Good morning one and all to another wondrous day!
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
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Wife of sloopy, mother to three bright, curious, and highly active young girls. Perpetually exhausted.
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“Putin says Ukraine war might be ‘coming to an end’”
Like Trump with Iran?
It will take two weeks?
No, that’s a vidit to Mars.
Here for The Money Pit reference
Like flattening a curve.
I told my wife the other night when she had the Fox News on that it was a rerun. They were saying the same thing from a couple months ago “It’s almost over and we have Iran right where we want them.”
Shades of the walls are closing in on him that makes the other side quiver with glee.
Didn’t Libya have active slave markets? Blockade the coast – the invaders will have three options – fight the Libyans, return home, or be sold.
Force them into a narrow passage forcing them to fight the Spartan army?
No.
/Laconic
Except you handed your sovereignty over to Brussels. They are the ones who are going to be calling the shots here and guess what? They have other ideas.
Makes miniature vegetables punishable by death?
R.J. has a sad
That’s what a navy is for.
Sink them.
But only use the cheap bullets, else the libertairans will get mad at using expensive munitions to destroy cheap boats.
“Bombshell Evidence About the 2020 Election Is Coming”
Let’s say there is massive overwhelming proof that Trump won, then what? Or that covid was planned? Or Epstein worked for Mossad? Nothing happened from the Russia hoax or the Twitter censorship.
“We are going to be making arrests, and it’s coming, and I promise you, it’s coming soon,” Patel said.
Yeah and I remember Bongino’s claims from last year about Comey’s private files – that we never did see. And of course Trump campaigned on dumping the Epstein files on the public – unredacted.
At least they didn’t say they were releasing the kraken.
releasing the kraken
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Anyone remember John Durham slow rolling his report?
What’s the saying? Fool me once, something something, fool me five times, I’m a goddam retard?
fool me five times, I’m a goddam retard?
Well, you *are* a lawyer….
When the headline tells you all you need to know.
There is an explanation for that.
Thankless, all-important work like removing the garbage and keeping the lights on?
Whoops, that should have been a reply to OBE.
RE: thankless, all-important work…
That’s just a rehashing of the notion that women do a huge, uncredited amount of “emotional labor.”
Ignoring the baited breath, that is what all men and women should do anyway.
Uh ya? Its called circling the wagons on what matters most and that is our immediate responsibilities of our family you prick.
You’ll refrain above with some gender shit, but then do this. GFY
“who might be better acclimated to the prospect of thankless, all-important work”
If you actually look at who does hard, dirty, dangerous work, the answer is pretty clear. No speculation needed.
“thankless”
If you’re not thanking the woman taking care of your kids, maybe you’re the asshole.
You mean the nanny, rhy?
I would suspect that these people believe kids to be the worst thing a human can do in such a political environment so ya, they don’t thank anyone who has them.
R C Dean:
I saw at least one post that had a picture of an iPad with the caption, “Thanks mom!”
Gotta love the puzzlement over why they can’t get more of those lazy, useless, self-centered men to join their cause.
Its a book club that only drinks wine and wonders why no avid readers want to join.
Great point, RC. Now, a corollary:
“My co-leaders – six women – and I have recently gotten to thinking about what we might do to break men out of their morass of hopelessness and torpor.”
I suspect that those men are not indeed hopeless, but quietly content or even joyful. They are just saying “yes dear” to avoid shrieking, arguments, and being cut off. Remember what Jerry O’Connell said about being attacked by his wife Rebecca Romijn after he admitted he’d voted for Trump.
“7:10 am”
Come on, man.
Maybe look at what the right-wing active clubs are doing. They don’t seem to have any trouble recruiting and retaining men.
*prepares for the unhinged shrieking*
“When we look at the demographics of Resistance 2.0 there is overwhelming consistency,” writes Dana R Fisher, who studies civic engagement at American University. “Participants are predominantly white, highly-educated, female, and middle-aged.”
So credentialed, entitled, and insufferable.
I bet they give great helmet
The lack of diversity is rather shocking, isn’t it?
Resistance 2.0 needs a head of DEI. First order of business is to ensure that the next No Kings protest has the correct levels of diversity.
“Participants are predominantly white, highly-educated, female, and middle-aged.”
The predominance of the name Karen in that group just happens to be a total coincidence.
AWFULS
The Voting Rights Act decision will move a lot more seats. Probably even more than the VA gerrymander decision by midterms, although I’m not tracking what states are planning to do something before the midterms now that the shackles of the VRA have been removed.
I am amused that the VRA, passed to address malfeasance by solid Dem states, was being used to protect Dem seats, though.
The parties switched!
But honestly, I think the “affordability” mess is gonna kill any chances the GOP think they might have this year and probably 2028 too.
