The Caps beat the Habs to open their series. Looks like Winnipeg is for real. Dallas evened up with the Avs. And LA topped Edmonton to open that Campbell Conference matchup. The Astros roller coaster kept going with a shutout win. And across thew pond, Forest topped luckless Spuds to move back into third in the EPL. And that’s it for sports.
Thanks for this great research, United Nations. You’ve managed to reach the same conclusion the rest of the world has been joking about for a decade now.
Man in the box. I wonder how many people the Vatican could have helped with the money this is gonna cost rather than just buying them a plane ticket for the US (with US taxpayer money funneled through one of their various charities).
This is pretty neat. I wonder if they’ll manage to dig it all up.
Strange bedfellows. Or whatever they were doing in there together.
This MF is crazy. And I do not mean that in a good way.
There will be much interest from Glibs on the outcome of this case. We’ll try to keep track of it for you.
But…why? They already have their own diarrhea activation restaurants.
I’m sure they’ll find a judge who agrees with them. Hell, they could probably go to the same court that agreed Biden could cut funding to schools who didn’t tow the progressive lion. Because principals over principles.
This is interesting. It’s actually logical, which is strange for this city. Although I do not approve because I believe in property rights.
Of course people are complaining, you idiot. Because you dickheads folded on vouchers and just gave a shitload of our money to failing public schools instead.
Get the blood pumping. That song should help. So should this one. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Tuesday, dear friends.
The Venezuelans are just doing the cucking that Americans refuse to do!
I was unaware that there was a cucking deficit.
I assume the wife is hideous.
I suppose they could charge them all with myriad crimes to find out exactly what they were doing with the guy.
We’ll see if the political connections keep him and his family out of hot water. My guess is that they will.
I am of course just inventing what’s going on there. But it’s predicated on the ideas that gang members typically avoid normal employment, and they were housing the dude in close physical proximity.
I was unaware that there was a cucking deficit.
When it comes to cucking, just assume that you are going to have to help someone out who is already in the hole.
I have tried a handful of NY distilleries. They suck. And are remarkably expensive — like you could buy Talisker for the same price.
The breweries and cideries otoh are quite good/excellent. No idea why the distillers can’t figure out how to make a decent tipple.
It may suck for us in New York, but my first impression would be that 21A leaves New York in the right on this one.
One of the few things that there is actually constitutional authority for.
Same here, Ted. Ordinarily, amendments override previous provisions if they come in conflict, so the 21A grant of authority should override the “dormant” Commerce Clause.
I just wanna buy liquor in supermarkets. IIRC you can do this in other states I have lived in like NJ and CA.
Hell, you can buy liquor in convenience stores in AZ.
One of the best parts of working matches in Marengo is the Kroger’s liquor stores.
Yeah I almost wrote just “stores”.
I remember buying vodka from the corner store all the time in SF.
I want to do that too, and think I should be able to do so in the “Live Free or Die” state.
When the New Hampshire Liberty Association put out a call to members for ideas for legislation, I said NH should privatize the liquor stores.
Some legislators listened. Unfortunately it died.
I think PA will privatize its liquor stores before NH. PLCB stores bring in less money as a percentage of overall state revenue than NHLC stores. PLCB stores are also hated in a way, or at least used to be hated when I lived in PA, that NHLC stores are not.
New Hampshire Liberty Alliance, not Association.
New Hampshire Liberty Alliance, not Association.
SPLITTERS!
“Hello, United Nations — this is Bob with the Internal Revenue Service. We have detected hackers have taken over your computer and wire fraud has occurred in your accounts. You must call us back at 1-888-DUM-BASS or you may be arrested and photos taken via your webcams released to your family and coworkers.”
I was just thinking that, were photos of me looking at my phone released, I’d likely be thought of as a psycho-killer.
You aren’t a psycho-killer?
Qu’est-ce que c’est?
*struggles to control facial expression*
Who wants to know?
👏
The Texas budget pisses me off. Stupid assholes. Nobody asked for any of that spending.
Exactly. The asshole voted for a tax increase to do what – correct the problems caused by all the previous tax increases?
And hes lying when he says “lesson learned.”
There’s no editorializing in this snippet, none whatsoever:
It’s remarkable how that story lands a lot differently if you change “public education” and “public schools” to “government education” and “government schools”.
Those poor British students. They are going to fail for sure because those pesky archaeologists interrupted them while they were boning up for the big test.
They should’ve put a sock on the door if they didn’t want their boning interrupted.
I’m pretty sure “boning up” has a different meaning in the British boarding school system than it does in America.
I was doing some training at an old job and the class was half American and half Brits.
After lunch one day, one of the American gals said “I’m stuffed” and the Brits fell out of their chairs laughing.
I’m just trying to figure out how they got the native americans over to England so they could kill them and bury them under the school.
“It said the withholding of federal funding violated Harvard’s constitutional rights”
The gimme free shit clause?
Now do Title IX and the denial of due process.
;
%#%@% bullshit.
The intent is to end unconstitutional racist favoritism, The BBC.
Bob Jones has to be laughing.
One of the PowerLine “I swear I’m not a Never Trumper” guys predicts that Harvard will win. Basically because the Trump admin didn’t follow the correct process.
this guy seems to be implying that any administration can just agree to contractually fund an entity for decades and the next guy cant stop it.
