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Jackson insisted that the restrictions on nationwide injunctions issued by lower courts were “not only truly unfortunate, but also hubristic and senseless.”
No, dear, it’s the nationwide injunctions that are hubristic and senseless.
But the Aloha spirit is a higher authority than SCOTUS.
The idea that district court judges can just grant themselves national jurisdiction is absurd on its face, but here we are.
I’ve seen it put this way: Those judges are claiming to have more power than the SC, the Senate/House, and the President.
It would be more fun if there were a couple of libertarian justices that would injunct the shit out of most of what government does. “Nope, don’t see that anywhere in the Constitution, sorry.”
Once again, exactly as Brutus anticipated in the anti-Federalist #12 (IIRC).
The correct answer would be “The Second Amendment has removed the question of arms from the purview of the state.” Because that’s what it says in plain english.
The Mayor?
I’m seeing “placed on administrative leave” (which may or may not be paid, but I know which way to bet). I’m not seeing “terminated”.
So, not actually punished.
Administrative leave is just code for “lay low until it blows over, then back to business as usual”.
Government accountability found in proximity to military intelligence.
lay low until it blows over, then back to business as usual
It’s not blowing over. We’re going to reassign you to a different office.
With a promotion.
Since the article is that form of “journalism” that is merely reposted tweets, it’s easy to miss, but here’s a rundown (it’s from the local cop union, so take with a shaker of salt).
I’m seeing a reference to a “notice of proposed adverse action” as what the “termination papers” actually are. In other words, they seem to have been notified that they might be terminated, and are administrative leave in the meantime, but not actually terminated yet.
So, we’ll see.
Honor the Somaliland extradition request and wash our hands of her.
The whining in that article is from a Minnesota GOP governor-wannabe, who just ended her primary campaign.
Klobuchar has her retirement as senator, now it’s time to get in on the MN money. Power is a helluva aphrodisiac .
Can’t she just go fishing…
Narcissistic sociopaths don’t just retire and go fishing.
That’s why they used to get Guidoed.
Follow the money. They were just almost ready to commence the program when the money ran out. Share the same locations with the autism/learing centers.
Circling back to the featured image – where does one get bunny hats?
My wife found little patriotic hats for the fourth a couple years ago that the boy tried to put on the cats.
Amazon or the dollar store would be my guess.
Pretty much any fursuit maker can hook you up. Be prepared for a long wait though.
Oh, wait. You meant hats for bunnies.
Forget I said anything.
Have you seen the various Tactical Cat Ears compilaitons?
Oh yeah. I even have a set on my spare earpro.
Okay, you left me speechless. Just the awkward laughter of not wanting to antagonize heavily armed people.
One of the things that I genuinely admire about furries is their ability to embrace the awkwardness.
There’s a dude I follow on X called Tiguan – he’s a sword enthusiast and HEMA competitor (and a part-time shooting instructor, which is how I found out about his channel) who does very erudite sword reviews, cutting demonstrations, and the like – all while dressed like a werewolf attending a RenFaire. Apparently the furry cringe and the sword geek cringe cancel each other out…
ES, that’s too funny.
So Omar isn’t on the hook for anything.
I expect the Dems to vote “no” on that. But if the vote failed, that means at least one Repub played along.
I expect Minnesota Republicans are like New Jersey Republicans – basically slightly more right-leaning Democrats.
I thought that was a state House committee, not the US House.
You’re right – it was in the state House. My contempt for Congressional Repubs led me to the conclusion that they stabbed us in the back in.
“The dissent does not claim that it is now too late for the state legislature or the District Court to adopt a new map that complies with the Constitution. Nor does the dissent assert that it is not feasible for the elections to be held under such a map. Instead, the dissent offers two reasons for its proposed course of action,” the conservative justice continued. “One is trivial at best, and the other is baseless and insulting.”
Anyone have Black Fatigue reaching the highest court in the land on his bingo card for 2026?
No court should be drawing electoral maps.
No court should be drawing electoral maps
It’s clearly not within the constitutional purview of the courts, but that never stops them anyway.
All the way back to Marbury v. Madison, yet the “modern Court” can’t help but stick its dick where it doesn’t belong.
We need a revival of “He’s made his decision, now let him enforce it.”
The leap from “voting rights” to “winning rights” continues to amaze. Because that’s the only justification for minority-majority districts.
And worse than that – it’s not just “winning rights”, it’s winning right “for certain races”. And the courts required that for two generations.