All the wins in SCOTUS and the pushback to radical insanity from the Dems will be for nothing if the economy gets worse.
This. The neocons lost them the midterms. The high gas prices havent fully rippled through the economy, and even if Iran full on surrenders tomorrow, we’re not back to 2.25 gas overnight.
+1 LBJ
I’m getting the impression that the Dem’s big cycle-winning “affordability” push has already fizzled out. At this point, though, the dynamic that will determine the midterms hasn’t even arrived yet.
I say just nuke Iran and get it over with.
Its gonna be shitty cause Dems have no answer on ‘affordability’ other than hand out free monies to favored groups.
I’m not seeing any Dem policies that will make things more affordable.
I also wonder if we would still be at war with Iran if Harris was President?
That Trump felt the need to appease the Neocons was puzzling, they were always anti-Trumpers at heart and were best left to rot.
I dont know how they talked Trump into this Iran thing. They have had a hardon for Iran since the 1980s. He stood them down rather artfully inbhis first term. But now?
I suspect a bit of hubris from his bully diplomacy successes. Maybe they played on his lack of time to get things done the slow way with trade and tariffs and other pressure tactics?
He has been speed-running a number of foreign policy objectives. Kidnapping a foreign leader to get a deal on Venezuelan oil rights… blowing them up in Iran…
I certainly didnt see that coming, not with the way he stood up to the “if you dont attack Iran it will start WWIII” pressure before.
I also wonder if we would still be at war with Iran if Harris was President?
Nope, we’d be at war with Israel.
It’s worked for them since the 1960’s, why change now?
hand out free monies to favored groups
Newsom’s diaper initiative is full of shit? [Read that the NGO is charging the state 3 times the cost of diapers at Target.]
I’m not seeing any Dem policies that will make things more affordable.
Your average “sign of the times” voter isn’t sophisticated enough to understand that. They just see “things expensive; Trump president” and vote against that.
That Trump felt the need to appease the Neocons was puzzling
Not that hard, they finally figured out how to stroke his ego to get what they wanted.
“Your legacy Donald – the man who humbled the Ayatollahs!”
“I dont know how they talked Trump into this Iran thing.”
The hundreds of millions donated to his campaign?
You actually think this will matter?
Really, as if Democrats needed anything other than the (D) to guide their voting. Not that Republicans are much better if at all.
No, Mr. Burlison, it’s hardly universal. Some of us want you to do less. Much less.
I would assume one can round it up to universal, close enough.
Are we to the point yet where machine-gunning migrant invaders on the open seas is an appropriate response?
Are we to the point – based on reality or political sentiment ?
Probably not “appropriate” but perhaps “inevitable”.
The boats were loaded with drug runners, something we had to do.
“They were coming right at us!”
It’s always been the correct response
“The Utah legislature had attempted to downgrade and set aside the citizen-approved proposition for an independent commission to draw the state’s congressional maps, KSL.com reported. The legislature attempted to amend the state’s constitution to grant lawmakers power to repeal the proposition, the Salt Lake Tribune reported.”
All this nonsense needs to stop. Why do states draw maps for federal representatives? Congressional districts should follow existing borders (state, county, city) and the minimal number of straight lines. None of these weird shapes. It’s a congressional map, not a modern art painting. Also, non-citizens shouldn’t count since non-citizens can’t vote for congress critters.
The concept of congressional districts was inherited from parlimentary constituencies, which descended from a process older than print. Someone had to draw those maps. Around the time of the revolution, the issue of imbalanced population distibution in represntative districts was obvious from the rotton boroughs still extant in the old country, so the principle of roughly equal population distribution was implemented. Since we were after print but before computers, the process of drawing the maps was handed to the various soveriegn entities which made up the Union of States. They later figured out a number of strategies to use that power for personal gain. Getting the process switched to an algorithmic one is going to be a hard sell since the decision makers who need to change it are the ones who benefit from the current process.
*Rotten
Also bring back Dunny-on-the-wald
And it is still relatively easy to build in an advantage…. particularly if your party appeals strongly to urban voters. Those concentrated votes make reasonable-looking gerrymandered maps much easier.
The “natural boundaries” bit seems perfectly reasonable. But then carving up a city based on where an interstate runs or where a major avenue runs follows this precept as well.
As long as there is power to be gained, people will work out ways to game the system to their advantage. This is one reason a “nonpartisan commission” state like California can end up so heavily gerrymandered.
not a modern art painting
Modern? Gerrymandering is a time honored tradition – starting with the Democratic governor of Massachusetts (at the turn of the 19th century).
One of the things the FF got wrong. Being dead old white men, they weren’t perfect.
