Seriously, in my town there is a former church that is also a former karate studio. The sign from the karate studio is still on the outside wall. Well, mostly, it's missing an S. It is our locally famous elf Defense Training school. Those are the guys you need to protect your elves.
Yeah. Well, we are known as the City of Subdued Excitement.
People will die in those prisons. Highly likely they've already died. Trump farts placidly while Stephen Miller implements his pogrom, dehumanizing and then mistreating actual human beings. Miller the Killer. Stephen Miller the serial killer. Bundy and Gacy ain't got nothin' on him.
And of course Trump is where the buck stops. And stops. And stops.
45 billion, with a b, bonanza for private prison companies.
That phrase "private prison companies" is more obscene than anything with four letters. Their existence is a disgrace to any nation that calls itself civilized. They are an invitation to judicial and penal corruption, Shawshank Prison style, and the invitation in many states, southern ones particularly, has long been enthusiastically accepted.
I have given up a long time ago that anyone in the GOP has any sense of moral decency; to just let this... atrocious ignorant bullshit to fester and rot. What in the God Damned Fuck is wrong with these people, and what, in even more God Damned Fuck is wrong with the minority who steadfastly support them into office? There is just something seriously, mentally wrong with these people. My God! This is beyond a "Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple (without the Kool-aid)" level of insanity.
I am just waiting for SCROTUS to declare that there will be no future elections until "...all (his perceived) crime has been resolved." That is coming. Fast.
If they filmed the graduate today, the one word would be "private prisons". I bet you could make some serious money investing in locking people up if you had no scruples or morals. Also, too, you probably have to know somebody who can get you into a private equity investment fund, and frankly you don't look like you know anybody like that. (I certainly don't)
So, I have a question for the more "legal beaglly" amongst the non-commenters.
When the Supremes do their fucking dastardly work in the dark of night - i.e. use the shadow docket to say "we aren't taking this case" meaning "we aren't overturning the right wing decision that stayed a left-wing court case" are they not failing to establish legal precedent?
Because they haven't actually rendered a decision.
So what's to stop the lower courts from just saying "oh THIS case, that's completely different from that last case, and therefore not subject to the SC non-decision, because it was not the subject of the stay in the first place - is hereby decided with exactly the same results as that other case". Ad infinitum.
I don't know if anyone else has discovered this, but if you live in the desert, and it's summer, the fucking ants might send out a scout. And that spy will definitely notice if you have a box of pre-made taco shells. It's like having a bunch of crack cocaine in a neighborhood of crack addicts. I had to pour bleach into the box and discard. Then get more taco shells and seal them in a ziplock. And hit them with Tabasco.
Goddamn freeloaders. Can't we get ants on food stamps or something?
"Stephen Miller, the front man for Donald Trump’s deportation campaign against immigrants, took to the airwaves the other day to explain why native-born Americans will just love living in a world cleansed of undocumented workers.
“What would Los Angeles look like without illegal aliens?” he asked on Fox News. “Here’s what it would look like: You would be able to see a doctor in the emergency room right away, no wait time, no problems. Your kids would go to a public school that had more money than they know what to do with. Classrooms would be half the size. Students who have special needs would get all the attention that they needed. ... There would be no fentanyl, there would be no drug deaths.” Etc., etc.
No one can dispute that the world Miller described on Fox would be a paradise on Earth. No waiting at the ER? School districts flush with cash? No drug deaths? But that doesn’t obscure that pretty much every word Miller uttered was fiction. The gist of Miller’s spiel — in fact, the worldview that he has been espousing for years — is that “illegal aliens” are responsible for all those ills, and exclusively responsible. It’s nothing but a Trumpian fantasy."
Yes. The whole concentration-camps and deportations scam is grounded in a profoundly racist lie. The reason we have problems with the healthcare delivery system, education, and drugs doesn't have a goddamned thing to do with immigrants or immigration. It's all bullshit, pure and simple.
Where I live is whiter than white. Waiting times at the ER are at least an hour, but typically much more. And a white LA with no drug deaths? Dream on.
Stephen Miller is a pathetic, evil shitbag, but we already knew that.
Uh, everything's under control. Situation normal. Open thread is up.
https://www.wonkette.com/p/classiest-gop-rep-cory-mills-getting
Uh, we had a slight weapons malfunction, but, uh... everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine, we're all fine here now, thank you.
How are you?
Why do I suddenly want a blaster in my hands?
Well you know how we worry.
Yeesh, the Open Thread is on its way. Just delayed a little while we move some, uh, cats off ... a satellite dish, yeah, that's it!
Remain calm, all is well, ya filthy fuckaducks!
Thank doG this isn't the open thread! I'm seeing red and smoke is coming out of my ears and nose after reading this.
Can't blame you. This people in this administration are monsters.
One would think cats would boost the signal.
You know the story with cats -- they COULD boost the signal, but they just don't want to be bothered.
Dude, stop letting cats play with your electronics.
Wires and murder mittens do not mix.
If I lived in Boise I think I'd be too scared to venture outside.
A picture from County Kerry Ireland last week. A few more to be posted in the open thread once the cats are herded.
An awesome swimming beach.
https://substack.com/profile/156971174-left-coast-tom/note/c-135625295?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=2lgfqe
The wonketariat are revolting.
*sniffs self* meh, it’s fine.
What else is new?
Crap: I jumped the shark!
But you did it democratically with votes and motions so *PPSSSHHHTT* to any other so called "Open Thread".
That shark's been askin' for a jumpin'!
Now I'M the punk!
Start humming, Chickenz...
Thornton? Is that you?
"Move along, nothing to see here... just a dead elf, wings ain't flapping anymore..."
Seriously, in my town there is a former church that is also a former karate studio. The sign from the karate studio is still on the outside wall. Well, mostly, it's missing an S. It is our locally famous elf Defense Training school. Those are the guys you need to protect your elves.
