An order like that would blow up the economy so huge, even the Supreme Court wouldn’t allow it, but at some point (soon?) what the courts say won’t matter to this regime. And btw, Trump doesn’t even know what a trade deficit is.

Photos capture Trump reading ‘Kennedy Center DEMOLISHED’ poster

Judge orders Trump to give 30 days notice before any steps to demolish Kennedy Center

When Trump demolished the Bonwit Teller Building’s sculptures

Excerpt: Whether it would all work remained an open question. Not letting viewers see, or smell, Mr. Trump’s office would be the easy part. The producers would also need to invent a version of Donald Trump that did not actually exist — measured, thoughtful and endlessly wealthy — a complete rehabilitation of his public image. In the most recent Gallup survey measuring Mr. Trump’s reputation before the show, 98 percent of those polled knew his name, but 58 percent viewed him unfavorably.

This is what Trump wants for America.

Excerpt: The family lived together in the small harbor town of Whittier, Alaska. They all hail originally from the faraway U.S. territory of American Samoa, which they thought gave them the right to vote in their local elections, as is the case for people born in every other U.S. state and territory. But unbeknownst to them, and even to many Alaska officials, American Samoans are denied voting rights outside of American Samoa, since they are classified as U.S. nationals and not citizens.

It’s rare for a judge to open his/her yap about injustice, and even wackier, this dude has always been part of the conservative legal establishment.

Dude shot someone without provocation, then lied about it, but he’s only being charged with lying, and he’s already out on bail. Justice in this matter would be a big surprise.

No man who’s not nuts could be lured by ‘tradwife’ dating profiles, but that particular type of nut is common at the FBI, I guess.

So sad. Anyway…

Which means jack shit if there’s no penalty. And the guy’s rich, so there will be no meaningful penalty.

If you violated a court order, you wouldn’t be warned of ‘possible’ contempt charges. The judge would simply bang a gavel, declare you in contempt, and you’d be behind bars.

DOJ appeals order to turn over FBI notes from interviews with Trump accuser

Excerpt: Our name Point Source is a reference to identifiable sources of pollution like a gas flare, a smoke stack, a tailpipe of a car, or a waste incinerator. Like the name implies, we aim to point to who and what are driving the most important threats to the climate and public, capturing the voices of key sources and the stories of people confronting those threats.

Excerpt: I’ve examined hundreds of pages of depositions, court briefs, and news stories about the case, and interviewed key figures. At almost every turn, Times journalists misplayed their hand, whether in a brief interview with Spears, or in the seventy-nine days that it took to correct the error, or in Corbett’s email—which became part of the court record only because he took Times legal staff off the chain, thus removing the privilege that attaches to attorney-client correspondence.

No, New York Times — commenters disagreed, but nobody “clapped back.” Also, replies weren’t blistering, nobody got clobbered, eviscerated, or exploded in anger, and jaws did not drop.

Introduction to Journalism: Reputable sources shouldn’t use such hyped terms, especially not in headlines.

I tend to be unimpressed by millionaires making allegedly idealistic statements — “Imagine no possessions,” says a wealthy man — but what Macklemore said into the microphone was “Free Palestine.” Two ordinary words and not really a radical thought got him booted from all the big venues.

This is the real “cancel culture.” Rich people decide the limits of what’s allowed to be read, watched, heard, published. You bump up against those limits all the time without knowing it, because there’s damned near nothing on TV, at the movies, or in a book store that hasn’t been approved by some rich person. What hasn’t been approved, isn’t there.

Macklemore is rich too, but not incredibly rich, not Robert Kraft rich, so Kraft decided that saying “Free Palestine” isn’t allowed under his roof, or the roofs owned by Kraft’s rich friends all across the NFL.

Fuck Robert Kraft, of course. He’s plain evil. Fuck Ed Sheeran for shaking evil’s hand and working with evil, which makes him evil, too. But I like the part of the story where all of dweeby la-la-la-la-man Sheeran’s opening acts and even his touring band bailed on him. That’s rock’n’roll.

Robert Kraft claims his donations help Palestinians. Turns out he’s funding Friends of the IDF.

Excerpt: The NFL fined Houston Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair $11,941 for having the name Hind Rajab written on his eye black during Sunday’s game against the Buffalo Bills, the league confirmed to The Athletic on Wednesday. Rajab was a 5-year-old Palestinian girl killed in Gaza in 2024 along with six members of her family in a car under fire from Israeli forces.

Me again: This is Macklemore or Colin Kaepernick again. Using your fame or microphone to say something you believe is not allowed in capitalism. Shut up and sing or play.

I look forward to the pretend investigation and lack of even a slap on the wrist.

