Good morning one and all to another incredible day!
Appeals Court Hands Trump Admin Another Deportation Victory
Trump admin Education Dept. has paused student loan forgiveness
Top Intelligence Officials Contradicted Brennan: ‘No Intelligence’ To Support Key Russia Hoax Claim
Verdict Is In: Biden’s Billions Only Enough To Build Measly Number Of EV Chargers
Shipping Companies Suddenly Banning EVs from Their Ships
General Motors’ Profits Drop 35 Percent – Yet CEO Clings to EV Strategy
US Olympics Committee bans transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports
Report Finds California’s $20 Fast Food Minimum Wage Resulted in 18,000 Fewer Jobs
Dillard’s Moving From Delaware to Texas, Cites Legal Concerns
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with an obligatory song and move along with my day.
“Boats packed to the gills with thousands of vehicles, even if only a small percentage of them aboard are electric, become floating, unquenchable volcanic islands when the lithium batteries in one or more of the EVs overheat or explode, and start burning. Almost invariably, they take the entire ship with them.”
Yikes!
Don’t they have insurance?
-Commies
They can just write it off.
You don’t even know what that means!
And yet there’s islands that are populated almost entirely with golf carts around here.
Different kind of battery.
Look, when a golf cart goes feral, it’s best it happens on an island, otherwise it would have to be put down to protect the scooter population.
Huh. I’m seeing still mostly lead-acid but lithium ion batteries are getting more popular.
The old people’s lack of energy balances the overcharged batteries. The solution is to put old people in the hold to balance the EVs.
Shocking.
The real minimum wage is $0.
Given how difficult it is to actually stop an EV fire, I’m not surprised.
Would shipping just the batteries be any safer?
I would imagine the uncharged batteries are safe.
I think they need to be “formed” (charged at time of manufacture).
The packs are made up of multiple cells that aren’t serviceable – so you’d likely have QC issues too.
Those QC issues seem to be part of the problem.
Possibly. You could come up with packaging that would mitigate things.
I guess the problem is how do you move an EV with the batteries dead or removed?
On a flatbed.
That would be a very slow load/unload on a ship.
So far it is just one company. Insurance is starting to notice, rates are being impacted. So we may see more banning of EVs on ships, or at least a really sharp rise in EV cost because of much higher insurance rates and new specifications for shipping in order to keep one’s insurance.
OK. The article says 384 chargers. 16% of $7.5bn spent equals $1.2bn. That equals $3.125m per charger. Good enough!
Doing the things private companies can’t do.
Doing the things private companies can’t do.
True, no private company can waste money like the government.
I wonder why the government didn’t have to subsidize gas stations when the internal combustion engine became a thing?
Yep. And Tesla’s new restaurant has 80 charging stations all by itself. Why do I think this cost Elon less than 3.125 million apiece?
“The agency determined that after three-and-a-half years, around 84% of the funds were yet to be legally committed.”
Good. Suspend the program pending completion of a thorough audit, and have Congress rescind the authorization.
I would guess that the authorization is already dead. Most govt spending has a built-in clock, the money must be spent by a certain date (usually within the FY, at most (IME) 2 FYs). This is an oddity of federal spending, and funds not spent technically expire, but we never really hear about that and you have to wonder, do they actually spend it when they aren’t supposed to?
Not unless you want to end up on the suspended and debarred list.
Addenda – I do recall what were called drug deals, whereby I send you some expiring funds that you can use and you agree to send back yours in the future to me, but the only ones of those I knew about were penny-ante, not huge amounts. Maybe it’s like the fractional penny rounding and it really adds up?
Maybe in the private sector that would get you suspended….
16% of $7.5bn spent equals $1.2bn. That equals $3.125m per charger. Good enough!
Those are rookie numbers. You need to pump them up!
The numbers are worse than at first glance. If you place an average of four charges per charging station, then the total comes out to less than 100 charging stations.
I have this crazy idea. Let’s get rid of all these stupid regulations, so cars don’t suck ass.
