Friday Morning Links

by | Jun 19, 2026 | Daily Links | 235 comments

It’s Juneteenth! Put away your rainbow stuff for a day and put on your black people stuff. Then go back to the rainbow stuff tomorrow or you’ll be called an intolerant bigot. I think those are the new MLB guidelines. But we’ll see at the games today. The WC is now into the second set of group plays games and I Gott tell you, some of these teams are not good. I’m looking at you, Qatar. Mexico snuck by South Korea. Czech Republic tied lowly South Africa. And the Swiss dismantled Bosnia. More on ap today, including the USA taking on the Socceroos. The Knicks had their parade, and the results were predictable: violence and retardation. And I think that’s pretty much it for sports. So I’m moving on.

Ooh, things are gonna get spicy across the pond now. If I had to put down a wager, I’d guess Starmer’s days are now numbered.

I wonder what the objective here is. I’d assume it’s to set up a series of appeals down the road. But I’m no legal scholar, so I’d just be guessing.

What an odd thing to say. If they knew the land was stolen, then why’d they build there instead of giving the land to the people it was stolen from?

If this is true, it’d be the least surprising revelation to come out all day. Basically what I’m saying is that I believe this is true without reservation.

Not sure what they can do to her. I guess they could take away her tickets, but I’m sure Mamdani will find a few in his sofa cushions to give her.

I wonder if this is a Wesley Snipes type deal. Sounds like he’s not a fan of paying taxes in general, but the California Franchise Tax Board isn’t exactly a beacon of integrity or efficiency, (those dumbasses were sending me tax notices for three years on “out of state income that’s taxable in CA” for money earned three years after I left the place and was a pain in the ass to get off my back,) so I’ll wait to see what happened before passing judgment.

::exaggerated jacking motion:: What a load of shit. Anyway, the article written by the they/them with a degree in grievance studies and an almost second one in journalism is worth a chuckle.

Of course she wants to scrap it. It’s an impediment to her letting current moods and emotions be the way to undo fundamental rights rather than using the amendment process. She doesn’t hate the test as much as she hates the constitution itself.

I don’t understand the logic of the FCC here. In fact, I’d go so far as to say this is an attempt to undermine the fundamental right to privacy and of free association.

It’s all getting so tiresome. July can’t get here soon enough.

Here’s some good stuff. At least to some of us. And by “us,” I mean the civilized ones here. Enjoy them both.

And enjoy this lovely Friday and weekend, dear friends.

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235 Comments

  1. Ted S.

    If this is true, it’d be the least surprising revelation to come out all day.

    They’ll all get 18 and life.

    • Nephilium

      The price is what’s shocking to me. I was expecting at least $5.

      • Fourscore

        At least now we can put a ball park cost of rigging an election.

      • Gender Traitor

        Less than downtown?

  2. AlexinCT

    Ooh, things are gonna get spicy across the pond now. If I had to put down a wager, I’d guess Starmer’s days are now numbered.

    Remember how we keep getting told by leftists that right wingers – like Trump – will not leave office? I am gonna bet that if that happens, someone not leaving office, it will be this asshat. He should have resigned already after that crushing defeat showing complete no confidence a few months back, and refused to.

    • Fourscore

      Are we still talking about Gov Walz?

      I hope he’s resigned about his future.

    • R C Dean

      Labour-on-Labour?

      Didn’t read the article; what’s the new guy going to do differently?

      • WTF

        He’s going to not be Starmer.
        That’s pretty much it, the policies will be the same.

      • sloopyinca

        He’s gonna try and poach some Restore policies and try to implement them as if his party hasn’t been violently opposed to them for the last decade.

        Not sure it’ll work, but at least Starmer will be gone and the new boss will pander a bit to the nationalists until they get trounced in the next election in a few years.

  3. AlexinCT

    I wonder what the objective here is. I’d assume it’s to set up a series of appeals down the road. But I’m no legal scholar, so I’d just be guessing.

    They don’t have to worry about the death penalty in NY, so I remain unsure if this buys them anything. Are they hoping to try and try again until they get a jury that will nullify?

    • UnCivilServant

      Unless you can get a mistrial declared, you only get one Jury. After that, it’s judges and legal quibbles.

    • rhywun

      No idea.

      I thought he was on camera stalking and assassinating the guy. The only choices would seem to be life in prison or life in a criminal hospital. Either way, throw out the key.

      • Not Adahn

        Hot people don’t deserve prison!

      • UnCivilServant

        They should be dipped in acid instead.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        If hot people don’t deserve prison, why was Caged Heat ever made?

    • Rat on a train

      I read somewhere that the defense isn’t available for the federal charges. The defense in the state trial admits to the crime which would hurt the federal case.

  4. Sensei

    I don’t understand the logic of the FCC here.

    It’s the desire to block spam phone calls. I support that, but not this approach to it.

    • Ted S.

      I assume there are also people at the FCC who don’t want you to have privacy.

    • Nephilium

      The spam calls aren’t coming from burners. They’re coming from fly-by-night SIP providers piggybacking on the main telcos. It’s beyond idiotic.

      • UnCivilServant

        The policy has nothing to do with spam, and everything to do with surveillence.

      • Sensei

        Something needs to be done. This is something, therefore it needs to be done.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        They* just hate privacy.

        *Yes, JI, They!

