SugarFree seems to be improving. They are allowing him solid food, which has greatly improved his spirits. The leeches are gone. But you’re stuck with me for two afternoons this week. At least. The week is not yet over. I’m feeling like Marco Rubio, here. But you’re not here for gossip and introspection, you’re here for the links.
LATE ADDITION — IRAN-LINKED HACKERS TARGETING US WATER SYSTEMS: When EPA inspectors began showing up at drinking water facilities across the country in 2023, more than 70 percent of the systems they inspected were violating federal law. Not obscure regulatory technicalities. Basic security. Facilities that had never changed the factory-default passwords on their equipment. Systems where every employee, past and present, logged in with the same credentials. Former workers who still had full access to infrastructure serving tens of thousands of people. This is completely unsurprising to anyone who has worked IT, or who has kept up with the computer security press over the years.
NPR CLOSES CLIMATE DESK, FIRES REPORTERS: Be still, my beating heart. Deets here. Money quote: Papers all over are downsizing their climate teams as the 50-year campaign to use the weather to enact Marxism has failed.
WHO IS BEHIND THE NEWARK ANTI-ICE PROTESTS: The marvelous and indispensable Data Republican walks us through the command and funding structure of the people behind this.
GOVERNMENT SCIENTISTS CAUGHT SMUGGLING MONKEY POX INTO COUNTRY: Two scientists at a U.S. government lab were charged with smuggling vials of deactivated mpox virus into the country from Africa and lying about it during interviews with investigators at a Michigan airport, authorities said Tuesday. […] Munster told investigators at the Detroit-area airport that any necessary documents were in his laptop, “but you don’t need them. I do this all the time,” the FBI quoted him as saying. The scary part is that he, and other government scientists, probably do indeed do this all the time. The arrogance of Fauci seems to have infested the whole system. Wasn’t there another similar case a while back?
FUCK RIGHT OFF: Irresponsible narratives of two-tier policing seek to sow division and fly in the face of decades of evidence of institutional failure within policing and disparities faced by racialised communities. –Amnesty International’s response to the Henry Nowak stabbing.
GOOD NIGHT, SLEEP TIGHT, DON’T LET THE BEDBUGS BITE: But if they do, hit ’em with a shoe ’til they’re black and blue! The federal government agency responsible for monitoring bedbug infestations is itself infested with bedbugs. A perfect example of government incompetence. And to add to the indignity of not being able to control the one problem they were tasked to solve, that mean old President Trump is not allowing them to work from home. Womp, womp. Nursery rhyme lede explained here.
HOME INSPECTION INDUSTRY CONSOLIDATION, AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR YOU: They’re selling your data to lenders and insurers. I’d never heard of Wall Street Apes before, and don’t know how legit they are, but thought I’d pass this on out of an abundance of caution.
SugarFree seems to be improving. They are allowing him solid food, which has greatly improved his spirits.
This is good news.
Sometimes I have trouble with solid food after some of the Hat & Hair episodes. Get better Sugah!
Thanks, Tonio, for being the pinch hitter, when the going gets tough.
Tonio swings a mean bat.
Ditto to all the above.
Leeches gone, everything being everything, is a massive improvement. The psychological release from them being away! (or ‘similar’ things I I actually *can* relate to), is tremendously important.
Fantastic upswing. Enjoy it, Sug.
You mean like the white Anglo-saxon community in metropolitan London?
I’m going to join you in encouraging Amnesty International to have sex with themselves, in whatever manner they enjoy the least…
Listen bigot, if that English kid didn’t want to get stabbed to death he wouldn’t have been born white.
“You mean like the white Anglo-saxon community in metropolitan London?”
LOL. According to the UK sources I follow they (commies and immigrants, broadly) are denying that there is any such thing as English culture or ethnicity. Straight up erasure it is.
Every day I give thanks that my ancestors escaped that cold draughty now-hellscape, and flourished in America.
Yeah, that we don’t have a culture trash is a weird Anglo Saxon affectation. Canada’s well on their way to that too, definitely us to a lesser extent, and probably Australia as well.
Have you not seen the meme/argument that white people don’t have culture?
I saw a counterpoint to that, someone posting that they had scored a bunch of Croatian, Bosnian, and other Eastern European food and proclaimed that they loved “the ethnic whites”.
Hear hear. Possibly the single good thing my Mother’s family ever did was to get their asses out of Ireland in 1900…
I would say the 2nd best thing my ancestors did was getting on the boat out of Ireland. The 1st best thing they did was not dying on that boad.
