Wednesday Morning Links

by | Apr 8, 2026 | Daily Links | 208 comments

It’s Masters Week. I have no idea who is gonna win, but it ought to be a wild one. There was a quality brawl between the Braves and Angels. And we’re into the UCL quarterfinals, and Arsenal and Bayern jumped out to leads in their respective ties. Let’s see what happens in the all-Spanish affair and if Liverpool decides to show up against PSG today or roll over like they did this past weekend in the FA Cup. And that’s about it for sports.

Here come the real book banners again. The same people throwing a fit about my two dads or how to suck a dick being moved from the Childrens library at schools are throwing a fit about these timeless morality stories from one of the most popular and most read books in history. Because of course they are.

I wonder if he’ll face any tough questions. I have little confidence he will.

This sounds like a decent idea. But not the best execution. Next time, staff your sting operations appropriately.

At some point, the people who facilitated this need to be held accountable. They’re worse than the bartender who serves a drunk driver. But somehow they don’t suffer the same fate.

Let’s see how long it lasts. My guess is until the Iranian regime decides it’s their mission to kill every Jew in the world again. So probably less than two weeks. I hope I’m wrong.

Damn, this was a heck of a scam. But it’s all over now.

This guy’s political trajectory is going the wrong way. He’ll be running for court clerk in the next decade, I suppose. I guess it never dawned on him that he could go get a real job instead of continuing his lifetime grift tour.

What could possibly go wrong? I wonder if they’ll call the next disease MinnPox in honor of the decision.

This dumbass needs to be out of a job. Rather than blame his mom, what he should do is simple: start trolling BK and make a video of him devouring a whole burger in one bite. It’s social media, not rocket science.

Ah, yes. The Lina Hidalgo gambit. I assume she’s committed some kind of fraud and this is her way of handling it. If you can’t do your government job you should resign.

I haven’t played these guys in too long. Which is a shame. So this will make at least a few of you very happy. Yes, I’m a part of that happy group. Enjoy them both.

And enjoy this lovely Wednesday, dear friends.

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208 Comments

  1. Shpip

    The political committee supporting Charlie Crist should he run for St. Petersburg Mayor, St. Pete Shines, raised more than $475,000 in the first quarter of 2026, bringing the committee’s total collections to more than $1.2 million.

    Charlie Crist will always be the first to remind you that he’s not a “politician,” but a “public servant.” But I’ve always wondered why his public service always involves high elective office, instead of him being assistant kennel cleaner at the county pound, or somesuch.

    • sloopyinca

      He’s dedicated his life to the people of Florida! A true Everyman.

    • Ted S.

      Then act like a servant instead of someone who thinks he’s our master.

      • WTF

        When they say “servant” they mean to their own self-interest.

    • Not Adahn

      Servants don’t give orders.

  2. R C Dean

    Authorities said the incident followed tips from the public reporting numerous suspected immigrant drivers — many operating tractor-trailers — outside the West Kittanning Driver’s Licensing Center.

    I’d be giving the licensing operation at that location a very, very hard look if I were a prosecutor. There’s a reason a bunch of illegals showed up there, after all.

    • (((Jarflax

      Maybe we can solve a couple of problems by combining them? How about we take all the illegal truckers and put them to work in the new bathhouses?

      • Fourscore

        The truckers have not place to go to, since the video viewing places just outside of city limits closed

      • Ted S.

        Those would be the Somali Leering Centers.

      • Threedoor

        Halal bath houses no doubt.

    • Sensei

      If it’s anything like NJ – my local county and as a result the prosecutor’s office – would be in on the turning a blind eye.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Immigration is federal, so, pop the dude at the DMV who lets this slide, and see if he turns. Keep working up the chain.

      • The Last American Hero

        ^^^This. Widespread fraud is widespread fraud, and it doesn’t matter whether the organized crime family is mafia or local government.

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      Drivers licenses locations are a nexus of illegals.

