Thursday Morning Links

by | Jul 16, 2026 | Daily Links | 238 comments

England played a masterful game…until they got the lead. Then they stopped playing the same game and tried to defend for 30 minutes. So of course they lost 2-1 to Argentina. Tuchel ought to have his head examined. Anyway, the final is Sunday and it’s been a really good World Cup.The British Open just got underway. And they had the Espys last night, but nobody cares about that crap anymore. And that’s it for sports.

We should sue Canada. Or maybe just go ahead and invade them in response to their chemical warfare. I’m kidding.

Wait, we weren’t doing this already? Why does that not surprise me.

This guy’s political instincts needs to be studied by researchers. Because they’re completely retarded.

Good for him. He finally passed something in the Senate.

Maybe your career should be done. What an odd thing to say to a grand jury if you were looking for some sympathy.

Oh, Good Lord no. Joining that corruptocracy is the last thing we should ever do.

He’s gotta be cancelled now. Sorry, those are the rules the left set for everybody else. Their own guy has to play by them too.

I’ll answer your question: nothing. Nothing has to be done, you Year Zero imbeciles.

You gotta read what you sign, dummy. I don’t know what will happen now, but the political fight will be funny.

LOL, they think they did something new and exciting. The story said they take a year to complete each unit too. And they tout the affordability!!! Oh my God. This article is pure comedy and could only happen in California.

Here we go. One of my favorites. They were so good. Enjoy them both.

And enjoy this lovely Thursday, dear friends.

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238 Comments

  1. Common Tater

    We were doing it before Biden, afaik.

      • Ownbestenemy

        US Congress, where passing gas and blasting ass are about the only things happening.

      • (((Jarflax

        The Senate prefers the noxious hot air come out the other end.

      • juris imprudent

        The world’s greatest debilitative body!

      • Fourscore

        JI knocks it out of the park!

    • EvilSheldon

      The Department of Homeland Security is poised to rescind a 2022 Biden-era regulation narrowing how officers apply a long-standing “public charge” test…

      Looks like.

  2. Common Tater

    “Did it improve the idea that we can’t all be judged by our worst day?”

    Because anyone can have a bad day when they decide to rape a child for two years?

    • R C Dean

      Of course, he molested the girl for years, not just one day.

      And that sentence is incoherent gibberish. What “improve the idea” even mean?

      • sloopyinca

        It’s a progressive word salad. Don’t even try to make sense of it. Just point and mock the imbecile who uttered the phrase.

  3. rhywun

    “we can’t all be judged by our worst day”

    😲

    The extreme left really has no morals or even the slightest ability to fake being human.

    • sloopyinca

      He even follows that up by saying the guy he granted clemency to committed a horrific crime. But he still did it for political reasons (even if he is claiming otherwise).

      Yes, we have no choice but to allow Americans who commit these crimes to stay here after release. But why the hell would you give the same courtesy to someone we can remove because they’re not a citizen?

      Of course, I’d prefer we execute all child rapists a couple days after their conviction. Call me old-fashioned that way. But never pardoning them and removing the ones we’re not constitutionally forced to keep here seems like the reasonable position.

      • Fourscore

        Walz is such an embarrassment I’ve started telling my internet friends that I’m from North Dakota.

        The guy has no sense of shame. He and his buddy, the AG, should have resigned over the graft scandals. He was even thinking of a third term.

      • Threedoor

        Walz is one of them.

        It should be obvious to everyone by now.

  4. Shpip

    The change may directly affect hundreds of thousands of people applying for green cards from inside the U.S. each year. It could trigger a broader ripple effect if immigrant families avoid health care, food, or housing assistance — even when they or their U.S.-citizen children legally qualify — out of fear that tapping into those benefits could ultimately hurt their immigration cases.

    Something tells me that this won’t spill a lot of beer at the VFW hall, no matter how much it worries the editorial board of the New York Times.

    Another 80/20 issue, and boy, are the 20 going to raise a stink.

    • trshmnstr

      Awww those poor sad immigrant families, coming here through our graciousness and suckling on the teat of our public services. How sad and sorrowful for them. 🙄🙄🙄

      How about this? How about an application for government benefits is treated as the fraud and imposition it is and is seen as a dispositive factor to their unsuitability of living here. They get sent back home, no passing go, no collecting $200, and they are banned from ever setting foot in this country again.

      We are not the world’s homeless shelter. We are not the global charity ward. This will kill our country.

      • rhywun

        This will kill our country.

        To be fair, that is the point.

      • Threedoor

        It died long ago.

      • dbleagle

        I agree with you rhywun. It is a damn shame too.

    • RAHeinlein

      Allegedly, US citizens “qualify” but if you can’t provide the means to care for your children/family that’s a hard “no” for green card.