Get rid of districts altogether. Switch to proportional representation. Look at statewide vote totals for every presidential election. Award seats to each party proportional to the number of votes they received in each state. For the next two Congressional elections, those are the seats available. Each party can run a statewide election, awarding seats to the top X vote getters.
A state with 25 seats in the House that voted 60 GOP/40 Dem for President would award 15 seats to the GOP and 10 to the Democrats. Then each party runs a separate election to fill those seats, only available to people registered to the respective parties. (no registered Republicans voting for Democrats, or vice versa.) The top 15 GOP votegetters get seated, and the top 10 Democrats do as well. No districts, no gerrymandering possible.
For example, of this had been done in the 2024 election the Congress would look like this:
220 GOP
213 Democrat
1 Green Party (CA)
1 Natural Law Party (CA)
So no more local representation? I don’t think I want that. Of course the current districts are too big to be truly “local” anymore but that’s a separate issue.
Terrible idea. That is how you get political Eurosclerosis, where you have to appeal to every itty-bitty whacko party in order to build a ruling coalition. Think French Third and Fourth Republics and Italy after World War II.
And then you get the fun fact where you can airdrop candidates into constituencies they don’t give a damn about except they’re yellow dog Labourites or Greenies.
Restore the republic, repeal the 17th amendment and let states have state senators based in counties again.
Do the opposite of what you are suggesting.
Have state senators ever been by county? I like the idea but that was never the case in NY at least.
Because the Constitution gives that power to the states.
Not exactly, the Constitution doesn’t really say, and it is federal law that requires states to have districts.
State lines should not be straight either.
Why not? Ever see an Iowa county map?
Lines should follow natural features, ridge lines and rivers.
Are the hantavirus cases signs of cruise ship, umm, hook ups? I don’t think it usually spreads just by being in the general vicinity of someone already infected.
I would think cruise people are too drunk to hook up.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080569
Well one would think if you are okay woth frolicking in a dump to find some rare bird that you are probably predisposed to frolick with the birds on the ship too.
I thought it was usually spread by rats/rat feces. I’m guessing this is a food issue and not hooking up.
My recollection is that it is spread by mice feces/urine aerosols, so it would be a ventilation issue.
A couple went to a trash dump and tromped around birdwatching, came back to the ship with Hantavirus and probably tromped feces all over the ship.
The monkey pox scare a while back was mostly ‘frolicking’ men. Once they could not hide the transmission vector, the scare fizzled out.
this woman doesn’t need a matchmaker. she needs to accidentally book the wrong airbnb in a mountain town called pine hollow.
it’s december. there’s one coffee shop, one christmas tree farm, & one emotionally unavailable man named jake who owns a struggling bookstore despite somehow having perfect stubble, a golden retriever, & unresolved grief from a fiancee who left him for a private equity guy in denver.
she arrives in a black suv, wearing a cashmere coat, trying to take a “clarity weekend” before interviewing $80k/year matchmakers in nyc.
the town hates her immediately because she asks if they have oat milk.
jake says, “we have milk.”
she says, “from what?”
tension.
then a snowstorm hits. her flight gets canceled. her phone dies. the only place with wifi is jake’s bookstore, which is called “second chances”.
over the next 4 days, she helps him realize the store doesn’t need to close, it just needs a better merchandising strategy, a paid newsletter, & a tasteful espresso machine. he teaches her how to chop firewood, slow down, & pronounce “community” like it isn’t a fund thesis.
by day 5, she has accidentally saved the town’s winter festival.
by day 6, she is wearing flannel.
https://x.com/signulll/status/2053164190484013499
Crossing Delancy was a great movie.
Larry Correia has been having a ball on X floating the idea of a 7 part romantasy series that pushes all the buttons.
something about swords and thrusting…
This week on the Hallmark Channel…
“Lightning Literally Strikes Just Feet From Anti-Erika Kirk Protesters At Hillsdale College Commencement”
https://dailycaller.com/2026/05/10/lightning-strikes-near-anti-erika-kirk-protest-hillsdale-college/
STIJLTH
Thor giving them a warning?
Zeus is the one who throws lightning bolts, I think.
Thor is the god of hammers.
And rock n roll.
Thor’s Hammer throws lightning bolts and gets so hot he has to wear his magic glove to hold it.
Interesting!
Members of Congress have been coming from somewhat richer backgrounds over time.
You might naïvely expect them to have become more typical of the American people, but it seems not!
https://x.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/2053660443407749473
It takes money and connections to have the time to devote to non-productive “political organizing” work. With such a large population, these things are a huge advantage in entering politics at any level.
There was a time when being a representative was a part time job, and being a local town hero, or maybe a successful farmer or builder would allow you to go to Washington part time.
That no longer works. Being the kid from a wealthy family with charisma to build a fundraising machine is the way to big power… or being able to work your way into an existing machine.
