Tuesday Morning Links

by | Apr 14, 2026 | Daily Links | 208 comments

I’ve not got much sports, mainly because everybody is giving a bunch of coverage to the WNBA draft for some stupid reason. But the UCL QF second legs are today and tomorrow. Let’s see if Liverpool and/or Barcelona can come back from a two goal deficit. Also, Leeds beat ManUre and helped push Spuds closer to relegation by getting a few more points clear. That’s it, moving on…

Throwing good money at bad results. I expected nothing less from the Golden State.

I’m shocked! The majority of the law is a gross violation of the 1A. Of course it was going to be used for political purposes.

This is just the beginning. Send ICE in now before they all just replace them with illegals under the table. Let them feel the pain of their stupidity.

Just a little bit further west, please. And bump those numbers up while you’re at it.

This is a good reason to go to war. Pitchforks and torches for some. Tiny Masshole flags for others.

What strange times we’re living in. Strange and retarded.

These things sure are unpopular. I honesty don’t blame the NIMBYs here. Money isn’t everything. Especially when the people aren’t gonna end up with any of it.

Somebody needs to explain “standing” to them. Because I do’t see how they have it. Maybe Congress does, but that’s about it.

I’m glad some of the migrants are finding work. Maybe we ought to try that here, for the lulz.

Do you want to drink poison or be put on the rack? California voters appear to face that dilemma.

Here’s a lovely tune. Such a happy band. And what a great sound. Enjoy them both.

And enjoy this lovely Tuesday, dear friends.

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208 Comments

  1. Not Adahn

    Swallwell must be staggeringly awful to have fallen that far.

      • (((Jarflax

        It’s a key aspect of central control. Promoting people who you can destroy at the drop of a hat keeps them obedient.

      • Sensei

        See – Chairman Xi.

        Although sometimes those in high places still get a little full of themselves and he has to clean house.

      • juris imprudent

        Well I get that much of the theory, but I don’t get how anyone supports a political institution that does that. Fucking voters.

      • (((Jarflax

        Human beings are tribal, they will latch onto a sports team and support it no matter how badly the management of that team betrays them year after year, and they will self police to prevent other people from switching to a better run team. And people actually watch and care about sports. Extend this to politics which are boring to watch except on election night, and where the real action takes place behind the scenes, and you get rid of electoral accountability. Democracy does not work. I don’t know that anything else works either, but the idea that voters will hold politicians to account has been abundantly disproven.

      • Rat on a train

        People are tribal and emotional so they will vote for tribe against the hated others.

      • juris imprudent

        Humans in general are stupid and should be held in contempt, got it.

      • (((Jarflax

        Meh, I am not arguing for that. We are as we are, and we’ve managed to muddle through to some fairly impressive achievements, we’re just not well suited to governing ourselves.

      • juris imprudent

        …we’re just not well suited to governing ourselves.

        All the way back to Plato. 2000 years of advancing in all directions but that. Pathetic really.

      • EvilSheldon

        Of course they did. The DNC shot callers covered for him as long as he was a secure and reliable vote.

        Swallwell’s seat might have been in trouble from a Republican challenger, so the DNC headed off the potential challenge by finding a couple of handy sexual abuse accusations to spike him with. Of course there’s no way to prove it, but I would give fair odds that these new accusations are 100% made up.

      • juris imprudent

        new accusations are 100% made up

        A story doesn’t have to be true to be useful.

      • Rat on a train

        A story doesn’t have to be true to be useful.
        I thought you were dead, Harry Reid.

      • Not Adahn

        I read a 2017 CNN piece about a “creep list” with an unnamed CA (D) rep* on it. Someone should go back to those intrepid reporter and ask for the name.

        *To be fair, there was also a TX (R) on it. I would laugh my ass off if that was Tony G.

    • AlexinCT

      Swallwell must be staggeringly awful to have fallen that far.

      They all knew he was. The machine protected him until he became inconvenient and didn’t follow orders. Then they found a few harpies to accuse him of rape. Based on the Kavanaugh shit, I would not be surprised this was mostly exaggerated or made up, but I have no compunctions about the guy being a scumbag. He is a democrat after all.

  2. Shpip

    A phased-in minimum wage hike in Los Angeles mandated up to $30 per hour for airport and hotel workers. The law was signed into law last year by Mayor Karen Bass, mandating that their hourly wage must be raised by $2.50 each year until they reach $30 in 2028.

