore

        The biggest ones in my legs got left with a surgeon about 50 years ago.

    • (((Jarflax

      The skill is in the blood of those born on German soil.

  8. Ownbestenemy

    The move from talking heads praising the ideas of Marxism to actual mayors putting it in practice (or at least attempting to) is quite concerning.

    • rhywun

      Mamdani is now plotting to steal private property from landlords he does not approve of.

      What could possibly go wrong?

  9. (((Jarflax

    Not gonna lye, that is one white liquor I think I’ll avoid.

  10. Common Tater

    Holy shit, the Guardian wrote an article involving weather without mentioning climate change.

  11. R.J.

    It is totally monsoon season. Every damn day. It’s delaying the build out of my back yard into a pool and cabana.

    • DrOtto

      And as long as the AI bubble holds…

  12. Drake

    Next up – Lindsey Graham. Trump is actively campaigning for him which will make it interesting.

  13. Common Tater

    “Wantagh was granted an extension from the New York Department of Education that allowed the district to hold onto the Warrior name for another year until June 2027.

    It’s the school system’s second temporary exemption since the state Board of Regents ordered public school to throw out Native American mascots, team names and logos by 2025.”

    https://nypost.com/2026/05/27/us-news/long-island-school-systems-warrior-nickname-could-be-saved-from-overreach-under-state-bill/

    “Warriors” doesn’t sound particularly Native American.

  14. Common Tater

    “An Ohio woman charged over a wild kindergarten graduation ceremony brawl has claimed she was singled out – despite video purporting to show her yanking another parent’s hair.

    Jessica Anderson, 28, was charged with assault after allegedly grabbing the hair of a 26-year-old woman during the out-of-control melee which unfolded near some chairs inside the Queen of Apostles School hall in Toledo last Thursday, WTOL reported.”

    https://nypost.com/2026/05/27/us-news/ohio-parent-jessica-anderson-charged-over-wild-kindergarten-graduation-brawl-denies-being-aggressor/

    Chimpification aside, kindergarten has a graduation ceremony?

    • R C Dean

      Once again, my guess as to the ethnic background of the combatant is correct.

    • Rat on a train

      Like first birthday parties, it’s for the parents.

    • DrOtto

      Pajamas seems to be the appropriate response to being told you are going to have to attend a kindergarten graduation. Usually PJs in public bothers me, but in this case I’ll allow it since I’m certain it was meant as a sort of quiet protest.

  15. Sensei

    Being a prepper is hard!

    Lawsuits, countersuits and disputes are piling up over septic systems, property taxes, off-leash dogs and a growing list of community rules.

    A Luxury Survivalist Community Is Tearing Itself Apart
    They went to South Dakota to ride out the apocalypse at a ‘5-star’ bunker compound. They’re already at each other’s throats with HOA-style grievances.

    https://www.wsj.com/us-news/a-luxury-survivalist-community-is-tearing-itself-apart-53d2a99f?st=yy9cLa&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

    • R.J.

      I agree with Jason at Autopian. If it had an Apple logo on it the launch would have been successful. It’s the wrong car for Ferrari.

      • Sensei

        That’s a good way to succinctly put it. If it had an Apple logo on it the software would likely be better too.

    • Common Tater

      As I asked yesterday, WTF would buy that thing?

      • R.J.

        If it was an Apple car, every liberal who hates Elon and bought a Tesla would but that instead. With 10 year bank loans.

  16. DrOtto

    Stolen Ferrari turns up near Houston and Sloopy and Banjos unable to link, hmmmm?

  17. Ownbestenemy

    Oregon going full King’s Land mode will be interesting.

    Petition to ban hunting, fishing and of animals is quite the glorious ideas I expect from Peoples’ Republic of Oreganistan

    • Sean

      Can you still hunt the homeless?

      • Common Tater

        I’d be OK with bow or shotgun, but rifle hunting doesn’t seem sporting.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Straight wall casings are a decent compromise.

        Until you get shot with a .45-70.

      • Common Tater

        Aren’t all the revolver cartridges straight wall? 357 is enough for black bear.

    • Rat on a train

      How long before Oregon is paying state employees to cull overpopulated species?

  18. Not Adahn

    Good morning!

    OTOH, it sucks walking into “surprise! All your tools are broken,” but OTOH it’s nice they didn’t bug me while I was on vacation.

