Wyndham Clark took everybody on a roller coaster ride before finally buckling down and winning his second US Open. The World Cup is a good part of the way through the second round of pool play games and there’s some teams that aren’t living up to the hype. It has been quite entertaining though. Especially the meltdown of the Socceroo fans. The Iranians are bitching like crazy about their travel arrangements, which are basically the same as everybody else’s. And I think that’s pretty much it for sports.
It’s like crack 2.0. Except it’s everybody this time and not just aimed at black people (according to black people).
Oh, man. They missed the best part. When the current guy in charge blamed the Jews. But I will note how strange it is that every election in Latin America has turned sharply to the right once USAID was basically shut down.
He better watch out. They’ll probably charge him with hate speech for talking about it and fine him for the settlement amount.
I’m just gonna go ahead and hate everybody involved. That’s probably the easiest way to be correct.
The math ain’t mathing. Which should surprise exactly nobody.
Won’t somebody think of the poor…scammers? Wait, what?!?!?!?!
“Hey, that’s our thing!” -team blue Sorry for your luck, chumps. Turnabout is fair play.
Oh, give it a rest. Nobody should be automatically registered. Especially for their first registration. They’re adults now. They can have a little responsibility for managing their own affairs.
I’ll give you three guesses as to what language this driver speaks. Just as soon as they release his name, that is.
Will they ever get rid of this fucking idiot? Probably never, since she’s such a good representation of her constituents.
Such a great song. What a wonderful sound. There weren’t many like them. Enjoy them.
And enjoy this lovely Monday, dear friends.
It is weird watching the slow-motion surrender in real time.
When those who consider themselves your elite hate you for voting for what you want instead of what they want….
How is the environmental lawsuit against return-to-work going?
Fire them all, save the planet.
🤣😂
SEIU might be one of the few entities even more loathsome than Gavin Newsome.
A petri dish up stupid and evil..
Like anybody believes for one instant a bunch of pubsecs are going to give up their phat salaries, bloated benefits, and immunity from consequences.
Why would they when Gavin is
presidentgovernor.It’s awful hard to fill in a pothole from your bed.
True, but the 14 pencil pushers that need to review, approve, sign off and ratify the hole to be filled, by whom and when can do that from anywhere.
Winston’s Mom disagrees.
Saying “doing the jobs” twice in the same sentence seems inefficient.
NPR so Trump’s fault, I would assume.
I looked at the picture of Ugandan migrants forced into scamming who are now sadly heading home… with enough luggage to require a luggage cart, and nicer clothes than me.
The misery of the sweat-shop (when all who worked in them considered it a trade-up from the misery of the farm).
Kier Starmer quits
https://www.wsj.com/world/uk/u-k-prime-minister-keir-starmer-quits-amid-rebellion-d5ede8d4?st=AZpvZL
No, Keir says he will quit some time several months from now.
Exactly. He’s going to stretch this out as long as he can.
Chances are he will end up some “elder statesman “ who has negative comments regarding all the various successors’ policies. It’s a 50/50 he gets a substack. Dude just can’t keep out of it.
The best outcome would be if he got culturally enriched by a migrant and could not have an open-casket funeral.
He did, indeed, actually resign.
“Mr Starmer, he gone.”
Starmer said he would quit as Labour leader but stay on as prime minister to ensure an orderly transition to his successor, a process that could be completed by mid-July.
RJ, He should build a brutalist Prime Minister Center on public land to remind everyone of his glory.
Starmer will be replaced with another asshat that will still push for the same evil…
Those people are doomed unless they start hanging their top men.
That is definitely the case. It’s asshats on parade.
So are we. They just started on the path sooner.
Indeed.
That’s how Labour manages to stick it out, they see the writing on the wall and the other party gaining popularity, so they axe the current leader and offer up another and the masses just assume it will be better, when it’s just the same policies under a new name.
Note that they are under no obligation to hold a general election before July 2029.
The anointed successor seems to be offering more of the same far-left nonsense that amazingly has not led to the promised utopia yet.
Always the kulaks and wreckers. Clearly enough blood has yet to be spilled.
They can have a little responsibility for managing their own affairs.
What kind of monster are you? In loco parentis to keep them dependent!
Bureaucratic exodus from cushy state jobs???? BWAHAhahahahahahahahahaha [gasps for air] hahahahahahahaha [passes out]
It baffles me that regular working class Americans have not yet caught on that our government is subsidizing a cabal of useless crooks to the tune of $2 trillion a year in fraud from social services at every level of government and in every government venture, national or international. These crooks tell the rubes they are “solving problems and need more funding”, and the morons that believe in unicorns and utopia g along and screw us productive tax payers over to fund them. Instead of a black market, government has become the mechanism for stealing from the productive.
the morons that believe
A majority of voters, though possibly not a majority of taxpayers. There is a lesson in that.
I have always said nobody but net tax payers should have a vote.