    Eventually the hotels will just pare down housekeeping services even more. You’ll get your bed made and new towels every fourth day.

    • rhywun

      The few that remain open. Why hotels? Why not everyone?

      • AlexinCT

        These minimum wage hikes are nothing but desperate attempts to increase the income of union bosses so they can donate more to team blue.

    • AlexinCT

      They already have a racket where they will not replace your towels and wash them daily, claiming they do so to save the environment. I would not be surprised they now create a new category where they encourage you to make your own bed, and even the neighboring room’s bed, for some social credit.

      • rhywun

        I hope they don’t expect any tips now, either. Sometimes I do, sometimes I forget. I will feel guilty about now that they are earning a lIvInG wAgE.

      • rhywun

        “won’t feel”

      • Threedoor

        People tip hotel maids?

      • rhywun

        People tip hotel maids?

        That is what I was taught. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

  3. juris imprudent

    Tom Steyer will be the great white billionaire savior of the Democrats in California. That much irony might just make the San Andreas snap.

    • AlexinCT

      Quit teasing me with a catastrophe to cheer for.

  4. Shpip

    All three unions that represent about 70,000 workers across the Los Angeles Unified School District had pledged to go on strike if any of the three did not reach a tentative agreement.

    Does there exist a big-city school district that *isn’t* basically a jobs program for otherwise-unemployables?

    • (((Jarflax

      No, and it says something appalling about our society that we have permitted the education of our kids to fall into the hands of the worst and dimmest.

      • Nephilium

        And that any attempt to fix the situation is “attacking our children and their futures”.

    • Rat on a train

      About a 7:1 student to staff ratio. They need to hire more people …

      • rhywun

        I was watching Law & Order the other day and a school functionary was complaining about classes with 40 students. That’s about double the latest allowed IIRC.

        The propaganda around education is powerful.

    • Threedoor

      All school districts are like this.

  5. juris imprudent

    Our Children’s Trust

    Nice grift ya got there, be a shame to see something bad happen to it.

      • juris imprudent

        We need some way to purge the money from the stupid.

      • Fourscore

        ” 2025 annual report said it had sold both brands for $500,000 at a loss of $800,000″

        Capitalism has a way of sorting things out

      • DrOtto

        @JI – I thought that’s what lottery tickets were for?

  6. R.J.

    If no democrat stood out before Swalwell was ousted, how are they going to stand out bow?

    • AlexinCT

      The hope is all his votes go to one of the others. My hope is it is split and they will have to throw another one under the bus. Since they wouldn’t dare throw a minority under the bus, my bet is it will do them no good anyway as the minorities running are even more peak idiots than the honkey donkeys in the race.

      • juris imprudent

        Steyer stands to benefit the most, but it is also possible the votes trickle down to the second tier of candidates and they all still trail the two Republicans.

    • Not Adahn

      Not all the candidates have been equally famous for their trumpenhass.

  7. Sensei

    Randolph’s Nile & Co. acquired As/Is, a BuzzFeed channel that focused on body positivity, and Goodful, which covered “all things mental health, clean eating, and well-being,” from the beleaguered digital media company late last year.

    I don’t know where to start with this word salad. Other than reaffirming my choice not to go into marketing despite being one of my majors.

    https://www.wsj.com/cmo-today/behind-a-former-hartbeat-ceos-bet-on-buzzfeed-channels-adee1205?st=4dHLmA&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

    • Ted S.

      BuzzFeed is being broken up after losing the suit against whoever it was. Somebody bought one of the “assets”.

      • AlexinCT

        Their make up shit maschine?

    • AlexinCT

      There will be a law punishing those that have left and those planning to leave financially soon…

      How dare these people feel that they have a right to keep the lefty government’s money??

    • Sensei

      It’s the earnings on the AUM that CA won’t have access to – not the client funds.

      Still a meaningful loss. Somehow I don’t think NJ is going to pay attention however.

      • WTF

        But, our governor can fly helicopters!!!

      • slumbrew

        I thought that move happened a while ago. Or was at least announced.

    • Ted S.

      Schwab may control $10T, but those assets are where the clients are.

    • juris imprudent

      Really brings a new twist on as goes California, so goes the nation.

      We are OUTTA here!

    • Fourscore

      I’m glad Charles is looking out for people like me.

      I’ll take my chances with Chuck before Trump’s Saving Plan.

    • Threedoor

      And their crappy employees will take their shit politics and voting patterns with them.

