Sunday Morning Visibly Jewish Links

by | Jun 7, 2026 | Daily Links | 161 comments

Prime texted me, “I have a really good friend you haven’t met yet, another doc. We’re having drinks and I told her about you. Can you make it to dinner on the 6th?” And then a few quotes which led me to believe that her friend was an Actual Jew and one with a sense of humor. So of course I would. We met at a terrific place local to them, and her doc friend brought her wife (not Jewish, Irish like Prime) with her.

This seems ripe for humor, doesn’t it? But honestly, lovely people, and her friend is someone I could actually enjoy spending time with. Very funny, spoke Hebrew and Yiddish, lived in Israel for a while, and had a local reputation of being a superb doc. So after the fourth or fifth glass of wine, I said, “You know, my absolute favorite joke is one I can never tell because goyim and secular Jews wouldn’t understand it. But you would actually get it!” The look of dread on Prime’s face was classic.

I told the joke, watching Prime’s knuckles go white. Hit the punchline, her friend absolutely cracked up. “THAT’S WONDERFUL!!!” Prime and the Irish Wife looked at one another and said, “We don’t understand that a bit.” My response: “See?” which made her friend laugh even harder. But Prime’s look of extreme relief that I didn’t horribly offend anyone was even better.

The hazards of being involved with a natural comedian.

Speaking of hazards, birthdays today include a guy who figured out the perfect grift to bang underage girls; the bane of PChem students; the bane of Richard Nixon; the bane of Albert Einstein; arguably the best flat-picker of all time; a guy with an amazing panty and hotel key collection; Donald Trump’s former life insurance policy; and a guy whose last words were, “Can I crash at your place?”

And Links will not be my last words.

If they’ll pay cash, sell ’em all they want.

It’s a clown show, but face it, the other guys are just clowns in different makeup.

He really is the best person in Team Blue.

They are soooo careful not to provide a description of the perps.

He sure showed them!

Failing upwards.

I’m shocked, SHOCKED to find out that she’s a slut.

The Mackerel Snappers just can’t seem to pick anyone sane.

Gee, this couldn’t possibly be a set-up.

Speaking of set-ups…

The NBA is just horrible top to bottom.

When the Old Guy was growing up in Baltimore, there were three names in music who were hallowed figures. Chick Webb, Billie Holiday, and Eubie Blake. Blake was mostly known as a songwriter, but has been massively underappreciated as a pianist. This restored film is… astonishing.

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161 Comments

  1. PieInTheSky

    Very funny, spoke Hebrew and Yiddish, lived in Israel for a while, and had a local reputation of being a superb doc.

    Have her write some Jewsday Tuesday

  2. (((Jarflax

    Not going to tell the joke to us? Joke tease!

    • PieInTheSky

      I remember Jerry Seinfeld telling a Jewish joke non Jews don’t understand but it was rather easy to understand and I found it odd the non-Jew on set did not understand it.

      • UnCivilServant

        You must be a crypto-Jew.

        /Inquisition

    • Old Man With Candy

      It doesn’t work in writing.

  3. PieInTheSky

    If they’ll pay cash, sell ’em all they want.

    why do you want drones exploding in Constanta?

    • Chafed

      That article was pretty vague. I think this is a proposal to jointly develop drones or incorporate Ukrainian tech into drones.

      • rhywun

        the Trump administration is still biding its time on taking full advantage of the Ukrainian capabilities, a delay that experts say is potentially kneecapping the U.S. military

        So not continuing and even deepening our entanglement with that corruptocracy in our proxy war with the other one is now a threat to national security? Get the fuck out of there.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        Something tells me that not working with the Ukrainians is also not “kneecapping our military.”

  4. juris imprudent

    Fetterman is the only authentic populist in the Democratic Party, so of course they hate him.

  5. PieInTheSky

    I’m shocked, SHOCKED to find out that she’s a slut.

    nothing like this would ever happen in classy civilized European football.

  6. PieInTheSky

    Gee, this couldn’t possibly be a set-up.

    So that is why the spurs lost not enough hoes in attendance. Also cue Charles Barkley on San Antonio women.

