The excerpts you manually create using the “add an excerpt” control (below the “Featured Image” control) are currently not showing on the feed (main page) and WordPress now automagically uses the first paragraph (text block) of your post as the feed excerpt. But you’re not here to listen to me natter on about website stuff; you’re here for some links.
BREAKING – WE INVESTIGATED OURSELVES AND FOUND NO WRONGDOING: Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz said there were more than two dozen confidential human sources in the crowd on Jan. 6, but only three were assigned by the FBI to be present for the event, while stressing that none of the sources was authorized or directed by the bureau to “break the law” or “encourage others to commit illegal acts,” Fox News has learned. Here is a link to the DOJ press release.
THE FUTURE’S SO BRIGHT: “What happens when industry starts cranking out spaceships out of multiple factories? SpaceX has a great vision for this, but so does Blue Origin. You’ve got Rocket Lab building a brand-new behemoth rocket. You’re going to have lots and lots of people in space at one time, and that’s why I call it a light switch-like moment, where a lot of things are going to change.” said Jared Isaacman speaking at the Space Force Association’s Spacepower Conference. Isaacman is Trump’s nominee for NASA administrator and his resume reads like that of a hero in an Ayn Rand novel.
REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION BACK IN PLAY FOR TRANS ATHLETES? “The Washington [state] Interscholastic Activities Association (WIAA) announced a proposal to create a separate open division for transgender athletes to compete in. One of the amendments proposes the creation of a girl’s division and an open division in which athletes could participate, regardless of whether their gender identity matches their assigned sex at birth.” Now, if this had been proposed by, say, Congresswoman Nancy Mace, you can only imagine the foul calls. The trans community and their enablers have long refused any offers of reasonable accommodation, but hopefully they are coming around.
PROJECTION-DRIVEN DRAMA DONKEYS: That phrase caught my fancy, but it’s not just a clever (though accurate) insult, it’s a hook to draw you into to an exposition of the pre-bunking and frame setting psyop techniques employed by the left. “if you pay attention, the projection driven drama donkeys will always tell on themselves. they cannot help but stare right at the floorboards beneath which the body is buried. they do this because they do not really believe in objective reality or objective morality, just subjective image shaping of such things and so their arguments are not about logic or rightness or facts, they are wrestling matches to set the frame in which such things will be interpreted.” I’m reproducing the text as he wrote it, please someone buy this guy a shift key. (h/t to shpip who linked to this in the comments yesterday afternoon.)
FEAR AND LOATHING IN THE WHITE HOUSE BRIEFING ROOM: The legacy media are freaking out bigly about the possibility of WH press credentials being given to podcasters and other new media outlets. Good. Read this link in the context of the previous link. The legacy media are setting themselves up to blame this for their plummeting readership instead of accepting that their readership is plummeting because people no longer trust them.
OKAY, KAREN: Washed-up, now blind, musician Elton John bitches about marijuana legalization. Someone must be desperate for attention.
YOU WANT TO GET INVADED? BECAUSE THIS IS HOW YOU GET INVADED: Ontario’s head Canuck* threatens to cut off energy exports to the US as retaliation for US tariffs. Sure, cut off your nose to spite your face. It’s not like you can export that electricity anyplace else. All you can do is close those generating plants and kill jobs, and give us motivation to become energy independent which should be a national goal anyway. Or, we could just take it from them. (*) Apologies to Rufus for the slur.
LIBERAL SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM BLUESKY NOT AS TOLERANT, TRANSPARENT AS HOPED: Over at Politico, journo Michael Kruse tells how he had his Bluesky account taken down, and can’t find out why. Womp, womp.
CONAN THE BACTERIUM: Deinococcus radiodurans, nicknamed “Conan the Bacterium” for its ability to survive the harshest of extremes, can survive radiation doses that would kill a human being. Its secret? An antioxidant. Your gee-whiz link for the day. This discovery might also have implications for off-world human exploration.
