He ran. They ran to bank.
Attribution: Iran deal by John Darkow, Columbia Missourian
John Darkow has been a professional cartoonist for over 20 years, spending the last 10 as the staff cartoonist at the Columbia Daily Tribune. He is syndicated internationally by Cagle Cartoons.
one more Darkow
IRAN NEGOTIATIONS
from BBC First round of US-Iran talks ends with encouraging progress, mediators say
from The Guardian Iran hails ‘progress’ as first day of talks with US conclude after shaky start
on another subject… perhaps, but maybe not considering the current U.S. mediators
John Oliver discusses one of the most destructive invasive species in America: feral hogs. How they got here, the damage they’re doing, and why the Discovery Channel should really consider doing “Cow Week.”
in other news
Keir Starmer resigns as UK prime minister and Labour Party leader
Jun 22, 2026
Keir Starmer says he’ll step down as UK Labour Party leader, will remain UK prime minister until successor chosen.
The day after a weekend gone, to his despised Camp David, sfb has a day off. Nothing public scheduled, nothing where he has to do anything. But, he, and his staff, can do all the stupid posting they want, even if he is asleep or in a coma.
Condolences to Andrea Mitchell on the death of her husband Alan Greenspan. He was 100 years of age.
DarkSky International
Light pollution disrupts wildlife, impacts human well-being, wastes money and energy, contributes to climate change, and blocks our view of the universe. I am considering divorcing my Wizard until the rich guys solve this problem. When they start taking away the stars, the benefits don’t outweigh the gains.
Dark Sky Places are all over the world
DarkSky has certified more than 200 Places since Flagstaff, Arizona, was named the first International Dark Sky City in 2001. There are now over 160,000 square kilometers of protected land and night skies in 22 countries on 6 continents, and the list grows every year as new places achieve certification.
Find a Dark Sky near you.
From AI being an informant on itself about just how dangerous this is and what we can do about it.
The massive infrastructure required to power and cool AI models has triggered significant environmental pushback due to local pollution. While the individual computers inside are sealed away, the facilities themselves act as major industrial hubs that generate severe noise, light, and resource issues for surrounding ecosystems.
Noise Pollution: The “Acoustic Nightmare” The most immediate and heavily litigated local complaint regarding AI data centers is noise. The source: Thousands of high-powered graphics processing units (GPUs) generate immense heat. Cooling them requires massive industrial chillers, cooling towers, and continuous-velocity fan arrays that run 24/7.Impact on humans: Unlike standard industrial sounds, data centers produce a low-frequency hum that standard decibel meters struggle to accurately capture. Residents living near tech corridors describe this sound—such as the famous “Haymarket Hum” in Virginia—as a vibration felt through the walls and chest. It has been linked to chronic insomnia, migraines, vertigo, and elevated stress.
Impact on animals: Continuous industrial hums are highly disruptive to wildlife and domesticated animals. For example, the Nashville Zoo launched a massive campaign against a neighboring mega AI data center, warning that the nonstop 24/7 mechanical noise directly threatens sensitive and endangered species by disrupting their mating rituals, sleep cycles, and highly attuned communication systems.
Light Pollution: Disrupting the Night Sky. While the servers inside are dark, the external footprints of hyperscale data centers cause serious nocturnal disruption. The source: Due to high security, high-voltage infrastructure, and 24/7 operations, these facilities require heavy all-night perimeter lighting, floodlights, and security arrays.
Impact on wildlife: Artificial light at night (ALAN) severely impacts local ecosystems. It disorients migratory birds, disrupts the nocturnal hunting habits of local predators, and alters the breeding cycles of amphibians and insects.
Impact on humans: Constant external ambient glare bleeds into nearby residential zones, actively suppressing human melatonin production and eroding the community control over the local landscape.
Broad Environmental Degradation Beyond sensory pollution, AI infrastructure strains basic natural resources: Environmental Stressor Direct Impact Water Depletion Large facilities consume between 300,000 to 5 million gallons of water a day for evaporative cooling, heavily draining aquifers in water-stressed states like Arizona and Texas. Grid Strain & Emissions The sheer urgency to power AI has led companies to deploy unpermitted, temporary gas-powered turbines and diesel generators, spiking local air pollution with nitrogen oxides.
