189 Comments

    • AlexinCT

      They have nothing new?

    • Sean

      Deport them all.

      Save the kitties!

    • Suthenboy

      Their ‘right’ to live and work in the United States?

    • WTF

      Of course in accordance with the recent SCOTUS decision, the “block” only applies to the 9 plaintiffs before the district court.

    • rhywun

      “review of current conditions in Haiti”

      It sucks? I fail to see why that is relevant.

      • (((Jarflax

        It has a certain relevance to my desire not to import the people who created those conditions.

      • The Last American Hero

        Conan O’Brien and Susan Sarandon tell me Haiti is beautiful.

        Time to go home.

      • Fourscore

        Of course its beautiful, all the Haitians are here.

  1. R C Dean

    “Trans UPenn swimmer Lia Thomas will be stripped of her titles”

    His titles. He will be stripped of his titles.

    • AlexinCT

      ^^^^THIS^^^^

    • UnCivilServant

      Wil’m didn’t even change his name. How can anyone believe he was trying to change an immutable characteristic?

    • Rat on a train

      He still has the honor of being ranked 462nd in men’s swimming.

      • UnCivilServant

        Are you sure? He hasn’t competed in a while, he might have fallen off the rankings.

      • (((Jarflax

        I think when you decide to steal glory by competing as against the girls you cease to qualify as a man in any discussion of honor. He should just quietly slink away.

    • Fourscore

      I read that as “stripped of her titties”

      WTF?

      • (((Jarflax

        Worst strip bar ever!

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Banjos doing a little trolling.

  2. AlexinCT

    Coalition of Democrat senators challenge layoffs as Rubio shutters USAID

    I am just gonna mention that the dnc is in deep debt right as these rackets have been cut off. Correlation? I think it is causation.

    • cavalier973

      I wonder if we will suddenly see much lower than expected budget deficits—even with increased nominal spending, because all the secret spending is being stopped.

      • Fourscore

        “I wonder if we will suddenly see much lower than expected budget deficits”

        Deficits accumulate annually into debt, on which interest must be paid. This year’s deficit is predicted around 3T. It’s understandable why Trump wants interest rates to go down, to keep him from looking so bad.

        We’re screwed

      • (((Jarflax

        36 Trillion is 360 billion a year in interest for each percent of interest. That’s 5-6% of the total federal expenditures for each percent interest on the debt. Bond yields right now range from 3.86% (2 year) to 4.81% (20 and 30 year), so call it 4.21% overall (using the 10 year yield). That’s over 1.5 Trillion a year in interest, just under a quarter of all Federal expenditures.

        If rates rise to 5.5%, which is roughly the historical average rate, we’ll get to 2 Trillion in interest payments per year, even without increasing the debt, and the Senate just voted to increase the allowed debt by another 5 Trillion, which will take that number to 2 and a quarter Trillion a year, or a third of all Federal expenditures, even at our current insanely high spending.

    • Banjos

      The numbers are truly staggering. I never fully grasped how liberals could only garner in the 20% range of identification in this country, let alone far left/Progressive and these far left orgs would be swimming in money. Billionaire donors only made some sense, but it turns out we’ve been funding our own demise. The tepid street responses to Trump’s immigration round up truly shows the extend of how much of our money was going to past riots. Even the online activity seems like a drop in the bucket to what it was just a year or two ago. That money was slushed into every nook and cranny to make the far left look far bigger than they actually were.

      • (((Jarflax

        It makes it very clear that they are parasitic. They suck the energy they use to attack the host, from the host.

      • AlexinCT

        Once you come to understand that the news exist to convince the 90% majority to accept and believe that the idiotic shot 10% want is the norm, it becomes obvious they HAD to be using our own tax dollars against us.

      • The Other Kevin

        That has been pretty shocking to me too. What DOGE found surpassed my most cynical estimates.

        That 20% sees themselves as superior to the rest of us, so they can justify doing anything necessary to save us stupid rubes from ourselves.

  3. R C Dean

    “The lawsuit, filed in March by nine Haitian TPS holders and advocacy groups including the Haitian Evangelical Clergy Association and Service Employees International Union 32BJ,”

    Doesn’t sound like that “District Courts can only issue injunctions affecting the parties to the case” thing even lasted a week.

