Wednesday Morning Links

by | Jun 25, 2025 | Daily Links | 260 comments

I got no sports today. Just couldn’t find anything interesting at all to report. Football needs to hurry up and get here. Moving on…

Start spreading the news. If I lived there, I’d be leaving today.

“Stop trying to get in on our grift.” The people who fail at every project they run are not happy.

Well that didn’t last very long. I guess they’re learning from the last go around.

It’s about time they indicted this guy. Now that he’s indicted, his parents will probably raise enough money to buy a second home.

Just release it already. Enough of this dancing around. See also: the Epstein Files.

No shit, Sherlock. So come up with a better system.

Keep the crazies cool. Move them all to Canada.

Jose Canseco should have thought of this. Is it too late for him to sue Carlos Martinez or the Indians? Oops, I mean Guardians.

They better get moving fast. They’ll be competing with companies from NYC pretty soon.

Is this the Barney origin story? Because it looks just like that big, purple asshole.

Going way back today. These guys were so underrated. At least I think so. Enjoy them.

And enjoy this lovely Wednesday, dear friends.

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260 Comments

  1. Common Tater

    Barney died?

    • UnCivilServant

      The purple coloration is from lividity.

      Barney is an undead monstrosity.

      • Jarflax

        Purple is a color I’d associate with amphibians more than dinosaurs. This checks out.

    • sloopyinca

      Evil can never be killed.

  2. UnCivilServant

    It’s about time they indicted this guy.

    From what I hear, there’s video of the incident. Assuming that is admitted at trial, I don’t see a fair jury* acquitting.

    *I understand that it is possible for the jury to go “nope, shanking the white kid over a seating dispute is worth nullificiation”, and have been disappointed in the past.

    • The Last American Hero

      The Crumbley’s want to know when the parents will be indicted.

  3. Jarflax

    Someone boned Barney? Gross

  4. Common Tater

    Yes, paywalls suck. I’m not going to subscribe to a dozen different websites.

    • juris imprudent

      Information might want to be free, but you get what you pay for.

  5. UnCivilServant

    No shit, Sherlock. So come up with a better system.

    Also, come up with a product worth paying for.

    • Jarflax

      Premium partisan propagandistic pablum presuming payment!

      • Nephilium

        Propaganda? Poppycock! Perfect prose perfected for parsimonious punters!

      • UnCivilServant

        Please. The penny-pinching public prefers proprietary papers.

      • Jarflax

        Pikers!

      • UnCivilServant

        Paltry pay for pardoned purple political pundits.

      • Ozymandias

        *Applauds enthusiastically*
        Looks around…
        *Switches to golf clap*

      • UnCivilServant

        Always applaud alliteration with aplomb?

  6. Rat on a train

    I guess they’re learning from the last go around.
    Ok. Not an impeachment but they can always change their metric from how many times Trump has been impeached to how many times articles of impeachment have been submitted.

    • Jarflax

      I am not sure anyone in the squad can count that high

      • sloopyinca

        AOC needs to learn to count cheeseburgers. And might want to start subtracting some of them from her diet.

      • Common Tater

        She needs more booty though.

      • Jarflax

        Socialists love booty

  7. Common Tater

    “She argues that the bar negligently permitted patrons to shake their own cocktails, which led to the injuries.”

    Don’t know if that’s negligence, but it’s a stupid way to run a bar.

    • UnCivilServant

      If I’m ever drunk enough to pay bar prices for alcohol, I’m in no shape to shake a shaker.

    • Nephilium

      It’s a gimmick and a hook, it brings people in, and they are probably paying a decent markup for shaking their own drinks.

    • Jarflax

      She went their to get her head messed up by cocktails, she got her head messed up by cocktails, and now she has the gall to sue?

      • Jarflax

        How the hell did I type “their”? I’m illiterate.

      • Ted S.

        You obviously did it because you’re in thrall to Netanyahu and the JOOOOOOOOOS!!1!111!

      • Jarflax

        I’m only half, so I guess that makes me (((Jarflax

      • Jarflax

        Since when can’t you change your username? I want to be (((Jarflax now!

      • UnCivilServant

        Are you sure it’s not just the parentheses that are the problem?

      • UnCivilServant

        Ahh, I should have gone

        Potentially problematic parentheticals preventing preferential presentation?

      • (((Jarflax

        Problematic placement produced poor performance. Proper placement proceeded perfectly

      • Ozymandias

        *Starts clapping, stops quickly and leaves*

    • Jarflax

      I prefer to picture a little animated paper clip.

      “It looks like you’re trying to sell pardons, would you like some help with that?”

      • Beau Knott

        LOL

      • dbleagle

        Huzzah!

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      Fuck Amazon with a rusty chainsaw.

      3 separate orders set for delivery yesterday. All 3 needed for vacation logistics.

      None of them showed up. One order gets jacked up. Sure. Shit happens. 3 orders on the same fucking day is a signal that there are deep problems with their delivery systems.

      Had to improv parts of my packing. Just barely satisfied enough with the result, though the shit I bought for the job would have been MUCH better.

      • Drake

        Maybe Joe Biden auto signed for them?

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        Seems like he’s running their shipping and delivery logistics.

      • Nephilium

        A couple weeks back, I ordered some laundry detergent from Amazon (stock commodity, nothing special), it was to back fill the home supply, so no rush on it. Went with the Amazon day delivery, which they missed (after loading it on the truck), get an update that they’re sorry and will try again. This happened two more times over the next week. Amazon finally cancelled the order and refunded me, causing me to go right back and order the same thing again. This time it showed up as expected.

  8. cavalier973

    “We have evidence that Godzilla is real. All the evidence; right here in this folder.”

    *accidentally drops folder into fireplace*

    “Oops!”

  9. Gender Traitor

    These guys were so underrated.

    I concur. Thanks especially for the second link, a tune my old band had a great time covering. Fun Fact: the writer, Michael Martin Murphey, had some hits of his own, including “Wildfire,” wherein some chick gets lost in a blizzard chasing a runaway horse, and who doesn’t love a tender ballad about that?