Politics is now a life-long career, starting right out of school with jobs at campaigns and in fundraising organizations. It is very hard for someone outside to break through. Trump is the exception, and he worked on moving from wealthy businessman to politician for several decades.
Please SMOD, please – you’re our only hope.
Song score.
If you share a graph with an axis that 99% of people don’t know what the label is you had better explain it.
“Former President Joe Biden plans to go to court to block the Trump administration from releasing roughly 70 hours of partially redacted audio recordings of his conversations with a ghostwriter, the Justice Department said in new court filings Friday.”
Does anyone want to sit through 70 hours of incoherent mumbling?
What’s another 70 hours after 4 long years of it?
Cause we have spastic, disconnected rambling currently? Need to give the brain a moment to relax Doc.
If I was judge, I would agree to hear him out, but he, not his lawyers, need to come and state his objections coherently.
Coal miner, union activist, and singer Nimrod Workman performs the traditional Appalachian folk song ‘Oh Death’
https://x.com/_HistoryNerd/status/2053475264504778846
doomer
@uncledoomer
I have sympathy for this guy’s troubles but I kind of feel like it was over before it even began when his mom named him “Nimrod workman”
Nimrod is generally understood in the Bible as a symbol of power, rebellion, and the founder of cities that later became enemies of Israel
Was this the deal where Russia would take the Iranian uranium while continuing to assist in their nuclear energy program?
Not sure what’s so unacceptable about it.
Depends on whether or not you believe Russia and Iran will actually hold up their respective ends of the deal.
If Trump negotiates hard enough, he might get back to deal like Obama’s JCPOA – except with no sanctions and tolls on the Strait of Hormuz.
Russia already has Hillary’s uranium so why not?
The intensity of Chihong Ryu’s most muscular pose is insane.
https://x.com/protein901/status/2053716736063537643
Chihong Ryu does not return google results for a sumo wrestler… I wonder if it made up or a strange English version of some name.
“Bonnie Tyler had to be resuscitated after going into cardiac arrest when doctors tried to bring her out of her induced coma, according to a report.”
https://pagesix.com/2026/05/11/celebrity-news/bonnie-tyler-had-to-be-resuscitated-after-going-into-cardiac-arrest-reports/
So it wasn’t a total eclipse of the heart?
No, it was a heartache.
Nothing but a heartache.
She’s holding out for a hero!
“As night follows day, progressives’ response to the Virginia Supreme Court’s tossing of Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s outrageous gerrymander is to demand an instant court-packing move to undo it….
Specifically, progs want to ram through a law instantly dropping the retirement age for the Virginia court to 54, which would allow the legislature to replace enough justices to restore the gerrymander.”
https://nypost.com/2026/05/10/opinion/dems-scheme-to-fix-their-virginia-gerrymander-fail-is-a-worse-outrage/
CWABOA
Like I noted yesterday, every Dem pol and voter will support this.
You don’t get the “fundamental change” they are constantly demanding without smashing the system.
Wouldn’t the Virginia Supreme Court just invalidate the law as unconstitutional?
Well my guess is they would go the same path as this would be an amendment to their constitution and they would fail again.
In which they would now say not only has SCOVA denied the People, but also the seaparation of branches by denying the State Legislature.
Would this law apply to the reps trying to ram it through?
You know who else liked to ram things through?
You know who else liked to ram things through?
STEVE SMITH
Virginia Democrat assholes are too large even for STEVE SMITH to get any friction.
DAMN! THESE THINGS LIKE HOLLAND TUNNEL!!!
From TedS’s link: (the sole premise of the story is whether or not to destroy surplus gun or sell them TO COPS.)
Do they ever explain which hands are the “wrong” hands?
Yours.
Progressives have their own set of Iron Laws. One of the major ones is, “If we can’t control it, we destroy it.”
Any. Guns corrupt and even cops are only human.
Alec Baldwin’s?
This is a unicorn like “leftover bacon” or “too much sex”. There is no such thing.
As much as I hate to say it…a person can have too many guns.
Having done a few firearms-specific estate sales, I’d even say that it’s common to have too many guns.
Myself, I could be perfectly happy with ten firearms.
“‘Do you believe it’s time for the state of Israel to reexamine and possibly reset its financial relationship to the United States?’ Garrett asked, to which Netanyahu responded, ‘Absolutely.’
‘And I’ve said this to President Trump. I’ve said it in – to our own people. Their jaws drop,’ Netanyahu continued. ‘I want to draw down to zero the American financial support, the financial component of the military cooperation that we have.’
Netanyahu went on the say he wants to begin the drawdown immediately rather than wait for the next Congress, phasing it in over the next decade, a push that comes American support for Israel declines.”