    • Gender Traitor

      If you have to tell people how influential you are…

      • UnCivilServant

        “Do You Know Who I Am?”

        “I will when you give me your license and registration.”

    • rhywun

      “We hire pompous assholes.”

      The Times plays so many roles: as the place to go to understand the world in real time, as the primer on every subject under the sun and, lest we forget, as a convener and tastemaker that helps define the modern canon.

  7. PieInTheSky

    Failing upwards.

    OMWC a Nikon fan I see

  8. PieInTheSky

    The NBA is just horrible top to bottom.

    you shut you whore mouth the NBA is great OK

    • Drake

      Only somebody who wasn’t allowed to watch it during the 80s peak would say that. The game has regressed to playground garbage without rules.
      https://youtu.be/syAXdJImfj8

      • juris imprudent

        ’86 Celtics? Bullshit. That’s not even the greatest Celtics team of all time.

      • Drake

        One of the reasons I loved 80s basketball was every team had a different style. The Lakers and Sixers would try to make the game a track meet and run you out of the building. Other teams, like the Bulls with Artis Gilmore, would pound the ball inside with big men. It wasn’t the boring sameness it is now.

      • R C Dean

        Drake speaks the truth.

      • juris imprudent

        That ’86 Celtics team was basically the same as lost to the Lakers in ’85 and ’87. The greatest Celtics team in the ’60s (with Russell) won 7 straight championships.

      • Drake

        In 85 they didn’t have Walton and Cedric Maxwell was injured. In 87, Len Bias was dead while James Worthy wasn’t – and everyone was injured.

      • Threedoor

        “pound the ball inside with big men”

        Steve smith was in the team?

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        “Tell your old man to drag Walton and Lanier up and down the court for 48 minutes!”

    • Nephilium

      How many meters yards can they carry the ball before it’s traveling now?

      • Drake

        I believe they now follow Australian Football rules.

  9. Sensei

    In a statement on Facebook Saturday morning, Higginbotham’s mother, Nancy, revealed that her son’s body was discovered by a volunteer search-and-rescue group in a mountainous area outside of Kyoto, and the family did not specify how he died.

    OMWC’s article didn’t mention the place or how. It appears the article did this intentionally. As one of the comments said given this is Japan 95% chance this was suicide or an accident. Since he shut off his phone after they asked what he was doing this suggests #1.

    • Chafed

      I can understand the family not talking about it. I don’t understand the article talking around it.

      • Sensei

        OMWC’s source was NBC. He’s was an pro-environment mentally unstable young person.

        OTH, if he was a MAGA Trump supporter we’d know all the details including “experts” hypothesizing about why it was Team Red’s fault.

    • Rat on a train

      How many suicide forests does Japan have?

      • Sensei

        I’ll check with Logan Paul.

        Japan’s population generally has good access to rail. Suicide by train seems to be the preferred method. It is remarkably common in my area as well. Many Japanese people have little sympathy because of how much it disrupts their commute.

        Unfortunately, years of people killing themselves and wasting 10 of hours if not 100s of hours of my life on train delays have me feeling exactly the same way.

    • rhywun

      That seems a dubious way to suicide but I guess it fits “environmentalist” if he chose to do it “in nature”.

    • Threedoor

      He used too many resources. It was his only option.

    • Tonio

      My first instinct before I read the article was that he died of hypothermia, perhaps after becoming lost and/or injured.

      “The family had previously held out hope that he would be found alive, telling Fox News Digital earlier in the week that he knew how to forage and was “built to endure.”

      Interesting, but taking that with a grain of salt. And while you can forage for food in many environments, shelter is more difficult.

      Even if he didn’t actively end his life, heading out into the wilderness without equipment is a form of soft suicide.

  10. Drake

    I can think of a number of reasons to hold up the drone deal. It will be American tax dollars wasted. It’ll prolong this bloody conflict. The Ukes and their CIA controllers will likely target Russian civilians from NATO airspace trying to provoke escalation.

    Most likely – Trump’s kids aren’t getting a big enough cut from the deal.

    • Sensei

      Most likely – Trump’s kids aren’t getting a big enough cut from the deal.