  5. rhywun

    whether applicants are likely to rely on government support

    Seems like “already being on government support” would be good evidence of that but WTF do I know.

  6. UnCivilServant

    I don’t know what will happen now, but the political fight will be funny.

    Sounds like someone too accustomed to being a rubber stamp. Term limits will be good for him. Opens up the opportunity to get a job in a profession where he won’t need to make even the minimal decisions he was.

    • rhywun

      Everything is still stupid.

      • Sean

        True!

  7. Common Tater

    “Just a moment.

    We are getting your experience ready.”

    WTF, NBC?

  8. Rat on a train

    “Did it improve the idea that we can’t all be judged by our worst day?”
    When your worst day is child rape …

    • Ownbestenemy

      The decently looking, yet creepy, woman accused of child molestation from the other day should mount this defense.

      “It was just a bad day your honor”

      • Rat on a train

        “Mistakes were made.”

      • Ted S.

        Was that wrong? Should I not have done that?

      • Chipping Pioneer

        What difference, at this point, does it make?

      • PutridMeat

        “In the course of events, a vagina was discharged”

    • DrOtto

      Almost sounds like a tacit confession to me.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Wonder what the Epstien-crazed folks think of it…oh nevermind, a (D) is involved.

  9. Ownbestenemy

    The two-bedroom, standalone home near downtown sold for $530,000… “It will be helping people who, they want to own a place more affordable and more easy to get a home”…749-square-foot house

    $700/sqft is insane for ‘affordability’ but hey, it has no HOA, just government strings attached.

    • sloopyinca

      The best part is the government are slapping themselves on the back for the great thing they’ve done here.

      Those units would be built in 2 months (most of which is due to inspections) and sell for $100/sf or less in most of the country.

      • Threedoor

        Contractors drag it out where I’m at. Houses take a minimum of six months. For a pole building shop house. It’s crazy.

      • R C Dean

        I waited 4 months for a permit to build a plain-Jane metal barn outside Santa Fe.

      • dbleagle

        The article leaves many questions. Is the sale for the ADU only and not for the land it sits on- Or does the land convey as well? Is there a permanent easement?

        Does the primary residence and land get reassessed? Does this sale mean the primary residence get a Prop 13 re-look? If you owned the base property any length of time look to get screwed good and hard on the new tax bill.

  10. Common Tater

    “Philip Nel, a children’s literature scholar and author of “Was the Cat in the Hat Black?”

    No.

    • sloopyinca

      If we’re gonna cancel him, it should be for all of the commie nonsense in his literature. And let his WW2 artwork be the only thing we celebrate.

      • Trigger Hippie

        “And let his WW2 artwork be the only thing we celebrate.”

        I rather like his Midnight Paintings. My avatar happens to be one of those works called Cat From the Wrong Side of the Tracks.

    • Chipping Pioneer

      Well, he was referred to as a “cat”.

      • Fourscore

        Sammy Davis Jr would disagree. He hung with the real cats, Frank/Dino and entourage.

    • J. Frank Parnell

      No, he’s thinking of The Cat in the Durag.

  11. R C Dean

    I am astonished by the insistence by so many people that immigrants, legal or not, should be entitled to government handouts.

    • UnCivilServant

      I am astonished by the insistance that so many people, citizen or foreign, should be entitled to handouts on the taxpayer dime.

      • Ownbestenemy

        The loss of shame for begging and behilding oneself to the government for a handout is astonishing and was achieved in a generation.

        Even though I am late GenX, it was evident the swing was occuring in late 80s, early 90s to given what I heard at home versus public education propaganda.

        It only accelerated from there.

      • rhywun

        loss of shame

        This.

        My mom raised four kids on welfare after divorcing my father. She never openly stated that she felt shame but it was evident in the fact that she got us off it as soon as possible.

      • Threedoor

        Shame is good.

        Bring back the funny money food stamps.

    • Raven Nation

      I guess the rules changed. I’m pretty sure when I got my green card I was ineligible for benefits for a certain amount of time. And I had to have an American citizen who guaranteed to support me if I was unemployed so I did not become a public charge.

      • EvilSheldon

        That’s been normal immigration policy in both the US and most of the rest of the civilized world, for as long as I’ve been alive.

    • rhywun

      The left is composed entirely of people either too rich or too poor to care.

      • Evan from Evansville

        Outstanding observation.

      • invisible finger

        Or too corrupt to care. Or too stupid.

    • Common Tater

      I think reasonable arguments can be made for school and health care for children.

      The root problem is that Biden let in way too many immigrants.

      • R C Dean

        School, local option.

        Healthcare, emergency/urgent care only. For chronic conditions, back you go.

