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“Media’s Only Motive in Taking Out Eric Swalwell Is to Benefit Democrats”
Didn’t he fart on TV?
“The Penthouse model engaged to billionaire Eric Swalwell supporter Stephen Cloobeck was previously married to a porn star who slammed their Honda into a motorcyclist, killing him.”
retard by association?
I thought that was Jerry Nadler.
Well, since cis white men will only vote for one of their own I guess the two Republicans benefit most.
The media is helping the democrats narrow the field. The incredible takeaway is that they all knew the guy was a scumbag, and anyone in the media could have at any point made a name for themselves exposing the creep. Instead they protected him until orders came down telling them that since he wouldn’t bow out when asked, they could destroy him.
That Swalwell is a scumbag is not the story. I doubt there is a democrat pol that is not a scumbag and evil (and plenty of republicans too), but the media is willing to protect them at any cost until it no longer is convenient. And they do this while having no shame making up shit to hurt the political enemies of democrats.
The lesson here is that we do not hate the media enough.
This is the same thing they did to Biden. They told us he was sharp as a tack, doing cartwheels behind closed doors, nobody could keep up with him. Until it was clear he couldn’t win.
It amazes me that any voter thinks the Dems care about them. If they’ll throw these anointed ones under the bus at any time, do you think they give a shit about Joe Smith from Arkansas?
“Lefty billionaire Stephen Cloobeck dramatically cut ties with Eric Swalwell and revealed he has kicked him out of his mansion — hours before the congressman dropped his run for California governor.
“I am no longer supporting Eric,” Cloobeck told The Post in an exclusive interview. “F—ing tell everyone I’m a libertarian. F— you, Democrat Party. I’m a libertarian now.”
LOL
It would be funny if he threw a hundred million at the LP.
I wonder exactly what the proportion of the LP would be opportunistic grifters then? I assume there are still some actual libertarians in that party currently.
“US Court Strikes Down 158-Year-Old Home Distilling Ban”
What about my meth lab?
Is that distillation?
More like titration…
I think it’s Q who’s into titration.
*guffaws, slaps knee*
When’s the appeal? What happens to people outside that geographic area if there is none?
More for the rest of us to drink?
Distilling ruling adjacent question: Why do people on the Moonshiners show still go out in the middle of the woods to make Moonshine? It’s fucking legal where they distill it.
Because it’s for the show. The viewers expect the shiners to be out in the back woods. They give what the viewers want.
In case the stills explode?
I thought stills nashed.
I find a Hungarian with the surname of “Magyar” sounds fictional.
Funny how Orban was so tied to Trump, considering he preceded him into office. 16 years is a pretty long run.
A lot of Poles named Polak, Slovaks named Slovak, Czechs named Cech, and English named English. On the other hand I’ve never met someone named Oesterreicher.
Sports news – after winning the Masters last year to complete the career slam, McIlroy joins another rare club – back to back winners. Also, Spurs get comfortable in relegation spot after listless loss at Sunderland.
Which reminds me…
What is the difference between a golf ball and a BMW?
,,,,,,
Well, Tiger drives the hell out of a golf ball…
I thought it was that the turn signals on the golf ball use less power.
Will Bayern screw it up on Wednesday?
It is strange that we’ve spent decades guaranteeing freedom of navigation, and now we do the opposite.
We’re due for some blockades. I propose we blockade China.
Not strange at all…
We’re not allowed to actually try to win a war.
That’s kind of the point of naval power. Trade happens by your leave.
Naval power or piracy?
JI, JI, JI, The difference is in the paperwork.
Who’s starting the privateer group?
Blockading a hostile nation that is already interfering with a sea lane is piracy?
More to the latter point of your comment (((Jar.
See, I find it strange that we weren’t blockading Iranian ports since Day One. We are allowing any ship not going to or leaving an Iranian port to pass through Hormuz.
The freedom of navigation thing has more to do with opening Hormuz, which we didn’t block off, and the Iranian blockade is intended to accomplish.