    • PieInTheSky

      a poor workman etc

    • Fourscore

      Looking out the window this morning I found that a bear had inventoried a bee hive last night. I took a spin on the lawn tractor, took a couple of pictures.

      Nothing broken, mostly just tipped over. I re-assembled all the parts while the bees were re-acquainting with me, fortunately I was dressed as a pro and they left me alone. I’m not sure if they were pissed or happy but the job ended with all being satisfied. Bear came through an electric fence but between the fence and the greeting party it didn’t stay long enough to do any serious damage.

      All is well, at this time, I’ll check the fence with a meter after coffee.

  19. Common Tater

    “The disorder? Mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS), which occurs when mast cells — immune cells responsible for allergic response — overstimulate and misfire, releasing inflammatory chemicals like histamine throughout the body….

    That was true for Lena Dunham, who recounted her experience with MAS in her recent memoir, “Famesick.” The singer Halsey has also shared her diagnosis, as have Kate Beckinsale, Bethenny Frankel, Solange Knowles, Billie Eilish, Jameela Jamil and Olympic gymnast McKayla Maroney…..

    For Caroline Cray, symptoms began during an emotionally abusive relationship in college. Although she had a history of allergies, foods she had eaten her entire life began triggering severe reactions, causing near-daily anaphylaxis and repeated hospital visits….

    “I don’t think I would have gotten sick if he weren’t a factor,” Cray said. She now jokes that she is “allergic” to stress and lack of sleep, highlighting a link between her nervous system and MCAS that doctors are only starting to understand.”

    https://nypost.com/2026/05/27/health/the-unpredictable-disease-attacking-women-5-times-more-than-men/

    Curious.

    • Contrarian P

      That’s a disorder that almost always has other vague disorders attached to it, as well as psychiatric problems like anxiety and depression. When it’s on a chart, it’ll be a long visit and I’m not going to find anything to explain the laundry list of symptoms.

    • PieInTheSky

      you should see sandisk

      • Sensei

        12-mos 4,200%. Just stop…

  20. The Late P Brooks

    Wow. Excellent music.

  21. Common Tater

    “Quaint suburb in Maryland is rocked after their beloved cherry blossom trees were abruptly cut down overnight

    Baltimore County defended the decision, saying the county arborist determined the cherry blossom trees were causing persistent sidewalk damage and posed an ongoing infrastructure problem.

    A spokesman for the local government said: ‘The county arborist determined that the trees needed to be removed to prevent continued sidewalk damage.’

    Officials said the arborist approved the removals on May 18 and confirmed that stump grinding is scheduled for the first week of June.”

    https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15848931/Baltimore-suburb-beloved-cherry-blossom-chopped-down.html

    Nothing left to cut.

    • Rat on a train

      Can’t a man and his date have privacy?

      • Fourscore

        Wouldn’t make the news in Montana

  22. Sensei

    I don’t know where to start.

    Rayna Kingston, 30, from Denver, said her injections of Zepbound left her feeling so tired the following day that she struggled to complete anything other than basic tasks. She said she shifted her dose to a Sunday because Mondays were her least busy day. Her partner would bring her meals in bed because she felt so weak.

    https://www.wsj.com/health/pharma/glp-1-weight-muscle-loss-frailty-ca277a24?st=J9ThU2&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

    • Common Tater

      Stop taking Zepbound?

      • kinnath

        Tomorrow?

        Shit, now I have to work quickly on the second article. 😉

        No time like the present.

    • kinnath

      Stupid people behaving stupidly.

      Chanel Robinson achieved exactly what the gold rush of blockbuster weight-loss drugs promised: She lost nearly 100 pounds, lowered her cholesterol to normal levels and reined in her polycystic ovary syndrome.

      Guess what! It’s impossible to lose 100 lbs and not lose muscle mass. Hell all the muscles atrophy because you’re not lifting and moving 100 lbs every fucking day.

      The nurse practitioner who prescribed Robinson the medication didn’t warn her that resistance training is essential to maintaining muscle mass, Robinson said. She said she regrets not exercising and now does Pilates once a week.

      Once a week will surely take care of the problem.

      Interesting timing, since I just pushed submit last night on an article about GLP-1 meds.

      • Sensei

        “I was relying on Reddit forums to understand what was happening to my body,” she said.