Whycome you hate democracy Alex?
because I know democracy is 10 wolves and 9 sheep deciding what is for dinner, and I live in a REPUBLIC…
I had this thought recently: All of those people asking for more funding never give you a concrete number, such as “The ideal amount to spend per student is $X” or “If this program get $Y homelessness should be reduced by at least 10%.” It’s always “We need more. I don’t know how much, just more than we have now, and keep it coming.”
Alex, 1 wolf and 9 sheep have already made dinner’s decision.
Not only will there be no exodus, they will get huge raises and fatter bennies because they control the Party and the State. Every Dem voter wants one of those jobs and they are not going to cut anything..
How long until California is nothing but government and government-funded non-profits?
““We poisoned our community to make cases,” DEA Special Agent David Howell told AP in a series of interviews in New Mexico. “Through our own willful blindness, we get to say, ‘We don’t really know what happened to the drugs.’ But we 100% got people killed.””
You didn’t do either of those things.
A more interesting question is why do so many people turn to that shit instead of finding something productive to do. But nobody wants to ask it.
“I learned it from you, Dad”
“Influential economist Alan Greenspan who headed Federal Reserve for nearly two decades dead at 100”
https://nypost.com/2026/06/22/business/influential-economist-alan-greenspan-who-led-federal-reserve-for-nearly-two-decades-dead-at-100/
Does that include interest?
Not much interest in the Greenspan Put.
Modern Monetary Policy for the win!
He was once the great hope, but when put to the test he failed miserably.
I was thinking “Work is awfully quiet today”.
Turns out my supervisor took today off.
Junetecond?
Well, it makes for a longer weekend.
Liberating
From a WSJ article…
What is that saying about “cheap, fast, good”, choose two?
Go to your states sex offender registry.
Go to your states repository and look up their criminal history.
Do that for every state they have lived in.
Check their claims of education, jobs, and military service against the outfits they have claimed to work for.
Look at their social media.
Shouldn’t take more than a few days and a lot less than $20,000.
Vetting, LOL
The only requirement is do they support every far-left plank of that commie outfit. Character does not matter one bit – every one of them that I have read about is a thoroughly despicable human being.
So much this.
Yeah, it takes way too long to pull up the candidates *checks notes* public social media posts.
This is more about The Candidate – the machinations of political operators.
There’s two columnists in today’s paper warning that Trump’s deal with Iran is flawed, that Iran won’t honor any non-nuke deal for long because they always lie, etc. Perhaps they have a point, but neither has the guts to say what Trump should have done instead. I hate the kind of criticism that fails to put forth alternate courses of action.
That requires critical thought and not just regurgitation of their tweet timeline in long form.
What? Admit that America doesn’t rule the world, or that we can, but only with enormous bloodshed?
Until the missile stockpile begins to run low.
Time for another Operation Warp Speed. This time it’s personal.
Unlike some/many, I don’t think Trump is stupid. I think he decided that playing the endless hudna game with Iran was stupid, so to break that cycle he agreed to whatever, because he knows the current batch of Iranians won’t comply. Then, when they break the deal (which they have already done, I believe), we can do a rinse and repeat on the whole bombing thing, maybe get a different batch of Iranians, and try again.
I do wonder if the whole “I’m so mad at Bibi” thing is just kayfabe, part of the posturing for negotiation, as well.
A man’s gotta think about his legacy (all the time)
It seems if he was truly intelligent, he wouldn’t have waded into yet another middle east entanglement…
My wife is convinced this is the case, that Trump is making deals he knows the IRGC will break, so he can justify going back to bombing. I’m less charitable, I suspect Trump first thought they could bomb Iran into submission; then when that didn’t work, thought he could make a deal, ’cause he’s the great deal-maker. And that is destined for failure. There will be more bombing, but barring an internal uprising, the IRGC will not be broken by just bombing.
I would like to know how the US is supposedly at war with Iran yet somehow they found the time to send a soccer team to the World Cup taking place in enemy territory?! It makes no sense.
There will be more bombing, but barring an internal uprising, the IRGC will not be broken by just bombing.
America, the all-conquering power. Oops.
Oops, indeed.
The idea that Trump waded in for a third reason (not blood for oil, not posterity) is that it puts a big check on China, as they are reliant on foreign oil. I can see the logic in this, but also see how Israel has their own agenda, which kind of messed things up a bit.
So, by not putting in any real numbers of troops but getting Iran to chock back the supply he doesn’t pay much cost (opposing part always gets the house) but shows China’s vulnerabilities in real time.
“The idea that Trump waded in for a third reason (not blood for oil, not posterity) is that it puts a big check on China, as they are reliant on foreign oil. I can see the logic in this, but also see how Israel has their own agenda, which kind of messed things up a bit.”