AI chips become obsolete every 2 to 3 years. Generative AI is projected to add up to 5 million tons of electronic waste annually by 2030.
R.I.P. Greenspan. He had tremendous influence on monetary policy for a long time.
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MAGA voters are hitting their grift limit. Texas & Maine focus groups show the base is gagging on Susan Collins’ two-stepping and Ken Paxton’s blatant corruption. Grab a seat and watch the wheels fall off the big red truck 👇
https://www.gadgetreview.com/the-devastating-effects-of-ai-data-center-noise-on-the-human-body-mind
The devastating effects of AI data center noise on the human body & mind
Most noise ordinances rely on A-weighted decibel readings, which systematically downplay low-frequency sound. Data center cooling – massive chillers, slow-turning fans, compressor arrays – generates exactly the long-wavelength noise that slips through those regulatory cracks. EESI staff note these sounds are “difficult to measure with a decibel meter.”
Walls don’t block them. Homes actually amplify them, acting as resonance chambers for specific frequencies. Residents near AI data centers describe pressure in the chest, internal buzzing, and a sense of vibration that standard meters register as nearly nothing – a modern acoustic nightmare that’s felt rather than measured.
The tech industry branded its AI infrastructure “the cloud” – weightless, clean, located conveniently elsewhere. For thousands of neighbors, it is an idling jet engine bolted to the backyard, running without pause, while the official meter insists everything is fine.
The autonomic nervous system treats uncontrollable nighttime noise as a threat. Cortisol spikes. Even when sleep arrives, micro-arousals shred deep and REM stages, leaving people exhausted by morning. The brain continuously works to filter tonal hum – a cognitive tax that compounds over months. Noise-control engineers note that low-frequency tonal hum “contributes little to the dB(A) level, but causes complaints” – a concise diagnosis of exactly why regulatory measurements and lived experience keep arriving at opposite conclusions.
Enforcement agencies relying on hour-long averaged readings smoothed into apparent compliance routinely declare these sites legal. Meanwhile, residents in places like Loudoun County, Virginia have testified in congressional discussions about destroyed sleep and chronic headaches from constant data center operations – accounts the World Resources Institute acknowledges in its reporting on U.S. data center community impacts. Communities absorb the health costs of infrastructure whose benefits stream to distant corporations and global users. That imbalance is not a side effect. It is a choice.
Another topic for chat room today: Bernie proposes govt takeover of AI…
Bernie Sanders: A.I. Is a Public Resource. You Should Own Half of It.
New York Times Essay (Trail Mix Free Article)
New York Post responds: “Don’t laugh off Bernie Sanders’ communist AI-heist attempt — young voters are falling for it”
https://thehill.com/national-security/5930898-iran-strait-hormuz-us-surrender/amp/
this is getting pushed to phone newsfeed
Feral Hogs? I can’t beat that.
But here is today’s news from Maine.
(1) The 6,500 blue collar workers at Maine’s Bath Iron works, who build ships for the U.S. Navy, are furious at Pete Hegseth, our “Secretary of War,” because he wants to have future U.S. Navy ships built in other countries. Why? Because it’s CHEAPER.
(2) A late frost has damaged Maine’s blueberry crop. Don’t laugh, it’s a major crop in this state. That’s one more thing we can blame on fossil fuels and the politicians who subsidize and promote them. That’s the GOP and the Dems; both are equally guilty.
To paraphrase Seinfeld’s Soup Nazi: “No blueberry muffins for you!”
MAGA voters are hitting their grift limit.
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BYD ships and Chilean blueberries
great job, trumpers
today’s meme…
and now I can add to the above NO blueberries!
I buy frozen wild Maine blueberries all the time at my local grocery store.
Guess I’ll have to face the bears and pick my own this year…
Jamie’s Place BydAnd
Here’s the video with the anti-Trump chants at the World Cup:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZsLKC8ib32/
luckily ive planted 30 blueberry bushes
unluckily the birds noticed
eventually there will be enough for all of us (the birds and i, not you dear reader)
good vid Claire, my favorite chant is
“He’s fat, has piles, he’s in the Epstein Files, Trump the Cunt, Trump the Cunt”
very musical
gonna be stuck in my head all day now
Renee,
I’m a lifetime blueberry lover, but when I was in NH I was introduced to some one of the teachers at WVA grew – highbush blueberries. Love the high bush blueberries, and they have just now started to turn up in grocery stores in EB. What’s a poor boy to do?