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15807815/Netanyahus-shock-plot-split-US-Trumps-Iran-peace-proposal-unravels-sending-oil-prices-soaring.html
No idea how that could work.
Great! Cut it now, immediately, 100%.
Alert the AIPAC handlers!
I’ll believe it when I see it.
Israel is no longer a poor country – they don’t need our financial support for their military any more. The argument is that it’s bad for both sides at this point.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/end-american-aid-israel
Haven’t read the whole thing. Brevity is banned at Tablet. Although it seems that is an argument giving military aid to Israel benefits the U.S.
It’s a benefit to the US in the sense it gives the US leverage, both militarily and politically, at a minimum. It also means things like F35 sales, which is a benefit to Lockheed Martin more than the US military directly, but that’s a fuzzy distinction.
Cut every cent of foreign aid to EVERY OTHER COUNTRY ON THE PLANET. Not just Israel.
Israel should have been weaned off the US tit decades ago.
And I consider myself a supporter of Israel. And wish they would exterminate Hezbollah, Hamas, Fatah, and all the other genocidists with extreme prejudice.
Trusting the kindness of strangers is something only progressives think makes sense.
I have no problem with military aid but should always be done with a treaty that is narrow in scope, have passed Advice and Consent, be ‘clean’ and have no riders that attach other bullshit and have a sunset clause.
While I am at it, I also want a ManBearPig as a pet.
Okay, let’s say they do prove the 2020 election was rigged. The absolute best outcome we could hope for is that all Biden-appointed judges are removed from the bench, and all his pardons are void. Where it gets real messy is what to do about all the rulings and opinions issued by those illegitimate judges.
I don’t see SCOTUS wanting to upset the apple cart, but who knows. This would be uncharted territory for them and they’d have to pull something out of their collective asses. KBJ should recuse herself from that case, but we know she won’t.
Seems like the statute of limitations would still protect Fauci and others.
We might get the joy of seeing Rachel Levine’s pension pulled.
Prove where, and for what purpose?
The courts don’t care at all unless it is proven in court as part of a lawsuit where it is essential to some kind of ruling. Without that, there’s no legal ramifications for anyone.
Congress can’t do anything about the 2020 election at this point. They had their chance, and passed on it.
The President certainly can’t do anything, either.
Everything done as a result of the 2020 election is graven in stone, not be undone.
The only potential result is to get Congress and/or the states to pass election reform. The states have already done whatever they were going to do. Congress has shown it’s not going to do a damn thing, at least not this time around.
Prove where, and for what purpose?
The supreme court of butthurt. So everyone can stroke off.
The blue states will never get rid of motor voter.
It’s what’s ‘winning’ them so many seats and state houses.
Honestly, I’d be willing to trade that for a judgment that OMB was not eligible to serve out his term with Vanc taking over at the 10-year mark.
It needs to become an event that wrecks democrats the way Watergate wrecked the Republican brand. It needs to be the case that when AZ has more ballots than registered voters, the whole country mocks them and says here we go again. It needs to be regarded as a dark era in our history when things went off the rails.
None of this will happen because Democrats.
They meant well.
The Saratoga County airport is much prettier than any tiny podunk airport I’ve been not before, but that makes sense since it caters to rich people coming in to watch their horses run at the track. The diner was not accepting walk-ins ’cause Mothers Day, so I went to the frou-frou breakfast trailer. It was delicious. I will need to try their brisket breakfast burrito next time. It’s a bit less frou-frou this season, with the complementary rocket salad being replaced with the more pedestrian melon cup.
I just looked at a picture of the new terminal.. Looks nice, and yes much better than 99% of public airports, but the only people that will really see that terminal are the pilots.
The Jet traveler will go directly from their plane to/from the waiting car/suv.
In interesting FBOs, at Modern Aviation KILM (Wilmington NC) There was a marble lion statue in the mens lavatory.
Million Air at Westchester NY was quite large in the western lodge style.
Even the largest FBO’s in most places (Denver, Miami Exec, Naples ) are very modest.. clean and neat, but not trying to be “luxurious”
I used to watch The Hills on MTV many moons ago and I would never have had on my bingo card, me saying, “Spencer Pratt is making a lot of sense, he should elected mayor of one of the biggest cities in the country.” He’s probably not going to win but shit, I said the same thing about Trump in 2016, and we all know how that turned out.
it does show how far the Democratic Pary has fallen when someone running on providing basic services, keeping a leash on crime and public drug use, and fiscal prudence is seen as being a radical.
I remember some silly made up feud between him playing the villain and some chick that got a lot of media attention for some reason. Never saw the show.