IANAL but it seems like just a matter of when in the calendar year the funding can be cut off. Grants that had been approved will be fulfilled but grants in the near future will be denied or not even offered.
If it’s a procedural violation and the SC clarifies the requirements to meet said procedure and rules on those merits it’s not that big of a deal. Just take a mulligan, follow the outlined process, and do it again.
It’s not like they were just forgiving student loans or rewriting bankruptcy law on the fly…
We all remember Jesus’s Sermon on the Temple Mount… “Blessed are the moneychangers, for they shall earn compound interest. Blessed are the hoarders of wealth, for they shall get to take it with them. Blessed are you that take from your neighbor by the sword to redistribute and call it charity, for surely you knowest better…” after all. He’d be so down for the current Church….
Yeah, that shit drives me nuts when people cite Jesus to justify government entitlements. No you idiots, Jesus said YOU should be charitable, not that you should have government take your neighbor’s stuff by force and give it away.
“It’s charity when WE say it is!”
Yep. And if you don’t agree, The Holy See will issue an edict saying you have to agree with them or you’ll be considered a heretic.
It’s almost as if the Roman church has completely missed the point Christ was making.
Being charitable with my money requires sacrifice.
Oh, the Catholic Church lost the plot on being Christlike when they hooked up with Charlemagne.
lost the plot
Charlemagne, sure, but I’d say even earlier, when it became the official religion of Rome.
He did say that the poor will always be with us.
That seems like as good call.
Wouldn’t it be funny if they buried him in the red shoes?
Because the angels want to wear them?
obligatory
The wicked bitch of the east?
Hochul?
I get the same feeling when looking at beautiful churches. That money surely could have been put to better use.
I have to say, I’m a bit upset at some of the antipopeism that has surfaced here.
You people make it sound like tithing to the Church is a bad thing. Or that us popes spending of that money isn’t directly ordered by doG himself. It isn’t our fault that the Heavenly Father wants us Popes to live a nice life with nice things. We are just following orders!
Jimbo, nobody is buying it.
And pay your tab, you’re cut off until you’re settled.
Tough crowd, man
Never stick it in crazy.
Im ok with sticking covid vax boosters in crazy.
Do you want airborne Creutzfeldt-Jakob? Because this is how you get airborne Creutzfeldt-Jakob.
Having now actually read TFA, I am hoping that not only does CA win, but this decision can be used (it will not, but a man can dream) to overturn NY’s ban on direct shipment of ammo to customers.
In the same way that comedians seem to need to have dark dark aspects of their personality they cover for by seeking laughter… most celebrities seem to have deep psychological issues. So not terribly surprised…. I suspect most people wouldn’t be willing to put themselves out there for approval in the way they (and most drama kids?) do.
For the celebs it seems the underlying issues are usually severe narcissism in combination with physical attractiveness such that they get passed around in order to get a leg up. I could see how that’d warp your psyche going forward.
“Ruth Ehrenkrantz, a Berkeley resident, spoke in favor of the ordinance. “Do we want to hold on to our insurance? We do. Michael Gollner, director of Berkeley Fire Research Lab at UC Berkeley, says science is clear. Removing combustible material from the 5 feet around a house is among the most important mitigation actions a fire homeowner can do,” she said.”
Fake quote?
Probably read off a card.
While I hear sloop on property rights, fire is a “common enemy” (like flood water). When your house catching fire because you’re a dumbass puts my house at serious risk of catching fire, it starts being my business, too.
I won’t completely disagree. I’ll think about this a bit more once the shock that Berkeley actually passed an ordinance based on logic rather than feelings has passed.
A similar ordinance here would mean I would lose a little landscaping, and maybe one of the few decent shade trees around our house, depending on how it’s interpreted/applied. I would be not happy to lose the tree. Given the number of houses with flat roofs in Tucson, though, it would be pretty senseless – clearing the stuff from around the giant ember-catching flammable surface isn’t really going to help.
It would push me to remove a tree faster than I was thinking, but the Wife is really starting to worry about it vis-a-vis the neighbor’s house.
It starts with 5 ft clearing and ends in everybody having to put a mask on their house.
“Archaeologists unexpectedly uncover hundreds of skeletons”
Now we know where the genocided Indians from the Residential Schools were buried. Or was it the black slaves the Medievals kept?
“Harvard University sues Trump administration to stop funding freeze”
Because free speech requires massive amounts of no-question subsidies.
“Berkeley’s proposed new law would be among the strictest in California”
A law that Karens will absolutely LOOOOVE!
“Texas lawmaker faces backlash over comments on education funding”
What the link said.
Is Harvard’s argument that tax payers should subsidize whatever shit they want to do, regardless of if the tax payers want to? Because this is not a freedom of speech argument. Harvard has been told they are violating/breaking the law with their DEI shit, and thus they will not be getting tax payer money anymore. They can choose to comply with the law, or they cane comply and get the money. They have no right to getting both.
It’s just like the right to keep and bear arms, where the government has to provide funding for your guns and ammo.
Globalization / melding of culture? Eventually, all restaurants will be Taco Bell after all.
