Tuesday Morning Links

by | Mar 31, 2026 | Daily Links | 185 comments

After a few games for each team, it’s apparent that there are a handful of umpires, mostly veteran ones, that probably shouldn’t be calling balls and strikes. In F1, they look like they might be finally ready to look at the PU package as the dangerous piece of shit it so obviously is. And the Worlds Cup field will be set at the end of the day after the playoff games wrap up. And that’s all I’ve got for sports.

Oh, a sob story? I guess we should change our entire way of life then. What about the precedent that said children born of Indians after the Amendment was passed are not citizens? You missed that one, AP. OK, I don’t know how this will go but I can read the words of the people who wrote and passed the amendment. And the answer is not nearly as black and white as this writer thinks it is. But this article is rubbish.

Maybe he thought it was a crayon he planned to eat at his destination. Silly man. Always check your bags before heading to the airport.

They need to find something to charge these people with. This is easily more egregious than a bartended over serving someone and then being responsible for that person’s actions. Yet nothing is done. And no, this isn’t a sob story. This is endemic at this point.

It’s a solid grift. And it’s not the least bit surprising.

Here’s an odd one. I have nothing else to add.

I’m shocked! Just kidding. I’m actually not the least bit surprised.

Finally AI is being put togged use. Chalk up a win for the clankers.

Maybe they needed something to wash down all those Kit-Kats. Or maybe they need to start paying better attention to their loads and/or let the drivers be armed.

So much for transparency. I guess they consider this situation (d)ifferent from baseless allegations they can politically capitalize on.

Why would they recall it? Just slap a different label on it and remarket it.

Dig that bass. Good stuff. And here’s a two-fer. Enjoy them both all three.

And enjoy this lovely Tuesday, dear friends.

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185 Comments

  1. R C Dean

    In F1, they look like they might be finally ready to look at the PU package as the dangerous piece of shit it so obviously is.

    Is it even possible to change it mid-season?

    • sloopyinca

      Apparently they can tweak how much power comes from the batteries a pretty great deal and when/where/how recharging happens, so there’s a chance they can at least slap a bandaid on it. The problem there is that the solution leads to cars running with a lot less HP than before and really slow lap times.

  2. Grumbletarian

    Why would they recall it? Just slap a different label on it and remarket it.

    Boner Bar

    • AlexinCT

      Nice work there Don Draper.

  3. R C Dean

    I can’t imagine SCOTUS having the balls to say “Ya know, “under the jurisdiction of” must mean something other that “physically present in”, so birthright citizenship is restricted to the offspring of citizens and legal residents”.

    So, unfortunately, we will continue to incentivize the hell out of illegal immigration.

    • WTF

      In the context of the freed slaves, “under the jurisdiction of” meant not a citizen of someplace else. That’s why the children of diplomats born here are not citizens.

      • (((Jarflax

        Constitutional law is meant to constrain the right and be ignored by the left. How else are we supposed to ratchet our way to Communism?

      • Threedoor

        And Indians.

    • rhywun

      It should mean what the people who wrote it meant for it to mean. Aren’t there writings from that time explaining what they meant and it wasn’t “birth tourism”?

      • sloopyinca

        But that was like more than a hundred years ago.
        -the left

  4. Drake

    Why not charge leaders of the sanctuary county with RICO conspiracy charges? Conspiracy to violate U.S. immigration law, fraud, murder…

    • rhywun

      I dunno if that is the right answer but something has to happen.

      It’s not like they feel any shame for coddling the criminals they keep letting loose on their unfortunate victims.

    • DrOtto

      I bet the government was smart enough to exempt itself from RICO, otherwise they couldn’t keep rackets like social security alive.

  5. Drake

    Yesterday Juris Imprudent asked where our current iteration of Trump came from.

    Here he is getting his balls gargled by Epstein’s next door neighbor. This level of ass-kissing would sicken me, but Trump seems to be enjoying it. Symphophants have figured out how to manipulate him with ridiculous flattery.

    https://x.com/i/status/2038736987704713591

    • AlexinCT

      I forgot to give JI this as a reply yesterday.

      • juris imprudent

        You can break something, that doesn’t mean you’re going to get something new and better in its place.

      • Fourscore

        Oh, you’ll get something with the next guy.

