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“Texas AG Ken Paxton sues ActBlue over alleged ‘rampant donor fraud’ on major Dem donation platform”
This is my shocked face.
The democrat party is ALL criminal shit and fraud. All.
And that criminal shit by team blue is the norm everywhere…
Democrats – turning America into a third world banana republic shithole.
And they have a plan, and don’t care if you know.
Shit, has anyone been following the CA democrats actually passing a law making investigating their fraud a crime and defending it as if they are the ones in the right?
“Maine Governor candidate Bobby Charles exposes “There are more than 4,500 contracts that were non-compete, sole source, given to FRIENDS AND FAMILY OF DEMOCRATS
The audit showed “$2.1 billion in questionable contracts”’
Move along. Nothing to see here! *Frank Drebin says to crowd as fireworks factory burns and explodes behind him*
The Democrat party at this point is just a front for the largest organized crime entity in the country.
“The Democrat party at this point is just a front for the largest organized crime entity in the country.”
I have now for about 2 decades told people I am certain the republicans are NOT the good guys, but that the democrats are a cabal of crime syndicates and evil. And there are people that even knowing the democrats are crooks will cheer their victory because they think they are in on the rackets.
What’s the point of being a politician if there is no money to steal?
“I’m from the government and I’m here to help myself”
The Democrat party at this point is
just a front forthe largest organized crime entity in the country.FTFY
“The Democrat party at this point is the largest organized crime entity in the world.”
FTFFY
Those non compete contracts are in every state.
Start with the blue forced unionization states and work your way down. It’s rampant.
Defund every NGO and non profit. Not a dime of tax money should be going there.
Muzzled is correct. No government money is right in the title of “non-government organization.”
“Trump Says He’s ‘Highly Unlikely’ to Extend Iran Ceasefire If No Deal Reached by Deadline”
Start confiscating the bank accounts of the top Iranians across the globe.
Gotta get that Obama cash back.
“At 8 p.m. ET on April 20, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will launch the first phase of a new claims system that will allow importers to seek repayment of tariffs collected under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), following a series of court rulings that invalidated the policy.”
Yikes, what a mess.
And they’ll pass along those repayments to their customers just like they passed along the tariff costs, right? Right?
I am certain I will get my $14 back from UPS.
I am almost certain some law firm will start a class action suit, where the each member of the plaintiff class gets $7 (or a coupon) and the law firm rakes in millions.
Go ahead. Hold your breath.
I double dog dare you.
I am still paying it, so that continues under sone new Canadian tariff rule. Don’t know if I will waste my time joining a lawsuit. But it has made me check carefully to see who I am buying from.
WTF knows class actions…
*nods solemnly*
And the importers will still nail on their handling fee thanks to CBP elimination of de minimis.
Step one should be the importers proving they ate the tariffs rather than passing them on.
Open mike time
“So this importer buys some high taxed items, see…
The Abbymander will save Democracy.
If by Democracy you mean unchallenged Democrat power, then yeah.
Duh. Democracy literally means “rule by Democrats.”
Democracy = Democratcy
“”In addition to that, based on what I’ve seen in the unredacted files, there are dozens of potentially prosecutable crimes and cases in the Epstein files, and they have not pursued a single investigation.””
Whatever happens it will never be enough for some people.
Was she a Representative from ’21 to present? Funny how she knew all this and raised no stink then.
Bitch, you aren’t even a good liar.
“US intel secretly flagged major 2020 election vulnerabilities, including voter data, memo shows”
What was done in 2020 should make every sane person realize how corrupt and criminal our unaccountable and unelected government bureaucracy has become. And this goes right back to Obama weaponizing their leadership and reshaping them in a decade through the hiring of these scumbags that care not about serving the American people as much as their globalist marxist world order agenda.
It goes back to Bush. Obama propelled it forward significantly but Bush laid the groundwork.
Hey, don’t go looking to spread the blame – Alex has his scapegoat, and no one else is at fault at all.
It goes back a lot further than that.
The recent leftists just lit fire to it.
“Hey, don’t go looking to spread the blame – Alex has his scapegoat, and no one else is at fault at all.”
Bush was an idiot and still is. It was congress fucking things up then. But the weaponization of the bureaucracy happened under Obama. They would never have dared oppose a president being elected that they didn’t like, and the proof is in the Obama admin intel op against Trump after Hillary managed to lose the election they had rigged for her in 2016..
Shit Kennedy was shot and Nixon was railroaded not to help one political party, but the fulfill the agenda of the globalists AGAINST the marxists. Obama got these people to embrace marxism.
I’ll give you this much, Obama achieved what Nixon wanted.
“I’ll give you this much, Obama achieved what Nixon wanted.”
Man, that is some understatement.
The shit Obama did and got away with, make what Nixon wanted look down right tame and noble.
What was done in 2020 should make every sane person realize how corrupt and criminal our unaccountable and unelected government bureaucracy has become.
Fully half the country considers it insane to even question what went on in 2020.
Nothing went on in 2020. Next you’ll tell me there was a shooting in Vegas in 2017.
Re: the dead thread,
You people are amazing. You put together a portfolio of gay musical content in which The Village People performing “In the Navy” was the least gay.
I went to Luckenbach but Willie and Waylon were not there. Apparently they had a side hustle, Austin or somewhere
Willie Nelson ran a golf course outside of Austin. He was famous for sitting on the porch of the clubhouse and blaze with the golfers. My then-boss was an occasional participant.
Willie released a new song a few days ago…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSjbvRCQf6o
It was powerful
Enough to convert me.
I’ll be abandoning my wife and small children for the bathhouse.
Like Jack Weston in The Ritz.
Wakey, wakey, Glibbies.
Day 2 of (re)training begins in 5. We may even get to the part where we take our assessment to see if we’re ‘qualified’ to continue “scoring” standardized test essays from Missouri s 8th graders.