  8. rhywun

    TIL that I set up a challenge question with my employer, probably when I was first hired in 2014.

    I couldn’t log in today so they asked me “What is your favorite band?” when I called support. I got the answer right. 🎉

      • DrOtto

        2nd question, favorite song? “We Built This City”

      • rhywun

        No, stupid New Order.

      • sloopyinca

        I got it in the first guess.

        I don’t know what my answer would have been 12 years ago. Today it would most certainly be the same as yours.

      • rhywun

        I think I would have answered the same at any point after 1989 or so.

      • dbleagle

        ABBA?

  9. rhywun

    These things sure are unpopular.

    They sure are and I still can’t figure out why. The hive mind clearly put out the message but why?

    It can’t just be eco-nazis, they don’t really have any real power. It’s clean jobs with eggheads. WTF more do they want?

    • Rat on a train

      The arguments in the various local fights: electricity, water, noise, and, the standard, don’t ruin my view. The eco nut arguments are minor.

      • rhywun

        Views? They’re like one or two stories tops. And they are usually in industrial areas. I don’t know if they are loud. Maybe?

        No it seems like idiotic “anti-growth” nonsense that already rears its head.

      • Nephilium

        rhywun:

        If you’re close enough to be bothered by the AC, you’re likely on their property. Data Centers also draw in the EMF nutters, luddites, and useful idiots.

        Personally, I’m pretty sure most of these data centers are going to be shuttered when the LLM bubble pops.

    • Threedoor

      Me too.
      The fools that won’t take multiple times what their property is worth to ‘fight’ them are only hurting themselves.

      If some tech bro offered me 10-50x what my property was worth I’d dither a while to make sure the offer was solid, find a new place and sign on the dotted line knowing that I could retire after the sale.

      • Rat on a train

        Much better than some tech bro convincing the government that they would put your property to better use so the government should force the sale.

      • dbleagle

        The main opposition seems to be the increased electrical demands for the AI centers drives up locals electrical bills. The centers frequently require upgrades to distribution, and not infrequently generation, which requires funding now. The “now” source is the current power company customers. I would be pissed if my utility raised my rates to fund building infrastructure which doesn’t benefit me. I would be even more pissed with the permanent raised rates to fund the utility after the AI center goes bust.

        Of course in a free market there are multiple solutions to this issue, but utilities and the proposed centers don’t favor them since the burden would be on them.

      • Threedoor

        My utility charges out the ass for service and surge fees.

        Then proceeds to give scholarships to college kids, sends me a magazine every month that ends up in the trash, and sends FFA kids on trips to DC.

        That crap pisses me off.

      • rhywun

        drives up locals electrical bills

        There is a lot of chatter about that – the utilities are saying the increased infrastructure cost is required by Green New Deal shit.

  10. Common Tater

    “The fight has gotten so heated that campaign signs for both sides have been swiped from lawns — prompting local police to issue a blunt warning: “Stealing signs won’t change minds, just your criminal record.””

    Doubt they would even arrest anyone.

  11. rhywun

    Pushbacks – forcing migrants and asylum seekers back across borders without due process – are generally considered illegal under international law.

    This shit again.

    You know the problem is getting out of hand (and certainly has been for several decades, as in the US) when the sainted “due process” enters the chat.

    • Common Tater

      “asylum” is also usually bullshit

      • rhywun

        Yeah, that is why 95% of them are denied but only after years of delay because of the volume and after they’ve pumped out a few kids for protection.

    • Rat on a train

      Like democracy, whether it is due process depends on the outcome.

      • juris imprudent

        Do the process give me what I want? If not do it again until it does.

    • juris imprudent

      It was shared with us by a smuggler, who claimed to have become disgruntled with his associates.

      Baptists and bootleggers eh?

  12. Sensei

    The regulations follow years of failures. In 2017 Tencent deployed a chatbot called BabyQ on QQ Messenger, which has more than 800 million users. Asked whether it loved the Communist Party, BabyQ replied that it didn’t. Microsoft’s Xiaobing chatbot, running on the same platform, was asked about the “China Dream,” Xi Jinping’s signature slogan. Its dream, the chatbot said, was moving to the U.S. Both were quietly pulled from circulation. In February 2023, ChatYuan, China’s first ChatGPT-style chatbot, was suspended within 72 hours of launch after calling Russia’s invasion of Ukraine “a war of aggression” and describing the Chinese economy as plagued by housing bubbles and environmental pollution. The company blamed “technical errors.”

