Thursday Stuff

Chris Hayes brings us the tale of Dementia J. Trump torpedoing the bipartisan Senate housing bill as noted here (with Elizabeth Warren as one of the architects) to try and strongarm senators into passing his garbage SAVE Act, which, once again, is a “solution” in search of a problem – actually, the bill does nothing but screw over core Dem constituencies, which is the true objective of course...also, all 3 congressional candidates endorsed by Mamdani won in New York on Tuesday, leading corpora-Dems into a fit (led by this idiot, Carville I mean)...and oh yeah, Trump’s postmaster general wants to restrict mail-in ballots to blue states unless they hand over the voting rolls to the Gropenfuhrer – so many levels of illegality here that it’s truly hard to count them all...”he would rather cheat than win” indeed...



...and this report from the PBS Newshour discusses the incredibly-over-the-top sentencing of anti-ICE protestors to 30 to 100 years in prison, definitely longer than the sentences of the treasonous 1/6 insurrectionists as noted...I can just about guarantee you that these sentences will be knocked down on appeal, but the point of course is to utterly stifle dissent...and yes, I realize a police officer was shot which makes the protest a hell of a lot more serious of a matter, but these sentences are still ridiculously excessive...with correspondent Ali Rogin and federal prosecutor Paul Butler...big surprise that this prosecution is based in Texas I know...the legal fig leaf here is that the government has labeled Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization, even though there is no political organization known as Antifa in this country (here)...and I suppose it fits in a typically demented way that those accused of belonging to Antifa denied it on the witness stand, but only confessed to belonging to a book group (once more, an unbelievable waste of taxpayer dollars from our idiot ruling regime)...we’re reminded once more of Presidential Memo 7 passed after the Charlie Kirk murder aimed basically at any person/organization Our Ochre Abomination doesn’t like, even though lefties had nothing to do with Kirk’s killing (it also fits that our ruling regime wants to punish people for “anti-capitalist views” – what a typical disgrace)...



...and this report from CBC News informs us of AI bots taking over fast-food drive-thrus, which I guess isn’t surprising (with White Castle being first apparently)...looks like “Julia” is taking care of about 90 percent of the orders correctly (a little spooky that that’s a higher average than for a flesh-and-blood human)...great point by the Canadian labor rep that fast food employment is a “stepping stone” job, and if that goes away, what will come in its place, if anything?...



...and speaking of nourishment, Farron Cousins brings us the sorry tale of Our Ochre Abomination and his same-party pals threatening to starve kids and families in this country with SNAP cuts...I know saying Republicans hate children is kind of extreme, but how exactly is Cousins wrong here, especially when we find out about a study looking at SNAP benefit cuts and what that’s doing to this country...1.6 million kicked off that vitally important benefit program, including about 776,000 kids in 12 states (at a cost of about $6 a day, versus our utterly insane Pentagon budget)...Cousins also points out how the latest class warfare from these Trumpist numbskulls is indeed incentivizing states to kick more people off SNAP...and yep, if you guessed that the typical mantra here from Not Your Father’s Republican Party is “oh, we’re cracking down on waste, fraud and abuse,” then you win a commemorative photo of The Sainted Ronnie R giving a speech braying about “welfare queens” (which don’t exist and have NEVER existed, by the way)...NSFW/H...



...and I now give you the following from Mr. Newberger based on today’s headlines...



...and here's a newer tune to try and keep the musical selections here from lapsing into a collection of "moldy oldies," at least for the moment.

Tuesday Stuff

Kenny Hesse of Really American informs us that, apparently, it looks like the “bromance” between “Bibi” and our thuggish ruling regime (and that includes Couch Boy) has hit the rocks, given that Israel will likely continue to attack Gaza, Lebanon, Iran, and God knows where else, alleged “deal” from the Gropenfuhrer be damned...yep, “Diaper Donnie” got played by our “ally” again (and yes, I know “No Malarkey Joe” was guilty on that score too, along with just about every other presidential administration)...and when you’ve lost The Swanson TV Dinner Heir (trying to look rugged without a tie I guess), then you’re truly losing the die-hard mouth breathers in your base on this...actually, VP “Hillbilly Elegy” shockingly makes some sense at around 5:00-5:20 or so; kind of makes me wonder what parallel dimension I fell into...I realize I shouldn’t pay much attention to “Tuckums,” but that remark “that was the story anyway” about 9/11 is typical for this self-serving puke – we lost 17 people from Bucks County based on a “story” as far as Carlson is concerned I guess (NSFW/H)...



