Monday Morning Links

by | Sep 21, 2026 | Daily Links | 245 comments

What a wild NFL Sunday it was. The Browns won, for starters. The Ravens lost to the Saints. There were a ton of injuries to key players. The heat in Nashville was ridiculous (134 on the field, supposedly). And the Chiefs getting the help they seem to always get and winning in OT. Just wild. And in MLB, the Astros are back where they ought to be this year: a couple games below .500 and on the outside of the playoff race, looking in. Six games to go and they still have a chance though. Which is shocking. And I guess that’s pretty much it for sports.

If you squint hard enough, you can see racism in anything. This is absolutely ridiculous. But they apologized, so they have nobody to blame but themselves.

He’s right: You can run but you can’t hide. Unfortunately, you can also make shit up and completely rewrite stuff if you’re in charge of the national history museum. Which is a big part of what happened on this guy’s watch.

The future we were promised is almost here! Not sure how I feel about it though. Just waiting to see how long before it goes horribly wrong. I kinda wish the pilot program was being held in DC and available only to government employees.

This is ridiculous, in my opinion. I don’t think their rights are being violated at all. And I also think the WH is stupid for doing this. So in typical DC media fashion, everybody involved is an asshole.

I wonder which circle of hell these people will end up in. They certainly belong in one of them, that’s for sure.

What a horrible parent. But we all know it’s not her fault, but rather that of white people somehow. Just ask her, she’ll tell you.

When will this madness end? Hopefully with a bunch of burned up trash trucks, in this case.

The next British tax revolt is right around the corner. At some point, people are gonna have enough. Hey, Nov 5 is right around the corner. Might be a good day or method of protest for this admin.

This headline is misleading. It’s not “foreigners,” it’s people who can’t speak the language, which is a drain on schools. So of course the people at CNN paint it incorrectly to score political points. Anyway, good for Meloni on both counts.

Austin is popping off. Of course politicians are using the event to score political points even though they have no idea what happened. Oh well, let them burn it down.

This was the band’s golden age. At least in my opinion. So was this. Two masterpieces. Enjoy them both.

And enjoy this lovely Monday, dear friends.

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245 Comments

  1. AlexinCT

    WHERE THE WHITE WOMENZ AT?

  2. AlexinCT

    This is ridiculous, in my opinion. I don’t think their rights are being violated at all. And I also think the WH is stupid for doing this. So in typical DC media fashion, everybody involved is an asshole.

    Their right to tell lies to fool low IQ idiots into voting blue are being violated.

    • WTF

      “Freedom of the press” means you have the right to publish whatever you like. You do not have any constitutional right to any access. Of course some district judge will ‘order’ the White House to reinstate them anyway, because reasons.

  3. AlexinCT

    When will this madness end? Hopefully with a bunch of burned up trash trucks, in this case.

    If you own a smart phone pr any apple product, you gave away your privacy a loooonnng time ago.

    • sloopyinca

      There’s a difference in trading some personal privacy for convenience and city trash trucks scanning your yard for code violations.

      First and foremost, you’re opting in on the former.

      • Ted S.

        All that data should be 4A effects.

        Yeah, I know, “should”.

      • AlexinCT

        Sloop, I am not saying this whole thing is fucking ludicrous. But I would be far, far, more worried about those “convenient” devices that record everything you say in your own home or car.

      • AlexinCT

        thing is

        I meant “thing is not“…

    • R C Dean

      Apple is better with privacy than any Microsoft or Android product.

      Low bar, I know.

  4. Sean

    Two masterpieces

    Agreed.

  5. Common Tater

    “In a cognitive test, designed to ascertain whether she was sound of mind enough to consent to Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD), Stegemann ‘got every question wrong’, believing her two living siblings to be dead, according to Kranendonk.

    Yet 48 hours after she wept uncontrollably at the notion of MAiD, Stegemann is said to have died with her hands clasped in prayer, covered in her own blood due to a botched first attempt at connecting the IV, administered by a nurse allegedly not wearing gloves.”

    WTF??

    • sloopyinca

      It’s Canada. The actuaries are running their health care system and if somebody is gonna cost much at all, the first option is to kill them.

      • AlexinCT

        Isn’t that the fundamental premise of government healthcare? Especially when you get to the point where you can choose to provide service or not based on someone’s politics…

      • Common Tater

        Remember when the Republicans were “crazy” for talking about death panels?

      • AlexinCT

        Remember when the Republicans were “crazy” for talking about death panels?

        That slippery slope argument sure aged differently than people thought, huh? Ten years ago I would have said “yeah, too much hyperbole”, but now I am wondering if those talking about it were not doomerish enough in their predictions.

      • (((Jarflax

        Prices always determine allocation. All that changes is who makes the decisions. Surely a government bureaucracy is a better judge of your treatment than say… you.

      • EvilSheldon

        The ‘slippery slope’ fallacy was never really a fallacy. The people trying to give you the thin end of the wedge just wanted you to believe it was.

      • The Last American Hero

        You know how a lot of politicians are slimy because slimeballs are attracted to power, and there are a lot of cops that are bullies because giving someone a gun and qualified immunity can attract bullies?

        What about jobs where you can kill people and the state will have your back? What kind of people are attracted to those jobs?

    • Drake

      No gloves – might give the old lady an infection that kills her?

      The circle of hell these people will end up in will feature a fiery lake.

      • DrOtto

        Yeah, the nurse is the one taking the risks there. I think it is speaking to the professionalism or lack there of in who is providing this “service”.

    • Pope Jimbo

      This sounds horrible. It shouldn’t have happened.