“To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their vaginal flora.”
Genghis Khan, millennia after the Cimmerian exited the stage.
Of all the shit in the world to bitch about, this mf chooses weed legalization to be one of the greatest mistakes of all time?
This dude needs a joint.
Makes me think of the stand up who had the bit about Keith Richards saying that people shouldn’t use drugs.
“We can’t! You did them all! When you die we’re going to have to dig up your corpse and snort it!”
Might help his vision if he smoked a few.
I support legalization but I’d be more supportive if potheads weren’t such assholes.
(it works for other drugs, too)
Everyone has to push the envelope on a good thing.
Doug Ford issued the warning after a meeting of Canada’s provincial premiers that was hosted by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Parliament Hill on Wednesday.
“We will go to the extent of cutting off their energy — going down to Michigan, going down to New York State and over to Wisconsin. I don’t want this to happen, but my number one job is to protect Ontarians and Canadians as a whole,” Ford said after the meeting.
Quebec exports a lot of energy to New England. I noted no mention of Quebec’s premier in this story.
Time to re-form the Fenian brigade.
Would be nice if the US and Canada got into a pissing contest that resulted in both countries forced to get their shit together.
WE INVESTIGATED OURSELVES AND FOUND NO WRONGDOING
We interrogated our carefully selected witnesses, and none of them knew anything about our clandestine operation. case closed.
I wonder when Bezos is going to bend the knee so he can get some moar sweet, sweet taxpayer lucre?
I thought he did already? I can’t find the link though.
Ok, he meets him next week. Also Bezos has been saying nice things about Trump and deregulation.
https://nypost.com/2024/12/12/business/donald-trump-says-he-will-meet-with-jeff-bezos-next-week/
He also pre-emptively declined to endorse Kamala.
Now, scientists have uncovered how the antioxidant works, unlocking the possibility that it could be used to protect the health of humans, both on Earth and those exploring beyond it in the future.
“Protect the health of humans”, except for their enemies right?
“The only way to hold the government entirely responsible for conditions is to give up our liberty for a dictatorship…. A free people cannot shift their responsibility for [their mistakes] to the government. Self-government means self-reliance.”
— Some Crazy Anarchist who just wanted the world to burn
In. My. Veins.
FEAR AND LOATHING IN THE WHITE HOUSE BRIEFING ROOM
We need a bunch of Hunter S Thompsons in the briefing room willing and able to laugh out loud or stamp their feet and chant “Bull shit! Bull shit!” when presented with obvious nonsense and lies.
Thank you for the wordpress update. I think maybe my next two submitted posts will survive.
On the one hand, it’s not a big deal, because it’s part of the deal — regrettably commonplace in what passes for internet discourse. And I get far less of this abuse than people who are not white, male and gentile.
Oh, please.
I wonder if that’s even true. I bet that they get the same amount of abuse, just a different type.
He doesn’t see some of the abuse as abuse. Those screeds about straight, white men being The Problem aren’t abuse. They’re gentle reminders that he needs to feel eternal guilt for the sin of being a white man.
Yeah. Call a thousand guys asshole and it’s no big deal. Call just one woman a cunte and you’re a misogynist.
It makes me so fucking happy I made a GlibsMeme.
“Oh please”
Yup, lost any sympathy I may have had with that one. Blue sky = blue enclave.
“FEAR AND LOATHING IN THE WHITE HOUSE BRIEFING ROOM”
I really like this idea. It’s going to be interesting seeing different questions. It will be a refreshing change from everyone in the room working off the same narrative, and that one guy from Fox.
Heck yes. Set up some card tables, gamble, play BlackJack and scream questions over the clinking of whiskey glasses. It should be a stinking pit of savagery with no lies accepted and drunken screeds the norm.
I also think dueling and fisticuffs should be brought back to deal with people who ask loaded questions or give shitty deferential answers.