Yeah, the US is heading rapidly in the same direction. Decades of “multiculti” propaganda will have that effect.
“Sorry, not sorry”
/signed, Amnesty International
Be wary of them.
Thanks.
Their tone is paranoid and unserious, and there’s a barely hidden undercurrent of resentment. But even a blind squirrel finds the occasional acorn.
Weren’t they one of the big ones pushing NFTs?
Late addition at the top of the post.
In the water systems panic, and I am asking this because I totes did NOT read the f’n article, what ties general incompetence with Iran?
It’s not the Ayatollah’s fault so many of the passwords are
Password.
Nothing ties their general incompetence to Iran, but their general incompetence facilitated their hacking by what is described in the original source material as an “Iran-affiliated group.”
Good afternoon Tonio. I did submit my article last night.
I started looking at the article from Data Republican. I decided I don’t have time to read it at work. When I get home I need to decide if I can read it without losing my cool.
Grazie!
Please do follow-up. DR does what she does best, waltzes through the data, frozen in their crystalline matrices, and extracts patterns for us.
I also submitted an article that was supposed to be done … ::checks notes:: over the weekend.
I blame WordPress?
That’s good, Grummun. Very, very good.
Whiskey Papa is always a legit blame-sink.
These folks don’t seem to have great OPSEC, and the panopticon state is much more efficient than it was sixty years ago, when the Feds rolled up the Klan, the Weather Underground, etc.
Which means to me that (adjusts tinfoil Homburg) if these groups aren’t being decapitated or otherwise mortally wounded, it’s because somebody doesn’t want them interfered with.
Until now… perhaps.
They don’t have any OPSEC, because they don’t need it. Nothing that any of these groups are doing is illegal, and most of it is widely supported by the public. .
I don’t support it.
>.>
Well, half the public.
Add to that Antifa designated as a terrorist group…
Having worked on Wall St and in insurance take that with a big grain of salt.
State DOI are very consumer focused. If it is true the data will be consolidated and anonymized. You have to file on what your underwriting criteria is.
Thanks.
I’m now regretting posting that without doing more research, but am leaving it up to own my mistake.
Nah, it is still interesting to consider. Think about GM selling its owner data for auto insurance. That was real and blew up nicely.
We all enjoy good conspiracy theories.
True.
Even a bad conspiracy theory is better than nothing.
“Even a bad conspiracy theory is better than nothing.”
*scrunchy face, furious head-shaking*
I bought a lifetime subscription to Plex and haven’t used it in a decade.
New social features further Plex’s evolution from media server business
Let the data scraping and enshitification continue!
I picked up the lifetime one of the last times it went for $100. I’ve been contemplating shifting over to Jellyfin, but haven’t felt the need to make the jump over yet.
Same. Plex, for all its faults, integrates antenna tv and ripped disk media better than all of the alternatives. Until I find something else with a good command over DVR and media library streaming, I’m stuck on Plex.
That “you” was aimed at upstream funders.
Is he trying to imply the former Mrs Jobs’ hands are not clean?
*faints*
Good news everyone!
https://abcnews.com/Politics/trump-admin-proposes-broad-new-tariffs-top-trading/story?id=133552819
I bet that proposal was written on a Unicor produced desk, too.
Yes the admin has many tools here. You can thank Congress for providing. This time literally “for the children”.
Too bad the voters are enacting it anyway – at least at the local level in many places.
Peak Guardian for today?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/03/north-carolina-judge-deport-teen-murder-victim
So if whatever proof they provided the court is insufficient or inadmissible of course they are going to proceed.
Wouldn’t they only be deporting the remains of the murder victim?
bitchuneedsoap is an excellent username.
Makes sense for a bunch of communists.
I want to know more about this supposed “hunger strike” because I am skeptical that any such thing happened.
They weren’t able to get DoorDash for several hours, that’s the same thing as a hunger strike!
I suppose it’s believable that a few of them were convinced to play-act it by activist NGO lawyers, but some sort of mass “hunger strike” as the rioters were implying? Doubt very much.
Can a guy be a paid protester and work from home?
/Askingforafriend
Let the who of the king’s men is packing begin!
Gay officers group to skip NYC Pride March over no-weapons policy
I would be quite interested to know how loudly and vigorously GOAL has protested the various gun control laws that NYC and NY State civilians have to deal with. I’m not making any predictions, but I do have a, “Fuck all y’all!” chambered and ready…
They are trained professionals!
https://www.kgun9.com/news/community-inspired-journalism/marana/bullet-hits-playground-report-cites-police-errors-at-shooting-range
The jackboots would have gotten muddy.