      Personally, though, I am far more worried about the opposite. I don’t want The Man to prevent me from checking out on my terms. It would be nice if I could do it with professional assistance and not worry about leaving a mess for my family to clean up.

      After watching my mom wither away in pain, I don’t want that. It absolutely mindfucked my dad watching his wife suffer like that and not being able to do anything about it.

    • Threedoor

      The US should invade to stop the human sacrifice. In the neatherlands too.

  6. Common Tater

    “Students who are not Italian citizens account for 11.6% of those enrolled in Italian schools — nearly 12 in every 100 students — according to Fondazione ISMU, a research institution.”

    Condescending News Network

  7. R.J.

    Ugh. I refuse to deal with the world this morning. Also all this news is infuriating.
    *Pulls covers over head

    • sloopyinca

      I’ll make happier links on Wednesday.

      Or I’ll try at least.

      • (((Jarflax

        Our minds are optimized for threat detection not happiness. We’re always going to seek out stories that show us a threat over ones that demonstrate kindness or achievements. And there will always be those who use that fact to try to herd us in their chosen direction.

  8. PieInTheSky

    The next British tax revolt is right around the corner. At some point, people are gonna have enough. Hey, Nov 5 is right around the corner. Might be a good day or method of protest for this admin.

    Not if most are on the government gravy train.

    • AlexinCT

      Best way to control people is to make them dependent. Government healthcare and welfare, and you own them serfs.

    • PieInTheSky

      The proposal, put forward by green energy tycoon and Labour donor Dale Vince – off course no graft in green energy, so this guy is legit

      wealth continues to be “taxed more lightly than work”. – I hear this retarded shit all the time from allegedly “right wing” people

      Bringing CGT rates into line with existing income tax bands would raise an estimated £14billion, according to the submission. – off course. tax revenu, after all, never falls short of estimations. And this will not affect the economy or people behavior in any way.

    • PieInTheSky

      But at least Britain has very high levels of sustained economic growth so they have some wiggle room.

      • AlexinCT

        Growth of what? People from shitholes joining too many of the locals on welfare?

      • PieInTheSky

        I’ll have you know Britains GDP per capita (inflation adjusted) has grown by 10% in the past 20 years. 10% in 20 years is noting to sneeze at.

      • juris imprudent

        Pie, Britain as a U.S. state would rank below Mississippi.

      • PieInTheSky

        they have higher life expectancy than Mississippithough.

      • juris imprudent

        Living longer in a shit hole is not an advantage.

      • Threedoor

        The brits don’t have sweet “tea” or the demographics of Mississippi.

      • Nephilium

        They stink on ice!

    • PieInTheSky

      they just need to do exactly what they have been doing only harder. More. Double down. Push forward. History is on their side. Germany is a country of immigration after all.

    • AlexinCT

      Watch the EU start annulling elections they don’t like and then declare they need to ban these populist parties to save “democracy”. And by democracy they mean the same thing our marxist leftist mean: the big globalist apparatus destroying western civilization in an effort to create a one world government beholden to Beijing where these elites get to keep their wealth and benefits, while the rest of us end up as disposable serfs.

      • juris imprudent

        The former corporate lawyer’s tack to the right on issues like immigration has failed to erode AfD support, while also alienating people further to the left.

        Sure, everyone to the right of Stalin is the extreme right.

      • AlexinCT

        Sure, everyone to the right of Stalin is the extreme right.

        Concur this is a fundamental belief, but extreme right, especially fascism or nazism, also means “shit I do not like”.

    • R C Dean

      “Name the two German leaders who changed the demographics of Germany (and Europe) the most.”

      • AlexinCT

        I sense a trick question here!

        But one has to be that commie old frauline from East Germany that sold the fools on how much strength diversity would bring them.

      • Threedoor

        Who is Angela Merkel.

    • rhywun

      The MSM is pulling out all the stops to propaganda the fourth Reich is coming.

  9. Common Tater

    “Protesters gather to block the site under Highway 183 where city officials said that a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent shot a person earlier in the day in Austin, Texas.”

    Not seeing how waving a Mexican flag is helpful, or relevant.

    • AlexinCT

      They are telling you exactly what the agenda is, and the left loves it: destroy western America in the name of communist third world envy and shit.

    • Ted S.

      The shooting made the news in Switzerland, too.

    • R C Dean

      Nothing says “Hold the shooter accountable” like “obstruct the investigation of the shooting by blocking the site”.

      • EvilSheldon

        Like they want an investigation.

        What they want is a Red People’s Tribunal, followed by a classic third-world hole-and-corner public lynching.

    • DrOtto

      There’s an old Ralphie May joke in their somewhere.

      • DrOtto

        There, not their. In before Teds’

    • rhywun

      Not seeing how waving a Mexican flag is helpful, or relevant.

      It’s the same crowd you see at every protest these days. I would not be surprised to see some Pali flags or commie placards, either.

  10. PieInTheSky

    This headline is misleading. – lotsa Romanians in Italy, but usually they do speak the language. At least children of Romanian immigrants are generally well integrate everywhere, and speak the language like a native, including retarded languages like Swamp German.

    • PieInTheSky

      In Italy and Spain, even the older adults learn the language. In Germanic countries not always.

    • Common Tater

      Swamp German?

      • PieInTheSky

        You try pronouncing Gouda properly!

      • Rat on a train

        Dutch

      • AlexinCT

        You try pronouncing Gouda properly!

        GOW-DAH…

      • PieInTheSky

        I am sure it is not guttural enough

      • AlexinCT

        I am sure it is not guttural enough

        Stop met dat gelul, man..

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        This is the German that my family spoke. Also referred to as Lederdeutch. Not uncommon in the early German diaspora, who are also referred to as River German, as they started by migrating down the Danube.