SMOD, hear my prayer.
With a heaping helping of “minorities can only be represented by other minorities”.
Totally not insulting and racist.
It’s not about race, it’s about political parties.
The leap from voting is a privilege to it’s a right was much larger and set this stage.
Ending good discrimination is bad.
This whole “DoJ actually fighting against infringements” thing has me confused and anticipating a rug-pull. How did someone who’s primary concern was something other than self-advancement and institutional expansion make it there? I can’t believe it was deliberate on Don-Don’s part. I guess given enough bureaucrats one will eventually type out the complete works of Shakespeare or something.
I keep expecting it to be a set-up for a “concent decree” that undermines the rights of the majority in the end.
Almost like United States v. Miller you mean?
That really shouldn’t be binding precedent – Miller Died in the middle of the case, preventing resolution.
After getting stomped on here in VA, it’s hard not to cling to any shreds of optimism. That might be part of the plan.
Running through some quick statistics, Kennedy noted that over 16 percent of American adults takes antidepressants, 10 percent of children are on some form of prescription drug for a mental health issue, 30 percent of college students have used psychiatric medications in the past year, and over 50 percent of nursing home residents are on prescription antidepressant drugs.
Lemme guess:
Children — almost all boys put on Adderall for failure to sit still in class
College students — Basic College Girls on SSRIs for “anxiety”
Nursing home residents — anti-depressants for being old, lonely, and in a nursing home
Also re: college students – ADHD meds as study aids.
Antidepressants equal pressants?
Have you seen the inside of a nursing home?
Those places are downright grim.
It’s a retirement community!”
The college student number leaves open the possibility for recreational Adderall on a Friday/Saturday night the way it’s worded in the article.
To get my recent Aderrall scrip, I had to find a doc who was willing, then I had to pay $300 for the first appt and pay down $300 more for Appt #2 to appease Doc re: dosage.
All for her to afford her guild membership. And. Uh. Why can’t I just buy ’em from CVS? Ah, yes. That’s why. (People remain ‘shocked’ black markets exist!) People decrying ‘life is hard for poor people!’ won’t ever acknowledge their role in keeping it that way.
People decrying ‘life is hard for poor people!’ won’t ever acknowledge their role in keeping it that way.
What, you just want to let people make bad decisions for themselves? You’re one heartless monster, aren’t you?
They wanted to put my son on those when he started 1st grade because he was “hyper”.
I told them of course he’s hyper, he’s a 6 year old boy and refused.
Somehow, he made it through.
Have I mentioned I hate teachers?
They deserve it.
When I’m out on charge of our education system (never). Boys will be educated separately. Between every class or 2 will be gym, a short run, something to burn off energy.
Pushups and laps for every misspelled word and wrong math problem!
When the Altar Girl was young, Mrs. Holiness sat her down every day and did flash cards for math problems with her. No problems at all.
Then along came Altar Boy 1 and Mrs. Holiness tried it again. Utter failure and lots of crying and yelling. I tried to tell her that he was using his entire brain just to sit quietly.
I finally took over and let Altar Boy 1 run around while answering the flash cards. He instantly proved to be very, very good at math. (Better than his sister). When he got one wrong, I’d make him jump on one foot until he got 5 right in a row. He LOVED it! Made math fun.
Mrs. Holiness was reduced to muttering about how dumb men/boys were and why was she saddled with two of the dumbest.
In elementary school I remember having morning recess, lunch and afternoon recess just so the boys could burn off energy.
His lawyers should have the same punishment.
Here is to hoping that it dosent take twenty years to fry him.
https://apnews.com/article/tanner-horner-fedex-driver-sentenced-athena-strand-5248131f1e4eb052afeaab3a8a49f62b
I live a couple counties away and this made a big splash locally. I don’t envy the lawyers that had to defend the piece of crap, but they did have a job to do to ensure fairness in this trial. Even the most vile need competent defense when the state bring down the hammer. There was no doubt of his guilt, the defense raised mitigating circumstance as best they could, and the jury rejected them all and sent him to die. I find all this acceptable.
As with you, I hope it doesn’t take twenty years, but when death comes, I hope it is long and painful.
Relevant:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N5PNlMUcaPE
Crying about his childhood and bogus lead exposure makes them the lowest of the low.
“I raped and murdered a little girl because… lead. Yeah thats why!”
