1 st!

2 Mississippi went back to using phonics.

Liberals were stunned that the way we taught kids to read for generations still worked.

3 More money rarely, if ever, fixes government programs.

4 The Others have been summoned.

5 FIRST!!!!!

6 Unions are the reason the average cost of a new vehicle is $32,000.

7 Went to lum NOOD, but there were plenty already.

You're not here, it's your own damn fault.

8 >> New York spends $31,918 -- more than two and a half times as much -- and its children read less well for it.


IT'S FUNNY WE PRETEND THIS MONEY IS SPENT ON CHILDREN, WHEN IT'S OBVIOUSLY SPENT ON ADMINISTRATION STAFF, THEIR LUXURIES, AND GRAFT.

9 It's nice that kids can read. Now, get them to make correct change.

10 Here's another interesting fact:

37-38% of MS's pop is black.

18% of NY's is black.

Apparently, black kids can learn. Who knew?

11 Willowed:

Posted by: Lizzy at June 09, 2026 10:55 AM (X8xt3)

Ok . But "communist trannie in love with King George" from prior poster sounds like a bit of a stretch😉
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 09, 2026 10:59 AM (ix8EF)


I believe that guy's intent was to make people laugh.

But, I could be mistaken.

12 Mississippi’s fourth graders now read better than their peers in New York, Minnesota, and California -- every one of them a state that spends a great deal more per child than we do. And here is the part the spend-more crowd would rather you did not dwell on. We get those better results on far less money.


Red v. Blue.

Caring and nurturing v. communist shithole.

13
Apparently, black kids can learn. Who knew?
Posted by: Archimedes at June 09, 2026 11:05 AM (Riz8t)



But they can't get ID's.

14 Or use the internet.

15
10 Here's another interesting fact:

37-38% of MS's pop is black.

18% of NY's is black.

Apparently, black kids can learn. Who knew?

Posted by: Archimedes at June 09, 2026 11:05 AM (Riz8t)

====

*confused head tilt, mouth agape*
-Joe Biden

16 Good to see RMBS get the first rather than Elric.

17 Public employees shouldn't be allowed to unionize. Whether they be cops, teachers, firefighters, or air traffic controllers.

18 17 Public employees shouldn't be allowed to unionize. Whether they be cops, teachers, firefighters, or air traffic controllers.

Posted by: Martbell at June 09, 2026 11:06 AM (as6X5)

====

"America would never be so stupid to allow that, right?"
-FDR

19 *confused head tilt, mouth agape*
-Joe Biden

That's right, Joe. Poor kids can learn as well as white ones.

20 Did Mississippi get better, or did the cockroaches in the unions make the other states worse?

21
*confused head tilt, mouth agape*
-Joe Biden
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 09, 2026 11:06 AM (IOrWk)


*goes to 7-Eleven*

*orders slurpee with an Indian accent*

22 As an RN I was appalled to find nurses joining unions.
Think of a Union strike of nurses. First they can't abandon their patients, those at work when the strike begins are on the floor until the strike ends. How safe are those patients after a 2 or 4 day strike?

23
Unions are one of the most corrosive influences in America, and teachers unions (along with government employee unions) are the worst of the bunch.

Yep, the purpose of a union is to get people to pay more money for less work. And total protection for the worker that fucks up.

Now, why would we want that setup for any public employee?

Esp. teachers.

Public and Health worker unions should be illegal.

24 Destroy the teacher's unions and bring in more Miss Crabtree.

25 16 Good to see RMBS get the first rather than Elric.
Posted by: Bulg

I thought Sponge got it. At least he announced it that way.

26 Good to see RMBS get the first rather than Elric.
Posted by: Bulg at June 09, 2026 11:06 AM (77rzZ)


Elric never noods.

He is not valid.

27
I thought Sponge got it. At least he announced it that way.
Posted by: NR Pax at June 09, 2026 11:08 AM (jjoN6)


*fistbump*

28 Destroy the teacher's unions and bring in more Miss Crabtree.

Oh, so close.

29 Destroy the teacher's unions and bring in more Miss Crabtree.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 09, 2026 11:08 AM (snZF9)


Hard to learn with a hard on.

30 Elric never noods.

He is not valid.

Huh. I heard he's bona fide.

31
Huh. I heard he's bona fide.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 09, 2026 11:10 AM (Riz8t)


Legend in his own mind.

32 Meeting one's goals is a sure way to freezing or reducing your budget in a government agency.

Yet another aspect of the perversity of bureaucracy.

33 22 As an RN I was appalled to find nurses joining unions.

Mother and brother both had to deal with this as nurses.

Mom said she was going to be a Beck employee. Union rep kept arguing until she threatened him with violent action.

Brother finally went Beck and told them it wasn't going to change unless they stopped the political donations.

34 Did Mississippi get better, or did the cockroaches in the unions make the other states worse?

Posted by: Minuteman

====

They got better. How they did it makes for interesting reading. And there are many Red states copying their play book.

Unfortunately, the Blue states will ignore it, because part of the program is actually requiring achievement before moving to next grade.

35 10 Here's another interesting fact:

37-38% of MS's pop is black.

18% of NY's is black.

Apparently, black kids can learn. Who knew?
Posted by: Archimedes
=======
Easier for the state of Mississippi to jerk local school districts around demanding change (like phonics in reading) which are largely rural instead of the institutionalized and politicized large cities in the North and West (and South for that matter) where the focus in on politics and wealth extraction from schools rather than teaching their kids how to read. You rarely see the school activist types and unions in rural districts. They go to where their power and grifting opportunities are the greatest which is why every urban district in this country are largely immune from any state or federal control.

All of those unified districts need to die and be cut into little bailiwicks instead of monstrously big centralized offices. Return to neighborhood schools and neighborhood control and you might get something similar to MS success--keep the big money extraction centralized machines, nothing will work to improve those districts.

And abolish Colleges of Education with a refusal for the Fedgov to pay for them.

36 The only kinds of unions I can live with are those for professions that are inherently dangerous, say coal-mining (back in the day when we still had coal mines). The unions can ensure that safety standards are met and enforced, and can act as a support network for the survivors of men who die on the job.

37 They got better. How they did it makes for interesting reading. And there are many Red states copying their play book.

Unfortunately, the Blue states will ignore it, because part of the program is actually requiring achievement before moving to next grade.
Posted by: 2009Refugee
=====
Phonics works, whole language is a commie and stupid invention from college lab school data, and functional literacy is need for any chance at a decent life nowadays other than perhaps criminality.

38 Fun fact:


Spanky died when he was 21 years old........

39 Thx CBD, good post
I posted this morning about my local school district. The budget went up and was approved by the local leftist. The superintendent salary went up as did various administrators. 39 people were laid off including guidance counselors and teachers aides. The administration said many were retiring but less than a third from what I hear. The students will produce the same results.

40 Clever turn of phrase.

Jeff Crouere: The Invasion of the Ballot Snatchers

41 Teacher's unions are not very strong in the South.
If teachers walk out they probably won't have a job to come back to. I believe the states try to be fair as they can but they won't take a lot of bullsh*t. Also the cost of living is not as high as in other parts of the country.

42 Destroy the teacher's unions and bring in more Miss Crabtree.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 09, 2026 11:08 AM (snZF9)


Hard to learn with a hard on.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 09, 2026 11:09 AM (Zz0t1)

True. I had a really cute young 5th grade teacher. She is still alive, and was at my brother's house recently. He was going to a school reunion and she lives fairly close to him, so my brother had a small gathering at his house first. She showed up and my brother drove her to the reunion. Dickhead didn't tell me about it, so I didn't see her, but I will this year.

43 The only kinds of unions I can live with are those for professions that are inherently dangerous, say coal-mining (back in the day when we still had coal mines). The unions can ensure that safety standards are met and enforced, and can act as a support network for the survivors of men who die on the job.

So you're saying journalists with the mainstream media should have union protection? I knew it!

44 Destroy the teacher's unions and bring in more Miss Crabtree.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 09, 2026 11:08 AM (snZF9)

We had some thoughts along these lines . . .

I think of all the education that I missed
But then my homework was never quite like this

45 >>All of those unified districts need to die and be cut into little bailiwicks instead of monstrously big centralized offices. Return to neighborhood schools and neighborhood control and you might get something similar to MS success--keep the big money extraction centralized machines, nothing will work to improve those districts.

And finish off the Dept of Education!!
Curricula should not be set by DC bureaucrats.

46 John Ketcham: Zohran Mamdani’s Disdain for NYC Business Is Showing

-
I didn't know it was a secret.

47 I think unions give their members a couple of things; inflated sense of self worth and some level of protection from recriminations should they fail at their job.

Whether there are positions, such as those in education or medicine that shouldn't be unionized is debatable, but it seems counter productive to the services they are supposed to be providing.

48 Sponge is always first. Sometimes he shares the honor with someone else (in this thread's case, RMBS), but he's still first.

49 Curricula should not be set by DC bureaucrats.
Curricula, daughter of Dracula.

50 Sad......he didn't have a headstone as his mother couldn't afford one. She didn't have one either. Some rocker named MIKAL paid $4,500 to have 2 stones put up in 2012.

51 36 The only kinds of unions I can live with are those for professions that are inherently dangerous, say coal-mining (back in the day when we still had coal mines). The unions can ensure that safety standards are met and enforced, and can act as a support network for the survivors of men who die on the job.
Posted by: Bulg

Company based unions are probably better than massive national unions. A company union understands that if the company goes down, their jobs are likely to go with it. A national union will burn a company and its workers just to improve bargaining with other companies.

Hostess bankruptcy is an example where a company union might have worked to save their own jobs while the national union was adamant, for fear of precedent, from wage/benefit reductions needed to keep the company from shutdown.

Something similar happened in the WSJ story about US Steel and Nippon acquisition. The local steelworkers bucked the national union and asked Trump to allow Nippon to buy US Steel with the required capital infusion. Now Nippon is building a huge new rolling mill right next to the steel mill to the tune of billions of bucks.

52 I got back from our polling location about an hour ago and did my part to try and oust the burrowed tick that is Lindsay Graham from his Senate seat. The poll worker said hardly anybody has been in to vote. Early voting for D's has come in hot and heavy this year compared to years past, according to Jr. Black who pulled some figures from somewhere. I fear the day will soon come that SC starts turning from pretty solid red to shades of purple. We've had such a massive influx of people from other states move here the last few years. I fear we'll eventually become NC, GA, VA, CO, etc., in terms of trajectory. Oh well, what are ya gonna do...

53 It's criminal that children are being taught NOT to read.

Anyone of average intelligence (or slightly below) can be taught how to read at an early age.

Our brains are practically hard-wired to learn how to read.