    • WTF

      I just want to know which article of the constitution gives a federal agency the power to ban anything.
      Other than “FYTW” of course.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        All joking aside, isn’t this something that SCOTUS weighed in on recently, with the 4th branch losing?

    • juris imprudent

      I don’t understand the logic of the FCC here.

      You are using the public airwaves citizen, therefore you have no RIGHT to anonymity!

      • WTF

        “Um, how are the airwaves ‘public property’?”
        “Because we simply declared it to be so!”

    • The Other Kevin

      We’re going back to the days of phone booths and black hoodies.

  5. UnCivilServant

    Question – How spicy (or not) are Fresno peppers? I bought produce and picked up a bag of them along with the other peppers I was getting for the five beast chili. I’m not sure how many I should chop up and add in.

    • Ted S.

      Shorter UCS: Nobody needs 23 kinds of Scoville unit.

      • UnCivilServant

        Stuff it.

        Literally, have some stuffed peppers.

      • UnCivilServant

        *or less to more than the jalepenos.

        Of course there’s no cehmical consistancy.

      • PutridMeat

        I would be careful, test them first. Check one out, often you’ll get roughly the same heat level from a batch you buy in bulk.

        Fresnos are, generally, slightly hotter than jalapenos. Depending on the particular batches of each, sometimes significantly so. I’ve never really run into the opposite as, at least in my experience, fresnos are more consistent in the heat level and jalapenos much more variable.

        Short, test one and extrapolate. You could be well on your way to making an unpleasant batch of chili depending on volume of said bag.

    • Fourscore

      Without even knowing what a Fresno pepper is, I’d say too spicy.

      I’d check with Threedoor first though

      • Sean

        I don’t understand you people.

      • UnCivilServant

        He’s a north midwesterner. They have no tolerance to spices.

      • DrOtto

        Lol – Minnesotans consider Ketchup ‘hot sauce’. We had German visitors a few years back and were told to be wary of them getting too much spice, and took them to Gus’s Fried Chicken, which is vaguely Popeyes level spicy. The Germans handled it fine. I took my sister, her husband and my neice, who live in St. Paul to Gus’s and none of them could handle ‘the heat’.

      • UnCivilServant

        Popeyes doesn’t use spices. I’m not convinced there’s even pepper in their batter.

    • PieInTheSky

      I cannot help. the fun part in Romania is you never have any idea how hot the peppers are until you taste them. People don’t usually sell specific varietals of peppers, they just sell generic chilly peppers which vary wildly.

      • UnCivilServant

        Well, Chilis are a new world plant, so it’s only natural we have more cultivars.

      • Sean

        I have multiple new (to me) varietals this year.

      • Sensei

        Russian roulette with peppers? I thought Romanians weren’t fond of most things Russian.

    • R C Dean

      Typically, Fresnos aren’t especially hot.

      Wear gloves (seriously) to get the seeds and the white pith out and they’ll be even less hot.

      • UnCivilServant

        Gloves are no problem 😉

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      Be especially carefully with Fresnos, you might get shot on the south side.

  6. PieInTheSky

    Ooh, things are gonna get spicy across the pond now. If I had to put down a wager, I’d guess Starmer’s days are now numbered.

    frying pan .. the fire

    • WTF

      Yeah, I have no confidence in the ability of the Brits to make better choices.

      • AlexinCT

        The Brits are in the process of being punished for their choices. The choice I am talking about is the Brexit choice. Their elites have hated them for doing that and hurting the elite’s plans..

    • juris imprudent

      Burnham’s acceptance speech left no doubt that he wants to lead the country, and not just be one of the more than 400 Labour lawmakers in the 650-seat House of Commons.

      So he’ll get to lead Labour when the next election is called and they get crushed, while Starmer glories in the vacuous victory of ’24.

      • PieInTheSky

        next election – an optimist I see

      • sloopyinca

        Or he gets enough people inside the party to call for a leadership vote and they’ll internally remove Starmer as PM.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        I think Sloopy is on the right track here; they are looking for something to save them down the road, and keeping Starmer any longer will not help.

    • rhywun

      “Everyone knows that politics isn’t working,” he said. “Everyone can feel that the country isn’t where it should be. Tonight could, just could, be the turning point.”

      The turning point to… the exact same policies that are currently flushing the nation down the toilet.

      With that level of vacuity, the guy is a shoo-in.

    • R.J.

      Absolutely. Starmer will not leave, he will be dragged out. Then it will be a “Meet the new boss, same as the old boss” situation. Labour is in the hands of WEF and will continue to push to rejoin the EU, continue to import a jillion illegal aliens, continue to marginalize actual citizens.

  7. PieInTheSky

    What an odd thing to say. If they knew the land was stolen, then why’d they build there instead of giving the land to the people it was stolen from?

    See not knowing this sort of things is why you never became President.

    • rhywun

      It’s almost like the “land acknowledgment” is performative theatrics that leftists use to tell each other how awesome they are.

      • AlexinCT

        It’s theatrics… Always theatrics..

        See that shitshow they had with that old hag Midler singing a cringy tune to “oppose” the WH UFC event… To them THAT cringe was resistance!!!

      • Gustave Lytton

        Not just theatre. It also delegitimizes current property ownership.