      • tripacer

        Rhymes with chowder?

    • rhywun

      Germany has a long history of well-integrated Turks, since well before Turkey’s recent slide into Islamism. The fact that Germans are revolting over migrants today tells me there are too many of them now, they’re coming from unfriendly countries like Syria and Afghanistan, and have little intent to integrate. Oh, they’re kind of rapey.

      • juris imprudent

        No, the Turks have never really been well integrated there. They were imported for unskilled labor, like Mexican braceros in this country, and then expected to go back to Turkey. When they didn’t, there was some real consternation – this was something I actually studied in college as an econ major.

      • rhywun

        The ones I knew when I was living there in the 80s were well integrated. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

        Could vary by time or place I guess.

    • db

      When Dr. GF was in graduate school, many of her fellow students were Romanian or Italian. Sometimes I found it hard to guess which, based on their accents.

  11. PieInTheSky

    NEW Europe’s largest assemblage of Iron Age iron bars has been uncovered during industrial gravel extraction in Austria!

    Large enough to equip 500 warriors with swords, they indicate production and trade of iron on an unprecedented scale.

    x.com/AntiquityJ/status/2102011308975468835

    • AlexinCT

      Who lost it, though?

      • juris imprudent

        Tragic iron age boating accident?

  12. Common Tater

    Are there any engineers here? I’d like a machine that gives Chris Collinsworth an electrical shock to the balls every time he says “Tay Tay”.

      • R C Dean

        Who says he doesn’t already have one, and that’s why he says Tay-Tay so much?

    • EvilSheldon

      The major problem here would be keeping the electrodes in contact with his balls. Adhesives aren’t going to work once things start getting sweaty.

      The only mechanically reliable way would be decorative piercings or alligator clips.

      • Aloysious: Evil Dark Lord of Wonderful Smooches

        ES, you’ve put some thought into this.

        I like it.

      • EvilSheldon

        I have, but not because of my kinky proclivities (believe it or not…)

        I go to the chiropractor for semi-regular E-Stim treatments on my messed-up shoulders, and keeping the electrodes in place is always a bit of a fight.

    • Common Tater

      WTF is an alcoholic soft drink?

      • Ted S.

        Rum and coke?

      • R C Dean

        An oxymoron. By definition, soft drinks don’t have alcohol. That’s why they are called “soft” drinks.

      • EvilSheldon

        Beer.

        Americano.

        Sangria.

        Anything I only have one of.

    • Rat on a train

      STEVE SMITH PROVIDE DNA EVIDENCE

      • juris imprudent

        That would be more a lake of evidence than a mountain.

    • The Last American Hero

      At least they learned their lesson with the whole harrier jet fiasco and kept the winnings to $1mm

  13. PieInTheSky

    Germany’s PISA score rises 41 points if you exclude immigrant kids. Switzerland: +30. The UAE’s score drops 45 points without immigrants.

    Singapore, Macao, the UAE, and Qatar recruit immigrants smarter than their native populations; Europe, the opposite

    https://x.com/AntiquityJ/status/2102011308975468835

  14. Trigger Hippie

    “And the Chiefs getting the help they seem to always get and winning in OT.”

    ? If anything the Chiefs got screwed on a couple calls but Duh Refs! or whatever.

    • Ted S.

      I was shocked when the refs finally called a personal foul for roughing Jordan Love.

  15. Common Tater

    “Rep. Nancy Mace couldn’t make it more obvious.

    The outgoing congresswoman posted a picture of herself at the University of South Carolina game with the caption “Go COCKS!” Saturday.

    The double entendre — a reference to the nickname of the SC Gamecocks mascots — came after she said men are flooding her DMs with intimate pics of themselves — and she wants it to stop.”

    https://nypost.com/2026/09/20/us-news/rep-nancy-mace-posts-obvious-double-entendre-after-begging-men-to-stop-sending-her-intimate-pics/

    Wearing all black to a football game seems odd, but that’s a good 48.

    • AlexinCT

      She is living her dream…

      Enjoy it before menopause ruins it all..

    • Tres Cool

      Looks ok on the outside. But just wait until you reach down there and find yourself holding a horse collar.

      • Sean

        I don’t know what that means.

      • Tres Cool

        My other analogy would be “looks good until you’re fucking a jar of mayonnaise “
        But that seemed coarse.

      • AlexinCT

        My other analogy would be “looks good until you’re fucking a jar of mayonnaise “

        I have hear that expression a couple of times from guys that got there after me…

    • EvilSheldon

      Obvious fascists. They’re wearing uniforms and waving flags!

  16. R C Dean

    I don’t think their rights are being violated at all.

    They aren’t. There is no rational articulation of 1A rights that gives employees of certain organizations the inalienable right to access the White House.

    And I also think the WH is stupid for doing this.

    Well, yes and no. Those outlets are “major media” because they tell each other they are, not because of their viewership or the the quality of their reporting (which like most cable news outfits, is actually minimal – their product is mostly opinion). Oppo media should have a seat at the table. Bad faith media, no. And its the White House’s call, not some judge’s.

    There will, of course, be a judge who wants to micromanage the White House press room.

    • Rat on a train

      It reminds me of when Trump violated the 1A rights of the media by denying unescorted access to the Pentagon …

    • Trigger Hippie

      “Without notice or process, the White House revoked our journalists’ credentials because it objected to our reporting,”

      Okay. Why should they receive preferential treatment over other outlets? Should everyone who wants in be allowed in? That room would get awfully cramped.