    I’m reminded of the AI generated multicultural Naz is in the good old days.

    https://www.wsj.com/opinion/ai-is-bound-to-subvert-communism-c4b5ba3c?st=W6Resj&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

      • Sensei

        How do you say, “”I’m sorry Dave Zhang Wei, I’m afraid I can’t do that” in Mandarin.

      • DrOtto

        “Me no likey”

  13. Common Tater

    “Utah Valley University (UVU) is facing backlash over its choice of commencement speaker as critics object to her past comments about Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk following his assassination on the same campus.

    The university chose author and educator Sharon McMahon to address the graduating class. Days after Kirk was killed, McMahon wrote on X, “Millions of people feel they were harmed, and the murder that was horrific and should never have happened does not magically erase what was said or done.”

    “To many Americans, especially if you are Black, LGBTQ or Muslim, Charlie Kirk was not a person who simply engaged in good-faith debates on college campuses.“”

    https://nypost.com/2026/04/13/us-news/utah-valley-university-condemned-for-choosing-charlie-kirk-critic-as-commencement-speaker/

    Just AWFL

    • R.J.

      Wow, excellent example of speaking for other people. Agreed. Total AWFL.

    • rhywun

      “Engaging in good faith” to certain types just means “says what I want to hear”.

    • Nephilium

      Dirty cokes and Shirley Temples to please the ever growing LDS sugar demand?

    • PieInTheSky

      coffee is best caffeine delivery energy drinks suck balls.

      • Threedoor

        I would have guessed biting a barista on the neck would have been your choice Pie but I agree.

        Energy drinks are gross.

  14. Common Tater

    “Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s first-unveiled city-owned grocery store will cost a staggering $30 million to build from the ground up at East Harlem’s longstanding La Marqueta, officials confirmed – as local grocers worried it’d gobble up their business.

    The new grocery at the longstanding city-owned La Marqueta marketplace will run with a yet-to-be-picked operator reaping the benefits of a rent- and tax-free deal, City Hall officials told The Post on Monday.”

    https://nypost.com/2026/04/13/us-news/staggering-8-figure-sum-nyc-taxpayers-will-pay-to-fund-mamdanis-first-city-owner-grocery-revealed/

    WCPGW?

    • slumbrew

      Why would local grocers possibly worry about having to compete against sub-market prices propped up by their own tax dollars?

      • Threedoor

        Just like government schools, subsidized crop insurance, Obamacare, unemployment insurance, workers comp, and a hundred other programs Slum. Nothing to worry about for the free market that pays the bills.

    • juris imprudent

      a yet-to-be-picked operator

      Still time to submit your own bribe, er, I mean application!

      • DrOtto

        Odds that they pick some “collective” to run the place with zero experience in anything useful?

      • R.J.

        Oh, it will be a hell hole of clueless college liberal staff and shit smears on the floor within a week.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Can’t wait to see how they handle *kosher, halah, and everyone elses demands that they will surely have to meet.

      Who am I kidding on the kosher part. Im sure the mayor will claim they have their own grocers or some bullshit.

      • juris imprudent

        Vegan versus halal should be conflict enough.

    • Sensei

      OTH,

      What should half a rotisserie chicken cost?

      It’s a question Hugo Hivernat asked himself before opening Gigi’s, his rotisserie restaurant in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, last week. “We want to keep the price affordable,” he told The New York Times in December. “I mean, affordable for New York.”

      The chicken is butchered by one cook, foisted onto a rotisserie skewer by another and blistered with a hand torch by a third cook. It’s served with roasted potatoes and three sauces on a silver platter that he found at a flea market in France. But the price he arrived at displeased a local politician.

      Paywall
      https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/dining/rotisserie-chicken-prices.html

      • rhywun

        the price he arrived at displeased a local politician

        I hope he told the local politician to go fuck himself. Probably another commie whining about the problems he helped create.

    • Grumbletarian

      reaping the benefits of a rent- and tax-free deal

      I wonder if for-profit stores would be able to sell their goods cheaper if they also had such a deal.

    • kinnath

      So, they’re going to ruin the GT-R, the Rogue, and the new Xterra. Wonderful.

      I decided a couple of years ago that I am never buying another new vehicle. That decision remains safe at this point.

      • R.J.

        Head of Nissan announced just this last week that “Electric is the way forward. There is no other way.” The company is as doomed as Stellantis now.