They have to write a “narrative,” the ‘next chapter’ to a prompt. I woe for children.
*Listen, AutoC. “woe” doesn’t just turn into “woke,” but I admire your pattern-recognition. (Understandable considering frequency, frankly.)
Kick ass and have a good day, all. The day’s still ripe for pluckin’. (Euphemism unnecessary. Yes, I *have* seen Sydney Sweeney’s tits as she licks her ice cream cone, meltin’ all over dem titties.
A wonderful, fulsome pair of funbags, that lovely gal wields. Me wanna snuggle, but it’s time for work! (Patience, Pet.)
It was probably correcting your pathetic attempt to turn “woe” into a verb. :-p
“Amazon removed the paperback edition of French writer Jean Raspail’s 1973 novel “The Camp of the Saints” from its U.S. listings Friday, citing a violation of its offensive content policy….
The novel is dystopian fiction that examines what happens when mass immigration meets a society that has lost its self-preservation instincts. The story follows the choices made at every level of society as a horde of immigrants sets sail from India for France. The immigrants chose France because they had heard about its wealth and openness….
The response from the native French population is shaped by a mix of guilt and fear of appearing intolerant. The result is inaction followed by societal collapse. Over the course of the book, order breaks down and institutions cease to function. The arriving population overwhelms the existing systems, and the host society changes beyond recognition. Sound familiar?”
https://dailycaller.com/2026/04/20/rooke-amazon-french-writer-jean-raspail-the-camp-of-saints-vauban-books-censorship-immigration/
OFFS!!
They restored it after the publicity hit.
Ah, that explains it – it was available when I just checked.
I guess “Submission” by Michel Houellebecq (2015) is in the same position.
They still offer all of the Marquis de Sade’s classics!
Moonlight Milking farm still up?
Raping, torturing and vivisecting children is literature. Pointing out the expansionist and autocratic nature of Islam is hate.
Islam, Visigoths, it doesn’t matter all that much – any invading horde is going to overtake a weakened culture.
The Visigoths converted and assimilated to the local culture after taking over, becoming very Romanized.
The Islamists wont.
The Middle Ages were hardly a continuation of Roman culture.
You’re looking at the Franks, Angles and Saxons, aren’t you?
The thing you just overlooked is that the Visigoths and Vandals got overrun by the Islamists pretty darn early in the middle ages.
Especially one which deliberately won’t even defend itself.
Rome had become Christian a century plus before it fell to the Visigoths, who then continued as Christians. Islam has been trying to wipe out Christianity with varying degrees of intensity and success since the ‘prophet’ started hallucinating.
Rome had become Christian a century plus
I already said a weakened culture.
I see you’re in a particularly bellicose mood today.
Take a load off, relax, and have a drink of your choice. Being wrong online is no way to start the day.
Not to worry. Once shariah is imposed, all that decadent literature will be banned too.
So psychics are real?
Sorry, I’ll buy my copy when Barnes and Noble’s blue-haired otherkin stocks it on their “banned books” table.
The title sounds familiar – I’m pretty sure I got it as a freebie when I got one of my Nooks. It’s not on the current one, but I may check to see if it’s on the previous one (which still works.) I think I started reading it but never finished.
Today, in feline news.
“Step aside Kim Cattrall as three progressive podcasters — Emily Leibert, Nadja Spiegelman, and Jamieson Webster — gathered to give the verdict on Cougars.
Except of course, this being the NYT, they’re reticent to use a term like “Cougar.” The discussion is instead labelled “Younger Men Are Flocking to Older Women.”
And they will have you know that getting with a younger guy is female empowerment. Objectifying a young man is the ultimate way to stick it to the man….
It’s the sort of stuff that would get a man fired if he said it about younger women. But, to these wonks who are holding a feminist theory seminar in a glitzy podcast set, cougars are trailblazers of feminist liberation. Wielding resources and objectifying partners is fine — if they do it.”
https://nypost.com/2026/04/21/opinion/nyt-podcast-celebrates-cougars-objectifying-the-hell-out-of-young-men-a-terrible-double-standard/
“A legendary, ultra-rare jaguar was spotted in the wild for the first time in a decade, according to a wild cat conservation in South America.
The so-called “cloud jaguar” — a high-altitude subspecies so elusive it borders on myth — was captured on a camera trap prowling Honduras’ Sierra del Merendón mountain range on Feb. 6, conservation organization Panthera announced last week.”
https://nypost.com/2026/04/20/world-news/elusive-cloud-jaguar-caught-on-film-for-first-time-in-decade-prowling-in-fabled-mountain-range/
It took over two months to announce they saw a cat?
Young men know that cougars are easy. They have no thoughts or intentions for any commitment, they just want to get laid.
Wining and dining a girl your own age, to maybe get some unenthusiastic and unskilled head v. dropping by Mrs. Robinson’s house for the good kind.
“A terrifying caught-on-camera attack shows the moment a Wisconsin teen had his arm mauled by a bobcat while out turkey hunting.
Carson Bender was set up at the base of a tree while hunting on private land near Nekoosa — about 100 miles north of Madison — when he turned around to find the fierce predator stalking him.”
The 19-year-old hunter quickly whipped out his phone to record the encounter as the bobcat slowly inched closer to him, video posted on his Instagram page shows.”
https://nypost.com/2026/04/21/us-news/wisconsin-teen-carson-bender-mauled-by-bobcat-during-turkey-hunt-in-terrifying-viral-video/
I would have shot it.
The 19-year-old hunter quickly whipped out his phone to record the encounter…
His gun would have been a better decision.
It’s the new world. If a tragedy unfurls the first thing to do is take out the phone and start filming.
I would not have expected a bobcat to attack. I hope the guy got his rabies shots.
It sickens me every time I see that in action.
No joke. Bobcats just don’t do that.