The politicians want to be a noble class without the noblesse oblige. Fuck ’em if they can’t take a joke.
C-SPAN Scott: “WHAT DAFUQ WE DOIN’ IN SYRIA, BITCH??!??”
Karoline Leavitt: “Survey says you’re drunk and pissed yourself, Scott. You should go ask your mother about Syria.”
*Leavitt raises a bat, swings and connects with thrown highball glass thrown by Scott
*Security closes and locks doors
*Sounds of raucous fighing
RJ:
Genuine LOL.
I want to hear more about the New Media giving Jim Acosta a wedgie while he tries to ask one of his stupid questions.
Well, for one thing it’s going to flip the teams. The legacy media will now be the ones trying to ask “gotcha” questions whereas before they were like trained seals.
Trump’s press secretary also says she’s going to restore decorum to the briefings. Should be interesting.
You must have not seen any of the WH press room reporters in 2017-2020.
Narrator: They all left because censorship was no longer being practiced at X.
The digital version of progs moving out of California.
Right… that’s what they said. “Right wing echo chamber”, aka “people call us out on our lies with facts”.
Yep. Community Notes was a dagger. They could no longer peddle their bullshit with impunity.
I was watching some thing on CNN that said Twitter went from, like, 70% left-identifying to just about 50-50 left/right. That’s what’s upsetting the libs.
I recall reading that X was basically 50/50 between the Teams now. How that would be determined, I have no clue. But I can see how, when you have spent decades in a lefty bubble, suddenly being out in public would seem like being in a righty bubble.
“Bluesky’s demographic,” independent journalist Erin Reed told NBC News, “is literally just anybody who can’t stand the sort of toxic environment that Twitter has become.”
Dissent is toxic. Not even just dissent, I suspect; anything not an integral part of the central catechism. This is no time for frivolity.
Yeah, it has nothing to do with people no longer being censored for sharing views that the entirety of the world knew to be true just a few years ago. How dare people be able to say a man in a dress is not a woman?
Bezos spiked the WaPo endorsement of Kamala. If that’s not bending the knee…
Look at the way Politico spins the J6 report.
When they are done, there are some more hairs to split over here…
I hate that so much.
Included was a link to the “community guidelines.” On the list of no-nos: harassment or abuse directed at a specific person, encouraging self-harm, depictions of excessive violence, gore, torture dismemberment, or non-consensual sexual activity. “We rely on the entire community,” it read, “to enforce our community guidelines” — on people like, say, “Concept of a Wizard,” who posted the day after the election he or she or they were “coping” by playing Fallout 3 while “I imagine every creature I kill is a Trump supporter.”
“Thank you,” the Bluesky Moderation Team concluded, “for doing your part to keep Bluesky a welcoming and empowering place for all users.”
Inciting otherwise kind, gentle and accepting bluesky to spew vile threatening content is strictly verboten.
STEVE SMITH NOT WELCOME.
STEVE SMITH TRANS-FRIENDLY! HAPPY TO TURN BACK HOLE INTO FRONT HOLE FOR THE ASKING! NO SURGERY REQUIRED!
I’m totally fine with all the lunatic left self-exiling and creating another doom-looped echo chamber. As the censorship rules get ever tighter, eventually it’ll just be a bunch of content moderating bots censoring each other.
It is rather amusing to see the left deny their positive-feedback loops while proudly creating as many as they can.
“announced a proposal to create a separate open division for transgender athletes to compete in”
And no one will use it because the main motivation for the scumbags competing in women’s sports is to win undeserved gold medals and to beat up/humiliate women and girls. Remove that possibility and they’ll all have to go back under their rocks.
Correct. It’s not at all about “the right to play sports.”
This is about co-opting women’s sports.
” create a separate open division for transgender athletes to compete in”
I’m thinking a lot of athletic guys may don dresses to enable them to move into the open (trans) division and clean up on the medals
That’s fine.