The fact that so many children are actively denied this fundamental human skill is just one more form of slavery. They are denied the ability to think for themselves so that whey then become adults they will do what they are told. Especially when it comes to voting.

54 @ 2 Mississippi went back to using phonics. Liberals were stunned that the way we taught kids to read for generations still worked.
______________________________

Next, they need to go back to teaching ENGLISH.

55
True. I had a really cute young 5th grade teacher. She is still alive, and was at my brother's house recently. He was going to a school reunion and she lives fairly close to him, so my brother had a small gathering at his house first. She showed up and my brother drove her to the reunion. Dickhead didn't tell me about it, so I didn't see her, but I will this year.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 09, 2026 11:14 AM (snZF9)


What are the odds he tried to bang her.

LOL!

56 I gots an unrelated rant of my own today: Why the h&*! does it seem like deliberately wasting peoples' time is the go-to response for anyone asked to help anyone? I keep running into this over and over. Student aid people should have finished closing out my old ITT scam loans? Foot dragged 15 months. Trying to talk to folks at my church about a subject established earlier with an immediate need? Foot dragged three weeks. Want a project at work finished? Bosses insert themselves, foot drags for three months. It's like it's some kind of power flex these days, and I neither get nor appreciate it.

"We now return to your regularly scheduled comment section, already in progress..."

57 All you need is a free labor market, bounded by laws. If it's illegal to abuse workers and they can leave if underpaid, it will all work itself it out without the involvement of licentious mafia goons who bust out the business and leave the union members twisting in the wind.

58 Sponge is always first. Sometimes he shares the honor with someone else (in this thread's case, RMBS), but he's still first.
Posted by: Bulg at June 09, 2026 11:15 AM (77rzZ)


#Winning

59 Fun fact:


Spanky died when he was 21 years old........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 09, 2026 11:13 AM (Zz0t1)

I think you mean Alfalfa. Spanky made it to 64 .

60 The Teachers unions need to end because they are now the biggest donors to Democrat candidates, and the longtime leader of one, Randi Weingarten, is a political insider who shapes policy such as covid shutdowns, and regularly hangs out with America's enemies in the ME and Cuba.

They have little to do with basic education and representing teachers, they are completely political and revolutionary.

61 What are the odds he tried to bang her.

LOL!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 09, 2026 11:18 AM (Zz0t1)

Slim to none, she's 80 years old. lol

62 I think you mean Alfalfa. Spanky made it to 64 .
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division


Alfalfa was still around in 1946. He had a bit part in It's a Wonderful Life.

63
MUNKEY

64
Slim to none, she's 80 years old. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 09, 2026 11:20 AM (snZF9)


Ah. He DOES have standards.

HAHAHAHA!!!

65 Alfalfa was still around in 1946. He had a bit part in It's a Wonderful Life.
Posted by: Bulg at June 09, 2026 11:20 AM (77rzZ)

Not a singing part, I trust.

66 One thing I'd love to see is cameras and audio in every classroom. They had that in the after-school school I taught at in South Korea.

Number one reason is safety. It removes a place for the teacher's to try to have sex with students. Everyone may be a bit better behaved.

But the BIGGEST reason, let every parent see and record what the hell's going on inside each classroom.

and you know the teacher's unions and teachers would fight this tooth and nail....

67 Public service unions shouldn't even be a question. The fact that it's even legal points to the corruption underlying our entire government.

There's no such thing as collective bargaining when the employer is forced to pay the employees at gunpoint.

68 @ 63 MUNKEY
______________________

No. Peter Sellers prounounces it as 'MINK-ey!' …

69 And finish off the Dept of Education!!
Curricula should not be set by DC bureaucrats.
Posted by: Lizzy

DoE is less of a problem than Congressional statutes and the Courts interfering with important matters of school discipline, etc. Mainstreaming does not work, you do not mainstream disciplinary problems back into normal classrooms. Most of the vapid curriculum comes from unions, state governments' DoE, local school activists, textbook companies, and toxic College of Education mavens that turn out lousy students with plenty of political opinions but little idea of classroom management nor mastery of the subject that they are teaching.

FWIW, I helped write curriculum standards for a state in my field along with teacher education training modules as to applying the standards.

And groups like Gates and Co pushing their failed multistate curriculum garbage, textbook vendors, and other nasty assorted political activist groups are just as deleterious to good schooling.

70 Teacher's unions are not very strong in the South.

Would you believe that wasn't always true? The Alabama Education Association was, within my own living memory, the 800 lb. gorilla of state politics here, until about the late 80s when Republicans started winning things and the landscape shifted. Now it's the Chamber of Commerce crowd, which has a lot to do with why AL workers get shafted so frequently, but once it was our teacher's union.

71 Well, there's your problem.

Kyle Becker
@kylenabecker
Let’s review. California:

- Made it illegal to show voter IDs
- Mass mail-in ballots across the state
- Allows people to print ballots at home
- Allows people to register anywhere in the state
- Allows ballot harvesting
- Allows people to register with “IDs” like gym memberships & insurance cards
- Allows people to hand-date ballot envelopes, no postmark required
- Has 853,000 + “ghost voters”
- Sanctuary state that harbors illegal aliens
- Refuses to turn over dirty voter rolls for verification
- Refuses to allow independent signature verification audit
- Refuses to allow ballot inspection audit

This isn’t exactly “subtle.” It’s a blueprint for stealing elections.

72 {pretends to read the content} Okay, now, here's what we were talking about in the previous thread:

Socio and psychopathy unite the Left. They will do anything for power, money, and/or sex.

The Right in DC is similar among the professional party folks and the pay for play lobbyists but they don't hate their opponents--in fact, they want to emulate them.

The only cure for the invasion of the theater/student government kids is to either a) institute required personality tests to screen out psychopaths, deviants, and sociopaths from office, or b) more realistically reduce the size of the national government to core concerns of threats to the Union and push all other decision making and taxation to the lowest level possible.
Posted by: whig at June 09, 2026 10:57 AM (E4rtv)

This is basically the Catholic concept of Subsidiarity -- pushing each decision down to the smallest unit possible (normally the family). I note that the more secular and fashionable a Protestant church is, the more statist they are, and for our own Cardinals it seems to be that the more gay the more statist.

73 "We now return to your regularly scheduled comment section, already in progress..."
Posted by: Brother Tim sez: Fiat Justicia, Ruat Caelum at June 09, 2026 11:18 AM (OUMaO)

How are you doing?
I've been concerned.

74 >>But the BIGGEST reason, let every parent see and record what the hell's going on inside each classroom.


Heh, Covid era zoom classes were a revelation for a lot of parents.

75 Good morning! My new dishwasher has been installed. Bless!

76 All you need is a free labor market, bounded by laws. If it's illegal to abuse workers and they can leave if underpaid, it will all work itself it out without the involvement of licentious mafia goons who bust out the business and leave the union members twisting in the wind.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Agreed, with the caveat of strict laws against multi-industry wage suppression.

77 Sure, there are issues with correlating money and outcome, because there are confounding variables at work. For instance, it is likely that poorly-performing districts have money thrown at them, so their budgets increase without any improvement in outcomes. But there is a correlation, and more important, there is vast improvement driven by something other than money!


Posted by: CBD at 11:00 AM

It's similar to childhood nutrition: a certain amount of childhood nutrition is necessary to allow a person to grow to their full physical and mental potential. Up until that point, you can claim that childhood nutrition is the only important factor for adult attainment.

However, once you are beyond that minimum amount, extra nutrition has almost zero correlation to physical and mental outcomes, to the point that it is irrelevant in an advanced economy.

So too with spending on education. Once you exceed the minimum amount necessary, gains will slow rapidly and eventually cease.

EVERY location in the US is well beyond that minimum amount. When our governments throw more money at education, it is now detrimental because of the perverse incentives it creates.

78 This is basically the Catholic concept of Subsidiarity -- pushing each decision down to the smallest unit possible (normally the family).

Same thing with the military. You try to solve problems at the lowest level of the chain of command as possible.

79 >>Most of the vapid curriculum comes from unions, state governments' DoE, local school activists, textbook companies, and toxic College of Education mavens that turn out lousy students with plenty of political opinions but little idea of classroom management nor mastery of the subject that they are teaching. . .

And groups like Gates and Co pushing their failed multistate curriculum garbage, textbook vendors, and other nasty assorted political activist groups are just as deleterious to good schooling.
- - - -

Yikes, a lot more groups involved in the corruption than I imagined!!

80
I think you mean Alfalfa. Spanky made it to 64 .
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 09, 2026 11:18 AM (snZF9)


The OTHER Spanky....


Spanky - Norman Myers "Chubby" Chaney

81 Heh, Covid era zoom classes were a revelation for a lot of parents.
Posted by: Lizzy at June 09, 2026 11:23 AM (X8xt3)

Yeah, and those classes were when the Our Precious Teachers were on the *best* behavior of their entire careers, and it still pissed everyone off, even though they couldn't show little Johnny gay porn for once.

82 Alfalfa died at 31. Chubby at 21, and Froggy at 16

83 Or, the internet is lying to me again.

84 Destroy the teacher's unions and bring in more Miss Crabtree
***
More true words have never been spoken

85 66 One thing I'd love to see is cameras and audio in every classroom. They had that in the after-school school I taught at in South Korea.

Number one reason is safety. It removes a place for the teacher's to try to have sex with students. Everyone may be a bit better behaved.

But the BIGGEST reason, let every parent see and record what the hell's going on inside each classroom.

and you know the teacher's unions and teachers would fight this tooth and nail....
Posted by: Stateless

Viscerally I hate the idea but as someone well acquainted with education, it is needed because too many times, the people in those positions cannot restrain themselves. And likewise the students nowadays. Like bodycams have done to the George Floyd and eternal shit stirring over police actions, once many people are faced with seeing students do awful things in the classroom and shoving that evidence in the face of activists and parents of dindu nuffin students, it might result in safer classrooms for education.

But, the disruptive students have to go from regular classes for education to occur. Even one or two bad apples in a class can sour the entire atmosphere and affect the other students.

86 But the BIGGEST reason, let every parent see and record what the hell's going on inside each classroom.

and you know the teacher's unions and teachers would fight this tooth and nail....

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 09, 2026 11:22 AM (Sco7b)

This was the sliver lining to Covid. We ALL got to see what was happening in classrooms. It opened a LOT of eyeballs.

87 Good morning! My new dishwasher has been installed. Bless!
Posted by: Piper at June 09, 2026 11:24 AM (Wmg4n)


I miss you.

88 Good morning! My new dishwasher has been installed. Bless!
Posted by: Piper


I thought you had a kid for that.

89 Karmelo:

If a def isn't willing to testify in his own defense, he shouldn't opt for a tria (at least not a jury trial).

