TACO Tyrant is good. We cannot let these people off the hook for a moment. All of them are special cases of cruel and incompetent behavior. The are a rogue's gallery of grift and criminality.
Donald can't fathom that any country wouldn't be paying the US to be part of his caring, generous and GRRREEEAAAATTT oversight. That's how highly he thinks of himself and his handlers don't disabuse him of his notion of how beloved and popular he is.
In other news, Iran is rounding up and hanging suspected Israeli spies. The Islamic Revolution isn't going to back down for the orange TACO Salesman, or Israel either. I don't like the current regime in Iran, but beating people up in order to get them to comply shows you don't have many arrows in your quiver.
Today in 1934, the Austrian Art School Reject and his Spicy Pinwheel pals settled scores (including a case of mistaken identity) in the Night of the Long Knives.
Ooh, Murkowski and Sullivan’s plan to save just Alaska (and maybe Hawaii) from SNAP cuts failed to pass the Byrd rule. It’s out. This just got interesting. That was NEEDED for Murkowski to vote yes, allegedly, and Sullivan is also in thin ice since his election is next year…
Can you imagine the press, just for a second, if a Democrat said "we're gonna give all this nice stuff to Democratic run states and say fuck you to republican controlled ones?"
They'd be screaming their heads off.
So weird how they are just perfectly fine with the right doing just that.
Hawaii at least can just close ports and airports and keep safe. Alaska's got a land border but it has the enviable position of a: bordering Canadians and b: being all the way the fuck up there
Man, I got myself one of those wolf-howling-at-the-moon t-shirtsbut insteadof wolves, it's sea lions (https://a.co/d/2oWQMqZ) and it is coming in the mail today which means I can wear it tomorrow! I splurged and bought myself five more shirts, four from Six Dollar Tees (which are more like $10-$14 now, and the website is just called SDT) plus another one from evil Amazon that says, "Radicalized by Common Decency". I needed new tshirts, most of mine are smalls from when I was skinny, and I wear an extra large now, so they don't fit great.
Busy week of very little to do at work again. The server was down yesterday but I was still able to get a bu ch of data entry done. I can do the same today if it's still down.
I feel my first nap coming on. I cannot WAIT until retirement.
Ditto on "I cannot WAIT until retirement". I'll have to check out those Tshirt sites 'cause I need some new t-shirts. The past few I've ordered have been from RedBubble or M00NSHOT. The shirt quality is good, but they are a little pricey.
Now that drone warfare is here, I wonder what are the environmental impacts. I mean I know they’re pretty small but there are a lot of them. Like is whatever it leaves to blow up lithium batteries rare earth motors composite components fibre optics and circuit boards gonna be a problem at these intensities? Are Russia’s reparations gonna include some kinda cleanup fee?
Good thing I decided to get my daily mile in early; local weather radar shows that it'll likely be raining in an hour.
Apart from that, all exercises are done bar the swimming later today (weather permitting), along with breakfast and today's cross words puzzle. I have to call for AC repairs this morning as soon as they open, as well as start reviewing materials for Thursday's local writer's meeting.
The guy who came out Saturday thinks it's the motor for the squirrel cage fan in the air handler. If that's all there is to it, should be a fairly simple fix.
"Senate Republicans stunned the power industry over the weekend with a proposed new tax on wind and solar projects, part of a broader push to unravel incentives for renewable energy"
John Robbins, an heir to the Baskin-Robbins ice cream empire who rejected the family business to advocate plant-based nutrition, environmentalism and animal rights, died on June 11 at his home in Soquel, Calif., near Santa Cruz. He was 77.
His son and collaborator, Ocean Robbins, said that the cause was complications of post-polio syndrome, which resulted in muscle weakness and other symptoms nearly seven decades after he contracted polio as a boy....
At age 5, John contracted polio. He was in a wheelchair for about six months, his left leg was impaired, and he walked with a limp as a boy, Ocean Robbins said in an interview.
But through yoga, exercise and a healthier diet, Mr. Robbins as an adult built his body to the point where he could run the equivalent distance of a marathon and complete the swimming, biking and running stages of an unofficial triathlon...