In Hollywood/entertainment gossip, supposedly the ratings for Disney have been obtained and as far as Star Wards is concerned, zero of the sequels are in the top ten most streamed and only one of the post-Disney takeover movis that does is Rogue One. Because of how the ratings are calculated, the series have a tremendous advantage over the movies since there are many more total minutes in a series, but even with that the top most-watched show is Andor.
I am staggered and chuffed. Apparently the home audience is not the same as the terminally online.
What would you expect the terminally online to watch?
The Acolyte.
Why?
Oh My Balls!
They seemed to be all a-squee about Baby Yoda.
Andor is awesome.
I really liked the first season. Mostly. The flashback victimhood stuff was cringe. And they needed to glue more model bits on the AKs.
I happened to come across viewership figures for some genre streaming effort I had never heard of – this thing limped along for something like four years on 100K or 200K viewers an episode.
Compared to, say, the Trek everyone loves to hate… Voyager was getting around 5MM every week.
Voyager is top half trek. The odd numbered original series movies are even considered good trek now.
I like Voyager. I haven’t watched anything after Enterprise and only some of that.
Oh, and the first of the “reimagined” movies – it stunk.
Star Trek V can not be rehabilitated.
Yeah. The first was merely soporific. V was actively offensive. But VI was fun.
DS9 is the greatest of the Treks.
Disney has so ruined the Star Wars franchise that I don’t even like to watch the originals anymore. Fuck Disney with a rusty spork.
“Put a chick in it, make her gay!”
Ditto here.
Although, Andor was great, and I genuinely liked Rogue One. It had its flaws (the fan-service ending with Darth Vader was fairly cringe), but it didn’t insult my intelligence or my taste.
Both Andor and Rogue One seemed like actual “stories set in the Star Wars universe.” The prequel movies and what little I saw of the rest seemed like “What if instead of [Star Wars Thing] being X, it was Y?”
I have lost all interest I might have had in any Star War product.
Just cannot bring myself to give even half of a shit.
I was excited to take my boys to see the new Star Wars when The Force Awakens came out.
Left the theater vowing never to give them any more of my money and held to that.
“You mean we were supposed to do something original?”
Interesting that you don’t want to give your boys any more of your money.
@Ted – They should be earning their own and paying the parental tax.
They are grownups now.
whaddup doh’
Heya Banjos- how YOU doin’?
I submit this purely for the headline: https://www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-union/articles/ckgpn3pdzr7o
Unquestionably obligatory!
As it should be.
LOL
“It’s a league rule: cups and supporters.”
Jose Aguilar: ¡Yo no me voy a poner esto! ¡Esto duele! [Throws his back in the box]
Coach Morris Buttermaker: What? What are you saying?
Ogilvie: I’ve been brushing up on my Spanish of late, and I think he is saying something about, you know, his being Catholic, and it’s a sin.
Fuck Dr. Amy Acton. She killed more of my friends than COVID.
Gov Dr when the over the top salesman flops.
There’s the black pill we know and love!
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Equate-AM-PM-Weekly-Pill-Planner-7-5/475275789
Don’t remind me.
(I’m on some meds that I need to take three times a day. It fucking sucks.)
Fuck Dr. Amy Acton.
Ditto. When she bailed out of her job relatively early in the ‘VID cycle, I figured she had realized what a foxtrot the public health response (herself included) had been, and was trying to distance herself from blowback. Now that actual blowback seems to be ramping up, I’m surprised she is sticking her head up. Hopefully Vivek’s people hang her COVID era behavior around her neck like a millstone.
The United States overtook Saudi Arabia to become the world’s largest exporter of crude oil over the past nine weeks, as Iran’s attacks on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz choked off Middle Eastern oil shipments.
If you bought XOM or CVX six months or a year ago, you’re sitting pretty.
American executives are reportedly nervous that if they expedite huge investments in production increases today, and the Strait of Hormuz crisis ends in the near future, they could lose money as Middle Eastern oil flows are restored and global oil prices plummet.
Small to medium producers will rush in to fill the gap if there’s money to be made. We’re talking about Texas after all.
I’m up massivly on oil stocks. I expect to ‘lose’ a big chunk of it in a couple months.
People who are dumb and don’t own oil stocks think it’s a good thing. Gas jumped 50 cents a gallon over the past few days here.
Ken Griffin may actually go Galt. I didn’t expect it.
Billionaire Ken Griffin on Tuesday amplified his criticism of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and suggested his investing firm Citadel would “double down” on Miami’s being the place for growth instead of Manhattan.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/ken-griffin-says-new-york-doesnt-welcome-success-under-mamdani-292f7c4d?st=vgiExN&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I was going to link to nearly the same thing.