    • UnCivilServant

      SEIU? No standing, get out of court.

      You nine can wait out your lawsuit in protective custody.

      The rest of you, go home.

      • rhywun

        lol Those commies? Of course they are sticking their nose in.

  4. UnCivilServant

    Okay, in addition to the annoying but functional “we’ve lost some formatting” error on the site, I’ve been hitting a version where the contents of the top bar menus are all expanded and block all view of the page, and are immune to scrolling.

    • Rat on a train

      I just bounce between normal and numbered comments.

      • UnCivilServant

        Yeah, that’s the “we’ve lost some formatting” one. I can still read and comment (however much my sense of propriety is offended by the random format changes)

    • Nephilium

      The issue appears to be tied to some stylesheet issues. WebDom is aware, as a workaround, refreshing the page has worked for me.

      • UnCivilServant

        *whines annoyingly*
        But Mr Ilium, refreshing gets rid of my new comment highlighting!
        */whine*
        /tantrum

      • (((Jarflax

        It’s probably because I added ((( to my handle. Anti-Semitic WordPress!

    • R.J.

      Well, I missed your comment.
      Strange things are afoot….
      I blame the commies.

      • (((Jarflax

        Improper commie placement is a known cause of many issues.

      • R.J.

        I always pepper my sentences with commies. Then I have to re-edit and throw them all out of little grammatical helicopters.

      • (((Jarflax

        Thrown out of little grammatical helicopters is the proper placement of commies.

  5. UnCivilServant

    The random theater discussion from the overnight thread left me running down a rabbit hole after a memory. When I was little we would from time to time take the bus downtown to catch a matinee at the Landmark Theater which does have the capacity to show movies (A roll-down screen among the curtains at the front of the stage), despite not listing any such on it’s current box office. I don’t remember any of the movies, but I do remember the walk from the corner (where the bus stop still is) to the theater entrance, particularly the marquee which extends over the sidewalk.

    It’s weird what sticks in the mind.

      • UnCivilServant

        That exterior isn’t bad in Neon.

        I couldn’t find any interior pictures of the Freemont. Does it have anything special on the inside, or is it more ordinary?

      • Nephilium

        A group of the older theaters here banded together into a group. It may have held off issues, but it isn’t preventing them. Rocky Horror was cut back from every week (when I was a teenager) to once a month (maybe once every other month at this point), and it doesn’t seem like the younger generations have picked up the habit of the midnight movie. Now, since the ‘vid reaction, they also have to compete with drive ins during the warmer months.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        It was a pretty cool place growing up. They had a summer matinee program for kids, showing things like Escape From Witch Mountain, and Benji, along with an awesome midnight movie, with Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Song Remains The Same and so on. I never figured how they got the pot smell out after those, nor cleaned up all of the bottles.

        Of course, they had Back To The Future running for about five years before they started renovations.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Those are both gorgeous theaters. A neon palace in SD has been a bookstore for 35 years, and one in DTLA is an Urban Outfitters last time I looked.

      • Necron 99

        Yeah, but did they ever show Wizards?

    • Certified Public Asshat

      I’m convinced, men are no longer needed.

    • slumbrew

      I have so many questions, assuming it’s not just staged for clicks.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Narrator: it’s staged for clicks.

    • Suthenboy

      Sadly those wheels on the garbage can are going to fail.

      • R.J.

        I kept thinking she would have a cherry picker on the truck to load it. Boy was I wrong.

    • Ownbestenemy

      I applaud the tenacity and ingenuity of the solution.

      • (((Jarflax

        It’s ingenious, but even as lazy as I am I think unloading the truck bed before going to the store would have been a better choice.

      • R C Dean

        I don’t think she could lift the bags onto the truck bed.

    • R C Dean

      Hey, she took her cart back.

      Pretty sure the garbage container got hauled there the same way, since I don’t think it would fit under the rack in the bed of the pickup. Although it seems unlikely it would stay on the 2x4s without a lot of weight. The thing is, that was obviously the plan before she even left the house, since she showed up with the garbage container and the 2×4 mounts.