“See, I find it strange that we weren’t blockading Iranian ports since Day One. We are allowing any ship not going to or leaving an Iranian port to pass through Hormuz.”
So much this…
Nono, see, when Iran does it it’s justified response to aggression. When the US does it, it’s a war crime.
It’s not really a blockade. We’ll be tracking ships out of Hormuz. When they get well out to sea, they’ll intercept and seize ships. (On what authority is a good question).
India has already been escorting tankers with their warships and they don’t really need to go onto the open seas to get to Indian territorial waters. Will we attacking Indian ships in their backyard?
What happens when China escorts their tankers with their navy?
“What happens when China escorts their tankers with their navy?”
It will make them decide the cost is too high, both financially and politically, and they will put pressure on their client state to tone their shit down?
Maybe. We’ll see how stupid this can get. We going to attack Chinese ships in Indian territorial waters?
Honestly, I wonder who the people that can always and only see the bad side of anything related to Trump want to prevail in this struggle? Some can’t even hide the fact they are rooting for Iran’s mullahs because they don’t want a Trump win or they hate the Jews so much. Shit, I can’t find it right now, but some asshat admitted on CNN he would rather the US lose this contest because he would hate for Trump to get a win.
My take on this is that China will NOT escort any tankers at all. Xi is too busy killing his opponents, members of the CCP scientific community that lied about their stealth detection/stealth tech as proven how quick and easy Iran lost all that gear, and his trop military commanders at home, and has so destabilized everything, that he can’t trust his military at this point. It is far more likely that he tell Iran’s third rate madmen to play ball (even if he claims it is for now) so he can avoid more trouble at home.
Focus a bit more on how we kick Iran’s evil regime out and less on how you can help them, I say.
Is there a good side?
At best, the blockade works so Iran just shuts down the strait completely and the world economy loses 20% of its energy supply.
“The documents declassified by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard at the request of Just the News provide a starkly different portrait of the alleged whistleblower whose name and face were never shown to the public and whose lawyerly written letter accusing Trump of hijacking Ukraine policy for political gain was heralded by Democrats to launch impeachment proceedings.”
I remember when you could get kicked off YouTube for saying his name. Probably still true.
They need to make sure you don’t hear about things they don’t want you to know, cause it makes them look bad?
“A young mother had her face torn apart by her rescue pit bull after she suffered a seizure and passed out on her kitchen floor, harrowing images show.
Karma Davis, 25, of Peoria, Illinois, suffered an epileptic attack on March 2 that left her unconscious and at the mercy of her family’s pit bull, Fayzo….
Fayzo, who the family had for four years, was taken away by animal control and euthanized following the attack.”
https://nypost.com/2026/04/12/us-news/illinois-mom-gets-face-ripped-apart-by-rescue-dog-after-suffering-seizure/
yikes!
[ Marie Prevost has entered the chat ]
The victim’s given name, oh man…
I should maybe note that I do not currently know anything about Ms. Davis to suggest that she deserved this. I think that I may have sounded like an asshole.
Again.
Good morning everyone!
Shooting season is underway here, and for whatever reason the good shooters didn’t show up to either match yesterday, with the net result that I had ridiculously high finishes, including a stage win.
Swimming between ponds like I do is good at both keeping me humble and not making me despair.
Both congrats at the performance, and sorry about it being because your biggest challengers were absent.
It offsets my bottom decile placement at Nats.
I had what I (still) believe to be the absolutely, mathematical optimal stage plan on one of the stages on Saturday, and I came in 2nd by 0.6s because the sub-optimal plan guy is just that much more of an athlete/gunslinger than I am.
The strangest thing was the Steel Challenge match. I know there must be some way of divining a shooters’ skills/shortcomings by how they shoot the various stages but I shot “Speed Option” faster than “Roundabout” when the latter is objectively a faster stage, and I’ve done this before. I’m guessing it’s something about the time it takes to get my eyes and hands synched up between transitions and misses. I was down to 1.3 shots/hit this match but it’s the first of the season.
Sometimes it is better to be lucky than good.