      • AlexinCT

        What was their reaction when Obama did far, far worse, banning a whole bunch of them for not telling the lies they wanted? Or when Biden’s Obama handlers gave them the soft questions they were allowed to ask?

      • R.J.

        Yeah I was wondering when somebody would point out that Obama did the same thing.

      • Trigger Hippie

        That’s different because shut up.

    • juris imprudent

      Reading how American opinion on WWI was formed by British propaganda, it seems our media institutions started low, and got worse from there.

      • (((Jarflax

        Jefferson V Adams

      • juris imprudent

        Yes, Jefferson – the great proponent of a free press, until he was the target of it.

      • (((Jarflax

        It was the Federalists and Adams that passed the Sedition Act and jailed newspaper editors. Seems a bit disingenuous to blame Jefferson.

    • RAHeinlein

      Also, many of their journalists constantly interrupt the President, cabinet members, high level guests, etc. – a level of decorum should be required. CNN (Collins) is one of the worst. I understand the press is free to ask anything, but there is a point where it is just obvious disruption and grandstanding for clicks.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      CNN has lower ratings than Rush Limbaugh did, and the Clinton White House never allowed him in.

      But, you all know the reason for that.

    • RAHeinlein

      Just saw on CNBC that all the major networks are refusing to cover Trump’s visit to New York (UN speech) in solidarity with those who had their press passes “confiscated” on Saturday. Lawsuit has been filed…

  17. PieInTheSky

    Eric S. Raymond
    @esrtweet
    The city of Narva, Estonia, sits at the Russian border, on the Narva river, opposite the zone where the Russians have declared a curfew for its inhabitants and a no-go zone for people who don’t already live there.

    Narva is 87% ethnic Russian.

    There are intelligence reports that Russia has been building hospital facilities near this border.

    Russian border guards have been spotted shoring up the banks of the Narva River in exactly the way you would expect if you thought they were going to throw expedient military bridges across it.

    Russian border guards have also removed a set of buoys in the river marking the Russian-Estonian border, sparking a formal protest from the Estonian government.

    Putin has claimed the right to intravene militarily to protect “oppressed” ethnic Russians in the near abroad. The invasion and annexation of Crimea was justified on these grounds.

    These are all facts. Draw your own conclusions.

    https://x.com/esrtweet/status/2101976675785281792

    Better the Baltics than Romania I guess.

    • Drake

      Maybe they should have peaceful relations with Russia?

      • Ted S.

        Maybe Russia should have had peaceful relations with them instead of trying to ethnically cleanse them.

        Everyone talks about Russia’s “valid historical reasons” for attacking Ukraine, but nobody seems allowed to have valid historical reasons for not wanting Mother Russia to be their dominatrix.

      • juris imprudent

        It was OUR coup that tossed the Ukrainian president who WAS friendly towards Russia.

      • R C Dean

        What if peaceful relations with Russia requires periodically handing over chunks of your territory?

  18. Common Tater

    “Hannah-Jones wrote of her decision, “We thought by sending Najya to a mostly low-income and Black school, we could help improve it for all the children there.

    “We believed strongly that if families like ours went into schools like this one, it would challenge other families with similar values to do the same.

    “I felt an obligation to make educational decisions based on the collective good and not just our individual advantage,” the mom said.”

    How was that supposed to work?

    • Common Tater

      “At PS 307 near DUMBO in Brooklyn, where her daughter attended, there was a 56% black student body, and just 19% of students met state standards on English — well below the citywide average of about 40% of students — in 2016, according to Department of Education figures. Nearly 40% of the students had special needs.

      Urban Assembly Unison, between Clinton Hill and Bed-Stuy, has a 69% black student body, and 40% of its students met state standards in 2024 — compared to 55% for middle schools city-wide. About one-third of the students had special needs.”

      Government schools suck.

      • AlexinCT

        Willing to sacrifice her own child for a stupid fake world view…

      • juris imprudent

        No she honestly believed she would change other peoples’ values/behavior. Considering the other delusions she indulges herself in, I don’t find that so surprising.

      • AlexinCT

        I went through a similar thing with a kid I coached baseball. His mom was a hardcore lefty white woman. His dad was a based black guy and a hoot to hang out with. She fought him on sending their son to a hood school in Hartford instead of our school system which was one of the best in the state. All so she could tell her gurlfriends how woke she was. The father told her no way he was sending his son into that meat grinder cause he worked hard to escape it. She won however, cause she has… never mind..

        Anyway 2 weeks later her kid came home beat up and with his cell phone and money missing. She finally backed off. And guess what? She blamed the whole thing on the dad sabotaging her woke will.

        It’s always these stupid lib college indoctrinate white women that ruing shit.

      • EvilSheldon

        No she honestly believed she would change other peoples’ values/behavior. Considering the other delusions she indulges herself in, I don’t find that so surprising.

        Her entire life has been spent trying to change other people’s values (in a negative way, but that’s not really relevant.)

        The only thing that’s surprising here is her public admission that it didn’t work.

    • rhywun

      mostly low-income and Black school

      When I first saw this story I thought it was going to be some ghetto school and now I see it’s in DUMBO? A fucking hipster neighborhood??

      Try to virtue signal harder, Hannah.

      “We believed strongly that if families like ours went into schools like this one, it would challenge other families with similar values to do the same.

      Um… “bussing” has been a thing since the 1970s and it was done for the exact same reason. I wonder how that worked out.

    • AlexinCT

      FREE SHIT FOR YOUR VOTE!

  19. Suthenboy

    Racism link – “Dude, go take. your meds.”

    Smithsonian link – Most of the history we learn is a cartoon version of ‘the winner writes the history’.

    “The future we were promised is almost here” – It always is.