If a def pleads not guilty, a jury expects "to hear his side of the story"-- jury instructions notwithstanding.

On a related topic:

Most trial lawyers have experienced their own witness(es) say something unexpected and unwelcome. Comes with the territory. Careful witness prep helps, but... stuff still happens.

I don't see Karmelo's lawyer(s) as ineffective just because they got a joy buzzer from a witness.

90 Good morning! My new dishwasher has been installed. Bless!

Posted by: Piper at June 09, 2026 11:24 AM (Wmg4n)

We have to do dishes in HEAVEN?!?!?!?

91 65 Alfalfa was still around in 1946. He had a bit part in It's a Wonderful Life.
Posted by: Bulg at June 09, 2026 11:20 AM (77rzZ)

Not a singing part, I trust.
Posted by: Count de Monet at June 09, 2026 11:21 AM (wVcYX)
However, he did have a part in a card game.

92 The OTHER Spanky....


Spanky - Norman Myers "Chubby" Chaney

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 09, 2026 11:25 AM (Zz0t1)

Chubbsy Ubbsy!

93 70 Teacher's unions are not very strong in the South.

Would you believe that wasn't always true? The Alabama Education Association was, within my own living memory, the 800 lb. gorilla of state politics here, until about the late 80s when Republicans started winning things and the landscape shifted. Now it's the Chamber of Commerce crowd, which has a lot to do with why AL workers get shafted so frequently, but once it was our teacher's union.
Posted by: Brother Tim sez: Fiat Justicia, Ruat Caelum at June 09,

They keep chasing me to join. Maybe I should!

94 How are you doing?
I've been concerned.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog

Thanks for asking! Rough, unfortunately. Just did my second in-car overnight. The link in my nic is for a GiveSendGo intended to stabilize housing, but I didn't do my research and I can't even touch the funds until next week, which is kinda putting me in a pickle now.

Why yes, my rant earlier does have something to do with the situation.

That said, I'm blessed to have had the positive response I've had, and if I can last long enough to access it I have a shot at more stable housing, which would mean easier to get a better paying job, which would finally put the cycle in a good direction.

But I gotta get there first. And I'm really feeling like God's dog's favorite chew toy lately.

95 The subhuman degenerate who murdered Irina declared not competent to stand trial.

Looks like he'll be back on the street murdering White girls in no time. Just as his masters want.

96 Good morning! My new dishwasher has been installed. Bless!
Posted by: Piper at June 09, 2026 11:24 AM (Wmg4n)

What does a specter need with a dishwasher?

97
I don't see Karmelo's lawyer(s) as ineffective just because they got a joy buzzer from a witness.
Posted by: mnw at June 09, 2026 11:27 AM (RCjYY)


He told police "I'm not alleged, I did it."


No defense for an admitted murderer.

98 90 Good morning! My new dishwasher has been installed. Bless!

Posted by: Piper at June 09, 2026 11:24 AM (Wmg4n)

We have to do dishes in HEAVEN?!?!?!?
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 09, 2026 11:27 AM (Kdi1r)

No! The dishwasher does them! We just have to load and unload correctly.

99 Chubbsy Ubbsy!
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 09, 2026 11:27 AM (snZF9)


Ah, the good old days.

100 They keep chasing me to join. Maybe I should!

Posted by: Piper

The Chamber or the AEA?

101 My dishwasher is coming back with our daughter later today.



Don't tell her I said that.

102 Private sector unions aren't as dangerous. And in Europe I believe they require unions to ONLY be associated with one company which removes a lot of the problems with them.

If Ford workers go on strike and kill Ford under those rules the union dies.

103 We have to do dishes in HEAVEN?!?!?!?
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 09, 2026 11:27 AM (Kdi1r)

No! The dishwasher does them! We just have to load and unload correctly.

Posted by: Piper

Word is the cherubs can never get the glasses loaded without breakage...

104
But I gotta get there first. And I'm really feeling like God's dog's favorite chew toy lately.
Posted by: Brother Tim sez: Fiat Justicia, Ruat Caelum at June 09

Where are you? Do you mind saying?

105 No! The dishwasher does them! We just have to load and unload correctly.

Posted by: Piper at June 09, 2026 11:29 AM (OoFl2)

Whew. I was so, so concerned. Thank you for assuaging me with your angelic knowledge and beatific graces.

106 2 Mississippi went back to using phonics.

Liberals were stunned that the way we taught kids to read for generations still worked.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 09, 2026 11:01 AM (Kdi1r)

Communists stunned-or more peeved- that time tested methods work is pretty much the standard.

107 No! The dishwasher does them! We just have to load and unload correctly.
Posted by: Piper at June 09, 2026 11:29 AM (OoFl2)
----
There's always a catch...

108 We have to do dishes in HEAVEN?!?!?!?
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 09, 2026 11:27 AM (Kdi1r)

That's in The Bad Place. In heaven you have to sing Bill Gaither and boyfriend Jesus praise songs 24/7/infinity.

109
Smug Cheatafornians: "But what percentage of public schools students in Mississippi know how to roll out a condom on a cucumber, hmmmmmm?"

110 Where are you? Do you mind saying?

Posted by: Piper

North of you in Montgomery. Current job is location locked but so long as I can step into something else I'm decreasingly wedded to it (other than wanting to bring my AFLAC cancer rider with me).

111 But I gotta get there first. And I'm really feeling like God's dog's favorite chew toy lately.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez: Fiat Justicia, Ruat Caelum at June 09, 2026 11:28 AM (OUMaO

Thanks for the update.

I truly understand how an unstable housing situation tosses life in the air.

112 And they did this all without any Quality Learing Centers.

113 Looks like he'll be back on the street murdering White girls in no time. Just as his masters want.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at June 09, 2026 11:28 AM (qwx/I)

Clearly, a squad of vigilantes needs to scoop him up, and confine him for life in an institution for the criminally insane.

/

114 Joshua Hall
@JoshHall2024
🚨BREAKING:🚨FORMER THUNE STAFFER SAYS RINO SENATE MAJORITY LEADER IS "GLEEFULLY" BLOCKING ALL OF PRESIDENT TRUMP'S GOVERNMENT NOMINEES AND APPOINTMENTS - A former staffer of TRUMP HATING RINO Senate Majority Leader John Thune has come forward to claim that Thune is INTENTIONALLY BLOCKING EVERY SINGLE GOVERNMENT APPOINTMENT THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP NOMINATES to serve in his administration as a part of Thune's RELENTLESS EFFORT to please his puppet master Mitch McConnell by SABOTAGING our President and undermining him every step of the way. The staffer, who recently RESIGNED IN DISGUST after growing fed up with Thune's every day vulgar personal tirades against President Trump and open STONEWALLING of his agenda, is alleging that his former boss is WORKING HAND IN HAND with Democrat Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer in attempting to TAKE DOWN the duly-elected President and is even LEVERAGING EXTRA MONEY AND RESOURCES for the re-election campaigns of fellow so-called "Republican" Senators who sign on to his TREASONOUS effort to RESIST The Trump administration. This is AN ACTIVE AND ONGOING COUP PLOT being orchestrated by The Senate Majority Leader

115 102 Private sector unions aren't as dangerous. And in Europe I believe they require unions to ONLY be associated with one company which removes a lot of the problems with them.

If Ford workers go on strike and kill Ford under those rules the union dies.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 09, 2026

Germans have works councils which are very different to our unions. They actually do get a say in how a company is run. They are a true pain in the tush. Every now and again they do something normal. But not always!

116 Yikes, a lot more groups involved in the corruption than I imagined!!
Posted by: Lizzy
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It is multifaceted which is why solving issues is so difficult. It doesn't help that the rise of Colleges of Education with certification barriers attract the lowest performing college students by k-12 grades and standardized testing results. Unions, especially strong in urban districts, make sure that teachers cannot be fired.

Because billions of dollars are at stake, the political leaders get involved with schools management politicized, political activist groups ensure no school discipline can happen (school to prison pipeline bullshit to coddle criminals like Trayvon or the school mass killers), and so on.

You either have to have charter schools where parents are involved, local neighborhood controlled schooling, etc. and removal of the courts from most standard decisions. If necessary, set up a school court system to weed out students.

And we need to make technical education great again in schools. Too many students in our schools are simply not cut out for further education on a time schedule of k-12 nor rigors of college work.

117 So if the guy's not competent to stand trial, why don't they institutionalize him?

118
No! The dishwasher does them! We just have to load and unload correctly.
Posted by: Piper

"...and that's when the donnybrook started, Your Honor."

119 SPLC hearing. How is it remotely legal that SPLC was running a network of spies who were tasked with informing on persons and organizations disfavored by the SPLC? To me it sounds like that whole business was crapping all over people's Constitutional rights and the protections provided by enacted laws with zero checks.

And this is without even factoring their using their public position to flat out destroy reputations, careers, getting people debanked - effectively turning them into pariahs without effective recourse.

Mr. Fair, the head of SPLC, is squawking at the hearing, that what they did is protected by the 1st Amendment. The irony here is epic.

The SPLC doesn't just reek of being private a KGB or Stasi organization it actually is just that.

120 Joshua Hall
@JoshHall2024

types
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121 Sure there are problems correlating education outcomes with money, but when their argument is based on that correlation, it dies by that correlation.

122 Posted by: SMOD at June 09, 2026 11:33 AM (RHGPo)

The biggest problem for Thune isn't whether or not it's true, it's that it's observably plausible.

123 The SPLC doesn't just reek of being private a KGB or Stasi organization it actually is just that.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions

I knew a guy that worked security at their HQ of the time back in the 90s. Joint was (probably still is) like a fortress. Gets you thinking.

124 Posted by: SMOD at June 09, 2026 11:33 AM (RHGPo)

*blows whistle*
*throws flag*
Excessive capitalization. 25 yard penalty, loss of down.

125 People who come back from beyond want to experience life all over
Piper has a dishwasher for installed.
God bless the Horde

126 Really, who are these vigilantes you speak of?

A group of suburban fathers who will be sent to prison for the rest of their lives by fanatical pension-ass cops or doctrinaire barely literate sand-people judges if they succeed in removing these threats from their streets? Their dingbat wives will be the first to turn them in.

Eugenics is the only way forward.

127 National unions, it seems, at least tangentially, are the economic version of Federal Judges issuing national injunctions and have many of the same effect.

128 Testing:

&214B

129 Bah. I either forgot the Old Magic or it no longer works.

130
I gots an unrelated rant of my own today: Why the h&*! does it seem like deliberately wasting peoples' time is the go-to response for anyone asked to help anyone? I keep running into this over and over.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez: Fiat Justicia, Ruat Caelum at June 09, 2026 11:18 AM (OUMaO)



Try to get a live human being on the line from UPS to fix a simple problem with online shipping on my account. Everything routes into two Retard AI Phone Trees, where they never answer the phone. Never.