Can I get a “Womp Womp” from the congregation?
As Magnitude would say, pop, pop!
One thing about Trump – you never know what way he is going to pander.
In a series of weekend calls while in Florida and conversations at the White House on Monday, Trump sought advice from his advisers about Makary and the importance of flavored vaping to young MAGA voters, the people said.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-pressures-fda-commissioner-to-approve-flavored-vapes-9dad81ee?st=H6cB8a&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I wouldn’t have called this.
I find it humorous that the word イヤフォン (iyafon) is a thing in Japanese.
ヘッドホン – hettohon as well.
“A pair of Gaza flotilla activists have garnered outrage for filming themselves in keffiyes dancing provocatively with exposed stomachs — while demanding Israel release an accused serial sex predator.
Viral video of the prancing women showed them aboard one of the ships this week near the Greek island of Crete, with Spanish-Korean activist Mi Hoa La wearing a Palestinian flag around her hips.
The flag then unfolds to reveal the words, “Free Saif” and “Free Thiago,” referencing Saif Abu Keshek and Thiago Ávila, who were arrested on suspicion of “illegal activity” when the Israeli Navy intercepted their flotilla last week…”
https://nypost.com/2026/05/05/world-news/gaza-flotilla-activists-provocative-dance-spurs-outrage/
Haram!
It’s all just cosplay to them.
“Ungainly lapel pins that “capture the silhouette” of the Obama Presidential Center are going for $30 in the online store.
“The pin represents the intersection of bold design and global leadership,” the website reads, noting the proceeds go to the Obama Foundation “to inspire, empower and connect people to change their world.”
https://nypost.com/2026/05/05/us-news/obama-selling-ugly-merch-shaped-liked-his-death-star-presidential-center/
So money laundering?
“bold design” That’s a euphemistic way of putting it.
I’d call it 💩
Rule 34 Obama Center dildos will be available in adult toy stores in 10… 9… 8…
They will be for sale right next to the votive candles featuring the same image.
https://x.com/whitehouse/status/2051678505805496589
Note the concession calling them “immigrants”, not aliens. Just like Fox News when they’d try to gotcha Biden.
The proper term is Foreign Invaders.
“Targets are up!”
The nudge.
He who controls the language owns the argument.
Deport some criminal illegals and do Amnesty 2.0. It’s going to be the best amnesty ever. They tell me they’ve never seen a comprehensive amnesty like it. It’s really the greatest amnesty.
Negative
Amnesty.
“The wife of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who is known for her alleged anti-Israeli views, randomly bumped into Miss Israel inside a cafe.
Rama Duwaji, 28, and beauty queen Melanie Shiraz, 27, had a brief encounter on Sunday in the city that Shiraz claimed was a short but tense meeting….
According to Shiraz, Duwaji was happy to pose for a selfie with her but her behavior changed when she found out that she was Israeli.
Shiraz continued: ‘Despite the setting being calm the moment she found out I was Israeli she refused to have a conversation with me.'”
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15792929/NYC-mayor-wife-Israel.html
Is jello wrestling kosher?
I see from the photos that they are both baring arms in this fight.
Shiraz? Like the wine?
OMWC would kick the poor thing out of bed. I would not.
“alleged”?
“Donald Trump is on the verge of securing a sweeping peace deal with Iran that would lift US sanctions, free billions in frozen assets and open a path to uranium enrichment, mirroring the Barack Obama pact he spent years trashing.”
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15794867/Trump-set-lift-US-sanctions-Iran-free-billions-stunning-proposed-peace-deal.html
WTF, Donald?
I doubt it. Every article on the subject ends up being wrong. How many times has a peace deal been rejected?
Yeah, if Donald goes Obama 2.0 on Iran and on immigration, then his second term will join the first as a failure.
I can see this – as long as he thinks it is all about him. Same with immigration/amnesty. Clot-shots and COVID stimulus are his great achievements too if you’ll remember.
🎶 “TACO TACO man. He going to be a TACO man.”
I think the DM’s source on this deal was Demi Rose.
I bet the DM’s source is “officials familiar with his thinking”.
Well, during my sister’s yearly breakdown, I got talked into starting ACME Observatory as a business. The metal prints from Bay Photo are phenomenal, so a family friend, my wife, and our son got me motivated. Filed with LegalZoom as a DBA, waiting for the papers from the state. We will start with local Farmer’s/ Artisan markets and move to online sales eventually as well.