(More seriously… maybe “Americanized Mexican” is sufficiently distinct to have a niche there relative to the authentic stuff? — I don’t know how far our “Mexican” is… but given what I hear the Chinese and Italians think of our relative representations, I’m sure Mexico has a few words on that front too… so this is like a Panda Express opening up in Beijing… not what they’re used to…)
Yeah, I can’t see there being a big demand for gringo burritos in Mexico.
Eh, food is food. India’s version of fake Chinese food has restaurants here, and it’s pretty tasty.
Mission-style burritos are convenient and portable. They used to be a cheap fast food, maybe in MX they will be again?
And you people need to harden up your digestive tracts if you can’t handle fast food beans!
The beans and meat are fine. It’s their handling of produce that causes all the problems.
Is that produce thing like the chef adding some of his own cream to the chowder?
Count how many Mexicans visit your local Chipotle (or Taco Bell, etc.)
My local Chipotle is next door to a place that makes the absolute best chicken sandwiches. I have no idea how it (the Chipotle) stays in business.
If any of you pass through town, you owe it to yourself to go to https://hattiesrestaurants.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Hatties-Wilton-All-Day-Menu-2024-1.pdf
I wouldn’t know what the sandwich tastes like if they serve bone-in chicken.
If you want the bone-in, order it “extra crunchy”
I like to eat different cuisines. Taco Bell on Monday, Chipotle on Tuesday, Moe’s on Wednesday, Fuzzy’s Tacos on Thursday, and for a treat, On the Border on Fridays.
Saturdays and Sundays are reserved for home cooked tamales.
I’ve had “real Mexican” at some joint in Cleveland and it was bland AF.
I’ll take gringo Mex any day.
There’s a big variety of cuisines in Mexico. Mexico City has its own style, the coasts go for seafood dishes, northern Mexico is where you tend to get lots of spice, etc.
Tex-Mex is the superior -Mex.
Oh, sure. I don’t know what variety I was having.
Living in Austin taught me that Michoacana > Puebla Mexican. In Burleson there is a restaurant (El Meson) that claims to be Mexico City style and it’s very different but also very good.
Tex-Mex is the Soul Food of the region.
Here in Cleveland? Probably not real Mexican. We seem to have a lot more Puerto Ricans and South Americans than Mexicans.
Tex Vs Mex
https://youtu.be/F1909yNawx0?si=JdMdSGjJm_r7Oqch
A new Mexican restaurant opened near me. The menu is Spanish and all of the dishes seem to be some sort of cow tongue. I’ll take a hard pass and enjoy the Americanized version.
I’ve seen a few youtube videos of someone exploring a lot of restaurants in Mexico City, especially roadside stands/ hole in the wall type places. It doesn’t seem all the different… tortillas with meat, cheese, maybe veggies, and sauce. Just the meat is mostly pork and the tortillas are cooked fresh.
Was the restaurant named “Lengua de Vaca”?
Northern Mexican food also uses a lot of sour cream. It is all of the German/Swiss Mennonites who moved there.
Tex-Mex is like saying Texas BBQ. The rest of the world just looks at you and says “OK, little guy.”
Cow tongue tacos are actually delicious, especially when served out of a sketchy looking food truck just outside the Long Beach, CA shipping docks.
/don’t knock it til you’ve tried it
“Cow tongue tacos are actually delicious, especially when served out of a sketchy looking food truck just outside the Long Beach, CA shipping docks.”
Concur on the cow tongue out of food trucks. Not just in CA, but anywhere you can find it except for in NYC where it is rat.
Here I thought we were heading for a Carl’s Jr.
Here’s your EXTRA BIG ASS TACO – now with more MOLECULES!
Yeah, but they can take your children…
I swear when we first moved out here and were renting a place in the hills west of Gilroy that this sort of thing was mandated by Santa Clara county already. But yeah — logical. I don’t know what’s “high fire” in Berkeley proper though… they’re right off the Bay, I didn’t think they got as dry. And certainly most of the town / housing planning has stressed “packing in the houses” so I don’t know how this works with the “you can touch your neighbors house reaching out your bathroom window” developments… but not my neighborhood, not my problem.
It is interesting, as usually the Berkeley city council only concerns itself with screwing over any drivers in the place, and not with how much trash is hanging around.
In my experience, most of the Bay Area trash was hanging around Haight Street.
East bay trash is all over Telegraph in Berkeley or International in Oakland.
I grew up over the hills from Berkeley and we had to clear the weeds from our property every year by order of the fire marshal. At least that’s the story my mom told me to get me to do the yard work.
What — the trend of more funding and less accountability isn’t likely to work? Chicago would have a sad if they weren’t busy cackling maniacally….
Some of us don’t have defective bowels. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yeah, I know it’s a trope, but how long has it been since Chipotle had those contamination issues, anyway? As compared to other chains, too? It’s actually on the list of places I will eat when, say, I’m in an airport on a tight deadline, that kind of thing. It’s fine, better than most fast food and pretty typical for “fast casual”. Yeah, yeah, I know it’s not as good as your favorite local hole-in-the-wall that nobody else can even get to . . . .
The issue is because of their focus on freshness it increases the risk of foodborne illness. They pretended it wasn’t an issue until it was.