Get a younger woman.
She’s fertile longer and you can have more kids.
So these older women are into pegging?
Such a coincidence, with all of the recent schoolteachers fucking their male students…
One might argue that the reason why the school teachers are going after young men in high school and middle school is because these teachers’ husbands at home are beta as fuck.
Is it recent though?
It might be — women may feel free to indulge their libidos post-Sexual Revolution
Or it might be the media is more likely to report said stories.
Or (related to the above) it might be that people didn’t see early heterosexual initiation of male adolescents as a bad thing a decade or four back.
It might even be that with the rise of women in the workforce, the percentage of pedo/ephebophile teachers has increased as those who aren’t into that moved into other fields.
But I doubt that the tendency of people who want to diddle kiddies getting jobs to encounter kiddies to diddle has changed.
The irony here is that it is the teachers making young men beta as fuck so that they have to screw the ones they haven’t finished breaking yet to enjoy sex.
It also doesn’t help that our culture tries to remove women from accountability.
is because these teachers’ husbands at home are beta as fuck
Or, just maybe, it’s because they’re emotionally stunted people living out their high school dreams with not a care to the trail of damage they leave behind in everybody else’s life.
A little bit of both.
I’m
Guessing all of the above NA.
The reporting is recent. The underlying pathology has probably been around for a long time.
The reverse has been there too. Professors marrying their students or bosses marrying their young secretaries.
I’m reading this AM’s WSJ and an ad pops up “Why Firearm Injury Prevention Is a Part of Patient Care”. I can’t resist seeing what the PR is:
https://partners.wsj.com/ad-council/agree-to-agree/why-firearm-injury-prevention-is-a-part-of-patient-care/
Wow – looks almost exactly a WSJ article and not some advertisement. It’s also huge. Click to the bottom.
https://agreetoagree.org/healthcare
Anything with AMA and firearms is big “no” from me. I’ve been waiting for the AMA’s big “pool education” campaign, but somehow all those child drownings seem to be ignored.
“So, Doc, are you an expert on firearms, or at least a basic NRA instructor? No? Then STFU.”
Both start out with a bald faced lie.
It’s congenital defects that are the number one cause of death in minors, then accidents, I believe suicide is fourth and murder is fifth or sixth. It’s been a while since I looked at the CDC data.
And all the soccer moms will behave this crap because the TV tells them it’s true.
Yeah, you can shut down a “for the children”/“if it saves just one life” thing by asking why they aren’t trying to get pools outlawed and filled in, given the body count every year of children drowning.
They won’t touch abortion either.
Abortion is no bueno for this, because you run into the fundamental issue of whether a fetus is a child. The mental reflex is already in place to avoid/disarm that line of attack.
Most abortions are minority deaths, those don’t count. A good liberal told me that with a laugh.
Firearm injury prevention is a good thing. The effective ways to prevent firearm injuries include ubiquitous gun ownership and concealed carry, highly available training, and aggressive prosecution and imprisonment of criminals.
I believe that might diverge a bit from the AMA’s more detailed positions.
I don’t tell the AMA how to run up medical diagnostic bills and get sucked off by pharma reps. They don’t get to tell me about guns or shooting.
lol
A non-starter in any jurisdiction controlled by Democrats.
/Squints at photos of the two…
Yep. Likely corrupt, though maybe just inept.
With the kind of resources that organization has, you have to actively avoid doing shit like confirming identities and nationalities. You don’t people stupid enough to accidentally blow up every internal control in charge of an operation like that.
So, corrupt.
Indian oil refinery just burned up. How many oil refinery fires this month? Australia, Valero in Texas, refineries all around Russia and the Middle East.
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/fire-breaks-out-refinery-indias-rajasthan-local-media-reports-2026-04-20/
Well in the US only there 9 in 2025.
https://www.aoccorp.com/blog/got-out-of-2025-with-only-9-us-refinery-fires-and-explosions-a-safety-checkpoint-worth-noting
So if you are MSM looking for headlines and clicks I’m guessing you can draw a beeline on this particular topic.
What ever happened to the panic over fires at food-processing facilities, anyway?
Oil refineries are extremely flammable. I’m pretty sure that if it was built in the 20th century it’s caught fire at least once. The older ones (anything that has an old sign with the word “Formosa” in a disused room somewhere) were built without any of the fire prevention measures that FM Global requires today.
Just like train derailments.
Happens quite a bit.
Their entire process is “let’s take petroleum and heat it up above its flash point, then do stuff to the vapor.”
Why do you hate Fair Maps?
Yes, fair means that Dems get 90% of the representation in congress, just like the top 10% of earners paying 70% of the taxes means they’re not paying their fair share.
Which is why they never define “fair share”.
Attempting to quantify fairness is white-cis-male-patriarchy-supremacy!!!
Sometimes, when work slows down, I wonder what they even pay me for.
Then there are days like today when I have to explain to people what’s going on.
I’ve been feeling stupid because I’m muddling through stuff where I have a knowledge gap and so “why is it not working?” was a common refrain. But once it was sorted out and I began the “get everything documented and tell everyone else what’s what” stage, I realized it was just ignorance and not stupidity.
They pay me because I’m the “smart and lazy”archetype who figures out the easy way to get to where we need to go. Good thing I’m in automation.
I hate to break this to you UCS but they pay you because you are a warm body.
Way to demonstrate your ignorance, JI.
You can do better.
Remember, I spent 20 years around the same kind of bureaucracy you are part of.
They don’t pay him; my taxes do. (In part. I don’t earn enough to pay the salary of even one GovSec worker.)
I’ve worked here for eighteen years.
Contrary to your “The glass is totally empty” black-pilled worldview, there are people here who just do their jobs, and whose employer just happens to be a government.
There are people who fit your misconceptions that you apply to everybody, but you’d be a lot happier if everyone was – because nothing would happen.