      From KY in 2025: “A former clerk at a Kentucky driver’s licensing branch said co-workers sold illegal immigrants driver’s licenses they couldn’t legally obtain, charging $200 per license.

      Melissa Moorman claims the scheme happened four or five times a day for at least two years at multiple branches across the state. According to a whistleblower lawsuit, when Moorman alerted the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet to the scam, she was fired.”

      We should have ICE in every county office that hands out licenses.

  3. (((Jarflax

    He finally got around to the ultimate “It was someone else’s fault” Mommy raised him wrong! Which at least has the virtue of being likely, spoiled, unaccountable brats are generally from Mommy coddling.

    • Fourscore

      We’re still talking about Trump, right?

      • (((Jarflax

        Trump was only a McDonalds cashier. I’m talking about the CEO.

      • WTF

        A McDonald’s cashier becoming President! What a country!

      • Gustave Lytton

        Ex-con, turning his life around!

    • Sean

      Tbh, I thought he had daddy issues, not mommy issues.

      *shrug*

      • (((Jarflax

        I mean absent daddy allows overprotective Mommy so…

  4. R C Dean

    On the cease-fire – what I read was the Pakistanis (not the Iranians) asked if Trump would agree to a ceasefire if the Iranians agreed to open Hormuz. Trump said, in essence, “Yeah, if they open Hormuz I’ll stop bombing them for a couple weeks.”

    I’m not clear if either (a) the Iranians agreed to do so or (b) the Iranians have actually done so.

    • Fourscore

      So we’re back to where we were 33 or so days ago, except for the death, destruction and many billions spent.

      • WTF

        I would posit that the Iranians ability to make mischief has been significantly degraded.

      • sloopyinca

        Well, we did decapitate their entire leadership structure 2-3 levels deep. Perhaps its time to see if the people who replaced them want to act civilized or face the same fate.

      • Fourscore

        I thought we did that back in June of last year. I seem to remember…something about big, beautiful, bunker busting bombs and a 15 years setback.

      • Gdragon

        Second verse, same as the first.
        A little bit louder and a little bit worse.

    • WTF

      I assume the cease fire will hold until the Iranians pull some shit, which should happen within days.

      • Sean

        According to X, they pulled shit hours after the agreement.

      • R.J.

        Exactly. Big missile launch hours later.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        So, they were just Pali-ing around?

    • Ted S.

      How about recognizing Oman”s sovereignty over its territorial waters?

      • UnCivilServant

        I don’t recognize Oman’s Sovereignty over its corner of Arabia.

    • WTF

      The best part about the cease fire is all the Democrats complaining about how Trump was going to commit “war crimes” are now bitching and criticizing him for not actually doing it.

      • slumbrew

        That’s been fun.

        “War crimes!”

        “Hah, TACO”

      • The Last American Hero

        This is one of the biggest contributions X has made to political discourse. We literally have video of people reversing their position within the same afternoon and then whipsawing back the next morning. No actual governing philosophy other than “other side bad”.

    • Not Adahn

      Yeah, the weirdest part was NPR was presenting it as if Iran had blinked. I’m sure someone will straighten them out by the drive home.

      • Fourscore

        Trump wrote. “There will be lots of positive action! Big money will be made. Iran can start the reconstruction process.

      • R C Dean

        Do we really want them reconstructing their nuclear program, missile launchers, and arms factories?

  5. WTF

    At some point, the people who facilitated this need to be held accountable. They’re worse than the bartender who serves a drunk driver. But somehow they don’t suffer the same fate.

    And yet, millions of people actually vote for criminal illegals to be protected. Hell, many of them actually violently protest in favor of protecting these animals.

    • rhywun

      “But he will fear for his life in Haiti!”

      Their safety is more important than the lives of their victims. It really is incredible.

      And don’t get me started with TOS about how they are “less violent than Americans”. How to bullshit with statistics.

    • The Other Kevin

      The image of a bartender is a really good way to frame it. I like that I’m seeing it more.

      I’m not sure of the details in these cases, but it the judge is going above and beyond what is considered standard, then they should be held accountable.