      • Gustave Lytton

        The local city has a sign up at the (taxpayer funded) farmers market that “This IS Kalapuya Land”.

  8. Sean

    Music choices.
    <==========

  9. R C Dean

    ::exaggerated jacking motion::

    You’re not kidding.

    “Their freelance writing” “

    “They were an intern”

    • WTF

      Definitely brought to mind the Billy Madison quote:
      “What you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it.”

    • Nephilium

      I’m pretty sure that communists, socialists, Marxists, and whatever term they chose next have cost us a hell of a lot more.

    • rhywun

      In other words, environmental taxes targeted at this group could help pay for the large-scale transitions needed to keep our societies safe from environmental collapse, and improve the lives of lower-income households in the process.

      They really have scienced the fuck out of this problem, haven’t they. Why not just cut out the poors (who won’t see a dime of it) and light the “environmental taxes” on fire? It would save everybody a lot of time.

      • The Other Kevin

        Once again with the word “could”. “We could provide health care to everyone! We could give everyone a living wage! We could end climate change!” But we all know throwing more money into the gaping maw of government isn’t going to fix jack shit.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Especially when they take the golden goose out back, rape it, and then murder it.

        Seriously, how many jobs does Musk, not to mention the other ten, provide? And how many jobs do those jobs provide? And so on down the line.

      • rhywun

        Working is so degrading. Better to just pay people to sit around and play Xbox.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      Anything to keep the grift cash religion going.

  10. PieInTheSky

    ::exaggerated jacking motion:: What a load of shit. Anyway, the article written by the they/them with a degree in grievance studies and an almost second one in journalism is worth a chuckle.

    The second SpaceX IPOed I lost half my network. Horrible. The rich need to pay.

    That being said I have a feeling that globally I might just be top 10% or close. Better crank up the AC just in case.

    • WTF

      Of course nations don’t have friends, they sometimes have mutual interests.

  11. Not Adahn

    Microreview of Ugly Rooster’s “Yummy Cake.”

    While French Toast often takes advantage of differences in both matrices and batter, such technology rarely gets applied to pancakes, which typically only get differentiated by toppings or solid additions.

    The Yummy Cake is different. It has so freaking much sugar in the batter that it forms a crispy outer layer from the griddle.

    Get one. For the table. To share while drinking coffee. Or for yourself if you love Apple Jacks cereal.

      • Not Adahn

        The sacrifices I make for you people.

        It is a good cinnamony substitute for coffee cake.

    • Sean

      Diabetes isn’t contagious, right?

      • AlexinCT

        I heard you can get it from sharing a toilet..

    • Not Adahn

      I didn’t bother reviewing my main breakfast because there was no need. Corned beef hash with piached eggs and hollandaise is exactly what you’d think.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      KILL IT!! KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!!

  12. PieInTheSky

    Your public transport is extremely primitive. If I get my US visa I might need to man up and rent a car.

    • AlexinCT

      It’s a lot different than driving a horse or cart, Pie….

      Did you have night driving schools in Romania? Asking so I can avoid asking if vampires can learn to drive..

    • Sean

      Do it right and get a big American muscle car.

      • Not Adahn

        One of the Euros was trying to discover why Alabamians all drive Challengers.

      • PieInTheSky

        I am aiming for a Toyota Yaris if that counts

      • Sensei

        Pie will discover the “joy” of being the smallest car on the road.

        Bonus will be when he returns to the car in the parking lot with a Suburban on one side and an F150 on the other.

      • UnCivilServant

        He could go one step further – if they rent Smart Cars.

    • PieInTheSky

      I could get to buffalo by bus easy enough but from then on… Oh well… I hate driving outside of my own country.

    • PieInTheSky

      How much is an Uber from Buffalo to glibs gulch?

      • PieInTheSky

        $120.95 each way the online estimate says… bit much… then again a car for 3 4 days plus gas can be about the same…

      • Nephilium

        The odds of getting a rideshare in the Gulch are… minimal. Guilt OMWC to chauffeur you around, and make him wear the suit and hat.

      • PieInTheSky

        I would have thought university town is lively… though I guess summer holidays in July.

      • UnCivilServant

        lively for a narcoleptic sloth.

      • R C Dean

        A rental car for 3-4 days is going to be a lot more than that.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      The FAA doesn’t really put too many limitations on bat flights, Pie. So, I think you are good.

  13. rhywun

    predictable: violence

    You sure about that? I saw some chicks pulling hair and twerking which might account for the retardation but not all that violent.

    • WTF

      There were assaults and arrests. One guy got his neck slashed with a broken bottle, among other incidents.

      • sloopyinca

        The gunfire in Times Square was off the parade route, so I may have exaggerated.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Apparently, after my son’s wedding, those might now be family doing the mag dumps.

        So, I got that going for me, which is nice.

  14. AlexinCT

    What an odd thing to say. If they knew the land was stolen, then why’d they build there instead of giving the land to the people it was stolen from?

    Commies are not doing this sort of performance theatre because they want to redress any thing they claim is a wrong. No. The objective is to remove from those that would oppose the real commie agenda the will and legitimacy to tell the commie to fuck off.

    • Fourscore

      Southside of Chicago is LeRoy Brown territory.

      You don’t mess around with LeRoy

      • EvilSheldon

        You come at the king, you best not miss…

  15. Common Tater

    “What a load of shit. Anyway, the article written by the they/them with a degree in grievance studies and an almost second one in journalism is worth a chuckle.”