        For pregnancies, back you go on an expedited basis. If you are actually in labor, OK, sure, but you get billed for the delivery and shipped back where you belong. Your kid is citizen (fuck you, SCOTUS) and is free to come and go from the US like any other minor, but you are an adult who presumptively committed visa fraud (or just flat out entered illegally) and are barred for life.

      • Common Tater

        School is paid by the parents through property taxes or indirectly through rent.

        The ridiculous cost of healthcare is mostly the fault of government.

      • UnCivilServant

        Mister Tater, in the most recent manditory budget disclosure and vote for my local distrtict, it was majority funded by transfers from the state. Plus the taxes levied against childless property owners like myself.

        The parents are the smallest % of funding.

      • R C Dean

        Government school is funded by taxes paid for by a lot more people than the parents of children attending that school. It’s effectively general tax revenue, not an attendance fee.

      • rhywun

        fuck you, SCOTUS

        I saw an article the other day which I can’t find now but it was a very interesting deep dive into just how balls-deep in leftist circles Roberts runs around with. I believe he sided with Female wing on that decision too?

      • R C Dean

        Yeah, Roberts’ wife cashes big checks that are almost certainly laundered leftist money.

      • invisible finger

        Reasonable arguments have been expanded to ridiculous levels over the last 60 years that reasonable arguments are a red herring.

      • Common Tater

        “Government school is funded by taxes paid for by a lot more people than the parents of children attending that school. It’s effectively general tax revenue, not an attendance fee.”

        True, but that’s a separate issue.

        I don’t think barring immigrant children from school is a good idea regardless.

      • Threedoor

        The majority of school funding comes from the state level. Sure 52% of my property taxes go to the schools but so does a majority of sales and state income tax.

        If I wasent paying that I could afford to build a school house to home school in. It would be nice to have to books in their own space and our dining room table and living room freed of the classroom stuff.

      • Threedoor

        The children of illegals should not be allowed in government schools.

        It incentivizes them to come here.

        They NEED to be kept down and disincentivized.

    • RAHeinlein

      Taxes being passed through for renters in large complexes is a fallacy – particularly when those rent to families. Renters with children pay almost nothing toward school costs.

      • rhywun

        Are you claiming that property taxes are not passed on to tenants? Because I believe any landlord does that.

  12. Rat on a train

    You gotta read what you sign, dummy.
    “I have an autopen and staff.”?

    • Fourscore

      “The staff has my autopen and I trust them to use it, whenever”

  13. Common Tater

    “The two-bedroom, standalone home near downtown sold for $530,000. It has no homeowners association dues or shared utilities, and it has a separate entrance and private parking.”

    I need more coffee, how is that different from a regular house?

    • Ownbestenemy

      Cause its really a condo/townhome reclassified and spun as some great savior for homebuyers in fantasy Californialand

    • rhywun

      IIRC the novelty is that such buildings were not allowed before, due to zoning restrictions.

    • Rat on a train

      I wonder what the details of the covenant are.

      • The Last American Hero

        Pretty much the usual – no excessive noise after hours, only one parking spot on the property, maintain the unit in good order, prima nocte, and max number of residents is 3.

      • Rat on a train

        I was thinking the other side. What covenants apply to the land owner.

    • Michael Malaise

      California used to build relatively low-cost houses by the bushels. They knew what they were doing. And they decided to regulate the fuck out of paradise.

  14. Shpip

    Racism shows up in Geisel’s earliest work, too. His wartime propaganda cartoons, for example, included stereotypical and racist depictions of Japanese people.

    Gee, in an existential conflict, one tends to rely on stereotypes to dehumanize the enemy? Good thing the Japanese never did anything of the sort!

    • DrOtto

      To be fair, FDR was a monster.

      • juris imprudent

        And a stupid and arrogant one at that. Let me put my fleet out of homeport for more than a year!

    • dbleagle

      And he never ever depicted the Wops and Krauts poorly.

      Or for ‘Murica, Mulberry Street where the boy sees all sorts of oddities was the heart of Little Italy.

      Fucking stupid shits.

    • J. Frank Parnell

      I remember seeing his WWII cartoons ages ago, and a bunch of them were anti-segregation, arguing that if a factory was understaffed because the management refused to hire black workers that was helping the enemy.

    • Ownbestenemy

      They threw the game buddy. Come to terms with it. Every argentina game is a comeback? We’re essentially watching WWE. Its not even believable anymore.

      Lol

      • sloopyinca

        The coping is amazing. And the seething is even better.

  15. (((Jarflax

    Of course you get judged on your worst day. That’s how it works, always has worked, always will work, and should work. The pleasant day you spend laughing with friends isn’t the test. Also, talking about child rape as though it was an accident that happened on a bad day is peak disingenuousness.

  16. Shpip

    Theodore Geisel’s dad managed the family brewery until Prohibition shut it down, whereapon he became a supervisor in the Springfield, Massachusetts parks department.

