Wednesday Afternoon Links

by | Jun 17, 2026 | Daily Links | 132 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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132 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.

      • Spudalicious

        Trump can’t end the DOE. That takes congressional quislings, and they’re too afraid to change the status quo.

      • Ted S.

        Make everyone who works for the DOE come in to the office, and have the offices be empty rooms where the workers do nothing all day but sit at their desk with cell signals blocked.

      • Ted S.

        Do the same for the people at the EEOC, and re-design the EEOC website to say that the agency’s mission is to stoke racial division.

      • rhywun

        have the offices be empty rooms where the workers do nothing all day but sit at their desk with cell signals blocked

        Sounds like the rubber rooms that sexual predator teachers get in NYC.

      • Ted S.

        Make them much more soul-crushing.

      • DEG

        Trump can’t end the DOE. That takes congressional quislings, and they’re too afraid to change the status quo.

        If Trump went to bat for it like he did the Big Beautiful Bill, his followers would be saying, “Fuck ” and voting against those people. And you know that.

      • DEG

        “Fuck ”

        “Fuck [whoever it is that opposed endingt he DoE]”

        Used angle brackets… wordpress must have stripped it thinking it was a bad tag.

      • Threedoor

        Flickering fluorescent bulbs.
        No windows.
        Plastic Walmart lawn chairs.
        No desks.

        Trump got rid of Massie. Fairly sure he tried to introduce more than one simple bill to end the department.

      • DEG

        Fairly sure he tried to introduce more than one simple bill to end the department.

        Massie was one. His bill was OK. It terminates the department. It is silent on the programs which I think would mean that the programs exist with no one to run them.

        There were others. The worst of them terminated the department only in a technical sense. Every program moved somewhere else.

        The best terminated the department and all programs except, and I’m going from memory here, Pell Grants and student loans. Going from memory, those got moved to Treasury.

    • 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.

      • juris imprudent

        I don’t just want DOE dead – I want all of the money they throw down ratholes shut off.

  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.

      • juris imprudent

        Remember that is as true of the R label as it is the D.

    • 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)

      • Fourscore

        I was getting ready to retire from the army

    • 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.

      • Nephilium

        As I’ve seen someone else say, “I know how Musk earned a trillion dollars, I have no idea how Sanders, Warren, AOC, Talib, and Pelosi became millionaires.”

    • 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?

    • Tonio

    • 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.

    • Threedoor

      Chainsaw in each hand.

  9. rhywun

    Slacker Austin trustafarian

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

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      It wouldn’t surprise me if he had a secrete Nazi decoder tattoo also…

  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.

      • Threedoor

        I wonder if he would be thinking that when he’s blindfolded and sealed in a barrel?

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        I bet he would be mostly thinking he won the gimp lottery if that happened.

    • 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.

    • juris imprudent

      Goldman is such a piece of shit, that even a bottle of diarrhea may be an improvement.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        I wouldn’t be too sure of that right now, JI.

  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.

    • Threedoor

      I looked at one fairly closely.
      Looks pretty cool. No idea on the durability or longevity though.
      https://arizonaregulator.com/
      Their instructions are less than sufficient for a nube. Couldnt imagine feeding one. Aint nobody got that kind of money.

      • Sean

        I don’t need it in all my lowers, but maybe just one…

      • Threedoor

        PSR and Noir both have videos on several of them.

    • Sukkoi19

      The Atrius is a little different but the safety is the where the reset lever is located on an AR-15. The Trigger is essentially stock with just a rounded profile cut into the back to allow clearance. I like the Arc-Fire as it uses the Super Safety design but allows the use of a three position safety selector versus weird push button. They are pretty reliable. I would say in an AR they are pretty much the same as select fire. You have to tune the gun a bit. Usually a Geissele S42 spring and an H2 or maybe 3 buffer and your good. I have done rentals with my Post Samples and thrown FRT guns in just to see if anyone notices and very few can tell the difference.

      • Evan from Evansville

        Oooh. Howdy, Tulpa. My omniscience drew you in, it seems. This greatly pleases me.

        Personally work-shopping guns and their little springs and tiny screws and the.. whole list of many things? Pssshaw In my everyday, errand-running form? I’m embarrassingly bad with knots and other handsy thingies. My arm is good at many things, but not my hands.

      • Sean

        Interesting.