      • Gustave Lytton

        My guess is she already uses it to wheel the garbage can out to the curb on a long driveway.

  6. R.J.

    Is it just me, or is the site doing weird things with comment formatting? The reply button is comically big and comments have bullet points beside them. Maybe because I am on the phone?

    • R.J.

      Now the comments have numbers, and the comment box gives me 4 point text. I am going to try a different browser.

      • UnCivilServant

        This is a known intermittant issue.

        It is being worked on.

      • (((Jarflax

        It is being worked on.

        Shouldn’t that read worked over? She’s WebDom, not WebMechanic.

    • Ted S.

      Any time someone asks this question, we should respond “Yes, it’s just you.”

      :-p

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Teds are legion.

      • (((Jarflax

        They spread by giving talks.

  7. The Late P Brooks

    The well running dry?

    Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered a pause in sending a shipment of missiles and ammunition to Ukraine amid concern about the U.S. military’s stockpiles, according to two defense officials, two congressional officials and two sources with knowledge of the decision.

    Hegseth ordered the delay weeks after he issued a memo ordering a review of the U.S. stockpile of munitions, which has been depleted after years of the United States’ sending weapons to Ukraine to defend against the Russia invasion, as well as nearly two years of military operations in the Middle East as the United States fought Houthi rebels in Yemen and defended Israel and allies against Iran, four of the officials said.

    The munitions and other weapons could be held up until the assessment is complete, the two defense officials and two congressional officials said, and if the munitions are in short supply or needed in other parts of the world, they could be held back even longer.

    Have no fear. We’ll just pull some more out of the magic hat.

    • Tres Cool

      Write a check to Raytheon and another to Boeing.

  8. The Late P Brooks

    Donald Trump, mass murderer

    The team analyzed demographic and death data from 133 different countries that received aid between 2001 and 2021. By comparing deaths across countries that received low, medium and high amounts of USAID aid — while accounting for differences in population, income, education and other non-aid factors — the team was able to estimate the human effects of that aid.

    And those effects were substantial. They found that high levels of USAID funding were associated with a 15% reduction in deaths from any cause, across all ages. For children under five, the percentage more than doubled to 32%.

    “Once you translate that 15% reduction into the number of lives, it actually represents 91million deaths averted,” says Macinko. “When we saw that number, we were indeed surprised.”

    ——-

    The Trump administration’s abrupt and steep cuts to foreign aid have halted most of USAID’s programs. To estimate how many lives could be affected by the dismantling of the agency going forward, the researchers used what they’d learned in the retrospective analysis to estimate how many preventable deaths might occur if the current USAID cuts become permanent. If that happens, they estimate that somewhere between 8 and 19 million people could die, including 4.5 million children, by 2030.

    The numbers don’t lie.

    You know, I keep thinking about all the stories I have seen about how white do-gooders have destroyed the small African merchant economy with their “charity”.

    • EvilSheldon

      Psst. Come closer.

      Listen.

      I don’t care.

      • (((Jarflax

        How can you be so heartless! Think of the hypothetical suffering all those hypothetical deaths will hypothetically involve! Little statistical assumption babies statistically 5% hungry, wandering around in a cloud of statistical uncertainty searching for hypothetifood!

    • Suthenboy

      And?

    • Furthest Blue pistoffnick (370HSSV)

      You could start your own charity to help them…

    • R C Dean

      Correlation is not causation.

      The intervening variables between “an aid check is cut” and “somebody didn’t die” are literally uncountable.

      • The Other Kevin

        Yeah but it feels right, so it must be true.

    • B.P.

      Yet another data point in the suicide of expertise. When one of these studies rolls out, and someone objects that it couldn’t possibly be true in the way it’s described, it’s labeled “anti-science.”

      Oh, illegal aliens pay far more in taxes than they reap in public benefits, you say? You did a study? That explains why there was a ballot measure in my city last November to levy a sales tax to shore up the local health care provider because they provided a zillion dollars in free care to ‘newcomers.’ And the city has a huge budget deficit and scrapped a bunch of services because of other freebies to the same population. We can see with our eyes.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        “suicide of expertise”

        👏

  9. The Late P Brooks

    “The value of the retrospective work is helpful to show the world what can be done with concerted effort, bipartisan support … to show just how much impact you can have,” she says.