    His mother gained some fame as the first female to become a Licensed Massage Therapist in the state.

    She was known forever after that as the Ma Seusse.

  17. Common Tater

    “A 28-year-old homeowner says she is being forced out of her father’s 55-and-over after inheriting the home following his death, as residents are expected to fund the legal fees…

    “There is a 55-plus community that is so eager to get rid of one of their non-55 residents, myself, that on Wednesday, in order to sue me out of my own home, they’re asking 155 residents on fixed incomes to do a mandatory $1,000 assessment,” Michel said.

    Five people voted to approve the special assessment that will charge residents to help amass the HOA’s legal war chest for the legal fight, Michel revealed on her Instagram Story.”

    https://nypost.com/2026/07/16/us-news/florida-daughter-bethany-michel-says-hoa-is-trying-to-force-her-out-of-55-plus-community-after-inheriting-home-from-dad/

    That’s retarded, but she should just sell.

    • PieInTheSky

      55-and-over – never heard of such a thing in Romania

      • Common Tater

        It’s 550 and over?

    • Rat on a train

      Michel, who hosts a podcast and reviews restaurants
      That’s enough strikes against her.

      • UnCivilServant

        Whenever I see a nose ring the first thing that comes to mind is ripping it out and wondering how much blood the move will draw.

        They are horrible on every level, who do people keep doing it?

    • PutridMeat

      asking….mandatory

      At least form logically consistent sentences.

    • EvilSheldon

      The HOA age covenant seems to be legal under both federal and state law.

      More importantly, Bethany is a social media ‘influencer’ with a septum ring and a bunch of ugly flash tats. So she can go live under a bridge with the rest of the trolls.

    • Threedoor

      It’s an HOA.

      I fight and fire all the Karens to pay.

      • Threedoor

        Force.

        When i first learned of age restricted neighborhoods as a kid it galled me.

        Now that I know more about HOAs I hope they all get crushed by any means.

  18. PieInTheSky

    Questions: do japanese plugs work in the US?

    • UnCivilServant

      The Japanese electrical standard isn’t a perfect match. Their grid runs at a lower voltage and lower frequency.

      Physically they will fit.

      So it depends on what you’re looking to do.

      • PieInTheSky

        phone charger, though I hope most hotels in Canada have usb plugs. I do not want another piece of cheap Chinese plastic.

      • R.J.

        There should be a USB charger plug in your hotel. Certainly in the States they are either built into the desk or if you are in a cheaper hotel, they are in the lamp base.

      • UnCivilServant

        They almost never work, however. Also, don’t trust them.

      • EvilSheldon

        Seriously don’t trust them. A horrifying number of those public USB ‘charger’ ports have packet sniffers built into them.

      • PieInTheSky

        public yes I assume hotel no?

      • rhywun

        packet sniffers built into them

        I bring a plug by habit so I don’t use those (or even know if I own the right cable anymore) but that is good to know.

      • PieInTheSky

        there is such a thing as a USB condom. been for a while. well officially data blocker but still.

      • Rat on a train

        The cost of change is why we use the plugs, voltage, and frequency.

      • EvilSheldon

        there is such a thing as a USB condom. been for a while. well officially data blocker but still.

        Yep. Basically a USB cable with only the power lines, no data connection.

        If I used one, I’d test it on my multimeter/breakout box before I put it into production. Also, I’m not all that familiar with the details of the USB standard, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the data and power lines could be reassigned in software…

      • Fourscore

        Your rental car will have a port.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Japanese frequency is split. Western is the same as US, eastern is different. Voltage is close enough that it will be within the input range of any usb charger. I used my domestic US chargers there without any issue (no polarized plug, no ground plug).

        I use a tea kettle without issue but I do have my toaster on a step down transformer.

      • UnCivilServant

        In DC conversion for just charging the phone battery, the frequency of the AC source becomes irrelevant.

      • Threedoor

        For what it’s worth my apple chargers worked in Canada and the U.S. and whatever sketch power we had in Iraq.

  19. PieInTheSky

    while drinking at work is obviously frowned upon, what is the official glibertatian position on pouring a scotch while working from home and having a long boring teams department meeting in which you have nothing to say, if it is your birthday?

      • PieInTheSky

        shit too late.

      • PieInTheSky

        we are getting the results of the GLINT survey. Right after I will log off.

      • Ted S.

        Have another coffee.

      • EvilSheldon

        Successful drinking at work requires accountability and responsibility, which is rare these benighted days.

        I have fond memories of being elbow-deep in a rack installation, my boss comes into the comms room and says, “Break time!”, and when I look up there’s a cold Heineken keg can sitting on top of my toolbox…

      • PieInTheSky

        once again a bullshit department wide meeting is not work.

