I’m back after a wonderful Christmas / New Years break. I had a fabulous time at the farm with the boyfriend, his extended family, and of course the cows (who I got on the Zoom but nobody else was around). Here’s a smooth little number to start us off. Now, let’s get linkin’.
BREAKING: A Witness Claims MN Domestic Terrorist Was Obstructing ICE, Then Appears to Change Her Tune via the wonderful Jennifer Oliver O’Connell at Red State.
US GOVT CUTS OFF AID TO SOMALIAN GOVT AMID ALLEGATIONS OF FOOD AID SEIZURE: The US has suspended all assistance to the government of Somalia, alleging that officials destroyed a UN World Food Programme (WFP) warehouse and seized “donor-funded food aid”.
MY SPECIAL 2026 PREDICTION FOR NGOs: I’m thinking that Spring, 2026 is the extinction moment for proggie propaganda shops and pass-through organizations. Hopefully, many have spent down their last Biden administration USAID get-the-money-out-before-the-inauguration grants, and will be shuttering.
A GOOD START TO THE NEW YEAR: U.S. will leave 66 international organizations as Trump further retreats from global cooperation. I found the best hand-wringing coverage of this from PBS. However, despite the caterwauling of formerly state-funded media, none of these orgs are particularly significant and hopefully DOGE already cut off funding to them. I had to dig for the list, and found it roughly divided into three categories: climate hysteria groups, bullshit glad-handing groups (presumed pass-through channels), and (icing on the cake) 16 UN organizations! I know we wish it was the entire UN, but that will have to wait.
SO WHAT DID CPB ACTUALLY DO, ANYWAY? Actually, very little. I know this topic has been covered here previously, but I wanted to share this wonderful salty ham tears piece from Columbia Journalism Review. About the only useful thing the article mentions CPB doing is helping stations navigate FCC paperwork. Surely they could share that expertise among themselves, develop nonprofit consultancies, etc. However, [some worthless bubo] views the shutdown of CPB as a “catastrophic” event. “It potentially decimates all of public media forever, depending on what happens in the next three years,” he said. “It eliminates the capacity for the [federal] government to give money within the Public Broadcasting Act.” That was, of course, the whole point of the exercise. Think of his tears when you slurp this down:
STRANGE BEDFELLOWS: Greg Lukianoff tried to go all Prometheus and bring the FIRE to the readers of the WaPo; it apparently didn’t go over very well. The FIRE has been burning low lately, and while still fighting the good fight, mostly, has been hanging out with an interesting assortment of characters: […]Nadine Strossen [ACLU alum…], Human Rights Watch co-founder and former ACLU executive director Aryeh Neier, Reason editor at large Nick Gillespie.
ACTUAL ASTRONAUT AND PILOT CONFIRMED AS DIRECTOR OF NASA: SLDs in full force, but damn this is welcome news. Tech bro Jared Isaacman is a self-made billionaire, and, refreshingly, neither a NASA bureaucrat, nor a dinosaur aerospace industry executive. One of his first acts? Replacing rocket engine test stands dating from before the Apollo era. This guy is going to get us back to the moon before the Chinese get there. Per ardua ad astra, Director Isaacman, and godspeed.
MARS SAMPLE RETURN MISSION IS OFFICIALLY DEAD: Finally. This poorly planned mission has long been plagued by delays, cost overruns, and feckless and incompetent partners (looking at you, European Space Agency). The real tragedy here is that Perseverance rover could have carried more instruments, or covered more ground, if not burdened by the weight and energy costs of the sample collection subsystems.
SSTO RECONSIDERED: Single-stage to orbit has long been the holy grail of rocketry. Bold new space news site AVID opines that with full reusability and fast turn-around that SSTO can be sidelined to the “it will happen when it happens” bin.