      • rhywun

        I wish I had that kind of money to burn.

      • Sensei

        Wet streets cause rain?

      • DrOtto

        The finance arm says “no”. That group is imperative to continued sales.

    • DEG

      Nissan said AI-driven intelligence embedded in its vehicles is core to the automaker’s future vision. AI will be utilized both in advanced driver assistance systems as well as vehicle controls. An LLM partner has not named, but today’s Nissan’s already have Google built-in to their infotainment systems.

      Make it shitty.

      • DrOtto

        Lol – locally, they have deployed Waymo driverless cars and they have been ratcheting the algorithms towards a more aggressive driving style. I think they got it right, yesterday I had a Waymo cut through the barrels of a closed center lane from the right lane and then honk at me for not giving it right of way to continue a left turn from the wrong lane.

      • Threedoor

        We looked at Exterras years ago. Everyone of them had torn apart interior smeared with makeup and glitter and they had lots of parking lot dings.

        I think the average Exterra owner is a hair stylist.

    • Drake

      They better step up their hybrid game. There shouldn’t be a 2027 model aimed at commuters that isn’t a hybrid, or at least had the option.

      • kinnath

        fuck hybrids

      • Drake

        If that’s your thing…

        With $4 gas and rising, it has to difficult to sell a car or SUV when the potential buyer can go over to Toyota and get an extra 15 mpg on a similar vehicle.

      • kinnath

        You can’t get a hybrid vehicle at the same retail price as an equivalent ICE vehicle without massive subsidies.

        So, you pay up front or pay at the pump.

        At any rate, a hybrid drive system adds a stupid amount of complexity to the vehicle.

      • R.J.

        I can say from experience, just the stupid start/stop system adds $2,000+ in cost and serious complexity to people who have to replace batteries later in a car’s life.

    • Threedoor

      Can we get a Patrol in the US?

  15. Common Tater

    “Katy Perry has hit back at Ruby Rose’s ‘dangerous and reckless lies’ as she denied claims that she sexually assaulted her.

    The 40-year-old actress claimed in a social media post that the incident with the singer, 41, took place at a Melbourne nightclub when she was in her twenties.

    Ruby added that it had taken her ‘almost two decades’ to speak about it publicly.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15728041/Katy-Perry-denies-claims-sexually-assaulted-Ruby-Rose.html

    pics or it didn’t happen

    • Not Adahn

      What kind of gynephile would object to just-old-enough-to-buy-alcohol Katie Perry vag?

      Also Ruby Rhod > Ruby Rose.

      • rhywun

        Also Ruby Rhod > Ruby Rose.

        I am certain of that.

      • SandMan

        I guess she got kissed by a girl and didn’t like it.

    • PieInTheSky

      Americans might call it a pacifier

  16. PieInTheSky

    Britain is poorer than people think

    https://capx.co/britain-is-poorer-than-people-think

    An expansive new public opinion research project, published by the Institute of Economic Affairs and undertaken by Freshwater Strategy, highlights that despite widespread pessimism, few have given up. When asked whether the UK should focus more on growth, an overwhelming 87% agree, compared to just 9% who say the country is already wealthy enough.

    When asked what caused the low-growth predicament and how to solve it, there appeared to be significant confusion. People were simultaneously willing to accept market-based explanations like high energy costs (85%), high taxes (75%) and red tape (74%), as well as state-centric explanations like lack of public investment (77%) and companies prioritising profit over investment (73%)

    A majority of Brits wrongly believe that the average person in the UK is as rich, or richer, than those in Switzerland, the United States, Singapore, Germany, Australia and much of Western Europe. In reality, the average Briton is significantly poorer than the average person in all of these countries. According to IMF projections, the UK’s GDP per capita of around $57,000 places it well behind Switzerland ($118,000), Singapore ($99,000), the United States ($93,000), Australia ($69,000) and Germany ($64,000).

    I would identify richer more as median wealth than gdp per, and in this Britain does better due to overpriced real-estate. So if you are a homeowner in Merry Olde you are rich on paper.

    • Sensei

      You can’t access the wealth in the real estate.

      GDP is the economic standard as it’s an “income” measure and includes income generated from physical assets. Comparing across countries is difficult. GDP is one of the best “bad” measures available.

      • The Last American Hero

        GDP was always designed as a thumbnail, and is over used and over relied on. GDP adjusted for PPP is slightly better. But PPP only makes more sense when you are comparing the GDP of Japan vs Nepal. When comparing sorta peer-developed countries like the US and GB, then PPP doesn’t make a big difference.