Parasites be parasites, living off the host. You get paid just the same as I did – not because we are/were “productive”, because taxes collected from the productive paid for us. Harsh fucking reality, not a comforting narrative.
Says more about your feelings about your last job than anything about mine.
You know what’s funny UCS is that you think you are so different than a govt-supported NGO (that you hate). Both are the result of political choices in the spending of public funds. It’s like the SocSec recipients that think they are getting their own “investment” back.
You get a mix with any job.
I e not worked in a regular government job, did the army.
My unit was about 15% people that did their job and had some self worth and work ethic. Another say 35% who went through the motions because they were there for the money and retirement. The rest should have been put into a wood chipper to save the taxpayers $100,000k annually per waste of oxygen.
Sorry to disappoint you, JI, but one can hold princples knowing that the ultimate realization of those principles is his own unemployment, while not spiraling into self-loathing because the lack of alternate employment in proximity to his family.
You go on hating yourself, I’m just going to do my job.
I am starting to come around on the fact that the idiot named Nietzsche was the most destructive thing to ever hit western society.
Don’t blame the messenger. Nietzsche didn’t kill God, he just pointed out the implications of the death, and Nietzsche didn’t come up with the idea that Christianity killed Rome, that was Gibbon.
Nietzsche was brutally honest, even when he was wrong.
Rome was dying before Christianization. I sometimes wonder why we ever think it was anything other than an unstable mass that sustained itself through expansion (and then the inevitable over-expansion).
UCS I don’t hate myself, I just see the world for what it is. You express more hatred toward things you don’t like than I do.
No, you see “reality” through a broken lens.
I make hyperbolic bluster online because it’s cathartic.
You started this spat by trying to shit on my good morning.
Catharsis is a release. You don’t release imaginary feelings. You’re expressing them in a way that keeps them from fueling worse actions.
I shat on your good morning? Well next time just hand me a bowl of cornflakes to piss into.
Too carby.
And look back at the comments. I go “Despite how I’ve been feeling lately, I’m actually good at my job” then you go “No, you’re just a parasite”.
And you can release milder emotions that would be impolite the say to real people to their faces.
UCS my apologies that you took that personally. You could perform miserably in the job and you would still get paid the same – whether you felt good about it or not. You certainly must see enough of that in your co-workers.
I complain about them from time to time. (See the work-avoidant guy who puts more effort into not doing his job than the job takes)
“Euphoria viewers condemn Nazi-fuelled sex scenes as Sydney Sweeney series shocks with racial slurs and gratuitous nudity”
https://www.dailymail.com/tvshowbiz/article-15750937/Euphoria-reaches-new-low-Nazi-sex-scenes-fans-brand-fetish.html
Sydney Sweeney isn’t the Nazi scene.
she is there in spirit
Tranny kinks are A-OK, but God forbid you have a Nazi kink.
Remember when Blaire White was being called a Nazi?
Remember the wise words of P.J. O’Rourke – “No one has ever fantasized about being chained to a bed and sexually ravished by a liberal.”
Unfortunately, I remember the word “Cuomosexual” being a thing.
Considering that almost all models, actresses, and young women are liberals, I doubt that.
But they really needed to associate Sweeny with “Nazi” somehow.
Blond hair and blue eyes aren’t enough?
She does have good jeans afterall. Its a carryover from that bullshit.
Classic projection.
I am shocked, SHOCKED, that they didn’t put a Trump sign next to the swastika flag.
How to cook a 10 gallon Jambalaya
https://youtube.com/shorts/s1pr7uODaC0?si=yyYF0ny5i3nA7ZUN
so Jambalaya is just worse Paella
Okra makes the difference…
Okra is snot in a seed pod.
Yes, but it can be tasty.
Okra is snot in a seed pod.
Oysters are snot without the seeds.
Okra is the devils seed.
My understanding is that okra is more gumbo than jambalaya. Jambalaya is a rice based dish, gumbo is a stew served over rice.
This is from someone far enough north that Canada is right across the lake, so take it with a grain of salt pork.
*natto has entered the chat*
Stewing locally available meats and veggies then adding rice is as universal in rice agricultural areas as fried bread is in wheat agricultural areas.
off course. But there is a right way to do it (European) and a wrong way (American)
Your trolling is weak, Pie.
Using a stew and covering up rotting meat is not superior to the American way, Pie.
THICC VOLLEYBALL!
Oooooo….
Im torn on that. I feel more research is needed and a side-by-side comparison with the other volleyball gif is needed.
Agreed.
I’ll take the Carl’s Jr. girls over these Amazonians.
“I’ll take the Carl’s Jr. girls”
I think I saw that brawl video… Usual demographic and such, just not a Burger King or Waffle House that time…
Yes, more, ah, research, yeah, that’s the word.
Damn.
The vollyball gif is real models from a Carl’s Jr. ad, not AI.
Original story is in Le Figaro, which is paywalled.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/french-town-accused-of-islamophobia-suffers-goat-rape-crisis/
“Goat Rape Crisis” — band name or album title?
Dance EP.
THOSE GIATS CONSENTED!!!
They stared into the goat’s eyes and saw nothing but luv!!!
If the goats were consenting, they would not have needed to tie them up first.
QUIT KINK SHAMING THE GOAT AND HIS MUZZIE!
They like BDSM?
What do you call an Afghan ‘refugee’ with a goat under each arm?
Twice married?
A polygamist?
A pimp.
What do you call an Afghan ‘refugee’ with a goat under his left arm and a sheep under his right?
A baaaasexual?
It’s always the kids that suffer the most.
Sometimes it is the nannies.
I KNOW WHY THE FAINTING GOAT FAINTED.
I’m trying to wrap my head around somebody recently divorced making $250k a year living in NYC paying $5k for housing and $150 for parking deciding that she wants to go public with this to the WSJ.
