Bo sports news other than to report that somebody is doing damage control. And that somebody who was terrible at their job is playing the gender card. Seriously, that’s all I’ve got. Moving on.
Congratulations. You played yourself. They’re the ones who said they can’t go home. And they can’t legally stay here. Sorry we’re not gonna just give everyone a blueprint to beast our immigration laws. Again, they played themselves.
Don’t even try this shit. Aside from a few kooks, nobody is buying this scare-mongering.
I don’t know what these people expected. He’s been saying this kind of shit ever since his side lost the last election. And he’s been saying it every time his team has been out of power for a generation now. Maybe he wants a king, so long as he gets to pick him.
Come on, Mother Nature. You can do better than that.
I’d like to buy him a beer. I’m pretty sure he’d drink it while not giving a shit.
In related news, you can always count on somebody to try and rain on the parade. If the rest of the world wants a piece of it, they can go up and claim it. Until then, it’s ours.
I shouldn’t be surprised. These dudes seem to always work in kid-adjacent positions. But maybe that’s just selection bias from the news.
I assume they’ll try again. It would be a lot easier if the guy they allegedly bribed hadn’t offed himself. And if juries weren’t generally comprised of morons.
It’s about damn time. Now I wish they’d drop the prices of avocado oil chips as well as the regular inflammation oil chips.
Oh, look! The no-fun people are back at it again. I’ve got a better idea: we could just ban asshole scolds instead and go live our merry lives without them.
Such a happy, upbeat guy. And it’s reflected in his music. Never fails to bring a smile to my face. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Thursday, dear friends.
Artemis II sets its eyes on an eventual Moon base, but do NASA’s plans violate international law?
Americans are the indigenous people of the Moon so we can do as we please.
I thought it was home to the Moonenites.
Space 1889’s Selenites haz a sad
I think that they have been enemies of America for a while anyway, ever since they funded that luminous terror attack in Boston
Space 1889 would be awesome. All Steampunk and monocles.
“international law”
You keep using that term. I do not think it means what you think it means.
I didn’t read the article, but there are the Moon Treaty and the Outer Space Treaty that theoretically cover colonizing the moon.
That’s not “International Law”. That might be a “treaty violation” but treaties usually have no viable method of enforcement other than risk of hostile action by the wronged parties.
How many of the other signatories are going to give enough of a crap about the moon given their own current problems to do anything?
The problem with trying to pedant-away treaties is that whole article VI.
Interesting – Since the one thing we seem to have a habit of doing is breaking treaties.
It’s not a treaty. The Artemis Accords are an agreement the senate never ratified. The Outer Space Treaty was ratified in 1967 but is not applicable to what this insane woman is screeching about.
*nods, lights up kinnikinnick*
When space lawyers can get themselves and a cadre of space cops to the moon they may have a say.
otherwise F off.
And any treaty with signatories of countries that don’t exist anymore need to be null and void.
Yeah, this shit again?
It’s all fun and games until Trump gets arrested by the International Space Police.
The Jamestown colony is legally dubious.
There is no such thing as “International Law”
They needed to find some DEI first!
Koch, who is set to become the first woman to fly beyond low-Earth orbit, said Sunday that she hopes Artemis II helps transform perceptions of the moon.
https://www.wsj.com/science/space-astronomy/nasa-launches-astronauts-on-historic-moon-flight-da6703da?st=DSisof&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I’ll settle for “Poorly tested capsule doesn’t kill them all.” out of this mission, frankly.
Me too. The heatshield has not inspired confidence.
And I’m going to rewatch Capricorn One, if anything for OJ being in it.
Wasn’t that about a manned mission to Mars?
Of all the junk mail I receive the oddest is from a funeral home. I guess the business is dying.
I think the funeral business is Boomering these days.
Maybe, but I see a trend where people are foregoing the whole funeral, fancy casket, and grave, and instead just doing cremation and a dinner in the back room of a restaurant.