  6. Not Adahn

    banned businesses that facilitate “high-risk sexual conduct” — which it defined as fellatio, anal intercourse and vaginal intercourse for pay.

    Commerce increases the spread of disease. It’s SCIENCE!

    • (((Jarflax

      I mean, yes, yes it does. Always has. It’s worth it though because it spreads a bunch of good things as well.

    • R C Dean

      The lack of an Oxford comma makes me think that the last category, anal and vaginal intercourse for pay – has to be pretty small.

      • (((Jarflax

        In a bathhouse? I guess 0 is small. Vaginas are unwelcome.

      • Not Adahn

        I really doubt vaginas would be unwelcome.

        Most guys going to bathouses to fuck strangers aren’t that picky.

      • Ted S.

        NA knows from experience?

      • Not Adahn

        Also, there is an Albany bathouse that runs adds on fetlife, so I see they often have crossdresser/trans nights so apparently some attendees are pretending they’re banging women anyway.

      • Not Adahn

        No, I’ve never been to a bathouse, but I have lived in the demi-monde. I thought everyone knew this?

      • R C Dean

        I thought a bathouse was where Bruce Wayne lived?

    • Ted S.

      Now do companies cashing in on something women are generally concerned about.

      • Sensei

        This technique is used more on women than men in my opinion. But on younger male cohorts I think it’s used much more as demonstrated here.

      • R C Dean

        Due, perhaps, to the feminization of the younger (nominally) male cohort by Current Day society?

      • Sensei

        Exactly!

  7. Brochettaward

    Leave this place, go back to yours
    Our lips first touch outside your doors
    A whole night, what we’ve got in store
    Whisper in my ear that you want some more
    And I
    First in my pants
    This really never happens, you can take my word
    I won’t apologize, that’s just absurd
    Mainly your fault for the way that you dance
    And now I
    FIrst in my pants

    • Aloysious

      I hate pants.

      That is all.

  8. rhywun

    Here come the real book banners again.

    They’re banning Koran prayers too, right? Because I heard they’re teaching that too.

  9. rhywun

    staff your sting operations appropriately

    I hate when perfectly ordinary goings-on are suddenly “news” because reasons.

    Oooo ICE arrests! Controversial!!! 🙄

  10. Sensei

    Can N.J. budget withstand a fiscal crisis prompted by Iran war? ‘There is serious uncertainty.’

    Yes, the reason why NJ’s budget is a mess is because of the Trump’s war in Iran. Best part is a not insignificant part of the residents will believe this.

    • WTF

      The morons who voted for Sherril will believe it.

      • Sensei

        She flew helicopters so she speaks the truth!

      • creech

        Hey, Gov. Mikie is a helicopter pilot in Navy and has been personally flying missions in Iran. This doesn’t leave her much time to govern the mooks in New Jersey legislature.

    • rhywun

      Nothing some additional blowout spending can’t solve. Your public sector servants need you more than ever, voters.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        Your public sector servants need you[r money] more than ever, voters.

        FIFY

  11. Common Tater

    “A New York state corrections department employee and her ex-con boyfriend were indicted Tuesday for running a sex trafficking and prostitution ring where they pimped out at least one child, prosecutors said.

    Deanna DiCastro, 39, and Gillam Cordero, 38, are both accused of managing the sex ring out of four locations across the state — Manhattan, the Bronx, Rome and Utica — between October 2025 and January 2026, according to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.
    A woman in a red hoodie and jeans, handcuffed with a belt around her waist, is led by a female officer.”

    https://nypost.com/2026/04/07/us-news/ny-doc-employee-and-her-ex-con-boyfriend-pimped-out-child-in-statewide-sex-trafficking-scheme/

    Doesn’t say how old. Big difference between 7 and 17.

    • UnCivilServant

      Big difference between 7 and 17.

      In New York, the age of consent is 17, so I wonder how that interacts with the other charges if we are talking a technical minor as opposed to a “you sicko” minor.