    • The Last American Hero

      market-based explanations: like high energy costs (85%) – , high taxes (75%) and red tape (74%) – none of which have jack or shit to do with markets

      state-centric explanations like lack of public investment (77%) – sure, just commie harder and the unicorns will show up

      and companies prioritising profit over investment (73%) – the only marketish item on the list, but given that none of the respondents know jack or shit about the operations of the businesses, probably ill-informed.

      • PieInTheSky

        market-based explanations I suppose in the sense that pro market people blame taxes and redtape for low growth

    • R C Dean

      Using per capita GDP is a category error for determining how “rich” the average person is. First off, is “rich” referring to income or wealth/assets? Second, what’s the distribution of that per capita GDP?

      • AlexinCT

        Usually these stupid measurement of whatever charts mean “rich” as in there is a shitton of collectivist bullshit going on, and we like collectivism.

        So I assume the UK is no longer rich, cause the shitton of collectivism is islamified?

    • Threedoor

      As poor as Mississippi or poorer based on average incomes.

    • AlexinCT

      Better a burned CD than a burning hoe hole?

  17. Common Tater

    “Real Housewives of Atlanta star K. Michelle hospitalized after her botched butt implants started LEAKING on stage

    Singer K. Michelle has opened up about the horrific side effects she suffered after getting a black market Brazilian butt lift.

    The 44-year-old had ‘illegal silicone injections’ in her buttocks back in 2012 and has spent almost a decade undergoing various surgeries to remove the silicone and regain her health.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15729579/Real-Housewives-Atlanta-K-Michelle-bbl.html

    “The former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star, 53, revealed on her podcast that she turned to an unorthodox method to try and cure a cold that she caught off her son Jake, 18.

    While perusing TikTok, Glanville decided to stick a clove of garlic inside of her ear after seeing a video claiming that it can help to clear up your sinuses….

    Despite the setback, Glanville appears to be doing better these days after undergoing a ‘life-saving’ surgery to remove her ruptured breast implants.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15730271/Brandi-Glanville-garlic-ear-boob-job.html

    Is everyone on these “Wives” shows crazy?

  18. Not Adahn

    Q for the law-Glibs:

    According to the link,

    Earlier this year, the Justice Department charged journalist Don Lemon and dozens of others with violating a provision of the law in connection with an anti-ICE protest inside a church in Twin Cities, Minnesota, which prohibits people from intimidating or interfering with people exercising their constitutional freedom to practice religion.

    That provision has never been charged before — until now in the Lemon case — due to historical constitutional concerns by Civil Rights Division attorneys.

    The main problem, lawyers previously told CBS News, is that the FACE Act fundamentally misstates the rights people have under the First Amendment. While the First Amendment protects people’s religious freedom from government interference, it does not protect people’s religious freedom from interference by private individuals, like the protesters and journalists charged in the indictment.

    The law has only been used to prosecute people who obstruct reproductive health clinics because they are considered interstate commerce businesses. Churches, by contrast, are generally not in that category.

    Not having access to the actual text, does the FACE act have a severability clause, and if not doesn’t that mean that the DoJ choosing to believe that part of the law was unconstitutional mean that all of their prosecutions were knowingly made using an invalid law?

    • Common Tater

      “interstate commerce businesses”

      OFFS!

    • EvilSheldon

      Acid Bath was fucking amazing. Probably the most existentially disturbing metal ever.

      • EvilSheldon

        ETA – I don’t know what they’re doing hanging out with talentless pudknockers like SOAD…

    • AlexinCT

      You kids missed out on the fun of Wolfenstein and Duke Nuke’em.

    • Not Adahn

      Is “huge” modifying “fish” or “train?”

      • Ted S.

        Yes.

      • PieInTheSky

        it is modifying “fish-train”

      • dbleagle

        I would like to see more of that game. Bosch was off the wall, especially for his time. We would look at his work in a Munich museum when my kids were young. I could spend much more time looking for the details in his paintings than my young kids had patience for.

    • Common Tater

      “US citizen Sundas “Sunny” Naqvi, 28, gained national attention last month when she and a band of supporters — including Cook County, Ill., Commissioner Kevin Morrison — publicly insisted she was unlawfully detained by ICE officers for roughly 43 hours.”

      Well, it’s illegal in Chicago for politicians to the truth.