    How did it get past an editor?

  16. Sensei

    In Japan? No fucking way…

    Videos of suspected upskirters being chased through Japan’s streets are a daily sight on social media. But police data shows a troubling shift—a growing number of those accused are children themselves. CNN’s Hanako Montgomery and her team spent months investigating why more minors are committing this crime and spoke to a minor who filmed about 30 girls before being caught.

    TW shitty vertical video.

    https://www.modernghana.com/amp/videonews/668580

  17. rhywun

    I’m sure Mamdani will find a few in his sofa cushions to give her

    FFS is there nobody of that political persuasion who isn’t a crooked piece of shit?

  18. Gender Traitor

    Looks as if the electric company is coming around to trim branches away from the power lines, so I guess I’ll go in to change from my pajamas into daytime clothes for hanging out here at Tranq Base. And probably get driven inside when it gets too noisy. 😕

    • R C Dean

      The witness who asked to remain anonymous due to fear of retaliation said she hopes Reyna eventually feels comfortable returning.

      “I would just tell her that she’s safe now and she can come back,” the witness said.

      Which is it?

    • Sensei

      That was given the moment Bibi determined the U.S. would neither stop funding it or sending it weapons.

      • R C Dean

        Well, the “US is still in the region” means the mullahs never intended to sign, not matter what the Jews did.

      • R.J.

        I just bet “within the week.”

    • R.J.

      *Puts shocked face back on
      Who could have seen that coming?

    • WTF

      Destroy their electrical grid. They can’t do shit with no power.

  19. Sean

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  20. Sensei

    It reads like English, but I understand none of it.

    A senior European Commission official said cases where the absence of a family member providing care ⁠would force the elderly beneficiary of the Withdrawal Agreement to leave the host state were evaluated on merit. Otherwise, general migration rules applied.

    Northover’s sister’s application for a family ​reunification visa was rejected.

    That left Northover and his partner with no choice but to sell their house to raise the funds for a so-called “non-lucrative” visa — which bars them from ​working — and become full-time carers.

    https://www.reuters.com/world/spain-elderly-uk-expats-struggle-care-post-brexit-2026-06-19/

    • UnCivilServant

      Sounds like their selfish elders retired to a foreign country and have imposed upon their offspring the hardship of travelling to a foreign country to provide care rather than staying near their support network in a way which would allow their younger relations to live their own lives instead of abandoning everything out of filial piety and guilt.

      • Sensei

        I never felt compelled to figure out exactly what happened to all the UK pensioners after Brexit.

        Are they Spanish or Portuguese citizens? If not what duty do those countries have to them if they live there.

        Maybe mom and dad should have fucking planned.

  21. PieInTheSky

    WATCH: Andy Burnham outlines his vision for Britain during his Makerfield victory rally:

    – End “trickle-down” economics
    – End the “unfair” immigration system
    – Push reindustrialisation
    – Public procurement to use British business
    – Work placements for all 16–18-year-olds

    https://x.com/PolitlcsUK/status/2067914011442597952

    Is “Trickle-Down Economics” in the room with us?

    Yes more taxes and more migrants on welfare. that’ll fix Merry Olde

    • UnCivilServant

      It’s unfair that it doesn’t punish illegal entry with death, and lets foreigners in while there are locals unemployed.

  22. PieInTheSky

    The story of the Fat Man of Maldon and the seven hundred men that fit into his coat.

    Edward Bright (1721–1750) was a grocer in Maldon, Essex, England was said to be the “fattest man in England”.

    He weighed 47.5 stone (665 lb or 302 kg).

    https://x.com/DanDavisWrites/status/1493342518984986633

  23. Evan from Evansville

    Enjoy it if ya’ve got it, “Juneteenth” begins and nothing at work or in life will be different. At least this week, I’ve been the only person in Receiving between 10-11, so a nice casual start to days. This is my third and final day this week, averaging 11.5 miles of walking each day, and much not-so-big but much lifting.

    I need to use this weekend to further ‘meaningful’ applications, getting no replies so far from my last batch. Seriously considering Derp’s suggestion of getting a medical show/etc interested in me. No, I’m not (too) distracted by that glimmer, but it seems worth the shot, which I’ve no idea how to take. Seems foolish to sit on an opportunity ‘gifted’ to me. Not banking on it, but it continues to make me think.

    Britain’s fucked. Utterly, utterly fucked. I wonder how many there realize it. Or how many do, and don’t care, cuz they (think they’ll) be dead before anything really big & bad happens. Onward ho, glibbies.

  24. Common Tater

    “A Georgia science teacher accused of molesting six teenagers had an OnlyFans account — and students who knew about it allegedly blackmailed her for better grades, according to new court documents….

    Nichols was allegedly recorded in a video having sex with a student while wearing a “Jesus Loves You” sweater….

    Nichols was initially arrested after she was accused of having sexual contact with a student in a classroom closet and a parked Hummer.

    Two weeks later, she was re-arrested and faced 11 additional charges, including child molestation, evidence tampering, and grooming involving five other students….