    Also, Davy was dreamy. 🥰

    • Fourscore

      Ted’S is busy so I’ll help him out.

      “A pony she named Wildfire….”

    • Beau Knott

      Their movie Head was great fun. Jack Nicholson and Bob Rafelson wrote & directed it. Nicholson has a brief cameo. One of my nostalgic pleasures 😉

    • CatchTheCarp

      The Monkee’s have quite a few really great pop songs. OTOH I remember watching their TV show when was I was kid and thought it was dumb.

      • rhywun

        thought it was dumb

        Yeah I found it more amusing when I caught an episode recently than I remembered.

      • The Last American Hero

        Given some of the powerhouses writing their songs, they damn well better have some bangers.

  10. UnCivilServant

    There’s this big kerfuffle over the binomial designation for Denisovans. Genetic work has identified additional bones as Denisovan, including fossils which contained three different provisional species names – H. Longi, H. Daliensis, and H. Juluensis. Now the academics are all rules lawyering the official binomial designation for Denisovans. I never really paid much attention to now the name nomination process worked. My own recommendation is H. Sapiens. They don’t seem to really qualify as a separate species given how many extant humans are descended from them, and they are contemporaries of anatomically modern humans. I’m thinking of writing up a longer article on the topic of paleolithic hominids, but I have to find the motivation.

    I’m not sure where I was going with the initial comment except rolling my eyes at academians and their quibbling over process in a bitter battle for credit for naming the group.

    • trshmnstr

      I occasionally, and from a position of profound ignorance, wonder if the speciation threshold is set way too low.

      “This is the western white-striped variegated wombat. This is the eastern white-striped stratified wombat. You can tell the difference by counting how many hairs are in each stripe.”

      • UnCivilServant

        I think we’re in agreement. The basic premise in my article idea was that H. Sapiens encompased Neaderthals and Denisovans and that the robust characteristics of those regional variants got selected out by preferential breeding with the more neotenous classical Sapiens which was more attractive.

    • Beau Knott

      Same thing happens in two of my obscure hobby interests. Over the last 30 years I’ve watched genus Miltonia and Miltoniopsis swap; what used to be Miltonias (‘pansy orchids’ due to their distinctive shape & color patterns) are now Miltoniopsis. Plays hell with naming/re-naming the numerous hybrids. Genus Dendrobium is, frankly, a disaster area, deeply in need of genetic analysis, review, and wholesale revision.
      Killifish genera and species keep getting split, renamed, etc. The worship of ‘first description’ has become a curse, yet drives careers and most of this effing about 🙁

      Would there be interest in a hobbyist overview of home orchid growing and related topics?

      • UnCivilServant

        Would there be interest in a hobbyist overview of home orchid growing and related topics?

        I would say yes. Past experience has shown an eclectic interest from this community, and more variety in content is always appreciated.

    • Shpip

      There’s this big kerfuffle over the binomial designation for Denisovans.

      As far as I know, the blonde one is still Denis demenis

  11. Common Tater

    “The Pakistani immigrant began scouring the Upper East Side for new storefronts, several of which were interested in taking him on as a tenant — until he learned that he would not be permitted to move his tobacco license to a new address.

    City law prohibits such licenses from being transferable between locations and places a cap on how many permits can operate within council districts at a time.

    Business owners like Ahmed have the opportunity to apply for the license lottery just twice a year — in April and October….

    The district’s City Council member Julie Menin is actively pushing a bill that would amend the “overly draconian” law so that electronic cigarette and tobacco licenses, which are separate, could be transferred within a community.”

    https://nypost.com/2025/06/25/us-news/last-magazine-shop-on-nycs-upper-east-side-to-close-as-readers-buy-up-final-x-rated-fare/

    At least he didn’t literally get strangled to death.

    • Rat on a train

      Reminds me of Maryland’s liquor license regulations that limit the number within a district for the benefit of the people.

      • Common Tater

        I don’t think I could drink enough to live in Maryland.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Depends on the county?

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      That they need a fucking license to sell that shit at all is absurd.

  12. Common Tater

    “The Daily Mail can exclusively report that Patel plans to hand over to Congress on Wednesday proof that former FBI Director Christopher Wray lied to Congress.”

    I just assume he was lying.

    • WTF

      And nothing will happen.

      • Rat on a train

        Normally Congress refers charges to the DOJ that then ignores it instead of the other way round.

      • dbleagle

        Passing the hot potato around so nobody actually has to indict anybody.

  13. PieInTheSky

    Start spreading the news.

    Finally the US will have a city an European can move to

    • Ted S.

      The trigger warning should be video for something that would be easier to read, but then the URL should make that obvious.

      • Common Tater

        Would you believe Chris Cuomo making sense if you didn’t see it with your own eyes?

      • Ted S.

        Even if I did see it I wouldn’t believe it.

      • DrOtto

        I assumed AI – Make Chris Cuomo do the impossible – make him make got-damned sense.

      • Suthenboy

        journalists say what they are paid to say.

    • rhywun

      But NBC assured us it’s just spontaneous grass-roots protests.

  14. PieInTheSky

    It is stupid hot for June. Stupid SUVs.

  15. Common Tater

    More Chinese influence

    “TikTok’s Labubu Craze Is Brainwashing Millions”

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

    I guess they don’t have the technology to make Chucky doll yet.

    • Ozymandias

      No, it sounds a LOT gay.

      • Ted S.

        But is it statistically significant?

      • Ozymandias

        Also Gay.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Just call me scum then. Lick my balls you orange blowhard.

  16. Certified Public Asshat

    How extreme heat impacts people with mental illness

    How extreme cold impacts people with mental illness: they just die.

    • Nephilium

      I saw a whole documentary about it. Took place in Antarctica, I do have questions about that dog though…

    • DrOtto

      The article states Louisiana was the last holdout on raising drinking age to 21. Not mentioned was when LA did finally capitulate to Uncle Sugar, the left a loophole. They finally added a law that made it illegal to buy alcohol if you were under 21. But they left the law that made it legal to sell alcohol to anyone over 18. Legal to sell, illegal to buy meant only the young lushes, that couldn’t handle their liquor got cited and nothing happened to the seller.