Yes – start with the ethanol mandate.
What, and deprive the self-sufficient farmers of their totally unnecessary and destructive government subsidies?!
You want farmers to starve just so your lawn mower can run without needing a new carburetor every year?
Why do you hate Iowa farmers? You can’t win the presidency without sucking up to them.
They could eat corn. Or feed some livestock with it.
Iowa crack corn and I don’t care
I don’t suppose some of that corn could be turned into potables and/or beef?
Naw, not a good idea.
mmm… bourbon burgers.
MGGA, please! (Make gasoline great again)
But then people might buy more cars instead of using bikes or public transportation.
18,000 fewer people exploited by evil capitalists! Everyone deserves a wage sufficient to buy and charge an EV, but not a Tesla.
lol Perfect.
You can have it on time and under budget, or you can have it diverse, you just need to have the right priorities!
I’ve never seen an electrician who wasn’t a white or latino man.
That is not the case around here.
I knew of a female electrician. Her side hustle was selling weed on jobsites until she got fired for it after an arrest.
“That is not the case around here.”
Black or female?
Common Tater:
Black and Middle Eastern electricians are not uncommon here. But I will concede the overwhelming majority are men.
As a naive younger man working in Berkeley about 35 years ago, I hired an electrical company called “Buffalo Electricians”, out of the Yellow Pages. To my surprise an older gentleman showed up with 3-4 youngsters, POC, they went to work, got the job(s) done. I was happy with the results.
“Nonbinary athletes in fencing will also be confined to only competing against biological men.”
Then I guess they’ll just stop identifying as non-binary.
But non-non-binary is so boring.
This.
This lunatic’s jig is up.
Good morning all.
The Transexual Olympics! Transexuals and other versions of enhanced humans only.
I mean, if there were only a free market in spectator sports (which is the way it should be) consumer preferences would decide if it’s more interesting to watch totally co-ed sports, those segregated by biological sex, or those segregated by “identified” sex.
Nobody would have to put up with their teenage girl having to complete against biological males, and the trans activist types could fund whatever type of sports league they want through ticket sales or donations.
The free market comes closest to giving everybody what they want. The only catch is that you don’t get to force your preferences on others.
I.e. the entire point, for many people.
Seems in poor taste.
https://nypost.com/cover/july-23-2025/
So just the way Ozzy would want it?
Not the Prince of Darkness I was expecting. Mpls/Chaska takes note.
The Ozzman cometh and the Ozzman goeth – 76 is a pretty good run for the lifestyle he lived all the way to the end.
As I’ve said, Ozzy dying at any point in the past 30 years would not have been surprising.
And yet, Keith Richards is still kicking.
I went to Ozzfest 2000
Thought he was going to die on stage then.
I saw him in ’86 or ’87 and he was hobbling around stage back then.
“Checked out Bravo star arrested for attacking woman with rock-filled sock at Walmart”
https://nypost.com/2025/07/23/entertainment/bravos-diamond-tankard-arrested-for-attacking-woman-with-rock-filled-sock-at-tennessee-walmart/
STIJLTH
In my estimation, the lead in with the weave-snatch would have been better.
I am playing catch-up by reading from bottom to top so some of these replies I am reading without knowing the context.
I read weave-snatch and instantly thought ‘braided pubes?’.
So… another Tuesday at Walmart.
Diamond Tankard? Is this person of the same family as Learned Hand? They have an odd way of naming their kids.
HA!
Sorry I wasn’t around last night for comments; I had a Zoom call with my Coastie clients at that time.
I’m not an admiralty guy and I believe that “torts on the seas” (Admiralty) is what that case would fall under.
I’m licensed in 4 states, but only keep 2 active (AZ & MA).
I’m
Sure one of us here can fix her.
Exactly how many people does she get to attack before bail is denied?
Depends. Is she a citizen or “undocumented”?
Undocumented Citizen.
At least it doesn’t possibly kill you unlike sleeping and using a fan in Korea.