The longer this “blockade” goes on the weaker the CCP’s position gets. When they were getting illegal oil from Iran at less than $5 a barrel, it was a massive boon. Those days are gone. And their belief Iran would be able to cause enough trouble to keep the US Navy pinned in the ME, are gone up in air as well. Israel might have it’s own agenda. or they might be playing spoiler for us so we can keep on the pressure. We are going to have to go back to kill more IRGC tools. Likely after the mid terms.. They will need a fall guy for that…
When they were getting illegal oil from Iran at less than $5 a barrel, it was a massive boon.
BWAHAHAHAHahahahahahaha – sure, black market prices are always a fraction of the legal market!
Good morning!
An unexpected package arrived over the weekend:
https://www.glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/High-L10.jpg
I shot the Mid-Atlantic Sectionals during a match in which all of the competition in my particular division(which is not at all popular in free states) decided not to show up, so I “won” it by forfeit. was initially pretty angry about receiving this as part of the whole “don’t take charity and/or participation trophies” ethos.
However, fighting against that was also my upbringing of “you must accept gifts and display them” considering that the people who ran that match were so nice to me. And of course, it would be validating of the eternal Dad advice that “the most important part of success is showing up.”
What tipped things over to the “don’t throw it out, hang it up” decision was when I actually looked at the thing. Note the storm cloud at the top and the logo being covered with water droplets. The rain won this match. Hanging it up is not bragging about being good, it’s an acknowledgement of making it through a match shot in godawful conditions (like literally 25% of the shooters who had paid their $125 match fee bailed).
If it ain’t raining you ain’t training
They sent you overalls?
What language does he speak
Probably Spanish, it’s also likely that it’s like over 80% of fatal crashes involving a commercial vehicle that it was caused by the driver of a car.
But her exit was right there, she just knew she could make it all the way from the left lane.
My favorite is the people that follow you for miles tailgating a trick doing 62 in a 60, pass, return to the lane within 10 feet of the trucks bumper and immediately slow to 59 mph.
This is my life.
How about two trucks in the slow lane that, as you approach, the one behind MUST pass the one in front AT THAT EXACT MOMENT so that you have to follow them for miles as they crawl down the road?
I’ve seen it happen enough times to know that it isn’t accidental.
So, I had heard that Arcane was good, but nobody told me it was freaking amazing. I don’t think I’ve watched a show with characters written loke that in… well, ever. Yes they sanded off the rough edges of Councilwoman Blackhottie, but other than that they kept all of them actual people. So far. I’ve only watched the first season.
While Sturgeon’s Law applies, Netflix has made some faboo animated shows.
I have heard that about the show.
But not watched it.
I’ve been worried that it was going to be crap. Netflix is about 50/50.
Their animated stuff has been pretty decent. I enjoyed the first Castlvania show. Couldn’t make it more than three episodes into the second one.
It is dark, with a complete lack of unidimensional characters of either the heroic or villainous variety. Basically people with personalities and goals, and the conflict comes from how those misalign. Kind of steampunk dystopia smooshed with a mob move.
Sounds interesting.
What I had read about Arcane was that people really loved the characters and their development.
Season 1 is fucking brilliant. Look up critical drinker’s review.
Season 2 is merely good, which makes it a huge let down.
The first season of Arcane is 👍👍. I have heard not such good things about the second, and haven’t watched it yet.
“The leaders of three Republican House committees threatened Monday to hold Democratic fundraising powerhouse ActBlue in contempt of Congress after the firm refused to turn over more than 400 documents, citing attorney-client privilege….
ActBlue has helped Democratic campaigns and causes raise more than $19 billion since it was founded in 2004.
Nearly $2 billion of those funds flowed to Democrats during the 2024 election cycle, at the same time that internal records, later obtained by The Post, showed ActBlue made its fraud standards “more lenient.””
https://nypost.com/2026/06/22/us-news/house-republicans-issue-contempt-threat-against-actblue-after-dem-fundraiser-refuses-to-turn-over-hundreds-of-documents/
ActBlue isn’t a PAC or fundraiser. They are a money laundering operation set up as a payment processor. Jillian Michaels did a good video on this. Apparently, they accepted pre-paid cards without CVV numbers.
How much of that nineteen billion dollars was stolen from taxpayers?
I would not be surprise it is higher than 90%.
Nah, all of that was laundered via NGOs.
Much of it is from rich donors, so they can donate money way above the limit to campaigns in order to buy ads at the campaign rate rather than the PAC rate, which is often 2 -3 times higher.
I believe you mean liberated comrade.
$32,500,000 | Wimberley, Texas | 471± acres
471± acres in the heart of the Texas Hill Country — over 4,000 feet of Blanco River frontage, two spring-fed creeks, three luxury residences, and a private runway and hangar unlike anything else on the market.
This rare riverfront ranch boasts 1.2 miles of the crystal-clear spring-fed Blanco River + Carpers and Dutch Branch creeks, park-like riverbanks, lots of topography with unbelievable views of the river valley, and the state-of-the-art hangar with a 3,300-ft private runway that doubles as a world-class event venue. This is a true legacy ranch, 45 minutes from Austin and San Antonio, 8 minutes to Downtown Wimberley. This is truly one of the finest live-water ranch offerings in the State of Texas.