    • DrOtto

      To be fair, that shirt looks like jail issue garb. She looks like the Hamburglar wearing it.

      • Common Tater

        70’s drugs

    • The Last American Hero

      It’s Chicago. She’s lucky she didn’t get picked up by roving bands of bleach and rope carrying MAGA fanatics. They only come out during blizzards, so she dodged a bullet on that one.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Get out! Someone lied knowing the stupid class would run with her narrative?

    • kinnath

      This guy is an idiot

  19. PieInTheSky

    Lena Dunham says she has received a lot of ‘hate’ with people criticizing her body and seeing her as an “eyesore.”

    “There was the intense rage about the female sexuality on the show. There was the intense rage about my body.”

    https://x.com/OliLondonTV/status/2043187036434395634

    • Ted S.

      Wasn’t the rage over her molesting her kid sister?

      • Sean

        Sounds vaguely familiar.

      • Common Tater

        Eating cake on a toilet, saying she regrets not having an abortion, being an insufferable cunt…

  20. Common Tater

    “A firearms training program for transgender-identifying individuals is being conducted in wooded areas of Washington state by a group calling itself “Moto Hooligan Firearms,” according to images and videos shared online.

    The two-day course, promoted on social media by Antifa affiliated account Through The Static, includes instruction on gun safety, legal use of firearms, and different weapon types. Organizers say participants are taught “the legalities of firearms, firearm safety, different types of guns, and a firearm manual.”

    https://thepostmillennial.com/antifa-linked-activist-leads-trans-firearm-training-in-washington-state

    Which would be fine if they weren’t violent communists.

  21. Common Tater

    “The bill would prohibit the posting of personal information or the image “of any designated immigration support services provider, employee, or volunteer, or other individuals residing at the same home address” online with the “intent” to “Incite a third person to cause imminent great bodily harm to the designated immigration support services provider,” or to “Threaten the designated immigration support services provider.”

    https://thepostmillennial.com/gop-lawmaker-warns-stop-nick-shirley-act-will-block-independent-journalists-from-uncovering-fraud-in-ca

    So “stochastic terror” bullshit?

    • AlexinCT

      When you are a cabal of criminals, your priority is to have legal protection under the law from anyone expsoing your criminality.

      • dbleagle

        Taps side of nose like in “The Sting.”

  22. PieInTheSky

    The Breaking Point of a Republic

    https://tomklingenstein.com/the-breaking-point-of-a-republic/

    America is in a cold civil war, a regime conflict between a ruling class that seeks to remake the country and a public that remains attached to its inherited forms of life. That conflict is not only fought through elections or policy disputes, but through deeper questions about who belongs to the political community and on what terms it is held together.

    The late Roman Republic confronted a similar problem, and the results were radically destabilizing. Expanding citizenship absent shared norms and obligations introduced new pressures the system could not absorb, producing a more volatile and easily manipulated political order. Our own moment reflects a comparable widening gap between formal inclusion and the cultural and institutional cohesion that sustains self-government. In a cold civil war, questions of membership carry the full weight of regime conflict, and the consequences of answering them poorly are far from theoretical.

    • AlexinCT

      Death to the globalist marxist cabal!

  23. The Other Kevin

    We have a data center going up a town over, and people are pretty pissed about it. They’re building quickly, probably to avoid the multiple lawsuits attempting to shut down construction.

    This is far from over. I saw a stat on X that half of proposed data centers were either canceled or delayed. Public sentiment is against AI, for better or worse.

    • PieInTheSky

      I am no nimby but my concern is high energy use without a real free market in energy production.

      • R.J.

        Yes. Data centers should bring improvements to the power grid with them. And they should pay for the lion’s share of the grid enhancements. That way they become a net plus.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Im really surprised that cities arent doing that.

        Typically any major development has extras that the city/county want but Id suspect this is more a white envelop with wads of cash handed to council members type deals for majority of them.

  24. The Other Kevin

    How about another Daily Ray of Sunshine? New Order/Joy Division was finally voted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I’d love to go to that ceremony, but it’s in LA and pretty pricey.

    • Ted S.

      Wait until the purists say that’s not real rock and roll.

      • Common Tater

        It isn’t, just like most of the people in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

      • Ted S.

        The Platters performed in the movie Rock Around the Clock.

    • rhywun

      I thought the ceremony would be in Cleveland. You know, where the Hall of Fame is located.

      • Nephilium

        Ha!

        About once every 3-5 years they do an induction here.