The New Hot Topic in European Politics Is Air Conditioning
https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/europe-air-condition-heat-waves-politics-24aceab4?st=h4DUNJ&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
This seems an appropriate place to drop this.
FB friend shared a link about heat killing more in Europe than guns do in the U.S.
What we need is common sense European control.
What we need is common sense European control.
The Caliphate is coming, Effendi. Trust in Allah.
Legionella loves to grow in improperly maintained AC units. So you could get Legionaires’ Disease from spending a long time in an air-conditioned room.
Commercial units used in large commercial office and residential towers.
The problem is for people exposed outside the buildings as the contaminated condensate is aerosolized for those people outside. It has to breathed deeply in the lungs. So not an issue inside the same building.
NYC requires inspections and testing of the units. My understanding is most other cities do as well.
Botulinum loves to grow in improperly stored food….
These fear mongers would ban food if they could.
See my comment below on Totalitarianism.
A buddy of mine that lives in FL said that during Covid the cases of Legionaires disease shot up.
Makes sense now, funky ass masks. People hiding out in air conditioned buildings in high humidity and not getting vitamin D.
Meh… if you want to go back to Stone Age, knock yourselves out. Idiots.
They’d settle for the Middle Ages. We all know who would be the nobility and who’ll be the serfs.
Back then, the nobility had to earn that by being some kind of bad-ass, not by brow-beating based on moral self-superiority.
I thought the new Hot Topic was selling chokers and goth tights to Euro chicks?
Young me had some mental doors open up when my dad asked me about Hot Topic when I was a teen. He was considering buying stock in the company.
Obligatory: https://youtu.be/8OvUDHpPgb4
“Others fear respiratory infections that might result from spending long periods in air-conditioned rooms.”
When climate change hysteria no longer works, fall back on hysterical, unproven claims about health to get people all worked up and afraid. They want people to be sweating or shivering in their dark hovels.
The unelected must rule over the elected!
Ok pointy-headed authors – just point to the part of the Constitution that says those are all obligations of the United States federal government. If not, you and all of the other grand schemers can just fuck right off.
Let’s compose a bare bones list of the things the government is authorized to do. It fits on a single sheet of paper.
Let’s also compose a bare bones list of things the government is actually doing. It looks like the goddamned Library of Congress.
The fedgov looks just like a criminal cartel because it is a criminal cartel.
But we’re counting on continuing to rob the American taxpayer blind!
A United States that abruptly changes its strategy every four years is not one other countries will trust or respect
Some advice for those countries.
Treaties are more stable than diplomatic agreements. Funding is fickle. Show some gratitude.
Exactly. If it isn’t a treaty ratified by congress, then it’s just an agreement with the current president, which is obviously subject to change.
“Security, economic coordination, and global governance” is an interesting euphemism for “subsidies”.
We’re number 1!
If only the DMV properly funded WMATA … also more TOD and road diets.
Jesus… when I lived in NYC 33.4 minutes would have been a dream commute.
I majored in Tyranny. I remember one of the classes from freshman year – Totalitarianism 101. First lesson, first day was Get monopoly control of a resource then create a shortage. Dole out that resource in ‘just enough to survive’ amounts to people who do as they are fucking told. The three best resources to have control over are 1) Food, 2) water 3) energy, not necessarily in that order.
Power is a fixed pie. The more power people have over their own lives the less power you have over their lives. Prosperity gives people power over their own lives. Prosperity must be destroyed.
That is the whole class in a nutshell. I look at the news and it appears I am not the only one who had that class. It explains nearly every thing I see happening. I look at all the pretzel logic and hair splitting and the arguments seem to always come to the same conclusion: Give me money and power.
Rather than stick around and get angry and depressed I should just spend the day working in the yard.
Agreed. Unless you can solve that problem, go outdoors and exercise your own freedom.
P.S., I will be running through Shreveport on August 1st.
That’s a long run for you isn’t it?
I need the exercise.
‘Gross financial mismanagement’: Prince William teachers union placed into trusteeship
The last time Democrats controlled Virginia’s government they passed legislation allowing public sector unions. Expect more bad legislation when Spanberger takes over next year.