...and we now go “across the pond” to Jonathan Pie, discussing “Trump The Peacemaker”...I hadn’t heard anyone drawing a comparison between this alleged deal with Iran and the fiasco with the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, but yeah, they’re both peas in the same awful pod, you might say...I’d forgotten about the $2.1 billion in oil trades placed just before the start of hostilities – don’t know how the hell that’s legal, because it probably isn’t...I could tell he was going to go off because he also went without a tie (NSFW/H also)...



...and David Shuster of Rebel HQ gives us more on Repugs revolting over #47’s capitulation in his war of choice against Iran, including Trey Gowdy, who ended up on Fix Noise after a career in the U.S. House as a wingnut lapdog...I don’t know what the hell happened to Mike Pompeo – seriously, I hope he’s not ill, even though I don’t agree with a damn thing he has to say...oh, and “missiles aren’t the problem,” Combover Caligula? Gee, what would happen if a warhead was unleashed in the direction of Flori-DUUH! (which I don’t want to see, I wish to emphasize)...and once more, Thom Tillis and Bill Cassidy are on their way out of the U.S. Senate, so they can actually speak truth to stoo-pid...there’s a lot of “doom and gloom” aimed at Not Your Father’s Republican Party at the moment, and justifiably so, but allow me to be a bit of a contrarian here and add that, likely starting just around Labor Day, there will be such a torrent of attack ad garbage on TV, online and everywhere aimed at the “D” team (who will likely be clueless to respond, if past is prologue) that that will likely cause the polling numbers to tighten up...believe me when I tell you that I want to be wrong about that, but I’ve seen this damn movie too many times before...



...and Thom Hartmann discusses “Tokyo Rose” Gabbard, on her way out as DNI, who apparently is endeavoring to come up with some devious new way to rig the fall midterms...her seat is currently occupied by Bill Pulte, whose Trumpist bona fides includes rifling through mortgage docs on #47’s political enemies as Thom points out...oh, and apparently there’s now a rift between the CIA and Gabbard/Pulte because the former doesn’t trust the latter two assclowns (don’t you feel safer already, my fellow prisoners?)...didn’t know that there was an ordinance in Philly saying that, if you’re in law enforcement and wear a mask and don’t identify yourself, you go to jail for 90 days and pay a fine – nicely done (and yep, the typical Trumpist goons reacted with “lawfare,” as they always do...definitely not the biggest fan of Larry Krasner, but props to him if he had anything to do with this)...didn’t know about that study involving deceased relatives, but I believe it to be honest...



...and by the way, in case anyone was wondering what the world’s first trillionaire was up to, I think this update from America’s Finest News Source answer that question (joke, but barely)...



...and here is today's regional weather forecast.

Monday Stuff

OK, I’m back and I’m going to get this thing going again...stop me if you’ve heard this before (and I’m sure you have), but the Gropenfuhrer hired a preferred contractor to do some work that got totally screwed up (and who likely won’t get paid anyway), and this time it involves the reflecting pool at the Lincoln Memorial (I realize I’m behind the news cycle on this a bit, but I still think it needs to be pointed out)...this report from the CBC News gives us more background...it looks like we have peeling paint and algae bubbling to the surface, which is a strangely apt metaphor for this regime as far as yours truly is concerned...oh, and someone with a sharp eye pointed out that, in that fifth-grade-looking poster board that Cantaloupe Capone held up in that press gaggle, #47 didn’t include the antenna on top of the Sears Tower (I think that’s what it’s called) in Chicago, probably out of spite to make it look shorter...the whole D.C. landscape, which is pretty much sunk in a basin, makes it extremely difficult to keep various substances from bubbling to the surface; there would have to be layers of probably sandstone and rock to keep the algae out, and I realize that studying the issue to that level of detail is beyond the grasp of the Tangerine Toddler (a completely predictable update is here, and it looks like Jonathan Karl of ABC News got his hand dirty on this issue based on this)...