No way…
Trump Follows but Rebrands Biden’s Semiconductor Policy – WSJ
*cups ear*
Did I hear, reduce regulatory burdens? Just getting rid of the DEI crap (I don’t know for certain it was in the semiconductor program, but I bet it was) would probably bring in some new players.
💯% chance it was.
The DEI crap and carveouts in the semiconductor incentive program were so eggregious that companies opted to forgo the government cash rather than get bogged down in that mess.
Who knew that throwing gravel into the gravy makes it less appetizing?
“The sexually explicit messages blasted out by Sharpe’s legal team include the accuser allegedly telling the former Denver Bronco, 56, she wants him to “put a dog collar around my neck” and “tie me up and do bad things to me,” as the ESPN personality’s defense lawyer named the plaintiff who is only identified as a Jane Doe in legal papers.
The trove of purported messages “clearly indicate the nature of their relationship was consensual and sexual in nature — and, in many cases, initiated by her with specific and graphic requests,” Sharpe’s attorney Lanny J. Davis said in a statement….
Davis said Sharpe and the accuser had consensual sex until Jan. 2, 2025 — the day after she allegedly asked for $25,000 per cheek,” in a message.
“I know u miss this big juicy ass…$25k for each cheek,” she allegedly wrote, according to the 44 pages of texts Sharpe’s legal team released.
Before that message, Sharpe wished her a happy new year and said if she sent him $50,000 she could come over to his house, another alleged message states.”
https://nypost.com/2025/04/21/sports/shannon-sharpes-lawyers-release-x-rated-alleged-texts-name-of-accuser-in-50m-civil-rape-lawsuit/
That they are keeping her name secret is bullshit.
Releasing her name would have a chilling effect on other thots trying to shake down their sugar daddies. Can’t have that.
She was a ho. A high fee one, but a ho.
Just for Neph!
Three Factories, $355,000 and the Maddening Quest to Make a Clear Can – WSJ
What’s wrong with a jar of beer?
Jars are for whiskey.
Obligatory.
Thin Lizzy – Whiskey In The Jar 1973
https://youtu.be/6WDSY8Kaf6o?si=UfelWaCP37EFqifY
… why?
Transparent aluminum dates back to the ’80s …
Caffeinated water is as appealing as non-alcoholic beer.
I have a feeling that won’t be as big of a draw for the beer industry. The problem with bottles is them letting in too much light, so making transparent cans reduces one of the benefits. It’ll also be a lot easier to see any sediment that’s left in the can.
I’m surprised Sloopy didn’t link to this soccer story.
Shouldn’t that have been awarded before Easter?
That’s fantastic. He’s gonna have a nice feast in the fall when that lamb grows up and becomes food.
He should name it CHOP.
Student loans in default to be referred to debt collection, Education Department says
Temporary meant temporary, who knew?
Missing nine months of payments after being told you have to start up again requires some dedication to the grift.
“A Las Vegas veterinarian who went missing in early April — shortly after a video of him brutally kicking a horse in the face surfaced online — was found dead in a lake Friday.
Dr. Shawn Frehner, 56, was recovered from Lake Mead, a reservoir spanning from Nevada to Arizona. Authorities combed the reservoir after finding his truck and multiple personal belongings near the water’s edge last week.”
https://nypost.com/2025/04/21/us-news/las-vegas-veterinarian-filmed-kicking-horse-in-the-face-found-dead/
Murder or suicide?
I assume the horse killed the vet?
Horses: the hate mammals that hate.
This kind of horror story might be more appropriate for a Wednesday.
https://gizmodo.com/flesh-eating-infections-of-the-vulva-are-on-the-rise-doctors-warn-2000589478
Say a prayer for Not Adahn’s vulva.
Take note ladies. This is what happens when you get in vulva with strange men at the bar.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
That first car…
A Mercedes driver doing a good deed?
I think that’s the fifth seal of the apocalypse.
Next thing you know a BMW will signal before turning or passing.
And then…the rapture.
Nonsense, everyone knows BMWs don’t have working turn signals.
Still need the Browns to win a Super Bowl so we are safe for some time.
And when they do use the turn signal…
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/1k2j9du/oc_when_your_gf_says_shes_home_alone_and_youre/
The Bee on point.
Minnesoda govt Tesla vandal will not be charged. Instead he will be put in a diversion program and will – pinky swear – make restitution.
Hopefully the Feds will step in and charge this piece of shit. Otherwise, they’ll just keep doing it and will crowdfund the restitution.
With enough crowdfunding left over to reward him for his contribution to the cause.
Yep. If the Feds don’t do this they are signaling the people prepping for another summer of love that they will get away with it. Have no doubt team blue plans to affect the coming mid terms with violence to cow voters. The jurisdictions where they will do this shit will be turning a blind eye to these crimes. The feds have to make sure people realize there will be consequences, so they think twice about the terroism.
What two-tier justice system?
I know the standard libertarian position for this would be a civil remedy to make the victim whole and the state’s only involvement would be to ensure that happened, but I believe in severe criminal prosecution for shit like this be administered solely for punitive purposes and as a deterrent to other shitbirds who would do likewise.
It’s time to not only reopen the asylums, but to build more prison space and to throw terrorists like this into them for a very, very long time.