Yeah. Well, we are known as the City of Subdued Excitement.
Hey, if the local elves are like the ones in Discworld, you *need* to learn to defend yourself against them.
RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!!!
Then unmask the Epstein leakers! Or, um, unleak the Epmask erpers! Or something.
THEY TOOK OOR JEEERBS!!!!
The Open Thread has always been at 3:45pm CST.
And sometimes even that feels a bit too generous.
4:20. Pavlov on line one
Is the chocolate ration being increased yet?
We WORRY when you don't call as soon as you get home, dear!
Fuck. I am ashamed that this is happening in the country that I love.💔🇺🇸✌🏻
People will die in those prisons. Highly likely they've already died. Trump farts placidly while Stephen Miller implements his pogrom, dehumanizing and then mistreating actual human beings. Miller the Killer. Stephen Miller the serial killer. Bundy and Gacy ain't got nothin' on him.
And of course Trump is where the buck stops. And stops. And stops.
People have definitely already died: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/30/us-ice-detention-deaths
Unsurprisingly, the Nazis in charge of our immigration system don't give a single shit either.
I'm so proud to be an American.
May God have mercy on our souls.
No immigrants, no economy.
Is being jealous of El Salvador good in any context?
45 billion, with a b, bonanza for private prison companies.
That phrase "private prison companies" is more obscene than anything with four letters. Their existence is a disgrace to any nation that calls itself civilized. They are an invitation to judicial and penal corruption, Shawshank Prison style, and the invitation in many states, southern ones particularly, has long been enthusiastically accepted.
I have given up a long time ago that anyone in the GOP has any sense of moral decency; to just let this... atrocious ignorant bullshit to fester and rot. What in the God Damned Fuck is wrong with these people, and what, in even more God Damned Fuck is wrong with the minority who steadfastly support them into office? There is just something seriously, mentally wrong with these people. My God! This is beyond a "Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple (without the Kool-aid)" level of insanity.
I am just waiting for SCROTUS to declare that there will be no future elections until "...all (his perceived) crime has been resolved." That is coming. Fast.
I think it needs to be investigated who is profiting from this- GEO Group and CoreCivic. Who are the investors?
Tom the Dancing Bug: "Know Your ICE Agent"
https://www.gocomics.com/tomthedancingbug/2025/07/04
If they filmed the graduate today, the one word would be "private prisons". I bet you could make some serious money investing in locking people up if you had no scruples or morals. Also, too, you probably have to know somebody who can get you into a private equity investment fund, and frankly you don't look like you know anybody like that. (I certainly don't)
Dershowitz better hire some bodyguards.
Former Epstein Lawyer Alan Dershowitz Spills on the Files: ‘I Know Who They Are’
https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/former-epstein-lawyer-alan-dershowitz-spills-on-the-files-i-know-who-they-are/
"I know who they are. They don’t include any current officeholders."
“I have seen nothing that would suggest anything improper or even questionable by Mr. Trump”
Alan Dershowitz is full of shit.
So, I have a question for the more "legal beaglly" amongst the non-commenters.
When the Supremes do their fucking dastardly work in the dark of night - i.e. use the shadow docket to say "we aren't taking this case" meaning "we aren't overturning the right wing decision that stayed a left-wing court case" are they not failing to establish legal precedent?
Because they haven't actually rendered a decision.
So what's to stop the lower courts from just saying "oh THIS case, that's completely different from that last case, and therefore not subject to the SC non-decision, because it was not the subject of the stay in the first place - is hereby decided with exactly the same results as that other case". Ad infinitum.
OT. PSA.
I don't know if anyone else has discovered this, but if you live in the desert, and it's summer, the fucking ants might send out a scout. And that spy will definitely notice if you have a box of pre-made taco shells. It's like having a bunch of crack cocaine in a neighborhood of crack addicts. I had to pour bleach into the box and discard. Then get more taco shells and seal them in a ziplock. And hit them with Tabasco.
Goddamn freeloaders. Can't we get ants on food stamps or something?
Mike Hiltzik, LA Times:
"Stephen Miller, the front man for Donald Trump’s deportation campaign against immigrants, took to the airwaves the other day to explain why native-born Americans will just love living in a world cleansed of undocumented workers.
“What would Los Angeles look like without illegal aliens?” he asked on Fox News. “Here’s what it would look like: You would be able to see a doctor in the emergency room right away, no wait time, no problems. Your kids would go to a public school that had more money than they know what to do with. Classrooms would be half the size. Students who have special needs would get all the attention that they needed. ... There would be no fentanyl, there would be no drug deaths.” Etc., etc.
No one can dispute that the world Miller described on Fox would be a paradise on Earth. No waiting at the ER? School districts flush with cash? No drug deaths? But that doesn’t obscure that pretty much every word Miller uttered was fiction. The gist of Miller’s spiel — in fact, the worldview that he has been espousing for years — is that “illegal aliens” are responsible for all those ills, and exclusively responsible. It’s nothing but a Trumpian fantasy."
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-07-15/stephen-miller-says-americans-will-live-better-lives-without-immigrants-hes-blowing-smoke
Yes. The whole concentration-camps and deportations scam is grounded in a profoundly racist lie. The reason we have problems with the healthcare delivery system, education, and drugs doesn't have a goddamned thing to do with immigrants or immigration. It's all bullshit, pure and simple.
Where I live is whiter than white. Waiting times at the ER are at least an hour, but typically much more. And a white LA with no drug deaths? Dream on.
Stephen Miller is a pathetic, evil shitbag, but we already knew that.
When it comes to people like Miller, it's too bad I'm an atheist, because I'd like to think there'w a special place in hell waiting for him.
Hell doesn't want him.