I’m assuming most Gen Xers don’t want to have anything to do with their siblings, especially bury their parents. The fight over the will is probably going to be awful if anything is left over.
Yes, they can be same-y, like weddings.
instead just doing cremation and a dinner in the back room of a restaurant
Do they use separate ovens?
Only for the kosher cremations, ROAT.
My wife’s grandfather died first week of January, there hasn’t been any service or anything. Supposedly we’ll be taking his ashes out on a boat and dumping them in the ocean, but afaik there’s no specific plan. Might be waiting to do it the next time my wife’s sister comes out to visit, who knows.
My uncle died about two weeks ago, last weekend there was a “celebration of life” at a basketball court (because he loved basketball) and dinner at a restaurant.
“instead just doing cremation and a dinner in the back room of a restaurant.”
German food?
Maybe the defendant can drop a cartoon anvil on the jury.
Wow do the stock futures look ugly. Glad that speech calmed everyone.
I haven’t looked at my mutual funds but my individual stocks are up 22% in the last three months, I am hevially invested in energy.
I’m listening to that speech now. I’m reminded of “Two weeks to stop the spread”.
Dutch police recover Romanian gold helmet stolen in Drents Museum heist: Art detective
The Dutch police have recovered the Helmet of Cotofenesti, a Romanian treasure stolen from the Drents Museum in Assen in January last year, art detective Arthur Brand announced on X. Sources also told Dagblad van het Noorden and RTL Nieuws that the stolen treasures have been recovered.
https://nltimes.nl/2026/04/02/dutch-police-recover-romanian-gold-helmet-stolen-drents-museum-heist-art-detective
At leaat it wasnt melted
James Patterson series?
From the site:
Banned motorcycle gang recruited thieves who stole Romanian treasures in Assen: report
But they were banned. How is was this possible?
If they were smart, they would have outlawed them and also declared the area the Romanian treasure was stored, a theft-free zone. That should have taken care of it.
Something something inelastic demand?
Naked burglar strikes again in Fairfax County. This time, he was caught on camera
I hope a witness comes in. The suspect line up will be unusual.
Fortunately for me (and my rug cleaner), not my area of Fairfax…
Was expecting this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG7R64S–t0
Whatever happened to the Glib, “Not a Naked Intruder”?
We’re dying off like the boomers.
I believe that is Sir Digsby who has popped back in from time to time but generally left social media.
Is it that guy who thought he was invisible again?
I didn’t say he had a wart on his dick, I said it felt like he had a wart on his dick
“I don’t care if I bankrupt you and make your community unviable to live in. I want to rub your nose in my grief.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/public-safety-and-emergencies/health-and-safety-alerts/creeslough-planning-permission-morally-and-ethically-wrong/ar-AA1Zy8G3
I don’t understand her complaint because journalismists suck. Is the issue that she thinks evidence will be destroyed 3 and a half years after the fact? Is it just that she now has a gas station phobia? Or is it just look at me in my grief!
The stated reason is the first one, I think. The revealed preference is yiur third reason. Everyone else needs to suffer like her.
It’s the same as the Sandy Hook POS parents.
The thing about third country deportation is that we aren’t stopping you from going back to your home country. Now, if your home country won’t let you back in for some reason, that’s a “you” problem. Our problem, getting you out of this country, is solved by third country deportation. Your home country not letting you back in doesn’t mean you get permanent residency in the US.
For the most part, people being deported to third countries can go back home. It’s their choice not to. They thought they could play that card and get to stay here forever.
They bluffed, our State Dept called their bluff, and now they’re on their way to some other place.
And the ones whose country said they don’t want them are mostly criminals. Of course they don’t want them back.
I’m sure the norks would take them. Lease them out to the Russians and Chinese.
The Moon Nazis will enforce the racial purity laws regarding the Moon base.
What about the Amazon Women?
At least Japan has show us how to defeat the Moonies.
Mooninites aren’t white
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0udqZsvrux0
That is a thing of beauty.
Well, do you want a jury of your peers, or not?