📍 Wimberley, Texas — Hays County.
🏷️ $32,500,000
📐 471± acres
🌊 4,000+ ft of Blanco River frontage
✈️ Private 3,300-ft runway + luxury hangar
🏡 4 luxury residences + guest & ranch-hand quarters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKjchNxW-BY
Wimberly!
Don’t move there. It’s pretty much crap as far as geography/weather/flora/fauna. Scorpion and grackles. None of the wild trees make it to six feet tall due to the constant lack of rain.
Haven’t spent a ton of time in Wimberly, but I grew up vacationing in the Hill Country and I have an abiding love of that area. I suspect the trees along the river (cypress mostly, I’d bet) get plenty of water and therefore height.
I’ve had a great deal of fun there. However, it was completely due to the people and what they did. Wimberly, Driftwood, Buda — great people living in cheap land because it’s undesirable. Is it worse than say the undesirable outskirts of DFW? No. But for $32MM there are vastly better places to spend the money.
That place looks like it has a lot of water and big trees. Would it be the one I’d pick if I had $32MM? Probably not*, but it looks pretty dang nice.
*The 4 houses are big negative for me. One is plenty, thanks. The other three would just be resource sinks.
Oh, I wouldn’t spend $32MM to buy a Wimberly property. Even if I had it, which I don’t. But I do love the Hill Country, and we’ve seriously discussed moving there in retirement.
One of the better properties you have shared Pie.
Buildings look nice. Runway needs paved.
Too small for that price though. Put another 0 on the size and halve the price.
“A notice to customers remains on the doors of the Pink Taco two years after it closed down.”
https://nypost.com/2026/06/21/us-news/los-angeles-sunset-strip-is-now-on-struggle-street-the-post-walked-it-for-a-week-heres-what-we-found/
pink taco?
Sounds like an escort service.
Saw that. The plague that Fauci started has basically turned off a generation of youngsters that would have kept that scene going in the Before Times. Now they just sit around at home and InstaTok each other.
I’d eat it.
It’s both the journey, AND the destination
Rolex opened a boutique nearly 10,000 feet up in the Swiss Alps — and getting there costs almost as much as a watch
New definition of “high times.”
I note they didn’t say it cost as much as a rolex watch – so I have to assume it’s a Timex.
“Takes a licking and keeps on ticking.”
Heck of a way to keep out the riff-raff…
Ableist.
Not only do I have to be rich but have the body of the REI catalogue set.
The riffraff is me.
Ah WSJ – never change.
“If I was in the cabinet of the Israeli government, I might not be attacking the only powerful ally that I have anywhere left in the entire world,” Mr. Vance added, though no Israeli cabinet member had done so. “Over the last three months, two-thirds of the defensive weapons that have protected your homeland have been built by American hands and paid for by American tax dollars.”
They don’t like it when the obvious is pointed out.
Iran and Trump Blame Israel First
To protect his bad deal, Trump makes the Jewish state the scapegoat.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/iran-and-trump-blame-israel-first-a122a0d7?st=guCeCY&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
(((Scapegoating))) – why that’s never been done!!!
“Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk will need to be investigated for the “4.5 million children” whom he “possibly sentenced to death” through his spending cuts, Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., argued Saturday….
“I do believe once we take power, there needs to be accountability,” Khanna said on the “I’ve Had It” podcast. “There needs to be accountability for Elon Musk. You know, they’re celebrating that he created 4,400 millionaires, but they don’t talk about the 4.5 million children around the world who he possibly sentenced to death by dismantling USAID.”
Khanna has also encouraged a massive new tax proposal called the “Make Billionaires Pay Their Fair Share Act,” targeting wealthy men like Musk with a direct 5% annual wealth tax on assets, not just income, exceeding $1 billion.”
https://nypost.com/2026/06/22/us-news/elon-musk-needs-to-answer-for-4-5m-kids-sentenced-to-death-over-doge-cuts-ro-khanna-argues/
CWAA
He wants that money so badly.
Fuck off, commie.
I eagerly look forward to the forensic accounting of USAID expenditures to prove that it was spending money on starving children and whatnot.
That’ll come right after the ActBlue financial autopsy.
We’re all somebody’s children and NGO employees have to eat too!
I think showing what USAID international and US domestic now look like despite DOGE not being as effective/efficient as it should be, is a great start.
Disclosure is gonna be LIT!!!
Damn, I can’t wait for Khanna to have a terrible woodchipping accident.
He is really one of the worst of them, which is quite an achievement.
Meh. Children are a renewable resource.
I tree what you did there.
Against the wall
Commie.
So just to be clear, the USAID funding or lack thereof is the result of the Congressional Budget and Appropriations process. Khanna is a member of the Congress that approved the current spending or lack thereof.