    Nichols was a graduate of Liberty University, a private evangelical Christian institution that maintained a strict policy prohibiting sexual activity outside of marriage.”

    https://nypost.com/2026/06/18/us-news/georgia-teacher-accused-of-sex-with-6-students-had-onlyfans-account-was-recorded-in-jesus-loves-you-sweater-cops/

    It doesn’t say if she’s married.

    • EvilSheldon

      Apparently Georgia makes it a felony for a teacher to have any sexual contact with a student, regardless of their ages, even for a period after the student graduates (which is retarded.)

      I don’t see anything about how the students are being charged with blackmail, which I seem to recall is also a crime.

      Nichols was allegedly recorded in a video having sex with a student while wearing a “Jesus Loves You” sweater….

      Was the student named Jesus?

    • Sensei

      Nichols was initially arrested after she was accused of having sexual contact with a student in a classroom closet and a parked Hummer.

      Is parked Hummer different from an ordinary Hummer? Asking for a friend.

      • Common Tater

        A moving Hummer requires a third person?

      • Gender Traitor

        a third person

        Where’s the challenge in that?

  25. PieInTheSky

    planefag
    @planefag
    a man should be able to run a double-barreled break-open, a .38 revolver with speed-loaders, a 1911, and a wondernine with a red dot sight

    specialization is for NYC cops that can’t hit a flock of barns if he was standing inside the middle barn

    https://x.com/planefag/status/2067790650154549633

    • EvilSheldon

      While it’s okay to have preferences…yes.

  26. Common Tater

    “An Iranian music sensation and an eight-person production team were reportedly sentenced to 74 brutal lashings for the singer’s viral patriotic tune which she performed without a hijab.

    Parastoo Ahmadi, 29, and other artists were slapped with the savage flogging by the criminal court of Qom province over a livestream performance from December 2024, according to court documents reviewed by the Guardian….

    In addition to the gruesome lashes, Iranian authorities sentenced Ahmadi and the crew to a two-year ban on leaving the country and a two-year ban on engaging in artistic activities.”

    https://nypost.com/2026/06/18/world-news/iranian-star-slapped-with-barbaric-lashing-for-belting-out-patriotic-song-without-a-hijab-on/

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/18/iran-parastoo-ahmadi-74-lashes-singing-without-hijab

    ZWABOA

    • EvilSheldon

      Zoroaster, What A Bunch Of Assholes?

      • Ted S.

        Zwak,what a bunch of assholes.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        HEY, I resemble that comment!

      • Ted S.

        You’re a god like Zoroaster, or you’re an asshole?

    • rhywun

      “74 lashes” sounds like a death sentence. How could anyone survive that?

      • The Other Kevin

        Especially since they’re “brutal” and not the normal kind.

    • The Other Kevin

      This can’t be right, I have seen many times on social media women in Iran riding around on scooters wearing whatever they wanted, as proof that the US is more oppressive. Next you’ll tell me those were AI generated videos.

    • AlexinCT

      I saw him in a bunch of movies…
      Oh wait… never mind..

      • Gustave Lytton

        Ahoy, Skippers!

        They used to trim and bread seafood at each location. Now it’s premade frozen food and most locations closed long ago.

    • creech

      Ah, for ten bucks the four of us would eat “well” once a month at the Quakertown LJS.

    • R.J.

      That brings back memories. I had a friend who worked there in high school, right about that time.

    • The Other Kevin

      That is only a proper meal if you’re wearing a paper pirate hat.

    • Sean

      Now I want hush puppies.

      • kinnath

        me too

  27. PieInTheSky

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    The ranch has seen substantial recent investment, including 16.5 miles of new fence, a new 40′ x 60′ heated shop, upgraded irrigation wells and pivot packages, and major updates to the main residence.

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    Mule deer, antelope, whitetail deer, turkeys, waterfowl, and upland birds. The North Platte River offers brown trout, rainbow trout, walleye, and channel catfish.

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    Main home: 2,500± sq ft, 4 bed / 2.5 bath (recently updated)
    Second home: 3 bed / 2 bath, built 2020
    Morton barn with calving setup, working corrals, new heated shop

    LOCATION

    Guernsey, WY – 5 miles
    Wheatland / Torrington, WY – 30 miles
    Cheyenne, WY – 102 miles
    Denver, CO – 201 miles

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiXoHTKa_TQ

    $9,750,000

  28. Common Tater

    “While LGBTQ+ advocates are pushing for the 1988 ordinance to be reversed, the first openly gay member of the Minneapolis City Council, Brian Coyle, helped pass the law, the Minnesota Star Tribune reported…

    Coyle was diagnosed with HIV in 1986 but did not publicly acknowledge it until 1991, the same year that he died of AIDS-related complications at age 47, the Tribune reported.

    Council Member Jason Chavez, the only out LGBTQ+ member of the council, pushed back on the idea that overturning the ban would be disrespecting Coyle’s legacy.

    “I have deep respect for Brian Coyle, and I know when he did this vote it was because of an epidemic that was impacting my community. But, at the same time, there were folks who supported the efforts to ban this because of homophobia. Because they did not believe in the existence of LGBTQ+ people, and that can not be removed from history,” Chavez said.”

    https://nypost.com/2026/06/19/us-news/minneapolis-city-council-hears-arguments-for-lgbtq-bathhouses/

    Aren’t they just G bathhouses?

    • rhywun

      Why not legalize whorehouses while they’re at it.

      “That’s different!”