    Putting numbers to the lives that could be lost if funding isn’t restored does something very important, she says. It highlights the costs that policy decisions can have on human lives.

    Them poor pathetic helpless darkies can’t make it on their own.

    Everybody knows that.

    • Rat on a train

      Only you can prevent …

    • Suthenboy

      I saw one of those videos where that guy…I dont remember his name…sets up a booth on college campuses and argues with students. It is both a ridiculous stunt and at the same time an insight into the naive mind and what it sees through rose colored glasses.
      In this particular video our fool-besting hero is confronted by an illegal alien student who, when asked “Why should we pay for y our education”, answered “Because I need it and you have it.”
      Very typical third world socialist mentality, the democrat’s dream ‘immigrant’ voter.

    • rhywun

      Dems pissed at the missing graft.

    • EvilSheldon

      The Reagan Building? I’ve worked in there. Any kind of internal services (HVAC, plumbing, electrical, LV) are going to be a straight-up nightmare.

      • Ted S.

        Oh boo hoo hoo.

      • Rat on a train

        It’s a major upgrade from the Hoover Building.

      • EvilSheldon

        I’m not exactly crying real tears of sadness here. I think the DEA is already in that complex, maybe they can share offices…

    • Ownbestenemy

      I dunno..
      That falls near dead center of “things boys and men will do….”

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        That is a stupid idea.

        What time?

    • slumbrew

      That’ll buff right out.

    • Threedoor

      Clearly a guy that has not off-roaded at all before buying the Raptor.

      Never jumped ours but flogged it in the snow.

  10. The Late P Brooks

    Meanwhile, at Home Depot…

    I call fake. That’s Candid Camera stuff.

    • Suthenboy

      I am gonna guess that guy grew up very. sheltered. He was not allowed outside to beat the shit out of himself learning how physics works before he was old enough to get seriously hurt. Ya’ know the stuff you see in coyote/roadrunner cartoons and video games? That’s not really how physics works.

      • Suthenboy

        That was supposed to be a reply to the pickup truck guy.

      • R.J.

        I thought that was a girl.

      • Suthenboy

        My page keeps loading differently. Sometimes like others are seeing and sometimes it just looks like scrambled eggs.
        I am replying now to RJ…or trying to.

      • R.J.

        Hard to say which browser works better. Brave is a little better about juggling the formatting issues than Firefox on an actual PC. My phone just turns it to scrambled eggs everything third or so reload.

    • Suthenboy

      The two guys commenting dont sound like they would do as well as the girl did.

  11. Nephilium

    Local news is very excited that the WNBA has announced that Cleveland will be getting a team at some point in the future.

    I instead ask, hasn’t Cleveland suffered enough?

    • (((Jarflax

      Cleveland doesn’t know real pain. I ask you, which is worse, entering every season knowing your front office will never find a top tier QB, and the best you can hope for is limping into the playoffs to get blown out the first week, or having a top tier QB and the best pair of receivers in the league, and watching your front office dismantle your already bottom of the league defense, while confidently predicting Super Bowl wins. This following 3 straight years of failing to make the playoffs because your defense couldn’t win games in which you posted 30 points plus…

      • Rat on a train

        I can replace Ryan with two 8-7 pitchers.

      • Nephilium

        You know… if we put the Browns defense with the Bengals offense, we might have a real team!

      • (((Jarflax

        With our ownership? They’ll get it backwards, our defense and your offense.

      • Tres Cool

        I too often listen to WLW…

      • The Last American Hero

        Art Modell tried to save Cleveland from itself and end the pain, but they asked for more.

    • Rat on a train

      The Cleveland Cleavage?

      • (((Jarflax

        The Cleveland Streamers!

      • trshmnstr

        The Erie Canals.

      • Nephilium

        Rat on a train:

        You missed the obvious sponsor.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      TIL Cleveland already had a WNBA team in the past.

      • Nephilium

        My mom was a fan. The Rockers IIRC.