New York, Illinois and California aren’t object lesson enough, are they?
Walz is contemplating a road trip?
Don’t forget HI in your rogues gallery. We are small but with corruption punch well above our weight class (4 members of Congress).
Turning Maisie Hirono into a bragging point is an accomplishment dbleagle!
World Court is poised to mark the future course of climate litigation
A think tank opinion as binding as a vote from the body that requested it.
All the answers are going to boil down to the US must transfer trillions of dollars to the third world. Who will use some of it to build coal plants and the rest will be spent on hookers and blow.
There’s no such thing as “international law”, only treaties among specific nations, which can of course be broken.
Either treaties between nations, or bullying of small nations.
Not a good landing.
https://x.com/RT_com/status/1948006504671633748
Wonder how the people in that car made out.
Shaken, not stirred.
Conversation
This Post from @RT_com has been withheld in United Kingdom, European Union in response to a legal demand
Airplane crashes into Italian Highway – 2 fatalities.
Russia bad! EU good!
On the way to Holiday World w ‘rents and the three nephews. Amazing place and still family-owned, IIRC.
This will be a long drive, however. Oh, deary, me.
Where are you heading?
I think he’s going to Holiday World.
I thought that was an RV rental place. I know not of amusement parks outside of the South.
Relevant
R.J:
Then you’re missing out. But I’ve been spoiled for most of my life.
Holiday World! It’s in Santa Claus, IN. (No shit.)
Opened in the 50s(?) and each area has its own holiday theme. Damn good roller coasters and were innovative with their water park in the 90s.
There’s a story there. It’s the Glibs theme park.
“Eight children from the same choir were raced to hospital mid-performance after suffering seizures in a church.
The horror episode unfolded around 7pm Monday in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as the children all experienced seizures at the same time….
All of the children were aged between 11 and 13 and were part of a traveling choir from France.
Cambridge Fire Chief Thomas Cahill said that the situation ‘quickly escalated’, and said the children were all transported to nearby hospitals. Their condition is unknown.
Officials said they are baffled by what caused the mass-seizures, as hazmat teams scoured the building and found nothing that appeared to have triggered it.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14932673/eight-children-seizures-cambridge-Massachusetts-choir-french.html
Drugs?
Mass hysteria.
At least this time it wasn’t Salem.
Holy Spirit?
I blame Mary Hart.
I remember that episode of Evil.
Mmmm…Herbers….
Full English breakfast.
Witchcraft
Obviously.
“Rep. Yvette D. Clarke, serving New York’s 9th District in Brooklyn, NY, has said that she would like to see more immigrants into her area “just for redistricting purposes.” Redistricting is an emerging political fight ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
“I’m from Brooklyn, New York,” Clarke said on a Zoom call. “We have a diaspora that can absorb a significant number of these migrants, and that, you know, when I hear colleagues talk about, you know, the doors of the inn being closed, no room. In the end, I’m saying, you know, I need more people in my district, but just for redistricting purposes, and those members could clearly fit here.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/new-york-rep-wants-more-migrants-in-brooklyn-just-for-redistricting-purposes
CWAC
It’s crazy that even when radical Dems state plainly exactly all the illegal shit they are doing, they just keep doing it anyway without any consequences.
And they claim it’s what Republicans are doing.
And they claim it’s what Republicans are doing.
“”It could be, it could be financial. And I don’t know that it’s purely political. It could be,” Hostin began. “But my concern is, if it is political, then everyone should be concerned. People on the right should be concerned. People on the left should be concerned, because it’s very clear that if it is political, this is the dismantling of our democracy. This is the dismantling of our Constitution.
“And so the First Amendment is the First Amendment for a reason, and that is freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom to speak truth to power. If that is taken away, if the comedians are being attacked, then that means our Constitution is being dismantled,” Hostin said as the crowd cheered.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/the-views-sunny-hostin-claims-stephen-colberts-canceling-is-dismantling-of-our-democracy
There is no peak retard.