  12. The Late P Brooks

    Time for a bailout

    Several also described what they viewed as a wall of silence surrounding the project, with some declining to speak publicly or requesting anonymity because of confidentiality agreements or fears of professional retaliation.

    The allegations emerge days after a Fox News Digital investigation reported that the Obama Foundation’s reserve fund — originally promoted as a $470 million financial safeguard intended to help protect taxpayers if the project encountered financial trouble — remains funded at roughly $1 million.

    Standing outside the center on a gloomy Friday afternoon, Owen flipped through spreadsheets and financial records that he said documented millions of dollars in losses tied to the project.

    Owen said the project stretched on for years longer than anticipated, forcing his company to absorb millions of dollars in labor and overhead costs as work demands changed and expanded.

    He should have insisted on a cost plus contract.

    • rhywun

      Celebrating the Lightbringer is beyond such petty concerns as profit and loss. He should be honored.

    • Brochettaward

      Look, these are black folk who work. They aren’t really the core black constituents that progressives buy.

      • Brochettaward

        Owed millions in backpay as a contractor for the Obama library? Best we can do for you is a SNAP card and an Obamaphone.

  13. juris imprudent

    In case everyone forgot – CA Editor in Chief is Nathan J. Robinson. The author is a like a cling-on to his hairy little ass.

    • Threedoor

      “I came to judge but stayed for the snacks”

  14. Beau Knott

    Well, looks like the panopticon is almost here.

    • R.J.

      It is already here. Something like 80,000 cameras are all over cities using AI to track moves.

      • Brochettaward

        I’m sure there’s been an arrest or two with this shit. There’s also been some woefully stupid miscues and it’s part of what I was thinking about with my own response below.

        Cops are using it as a substitute for just normal investigation and common sense. There’s no countering all this bullshit and you’ll drive yourself crazy trying.

      • Brochettaward

        If you have a government ID, which we all do, your face is already in those databases. If you played Pokemon Go you’ve spent years helping them develop AI without knowing it. The company who developed it sold the entire game and just went all in on AI at this point and that shit should be a bigger story but isn’t.

        I see people who think they’re being savvy avoiding the bullshit “loyalty” programs and in the end they’re just paying the stores more money. Unless you pay cash for anything and everything but even now they’re probably scraping your phone and starting to or already have used AI to track your visits to the store in other ways.

        Like the battle is already lost for privacy. Not the world we live in.

      • Sean

        I’m all in on grocery store loyalty programs (well, two specifically). Let them “know” I really like steak. I save a fuck ton of money. Usually on steak. 🥩

      • Brochettaward

        They know Sean. They know.

        Though they’re probably just going to use your love of steak as a weapon against you and you won’t even see it coming.

    • Brochettaward

      A lot of data gets collected. I’m not sure that anyone from the private tech companies to the government really knows what the fuck to do with it. I’ve bought like one thing ever because I saw an ad for it after the fact. It turned out to be a too-good-to-be-true scam on Facebook for steak of all things.

      I know they’re getting into “personalized” pricing now. That’s something I suppose.

      I don’t want to be if there’s nothing to hide guy because I’m not advocating for anything, but I found the desire some have to delve deep into trying to counter this stuff kind of pointless. Most of us are insignificant and beyond that we aren’t going to be able to stay ahead of the people who do this for a living or at the highest levels. Your VPN is compromised. You cell phone is compromised and we all have one and I don’t care what you’ve done with it. You use a credit/debit card? Modern vehicle?

      Bitcoin’s not anonymous anymore. Didn’t take long either.

      You either live off the grid or you devote endless energy to a game of cat and mouse where there’s really no particular cat after you. I’m not some super criminal. I’m not looking at kiddie porn. If they want to track my Pokemon collection and how often a day I take my dog out to shit have at it at this point. The counter measures are basically theater at this stage to me like the shit we do at airports.

      • rhywun

        compromised

        Yes, I absolutely assume privacy of any kind is completely dead and gone. If you’re not a character in Mr. Robot, you’re not hiding from Big Brother anymore.

    • Threedoor

      Why the hell would my 15 year old Siamese be driving?!

  15. Brochettaward

    I recall when ICE shot that lesbian broad for hitting them with her car, there was some debate over how to handle a car being used as a weapon.

