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“The ruling effectively halts any further legal action against Trump officials regarding the deportations under the Alien Enemies Act, in a significant legal victory for the administration.”
OK, but still would be surprised if he gets impeached.
Prosecutors said Rhodes and his followers stockpiled guns for possible use by “quick reaction force” teams at a Virginia hotel, but they never deployed the weapons.
So they had guns, and talked some smack, but when the SHTF, cooler heads prevailed. And yet, they were convicted anyway by a D.C. kangaroo court.
Seems par for the course in 2021.
Expel them all! Congress, Muslims, IRGC, take your pick.
Despite Trump’s assertion that the war is finished, the continued diplomacy and military planning reflect a conflict that appears paused rather than conclusively resolved.
I’m surprised Newsmax allowed that to be written.
The Barack Obama-appointed judge pursued his contempt investigation aggressively, even threatening to breach attorney-client privilege, based on his personal reinterpretation of what the order meant.
Great… a powerful D.C. lawyer with a personal vendetta.
(Mythical libertarian) ladies and gentlemen, your Attorney General of the United States come 2029.
If the Dems regain control of the white house and congress, he’ll be the next supreme court justice.
Maybe, but consider that Boasberg is already sixty-three. So he’s 65 sometime in 2028, 66 by the time a new administration is settled in and his nomination goes to the Senate.
I think the Democrats would rather get a long-term replacement and either nominate an Asian or one of those high-caste socialists that India has been flooding the country with in the last couple of decades. I could also see them going with Brad Garcia.
Shpip is right. Boasberg is not colored enough for the D vote. As as we have seen with Affirmative Action Jackson, getting more minorities on the bench is priority number 1 with the activist base that runs that party right now.
Boasberg is not colored enough for the D vote.
At first I thought KBJ’s embarrassing performance might be a deterrent, but then I considered just how insane and shameless the left is.
Is Boasberg a radical leftist like her or just rabidly anti-Donald? Cuz he won’t get the nom just for his TDS.
Agree with Rhy….
TDS alone isn’t a separator. Literally every liberal has it. It’s more contagious than covid amongst that set.
“Items in those so-called baskets of goods have yet to be decided, but likely include essentials such as bread, milk and eggs, officials said.”
So vegans will complain?
Don’t people already get
food stampsEBT cards? What is the point of this government store idiocy?They’ll owe their souls to the Government Store.
vote buying?
Enrichment of cronies.
Well, a $10M store costs $30M in taxes, so his friends are getting $20M. Then they can kick back part of it for his next campaign.
Waste and graft.
They’ll owe their souls to the Government Store.
It’s not that often we get a shout out to Tennessee Ernie Ford.
Sidenote: whoever edited that video is some kind of crap activist. Bah. They ruin everything.
A loaf of bread, a container of milk and a stick of butter
Lol. How many laws is that scenario breaking?
I’d call her the black Lenore Skenazy but that might be backwards since the cartoon was a parent first LOL
There is actually a show that’s kinda like this on public TV up here, it is based on a Japanese TV show.
French toast is essential?
They’ll make it up on the cost of the syrup.
Only if it’s going to snow.
“[T]he Commission shall carry out a medical examination of the President to determine whether the President is mentally or physically unable to discharge the powers and duties of the office,” the bill states.
You still need the VP.
You also need a majority.
Where the hell were these idiots when Biden was getting lost on stage and forgetting what year it was?
Busy using the autopen.
Hey, we only use this power against the other team, never against our own side!
It’s masturbatory theatre to appease their increasingly retarded base who keep calling for the 25th amendment to each other in their echo chambers. They think it’s a step up from impeachment (which they already tried twice last go around) and which they also don’t seem to grasp needs 2/3rds of the senate to convict. Their base are crazed and need comfort. So they are giving them meaningless comfort.
Aside from having no decent Presidential candidates, Democrats will destroy themselves when they get the House back by focusing on their base’s insane hatred of Trump instead of the domestic needs of the country. Much in the way Trump and Rs are blowing themselves up by dealing with every foreign enemy instead of dealing with the domestic needs of the country (outside of immigration).