LOLFFS
There is nothing stopping Colbert from his expressing his spittle-flecked hatred on a street corner somewhere. The Constitution does not seem to require CBS to throw $40 million out the window to broadcast it.
I am sure he could find a sympathetic judge to order CBS to keep his show.
Nope, the first amendment doesn’t enter into it.
See you in America are lucky because you have a stronger Left Wing. In Romania I can already see reality unraveling after the cancellation of poor poor Stevie C
“California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) personally pushed a private foundation to donate $500,000 to an anti-ICE group that also supports defunding the police, according to a report from the Washington Free Beacon, citing state records….
The $500,000 donation was made to the Immigrant Defenders Law Center in 2023. The center’s services include a bond fund to get illegal immigrants out of federal custody. The bond fund was started on June 7, which was just one day after the anti-ICE riots began this year in LA.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/gavin-newsom-secured-500000-private-donation-for-anti-ice-defund-police-group-report
Defunding the police in LA resulted in paying more money for fewer cops due to overtime.
All that matters is that he is seen to support the same positions as the radicals who have taken over his party.
Arrest Newsom for aiding and abetting.
https://x.com/RichardJMurphy/status/1947554947911864329
makes you think…
Makes me think he is an idiot.
What a dumbass
Funding the Future…
With unicorn farts.
I found out yesterday that my ex-wife’s sister, my son’s aunt, is in hospice.
Pretty bummed about this, as I really liked Jen.
Damn. Sorry, Zwak.
Sorry 🙁
Sorry
Thanks guys.
Richard Murphy
@RichardJMurphy
The government wants to force yet more people to save in stock market-based pensions that are bound to fail because changing demographics guarantee that will happen. It’s time to rethink the whole nature of pensions instead.
Second, the stock market is not a benevolent machine that delivers pensions out of the goodness of its heart. It is a speculative, extractive mechanism whose real returns over time depend on the next generation of savers pumping in even more money to keep the whole thing afloat. That’s not a pension system. That’s a Ponzi scheme dressed up in pinstripes, which is bound to fail as the number of people in the younger generation declines, as we know it will.
The real pension contract, as I argued recently, is not about financial assets. It’s a social contract between generations. Those in work today support those in retirement, in the expectation that the next generation will do the same. This has always been the only mechanism that works, and it depends on intergenerational trust, not share prices.
So what should be done?
We need a living state pension that guarantees security in retirement for all, paid from tax revenues and is not one dependent on luck in financial markets.
We need a radical rethink of wealth taxation so that those who have accumulated assets contribute to the needs of those who have not.
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/07/23/a-pensions-policy-built-on-a-ponzi-scheme-cannot-deliver-security-in-retirement/
so the stock market is a ponzi scheme but pay as you go pensions are not
We need a radical rethink of wealth taxation so that those who have accumulated assets contribute to the needs of those who have not.
Hmm, where have I heard that before? Oh yeah, “from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs”.
Go fuck yourself, Commie.
“Fuck off, commie.”
because changing demographics guarantee that will happen
Paging SocSec actuaries, will the SocSec actuaries please come to the white courtesy phone.
It would be a shame if Mr. Murphy were to die tragically in a car jacking.
They would simply be redistributing the car to those in need.
Pensions were supposed to invest in government bonds until the government decided that they wanted to suppress interest rates to borrow like commies and forced their central banks to suck up all the excess.
Youre either paying interest or suffering higher inflation. See-sawing between the two may fool people under 40 but anyone older sees the game and adjusts accordingly.
Ill bet his next genius idea will be capital controls.
“Iran and China Are Circumventing Sanctions via Notorious Bank and Letitia James Is Implicated
The Standard Chartered Bank sanctions evasion case, now in court in the US Second Circuit, found at least $9.6 billion of illegal payments by the bank to Iranian and Hezbollah entities.