  17. Common Tater

    “An investigation has been initiated by the State of Florida against influencer Lilly Tino for filming a bathroom video at Walt Disney World. Florida Attorney General James Uthmier publicly addressed this issue in a social media post from right-wing content creator Benny Johnson, asserting the importance of protecting privacy in public restrooms. Uthmier emphasized Florida’s zero-tolerance stance regarding unauthorized filming in sensitive areas, stating, “We do not tolerate men or boys in women’s restrooms, gyms, private spaces.”

    The legal ramifications for Tino could be serious, as they could face up to five years in prison and a fine of $5,000 under criminal code § 810.145.”

    https://www.disneydining.com/florida-launching-investigation-into-trans-influencer-for-disney-world-bathroom-incident-ld1/

    https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/lilly-tinos-viral-disney-bathroom-selfie-sparks-investigation-how-much-prison-time-tiktoker-could-face-101750735198327.html

    Women often take bathroom bathroom selfies, but they don’t pee standing up.

    • UnCivilServant

      It is highly inappropriate to film or photograph in public restrooms. Even more so when you’re deliberately trying to antagonize people for engagement.

      Tino is an asshole, give him the prison time so that his fifteen minutes of fame is gone by the time he gets out.

      • Ozymandias

        J.K. Rowling is pretty much the only reason I have Twitter, to watch her just crush troons on a weekly (sometimes daily) basis.
        I know, I know – this does not bespeak well of my character. Anyway…

        I had never, not for a second, considered that this whole fight over men in women’s bathrooms was really a fetish for the troons – until I saw J.K. Rowling explain it in a twitter slap-fight with some Brit tranny who has been all over her feed trying to dunk on her over photographing in women’s bathrooms.
        Now that she’s pointed it out, I can’t unsee it. These guys get a sexual rush from going into the women’s room – as a dude pretending to be a woman – and either rub one out or take pictures, etc. It’s a trophy thing.
        It sounds insane (because it is) but now that I’ve heard it I can’t put any other framing on this whole movement. I really think the only way this gets fixed is if other dudes just beat the living shit out of a few of these guys, 1970s-style (i.e. the way my father and uncles would have while having a couple of cold ones circa 1976.)

      • Common Tater

        The increase of MTF started around 2005. And nothing else happened. Then, after same-sex marriage was legalized, the trans insanity happened. My issue with J.K. Rowling, besides her ignorance, is that she refuses to attack the root cause because she’s an identity politics lefty herself.

        These troons are a nearly insignificant but amplified on TikTok. Most MTF do not get a sexual rush from going into the women’s room, just like anyone else using a bathroom.

        Beating people up is a bad idea in general, and also now because masculine biological woman sometimes get accused of being trans.

      • EvilSheldon

        CT – you’re drawing a distinction between the three main classes of gender insanity – depressed teenagers who need to cut way back on the social media, opportunistic fetishists, and people who are legitimately gender dysphoric.

        This distinction does really exist, but it is frequently impossible to tell the three apart, especially because of how completely the medical profession has been colonized by the ‘trans healthcare’ crowd.

        I do think that anyone of any gender or presentation who takes out a camera in a public restroom, should get a corrective beating just on general principles…

      • juris imprudent

        ES – I make the distinction between gender dysphoria and trender dysphoria.

      • Common Tater

        “I do think that anyone of any gender or presentation who takes out a camera in a public restroom, should get a corrective beating just on general principles…”

        Young women often take selfies in public bathrooms to post on IG, because bathrooms have mirrors and it shows that they are out at some bar or club.

        They aren’t some man in the ladies room during the day at an amusement park for children.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Ozy, I don’t think men beating the shit of of the tranys would have the effect you are looking for, I think it needs to be women doing it. It needs to be rejected by the host, so to speak. And anytime a women gives credence to this idiocy it feeds the trans movement.

      • UnCivilServant

        ZWAK – the problem is women will get hurt worse trying to beat up the cross-dressing man than if men take on that task.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Women go to the bathroom in packs, so I am not seeing that issue.

      • EvilSheldon

        “Young women often take selfies in public bathrooms to post on IG, because bathrooms have mirrors and it shows that they are out at some bar or club.”

        That’s a whole ‘nother cultural kettle of fish to unpack. And I’m not going to unpack it, other than to say that I have no problem with the worst being assumed of anyone who’s taking pictures, for any reason, in a public restroom.

      • Ozymandias

        CT – I’m not talking about young women here using their phones in a bathroom. I’m talking very specifically about M-E-N pretending to be women.
        For the absence of confusion, I am talking about a person with cock and balls claiming the right to be in a W-O-(not)-M-e-n’s room.

        As for whether or not beatings would help… well, we’ve not tried it yet, so I don’t think anyone can say that it wouldn’t work.

        I have a sneaking suspicion that physical violence actually does solve more problems than people think it does, but that there was a concerted effort at de-masculinization of this country starting in the late-70s and -80s. Or maybe a better way to say it is that we had a wave of feminization and it included eliminating violence entirely from children’s lives. A big part of that is the anti-bullying stuff, which is really the exceptional (and aberrant) use case of violence, but that got used as the lever to eliminate all forms of violence, even the useful ones.

      • Common Tater

        Next on Jubilee…

      • Common Tater

        “CT – I’m not talking about young women here using their phones in a bathroom. I’m talking very specifically about M-E-N pretending to be women.
        For the absence of confusion, I am talking about a person with cock and balls claiming the right to be in a W-O-(not)-M-e-n’s room.”

        I think you aren’t making the distinction that ES noted I’m making, between transtrending troon assholes such as Lily Tino, and the people we used to call “transsexual”.

        If a bunch of dudes beat up Hunter Schafer or Angelica Ross, they are going to look like assholes, and end up in jail.

    • (((Jarflax

      It’s just shocking. I mean who could predict that subsidizing a company in multiple ways, for decades, would end up turning that company into a lazy, careless incompetent?

      • The Last American Hero

        butbutbut muh critical national defense muhmuhmuh.

  18. The Late P Brooks

    18 year olds drinking beer? People will die.