Oh brother. 🙄
How about don’t march because those parades are a circus of radical leftist agitation?
https://x.com/dhsgov/status/2062156765064503793
Margarine and aspartame… that settles it, I’m on Team ICE Detention Facilities are Inhumane now.
Margarine? It’s like being a kid again. I get to squeeze the bag to mix the coloring.
Non of that fancy aspartame though. A 5 pound bucket of the light corn syrup will work wonders.
Fortified Sugar Free Beverage
*imagines a very large Sugar-Free crashing through brick walls with a pitcher of “something”*
“We all are Citizens of the World. What’s good for you, must be good for all.”
Fuck off, commie.
The Pavening
The finish
https://www.glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/20260603_134831.jpg
What a nice thing,
Tall cans!
https://www.glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/20260603_134840.jpg
https://x.com/hunterbiden/status/2061514195292573856
Damn
I’ll give Hunter credit – at least he has a working sense of humor.
How much is that in swimming pools filled with Spanish doubloons?
While Musk has already faced intense criticism from Democrats after his chain saw-wielding tenure in the Trump administration, his rise to trillionaire status is making him an even bigger target among politicians who want to highlight the nation’s wealth gap ahead of the midterm elections.
“Income inequality is a huge problem in America and having our first trillionaire vividly illustrates the problem,” Darrell West, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who researches the subject, said in an email. “This will be an issue in 2026 and 2028.”
A trillionaire is someone who has $1,000,000,000,000 or more — or 1,000 times the threshold for a billionaire. Scientific research says it’s a figure so large and surreal that it’s difficult for humans to put into context.
He’s a menace to civil society. All those income inequity scholars might die of apoplexy.
Income inequality is a huge problem
I have yet to hear an argument that that is the case that doesn’t ultimately come down to “government has too much power”.
Even if Bill Gates were suddenly a trillionaire, he can’t make me do shit
He just needs to buy politicians and have them tell you what to do like Soros.
It is a problem in the sense that a large chunk of the population is resentful and economically ignorant.
Why is the guy from Brookings (who should know better) conflating income and wealth?
Is he an idiot, or just cynically dishonest enough to know that the envious won’t catch it?
Best thing about it, his pay is based on meeting certain goals. From his multiple, remarkably popular companies and industries.
True Haters feel rejected by an apostate. They invested so much in Tesla! *feel-goody swoon!* Now, they hate him with fervor they can’t explain. Only hatred. Fear. Envy.
The Cause is fucking religious. It’s really sad to see. And to live in. Fuck I’m thrilled Hilary or Harris didn’t win. Christ.
I wonder how many shares of SpaceX will be bought by prog politicians.
Bear misses tree
“Nobody should be a trillionaire. Tax the damn rich,” Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., said recently on X.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., said at a rally in Maine last month that Musk is “going to get even richer, I think, in the next couple of weeks” and that it was “insanity” for him to have so much wealth.
Mallory McMorrow, a state lawmaker in Michigan who’s running in the Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate, called out Musk at a candidate forum this year, saying: “The rich are getting richer. We have Elon Musk, who wants to be a trillionaire.”
Fuck off, you covetous baboons.
Revoke and deport the curry commies.
Nobody should live on a stolen salary. Fuck off Pramila.
Free helicopter rides.
Charge her next of kin for the carbon credits.
Thanks to Trump I don’t have the same problems as Musk and Bernie, except for the tax part.
Musk is approaching $1 trillion at a key time for the wealth debate. In California, voters may see a ballot referendum this fall on whether to impose a new 5% tax on people with net worths of more than $1 billion, echoing similar proposals that have been introduced in Congress. Some billionaires have pushed back, threatening to leave California and pouring money into alternative ballot questions that could conflict with the wealth tax.
This just occurred to me: if California passed that law, the billionaires could all place their sell orders at the same time and crash the tock market.
It won’t solve their budget problems but the brief thrill of hatred will be worth it for many Democrats.
https://washingtonstand.com/article/bipartisan-group-introduces-bill-to-protect-private-citizens-4th-amendment-email-privacy
I didn’t know that.
Yea, let’s close that loophole. Please.
Scott Bessent took smug asshole lessons from Peter Storzk.
House votes to limit Trump’s Iran war powers in remarkable rebuke
Remarkable rebuke.
Oh. Never change CNN.
Stunning and brave.
Maybe Scott Pelley can find a job there as a totally unbiased truthteller.
Those ‘scientists’ smuggled the Monkey Pox back in their butts didn’t they?
That is generally how it’s transported.