        The next one will have learned a lot from the predecessor. It’s always downhill

      • AlexinCT

        You can break something, that doesn’t mean you’re going to get something new and better in its place…

        Some perspective

      • juris imprudent

        You can hope Iran doesn’t have an endless supply of assholes. I certainly don’t think DC will ever run out of them.

      • B.P.

        I am against this war. That does not make me a Russian bot, and name-calling will not convince me to approve of it.

      • Drake

        Didn’t know that got that big and that fragile.

  6. Sensei

    “The investigation concerned interactions that Swalwell had with Christine Fang, a suspected Chinese intelligence operative who was reported to have cultivated ties with U.S. come into contact with Swalwell’s campaign as he was first running for Congress in 2012 and participated in fundraising for his 2014 campaign.”

    No mention that she died in plane crash…

    • rhywun

      He is one of the worst humans in existence and therefore a shoo-in for governor.

    • R C Dean

      The intertoobs tell me that she did not die in a plane crash, and is still alive.

      And they can’t put it on teh intertoobs unless its true, right?

      • Ted S.

        I was going to make a joke about Asian pilots.

      • Plinker762

        Wong Wing Lo?

      • tripacer

        In a plane piloted by Captain Wong Wey and F.O. Ho Lee Fuk.

      • Furthest Blue pistoffnick (370HSSV)

        Sum Ting Wong

      • Gender Traitor

        Different Fang Fang, as it turns out.

        Dinglong Culture, a Guangzhou company involved in both mining and TV and movie production, said in a statement to the Shenzhen stock exchange that its chief financial officer, Fang Fang, was a passenger.

        The company name presents all sorts of opportunities for fun. You’re welcome. (Too soon?)

  7. Rat on a train

    Barbie Dream Fest in Florida to issue refunds after fan complaints

    The creators of the event promised “unforgettable experiences”, and advertised a roller rink and disco with a caption that read: “Join us for three days of glam, nostalgia, and dream-big energy made for Barbie fans of every generation.”

    But ticketholders, who paid up to $450 (£340), say it was far from that. Photos of the event show a grey convention centre space with pink cardboard cut-out Barbie signs.

    Scammers have hit Willy Wonka, Bridgerton, and now Barbie.

    • Ted S.

      They had an unforgettable experience, didn’t they?

      • Plinker762

        Finally, some truth in advertising.

    • The Last American Hero

      At least they had toilets, eh Fyre Festival?

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Gotta have something for the bulimic.

    • Rat on a train

      I would ask how Graham keeps getting reelected but then Kentucky elects both McConnell and Paul.

      • R C Dean

        Given Graham’s opposition to election security, you might want to put scare quotes around “reelected”.

      • Rat on a train

        The will of the People is not measured in votes.

      • Drake

        I have to get myself registered as a Republican so I can vote against him in the primary. Paul Dans appears to have a good chance of at least forcing a runoff.

        While I’m there I’ll vote against my worthless backbencher Rep too.

      • juris imprudent

        I can believe Graham gets re-elected; you ever had a good look at who votes?

    • WTF

      Are they aware that the Democrats are the ones responsible for the shutdown? Because it seems like they’re going after the wrong side.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Hush, you!

        All goodthinkers know that only R’s start shutdowns!

      • sloopyinca

        The senate rules are in large part responsible. And the senate rules can be amended by the senate majority.

      • (((Jarflax

        That makes me feel a little guilty that I haven’t properly praised Schumer for shutting down the TSA. Best thing the man has done in public life! Even if it is ultimately only temporary.

      • R C Dean

        Gotta say, the fact that it was the Dems who “shut down” TSA gives me many confused feelings.

      • Fourscore

        Suppose they gave a government shutdown and nothing happened?

        Some days are diamonds.

  8. Rat on a train

    GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash

    Australian developer Zach Manson noted on Monday that, after a coworker asked Copilot to correct a typo in one of his pull requests, he was surprised to find a message from Copilot in the PR pushing readers to adopt productivity app Raycast.

    “Quickly spin up Copilot coding agents from anywhere on your macOS or Windows machine with Raycast,” the note read with a lightning bolt emoji and link to install Raycast.

    Vibe coding is the future.

    • Sensei

      MSFT taketh and giveth.