“Sydney Sweeney goes TOPLESS and sucks toe in shock Euphoria scenes as fans slam ‘disturbing’ show”
https://www.dailymail.com/tv/article-15806649/Sydney-Sweeney-shock-Euphoria-scenes.html
They know they are watching Euphoria?
I cannot shake the idea that the writers and producers, being Hollywood leftists, hate Sweeney and are running as many storylines and scenes to humiliate her as possible.
I suspect there is quite a few folks hope she goes the way of Marilyn Monroe.
That’s been her character since the beginning, long before anyone knew she was registered Republican.
Having her portray an OF model is a way to have her do more titillating scenes.
I agree with Dean.
A show about the dark side of internet porn fetishes is shocking people they portray internet porn fetishes?
Its moral preening hens and fragile loud mouths that the Fail will continue to get their ad-revenue from.
If this was Cara Delvigne or one of the other actresses the Fail inexplicably fawns over, it would be portrayed by them as stunning and brave.
Has anyone posted the time stamps of those titillating scenes for those of us who have no interest in watching the rest of the show?
“Alyssa Milano is reflecting on the strides made in Hollywood almost a decade after sending a tweet that came to define the Me Too movement….
It was a watershed moment that put women’s rights center stage and one that was given a concrete name thanks in part to a simple tweet sent by Milano.
‘If you’ve been sexually harassed or assaulted write “me too” as a reply to this tweet,’ she shared at the time.”
https://www.dailymail.com/tvshowbiz/article-15805745/alyssa-milano-metoo-hollywood-reflection.html
CWAC
One of the first and greatest “torpedo circled back” moments.
The USS Tang enters the chat . . .
She was memorable in Embrace of the Vampire
I thought this was America!
Jessica Holloway, 34, from Tampa, Florida showed up to her daughter’s U-8 girls soccer game yesterday morning at Carrollwood Recreation Park.
She was wearing a “WINE MOM ERA” tank top… and decided it was the perfect time to set up a folding table and an Igloo cooler on the sidelines.
Then she started selling homemade wine in mason jars to the other parents.
(Okay, the story is fake. But it’s entirely plausible, being Florida Woman.)
Manhattan, 1931 —
Before the skyline became a forest of skyscrapers.
https://x.com/donwinslow/status/2053630118388789608
Weep for them
Hudson and her children have been swept up in a wave of new restrictions and bureaucratic hurdles that have begun to ripple across the country as a result of Trump’s marquee legislation, which he signed into law with great fanfare nearly a year ago during a Fourth of July celebration. The law extends tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations while cutting $187 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, often referred to as food stamps, over the next decade. Now, the consequences of those cuts are showing up on Americans’ kitchen tables.
Since the law was enacted last summer, about 3.5 million people have fallen off the SNAP rolls nationwide as of January, according to federal data. No state has seen a more dramatic drop than Arizona, which offers a window into what may be in store for other states.
“It’s a frightening time for the folks we serve,” said Natalie Jayroe, CEO of the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona, which has already been struggling with limited food after the federal funding cuts from the early days of the second Trump administration. “The overwhelming uncertainty and anxiety that the folks we serve are facing — it’s hard to describe.”
Everything was fine until President Cartoon Villain fucked it all up. Now those people will starve in the gutter while oligarchs get fat on champagne and larks’ tongues.
Arizona, you say? Huh. Is there something about Arizonan demographics that would lead to that?
My kitchen table was beans and rice for many a years…you’ll do fine.
Even those prices have gone up. Last month I paid $3.50 for a pound of Salvadoran beans.
Artisanal Salvadoran beans?
$0.86/can of beans. Rice is still cheap. $1.77/bag
Work more if you want better food, but you aint gonna go hungry.
non-GMO, 100% organic, free-range, farm-to-table, humanely slaughtered, Salvadoran beans
I’ve been noticing that the grocery stores around me no longer have cheap dry red beans. I have to go to the ‘Mexican’ aisle for them, and I had several people suggest I look in the ‘ethnic’ aisle.
Damn it people. Red beans and rice is ‘Merican!
“Artisanal Salvadoran beans?”
Just Goya, grown in the U.S. Point is they were a bit over a dollar a few years ago.
“Rice is still cheap. $1.77/bag”
Asians and Latinos are perpetually amused rice comes in such small bags. It’s not cocaine.
I get my rice in the 25lb bags at Jungle Jims.
Ive seen dry bean types dimish over the years and that could be people ain’t buying them or using SNAP for them cause…i get quality canned on SNAP
I never fully experienced the joys of ‘eat what’s on your plate ’cause that’s all there is’ but my Dad did growing up. The son of a blackballed coal miner in Depression-era West Virginia. He taught me to be a clean plate person (except for raisins and stewed tomatoes. Ugh).
Get a job welfare queen.