Congrats!
I always do well on multi-day local matches because there are very few of us that bother showing up all the days.
Today’s Mammary Monday is sponsored by Eric Swalwell’s former staffers.
https://archive.is/HyHNX
“The traditional method of boiling lobsters alive causes extreme pain and should be immediately banned under UK law, according to a study.
Scientists have discovered that Norway lobsters – the main ingredient in scampi – can experience pain in a way similar to humans and other mammals.
The researchers found that common painkillers, lidocaine and aspirin, reduce the crustaceans’ reactions to harmful electric shocks.
According to the authors, this suggests that lobsters really are feeling pain when they get hurt, rather than simply following mechanical reflexes.
Boiling the animals alive is already illegal in Norway, New Zealand, Austria and several Australian states.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-15728133/Scientists-call-BAN-boiling-lobsters.html
OFFS!!
Won’t be long before lobsters are banned in the UK entirely. Seeing as they are haram.
Soon you will only be allowed to boil infidels..
Fine, I’ll stick a knife in its head first.
That was the CIA method.
*crunch* – *dead*
PS, lobster shells are sharper than you’d think.
I am painfully aware of how sharp they can be.
Some shell stuck right under your fingernail is… bracing.
😫
I only cut a finger while opening tails.
Now I’m wondering:
How likely are you to actually hit the brain by stabbing a lobster in the head center-ish? From my biology class, those invertebrate brains are tiny
Even if you do cleave a lobster brain, does that actually interfere with its functioning or sensing? ISTR that the less developed the nervous system is, the more decentralized its functioning.
“That was the CIA method.”
Because of lobster espionage?
If you hit between the eyes, you’ll get the brain
How effective it is at pain-numbing, I have no clue. It’s a sea bug we’re about to cook.
If I told you, i’d have to bake you.
Lobsters don’t have brains, just a bunch of ganglia.
If you hold them upside down, they pass out. Then you put them in the water, which kills them instantly.
There have been a few stories recently about family members of Iranian regime honchos getting deported. These serve to prove yet another conspiracy theory that most people have forgotten – that Obama didn’t just send pallets of cash to Iran, he also gave members of the regime green cards for their families.
Obama’s obsession with Iran is one thing that continues to puzzle me to this day.
Non Arab Muslim wanting to support Islam but tired of Arab supremacy?
And the media will go out of their way to hide yet another revelation of how much evil the Obama admin did, cause Obama’s legacy needs to remain scandal free so the left has their black Jesus…
Can webdom or someone do something about all the captcha? It’s getting way out of hand.
🤖
I don’t get hit with Captcha, but then I am a mere human.
What captcha?
(Seriously, I don’t see one.)
#meneither
I only get a check when connected via VPN
I only get a box to check to “prove that your human” once in a blue moon.
Please be more specific about the circumstances and frequency where you experience the captcha.
It often happens when posting a comment or logging onto the site.
I also get many 405 errors.
Common Tater:
With a VPN, correct? Odds are it’s something on the VPN side that’s triggering the checks.
“Odds are it’s something on the VPN side that’s triggering the checks.”
This is something recent, and since I haven’t changed anything, it’s on the server not client side.
We changed hosting providers and (maybe?) added a CDN; VPNs exit IPs will often trigger anti-bot defenses and that is almost certainly what you’re seeing (it’s what I see when I leave my VPN running).
Short of disabling your VPN, you can try different VPN end-points – they may not have a definitive list.
I don’t see captcha either, and I was the one bitching about getting logged out a whole bunch on an ipad.
You get captcha? On Glibs?
Yes, and it’s very annoying.
Very rarely – and for me only on mobile.
Usually a question like 2 +3 =?
I’m getting select cars, bridges, traffic lights, etc.
Man who should be in prison writes op-ed.
lolwut
Same people who spent four years lying about Biden’s cognitive decline.
And then decided it was cool to let him finish out the term even though it was clear he wasn’t all there.
What do you know, Swalwell isn’t the only dumbshit in Congress!
I think we all knew there are ~530 dumbshits in Congress.