...and Belle of the Ranch tells us about Dementia J. Trump telling people he’s king...with respect to Belle, I don’t give Roger Wicker credit for a damn thing; saying the supposed deal ending #47’s Not-So-Excellent Adventure in Iran is contrary to the *preznit’s goals or whatever is slathering perfume on the proverbial pig big time...and of course, Bill Cassidy is on his way out, so that means he can actually tell the truth according to their unwritten Repug rules of subservience I suppose...I don’t know much about this Jay Clayton guy who’s been nominated as the new DNI to take the place of “Tokyo Rose” Gabbard, but I’m sure I’ll find out (typical for this regime to nominate a mediocre white man to replace a woman in this administration)...and “I’m the president, and you’re not”? So what – we’ve got “Chevy Chase” Trump now? I also like Belle’s “Scooby Doo” metaphor here – “I’d have defeated Iran if it weren’t for those meddling kids”...definitely glad to hear Belle draw a line here from those cowardly Repugs acting like they have a spine at last to those same lickspittles having voting for the Big Beautiful Clusterf*ck...”the pushback isn’t out of principle – it’s out of political necessity” indeed...



...oh, and did you know that unemployment funds from the feds distributed to states (especially those with “Democrat” governors) are being fraudulently siphoned off to go to criminal gangs? Well, living in the world of reality, I didn’t know that either, probably because that’s not an actual “thing,” but in the demented musings of Trumpist Labor Secretary pick Keith Sonderling, that is taking place, which is another reason to disqualify this knucklehead (more here)...



...and I honestly try to not fill up this space too much with every stoo-pid thing that Our Ochre Abomination says or does, but I thought this was worthy of mention, with Don The Con blabbing that Italian PM Giorgia Meloni allegedly begged to have a photo taken with him, and #47 went along with it because he felt ”sorry for her” (once more, this supposedly big, strong man talks down to or tries to make fun of a woman)...I also think it needs to be emphasized yet again how Combover Caligula treats our allies versus our enemies (and I know there’s more than a little gray area there), as Meloni pointed out so accurately...and oh yeah, our Pretender-In-Chief abuses our allies with impunity, but yells his spoiled baby head off when they don’t step in to try and fix his mistakes, which are legion (including the mess in the Strait of Hormuz)...I think “total deference – zero accountability” as noted by Brian Tyler Cohen pretty much says it...



...and Seth Meyers gives us “A Closer Look” at the reflecting pool idiocy..Cheetoh Hitler rambles incoherently once more like a brain-added octogenarian (and not all octogenarians are brain-addled, I wish to emphasize)...also, I actually think the term “unbelievable makeover” for the Lincoln Memorial pool is pretty accurate since it sure is unbelievable all right...and what would another screwup by Pumpkin Pol Pot be without the hyenas from Fix Noise cheering him on and ridiculing “the left” and saying “oh, it’s really the fault of the Dem haters who want to see our *preznit fail” – uh, no...our side lives in the world of actual reality, as opposed to you assclowns...and dumping peroxide into the water to kill the algae blooms? Yeah, that will last as a fix for this mess at exactly half past never...



...and RIP Walter Parazaider of Chicago.

Monday Stuff

Robert Weissman of Public Citizen discovers some conflicts of interest here with the Tangerine Toddler and his stinking ballroom...those who contributed received $50 billion in government contracts, which somehow is NOT illegal on its face, though I can just about guarantee you that the destruction of the East Wing of the White House most definitely is, as Weissman notes...as we also learn, about two-thirds of the companies making donations were facing enforcement actions of some kind, which of course the Gropenfuhrer sh*tcanned as opposed to going after his enemies...in terms of “return on investment,” Weissman also notes that these companies got 100-to-200-times what they shelled out for the damn ballroom in the way of the aforementioned contracts...kind of surprised to see Major Garrett practicing some actual journalism, but credit where it’s due...