        Always the best place to go. Other options are LLMs of course.

      • kinnath

        other options are LLMs of course.

        Uh, I may be feeling a bit called out here.

        See the article tomorrow.

      • Nephilium

        Sensei:

        But internet randos wouldn’t lie to me!

  23. Common Tater

    “The View’s Joy Behar has sparked outrage after labeling New York Giants quarterback Jaxson Dart ‘stupid’ and ‘racist’ for endorsing President Trump.

    Dart is at the center of fierce controversy over his appearance at a MAGA rally in Suffern, New York, where he introduced Trump for a stump speech at Rockland Community College on Friday….

    Yet Behar then alleged: ‘For somebody to back a guy like Trump, whose history in discrimination and racism goes back to housing discrimination in the ’70s, DEI attacks, and posting pictures of the Obamas as apes… when he’s on a team that’s 55 to 60 percent of the NFL, that much percentage of black people, that is just the definition of stupidity and racist in my opinion.'”

    https://www.dailymail.com/sport/nfl/article-15850457/the-view-joy-behar-jaxson-dart-trump-maga.html

    CWAC

    • Grumbletarian

      What he should do is endorse someone who thinks black people are too stupid to be able to get an ID to vote. That would demonstrate compassionate goodthinkfulness.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Or use or even know what a computer is.

        Or how to navigate basic governmental services

        Or manage thier own lives

        Or think for themselves

        Yep…he’s the racist for sure for liking Trump.

        The world will be infinitely better when she departs it and no longer pollutes the airwaves with her idiocy.

    • rhywun

      But it is not at all racist to demand that all blacks support radical leftist politicians.

  24. PieInTheSky

    A very sad announcement.

    I have just been convicted a second time for ‘hate speech’ and it is only due to a technicality that I could not immediately be sent to jail —to the judge’s frustration.

    In an ironic turn of events it’s actually thanks to my previous prison sentence (for memes in a private group chat) that I am now still free —in a physical sense, at least.

    Call me naive but I didn’t think they would take it this far, given that this precedent criminalises many of the arguments used by even the most moderate politicians critical of mass migration.

    In February 2024 I gave a lecture at Catholic University Leuven wherein I linked mass migration to crime and a deterioration of our quality of life. Every single point I made was 100% the truth and based on scientific evidence.

    Cynically, even the judge that convicted me admits as much by writing in his verdict: “Even if all of the statements made by Van Langenhove are based on scientific evidence and statistics, it makes no difference to the criminal intent. Van Langenhove is not charged with spreading false information. He is charged with presenting facts in a way that incites hatred against persons on the grounds of one or more of the protected criteria in the Anti-Racism Law.”

    https://x.com/DVanLangenhove/status/2059275296050741666

    • Common Tater

      “He is charged with presenting facts in a way that incites hatred against persons on the grounds of one or more of the protected criteria in the Anti-Racism Law.”

      Stochastic terror?

    • rhywun

      Yeah, Europe is toast. Followed very soon by blue areas of the US which already have two-tier justice, and probably the whole country if the current skin-suited version of the Democratic Party gets their way.

  25. Common Tater

    “Trump will regret endorsing Ken Paxton in the Texas Senate primary

    Democrat James Talarico may win — and the president weakened his hold over the GOP

    John Cornyn probably never had a chance to keep his seat. The senior Republican senator from Texas has repugnant, far-right politics. He even used the confirmation hearing for Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to float legal theories for ending same-sex marriage. But he is mild-mannered — a flaw in today’s GOP — and he doesn’t have a history of flashy corruption scandals and adultery, unlike Ken Paxton, the state attorney general who handily defeated him in the Republican primary on Tuesday night….

    It’s widely believed that Paxton is a much weaker candidate against Talarico, whose Boy Scout demeanor will make him a more appealing choice compared to the highly corrupt Paxton, especially for swing voters weary of the president’s non-stop scandals.”

    https://www.salon.com/2026/05/27/trump-will-regret-endorsing-ken-paxton-in-the-texas-senate-primary/

    Sober insightful analysis.

    • R.J.

      Hahaha. No bias at all in there.
      Seriously though, the proof is in the actual election. Blowing it out in a primary may not equate to winning the seat. Although it’s a pretty good sign. That primary was beyond a blowout.