131 Perhaps ÖB is it?

132 North of you in Montgomery. Current job is location locked but so long as I can step into something else I'm decreasingly wedded to it (other than wanting to bring my AFLAC cancer rider with me).
Posted by: Brother Tim sez: Fiat Justicia, Ruat Caelum at June

Okay, I was hoping closer, so I could at least get you food and see if we could unlock emergency shelter through my church. I am hating you sleeping in your car.

133 Too many students in our schools are simply not cut out for further education on a time schedule of k-12 nor rigors of college work.

Posted by: whig at June 09, 2026 11:34 AM (E4rtv)

Let’s not pretend today’s colleges are demanding rigorous work of their students.

134 Apparently, black kids can learn. Who knew?
Posted by: Archimedes at June 09, 2026 11:05 AM (Riz8t)

But they can't get ID's.
Posted by: Sponge

Blame the super ego.

135 Testing:

&214B

Posted by: Brother Tim sez: Fiat Justicia, Ruat Caelum at June 09, 2026 11:37 AM (OUMaO)


Flasher for a 1949 Shoebox Ford.

136 Well, this has been a morning of good news.

A dear friend is expecting baby #3, and the Powers That Be in MA have made my cousin a judge.

It's nice to have some good news every now and again.

137 116 Yikes, a lot more groups involved in the corruption than I imagined!!
Posted by: Lizzy

As has been said often before, the problem is not that there is corruption in the system. The problem is that corruption IS the system.

and that applies to so much these days.

138 No! The dishwasher does them! We just have to load and unload correctly.
Posted by: Piper

Even in death they remain controlling, petty and judgmental.

139 I’m in Steamfitters Local 342 Concord, CA. We’re doing our best to fuck outselves out of a job/existence. We’re told to vote for the motherfuckers that want to shutdown oil refineries…..our bread n butter, vote for the people that fight tooth n nail against gas fired co-gen power plants(nuclear, forget about it). Now the left is going to turn on their own with opposition to Data Centers which is a lot of work for us too. Nothing to fear from our private sector trade union.

140 119 SPLC hearing. How is it remotely legal that SPLC was running a network of spies who were tasked with informing on persons and organizations disfavored by the SPLC? To me it sounds like that whole business was crapping all over people's Constitutional rights and the protections provided by enacted laws with zero checks.

And this is without even factoring their using their public position to flat out destroy reputations, careers, getting people debanked - effectively turning them into pariahs without effective recourse.

Mr. Fair, the head of SPLC, is squawking at the hearing, that what they did is protected by the 1st Amendment. The irony here is epic.

The SPLC doesn't just reek of being private a KGB or Stasi organization it actually is just that.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at June 09, 2026 11:34 AM (glnUu)

I like the logical legal principle that once you have found a reason for a decision, you can stop. And we can stop at the point where the FBI started using them as a source. At that point, that is where the 1A began protecting us from them, and not the other way around.

141 Try to get a live human being on the line from UPS to fix a simple problem with online shipping on my account. Everything routes into two Retard AI Phone Trees, where they never answer the phone. Never.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur

Been there. Done that. With deadlines for work stuff.

142
Host: You get one note to name that Thune!

Contestant: Asshole!

Host: Correct!

143 138 No! The dishwasher does them! We just have to load and unload correctly.
Posted by: Piper

Even in death they remain controlling, petty and judgmental.
Posted by: NO! The bowl has to tilt 5 more degrees! at June 09, 2026

But still very cute! In a petty, controlling, judgmental way. 😊

144 Well, this has been a morning of good news.

A dear friend is expecting baby #3, and the Powers That Be in MA have made my cousin a judge.

It's nice to have some good news every now and again.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Outstanding! Congrats to all involved!

145 RMBS calls up his cousin:

"Your Honor, I need a little help in this case I'm working on. You know how blood is thicker than water? Well, here's what I need..."

146 A dear friend is expecting baby #3, and the Powers That Be in MA have made my cousin a judge.

It's nice to have some good news every now and again.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 09, 2026 11:39 AM (kgE5c)


I have a cousin that's a judge in California.

Not sure how she survives there. But, they have money, so.....

147 I don't care how many dollars you throw into public schools, if the kids aren't motivated to learn they wont learn. And that motivation starts at home.

148 ⅋ mebbe?

149 Ah, hex, that's got it...

150 147 I don't care how many dollars you throw into public schools, if the kids aren't motivated to learn they wont learn. And that motivation starts at home.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 09, 2026 11:43 AM (0N4FZ)

There's no such thing as a bad school with involved parents.

151 The biggest problem for Thune isn't whether or not it's true, it's that it's observably plausible.
Posted by: SciVo

His rep is in the toilet in his home state which may mean an approaching 2028 reelection will cause a change. He is trying the McConnell strategy of throwing the 2026 elections but the election map and the fact that Democrats are going nuts with their candidates is not helping that strategy.

Trump is winning and dragging the decrepit and nasty Senate RINO caucus along despite the Uniparty stall tactic, and making DC politicians into hated critters outside the beltway.

I think they break, because they are at heart cowards, rather than Trump. Get rid of ranked choice voting in 2026 in Alaska, that means Murcow is probably a dead senator walking. Thune, if he doesn't change his attitude, might be walking too. After all, he won by defeating Tom Daschle, Majority Leader for the Dems in SD. It can happen to him too. McConnell is gone, Daines is gone, Lummis is gone, Cassidy is gone, Tillis is gone, Cornyn gone, Ernst is gone, there will be a big shift in the GOP Senate caucus next Congress.

Big turnovers usually result in significant changes in a majority

152 And it's always good to hear that folks are having babies.

153 Granted unions have outlived their usefulness, but on the flip "right-to-work states" is a retarded phrase that exceeds even the worst characterizations of the phrase "Pro-Choice".

"Right-to-Work" actually means they can fire your ass for any reason so long as they do not tell you why.

154 Public employee unions are the major funding mechanism for Democrat candidates. So individual states will never outlaw those unions. It will not happen, ever, at the state level.

But it can happen at the federal level. It's another great fight worth having!

155 whig

I thought this might be of interest to you, given your interest in literacy education:

I volunteered to be a one-on-one adult literacy mentor. I was surprised to discover that some of my adult literacy students didn't want to learn to read, really.

They wanted help with their medical correspondence-- which I was happy to supply. But it wasn't what I expected.

My late mother was an English teacher. She also volunteered to teach adult lieracy. SHE expected to be helping school dropouts. Instead, almost all of her students were Korean women who had married U.S. servicemen & were eager to learn English as a second language.

156 There's no such thing as a bad school with involved parents.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell

Until the school board starts calling the cops on 'em...

157 "Your Honor, I need a little help in this case I'm working on. You know how blood is thicker than water? Well, here's what I need..."

Posted by: Bulg at June 09, 2026 11:42 AM

Yeah, odds are good I'll never be in that court. The AG's office usually handles our litigation.

158 Ah, hex, that's got it...
Posted by: Brother Tim

What are you trying to do?

159 I am very proud of Mississippi and I hope other states are taking note.

160 Things started going south when kids became a tax write off.


Sad but true. Throw in welfare and they have no chance.


LaQuisha doesn't know who her dad is. Neither do her 5 siblings.

161 Before I get brunch, take care of Ralphy and get back onto my personal projects to improve my life...

Remember a while back some academic idiots were pushing the idea that reading to your children at night was a form of racism because *some* kids didn't have that and it affected them academically.

But as others have pointed out, they have to want to learn.

And honestly, a lot of classrooms and students would be better off if some kids were just removed from class and tossed into the "jungle room" to do whatever.

162 147 I don't care how many dollars you throw into public schools, if the kids aren't motivated to learn they wont learn. And that motivation starts at home.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 09, 2026 11:43 AM (0N4FZ)

That's part of it. In the case of a lot of black kids they've been brainwashed to believe they are oppressed victims in a "school to prison pipeline" anyway so to attempt to learn is at best futile and an worst to participate in their own victimization.

163
What are you trying to do?
Posted by: Bulg at June 09, 2026 11:46 AM (77rzZ)


Math.

It is forbidden.

164 Comedy Alert!

Rep. Hank "Guam Will Top Over" Johnson (DEMOCRAT) is going off that the SPLC was/is needed to counter act all the Southern White Supremacy with lots of examples from the 1960s. Checks notes: the white supremacists he is yelling about where DEMOCRATS.

Is there a dumber and ill informed person in Congress?

165 I think they break, because they are at heart cowards, rather than Trump. Get rid of ranked choice voting in 2026 in Alaska, that means Murcow is probably a dead senator walking. Thune, if he doesn't change his attitude, might be walking too. After all, he won by defeating Tom Daschle, Majority Leader for the Dems in SD. It can happen to him too.
Posted by: whig at June 09, 2026 11:45 AM (E4rtv)
==========================
whig for Senate!

166 They drive an aggressive progressive agenda into our schools

In reality, teachers' unions are religious institutions, used to force their Progressive doctrine on our children, and consequently adults.

167 As far as education goes; it probably wasn't a real good idea to spend billions on tablets and laptops so kids could just "Google" the answer without actually learning why the answer was correct.

But it made the teacher's life easier. The majority of the kids "passed." But learned nothing.

168 What are you trying to do?
Posted by: Bulg at June 09, 2026 11:46 AM (77rzZ)


Math.

It is forbidden.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Worse, HTML ampersands.

169 LaQuisha doesn't know who her dad is. Neither do her 5 siblings.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 09, 2026 11:46 AM

But they know the form numbers to apply for welfare when they give birth to their first paycheck.

170 I agree government jobs shouldn't have unions.
I don't care if private companies have them but government jobs are paid for by the tax payer. We don't need the police walking out or the fire department. Public safety comes first.

171 SPLC ?

Simple old school mafia protection racket.
The persons and details may seem complicated, but the function is very simple - Pay us or 'somebody' gonna bust you shit.

172 158 Ah, hex, that's got it...
Posted by: Brother Tim

What are you trying to do?
Posted by: Bulg at June 09, 2026 11:46 AM (77rzZ)

He's putting the whammy on us.

173 Never had a hot teacher. Not even in college.

174 Worse, HTML ampersands.
Posted by: Brother Tim


Don't you have to request ampersand privileges from Ace or one of the cobs?