    • kinnath

      Damn straight. Need to get them drinking mead. It’s way more civilized.

      • UnCivilServant

        Wait, what? I thought it was supposed to be a barbarian beverage!

      • Ted S.

        Wine. And not shit like Moscato or white zin.

      • kinnath

        Nectar of the gods

      • Nephilium

        UCS:

        There’s a theory (that confirms enough of my biases that I lean towards believing it) that the purpose of settling down and the beginnings of civilization were about being able to have steady access to alcohol.

      • UnCivilServant

        You just say that because Beer is the degenerate drink of the civilized peoples.

      • (((Jarflax

        Airag! Beer is for the people whose skulls make the pyramid

      • Nephilium

        UCS:

        Beer came long after wine and mead were on the scene. Growing your own fruit was easier than scavenging enough to both feed yourself and ferment.

      • UnCivilServant

        That does not change a thing about my statement.

        In order to brew beer you need a surplus supply of grain, which is something you really only get in civilizations.

        Therefore beer is a drink of civilizated folk, who are by definition degenerates.

      • PieInTheSky

        you do not need a surplus of grain if you just let your children starve

      • R C Dean

        I think beer can be dated back pretty reliably at least 4,000 years – one of the high Mesopotamian goddesses was in charge of brewing. Not sure how far back wine and mead can be dated.

      • PieInTheSky

        Not sure how far back wine and mead can be dated. – well people in Clan of the Cave bear would make alcohol from fruit. And the men were all 6’6″ handsome and muscular and all the women were slim, fit, but with huge boobs that did no sag one bit. So the wine was good.

      • Nephilium

        R C Dean:

        Wine would have been found much earlier, store grape juice, it turns into wine. The concept of grape juice as a distinct beverage didn’t exist until Welch’s started pasteurizing it. Quick searches show wine as far back as 6000 BC, mead I’ve seen claims as far back as 7000 BC.

      • kinnath

        Anything with sugar in it will ferment eventually. Whether spoilage organisms are working in parallel or not is separate issue.

        Berries will ferment on the tree. And birds can get shitfaced from eating the berries.

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP-1TE52IX4

        And there are plenty of videos of mammals picking up fermented fruits off the ground and getting drunk.

        Grain is starch. Grain can’t ferment until the starch is converted to sugar. So, grain requires intervention to produce alcohol.

        Beer people, wine people, and mead people all claim to have the oldest beverage.

        As Neph points out. The oldest intentional fermentations go back to 7000 BC or so.

        I have not looked into when saki was first created.

      • kinnath

        Honey is stable and will not ferment. It needs to be diluted down before it can ferment. Honey can be stored for decades.

        However, honey will absorb moisture from the air if it is not sealed up. So, you can get a foamy layer on top of the honey that is fermented. So, spontaneous fermentation is possible.

      • UnCivilServant

        Can confirm – I have three jars of Minnesotan honey in my house. One has partially sponteneously fermented at the top. One has crystalized because I stored it too cold. One is still sealed and liquid.

      • kinnath

        You can return crystalized honey to liquid by heating it up. Put the mason jar in an warm water bath (100ish degrees) and it will liquify.

        Or you can nuke it in the microwave. I do this all the time with honey that I have stored in the basement.

      • Nephilium

        kinnath:

        Pretty sure sake falls around the same timeline as beer, as it’s also a multi stage process (as I’m guessing you’re aware). If I remember from my brief foray into researching it, that the difference in process is using a fungus to break down the starch in the rice into a sugar instead of using enzymatic activity from malting.

        Going on the process, I’d guess the actual order of discovery is wine, mead, [time passes], sake, beer, distillation.

      • UnCivilServant

        Mr Ilium – Sake, as distinct from generic Rice Wine, is no older than 500 BC. All things Japanese are more modern than one might expect.

        Generic Rice wine is fairly old though, being on par with beer

      • kinnath

        https://www.dogfish.com/blog/ancient-ales

        Since 1999, Dogfish Head has worked closely with molecular archeologist Dr. Patrick McGovern, one of the world¹s leading experts in ancient beverages.

        The second beer to come about from this partnership is our Chateau Jiahu. Jiahu¹s ingredient list was unearthed from a 9000 year old tomb in China. The Jiahu discovery represents the oldest known fermented beverage evidence in the history of civilization! That means that drinks made from fermented grain (beer) have a longer history than beverages made from fermented grapes (wine). Chateau Jiahu is made with hawthorn fruit, sake rice, barley, and honey.

        I have a couple of Dr. McGovern’s books. I met him at a beekeeping/honey festival in St Louis.

        Intentional fermentation goes back 9000 years. The trace elements in jar fragments show grain, fruits, and honey. But there is no way to know if any give recipe includes all three or whether they just reused jars for different kinds of products.

        In my opinion, humans have been making booze on purpose for at least 9000 years and they would ferment whatever they could get their hands on.

        I don’t see anyway to know which of beer, wine, or mead was first.

  19. Common Tater

    “A Florida legal group is demanding that the winner of the Miss North Florida 2025 pageant have her title restored after she refused to sign a contract with the Miss America Organization that states “female” includes biological males who have undergone sex change surgeries.

    Liberty Counsel had sent a letter demanding that Bush’s title be restored in April. The organization noted that the contract initially given to Bush incentivizes “child abuse in violation of Florida law,” due to many Miss and Miss Teen contestants being minors.

    “The specified Contract provision incentivizes the castration of minor boys. Thus, Kayleigh could not sign the Contract, and Miss Florida, Inc.’s demand that Kayleigh sign with this provision violates not only Kayleigh’s beliefs, but also Florida law and public policy,” the letter stated.”

    https://thepostmillennial.com/miss-north-florida-stripped-of-crown-over-refusal-to-support-men-in-womens-beauty-pageant

    It’s a private organization. So they can make their own rules, even if they are stupid and wrong.

    • rhywun

      Some day the country is going to face more interesting and urgent issues and we will look back at this stuff and SODH.

      • The Last American Hero

        Like actual noshit commies running New York.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      I don’t think you can contract to an illegal act. So, no, they cannot have their own rules if what they want or require is illegal.