Musk was head of DOGE, which told Congress and the American People – hey, that looks like fraud. He had zero power to cut anything.
I’m sure they will be very inexpensive to run. You are still going to have to crew them and have crew life support. And they are going to take forever to cross the Atlantic. Also they are going to have aux power when they aren’t out to sea.
The vessels are called trimarans—boats with three hulls—and at 220 feet long are able to carry 415 metric tons of goods. That means they have about five times more cargo space than an airplane, but are five times smaller in length than a typical container ship. The boats are made of aluminum, whose light weight helps them move swiftly to a target speed of about 14 knots, which is about 16 miles per hour, said one of Vela’s founders, Michaël Fernandez-Ferri.
DHL Set to Transport Goods on New Wind-Powered Cargo Ships
https://www.wsj.com/pro/sustainable-business/dhl-set-to-transport-goods-on-new-wind-powered-cargo-ships-eca5d5a0?st=obVs4P&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
They’re doing the meme, aren’t they?
The meme.
move swiftly to a target speed of about 14 knots
The Doldrums smile malignly.
So they are reinventing the clipper ship.
Yes roughly the same speed.
For a non-planing boat the speed is function of the waterline. Speedboats and the like are a different design.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hull_speed
Can’t you make a robot sailing ship and slowly move cargo with much lower labor costs?
Their tonnage is in the lower range of clippers too.
I bet pirates would love robot ships.
modern pirates tend not to give a crap about the cargo – they ransom the crews. Besides, the benefit of not having people on board is you don’t need to use the shortest route, you can use the safest one.
Mixing relative and absolute numbers is bad enough, but comparing one metric against one thing and then an unrelated metric against a second thing? RYFKM?
No mention of elephant capacity or giraffe lengths.
Win!
More cargo than a cessna 150, smaller than a Panamax!
Olympic swimming pools have a sad.
Sailcargo is the name passed around sailing circles. And it is just as stupid as it sounds.
Just put the aluminum in the salt water…
Wind powered ships. What a time to be alive.
I LOL’d, but I’m not surprised.
After Spirit Airlines shut down in early May, Flix North America saw a 30% increase in passengers on overlapping routes.
They Can’t Fly Spirit Anymore, So They’re Taking the Bus Instead
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/travel/they-cant-fly-spirit-anymore-so-theyre-taking-the-bus-instead-175054af?st=vB6Tg3&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I could fly to NYC from my town for $500 each way or take the bus for $35.
There is a campus-to-campus bus that one of my doctors clued me into that is supposed to be much nicer than the budget outfits but of course like everything else in town it’s not running during the summer.
Nature is healing.
I must admit, though — I’m going to miss the “Chimpout at Gate 37” genre of YouTube videos.
“Nancy Mace brutally fact-checked on claim government is funding ‘radical transgender experiments’ on mice”
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15918239/Nancy-Mace-transgender-experiments-mice.html
STIJLTH
So it’s the “it’s not happening” phase.
Well its transgenic nerd…and also we are testing these hormone therapies on mice but mice can never be trans cause gender is a human concept.
/my quick read around the cesspool of the internet.
“America brutally fact-checked on claims the Dr. Fauci spent millions of tax dollars funding a plague.”
Yeah, “fact checkers” can fuck right off anymore.
Supreme Leader Loji
@thelongmarch86
You are not a Marxist if Cuba’s setbacks makes you give up.
Marxism is a science based solely on dialectical materialism. Just like Capitalism struggled in its emergence against feudalism, so too will socialism struggle at first.
We must continue to learn from our mistakes.
https://x.com/thelongmarch86/status/2068431622672617493
High priest of science there.
It’s spreading like wildfire across the United States so there is that, I guess.
Funny how actual scientific breakthroughs rarely have to struggle.
“Marxism is a science based solely on dialectical materialism. Just like Capitalism struggled in its emergence against feudalism, so too will socialism struggle at first.”
This level of delusion is what frightens me. How do you correct for stupid fucks that believe this sort of nonsense? How high has that pile of bodies have to get for them to say, maybe their ideology is downright fucking evil?
Their bodies have to be on it.
Historically they are all part of the second and subsequent waves of body piling by the new bosses. Those that took power know these are the disruptors and propagandists and they are the first to go after the new feudal lords take power. For some reason al these idiots keep thinking this time it will not play out that way, when it ALWAYS does…
Alex, if they had half of a clue they wouldn’t be suckers for the propaganda. There are always stupid humans ready to do (and believe) stupid things.
Agree completely JI. And that is the dilemma. There is no way to avoid the stupid always being drawn to this stupid evil shit. And it gets real dangerous when they coopt the institutions of learning to peddle this shit.
Paging OMWC!