Kick them all out and fold up shop till the next term.
“Kick them all out and fold up shop till the next term.”
En masse sans Massie, maybe? 😉
The bad news is that if more than a third are being tried there will not be enough votes left to kick them out
“Lauren Sanchez Bezos, 56, says she’d have a baby ‘tomorrow’ with husband Jeff Bezos.
She made the surprising admission during a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times that was published on Sunday.
‘I would have a baby tomorrow,’ she declared. Her spokeswoman later had to phone the newspaper to confirm she is not pregnant.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/lifestyle/article-15727221/Lauren-Sanchez-Jeff-Bezos-happier-life-baby.html
Can you hit menopause while pregnant?
A baby would guarantee future cash flow for 9 months of work. After that, the brat is handed off to the staff to care for.
Maybe she is taking a pause from menopause?
One of the worst-written headlines I’ve seen in a while.
https://nypost.com/2026/04/12/us-news/eric-swalwells-billionaire-backer-stephen-cloobeck-engaged-to-penthouse-pet-who-married-porn-star/
“A Texas TikToker who used her self-professed ‘psychic abilities’ to falsely claim a University of Idaho professor orchestrated the murders of four students in 2022 made a desperate appeal in court after being ordered to pay $10million in damages for defamation.
Ashley Guillard, 41, of Houston, filed a notice of appeal on April 6 in the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals, according to the Seattle Times.
Guillard represented herself at a four-day trial in February in the civil defamation case brought against her by 40-year-old University of Idaho professor Rebecca Scofield.
The ‘psychic’ published more than 100 videos framing Scofield as the culprit directly after the murders. The murders were actually committed by Bryan Kohberger.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15726519/psychic-tiktoker-idaho-professor-defamation.html
Lots of tarded here, but if Temu Candy-O is claiming it’s because she’s a psychic, is it defamation?
She wasn’t able to defend with “My predictions were only one possible outcome. How people reacted changed the outcome.” or “They were for entertainment purposes only.”
Doesn’t defamation rest on two things? That it’s deliberately false, and that there is intent to cause harm? Honest opinion — no matter how kooky — isn’t either of those things.
To be fair,doesn’t everyone know this psychic stuff is BS?
More gunsport commentary:
USPSA/IPSC is unique as far as I know in that its formal ranking system is competitive. The people that shoot the best are the grandmasters and everyone else is ranked in comparison to how they did. NRA, National Match, IDPA (and now GPA) instead have an more-or-less-arbitrary “par time” or “points” system were anyone that puts up X points in bullseye is Y rank or people that shoot a classifier so fast are classed suchly, regardless of how many people there are involved.
This leads to some hilarious disparities between systems.
NRA: (square range, accuracy but with time limits, some pistol manipulation skills) I’m a Distinguished Expert (highest rank).
GPA: (points down, par time) Gold class (2nd highest)
USPSA: (hit factor, competitive based on the pool of active competitors) – C class (second lowest)
One of these games is not like the others…
Grade inflation is a thing….
“Euphoria season 3 premiere SLAMMED as ‘humiliation ritual’ with horrified fans blasting ‘nasty’ Zendaya and Sydney Sweeney scenes”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tv/article-15727497/euphoria-season-three-slammed-fans-nasty-zendaya-sydney-sweeney-scenes.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15712043/Euphoria-toxic-nudity-scandals-feuds-walkouts.html
Toxic nudity is more a Hilary Clinton thing than Sydney Sweeny IMO.
Sydney Sweeny in puppy play gear is much nicer to look than the stereotypical player.
An HBO show criticized for excessive unnecessary and graphic nudity? That’s a first.
Hear me out — what if we made a show about a Westworld park based on Game of Thrones?
Depends – who’s writing it?
Isn’t that a Cinemax exclusive?
Skinamax?