In the late 1980s, his son said, John Robbins reconciled with his father: Irv Robbins, suffering from weight issues, heart disease and diabetes, was given a copy of “Diet for a New America” by his cardiologist. The doctor had no idea that the book had been written by his patient’s son.
Irv Robbins read the book, gave up sugar, reduced his meat consumption, lost weight, improved his golf game and lived another 20 years, Ocean Robbins said. He died in 2008.
It was confirmation, John Robbins liked to say, “that blood was thicker than ice cream.”
It's crazy... as per recent news reports, something like 30% of the retail shipping in France is from Shein/Temu, accounting for a solid 50% of all the packages sent to the country. It's probably similar in the rest of Europe. Really sad, if you ask me. I'd like these cheap and shoddy throw-away retailers to die.
I have never (and will never) ordered from them, but I think that is part of it. My understanding is that they have been targeting lower-income buyers with inexpensive, fast fashion knockoffs which has been enticing for consumers here.
Americans buy far too much crap anyway. But maybe when the price of every fucking thing goes skyward, people will see what we've been telling them.
Probably not, apparently there is a big ad campaign about how prices are going down actually. Despite that they are not. Just pure straight up propaganda
TACO Tyrant is good. We cannot let these people off the hook for a moment. All of them are special cases of cruel and incompetent behavior. The are a rogue's gallery of grift and criminality.
Donald can't fathom that any country wouldn't be paying the US to be part of his caring, generous and GRRREEEAAAATTT oversight. That's how highly he thinks of himself and his handlers don't disabuse him of his notion of how beloved and popular he is.
In other news, Iran is rounding up and hanging suspected Israeli spies. The Islamic Revolution isn't going to back down for the orange TACO Salesman, or Israel either. I don't like the current regime in Iran, but beating people up in order to get them to comply shows you don't have many arrows in your quiver.
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Today in 1934, the Austrian Art School Reject and his Spicy Pinwheel pals settled scores (including a case of mistaken identity) in the Night of the Long Knives.
Long knives?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ob0nRhSKAw
Hey! I'm pretty sure those aren't real sabers! Heck, I'm pretty sure they wouldn't be sabers even if they were real!
Boarding cutlass.
Correct on both counts. It'd look like a Peckinpah film if they were real.
I was expecting "that's nought a noif..."
(laughs) I'm happy to subvert expectations on a Monday.
The Big Bendover Bill rushes to completion.
𝗦𝗲𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝘀𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽’𝘀 𝗯𝗶𝗴 𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗮 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝘀𝗲𝘁𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸𝘀
𝘈𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦, 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘚𝘦𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘙𝘦𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘴 — 𝘙𝘪𝘤𝘬 𝘚𝘤𝘰𝘵𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘍𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘢, 𝘔𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘓𝘦𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘜𝘵𝘢𝘩, 𝘙𝘰𝘯 𝘑𝘰𝘩𝘯𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘞𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘺𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘢 𝘓𝘶𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘞𝘺𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 — 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘱𝘶𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘳 𝘤𝘶𝘵𝘴, 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘩 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦, 𝘥𝘳𝘢𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱.
“𝘋𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘨𝘰 𝘵𝘰𝘰 𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘻𝘺!” 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘯 𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢. “𝘙𝘌𝘔𝘌𝘔𝘉𝘌𝘙, 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥.”
https://apnews.com/article/senate-bill-trump-tax-breaks-spending-cuts-549c2fdd47c1965007282b8461687bc9
wow
You still have to get re-elected!
A president just told his own party fuckers not to go too crazy, not because it would hurt people, but because they still needed to be re-elected.
Too bad there are no provisions for recall elections of members of congress.
I suggest a Constitutional Amendment to cover that loophole.
These fucks dick around for ages and now they have energy for a sprint. Weird.
Is the stock market involved?
Nice veiled threat. I wonder who wrote it as it certainly wasn't him.
Reichsminister Miller I'll bet. He wants the bill so ICE gets billions to ethnicly cleanse 'MurriKKKa.
Rick Scott pushing for steeper cuts to health care should be a punchline
Ooh, Murkowski and Sullivan’s plan to save just Alaska (and maybe Hawaii) from SNAP cuts failed to pass the Byrd rule. It’s out. This just got interesting. That was NEEDED for Murkowski to vote yes, allegedly, and Sullivan is also in thin ice since his election is next year…
This Big Beautiful Bribes Blowies and Backhanders Bill doesn't sound on the up and up.