      This right here. I appreciate that Trump doesn’t feel the need to launder this through at least one level of masking the way Team Blue does. Team Blue has the people it wants to pay provide 100% of the goods and services to an unrelated company that gets the money from FedGov first.

    • JaimeRoberto feckful & gruntled

      Are you an “expert”? Stay in your lane, man.

  11. Muzzled Woodchipper

    At a 15u baseball game.

    Gonna be a long game and a short day if we can’t figure out a way to throw some strikes.

  12. Sensei

    Ahh plug in solar.

    A Cheap DIY Solar Hack Is Catching On. Can It Cut Your Energy Bill?

    I did the calculations myself a while ago and just had AI do it. At NJ utility rates of $0.20 kWh breakeven is 7-10 years. What are the odds the panels and batteries make 10 years. Not to mention the cheap electronics.

    I could probably hack something together for half the cost buying parts, but I have no interest unless I can get breakeven down to 2.5 years or less.

    • R C Dean

      But the balcony solar products now being sold will shut off if they sense that the grid is down or the home’s main power is off.

      Well, there goes at least half the reason to have solar in the first place – as a backup power source.

    • Nephilium

      I’ve been driving my car for over a decade. One of the issues it currently has is the windshield wiper fluid sensor is busted, and tells me it’s low regardless of the level. I asked how much it would cost to repair, and it was over $700.

      I can deal with topping it off myself and ignoring a warning for that price.

      • Sensei

        You can see if you can fool it by either shorting it, leaving it open or putting a resistor in place of the sensor.

        It will turn the idiot light off. It won’t indicate of course.

      • UnCivilServant

        Your car is supposed to indicate low windshield washer fluid? Mine tells me by just running out.

      • Threedoor

        There is a sensor for that?

        No wonder cars start around $50k

      • Sensei

        3D, my 98.5 Audi A4 had a fluid idiot light complete with warning ding. Hated the light and chime. Happened at like 40% full as well.

      • Sean

        Yeah. Pretty sure all my cars since 99 have had them.

    • SarumanTheWoefullyIgnorant

      I have a 2012 AWD Subaru with over 190K miles which I hope will be my last car. Have utterly no interest in in any car with a video game dashboard, I’m a bad enough driver as it is without the additional distraction.

      • Sean

        I thought I was going to hate a digital dash. It’s really well done in my jeep. I did absolutely hate the one in my loaner Tiguan a couple years back. I guess it depends on the implementation.

  13. Old Man With Candy

    Hey Pie, what are you drinking today?

    The wine I brought to dinner last night was a 2001 Ogier Cote-Rotie. Drinking perfectly.

    At the café today, we’ll likely tear into a nice single-vineyard Riesling from Seneca Lake.

      • Threedoor

        Wy wife likes St Michelle. I’ve driven by their vineyards. Didn’t bother to stop for the tour.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        My wife and I were out there for a Counting Crows concert in 2002 (I think). Saw them at the winery not far outside of Seattle. Got some there.

    • PieInTheSky

      I had a real nice 2011 Romanian blend of Cab and Merlot. Cuvee Racoveanu 2011. It still had a ton a fruit and plenty of life. Sad I don’t have a second bottle.

    • PieInTheSky

      Thursday I went to t Tenuta Ulise Pecorino tasting, though it is not necessarily my type of wine. I liked the least typical the most, called Nativae due to wild yeasts.

      • Old Man With Candy

        I have noticed a pattern: I am much preferring wines that use wild yeast or spontaneous fermentation to the ones using yeast cultures. That’s a big deal locally, and we must have some really good New Yawk yeasts floating around.

      • Nephilium

        OMWC:

        Do they use the yeast that happens to be on the grape skins, or leave it exposed to the air?

        I assume there’s nothing like a coolship as the must wouldn’t have been boiling.

      • PieInTheSky

        Usually on the skins of the grape. There are winesade using cellar yeasts which can give the winemaker sort of a signature and those are done leaving the containers open in the cellar where the yeast lives

      • Tres Cool

        NEPH- fun fact: years ago I tested at a chemical plant over by Perry. They made Captan, a fungicide used often on grapes.