When she was married, her house had enough space for a home office and a room where she kept her Peloton. Now she works at a desk by her kitchen island and keeps the Peloton in her bedroom.
On top of getting used to a smaller space, Garcia was surprised by how everyday expenses like streaming services, groceries and car insurance could add up. Parking in her apartment building, for instance, costs $150 a month. It has forced her to pay closer attention to her spending.
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/divorce-financial-impact-fa368247?st=AL49dg&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Bitch is pissed she has to spend less?
Right, and I’m going to vent this through the WSJ! That’ll show the ex-husband and the world!
The woman in MA making $50k is most certainly more sympathetic.
Even better – why don’t the people around the country understand how hard we have it here in glorious NYC?
Yeah, I have very little empathy for anyone that chooses to go live in one of these big blue commie cities. These tools deserve what they get. Consequences and all that.
Even worse, it’s “suburban New York”, not NYC.
My credit card just got paid every month. Why would I pay attention to finances?
After decades of “I don’t need no man” propaganda, yeah, I don’t wanna hear how rough you have it after you ditch him.
Why do you hate strong, independent women rhywun?
She could just not live in NYC. Crazy talk, I know.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4d/Steinberg_New_Yorker_Cover.png
“People who regularly eat ultraprocessed foods have nearly triple the risk of developing Parkinson’s disease, a study suggests.
Chinese scientists found people who ate 11 or more servings of ultraprocessed foods a day were 2.5 times more likely to have early signs of the progressive movement disorder Parkinson’s disease than those eating three or fewer servings.”
https://www.dailymail.com/health/article-14687307/popular-food-parkinsons-disease-link-doctor-urgent-warning.html
“Popular food now behind more deaths than FENTANYL, bombshell report warns”
https://www.dailymail.com/health/article-14655757/researchers-reveal-number-americans-killed-ultraprocessed-foods-us.html
doubt
What counts as ultraprocessed food in China?
Melamine is bad for you, m’kay?
What counts as ultraprocessed food anywhere?
I have yet to see a definition other than “stuff we disfavor”.
Ultraprocessed has had more processes than food that’s been processed. Obviously, processes are bad because every time you subject food to a procedure it’s been processed.
Obviously processed 1 more time than super-processed.
Who eats 11 servings of food a day?
If you go by the back of the package for serving size… most Americans.
It’s in China, they’re hungry an hour later.
You mean the back of the package where it says “Serving size: 3 Chips”?
Isn’t dinner 1 serving each of 3 or 4 food groups?
I think that is the idea.
I know I don’t eat that way.
bombshell report
About as accurate as an American torpedo at the outset of WWII?
WSJ also has an article on the War of the Roses between Beretta and Sturm Ruger.
https://www.wsj.com/business/inside-the-nasty-fight-between-two-of-the-worlds-most-storied-gun-makers-70c3052c?st=wm9fik&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
“The Attorney General’s Office said 486 suspected MS-13 members were on trial for 47,000 crimes committed between 2012 and 2022, including 29,000 homicides.”
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15751243/Nearly-500-MS13-gang-murders-trial-El-Salvador.html
That picture is hilarious.
When is it time to just euthenize them for the sake of the rest of humanity?
There is no rehabilitation of people like that.
This is most interesting in how typical it is.
The vast majority of serious crimes are always committed by a comparatively small number of individuals.
And here I thought super predators were just the nastier version of that thing Dutch ran into in the jungle.
Yup and everybody knows who they are but the known criminals keep rotating in and out of the system because most places in the US are no longer serious about fighting crime.
The most violent repeat criminals are pretty much by definition going to be people with the lowest impulse control, which is strongly corelated with very low intelligence. One result of the 2 decades of activist progressive Supreme Court decisions under Earl Warren, and continuing under Burger is that we have a bizarre and paradoxical set of rules that make it impossible to either try and convict or involuntarily commit to institutions these extremely stupid and violent people. Any remotely sane society would simply shoot them, we send them to a hospital briefly then release them to go do some further awfulness. It gets really hard persuading myself that we don’t deserve the hell that is coming.
I don’t trust the government getting shooty at them but I do believe many more criminals need to be locked up permanently – prison or hospital as warranted.
I’d be ok with that except that life imprisonment necessarily involves the government remaining steadfast, and it simply won’t, well unless we the people get shooty with the left.
It gets really hard persuading myself that we don’t deserve the hell that is coming.
It is the society-wide version of I can fix him (or her).
Nothing hits the spot quite like frozen Coke.
How do you snort that?
Powders are below the freezing point.
Should mix it with some ground Mentos then?
“David Brooks, the prominent Atlantic writer and former columnist for the New York Times, has found himself at the center of a social media storm after it emerged he would be delivering a lecture at Yale University on love.”
https://www.dailymail.com/media/article-15749855/David-Brooks-advice-love-Yale.html
I can’t even.
I thought this might have been a follow-up to that goat rape story above…
You think he’s masculine enough to seize a squirming goat and engage in some backdoor rodeo with it?
No. I thought the goats rape him.
I was hoping the word following “has” would be “died”.
I didn’t know he was dabbling in stand-up.
I started hating Garrison Keillor when during his live show he talked how brave he was to leave the security of a marriage and risk social condemnation to pursue his chance at happiness with a 20-year-old. Twice.
I couldn’t stand Garrison Keiler from the first time he opened his mouth.
Same reaction I have to Geddy Lee.
I can’t be bothered to understand why this is causing a “storm”.
He’ll be lecturing on a square’s love, not the love of a pimp.
All these browser checks are getting annoying.
All these peanuts are making me thirsty!
Not seeing those….
The browser can send me some checks. I’ll cash them.
I think we need a side bar on this.