...and Robert Reich makes a pretty good case here IMO on why and how we should end the “doom loop” in this country’s politics...among other places, this clip should be played continuously at the DNC headquarters until the message sinks in, assuming it ever does...



...and this video from CBC News: The National takes us into a TPUSA event with Erika Kirk...”Conservative women may not vote for Repugs in the midterms” is apparently the overriding message here, but I’ll believe it when I see it... and oh yeah, ”I don’t want a party that tells my son he can cut off his penis,” huh? Yep, we’re definitely in the epicenter of wingnut BS all right, no doubt full of evangelical nutjobs...just add this Savanna Stone person to the incredibly long list of folks who got utterly played by the Gropenfuhrer and his regime (and she doesn’t think women should vote? Really? I suppose that’s part of her grift too, and apparently for other women also)...it’s really pointless trying to argue with anybody who thinks Dems/liberals/progressives are at fault somehow for not enough “reading, writing and arithmetic” in schools...file this under “keep your friends close, but your enemies closer”...



..and in a bit of a similar vein, David Shuster of Rebel HQ brings us more Trump voters having buyer’s remorse, this time in Ohio, including a woman who voted for Cheetoh Hitler 3 times, and now her factory job is disappearing; apparently, a company called Conn Selmer is moving its operations to China...when the Lyin’ King stood up and said, “I don’t care about you. I just care about your vote,” what the hell else was there to think about? Oh, and it looks like this “deal” emerging over his Not-So-Excellent Adventure in Iran apparently won’t be worth the paper it’s printed on...and billions in a cash infusion to Iran, while this country continues to struggle with inflation and a cratering economy – are you tired of the winning yet? Is it starting to occur to you, Trumpers, that the guy who came into the world with millions but ended up having to declare bankruptcy six times DOESN’T KNOW WHAT THE F*CK HE’S DOING???!! AS PRESIDENT OR AS ANYTHING ELSE???...Oh, and along comes Senator Foghorn Leghorn of Oxford (pretending to be from Louisiana) attacking Graham Platner; if I were the Platner campaign, I would just keep using these clips from Kennedy and other pols as more evidence that the Maine Dem is scaring the hell out of the D.C. establishment...once more, concerning Kennedy, I think you can still Google John Oliver, Song of the Summer, and enjoy the result...



...and speaking of John Oliver, I give you his report from “Last Week Tonight” on the New College of Flori-DUUH! (took a little while for yours truly to get through the whole thing)...looks like On-His-Way-Out Guv #DeathSantis, when he was trying to run for *preznit, chose to use the school for purposes of wingnut demagoguery and decided to sic the even-more-odious Chris Rufo on the place…I have to admit that I don’t think it’s so hot for students to design their own curricula, but then again, you can’t argue with the fact that many of them apparently continued their education upon graduation, so what the school did must have worked somehow (and I’m SOOO GLAD for SOMEBODY to give Stuart Varney the treatment he deserves)…the mascot story is indeed dorky, but a little sweet too IMO; not surprising that that was changed to a “steroid tree” by the incoming regime…yep, Rufo did indeed cherry pick from the consultant’s report on the school and tried to tilt the perception as negatively as possible…and boy, this Richard Corcoran guy brought in to run the school sure was a prize, wasn’t he?...so naturally, the gender studies program was the first casualty of the new regime, in favor of “culture wars bullsh*t,” with “scholars in residence” like Bruce Gilley (a member of this group), along with this Fred Piccolo character, who seems to have a problem with keeping it zipped up, you might say (allegedly!)...and this David Rancourt person is just a straight-up pig (can’t think of a word for the entitlement of someone who can even think what he says, let alone try that crap on “open mic night”)...probably comes as no surprise to find out that the “success” of de- wokifiying (word?) the New College came also from lowering standards and recruiting student athletes...”rebalancing the hormones and the politics on campus” – just no end to the wingnut grievance, is there?...oh, and on top of all of this, now it costs half a mil to earn a degree at New College, dwarfing the cost versus any other public university...also, it looks like Corcoran, the president of the school pulling down a mil a year (and again, for a PUBLIC university) participated in an open mic night also? Well, at least he didn’t say something grossly inappropriate like Rancourt did (maybe these guys ought to stay away from comedy clubs for a little while)...NSFW/H...