    • EvilSheldon

      For anyone who didn’t read Neph’s Friday post…the Lady in Blue is *delicious*.

      • Nephilium

        Glad you enjoyed it!

  14. Rat on a train

    Trump is only going to the game because he was embarrassed he couldn’t name the starting lineup of the 1993 Knicks championship team.

  15. rhywun

    “war remains a central electoral issue for voters of all backgrounds, who want Democrats to be the anti-war party”

    Was skimming the Guardian article about clowns in vain for some reference to, say, the fact that they have no ideas other than socialism, as a possible explanation for why they suck and had to tap out at that bit laughable nonsense.

  16. Common Tater

    “Spencer Pratt’s once-comfortable lead in the Los Angeles mayoral primary has been slashed yet again — as a fresh batch of ballots delivered another major boost to progressive City Councilmember Nithya Raman in their race to the November runoff.

    New results released Saturday show Pratt’s advantage over Raman shrinking to just 7,494 votes, down from more than 20,000 a day earlier. Roughly 78% of the ballots had been counted as of Saturday.”

    https://nypost.com/2026/06/06/us-news/spencer-pratts-lead-over-nithya-raman-in-la-mayors-race-withers-in-new-ballot-drop/

    LA is cooked.

    • PieInTheSky

      I find it fascinating it takes so long. Every country in Europe 24 hours after polls close you know the results.

      • R.J.

        Well, you all have computerized cheating. In California they ran off all the techies so they must cheat by hand.

      • juris imprudent

        Your courts disqualify the winners as necessary.

      • rhywun

        Yeah, how common is vote-by-mail in Europe?

      • PieInTheSky

        vote-by-mail in Europe? – post pandemic not that commons

      • PieInTheSky

        Your courts disqualify the winners as necessary. – if the right people dont get power you know what happens? the wrong people do.

      • JaimeRoberto feckful & gruntled

        I bet you have to show an ID to vote, too.

    • juris imprudent

      I’ll admit I’m torn on this. It doesn’t really seem plausible that these mystery ballots break so clearly in one direction; yet, this is Los Angeles – which is chock full of fucking stupid people.

      • EvilSheldon

        It doesn’t have to be one or the other. LA can be full of retards, and their elections can be crooked, all at the same time.

    • (((Jarflax

      nO eVidenCe oF FraUd

      • EvilSheldon

        The appearance of impropriety, is impropriety.

      • rhywun

        ding ding d

      • rhywun

        WTF?

        Anyway how many times is that drilled into my head at work. Do not do anything that even looks suspicious because it will harm reputation.

      • SarumanTheWoefullyIgnorant

        What if you have a reputation for being a crook, a cheat, and a scoundrel?

    • Tonio

      We are all cooked unless they pass the SAVE act, and even that may be too little, too late.

      • R C Dean

        The SAVE Act is dead as a doorknob in the Senate.

  17. Common Tater

    “A high-profile vaccine expert lusted after a Northwell Health scientist who repeatedly rejected him, then allegedly got her canned after she joked about bringing a gun to work, she claimed in a lawsuit.

    Peter Hotez, a molecular biologist and dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Houston’s Baylor College of Medicine, rose to prominence during the COVID-19 pandemic and is known for tangling with Joe Rogan on social media after the podcaster challenged the scientist to debate vaccines with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

    But the married, 68-year-old Hotez’s apparently randy side was revealed in 2024, after he served as a key speaker at a May 2024 Northwell Health symposium and reconnected with former graduate school colleague, Annette Lee, she said in court papers.”

    https://nypost.com/2026/06/06/us-news/vaccine-expert-lusted-after-northwell-health-scientist-then-got-her-canned-she-claimed/

    Does he have another bow tie around his penis?

  18. rhywun

    Erin Maus, a Unitarian Universalist, first sought the accommodation in April at the large tech-entertainment company where she works, which she described as progressive. She argued that using AI did not align with her religious beliefs because of environmental and ethical concerns.

    I don’t even know where to begin.

    • (((Jarflax

      Begin by closing the article. Continue by pouring a drink. Further mental recovery steps include speaking to loved ones or playing with pets.

      • rhywun

        Rarely do you see so much derp packed into one short paragraph.