And spending ratchets up each year, regardless of who is in charge of Congress or the White House.
We’ll see if they learned. The neocons learned this time around to ceaselessly kiss Trump’s bum to her what they want.
Dems might decide stroking his ego and talking him into more deals his base hates is the way to go. Or, maybe they’ll just do the stupid thing.
Trump isn’t really dealing with immigration. Kabuki theatre. Deport all illegals. Arrest the collaborators who are violating federal law by providing illegal incentives and benefits to illegals. Hang the traitors supporting illegals entering this country.
*subscribes to newsletter*
Wouldn’t it be easier to just hand out WIC checks to all his voters?
That’s not the big, showy, government-owned gesture the commies are looking for.
That which is seen.
Shaknovsky’s patient was set to receive a laparoscopic splenectomy, but Shaknovsky allegedly removed his liver rather than his spleen
I’ve seen this one before!
Da Fuq? Even I can tell a liver from a spleen. I’m not even a surgeon! The laparoscope might make it a bit harder, but you almost have to intentionally mix those up.
They are on different sides.
He may not be able to tell a liver from a spleen, but I bet he knows critical theory.
Maybe the doctor is dyslexic.
Maybe the doctor is dyslexic.
It really would not shock me if he has some sort of serious learning disability, and the medical school and surgical residency program were required to accommodate his disability.
The operation was a success but the patient died.
If he were dyslexic, he’d have accidentally removed the revil.
You mean the neelps
Right?!
If you have gutted a deer you know what a liver looks like.
Maybe he can… ex-spleen
Liver me timbers! That comment is sure to bile up Swiss.
Yeah but I think that he is probably looking at it with a jaundiced eye.
This sounds like the start of a lost short story written by Bulgakov .
From the Mamdami-Mart story:
Will there be a cage match between the cronies, or are these sorts of money dumps handed out on a rotation basis?
So, there’s no reason for the city to be involved at all, might as well just simplify and streamline the processes for opening stores.
What kind of treacherous bureaucrat are you?
I’m an IT Manager in Automation. My employer happens to be a government. I like efficiency.
So you’re Robocop!
(golf clap)
whaddup doh’
hey banjos- how YOU doin?
I see we are finally accurately describing the blockade (Iranian ports, not Hormuz).
So that’s nice.
The White House’s Lebanon wasn’t in the cease fire story sounds like bullshit.
This.
“A Long Island mayor has refused to resign over an alleged homophobic comment he made on social media towards an animal rights activist and her dancing wife — despite pushback from his fellow board members.
Tom Gardella, the mayor of Sag Harbor Village, sparked fury last month when he responded to Texas resident Rebecca Chavez’s clip where she, her wife Deanah and their dog boogied to Jon Secada’s 1992 track “Just Another Day.”
“What’s that thing in the background? A guy. A girl? Some creature?” Gardella commented.”
https://nypost.com/2026/04/15/us-news/sag-harbor-village-mayor-tom-gardella-refuses-to-resign-amid-backlash-over-alleged-homophobic-instagram-comment/
There are no butch lesbians in the Hamptons?
“his apology is not genuine”
Never apologize.
An apology is just an admission of wrongdoing and an invitation to further escalating attacks. Ignore it and the screeching dies down.
I suspect the people complaining can be grouped into
1 – political rivals who don’t actually care
2 – people from outside the town
3 – a tiny, tiny number of people in the town
The people can have their say come next election.
Nature is healing.
In an act of contrition he has promised to rename the city Fag Harbor Village.
The photo of the soldier is perfect. Just needs a bit more SWAG.
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/iran-radical-regime-change-a42d96ea?st=BKW5J6&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
“Sydney Sweeney and American Eagle are back together, with the “Euphoria” star modeling a selection of summer-ready jean shorts in her second campaign for the retailer.
Dubbed “Syd for Short: American Eagle Jean Shorts,” the ads see Sweeney ditching the second half of her name and the lower half of her pants, posing in cutoffs, a baby tee and breezy button-up shirt.”
https://pagesix.com/2026/04/15/style/sydney-sweeney-returns-with-second-american-eagle-campaign-after-controversy/
Racist against Mexicans?