It’s what the trannies are doing to women now.
I don’t think the open division is a trans division. I think it’s the division that is open to anyone, while there is a separate female-only division. There is no male-only division.
If you’re trans, you can still play sports. In the open division.
I think it’s the division that is open to anyone, while there is a separate female-only division.
That’s how I read it.
Thank you sir, may I have another?
https://www.breitbart.com/latin-america/2024/12/11/argentinas-javier-milei-announces-90-tax-reduction-in-2025/
90% tax reduction…
Keynesians, Commies and other assorted lefties on suicide watch.
Let’s only hope.
I can only get so hard….
Students for Liberty posted on Twitter something along the lines of “I know we’re supposed to hate politicians, but [Milei] is making it really difficult”
Thank you sir, can I have another?
A double dose of T&A on THICC Thursday.
https://archive.is/4IP7d
https://archive.is/EVgq8
“FEAR AND LOATHING IN THE WHITE HOUSE BRIEFING ROOM”
I’ve been predicting this for at least a decade and a half when I was still in my mid-20s. At that time, I used to ask people if they knew a single person under the age of 40 who had a physical newspaper subscription; the answering 98% of the time was “no”. And it’s not like those people or any of the yootz coming up decided to get one in the meantime. There’s an argument to be made that they just shifted to online subscription out of convenience, which may partially be true. However, if they’d already undergone a paradigm shift toward getting info online instead of from dinosaur media (ie: the evening news and/or print) then as the lies got more egregious it’s that much easier to abandon the “trusted sources” (they don’t make scare quotes big enough for that phrase) and go to Joe Rogan et. al.
I’m in my late 40’s and have never subscribed to a newspaper (although I did deliver them as a kid). Hell, I think the local paper went down to once or twice a week printings.
The only time I ever subscribed to a paper was the WaPo Sunday-only sub. That was in my 20’s. Then I just started buying it in 7-11 when I felt like doing a crossword and reading the comics (Get Fuzzy FTW)
I pay for the WSJ digital.
I didn’t subscribe to a paper in my twenties, did in my thirties. Local paper + FT + magazine subscriptions. All are gone now. Wife subscribed to Epoch for a year or two.
I never subscribed to the paper. I do, however, subscribe to a print magazine.
I think we will soon see that some things are better in analog.
Does the magazine come in a plain, unmarked wrapper?
I have a pork tenderloin roast. I want to roast it with a glaze. I was thinking maple-mustard (like I do with bacon). Any other suggestions?
Also, I find that my brines are too salty. What’s a good % of salt for a brine so the resulting cooked meat isn’t too salty?
I like bbq mixed with hoisin sauce.
A couple quarts of water, 1/2 cup salt and 1/4 cup brown sugar. Put it in the fridge for a few hours.
Here’s a recipe I’ve used a bunch:
https://www.dadcooksdinner.com/rotisserie-boneless-pork-loin-roasts-brined-rubbed-and-maple-syrup-glazed/print/10615/
So 8 cups of water, and 1/2 a cup of salt. That would be ~6% (😬?). I may bring that down to 4% salt and stick with the 3% sugar.
Your gee-whiz link for the day.
That was really cool! I’m not totally clear on the mechanism by which it could work on humans but I wish them luck!
Here’s another gee-whiz link (unrolled):
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1867194252171567118.html
Regenerative ag is fucking cool.
That guy is lucky he’s still alive.
You mean that Cargill or Bayer hasn’t put out a hit on him?
Don’t forget everyone’s favorite briber and price fixer ADM!
“You mean that Cargill or Bayer hasn’t put out a hit on him?”
Cargill, Bayer, Monsanto… pick your poison.
Big Ag is at least as nefarious as Big Healthcare.
Monsanto is now Bayer.
This generation’s Norman Borlaug? Hope so!
Liars. Jan 6 was Pelosi’s Reichstag fire. The FBI is lying their asses off. Trying to short any investigations and possible criminal charges?