175 Posted by: I'll take hell, thanks. at June 09, 2026 11:32 AM (TbWk/)

It smells like microwave fish and burnt popcorn

176 Comedy Alert!

Rep. Hank "Guam Will Top Over" Johnson (DEMOCRAT) is going off that the SPLC was/is needed to counter act all the Southern White Supremacy with lots of examples from the 1960s. Checks notes: the white supremacists he is yelling about where DEMOCRATS.

Is there a dumber and ill informed person in Congress?
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram
====

The parties 'flipped'.

177 Worse, HTML ampersands.
Posted by: Brother Tim sez: Fiat Justicia, Ruat Caelum at June 09, 2026 11:47 AM (OUMaO)
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Somehow you got it upside down and backwards.

That's a neat trick.

178 Fancy one? 🙵

179 Math. It is forbidden.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Infinity comes in different sizes and today is the first day of the rest of your life. Think about it.

180 Try to get a live human being on the line from UPS to fix a simple problem with online shipping on my account. Everything routes into two Retard AI Phone Trees, where they never answer the phone. Never.

--

I had to call them the other day. The AI chat crap is becoming ubiquitous. Absolutely awful. How can you get worse customer service than a faraway connection to India where you can barely understand the customer service rep? Well, they've found a way. AI chat when you need help.

181 Infinity comes in different sizes and today is the first day of the rest of your life. Think about it.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at June 09, 2026 11:50 AM (glnUu)


I'm going to live forever.

I'm doing good so far.

182 Believe it or not I trained for web design with an intent to go to network security, that's how I got stuck with the student loans.

Take a guess how that worked out. HINT: Came crashing down in '08...

183 Fancy one? 🙵
Posted by: Brother Tim sez: Fiat Justicia, Ruat Caelum at June 09, 2026 11:49 AM (OUMaO)

Oh, a Campersand! You tow it behind a Fiat.

184 151

The Alaska yes or no on ranked choice voting IS a biggie.Without it, Murk prolly can't survive, and AK wouldn't have had that DEM Congresswoman, either.

185 Hakeem Jefferies looks like a complete douchebag wearing a Knicks hat . No surprise there

186 Good to see RMBS get the first rather than Elric.
Posted by: Bulg at June 09, 2026 11:06 AM (77rzZ)


Elric never noods.

He is not valid.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 09, 2026 11:08 AM (Zz0t1)
___

Not true! He often "noods" with some gimmick like "nude hot persian girls" ...

187 Let’s not pretend today’s colleges are demanding rigorous work of their students.
Posted by: McLurkerson

Even if they want to in the vast majority of non selective colleges, they cannot. If students cannot read nor write, that constrains what you can do with them. You cannot fix basic innumeracy, lack of language skills, nor disciplinary problems, nor lack of reading in college classes. So, you get some professors that demand as much rigor as college administrators will let them or others that simply wave them through.

But the creation of computer metrics such as advancement to degree by students, failure rate analysis of classes, ready access to a multiplicity of deans of different sorts for customer (student) relations, and DEI concerns make that increasingly difficult.

I was involved in some of that and that is being required by accrediting agencies, state legislatures, and administrators with enormous pressures on professors to pass their students along regardless of learning. And you never get rewarded for teaching--mainly it is for publications and grants because that reflects well on the administrators, not teaching students basics.

188 All public employee unions should be abolished: we sued ours because they charged dues for non-members. We won, and they stipulated that 80% of the money we paid in dues went to political campaigns, and virtually all of those were Democrats. So it's money laundering. Taxpayer to govt, to public employee, to union, to govt.

189 FORMER THUNE STAFFER SAYS RINO SENATE MAJORITY LEADER IS "GLEEFULLY" BLOCKING ALL OF PRESIDENT TRUMP'S GOVERNMENT NOMINEES AND APPOINTMENTS

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FORMER SOVIET WEATHERMAN TELLS ALL; THERE WAS NO DROUGHT!

190 Oh, a Campersand! You tow it behind a Fiat.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Objection, a Fiat ain't towing anything, it's getting towed.

191 I'm going to live forever.

I'm doing good so far.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 09, 2026 11:50 AM

Fame!

192
Objection, a Fiat ain't towing anything, it's getting towed.
Posted by: Brother Tim sez: Fiat Justicia, Ruat Caelum at June 09, 2026 11:52 AM (OUMaO)


Fix it again, Tony!

193 Mississippi spends around $12,300 per pupil...
New York spends $31,918

About the only confounding factor I see is the question of cost-of-living. What's the cost-of-living in NY vs Mississippi?

Hmmm, here's what the internet says:
Mississippi's index is 87.3 compared to New York’s 125.1.
That works out to about double (it's an index, not regular math, so don't complain to me) the cost of living. So, NY should be spending (all other factors being equal, and assuming pay is most of the cost) about $25,000 per pupil. They're spending 25% more than that.

194 The teachers' unions are especially powerful not only because of money and indoctrination, but because they are most active in mobilizing and getting out the vote for Democraps. Also, in a lot of cities, it's teachers supervising -- and counting -- the votes.

195 McConnell is gone, Daines is gone, Lummis is gone, Cassidy is gone, Tillis is gone, Cornyn gone, Ernst is gone, there will be a big shift in the GOP Senate caucus next Congress.

Big turnovers usually result in significant changes in a majority
Posted by: whig at June 09, 2026 11:45 AM (E4rtv)

You're right, it should happen. The problem for the next 6 months is that there's nothing to stop those that are leaving from gumming everything up just out of spite. Tillis and McConnell certainly will.

and btw, I looked up the reason Senator Lummis from Wyoming is retiring. She said it's because she's 71, and she can't bear the thought of still being in the Senate when she's 77. I wish a whole lot more Senators would think just like that, and I appreciate her choice.

This pack of cryptkeepers hanging on to office until the keys are pried from their shrunken, skeletal hands has been a plague on our government.

196 All public employee unions should be abolished: we sued ours because they charged dues for non-members. We won, and they stipulated that 80% of the money we paid in dues went to political campaigns, and virtually all of those were Democrats. So it's money laundering. Taxpayer to govt, to public employee, to union, to govt.

Posted by: Random PJ

In the same class as NGOs. Democrats are the party of self-serving government.

197 Good to see RMBS get the first rather than Elric.
Posted by: Bulg at June 09, 2026 11:06 AM (77rzZ)


Elric never noods.

He is not valid.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 09, 2026 11:08 AM

*fistbump*

198 It's surprising teachers' unions push so much divisive DEI given how much it could hurt them economically. You would think that money would be the priority for unions. I suppose it's a combination of many of them being in a bubble, so not really realizing how divisive they're being, and enough of them being true believers. Still, they're working against most member's interest much of the time.

199 I had to call them the other day. The AI chat crap is becoming ubiquitous. Absolutely awful. How can you get worse customer service than a faraway connection to India where you can barely understand the customer service rep? Well, they've found a way. AI chat when you need help.
Posted by: Lady in Black at June 09, 2026 11:50 AM (qBdHI)

DJT should push for a "Talk To An American" act. Require that any corporation with a presence in more than one State be required to have live human American citizens manning the phones during business hours, said persons being native English-speakers.

200 Try to get a live human being on the line from UPS to fix a simple problem with online shipping on my account. Everything routes into two Retard AI Phone Trees, where they never answer the phone. Never.
===

Amazon is so much better.

I ordered a $45 product that weighed about 5 lbs. They sent some goofy ass little plastic cup that weighed in at maybe an ounce... My only choice was to go to a UPS Store and ship it back because "not what I wanted". Could not get hold of a human to tell them it was not worth the postage, never mind my time or yours.... so some poor guy now has a used 50 cent "cup".

201 12k per kid may not scale the same everywhere, but for comparison my kids' private school, which is by far the most expensive anywhere near here, costs us about 13k a year per kid.

There are zero excuses on the school side for spending 40, 50k per kid and not getting results. And Mississippi shows you can succeed even with a lot of kids that are, if adequately educated now, honestly not very smart.

202
Remember a while back some academic idiots were pushing the idea that reading to your children at night was a form of racism because *some* kids didn't have that and it affected them academically.
Posted by: Stateless

Not being a lefty progtard, I have zero intention of harming my kid's future for woke scoring points with the faggots and criminal gangs in LA. I wish more people that aren't regulars here actually understood that.

203 and btw, I looked up the reason Senator Lummis from Wyoming is retiring. She said it's because she's 71, and she can't bear the thought of still being in the Senate when she's 77. I wish a whole lot more Senators would think just like that, and I appreciate her choice.


I'd be for age limits before term limits.

You hit 70, you're too damn old to run the country. You HAVE your nest egg. You got your graft.

Go away now.

204 Idiot Jayapal--talking inflation, immigration and all things Trump. Someone should tell her she's at the SPLC hearing

205 153 Granted unions have outlived their usefulness, but on the flip "right-to-work states" is a retarded phrase that exceeds even the worst characterizations of the phrase "Pro-Choice".

"Right-to-Work" actually means they can fire your ass for any reason so long as they do not tell you why.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at

No, that is at will employment, and it’s a 2 way street. You can be fired for any reason, or no reason (except the wrong reasons like discrimination), and you can quit for any reason, with or without notice. Right to work means you do not have to join a union even if one exists. There is no such thing as a closed shop. However, if a union exists, even if you don’t join, you are still covered by the CBA.

206 It's surprising teachers' unions push so much divisive DEI given how much it could hurt them economically.

Have you seen the constituencies of teachers' unions?

207 I refused to join a teacher’s union here in TX on general principle. There's nothing they can do about it, either. The schools are open shops in this state since 1947.

It doesn’t stop schools from breaking the bank, the blame for which I put on school districts and their taxpayer funded lobby, the Texas Association of School Boards (whose message, no matter what, is “We need more money”.

208 Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 09, 2026 11:54 AM (/lPRQ)

You know about the cup sizes?

209 Right-to-Work" actually means they can fire your ass for any reason so long as they do not tell you why.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

Which incentivizes over good workers to move on... and the first place writhers.

210 After the last ten years, who the fuck could possibly be surprised that the Senate GOP is actively blocking Trump's agenda? More to the point, who the fuck could even consider an alternative possibility?

"A lot of people have observed our blue sky, and explain that it's due to atmospheric refraction. But I wonder... could it just be a shitload of pool dye?"

211 Idiot Jayapal--talking inflation, immigration and all things Trump. Someone should tell her she's at the SPLC hearing
Posted by: IrishEi ?! at June 09, 2026 11:55 AM (3ImbR)


Bennet did it perfectly. "Why are we talking about this? That's not my responsibility. I don't control that. Isn't this a finance hearing?"

212 I was involved in some of that and that is being required by accrediting agencies, state legislatures, and administrators with enormous pressures on professors to pass their students along regardless of learning. And you never get rewarded for teaching--mainly it is for publications and grants because that reflects well on the administrators, not teaching students basics.
Posted by: whig

Plus over the decline in literacy over the decades has created teachers and professors who are generally worse than their predecessors and who almost ensure that next generation of teachers and professors will be even less educated. Pretty great system if the goal is to recreate the feudal dark ages.