      • Not Adahn

        There’s been a local story for the past few years about a guy

        -hired out of college
        -working as a coach
        -at an all-girls boarding school

        Banging students. Apparently he did actually fuck up and caught some statutory rape charges, but there were a lot more they couldn’t charge him for. So the MA legislature is working on closing that loophole of waiting until they’re of the age of consent.

  12. Common Tater

    “A woke Canadian academic whose research includes working with young children to create “queer- and trans-centered spaces” is drawing mockery online for his choice of pronouns — his full name, all lowercase.

    The PhD — who is transgender and presents as a man with a goatee — asked on Facebook to be referred to by his full name, j wallace skelton, in place of traditional third-person pronouns like him, her or they — including the lowercase letters….

    Skelton, an assistant professor of queer studies in education at the University of Regina, says on his website that he is the father of a “non-binary ten year old,” whom he says is a frequent research partner….

    ““We’re drawing with children 3-12 and their families and caregivers as a way to learn more about what 2SLGBTQ children, and children from 2SLGBTQ families, and their adults imagine queer and trans possibilities in school.””

    https://nypost.com/2026/04/07/world-news/trans-researcher-j-wallace-skelton-roasted-for-absurd-pronouns/

    Straight to jail

    • R C Dean

      a “non-binary ten year old,” whom he says is a frequent research partner….

      Talk about your red flags . . . .

    • Gender Traitor

      assistant professor of queer studies in education at the University of Regina

      Whether that’s a single course or an entire degree program, WTF???

      • R C Dean

        Might as well call it pedo acquisition studies.

      • Mad Scientist

        I could see how it could be a specialization of psychology, but somehow I don’t think that’s what it is.

      • rhywun

        I could see how it could be a specialization of psychology, but somehow I don’t think that’s what it is.

        No, like any “studies” program, it’s a “study” of victimology and leftist activism.

    • rhywun

      At the very least she needs to be immediately fired and sent for serious psychological evaluation.

      But instead she will be celebrated and parents will continue throwing their trophy children at her. Western society is sick.

    • R C Dean

      Remind me again why I should support Republicans?

      • (((Jarflax

        Because we’re all getting to old to properly manure the Tree?

      • EvilSheldon

        Yes, weren’t we just talking about how the uniparty isn’t a real thing?

      • rhywun

        You could support a politician who is against dirty tricks like this. Chances are that person will not be a Democrat.

    • Common Tater

      Doesn’t say what is in the bill.

      • R C Dean

        Sounds like amnesty for any illegal who has been here since 2020 and hasn’t committed any crimes. But, who knows? Sounds pretty on-brand for the Democrat wing of the Republican Party, though.

        Of course, many-to-most illegals committed a crime when they crossed the border without a visa (as opposed to overstaying a visa, which is a civil offense). Dunno if they carved out that crime as part of their amnesty package.

      • UnCivilServant

        My opinion on amnesty is simple –

        You don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here.

      • rhywun

        Sounds like amnesty for any illegal who has been here since 2020 and hasn’t committed any crimes.

        I wonder how many of them have deportation orders against them already. Seems like every time the media reports another sob story, there was already a deportation order.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Sounds like amnesty for any illegal who has been here since 2020 and hasn’t committed any crimes.

        I’d be more open to this idea if it also included “and hasn’t received any public handouts (including NGO’s).”

      • UnCivilServant

        Fuck No, Jimbo.

        Illegal Entry? – Gone

        Identity Theft? – Gone

        Recieved government hand outs and/or defrauded a program? – Burned at the stake

        Robbed, Assaulted, Raped, Murdered a Citizen? – Death by slow slicing with the tattered remnants of their carcass spiked to the border wall as a warning to others.

    • Rat on a train

      “You won’t find a single use of the word amnesty in my bill.”

    • Threedoor

      Democrat that ran in the R party to get elected by low information voters.

    • rhywun

      “Skills”. Is that what we’re calling them now?

    • Not Adahn

      ]Also included in the photo dump was a pic of her dog, Sully Bear.

