What monstrous people would even consider prosecuting such a case? Texas is one seriously fucked-up place, and it’s the role model for America.

It’s a shit decision, the Supreme Court making up legalities from their farts and daydreams, but if legal legalities still matter, this purchased ruling can’t take effect in the few weeks remaining before November’s elections. It’s a landmine for 2028, not 2026.

Trump & the Republicans are still figuring out their fascism, but if we make it through this year’s election and elections are still allowed, the 2028 elections will be so completely rigged they’ll make this year’s elections seem completely honest.

With Quislings like Duckworth as the ‘opposition party’, the fascists face no opposition party.

Excerpt: The Trump administration has targeted several of Minnesota’s policies through the courts since the start of the president’s second term with unsuccessful results. The administration’s lawsuits have ranged from targeting the state’s immigration policies, in-state college tuition for undocumented students and demands for voter rolls. All matters have been dismissed by judges.

Judge: “What policy then does the executive order serve? The order of the President of the United States, fairly read, expresses the view that transgender citizens don’t exist. Please tell me I’m wrong.”

Trump admin lawyer: “I can’t.”

Excerpt: FBI leadership removed two counterterrorism leaders due to dissatisfaction with their investigation of allegedly threatening phone calls made to senior White House aide Stephen Miller’s wife, said three people familiar with the matter.

The head of the FBI Washington Field Office’s counterterrorism division — which is responsible for Middle East threats — and his deputy were both demoted and sent to bureau headquarters Friday, said the individuals.

Me again: If you or I get anonymous death threats over the internet, I’m skeptical that the FBI would even take a complaint. For Voldemart and his wife, feds get demoted for not dropping everything and making the threats their absolute top priority.

It’s the Justice Department under Trump & the Republicans, so my immediate suspicion is that this is about seizing documents to lock them away, protecting Donald Trump, much more than any incidental prosecution.

Anyone saying that even just a few years ago, I would’ve thought they were nuts. Now it seems like… “of course.” So obvious it feels silly to even type it.

I could continue sitting in my recliner watching old movies all day and *still be exponentially more competent than Trump or anyone in his cabinet.

LePage has a long track record of hating immigrants as much as Trump, but this isn’t even a leopard eating LePage’s face. The leopard is eating LePage’s son’s father-in-law’s face.

Excerpt: The soon-to-be-ex-governor has vetoed a bill that would have prohibited future governors from handing over abortion providers, helpers, and patients to red states for criminal prosecution. The bill also would have barred extraditions involving transgender care. Newsom’s decision was “incredibly disappointing” and “certainly not what we were expecting,” says Pavitra Abraham, director of state campaigns for Reproductive Freedom for All.

Me again: I had three paragraphs here, but it all comes down to just three words: Fuck Gavin Newsom.

Elon Musk could get stake in CBS and CNN under Paramount merger

Another Democrat I wouldn’t bother to vote for, so the Dems will probably nominate Newsom & Emanuel in 2028.

Here’s a Democratic woman who acts like an ordinary man, with profanities and insults and such fairly minor issues, and it’s a scoop at the New York Times. Shrug.

I care about Mary Peltola’s policies much more than her manners, and she’s silent as the US attacks Iran, supports the genocide in Gaza, opposes trans rights, etc. If I lived in Alaska, I wouldn’t vote for her.

But I also wouldn’t live in Alaska, so my opinion ain’t worth shit.

Never heard of this fucker, Dale G. Caldwell, and I assume he’s a thoroughbred creep, but simply resigning makes him more ethical than most Republicans.

Excerpt: Mr. Carney on Wednesday also reiterated his long-held view that a global financial system wholly dependent on the U.S. dollar was unsustainable. A move to a multipolar system in which there are several reserve currencies would “provide more flexibility,” he said.

He acknowledged that there was a “directional shift” underway in which countries were re-evaluating their exposure to the U.S. dollar, but he conceded that any pivot would be limited until there was “proper liberalization” of China’s currency and financial system. Still, Mr. Carney said he expected the demand for U.S. dollar alternatives to grow, in part because of the Trump administration’s decision to rewire trading relations and use integration as “leverage.”

“It’s the ‘fool me once, fool me twice’ point,” Mr. Carney said. “Once you see that, then you start to think, how do I diversify away?”

Ah, the free speech absolutists…

If I stole $131.5-million fro DoorDash, could I get a settlement? No, I’d be prosecuted.

It’s personal, for me. My pop worked for Boeing, my grandmother worked at Boeing, my brother, his wife, cousins and nephews and old friends worked at Boeing. Once upon a time it was a company they were all proud of.

Now it’s lowered quality to build killer planes famous for crashing, and apparently the company is hellbent on building ’em quicker and with even less ‘craftsmanship’.

Excerpt: This dynamic is what holds the entire construct of celebrity in place in our society. If you make the billionaires happy you get to be a millionaire, and if you make the billionaires unhappy you get discomfort and loss. If you please the plutocrats you get the carrot, and if you displease them you get the stick. This is true whether you’re talking about pundits, news anchors, musicians or movie stars.

This might seem radical, but: Refrigerators don’t need software.

In the old days, American veterans were treated like shit, but in this new era of Trump & Hegseth, the military is treated like shit even on active duty.

I’d been of two minds, unsure about such limits on social media, but if the Trump regime is opposed then I’m for it.

Excerpt: The changes have hindered the C.D.C.’s ability to respond to outbreaks as measles spreads at home and Ebola abroad, and to issue timely guidance on vaccinations as cooling temperatures kick off the respiratory season, according to current and former employees. State and local health departments, which rely on the C.D.C. for resources and technical advice, have been stymied by delays. Entire divisions have been shuttered, including teams that worked on smoking, sexual violence, child abuse and falls among older adults.

Excerpt: Walmart, America’s biggest retailer and a leading purveyor of the ultraprocessed foods MAHA decries, is among the sponsors. So are two artificial intelligence giants, OpenAI and Anthropic, whose chief executives recently asked Washington to regulate them in order to prevent their tools from wiping out humanity…

Excerpt: Millions of people continue to struggle to pay for their insulin and having their long-term health put at risk because of, in the words of one advocate who put it bluntly, pharmaceutical greed.

For the fuckin’ life and death of me, I don’t understand why suicide isn’t more popular in America.

Hmmm. I still say transit should be free, but that’s evidence that charging and enforcing fares increases safety.

Public transit keeps private transit rolling, fools.

The legal standard must be, you’re liable for whatever your AI does, and we know who the hacker is. Some OpenAI executives need to be arrested forthwith.

“Without prompting” carries a lot of weight in that headline. And also, have I mentioned? The legal standard must be, you’re liable for whatever your AI does, so we know who the hacker is. Some OpenAI executives need to be arrested forthwith.

There is no “going rogue.” It’s a machine. If your Roomba is vacuuming the sidewalk, it didn’t “go rogue” — you left the door open.

It’s cute. It’s cuddly. And it wants your data.

Excerpt: The UK has warned countries around the world that the climate and nature crises and the coming El Niño threaten their national security and defence, presenting foreign ministries with the findings of a report suppressed under Keir Starmer.

We doth protest! Flock should be for tracking poor people, black people, brown people, but not cops!

Excerpt: Mayich, 21, collapsed near the conclusion of the workout on Aug. 20, the first day NCAA rules allow for hockey teams to conduct formal team activities. Carey said exertional heat stroke caused a lack of oxygen to his brain and there is no chance for a full recovery.

Me again: Sports is a low-level insanity sometimes, and sometimes not so low-level.