I was hoping to make it through the day without being called a moron.
I didn’t even make it to 8 am. I has a sad.
Wait, that’s a thing?
Oh yeah, you live in TX. The people there are more likely to silently think their insults.
You should have more realistic hopes, Sloopy.
::runs off sobbing::
It’s true. It’s true.
Did you consider not actually being a moron? :-p
C’mon now. He isn’t actually a moron. It’s not as though he has a small fleet of German cars. Oh….wait….
That is not moronic, that is masochistic.
Your peers drawn from the pool of people who had nothing better to do, or who could not get out of Jury duty. There is a lot of overlap between the jury pools and the audience for daytime network television.
Or government workers.
I meant to add that lol, thanks for the fix
Hey! Just because I get paid at my normal rate for days on Jury Duty and you schmucks only get $40…
First foreign troop in new gang suppression force lands in Haiti to replace previous mission
This time will it will work.
On Tuesday, her human-resources chief told workers in a brief note reviewed by the Journal that, after “examining all potential outcomes,” the company had decided to transfer operations of its seven autism-therapy centers to another provider and shut down by May 15.
TLDR – The ownership is taking the money and running.
Costliest Autism-Therapy Firm—Which Was Barred From Medicaid—Is Closing
https://www.wsj.com/business/costliest-autism-therapy-firmwhich-was-barred-from-medicaidis-closing-8767ab77?st=TKdvQA&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
The autism-therapy provider, Piece by Piece Autism Centers, received $340,000 in Medicaid payments per patient in 2023, the highest level in the country
The grifting was good.
This would also explain why the local “autism” center kept increasing the putative incidence rate.
$340,000 per patient… For fancy daycare. You could provide each kid with a very skilled dedicated personal attendant for half that.
Piece by Piece- would have guessed a quilting or fabric shop first.
I’m still a bit shocked this was happening in Indiana. If this is happening in a red state, where there’s at least lip service to fiscal responsibility (our state is in the black and we have received refund checks when the state has a surplus), I can’t imagine how bad it is in blue states.
She found a loophole and exploited it. I blame the state and not her.
It seems like she did her homework. The article mentions a $2 million settlement and doesn’t mention any criminal charges. She’s wisely taking her money and retiring.
For me a useful geography lesson on the Strait of Hormuz.
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/iran-strait-of-hormuz-control-islands-44b82207?st=NhfkDW&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
This is another geography lesson on the Strait Of Hormuz.
Wonder why it won’t show the image.
Guess I’m not beating that moron accusation today after all.
I can see the image.
The image works for me.
EDIT FAIRY TO THE RESCUE!
Related to the image:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Young%27s_Ideal_Rectal_Dilators
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-15698695/Striking-new-images-reveal-worlds-iconic-tourist-landmarks-looked-initial-designs-followed.html
Hey someone actually used computer modelling for something it can actually do!
I wish they’d have sent the Statue Of Liberty to Egypt instead.
I think France kind of played us.
I haven’t seen the video in a while but I remember Lady Liberty seeming very natural and happy as she walked like an Egyptian.
Didn’t Bruce Springsteen also say most of his fans were a bunch of racists because they would have called Clarence Clemons the n-word in a bar? Fuck that guy.
I thought that today’s song might be The Mamas & The Papas classic “Maundy, Maundy.”
But that’s just me.
I was expecting Robyn Hitchcock’s Balloon Man after the last link, that’s more in Sloopy’s wheelhouse.
Up, Up and Away?
If neither die, Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis will celebrate their 57th anniversary this summer.
I love reading translated-from-the-Japanese manuals.
Although this one doesn’t explain the difference between a “wafer protrusion error”” and a “grass wafer protrusion error.” They are both described as being “a wafer has flown from the FOUP.”
This one however has skipped the “randomly switch L and D in the eigo” that other manuals use to show their Japaneseishness.
FOUPs!
Does it include passive aggressive phrasing?