213 My only choice was to go to a UPS Store and ship it back because "not what I wanted". Could not get hold of a human to tell them it was not worth the postage, never mind my time or yours.... so some poor guy now has a used 50 cent "cup".
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 09, 2026 11:54 AM (/lPRQ)
~~~~~

Here's the customer service number for Amazon. It's not easy to find:

888-280-4331

214 I refused to join a teacher’s union here in TX on general principle. There's nothing they can do about it, either. The schools are open shops in this state since 1947.

It doesn’t stop schools from breaking the bank, the blame for which I put on school districts and their taxpayer funded lobby, the Texas Association of School Boards (whose message, no matter what, is “We need more money”

So, you're refusing to pay your "fair share"?
/sarc

215 Simple old school mafia protection racket.
The persons and details may seem complicated, but the function is very simple - Pay us or 'somebody' gonna bust you shit.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 09, 2026 11:48 AM (/lPRQ)

Remember the old Westboro "Baptist Church" that used to do loud protests at funerals and things? It was really just one extended family and that's all they actually were. They were greatly aided and abetted by the media which loved having them as a "bad guy" to write about.

The "tell" was when they started calling people having funerals and public gatherings and demanding $10,000 per event to not show up.

216 whig for Senate!
Posted by: Huck Follywood

I don't have the temperament for being a Senator. It was bad enough in college faculty and committee meetings listening to endless bloviations. Most of which composed of meeting whatever administrator's resume padding projects that they wanted implemented.

Almost nothing of those meetings involved improving education but rather was process management of administrative interests and activists spouting time-worn hackneyed phrases of various Commie cant like DEI crap.

217 My late Mother taught grade one here in Canada. They put a mentally retarded child in class, full time helper there, so he could be "integrated."

That was hell for everyone.

Integration? Let's play Dodgeball.

218 Tittays........

219 How does employing the KKK stop the KKK

220 184 151

The Alaska yes or no on ranked choice voting IS a biggie.Without it, Murk prolly can't survive, and AK wouldn't have had that DEM Congresswoman, either.
Posted by: mnw at June 09, 2026 11:51 AM (RCjYY)

Murkowski will find a way with or without AK embracing a parliamentary system of government.

221 said persons being native English-speakers.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Yep. I'm sooooooo tired of the foreign accents that I can barely understand.

222 Remember a while back some academic idiots were pushing the idea that reading to your children at night was a form of racism because *some* kids didn't have that and it affected them academically.
Posted by: Stateless

Not being a lefty progtard, I have zero intention of harming my kid's future for woke scoring points with the faggots and criminal gangs in LA. I wish more people that aren't regulars here actually understood that.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at June 09, 2026 11:55 AM (QVmho)

I am doing absolutely everything I can to 'cheat code' my kids as far in front of their peers as possible. We read to each other every single night. We learn about consequences and personal responsibility. We develop necessary life skills.

Life is a competition and my kids are going to be as far ahead as I can get them.

That's not racist - it's parenting.

223 Judge moving the goal posts in the KA trial.

Judge John Roach Jr. ruled on Tuesday that the jury may consider a manslaughter verdict along with murder just before final arguments begin in the Karmelo Anthony track meet stabbing trial. Here's what that means.

In the case of murder, the jury must believe, beyond all reasonable doubt, that the defendant "intentionally or knowingly caused the death of another person," namely, Austin Metcalf.
If the jury cannot unanimously believe that, against all reasonable doubt, they may consider a manslaughter charge.

In the case of manslaughter, the jury must believe, beyond all reasonable doubt, that the defendant "recklessly caused the death of another person."

https://tinyurl.com/3x79szu2

Sorry. Pig sticking someone in the heart with a knife IS intentionally & knowingly causing the death of someone.

224 Remember the old Westboro "Baptist Church" that used to do loud protests at funerals and things? It was really just one extended family and that's all they actually were. They were greatly aided and abetted by the media which loved having them as a "bad guy" to write about.

The "tell" was when they started calling people having funerals and public gatherings and demanding $10,000 per event to not show up.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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Fred Phelps was a lawyer (and failed Democrat political candidate) and took over the nearly defunct church, filling it with his family and cronies, some of which in turn became lawyers. It was all a sue and settle racket. At least one of the family members got out of it and wrote a book about how the racket operated.

225 Westboro Baptist Church were Democrat lawyers who called themselves a church for the tax and probably propaganda advantage.

226 Yep. I'm sooooooo tired of the foreign accents that I can barely understand.

Posted by: Bulg

I've got "English" speakers I can't make heads or tails of, so I'm with ya. Don't have the brain cells to spare any longer...

227 whig for Senate!
Posted by: Huck Follywood

I don't have the temperament for being a Senator. It was bad enough in college faculty and committee meetings listening to endless bloviations.
Posted by: whig

How about game show host. Sort of the same thing but with worse cash prizes.

228 Health worker unions should be illegal.
Posted by: naturalfake at June 09, 2026 11:08 AM (iJfKG)

Other than me, who is the sole person responsible for my health, WTF is a “health worker”?

229 Here's the customer service number for Amazon. It's not easy to find:

888-280-4331
Posted by: IrishEi ?! at June 09, 2026 11:57 AM (3ImbR)
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Noted.

Thank you.

230 Teachers,
Thank you for a job done!

231 How does employing the KKK stop the KKK
Posted by: ... at June 09, 2026 11:59 AM (h+FSu)


"Sometimes you must violate the rules of ________ to save _______."


---- -- - - -- George W. Bush

232 That's not racist - it's parenting.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider


Amen.

233 I am doing absolutely everything I can to 'cheat code' my kids as far in front of their peers as possible. We read to each other every single night. We learn about consequences and personal responsibility. We develop necessary life skills.

Life is a competition and my kids are going to be as far ahead as I can get them.

That's not racist - it's parenting.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 09, 2026 12:00 PM (Kdi1r)

You're actually going to teach them how to succeed instead of screaming, shaming, and hitting them when they make mistakes they didn't even know they made? You are a horrible, terrible parent!

234 If one runs into my wife at a MoMe, DO NOT ask her to opine on this subject. She was involved on both sides during her career both as a instructor and then as the Executive Director for staff, instruction, transportation, ESL, Special Ed and curriculum for the District.

She is very slow to anger - except on this subject.

235 Cameras won't fix schools, only accountability will.

1) Make funding depend upon proficiency, independently verified. Not attendance.
No passee, no payee.

2) Repeal universal enrollment. Mandatory to 8th grade, sure, get them to read and write. No automatic advancement either.
After that, wide discretion to expel failures and disruptors. Teachers and students.
Be ruthless in entering year 9 for students with a full report on their prior behavior.
High school is a privilege for those who want to learn.
The rest can get jobs and earn their keep.
My taxes shouldn't be paying for able-bodied adults to sit around and start fights all day.

236 222 Remember a while back some academic idiots were pushing the idea that reading to your children at night was a form of racism because *some* kids didn't have that and it affected them academically.
Posted by: Stateless

Not being a lefty progtard, I have zero intention of harming my kid's future for woke scoring points with the faggots and criminal gangs in LA. I wish more people that aren't regulars here actually understood that.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at June 09, 2026 11:55 AM (QVmho)

I am doing absolutely everything I can to 'cheat code' my kids as far in front of their peers as possible. We read to each other every single night. We learn about consequences and personal responsibility. We develop necessary life skills.

Life is a competition and my kids are going to be as far ahead as I can get them.

That's not racist - it's parenting.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider
=
Upper class leftists with kids lie a lot, public virtue signalling while privately they living very different sort of lives. Childless activist ideologues want to destroy the present so their utopia can be created among the wreckage. Any good society shunts them into soul killing jobs like call centers.

237 219 How does employing the KKK stop the KKK
Posted by: ... at June 09, 2026 11:59 AM (h+FSu)

That's not the question, once you understand the real question, you understand all that followed.
"How do we keep the money rolling in from fighting the KKK if the KKK actually dies?"

Closely related to: why does Big Time wrasslin' hire both Good Guys and Bad Guys?

the way the liberal crowd glommed onto it is disgusting, but it's really just a great big old school con game. They stole more money from stupid liberals than anyone else.

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The Morning Report — 6/ 9 /26

Good morning kids. There certainly is a lot of attention on California and Los Angeles in the wake of the primary elections, and not just because President Trump called out the in-your-face Democrat election rigging which was and is plain to see in real time.

“I have to tell you, they’ve probably got the worst election system of any state in the country. It’s as if they set out to design it so that it would be easy to cheat and easy to steal elections,” he said, noting that the Golden State has banned voter ID while they “mail ballots to every single registered voter in the state.”
“They don’t do anything, I mean, hardly anything to clean up their voter rolls. So, like, in Los Angeles, you talk to anybody who lives there, and they will tell you if they live in condos and apartments, they’re probably receiving or have received ballots in the mail for people who don’t live there,” he said, highlighting the magnitude of this issue, surmising that some individuals receive multiple ballots.
“People have testified to that. I mean, it’s just one thing after another like that,” he said, noting that it does not end there, as the state will count ballots that come in for seven days after Election Day, with a 22-day “cure period” for ballots with issues such as a missing signature. Even then, the so-called “fix” is lacking.

Hello Hans von Spakovsky, 2020 is on the phone and would like a word with you! But, while this third-world fraud is certainly horrendous, it does make me wonder why the deepest of deep blue hellhole cities' and states' Democrats even have to worry that they could actually lose an election — Gray Davis and Arnold Schwarzenegger notwithstanding - not that they accomplished anything that even for a moment stopped the Leftists' destruction of a place that once embodied the American dream but that now is the symbol of Democrat/Leftist failure. And that right there is the reason. The socialist delusion has run head first into the brick wall of reality for all to see, most tellingly the younger generations who have been Pied-Pipered and brainwashed into true believers but are more and more waking up from the delusion.

The problem with the Gen Z new age socialist frame of thought is that they have no means of production of their own. Put plainly, there are no such things as socialist means of production or economic market tools; if so, what are they? To Gen Z, putting private property in someone else's hands and tweaking the economy to their benefit sounds workable, but the basic reality is very scary: they are under the impression that a socialist economy will solve their problems, and everyone else's for that matter, because in their minds all you have to do is control prices, increase minimums, put a cap on this, overtax the other, overregulate this and that, confiscate wealth, and so on. Yet here is the red pill: the previously listed points are capitalist means of production for a market economy; without a socialist means of production, none of the utopian ideas are workable.