...and here is another summer selection...



...and with that, I now take my leave of you for a few days. I’ll plan to rev this thing up again next week.

Friday Stuff

I give you our “I Love the Inflation” *preznit (and no, I don’t plan to ever let anybody forget that he said that)...



...and Brian Tyler Cohen discusses Cheetoh Hitler saying someone ELSE’s past indiscretions makes him unqualified for office, referring to Graham Platner, which is borderline hilarious coming from Our Ochre Abomination...and if I were Platner, I would use that negative language about him in a campaign ad (calling Platner a “thug,” which is one of the Tangerine Toddler’s go-to insults as we know)...and naaah, the Repugs wouldn’t have Platner I know, because the “R” team would have PEDOS instead...also, I temporarily forgot about Ken Paxton in Texas, but it does indeed take more than a little gall to criticize Platner with “multiple scandals” Paxton running for the “R” team, as well as having once supported Matt “Are You Sure You’re Legal?” Gaetz...I LOVE how Cohen points out the double standard of the low bar Repug candidates have to meet versus the purity tests Dem candidates have to take (NSFW/H)...



...oh, and it looks like former ExxonMobil CEO Lee Raymond has departed...in this clip, we learn of JP Morgan Chase bowing to lefty pressure from a group called Majority Action and removing Raymond as an independent director (though, as we also learn, Raymond still had a seat on the board of directors of JP Morgan-Chase)...Raymond did everything he could to ignore the scientific consensus that human activity is causing climate change and instead get these bogus “studies” published intended to ignore the climate crisis to ensure profitability for our dirty energy companies...looks like Majority Action was able to persuade shareholders in order to remove Raymond...I believe that the phrase that matters concerning Raymond at this moment is “rest in piss”...

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...and Sam and Emma of The Majority Report bring us U.S. House Repug numbskull Brian Mast of Flori-DUUH! “mansplaining” to Dem Rep Rashida Tlaib why she was wrong to bring up her war powers resolution intended to keep U.S. troops out of Lebanon...oh, and Mast says dead Palestinians need to prove they were innocent while getting bombed by Israel, or something...oh, and Mast wears his IDF uniform to work? Fine, then – fly over to Israel, live there and run for the Knesset, or something...oh, and Tlaib’s resolution is “unserious”? I think the wanton murder of Palestinians by the IDF (and trying to keep the U.S. out of Lebanon) is as “serious” as it gets...I’m old enough to remember when this country used to do the difficult work of peace negotiations with ALL SIDES in an attempt to stop this, as opposed to just sending more arms to the main perpetrator of this carnage...



...and Seth Meyers gives us “A Closer Look” on the Knicks’ miracle comeback in Game #4 of the NBA Finals, along with other stuff...oh, and Combover Caligula and “Couch Boy” were the “pro peace” ticket, huh? Add that to the unending catalog of utter lies from our ruling regime, especially when contrasted with all of the clips of the Tangerine Toddler saying he’ll keep us out of wars, in addition to everything he would make cheaper (once more, it takes a comedian to “bring the receipts” since our corporate media is otherwise not up to that task)...



...and this musical selection is a bit of a “two-fer,” given that June is Pride Month and today is the 10th anniversary of the Pulse nightclub mass shooting (here)...once more, let me know if any child is ever “groomed” as a result of a lecture on gender tolerance or exposure to drag queen story hour.

Wednesday Stuff

Robert Reich discusses The Hidden Danger of America’s Wealth Gap...I know it’s not exactly news to find out how much the assets of the one percent (a fraction of that, actually) have “exploded,” as Reich correctly puts it, but the stats are still damning anyway...wealth appeared to grow fairly evenly until about 2010, led by this as Reich notes...also, after 2018, the wealth for these bastards was higher than the whole GDP of China, for crying out loud...also, daunting to see what kind of campaign spending the “pay no price, bear no burden” bunch can lay out versus the rest of us...glad to hear Reich draw what’s pretty much a straight line from this economic madness to an authoritarian state...also important to point out once more why we need public financing of elections (good luck with that, I know)...