Excerpt: Nazi, white supremacist, white nationalist: Whichever term you prefer, it’s undeniable that this category of person is no longer a societal fringe, but an active presence in American society promoted and rewarded by one of the two main political parties. Republicans have embraced Nazi ideology from the White House to the Florida State House, and it’s difficult to track all of the recent instances of Nazism infiltrating mainstream politics. This is my attempt at capturing them. …

Seems peculiar that a mean tweet is the line Karl Rove simply cannot cross, while remaining silent about every illegal and immoral thing Trump & the Republicans have done, are still doing, and will continue doing in this administration. My guess is that Bo French said something rude to Rove at a supervillains’ cocktail party.

If you’re tempted to have an ounce of empathy for McConnell, remember that he’s spent his career fighting against other people’s right to health care.

Are a lot of bestiality victims applying for work at the FBI?

Great advice! Here’s an issue that crosses party lines and ignites passion in everyone — huge majorities of Americans hate AI — so be very careful not to come across as hating AI.

This brings all my cynicism to the surface, and I have plenty. It’s no joke to say that the Democratic Party is in on it, that absolutely much or most of the high-level muckymucks are simply kayfabe, a pretended opposition. They’re there to play the role of the opposition, but it ain’t real. Nobody could be so stupid as this advice, unless it’s stupid on purpose.

I’ve said this before, and will never stop saying it: If you think “some people” deserve fewer rights, or that “some people” shouldn’t complain about having fewer rights, that means you’re opposed to equal rights. I have nothing to say to people opposed to equal rights, and absolutely won’t vote for them, so if I lived in Ohio, I wouldn’t vote for Marcy Kaptur.

In 2024, my idiot stoner layabout nephew wouldn’t shut up about how eager he was to vote for Trump, and his top reason was that gas prices were too high under Biden. (Well, that was his top reason spoken out loud, but hating immigrants was the real reason.)

Nephew is still an idiot, still loves Trump, but never mentions gas prices any more. America is crowded with millions of idiot nephews.

Not really a surprise, is it? The giant surveillance companies are only incrementally more evil than the giant burrito companies.

Excerpt: Michael Wagner was a construction worker when he fell 35 feet on a job. He survived, but what came after — nearly 18 years of chronic pain, financial hardship and fighting for help — slowly unraveled his life. In 2018, he died by suicide.

One of many perv billionaires from the Trump-Epstein Files tries again to whitewash his public image, this time by ‘donating’ to a fund to help sell AI shitnology.

This woman was drunk, puked in the car, so the Uber driver ordered her out — on the side of the freeway, where she was struck by a passing vehicle.

I have never, will never understand the appeal of Uber. Why not puke in a damned cab, and survive?

That’s a lot of money and dead people, just to groinkick the world economy and get American Middle East military bases blown up.

US sanctions Cuban nickel reserves, military enterprises

Excerpt: While much of the automatic license plate reader’s (ALPR) most sensitive storage remained encrypted and inaccessible, the joint analysis of the recovered data shows that software running on the device explicitly detects people as well as vehicles, license plates, and bicycles. The camera can produce dozens of images of a single passing vehicle and, according to several weeks of recovered logs, generated more than a million images. Its computer-vision software also sometimes isolated bumper stickers and other graphics, including, in one case, an American flag patch on a motorcyclist’s saddlebag.

RFK Jr rejiggers United States Preventive Services Task Force to kill you

RFK Jr: “We are also looking at chemtrails”

She owned stock in three tobacco companies. Does she also have a Kalshi wager on malaria?

Buy the right paint, and look how easily we could claim city streets for people instead of cars!

Btw, I lived right there, across the street from that picture, half a lifetime ago, and traffic was the only downside. Close that stretch of Pine Street permanently, and leave the lovely dots alone!

That’s part of the oath.

Excerpt: A senior executive at Microsoft believes A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions” and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.

Me again: A soon-to-be-former executive at Microsoft.

Again, the legal standard must be, you’re liable for whatever your AI does.

Again, the legal standard must be, you’re liable for whatever your AI does.

Frackin’ Exxon sounds the alarm?

Excerpt: In one exchange captured on body camera, an officer can be heard telling a colleague, “This guy keeps getting swatted.” In another, a body camera recording from inside a squad car captures an officer describing the address as “a known swatting location.”

Despite that awareness, officers continued to respond, at times with a full tactical presence. Body camera video shows one officer pointed a gun at the couple’s door on their fourth response in a single day.

Your tithes and offerings fund the endless kidfucking.

A perfectly accurate and hilarious headline.

They’ve finally found a way to make the Olympics interesting!