“For nearly a decade, four Louisiana lawmen and a Subway shop owner manufactured phony crime reports to help foreign nationals stay in the U.S., prosecutors say”
I was unaware of the “U Visa”. I shouldn’t be surprised it exists and is abused.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/louisiana-armed-robberies-visa-fraud-a0f8425e?st=Pvpswm&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Deep State not cooperating with the Biden Administration???
Every single politician or government appointee is doing this, or something exactly like it.
There are no good politicians, there are just ones who are better or worse at hiding their grifting.
Newsletter subscribed.
lol So what I’m hearing is the whole program is constructed to encourage fraud.
Donald isn’t taking down these crooked schemes fast enough. The whole system is broken from top to bottom.
Toss a handful of RINOs in your organization and voila (aka wallah as seen on the internets- which I hope annoys French speakers) – bipartisan!
Worried About U.S. Democracy, Astronauts Are Launching a Political Nonprofit
New nonpartisan group of NASA veterans says it will advocate for ‘rule of law’ and score political candidates on civic responsibility
https://www.wsj.com/science/space-astronomy/worried-about-u-s-democracy-astronauts-are-launching-a-political-nonprofit-b210fb3a?st=MzLYjW&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
We can all break out the Tang!
Shorter article “how do we get in on the gravy train that cannot be stopped”
The United States is not supposed to be a democracy, assholes.
Get in the airlock Dave.
Boy, these guys have brass balls on them. And when they swing back and forth they go Oranga-TANG!
“nonpartisan”
lol
voila (aka wallah as seen on the internets- which I hope annoys French speakers)
I was embarrassingly old before I figured that one out on my own.
Don’t shame those of us who grew up with jackpine savages Sensei. It is hard to soar like an eagle when you are surrounded by turkeys.
” grew up as jack pine savages”
North of the River Gang. Needed a passport to go to school
Declassified photos of Stasi agents modeling undercover disguises.
https://x.com/GDRvisuals/status/2046153810205098357
Glowy.
This guy is not suited to undercover work. Put him in an office.
Remember, *everyone* in Germany had that hair and those sunglasses at the time.
Pretty close to the streets of Moscow in 1994.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpypTXccG2I
Is next…evening wear. Very nice.
“Greetings, fellow comrades!”
Those are hilarious. I think I saw those two when I visited there in the late 80s.
Don’t Boo…Revolt!
@BreeNewsome
I think I’ll stop calling myself a leftist because I don’t want to be confused with anyone whose aim is to resuscitate the Democratic Party, capitalism or American imperialism
https://x.com/BreeNewsome/status/2046244145987993668
This idiot will be dragged whining and crying – snot running out of their nose as they wipe their red eyes – as the revolution puts their stupid ass against the wall, shoots them, and sends the bill for the bullet to their relative…
Pack up your bags and move to any number of socialist countries. Cuba is just a hop-skip and a jump away.
lol The Democrats are now socialist verging on communist. You should fit right in. Give them another try!
“While domestic and gender-based violence occurs around the world, the ease with which domestic abusers in the US can get their hands on guns means that these already traumatic situations can easily turn deadly. More than half of female homicide victims in the US are killed by a man they know, be it their husband, boyfriend or the father of their children, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. On average, more than 2,500 people died in domestic violence incidents between 2020 and 2024, according to a 2026 FBI report. Firearms were used in more than half of those killings, according to a 2023 study from Cambridge University Press.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/21/shreveport-shooting-black-women-children-domestic-violence
Why is the CDC doing crime statistics?
It’s not crime statistics. The CDC, beholden to the WHO and WEF has been hard at work helping the marxists ban guns for decades. So it is all made up shit. Lies, damned lies, and statistics…
More than half of female homicide victims in the US are killed by a man they know
Which means that nearly half managed to piss off perfect strangers.
BTW, more than half of male homicide victims knew their killers, too. Turns out the “birds of a feather” axiom also applies to violent sociopaths and low-level drug dealers.
The same reason the CDC has determined that “racism” is a “public health crisis”:
The rank and file is entirely composed of leftist agitators like every other government institution.
Burn it to the ground, with the inmates locked inside.
This takes courage… so very very brave… at Coachella of all places
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HGYTBbqaoAATVnC?format=jpg&name=small
I can find that show on cable TV, it isnt brave.
I didn’t know that band was a bunch of tankies.
In an open letter to the American people, which was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, the group said, “For decades we’ve seen a steady erosion of our founding values and principles that weakens our democratic systems. The result has been political polarization and subversion of key constitutional and institutional norms, including bipartisan cooperation, executive constraint, and judicial independence.”
There’s my morning dose of vapid whimwham.
Crazy story out of Qatar:
A British couple honeymooned in Doha, where the wife was harassed at the Ritz-Carlton pool by two men who told her she’d “fall in love” after he slept with her.
The hotel gaslit her, with management denying the CCTV backed her story despite their own WhatsApp messages saying the opposite.
Her husband posted a TripAdvisor review calling the hotel “unsafe for women.” The hotel got it pulled, then a hotel employee filed a defamation complaint against him under Qatar’s cybercrime laws.
Nearly a year later, when he returned to Qatar for work, he was detained, informed he’d been tried in absentia and fined, and then held for four nights in a deportation centre. The deportation order lasts five years, which severely hurts his career as a Middle East healthcare consultant.
In other words, Marriott International, an American company, used Qatari law to silence a complaint about a woman being sexually harassed at their property.
https://x.com/EFischberger/status/2046326545086927306
Fun fact – the marquee name on hotels often does not own the individual locations. They are owned by other companies under license for the name. They are often then operated by a third company.
It was either the location owner or the operation company that took the actions in question. Mariott likely had no idea anything was going on.
Don’t go to or do business in that neck of the woods.
The end.
pays well innit
Well, there’s your first mistake.
Pro-tip: Stay the fuck away from the middle east. How hard is this??