Can you imagine the press, just for a second, if a Democrat said "we're gonna give all this nice stuff to Democratic run states and say fuck you to republican controlled ones?"
They'd be screaming their heads off.
So weird how they are just perfectly fine with the right doing just that.
Hmm!
It galls me to no end that they were willing to trade the rest of the country so that their own seats were safe.
Jesus fucking christ
The party of "I got mine fuck you" does it again. Chances are Alaska and Hawaii won't be affected by the civil ground war in the continental US.
If it hasn't been sold off to Putin.
Hawaii at least can just close ports and airports and keep safe. Alaska's got a land border but it has the enviable position of a: bordering Canadians and b: being all the way the fuck up there
The Canucks will keep them in Alaska.
Are they going to be able to pass it, you think?
Idk. It’s getting more and more complicated
I think the house will just pass whatever the senate passes just to get it done.
Apparently remaining sticking points are:
1) the Senate tacking on additional Medicaid and SNAP cuts
2) the Senate adding about one trillion in debt
3) certain green energy cuts getting stripped out (bill still VERY bad for green energy just not in the ways some hardliners want, idk)
4) certain remaining land sales that are unpopular in swing districts
I don't know ... lots of crazies in the House are pissed about the changes.
Man, I got myself one of those wolf-howling-at-the-moon t-shirtsbut insteadof wolves, it's sea lions (https://a.co/d/2oWQMqZ) and it is coming in the mail today which means I can wear it tomorrow! I splurged and bought myself five more shirts, four from Six Dollar Tees (which are more like $10-$14 now, and the website is just called SDT) plus another one from evil Amazon that says, "Radicalized by Common Decency". I needed new tshirts, most of mine are smalls from when I was skinny, and I wear an extra large now, so they don't fit great.
Busy week of very little to do at work again. The server was down yesterday but I was still able to get a bu ch of data entry done. I can do the same today if it's still down.
I feel my first nap coming on. I cannot WAIT until retirement.
Ditto on "I cannot WAIT until retirement". I'll have to check out those Tshirt sites 'cause I need some new t-shirts. The past few I've ordered have been from RedBubble or M00NSHOT. The shirt quality is good, but they are a little pricey.
Now that drone warfare is here, I wonder what are the environmental impacts. I mean I know they’re pretty small but there are a lot of them. Like is whatever it leaves to blow up lithium batteries rare earth motors composite components fibre optics and circuit boards gonna be a problem at these intensities? Are Russia’s reparations gonna include some kinda cleanup fee?
Lithium batteries are apparently going to be a problem on both ends, mining and disposal. They are difficult and expensive to recycle.
"All that stuff gets obliterated."
"I SAID OBLITERATED!"
Those sound like good questions and I feel sure hardly anyone who matters is asking them yet.
Good thing I decided to get my daily mile in early; local weather radar shows that it'll likely be raining in an hour.
Apart from that, all exercises are done bar the swimming later today (weather permitting), along with breakfast and today's cross words puzzle. I have to call for AC repairs this morning as soon as they open, as well as start reviewing materials for Thursday's local writer's meeting.
Yes, get that AC fixed!
I hope to have it done before July 4th.
Any idea what the problem is? Fingers crossed for a bad capacitor.
The guy who came out Saturday thinks it's the motor for the squirrel cage fan in the air handler. If that's all there is to it, should be a fairly simple fix.
If the technician looks like De Niro, run away.
LOL
Definitely easy!
(fingers crossed)
Sometimes you just gotta say FUCK IT!!
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Fuck the Big Brutish Bastard Of A Bill. The Parasite Class must be destroyed before the rest of us are.
Have some photographic Xanax.
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By Jove, it's working!
Toe beanz!
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SN00RK!
I could use a good cuddle with Simba and/or Lil Fella.
WSJ: Senate Megabill Stuns the Clean Energy Industry With New Tax on Wind and Solar [subsciption needed: https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/senate-megabill-stuns-the-clean-energy-industry-with-a-new-excise-tax-b1251d01]
"Senate Republicans stunned the power industry over the weekend with a proposed new tax on wind and solar projects, part of a broader push to unravel incentives for renewable energy"
Let's just call it the Suicide For Humanity Bill.
