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Jackson insisted that the restrictions on nationwide injunctions issued by lower courts were “not only truly unfortunate, but also hubristic and senseless.”
No, dear, it’s the nationwide injunctions that are hubristic and senseless.
But the Aloha spirit is a higher authority than SCOTUS.
The idea that district court judges can just grant themselves national jurisdiction is absurd on its face, but here we are.
The correct answer would be “The Second Amendment has removed the question of arms from the purview of the state.” Because that’s what it says in plain english.
The Mayor?
I’m seeing “placed on administrative leave” (which may or may not be paid, but I know which way to bet). I’m not seeing “terminated”.
So, not actually punished.
Administrative leave is just code for “lay low until it blows over, then back to business as usual”.
Government accountability found in proximity to military intelligence.
lay low until it blows over, then back to business as usual
It’s not blowing over. We’re going to reassign you to a different office.
With a promotion.
Since the article is that form of “journalism” that is merely reposted tweets, it’s easy to miss, but here’s a rundown (it’s from the local cop union, so take with a shaker of salt).
I’m seeing a reference to a “notice of proposed adverse action” as what the “termination papers” actually are. In other words, they seem to have been notified that they might be terminated, and are administrative leave in the meantime, but not actually terminated yet.
So, we’ll see.
Honor the Somaliland extradition request and wash our hands of her.
The whining in that article is from a Minnesota GOP governor-wannabe, who just ended her primary campaign.
Klobuchar has her retirement as senator, now it’s time to get in on the MN money. Power is a helluva aphrodisiac .
Can’t she just go fishing…
Narcissistic sociopaths don’t just retire and go fishing.
That’s why they used to get Guidoed.
Follow the money. They were just almost ready to commence the program when the money ran out. Share the same locations with the autism/learing centers.
Circling back to the featured image – where does one get bunny hats?
My wife found little patriotic hats for the fourth a couple years ago that the boy tried to put on the cats.
Amazon or the dollar store would be my guess.
Pretty much any fursuit maker can hook you up. Be prepared for a long wait though.
Oh, wait. You meant hats for bunnies.
Forget I said anything.
Have you seen the various Tactical Cat Ears compilaitons?
Oh yeah. I even have a set on my spare earpro.
Okay, you left me speechless. Just the awkward laughter of not wanting to antagonize heavily armed people.
One of the things that I genuinely admire about furries is their ability to embrace the awkwardness.
There’s a dude I follow on X called Tiguan – he’s a sword enthusiast and HEMA competitor (and a part-time shooting instructor, which is how I found out about his channel) who does very erudite sword reviews, cutting demonstrations, and the like – all while dressed like a werewolf attending a RenFaire. Apparently the furry cringe and the sword geek cringe cancel each other out…
So Omar isn’t on the hook for anything.
I expect the Dems to vote “no” on that. But if the vote failed, that means at least one Repub played along.
I expect Minnesota Republicans are like New Jersey Republicans – basically slightly more right-leaning Democrats.
I thought that was a state House committee, not the US House.
You’re right – it was in the state House. My contempt for Congressional Repubs led me to the conclusion that they stabbed us in the back in.
“The dissent does not claim that it is now too late for the state legislature or the District Court to adopt a new map that complies with the Constitution. Nor does the dissent assert that it is not feasible for the elections to be held under such a map. Instead, the dissent offers two reasons for its proposed course of action,” the conservative justice continued. “One is trivial at best, and the other is baseless and insulting.”
Anyone have Black Fatigue reaching the highest court in the land on his bingo card for 2026?
No court should be drawing electoral maps.
No court should be drawing electoral maps
It’s clearly not within the constitutional purview of the courts, but that never stops them anyway.
All the way back to Marbury v. Madison, yet the “modern Court” can’t help but stick its dick where it doesn’t belong.
We need a revival of “He’s made his decision, now let him enforce it.”
The leap from “voting rights” to “winning rights” continues to amaze. Because that’s the only justification for minority-majority districts.
And worse than that – it’s not just “winning rights”, it’s winning right “for certain races”. And the courts required that for two generations.
SMOD, hear my prayer.
With a heaping helping of “minorities can only be represented by other minorities”.
Totally not insulting and racist.
It’s not about race, it’s about political parties.
The leap from voting is a privilege to it’s a right was much larger and set this stage.
Ending good discrimination is bad.
This whole “DoJ actually fighting against infringements” thing has me confused and anticipating a rug-pull. How did someone who’s primary concern was something other than self-advancement and institutional expansion make it there? I can’t believe it was deliberate on Don-Don’s part. I guess given enough bureaucrats one will eventually type out the complete works of Shakespeare or something.
I keep expecting it to be a set-up for a “concent decree” that undermines the rights of the majority in the end.
Almost like United States v. Miller you mean?
That really shouldn’t be binding precedent – Miller Died in the middle of the case, preventing resolution.
After getting stomped on here in VA, it’s hard not to cling to any shreds of optimism. That might be part of the plan.