Serious Chemical Accidents Are Rising in the U.S.—and Getting More Dangerous
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/serious-chemical-accidents-are-rising-in-the-u-s-and-getting-more-dangerous-e94fab53?st=SYCQhp&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
When you’ve basically stopped industrial development of all kinds because of NIMBY green utopian dreams you wind up running existing facilities well beyond their expected life and capacity. I can’t see how that can be problemtatic.
“Of those injured in the incident, 22 refused medical attention.”
Then how do you know they were injured?
That tells me that at
Least 22 were illegals.
If someone want to improve crypto trading strategies, this is for you
https://x.com/edgecraftapp/status/2068065675953000872
“Map reveals every state’s favorite fast food cheeseburger”
https://www.dailymail.com/yourmoney/article-15836929/Map-reveals-states-favorite-fast-food-cheeseburger.html
Fast food must mean something different in English English.
There is one Rail location (here used to be 4), and it is far from fast food. They do have good burgers, but if they were going to pander to locals, I would have expected Swensons (which still leaves the majority of the state in the dark). If they were talking chains, Max and Erma’s still exists and was started down in Columbus.
I don’t understand the graphs. The figures add up to over a 100 %. Am I missing something in the New Math.?
Fucking hipsters.
(Which isn’t going to keep me from stopping at Farmer’s Daughter next time I drive through Capon Bridge – that place is great!)
“Fast casual”, maybe?
“For better or worse — and we all know it’s for worse — artificial intelligence has become a part of everyday life.”
https://www.salon.com/2026/06/22/ai-doomerism-is-misplaced-heres-what-it-will-take-to-pop-the-bubble/
That settles it.
“You don’t need Charlize Theron in a bathtub explaining this to you, right?”
Pretty sure that was Margot Robbie.
“Will our political class have the bravery to do something different? Probably not these politicians, but you know, one of the things I am quite alarmed by but also somewhat heartened by is the extent to which Donald Trump is making the case for doing a bunch of things that I failed to make the case for. Like getting rid of the useless Democratic leadership and replacing them with political radicals.
Also, stop using the American internet. Also, stop using oil. Trump is doing more to get people off oil than I ever did in all the summers I spent ringing doorbells for Greenpeace, and he’s doing more to convince people that they shouldn’t use American technology than I did in 25 years working for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He’s convincing people around the world that their progressive leaders suck, and that they need to be replaced with radical leaders.”
Sure, Jan.
our political class
Fuck off and die. Your political class ain’t mine.
“look at the fact that we’ve just made a man who has only failed for the last five years into a trillionaire. Every initiative of Musk’s that succeeded predates the pandemic.”
LOLOL
Internet was a mistake.
Nothing like having a reporter with no real-world work experience judging the world’s richest man.
Compulsory education was a mistake.
Compulsory mis-education for the win!
I am constantly impressed that Salon is able to find so many writers who are so profoundly and proudly stupid.
It’s all that college produces.
I played https://squaredle.com 06/22:
*39/39 words (+5 bonus words)
⏱️ In the top 1% by speed
🔥 Solve streak: 1356
Feeling feisty today.
When pols try to drive a narrative but no one knows who they are.
Current Thing
Weird to pivot from affordability and gas prices to something every pool owner has dealt with at one point.
This strategy is called flinging shit and hoping it sticks to the wall. Notice team blue is not running on what it wants to do, because none of those things are really popular or good. So then you do this shit. You fling poo, and hope it sticks. If it doesn’t, then you move to the next pile of poo to fling…
Correct. And not only are their ideas bad, if they run on doing something they might be called to task if they don’t achieve what they promise. This is the lazy and cynical way out, but all too often it works.
Lies, lies, lies… Tell me sweet little lies….
What is in the water in Minnesoda???
AIDS?
Pope Jimbo’s piss?
Ice fish.
Ice Fish. https://www.kokaneebeer.ca/en/age-gate
How smashing the NIMBYs created modern capitalism
18th June 2026
24 Mins
In 1688, England swept away the encrusted vetocracy that had held back economic growth for centuries. Could we do the same today?
https://worksinprogress.co/issue/how-abolishing-the-stakeholder-state-caused-the-industrial-revolution/
Industrial modernity was invented in the English midlands around the end of the eighteenth century, kicking off an unprecedented global rise in living standards that continues to this day. But what made this revolution possible was a lesser-known political revolution that took place in the previous century: a period known in English history as the Glorious Revolution.
Today, the Glorious Revolution is remembered for having introduced the system of constitutional monarchy, which subordinated the power of the monarch to Parliament. What is really interesting, though, is how Parliament used its new power: to untangle excessively strong and complex property rights, making it possible for the first time for sustained investments to take place in infrastructure and agriculture across England. And unlike in most other political revolutions, this happened almost entirely peacefully and with the consent of the people whose rights were being redrawn.
enturies. Could we do the same today?
Industrial modernity was invented in the English midlands around the end of the eighteenth century, kicking off an unprecedented global rise in living standards that continues to this day. But what made this revolution possible was a lesser-known political revolution that took place in the previous century: a period known in English history as the Glorious Revolution.