      • Ted S.

        Are you on the clock?

      • PieInTheSky

        what does on the clock mean?

      • kinnath

        Are you getting paid? Or are you on your own time?

      • PieInTheSky

        Are you getting paid – not that much but yes.

      • J. Frank Parnell

        Have another coffee.

        Yes, an Irish or Spanish coffee, or the Romanian equivalent.

      • PieInTheSky

        wine and scotch are the best two things to drink, can’t think of something better

      • PieInTheSky

        You poor, poor man. – well the US government keeps ignoring the 1 billion dollars I am owed

    • rhywun

      Day drinking gives me a headache. So I don’t do it.

      • R.J.

        Yes. Also I rarely have a day where I could just sit there and day drink. I want to do stuff.

      • PieInTheSky

        I could just sit there and day drink – your company needs more GLINT surveys.

      • EvilSheldon

        Drinking is doing stuff.

    • R.J.

      I have had a whiskey at work. Usually in late afternoon towards the end of day. I do not do it often, maybe a couple times a year.

      • PieInTheSky

        16:20 is the late afternoon. And work from home in a meeting not work work.

        I used to drink at work back in the day when my manager would bring wine whenever a major politician went to jail for corruption. But the company cracked down on wine at work.

      • R.J.

        Heh. 4:20. You are doing the wrong substance.

      • EvilSheldon

        Your manager sounds like a cool guy.

    • PieInTheSky

      we are at the stage when we are having meeting to see why we have too many meetings and what can be done about it.

      • juris imprudent

        You have that problem because no one sets an agenda (and no one gets called out for failing to stick to it).

    • DrOtto

      Why not rub one out on camera like Jeffrey Toobin instead? Your prostate will thank you for it.

    • Threedoor

      Nearly all my work is bookended by driving a commercial vehicle.

      But I’ve been known to have a beer while doing compliance and billing paperwork.

    • (((Jarflax

      And once again I reach the Kill them all stage before 10 am.

      • PieInTheSky

        kids can be annoying but no reason to kill them all

      • (((Jarflax

        Kids are fine. AWFLs on the other hand…

    • rhywun

      Wait til she finds out that the hordes of friendly invaders taking over her country don’t give a fuck about her self-loathing, globalist fantasies.

    • EvilSheldon

      I’m sure that when she talks about the, “…uncomfortable truths about the real state of the UK,” she’s referring to the stagnant economy, mass government surveillance, two-tier justice system, and rape gangs.

      LOL, I kill myself sometimes!

  20. Ownbestenemy

    Regarding Espys:

    Best NHL Player: Connor McDavid, Edmonton Oilers

    Uh huh. He’s a snidy little bitch when officials stop sucking his cock. Flashy and talented, but no where near best player in the league.

    Best team wasnt the US Olympic hockey team(s)?

    At least this got some love:

    Best Athlete with a Disability: Declan Farmer, Paralympic hockey

  21. Common Tater

    Updated update:

    “A lawyer for the New Jersey woman accused of sexually assaulting a 2-year-old girl claimed the sick caught-on-video assault was “blown out of proportion” as she tried to blame the tot for the alleged abuse, according to a report.

    Victoria Cranmer sobbed during a hearing where a judge ruled she would be held without bail for the “bizarre” and “troubling” May 6 incident that took place when Cranmer was watching the child inside the girl’s home while her mom was out, according to a report by the Asbury Park Press….

    “Young children routinely follow parents or caregivers into bathrooms, touch things, ask questions, are curious and fail to recognize ordinary social boundaries.”

    The clip allegedly depicted Cranmer sitting on the toilet and laughing as the little girl touched Cranmer, prosecutor Lynn Juan told the judge.”

    https://nypost.com/2026/07/15/us-news/nj-babysitter-blames-victim-in-tearful-first-court-appearance-for-horrifying-child-sex-charges/

    • Ownbestenemy

      Don’t judge her on a bad day.

      Also now I have questions on how it was video recorded while on the shitcan?

    • PutridMeat

      The clip allegedly depicted Cranmer sitting on the toilet and laughing as the little girl touched Cranmer,

      OK, I’ll admit to not following this, and I’ll prepare myself to be savaged, but…

      I don’t trust the media. I don’t trust government, especially prosecutors. When they all get going with “disturbing, horrifying, twisted, sick,… etc” – caution lights go on. Too much ‘incite the mob’ vibe for clicks and political support going on.

      When I first heard the story, the picture being drawn or at least strongly implied, was of this women taking some toddler in diapers and literally sexually assaulting them. “THROW THE BOOK AT EM! DEEP DARK CELL!” etc. Justified if the even is as implied, if never stated.