Running through some quick statistics, Kennedy noted that over 16 percent of American adults takes antidepressants, 10 percent of children are on some form of prescription drug for a mental health issue, 30 percent of college students have used psychiatric medications in the past year, and over 50 percent of nursing home residents are on prescription antidepressant drugs.
Lemme guess:
Children — almost all boys put on Adderall for failure to sit still in class
College students — Basic College Girls on SSRIs for “anxiety”
Nursing home residents — anti-depressants for being old, lonely, and in a nursing home
Also re: college students – ADHD meds as study aids.
Antidepressants equal pressants?
Have you seen the inside of a nursing home?
Those places are downright grim.
It’s a retirement community!”
The college student number leaves open the possibility for recreational Adderall on a Friday/Saturday night the way it’s worded in the article.
To get my recent Aderrall scrip, I had to find a doc who was willing, then I had to pay $300 for the first appt and pay down $300 more for Appt #2 to appease Doc re: dosage.
All for her to afford her guild membership. And. Uh. Why can’t I just buy ’em from CVS? Ah, yes. That’s why. (People remain ‘shocked’ black markets exist!) People decrying ‘life is hard for poor people!’ won’t ever acknowledge their role in keeping it that way.
People decrying ‘life is hard for poor people!’ won’t ever acknowledge their role in keeping it that way.
What, you just want to let people make bad decisions for themselves? You’re one heartless monster, aren’t you?
They wanted to put my son on those when he started 1st grade because he was “hyper”.
I told them of course he’s hyper, he’s a 6 year old boy and refused.
Somehow, he made it through.
Have I mentioned I hate teachers?
They deserve it.
When I’m out on charge of our education system (never). Boys will be educated separately. Between every class or 2 will be gym, a short run, something to burn off energy.
His lawyers should have the same punishment.
Here is to hoping that it dosent take twenty years to fry him.
https://apnews.com/article/tanner-horner-fedex-driver-sentenced-athena-strand-5248131f1e4eb052afeaab3a8a49f62b
In Hollywood/entertainment gossip, supposedly the ratings for Disney have been obtained and as far as Star Wards is concerned, zero of the sequels are in the top ten most streamed and only one of the post-Disney takeover movis that does is Rogue One. Because of how the ratings are calculated, the series have a tremendous advantage over the movies since there are many more total minutes in a series, but even with that the top most-watched show is Andor.
I am staggered and chuffed. Apparently the home audience is not the same as the terminally online.
What would you expect the terminally online to watch?
The Acolyte.
Why?
Oh My Balls!
They seemed to be all a-squee about Baby Yoda.
Andor is awesome.
I really liked the first season. Mostly. The flashback victimhood stuff was cringe. And they needed to glue more model bits on the AKs.
I happened to come across viewership figures for some genre streaming effort I had never heard of – this thing limped along for something like four years on 100K or 200K viewers an episode.
Compared to, say, the Trek everyone loves to hate… Voyager was getting around 5MM every week.
Voyager is top half trek. The odd numbered original series movies are even considered good trek now.
I like Voyager. I haven’t watched anything after Enterprise and only some of that.
Oh, and the first of the “reimagined” movies – it stunk.
Star Trek V can not be rehabilitated.
Yeah. The first was merely soporific. V was actively offensive. But VI was fun.
Disney has so ruined the Star Wars franchise that I don’t even like to watch the originals anymore. Fuck Disney with a rusty spork.
“Put a chick in it, make her gay!”
Ditto here.
Although, Andor was great, and I genuinely liked Rogue One. It had its flaws (the fan-service ending with Darth Vader was fairly cringe), but it didn’t insult my intelligence or my taste.
Both Andor and Rogue One seemed like actual “stories set in the Star Wars universe.” The prequel movies and what little I saw of the rest seemed like “What if instead of [Star Wars Thing] being X, it was Y?”
I have lost all interest I might have had in any Star War product.
Just cannot bring myself to give even half of a shit.
I was excited to take my boys to see the new Star Wars when The Force Awakens came out.
Left the theater vowing never to give them any more of my money and held to that.
“You mean we were supposed to do something original?”
Interesting that you don’t want to give your boys any more of your money.
@Ted – They should be earning their own and paying the parental tax.
They are grownups now.
whaddup doh’
Heya Banjos- how YOU doin’?
I submit this purely for the headline: https://www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-union/articles/ckgpn3pdzr7o
Unquestionably obligatory!
As it should be.
LOL
“It’s a league rule: cups and supporters.”
Fuck Dr. Amy Acton. She killed more of my friends than COVID.
Gov Dr when the over the top salesman flops.
There’s the black pill we know and love!
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Equate-AM-PM-Weekly-Pill-Planner-7-5/475275789
The United States overtook Saudi Arabia to become the world’s largest exporter of crude oil over the past nine weeks, as Iran’s attacks on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz choked off Middle Eastern oil shipments.