Today, the Glorious Revolution is remembered for having introduced the system of constitutional monarchy, which subordinated the power of the monarch to Parliament. What is really interesting, though, is how Parliament used its new power: to untangle excessively strong and complex property rights, making it possible for the first time for sustained investments to take place in infrastructure and agriculture across England. And unlike in most other political revolutions, this happened almost entirely peacefully and with the consent of the people whose rights were being redrawn.
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[Edit fairy tucks a dollar bill under the pillow]
WALL OF TEXT
Interesting.
Parlement making more laws didn’t do it but streamlining the old process and fortifying property rights looked like it did.
We have the nimby class now playing ‘stakeholder’. Unless you own the land you don’t have a say.
Thanks
holly copy paste fail. I have no idea how I did that maybe an edit fairy can delete everything from Subscribe downwards.
Still *highly* recommending The Busiest Man in England for an account of the great flourishing.
“Two million bees escaped after a truck transporting their hives overturned and released the insects in Texas on Sunday….
“Everyone that lives in the [affected] area please remain indoors. An 18 wheeler carrying beehives has turned over and there is a heavy presence of bees in the area,” the local Orange county emergency services said in a statement…..
The Texas bee episode was dealt with fairly quickly. Orange county emergency services posted an update later Sunday saying that the bees were being transferred to local beekeepers. “Crews are continuing to safely transfer the hives on to transport trucks, which will be hauled to a local honey farm,” it said.
It added: “Residents in the immediate area are still encouraged to use caution.””
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/22/bees-escape-truck-carrying-hives-overturns-texas
We have become overly concerned with safety.
Security theatre is a transfer of power.
You have no agency and can not be trusted with your own safety. Your betters have that authority over you and you must follow their advice/control.
Marcus Armstrong was cruising toward his first win when his Honda motor blew up four laps from the end.
Odd for a Honda.
If it were a harbor freight engine it would be expected.
Indeed, Hondas usually blow up six laps from finishing.
In today’s ‘you don’t hate the media or the government enough’ news:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/06/20/starmer-force-social-media-giants-prioritise-bbc/
https://dailysceptic.org/2026/06/21/starmer-plans-to-force-social-media-giants-to-prioritise-bbc-content/
Talk about burning the place down on your way out the door…
“You are always two clicks away from big black cock”
OK, Ted…
Seriously dude, keep your fetishes to yourself.
In the name of doing right (for us in power that hate your freaking guts) we need to make sure you can only get the propaganda we wan to pass as facts…
And how many social media companies are based out of the UK?
After the UK blocks foreign sources . . . all of them.
Like that makes any difference to them? The UK government, or the social media companies for that matter?
Prioritize that paywall!
Get off your lazy asses and fight to get your country back from totalitarianism, people. Before it is too late.
Hell, the US is heading down the same road. Trump is just a temporary speedbump.
Yup.
And Comrade Mamdani is leading the way.
It’s two late.
Back to back world wars killed off all of their men.
Did the U.S. the same.
“My Boyfriend Wants Me to Shut Up”
https://slate.com/life/2026/06/the-one-relationships-dating-boyfriend-communication-talking.html
I can see why.
The “talker”? You mean the nagging hag that has to do all her thinking out loud and in your face?
Bonus:
“By contrast, my ex-girlfriend Kiki, who I had the longest and most serious relationship with prior to Drew, was just as much of a talker as I am…”
Did she break up with Kiki cause they constantly ended up screaming at each other and then swinging? Look up the stats….
50, childless.
Yeah he should move on.
https://www.tiktok.com/@rachelkramerbussel
No.
Shhhhhh
“War is Over! (If You Want It)”
High-level U.S.-Iran talks conclude with a road map for peace, mediators say
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/06/21/us-iranian-meet-switzerland-hash-out-peace-plan/
Needs a picture similar to Neville Chamberlain’s “peace for our time” speech while waving papers.
As usual Japan is decades behind the US.
“In late January, human resources personnel from about 50 Japanese companies gathered at the Tokyo office of law firm Nishimura & Asahi. There, they took part in a workshop while wearing goggles, masks, mittens, headphones and other items designed to simulate various disabilities.”
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/06/22/japan/society/japan-workplace-diversity-equity-inclusion/
Paging Diana Moon Glampers!
Would’t it be faster and just as consequential to flush the money they are wasting on this crap down the toilet?
Now wondering if those fancy Japanese toilets have a special function for money?
Fail
A decade ago, backers promised that Brexit would be the key to a bright new future where, freed from the edicts of EU bureaucrats, Britain would regain control of its laws and its borders and the economy would boom. But the reality failed to live up to the hype as Britain struggled to adjust to life without unfettered access to the 27-nation free trade bloc and its market of 450 million people.