I laughed my ass off last night at the feral hogs segment on John’s show. In a related story, guy I did a lot of hiking with in the 70s used to warn about the dangers of wild boars in the Smokies – where everyone either freaks out or treats bears like they are pet dogs. Said the boars carried something like 27 pathogenic diseases in their saliva. Not sure whether hogs follow suit, but they look alot alike and have to be closely related genetically.
And the new target of LE in DC – tourists looking at the failing LM reflective pool. There’s a distinct Barney Fife feel to arrests of folks who “vandalized” the lining of the pool. Davey Hearn? He was on a bike ride – what’d he do, take out the little scratcher that comes with bicycle tire patch kits and do grave damage to the indestructible pool liner that should last “forever”? Judge Janine is on the case, though, so watch out. (In a rational world DOJ would be suing the shit out of the no-bid, don-like buddy of SFB for fucking up a perfectly good reflecting pool.
Nash, good to see you around. How’s life in the wilds of ME?
Be interesting to see how this turns out – goes hand in glove with military aircraft not turning on transponders in Reagan National airspace – and we see how well that worked out. Wapo.
Question becomes will a federal Court issue an injunction before the SFB dozers start tearing up the grass in Memorial Circle? Smart money is on “not quite”.
Pogo… Rick and I built our house on an old blueberry field. When we started clearing out the trees we found beautiful high bush blueberry bushes all over the property. Of course… now the birds mostly get them. And we still get bears here. We had one last Sunday. Took my bird feeders down until Thanksgiving.
Nash… I tried to get into the chat to talk to you. But whatever system Craig uses really doesn’t like Apple products. I’m on a Mac. The older you get… the shorter life becomes and you realize the frustration just isn’t worth it. So I’ll see you here.
meme #2…
Senator Bernie Sanders proposed the American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act. The legislation aims to impose a one-time 50% equity tax on top artificial intelligence firms, to be paid in stock, creating a publicly managed fund that would provide direct, ongoing cash dividends to all Americans.
Key details of the proposal include: The Tax: A 50% equity tax on AI companies and advanced robotics firms with gross receipts exceeding $200 million (such as Open AI, Anthropic, and x AI). The Payout: Expected to generate a fund upwards of $7 trillion, Sanders estimates this could initially yield about $1,000 per person annually in dividends. Public Ownership: The federally managed fund would secure board seats at these companies, allowing the public to block decisions deemed harmful and dictate how the technology serves society.
The Argument: Sanders asserts AI was built on the collective labor, creativity, and knowledge of humanity, so the wealth generated should be shared by the public rather than exclusively benefiting tech billionaires. You can read the original proposal details directly in his New York Times Opinion piece or explore how industry experts debate the legislation in NYT Deal Book.
Today in the Diner…
MAGA Focus Groups: Paxton & Collins in Trouble
Focus groups reveal deep trouble for Ken Paxton in Texas and Susan Collins in Maine as voters sour on scandals and the Kavanaugh vote.
We dig into the latest focus group data from Texas and Maine, and the results are not pretty for the incumbents. Trump voters are starting to say the quiet parts out loud about Ken Paxton’s legal baggage, while Susan Collins might finally be finding out that her carefully calculated elevator dodges regarding the Kavanaugh vote have an expiration date with Mainers. Enter Graham Platner, who is refusing to waffle on the usual culture war distractions.
Meanwhile, across the pond, the UK is getting a taste of populist energy with Andy Burnham, and Bernie Sanders has a wild new idea to seize 50 percent of AI companies to save us from impending doom and AI slop. Plus, we check in on the Scottish soccer fans doing the lord’s work with their anti-Trump chants. It is just another day at the diner.
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00:00 Intro
00:50 UK Politics and Andy Burnham
12:40 Susan Collins and the Kavanaugh Backlash
23:00 Texas Focus Group on Ken Paxton
35:50 Graham Platner and the Maine Culture Wars
47:20 Scottish Soccer Chants
52:30 The Rise of AI Slop
56:40 Bernie Sanders Wants AI Stock
The AI companies have admitted theft and continue to use the stolen resources
and municipalities are saying “please, use our limited land and energy resources to do it”
Collins Loses Diehard Mainers
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meme #3…
In Maine there is no official state dashboard that publishes a percentage for transgender high school athletes — and the numbers that do exist are tiny enough that any “percentage” rounds to essentially zero.