      They have apparently just learned how unhappy everyone is with the complete ensh-tification of Win 11 is. This is in no large part because of both AI being crammed into everything and shoving as much as possible online with online data and tracking.

      • (((Jarflax

        Let’s finish setting up your computer!

        [Remind me in 3 days] [Give Microsoft control of your local data by backing it up on their servers, subject to a EULA that would turn you into a Unibomber if you read it]

      • rhywun

        It’s not just Microsoft cramming AI into absolutely everything – it is every other “tech” company too.

      • Rat on a train

        Just wait for Windows 12. Will they finally transition the OS to a subscription model?

      • Sensei

        rhywun – they just conceded the forcing copilot into Notepad might have been a bridge too far. What more do you want?

      • Fourscore

        Windows 12?

        Is that the same as File 13? When I query the Post Office about some overdue item that’s the reference I get. “Check Window 12”

      • Ted S.

        Like GT, I’m very happy with Linux Mint.

      • Gender Traitor

        I feel more vindicated in my decision to switch every day. (Remaining to be seen: whether I can use the provided document scanning app with my current scanner and whether the provided e-book viewer works with downloaded library e-books – the library claims Adobe Digital Editions is required, and they don’t do Linux.)

      • rhywun

        Everyone’s goal at work is to put Copilot in everything too so I have to walk a fine line here, sigh.

      • Rat on a train

        I wish I could go back to a Linux work computer. I loved when corporate allowed me to wipe Windows and install Gentoo.

      • Swiss Servator

        rhywun, my Swiss Masters are all in on Co-Pilot. If you will excuse me now, I have to go attend my 5th training session on it this month. We have a mumbling French Swiss guy, whose computer keeps locking up during demos, trying to show us the wonders of this tool…er, AI FREN.

      • Ted S.

        My desktop PC which, granted, dates to 2021, has an inordinate problem finding my printer. I recently got a cheap Dell laptop, put the most recent version of Mint on it, and that picked up the printer just fine.

      • Ted S.

        So the Swiss speak French as badly as they speak German?

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Swiss Romansh.

    • slumbrew

      The part people keep glossing over:

      WTF do you need to use Copilot to fix a typo?!

      “Rejected – You’re too stupid to contribute to this project”

      • juris imprudent

        I would pay good money to inject “It’s got electrolytes” as a response into any AI baseline.

  9. Fourscore

    I paid my property taxes yesterday. I can’t believe I’m living in such splendor.

    Inflation’s a helluva drug

      • Fourscore

        I did live in NJ a couple times, as a renter. Of course we know the owner paid the taxes. Ha-Ha!

      • Sean

        That’s obscene.

      • WTF

        And here comes Mikie (I fly helicopters!!!) Sherill to cut back on the Anchor property tax relief program.

      • Ed Wuncler

        Mine are nearly 14k. If I moved south to Portage County and bought the same house sq ft, I would pay $5k in taxes and have more land.

      • Ted S.

        Part of the reason Team Blue howled so much over the SALT cap.

      • juris imprudent

        Pennsylvania casts envious eyes across the Delaware river.

      • rhywun

        To be fair, she is going to need a lot of money to handle all the sanctuary criminals she’s welcoming in.

      • Rat on a train

        What is the rate? The local rate is 0.7343%.

      • WTF

        The property tax rate in NJ averages around 2.2%.

      • kinnath

        I just made my semi-annual property tax payment. It was a brutal 2200 bucks.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Ooof. I thought the 5k on my rental was high, that is just gross.

      • Rat on a train

        At least it is one tax Richmond doesn’t yet control so it may continue its downward trend.

      • juris imprudent

        The property tax rate in NJ averages around 2.2%.

        Interesting. I pay a higher rate, but on a lower assessment (I guess).

      • Threedoor

        wtf?!

        Just the lot?

        That might be worth $45,000 here and you would only find a lot that small in a trailer park.

    • Ed Wuncler

      The People’s Republic of Cleveland Heights and Cuyahoga County loves high property taxes. I send my kids to the public school just out of pure spite.

      *And they actually have a good pre-K program for my autistic four year old daughter.

    • AlexinCT

      I paid my property taxes yesterday. I can’t believe I’m living in such splendor.