The glorious Middle East. I’d rather vacation in sub-Saharan Africa.
The constitutional right to “free college”
Part of the extra revenue will be used to provide property tax relief for some Maine residents, Mills said. The revenue will also support a budget that provides free community college and invests in housing, she added.
Wealth-Tax Fever Is Spreading to Less-Wealthy States
Small-market Maine becomes latest state to try to raise revenue by hiking income taxes on its highest-earning residents
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/wealth-tax-fever-is-spreading-to-less-wealthy-states-f3f55e00?st=6oYZ3V&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
“All of the revenue will be used to buy votes and feed the maw of the public sector.”
FTFY
Steven King should be so pleased!
Free college is only needed for people that want to waste time and money getting worthless degrees that will never pay them enough to pay off loans they would otherwise have to take to get that worthless degree. I do not hear engineers or doctors that get work complain about their college debt. it’s always the barista with the “French poetry of the 13th century and it’s misogynistic attack on womenz” people.
Make the professors and the institutions co-signers on any loans to the students. If they can’t pay it off, the people who failed them have to cover the difference.
“wealth tax fever”…. “hiking income taxes”
Not the same thing.
The group plans to release candidate scorecards to educate voters, holding leaders accountable to the same oath to “support and defend” the Constitution that all astronauts take before leaving the atmosphere.
/em>
Aaaaand done.
Holding tags accountable!
Among Catholic priests who were ordained in the late 1960s:
68% describe their theology as progressive.
16% said it was conservative.
Among priests ordained in the last few years:
2% describe their theology as progressive.
84% said it was conservative.
https://x.com/ryanburge/status/2046569709009555937
ah but did the meaning of conservative and progressive change in the meantime…
The ratchet only moves in one direction.
Yeah bullshit
I can’t remember the last time I walked past a church and it didn’t have a tranny flag hanging above the door.
I don’t see that at the Catholic churches, quite a few of the protestant denominations are full in on QUILTBAG+ though.
I’m trying to recall if there is a Catholic church near me, TBH.
OK I do find one near here. Across the street from the Greek Orthodox church. I don’t walk that way much, I’ll check next time.
I walk past several protestant churches a lot and they are all of that. All run by women, too.
There’s the Polish Catholic, the Ukranian Catholic, the Regular Catholic, plus an Orthodox, and one or two “unclear denomination” churches within walking distance of me.
Haven’t seen any proggy flags. Did see Ukrainian flags, but the Ukrainian Catholic Church makes sense to fly it.
Just kids out having a spot of harmless fun.
Immediate close tab.
That captioning tic drives me fucking nuts.
Lord Miles Official
@real_lord_miles
I’ve become a hero for half of Nigeria and the enemy of the other half.
I have no understanding of anything Nigeria. I just insult random tribes
https://x.com/real_lord_miles/status/2046453277957758998
Why does Trump hate farmers so much?
A lot of farmers whining about Trump getting rid of solar subsidies.
Not sure what the sheep dipper means when he says it is all about freedom while decrying the loss of his sweet free $$ from Uncle Sugar.
The freedom to take money from my pocket and place it in his.
Fweedom!
Heat a barn in KY?!
WTF? Why?
Sheep have wool coats and KY is t cold you welfare queen.
“For me, it’s just been about freedom. Freedom to lower bills, freedom to control my own assets,” he said.
Freedom to steal other people’s money and spend it on yourself.
Typical farmer.
Threedoor:
If farmers didn’t own so much good hunting land, I’d be much more willing to talk bad about them.
Pope they hustle that aspect of it too. And you know most of their hunting leases are cash deals.
The farm grift is good.
Once you implement any subsidy it needs to be kept forever, it is in the constitution.
Freedom to force me to subsidize your grift?
Speaking of sheep, goats and donkeys….
Daily Ray of Sunshine
that does not work for me…
#meneither
I guess you have to have a FB account. As if.
Why weren’t they in school?
Seven teenagers were shot, including two fatally, after a “planned fight” between juveniles at a North Carolina park escalated and several people opened fire, authorities said.
The gunfire broke out at Leinbach Park in Winston-Salem on Monday morning, according to police.
The fight broke out at the park before 10 a.m., and the “situation escalated significantly, leading to multiple people exchanging gunfire,” the Winston-Salem Police Department said.
What say you, People of Space? Trump’s fault?
I blame this on Hegseth. Department of War and all that.
I blame NASA
Yes. Them too.
Guessing every person in regular, direct contact with these “teens” was not at all surprised at this.
Ten bucks says their daddies didn’t know nothin’ ’bout it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0nsou-1Q2k
at around minute 4 today I learned that in the US you can have futures about almost anything except onions due to the Onion Futures Act.
The Onion Futures Act is a United States law banning the trading of futures contracts on onions as well as “motion picture box office receipts”.[1]
In 1955, two onion traders, Sam Siegel and Vincent Kosuga, cornered the onion futures market on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. The resulting regulatory actions led to the passing of the act on August 28, 1958. As of May 2025, it remains in effect.[1]
The law was amended in 2010 to add motion picture box office futures to the list of banned futures contracts, in response to lobbying efforts by the Motion Picture Association of America.[2]
video title :
Prediction Markets Are a Scam (With a Chart)
I’d be a millionaire if I was allowed to bet on Disney box office futures.
So that’s why Trading Places was all about oranges instead of onions.
You Glibs are asking too much of our poor, benighted pols! They are only human!!!
such an innocent misstep here and there
I’m sure he will employ the Costanza Defense (“Is that wrong? Was I not supposed to do that?”).
I’ll tale the unicorns.
“I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that”
They are only human!!!
Flesh and blood, a man?
The fact of the matter is, I don’t want legislators at all. But if I’m forced to have them, I want them to be held accountable when they inevitably use their position to enrich themselves at my expense. Burning at the stake would be an acceptable penalty.