Nice gams.
New Euphemism Alert!
https://www.npr.org/2026/04/15/nx-s1-5762865/tamale-act-aims-to-expand-colorados-list-of-homemade-food-that-can-be-legally-sold
CO wants to loosen the restrictions on home business just a bit. In order for NPR to convince their listeners that this particular freedom is good, they use a plucky Mexican lady entrepreneur who they describe as
“A new immigrant, without work status. “
Many kitchens in Colorado crank out steaming pots of tamales for sale — but it’s not legal.
They’re undocumented sales, bigot.
If we ‘legalize’ them, we can tax them!
But fuck the white mom baking cookies to help make ends meet, right?
I need pics of her first Muzzled
https://www.reddit.com/r/GarandThumb/comments/x6uyk9/tamales_freedom/
Here in Ohio, they’re called Cottage Foods.
Is this how it happens?
“I am no longer supporting Eric,” he told The Post. “F—ing tell everyone I’m a libertarian. F— you, Democrat Party. I’m a libertarian now.”
I doubt he even knows what libertarianism actually is.
Libertarian = someone who dislikes Swalwell.
So about as meaningful as fascist?
He’s met a few at cocktail parties …
See also Bill Maher and quite a few people from TOS.
In Maher’s defense, he’s way more libertarian these days than almost everyone at TOS.
The whole definition of libertarianism took a hard lurch to the left since 2020. So maybe this Stephen Cloobeck asshat is correct.
If he really is libertarian, awesome. We could use a few more voices yelling for the government to dismantle itself. But I doubt it.
What is an Aleppo?
https://nitter.privacyredirect.com/pic/media%2FHFo6RYdWoAAWFKs.jpg
Sorry for twimg link, but I never heard of any of those.
The mandummy groceries make me think of the foodstuffs in Repo Man
“Can’t get any better than this ma!”
“Aussie model and actor Ruby Rose is “no longer able to comment” on the explosive claims she made towards Katy Perry at the weekend after accusing the pop star of sexually assaulting her in Australia almost 20 years ago….
“(Perry) didn’t kiss me. She saw me ‘resting’ on my best friend’s lap to avoid her and bent down, pulled her underwear to the side and rubbed her disgusting vagina on my face until my eyes snapped open and I projectile vomited on her,” she said.
“After it I threw up on her, I told the story publicly but changed it to be a ‘funny little drunk story’ because I didn’t know how else to handle it. Later she agreed to help me get my US visa. So I kept it a secret. But I DID tell yall she wasn’t a good person.”
Victorian Police have confirmed they are investigating a historical sexual assault that occurred in Melbourne in 2010, and are therefore unable to comment further at this stage.”
https://www.perthnow.com.au/entertainment/influencers/ruby-rose-aussie-no-longer-able-to-comment-on-katy-perry-sex-assault-allegations-after-police-reports-c-22142572
Historical?
Sure, that’s believable.
I dunno but it’s funniest f’in thing I’ve read in the “news” in a while
It tasted like cherry chapstick.
“Anna Kendrick previously claimed that an “aggressive” Katy Perry inappropriately touched her cleavage.
During a 2014 appearance on Conan O’Brien’s eponymous talk show, the “A Simple Favor” actress recalled a “weird” encounter with the “Fireworks” singer at the Grammys.
“Katy Perry finger-banged my cleavage. It was a weird night,” Kendrick said during the interview as the audience erupted in laughter.”
https://pagesix.com/2026/04/14/celebrity-news/anna-kendrick-claims-katy-perry-touched-her-cleavage-in-resurfaced-interview/
Thankfully Katy has found the right man to settle down with.
Your earlier link had that quote, but added this little bit that changes the flavor from “sex pest” so “able to read a room and correctly respond to social cues”
Again, we’re talking about a 21 year old Katie Perry’s cooch somehow disgusting a 20 year old bulldyke.
Ruby Rose is too feminine and pretty to be a bulldyke, but she’s known for saying crazy shit.
YMMV, but she’s a rolled-up sock away from being a drag King.