    Well, some cops answered that question recently in the latest round of the culture wars. They apparently didn’t think the best course of action was to just try and like dodge the car traveling at 60 MPH.

      • R.J.

        Yes. Or a dashboard STEVE SMITH.

      • R.J.

        Looks like they make all kinds of replacement panels out of reinforced fiberglass instead of super-brittle Dodge-ownium.

    • Threedoor

      As popular as the gen II dodge diesels are it’s surprising how little aftermarket support there is for interior pieces.

    • rhywun

      Other states that have banned the substance include Connecticut, Georgia, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Tennessee.

      Since it is not banned in my state, I think I will run out and get some right now.

    • Evan from Evansville

      That’s real, real, real dumb.

      ‘We have to do SOMETHING! Well! This is something! Yay! (Please celebrate me.)’

    • DEG

      Huh.

      Why do I suspect this drug would be a bad trip?

      And even if it was, that’s no reason to ban it.

      • rhywun

        Every bodega/convenience store I visit is loaded with crap like this at the checkout. I won’t touch any of it but I suspect they are big money makers now that nobody smokes anymore.

  16. Evan from Evansville

    Checked the Guardian for their take on G7. Instead, headline from a column actually called, “Well actually”
    “I get a gold star when I go to the gym’: the adults using sticker charts for motivation”

    Yeah, there may be your problem. I’m sure ya got one for voting, too, sweetums. This is why despotic, religious and cultural leaders are despotic. People are really fucking dumb, are easily satisfied, and don’t think too much on their own. Yeah, ya gotta disembowel sinners and criminals in front of everybody on the streets, cuz that’s the only way for a message to actually be processed.

    We’re I omnipotent, I’d soak Mamdani in booze (not to drink, just for him to reek) and have dogs do something to him in public. I’d take all his money and property and set up a booth where he can get his ‘friends’ to give GoFund him. Any amount over $10k would be given a thorough audit, revealing where the donor actually got the money from.

    Then I’d broadcast him trying to elicit donations, and when his commie ‘friends’ realize they ‘can’t donate,’ his tears would be used as a learning lesson for the viewers, with Omniscient Ev as the host. The auditor would be ‘played’ by the phone receptionist from Office Space, a portly, strictly by-the-book written by the managers in charge. (I play me.)

    • Raven Nation

      *makes note to NEVER piss off EfE*

      • Evan from Evansville

        (*adds to notebook* RN: already fearful, will eagerly appease)

        No worries! You’re on my GOOD list! Is it wrong I have comical, internal ‘movies’ where I invisibly follow politicians, and when they do something illegal, or draft an unconstitutional law, etc, I make them pay the consequences of said law? Easiest example, pro-illegal immigration laws have THEIR house house a random multitude of families, with no chance to talk their way our or get their shit out of their, first.

        A cartoon character I saw in an MST3k short was a spring, kinda advertising the importance of springs in the 1950s. “NO SPRINGS!” he’d shout as he popped up when someone’s noun didn’t work anymore because there were no more springs. (In the beginning, the man wished there’d be no springs and his wish came true.)

        That figure’d also show up after I warned people not to be cunts, and Constitutional Spring’d boing in when they were toeing the line, cuntacular. I̵’̵d̵ ̵b̵e̵ I am such a benevolent omniscient creature.

  17. Evan from Evansville

    This is big and good news: The Federal Trade Commission has just announced its lawsuit (with four states) against the World Professional Association for Transgender Health.

    The FTC alleges that WPATH “misled parents and children about the medical consensus and medical necessity, as well as the safety and effectiveness” of gender transition interventions (puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries), “in violation of the FTC Act.”
    https://notthebee.com/article/four-states-join-federal-trade-commission-to-sue-trans-giant-wpath-

    • Threedoor

      Forcibly transition everyone who has ever worked there.

      • Chafed

        Harsh but fair.

    • Evan from Evansville

      I wanna see Discovery. All of it. I wonder if charging the right crimes, allowing certain types of evidence, would encourage Defendants to plea out in order to keep secrets. I wonder how folx would react, seeing their clergy leaders be revealed for the shits they are.

      Suspicion: Nothing would happen, just like ‘most’ folk around the world kinda forgot about the kiddy diddling. Individual Leftists have invested far too much into believing this shit for them to flip a switch and realize they’d been played, and that they fell for it.