      Dawwww! Hoozagoodboy?

    • R C Dean

      the hospital noticed a “large quantity of Medtronic Infuse bone graft devices and other medica supplies were missing from the supply room,”

      She would then impersonate a representative of a medical device vendor to sell the stolen items to a wholesale medical supplies company in South Carolina, prosecutors said.

      You might get away with that once, but there’s no fucking way the wholesaler didn’t know the stuff was stolen when she kept showing up. Reps from Medtronic have exclusive areas and are quite well known to buyers. As is Medtronic’s billing and delivery operation.

      • UnCivilServant

        “She provided the best discount”

      • R C Dean

        Yeah, no. Medtronic discounts are spelled out in their contracts and are purely volume driven. Yet another red flag.

      • UnCivilServant

        I got it the first time, the joke was they’re trying to pretend it isn’t obviously stolen goods.

    • PieInTheSky

      I dont know what is for sale but ill take two

    • Threedoor

      Local guy who was my dad’s pilot instructor in the 80s got busted stealing equipment, some of it large from the bullet plant he worked at.

      They only caught him after he posted some of it on craigslist for over $10,000.

      Stuff grows legs and no one is paying attention until they finally do.

  13. Common Tater

    “I want to learn more. It’s very vague language,” he said. “I look forward to the conversation and debate. It’s hard to tell what the intent is, other than allowing people to have sex in commercial buildings.”

    Somalian Butt Piracy?

    • PieInTheSky

      american cars? meh

      • UnCivilServant

        Not everyone managed to reach the end of the Trabant waiting list.

    • Common Tater

      They all look the same.

    • Threedoor

      The high hip line and tiny slit side windows are ugly.

      Probably due to some NTSB regulation.

  14. Sensei

    Lynette Hooker, 55 and her husband, Brian Hooker, 58, left Hope Town’s Abaco Inn at around 7:30 p.m. Saturday, four minutes after the sunset that night on a small boat headed to their yacht in Elbow Cay, according to Bahamian officials.

    Brian Hooker reportedly told officials that while the couple were on the smaller boat, known as a dinghy, Lynette fell into the water with the ignition key, causing the engine to shut off. The current carried her away, according to Brian, who paddled back to a marina at Marsh Harbor. He reported Lynette missing at around 4:00 a.m. on Sunday.

    1. Love that dinghy needs to be defined here.
    2. Sure, nothing suspicious about the key being taken while falling overboard.

    https://www.foxnews.com/us/american-couple-chasing-retirement-dream-bahamas-boating-mystery-inexperienced-friend

    • R C Dean

      She somehow grabbed the key while falling overboard?

      Did it take him until 4:00 am to paddle back to the marina?

      • UnCivilServant

        A lot of boat keys are tied to the user so that the boat can’t just drive off if they fall out. It was tied to her wrist.

      • Sensei

        On something like a wave runner you clip an ignition cut onto your body. That way if you go overboard it kills the engine.

        I suppose you could do similar on a dinghy outboard, but back in the day when I grew up on boats and the water it didn’t exist. When you spun the key in the ignition it stays in the ignition. You have to turn it off to remove it. No idea on an out board made after 2000.

      • SandMan

        Small outboard motors (and big ones too) nowadays have a kill switch on a lanyard that you’re supposed to attach to your arm or wrist, so if you fall overboard the motor motor cuts off, actually a good safety feature. Not sure if that’s relevant for this story, not enough information.

      • R C Dean

        Good to know. Although it sounds like you may have actually clicked through and read the link.

      • Pope Jimbo

        I’m confirming what Sandman said. The actual outboard motor usually has no key, just the safety lanyard. So if it was just a tiller steering setup, the story makes no sense.

        I’m guessing that the boat probably had a console in it. That has a throttle and steering wheel in it. Those do have keys to keep them from being stolen. They also have a lanyard.

        The picture shown in the story was a tiller setup.

  15. The Other Kevin

    I haven’t played these guys in too long.