    Commie rags booted from WH – They have freedom of speech, of course. What they dont have is a right to access.

    Murder Is legal in Canada – News at 11. Socialized medicine always leads to this.

    Using your own children for your own ends rather than theirs….which circle of hell for this one?

    From the state down surveillance is always about the money

    The limeys have become the shame of their fathers. They are spinning in their graves hard enough to alter the rotation of the earth.

    Do we know whose brilliant idea it was to import millions of savages into the west?

    More evidence that cops cant hit the side of a barn if they were locked inside of it; – he lived.

    I am off to condition soil for this coming spring before it gets too hot. Almost Oct and the heat index is still at 100. No rain in sight for at least 10 days.

    • R C Dean

      Hey, Suthen! Long time no see!

      • Common Tater

        +1

      • slumbrew

        +100

    • Ownbestenemy

      Nice to you Suthen. Now go condition the yard

    • Trigger Hippie

      Suthen! Good to see you around again.

    • (((Jarflax

      I know it is off the point, but there is no promised future.

    • R.J.

      Suthen! Nice to see you post.

    • Beau Knott

      Good to see you again! You’ve been missed.

    • bacon-magic

      Well butter my biscuit he’s back.

    • mindyourbusiness

      Hey, Suthen! Good to hear from you!

    • The Last American Hero

      If I have to get fed a cartoon version of history, I would prefer it be one that emphasizes American exceptionalism, not one that paints people that look like me as the devil incarnate.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Good to hear from you again Suthen! Hope things are going well for you.

    • Aloysious: Evil Dark Lord of Wonderful Smooches

      Hope you have been well and healthy. Welcome back.

    • Threedoor

      My brother from another mother!

      Man do I need to do yard work. I haven’t sprayed in over a year and it’s rough out there.

  20. rhywun

    Curiously, that CBS Smithsonian person tongue-bath doesn’t list any examples of what drove King Donald to rip them a new one.

    From the examples I’ve seen elsewhere it is absolutely “run by left-wing radicals who want to destroy America”. The Smithsonian is not somehow immune to the march through the institutions that the left is so proud of when they’re occasionally being honest.

    • AlexinCT

      Your assessment is close but not damning enough. The Smithsonian was actively peddling anti American and anti western values and commie agendas, and mad thy were told to cut that shit out.

    • Common Tater

      Listing examples is white supremacy.

      • Rat on a train

        That wasn’t on the list the Smithsonian released.

  21. Common Tater

    “‘The main thing he focused on is sometimes we would all want to talk at once, and that was very upsetting to him.

    ‘He would get upset and say, ”Listen to what she’s saying, listen to what he’s saying, be respectful’.”

    ‘We were trying to say to him, that sometimes somebody says something and they get lost in their thought or they can’t find the right word, and somebody else puts that word in there for them or finishes their thought, that’s how normal conversation works.”

    https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16146525/lindsay-clancy-juror-photo-newborn-fundraiser-fortune.html

    Which circle of hell is this?

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      Its the Final Circle of Paradise.

      • Evan from Evansville

        Only if you’re allowed in to drink the Truth. We’re in the perimeter outside that, and these Cup Bearers are allowed to touch the vessel of divinity, but never taste its powerful Essence, which remains denied to them.

        Fan Girls, but the sort ya don’t want. Imagine the frothy explosion of glee they’d have if Obama even *looked* at ’em. I feel the need to take a sort of piss shower. Preferably my piss, cuz at least I know where it’s been.

    • EvilSheldon

      That is not how normal conversation works. That is a bunch of Main Characters trying to bully consensus by yapping the loudest.

    • juris imprudent

      that’s how normal conversation works

      So the defense screened jurors on the basis of HAVING mental health issues?

  22. Not Adahn

    Good morning! I understand why so few PDTers comment. Links before sunrise?

    Fun match. Won a gun and an optic. I didn’t stay up to walk the prize table inhopes of picking up a holster, I had to get up too early this morning. Eighteen hours of travel ahead.

    • EvilSheldon

      Nice, what gun?

      • PieInTheSky

        walker colt

      • Not Adahn

        RXM. I don’t actually own a G19-class of gun. Yet.

      • Sean

        I almost had one of those follow me home recently. (RXM)

      • EvilSheldon

        Cool! You could use it for a PDW build

        Well, maybe you can’t in New York. But it’s still a pretty cool idea.

    • Sean

      Won a gun and an optic.

      Sweet!

      • Not Adahn

        Even better, the optic (venom enclosed 3MOA) fits on the gun!

    • Threedoor

      I roll out of bed around 7-9 AM in the correct time zone other than Saturday and Sunday which is my work week where I’m usually up around 6.

  23. Not Adahn

    A hummingbird stopped by the bay. No idea how it’s alive, I haven’t seen anything resembling a flower since I landed. This part of Utah is like Arrakis but without the spice or hot weirding women.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      It’s Utah, so the most spice they get is pepper. Not unlike Wisconsin.

      • dbleagle

        Be clear about the pepper. In Utah they use only year-old ground black pepper. A jalapeno is like “Thai 10 pepper” to them.

  24. Common Tater

    “Physical therapy for a post-traumatic injury costs approximately $200 per visit, she said. Bensky knows she should go more than twice per month, “but I can’t afford it,” she said. The yoga that helps keep Bensky centered comes to about $250 monthly….

    Congressional Democrats Ayanna Pressley, Teresa Leger Fernández and Deborah Ross this week introduced legislation to address survivors’ financial burdens. This proposed legislation seeks to launch a restitution fund in the judicial branch “for survivors of sexual violence whose rights were violated by the federal government, including all survivors of abuse by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell”.