GLIBS NEEDS CONTENT: You may have noticed there was no midday post today. We are out of the stand-alone articles we use in otherwise-open midday and evening slots. Get writing, ppl. Don’t do it for me, do it for her:
To add on to the request for content, if there’s anyone out there with an idea for a series they’d like to keep going, even if only for a month or so, let us know. I’ll add some special thanks to the authors who have allowed us to serialize their work on the site.
Thanks for the shout-out to our series authors.
Also, thanks to Raven Nation for stepping up with the emergency open post.
Aside from the ongoing, I’m working on an article regarding 3D printing that covers new ground from the previous ones.
The physical work isn’t done so I haven’t written it up yet.
Thanks. You already do heavy lifting here, but we do appreciate it.
I have several topics I’ve mulled over in my head in the past. Whether it’s ancient civilizations, aliens, or just my latest Trump-Epstein-Israel rant.
Bring it.
Anybody interested in some musings on guns, concealed carry, firearms training, and their various uses and employment cases?
yes
In this crowd? Pretty sure you’ll have some interested parties.
Doesn’t sound like the kind of content that would suit this crowd…
Oh, hell yes.
…and how to get the mud, sediment, crustaceans, weeds out after the boat accident…
Guns?
Icky.
Pew, pew pew!
I have three writen that I need to do a little polish and add photos to.
Not sure where to send them.
I’ll tell you where to send ’em, buddy. I have access to the email addy you registered with and will send the writer guidelines to you.
Anyone else interested in scribbling for us, please send an email with subject AUTHOR QUERY to my_handle (at) thisdomain (dot) com.
Thanks Toino!
Wait, this site has articles?
This is the only place I have to tell my wife that I read for the pictures instead of the articles.
No, just Qs links.
See my post below.
I’m thinking that Spring, 2026 is the extinction moment for proggie propaganda shops and pass-through organizations.
I want to believe.
There was an opinion piece at The Hill this morning calling for USAID to be resurrected as a cabinet office.
Because untold numbers of people here and around the world have died.
We would know the exact number, except Nick Shirley broke in and stoled all the records.
Department of Grifting?
And Gamboling
Department of Electing Democrats
Im at lunch writing a piece about landscaping, be with you shortly Tonio,
Grazie!
Sure some glib’s mind must be a a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.
Alas not mine, but if I come up with anything, lobster girl will be the first to know.
No, it’s just screaming into the void to get the thoughts out of my head and a bit better organized. 🙂
Ditto.
Mr Taggert, you use your mouth putirer than a twenty-dollar whore.
Mr Lamar….Taggert said it
I blame the covid fog
That was a great collection of links, thanks for all the work Tonio. Happy New Year. And I really hope that prediction proves to be true.
Thanks, TOK. Hope you’re continuing to improve.
I am, though I am getting impatient about the whole thing. I am still in PT, and in a few weeks it will be 3 months since the crash. I have called to mind Ron’s Stoicism series quite a lot lately.
I think you just need to walk it off.
In all seriousness, glad to help and glad you’re getting better.
“I think you just need to walk it off.”
Even funnier considering who you’re talking to.
I said that on purpose.
Guy that works with me broke his leg a little over a month ago and is going totally stir crazy. I’ve been able to keep up with the workload but I was planning on having him do all of it through January and he had to go and turn into a gimp.
PT sucks but it can do the trick to get you better. Worst PT I had was on my shoulder where I had to do the hand bike.
That thing will break you off.
On the left starting shit with ICE and then pretending they’re innocent of the consequences it’s inevitably brought:
On social media, I was seeing alleged pictures of the ICE agent who shot the driver. It turns out those aren’t even real – they’re AI generated based on photos of him with their mask on.
These are the people who pretend they are the sane adults in the room fighting tyranny.
In a statement, CPB called the shutdown an act of “responsible stewardship,” since a “dormant and defunded CPB could have become vulnerable to future political manipulation or misuse.”
What if the monster attacks US?
<blockquoteThe US has suspended all assistance to the government of Somalia
On the grounds that the $10B in Medicaid fraud we’ve provided to the domestic Somali population was sufficient.