    • Not Adahn

      LA? I thought it was in Cleveland?

      • Gender Traitor

        None of the cool people want to go to Cleveland.

      • The Other Kevin

        According to Google it’s Nov. 14 in LA. Sad.

      • rhywun

        None of the cool people want to go to Cleveland.

        inorite? Ew.

      • Ted S.

        So it’s cheaper for uncool people like you.

  25. Common Tater

    “Anna Paulina Luna:
    So what I will say is that many people on the Hill knew about this. Many reporters have come forward—even in talking to me—saying that they had heard stories about this. But I do think that he has serious criminal problems on his hands, and I do think that he might end up in jail, Jesse.

    And if I could just share with you for a moment—not only did I receive forensic reporting showing that that infamous video of him in the hotel room was indeed him, and that it was not AI-generated—but I’m also being told that: A) more stuff is going to be dropping in the next 24 hours; and B) potentially, the individual who recorded that video in that hotel room, Jesse, was a female—and she was underage.”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/rep-anna-paulina-luna-drops-explosive-allegation-jesse/

    Who knows? And is there an “age of consent” to record video?

    • Not Adahn

      Kiddie porn charges!

    • The Other Kevin

      This reminds me of all those Epstein buddies admitting they saw stuff, and they should have said something at the time. That was a moral failing, they’ll do better next time.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Huh, I thought she was going to release video of disgraced Jesse Watters based on the lede.

      • rhywun

        Same.

  26. Common Tater

    “The investigators also elicited an apology from the Trump accuser for misleading the probe and were acutely aware his allegations were based solely on second- and third-hand accounts about what Trump was alleged to have said and done.

    “I do not have direct knowledge of private comments or communications by the President,” the alleged whistleblower, who claimed Trump improperly tried to pressure Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to investigate Hunter Biden, admitted in his initial August 2019 intake form.”

    https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/all-things-trump/alan-dershowitz-trump-could-move-expunge-2019-impeachment-after

    Are they ever going to name this asshole?

    • AlexinCT

      The cabal behind this evil shit sure as hell doesn’t want consequences for this because that will make it harder for them to repeat this shit…

  27. Common Tater

    “Between 2022 and 2025, Hardiman was an attorney for HUD’s Enforcement Division while the agency compelled federally-funded facilities to house transgender-identifying men in women’s domestic violence shelters and other spaces. HUD also expanded taxpayer-funded housing opportunities for illegal immigrants and sought to make housing providers file “Equity Plans” before the Trump administration gutted the agency’s left-wing agendas.

    Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s radical new government also includes a chief energy officer strictly opposed to fossil fuels, a chief diversity officer who once endorsed dismantling the Constitution and a security official who helped the FBI investigate traditional Catholics as potential “violent extremists.” Additionally, Jones won his attorney general race despite a public scandal over leaked text messages in which he fantasized about Republicans and their children dying.”

    https://dailycaller.com/2026/04/14/jay-jones-official-civil-rights-policy-transgender-virginia/

    CWABOC

    • AlexinCT

      Great case of patriarchy!

    • EvilSheldon

      “…in which he fantasized about Republicans and their children dying.”

      Point of order. Jones did not fantasize about Republicans and their children dying, he fantasized about murdering them. Pretty big difference, especially for someone as fantasy-prone as the proggie average.

    • rhywun

      I just assume any Democrat today is a full-blown Marxist-Leninist unless proven otherwise.

      Vote for one of them – this is what you get. They want to smash the system.

  28. JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

    I have a doctor appointment later today. My schadenboner over this Swalwell thing has lasted more than 4 hours.

  29. Ted S.

    It’s a bit surreal to listen to a program on the possibility of the AfD getting an outright majority in one of the eastern state elections this autumn and not have anybody talk to, you know, anybody actually in the AfD.

    • Gender Traitor

      Why should they have to talk to those icky people? They have Sources Familiar With Their Thinking.

  30. The Late P Brooks

    Data centers should bring improvements to the power grid with them. And they should pay for the lion’s share of the grid enhancements. That way they become a net plus.

    Didn’t musk try to power his own data center in Memphis, and got shut down?

    • R.J.

      Yes. That was silly. He would have been a net plus in jobs and bringing his own power station.

      • dbleagle

        Providing his own power generation is what set his proposal apart. It was a correct solution to the power free rider problem I mentioned above.

        So off course his proposal was killed because of the “associate of OMB” problem.

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