Face tattoos that say “Corrupt Public Servant”. Remove any penalties for throwing objects at them. It’ll sort itself out.
I’m traditional that way. Branding and stoning. Perfect.
Maybe we should simplify the laws? So that the average person isn’t accidentally breaking them?
There is zero incentive for lawmakers to reduce the possibility of having leverage over anyone they choose.
You’re just thankful there is no accountability for SFing the link!
I was pondering this with the recent rush to expel various Congresscritters. The news was all aghast since only a handful have been expelled in history! Because… they were all so pure until current year? lol
The media is aghast that the proper purification is not taking place – the purging of all Republicans.
Lee Kuan Yew learned to ignore criticism and advice from “experts” and academics
https://x.com/AtlasXThugged/status/2046431069159735374
More government funded freedom
The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether Colorado can exclude Catholic preschools from the state’s universal pre-K program because they won’t agree to accept children with same-sex parents.
The justices announced Monday that they will take up a lawsuit contending that Colorado’s stance violates the religious freedom rights of the Catholic schools. The case is likely to be argued in the fall.
Colorado officials have emphasized that their program deliberately includes faith-based preschools but requires them to abide by the state’s anti-discrimination laws, including those forbidding discrimination against LGBTQ+ people.
If you want the money you have to participate in the indoctrination.
If you want the money you have to respect the Second Amendment!
I suppose letting parents pick their own fucking schools would be beyond the pale.
Oh and PS.
Fuck you, cut spending.
“Pre K”. Fuck. Off.
Just be honest and call if free government day care because parents can’t be fucking bothered.
The former Princess Mako doing what every young couple does when they have children. You flee NYC for the suburbs!
https://nypost.com/2026/04/19/world-news/japans-princess-mako-who-gave-up-royal-life-to-marry-commoner-spotted-with-baby-after-fleeing-nyc/
I understand fleeing, but before that, why would you Choose to move to New York?
Sometime you have no other choice.
We haven’t officially made NYC a prison yet.
Why would you flee Kyoto for NYC?
I’m thinking she and her husband might not have known what it was like.
Long story short. The whole country basically badmouthed her at the time husband to be for trivial reasons.
He had a Visa offer from good NYC law firm and took it. She loved him and followed. I’m a supporter.
She’s also anonymous here unlike Japan where she’d still known and snidely criticized. NYC is actually very good for that.
I see.
Kyoto sucks.
Granted it has a bunch of cool temples, but after you’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all. Worse, Kyoto is crawling with gaijin. Not cool gaijin like me either. The real deal dumb touristas wandering around being stupid.
Pope – I’d agree. It’s neat to visit, but crowded and the natives are stuffy.
I rather like the Osaka vibe. Quite different from Tokyo.
Kyoto for NYC
Vancouver only accepts Chinese?
I get the annanoninty. Or however that’s spelled.
The US collection of ex-royals continues.
Wait, Pope Jimbo isn’t in mourning?
Reliving the day Prince died: ‘I had no time to grieve’
https://www.startribune.com/reliving-the-day-prince-died-i-had-no-time-to-grieve/601667606
Thanks to his Holiness infecting my news feed!
Blessed are those who have purified themselves in Lake Minnetonka.
Is that the one full of piss?
🏍️ That ain’t Lake Minnetonka.
Retire to New York City? New index redefines what makes a great place for retirees
Oh, cool another clickbait listicle article with the counterintuitive headline. The way you create these is by what you measure. Let’s check it out!
Researchers compiling the new index evaluated five characteristics: climate resilience, automation readiness, social cohesion, population renewal, and governance and foresight.
Legit LOL.
https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/article/retire-to-new-york-city-new-index-redefines-what-makes-a-great-place-for-retirees-103000325.html
Where is Cost of Living and Low-Crime?
social cohesion means your stuff is everyones stuff
I’m so glad you had fun
“I haven’t spent a lot of time processing all of this,” NASA astronaut Victor Glover told NBC News in response to a question about the final moments of the flight, when the Orion capsule streaked through Earth’s atmosphere at more than 24,000 miles per hour.
“I will say it was just a very intense moment, because we had never seen or felt this before. Everything was important, every noise, every mechanism,” Glover said.
——-
When the hatch opened after they splashed down, Koch said, “I was completely overcome.”
“I just screamed. I was so happy,” she said. “It was just pure elation and just a visceral, emotional reaction to not only being home, but people there coming to us and bringing us out — just unspeakable joy.”
Let us know when you’d like to take another billion dollar joyride.
He going to be too busy with the non-partisan astronaut group for that.
Shortly after splashing down, the astronauts were flown to a U.S. Navy ship for medical evaluations. While on board, Wiseman said he requested a visit from ship’s chaplain, despite not being a religious person.
“When that man walked in — I’d never met him before in my life, but I saw the cross on his collar, and I just broke down in tears,” Wiseman said during the NASA briefing. “It’s very hard to fully grasp what we just went through.”
Oh for pity’s sake.
Pussies.
I guess he never had a broken pelvis
Clean, carbon free electricity, straight from he magic hat
The solar boom is the primary reason that carbon-free generating sources—hydro, nuclear, solar, wind, and other renewables—were able to grow faster than demand in 2025. In other words, as electrification increases, we’re at the point where we are capable of meeting the additional demand without boosting carbon emissions. These sources covered nearly 60 percent of the overall growth in demand for energy of all types.
Solar’s growth is being accompanied by a key enabling technology: batteries. Batteries were the fastest-growing power technology, with capacity additions rising 40 percent between 2024 and 2025, reaching 110 GW of new capacity last year. That is apparently more than the highest one-year addition of natural gas capacity and leaves our total installed capacity at over 10 times what it was just five years ago. Batteries, when combined with cheap solar, can limit the need for fossil fuel-powered backups.
Be a believer!