Not as much as other manuals. It does have things like “remedial action: maintenance required.”
Japan does love the passive tense. It avoids anyone having to responsibility and lose face. Things generally “just happen” in everyday Japanese language.
It’s actually one of the hardest parts of speaking natural Japanese.
I recently learned that honcho is a Japanese not spanish loan word.
I picked up a Japanese business book for writing various correspondence in English. I love it. It perfectly captures that, wait what? feeling reading japanese written documents. I’ve used elements to passively write passages as a junior.
The usual suspects are L versus R and F versus B.
The language doesn’t have consonants instead it has moiras which are generally a consonant and a vowel in English. Representing single consonant sounds is a challenge and they usually settle on a barely pronounce “u” following the consonant.
グラス – gurasu = glass. It’s funny the managed to get the double “ss” at the end, but not the “l”.
I was reading it as a typo for “gross,” since in context that makes more sense than “glass.”
I think I’ve mentioned before how the tool with the manual that describes an error code as meaning “find the broken part and fix it” also has a big “plessure alarm” light.
Just to give you an idea how they struggle. If we assume that is “gross”:
グロス – gurosu – that’s commonly used for “lip gloss”.
グロストン – gurosu ton – is “gross ton”.
Big difference in English between “gross and gloss” in pronunciation.
It’s really their own fault for only having five vowels.
…although American English seems to be moving towards replacing all vowels with a schwa.
Why the extra d in オマール・ブラッドレー?
オマール・ブラッドレー
omaare buraddorei
There isn’t really an extra “d”. The character “ッ” is a “small tsu”. This indicates a brief pause in the pronunciation. When Japan was romanized this character is shown as a doubled consonant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepburn_romanization
Small world that it is – James Hepburn is buried roughly a half hour away from where I live.
“Oh you guys”
Found what I was looking for!
It was under the heading “TDK Maintenance tool start unlock the special feature”
You’re doing better than Bono, then.
Is it a TDK – C60 or C90 cassette?
TAS300 type J1
I’m surprised. Apparently Bethesda is releasing a second DLC for Starfield.
I thought they’d abandoned it.
Anything to avoid making the new Elder Scrolls
I wonder if some suit at MicroSoft is going “We don’t want to take away from the monetization of ESO with a competing title.”
I chalk it up to Todd Howard having a few more adjectives left to use in naming Skyrim rereleases.
Next up the “Corinthian Edition”
Maybe sea turtles are just stupid.
Can’t those sea turtles go a day without being called morons?
Between the getting straws stuck in their nose and having a diet consisting solely of jellyfish… no.
Hey, those snrokels are helping them hunt!
“Kristi Noem’s cross-dressing husband, Bryon Noem, paid online models up to $25 a minute to talk dirty to him — and was a “needy client” with an unusual kink for yoga pants, according to one of the women….
Lydia Love, a webcam model on the website CamSoda, “definitely” remembers Noem’s face but said “there’s no way I could ever forget the fake boobs,” she told the Times of London of the 56-year-old father of three, who was one of her regular clients.”
https://nypost.com/2026/04/02/us-news/kristi-noem-cross-dressing-husband-paid-model-25-a-minute-to-talk-dirty-to-him/
$1,500/hr
I will happily talk dirty to anyone for $1500 per hour. And I wont out you.
I’ll do it for $500 an hour.
If I had been able to get $1500 and hour for discussing my clients’ idiot fantasies I’d still be practicing law. Granted the fantasies I had to listen to usually involved them ignoring laws of economics, or statutory laws, rather than laws of nature.
My boss used to talk mean to me for free.
Really now, are yoga pants such an unusual kink? Did Byron own like 300 pairs?
I share your revulsion at $1500/hr. for dirty talk.
We are ruled by perverts, chapter 489.
The elite and aristocracy have always been degenerates.
That’s less than Eliot Spitzer paid.
He was a poor blind public servant. Mr. Gnome is a fatcat owner of an insurance company.