Prominent quote:
Bullshit. If you truly can’t work there are bennies for that. Otherwise why the fuck am I forking part of paycheck over every week to pay for that situation?
And there are alternatives to government bennies besides.
work”
Fixed
Shit, too bad I didn’t fix my tags.
Thank goodness someone is finally paying attention to this crisis.
economic inequality
A completely irrelevant non-issue.
Not when your goal is to make everyone equally poorer than your chosen class.
The SNAP cuts come at a time of growing wealth inequality in the U.S. The richest households have seen their wealth balloon in recent years from investment gains, while lower-income households have seen their wage growth slow, their job prospects weaken and their costs continue to rise. Now, the divide between the rich and poor in America is the widest it has been in at least a generation — and growing, according to Federal Reserve figures.
“I think it’s a really cruel time to be taking grocery money away from low-income people with prices where they are and for reasons that are beyond their control,” said Lauren Bauer, a fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution, a Washington-based think tank. She called the new work requirements in the law “a cruel policy to try to use hunger as leverage over people.”
More government regulations will make housing cheaper and jobs plentiful. Good jobs, rewarding both financially and psychologically. The country needs more non profit think tank jobs, and civil society advocacy jobs. Jobs which will unite the people and repair the fabric of society.
economic studies at the Brookings Institution
Right up there with military intelligence.
I think it’s pretty cruel to be taking away from the investing I want to make for
My children’s future to subsidize all these fat oxygen thieves.
Yeah, my paycheck is not keeping up with inflation. Whose fault is that? It is not Elon or Jeff or any of the other currently disfavored boogeymen.
DEBATE: Has immigration in Wales gone too far?
https://x.com/kunley_drukpa/status/2053590598607688103
l oh l
A Korean was just elected to Welsh Parliament 😱
Joshua Seungkyun Kim, a Korean immigrant supply teacher, won his election to the Senedd for the Blaenau Gwent Caerffili Rhymni constituency in the 2026 Welsh Parliament election as the Reform candidate. He has voiced concerns about the mass migration problem from the third world into the UK.
He was absent from the initial results announcement, arriving 45 minutes late because he was still at work and hadn’t expected to win.
It’s more shocking that he had a job.
So now that Reform is winning, there are questions about an immigration problem?
Holy symbolism for the win!
lol Delightful.
Without knowing the specifics I am going to guess that the correct answer is “Yes”.
Oh no!
Farmers going bankrupt!
GOOD.
the vast majority of these farms are multigenerational. Why ANY of them have a dime of debt is beyond me. Except if you have been around farmers you know why. They for several generations have been operating off of the propoganda that was Paul Harvey’s Thank A Farmer.
It’s BS.
Many of them drink their profits. Go to the con Agg show every year and defer maintenance. They get on the dole and put land in CRP to farm subsidies. So many of them have most of their land in CRP, for decades, while their equipment has sat, rusted and been hauled to scrap. When the CRP times out they can’t farm because they hauled all that iron to scrap for cash and now have to borrow money to buy equipment.
Most of these jerks don’t understand how to simply ballence a checkbook. They don’t do estate planning. They take loans for fuel and fertilizer instead of planing ahead.
The average farmer DESERVES to fail.
CRP?
Crop reserve program.
Farmers get paid per acre not to farm.
To his credit Obama made the program smaller but it’s still massive. Part of the welfare program that is the farm bill.
Crop rotation program, I think.
I know one farmer who has about 400 acres in it.
Why?
It’s free money and it’s “too far” from where his equipment is parked at the other 300 acres he owns and the land he leases/contract farms.
Ted’s correct, thanks.
Then there is federal subsidized crop insurance.
Subsidies to cover property tax which are minimum. I have 8.5 acres leased to a farmer, my taxes on the farmed part is about $6 an acre rather than the $100 an acre it would be without the agricultural exemption.
And if they “can’t afford” the fertilizer and the crop fails or comes in under expectations, guess what? Since they have federaly subsidized crop insurance they still get paid! You pay them!
I believe it is a New Deal era program to restrict farm output in order to keep wholesale prices up. Of course being government it soon ran off the rails.
There should be as few subsidies for anything produced in this country as possible.
The local cable news outfit which of course is loaded with sob stories and lefty propaganda just had a bit about how rough farmers have it now. Which I guess is a nice change of pace from the children going hungry or racist cops or one of their other usual hobby horses.
“Paul Harvey’s Thank A Farmer”
There’s something of a parallel with many teachers. We treat farming and teaching as “callings” rather than jobs. Since they’re callings, one doesn’t actually have to have any of the necessary skills.
Bafflement in the NPR-verse
When Rachel Negro-Henderson started shopping at Aldi regularly during the pandemic — a change her family made when her husband lost his income as a crew coach — she’d sometimes have awkward run-ins with acquaintances.