If you bought XOM or CVX six months or a year ago, you’re sitting pretty.
American executives are reportedly nervous that if they expedite huge investments in production increases today, and the Strait of Hormuz crisis ends in the near future, they could lose money as Middle Eastern oil flows are restored and global oil prices plummet.
Small to medium producers will rush in to fill the gap if there’s money to be made. We’re talking about Texas after all.
I’m up massivly on oil stocks. I expect to ‘lose’ a big chunk of it in a couple months.
People who are dumb and don’t own oil stocks think it’s a good thing. Gas jumped 50 cents a gallon over the past few days here.
Ken Griffin may actually go Galt. I didn’t expect it.
Billionaire Ken Griffin on Tuesday amplified his criticism of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and suggested his investing firm Citadel would “double down” on Miami’s being the place for growth instead of Manhattan.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/ken-griffin-says-new-york-doesnt-welcome-success-under-mamdani-292f7c4d?st=vgiExN&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I was going to link to nearly the same thing.
Can I get a “Womp Womp” from the congregation?
One thing about Trump – you never know what way he is going to pander.
In a series of weekend calls while in Florida and conversations at the White House on Monday, Trump sought advice from his advisers about Makary and the importance of flavored vaping to young MAGA voters, the people said.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-pressures-fda-commissioner-to-approve-flavored-vapes-9dad81ee?st=H6cB8a&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I wouldn’t have called this.
I find it humorous that the word イヤフォン (iyafon) is a thing in Japanese.
ヘッドホン – hettohon as well.
“A pair of Gaza flotilla activists have garnered outrage for filming themselves in keffiyes dancing provocatively with exposed stomachs — while demanding Israel release an accused serial sex predator.
Viral video of the prancing women showed them aboard one of the ships this week near the Greek island of Crete, with Spanish-Korean activist Mi Hoa La wearing a Palestinian flag around her hips.
The flag then unfolds to reveal the words, “Free Saif” and “Free Thiago,” referencing Saif Abu Keshek and Thiago Ávila, who were arrested on suspicion of “illegal activity” when the Israeli Navy intercepted their flotilla last week…”
https://nypost.com/2026/05/05/world-news/gaza-flotilla-activists-provocative-dance-spurs-outrage/
Haram!
“Ungainly lapel pins that “capture the silhouette” of the Obama Presidential Center are going for $30 in the online store.
“The pin represents the intersection of bold design and global leadership,” the website reads, noting the proceeds go to the Obama Foundation “to inspire, empower and connect people to change their world.”
https://nypost.com/2026/05/05/us-news/obama-selling-ugly-merch-shaped-liked-his-death-star-presidential-center/
So money laundering?
“bold design” That’s a euphemistic way of putting it.
I’d call it 💩
Rule 34 Obama Center dildos will be available in adult toy stores in 10… 9… 8…
They will be for sale right next to the votive candles featuring the same image.
https://x.com/whitehouse/status/2051678505805496589
Note the concession calling them “immigrants”, not aliens. Just like Fox News when they’d try to gotcha Biden.
The proper term is Foreign Invaders.
“Targets are up!”
The nudge.
He who controls the language owns the argument.
Deport some criminal illegals and do Amnesty 2.0. It’s going to be the best amnesty ever. They tell me they’ve never seen a comprehensive amnesty like it. It’s really the greatest amnesty.
“The wife of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who is known for her alleged anti-Israeli views, randomly bumped into Miss Israel inside a cafe.
Rama Duwaji, 28, and beauty queen Melanie Shiraz, 27, had a brief encounter on Sunday in the city that Shiraz claimed was a short but tense meeting….
According to Shiraz, Duwaji was happy to pose for a selfie with her but her behavior changed when she found out that she was Israeli.
Shiraz continued: ‘Despite the setting being calm the moment she found out I was Israeli she refused to have a conversation with me.'”
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15792929/NYC-mayor-wife-Israel.html
Is jello wrestling kosher?
“Donald Trump is on the verge of securing a sweeping peace deal with Iran that would lift US sanctions, free billions in frozen assets and open a path to uranium enrichment, mirroring the Barack Obama pact he spent years trashing.”
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15794867/Trump-set-lift-US-sanctions-Iran-free-billions-stunning-proposed-peace-deal.html
WTF, Donald?
I doubt it. Every article on the subject ends up being wrong. How many times has a peace deal been rejected?
Yeah, if Donald goes Obama 2.0 on Iran and on immigration, then his second term will join the first as a failure.
Well, during my sister’s yearly breakdown, I got talked into starting ACME Observatory as a business. The metal prints from Bay Photo are phenomenal, so a family friend, my wife, and our son got me motivated. Filed with LegalZoom as a DBA, waiting for the papers from the state. We will start with local Farmer’s/ Artisan markets and move to online sales eventually as well.
In the mean time, I have reserved the domains of acmeobservatory.net,.com, and .org and need to get a blog/gallery site built and set up. /WebDom bat signal (for munnies)