    • creech

      Some philly sports fans excited too – for a team that won’t show up for five more years. Five years?? No venue needs to be built. And there seems to be plenty of women playing in college basketball to staff three more teams. Though it does give plenty of time for the buzz to evaporate, and the league to bankrupt itself trying to meet demands that the women players’ salaries should be on par with the NBA’s.

    • Suthenboy

      The cultural revolution eradicated any semblance of morality that Chinese culture had. Absolutely everyone in every situation there is running a scam. That includes the government and government contractors building the infrastructure. And about that military….

      • AlexinCT

        The reason the CCP has not taken a shot at Taiwan yet is simply that the rot in every aspect of the economy and military would end up coming to the forefront and the thing would likely fail despite the enormous cost. That country is a house of cards. And THAT is what makes them so dangerous. The CCP will not lose power without hurting not just the Chinese people, but the world. It’s a matter of saving face.

    • Threedoor

      But but the Trains!!!

    • Necron 99

      I will applaud the maker of that fifth wheel hitch.

      • UnCivilServant

        “Made in Germany”

        /snark

  12. Evan from Evansville

    @Toxeth: Ya messaged last night about TM this morn. Ya doing ok?

    I assumed “Temporal (M) [Something] with epilepsy but am not positive.

    I hope it passed without further aggravation, now peacefully stable on good footing. *Blesses Tox onward

    • Tres Cool

      TOG should I tell him or let you do it?

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Oh, now I don’t have the heart.

        I’m OK, Evan. You’re sweet to inquire.

      • Evan from Evansville

        Oh dear. It is regarding me! ‘Twas distinctly aware of that possibility /truth…

  13. The Late P Brooks

    Heroic

    Texas Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, who has also served with Murkowski for two decades, was more blunt: “She knows how to use her leverage,” he said.

    The 887-page bill narrowly passed by the Senate on Tuesday — and now headed back to the House for possible passage — mentions California three times, Texas twice and New York not at all. But Alaska is in the bill 19 times, from new oil and gas lease sales in the state to tax breaks for Alaska fisheries and whalers to tribal exemptions for work requirements.

    Even with all the provisions for Alaska, Murkowski was deeply torn up until the hours just before the vote, when the entire Senate was focused on what she would do — and as Republicans were pressuring her to support the bill and move the party one step closer to giving Trump a win.

    The show must go on.

    • (((Jarflax

      giving Trump a win.

      Yep, that’s what matters! Turning an already crappy bill into an absolute nightmare that accomplishes nothing and cost everything to get a ‘win’ is just peachy. Oh well, hopefully I’m old enough to die before all the chickens come home to roost. America had a good run.

    • Gustave Lytton

      SNAP waivers for mistaken eligibility not just for Alaska but a bunch of other states thanks to this.

  14. The Late P Brooks

    Nearly one-third of Alaska’s total population is covered by Medicaid, and the state has long struggled with high health care costs and limited health services in many communities. Most Alaska communities are not connected to the state’s main road system, meaning that many residents, particularly those in small, remote villages, need to fly to a larger city for certain kinds of care. Food security is also a longstanding concern, as the remote nature of many communities means food often is barged or flown in, and options can be limited and expensive.

    Sounds like a shithole.

    • kinnath

      obligatory link to Sam Kinison screaming “you live in a fucking desert”

      The people of Alaska can move somewhere else if they don’t like it.

    • R.J.

      Maybe… JUST MAYBE if we lift the moratorium on drilling for oil in Alaska, all those people would have jobs.

    • Fourscore

      MY grand daughter and family live in a remote village, they just bought a house. They have the amenities, thanks to Starlink?, Bezos, Edison and the Wright Brothers.

      They have less of the distractions.

    • R C Dean

      It seems like they are missing a word or a phrase. Perhaps:

      “covered by Medicaid, and so the state has long struggled”

      Or maybe:

      “covered by Medicaid, which is why the state has long struggled”

  15. Common Tater

    Update:

    “The father of a 5-year-old girl who fell overboard from a Disney cruise ship off the coast of Florida did not lift her up onto the railing before the accident, authorities have said.