Relately, I was good friends with a stone butch who would dress in drag with her friends when going to the bars. This infuriated her landladies who embraced the dumpy hausfrau stereotype of being a lesbian. They suspected her of being trans, and they were RadFems.
Did Sugarfree write this?
The Babylon Bee recently started a new season of “Californians move to Texas”. Episode two just came out.
A new Young Washington trailer. The movie comes out in July.
Do we really need more Lord to the USA prequels?
I want to see it but I don’t want to support the cult behind it.
“Controversial, Hitler-praising “manosphere” influencer Sneako was taken out by a stranger while he was livestreaming in Manhattan on Tuesday — seconds after stating that masturbation should be punishable by public execution.
The far-right provocateur, whose real name is Nicolas Kenn De Balinthazy, was marching through downtown Manhattan Tuesday afternoon when a stranger suddenly swung his arms around his neck and dragged him to the ground in a chokehold, as captured on his own livestream.”
https://nitter.tiekoetter.com/sneako/status/2044173529810157851
https://nypost.com/2026/04/14/us-news/manosphere-influencer-sneako-sucker-punched-by-stranger-during-livestream-in-nyc/
Unfortunately, he seems OK.
I’m disappointed.
He should be beaten just for going by “Sneako”
Don’t condone assaulting somebody for speech.
Sadly that’s where I am too.
OTH, for blocking the sidewalk and filming like that I can be persuaded.
To borrow from rhy, I hate everyone in this story.
So was this a mugging or a mogging?
“TikTok influencer Halley McGookin was randomly slugged by Skiboky Stora in Chelsea in 2024.”
https://nypost.com/2026/04/14/us-news/nyc-maniac-who-slugged-sexy-tiktok-influencer-berated-jewish-couple-learns-his-fate/
McGookin sounds like Korean fast food.
Skibidi Skibidi?
and I oops!
“a disturbing pattern of hate-fueled violence targeting and intimidating strangers”
But by all means let’s let him keep roving the streets and knocking out innocent whiteys.
McGookin? Ski okay?
AI needs to up its game for names when it makes up shit like this.
Asian/Irish fusion food
Maybe he’s just German?
Since I watch Critical Drinker videos, I get geek Hollywood Drama suggested. Apparently Star Trek actors are demanding that current IP controller be fired before all their convention autograph money dries up and blows away.
That’s hilarious.
People still attend conventions? I figured that fad would have gone by the wayside at the turn of the century.
I honestly don’t know if people still pay games at them, but there are definitely cosplayers/merch buyers at cons. I stopped attending in the early XXIc.
For years now, Ricardo Montalban’s son has been donning dad’s beloved costume from Star Trek and hitting the autograph circuit.
You can meet him every May at Khan-Con.
Conventions are still huge. PAX has several incarnations, GenCon is still a force, and Essen for the Euroweenies.
The ones here locally take over the convention center for days. I have never attended, but I park in the convention center garage and see parade of cosplayers headed into the building.
Shpip:
I think you may have fallen for a long Kahn.
Maybe he can team up with Barry Harris to reform Kahn Kan?
It’s different group now.
Fat DINKs, incells, furry adjacent.
I want no part of cons anymore.
Rumors are their demands will be met.
Undercover police try and arrest a man outside screwfix in Brixton for dealing Class a drugs and as they try to arrest him the drugs go everywhere..
https://x.com/CrimeLdn/status/2044099029932323140
Ben Sixsmith
@BDSixsmith
It’s the rarest thing of all time (a precious gemstone, if you will) – a video of a criminal being arrested in the UK that doesn’t include someone’s aunt screaming “LEAVE ‘IM ALONE!” in the background.
“The sound and the fury, signifying nothing”
Europe Is Accelerating a NATO Fallback Plan in Case Trump Pulls Out
https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/europe-nato-trump-plans-3a423233?st=hXdTsP&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Maybe they’ll let Ukraine in so they can continue to throw billions of dollars at them with a clear conscience.
Billions? Of THEIR money, not ours? Are you mad?
No, the Euros have said they want to throw billions of their own dollars at Z too.
If Trump gets us out of NATO in addition to deporting illegals, I’ll consider his presidency a win.