“Now, 10 years later, the Democratic Party is running headlong from LGBTQ+ issues, and by extension one of its few, remaining reliable voter bases, on the word of opinion polls that include many people who would never vote for a Democrat anyway. With their head down in spreadsheets and presentations — which they invariably call “decks” — the party is missing that folding on moral issues makes a candidate untrustworthy and their party unlikable.”
https://www.salon.com/2026/04/13/the-solution-to-creeping-technofacism-be-annoying/
“The problem is relatively new, but the solution is very, very old. It’s the same answer trotted out by acolytes of the entirely-made-up Ned Ludd. It’s acted out on robotaxis, brought to halt by activists using strategically placed cones. We see it from every protester who has ever gone limp in the arms of state-sanctioned goons. The very messy humanity that these technical solutions seek to eradicate often become the best way to fight back against creeping technofascism. Become a real nuisance and tech boosters will eventually give up, handing the future back to the pestering, teeming masses.”
handing the future back to the pestering, teeming masses
The AI that wrote that got confused. The future is going to backhand the pestering, teeming masses.
Moral issues? Now that is an interesting perspective to claim relevance on.
“And it’s especially silly to imagine that young American women want to leave the workplace and enter traditional marriages where the wife is financially dependent on her husband.”
https://www.salon.com/2026/04/13/gen-z-women-dont-long-to-be-tradwives/
Inconceivable!
Her other writings on this topic is comedic gold.
I’m not sure there is a significant segment that do, but I do see a bit of a strain amongst my kids’ generation to going a more traditional route, to not be as trashy as Gen Y, and to looking for things that are rooted in tradition. Their lives are surrounded by short, ephemeral shit on demand and they seek something with more substance. I certainly see it at church, where Gen Z is starting to show up and not just be in attendance but actively participate and volunteer.
Of course, this is also at odds with the wild popularity that Tik Tok and its ilk have amongst Gen-Z. Like all of us, they are hypocrites. But my point stands that I see their desire for something that’s not ephemeral.
Small sample size of course, but there has always been a big difference between my youngest (21) and the older two (25 and 28). The older ones have a terrible work ethic. We had to force them to get their drivers license. Meanwhile the youngest couldn’t wait to get her license, and she’s a real go-getter.
I was late getting my License because I hadn’t worked out the finances of the insurance side of things until I had a steady job. I dealt with the bus for work until I had it sorted.
I saw a chart on X over the weekend, showing the birth rate for liberal women at half or less than conservative women. It seems that all the abortion on demand and calls to hedonism actually worked, a bit TOO well.
If the border remains closed, you’re going to see a Amanda do a 180 and go on about how it’s a lefty’s duty to produce more lefty kids.
I like the unverified statement that Gen Z is not religious. Maybe the pollsters never left liberal enclaves. I never saw so many conservative, religious kids. Now that is towards the end of Gen Z, around 2010-onwards. Maybe that group needs to be reclassified.
No, the left won’t reproduce more, they’ll just tighten their controls on public education – to convert the little conservative heathens to the True Religion.
The irony being they are following the playbook of St. Ignatius Loyola.
Marriage sucks and kids are such a bother and icky too.
“Marriage sucks” with any kind of luck
Should we just take the win?
On the other hand, growing evidence, including a study last month in the Journal of the American Medical Association, suggests that eating more meat—particularly unprocessed red meat—can reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s in the quarter or so of people with a particular genetic predisposition.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/studies-suggest-red-meat-may-help-prevent-alzheimers-4f4b47f8?st=mB2YZN&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Eat more steak.
Oops!…I Did It Again
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgw8dy08m9o
Another normal Saturday morning in NYC.
https://nypost.com/2026/04/11/us-news/nyc-cops-shoot-machete-wielding-stabber-at-grand-central-station-halting-weekend-trains/
Good. No worries about whether to stick him in a hospital or in pris.
“Gamergate brought together the disparate strands of what we now call the manosphere: the grifting pickup-artists, the Christian nationalists, the bitter “incels” and the furious fans triggered into mass social vandalism whenever they heard a story they weren’t the hero of. This slurry of half-formed fixations congealed into a coherent ideology of aggrieved entitlement, with its own language – “escaping the matrix”, “taking the red pill” – and their own logic of heroic victimhood in the face of women’s sexual power. The rage and alienation of men abandoned by post-crash capitalism was channelled towards a common cause – one ripe for co-option by the worst possible actors.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/13/gamergate-andrew-tate-manosphere-feminists
Everything is still gamergate.