Economic growth is anemic, taxes are high, public services are creaking and successive governments have been unable to stem the flow of migrants who wash up on the English Channel coast in inflatable boats. As a result, it’s not exactly a happy anniversary.
Save us, Brusselscrats!
Unfortunately after Brexit they elected Labour to power who then proceeded to fuck the country in every way they could to punish them for Brexit.
Yeah in this case you can actually say “Real Brexit hasn’t been tried yet”. Because it hasn’t.
But I would not expect AP to be honest about this. Or anything, really.
Look, Labour deserved a chance — you can’t leave all the screwing the country over to the Conservatives!!
Trigger warning: this piece of shit is particularly gross.
https://reduxx.info/first-openly-transgender-state-legislator-sentenced-to-33-years-in-prison-for-child-sexual-exploitation/
To my mind, the real cherry on the top of the shit sundae is not the disgusting pederasty, it’s that the people of New Hampshire elected, and repeatedly re-elected, a person with an IQ in the mid 70’s who has been in and out of mental hospitals for his entire life…
…the people of New Hampshire elected, and repeatedly re-elected, a person with an IQ in the mid 70’s who has been in and out of mental hospitals for his entire life…
Democrats gotta Democrat.
lol That was my thought too.
“Can you please be more specific?”
LOL, yeah that doesn’t really narrow it down, does it?
NO WAY…
Just kidding. I would be far more surprised to find of this was not the case…
Blame DEG.
Nashua, so northern Mass.
Another transtrender.
Creon Butler, who leads the global economy and finance program at Chatham House, a London-based think tank, said there were long-term consequences to leaving the European single market.
“Whatever was promised, whatever one hoped for, (you have) to accept that it has been a major loss of wealth and prosperity for us through the choice we made to leave,” he said.
“That’s a decision the British public have made, and they’re entitled to make it, but it does make us poorer,” he added.
You had your chance to be part of Eurotopia and you squandered it. Just look at how much better things are across the Channel. Weep for your lost future, England.
Strange how being “poorer” has only increased the flow of vibrant newcomers.
Britain’s long term prospects were sacrificed long before the EU existed or Brexit had any chance. You know – ancient history.
“Apologies to my dear spicy White friends, because I know that my White brothers and sisters do love the 4th of July—it’s Independence Day. Everybody’s barbecuing; it’s a thing.
I can promise you, Black folks, we will take that day off. We will barbecue because we’re off. But Black people—nobody Black I know is really excited about the 4th of July, because it is what Frederick Douglass said it is. It is the celebration of slaveholders who freed themselves from having to pay taxes to the Crown for their slave empire. And that is what it is.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/06/joy-reid-claims-nobody-black-i-know-is/
CWAC
It is the celebration of slaveholders…
No, it isn’t. Obvious result of public education right there.
Oh, Joy Reid. I do believe she is actually retarded.
I like that the photo caption says that Joe Reid is on the right.
I’m fairly sure that the vast majority of people do not know who she is.
I envy those people.
I wish I didn’t.
You’re welcome to leave you poor mistreated victims.
Liberia was made just for you!
How dare she invoke Douglass’s name, the lying sack of shit.
He would not be impressed with her stupidity one bit.
“About 15 minutes later, an iPhone crash alert was received by Prince George’s County Public Safety Communications, indicating a crash had occurred near where routes 50 and 301 connect in the Bowie area.”
Interesting that the iPhone alert seems to be the first thing authorities noted as opposed to radio from the airplane. However, the poorly written article isn’t clear to me here. I actually know the airport where it departed. It’s a tiny municipal airport and relatively rare nowadays.
https://6abc.com/post/3-killed-when-private-plane-crashes-maryland-woods-officials/19347916/
If they weren’t talking to ATC and only had a 121.5 ELT then ATC takes a long time to find that signal.
Iphone crash alert?
If you smash an iphone with a big hammer will an ambulance show up?
Guy cutting hay across the road from my place had his phone fall out of his pocket and went through the mower behind his tractor.
It set off the crash alert and the cops called me as it pinged my address.
Ruined his phone but that’s good as he’s a pedo and dosent need the internet.
“A drag queen that sits on the school board as vice president in Cazenovia, New York who was accused of sexually explicit communications with a minor has now been charged with possessing child pornography.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/drag-queen-vp-of-school-board-arrested-for-possession-of-videos-depicting-the-sexual-abuse-of-infants-in-new-york
OFFS!!
This is my shocked face.
Hey, look, it’s that thing that never happens, happening again!
The trannys are just about batting 1000.
lol
That is near me. FWIW xe could probably be elected mayor in Big College town here and nobody would bat an eye.
https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2068619135303508443
The insults are simply brilliant. “…you incomplete set of plastic picnic utensils,” indeed.
Meh, when you resort to using Hobbes, you’re fucking yourself.
Hobbes, like many of the new right, successfully identified the problem and came up with the wrong solutions.
Paging Suthrn.
I am gonna tax some of those insults.