The case implicates NYAG Letitia James and the Federal Reserve for ignoring billions of these illicit payments and ignoring Treasury sanctions designations. Maximum Pressure is not being enforced because of the failures of the Fed and the NYAG.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/07/her-biggest-scandal-yet-iran-china-are-circumventing/
The important thing is that she got Trump.
The Notorious B.A.N.K.
The bank that needs to be spanked.
Go ’way, batin’.
My God if she’s put behind bars….
President Volodymyr Zelensky has signed a bill that critics say weakens the independence of Ukraine’s anti-corruption bodies, sparking protests in several cities and drawing international criticism.
The new law grants the prosecutor general control of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (Nabu) and Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (Sap), and critics say it undermines their authority.
In an address on Wednesday, Zelensky said both agencies would still “work” but needed to be cleared of “Russian influence”.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9w19pl84r8o.amp
“Russian Influence” == getting to close to implicating Z’s men.
“DNI Tulsi Gabbard released her second batch of previously undisclosed documents on Wednesday morning that include more proof that Barack Obama directly gave the order to publish Russia Collusion hoax knowing there was no proof to back it up.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/07/breaking-dni-tulsi-gabbard-releases-reports-proving-barack/
I severely doubt anything will come of this.
Nope. Rome could have reformed and avoided collapsing into dictatorship. Turned out they were too far gone with corruption and greed. Probably same with us.
Sulla wasn’t warning enough. This is what humanity does.
from the weekend . . .
Symptom 3 of imminent civil war — loss of faith that the system can be fixed from within by following normal processes.
It seems to me like Durham Report Part Deux and/or “THE WALLS ARE CLOSING IN! WE GOT HIM THIS TIME!”
It just came out of nowhere!
https://nypost.com/2025/07/23/us-news/surf-instructor-has-arm-ripped-off-when-clipped-by-amtrak-train/
I’m sure a cellphone and/or earbuds were not involved in any way.
I blame Gay Pete.
WTF was a train doing out in the ocean?
Well, that was a massive turd my son’s baseball team dropped on the field. No heart whatsoever. Just rolled over and died.
This a pussy ass generation.
AP comes out swinging
President Donald Trump rehashed longstanding grievances over the Russia investigation that shadowed much of his first term, lashing out Tuesday following a new report from his intelligence director aimed at casting doubt on long-established findings about Moscow’s interference in the 2016 election.
“It’s time to go after people,” Trump said from the Oval Office as he repeated a baseless claim that former President Barack Obama and other officials had engaged in treason.
Trump was not making his claims for the first time, but he delivered them when administration officials are harnessing the machinery of the federal government to investigate the targets of Trump’s derision, including key officials responsible for scrutinizing Russia’s attempts to intervene on Trump’s behalf in 2016.
“Just the facts, Ma’am.”
“full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”
“lashing out”
Totally uncalled for. He has been treated so kindly since descending that escalator.
–“aimed at casting doubt on long-established findings about Moscow’s interference in the 2016 election.”–
Which long-established findings are we talking about?
Trump’s attack prompted a rare response from Obama’s post-presidential office.
“Our office does not normally dignify the constant nonsense and misinformation flowing out of this White House with a response,” said Patrick Rodenbush, an Obama spokesman. “But these claims are outrageous enough to merit one. These bizarre allegations are ridiculous and a weak attempt at distraction.”
Such quiet dignified nobility. Damn that 22nd Amendment, and the evil Republicans who rammed it through.
<a href="https://johnkassnews.com/back-when-obama-killed-the-american-republic/"Early Obama, just as feckless then.
How about with a working link?
Maybe Obama and Tish James can play some canasta when they’re behind bars.
“‘Pretty revolutionary’: a Brooklyn exhibit interrogates white-dominated AI to make it more inclusive
Stephanie Dinkins challenges the racialized AI space by highlighting Black ethos and cultural cornerstones
During a time when society has become increasingly reliant on AI, Dinkins wants the models to learn the history, hopes and dreams of Black and brown people to more accurately represent US demographics. She sees her work as shifting the AI landscape, which has been trained on biased data and encapsulates a worldview that is not reflective of the global majority. Black people are underrepresented in the AI field, with Black workers composing just 7.4% of the hi-tech workforce. Research has shown that lack of representation in AI can lead to discriminatory outcomes, such as predictive policing tools that target Black communities and tenant screening programs that reject renters of color.”