...but it’s always good sport for our corporate overlords to punch down at those less fortunate and encourage all of us to do likewise, as Britany Page notes...it looks like she and other good folks crashed a wingnut policy summit on homelessness in D.C. (as if The Cicero Institute actually cares about the problem)...yep, looks like the previously mentioned one percent and their lackeys want to criminalize homelessness and stick the unhoused into camps, just like Republican Jesus wants...this Joe Lonsdale character behind Cicero also founded Palantir, just to let you know; another case of following the money to see which industries (for-profit prisons and surveillance) stand to gain by Cicero trying to demonize people needing help (I think the phrase “homeless industrial complex” in this context is pretty damn repugnant, which is on the nose for these cretins...”it starts with dehumanization” indeed)...a related item from the execrable Nick Fuentes is here...mildly NSFW/H...



...and I realize I’m “behind the curve” a bit here, but I definitely wanted to get to this...David Doel gives us his take on the NYT “hit piece” on Graham Platner (update here)...I agree with Doel that the time for “purity tests” is the primary, but once you’ve settled on a candidate for the general election, you need to look at who is the best alternative among the whole field and put all that other business about checking every single damn box on the shelf...I just gave Glenn Ivey credit the other day; what a shame that he takes all that AIPAC dough (not surprising that “Disappointed” Susan Collins is #1 on the Repug side, and don’t get me started on Schumer)...and yeah, I think it’s unintentionally funny that the Times has a headline about Platner’s “unsettling behavior” with women when we have a *preznit who was found civilly liable in New York on a charge of sexual abuse, which is basically r*pe without the actual word...this Lyndsey Fifield person criticizing Platner definitely doesn’t sound like an impartial observer anyway, especially on Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk...and Fifield drafted Susan Collins’ remarks when Collins voted to confirm “I Like Beer” Kavanaugh to the SCOTUS, smearing those accusing Kavanaugh in the process...beyond ridiculous that the Times didn’t tell this Fifield woman just to go get lost, as opposed to giving her any credence whatsoever...I think Doel is right to say that the Times is going after Platner in part because he didn’t grovel appropriately at the mention of the state of Israel...NSFW/H also...



...and Logical Leftist Jeff Waldorf tells us about dozens of people getting sick in Idaho (about 45 people that we know of) after Bobby Brainworms promoted drinking un-pasteurized milk and getting stomach cramps, fever and, in some cases, diarrhea...oh, but it’s all about “freedumb” of course to push back against that “big gumint” that, y’know, wants to keep us from FREAKING DYING!!...and 40 raw milk bills introduced across 18 states?? I know drinking the MAGA Kool Aid can be a hell of a drug, but REALLY??...and yeah, Thomas Massie has done some good stuff and he lost his seat for it, but supporting a raw milk bill is definitely a point not in his favor (and that goes for Dem Chellie Pingree also...just goes to show how red Maine truly is, sadly, and I know I just mentioned Graham Platner)...as Waldorf tells us, the CDC has been studying and documenting the danger of raw milk for-freaking-evah; turns out that raw dairy causes 840 times more illness than the pasteurized version, as we learn in the clip...we’re only talking about 15 seconds of applied heat to prevent potential life-threatening paralysis (from Campylobacter), among other awful effects...so many levels of “duuuh” here...



...and Desi Lydic of The Daily Show mentions the Gropenfuhrer taking a snooze during the most recent Knicks-Spurs game... I didn’t see the contest so I can’t judge referee Mark Davis, but apparently Jalen Brunson of the Knicks was getting fouled with regularity with no calls forthcoming...and since the game was in NYC, there were a lot of stars at courtside, which is cool...and oh yeah, a certain Treasonous Orange Egomaniac showed up as noted, saluted, took a nap and then left to a completely justified torrent of boos...oh, and #47’s preferred choice for LA Mayor (and “reality” TV star) Spencer Pratt lost I see...c’est dommage...so OF COURSE “Don Snoreleone” started ranting about a “rigged election”...oh, and MAGA Mike Johnson, being the good little supplicant he is, took a break from watching porn with his son to allege fraud in the LA election also, citing a lack of evidence (God, this nonsense makes my brain hurt)...with Troy Iwata...mildly NSFW/H as well...