My dad was a probation officer and he said that restitution was the least of his worries. He wasn’t a collections agency. As long as his probationer wasn’t committing more crimes, he was OK.
He told me this after I asked him about how a friend of mine could get the court ordered restitution actually paid.
So I don’t think that those Tesla owners are going to see squat.
I know the standard libertarian position for this would be a civil remedy to make the victim whole and the state’s only involvement would be to ensure that happened
That’s on the AnCap side. This is use of violence not an accident or property dispute so criminal charges are warranted.
I am with the Rat on this one. This was the use of force that could have killed someone.
In principle I don’t have a particular problem with restitution vs. punishment for certain classes of crime. Or at least am open to that discussion. However, it all boils down to, as WTF says, What two-tier justice system? If ‘we’ choose, after debate, discussion, resolution to treat some actions in a civil matter – or stocks in the public square – rather than prison time, that might work and be a better approach to what we do now. But that’s not what’s happening here. We have politically motivated DAs picking and choosing winners for favored political outcomes.
Zwak, even without the risk of life, I’m uncomfortable with the idea that people can go around intentionally destroying property because they can afford to pay for the damages.
Well, the thing with civil “punishments” (fines) is that they boil down to “legal, for a price”.
I have a hard time believing the bill for fixing vandalism on six cars is only $20K, at today’s prices.
I’m not entirely clear how diversion is holding him accountable, either.
“We’re diverting him from accountability.”
The same DA gave a plea deal to a 17 year-old kid who was involved in a home invasion that ended up in a murder.
Same reasoning in this case? Libs are easily manipulated and subjected to peer pressure?
“Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has been criminally referred to the Department of Justice by House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) over allegedly false statements Cuomo made to Congress regarding Covid-19 impact on nursing home deaths.
In a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, Comer wrote that the “Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic is examining the United States’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic,” and that as part of the investigation, the committee “conducted a transcribed interview with the former Governor of the State of New York, Andrew M. Cuomo, who was accompanied by counsel.”
“During the transcribed interview, the Select Subcommittee believes that Mr. Cuomo made false statements about his involvement in and knowledge of the drafting of the July 6 Report,” the letter added.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-andrew-cuomo-referred-to-doj-for-criminal-prosecution-by-house-gop
Where are the 15,000 counts of depraved indifference homicide? Son of a bitch deserves to be thrown behind bars until he’s nothing but dust.
The same place that the case against FDR for denying the civil rights of Japanese Americans for no reason is languishing.
That’s a state crime, not fed. It’ll be up to Tish to file that one.
They are federally charging Luigi. I’m sure they can make up some interstate nexus for Cuomo as well.
That’s “next mayor of New York City” to you.
“Four Democratic lawmakers traveled to El Salvador in an effort to release alleged MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was deported by the Trump administration last month, only to be denied the ability to meet with Abrego Garcia by the local government, which cited that the trip was not officially approved.
Reps. Robert Garcia (D-CA), Maxwell Frost (D-FL), Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ), and Maxine Dexter (D-OR) all traveled to El Salvador on Monday morning, according to Axios. House Oversight Chairman James Comer wrote on X that El Salvador refused to meet with the four Democratic lawmakers after their arrival.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/four-dems-denied-meeting-with-kilmar-abrego-garcia-after-flying-to-el-salvador
What is the point of meeting with him?
Well you need someone at the table who can order margaritas in the native tongue.
I can’t figure out what exactly the Dems are hoping to gain by being on the wrong side of 80-20 and even 90-10 issues like this.
They’re just making sure they aren’t primaried by the Hogg contingent.
I’m worried they’re going to capture the critical MS-13 vote. If combined with the radical transsexual vote that’s another 0.1 percent easy.
I think they are trying to redefine “due process”. If one immigrant gets court hearings and appeals, then everyone gets them, and that will overwhelm the system. Meanwhile, those millions of migrants get to stay.
“In a glamorous puff piece about trans college volley ball player Blair Fleming, The New York Times has revealed that Nike is funding a study to measure teenagers’ fitness prior to taking drugs for a sex change and afterwards. Essentially, Nike is experimenting on teenagers.
The study is meant to determine if males have innate physical advantages over women. The Times notes that when the NCAA first created their trans inclusion policy in 2012 to say that athletes should compete on the team that aligns with their “gender identity” rather than their biological sex, the going belief was that males who were taking estrogen “were, physiologically, more athletically similar to women than to men.”
Harper’s concern, however, is that with the Trump administration’s executive order banning medical sex changes for minors, the study could be in jeopardy. Harper told the Times “the curent climate makes the study somewhat uncertain.”
“If we can’t perform gender-affirming care,” Harper said, “then we can’t bring people into the study.””
https://thepostmillennial.com/nike-trans-scientist-conduct-medical-study-on-trans-teens-to-see-if-men-are-stronger-than-women
I can’t read the NYT article, but WTF??
The study is meant to determine if males have innate physical advantages over women.
Why don’t we ask all of the female defensive line players in the NFL?
They should just consult the Williams sisters:
https://www.marca.com/en/more-sports/2017/06/27/595296da468aeb99218b464c.html
Are men stronger the women? The world may never know.
Pretty obvious all that person cares about is the grant money.
And transing kids, apparently.