Last ex, when not being a int’l tax lawyer in Manhattan, did online ‘sex work’ in the FinDom (financial domination) game. Apparently folk would happily pay to be ‘financially degraded’ by a hot chick who is also knowledgeable about money.’
We broke up before I was able to get audio of her doing it. Sexy voice (and more) for sure, but I just, uh. Well, I don’t have enough money to be further degraded by the *lack* of it, but I just don’t know. Other than “There’s a kink for everything.”
She’d also get coke (the fun kind) delivered to her in Manhattan, which I once witnessed as she was vid chatting with me. (The normal kind of chat. I didn’t pay her, though she did randomly call to have me clear her driveway a month or so ago. (I had nothing else to do. It was at least an activity. Slept over in a separate bed and ‘knew’ nothing was gonna happen, but I s’pose that absolutely was a form of degradation.))
Shovel harder bitch!
““I was saying to myself, I’m like, ‘There is no way in hell this is the same ICE agents that was on the streets of places like Minnesota with the masks on.’ Like they not wearing masks, like they being super nice,” he said.
“I think it’s a psy-op for the midterms, right?” Charlamagne said, referring to the concept of a government-staged operation to sway public opinion through deceptive means.
“Because if you put them in the airports, and they’re super nice, and they’re helpful, and they got things running efficiently, when he says we’re going to have them at the polls in November, nobody going to think twice about it,” he said.”
https://nypost.com/2026/04/02/media/charlamagne-baffled-by-ice-agents-at-airports-acting-like-chick-fil-a-workers/
National Immigration Customs Enforcement?
Or maybe people act differently when they don’t have whistles blown in their ears constantly, yelled at, spit on, have their vehicles kicked and deliberately put in high(er) stress situations by local politicians to score political points?
Maybe, just maybe, they were wearing masks and being all tacced up and shit because they were constantly surrounded by people on Maximum Asshole Mode in Minneapolis.
Oh, and like, arresting criminals. That, too.
https://x.com/WeGlibertarians/status/2039691163200885190
Here, go fuck yourself!
yikes!
Speaking of squids, NPR had a story about how Trump’s war is going to cause a calamari shortage, because diesel is too expensive in RI.
Squids fear a Crayola shortage.
Nick, 🤣
In case of divorce?
So you’re saying that those tentacle porn videos are in fact, biologically accurate?
“A vicious love triangle is at the center of the controversy around the “orgasm cult” OneTaste, according to supporters of founder Nicole Daedone, who was sentenced Monday to nine years in prison for forced labor conspiracy — coercing employees of her wellness company into sex acts with clients and investors.
And now supporters say the new company formed from OneTaste, Om, may go after Netflix and producer Lena Dunham for using a “faked” diary in their 2022 “Orgasm Inc: The Story of OneTaste” documentary — which apparently helped fuel the FBI’s original investigation of prostitution, sex trafficking and violations of labor law…..
Om owner Ayer, after the sentencing on Monday, told The Post: “This started as a five-year sex trafficking investigation. It wound up being about thought crime. Nothing this legally novel has appeared since the Salem witch trials. Forced labor conspiracy without any forced labor. No force, no coercion, no trafficking. The conviction was based entirely on a theory of brainwashing.””
https://nypost.com/2026/04/02/lifestyle/inside-the-one-taste-trial-and-the-love-triangle-devotees-say-set-it-off/
I’m all for punishing Lena Dunham.
If you remove the responsibility side of agency and only keep the freedom side this is where you end up. Someone else has to be responsible for your regretted actions.
Light the Tres signal or is she too much?
so, I keep seeing the boneless skinless chicken thighs next to the bone-in, skin-on ones that I buy. Every time I can’t figure out what people are cooking with the skinless ones. You’ve given up a lot of the flavor and ease of cooking to do what?
I ran into this trying to make chicken soup yesterday. It is especially annoying because apparently the boneless ones are so much more popular that it is actually hard to find the real ones.
TJ’s and Albertson’s, recently.