    I knew where that link would take me. Thanks, I am happy.

    • Drake

      Did he spend the rest of the war cooking for the Germans?

  16. PieInTheSky

    Eyewitnesses who were required to take an oath were more likely to tell the truth, even when it would have been in their best interest to lie.
    Eyewitness testimony is the most powerful form of evidence in a court of law. But eyewitnesses also lie, and false testimony is the primarily cause of wrongful convictions. While prior work emphasizes eyewitness reliability, little is known about whether courtroom procedures like the oath increase truthfulness. The present study aimed to examine whether a mandatory oath, similar to those used in criminal procedures, can reduce deception among eyewitnesses

    https://x.com/DegenRolf/status/2041824029049344514

    Wait since when is eyewitness the most powerful evidence?

  17. Common Tater

    ““If you hate your wife, it’s a lot easier to justify exploiting her unpaid labor for your own personal gain,” she told me. “With our modern sensibilities, we might think of love as the point of marriage.” But traditional marriage was about male power, she explained, which included “exploiting wives’ domestic labor, forcing them to bear children and using them as emotional or physical punching bags.” Underneath all the happy trappings of tradwife content is a longing to return to a time when women had no rights inside a marriage. Actual love for a “traditional” wife, Calarco concluded, gets in the way of a man “accepting the perks of patriarchy.””

    https://www.salon.com/2026/04/08/why-maga-men-actually-loathe-tradwives/

    Tiring shit is tiring.

    • UnCivilServant

      Dear burnt-out harpies – It’s also the woman’s home she’s keeping up.

      Fuck off and drown yourselves in vodka.

      • R C Dean

        A true patriarch doesn’t allow the help, including his wife, to actually live in his house. Well, maybe in some out-of-the-way quarters, but certainly not in the main living areas.

      • (((Jarflax

        I hope you made sure the gun safe wasn’t in the same out of the way quarters…

    • Not Adahn

      Women make terrible punching bags. Risky for your hands and they can’t withstand a single adequate training session.

    • The Other Kevin

      There she goes again. Her entire schtick is reading the minds of people she doesn’t like and telling you their dark, secret motives. In another era she might have made a living at a circus sideshow. MADAME MARCOTTE KNOWS ALL.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        At least she’s at Salon and not a publication that actually gets read.

    • Threedoor

      Amanduh smells like cat piss and cheep hooch.

    • PieInTheSky

      no one relevant lives in vermont anyways

      • Ted S.

        No pins for Pie!

    • Not Adahn

      I’m running to build a fairer, freer Vermont for everyone. I’ll lower property taxes by taxing short-term rentals and large corporations, saving working families up to 14%. My platform supports education reform, cutting 100+ school districts down to 5 to save $100M.

      Much less retarded that I’d expect from a 14 year old (D).

    • Common Tater

      That’s because class is material, tangible, and mostly quantifiable. That’s no good. What you want are problems that are invisible and can never be solved.

  18. Common Tater

    “Some of PragerU’s content is relatively non-partisan, like its financial literacy courses, videos about sports legends, and portions of its history materials. McCarthy believes this seemingly uncontroversial material attracts students and educators. From there, though, PragerU acts as a “gateway organization” that surreptitiously brings radical beliefs into mainstream culture and may eventually lead students even further to the right. (Streit said PragerU is “not shy about our worldview”, and she questioned why its critics have not similarly scrutinized legacy education companies such as Scholastic.)”

    https://www.theguardian.com/education/ng-interactive/2026/apr/08/prageru-university-conservatism

    wooooooo scary

    • PieInTheSky

      no a single educational organization leads students to the left.

    • Ted S.

      Everything for the state, nothing against the state, nothing outside the state.

  19. PieInTheSky

    Both completed in the early 2000s, phase one of Poundbury and the Scottish Parliament. Have a guess which one the @guardian
    described as “fake, heartless, authoritarian and grimly cute / sterile and suffocating” and which they described as “a masterpiece in the making”.

    https://x.com/tomisont/status/2041267660797657110

      • PieInTheSky

        better armed than libertarians it seems. look at all those assault machine guns

      • UnCivilServant

        I wouldn’t know about libertarians, but I could drag more firepower out of the Hudson in a matter of minutes.