“People would not want to talk about why they were here, like it was a mistake,” the healthcare administrator said. “They just stumbled into a grocery store because they needed a tomato.”
But after just a few years, those interactions have changed. Negro-Henderson, who lives in Audubon, N.J., with her husband and three kids, says she now sees people she knows there all the time.
“A penny saved is a penny earned.”
-some old white Nazi misogynist
I love how the notion of thrift is somehow shameful to the NPR demographic.
WTF??
I don’t get it. Is she inferring that shopping at Aldi is low rent?
It’s Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s or GTFO!
I think so. I don’t get the embarrassment though.
The Fresh Market near me is closing. I don’t know what I’m going to do to get decent steaks now…
Start rustling cattle?
It’s shameful to my mom. Who is dead broke.
Why? Cause she likes to spend money and name drop the brands she wastes it on.
Wait, I’m supposed to be ashamed for shopping at Aldis? Is Giant Eagle or Heinen’s acceptable, or do I need to go out of my way to a Trader Joe’s or Whole Foods?
Yes Neph
And you probably should have it delivered.
Crew coach?
As in “you, row harder! You, coxswain, speed up the tempo!”
Um, shouldn’t that be African-American-Henderson?
African-American-Hender-offspring, you gender denying racist!
“According to federal prosecutors, Grace Carol Brown broke a window at the building on Landa Street on January 14, threw a backpack containing ethanol, gasoline, a lighter, and matches inside, attempted to climb through the broken window, and when that failed, lit a rolled-up magazine on fire and tossed it into the structure…
Investigators also found a note at the scene in which Brown allegedly expressed extreme hostility toward the Republican Party, ICE, and federal officials.
Court documents and multiple reports describe the note as saying, “Report this: I burned down the Nazi Party of NB’s office. F-CK DJT F-CK ICE, Liberty or die.”
Additional writings found in the backpack called Republican officials “Enemies of the U.S. Constitution.”
The building she attacked also houses two other commercial businesses, a storage company and a used-car dealer, making the federal charge applicable because the property is used in interstate commerce.
Brown remains in custody and has not yet entered a plea on the federal charges. She also faces additional state-level felony charges in Comal County, including terrorism, arson, and burglary.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/woman-indicted-attempted-arson-texas-republican-party-headquarters/
What commercial property isn’t used for “interstate commerce”?
One of the worst Supreme Court decisions ever.
She is right that republicans are the enemy of the constitution. So are the democrats. Was she planning on burning down their headquarters next? I need to see some equality here.
She looks exactly like I expected.
A slew of factors has been making it harder to put an affordable meal on the table. Food insecurity mushroomed during the COVID-19 pandemic, and grocery prices have skyrocketed in recent years. Layer onto that inflation, the threat of tariffs and corporate cost-cutting schemes like shrinkflation and electronic shelf labels, which give retailers the ability to change prices based on demand.
Fucking kkkorporashunz are robbing us blind.
“Food insecurity” is a term they use to pretend that there is actual hunger in America. But when you dive into it, “lack of variety” is defined as “food insecurity”.
*faints*
Many of those facing economic pressures and frustrations have begun shopping at budget grocery stores and warehouse clubs in lieu of traditional supermarkets, their priorities shifting in pursuit of a good deal. Look to social media to see the change, where creators regularly post their favorite finds at Aldi or meals they’ve made entirely from ingredients bought at Costco.
OH
MY
GOD!
Written by a person that never lived through Gerry Ford and Jimmy Carter.
Can you say “Whip Inflation Now”.
I live rather comfortably and we still shop at Costco. That’s not some kind of new thing. Or maybe that’s why I’m able to live comfortably.
Just social signalling is all. They have to stop using their ‘help’ to pickup groceries at Whole Check or Trader Joe’s and dare step foot in a normal store with the filthy masses
Poo folks have poo ways.
People that have wealth keep it because they spend like poor people should.
Horrific prospect
Without a clear frontrunner to succeed Gov. Gavin Newsom, California’s diverging Democratic factions are now split between too many candidates. The danger of that divide is clear: Under California law, the top two finishers in the June primary will advance to the general election in November regardless of party affiliation.
It would be a disaster for California if the final two left standing were the Republicans, former Fox News commentator Steve Hilton and Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco. Neither is in any way qualified to be governor — and that’s as polite as we can be.
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The next governor of California must be a Democrat.
Oh, no! We conjured up this stupid rule to lock in Democrats and now it’s going to bite us hard.
Nah, as soon as repub gains office, im sure a recall petition will be done and they will correctly appoint their leader.
Define “qualified”. If it’s not listed in your constitution then GFY.
Qualifie(D)
Thanks for the links Banjos.
This is where I get my news.