      However, that sentence, from the *prosecutor*, has many innocent interpretations. I can totally see a toddler going into the bathroom while an adult is doing business and grabbing their leg or climbing on them or even, god forbid, poking at their cooch. And I can even see a well adjusted adult laughing at that. It all depends on what ‘touch’ means here, and we’ve been given no evidence one way or the other.

      So given the information I have, I’m not jumping on the bandwagon just yet. There’s going to have be a lot more than “the
      little girl touched Cranmer while she was on the toilet and, Cranmer, that MONSTER, laughed about it.”

      Maybe she did molest said toddler. Maybe. But I’m not judging, yet. If, in the course of the trial it’s demonstrated that yes, there is a perfectly innocent and normal explanation and the jury correctly does not convict, the womans life will still have been ruined because a bunch of politicians and media needed their clicks. We’ll see.

      • kinnath

        That’s how I read the quoted text.

        It’s a far different scenario that was initially implied by sexual assault of a toddler.

        Fuck the media. Fuck the DA.

        Wait for the evidence to roll out.

      • EvilSheldon

        So I largely agree with you here.

        But the mere presence of a video recording of the ‘incident’ is disturbing all by itself. Anyone with a normal chromosome count should know that you don’t record toddlers in a bathroom, even in a completely innocent manner.

      • PutridMeat

        video recording of the ‘incident’ is disturbing all by itself.

        Do we know the source of the video? Cranmer recording it? Or, perhaps more likely given the situation – girls home while the mother was out – cameras installed by parents to monitor the home while they were out?

        That will be one of the many questions that will need to be answered before I even think about grabbing my pitchfork.

      • R.J.

        I grow weary of grabbing pitchforks. Both sides of the media need to cool it and get facts straight. Outrage is exhausting.

      • Common Tater

        “She was arrested for the disturbing sexual assault of a 2-year-old girl — which she captured in a Snapchat video, court papers allege. The victim had previously been widely reported to be a boy, but the prosecutor at Tuesday’s hearing referred to the victim using female pronouns.

        Cranmer’s long time best friend — who took her in, gave her an iPhone and let her babysit her daughter — discovered the alleged abuse, the filing alleges.

        Cranmer had been staying at the pal’s house — who court papers refer to as Ms. P. — from March through May and the friend bought her an iPhone 17 Pro and signed her up for cell service in April for Cranmer’s birthday.

        But the woman said Cranmer moved out of the home in early May and Ms. P. demanded the phone back, which Cranmer left in her mailbox, the filing alleges.

        The device didn’t have any passcode on it and contained a disturbing and incriminating video of a girl being sexually assaulted by Cranmer, the court documents and prosecutors allege.”

        https://nypost.com/2026/07/14/us-news/nj-babysitter-brazenly-left-video-evidence-of-sex-abuse-of-toddler-in-diapers-for-mom-to-find-docs/

      • EvilSheldon

        Or, perhaps more likely given the situation – girls home while the mother was out – cameras installed by parents to monitor the home while they were out?

        Fair point. Like I said, “Anyone with a normal chromosome count…” I’m a true believer in having good security at home, but installing cameras in your bathroom would be pretty fucking weird.

      • Brochettaward

        Sounds more like a case of two “friends” having a falling out and an accusation based on revenge to me.

        My fucking dog follows me into the bathroom and everywhere else and attacks me while I do anything. Or tries licking things.

        Am I assaulting his dopey little ass even when I tell him to get the fuck out of there?

        There’s video. We’ll see what a jury thinks *if* it gets to that because most shit just ends in plea deals, but I don’t think I’d even trust a modern jury on this shit.

    • juris imprudent

      The 25-year-old Cranmer was allegedly caught after a pal whose house she had been staying at for three months took back the phone she bought for Cranmer only to find the video on Cranmer’s Snapchat account.

      This begins to smell a bit. “A pal”, buys phone then takes it back? Although, Snapchat implies this was shared – perhaps with the same person who bought the phone?

      • Brochettaward

        If someone dropped a like (I’m assuming that’s a thing on the Snap), is that like consuming child sexual abuse material then?

    • rhywun

      After eighty years? Too soon!

      Since they seem determined to start WWIII with Russia I would be quite happy to see the US retreat from that mess.

      • Brochettaward

        Look, they went all in on the welfare state. You can’t just expect them to cut their citizens off cold turkey and put that money into bullets and bombs tomorrow. Need a few decades to ween them off the government teet.

    • juris imprudent

      nuclear-capable French Rafale fighter jets

      If they are nuclear bombs, then it isn’t really a fighter jet, is it?

      • Common Tater

        Fighter jets can and do drop bombs.

      • juris imprudent

        Sure, in a tactical theater, which given France would probably mean Germany.