This might be old news, but WTF?
The thief got away with Noem’s driver’s license, medication, apartment keys, passport, DHS access badge, makeup bag, blank checks, and about $3,000 in cash.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/21/politics/homeland-security-kristi-noem-purse-stolen/index.html
Who the fuck carries $3k in cash?
Aren’t you supposed to keep it in piles around the house?
every man should carry a wad of cash
I generally only carry what I expect to spend. Reduces how much can be stolen.
ROAT, I think the freezer is where people typically keep their cash, isn’t it?
piles of cash are a bad idea the rats may it them. It is a stupid problem to have, but still a problem.
Rats don’t generally chew on gold. Buy gold.
Maybe she’s dealing a little blow on the side.
or she is blowing on the side… 100 a pop
“Who the fuck carries $3k in cash?”
My dad. Of course, he dressed like a bum most of the time, so no issues.
Who the fuck carries $3k in cash?
Checks wallet… Hmmm, down to $1k, better run by the bank and replenish.
Always carried cash in general, picked up the habit of carrying larger amount during the plague years.
Yeah…that’s not a lot.
Yeah, that caught my eye, too.
I saw a headline that said it was family Easter dinner. Perhaps to pay the restaurant in cash? No idea how big the group was. But the amount still seems oddly high…
Family Easter dinner at Capitol Burger? Doesn’t seem like her style.
Maybe learn from Nadine’s mistakes…
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/nadine-bob-menendez-wife-guilty-bribary-charges-b7721e6d?st=79fvSH&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
“DHS told Newsweek via email that Noem had the $3,000 in cash to “treat her family to dinner, activities, and Easter gifts.”
That actually makes sense, since restaurants at this point are charging up to an extra 4% on top of your bill if you pay with a credit card.
There was a bit of a website issue and I ended up on a 404 page for one of the townhall media sites. Because they might have fixed the issue, the URL I was on might not go there directly anymore. But I did grab a direct link to The image they used.
whats the most beautiful aircraft ever?
https://x.com/eigenrobot/status/1914162645495620026
The yellow one looks like a tick with a few legs pulled off. The white one is bland and uninteresting.
I think I’ve figured out what I don’t like about that jet – I just prefer swept wing aircraft.
Not saying it’s the undisputed champ, but certainly a top contender.
This is likely the spiritual successor and my personal favorite.
I’m rather fond of the SR-71 Blackbird
https://boomsupersonic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/DF-ST-89-06282.jpeg
America cant build something like that no more. Sad.
One of my favorites, but it’s huge.
Pretty much anything designed by Burt Rutan:
https://www.aerosociety.com/news/sky-changer-50-years-of-rutans-greatest-hits/
The thief got away with Noem’s driver’s license, medication, apartment keys, passport, DHS access badge, makeup bag, blank checks, and about $3,000 in cash.
The thing I read yesterday didn’t name the restaurant, but I doubt it was Red Lobster. I also doubt it was a random opportunistic purse snatch. The cash (she was going shopping) was just an unexpected bonus.
Capital Burger on Seventh Street NW
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/21/kristi-noem-purse-stolen-easter/
No idea how ritzy.
Upscale but casual.
Good to know her Secret Service detail is on the ball there. Still too many DEI agents maybe.
“Tortoise Media, considered a leftwing British news site, launched a campaign called “Hot Air” this month that blames the shift in public support for climate policies on the spread of what it calls “misinformation.”
“Hot Air: the danger of climate misinformation” purportedly uses AI to create a database of online content expressing skeptical views of the “climate crisis” narrative. The goal of the initiative is to identify influencers and publications that are spreading this alleged “misinformation” online and get social media companies to remove the content.”
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/energy/activist-campaign-uses-ai-identify-deniers-and-pressure-social-media
Long article details censorship campaigns by climate alarmists.
If the truth and the data are on your side, you don’t need censorship.
BUT GLOBAL RESET!!!!
Because they can’t win with reality.
most beautiful aircraft ever?
this one, maybe
No. Form follows function, and those completely sucked as flying machines.
The greatest news interview of all time. Nothing can prepare you for what happens 20 seconds into this clip.
https://x.com/malonebarry/status/1914426038504886428
Cloning? Or clowning?
It happened on Steve Irwin Way?
“A Gucci B large shoulder bag, of the type Noem was carrying, is available for $4,400, per the label’s website.
The stolen pocketbook had a Louis Vuitton Clemence Purse inside, which sells for $600, according to a complaint filed with local police.
The larger bag had been placed on the ground at Noem’s table when it was snatched, according to the report.
Security footage reviewed by the Secret Service showed a white man in a N95 surgical mask, dark pants, a “fur-type” collar and a ball cap snatching Noem’s bag before leaving the restaurant. The suspect had not been identified as of Monday afternoon.”
https://nypost.com/2025/04/21/us-news/kristi-noems-purse-with-3k-cash-inside-snatched-by-thief-during-outing-at-dc-restaurant/
Enough with the masks already.