      • Common Tater

        What are they requiring that’s illegal?

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        “The organization noted that the contract initially given to Bush incentivizes “child abuse in violation of Florida law,””

    • PieInTheSky

      did that on purpose as a flex

    • Sean

      Believe it or not, that is the best Altima driver.

      ^^

      • R C Dean

        Dunno what happened to get it started, but that was a helluva save.

    • DrOtto

      Good save

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      Nissan drivers are the best drivers, as seen in above video.

  20. The Late P Brooks

    Another wheel falls off the omnibus

    A plan to sell more than 3,200 square miles of federal lands has been ruled out of Republicans’ big tax and spending cut bill after the Senate parliamentarian determined the proposal by Senate Energy Chairman Mike Lee would violate the chamber’s rules.

    Lee, a Utah Republican, has proposed selling millions of acres (8.300 square kilometers) of public lands in the West to states or other entities for use as housing or infrastructure. The plan would revive a longtime ambition of Western conservatives to cede lands to local control after a similar proposal failed in the House earlier this year.

    Lee’s plan has revealed sharp disagreement among Republicans who support wholesale transfers of federal property to spur development and generate revenue, and other lawmakers — including GOP senators in Montana and Idaho — who are staunchly opposed.

    I might as well be out in the back yard barking at Heckle and Jeckle, but this bullshit of hiding everything under the sun in one massive piece of legislation needs to stop.

    • Common Tater

      Do they grow sugar on that land?

  21. Common Tater

    Choose your retard:

    “Crockett said nobody had “texted me, called me, signaled me, nothing.”

    “And we walk in and my heart sank, because the idea of starting a war, it just ain’t a good idea. And to sit and be one of 435 in the house, and to understand enough about the Constitution to the extent that I’m the one that’s supposed to make the f*cking decision, or at least get a vote.”

    Crockett said that here power “comes from the Constitution,” adding, “And it is clear that I have power. And somehow, because we got a thug sitting in the White House, he has decided to ignore my power.””

    https://thepostmillennial.com/jasmine-crockett-says-shes-supposed-to-make-the-f-cking-decision-to-go-to-war

    “Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) claimed to be a “Bronx Girl” during a spat with President Donald Trump on Tuesday as the Democrat congresswoman called to impeach the president over his decision to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities. In reality, Ocasio-Cortez grew up in a wealthy suburb in Westchester, New York.

    After Trump responded to Ocasio-Cortez calling for his impeachment, the progressive Democrat replied on X, “Mr. President, don’t take your anger out on me – I’m just a silly girl. Take it out on whoever convinced you to betray the American people and our Constitution by illegally bombing Iran and dragging us into war. It only took you 5 months to break almost every promise you made.”

    “Also, I’m a Bronx girl. You should know that we can eat Queens boys for breakfast. Respectfully,” she added.”

    https://thepostmillennial.com/aoc-claims-shes-a-bronx-girl-would-eat-trump-for-breakfast-she-grew-up-in-wealthy-westchester-suburb

  22. The Late P Brooks

    That was an impressive save, no matter what kind of idiot was at the wheel.

    • Sensei

      I want to know what happened inside the car.

      • DrOtto

        Maybe they had bench seats installed and were employing them properly.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        I am guessing a beej came to closure.

  23. The Late P Brooks

    Who’s the idiot?

    He deserves a pat on the head for being self aware enough to realize he shouldn’t have been hanging out in that guy’s blind spot.

    • Sensei

      If you’ve ever take a MSF Rider Course of any kind they drum that into your head many, many times.

      • DrOtto

        And even if you didn’t take the course, reality drums it into you very quickly.

  24. The Other Kevin

    The Monkees and Beach Boys have been coming up on Pandora for me lately. So many good songs.

    • Sensei

      Carole King stated in her autobiography that after she and her husband and songwriting partner Gerry Goffin had earned enough money from songwriting royalties, they moved from New York City to West Orange, New Jersey, where one of the major thoroughfares in town is called Pleasant Valley Way. Goffin disliked their suburban life and wrote lyrics to document the feeling that became “Pleasant Valley Sunday.”

      I didn’t realize this was the origin of this song until about 20 years ago. It’s a road I’ve driven many times.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleasant_Valley_Sunday

      • PieInTheSky

        It’s a road I’ve driven many times. – what was the carbon footprint?

      • Sensei

        I drive an EV. Those electrons come from the wall, so no carbon footprint!

    • PieInTheSky

      I am sure there is something unsuitable to modern audiences in those songs if you look hard enough. They must be glorifying something cringe.

  25. The Late P Brooks

    I want to know what happened inside the car.

    A million years ago, I was in L A, on some highway, and passed a pickup truck. The driver was hanging halfway out the window, and there was a girl wedged up against the passenger door, screaming and kicking at him. He was laughing. He was doing a heck of a job keeping that thing straight.

  26. PieInTheSky

    Reddit Lies
    @reddit_lies
    ·
    22h
    Mikayla Raines, founder of “Save a Fox Rescue” just took her own life.

    2 months ago she was seen on r/SaveAfoxSnark attempting to defend herself from her detractors.

    Here’s how the subreddit’s creator responded when she showed up:

    It’s time to address “Snark” subreddits.

    Back in April of 2024, reddit user u/Pale-Explanation-709 created r/SaveAfoxSnark after rumors of a bobcat biting a volunteer surfaced.
    u/Pale-Explanation-709 would go on, posting unsubstantiated speculation about the “mysterious disappearance” of Dakota the Coyote or discussing “various injuries and deaths” at the rescue.

    At one point, u/Pale-Explanation-709 used ChatGPT to write a laundry list of “ethical issues” surrounding the rescue, most of which don’t appear to apply directly to SaveAFox.

    Other users began posting to the subreddit as well.

    A video of Mikayla shooing a fox away with her foot was posted as evidence of her “Kicking a fox”

    The subreddit accused Mikayla “selling Ruby’s fur” because Mikayla was selling Ruby’s shed in little jars.