      I keep making a list of what I pay vs. what I get, and every year the balance shifts more in favor of “I pay to much and I am getting near zero in return”..

      Seriously. I am now realizing things are broken because we feminized society. Instead of the political and government bureaucratical classes working on infrastructure and value to tax payers, they all waste massive money and time on feel good bullshit and emotional fulfillment. It’s truly game over for us at this rate.

      • rhywun

        That is how we got to a Dem party claiming to “care” about everyone and everything.

      • Rat on a train

        Why do you hate learing?

  10. Sensei

    “It confirms that Iran and the IRGC are occupying forces in Lebanon,” said David Schenker, who served as the State Department’s top Middle East official in President Trump’s first term, referring to Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. “They dominate the country and do not recognize the sovereignty of the government of Lebanon.”

    Lebanon Expelled Iran’s Ambassador. He Refused to Leave.

    https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/lebanon-expelled-irans-ambassador-he-refused-to-leave-a710471a?st=WZ54D8&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

    • Ed Wuncler

      It’s very telling that most of Iran’s neighbors haven’t raised a giant fuss about the joint US-Israeli War against Iran. Iran is that drunken asshole neighborhood bully that everyone hates and is happy when they are finally arrested by the cops.

      I don’t think we should putting our dicks into that hornet’s nest but it’s very obvious that Iran has been stirring up shit for years in the Middle East.

      • R.J.

        Well said.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Yep.

        I too don’t think we should be the ones shouldering the Iran burden, but of all the things I can bitch about, this is pretty low on my radar, especially as we really have zero idea of what is going on, what with the shitty news in this country and abroad.

      • The Other Kevin

        A lot of us have grown up seeing Iran take hostages, sponsor terrorists, attack ships, start wars, and lob missiles at everyone within reach. They are definitely the assholes. I’m not crying about seeing their leaders killed and their shit getting blown up either.

      • juris imprudent

        Persians and Arabs, Shi’a and Sunni, hate each other even more than they collectively hate (((them))). We ain’t changing that.

      • Not Adahn

        Persians and Arabs, Shi’a and Sunni, hate each other even more than they collectively hate (((them))). We ain’t changing that.

        While that is the respectable thing to say, it is severely lacking in demonstration.

      • juris imprudent

        ♪♫ “I’d like to teach the world to sing…” ♫♪♫

    • Fourscore

      Ain’t no law without a cop to enforce it.

      I have an idea that this isn’t the end, world wide.

      Vatican guards are on high alert!

    • rhywun

      “International law” is a figment of your imagination.

      Next.

      • WTF

        Thank you. Some lefty on Facederp was blathering on about Trump breaking international law, so I asked what duly-voted upon and passed statute was signed into law that he was breaking?
        Crickets.

      • Rat on a train

        But the ICJ has universal jurisdiction … if countries agree to let them arbitrate.

      • AlexinCT

        Because they are leftist morons?

  11. Common Tater

    “On March 23, a woman shopping at the Valencia Whole Foods was subjected to a man who exposed himself to her — an act that was caught on the store’s security camera.

    In the footage, the suspect is seen approaching a shopper as she kneels down. He’s seen on the video lowering his pants, then he presses his exposed genitals against the woman’s ear while holding what appears to be a cellphone, according to KTLA. ”

    https://nypost.com/2026/03/30/us-news/sexual-assault-caught-on-camera-at-valenica-whole-foods/

    WTF?

    • Fourscore

      I had a woman with the same complaint at a book store I worked at. She said it happened in the kid’s area and she said she wasn’t impressed.

      • R.J.

        I had a lady that crapped on the floor in a dressing room. Nothing as dramatic but it was probably sexual.

      • Ted S.

        You aliens have *weird* sexual proclivities.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Yep. I used to have a guy in jogging shorts come into the kids section and pull it out from the side, apparently. Took us a while to catch him in flagrante, but he got the PO ride to the lock down.

      • Plinker762

        Must be a German alien.

      • The Last American Hero

        What he think it was, the kids section at a public library?

    • AlexinCT

      Gotta get your kinks where you can, bruh..

      You kink shaming???

      • juris imprudent

        Yes, in this case. Not in ones where both parties consented to the kink.