In the mean time, I have reserved the domains of acmeobservatory.net,.com, and .org and need to get a blog/gallery site built and set up. /WebDom bat signal (for munnies)
“The post followed the president responding to a social media post last month that stated, “I want Trump to change ICE to NICE (National Immigration and Customs Enforcement) so the media has to say NICE agents all day everyday.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-ice-immigration-enforcers-renamed-to-nice-by-trump-admin
Will Adam Carolla get credit?
Does anybody read Lewis?
Lewis who?
Carroll obviously
C.S. Lewis?
Sinclair Lewis?
Meriwether Lewis?
Jerry Lewis?
I live outside of a town named for him
I’ll contribute a Daily Ray of Sunshine. The USS Nimitz has a service dog named Poseidon (aka Old Salty Paws). He’s a great dog and has gone through extensive training. Here he is representing our country in a top-level meeting with the President of Uruguay.
https://www.dvidshub.net/image/9662116/president-uruguay-and-distinguished-visitors-tour-uss-nimitz
Sounds like Affirmative Action Jackson has worn out her welcome.
The scary part is, she’s the model the Dems will use if they are ever able to pack the court.
Reminds me of one of the greatest of all lyrics:
“You wore out your welcome with random precision…”
Former Atlanta Braves manager and America’s Cup skipper dead at 87.
He was sui generis, that’s for sure.
And Lewy body dementia is a bitch. I wouldn’t wish that on anybody.
I was waiting for the cannibalism caused my Manbearpig that never came.
Hopefully Montana recovers from all the damage he caused.
If anyone wants a long technical explanation why there is no “climate crisis”.
https://rumble.com/v799sxc-thomas-kurz-why-there-is-no-climate-crisis-tom-nelson-pod-392.html
I am sure that is not an officially approved expert (TM)
No – he uses scientific data, historical information, and notices cycles.
In 2025, New Zealand faced a comparable situation to our own. Equal pay claims were rampaging through the courts on similarly spurious “equal value” grounds, and taxpayers and companies were on the hook for payouts worth billions of dollars.
What did they do? 🧵
In 2014, a seminal Supreme Court decision found that (mostly female) care workers could bring pay equity claims even when male and female care workers were paid the same. Instead, their wages could be assessed against “equivalent” male-dominated comparator roles, in occupations such as gardeners and prison officers.
This opened the floodgates to a flurry of equal pay claims using increasingly absurd workforce comparators to determine discrimination. (Female) social workers were compared to (male) detectives and air traffic controllers. (Female) admin staff to (male) mechanical engineers!
In 2025, facing dozens of claims and projected costs exceeding NZ$10bn, the govt passed emergency legislation tightening the equal pay regime. They raised the threshold for bringing claims, narrowed acceptable comparators, and most importantly, discontinued unresolved claims.
https://x.com/maxtempers/status/2050602754524016698
We had something similar in the states back in the early 1980s, when the concept of “comparable worth” raised its ugly head.
Actual adults debated this bafflegab for years before someone finally said “We have a space to compare the ‘worth’ of various jobs. It’s called the marketplace.”
Weird to see it pop up again, even in such an inconsequential place as New Zealand.
Joe Calvello, the mayor’s press secretary, responded with a statement saying Mamdani wants all New Yorkers to succeed.
“That includes business owners and entrepreneurs who create good-paying jobs and make this city the economic engine of America,” he said in the statement. “It also includes Ken Griffin, who is a major employer in our city and a powerful figure in our economy. That does not negate the fact, however, that our tax system is fundamentally broken.”
The statement added that the tax system “rewards extreme wealth while working people are pushed to the brink” and that the wealthiest New Yorkers must contribute “their fair share.”
We welcome the success of private businesspeople, but only insofar as we get our cut.
Beaks must be wetted.
Oh please, define “fair share”.
I’ve asked any number of folks that. Usual answer is “25%.” I think we are already there in most localities.
“Warm” means something completely different depending on where you live.
At what temperature does it start to feel warm for you?
https://x.com/xruiztru/status/2051929315923628236
Any Iceland apreciators in the comments?
Don’t you be speakin’ no Celsius ’round me, boy…
What about Kelsius and Kentigrade?
40 in spring is a different beast than 40 in fall.
Truth.