If he gets us out of NATO, I might have to listen to the 4th Column podcast again to listen to Matt Welch spin out of control.
I never got why he was such a fan of NATO and always worried we might not keep expanding it.
Shutdown, not pullout.
SEATO is the model.
NATO HQ is in Brussels not Paris and the French are back in it. Shut it down, don’t let it linger.
Bye.
Seems perfectly in line with the NAACP’s mission, right?
Elon Musk’s xAI Sued by NAACP Over Memphis Data Center
https://www.wsj.com/tech/elon-musks-xai-sued-by-naacp-over-memphis-data-center-5c4e793d?st=5jMGEK&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Wouldn’t want colored folks getting actual, you know, jobs or anything.
It sure is impressive how effective lefty propaganda can be.
And no, they don’t give a shit about jobs because they’d rather just have them dependent on the government anyway.
I think that is going to be the X factor when it comes to AI. Public sentiment is right now against data centers and AI in general. That might be a winning issue for Dems. If they start winning, we might see Bernie or AOC leading the charge to regulate and limit AI. Except, of course, government using it to monitor us peasants.
Conversely AI data centers are required for making socialism ‘work.’
In the days before Pro Tools and Autotune.
This is where the identity complex notion comes in. Snyder envisioned his song as a waltz, but apart from the three 1923 recordings, no one performed it that way. Enter Connie Francis. Her father urged her to record the song—initially against her protests—because he believed older folks would recognize it. To make it appealing to young people, however, Francis’ arranger, Joe Lipman, cleverly opted for a 12/8 shuffle feel for the recording. Although technically written in 4/4 time, the piano and percussion play eighth-note triplets throughout, creating a soothing, hypnotic effect.
Connie Francis’ Unlikely Ticket to Fame
Her rendition of the much-covered ‘Who’s Sorry Now?’ was a hit.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/connie-francis-unlikely-ticket-to-fame-11aacc99?st=y8d6mY&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
“British Airways is breaking a long-standing industry no-no and allowing Starlink-enabled voice and video calls, from FaceTime and WhatsApp to Teams and Zoom, in-flight! (Pictured: Gracie Bon)”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-15720093/air-travel-influencers-starlink-hijack-flights.html
If the cabin depressurizes her ass will explode.
Good Lord!
🤢🤮
That’s it.
I’m radicalized. Snackbars on the planes now!
We used to have 747s with upstairs bars.
been there, done that
That’s more silicon than woman!
I threw up in my mouth a little just now.
“Clavicular is back home after being rushed to the hospital Tuesday night following a suspected overdose … and he claimed his situation was so serious he was given a life support mask.
He updated concerned fans on X Wednesday morning by sharing a selfie showing red markings on his face and admitted he used substances to feel “neurotypical,” leading to the scary situation.”
https://www.tmz.com/2026/04/15/clavicular-home-from-hospital-after-suspected-overdose/#continued
Oh, well.
You can not make this up.
Allbirds announces stunning pivot from shoes to AI, stock explodes more than 200%
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/15/allbirds-bird-stock-shoes-ai.html
It’s an AI optimized to run on a shoe phone.
There used to be a stand up show on Sundays that at one point had a bit about the new shoes, the Griller. It cooks the meat with the heat of your feet!
Perhaps an AI could run that more efficiently.
I… wut?
Definitely not a bubble…
It’s essentially a SPAC now.
The shoes got sold off and they have a public shell. Coworker pointed out they are killing all of the environmental stuff in their mission statements.
Yeah, I know, but they literally have zero track record with the “new” company and just some hand-wavey plans and the stock shoots up.
It’s boiler-room territory.
“A Walmart shopper has been shot dead by Nebraska police after she abducted a stranger’s toddler at knifepoint in broad daylight.
Noemi Guzman, 31, snatched three-year-old Cyler Hillman from the store on Tuesday morning while his mother Sara was shopping, according to Omaha police.
Guzman approached Sara and Cyler, who was seated in a shopping cart, with a ‘large kitchen knife’ and ordered his mother to leave the store….
Cyler was taken to a nearby hospital with lacerations on his face and hand. He required surgery and stitches….