  12. Sensei

    Then the courtroom proceedings got dramatic. Exxon Mobil attorneys responded that Mr. Bonta didn’t merely make the offending statements in his 2024 lawsuit or in his press conference announcing it. That sort of speech is indeed protected. Exxon Mobil attorneys showed that Mr. Bonta had made the same claims in a political fundraising appeal emailed to some Texas residents…

    …Another salient detail emerged in Judge Truncale’s courtroom. Mr. Bonta clearly used state resources to travel to Texas and to deploy California state Department of Justice employees, including at least one attorney, to defend himself from Exxon Mobil’s defamation claim.

    Nothing is going to happen, but I’ll enjoy the circus.

    https://www.wsj.com/opinion/californias-attorney-general-faces-texas-justice-94a35f37?st=jPvSG9&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

  13. Sensei

    The mind boggles…

    The NCAA is pushing Congress to provide it with a limited antitrust exemption to enforce rules on eligibility and compensation and “some pre-emption on the 40-something state laws that are currently in place that are designed to give the schools in each of those states a leg up on the schools in other states,” Mr. Baker says.

    President Trump has backed such legislation, which may be the least bad option. If the athlete bidding wars and litigation continue, politicians in Washington may wrest control over college sports. New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker and Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn have introduced legislation that would put the Justice Department in charge of regulating the NCAA.

    https://www.wsj.com/opinion/are-we-headed-for-federal-control-of-college-sports-a4f9c4dd?st=usrRK6&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      First a baseball commissioner, now this crap.

      Seriously, just create a football minor league, and that will end this.

      • WTF

        NO FUCKING JURISDICTION.

        They invoke the magical Commerce Clause which allows the fedgov to stick its dick in everything, everywhere. Because the founders intended for a minor clause to prevent interstate tariffs to actually negate almost the entire rest of the constitution.

      • juris imprudent

        They do have to use the proper incantation in writing the legislation. Otherwise SCotUS might doubt that the Commerce Clause applies.

  14. Common Tater

    Speaking of sex cults

    “Inside the toxic cult for women where they learn to manipulate MEN for money: CLARA GASPAR exposes influencers behind the ‘Pink Pill’, how the ‘sex carrot’ they dangle works – and their truly hateful views

    ‘Be ruthless in your evaluation of men.’ ‘Make him invest before sex.’ ‘Don’t date financially challenged men.’ ‘Never split the bill.’ These are just some of the commandments of the ‘Female Dating Strategy’ – a controversial online movement urging women to approach modern relationships with, critics say, outright contempt for men….

    This week, the Daily Mail spoke exclusively to some of the femosphere’s figureheads – including TheWizardLiz, a self-help guru with more than eight million TikTok followers, who doles out advice including ‘How to receive princess treatment’, ‘How to become extremely seductive’ and ‘How to become rich’ and dating guru Kanika Batra who teaches her 500,000 followers how to master ‘sociopathic’ manipulation techniques.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15692741/cult-women-manipulate-MEN-CLARA-GASPAR-influencers-Pink-Pill.html

    https://archive.is/B6Vgp

    Sounds like “The Rules”

    • The Other Kevin

      +1 Mystery Method

    • juris imprudent

      Can we just throw all of these online shitheads (these and the manosphere ones) onto an island somewhere, with no connectivity to the outside world.

      • AlexinCT

        New York or LA?

        Asking for Snake Pliskin.

    • Ed Wuncler

      So happy that I’m out of dating pool. One of my friends were telling me that some women will now go on dating apps solely to get free dinners and will ghost the guy immediately after the date.

      • WTF

        And then they wonder why men are just checking out of the bullshit.
        “Where are all the good men?” You ran them off, dumbass.

      • Ted S.

        Men Going Their Own Way is evil, but the 4 B movement is virtuous….

  15. Common Tater

    “Whole Foods has found itself at the center of a hygiene row after a shopper was pictured holding a dog just inches from an open hot food bar.

    The image – which quickly spread online – appears to show a woman clutching a small white dog as she browses the buffet-style counter, with the animal’s tail hovering dangerously close to the exposed dishes.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/article-15692555/whole-foods-dogs-hot-food-bar.html

    Won’t be an issue once the islamists take over.

      • The Other Kevin

        Yeah that dog would be on the other side of the sneeze guard.

    • Gustave Lytton

      I’ll take bets on food borne illness by humans’ improper hygiene vs canine caused.