I hope Trump says those exact words at some point.
Why are we throwing money at them in the first place? You know… money we don’t have.
The CPBers were well acquainted with skin-suiting so decided to cremate their own corpse.
“Selfish asshole Charlie Brown says he will no longer cooperate with Lucy Van Pelt on football kicking.”
[golf clap]
It should be easier, now, for those groups to agree on how much money the US should spend on their projects.
“the U.N.’s population agency”
Not sure exactly what this is as there are a number of UN agencies with “population” in the name but none named Population Agency.
My guess is it’s either the UN Population Division which is basically a statistics generating agency. I’ll just go ahead and assume it’s over staffed.
OR, it’s the UN Population Fund whose mission seems to primarily be providing contraceptives and training midwives and health workers. No, we shouldn’t be funding the UN. But, if we were, this one is pretty harmless. Still a lot of it could be easily funded by private groups and individuals.
They explicitly state they do not fund or perform abortions:
“UNFPA does not fund or perform abortions.
Abortion is never promoted as, or considered to be, a method of family planning. Instead, UNFPA accords the highest priority to voluntary family planning. Research clearly shows that family planning prevents unintended pregnancies, reduces abortions and prevents maternal death.
UNFPA’s guiding document, the ICPD Programme of Action (para 8.25), recognizes that the legal status of abortion is determined by each country’s national legislative process. UNFPA does not interfere in these sovereign country processes.
UNFPA states – also in alignment with the ICPD Programme of Action – that in countries where abortion is legal, national health systems must make safe abortion care accessible to the full extent of the law. In all cases, no matter the legality of abortion, women must have access to quality services to manage complications arising from abortion.
UNFPA stands opposed to all forms of reproductive violence, including coercive abortion, forced pregnancy and the discriminatory practice of gender-biased sex selection.”
Mother of 3 who loved to sing and write poetry shot and killed by ICE in Minneapolis
The author is Omar Jimenez. Who remembers why we know his name?
Mr. “Fiery but peaceful”.
Common Tater posted one of her poems this morning. It was hideous.
I also love to sing and write poetry. Would anyone say that makes me any less of a malevolent asshole?
Only if you are also a twice divorced, now lesbian Christian.
Whoops, I guess once divorced. Second husband died, because she was just too good.
I read her poem, she’s not a Christian.
Excellent music choice.
I do not have enough Post-Its and I’m now in crisis.
Walgreens awaits to fulfill your Post-It needs…
But CVS will print a receipt long enough you can cut it up and apply mucilage to the back!
/really needs to break the Depression era habits that were instilled into me by my parents.
“…the Depression era habits that were instilled into me by my parents.”
It’s odd how some of the habits are hard to break but yet give away almost new and rarely used things.
I’ve lost about 15 (or more) guns to boating accidents, never to be seen again but wear T-shirts that would embarrass Bill Belichick
They have a stand of gnarly, fake Post Its that will curl up and fall off within 24 hours. Curse you CVS!
Let me stop you right there…
The public certainly doesn’t profit.
So I hear the Ayatollah has shut off the wired internet in Iran, but some areas still have starlink?
This was paired with reports of the forces fighting the crowds had arabic speakers among them (purportedly imported Hezbollah). I guess they’ll try “shoot them all” soon.
I found a good Substack on this just moments ago.
https://evebarlow.substack.com/p/the-invisible-revolution
And also, I’ve decided that my 400-year-old sorcerer’s new favorite party trick is folding fitted sheets.
That might be worthy of an article on its own!
It’s easy.
Take one corner, match it to the opposite corner.
Then ball the whole thing up and cram it into the drawer.
That is perfect. That’s like Robert Asprin levels of whimsy.
I don’t think that’s believable enough.
That’s what my husband said.
“Then he really IS a sorcerer! Because that’s sorcery!”
No, dear. Just takes a little patience and spatial awareness.