    This is just the tip of the iceberg

    The “Snark” phenomenon exploded in popularity on Reddit in Spring of 2022 (seemingly during the Josh Duggar’s sentencing)

    “Snarkers” as snark subreddit users call themselves, are gossip-addicted women obsessed with ‘taking down’ influencers.

    And this isn’t the first time one of these “Snark” subreddits has had real-life consequences.

    In July of last year, r/FundieSnarkUncensored (a subreddit for targeting Christians) doxxed the Lott family during a beach trip, sending false claims of child abuse to the police.

    In 2023, r/MadiaSnark relentlessly targeted Brianna Madia who ultimately hired a digital investigator to identify 200 “snarkers” who she claimed “turned her life into a living hell.”

    https://x.com/reddit_lies/status/1937527608272364019

    such is reddit mostly “compasionate” far-lefties

    • (((Jarflax

      People want to stand out. People group up to tear down anyone who stands out. Always have, always will. Social media amplifies both the urge to stand out, and the urge to tear down, and makes both faster and easier. It’s awful, but somehow we are going to have to figure out a way to deal with this from now on. Kids growing up today are in a different and not wonderful social milieu.

      • Ozymandias

        Hey, Jar – I need a ruling:
        Since you’re 50% and you get “(((” if I’m like 5-6% can I get like just one “(“?
        Or do I have to settle for some kind of quasi-goy thing, like an em-dash or one set bracket “{” ?
        Just curious. Maybe OMWC can come in here and give us a definitive answer?

      • Sensei

        Ozy – I’m 25% and that equates to 1.5 (. I’m going to find that triggering as it will overstate your percentage compared to mine.

      • (((Jarflax

        Isn’t grabbing what we want, without worrying about what anyone else thinks, supposed to be a defining characteristic? Take the brackets you desire!

      • Gender Traitor

        At 5-6%, I think you get an apostrophe.

      • Nephilium

        Ozymandias:

        You get this shirt and you like it. 🙂

      • Ozymandias

        Womp womp.
        I’ll just take my sad apostrophe ‘ and buy the T-shirt that Neph linked.
        (Which is AWESOME, I should add))).

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        I am in the same boat as Sensei, so, no. You just get quote marks around your name.

        “Ozymandias”

    • Gustave Lytton

      Now do r/fuckcarscirclejerk

    • EvilSheldon

      I’m actually a mod on r/CCW.

      So I have a fair level of insight on this.

      To wit: Every single person on Reddit is a giant suppurating asshole.

      • PieInTheSky

        how about r/glibertarians ?

    • EvilSheldon

      I would say the anteater on the bottom authorized it…

  27. The Late P Brooks

    Lee, in a post on X Monday night, said he would keep trying.

    “Housing prices are crushing families and keeping young Americans from living where they grew up. We need to change that,’’ he wrote

    ——-

    Environmental advocates celebrated the ruling late Monday by Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough but cautioned that Lee’s proposal was far from dead.

    “This is a victory for the American public, who were loud and clear: Public lands belong in public hands, for current and future generations alike,’’ said Tracy Stone-Manning, president of The Wilderness Society. “Our public lands are not for sale.”

    It’s disingenuous bullshit, all the way down.

    • R C Dean

      As with public schools, we need to get people to stop referring to these lands as “public” lands, and start referring to them as “government” lands. See how that changes the conversation.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Much of the BLM land in western Oregon was supposed to be in private ownership (and was in quasi private ownership until Congress seized the lands).

        There’s also former military reservation land that was never returned to private ownership after decommissioning.

        Another game federal government lands play is they wanted to developan area they’d been protecting as a “natural space” and not allowing any use or entry. So they did. And then took a park, fully open to the public, some distance away and unconnected, closed all of the off path area and their new “natural area”. Bullshit.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        It’s not the Feds, but around here the state and the regional park district coerce the ranchers to sell their land to be used as parks, but somehow the land never is opened as use for a park.

    • rhywun

      “Housing prices are crushing families and keeping young Americans from living where they grew up. We need to change that,’’

      No, that’s what the government is for. To take money from some and give to others, duh.

    • (((Jarflax

      With a .50 in the bed maybe.

    • The Other Kevin

      My former brother-in-law used to have one of those when he was dating my sister. We used to ride in the truck bed. Good times.

    • R C Dean

      That is not a shitty truck. That is an awesome truck.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      They think it’s a double entendre but I’m going to beat off to it later.That body is straight, yo!

    • Common Tater

      Bronski Beat for a pickup truck video?

      • rhywun

        lol

  28. juris imprudent

    Enough of this dancing around.

    They’re not the ones dancing, they’re the organ-grinders. Bongino with his claims about secret Comey files, Bondi with Epstein’s, etc., etc. If you’re tired of dancing then stop expecting them to deliver.

    • (((Jarflax

      It’s exactly the same phenomenon as that hinted at romance on a TV show, the one that never actually materializes, because as long as it stays hinted, drama obsessed fans keep watching. But once you show it, it becomes concrete and it guarantees that some portion of the audience will be disappointed or angry. Politics is show business.

      • Ozymandias

        Man, this is so trenchant it hurts.

    • rhywun

      Dayum that thing could cut a bitch

  29. Beau Knott

    Ozy, thanks for last evening’s post! Hits several of my philosophical passions. *VERY* well written, well reasoned. Great stuff, bookmarked in both my ‘philosophy related’ and ‘science’ folders.
    ApWaking up to accidental b’day gifts is the best 😉

    • Ozymandias

      Thanks! Very kind of you, BK. Glad you’re doing better and around.

  30. PieInTheSky

    Didn’t expect that working for DOGE would get me banned from a science fiction writing community I was a part of

    https://x.com/shl/status/1937597556143378873

    PEOPLE FELT UNSAFE

    I love the people are included except the wrongthinkers… Inclusivity only applies to the group mind

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      Yes, were diversity is celebrated, and only shitty SF gets published.

    • rhywun

      Really? He should have expected it. That is the country we live in now.