        I can’t wait to try this at work.

    • Grumbletarian

      Seems a tacit admission that climate alarimism is more religion than science.

    • SarumanTheWoefullyIgnorant

      Has she calculated how much CO2 she emits every day?

      There’s only one way to become a Net Zero human. And even then that’s debatable.

  19. Common Tater

    “The Turning Point USA Women’s Leadership Summit, hosted by Kirk’s widow Erika, saw large amounts of opposition on Friday in San Antonio, including one protester who mocked Kirk’s death.

    Among the protesters rallying outside of the event’s doors, one was seen in what appeared to be a paper-mache head covering made to resemble Kirk, who was assassinated in September last year.

    The protester was captured falling to the floor, seemingly to mock Kirk’s death, in footage circulating online as they allegedly chanted that the podcaster ‘deserved to die.’ ”

    https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15880679/protester-charlie-kirk-enact-assassination-conference-erika.html

    CWAA

    • Raven Nation

      You know, SLD on free expression, etc.

      But , (1) get a life and (2) you’ve gotta be emotionally or morally stunted to do something like that.

    • rhywun

      I approve of leftists continuing to show the world what horrible people they are.

      • PutridMeat

        Agree, but the scary part of that is that we might find that a not insignificant part of the populace don’t have a particular problem with, or are at least indifferent to, horrible people.

    • rhywun

      Tax, spend, and I don’t know what number three is.

      • DrOtto

        Grift

      • Tres Cool

        #4 is Profit !

    • Tonio

      Ditch the trans. It’s the elephant in the room and nobody will acknowledge its existence or the existence of the huge piles of shit it leaves wherever it goes.

      • rhywun

        Ditch the trans.

        They have been playing “civil rights heroes” for so many decades I don’t think they know how. They have a lot of people convinced this checkbox is no different from women, blacks, or gays but it’s not quite catching on the way they expected.

      • Common Tater

        I think it’s more kids than trans. Most of the Pride stuff this year seems targeted at kids.

  20. Common Tater

    “It’s a critical commonplace to say of a beautiful film that every frame is a picture. For Jaws, it’s a little different. You could isolate any scene from Jaws, and have a brilliant short film: the characterisation, humour and the dialogue are all so strong that any scene in the movie can stand alone. Spielberg achieving this at the age of 26 is phenomenal, but a big part of Jaws’ success is the script by Peter Benchley and Carl Gottlieb and the editing by Verna Fields. Cut the shark, and they basically made a Robert Altman movie. How do you improve an Altman movie? Add a shark.”

    https://www.theguardian.com/film/ng-interactive/2026/jun/07/writers-choose-favourite-steven-spielberg-films-jaws-close-encounters-raiders-lost-ark

    No one could argue that.

  21. Common Tater

    “Black women are two and a half times more likely to be murdered by men than white women are. This is a public health crisis

    It’s important to acknowledge how mental illness is connected to domestic violence, but that doesn’t erase the misogynoir, male entitlement, weak gun laws, and lack of access to social services that help men enact violence against their families.”

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/07/black-women-murders-domestic-violence-crisis

    misogynoir?

    • Gdragon

      If they were going to portmanteau like that I sort of wish they’d had the balls and sense of humour to use an “N” word other than “noir”.

      • DrOtto

        Planned Parenthood has been trying for decades. The evil republicans keep getting in their way.

    • rhywun

      Is this issue really that B&W?

      • Mojeaux

        Why is Shpip posting as Rhy?

  22. The Late P Brooks

    The Times plays so many roles: as the place to go to understand the world in real time, as the primer on every subject under the sun and, lest we forget, as a convener and tastemaker that helps define the modern canon.

    Oh.

    • Sensei

      OT. Did you see I do car’s VW corporate V6 tear down?

      I’ve read a few articles on its fragility. Love the vacuum controlled water pump for emissions. Bonus is the failure mode of leaking coolant into vacuum system.

      It’s so green making motors that are fragile and easily broken.