Not why you are confused? It’s like chicken breast, except it’s thigh meat.
Stir-frys with marinade.
Skinning and dicing a skin-on, bone-in chicken thigh is extra work that I’d rather not take on.
to do what?
Skinless boneless usually to dice or julienne for e.g. a curry. Only if on sale cheaper than bone/skin-on, through. Otherwise, I’ll skin (crispy chicken skin crackers) and de-bone (stock) myself for that use. They can be brined and grilled pretty easily as well – much easier to cook uniformly without overly drying edges and having near bones underdone.
Chicken tacos, baked chicken in foil, cornflake chicken, Roman chicken, prosciutto wrapped chicken breasts, chicken for cobb salad…
I sound like that guy from Forrest Gump.
To add vegetable oil and make them ‘healthy.’
The other day I made a Chicken Dijonnaise with boneless skinless breasts, that came out amazing. But I do wonder if it would have been better with bone-in…
“JD Vance’s peace talks with Iran may have been blown up after a key figure helping plan the summit was wounded in US-Israeli airstrikes on Wednesday.
Kamal Kharazi, Iran’s former foreign minister, was injured when a residential building in Tehran was struck, according to the New York Times.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15701379/US-Israel-bombs-Iranian-official-brokering-deal-JD-Vance-attempt-derail-Trumps-peace-talks.html
Zero dimension chess?
Why are people acting surprised by Springsteen? He literally said this tour was anti-Trump.
He’s been a commie since way back when.
I am reminded that Stephen King is a notable fan – quotes his lyrics in books and shit.
The “No Kings” sign is a nice touch. What a 🤡.
Springsteen and King are the ultimate in Boomer Slop.
He’s been a hard lefty from day one, even compared to other rock stars. One of the things that has annoyed me about the right over the past 10 years is the way they suddenly notice that some institution the left has controlled since before FDR is biased against them and scream about it. Really? You are just now figuring out that the Universities are full of literal, Dictatorship of the Proletariat, Marxists Leninists? Wait, Hollywood is embedding anti-capitalist, anti-white, anti-male, anti-straight, messages in popular films? Wait, the establishment rock culture was against was Western Civilization? Hey my froggy brother? Is this bath getting kind of uncomfortably hot?
BITD, before internet, people didn’t know musicians politics unless they sung about it.
Up until the late sixties, universities weren’t generally leftist. They were considered mildly conservative, and only gradually changed post ’68.
Up until the late sixties, universities weren’t generally leftist. They were considered mildly conservative, and only gradually changed post ’68.
You are delusional, read some of the stuff that came out of the Ivies about Stalin, Lenin, and the USSR generally.
Same with Hollywood. Despite the commies, most of the studio heads and a good chunk of the creatives were conservative. And almost all pro American.
I seem to recall the conservatives noticing it (“God and Man at Yale”) but, thanks to McCarthy, any mention of it was
“witch hunting.”
To be fair, most of them probably just assumed they could waltz right in and get the keys to the kingdom as has been SOP for decades.
In Minnesota, they could Walz right in.
“An Arkansas toddler was snatched from outside her home, dragged into the woods and mauled to death in a vicious ‘stray’ dog attack, despite six adults being present.
Celeste Jackson, 2, of North Little Rock, was playing outside the seven-bedroom home she shared with 11 relatives on Norman Road early Saturday evening when she was attacked by a ‘tan, dingy, dirty-looking’ stray dog.
She was found unresponsive near a tan van and pronounced dead at the scene despite frantic efforts to save her.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15701135/Toddler-stray-dog-dragged-woods-mauled-death-arkansas.html
yikes!
And the rest of the neighborhood looked like the Rez too
Dingoes do eat babies, it is known.
“Have you seen my fiancée?”
The house looks like the type of place my eldest used to live (the “cult house”). We have heard from her, she’s now sharing a trailer with somebody and she has two dogs.
It’s sad that people live like that, but even sadder that they WANT to live like that.
Sloth is real.