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/21/epstein-survivors-financial-struggles-legislation

    WCPGW?

      • Rat on a train

        The right to taxpayer wallets?

    • Ownbestenemy

      Yoga at 250/month? Grift

      • EvilSheldon

        I do yoga in my living room every morning for free, following along with a YouTube video. I did buy a foam block and a yoga mat off Amazon for maybe fifty bucks total.

        Apparently zero-agency coddled white women are a fertile ground for low-rent grifting. I know that I keep harping on this subject, but the parallels with cult indoctrination are hard to ignore.

      • Common Tater

        I don’t like the Iyengar thing of using props such as foam blocks.

      • EvilSheldon

        I don’t really use the block much, but I’m not super flexible. Sometimes I need a crutch.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Most city community centers offer up yoga for like 10/bucks and I bet I could find somewhere that does free classes. Its all about grift and I am sick of it.

    • juris imprudent

      Farmer said that her she has not been working this year because her advocacy “has taken over my life”.

      “That’s obviously a choice I made. I could have kept working and not really been so involved in all the advocacy, but I think it would have been hard to do both in the way at the level I’ve been involved,” Farmer said. “I couldn’t work full-time, certainly, so there’s a cost to that.”

      I’m done. No more sympathy at all for the young women who willingly went into Epstein’s orbit, looking to cash in then, and now. Fuck them with STEVE SMITH’s unyielding ardor.

  25. The Other Kevin

    The future we were promised is almost here!
    If my hockey gear and I could take a 20 minute trip to Chicago twice a week that would be something.

    This was the band’s golden age.
    I like that you and I are still in love with this band so many years later. It was a special time and they were putting out amazing work. I still listen to it over and over.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Your trip to Chicago would only be 20 minutes until everyone else got flying cars too.

      After that, you would be faced with the same delays you are now. Just in 3D.

      What is the flying equivalent of tailgating? The dude was totally ceiling surfing on me!

  26. PieInTheSky

    Suetonius short biography of a Roman schoolteacher, Lucius Orbilius. He noted that Orbilius published a book called “My Trials and Tribulations” on his experiences with the parents of students.

    https://x.com/lefineder/status/2101803100319174836

    Juvenal on difficulties as a teacher:
    “the parents set impossible standards for you. You must know the rules of grammar perfectly, memorize history books, and have at your fingertips the contents of every textbook so that if by chance someone should question you while you are on your way to the baths, you can tell him who Anchises’ nurse was, the name and homeland of Anchemolus’s stepmother, how many years Acestes lived, and how many jars of Sicilian wine he gave to the Trojans.”
    “Parents insist that you mold the tender minds of their sons as a sculptor molds a face from wax. You are supposed to act like the father of this mob of boys and make sure they don’t get into trouble or develop bad habits.”

    • Ted S.

      So Suetonius and Juvenal needed to be more stoic.

    • Beau Knott

      Having worked in a public school for seven years, I’ve always liked Terry Pratchett’s take:

      “You sound a very educated man for a barbarian,” said Rincewind.

      “I didn’t start out a barbarian. I used to be a school teacher. But I decided to give it all up and make a living by the sword.”

      “After being a teacher all your life?”

      “It did mean a change of perspective, yes.”

      “But … well… surely … the privation, the terrible hazards, the daily risk of death…”

      Mr Saveloy brightened up. “Oh, you’ve been a teacher, have you?”

      • Nephilium

        I had friends who did teaching in Cleveland public and Cleveland Catholic schools. They had… stories.

  27. PieInTheSky

    Car fire at the Wawa in Northampton, PA, yesterday. I’m genuinely not trying to be funny at all, but is it normal for a firefighter to have this much difficulty controlling the hose?

    https://x.com/wake_up_girl_3/status/2101829353222934690

    I assume shit sometimes happen when one is fighting fire.

    • AlexinCT

      Water pressure is a bitch…. And if you are a weak ass twink..

      • R.J.

        The firefighter did no have enough body mass to control that power. Short at least 50 pounds. So yes, a twink.

      • EvilSheldon

        Even weak-ass twinks should be well-practiced at controlling the hose…

      • PieInTheSky

        more focused on controlling the hoes?

    • Pope Jimbo

      That car got himself in the wrong place

      One of the other firefighters in that video also looks real small. Like some kid who dressed themselves up in their dad’s fire equipment.

      At the risk of being canceled, what are the odds that those are firewomen and not firemen?

      • Trigger Hippie

        Look, Elliot Page is just trying to pay the bills anyway she can.

      • dbleagle

        Zing!

  28. The Late P Brooks

    There is a lot of force in a fire hose, but that person doesn’t look like it has the faintest idea what it’s doing.

    • Not Adahn

      We have 80psi and 160psi hydrants at work. A 4″ hose = 12.4 square inches = 100# force for the weaker hydrant, 200# for the pumped one.

  29. Common Tater

    “Far-left Democrat Governor Maura Healey is pushing a shocking new proposal that would expand state-funded home visits to the house of every single newborn baby born in the state….

    On Boston Public Radio, after pitching her postpartum package, Healey said this:

    “Everybody in the state, when you have a baby, you’re going to have a home visit. You’re going to have a home visit within days, weeks, and that will be an opportunity for a healthcare provider to make an assessment and to see if you need some additional support and resources.””

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/09/far-left-ma-gov-maura-healey-wants-government/

    She cares so much about babies she just signed a bill legalizing abortion at nine months.

    • EvilSheldon

      *SUPPOSEDLY* this will be voluntary and upon request. Also, the check is in the mail, and I promise I’ll pull out before I nut in your mouth.