      • DrOtto

        Thanks for the heads up on this, I’ll have to give this a watch. Of course he disdainfully pitches water pumps anyways. Their 2.0 turbo 4 has been using a plastic water pump for a decade and I wondered why I’m just now starting to see them fail in the field. My nephew advised me it’s because they’ve all been covered under 10 yr/150k mile extended coverage provisions, so they are only just now coming out of warranty and known to the public at large.

  23. The Late P Brooks

    the family did not specify how he died.

    Sliced cleanly through from left shoulder to right hip?

  24. The Late P Brooks

    Did you see I do car’s VW corporate V6 tear down?

    I did. I definitely rolled my eyes at the vacuum controlled water pump. Disable the water pump for faster warmup for emissions?

    I did like the gear driven intermediate timing drive instead of the mile long chain.

  25. The Late P Brooks

    I also like the camshafts split from the head so you don’t have to scrap the head if a cam goes bad. Also the cute intake trumpets cast into the head.

  26. The Late P Brooks

    Eskin then asked another question, “So Mike Vrabel’s not the only one that she’s had a sexual relationship with?”

    Froyd replied with, “Yes… Multiple head coaches.”

    When asked if “other [NFL] personnel were involved,” she replied, “Yes.”

    And I’m supposed to give a shit about this for why, exactly?

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      Of all of the ethical violations committed by journalists in the last decade, this is the one other journolismas get hung up on?

      That said, a reporter fucking her subject is definitely an ethical violation.

  27. Common Tater

    “But Bovino was, and is, a deeply resonant figure to the deepest and most committed elements of the MAGA base, or rather to those within it who fear that Donald Trump cannot go fast enough or far enough, and is now selling out to the weak-willed Panicans and traitorous Marxist liberals. Bovino represents the MAGA soul — perhaps we should say the MAGA Geist — which is not just kinda-fascist but deeply and enthusiastically fascist, not just curious about the legacy of Nazism but achingly, passionately eager to revive it.”

    https://www.salon.com/2026/06/07/remember-greg-bovino-hes-now-an-international-fascist-hero/

    You aren’t going to get rid of the Islamists in any way that doesn’t look “fascist”.

    • Threedoor

      White flags with crosses and broad swords don’t look fascist to me.

    • Threedoor

      It’s a shame Salon doesn’t have a comment section.

      That would be a hoot to read.

      • Nephilium

        They used to…

      • Threedoor

        I’m guessing it hurt too much for them.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        Probably more that surely the comments at a place like salon are a goldmine for feds.

  28. PieInTheSky

    ⓘ Dogs don’t have thumbs reposted
    Dave Greene
    @GreeneMan6
    I have been seeing a certain archetypal commenter in the spotlight recently; all women my age, progressive, and employed at mainstream institutions. I don’t know them. Yet in every case, I can intuit their origin story.

    It goes something like this:

    > be an older millennial female, no strong passion, but strive hard in school
    > reach High School
    > steer clear of the kids who like talking about “far out” philosophical issues
    > also steer clear of student government and debate club, which seems too contentious and vaguely threatening
    > focus on getting perfect marks, complying with college reqs. Get into top uni based on those marks
    > get introduced to politics in freshmen social justice class, instantly floored
    > the appeal of college politics is just how cut-and-dried it is. Unlike other fields, it has a clear “good” and “bad” side, no ambiguity. The “good” side always wins in classroom discussions, you feel like a hero for validating consensus with “The Conversation”
    > politics becomes your religion, “this is my passion!”

    https://x.com/GreeneMan6/status/2063473369589428725

    • Common Tater

      There is plenty of political indoctrination in grade school.

      • Threedoor

        I was introduced to it after the Exxon Valdez.

        My sixth grade teacher was a first year teacher, daughter of a 3M executive, California transplant.

        She turned it up to 11.
        Save the whales
        Save the wolves.

        I bought it all. Once out from under her influence I self corrected. Many others in my class didn’t. They are leftist Gen X women. Jr high was mostly apolitical other than the speech teacher who was jealous that Monica got her man, but by high school we had a couple old hippie save the earth types and a math teacher that hated anything right wing.

  29. The Late P Brooks

    Apparently the new talking point is how disengaged Kennedy Jr is from his job as America’s Helicopter Mom.

  30. The Late P Brooks

    Dilettante! Gadfly!