Trump cant pardon the Jan6’ers fast enough.
I know, I know…OMB.
‘The trans community’ is not a thing. I dont dare hazard a guess as to how long but the whole thing is going to soon blow away like smoke. It is nothing more than a demoralization attempt and people are fed up with it. They will soon take off their costumes and hope everyone forgets they were part of it.
Shift or no shift I will take me some bad kitty any time. I have said it before and will again: Do not argue with them on their terms.
1. Legacy media’s rotting corpse cant stop stinking the place up soon enough. They committed suicide and are still at it. Who cares?
2. The shadow media…podcasters, bloggers and such…given the position of the legacy media, will they fall victim to the siren’s song of cocktail parties?
The marijuana issue has always been and will always be a shit show. What I care even less about is Elton John’s take on it.
Win win. Canada will have to cut ties to China and we will have to start getting our own oil. Less than 4 years into Trump and we were an energy exporter. Less than 4 years into Biden and we were going hat-in-hand to other countries begging for it. It is ridiculous.
I noted on these very pages some time ago that the liberal sites were all taking down their comments sections. This road only goes one place and we all know it…or should know it. I have no sympathy nor schadenfreude. Schadenfreude has an element of guilt to it. I have none. I just want to laugh and say ‘toldja so, morons’.
Van Jones: Kamala was going to give us freedom. She did. She gave us freedom from running things in DC. <—-complaint: we are out of power
Decent person: I look forward to working with the Trump admin in any way I can to solve the big problems Americans are facing.
"I cant figure out why we lost!"
I posted about this chick yesterday (?).
https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/onlyfans-lily-phillips-working-on-logistics-to-sleep-with-1000-men-in-1-day/
I actually watched the documentary the whole way through and I’d put dollars to doughnuts that she was sexually abused as a child. That said, putting aside the self-destructive nature of this, has she even considered the logistics of this new challenge? There are only 1440 minutes in a 24 hour period. So with no breaks at all, she’s looking at a guy fucking her for a little less than a minute and a half. Does she expect each of these guys to ejaculate? Even at age 16 I’d have a challenge getting my load off that quick, especially with a condom and in a very awkward circumstance.
My guess is she’s just trying to go viral and she’ll cancel. Though, there were apparently a lot of people who said that fucking 100 guys in a day was a publicity stunt that she’d cancel, but she did actually go through with it. All I know is that she better be using 10W30 instead of regular lube.
“I’m sorry, I was told there was no math…”
TL;DF
She’s gonna go viral all right.
Damn. Even in Snuff it was only 600.
I think the record is 800 or 900.
Apparently, her mother is her manager. Father has something to do with the business side of it, too.
With parents like this, this girl just never had a chance.
Oof. That’s next level bad show biz parent.
That’s top quality pussy, you don’t just give it away!
Sarcasm aside, it’s honestly not all that surprising there are people willing to pimp out their daughters for the amount of money they’re making on OF. Disgusting, but everyone’s an adult so whaddya gunna do?
I’m thinking if her parents are that involved NOW, how must they have reared her? Yeah, my money is on sexual abuse. The girl is young (23) and pretty, so maybe she’s been a money maker for a while. I don’t know. These are where my thoughts go. My maternal instinct is all but gone (what there was of it to begin with), but that girl made me want to wrap her up in a robe and lead her away from her life into something a bit more wholesome.
honestly not all that surprising there are people willing to pimp out their daughters for the amount of money they’re making on OF
Porn star Sunny Lane’s parents were her manager. Long before OF.
Sunny Lane said they were her managers because they were the only people she could trust.
I have the feeling we’re going to see one of those “OnlyFans star commits suicide” stories not long from now.
Ford to US: Drop dead. No more canola!
Good?
I thought the Canola was from Toyota.