    • WTF

      I’m surprised that’s not a health code violation.

    • R.J.

      Jeez, those new ones all have lane change warnings. Had to have ignored all of that in order to make that move.

      • Ted S.

        Or turned that stuff off?

    • kinnath

      I posted a video from TRIGGERnometry a few months back. They had an interview with a guy that specializes in studying revolts/revolutions. He was saying that it was no longer of question of if England was going to have a revolt but a question of when it was going to happen.

      • R.J.

        When it does, it will start in the country side and then head to the cities. Most city folk there are pacified with government payouts. The tractor revolution.

      • Common Tater

        Most of this problem could be handled by simply enforcing the law.

      • Ed Wuncler

        This is why gun ownership should be universal. The politicians need to have some fear in the back of their minds that if they push too far, they might have a violent rebellion on their hands.

        It’s easy though for me to say that because despite having to pay outrageous property taxes and sort of ate shit during the COVID period, all I did was bitch and complain.

      • kinnath

        Most of this problem could be handled by simply enforcing the law.

        The expert listed 4 or 5 events that precede/trigger all revolutions. One of the final triggers is that population decides that the system can no longer be fixed from within the system. So the only solution is to tear down the system.

        Once the population believes the law cannot be enforced, it’s all over. The expert states that England has already crossed that line.

      • R.J.

        We are getting close. Maybe two more decades.

      • kinnath

        RJ, my thoughts while watching the video was that the US was only a decade or so behind England on ticking off all the triggers.

        We are clearly approaching the point where it is clear that the law will not (or cannot) be enforced across the US. It is definitely being selectively enforced in many jurisdictions already.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        It is already starting, but they are at the Tea Party stage right now. Still a long way to get to where we are even at.

      • Common Tater

        Joe Rogan can go on for over 3 hours….

      • juris imprudent

        We have a written language for this very reason.

  16. Common Tater

    “An analysis from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosive (ATF) could not conclusively connect a bullet fragment recovered during Charlie Kirk’s autopsy to the rifle found near the scene of the rightwing political activist’s killing – and the FBI is running additional tests, lawyers for Kirk’s accused murderer said in recent court filings.

    In the court filings, Tyler Robinson’s defense team also asked for a delay to a preliminary hearing scheduled in May, saying they need time to review the bullet analysis as well as an enormous amount of other material that could contribute to the suspect’s defense.

    The ATF’s bullet analysis report has been kept private, but attorneys have cited snippets in other public filings that say the results were inconclusive.”

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/31/charlie-kirk-bullet-rifle

    Might just be not enough there

    • UnCivilServant

      No exit wound – so the odds are the bullet shattered. The fragments are difficult to show with certainty that they bear the marks made by the rifle.

      What it does not mean is that the bullet did not come from the suspect’s rifle. It means that the evidence does not conclusively indicate or rule out that possibility.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        They will try to.

    • Common Tater

      Water shouldn’t have extra shit in it.

      • Sensei

        +1 Gen Ripper

  17. Common Tater

    “Oswaldo Zavala, author of “Drug Cartels Do Not Exist: Narcotrafficking in U.S. and Mexican Culture” and professor of Latin American Literature and Culture at the City University of New York, said the regional operations are being carried out with “no regard to law domestically or international law, or any sense of human rights and decency.””

    https://www.salon.com/2026/03/31/trumps-shield-of-the-americas-crackdown-wont-stop-drug-trafficking/

    “international law”

    • Rat on a train

      International law “is more what you’d call ‘guidelines’ than actual rules”.

  18. Common Tater

    Good take here.

    TW:TOS

    “The government will say that this is about human trafficking. But that’s just a sign of how “human trafficking” has become a catchall term for sex-tinged antics that prosecutors want to punish….

    The alleged victims in this case could come and go as they pleased. They were adult women. They had college degrees, outside professional opportunities, and sometimes even independent wealth….