  31. The Late P Brooks

    No more rule of law

    The Supreme Court dealt a severe blow to the American rule of law on Monday night by clearing the way for the Trump administration to deport migrants and other noncitizens to random countries where they have no ties or connections, effectively rewarding the White House for its defiance of court orders to the contrary.

    Federal judges in the lower courts had previously blocked the administration from carrying out such removals by citing the Fifth Amendment’s due process clause. The plaintiffs and the courts cited evidence that the government had provided little to no notice to noncitizens facing such removal and had ignored federal law that gives them an opportunity to challenge it. To make matters worse, the administration continued to carry out the removals even after a court order barred them from doing so.

    Without any explanation, however, the high court sided with the Trump administration and stayed the lower court orders until further notice, in a 6–3 decision. The conservative majority’s intervention will allow the administration to carry out further removals to countries like Libya and South Sudan, despite the ongoing legal challenges—and despite the White House’s own misconduct.

    Go ahead and crown him, why don’t you?

    • PieInTheSky

      I mean they can voluntary leave to preferred countries I guess

    • Gustave Lytton

      Ok, just drop them off 12nm out in international waters. No third country needed.

      • UnCivilServant

        12 nanometers is awfully hard to find when the waves and tides keep moving the shore line.

      • EvilSheldon

        Don’t you be speakin’ metric around here, boy…

      • Gustave Lytton

        Nautical miles, you landlubber.

      • UnCivilServant

        Nautical miles is NM, not nm.

      • (((Jarflax

        New Mexico is landlocked, nothing nautical there.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        The immediate assumption of metric is a sign of a failing education model.

      • EvilSheldon

        The metric system is a welfare program for people who can’t do basic arithmetic without counting on their fingers…

      • UnCivilServant

        The immediate assumption of metric is a sign of a failing education model.

        Well, I am a victim of the government schools.

        But I applied the rule of funny.

    • DrOtto

      And other than sneaking into the US, what were their ties to it? They are claiming asylum, we’re assisting them to a safe haven. You’re welcome.

    • R C Dean

      I saw that one District Judge immediately issued an order(?) reinstating his ban on these deportations, notwithstanding what SCOTUS said. I believe he claimed that the issue was not properly before SCOTUS, essentially saying he was free to disregard the SCOTUS ruling.

      The thing about judicial tyranny is, it’s really hard to have hundreds of dictators without them stepping on each other’s dicks.

    • R C Dean

      I’m still not clear how SCOTUS ruling on a case is a severe blow to the rule of law.

    • Ozymandias

      Something completely untalked about (by judges and Leftists – and even MAGAts) in all of the immigration huff and puff is an essential factoid that fucks this whole thing up – I feel quite confident the Left knows this and is why it is suppressed:

      Countries refuse to take the shitbirds back. Now what do we do?

      This happened with a LOT of 9/11 detainees from Afghanistan. Bunch of zipperheads came to the country for jihad and then surrendered or got captured by US Mil. Okay – so now we try to give them back. They say they’re Uighurs from Afghanistan. The Afghan government says, “NUH-UH!! They’re Chinese!” China says, “Are you effing kidding me – they’re Muslim!! They ain’t ours.” Serve is back to you, Steve! WTF do we do now?

      With illegal immigrants here in the US, it’s the same thing, except times a few million. And how hard can it be to pinpoint who these people belong to?? Pssshhhhhhh. Even when they tell the truth, their “home” countries have no system of records, no way of knowing who the fuck this person even is, blah blah blah.

      All of which is to say – as much as I hate admitting it as a guy who sues the government for a living – this issue really is a delicate political mess for a Chief Executive and finding third party countries that will agree to take at least some of this human overflow is no small thing. The courts should absolutely be minimally involved in this beyond some ability of an AMERICAN CITIZEN to show that they shouldn’t be deported. But if you can’t show you’re a legal citizen or here lawfully? Fuck right off and get on the bus, Bro.

      • (((Jarflax

        Designate a couple of Aleutian Islands as Free States and dump them there. It’ll be interesting to see what kind of a society you end up with in a places settled exclusively by people so annoying no one will take them.

      • UnCivilServant

        I would rather drop them someplace further away.

        Do we still have any uninhabited guano islands further from real states?

      • Common Tater

        “zipperheads”

        I thought that was a slur for Vietnamese?

      • rhywun

        people so annoying no one will take them

        Another reason countries don’t want them back is because they prefer the remittances instead.

  32. The Late P Brooks

    Federal law lays out the hierarchy of countries to which someone can be deported from the United States. It starts with the country from which they originally arrived. Then, if that country is not feasible, the list goes through nearest alternatives like their birth country, where they hold citizenship, and so on.

    What happens if none of those places are feasible? Only then can the government conduct what is known as a third-country removal, where they effectively send the noncitizen to a country where they have no relevant ties or connections. This is an extraordinary step, and federal law only allows it after exhausting every other option.

    I think we can assume the cartoon villain is ignoring all of that and just arbitrarily shipping people to random hostile countries en masse.

    • R C Dean

      Well, for most, their birth country and country of citizenship are the same. Depending on how your apply the country they arrived from, that’s probably also the same, or else their last stop before getting here. So those options can actually be exhausted in either one or two goes. They make it sound as if this is an incredibly difficult process, etc. It’s not. It’s more like two phone calls, or maybe two letters, and when the answer comes back “No”, off he goes to a third-country.

  33. creech

    Let’s remember that today is the 149th anniversary of the world’s best light cavalry (Northern Cheyenne and Sioux) defeating military forces of the United States attempting eminent domain in southeastern Montana. Sic semper tyrannis!

    • Gustave Lytton

      They died with their authoritarian on doesn’t quite have the same ring.

      • (((Jarflax

        They died with their jackboots on?

    • (((Jarflax

      Some Crook came along and reinstituted the policy shortly thereafter.

  34. The Late P Brooks

    “The government thus openly flouted two court orders, including the one from which it now seeks relief. Even if the orders in question had been mistaken, the government had a duty to obey them until they were ‘reversed by orderly and proper proceedings,’” Sotomayor explained, quoting from precedent. “That principle is a bedrock of the rule of law. The government’s misconduct threatens it to its core.”