      Biggest thing Dems could do, if they can or could: Get angry they got taken for the bullshit ride. That Biden was propped up, knowingly incapable of doing presidential duties, is one they’re using for their own reasons, but no one’s getting mad about it. Even Fetterman isn’t, AFAIK, and I think he’s making a decent push into the ’28 popularity contest as a ‘sane’ Democrat. I’m likely wrong. *shrug*

  18. rhywun

    No reason, it just amuses me.

    This is a small city near me but the jingle is catchier than anything I’ve heard since the days of Cellino & Barnes, Injury Attorneys.

    • Threedoor

      I HATE jingles.
      I will avoid businesses that advertise with a jingle.

      • rhywun

        You are probably in the minority.

        They won’t miss you.

  19. Brochettaward

    Was shit posting on the Redidts about the cop shooting in Mississippi. Some guy playing armchair expert on rules of engagement who I doubted had ever fired a weapon says the cops fucked up no matter what. I don’t even think we have any details on how this played out period.

    Click on profile.

    A bunch of weird shit on that profile. Rate my cock and pictures as a 5’10 310 pound man. He’s also into Batman and Gundam.

    I try to avoid the profile stalking and deal with the argument on its own terms, but yea this mother fucker has never fired a gun.

    • Brochettaward

      And honestly, Reddit is like 100x worse than 4Chan in every conceivable way.

      • DEG

        That’s like saying the Sun rises in the East.

  20. UnCivilServant

    Morning Glibs.

    No venison in the freezer 😔 I’m still going to thaw out the corned beef as the basis for four beast chili. I have to guess I ate the venison a while back and didn’t remember.

    I think I’ll cook chicken for breakfast.

    • Gender Traitor

      Good morning, U, Sean, Roat, Ted’S., and Stinky!

      • Gender Traitor

        How are you today, U?

      • UnCivilServant

        I don’t know. I have to make sure I don’t miss my barber’s appointment just after work today – my hair is getting too long.

      • Gender Traitor

        I have a dentist appointment just before work, and after that I’m working remotely again today. I hope last night’s storms didn’t undo all the work on my office’s roof…though actually, after today I’m off work until the 29th, so what do I care?

      • Gender Traitor

        (I feel I should clarify that my dentist appointment is NOT because my teeth are getting too long.)

      • Ted S.

        is NOT because my teeth are getting too long.

        Pie has a sad.

    • UnCivilServant

      Look, these “national” days are all bunk.

      • Sean

        Just wait until tomorrow!

      • UnCivilServant

        Tomorrow I’m going out to luch with some work friends to celebrate the retirement of one of them. He’s currently on Gardening leave (just burning accrued vacation time before final separation because it doesn’t pay out otherwise).

    • Rat on a train

      Maybe the last one in Oregon.

  21. Ted S.

    The controversy was last week, but here’s the totally unbiased headline:

    MLB warned players about altering Pride Night caps, and Republicans took notice. Here’s what to know

    Imagine a headline on the order of, “NFL warned Colin Kaepernick not to kneel, and Democrats took notice.” Part of this controversy is the Lust Month folks saying, “We can force you to engage in our political messaging, and dammit, we’re going to rub your noses in it.”

    • UnCivilServant

      People still watch baseball?

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Apparently players can opt out of wearing the pride caps, they just can’t alter the pride cap if they wear it. Baseball and the other activities that involve grown men throwing balls around for money should avoid the political as a matter of course but it is the unavoidable current stupid normal.

      • Ted S.

        Why aren’t you wearing the ribbon, Kramer?

    • rhywun

      Stay classy, The Associated Press.

      “Republicans would only be happy if the players wore white hoods instead.”

      JFC… is every comment section everywhere a complete pit of stupid? Sometimes I think the internet was a huge mistake.

      • Rat on a train

        SPLC night?

  22. Gender Traitor

    OBE – hope last night’s storms missed the homes of you and yours! (Likewise to all in IL, WI, IN, MI, and OH!)

  23. Tres Cool

    suh’ fam
    whats goody

    TALL INDIANA CANS!

    • UnCivilServant

      “Indiana Cans” sounds like someone took a gender swapped remake and gave it a parody rewrite to avoid the modern audience problem.

    • Not Adahn

      Drinking Indiana cans on those Indiana nights?

  24. DEG

    Mornin’

    • Fourscore

      You betcha!