      Also, she only devoted $2mil to this project, which makes it a sop to the white female entitled boomer “eMPatHy!!1!” demographic. If it were a straight grift, there would be more money on the table.

      • Ted S.

        From the Clancy jury article:

        He was more focused on policing the tenor of the group’s discussions than offering explanations for his conviction that Clancy was guilty, she said.

        How dare a man use feelings against a woman!

      • Common Tater

        It takes a village to murder a child.

      • Pope Jimbo

        It is never too early for the State to step in and trans your kid.

        Massachusetts has shown that they are willing to take a kid away from a home if the parents refuse to let their kid transition. Why wait until they are in school to start that process. Might as well start in them in the cradle.

    • Pope Jimbo

      In Minnesoda we just send them money for free diapers. We would never be so intrusive as to do a home visit.

      Nearly half of Minnesota families with young children cannot afford enough diapers, according to the Minnesota Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF), and more than 125,000 Minnesota children ages 0-3 experience diaper need.
       
      Minnesota has put about $1.1 million in public money to get diapers to families over the past two fiscal years. The state appropriated $545,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $553,000 in fiscal year 2025 for the Diaper Distribution Grant Program.

       

      Rep. Kim Hicks, who sponsored legislation involving the state’s diaper distribution program, said providing diapers can affect more than a family’s budget.
       
      “Diapers are more than just an item for babies. They are a child welfare tool,” Hicks said. “This is a child welfare issue. This is a child safety issue, and it’s a health issue for our communities.”

      The article said a month’s worth of diapers was $80 – $100 per month. What do you want to bet that people getting these free diapers have cable TV and multiple cell phones?

      • Common Tater

        “experience diaper need”

      • Pope Jimbo

        CT:

        Diaper desert is the correct term.

    • Michael Malaise

      We got a home visit because we chose a doctor who does home visits. Nothing to do with the State.

  30. Common Tater

    “In April, Motaz Azaiza was celebrated by TIME Magazine as one of the most influential people in 2024. He was even nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.

    Now, Azaiza has shared that, although he has footage of Hamas terrorists beating and torturing Israeli hostages following the October 7th attacks, he did not release it because he wanted to avoid putting the terrorists ‘at risk.’…

    YouTube star Ms. Rachel, who makes educational videos for children, has tried to quietly disappear a video where she calls Azaiza her ‘friend.’”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/09/palestinian-reporter-pal-ms-rachel-reveals-he-filmed/

    “In November 2025, Azaiza shared a picture with the Mayor, and Mamdani is beaming. And why wouldn’t he? That is exactly the type of reporter he wants covering Muslim atrocities, one that will push down journalistic integrity in favor of pushing his agenda.

    Azaiza also cozied up to vocal anti-Israel rapper Macklemore who was recently cut from the Ed Sheeren tour for the inability to control his rabid anti-semitism.

    Azaiza gushed on X, “Love to you my brother @macklemore.””

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/09/look-who-else-is-cozying-up-gaza-reporter/

    CWABOA

    • AlexinCT

      You can’t parody this level of evil agendas…

    • The Other Kevin

      That’s really nice. I like the colors.

  31. PieInTheSky

    Polymarket
    @Polymarket
    BREAKING: Jake Paul warns the 2nd Amendment isn’t sufficient anymore, says citizens should be able to arm themselves with drones, EMPs, and rocket launchers.

    https://x.com/Polymarket/status/2101688673062277590

    BREAKING. news of the decade. hot off the presses.

    • EvilSheldon

      Open Source Defense has been on this for years, particularly the drone/UAV side.

      Also, Jake Paul is an enormous shitbag.

    • AlexinCT

      Bitch had it coming…

    • AlexinCT

      A new version of bum fights?

      • (((Jarflax

        Not one with fighting experience anyway!

  32. The Late P Brooks

    Stuff nobody cares about but me:

    Hurricane Hocevar by a unanimous decision.

    Every time I watch one of those races I am amazed by the egregious blocking. I don’t know why some of those clowns don’t get spun out every week.

  33. Common Tater

    “The debate over whether robots will eventually take over humanity was put to the test over the weekend … with an influencer going toe-to-toe with a Terminator-like robot during a boxing match … it’s all on video, and it’s not looking good for us.

    Frankie LaPenna got his butt whooped in the ring by the remote-controlled humanoid robot … as shocked fans looked on from inside the San Francisco fight venue in what’s being billed as the first human versus robot fight.”

    https://www.tmz.com/2026/09/21/frankie-lapenna-robot-boxing-match/

    I’d like to see more influencers beat up by robots.

    • Trigger Hippie

      A shitty fighter is a shitty fighter regardless the opponent and that guy is a shitty fighter.

      /former shitty fighter

      • EvilSheldon

        Did an actual state boxing commission sanction this? If so, how, and why?

        BTW, according to YTBoxRec, Frankie has an exhibition record of zero wins, one loss (by first round knockout against another YouTube dweeb called NoNeckJake). I wouldn’t call him a shitty fighter – I’d call him not a fighter at all. There are dudes at my gym who would have to work very hard to avoid killing him just by accident.

      • rhywun

        He looks like a fat slob.

        /fat slob

  34. The Late P Brooks

    Maybe CNN and MSNBC can sue the White House on “public property access” grounds and get the gates thrown open to ant random busybody.

  35. Pope Jimbo

    Another Honey Harvest has been had!

    The weather turned out to be gorgeous but not as nice as the company. Ron73440, Kinnath, CPRM, USC, PO Nick and of course Fourscore were all there.