    The “little girl was not being held, as erroneously reported on some social media sites,” the Broward County Sheriff’s Office told CBS News Miami on Tuesday, referring to speculation that the child’s father had lifted her up for a photo before she fell backwards and smacked into the ocean.”

    https://nypost.com/2025/07/02/us-news/hero-dad-on-disney-cruise-did-not-place-daughter-on-railing-before-her-horrifying-plunge-probe/

    • Rat on a train

      Put Rabinowitz in a life raft and have him circle her until we get back.

    • UnCivilServant

      I regard this as good news. Kids do stupid stuff, but knowing that the parents were not intentionally endangering the child is a comfort.

  16. Common Tater

    “Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs was found not guilty of sex-trafficking and racketeering on Wednesday.

    The 55-year-old music mogul faced life in prison if convicted of the top charge – racketeering conspiracy.

    The music mogul was convicted of flying people around the country, including his girlfriends and paid male sex workers, to engage in sexual encounters, a felony violation of the federal Mann Act that carries a sentence of up to 20 years in prison.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14868091/diddy-trial-live-updates-verdict-allen-charge-rico-racketeering-conspiracy-case.html

    The Mann Act is bullshit.

    • The Last American Hero

      The entire case was bullshit, or very poorly prosecuted. There were rumors galore of all sorts of criminal activities, but when it went to trial, it turned out that it was just wild Hollywood parties combined with bog standard Hollywood casting couch rituals. Gross- yes, criminal – show your receipts.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        The Catholic family sound like assholes, and illiterate ones at that.

  17. The Late P Brooks

    Historical footnote

    By Tuesday afternoon, the Penn website showed other athletes holding the school’s top times in Thomas’ events. The site was annotated with a note that read, “Competing under eligibility rules in effect at the time, Lia Thomas set program records in the 100, 200 and 500 freestyle during the 2021-22 season.”

    “While Penn’s policies during the 2021-2022 swim season were in accordance with NCAA eligibility rules at the time, we acknowledge that some student-athletes were disadvantaged by these rules,” Penn President J. Larry Jameson said. “We recognize this and will apologize to those who experienced a competitive disadvantage or experienced anxiety because of the policies in effect at the time.”

    Sorry. So sorry to admit we were wrong.

    • AlexinCT

      That apology sure feels like it is a non-apology, but they are doing it cause otherwise daddy will spank their asses..

  18. The Late P Brooks

    Maybe… JUST MAYBE if we lift the moratorium on drilling for oil in Alaska, all those people would have jobs.

    Put them to work building roads.

    • (((Jarflax

      If we get rid of Murkowski one of them can take her job.

      • Fourscore

        Anyone of them can take her job…

      • AlexinCT

        You saying they are all grifters 4Score?

    • Rat on a train

      HSR to every village

    • creech

      I haven’t flown in more than a year. Just how bad has in-flight food gotten that one’s arm tastes better than the glop on the tray?

      • AlexinCT

        In flight food? Does that still happen unless you are flying international on a non US airline?

    • Suthenboy

      How many Dem pols are going to go have a margarita with that guy? Which judge is going to order his return? This should be their poster child for the mid-term elections.

      • R.J.

        Heh.
        In order to show sympathy and support the dems should share some long pork with him.
        An I wrong here?

    • Threedoor

      Pizza The Hut vibes.

  19. Common Tater

    “A bill working its way through the California State Legislature would allow individuals not related to a child in the state to consent to medical care for a minor, potentially without informing the child’s legal guardians….

    “Nonrelative extended family member” is defined in the legislation as being “any adult caregiver who has an established familial or mentoring relationship with the child or who has an established familial relationship with a relative of the child.” Examples include teachers, medical professionals, clergy, neighbors, and family friends.”

    https://thepostmillennial.com/california-moves-to-allow-non-related-adults-to-consent-to-medical-care-for-minors-enroll-them-in-school-to-support-immigrant-families

    It takes a village.

    • Rat on a train

      It takes a groomer.

  20. The Late P Brooks

    Welfare for crooks and evildoers

    The bill “saddles our children and grandchildren with trillions and trillions of dollars in debt — all to serve giant corporations, fossil fuel polluters and billionaire Republican megadonors who are already among the richest people on the planet,” Whitehouse said.

    Beat that tin drum, little wind-up monkey.

    • Fourscore

      You forgot old people.