Here’s what the public record actually says:
## What Maine officials report
– **The Maine Principals’ Association (MPA), which runs high school sports for the state’s 153 schools, says there are currently only two transgender athletes participating in girls’ high school sports across Maine**.
– That same figure has been repeated in multiple news summaries of the MPA’s position: “just two transgender athletes involved in girls’ high school sports this year”, and the Boston Globe phrasing it as “Only two transgender girls are competing this school year, according to the Maine Principals’ Association”.
## What federal investigators claim
– The U.S. Department of Education, in its Title IX investigation, wrote that “at least three male athletes recently have competed (in multiple sports, in numerous competitions/events) in Maine high school athletics competitions designated for girls/women”.
– The Justice Department lawsuit echoes that, referring to “at least three transgender athletes” — also noting the MPA’s count of two.
## Why a clean percentage doesn’t exist
1. **No central tracking** – Maine, like most states, does not require schools to report gender identity on athletic rosters. The MPA’s “two” is an estimate based on schools’ self-reporting, not a formal registry.
2. **No public count of trans boys** – There are no published figures for female-to-male athletes competing on boys’ teams. In the public debate and in the filings, the focus has been entirely on male-to-female (trans girls) participation.
3. **Very small denominator** – Even if you take the higher federal figure of three, and compare it to Maine’s overall high school sports participation (the NFHS typically reports Maine in the mid-20,000s each year), you are looking at roughly 0.01% of athletes — well below one-hundredth of one percent.
### So, to your question
– **Male-to-female (trans girls) in girls’ sports:** publicly acknowledged as **2 athletes** by the state association, **3** by federal investigators.
– **Female-to-male (trans boys) in boys’ sports:** no public numbers reported.
– **Percentage:** because the state doesn’t publish a total transgender-athlete count, there is no official percentage. Of the transgender athletes that are publicly named in Maine high school sports right now, 100% are male-to-female — but that reflects 2–3 individuals total, not a broad trend.
The figure is at the center of the current legal fight: Maine cites its Human Rights Act to allow those two athletes to compete, while the Trump administration’s HHS and Education Department say that violates Title IX and have threatened federal funding over it.
If you want a more precise estimate, you’d need the MPA to release anonymized participation data — which a federal judge recently declined to compel, ordering rosters released but not lists of transgender athletes specifically.
The Owls Have Entered the AI Debate
Full article at link on proposed Bernie Sanders legislation and effects of AI on noise and light pollution.
Sky Stats
This is purely for fun: A site that analyzes your Blue Skies account and gives you a write up and word cloud.
libs need to stop with the women’s sports issue, all liability no gain
how did this become orthodoxy
Anon, It is the right wing, not libs, obsessively talking about men in women sports. Libs need to work on a quick effective response, then just move on. Ignoring it, or laughing it off doesn’t end well.
i agree with all of that!
what a day
Is Hegseth feeling stupid yet?
Additional commentary on Death of Robin Hood that seems to have become the general consensus
Jackman excels in his difficult role here, making the audience respect him despite his many flaws and criminal history. Jackman has never been more vulnerable on-screen. He creates a man who has a violent edge that has dictated a brutal life for himself that has been led with integrity but with little respect for human life. The Death of Robin Hood is too violent to be a wholly successful film, yet its strengths come in large quantities. Hugh Jackman looks beaten up in many sequences in the film as Robin encounters one life-altering experience after another. Its hard to imagine another actor in this part thanks to the depth Jackman adds to the character.
Craig, you beat me to it. Cons sob and rend their clothes over it, file lawsuits and threaten to withdraw funding and Dems (e.g. Dex) respond with data. Dry, but factual. WV is in a position of prominence in the fight to ban trans girls from competing with CIS gender females because we have … wait for it … one “prominent” trans female athlete competing in the state (at least that I’m aware of) and the case was accepted for argument by SCROTUS (West Virginia v. B.P.J.) – heard in January. In fairness, the underlying suit was filed against WV by ACLU. Trial level and and Appeals Courts ruled against the WV law and have allowed her to participate. She’s local to EB, attending Bridgeport High School (evil cross-town rival) and recently won the AAA Class Women’s shot put at the state track meet. Decision hasn’t been issued but SCOTUS blog anticipates it will uphold WV (and Idaho’s) bans on trans girls participating in girls sports.