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/jul/23/stephanie-dinkins-ai-race-black-white-technology
This shit is so tiring.
JiveGPT
So more black Nazis in WWII?
Interestingly, there were Asians who fought in a German uniform in WW2…
Ah, yes. AI ain’t no good because it isn’t diverse enough.
Sure, buddy.
If you’re not anti-racist you’re racist.
Complete bullshit.
Someone needs to explain to her how AI actually works. It is not based on the number of “Black workers”. It’s based on all people flapping their gums on the internet.
If she wants more “representation” I guess she could filter out the not “Black and brown people” which would totally not be racist at all.
More Guardian. So, the commies want to demoralize AI. Imagine that.
This manic sociopathy drives them to extend control over absolutely everything, even the way the grass bends in the wind.
“From Canada to Finland, a US neo-Nazi fight club is rapidly spreading across the globe”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/23/neo-nazi-fight-club
Read the whole thing. Never gets to how these are neo-Nazis.
Toxic Masculinity is always Neo-Nazis. This is Known.
This is, straight up, the progressives looking for a hook to use to de-legitimize combat sports.
It’s true all fighters are white supremacists. Martial arts are from Europe, and no one has ever heard of a black or latino boxer.
I’m not reading the rest of that trash but to me it seems seems like projecting attention away from their thugs.
Why yes, Antifa assholes in masks are a quite common occurrence in recent years.
*clicks link, sees The Guardian*
Awww….fuck.
*closes page*
Reuters – it’s like two news services in one!
Reuters
Japan’s PM Ishiba to quit after election drubbing and Trump trade deal, source
8 hours ago
By Tim Kelly, Leika Kihara & Satoshi Sugiyama
Reuters
Japan’s PM Ishiba denies talk he will quit following election drubbing
7 hours ago
By Tim Kelly, Leika Kihara & Satoshi Sugiyama
Same writers too.
I’m sure they just recast the article and changed the headline after the government responded to the rumor.
Part of good “journalisming” is putting things in context!
Paywall:
Long Island Man Planned to Set Off Homemade Bombs in Manhattan, Authorities Say
The man made several explosive devices using chemicals bought online, placing some on rooftops in New York City before he was arrested, the authorities said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/nyregion/nyc-homemade-bombs-man-charged.html
I am totally in the weeds in cleaning up my blog and thus, my music metadata and thus, my phone’s audio player and thus and thus and thus.
I swear, I can’t do Thing A until I do Thing M until I do Thing R until I do Thing B.
Someone told me that’s called a “mushroom project” – the more you do, the more you discover must be done.
I went to replace the siding on the detached garage a few months ago… Took the siding off, found some rotten sheeting. Took the rotten sheeting off, found rotten studs. So I ended up basically rebuilding parts of the structure in place. Good learning experience though, and honestly kind of fun when I look back on it.
So, you found out how deep the rot goes?
“Mushroom” like a nuclear bomb drop or digging down into the shit? Because both are plausible.
I started out today doing a music review I promised somebody and then I just spiraled.
This is nuts!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14932673/eight-children-seizures-cambridge-Massachusetts-choir-french.html
This is crazy.
Interesting that some of the kids said they detected “an odor.”
Mesial temporal lobe seizures often begin with an aura of smelling something (that isn’t there).
They should check the lights in the place for flicker, not the air purity!
Nice photo Hayek
Thanks!
See above.
I don’t think it could have been lights flickering unless they were all epileptic in the first place.
Also, no one in the audience had a seizure.
My neurologist says that EVERYONE has a seizure threshold; it’s just lower in people with epilepsy.
Only 5% of epilepsy patients are photosensitive. I’m not. But there have been cases of “normals” getting seizures induced by flashing video games and such, so I wouldn’t dismiss the light possibility out of hand.
