Wednesday Afternoon Links

by | Jun 17, 2026 | Daily Links | 40 comments

CONVICTION UPHELD FOR FORMER WISCONSIN JUDGE HANNAH DUGAN: But she’s still free and the article doesn’t mention a date for her sentencing. Dugan was found guilty of obstruction charges in December. She faces up to five years in prison for obstruction, the more serious of the charges, though first-time offenders rarely receive the harshest punishment. Except Dugan wasn’t just some random AWFL; she was a judge and should have known better. She should receive the maximum penalty.

DAR VOTING ON WHETHER TO CONTINUE TRANS MEMBERSHIP: Daughters of the American Revolution, an organization not known for its progressive policies, apparently allows trans members. Some members are not happy about that, and a vote on the definition of a woman is planned.

BUT IT WASN’T REAL SOCIALISM, PART THE ZILLIONTH: You know the horrors of socialism. I know the horrors of socialism. This guy sure as fuck knows the horrors of socialism. But will the left ever listen? No. In fact, I can just hear some leftist comparing the deportations described in this article to ICE raids.

MIDWIT COMMIE SIMP SHARES MASTURBATORY FANTASIES ABOUT JAILING BILLIONAIRES:Whereas the American political system has allowed billionaires to bend the government to their will, China has done just the opposite. There, it’s the government that tells billionaires how they may and may not behave. And who is this Alex Skopic who is so wise, you ask? Here’s his CV: Part 1, Part 2. (Thanks to Sloopy for the research.)

SNIP, SNIP — TRUMP FURTHER SLICES AND DICES US DEPT OF EDUCATION: Two functions transferred to other agencies.

MOMMA’S BOY: The latest embarrassing moment for Texas candidate James Tallarico — the 37-yo shares a checking account with his mom; it’s his only checking account. *cough* Slacker Austin trustafarian. *cough*

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40 Comments

  1. DEG

    The Department of Justice will take on enforcement of civil rights in education, while the Department of Health and Human Services will oversee special education, administration officials announced.

    Oh goodie. Continued Federal involvement in education especially a continuation of the special ed gravy train.

    • Tonio

      It appears that the $144M grant may be congressionally mandated. Not sure whether the transferred functions are explicitly required by law. But there’s something to be said for inconveniencing the bureaucrats as an end unto itself, and perhaps positions will be eliminated.

      Maddeningly, the official USDoEd announcement uses commie-speak — “$144 million investment by the Trump Administration to help states expand proven interventions that support students with disabilities.” It’s not an investment, it’s an expenditure.

      • DEG

        It appears that the $144M grant may be congressionally mandated.

        Trump signed that bill.

        And when Trump and McMahon go to bat for legislation to end these programs and the DoE (say like during the Big Beautiful Bill) I’ll believe Trump is serious about ending them. Until then, it’s deck chair shuffling and I’m unimpressed with it.

    • kinnath

      DOE is one of the worst fucking departments in the government.

      Moving these functions out of “education” and into “justice” and “health services” actually seems rational to me. And, at this point, neither of the two departments are as intently woke as DOE (or at least Trump is putting pressure on them to be less woke).

      I think moving these functions out of DOE helps make it easier to kill the DOE in the end.

  2. Sean

    the 37-yo shares a checking account with his mom; it’s his only checking account.

    Gay.

    • WTF

      You’d think the campaign managers would clean this up beforehand, but I guess it doesn’t matter since most people will vote for a bag of rocks if it has the right letter after its name.

      • JaimeRoberto feckful & gruntled

        They probably see nothing wrong with it.

    • UnCivilServant

      By the time I was 37, the only account I shared with my mother was a phone plan – she was an additional line on my plan, I was footing the bill. (I was paying for myself regardless and it wasn’t much to have another number on it)

    • trshmnstr

      I guess that rotting fetid umbilical is still attached. I can’t imagine being financially blended with my mom at my current age of 37. We havent had any input into one another’s financial lives since I was 15 and got my first job.