      • EvilSheldon

        I mean, it is different? Gay bathhouses provide a place to fuck, but they don’t procure the body. Really no different than hosting a sex party at one’s home, and I think most of us agree that that should be legal even if we find it distasteful.

        Of course, I have no real moral objection to explicit whorehouses either, so maybe my morality ain’t the star to steer by…

      • rhywun

        They are similar enough. I am just sensing that a straight version of same would never be approved.

      • EvilSheldon

        True, true, but a straight bathhouse would also be a conceptual non-starter because women don’t generally pay for sex, gay or straight – so I imagine paying for access to a place to have sex would be similarly untenable.

  29. Pope Jimbo

    The Special Olympics opened its giant extravaganza today here in ICE City.

    The locals are hoping the Olymptards bring more money than the Antifards.

    Three thousand athletes, 1,500 coaches, and more than 10,000 volunteers will participate in the games, which start June 20th in the Twin Cities.
     
    Organizers say the games could have a $70 million economic impact on the metro.
     
    It’s a welcome change from January and February, when the Minneapolis Downtown Council says hotel occupancies were down, up to 50%.
     
    “We’re going to have more people staying in our downtown hotels, more people having lunches and dinners going out,” notes council CEO Adam Duininck. “Hopefully that continues to grow because the first part of the year was a real struggle for a lot of businesses downtown.”
     
    A report by the City of Minneapolis says the economic damage from the ICE surge totaled nearly $700 million between December 2025 and April of this year.
     
    The report also said businesses lost $445 million in revenue and workers lost $152 million in wages.
     
    But the downtown council says the city is rebounding, with some hotels reaching up to 70% capacity.
     
    “It’s completely different,” Duininck says. “It’s night and day in terms of workforce reliability and the impacts to businesses with them having to navigate what they’re doing every day and week.”

      • Fourscore

        37 bucks for a hat? I’m waiting for a cheap Chinese knockoff

      • Pope Jimbo

        Fourscore:

        To be fair, the target market for that hat has self-identified as a retard. You’d be a retard as well if you didn’t skin them from their very last dime.

    • Pope Jimbo

      One of the Altar Boys is over at the Special Olympics today volunteering.

      He chose to get up early to help get the Olympians off the buses and to their events. It was either 4 hours of that or sitting at some table at an event for 8 hours.

      He really wanted to help the Olympians get back onto the buses and to their hotels because that was in the afternoon and he could have slept in. Unfortunately those volunteer slots had already been filled.

      I told him that it wasn’t surprising that loading the buses was more popular. After all re-tarding the buses sounds better than de-tarding them.

      • UnCivilServant

        I was going to crack a joke about him helping his teammates – then I remembered his mother probably offset some of your contribution.

      • Pope Jimbo

        So far, it seems like a class act.

        I hope everything works out for them. Today looks like crap weather, but the weekend looks perfect.

      • Gender Traitor

        Are the venues for the national event chosen based on the cities with the largest number of local participants?

      • Fourscore

        At least they waited ’til after high school graduation, narrow the field down a little.

      • Chipping Pioneer

        @GT

        It was so Tim Walz could be the Grand Marshall.

    • rhywun

      “the economic damage from the ICE surge totaled nearly $700 million”

      …and was actually the result of organized leftist “Resistance” you lying hacks.

    • WTF

      the economic damage from the ICE surge

      They just can’t help themselves, can they? The economic damage wasn’t from the ICE surge, it was from the obstruction and rioting, encouraged and enabled by the local politicians.

  30. Common Tater

    “Olivia Rodrigo revealed some of her fans have taken desperate measures to stay in their front row seats throughout her concerts.

    The 23-year-old pop act dropped the bombshell while promoting her new album You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love on KISS FM UK.

    ‘I have been to certain concerts and certain festivals where people wear diapers so that they can be front row of the show,’ she said.

    ‘And that’s been an experience as a performer that I have smelled,’ Rodrigo continued, to flabbergasted reactions from her hosts.”

    https://www.dailymail.com/tvshowbiz/article-15912837/olivia-rodrigo-reveals-disgusting-thing-fans-row-concerts-smell.html

    WTF?

  31. UnCivilServant

    I was reminded of a gripe from yesterday afternoon.

    At one point in my route there is an uncontrolled* left turn across two oncoming lanes. I was getting quite angry at the people in the oncoming lane closer to the left turn lane. There was a good amount of traffic, and these assholes were stopping, blocking a whole line of cars, along with blocking our view of the other lane of traffic, and trying to wave people into the deathtrap where they would be hit by the blind lane.

    Stop trying to get people killed and just drive on. We will wait for a gap in the traffic.

    *no stop sign or light for the people turning

    • Gender Traitor

      I once narrowly missed an accident – braking and swerving were involved – because of some idiot doing that.

    • EvilSheldon

      That’s one of the driving habits I truly hate, right up there with stopping in the merge lane.

  32. Pope Jimbo

    It is nice to see that some people here in Minneapolis haven’t lost their way over this heavy handed crackdown on fraud.

    The Minneapolis School board isn’t going to let increased scrutiny on the spending of tax dollar stop them from flushing $105M on a new school.

    Some weak sissies might look at the fact that their school population is plummeting and back off on tearing down an old school so they can build a new one there just for Native American kids. Not the brave members of the school board though.