Guzman was arrested in 2024 after her father’s home was set on fire, police said. She was also accused of breaking into a church rectory in South Omaha.
She was found not guilty by reason of insanity and assigned a treatment plan. Her annual review was scheduled for June 12 this year.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15733315/walmart-omaha-noemi-guzman-toddler-abduction.html
If they locked her up, she would still be alive.
It’s better for the taxpayers this way.
“The President made the announcement Wednesday on Truth Social, adding that Xi would give him ‘a big, fat, hug’ at an upcoming meeting.
‘China is very happy that I am permanently opening the Strait of Hormuz,’ Trump wrote on Truth Social. I am doing it for them, also – And the World. This situation will never happen again.’
‘They have agreed not to send weapons to Iran. President Xi will give me a big, fat, hug when I get there in a few weeks,’ Trump continued.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15735567/Trump-declares-Strait-Hormuz-permanently-open-just-hours-imposing-Iran-blockade-China-intervenes-want-it.html
Sounds a bit gay.
You know who else gave everyone a big hug and then told the camera that this situation would never happen again before opening up to the world?
Steve Smith?
They don’t call him Poo Bear for nothing.
“One gets the sense that most evangelical influencers weren’t really angry so much as they were embarrassed that Trump said the quiet part out loud: He has supplanted Jesus Christ as their lord and savior.”
https://www.salon.com/2026/04/15/trump-is-right-he-is-magas-jesus/
That settles it.
Amanduh and the like fall for this stuff every time.
Yet the Dems didn’t complain when Obama was shown as Jesus (Christ not plumber) on kitsch.
“‘Psychological torture’: outcry over conditions at ICE desert detention camp
Detainees tell of abuse at sprawling Texas facility whose giant generators gobble energy and fuel climate crisis”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/15/ice-desert-detention-camp-east-montana
LOLOL
Now do the psychological torture conditions of covid lockdowns.
Probably all lies as usual from them but would they be happier if just flew all the illegals home? Skip the camps.
Isn’t that an option for the detainees there?
That they can waive trials and agree to deportation and walk out of there onto a plane home?
They want the cushy hotel rooms and three squares a day that NYC was giving all their illegals while they waited for their fake “asylum” cases to process.
Well, well, well
MIDLAND, Texas – Jessica McClure Morales, known internationally as the toddler rescued from a Texas well in 1987, was arrested Saturday night following a domestic disturbance at a Midland home.
To be fair, she has a long history of missteps.
“Authorities have declined to release details regarding the condition of the other individual or the specific nature of the dispute.”
Boooo!
Ouch…
Sadly showing my age and remembering the SNL spoofs.
I remember the near 24 hour coverage this story got on the news.
She was probably frustrated because her line of artesian crafts weren’t selling well.
Well done! Shpip-level!
Childhood fear unlocked.
Next Elian Gonzales will lead a group of Cuban commadoes into assaulting a mall in Florida in a real life remake of Invasion USA.
Positive movement on the home distilling issue:
https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2026/04/14/gentlemen-start-your-stills-americas-next-craft-boom-n4951777
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Play stupid games and win stupid prizes!
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/15/american-youtuber-johnny-somali-sentenced-to-jail-in-south-korea-over-comfort-women-statue-stunt
“An American YouTuber who caused outrage for filming himself kissing a statue commemorating Korean wartime sex slaves has been sentenced to six months in prison, a court in Seoul said on Wednesday…
South Korean authorities indicted Somali – whose real name is Ramsey Khalid Ismael – in 2024 on public order violations and obstruction of business, and banned him from leaving the country….
In October 2024, Somali uploaded a video of himself kissing and twerking beside a statue memorialising Korean women forced into sexual slavery by Japanese occupying forces before and during the second world war, euphemistically called “comfort women” in Japan.”
That leaves out the litany of other offense the professional pest committed.
Some of which counted as sex crimes. Tell me he was required to register as an offender.
“Ilhan Omar urges Dems to ‘put our arms around’ Marjorie Taylor Greene, Candace Owens after break with Trump”
https://thepostmillennial.com/ilhan-omar-urges-dems-to-put-our-arms-around-marjorie-taylor-greene-candace-owens-after-break-with-trump
From behind?