    Kinnath once again brought a BIG box of his mead to share. The phrase “pearls before swine” comes to mind every time Kinnath tries to educate us on the finer points of brewing and mead. He tries so hard to educate us and all we do is slurp it down and look around for more.

    Ron brought some cherry hooch as well. CPRM brought some hot sauce that made Mrs. Holiness’ eyes water (which is a big accomplishment).

    The honey crop was big and beautiful this year. It was so bountiful that Fourscore kept getting pulled out of our conversations and being put back to work scraping the honey out of the combs. I try to teach him how to avoid that sort of stuff but he never listens…

    Ron’s stoicism might be tested this week. Mrs. Ron and Mrs. Holiness spent a lot of time chatting and whispering to each other. I think that notes were compared and plots hatched.

    For a while it looked like Nick might not make it. This caused a brief power struggle as we tried to figure out who would be the new Grand Old Man of the Honey Harvest. Before things got too tense Nick roared up on his motorcycle and retained the title. The cycle was really nice, but not so nice that his offer to take one of the Honey Harvest Honeys for a ride wasn’t rejected.

    * UCS forgot his HH gloves and paid the price. His hands were literally bleeding by the time he left.

  36. The Late P Brooks

    Voters? Who cares what they want?

    Merz conceded that the night spells “disaster” for the political center, but assured the public he’d push ahead with his federal agenda of tax and welfare reforms, describing them as “the antidote to the poison of authoritarianism.”

    He stressed that implementing these reforms “require backbone, steadfastness and patience” and that he will “demonstrate this” as “chancellor of our country.”

    You don’t defend democracy by listening to the people.

    • (((Jarflax

      The CDU is well known for backbone and steadfastness…

    • rhywun

      Oooo a thumb-sucker from NPR on the “far-right”.

      • Common Tater

        Bill Clinton would be “far right” now.

    • R.J.

      “I’m leaving but not before I pass enough legislation to cripple the fascists that follow me!”

  37. Pope Jimbo

    If you squint hard enough, you can see racism in anything

    I hate it when the super racist stuff is so racist that the journalo refuses to show it. Especially when you make an effort to track down track down the picture and it turns out to be silly.

    Obviously the reason that they don’t show the pic in the first place is because it would be instantly clear to everyone how specious the claim of racism was. Not because they don’t want to offend any sensibilities.

  38. The Late P Brooks

    Another tent show revivalist, come to save our souls

    Kentucky bourbon might not be the typical fuel for presidential ambition, but the fight has thrust Beshear into the 2028 conversation. The title of his new memoir, “Go and Do Likewise: How We Heal a Broken Country” (to be published Tuesday by St. Martin’s), quotes Jesus, who said people should follow in the footsteps of the Good Samaritan, to “go and do likewise.”

    Asked if Democrats should do more to engage with people of faith, Beshear replied, “Oh, I think so. I mean, think about the lessons the Bible teaches. The miracle of the fishes and loaves is one of the only miracles in the first four books of the New Testament. In a place of scarcity, Jesus makes sure that everybody has enough. Democrats are fighting to make sure there is food assistance for all of America’s children, that kids don’t go to school hungry, that seniors don’t go to bed hungry. And look at what Donald Trump tried to do: He tried to cut SNAP benefits during a shutdown for the first time in history, to use starving Americans as leverage. That’s not Christian. It’s not the right thing to do.”

    Beshear has said that Democrats have to do a better job of speaking “normal.” Asked to explain, he said, “We’ve got to sound like normal human beings. I think that it was advocacy-speak that was meant for the right things, right? It was meant to reduce stigma, but I don’t think you reduce stigma by changing words. You reduce stigma by changing hearts. You think about the term ‘food insecurity’ – it doesn’t convey what that person is going through. It doesn’t convey your compassion for trying to make sure everyone has enough to eat, like the word hunger does.”

    Accept the True Faith, you ignorant hateful heathens.

    • Threedoor

      None of the locals I talked to in KY when I lived there liked him. And that was 16 years ago.

  39. Pope Jimbo

    I hope that the commies built a really big wall because they are going to need it if they are going to get rid of all their enemies.

    Prominent Abdul El-Sayed supporter and former DNC member Liano Sharon, a signatory of the “Michigan Jews for Democracy” letter voicing support for El-Sayed, stated today that Haley Stevens should not face the death penalty because, “I don’t support the death penalty, even for neo-Nazis.”

     
    Sharon did not stop at Haley Stevens; he also implicated Michigan Democrats Elissa Slotkin, Gary Peters, Debbie Stabenow, and Shri Thanedar.
     
    When I asked him if he thought Vice President Kamala Harris was a “neo-Nazi,” he told me, “It is fair to say that her conduct meets the definition of that term.”

      • EvilSheldon

        It’s court intrigues all the way down…

  40. Common Tater

    TW:TOS

    “Under Montana law, it is illegal to sponsor or distribute an election communication within 60 days of voting if you “knew or should have known [it] is a deepfake”—though “satire or parody” is exempt. And so the targets of Bartel’s mailouts filed complaints. State Rep. Jennifer Carlson (R–Manhattan), for example, said a mailer showing her holding an AI-generated pride flag was created “with the intent to injure the reputation of the candidate or otherwise deceive a voter.”

    This week, Watters found that Bartel and his group are likely to succeed on their First Amendment challenge. Montana’s statute covers synthetic media created “with the intent to injure the reputation” of a candidate or political party, meaning that, as Watters put it, the law “treats identically deceptive media differently based solely on whether its message is weaponized to damage or deployed to elevate a candidate.””

    https://reason.com/2026/09/18/montanas-anti-deepfakes-law-just-hit-a-first-amendment-roadblock/

    Sounds like job program for lawyers.

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