There will always be room in your file for a sternly worded letter of admonishment
The International Court of Justice was delivering an advisory opinion in a landmark case about nations’ obligations to tackle climate change and the consequences they may face if they don’t, calling it an “urgent and existential” threat to humanity.
“Failure of a state to take appropriate action to protect the climate system … may constitute an internationally wrongful act,” court President Yuji Iwasawa said during the hearing.
Well, that’s that. The jig is up, boys. Throw down your weapons and come out with your hands up.
Dear President Yuji Iwasawa,
Go fuck yourself.
Yours etc.
House Republicans propose naming Kennedy Center’s opera house after Melania Trump
This should keep everyone distracted from real problems. On the plus side it’s going to annoy the all the right people.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/house-republicans-kennedy-centers-opera-house-melania-trump/
Stupid is as stupid does.
A better proposal would be selling the Kennedy Center.
The non-binding opinion, which runs to over 500 pages, is seen as a potential turning point in international climate law.
This time for sure!
I wonder how many pages of wrath are directed at the by-far biggest polluter on the planet.
On the no bail/no prosecution problem wife is asking me if we, citizens can claim to be an injured party and file a class action.
I am trying to explain sovereign immunity and why it exists but A) I am sympathetic to her argument and B) I dont know what sovereign immunity is in principle but I dont know the finer details. In looking it up I see there is a difference in the way SI applies to Feds, States and Municipalities.
I do understand why it exists.
Anyone have any clarification? *looks at Ozzy*
Ugh….I DO know what it means in principle
I’m wondering if a group of my neighbors can sue the local farmers to stop them from growing canola. It keeps a bunch of us inside for three months of the late spring and summer. Toxic shit to be down wind from, eye blisters.
“There is a good reason for this lack of outrage—two, in fact. The first is that the so-called “youth vaping crisis,” in which Juul was accused of hooking kids on nicotine, has vanished. In 2019, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 27.5 percent of high-school students had vaped during the previous 30 days, with the sleek Juul e-cigarette by far the most popular brand. Last year, the CDC reported that the percentage of high-school students who vaped had dropped to 5.9 percent—with fewer than one percent using a Juul product, the company says.
And the second reason? For all the venom that has been heaped on Juul—and, to a lesser extent, other vaping brands—the science has long been clear that e-cigarettes can save lives. Nobody is saying that they are perfectly safe, but they are far less harmful than cigarettes, which kill 480,000 smokers each year in the U.S. A landmark 2018 study by Public Health England concluded that e-cigarettes were 95 percent less harmful than smoking. And more and more people are starting to figure that out.”
https://www.thefp.com/p/time-to-clear-the-air-on-juul
How DARE you bring reason to my MORAL PANIC!
I hear freaking out over Satanic Ritual Abuse is back in vogue. You could try that.
I go away for a few days and then I have to spend hours catching up on comment-reading so I don’t miss any new memes.
But I’m all caught up, in time for SF-Wednesday!
Wait, there are new? Can’t I just stay oblivious and out of touch?
I’ve been doing it for years.
But how would understand what people meant when they mentioned that they wanted the Cleveland Browns to be their pall bearers so they could catch the drugs falling out of their ass?
I’d just figure they had aphasia.
Remember the cops the other day with the grenade that died?
Turns out the morons decided to cut into one of them.
What moron dosent unscrew the fuse on a grenade and make sure it is inert before doing such a stupid move?
Much experience.
True hero
https://www.reddit.com/r/LosAngeles/comments/1m5y1fu/3_deputies_killed_thought_grenades_were_inert/
From Further down on the Reddit thread, I wonder if these three “experienced” EOD guys were involved here as well?
https://abc7.com/amp/post/lapd-fireworks-blast-city-council-approves-21-million/15022012/
Wow.
Sure they X Rayed them.
Unscrew the fuse, look inside.
Takes a few seconds to verify that yes, it’s filled with explosive and yep, it’s a real fuse.