    The government’s case was also a huge affront to the idea that women are fully agentic people capable of consent, sexual and otherwise. Prosecutors suggested that anxiety about being shunned by the OneTaste community was a harm so powerful that grown women were effectively “trafficked” by it. They argued that these women’s consent—to OM, to participate in sexual fantasy scenes, to enter into and out of relationships, to engage in sex acts with OneTaste members or donors, or to pay for OneTaste classes—was rendered null by the force of fear of social exclusion and/or fear that stopping OM and other OneTaste practices would have a negative impact on their lives.”

    https://reason.com/2026/03/30/onetaste-founder-nicole-daedone-gets-9-year-prison-sentence/

    “The media started calling OneTaste an “orgasm cult.” A Lena Dunham–produced Netflix documentary, Orgasm Inc, cast the group in an occult light, mixing dramatized footage of robed rituals involving snakes with real-life footage from the group’s events.”

    https://reason.com/2025/02/19/the-weak-weird-case-against-a-supposed-orgasm-cult/

    • Common Tater

      “”After Ms. Cherwitz declined to identify as a victim,” wrote lawyers Duncan Levin and Jennifer Bonjean in a letter to U.S. District Judge Diane Gujarati last summer, “a phalanx of FBI agents in full SWAT gear descended on her home with a helicopter and convoy of SUVs despite her attorney’s assurances that she would be available to answer any questions that they had.”

      Did you bring enough guys?

      • juris imprudent

        Some motherfucker approved that, and we should damn well know who that was.

  19. The Late P Brooks

    Paging R J-

    Glibflick suggestion: The Beast of Hollow Mountain.

    t’s a fairly typical horse opera, until [spoiler alert] the dinosaur shows up.

    Also. did you know Roger Corman made westerns? I didn’t (or had forgotten) until I watched Gunslinger the other night. The dancing girls scenes make it worth the price of admission.

    • R.J.

      That is a good one. Met me make sure it isn’t in major rotation with Svengoolie. I tend to shy away from anything he does.

  20. Ed Wuncler

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/us-supreme-court-rejects-colorado-s-ban-on-lgbt-conversion-talk-therapy/ar-AA1ZPFFD?ocid=winp2fptaskbarent&cvid=69cbb9ef77f84797b3e353945342519f&ei=7

    The justices, in a 8-1 ruling, reversed a lower court’s decision that had upheld the law in a case brought by Kaley Chiles, who argued that it violated the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment protections against government abridgment of free speech.

    Guess who was the only dissenter?

    • Rat on a train

      What’s a constitution?

      • Ted S.

        Something as real as a leppo?

    • Common Tater

      The suspense was killing me.

      “Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who read portions of her dissent from the bench, said the court’s decision threatens to prevent states from regulating medical care, risking “grave harm to Americans’ health and wellbeing.”

      “The Constitution does not pose a barrier to reasonable regulation of harmful medical treatments just because substandard care comes via speech instead of a scalpel,” she wrote.”

      • Ted S.

        Now do regulating abortion or tranny “care”.

  21. Rat on a train

    China’s housing crisis

    The Chinese government is set to ban people from storing the cremated remains of their loved ones in empty apartments instead of paying for expensive cemetery plots.

    Low property prices in the country mean that for many, it is more affordable to entomb the ashes of relatives in an empty apartment than pay for funeral costs.

  22. Ownbestenemy

    Successful whirlwind trip completed.

    I gotta say, my boys have a damn good friend who road tripped with them to be there for them and honoring their grandpa.

    I asked him at one point “why would you come with us for such an emotional event?”

    “Its what friends are for”. Props to that kid.

    Introduced them to childhood food hangouts while down in Cali and they by far said The Hat is the greatest stoner food ever.

    Also awesome was a favorite pizza joint of my dad’s rallied and opened up for a private event afterwards on a day they normally are closed.

  23. The Late P Brooks

    “Til Daddy takes the T-Bird away

    “Number 1, buy from the U.S., we have plenty, and Number 2, build up some delayed courage, go to the Strait, and just TAKE IT.”

    “You’ll have to start learning how to fight for yourself, the U.S.A. won’t be there to help you anymore, just like you weren’t there for us. Iran has been, essentially, decimated. The hard part is done. Go get your own oil!,” he wrote.

    They just need to build more windmills.

    • Drake

      Just pay for your oil in yuan or rial and buy all you want.

    • kinnath

      Pay mothers to stay home and take care of their own children. It would be cheaper.

    • juris imprudent

      Not MY tax dollars, and I’ll be very tempted to shoot the MFer who tries to use my tax dollars for that.

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