CASCADIA WILL PROVIDE ALL THE RAPE SEED OIL YOU CAN TAKE, AND THEN SOME.
It’s a Jeep thing!
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/watch-drunk-driver-takes-suv-on-joyride-on-new-yorks-railway-tracks-ends-in-fiery-blaze/articleshow/116193616.cms
Sorry to disappoint. It’s a Honda thing.
My neighbors gave me two glasses of Crown Royal Blackberry 🥴
(it’s delicious)
I saw a few re-drawn maps by dumbasses after the election that basically redrew the national borders so that Canada annexed California, Oregon, Washington, Minnesota, and New York and New England. I’d propose this instead:
All of the US north of San Diego (we’re keeping that Navy base, dammit) and west of I-5 up through Vancouver becomes known as “New Canada.”
All the rest of Canada becomes part of the US.
Quebec gets its independence. The Toronto metro area gets annexed into New York (sorry upstate New Yorkers — you get progressive megacities on either end. Leave now.) The Maritime provinces can vote to stay or not.
Omnia
GalliaCanadia in tres partes divisa est — Shpipus Caesar, if I ever sober up and put my mind to itI don’t want to be a part of Canada. I say first we take Alberta, then we take Greenland.
Nah. Country’s too big as it is. I’m in favor of divvying it up.
“ (*) Apologies to Rufus for the slur.”
It’s not like you called him a floppy headed puck slapping Canuck fag.
And soon to be resident of “Gay North Dakota.”
Poutine-sucking heathens is what they are.
I would think that the Canucks would love to join up. Then they won’t have to keep worrying about no Canadian Stanley Cup winners in more than 30 years.
Be positive, floppy-heads!
Attention DOGE!
Find out how much the National Weather Service spent this change.
WTF? Why? How does this make any difference?
How does changing “Wind Chill Warning” to “Extreme Cold Warning” make any difference?
I know that they spent millions of dollars on this change. Updating all the literature, web sites, etc.
I thought Minnesodans could handle the cold anyway.
s/wind chill/extreme cold/g
TedS-y,
We spent $2.2M to rename Lindberg Terminal -> Terminal 1 (and Humphrey Terminal -> Terminal 2) because it was just too hard to know which was which.
(Personally, I think it was really to remove Lindberg’s name off the terminal because of his anti-semitism. Who knows? In today’s climate, they might want to add it back)
Did you see that the vibrant newcomers clipped MN for another 400 million? Autism services that never happened.
I’m actually impressed.
I didn’t see the $400M price tag, but I did see that they are being careful not to name the defendants. Most likely because their names would give away the fact that they are our new vibrant neighbors.
I wonder if Walz’s administration was supposed to be monitoring this too. Or if it was pure Medicaid fraud that the Feds should have caught.
It was so funny. As soon as they said Minneapolis and St.Cloud I knew. And sure enough.
But, hey! Vibrant!
Gun Glibs, what say you?
Personally, I think letting the knuckleheads convert a Glock to full auto saves lives. I doubt that these idiots will hit anything with full auto. Probably hit more targets if they were semi-auto and they aimed.
Maybe Brother Keith should sue the guy who actually invented the Glock switch?
Nawwww! That guy doesn’t have deep pockets like Glock.
Because everybody carries 1,200 rounds. Also he needs to get closer to the target.
I love the math involved in that. I wonder if the journalo’s “source” gave them both numbers? Or was this an exceptionally smart journalo who was told that the modified Glock could fire 20 rounds in a second and did the math on their own to come up with 1200 rounds in a minute?
He’s disgusting.
Hey Brother Keith! Who exactly is using the switches?
I’m predicting right now that Brother Keith will be the next governor of Minnesoda.
King Walz is cooked. After embarrassing himself nationally, no way he’s going to run again (or get the nomination if he tries). Ellison is the guy who will step in. The GOP will run somebody with no chance and …. yay!?
I would laugh but it’s just as retarded here.
I like the weather, though.