    • Rat on a train

      It’s tragic that Europe can’t rely on US subsidies.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Heh, funny and proper use of the internet

    • rhywun

      “You ARE the ASS MAN.”

    • Gender Traitor

      I tried to get that on my Ohio plates and they turned me down. 😞

    • EvilSheldon

      Sweet drunken Enkidu, Karen, don’t you have anything real to complain about? Isn’t there a house in your HOA with unauthorized lawn furniture or something?

      • Fourscore

        Not sure but I’ll take a drive around

        /Not HOA person

      • Threedoor

        Someone in her HOA under 55…

    • RAHeinlein

      Lamont died earlier this year.

    • Fourscore

      If he was born in 1938 he was not 91 unless this is new math

  22. The Other Kevin

    From the Timmy article:

    “Did that make us any safer?” Walz said Tuesday, according to KTTC.
    Yes, demonstrably so.

    “Did that make the children that are left behind any more stable?”
    Yes, also demonstrably so.

    “Did it improve the idea that we can’t all be judged by our worst day?”
    The jails are full of murderers who just had a bad day.

    What an idiot.

    • Rat on a train

      One mass murder is all it takes for people to forget the good you’ve done.

      • EvilSheldon

        “No matter what great and terrible deeds you do, if you fuck just one one goat, you’ll never be anything other than a goat-fucker…”

    • Fourscore

      I moved vicariously to NoDak, next door to MikeS.

      Tired of Walz and his ignorant blathering.

  23. The Late P Brooks

    Constitutional crisis

    President Trump on Wednesday fired Roger Rogoff from his post as the top federal prosecutor in Seattle shortly after federal judges in the area installed him in the role.

    Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced Rogoff’s firing in a social media post and accused the judges serving on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, who had appointed Rogoff as U.S. attorney, of failing to consult with the administration before making their selection.

    “District court judges can appoint a temporary U.S. Attorney, and POTUS can fire them. WDWA judges abandoned the time-honored process of consultation with the administration so that the selected U.S. Attorney is qualified to serve in the administration,” he wrote on X. “Roger Rogoff has been fired by the President.”

    Sen. Patty Murray, a Washington Democrat, criticized Mr. Trump for the firing.

    Now they can have Trump jailed for contempt.

    • Brochettaward

      I honestly had no idea that there were scenarios where the federal judges of an area could install a prosecutor/the top prosecutor even temporarily. Seems like a pretty blatant conflict of interest thing there, THen there’s this:

      Murray accused the Trump administration of attempting to bypass the Senate’s advice-and-consent role to “install cronies to carry out a corrupt political agenda.”

      “The people of Washington state deserve someone in this role who will enforce the law fairly and responsibly — not some Trump administration sock puppet,” she said.

      Judges didn’t consult with anyone so are they really in a position to talk here?

      • Gustave Lytton

        Not just appoint me, but appointed a political hack opposed to the executive that they are nominally working for.

  24. The Late P Brooks

    Impromptu airshow

    Officials with the U.S. Navy’s elite Blue Angels flight demonstration squadron said they’re conducting a review after social media footage showed a jet flying low over a crowd of beachgoers in Pensacola Beach, Florida, on Wednesday morning.

    Nazis.

    • Fourscore

      Did the pilot get flashed? After the fact?

    • J. Frank Parnell

      Damn it, Maverick!

    • Michael Malaise

      I mean, it was hella cool looking but it did send umbrellas flying that are probably somewhat dangerous to people on a beach. I can understand the discontent there.

      Also, we all know pilots never make mistakes at air show style maneuvers, but a wrong move and 50 people are dead instantaneously.

  25. Brochettaward

    How do you address a grown man who actually thinks that government is just “you and me” and really their friend? I mean, same person is losing their shit and calling the current head of said government a fascist and of course doesn’t feel represented by it, but there’s a disconnect between current government and concept of government in general.

    This is mental illness to me.

    • EvilSheldon

      Really more cult indoctrination than organic mental illness, and most cult indoctrination methods are designed to short-circuit the rational parts of the brain. They’re sometimes called ‘thought-stopping rituals’.

      How to fix them? I don’t think it can be done in an adult. Not without intensive therapy, and try to find a therapist these days who isn’t a dedicated big-government simp…

  26. The Late P Brooks

    Erased

    Critics say the Trump administration acted under the “cover of darkness” to replace an exhibit exploring the lives of nine enslaved people who lived at George Washington’s ​Philadelphia home with a version that is overly sympathetic to enslavers and that whitewashes the country’s origins.

    ——–

    “People should really be afraid. This is always the first step to fascism,” Coard said. “This is bigger than the government removing some panels at a site in Philadelphia. What could theoretically happen if the president doesn’t like the Liberty Bell? So what do you do – you move the Liberty Bell? What if, because of immigration, the president doesn’t like the Statue of Liberty – do we get rid of the Statue of Liberty? This is a slippery slope.”