    • R C Dean

      Yeah, when I think “far right”, Cornyn is the guy.

      It is widely believed by who that Paxton is a much weaker candidate?

      Talarico’s lunging for Texas cred makes him come off like a youth minister who gets indicted for child molestation. And nobody is surprised.

    • (((Jarflax

      I dunno, thus far what we are seeing is that Maga is dominant in the Republican party. If they win in November great, Trump gets his loyal supporters, but dominant in the party is not necessarily dominant in the population.

  26. PieInTheSky

    Jamie Metzl
    @JamieMetzl
    ·
    17h
    UFC fights on the White House lawn are a desecration of the White House, America, our history, and the dignity of the office of the presidency.

    Andrew Jackson had a 1400 pound block of cheese he left to age in the Whitehouse lobby for two years, and then when he left office he invited thousands of citizens to come and have a cheese eating party wherein the entire block was consumed in about two hours.

    https://x.com/KaiserLoengramm/status/2059450064008065160

    what is the official glibertarian position on… this shit…

    • R.J.

      Awesome. I love cheese, and everything about it was voluntary, unless he made the government buy the unripened cheese. But what cheese was it? Cheddar, Edam? Havarti? Stilton?

      • R.J.

        Great story too. The backstory about outdoing Jefferson is great.

      • PieInTheSky

        great but a bit cheesy

      • DrOtto

        I’m disappointed Pie, I would have went with “Grate but a bit cheesy”

      • PieInTheSky

        doubling down is uncivilized.

      • Gdragon

        No whey!

    • R C Dean

      a cheese eating party wherein the entire block was consumed in about two hours

      Impressive. That comes to about 12 pounds of cheese every minute.

      • R.J.

        Even Swiss can’t do that.

      • Ownbestenemy

        There might be some holes in this theory

  27. PieInTheSky

    MEETING BRAZILIAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE RENAN SANTOS
    Renan Santos is a Brazilian politician currently running to become President of Brazil. At the time of writing (May 2026) he is third on Polymarket’s betting odds to win this year’s presidential election, behind the incumbent Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro; ex-President Jair Bolsonaro’s son. Politically, Renan is considered to the right of the Bolsonaro family. He wants to replace the Bolsonaros as the face of ‘Ring Wing’ politics in Brazil on the grounds that – as he sees it post Jair Bolsonaro’s 2022 defeat – they are incompetent, corrupt and squat in the political space an actually capable politics should exist in. Renan doesn’t consider himself ‘Right Wing’ in the traditional sense though, more a ‘Beyond Left and Right’ ‘Lee Kuan Yew-style’ technocratic pragmatist where the what codes him as politically ‘Right Wing’ element is that he believes certain ‘Right Wing’ policies like Bukele-inspired mass incarcerations for criminal gangs are needed in order to rescue Brazil from its current dysfunctional malaise.

    https://x.com/kunley_drukpa/status/2059358260084277693

    one o them long X posts won’t copy paste all

  28. The Late P Brooks

    Finally

    The plan, dubbed “Block by Block, a Housing Policy for a New Era,” includes $22 billion in new investments to build affordable housing, $5.6 billion in funding to enhance the New York City Housing Authority and a new $40-per-hour minimum wage for construction workers on city-financed projects. The proposal also outlines new aggressive code enforcement measures, investment in a city-backed home insurance provider and loosened regulations around prefabricated homes.

    It could work.

    • Sensei

      Yes, NYC public housing has long and sucessful history.

    • rhywun

      $5.6 billion in funding to enhance the New York City Housing Authority

      LOL not even a down-payment on the tens of billions of dollars to cover the decades of deferred maintenance.

      But this time we will try real communism.

    • The Other Kevin

      It makes perfect sense if you realize they’re not trying to solve the problem of people being able to afford housing. They’re trying to solve the problem of there not being enough money allocated to “affordable housing” groups.

      • rhywun

        No worries, this time we will lick the affordability problem once and for all. Then all those NGOs can disband, satisfied with the knowledge that their work is done.

    • DrOtto

      That is somehow cathartic to watch.

    • Gdragon

      The dog’s name was probably “Buck”.

      • Gdragon

        I am skeptical whenever a shooting victim says that they were “just standing on the corner, minding their own business”. I see no reason to handle it any differently just because the shooter is a dog.