She’s not wrong. Mentally ill attention seekers really belong with their fellow travelers.
I dunno about MTG but Candy’s rabid antisemitism sure fits in.
Groypers for Omar!
“LA hotels slash jobs, staff hours as Karen Bass’ $30 minimum wage hike drives up costs”
https://thepostmillennial.com/la-hotels-slash-jobs-staff-hours-as-karen-bass-30-minimum-wage-hike-drives-up-costs
Inconceivable!
“Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger has signed a bill to circumvent the electoral college and have Virginia become a member of a compact between states that are looking to give their Electoral College votes to the presidential candidate that wins the popular vote instead of the candidate that voters from the state choose.
Spanberger signed HB965 into law, which would effectively null and void votes cast in Virginia itself and only give its Electoral College votes to the nationwide popular vote winner. The compact between the states, however, will not go into effect until there are enough states in the compact to reach 270 electoral votes.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-abigail-spanberger-signs-law-to-circumvent-electoral-college-for-virginia-voters
CWAC
Like the filibuster, this will never come back to bite them in the ass.
If it ever disadvantages (D)s, it will be declared unconstitutional.
I hope someone is preparing to have SCOTUS strike this bullshit down before the radicals get enough states to sign their votes away.
I assume that no one has standing until it goes into effect and an election has transpired.
Thus, SCOTUS would be forced to rule on the law after the election and before the Electoral College meets.
Or, they let the result stand and rule sometime after a new administration has been installed. Which would be “too late” to overturn the apple cart.
Have I ever mentioned how much I hate the very idea of ‘standing’?
At it’s most basic form of “You should have to be impacted to bring a matter before the court,” it makes sense, but the basic principle has been tortured to the point where it’s used to squash inconvenient cases where there is an impact on the people filing.
Talking specifically about suits against the government – I live here. I’m impacted by anything the government does or doesn’t do.
Another issue is who sues whom.
I assume that the lawsuit must be filed by a person in a compact state against the state law that applies his/her vote to a candidate that did not carry the state. In this case, the voter had his/her vote overturned by the law.
And all such voters need to file suits against their own state law that deprived them of the right to vote in their state.
So, a voter in a compact state that was carried by the winner of the popular vote did not have his/her vote overturned. And thus has no standing, right?
This ends another episode of engineers doing legal analysis.
ES should have read his social contract before he signed it.
Get ready for a Very Infrequent Puff of Smoke Blown Up Your Glib Asses.
I’m going to say some very complimentary things about you miscreants.
Looking at my local prog site today, I ran across this story about them training a legion of citizen reporters. This crew will have the snappy name “Twin Cities Documenters”. Yes really.
Right below that link was another link to <a href="https://www.minnpost.com/documenters/2026/04/documenters-report-minneapolis-explores-progressive-income-tax-other-new-revenue-sources/"the very first story by the already legendary TCD. Let’s just say that the quality of TCD’s work could use some boosting. (Don’t bother reading. It is a crude bullet-pointed list that covers nothing).
This made me realize – again – how special you Glibs are. The articles and discussions here are wonderful. Far beyond any of the dreck TCD is being paid to put out.
Thanks for hearing me out. Just wanted to take a second and acknowledge the hard work of all the Glibs who make this site hum.
Uffda!
Of course, I had to fuck up a link in my paean to you idiots.
the very first story by the already legendary TCD
” where members are scheduled to receive some of the same information”
So, like Honey Harvest stories…
On Golden Pond would be a much better movie if a gang of bank robbers looking for a place to lay low showed up at that idyllic little cabin and killed those insufferable pretentious assholes and dumped their bodies in the lake.
Would have faced legal challenges. Already been done before.
Kitchen display from the ‘Museum of Life under Communism’ in Warsaw.
https://x.com/eastblocvisuals/status/2044329676131254704
looks like a perfectly normal kitchen to me.
Where’s the sink?
somewhere I suppose.
In the bathroom.
But jaime, that’s down the hall and shared with all the other apartments!