"Big Beautiful Oil is more important than human life!!!"
https://substack.com/profile/158187002-hops-8647-or-bust/note/c-130673951
Proactively evil.
Dear WSJ, putting a tax on renewables to prop up the dying fossil fuel industry is not a push to "unravel incentives"
It is a push to prop up the dying fossil fuel industry.
You goddamned bought and paid for quislings
Hearing at least two firefighters one shooter dead in Idaho.
... the GOP will be happy to hear there are however no reports of injuries to the guns.
AP reported it.
𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻 𝗥𝗼𝗯𝗯𝗶𝗻𝘀, 𝗔𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗿 𝗼𝗳 ‘𝗗𝗶𝗲𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮,’ 𝗗𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝘁 𝟳𝟳
John Robbins, an heir to the Baskin-Robbins ice cream empire who rejected the family business to advocate plant-based nutrition, environmentalism and animal rights, died on June 11 at his home in Soquel, Calif., near Santa Cruz. He was 77.
His son and collaborator, Ocean Robbins, said that the cause was complications of post-polio syndrome, which resulted in muscle weakness and other symptoms nearly seven decades after he contracted polio as a boy....
At age 5, John contracted polio. He was in a wheelchair for about six months, his left leg was impaired, and he walked with a limp as a boy, Ocean Robbins said in an interview.
But through yoga, exercise and a healthier diet, Mr. Robbins as an adult built his body to the point where he could run the equivalent distance of a marathon and complete the swimming, biking and running stages of an unofficial triathlon...
In the late 1980s, his son said, John Robbins reconciled with his father: Irv Robbins, suffering from weight issues, heart disease and diabetes, was given a copy of “Diet for a New America” by his cardiologist. The doctor had no idea that the book had been written by his patient’s son.
Irv Robbins read the book, gave up sugar, reduced his meat consumption, lost weight, improved his golf game and lived another 20 years, Ocean Robbins said. He died in 2008.
It was confirmation, John Robbins liked to say, “that blood was thicker than ice cream.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/health/john-robbins-dead.html
I have been prepared to pitch everything and attain all the rewards of The Ice Cream Diet on more than one occasion...
Longevity is overrated, IMHO.
𝗨𝗦 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝗦𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗧𝗲𝗺𝘂 𝗮𝘀 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗮𝘅 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗽𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗲
Once ascendant online retailers are shifting focus to Europe as US-China trade dispute takes a heavy toll
https://archive.ph/FkqtJ [Financial Times]
Hey corporate America, liking the economic upevil? Remember, you sank billions into making this happen.
It's crazy... as per recent news reports, something like 30% of the retail shipping in France is from Shein/Temu, accounting for a solid 50% of all the packages sent to the country. It's probably similar in the rest of Europe. Really sad, if you ask me. I'd like these cheap and shoddy throw-away retailers to die.
Yes, please. Such a huge waste of resources in so many ways.
Wowzers! Part of what makes them so popular is the cheap shipping. Do they have cheap shipping to France, too?
I have never (and will never) ordered from them, but I think that is part of it. My understanding is that they have been targeting lower-income buyers with inexpensive, fast fashion knockoffs which has been enticing for consumers here.
Ah, I see. The stuff is famously poor quality. Like, worse than walmart.
Americans buy far too much crap anyway. But maybe when the price of every fucking thing goes skyward, people will see what we've been telling them.
Probably not, apparently there is a big ad campaign about how prices are going down actually. Despite that they are not. Just pure straight up propaganda
Silly rabbit, things are unaffordable only under Democratic administrations!
"The path to enlightenment, to spiritual health and growth, a still mind and quiet heart requires shopping for knick knacks and crap!"
to be sure, I adore knick knacks and crap, but I tend to get mine recycled from thrift stores XD
The whole idea of buying excessive amounts of cheap plastic flimsy crap just because it is cheap astounds me.
I like thrift stores, too. I'm living like a king off other people's discards. Thank the gods for compulsive upgraders...
I'm sure the easy buying contributed to the greed culture that seems to be one of the pillars of MAGAt society.