    • Common Tater

      They look surprisingly normal.

  20. PieInTheSky

    By saying that capitalism restricts freedom, I am not introducing a new, radical idea. This has been documented at length by scholars such as Marx, Luxemburg, Polanyi, Harvey, and Stiglitz, to name a few.

    A common thread across these thinkers is the distinction between formal freedom (legal rights) and real freedom (the actual capacity to act). Capitalism often undermines real freedom for those without property, capital, or high incomes.

    In highly capitalistic societies, such as the United States, real freedom is curtailed for most people by paywalling access to things like affordable housing, education, and healthcare. Real freedom is further limited for the same group of people by lack of public investment in infrastructure, transport, and social services.

    This is not saying that societies with a stronger socialist bent do not curtail any freedoms. All societies do. But the societies that regulate capitalism more strongly tend to provide greater real freedom for ordinary people.

    https://x.com/haugejostein/status/2041272160887418886

      • Common Tater

        Sounds like Matthew Cole can eat my ass in a counter-clockwise direction.

      • PieInTheSky

        gay.

    • EvilSheldon

      Freedom’s just another word for not having to pay your bills…

    • Threedoor

      My housing is paywalled because I have to pay for healthcare and education of these commie rat fuckers.

    • kinnath

      Could be worse. Could be rural Iowa.

      • UnCivilServant

        That’s not really rural if it’s been overrun by dirty artsy types.

      • PieInTheSky

        could be rural Teleorman…

      • rhywun

        That will barely fund a handful of teachers retiring at 55. Do better, Tish.

    • rhywun

      Looks like it is attracting hippies for whom Ithaca is too much.

    • B.P.

      Shit. I grew up 15 minutes from that town. The weather sucks.

    • Fourscore

      A little smaller than Podunkville but P’ville has 3 liquor stores and a store with legal infusion

      • Furthest Blue pistoffnick (370HSSV)

        One of those liquor stores is also gun store!

  21. Common Tater

    “A children’s hospital in Minnesota will be resuming all sex change procedures for children who believe they are of the opposite sex after the programs came to a halt on February 27. The decision follows the publishing of a massive Finnish study that showed psychiatric problems for trans-identified youth did not subside after they got sex change procedures.

    The decision to reverse the pause came as a result of a federal court ruling in March that overturned an attempt to stop sex change procedures for minors, including puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones. Children’s Minnesota said in a statement, “Offering science- and research-based health care to transgender and gender diverse youth is part of Children’s Minnesota’s vision of being every family’s essential partner in raising healthier children.”

    https://thepostmillennial.com/childrens-minnesota-hospital-brings-back-child-sex-changes-despite-trump-ban

    WTF, Minnesota?

      • Threedoor

        Yes.

  22. The Late P Brooks

    The people’s choice

    A clear plurality of New York City residents approve of the job Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) is doing as he approaches his 100th day in office, according to a new poll from the Marist Institute for Public Opinion.

    In the survey, conducted throughout the last week in March, 48 percent of New Yorkers say they approve of the city’s first democratic socialist mayor, while 30 percent say they disapprove of his job performance. Another 23 percent say they’re not sure.

    I’m convinced.

      • Not Adahn

        The same people who voted for him?

      • UnCivilServant

        Wait, they spoke English?

    • rhywun

      OFFS. The communist has not implemented any of his destructive plans yet, mostly because they require massive tax increases that Kathy is reluctant to give him because she has an reelection coming up.

      • UnCivilServant

        Stop repeating the title card between each clip in the cat video compilation.

      • R.J.

        Hey! You are not being a ray of sunshine!

  23. The Late P Brooks

    We just don’t like you anymore

    No public grievances were disclosed by the board prior to Rothman’s firing. However, he sent two letters to the board to request a reason for finding no confidence in his leadership after he was first asked to resign, the AP reported.