    • rhywun

      It’s looking that way.

      Apparently he has a “girlfriend”… I wonder if she lives in Canada.

      • Sean

        lulz

      • Ted S.

        Manti Te’o for Senate?

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Niagra? Please!

  3. The Late P Brooks

    Those labor camps were the result of bureaucratic miscommunication. Sorry for the inconvenience.

    • WTF

      If only comrade Stalin knew!

  4. The Late P Brooks

    But what if there was another way?

    Well, there is, and it’s in China. Whereas the American political system has allowed billionaires to bend the government to their will, China has done just the opposite. There, it’s the government that tells billionaires how they may and may not behave.

    I am not the chattel fucking property of the government.

    Fuck off.

    • The Other Kevin

      You have to admit, they are doing a great job handling their billionaire who’s sending more rockets into space than all the other countries combined.

    • rhywun

      And how much they may “contribute” to the Party.

      JFC glad I hovered over the link first.

  5. DEG

    I looked through Alex Skopic’s CV after reading the article. He railed against for-profit education in the middle of that article. In his CV, I see Kelly Education. That’s a division of Kelly Services which is a publicly traded company. Huh.

    • Tonio

      Heh, glad someone noticed that. His job title for Kelly was “substitute teacher” so FWIW it seems they have the substitute teacher contract for one or more school systems. Which isn’t exactly the same thing as working for Uncle Pennybags’ Orphan Employment Agency and For-Profit School, but still…

  6. Rat on a train

    If DAR allows you do identify as a woman can you also identify as a descendent of a revolutionary?

    • R.J.

      ” I identify as George Washington!”

      • Rat on a train

        You will need to identify as Martha Washington for the DAR.

      • Tonio

        George Washington, you say?

      • R.J.

        I meant I am Georgette Washington! Now let me in the club!

      • rhywun

        “EXCUSE ME, IT’S MA’AM!”

  7. R.J.

    MIDWIT COMMIE SIMP SHARES MASTURBATORY FANTASIES ABOUT JAILING BILLIONAIRES

    That dude’s experience is… astounding. Never once has he done a damn thing worthwhile other than working at Dollar General. Fantastic research.

  8. Rat on a train

    SNIP, SNIP
    We need at least chop, chop.

  9. rhywun

    Slacker Austin trustafarian

    I’m telling you that guy is a skin suit. And not a very convincing one.

  10. The Late P Brooks

    If Musk had been given the Jack Ma treatment, a major social-media platform would not have transformed into a cesspool of racism and misogyny, and there might not be a President Trump laying waste to everyone’s basic constitutional rights (and the world economy) today. That would be a better outcome than the one we’re living with right now. Or imagine if U.S. officials broke up Amazon into several competing companies, the way China did with Alibaba, and sent Jeff Bezos on a Ma-esque mandatory vacation for a few years. There is no particular reason we can’t do those things; only the political will is lacking.

    Inarguably correct.

    Totalitarian communism would have protected our basic Constitutional rights. Do you even hear yourself, Shirley?

    • rhywun

      He thinks he will keep his rights after submitting to the communist rabble to which he furiously masturbates.

    • rhywun

      I don’t know much about Goldman but Lander has been bouncing around the city for a long time and is a vicious communist piece of work. The current environment of Jew-hate is just the right time for him to take advantage.

      • Sensei

        Lander is also a (((chosen person))), but still useful.

      • rhywun

        Huh.

        A useful idiot, no doubt.

  11. Sean

    What’s up with these forced reset safety selectors I’m seeing now?

    Anyone look into these?

    • EvilSheldon

      If you install a forced reset trigger, and manipulate the trigger just the right way, you can produce a reasonable facsimile of full-auto fire.

      That’s the upside. The downside is that they break quite a bit. Also, they’re expensive, both the initial purchase and keeping them fed. Third, handheld full-auto is kind of a dork move anyway. Fun for shooting trash in the desert, but not real useful for serious porpoises.

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