Of course the abject incompetence in the wake of the Pacific Palisades wildfires on top of the crime and economic dislocations of open borders have also opened eyes, the attacks on ICE and police notwithstanding, but far too many have taken a bite out of that reality sandwich and evidently are not liking the taste. And so, Newsom , Bass and the Democrats have deployed the fraud machine tonsure California stays blue, and that there is not even the most minuscule chance of losing the state nationally in '28 and possibly for a generation or two down the line. It's not necessarily wishful thinking on my part but just interpreting Democrat motives and mindsets in the current environment. And considering Newsom is the or a frontrunner for the top of the Democrat ticket in '28, his record speaks for itself, not just going forward but right here and now as reflected in the election theft.

California today “has the nation’s highest cost-of-living adjusted poverty rate, the highest levels of functioning illiteracy, and the worst housing affordability in the continental US,” writes Joel Kotkin, who has been chronicling California’s highs and lows for more than 40 years. “California increasingly resembles a neo-feudal state, where a handful of large companies drive the economy while the vast majority of workers endure high energy and housing costs, high taxes, and diminishing opportunity.”

Golden State government has spawned fiascos large and small. Fraudulent Medicaid spending, which made headlines in Minnesota last winter, seems likely to be even more monumental in California, whose Medicaid programs are scheduled to get $138 billion from the federal government, up $18 billion from 2024. The state subsidizes tribal ceremonies and exorcisms, gym memberships and art lessons. . . California in its golden years made the movie “Casablanca.” Today, Casablanca is better at building public works than California. The state that within six months completed two major bridges across the San Francisco Bay can’t properly route phone calls in Tuolumne County.

Taking a workable system and making it fail requires a particular talent. Reading between the lines, one sees little among California’s well-paid public-sector union ranks of the pride I once noticed in a state employee years ago. Instead, there is an eagerness to extract still more from the state’s private-sector success — SEIU is pushing a supposedly onetime wealth tax on the very rich to boost current employees’ benefits — and a complacent indifference to whether the work actually serves its intended beneficiaries. . .

. . . Will the politicians astride this rot pay a price? Harris was the Democratic nominee for president in 2024, and Newsom leads in polls for the nomination in 2028. But a countertrend may be visible in the theoretically nonpartisan June 2 primary for mayor of LA. The (sparse) polling shows LA Mayor Karen Bass way below the 50% needed to win reelection next week, and former reality TV star Spencer Pratt overtaking the left-wing council member initially expected to be her chief challenger.

Pratt’s house was burned down in the January 2025 Pacific Palisades fire, which struck as Bass (despite promising in 2002 to take no foreign trips) was headed to the inauguration of the president of Ghana. Pratt’s cheeky ads lampoon Bass’s left-wing policies, which have produced empty reservoirs and streets full of angry, drug-addicted homeless people.

Empty reservoirs and acres of homeless tents — that’s what California’s once-proud public sector has been producing.

And on the national level we have this nightmare scenario from the Democrats.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) took action “toward drafting” an affordability agenda for 2027 that puts Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) in charge of health care, and transgender-identifying Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE) in charge of caregiving, according to multiple reports.

So, in other words smother America with a pillow, steal its wallet, then gang anal-rape its convulsing corpse. Funny how Jefries insists we're in economic freefall thanks to President Trump while a look at the headlines in the Economy Stupid section today and over the last few days debunks that bullshit totally. Yes prices are still high but the trend towards better times is unmistakeable. And paying a bit more at the pump is a very small price to pay in order to prevent an Islamic ICBM from coming down on us.

That said the madness with Iran continues and we have full coverage on that topic as well as is evidenced by the links.

Have a great day,

AMERICA & ISRAEL STRIKE IRAN!
• The indefinite ceasefire, extended in late May, has not included a pause in Iran’s disruptions of commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, or America’s naval blockade of Iranian ships in the strait in response. Extensive debate has also surrounded whether or not the ceasefire includes a pause in the hostilities between the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and the Iranian terrorist proxy organization Hezbollah in Lebanon.
  Mixed Messages: Iran Claims to Be Done Bombing Israel but Threatens American Oil Facilities
  
• ...one should not enter upon negotiations with Iran if one is ignorant of its history and politics and understands little of the theological, apologetic, mythic and eschatological roots of Shia Islam, its intersection with global politics, and the challenges posed by radical interpretations of its doctrinal principles and deeply sedimented faith. Common sense is not evenly distributed among people. In the Iranian case, research is pretty well obligatory... Whatever Trump says or ostensibly agrees to may just be his own form of taqiyya or deception.”  (as I postulated yesterday - jjs)
  Shia, Iran, and Trump
  
• As Iran hits Israel with missiles, Trump urges Israeli restraint.
  Trump Becomes Obama
  
• Only by finishing the campaign against the IRGC, not negotiating its survival, can the U.S. secure a stable Middle East, contain China, and define Trump’s legacy.
  Avoiding TACO: Any Deal Enabling the IRGC Is a Bad Deal
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• Voters also doubt Iran will live up to any nuclear deal it signs.
  Americans See Iran As ‘Serious’ Mideast Threat, Worry It Will Build A Nuke: I&I/TIPP Poll
  
• How long can the president hold out? One can only hope until checkmate on all fronts.
  As ADD America Pouts and Demagogic Democrats Pose, The Donald Actually Is Playing 4D Chess

  ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS, HEZBOLLAH . . . AND LEFTISTS. . . AND HISTORY

• Much like the Strait of Hormuz, the Red Sea is a vital passage for global trade. Any attempt to block navigation through the Red Sea—more specifically, the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait at the mouth of the Red Sea, off the coast of Yemen—is likely to create significant delays and higher costs, especially for exports to and from Europe and Asia. This includes energy exports from the Gulf States. This represents the first major escalation from the Houthis since the group launched a similar campaign in late 2023 following Israel’s response to the October 7 attack. In early 2024, it was reported that Joe Biden’s government deprioritized the Houthis as a threat to U.S. interests in the region.
  Houthis Announce Blockade of Israeli Ships, Escalating Global Supply Chain Crisis.

  "DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST/GLOBALIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

• The Department of Justice has filed cases to de-naturalize 17 legalized migrants after decades of widespread citizenship fraud in the nation’s immigration system. (Border-jumping itself is a federal crime - jjs)
  ‘Zero Tolerance’: Justice Officials Seek to Strip Citizenship from 17 Migrant Criminals

• The judge, Obama-appointee Leo Sorokin, argued in the decision that the six-figure fee set by President Donald Trump for employers seeking to temporarily hire foreign nationals is an unauthorized tax, according to court documents. Sorokin presides over the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts.
  Obama Appointed Hack-in-Black Overturns Trump’s $100K H-1B Visa Fee
  
• “So New York is saying abolish ICE and zero cooperation,” “Fox & Friends” co-host Brian Kilmeade said. “The governor and mayor are teaming up to make sure that the progress you were making with Eric Adams is going to just disappear. So what’s going to be your approach to New York. You’re going to stay away now?”
  Homan Vows More ICE Agents Than ‘You’ve Ever Seen in New York City’
  
• It is horrifying that Americans have to worry about whether their families may be killed on the interstate by a foreign trucker who was issued a CDL with insufficient (meaning no) scrutiny by a corrupt or incompetent state government.
  Since SCOTUS Let Truck Drivers Who Can’t Read English Kill Americans, Trump Needs To Take Action

  THE GREAT SOMALIAN SIMOLEON SWINDLE

• A Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) official who contacted the FBI told federal investigators she was pressured “at every turn” by her superiors to stop raising fraud concerns and was “hand slapped” when she continued to investigate, according to the report.
  Tim Walz’s Staff Hired Private Investigators To Silence Fraud Whistleblowers, Committee Report Finds
  
• SNAP fraud has spiked significantly. According to data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), nearly two million cases of SNAP fraud took place between 2023 and 2025. The targeting of even small retailers underscores the administration’s commitment to crack down on waste, fraud, and abuse.
  SNAP Fraud Bust Hits Multiple Retailers.

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• Golden State government continues to spawn fiascos large and small.
  The California Dream Ends in Empty Reservoirs and Homeless Tents
  
  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• The true hate-filled face of Islam.
  Every Sunrise Brings Fresh Humiliation for Pakistani Christians
  
• It isn’t just about the fictional “occupation.”
  Islam’s Hostility to the Jews

  OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY, PLUS VARIOUS & SUNDRY GODLESS HEATHENS

• Nationally, the Democrats have gone blind, deaf and dumb to the sort of thing they used to call “dog whistles,” but which in this case are blaring sirens and lights flashing “JEWS JEWS JEWS.”
  Will Graham Platner’s ‘Jewish conspiracy’ theories consume the Democrat Party?

  FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH

• Meet the reputable sounding 'Pulitzer Center'
  Far-Left Foundations, Foreign Governments Pay For New York Times to Demonize Israel
  
• The press’ reaction to the Ridgways’ murder of their unborn child is unsurprising given their history of abortion and IVF activism.
  Media Shrug At Aborting Down Syndrome Baby But Cry ‘Eugenics’ At Sydney Sweeney’s Cup Size
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• . . . premarket trading after President Donald Trump told reporters the U.S. government may take equity in Big Tech companies. 
  Tech Stocks Surge After Trump Weighs US Gov’t Stake In AI Companies
  
• “Today I am calling on the tech companies to introduce device-level controls to prevent children from taking, sharing or viewing nude images. And if they don’t act, we will.”
  Starmer gives tech firms ultimatum to block nude photos on children's phones
  
• Big Tech has lawyers, lobbyists, and limitless resources. Parents have the law, the Constitution, and the truth. That should be enough.
  You Should Control Your Child’s Phone — Not Silicon Valley

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• The May jobs report is the latest in a line of strong economic indicators.
  Strong May jobs report debunks Democrat propagandist job-pocalypse narrative
  
• The survey presented mixed signals on the labor market. The perceived probability that the unemployment rate will be higher one year from now declined 0.4 percentage point to 43.2 percent. Median expectations for earnings growth were unchanged at 2.7 percent, slightly above the 12-month trailing average.
  Worker Confidence Rises as Americans’ Inflation Expectations Fall, NY Fed Survey Shows
  