    A Minneapolis school board member urged her colleagues and constituents to stop “looking at things through the lens of what we know as very white-centered, Eurocentric education” during a recent school board meeting.
     
    Director Lori Norvell’s comments came during a June 9 discussion of a resolution related to building a new facility for the district’s Anishinabe Academy.
     
    Norvell said she’s received a lot of feedback from constituents on the proposed project, which has drawn security because of its $105 million price tag.
     
    “I know that there have also been some concerns around enrollment and I would challenge us all to try to look at this, and I know it’s going to be hard because we are so used to looking at things through the lens of what we know as very white-centered, Eurocentric education. We go to school when the bell rings, we have this many kids in a class with this many teachers, we have this ratio, we do all of these things, right?” Norvell commented.

     

    She then said “we need to be open to thinking about it in a different way because I know when I’m thinking about it, that’s how, that’s what I know, that’s my experience is through that Eurocentric or white lens and so I would challenge us to deconstruct our ideas on that, deconstruct the things that we’re comfortable with and really think about what is best for our Native American students and their families.”

    • Pope Jimbo

      Uffda. Sorry about the bad em tag closure.

      I hadn’t even heard of this new Anishinabe Academy project, so I decided to look for more on it. I found this story from those evil conservative nazis at the American Experiment.

      I’m still not 100% sure how building a school just for one race of students is kosher, but I’m sure the school board has researched this and isn’t just wasting millions on a study that has no hope of being implemented.

      During a recent board meeting, the facility planning, design, and construction team, headed by senior operations officer Tom Parent, argued that a totally new, “non-colonial” building was the best choice for Anishinabe Academy. Parent noted “There are very few [district-owned buildings] that even meet the baseline criteria for what Ashinabe Academy believes is necessary to be successful and to match the vision.” Seemingly drawing from prepared remarks, team member Sam Olbekson, member of the White Earth Nation of Ojibwe and architect with Full Circle Indigenous Planning + Design, additionally noted that an expansion to the existing Cooper School is “not recommended by the community due to its expression, that connection to trauma, that connection to history.” One comment by a teacher, in response to the question, “What would make this place feel safe?” was highlighted by the team: “If it didn’t look like a school, as school is a source of trauma for our community.”
       
      Olbekson painted a lovely vision for the building, bordered by the Mississippi River that would act as “teacher” and surrounded by the smell of cedar, saying, “The new Anishinabe Academy is imagined as a living village, a place alive with the rhythms of land and seasons of growth and rest. It is a place to learn, to make, to heal, to gather.”

      My emphasis.

      It also seems like they plan to have both Dakota and Ojibwe students. That seems like a great way to ensure daily fights in the school. Growing up next to White Earth (the big Ojibwe rez), it was clear that the only people the Ojibwe hated more than the White Eyes, was the Dakota. The feeling was mutal.

      • Chipping Pioneer

        There are lots of criteria, but no apparent constraints.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Another story about our local Natives: Dog park to close because it is on “sacred land”.

      A fight over prayer, sacred land, and man’s best friend is brewing along the banks of the Mississippi River.
       
      The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board is preparing to close the Minnehaha Off-Leash Dog Park after 34 years, arguing the site is too spiritually significant to Native Americans to continue allowing dogs to roam free.
       
      Users describe the site as Minneapolis’ most beloved dog park — a canine paradise featuring a stretch of riverfront where dogs can sprint through the woods, splash into the Mississippi and roam off leash across nearly six acres of bluffs, beaches and floodplain.
       
      But supporters of the closure say the area is part of the Mni Owe Sni, or Coldwater Spring, landscape — a place of spiritual significance to the Dakota who believe the land contains unmarked Dakota graves and burial sites connected to the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862.
       
      Mni Owe Sni was designated a Traditional Cultural Place and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2023.

      • Pope Jimbo

        I’d like to mock the Natives, but they have INDIGENOUS SCIENCE on their side!

        Among those who testified was Juanita Espinosa, a Dakota-Ojibwe community organizer and member of the Park Board’s Native American Advisory Council.
         
        Espinosa described Mni Owe Sni as more than a historic site, calling it a “sacred site” where spirits of the dead gather and prayers from the living are heard.
         
        “When we have a sacred site … that means we have spirits there. That means we’ve protected it so that we have a place for them to gather … like an energy field,” she said. “We can step into that space and we can know that they’ll hear us and take our prayers,” she said.
         
        However, Espinosa told commissioners that dogs can interfere with that spiritual connection.
         
        She claimed that if a dog is near someone who is praying, the animal can absorb the energy of those prayers instead of allowing it to reach the intended recipient.
         
        “They in essence get that good energy, and that energy is supposed to go out to the person that made those prayers for,” Espinosa said. “If someone sees a dog there, they’re not gonna make their prayer there as a Native person.”
         
        She concluded by describing dogs as “tattle-tales,” though she did not elaborate on how they would communicate the information they allegedly receive.

      • UnCivilServant

        Everyone who supports the closure should be scalped, and staked out in the sun.

      • rhywun

        What a grift.

        I wish I could just point at a piece of land and demand to take it.

      • Chipping Pioneer

        a place of spiritual significance to the Dakota who believe the land contains unmarked Dakota graves and burial sites connected to the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862

        Can’t wait to see the evidence of this.