The week they came out with the ludicrous bullshit that masks will save you (or others!) from the terrible virus, I said to anyone that would listen that if this ended up taking hold that for many years after we would see a rise in crime and criminals managing to not get caught as they wouldn’t be ID’d by video as easily and take advantage of the societal change in mask wearing norms. I hold that one of the principal reasons for the decrease in crime that we saw starting in the mid 90’s and continuing up through 2019 (with a short uptick exception during the first BLM movement) was due video cameras. It’s one of the main reasons why we don’t have nearly the amount of serial killers that we had in the 70’s and 80’s and they became school shooters instead.
I am currently “immunocompromised” and am supposed to wear the fucking thing in places like a supermarket.
Am wondering how potential laws against masks are supposed to function in reality.
So, does Noem have family money? If not, how does she afford $5K in handbags?
2 female German tourists, 18 and 19 y.o., were detained in Honolulu for a terrible ‘crime’ of not pre-booking a hotel for their trip. Before deportation, they had to spend the night at the detention center.
News like that will certainly do wonders for Hawaiian tourism industry
https://x.com/RitornellaNYC/status/1914021508252377551
wycome Murika hates young German female backpackers? I am sure they would have found some local young men to provide temporary accommodation.
Allegedly they were claiming they were going to work in the U.S.
Working girls . . . .
Can’t have that.
Uh, pretty much every country I’ve entered has required me state or show booking for accommodations when I was there.
Next up, foreign visitors without a return ticket denied boarding by the airline.
Did they come to fix the cable?
What about this one?
seems a bit small
At least the thief didn’t get her incredibly expensive watch.
Is Noem independently rich or did she pay for all this on her public service salary?
Good to know her Secret Service detail is on the ball there. Still too many DEI agents maybe.
They were scanning the rooftops for snipers.
Japan’s stereotypes of the world. 1932
https://x.com/Msamalam/status/1901673197554012405
I don’t get what Romania is supposed to be
🤷♂️
From what little I can recognize, that map could be re-titled ‘Literally Everybody’s Stereotypes About the Rest of the World, circa 1932.’
Minor edits could bring it up to modern stereotypes.
Looks like Romania is represented by traditional peasant dress?
But, I gotta say, that is one cool map! Australia is awesome!
I can’t stand the dynamic compression on YouTube and it’s a PITA to disable. Fortunately I don’t use YouTube Music.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/04/youtube-music-gets-consistent-volume-option-to-save-your-ears/
In the Pope articles, it says he made his own funeral arrangements, which include burial in a side chapel instead of the main tomb, and burial in a wooden casket instead of the usual three. I didn’t agree with him on much, but I appreciate at least a little humility.
Wooden exterior, zinc interior I heard. Apparently the popes are very much into being canned. At least this is much less toxic than the previous lead ones.
Principled objections
More than 150 university and college presidents co-signed a letter on Tuesday condemning the Trump administration’s recent efforts to dictate the policies of private higher education institutions in exchange for federal funding.
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The letter’s signatories range from large public universities to small liberal arts schools, and include each of the Ivy League schools, except for Columbia University and Dartmouth College.
“As leaders of America’s colleges, universities, and scholarly societies, we speak with one voice against the unprecedented government overreach and political interference now endangering American higher education,” the Tuesday letter, orchestrated by the American Association of Colleges and Universities, says.
The egghead aristocracy cannot abide government overreach.
Wonder if they signed a letter when the government ‘forced’ them, with the stick of funding, to jab every student and employee with an experimental gene therapy? No? Are we back to this ‘two-tier’ thing again? Rules for thee, not for me? It’s OK when we do it? Title IX? Am I the questioner personality type? Are personality types bullshit? Can I stop and hit “Submit”?
Obama’s Title IX chicanery depriving accused students of rights was no biggie though.
Piles of free cash with strings attached are literally unheard of.
“dictate the policies of private higher education institutions in exchange for federal funding”
They really are tone-deaf.
F1 survives to fight another day!
The EU Parliament confirmed to Motor1 carbon fiber has been removed from a proposal that would blacklist it from use in car production.
https://www.motor1.com/news/756682/carbon-fiber-not-banned-in-europe/
Rated two nipples up on YOUR Titty Tuesday.
https://archive.is/VD6vL
Why are cars so expensive? Why is car insurance so expensive?
Subaru’s Forester Gets The World’s First Airbag For Cyclists
https://www.carscoops.com/2025/04/new-subaru-airbag-catches-cyclists-before-the-windshield-does/
Waiting for SF’s take on this.
So, you hit a cyclist, and the airbag inflates? Isn’t that just going to launch the cyclist?
If so, I approve.
For whatever reason, I gave a thought to what amount of due process should be applied to deportation events.
I concluded that the prospective deportee should be given the chance to provde that they are either A: A Citizen, or B: A Legal Permanant Resident. If so, the case is handed over to the regular courts. If not, they get sent out, as those are the two categories of people who have any degree of right to be here, and the rest are either illegals, or guests, who can be sent home at any time.
If they have reasonable suspicion that you are illegal requiring you to provide proof of legal presence is part of due process. There are some edge cases. LPR are supposed to keep their card with them when out. Citizens aren’t required to carry id and what proves citizenship varies. I have no issues as long as they are reasonable in how proof is provided.
So you want to deport everyone who is here legally who isn’t a citizen or permanent resident?
We have to move some 20-30 Million illegal aliens out the door, some other visiting foreigners might get swept up in that.