/whining
A breadbox for no bread?
https://x.com/parodyjeffx/status/2044220620259414181
Oh boy…
From Sensei’s link:
Among locals, his arrival has kindled hopes of an economic renaissance, but it has also stoked controversy. The billionaire’s pitch to Memphis is that he is building infrastructure that will benefit the city. Musk’s data centers will probably bring in only a few hundred jobs while consuming millions of gallons of water a day and more electricity than is needed to power all of the homes in Memphis. Responding to criticism over the use of natural-gas turbines, xAI has argued that many of the structures are temporary and don’t require a permit.
Consuming millions of gallons of water a day? Are they splitting it into hydrogen and oxygen?
Give me a break.
For the datacenters I’ve dealt with, water was used in the cooling system to carry the heat away. The water wasn’t destroyed, but it was just roughly filtered river water that went back to the river afterwards. There was a closed loop that actually came near the datacenter, but that coolant never left the system.
Do you know how rare water is in Memphis? It isn’t like there is any readily available source of water nearby!*
* Memphis actually gets all of its water from artesian wells, not the Mississippi. That water fell around Nashville a long time ago and traveled to Memphis via aquifers.
It’s used for evaporative cooling. It’s common on large commercial buildings. Data centers just need lots of commercial cooling.
Random Google gave the following for usage.
https://www.fwpcoa.org/content.aspx?page_id=5&club_id=859275&item_id=130961
If it is in an area with water availability I wouldn’t worry. If not it IS a concern, but there are alternatives 100% evaporative cooling or using grey water and the like.
Darn hyperefficient heat of vaporization.
*kicks pebble*
google ai overview
Data centers significantly impact ambient temperatures, often creating local “data heat islands” that increase surrounding land surface temperatures by an average of 3.6°F, with extreme cases reaching up to 16°F. These facilities release large amounts of waste heat into the atmosphere through air-cooling systems and can influence local climate up to 6.2 miles (10 km) away.
Impact on Local Climate and Environment
Heat Islands: Data centers generate immense heat from high-density computing (AI), requiring massive cooling systems that expel hot air, forming plumes that warm nearby communities.
Water Usage: Many data centers use evaporative water cooling, consuming hundreds of thousands of gallons daily, which can impact local humidity and water resources.
Heat Distribution: Research indicates this warming effect is consistent across the globe, contributing to increased surface temperatures in surrounding neighborhoods, particularly affecting areas with high-density AI infrastructure.
Non-trivial impacts on the local environment plus the massive draw on electrical systems.
Google is putting two new centers in the local area and the local power company is bringing a moth-balled nuclear reactor back on line to support one of them.
Can’t say I am a fan of the development.
I should tell my boss I’m not going to start using AI on all my projects now because it’s not green and see what he says.
One of the plot points in Pantheon was they built their data centers in Norway, both for cheap electricity and cheap cooling.
Urban areas produce heat. That’s nothing new. In the winter my car thermometer drops about 4 degrees in the one mile from the freeway to my neighborhood which is surrounded by grassland.
Have AI create the bullet points too.
Wait… is this why Trump wants Greenland? Elon convinced him it’s ideal for datacenters?
Gustave for the win.
I know the water is used for cooling. It’s the “consumption” part that pisses me off. They try to make it sound as if that water is magically gone forever once it is pulled into the data center. That’s not how it works.
It’s just more dog-in-the-manger obstructionism.
Can’t say I am a fan of the development.
I have no direct experience with “artificial intelligence”. I’m sure it has legitimate benefits, but it seems to be in the overblown hype stage.
I spent most of yesterday using an AI tool to generate text for a technical document. I used it to summarize a ton of background information (generally well-known public information) that lays the context for the technical discussion to follow. Days worth of drafting and editing were replaced by a handful of questions to the AI followed by copy/pasta and tweaking the text.
So far, I am pleasantly suprised.
I still do not trust it to “create” new technical content. That is my job.
At my company IT is being directed to use it in all stages from design to implementation and testing going forward. Obviously not at once but that is the goal. It will interesting to see how the left gets at destroying that industry and then maybe we’ll all go back to business as usual.
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