      • Gdragon

        “Are you a good boy? Are you a good boy?”

        It was then Rosetta found out that when pushed too far, Rex was not such a good boy…

    • Common Tater

      “Local police are reminding the public that it is illegal in Nebraska to travel with a loaded shotgun in a vehicle”

      I thought this was America!

      • Fourscore

        Loaded rifle/handgun is OK though

  29. Evan from Evansville

    Just finished up my final, wrap-up morning on this test scoring contract. Mostly getting Dayforce and evals sorted.
    I finished 2,985 papers over the 5wk project (+1.5 days).

    Hopefully I can do my make-up Meijer ‘training’ online before I make my way into Receiving tomorrow morning. Today’s just me and Peabody as the 5yo + (my) M&D do whatever they’re doing in South Bend.

  30. The Late P Brooks

    The plan comes amid broader ideological debates within the Democratic Party over how to best approach housing, including weighing the need for well-paid union labor against the goal of maximizing construction. Mamdani said he did not feel it was necessary to compromise.

    “You can build more affordable housing than any mayor has done over the course of a 10-year period, you can preserve 200,000 affordable homes, and you can do all of this while paying people the wage that they can actually afford to live on in this city, and for us it is critical that we are able to do this, because without it we start to lose what makes the city so special,” he said.

    Where will the money come from?

    • rhywun

      Where will the money come from?

      The rich, duh.

      build more affordable housing than any mayor has done herpity derpity doo

      I wonder what happened with all the fancy plans the previous communist mayor (Deblasio) claimed to want and failed to deliver.

      • Fourscore

        Hasbro has a lot of money but you have to stay out of jail.

    • The Other Kevin

      People doing whatever the fuck they want all the time is a basic tenet of Christianity.

      • Rat on a train

        God loves you regardless of what you do so do what you want …

      • PieInTheSky

        regardless of what you do -I mean isn’t salvation independent of human action but preordained

      • The Other Kevin

        @Pie, it depends. I’m a Catholic, which means you follow the rules or you get cast into a furnace.

      • Rat on a train

        I’m not Calvinist. More directly I was addressing that though we are unconditionally loved we are called to change.

    • rhywun

      Because if something is not specifically mentioned in the Bible that means anything goes.

      This is the same guy who said God created seven genders or some shit?

      • Common Tater

        Six biological sexes, not even genders.

        “In a brutal new ad, Talarico is hammered over his past statements, declaring “God is nonbinary,” saying there are six biological sexes, calling for Texans to reduce their meat consumption, trashing the American flag, making racist and sexist comments about Whites and men, calling for open borders, saying he loves “trans children,” and more.”

        https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/video-rep-brandon-gill-speaks-paxton-victory-party/

      • R.J.

        It’s not hammering him to repeat his own retarded statements in a larger forum.

      • rhywun

        calling for Texans to reduce their meat consumption, trashing the American flag, making racist and sexist comments about Whites and men, calling for open borders, saying he loves “trans children,”

        All of that is required of any Democrat these days. It is hilarious watching the old-timers, anyone already in power for say 10 years or more, try to adapt to the new required beliefs. Suddenly you’ve got the likes of Chuck Schumer pretending to be all for “trans kids” and shit. Nobody believes it and it doesn’t matter.

    • PieInTheSky

      make this decision as moral agents – but almost no other decision amiright the government decides all other things

  31. The Late P Brooks

    Mommy issues?

    But one facet of the ideology behind this attack has, so far, been left out of much mainstream coverage.

    “He just flat out says he hates women and that they’re the devil and they’re destroying everything. And this is an important thing, because that kind of misogyny did not exist in white supremacist circles, say, 10, 15 years ago,” said Heidi Beirich, co-founder of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism. Beirich was referring to the first part of the written document, authored by one of the two suspects.

    ——-

    DiBranco says that scholarship and news coverage of violence that is partly rooted in anti-women conspiracy theories has failed to keep pace with the spread of those dangerous beliefs. The attack at the Islamic Center of San Diego is the most recent example.

    “I was surprised when I opened the manifesto — having looked at the prior media coverage — at how deeply blatant the misogyny was throughout,” said DiBranco. “[One of the suspects] starts with talking about Jewish people as the No.1 enemy. And then in his next section says, ‘And then right after Jews, women are the No. 1 enemy.’ ”

    Just as writings of neo-Nazis and white nationalist killers often use offensive slurs for Jewish people, the document uses a dehumanizing term meant to shorthand “female humanoid organism.”