    Pratt, by contrast, has his 30% firmly in hand, but nowhere really to grow. A few supporters of Adam Miller may swallow hard and agree to back a not-very-bright Republican who is Donald Trump’s pick for the job. But even they may have difficulty voting for a guy who knows nothing about how city government works and whose resume includes a business selling crystals and a history of blowing cash on handbags and ammunition.

    If Pratt falls short as a candidate, however, he does send something of a message, albeit not the one he intends. It says something — or should say something — to leaders of Los Angeles that roughly a third of the city’s voters are so unhappy with life as it is that they are willing to back a patently absurd candidate to run the place. Those voters don’t agree on the particulars — some are upset over homelessness, others over the high cost of living or the pace of rebuilding after the fires — but it’s safe to say that many are flatly unhappy with Bass’s performance and with the state of the city more generally.

    Those are messages that the mayor and council should hear, even if they came from the campaign of an unserious candidate.

    What’s at risk here is that Pratt’s inability to mount a serious challenge will make it easier for Bass to skip an opportunity to debate the city’s future. A Bass-Raman run-off offered that prospect, but a Pratt challenge less so.

    Don’t ruin everything which is best about Southern California Life in a fit of juvenile pique. Vote for the business-as-usual candidate. Better safe than sorry (if you’re an establishment apparatchik).

    • Gender Traitor

      Pratt’s inability to mount a serious challenge will make it easier for Bass to skip an opportunity to debate the city’s future.

      I’m sure she thinks of that as an “opportunity.” 🙄

    • rhywun

      knows nothing about how city government works

      Spoiler alert – neither does the current occupant of the position.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        And I’m sure they levied those same complaints about Mamdani and Wilson, right?

  31. Common Tater

    “Last September, Ríhanna Kelver was standing outside the Crowbar & Grill in Laramie, Wyoming, preparing to start her bartending shift, when she noticed a group of men across the street. One of them was shouting in her direction, and Kelver heard several homophobic and transphobic slurs as he began approaching her. Moments later, according to court testimony and surveillance footage, the man shoved Kelver to the ground hard enough to injure her tailbone.

    Kelver responded by drawing a pistol from her bag, chambering a round, and pointing the weapon at the man who had pushed her. She kept the safety on and never fired. The man and his companions retreated.

    Today, Kelver, a 28-year-old trans woman, faces two felony charges—aggravated assault and possession of a deadly weapon with unlawful intent—that could carry up to 15 years in prison. The man who shoved Kelver and who allegedly initiated the confrontation, known only as “S. Durham,” has not been charged.”

    https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/06/trans-people-second-amendment-wyoming-stand-your-ground.html

    https://cowboystatedaily.com/2026/06/03/transgender-bathroom-protestor-faces-felony-assault-charge-claims-self-defense/

    Haven’t seen a video.

    • rhywun

      Believe all “women”.

    • Threedoor

      The comment section here is nice.

      Fools bringing up Mathew Sheppard still. They can’t ever let go of a false narrative.

    • R C Dean

      Wouldn’t be surprised if she meant to shoot but in the excitement didn’t take the safety off.

      Yeah, need to see video.

  32. The Late P Brooks

    Bass, meanwhile, featured leaders of the city’s labor movement and business community. She used her remarks to champion the breadth of her support and to reiterate her determination to stand up to President Trump, who supports Pratt and is staggeringly disliked by Los Angeles voters. Bass, most comfortable running as an agent of change, was hobbled by having to promise change after having four years to deliver it. Still, the event reinforced the strength of her political position: big, broad and in tune with a city she has represented for decades in Sacramento, Washington and now at home.

    “We are a union town,” Bass said, to great applause. She’s right about that, and it was a reminder that she understands the politics of this place in a way that Pratt simply does not.

    Clearly the right woman for the job. Stick with the proven loser.

    • rhywun

      most comfortable running as an agent of change

      Stop it you’re killing me 🤣😂

      Though to be fair, the city is significantly worse off after years of her incompetence – that is a kind of change.

  33. rhywun

    Huh men’s French Open final is on. One of the contenders got a walkover into the final which is outrageous.

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