      “If it wasn’t for SS I’d have to take care of Grandpa”

    • Suthenboy

      I have to ask again: Do the factories that produce solar panels and windmills run on the power generated by solar panels and windmills?

      • UnCivilServant

        Nah, the Chinese are not that stupid.

    • Ted S.

      Fuck you, cut spending.

  21. Common Tater

    “A Big Apple driving school paid off DMV examiners to fraudulently fast-track driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants — even if they had no clue how to drive, Staten Island prosecutors said Tuesday.

    T&E Driving School in Queens took cash from Chinese immigrants — many of whom didn’t even speak English — and paid off a crew of Department of Motor Vehicles employees on Staten Island to illegally obtain driver’s licenses, District Attorney Michael McMahon said at a press conference.”

    https://nypost.com/2025/07/01/us-news/nyc-driving-school-rigged-drivers-licenses-for-illegal-immigrants-even-if-they-couldnt-drive-da/

    • Fourscore

      I was in the DL testing place in St Paul. An elderly Asian man had his interpreter (maybe his son) “explaining” the questions to him.

    • Suthenboy

      I am supposed to believe that there is a DA in NYS that prosecutes people for committing crimes?

      • UnCivilServant

        Only if they haven’t paid off All of the right people.

      • creech

        It’s Staten Island. Which should be part of New Jersey instead of New York, but why try to secede if New Jersey is your only other choice?

  22. R C Dean

    Is anybody asking exactly how a half a million(!) Haitians living in extreme poverty made it into the US?

    • AlexinCT

      Clinton foundation?

    • Rat on a train

      USAID?

    • UnCivilServant

      I just assumed they were flown in at our expense.

    • Common Tater

      voodoo

    • Fourscore

      I’d hate to go against a Haitian in a hot dog eating contest. Or even a dog eating contest.

      Need a separate class for Haitians

  23. Sean

    Got the windshield fixed. It looks much better, guess I can live with it.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      I put scotch tape on my ding. It’s now part of the windshield. Hey, it worked.

      • Sean

        lol

      • PutridMeat

        I put scotch tape on my ding

        Hey, no kink shaming here….

  24. Common Tater

    “Sakeik’s family is from Gaza, but she was born in Saudi Arabia, which does not grant birthright citizenship to the children of foreigners. She and her family came to the US on a tourist visa when she was eight and applied for asylum – but were denied. She has had deportation orders since she was nine years old, but she and her family were allowed to remain in Texas as long as they complied with requirements to check in with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

    Eventually, she graduated from high school in Mesquite, Texas, earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas Arlington and started a wedding photography business. On 31 January – she had a wedding of her own. She applied for a green card, and the first stage of her application was approved.”

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/02/stateless-palestinian-woman-deportation-ward-sakeik

    Chaos

    • UnCivilServant

      She’s not stateless. Just drop her off in Gaza.

      • Threedoor

        At the pier.

    • Suthenboy

      Why do I think there is something they are not telling us?

    • R C Dean

      “She has had deportation orders since she was nine years old, but she and her family were allowed to remain in Texas as long as they complied with requirements to check in with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.”

      Why do I keep reading about people with deportation orders who aren’t actually being deported? WTF is going on?

    • R C Dean

      “the first stage of her application was approved”

      “We acknowledge receipt of your application” is not really approval.

  25. The Late P Brooks

    Deprived

    President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” cuts federal spending on Medicaid and Affordable Care Act marketplaces by about $1 trillion over a decade, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, threatening the physical and financial health of tens of millions of Americans.

    The bill, which the Senate passed Tuesday, would reverse many of the health coverage gains of the Biden and Obama administrations, whose policies made it easier for millions of people to access health care and reduced the U.S. uninsured rate to record lows.

    At this point, I don’t even know what “health care” means.

    • R.J.

      I’ll take that as a start. Now increase it to a trillion a year savings.

      • UnCivilServant

        Legislative accounting should require a balancing where ten years of cost are calculated but they may only count revenue and savings from the current year, as the next legislative session may change the savings, but so rarely reduces the cost.

    • Suthenboy

      In. all of history has any one of these ten year plans been held to? It is absurd.