• Despite the dramatic drop in egg prices, the politicians who criticized Trump for the previous high costs have not acknowledged the current low prices. Wholesale prices are now at their lowest level in over a decade, ending the narrative of an “egg crisis” that was prevalent in early 2025. Economists argue that supply shocks caused by disease are the leading factor in price fluctuations.
  Egg Prices Plunge to Ten-Year Low.
  
• Gov. Greg Abbott said in a statement, “Texas is the undisputed headquarters of headquarters.” Abbott added, “The world’s leading businesses invest with confidence in Texas because of our welcoming business climate, predictable regulatory environment, and skilled and growing workforce. People and businesses are choosing Texas because Texas works.”
  Texas Overtakes California, New York as Top State for Fortune 500 Company Headquarters
  
• “So, I still think that claims of a large exodus of rich people due to our statewide millionaire tax that the legislature passed this year are overblown,” Wilson responded with a chuckle. “I do believe that.”  
  Seattle mayor laughs off millionaire exodus as survey shows 44% of bosses eyeing exit

  RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,

• The Solicitor General’s April brief argued that the Biden-era standards “would have effectively eliminated the non-condensing” gas furnaces and water heaters from the U.S. market.
  Supreme Court Tosses Biden-Era ‘Energy Efficiency’ Standards For Gas Appliances
  
• Boulder County’s case against energy companies is an affront to federalism.
  The Supreme Court Must Rein in Colorado’s Climate Lawfare

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• Random attacks on New York transit have soared since 2020, and the reason is often violent psychosis that severs a person’s link to reality. Such symptoms were on display after Sunday night’s mass knifing at Penn Station, which injured five people. To wit: the morning after the attack, Gov. Hochul and Mayor Mamdani were delusionally raving.
  Mamdani and Hochul yuck it up after another attack by a mentally ill NYC criminal

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• Dustup comes after math teacher wore keffiyeh to class on anniversary of Oct. 7 attack and school welcomed anti-Israel scholar who described Israel as ‘settler colonialist’ state
  An Elite St. Paul Private School Displayed an Antisemitic Poster to Middle Schoolers—Latest in a Series of Controversies to Roil School With ‘Best Academic Curriculum in Minnesota’
  
• Mainstream media outlets have described the research center as ‘nonpartisan’ when citing its report criticizing President Donald Trump’s tariffs.
  Yale's 'Nonpartisan' Budget Lab Was Founded By Biden Officials—and Its Staff Has Given More Than $100K to Dems
  
• The Chinese Communist Party has leveraged the University of California to shape the state’s policies and prioritize China’s interests.
  How The University Of California Became A Stooge For China’s Anti-America Warfare
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• Low birth rates, chronic absenteeism, parental choice, homeschooling, and microschooling are driving rapid student losses in public schools.
  Public Schools Are in a Downward Spiral
  
• For decades, America has been told that the key to better schools is more money. Mississippi is starting to show that this simply is not true.
  Mississippi Proves that More Money Won’t Fix Our Schools.

  SECOND AMENDMENT

• “I taught constitutional law for a long time and here’s the deal: No amendment is absolute. There are limits.” (taught at Patrice Lumumba University" - Show me the asterisk in "Shall Not Be Infringed" - jjs))
  Echoes of Joe Biden: James Talarico Says Second Amendment ‘Not Absolute’

  THE 2020 AND OTHER ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH

• In a positive development that could profoundly effect the upcoming midterm elections, the U.S. Supreme Court appears poised to rule that states cannot count mail-in ballots received after Election Day. SCOTUS is expected to issue a landmark decision on Watson v. Republican National Committee by the end of June.
  US Attorney Bill Essayli Accuses California of Blocking Voter Roll Audit Amid Claims of ‘Rigged Election’
  
• . . . It’s as if they set out to design it so that it would be easy to cheat and easy to steal elections,” he said, noting that the Golden State has banned voter ID while they “mail ballots to every single registered voter in the state.” (hello Hans, 2020 calling - jjs
  Exclusive — Hans Von Spakovsky: California Has ‘Worst Election System of Any State in the Country’
  
• Democrat California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill removing a layer of mail-in ballot signature verification days before the start of the state’s elections.
  Gavin Newsom’s Newest Election Law Could Open The Door To Major Voter Fraud
  
• It’s time for Trump to force the SAVE America Act.
  The Last Straw: They’re Stealing Elections in Real Time and Pretending It’s Normal
  
• Those individuals were reportedly seeking naturalization and wanted their names removed. Many of them were registered as Democrats but claimed they did not know they had been registered and were concerned it might disqualify them from becoming citizens. The news came after New Jersey GOP Chairwoman Christine Giordano Hanlon said in May the state party was launching an Election Integrity Task Force, the New Jersey Globe reported at the time.
  Report — New Jersey Republicans Find Hundreds of Noncitizens on Voter Rolls: ‘It’s Really Eye-Opening’
  
• Notably, the Democrat officials are fiercely opposed to voter ID legislation such as the SAVE America Act, despite overwhelming public support, including among Democrat voters. This is likely because illegal voting by noncitizens tends to favor the Democrat Party, and in some cases sway elections decisively.
  Dozens of Noncitizens Registered to Vote in Dem-Led State — Without Their Knowledge.
  
• Ohio’s Senate has done what the Republican-controlled U.S. Senate has failed to do: pass photo ID legislation.
  Poll Finds 76 Percent Of Ohio Voters Support Enshrining Photo ID In State Constitution

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY

• Beleaguered Senate candidate Graham Platner is having a hard time winning friends in the caucus he hopes to join soon.
  Fetterman Vs. Platner: The Democrat Civil War Is Getting Ugly
  
• Katz, now Platner’s tireless defender, once considered sexual misconduct by Democrat political candidates to be disqualifying (but Joo-hate is a résumé-enhancer! - jjs)
  Platner’s Top Strategist Morris Katz Once Denounced a Democrat for Sexual Misconduct, Defended His Client Who Endorsed a Republican: Why Is He Still Backing Sex-Pest Platner?
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• Osborn says he rejects 'partisans' but owes his rise to Ivy League-educated socialist couple who met while working for Bernie Sanders
  Socialist Operatives Behind Scandal-Plagued Platner and 'Squad' Member Summer Lee Recruited 'Independent' Dan Osborn To Run in Deep-Red Nebraska

  POLITICS

• The usual-usuals among the Republican Party’s oh-so-smartest assured us this would backfire. But Trump understood that Democrats had long ago redistricted to within an inch of their lives and that Republicans hadn’t. The advantage in that war could only go to the GOP.
  Trump’s Redistricting Moves Give GOP a Shot at Holding the House
  
• America is stronger when maps reflect the people's will through their elected representatives rather than blue race-baiting.
  Republicans Won the Redistricting War. Will They Secure its Legacy?
  
• Republicans should frame the 2026 midterms as a clear choice between two governing visions, not a referendum on Trump, forcing voters to compare outcomes and priorities.
  The Case for a ‘Choice Election’ in 2026
  
• “District by district, the picture emerging is one of Republican resilience — and in some cases, a surprising Democrat collapse in races Newsom’s allies had hoped to turn.”
  Newsom’s Effort to Flip Five Red Seats May Fall Short of his Expectations
  
• Will California voters ever learn?
  California Primary Election 2026: A Reflection
  
• Steyer dumped more than $200 million of his own money into the race.
  Trump-Backed Steve Hilton Knocks Billionaire Tom Steyer Out of Cali Governor’s Race

• In other words: smother America with a pillow, steal its wallet, then gang anal-rape its convulsing corpse - jjs
  Report: Rep. Jeffries Drafts Affordability Agenda, Puts Titty-Caca AOC in Charge of Health Care, Trans Dem in Charge of Caregiving

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• Europe Reacts with Demonstrations and “Taking a Knee” Movement while Media Deflects in Wake of Henry Nowak Killing
  Fallout from Video Release Expands: Police Sought to Cast Henry Nowak as Aggressor
  
• While an American purchase of the islands is not the Trump administration’s preferred course of action, the option remains on the table if the base at Diego Garcia remains compromised. Such a purchase would bypass the proposed deal between the United Kingdom and Mauritius.
  Trump Weighs Buying Chagos Islands to Stop Starmer from Handing Them to China Ally.
  
• Chinese companies have reportedly delayed two major refinery projects, capable of producing 500,000 barrels per day (bpd) combined, due to the shortage of crude oil from the Middle East after Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz.
  Middle East Crisis Forces China to Delay Major Refinery Projects
  
• We don't need a fully operational outpost for Beijing and Moscow that's just a two and a half-hour flight to our south. 
  A Dead Political Prisoner Leads to More Pressure, as Nicaragua Grows Closer to Russia
  
• Does the pope really want to side with atheism and Islam against populism?
  Pope Leo Courts the Global Left
  
• A unified, Israel-controlled Judea and Samaria is inevitable—whether America realizes it or not.
  Civilization and Barbarism in the Biblical Heartland

  
  AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE+Fauci-created CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS

• Americans are older, wiser, and still very, very angry.
  A COVID memoir

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• . . .a pest that could potentially devastate the nation’s cattle industry. (hello, DDT?!!! - jjs)
  A flesh-eating cattle parasite spreads beyond Texas as new far-flung screwworm cases are found
  
• When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
  The Healthcare/Health...Care Seesaw Goes Both Ways
  
• The modern smartphone may be a major cause of decreasing fertility rates in the United States
  America’s Fertility Crisis Has Astonishing New Link to iPhones, Study Finds

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• The first time in roughly four decades that a privately developed, non‑light‑water advanced reactor has gone critical in the U.S.
  U.S. Nuclear Acceleration Effort Hits Milestone with Antares Criticality Test
  
• The company is certain to bring in more than $75 billion, maybe as much as $86 billion, giving it the capital to do everything it wants in the next few years. It will build Starship. It will send it to both the Moon and Mars. It will have the resources to fuel Elon Musk's fundamental dream, building a major human civilization throughout the solar system.
  SpaceX’s IPO: A quick look at the financial world’s present take
  
• The panorama looks up this spectacular valley, which the science team has named Valle Grande.
  Curiosity’s looks up Valle Grande to its future travels

  FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY

• At a Washington hearing on gender transition procedures, all mention of the alleged leading authority in U.S. transgender medicine was omitted by the party’s senators and their invited expert witness.
  Are Democrats Dropping WPATH?
  
• Local journalist Brandi Kruse posted the photos on X, Friday, showing a glass container holding about a dozen vials of Testosterone Cypionate injections next to a rainbow pride folding fan as part of the display.
  Report: Police Inspect Testosterone Injection Vials Seen in Washington High School’s Gay Pride Display

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• Anyway, I'm already seeing MSM headlines about how the crowd erupted into boos when they showed the president just before the national anthem, but that's only half of the truth. Some of the crowd booed, some cheered, and some erupted into chants of "USA! USA! USA!"  
  Trump Makes History at the NBA Finals
  
• There is certainly a new flavor of socialism emerging amongst the younger generation. 
  How the 'New' Socialism Falls Apart
  
• Angry young man appears to placate mob with shocking lyrical change
  Did Elvis Costello Go Woke Over ‘Oliver’s Army’ Slur?

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