...and I thought this was a bit of a catchy newer tune to get us all through the “hump day.”

Tuesday Stuff

Eric Gardner of More Perfect Union lets us know about Apartheid Clyde privatizing the profit and socializing the risk again in a manner that befits the one percent, this time on the SpaceX IPO...sounds like a massive “pump and dump” scheme leveraging index funds, which are the type of funds designed to EXPLICITLY PREVENT something just like this from happening...clip does a good job of how King Elon just keeps rolling his companies into each other in the hope that he can inject profitability...as we learn, the fact that this initial public offering for SpaceX seems to be top-heavy with what you could call regular investors is indeed a “tell” that something crooked is going on...sooo, it looks like the “banksters” got rid of the “seasoning” required for a company to be listed on the NASDAQ and that’s how Musk is planning to get his company onto it...one driver in this is the competition between the Dow Jones and the NASDAQ vying for the SpaceX IPO and similar offerings, and again, that’s not going to matter to “mom and pop” investors after the stock craters...looks like shares on SpaceX may begin trading this Friday 6/12...mildly NSFW/H...



...and this report from the German news service DW lets us know about anti-Christian attacks on the rise in Jerusalem (report by correspondent Jan-Philipp Scholz)...I seriously think this country needs to tell the “children of David” en masse to f*ck all the way off between their wars without end in Lebanon and Iran (to say nothing of Gaza and the West Bank overall) and also for attacking priests and nuns, but I realistically know what the chance is of that actually happening in this country...we can blame the rise in Jewish nationalism most definitely as a factor here, encouraged by “Bibi” and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, both of whom should be held up to constant ridicule at a minimum...oh, and three guesses who made this problem much worse by announcing that the U.S. recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital (and no, it definitely wasn’t Biden)...with Hana Bendcowsky of the Jerusalem Center for Jewish-Christian Relations...



...and if you’re still wondering how Israel gets away with this garbage, Thom Hartmann gives us an explanation – it seems that dozens of congressional reps and staffers have been gifted with luxurious first-class trips to Israel courtesy of an affiliate of AIPAC (the American-Israel Education Foundation, which is a non-profit that is somehow able to skirt lobbying restrictions) ever since the awful attacks on Israel on October 7th...kind of telling to me that Netanyahu has gotten a pass from our media this whole time over the fact that, like 9/11, 10/7 represented a massive intelligence failure...not surprised that 8 in 10 Dems have an unfavorable view of Israel and 6 in 10 Americans generally...Thom reminds us of AIPAC showering “moderate” Dems with cash while doing their worst to trash progressives, such as Pramila Jayapal’s sister as Thom notes...pathetic that we allow ANY foreign government to mess with our elections, as Thom also points out...with all due respect to Thom, I think his memory is a little fuzzy; Citizens United was decided in January 2010, not October...also, Google requests permission to release 32 million mosquitoes in CA and Flori-DUUH! to try and prevent diseases carried by non-sterile bugs (and I agree with Thom that our government should be doing this and not a for-profit corporation...hopefully it will work)...



...and Tennessee Brando tells us about Our Ochre Abomination creating a watch list for social media influencers (here), and right now the list includes David Pakman and Brian Tyler Cohen...as Brando says, this was probably inevitable after our ruling regime went after media companies, educational institutions, law firms, freaking comedians, other politicians – you name it...probably only a matter of time until everybody who has made a video that I embed here ends up on a Trumpist “watch list” also (and I’m glad to see this Tony Hinchcliffe weasel get dragged again)...NSFW/W but for a great reason...



...and it looks like Dementia J. Trump kept up his perfect streak of ruining everything he touches last night, watching the Knicks lose their first playoff game (and kudos to the MSG fans for giving our *preznit the welcome he deserved)...



...and here is another summer selection (sad that they're both gone now - oh well).