On any given day I may have one of those, but never both, so I just spread the sheet out on the floor, pull the corners into a rough rectangle with the elastic band haphazardly curling towards the center, and fold it over a few times until it fits in the allotted bin in my linen closet.
Or just ball that bitch up and call it a day.
This is my husband’s preferred method.
He’s right. It’s sorcery.
My next neighborhood is definitely going to be a place with easy access to wash ‘n’ fold service, if I don’t have my own in-home W&D like I do now.
I’m confused – why would anyone ever need to fold fitted sheets? There are only ever two states – in use, or in the wash. Neither are improved by folding.
lol
Now I feel shamed for owning two of the things.
Maybe it’s just me, but I haven’t listened to a radio broadcast (commercial or otherwise) in years. I can’t help thinking “radio stations” are well on their way to being as dead as Marconi. But let’s don’t allow that to stop us from funneling millions of dollars to PBS propaganda outlets.
The girlfriend keeps listening to radio in her car. She’s got her phone paired to the car, she has Pandora, Amazon Music, and Plexamp installed. It boggles my mind.
Somebody stole my car radio and now I just sit in silence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92XVwY54h5k
You can only get the Grasshopper and Stinker morning show on the radio.
Do you enjoy the silence …
Old media is not as relevant anymore.
In Pittsburgh, the Post-Gazette is going to shut down.
I’ve seen many “Oh, that’s terrible” reactions, but how many of them have a subscription?
The NRA magazines are going to digital format.
They’ll be even less relevant than they are now.
I don’t think I e read the last couple years of them. I wadded up one for fire starter that was in my worktruck today and noticed it was from 2016.
When I stopped tuning in to radio broadcasts 20 years ago, the demise of the format within 10 years seemed inevitable. It’s one of the few things from the pre-internet era for which I don’t really have much nostalgia.
I have nostalgia for radio.
It was a huge part in our shared culture. That no longer exists, and we’re worse off for it.
That said, I too haven’t listened to radio since they switched the last remaining classical music station in Miami to a rave music station in the late 90s.
I used to listen to Bongino on the AM when I was in the car. Those days might be returning.
I will occasionally tune in to WXRT in Chicago, they are still the same as when I was in high school, and their Saturday Morning Flashback show is still fantastic.
I do. But I am really old. I have several radios. I do also listen to podcasts and streaming. And I have an analog watch.
I have an apologue watch but haven’t worn it since around 2007 or so.
I still listen to radio. Get off my lawn
I usually listen to Beck time delayed but the radio station changed format in early December to all Christmas music through Christmas and now an off classic rock country mix.
Listen to local rock stations when driving and working on the road when I can find them. Often the only thing I can find is dead air or NPR. Sometimes I listen to the propaganda.
I haven’t listened to radio since Howard Stern moved to Sirius. So… 20 years?
They got skinsuited when they changed the acronym from “Individual Rights in Education,” IMO. Not surprised at all to see ACLU names in their buddy buddy list, they’re more or less the same org now.
Someone smarter than me needs to use AI to animate Lobster Girl for the website.
Did this work?
https://grok.com/imagine/post/8ee7e2ec-bb22-43e6-b467-4255d9802592?source=copy_link&platform=android
That’s kind of disturbing.
Oh my…
Mein Gott!
You, sir, win the interwebs.
I sorta knew they could do that, but haven’t (knowingly) played with AI.
I shoulda tweaked the prompts so she doesnt sound like a robot and doesnt molest the lobster
No, no, molesting the lobster is fine…
Wow.
In Pittsburgh, the Post-Gazette is going to shut down.
I’ve seen many “Oh, that’s terrible” reactions, but how many of them have a subscription?
That’s why we need government funding!
lol
Totally unrelated, I’m sure.
Not bad, but I’d be gladder if his agenda was more similar to the Department of Education: “How do I dismantle this agency and return these functions to private industry?”
I know. Show up for work on day one and hand the keys to the shop to Elon. Job done. Retire.