At least all the UN diplomats and staff …
No refugee exception? I know the existence of a refugee exceptions means everyone will claim to be a refugee, but are there cases where someone is legitimately in danger if they return to their nation of origin? If so, how do you handle them?
No. This is not a safe country. Take refuge elsewhere.
Aren’t regugees supposed to go to the nearest safe country? In that case, no, unless they are coming from Canada or Mexico.
That said, I am in favor of a Low Wall, Wide Gate immigration policy, were all you need to do is show up at a designated entry port, get a pass, and come on it. But, that also includes forcibly removing everyone who did not do this in getting here.
I am not going to lie – I am a high walls, closed gates, lethal enforcement kinda guy when it comes to immigration policy.
We have a mess to clean up and more people coming in will not help.
I am at the point where I couldn’t care less. The US is not a dumping ground for anyone and everyone fleeing their shitholes.
Also, the (legal?) requirement means they stop at the nearest “safe” country anyway. Which rules out the vast majority of claimants in the US.
Subaru’s Forester Gets The World’s First Airbag For Cyclists
Where’s the dog-friendly airbag?
Right wing climate denialism
Instead of forcing all 27 EU countries to sell only EVs from the middle of the next decade, the right-wing government of Giorgia Meloni argues state members should have more freedom in terms of reaching decarbonization targets. The switch can’t happen in just 10 years from now, so a gradual transition from ICE to EV would be a more realistic objective.
In the last few months, we’ve seen most automakers active in Europe adjust their EV goals by pushing back their lofty all-electric agendas. Even Volvo doesn’t think it can end sales of gas cars by 2030 anymore. The likes of Mercedes, Porsche, Bentley, and Ford of Europe are no longer confident that they’ll go electric-only as previously announced.
With many countries reducing or eliminating EV subsidies, demand for electric vehicles is slowing down. The European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association says completely electric cars had a market share of 12.5% in the first six months of the year. That’s down by 0.4% compared to the same period of 2023.
Millions will die.
Maybe if they taxed ICE more they can generate demand.
Reality is a bitch.
“he offered to pay me off but the £300 was an insult. I feel I’m worth more than that”
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/just-jane/my-boyfriend-loves-watching-sleep-34926315
Well at least you have a good grasp on your station in life…
My friends (most of whom were broke) were happy to be given a fistful of fivers the next morning by way of thanks. – ehm…
My problems seem so minuscule…
Over the precipice
A survey of more than 500 political scientists finds that the vast majority think the United States is moving swiftly from liberal democracy toward some form of authoritarianism.
In the benchmark survey, known as Bright Line Watch, U.S.-based professors rate the performance of American democracy on a scale from zero (complete dictatorship) to 100 (perfect democracy). After President Trump’s election in November, scholars gave American democracy a rating of 67. Several weeks into Trump’s second term, that figure plummeted to 55.
“That’s a precipitous drop,” says John Carey, a professor of government at Dartmouth and co-director of Bright Line Watch. “There’s certainly consensus: We’re moving in the wrong direction.”
What were those numbers five years ago? If they weren’t in the teens, you can shove your survey right up your ass.
“more than 500 political scientists”
Well, I’m convinced.
I’m surprised 55% of people they surveyed don’t hate Trump with all their heart.
They’ve upped their game, they’ve gone from 51 to “hundreds”.
Not all political scientists view Trump with alarm, but many like Carey who focus on democracy and authoritarianism are deeply troubled by Trump’s attempts to expand executive power over his first several months in office.
“We’ve slid into some form of authoritarianism,” says Steven Levitsky, a professor of government at Harvard, and co-author of How Democracies Die. “It is relatively mild compared to some others. It is certainly reversible, but we are no longer living in a liberal democracy.”
“OMG the guy I voted against is doing things I don’t like. Oppression! Dictatorship!”
I wonder if they asked those professors their political affiliation. Not that we don’t already know that answer.
Being Journalists of Unimpeachable Integrity with Sterling Regard for the Truth, I’m sure that you meant to say, “…Trump’s attempts to use the expanded executive power left to him by previous administrations.”
We live in an age of mania. An average millenarian cultist from history would be telling these people to take a deep breath.
Magic words on paper will save us
Days after a deadly shooting on their campus, Florida State University students who also survived a mass shooting in Parkland in 2018 sent a letter Monday to Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis demanding he squash efforts to lower the firearm purchase age back to 18 years old.
The law that raised the minimum gun purchase age to 21 was passed as part of a gun reform package following the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, which was one of the deadliest shootings in the country. For these former Parkland and current FSU students who sent the letter to the governor, this is their second school shooting.
One of the founders for March For Our Lives, a group formed following the shooting in Parkland, led a group of 28 students in writing the letter, calling it “unthinkable” and “dangerous” for the Legislature to consider changing the gun purchase age to 18. Jaclyn Corin said many of the students who demanded action in 2018 after the Parkland shooting are now FSU students who experienced tragedy again.
Take back despotism.
“There is no doubt that that law has saved lives over the past seven years [He claimed. without evidence], and so now it’s quite ironic that this is the very law that is being threatened in the aftermath of what is many of those same students who rose their voices, their second school shooting,” Corin said.
Why don’t we raise the age to fifty?