        *in Canada, the government wants to make it illegal to say the above

      • Gender Traitor

        the land contains unmarked Dakota graves and burial sites

        So, ground penetrating radar should be able to at least show whether anyone is buried there, right?

      • Nephilium

        GT:

        I think we’re supposed to move the headstones, build a pool there, and start a development there now.

      • rhywun

        What could possibly go wrong.

      • rhywun

        Indigenous vegetation! *swoon*

      • UnCivilServant

        Indigenous vegetation!

        We call those ‘weeds’.

    • rhywun

      The word “lens” here is a sure sign that a pile of woke gibberish is coming.

  33. Common Tater

    “Two of the first round of matches at the World Cup were played at a level of severe heat that a football players’ union has previously said should trigger the delay or postponement of games, a Guardian analysis has found….

    These games, despite being evening kick offs, were played amid wet-bulb temperatures of 28C (82F) or above, according to temperature and humidity data for the place and time of the games…

    Wet-bulb temperatures are a measure of heat stress that combines air temperature, humidity and cloud cover to determine how well a human body can cool itself through sweating. Beyond a certain level of heat and humidity, sweat is unable to evaporate properly, leading to swift overheating that can result in illness or even death.”

    https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/jun/19/world-cup-matches-severe-heat-level-analysis

    Oh no, anyway…

    • EvilSheldon

      Soccer isn’t doing much to counter my impression that it’s intended for wimps. Nor is the Guardian.

  34. PieInTheSky

    I dont understand why zuchinni is still a thing. Horrible stuff. Unedible.

    • Pope Jimbo

      I’d tell you to bite your tongue, but given your unique orthodonture I fear that would lead to injuries far beyond what I intended.

      We just had healthy zoodles last night and they were great.

      The only problem with zucchini is that it is hard to not end up with more of it than you know what to do with. Every fall the offices around hear are filled with zucchini (and rhubarb) that have overwhelmed urban gardeners and they are desperate to get rid of it.

    • Gender Traitor

      Don’t know if I’ll be able to see you if you make it to the States this summer, but if I can, I’ll bring my wonderful, moist zucchini brownies! 😋👍 (Note: the zucchini will have been peeled, seeded, and grated.)

      • Common Tater

        So you remove the stems and seeds 😉

    • PieInTheSky

      The only edible form i ever had was my grandma made sort of patties of grated zuchini mixed with grated cheese breaded and fried.

      • Chipping Pioneer

        Also has eggplant, which is worse than zucchini.

      • PieInTheSky

        I love eggplant

      • Common Tater

        Are Romanian eggplant like Italian eggplant or Asian eggplant?

      • UnCivilServant

        doesn’t matter – no eggplant is food.

      • PieInTheSky

        Like aubergines. Which i assume is like eyetalian

      • PieInTheSky

        Fun fact. If you translate the romanian word for tomatos you get reds. If you translate eggplants you get purples.

      • UnCivilServant

        So, what do you call green tomatos? have you ever had fried green tomatos?

      • PieInTheSky

        what do you call green tomatos – green reds if unpickled. Gogonele if pickeled.

        Never had em fried.

    • Common Tater

      I brown up zuchinni and onions with oregano. It’s good.

  35. Common Tater

    “Even before the news breaks, Siebel Newsom’s verdict on Trump is withering. “I feel sorry for our country right now because when the father figure, the leader, the president is such a broken, damaging, harmful role model, everyone’s being traumatised,” she says, more in sorrow than in anger. “Everyone’s mental health is not what it could be – should be.””

    https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/jun/19/jennifer-siebel-newsom-documentary-miss-representation-rise-up

    LOLOL

    • UnCivilServant

      Look, I don’t want to be exposed to too much stupid in a single day.

      Any moreon who views the president as a ‘father figure’ needs to be buried alive, for their own good.

    • EvilSheldon

      Holy fucknutz, that chick is out of her gourd.

      If you view *ANY* politician as a father figure, you need to be heavily tranquilized and locked away from any potential excitement.

      I would maybe make an exception for those poor souls unlucky enough to have an actual politician for a father.

      • Common Tater

        Trump’s kids seem to be doing very well.

  36. Fourscore

    Many years ago, in Mpls, a neighbor was fostering (for whatever reason he needed fostering) a Native American boy, in my junior high school class. Two of us plus Bob became good friends, since we all lived a couple houses apart. AFAIK Bob was treated in school exactly the same as Leo and I. Bob went on to Roosevelt High School, became an all city basketball ball star. Don’t know what happened to him after that.

    He seemed to do as well in school as any other kids plus he carried a little more baggage.

    • Pope Jimbo

      We had lots of Native kids in our class. Sadly a ton of them dropped out when they turned 16 and were no longer required by law to go to school anymore.

      They’d drop out because they didn’t think they needed a high school degree to live on the rez. Besides the govt check they got, they padded their larder by hunting, fishing and ricing.

      They’d never be rich, but they were never starving either. And all their buddies were in the same canoe, so things seemed fine.

      Problems were always caused by alcohol (and later meth).

      • Fourscore

        And kept the Ford Dealer in business selling F-150s.

        A couple casinos near by that don’t hurt either.

      • UnCivilServant

        I always wanted to do better than my parents and peers. I have a hard time getting into the mindset of “meh, good enough”

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