Men are literally the worst. We have been telling them this for so long but will they ever listen.
Ever since gamergate moved Trigglypuff’s stairs muffin, they’ve taken over the High Seat of the Illuminati from the Freemasons.
Did anyone ever do a balanced writeup of gamergate? I still don’t get it, and I do not believe narratives from mostly left-wing magazines. The motivation always seems missing.
When you work for a gaming publication, assholes exposing a chick for trading sex for good reviews interfere with your only hope of sex. This makes you mad.
Everyone who wrote it up would claim to have the balanced view.
My understanding is that it was a boilover of the animosity the gaming journalists had for games and gamers. The straw that broke the dam was the failure to disclose a relationship between a journalist and the creator of a “game” he reviewed. (It was a piece of crap so forgettable I forgot the details of the work). It turned into another flashpoint in the culture war. It ended with most of the rags going out of business and/or retructuring to walkthroughs rather than reviews because it turns out nobody wants to visit a site that actively hates them and their hobby.
(It was a piece of crap so forgettable I forgot the details of the work)
Depression Quest
Thank you.
Now I remember. My assessment was still accurate.
I would somewhat disagree with what UCS said, in that while the DQ/Five Guys /Zoepost might have preceded the kerfuffle in time, similar nonsense had been going on for years.
What made gamergate happen instead of those other instances was that reddit/somethingawful/tumblr/etc mods decided that THIS time they were not going to permit such misogynistic gossip on their forums. The resulting forest of nuked post spawned its own drama, and in response to that that suspiciously coordinated bit of censorship all of the supposedly independent games media came out with their remarkably similar “gamers are dead” articles at the same time.
Oh, and the censorship/political control of Wikipedia was also hot at the time, with a complete lunatic named “ryulong” (i.e. “dragondragon”) writing up the “gamergate”article as it was happening and getting dissenting editors banned.
Another NPR tearjerker, this time about the impending collapse of higher education
Still, after two and a half decades in which the price of tuition has increased faster than inflation, for a payoff many consumers no longer think is worth the money, higher education often gets little sympathy for its predicament — and even less after years of political and culture war attacks on the ideological leanings of faculty and leadership.
“Free market wins!” quipped one commenter on social media, in response to Sterling College’s announcement that it would close. “They woked themselves right out of business,” wrote another. Added a third: “Now where will they teach all the 20 year olds to protest and whine?”
Among its students, however, Sterling elicits something increasingly rare among higher education institutions: gratitude.
“I’m so glad I got to spend at least a year here,” said first-year student Jack Beatson. “Just feeling like you’re really part of something, and other people depend on you — that’s very important to young people especially, and today especially.”
Starring Sterling College, some sort of “agricultural college” in Vermont which will close in May. In theory, a potentially productive area of study. From the paltry descriptions of courses, it sounds like an academy for the gentleman/lady hobby farmer. I wonder if they have a class on breeding Olympic jumping horses.
Of course, NPR has nothing to say about curriculum n the global sense, or the utility thereof. These schools are all victims of circumstance and MAGA anti-intellectualism.
Anti-intellectualism is what got colleges in hot water with everyone but the anti-intellectuals who run those joints.
Positively cheap by NJ standards! MA has some catching up to do.
If the $11 million option passes, owners of an average home valued at $417,000 would see their property tax bill rise from $5,640 to $8,477, likely over five years, the town says. If neither passes, that same bill would reach $6,472 in that span. That doesn’t account for changes in property assessments, which have been going up.
They may have to cut sports and advanced placement classes. But the public work pensions will likely remain unchanged, right?
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/a-50-property-tax-hike-proposal-is-tearing-this-massachusetts-town-apart-dc1f66ca?st=xpPHgV&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
How much has the non-classroom staff bloated?