    Now no one will ever know slavery was bad.

    • Ted S.

      Is there a law mandating that specific exhibit?

      If not, this is a case of the Coards of the world thinking they’re in perpetuity entitled to control what exhibits are there, and nobody else should have the same right. Wicked totalitarians.

    • Rat on a train

      “Only our side is qualified to tear down monuments.”

    • EvilSheldon

      I’m losing count of the number of first steps to fascism we’ve taken…

      • Michael Malaise

        In the US, it’s the longest journey.

    • J. Frank Parnell

      Wait, the US had slavery at one point? This is the first I’m hearing of that.

      • creech

        You are kidding, right? The only thing I heard in 12+ years of schooling was that Muslims from Africa, for centuries, would raid Europe and carry off young, nubile white girls to serve as harem slaves.

    • rhywun

      This person actually believes that the Statue of Liberty is celebration of the invading hordes because of that stupid poem that was added later?

      Bless their stupid heart.

    • rhywun

      I can think of a few other “steps toward fascism” that have already been applied and that this retard is almost certainly fully supportive of.

  27. Gustave Lytton

    TIL that the one escape clause for an illegal to legalize their status is marriage to a service member. Which is absolute bullshit. Why is there not a command directive for all services prohibiting such marriages? Or prohibiting association with illegals. If they can do fraternization and off limit off post establishments, they can do the same for illegals.

    • UnCivilServant

      Fraternization with the enemy, which an invading illegal alien is, is grounds for court martial.

  28. J. Frank Parnell

    Did it improve the idea that we can’t all be judged by our worst day?

    Walz read The Killing Joke and thought, “Hey, you know, The Joker makes some good points here.”

  29. The Late P Brooks

    Desperation

    President Trump, who is scheduled to deliver an address to the nation tonight on election integrity and other topics, poses one of the gravest threats in American history to the free and fair elections vital to the survival of our democracy.

    Even as he falsely claims he wants to protect election integrity, Trump is working to rig elections in favor of his fellow Republicans.

    The president wants to prevent Democrats from gaining majority control of one or both congressional chambers in the midterm elections to stop them from blocking his favored legislation and investigating him and his administration. He has said a Democratic House majority would impeach him.

    He’s going to cancel the elections, shut down Congress and declare himself President for Life.

    • creech

      Are they talking about the SAVE act? Gee, I’d think they’d want to prevent the GOP from registering some reluctant meth-head redneck from a flyover state whose MAGA vote is going to offset their carefully considered and well educated vote for Socialism.

  30. The Late P Brooks

    In a further move to show his contempt for election integrity, Trump is demanding Congress pass a voter suppression bill titled the Save America Act. It would make it harder for millions of U.S. citizens to vote, but lacks enough support to overcome a Senate filibuster.

    The Save America Act would require Americans to show a photo ID to vote. It would require them to first go to a state elections office and produce a birth certificates, passports or naturalization papers to register to vote or update their registrations if necessary — for example, if they have changed addresses.

    But more than 21 million voting-age U.S. citizens don’t have easy access to such documents, which can be costly and time-consuming to replace. In addition, more than 60 million married American women who took the last names of their husbands do not have birth certificates that match their current names.

    Assuming, just for the sake of argument, this is in any way true, why not work on making the process of getting a replacement birth certificate easier? Note: the whole obsession with birth certificates is incomprehensible to me. My birth certificate doesn’t even have a picture of me on it.

    Also, don’t those married women have marriage licenses to corroborate the name change?

    DIWSCLAIMER-

    Everybody everywhere promoting this “Papieren, bitte” idiocy can eat shit and die.

    • J. Frank Parnell

      The Save America Act would require Americans to show a photo ID to vote. It would require them to first go to a state elections office and produce a birth certificates, passports or naturalization papers to register to vote or update their registrations if necessary — for example, if they have changed addresses.

      This is kind of funny because Europeans and leftists mocking stupid uneducated provincial Americans for not having passports has been a thing for pretty much my whole life.

    • Rat on a train

      My father changed his last name when his mother remarried. My mother changed her last name when she married. They had no trouble providing the one extra document to go with their birth certificate.

    • Michael Malaise

      “But more than 21 million voting-age U.S. citizens don’t have easy access to such documents, which can be costly and time-consuming to replace”

      What is cost of citizenry? Nothing?

    • Gustave Lytton

      It’s a bit of smoke and mirrors. Idaho’s marriage certificate just shows the names at application, not post marriage name.

  31. The Late P Brooks

    Trump’s actions show he has no interest in election integrity. He is only interested in winning elections by any means necessary.

    Another utterly unprecedented attack on democracy by President Cartoon Villain.

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