    Women are the real victims here.

    • Ted S.

      “I’d pick the bear over the man”, however, isn’t rooted in conspiracy theory thoughts at all, no sirree.

  32. The Late P Brooks

    Dog in Parked Car Accidentally Shoots Woman with Shotgun

    Why are we pretending it was “accidental”?

  33. Sensei

    The $557-million plan, negotiated between Gov. Hochul and the New York Legislature, will lower the retirement age from 63 to 58 for all teachers who spent three decades in the classroom. It also reduces the contribution rate other government workers make toward their pensions.

    Makes sense given how much more they could be making in the private sector.

    https://www.nydailynews.com/2026/05/26/new-york-teachers-win-lower-retirement-age-as-lawmakers-set-to-pass-pension-reforms/

    • R.J.

      Meanwhile, us private sector goons will wait longer and longer for Social Security, if we even get it.

    • Ted S.

      And the rest of us are expected to fund this.

      It’s why I want the state to go bankrupt and GovSec workers literally starving and living under bridges.

      • Common Tater

        Why do you hate UCS?

      • kinnath

        UCS is a capable guy. He’ll do just fine in the private sector.

      • rhywun

        the state to go bankrupt

        Good news – it will now happen even sooner.

    • R.J.

      That would be bad. The guy already has the deck stacked against him in LA.

    • The Other Kevin

      I hope he doesn’t endorse a new season of She Hulk.

      • R.J.

        Hahahahaha

  34. Sensei

    And more wishful thinking from NYS!

    ALBANY – The state Legislature last week approved first-in-the-nation legislation that would regulate 3D printers to prevent them from being used to produce untraceable firearms. But questions remain about how the statute will be implemented once it goes into effect.

    It will be implemented on hope and feelings.

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ny-moves-to-ban-3d-printers-that-make-guns-but-can-it-be-enforced/ar-AA248fsT

    • rhywun

      Anytime I see “first-in-the-nation” I know it’s bend-over time.

    • Rat on a train

      AI will monitor your builds?

      • Sensei

        My assumption is you build authentication into the printer. Your slicer, the software that takes the CAD file and converts it to your specific printer specifications, will have to “sign” the file.

        You put the AI and nanny part into the slicer itself.

      • R.J.

        Unless you label your build as a “gun part” this will be a total failure. Make it to where your gun pieces are part of a larger model for the Millennium Falcon or something and AI won’t identify squat.

    • Common Tater

      Whether a firearm is traceable or not doesn’t seem to have much to do with crime.

      • R.J.

        Yes. It’s chasing phantoms and criminalizing normal behavior. Criminals are going to buy a used Glock for cash, it’s much easier.

  35. The Late P Brooks

    Beirich and other extremism experts say the attack at the Islamic Center of San Diego is a clear warning signal that the longstanding problem of white supremacist terrorism has not gone away. And so it has rekindled concern over the Trump administration’s pivot away from countering violent, far-right extremism domestically and abroad.

    This month, the White House released the 2025 United States Counterterrorism Strategy document, outlining its priorities and approach to protecting the homeland. It highlights three major terrorist threats to the U.S.: narcoterrorists, Islamist terrorists and violent left-wing extremists. Nowhere does the document mention far-right, neo-Nazi or white supremacist threats.

    “Far-right terrorism is alive and well, but you wouldn’t know it from reading this document,” said Colin Clarke, executive director of the Soufan Center, a nonprofit that focuses on global security. “This is an unserious document written by unserious people about a deadly serious subject.”

    The Big Bad Wolf is out there, and he’s coming to eat you!

    • Rat on a train

      The SPLC has the right-wing covered …

    • rhywun

      Lefties finally got the “far right terror” of their dreams.

  36. Sensei

    Under the framework, Iran would restore ​commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz to ⁠pre-war levels within a month, while the United States ​would withdraw military forces from Iran’s vicinity and lift ​a naval blockade.

    That’s makes it seem like the war was totally worth it. Essentially nothing changed on the nuclear program that was supposed to be the reason for all this in the first place.

    https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iran-says-draft-us-deal-would-reopen-hormuz-shipping-end-naval-blockade-2026-05-27/

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