Residents of a St. Louis suburb turned out in droves to unseat four incumbents just days after the council approved a development agreement for a $6 billion data center.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/13/missouri-city-council-data-center-00867259
I’ve no idea if this was good or bad, but I’m loving that failing to listen to constituents had a cost. In my town we succumbed to Team Blue leadership about a decade ago. Team Red finally won again with some Team (((Blue))) who had enough of making everything about national and international politics and turning Red.
They also ran on the platform of making elections non-partisan for the town. It looks like that referendum is likely to pass along with a reorganization to the type of town government.
“Governments desperate for cash to protect their citizens from the growing impacts of the climate crisis are being put in a “beyond absurd” situation this week at global finance talks: they are being urged not to mention the climate, even as they address the current oil crisis…
That would be disastrous for the developing world, experts said. “It is beyond absurd that, in the middle of an escalating oil crisis, a World Bank meeting could sideline talk of climate change,” said Mohamed Adow, the director of the Power Shift Africa thinktank.
“Fossil fuels and the climate emergency are inextricably linked. This moment is a huge opportunity to accelerate the shift away from fossil-fuel dependence, with potentially historic benefits for the world. It will be a tragedy if politicians fail to do so.””
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/13/dont-mention-the-climate-trump-creates-beyond-absurd-situation-at-global-finance-talks
Power Shift Africa sounds like the transmission in a suped up Ford Zephyr.
Is it “soup” or “supe”? I thought it was short for “super charger”, but I keep seeing “soup”.
Supped? Sooped? Suuped?
Fossil fuels and the climate emergency human progress are inextricably linked.
Fixed it for them.
“A viral coffee drink created by a little college town coffee shop on the outskirts of Minneapolis is now making its way around the world after its inventors decided to give the recipe away for free.
After Little Joy Coffee’s raspberry danish latte, a spring seasonal drink, went viral in March, the shop’s owners decided to encourage coffee shops to rip off the recipe directly and add it to their menus….
Little Joy Coffee’s raspberry danish latte costs $8 and is made up of a house-made raspberry syrup sitting at the bottom, followed by milk and a double shot of espresso. A vanilla cream cheese foam floats at the top, completed with two raspberries on a skewer.”
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2026/apr/13/raspberry-danish-latte-viral-coffee-drink
When were done with Iran, can we bomb Minneapolis?
Only if it’s nuclear, and hits St Paul too
Wait until OMWC starts offering this.
Plutocrat class
Delta Air Lines on Monday unveiled an updated Delta One suite for some of its longest-haul planes, marking its first refresh of the top-tier seat in a decade as airline competition for well-heeled travelers ramps up.
The new suites, which Delta said will debut on its Airbus A350-1000 aircraft in 2027, will include beds that are three inches longer than the older suites and a new pillow-top cushion. The new design will give travelers more leg and knee room, said Mauricio Parise, Delta’s vice president of brand experience.
Will there be geishas?
Does Winston’s Mom count?
So more reason for people to travel in their pajamas?
Geishas would be horning in on JAL’s territory.
I assume an Atlanta-based airline would have bottle girls.
Speaking of misogynistic gossip, what’s the story on hany panky between the New England coach and some female sports writer?
I haven’t seen much beyond the original story / pics of them holding hands.
Don’t really care, tbh. Their spouses might, but I don’t
https://www.theguardian.com/music/gallery/2026/apr/13/coachella-2026-image-gallery-photos-in-pictures
Never heard of 95% of these people.
Those wily Chinamen
Now Chinese industry giants like vehicle-maker BYD and battery-producer CATL are well-positioned to capitalize on growing interest in low-emissions energy products as the world confronts the fragility of fossil fuels.
“China’s approach to energy sector development and geopolitics has been completely validated by the Iran conflict,” said Sam Reynolds with the U.S.-based Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis.
Left us in their dust, they have.
BYD – the company whose cards famously catch fire and fail in many other ways?
Oh, and what “growing interest” market indicators are a lack of interest.