Yeah…the whole ‘7-bedroom home’ line was doing a lot of work there.
All the meth-heads across the street own mean-looking junkyard dogs. They usually leash them but not always, especially when they bring them across the street to shit in my backyard.
My alma mater’s softball team was playing a game at Stetson yesterday (in Deland, NNE of Orlando, NW of Cape Canaveral) when there was an impromptu stoppage of play.
Pretty cool.
I’d expect Stetson to wear different hats.
#metoo
“Has your partner secretly become a part of the toxic manosphere? Expert reveals it’s a ‘slow and slippery slope’ – and 5 warning signs to look out for
The disturbing trend, which has triggered the spread of harmful, often misogynistic views and patriarchal ideologies, is more prevalent than most think.
Speaking to the Daily Mail, relationships coach Claire Rénier at dating app happn has revealed that the movement will also likely have an impact on romantic connections.
She explained: ‘The manosphere is an online community which promotes “traditional” masculinity, misogyny, and an opposition to feminism…
Read on to discover the signs that your partner might secretly be part of the manosphere – and how to best deal with it.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/lifestyle/article-15700605/Has-partner-secretly-toxic-manosphere-Expert-reveals-slow-slippery-slope-5-warning-signs-look-for.html
I wonder how many of the same people defend sharia law?
Everything is about politics. EVERYTHING.
You mean, the outdated notion that men aren’t just broken females?
*faints*
Sharia? Shit, they can’t get past their misandry.
Can you imagine wanting to follow rules rather than focusing on obeying rules?
More than half of World Cup countries face extra costs as Fifa fails to agree US tax deal
The US federal corporate tax rate is 21%, while for higher-rate taxpayers such as international footballers and coaches income tax is 37%.
…
“Many of the smaller teams, ones for whom this kind of windfall would have made a huge difference to their football industries, are going to be penalised with massive US tax bills,” Morrison said. “That is money that could have developed their football industries locally a lot better, but it’s going to stay in the US.
…
In addition the levels of state taxation vary significantly. There is no state tax at all in Florida, where seven games will take place in Miami, whereas it is 10.75% in New Jersey, whose MetLife Stadium will stage the final, and 13.3% in California, where Los Angeles and San Francisco will host games.
Is the Guardian complaining about high taxes in the US?
That’s different! Their taxes pay for important activities like jailing people for objecting to cultural enrichers raping their middle schoolers, US taxes are used for evil things like deporting cultural enrichers.
And when the corporation pays out dividends from those after tax earnings, the shareholder pays an additional 15% tax.
NYT –
Nutrition Is In and D.E.I. Is Out as Medical Schools Bow to Kennedy
As Robert F. Kennedy Jr. calls for medical schools to redesign curriculums, an agency that oversees dozens has deleted diversity standards and added nutrition.
I can think of worse changes for a medical school curriculum.
Forced diversity in medical school is bad for minorities.
It’s bad for everybody. Which is why the left wants it.
Being nutrition-conscious is probably white supremacy.
It’s the anti-food stamp diet.
Totally white supremacy.
I can accept round or oval toilet seats but rectangular ones make me feel like I’m sitting on top of a field latrine. The dirt trench one, not plywood.
I have thankfully not experienced a rectangular toilet seat.
https://images.woodbridgebath.com/Data/upload/20200927/content/5f704310d2b14.jpg
Wow. That’s a women’s only kind of thing. Dudes gotta spread out.
“State legislatures restricting what faculty can teach about race or gender — banning discussions on transgender and nonbinary identities. Public health scholars facing political retaliation for vaccine research and guidance. Legally mandated-national climate assessment reports disappearing from government websites.”
https://www.salon.com/2026/04/02/the-slow-death-of-academic-freedom/
Here’s an idea. Fund your own commie bullshit.
K12 teachers aren’t faculty nor do they have academic freedom.
Legally-mandated propaganda.
Pull the other one, assholes.