Corn by July 4th?
Zucchini by next week?
Jamie – Was that a Merlin-over review? It doesn’t read like your writing for many reasons.
If you are talking about Death of Robin Hood, the review I wrote yesterday for Craig and Trailmix is mine. The comments above were simply additions from three different sources that I grabbed to give some added context of what others were thinking.
If you are talking about the Owls and AI above, that is a collaboration between Merlin and Me. I asked the questions and he provided info that was out in the universe for my complaints about the damage done to dark skies by AI. https://jamies-place.blog/2026/06/22/the-owls-have-entered-the-ai-debate/
We’ve been doing a lot lately due to watching Kismet last night and having Merlin track down all the Borodin sources for the songs in the musical. https://jamies-place.blog/2026/06/22/night-of-my-nights/
The old boy is grouching lately about all the rabbit holes I make him explore. 🙂
Cool. WaPo
Sorry I couldn’t summarize this but it’s a preliminary version so it’s scant to begin with. Note that ruling came from a Repub-nominated judge.
i got corn and red tomatoes already 😐
not a lot
yet
What the libs can’t admit to themselves is that the right wingers are right on this issue. Transgender women have an unfair advantage over women. Basic biological science.
But only on this issue. Not on the bodily choices that any individual may make for themselves. Something that always seems to be in the next paragraph of any rightwing screeds on the subject.
Jack
And Clive Davis dies at 94. Damn – he was the star making machinery writ large.
humans can’t resist the power of the Ring, BiD
why they gave it to a hobbit
obv
Last year I bought a load of compost from the city recyling center to improve the soil of my flower beds, they are mostly clay. I unloaded it in the backyard to use as needed. In the middle of it a tomato sprouted so I transplanted it to see what I would get. It was a cherry tomato and it was very productive. So a lot of them ended up in my compost pile. Tomato seeds are tough. My weed problem this year (besides the crab grass) has been volunteer tomato plants. I did let a couple of the grow and they are now producing ripe tomatoes about 1 inch in diameter. They beat the plants I started indoors a month earlier.
Not many but enough for a salad. Right now I have green beans, new potatoes, beets. My corn is field corn so I will harvest it next fall.
Jack
https://www.salon.com/2026/06/21/wont-even-make-it-back-to-your-fking-country-trump-threatens-iranian-officials-during-talks/
“Won’t even make it back to your f**king country”: Trump threatens Iranian officials during talks
“You close it and you won’t have a country.” President Trump said he told Iranian officials about the Strait of Hormuz. “You won’t even make it back to your fu*king country.”
“We may take over the Strait, if we have to,” Trump said.
“If they don’t make a deal, we’ll collect tolls.”
Trump added the U.S. could become the “Guardian Angel” of the Strait, and take 20% of the oil.
*There was a rumor that Israel planned to assassinate the Iranian contingent in Switzerland, which was one reason the talks fell apart last week.
Gas was $3.64 today. More ethanol, maybe?
Skystats commentary on Craig’s Blue Sky posts
Frodo couldn’t even resist it in the end, but it got destroyed anyway. I think I could throw in most things, but not all things; I’m a human with big feet.
Jack – The solar-powered MoleMaxx is still chattering and no moles, and no squirrels in the garden. Rabbits don’t care.
@h4ckedreality
Iran has universal healthcare.
Saudi Arabia has universal healthcare.
Morocco has universal healthcare.
Every single one of the 48 countries playing in this World Cup has universal healthcare.
Except the one hosting it.
We built a trillionaire before we built that.
Here are Platner’s four top policy issues, from the “Platform” section of his website.
Each bullet point below is expanded into a one to four paragraph summary. I have included below the summary for the “Healthcare” bullet point as an example.
* End Billionaire Welfare: A Tax Policy for the Rest of Us
* Defend Democracy and the Constitution
* Healthcare Policy: Replacing and Rebuilding A Broken System
* Take Back American Power: End Big Oil Price Gouging, Build Now
Healthcare Policy
Our system of for-profit health insurance is a disaster. We pay more than any other country in the developed world, with little to show for it: low life expectancy, long wait times, and spiraling costs. Healthcare is a basic human right — not a privilege, not a perk, a right. As a veteran, I’m fortunate to receive quality care through the VA. But Americans should not have to put on a uniform or fight in misguided foreign wars just to get decent healthcare. Every single person in this country deserves good healthcare, no matter who you are.