Here’s one for the musicians out there:
Fender’s Tom Morello Signature “Arm the Homeless” Guitar
https://www.fender.com/products/tom-morellos-arm-the-homeless-guitar
Only $1700!
For the money, the spec is not bad…EMG HH pickups, Gotoh double-locking tremelo, Floyd Rose locking tuners. I’d be sorely tempted to buy one, strip it down, sandblast the body, and have it repainted and refinshed in my custom black-and-gold ‘Capitalist Oppressor’ artwork. Or maybe a Glibs logo…
But you have to deal with surely a sea’s worth of salt from commie sweat.
Arm the Homeless, after they’ve been properly vaccinated at a government clinic, of course. Fucking clown.
He has enough money to house the homeless but that doesn’t bring in the $$$ or get you Antifa tail.
I’ve seen Antifa tail, he can have it, not interested.
What good is a house if you cannot defend it?
Tom Morello who thinks we should defund the police or the Tom Morello who has played concerts to bring attention to public safety union organization efforts?
The Tom Morello who has a song saying “Fuck You! We won’t do what you tell us!” requiring proof of vax and mask for concerts.
He’s less punk than Slim Whitman.
I’m enjoying the Redstate article noting ICE refused a doctor to offer aid.
Classy. Won’t change a thing, but reenforces why I have multiple reservations with LEOs.
IDK, I can think of a few reasons why cops wouldn’t let some rando claiming to be a doctor near an injured suspect at a crime scene.
There are like 8 cops. If he is lying I’m sure they can charge him with some BS.
Trust works both ways.
Also, in MN, cops are trained medical first responders. There’s nothing that Dr. can do that they can’t there in the field.
Right, wrong, or indifferent, this is pretty much standard practice among law enforcement.
At shooting matches and training events, if someone accidentally catches a bullet, we’ve been instructed to say that there was a ‘training accident, and we need emergency medical service’ instead of ‘there was a shooting accident.’ One way, you get paramedics, the other way, you get the SWAT team locking down the scene and no ambulance for two hours (good luck not bleeding out…)
Was it Dr. Jill Biden? In all seriousness though, they travel with medical teams in tow. My guess is medical response took so long because traffic was being blockaded though. Call it a self-own. My sympathy is done with these assholes. They are overgrown children who have never suffered consequences for their actions and now they are finding out how the world really works. Fuck ’em.
It really is the textbook definition of Fuck Around and Find Out. I mean, what kind of retardation urges these people to actively impede federal agents doing federal agent stuff. What gives them the authority to decide what is and isn’t legal and that it’s up to them to stop it? The fuck do they think is gonna happen?
These people are incredibly stupid and ridiculously naive.
This is the necessary and quite predictable result of our politicians and media urging everyday folks to RESIST! They legit feel like they’re fighting Hitler and the Gestapo. It’s so goddamn ridiculous, but like 40% of the country has bought the lie hook line and sinker.
These people are broken.
Many of these being the same abject fucking clowns who were snitching out their neighbors to a government hotline for taking a stroll through the neighborhood without a face diaper during the COVID hysteria, mind you.
Well said MW. I might add that the politicians and media face no consequences. They’re not going to be arrested or shot, but those sick fuckers have no problem using someone else as cannon fodder for their personal crusade against TRUMP!
Yep.
They’re real life pawns, and they’re purposefully being sacrificed.
These people are bots. Just implant the instructions and there they go. They’re broken.
“The fuck do they think is gonna happen?”
They’ve been coddled by the feds for years and they’re in a sympathetic state. They think the worst that’ll happen is they’ll spend a night in jail, if that, and then be released. In some cases they’ll be right but not if they cop federal charges.
“but those sick fuckers have no problem using someone else as cannon fodder”
In somewhat parallel fashion, I kind of assume that many of my progressive friends who want to keep Ukraine fighting think that no Ukrainians are actually dying.
I’m also in the FAFO camp. She’s not a martyr of any kind for me.
OTH, my interactions with LEOs over the year have been net negative. And given my demographics and the areas I frequent – that surprises me. I’d like some improvement there too.