In Spring of 1994, we (native Minnesotans) rented a convertible Mustang in San Franscisco. Temps were in the mid 50s (F), we dropped the top and drove around. The Californians thought we were crazy for driving around in the cold with the top down.
78-80
Reminds me of one of the greatest of all lyrics:
How can I miss you when you won’t go away?
Ancient Builders Mastered Complex Plaster Technique 8,000 Years Before Romans
https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/neolithic-plaster-motza-00102760
You can’t fool me, that’s older than the world according to the Jewish calendar.
Jews just hadn’t been invented yet.
Griffin offered to purchase a copy of “Animal Farm” for every ninth-grade student in New York City. The George Orwell classic, recently made into a movie, is an allegory on the Russian Revolution and the early history of the Soviet Union.
“Mayor Mamdani, you ship me an email, get me the delivery address, I’ll get them shipped right away,” he said.
He should send Zeron a copy of The Little Red Hen.
Personally, I would go with Bastiat.
Too high a reading level for Mamdummy.
It’s important to remember that Animal Farm, despite it’s fairly recent co-opting by the Right, is not in any way anti-Communist. Anti-Stalinist, yes, but that’s not the same thing.
Good work, men
Investigators have recovered a buckshot pellet from the bulletproof vest worn by a Secret Service agent who was shot at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, according to Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia.
The pellet links the suspect, Cole Tomas Allen, 31, of Torrance, Calif., to the attack, Pirro told CNN on Sunday.
“We now can establish that a pellet that came from the buckshot from the defendant’s Mossberg pump-action shotgun was intertwined with the fiber of the vest of the Secret Service officer,” Pirro said during an appearance on CNN’s State of the Union. “It is definitively his bullet.”
Did it have his initials on it?
How much lower can the U.S. Post Office’s service fall? A group I belong to sent out a batch of expense checks more than three weeks ago. 22% of those checks have not yet arrived at addressee. With stop payment fees, it no longer pays to send any checks by U.S. Mail. What the fuck is Trump’s Postmaster General doing about the situation?
OTH – there will be no issues with mail in ballots….
Genius
Crenshaw is responsible for naming two of the most contested ideas in American politics: intersectionality and critical race theory.
The idea of intersectionality came to Crenshaw in the late 1980s when she was studying the 1976 Supreme Court case DeGraffenreid v. General Motors. A Black woman had sued the car maker for discrimination, and a federal court told her she could sue either as a Black person or as a woman, but not both at once.
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A few years later, with 30 other scholars of color, Crenshaw helped name a second idea, critical race theory, which argues that race is not incidental to American law, but built into it.
“If you are learning about the way that the Constitution embedded enslavement in it, despite the fact that slavery as a word never appears — that’s critical race theory,” Crenshaw explains. “If you talk about the Montgomery bus boycott and you talk about segregation as an anti-Black policy and practice, that is critical race theory.”
In 2020, President Trump attacked critical race theory as “toxic propaganda.” More than 20 states now restrict how it can be taught. Crenshaw’s new memoir, Backtalker, explains how she came to those words and what it’s been like to watch the courts, legislators and the media weaponize and redefine them.
Just like when the apple bounced off Einstein’s head.
Surprised she didn’t name the book Blacktalker.
” federal court told her she could sue either as a Black person or as a woman, but not both at once”
If she’s trans, can she sue as both a man and a woman?
This is what passes for deep thinking on the left. But I do have to admit, if the main idea was to foment more division long into the future, they did a bang up job.
Congratulations, hon, you’ve helped to set race relations back half a century. I hope you are proud.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/05/federal-discrimination-watchdog-new-york-times-lawsuit-00907157
Bizarroworld continues.
Monsters
While recalling a story about his uncle, former President John F. Kennedy, the HHS secretary said the 35th commander in chief once told his Cabinet that one of them would need to complete a 50-mile hike “to show the American people that we’re in shape.”
“This Cabinet could’ve done it. We have a bunch of thoroughbreds on this Cabinet,” Kennedy continued, listing more than half a dozen officials including Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Education Secretary Linda McMahon, among others.
“There’s a lot of people who could probably do a 50-mile hike,” Kennedy said.
“What about me? You didn’t mention my name,” Trump chimed in.
“This guy walks nine miles a day on a golf course every weekend, so he could do it in a breeze,” Kennedy replied.
“When I’m not using a cart,” Trump shot back with a smile, covering his mouth with his one hand.
Cue Jimmy Kimmel “banality of evil” routine.