    “When I asked you to articulate reasons for the Board’s conclusion and apparent lack of confidence in me, you merely noted that each Regent has his or her own perspective on the matter,” Rothman wrote in a March 26 letter to the board president, according to the wire.

    “You did not provide any tangible reasons for the Board’s determination,” he added.

    At-will employment is okay when we do it.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Asking to resign should be an informal tap on the shoulder in the hallway. Any letter should be a straight up, today is your last day, here’s what you get. And security right there to take any badges or keys and escort off property.

  24. The Late P Brooks

    It’s so cute that this person thinks anybody wants tobacco use to actually go to zero

    You can see this gap in today’s policy debates, where regulators and public health leaders are grappling with how to balance youth prevention with harm reduction for adults. Even as smoking rates fall to historic lows, parts of the U.S. policy framework still support tobacco production — a reminder that the systems built around nicotine have not evolved as quickly as the behaviors they were designed to address.

    These debates often focus on specific products rather than the bigger picture of how nicotine is actually used today. The more important question is what it takes to help people quit in a world where nicotine no longer comes in just one form.

    The challenge now for researchers, clinicians and policymakers is to rethink how we approach cessation. This does not mean abandoning the progress of tobacco control or minimizing the risks associated with emerging nicotine products. Protecting young people from nicotine addiction remains a critical priority. But the next chapter will require a deeper focus on how nicotine dependence works — how it develops, how it persists and how it changes as nicotine delivery evolves.

    How would the states replace the money tobacco brings in?

    • rhywun

      Legal pot enters the chat.

      • UnCivilServant

        At least it’s not his brother, Pol.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Too easy to grow pot.

        Can’t tax it if you allow the rubes to grow it themselves.

      • UnCivilServant

        Jimbo, Jimbo, Jimbo.

        Just rule that everyone with the legal capability to grow is growing some arbitrary minimum quantity and levy the pot tax based upon that assessment.

  25. creech

    “Freedom’s just another word for not having to pay your bills…”
    Unfortunately, freedom is just another word meaning nothing. I gave a talk yesterday, “Voices of the Founding Fathers.” I concluded with a remark that America only succeeds when “people work hard and behave responsibly. ” That got a few vigorous nods from a couple of the known AWFLs in the audience. The same AWFLS who, a year and a half ago, were loudly proclaiming the glory of Biden’s attempt to forgive student loans.

    • EvilSheldon

      Words have meanings to you and I. For progs, words are just mouth noises.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      They probably interpreted “people work hard and behave responsibly” as “pay your taxes so you can pay for other people’s stuff”.

      • (((Jarflax

        Arbeit macht frei

  26. The Late P Brooks

    Plan of action

    Democrats can start by embracing a little common-sense populism.

    Millions of Americans have seen their chances of buying a home evaporate thanks to greedy Wall Street firms that are driving up housing prices nationwide by paying above market prices for single-family homes. Democrats should own the issue by proposing a federal law blocking the nation’s financial fat cats from sucking up the housing supply — and by imposing tougher taxes on the firms that hold massive portfolios of residential properties. That tax revenue should go back to regular Americans in the form of a credit that allows them to purchase their first home.

    By all means focus your energies on imaginary Big Business plots to buy up all the houses.

    • Threedoor

      Money printing had nothing to do with it.

    • creech

      My, what a miscarriage of justice it is that old Auntie Emma got “more than market price” for her house.

    • rhywun

      Have no fear, Mayor Z is going to show everyone the benefits of democratic socialism as soon as Kathy approves the tax increases to make those fatcats pay for it.

  27. The Late P Brooks

    Paradoxically, that means centering Trump less in the national conversation. Trump should be treated like the ineffective and slightly pathetic lame-duck president he is. Democrats’ vision of leadership must look beyond their opposition to Trump and toward a positive vision of Democratic leadership in a post-Trump political world.

    Democratic Socialism. Real solutions for real problems. A unicorn in every pot.

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