That should be years – plural.
Way her body was lying half in the car turned around and knowing it was a head wound I’m guessing there was nothing that could have been done other than call a coroner.
The commie ratfuckers funding this shit have blood on their hands. They finally got the martyr that only sociopathic billions can buy.
She had a hole in her head. She was dead. And ICE has medics. The last person I wanted showing up on my scene was a doctor. Outside of the hospital or office is a very different environment to work in.
The glory days of radio
I saw them way back and the changed the line never liked disco to never liked techno. It was fairly clever as the last act of the night was The Crystal Method. Guys jumping around behind mixers they barely even touched. Gave the crowd a nice way to not all leave at once. About a third stayed around and listened to whatever noise they ‘played’
Technological cross pollination between Formula 1 and space.
The whole thing is definitely worth watching but you can skip to the last few minutes for the shout out to SpaceX adoption of motor racing build/test/break/refine philosophy.
That’s super cool.
I’m impressed that F1 rules allow so much experimentation. Most racing seems so stagnant from the American perspective, one of the reasons nascar is so boring.
Speaking of AI, here is an epic fail:
https://www.wkrg.com/national/ai-generated-police-report-says-officer-turned-into-frog/
The important thing is the officer
went home to his familydidn’t have to actually do his job and create a report that night.Grim
The U.S. trade deficit six months into President Donald Trump’s tariffs tumbled to its lowest level since mid-2009, the Commerce Department reported Thursday.
With exports rising and imports falling, the trade shortfall was just $29.4 billion for October, down 39% from the prior month. Exports increased 2.6% while imports slipped 3.2%.
The total was the lowest since the second quarter of 2009 as the U.S. was just coming out of the financial crisis and the Great Recession.
Trump made a number go down. He’s a bad President.
A number he campaigned on bringing down.
For our resident Labyrinth fangirl
dance magic dance
There’s a lot of that going around. I heard the original, unedited Star Wars (Sans sluggy Jabba) if going to be shown.
I rewatched the original a couple months ago for the first time in decades and that dubbed in out of date CGI looks ridiculous.
My wife took the boy to see goonies last year too. Sadly I was at work and missed the fun.
Goonies is just great. I never saw it back in the day, only in the last few years.
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
We took the kids to go see it when it came around this fall.
A good time was had by all.
This is something I’ve been actively musing, and I’m rather upset with myself about my inaction. I’ve got easy access to shit to write about and a forum to easily share with, but I ‘find myself’ swamped with work and the fairly constant search to find *meaningful* work. But I’m also missing out on the positive upswings I’m avoiding, accidentally or otherwise.
I’ve got to come up an imposed deadline to get submissions out, separating Serious (things I’ve taken considerable time with) and whimsical funsies. I used to keep a daily record of an interesting a) Person b) Object c) Interaction I see in the aisles; I’m gonna pick that up again. I’m ‘halfway’ through The People of Walgo, so I should tighten that up first.
Had a moment yesterday ‘realizing’ I need to be far more offensive in life, far less passive, ‘defensive.’ Saying that, it still helps me to have an outside, forceful shove or six. Outside of Minnesota Munchkin, my world Stateside is remarkably insular, and I’m tryin’ to fix that.
I’m not out to write about my curious medical journeys, unless that is a topic people are kinda interested in. It’s worth asking if anything in my world piques your interest, so I invite ideas or questions to come my way.
Please, prompting shoves are always welcome.
Just think about Lobster Girl if you are having submission issues.
I think you confused submission with emission.
I would submit to lobster girl.
Audis make excellent get away cars.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Audi/s/55yWlBsEhF
RONIN Car Chase (Audi S8 vs Citroën)
This year they got spanked in market share. Down significantly. Their big EV bet is unlikely to pay off – especially in the US.
Remember this bit of watermelon spank material?
With no visible front end damage? Is that real?
Commentators make me hate the average redditer more.
Oh bugger its time
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