    The executive is subordinate to the judiciary. Got it.

    • juris imprudent

      I believe Hamilton wrote in a Federalist Paper that the courts couldn’t be tyrannical since they had no power to enforce their decisions.

    • Common Tater

      Immigration courts are under the Executive branch.

      They are more administrative hearings than actual courts, and unlike criminal court, the only right is habeas corpus, which is Latin for “You assholes got the wrong spic.”

    • UnCivilServant

      People calling for decolonization need to be rounded up and reeducated on the disaster that all decolonizations have been.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Can we deport them to Uganda?

    • (((Jarflax

      We should decolonize the left. If we take all the white lefties out and shoot them in the name of diversity things will get markedly better.

    • Suthenboy

      Remember when listening to the left: words dont have meanings, meanings have words. This means translating commie inito English can be a bit tricky.
      White = anything associated with the culture that ascribes to inalienable rights and individualism
      decolonize = adopt marxist ideology

  35. Sensei

    CNBC and Bloomberg are wall to wall Trump at the NATO conference. I asked ChatGPT to help me out.

    NATTO

    • UnCivilServant

      The very idea of natto… 🤮

      • (((Jarflax

        Natto is disgusting, who would even consider fermenting beans to make them pungent and flavorful, everyone know you should only do that with milk!

      • UnCivilServant

        You start with soybeans, which are not food, then make them even worse, and somehow try to call the resulting pile of festering slop ‘food’.

      • Sensei

        It’s interesting to discuss with my Japanese friends. Most like natto, but ask them about how they feel about strong cheeses like blue cheese and you get a different answer.

        What you eat growing up as well the ability or inability to digest dairy.

      • UnCivilServant

        Blue cheese isn’t edible. They let too much mold in and ruined the cheese.

      • (((Jarflax

        You confuse me. You appear to have an infinite capacity to get off your butt and try out new hobbies that I envy, but in some areas you have elevated being set in your ways to orthodox religious levels. 🙂

  36. The Late P Brooks

    Question:

    Does anybody have an opinion on naproxen? I have never tried it. I did a little quickie look yesterday and saw it’s in Midol, which of course immediately made me think of the old Bill Cosby routine.

    (Looking for something to alleviate joint pain)

    • Sensei

      It’s an NSAID. It’s going to have the same pluses and minuses as ibuprofen with the advantage that it is longer acting.

    • Gender Traitor

      I don’t recall if I’ve ever tried it myself, but from reports from usually reliable sources, you may want to beware of…digestive effects.

    • Common Tater

      It’s the most effective OTC NSAID.

      I can’t take it because it fucks up my ears.

    • Ozymandias

      I have some sitting on my desk. I don’t take it very often, preferring 4 Motrin over the 1 Aleve because military medicine made me this way, but I’ve not had any problems.
      Longer-lasting and a little stronger than others. I don’t recall any digestive issues, but I wouldn’t try it on an empty stomach.

      • Rat on a train

        ranger candy cures all

    • Beau Knott

      Probably an outlier, but I found it entirely useless for pain relief. Might as well have been a sugar pill.
      I’m ‘forbidden’ NSAIDS, but given a choice, I’m all in on 2 Tylenol & 2 ibuprofen.

  37. The Late P Brooks

    you may want to beware of…digestive effects.

    Great.

    • Gender Traitor

      🤷‍♀️ Your results may vary.

    • Sensei

      Much lower than aspirin, however. Not lower GI issues, but heartburn.

      • UnCivilServant

        I was going to crack a joke about it turning the user into a rocket.

  38. The Late P Brooks

    Murmuring sweet nothings into the analysts’ ears

    Bumble shares rallied more than 26% on Wednesday after the dating app company revealed in a securities filing that it intends to slash 30% of its workforce, or about 240 roles.

    The layoffs will result in $13 million to $18 million in charges for the company hitting in the third and fourth quarters of this year. Management estimates that the reductions will help the company save $40 million annually.

    ——-

    “Our focus now is on moving forward in a way that strengthens our core business, continues to serve our members effectively, and positions us for future growth,” they wrote.

    Bumble said the cuts are part of a reconfiguration of its “operating structure to optimize execution on its strategic priorities.” The company plans to invest savings into new product and technology development.

    So sexxxy.

  39. The Late P Brooks

    I wouldn’t try it on an empty stomach.

    That’s probably the single best bit of advice for any of that stuff.

    • R.J.

      “Hey K.K. I need more baby oil”
      Best courtroom drawing ever.
      Also K.K., is that why you haven’t been around? You are part of the Puffy trial?

  40. The Late P Brooks

    Another victory for the rule of law

    A federal judge on Tuesday issued a ruling blocking the Trump administration from withholding funds for electric vehicle charger infrastructure from 14 states.

    U.S. District Judge Tana Lin said the government overstepped their Constitutional authority by refusing to disperse dollars attached to the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act passed by former President Biden.

    The initiative was created to help rid EV drivers of range anxiety, which is defined as the unease experienced by electric vehicle (“EV”) drivers when they are unsure where the next charging station might be and whether their car’s battery has sufficient charge to get them there.

    First thing we do, let’s kill all the judges.

    • Suthenboy

      As I recall all of the EV charger subsidies were stolen.

    • Sensei

      Perfect. More or less what I said to a coworker this AM.

    • (((Jarflax

      When you are reduced to a situation in which Cuomo is the good choice you’re already done.

  41. Suthenboy

    I can’t catch up. I got as far as “…there was a concerted effort at de-masculinization of this country starting in the late-70s and -80s.” and realized the thread was dead already.
    I can say this Ozzy, you weren’t around down here then. The air was so thick with testosterone it was hard to breath. Some dude in a woman’s room back then would have faced a serious threat of being beaten to death. As a result we didnt have a lot of that. Actually we had none at all.

  42. kinnath

    If you don’t like the people running the show, vote for the other people.

    So, the populace votes for the other people.

    Sometime later . . . . .

    District judge says it just doesn’t fucking matter. What has been done, has been done. Tough shit losers.

    • UnCivilServant

      I bet those District Judges will be real shocked when people start just ignoring them completely.