“World’s oldest tortoise caught in viral crypto death scam”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/02/worlds-oldest-tortoise-crypto-death-scam
STIJLTH
And when Team Blue gets the executive branch she’ll be right back.
Lina Khan to Launch Economic Policy Center at Columbia
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/lina-khan-to-launch-economic-policy-center-at-columbia-8144c853?st=pN5urq&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
You have to love the revolving door.
The thought of all those lefties like Nina J crawling out from under their rock to run policy when the next Dem gets in, terrifies me.
International disorder
In a note on Monday, Russ Mould, investment director at AJ Bell, said investors were continuing to reassess their exposure to the U.S..
“Tariffs and strong-arm trade tactics, challenges to the independence of the U.S. Federal Reserve and now military incursions in Latin America and the Middle East, as well as saber-rattling over Greenland, are combining with lofty American stock market valuations and a soaring Federal deficit and prompting investors to reassess the narrative of American exceptionalism,” he said.
Trump’s so-called reciprocal tariffs announced last April “took trade policy to a whole new level,” Mould added.
International trade was completely free, fair and open before Trump got here.
” Colorado Springs man has been sentenced to 46 months in federal prison after staging a hate crime in an effort to generate support for a black mayoral candidate in 2023.
36-year-old Derrick Bernard offered to help Yemi Mobolade gain attention during his 2023 campaign. Bernard reportedly sent messages promising “Black ops style big brother,” and “I can guarantee the finish.” Bernard would go on to circulate photos showing a burned cross next to a campaign sign for Mobolade that had the N-word painted on it.
The Colorado Springs Police Department (CSPD) initially reviewed surveillance footage from the scene, identifying three individuals late at night staging the incident. A federal investigation by the FBI determined the hate crime was a hoax intended to drive voter turnout.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/colorado-springs-man-sentenced-to-46-months-in-prison-for-staging-hate-hoax-cross-burning-to-help-mayor-yemi-mobolades-campaign
Are any of these things real?
You have to do something when the demand for racism exceeds the supply.
I really doubt it.
“A Wisconsin mother is accused of fatally stabbing her teenage daughter while under the influence of drugs, telling authorities she believed she was protecting the girl from billionaire Elon Musk.
Tyiece Oninski confessed to the killing on March 20 when she contacted authorities to notify them she had stabbed her 14-year-old daughter, Kuren Rein, to death the night before. According to a criminal complaint, Oninski also attempted suicide after the attack.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/delusional-mom-stabs-daughter-to-death-in-wisconsin-to-protect-her-from-elon-musk
WTF?
“The number of new HIV and AIDS cases is rising in Chicago, with the most significant increase occurring within the city’s Latino community….
City officials have suggested that the increase among this racial group is due in part to immigration, including people who have not been tested, as well as the effects of the pandemic, which interrupted testing and care. From 2022 to 2024, more than 51,000 immigrants, many of whom are Latino, moved into Chicago. Chicago Department of Public Health Commissioner Dr. Olusimbo Ige suggested some new cases could be due to increased testing among newly arrived populations, including those undergoing medical screenings in city-run shelters.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/hiv-aids-cases-on-the-rise-among-chicagos-latino-community
OFFS!
Vibrant!
We asked people who agree with us, and they told us what we wanted to hear
President Trump on Tuesday escalated his efforts to reshape American elections, signing an executive order that seeks to create lists of U.S. citizens who are eligible to vote in each state, and instructing the U.S. Postal Service to send mail ballots only to verified voters.
Trump told reporters in the Oval Office that he believes the order is legally “foolproof.” But election experts said the order was unconstitutional, and voting rights advocates and Democratic state officials quickly pledged to sue to block the order from going into effect.
The egghead consensus: Trump is bad.
Trump has long railed — baselessly — about widespread illegal voting by noncitizens and fraud associated with mail ballots.
The new executive order — which was first reported by The Daily Caller — takes aim at both.
There is absolutely no reason to believe a problem exits, but we will fight tooth and nail to oppose this plan.