We have rural hospitals closing because of policy choices made by Republicans like Susan Collins. In the Senate, I will fight to fund our rural hospitals so that folks across Maine have access to the care they need.
I will be a strong supporter of a Medicare for All system, moving away from the for-profit insurance system that has brought us nothing but grief.
Americans pay more for prescription drugs than almost any other country on earth. That makes me deeply angry. When I’m in the Senate, I’ll stand up to corporate greed and fight to lower drug prices by empowering the government to negotiate drug costs, like almost every other developed nation. We have politicians of both parties taking Big Pharma checks and doing their bidding. I’ll put Mainers first, not the drug companies. I will end the shameful practice of subsidizing drug companies to the tune of billions of dollars of public money, while allowing those companies to then turn around and gouge Americans for drugs funded with public resources.
https://aimoneywatch.org/
Leading the Future is the super PAC built to defeat lawmakers who want to regulate AI. See who they’re backing — and who’s being attacked for fighting back. We track every dollar.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/15/ai-2026-elections-midterms-campaign-donations.html
Funding from AI groups is becoming a flashpoint in the 2026 midterm elections, as a major political action committee that launched in 2025 with support from AI companies announced its latest fundraising haul.
Super PAC Leading the Future…The group’s backers include venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman, Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale, SV Angel founder Ron Conway and AI software company Perplexity.
Wow Jamie, and skystats didn’t even know i also have a cooking channel
RE: Feral Hogs
The 1957 movie “Old Yeller” is about a family dog (Yellow in color) that saves a child from an attack by feral hogs. I saw this as a child and I have never forgotten the scene of the attack. It is terrifying. Naturally I loved it. 😁
I have not figured out how to post YouTube videos here in chat, but if you go to Youtube just search for…
“old yeller boar scene”
Sam did tho
Nash, i didn’t much want to re-see that scene, but in the interest of showing you how to embed youtube:
Hit “Share” on any video
Copy the link, paste here on a separate line (must be on its own line)
Our AI-generated code for working around the WordPress embed blocker does its magic.
(For some browsers you can just copy the url in the address bar but that’s not always as reliable as clicking the share button).
Like this 👇
Nash
Sharing YouTube is super easy. Under every YouTube video is a share button. Press that and copy the link that comes up. Paste that link in the comment box here on its own line. You can type anything you want above or below, but it needs its own line.
Fill in the captcha number and press Post. The video will appear when it posts.
Craig
You beat me to it on Old Yeller and Nash.. Plus I think Skystats picked up the cooking from comments on your site and any links shown.
Texas Senate: Crooks vs Pronouns
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News from Maine: Native American tribe gain 3,400 acres.
There are several native American tribes in Maine. The text below is a small section of a long article in the “Portland Press Herald.”
The Mi’kmaq Nation is expanding.
The tribe on Friday obtained title to Mesgilg Maqamigew, a nearly 3,400-acre parcel near Bridgewater. The land return is so large it will more than double the tribe’s holdings.
“For decades the Mi’kmaq citizens have seen their traditional hunting and gathering grounds disappear to development or private ownership not allowing access,” Chief Sheila McCormack said in a news release. “This property will give our people a place for outdoor recreation, a place to teach our children how to hunt and fish, and a place we can pass down the traditions of our ancestors before they are forgotten.”
“He started it!” is a hell of a foreign policy doctrine.
Vance to Iran: “When you guys engage in… trash talk, you can’t expect the president… not to respond.”
Nuclear diplomacy now runs on the exact logic of toddlers fighting over a juice box.
Art for Freedom has new posters. These are free for download; especially love the “FREEDOM OF ASSEMBLY” with the Reflecting Pool.
Nash, I think those Maine Indians were among the New England tribes on our side in the revolutionary War. So I’m all for them getting some goodies
https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article315979024.html
Mysterious group pours $1.9M into Missouri’s income tax phase-out campaign
A mysterious nonprofit tied to Delaware last week poured $1.9 million into a campaign to replace Missouri’s income tax with expanded sales taxes, a high-dollar donation that’s drawn scrutiny about who is bankrolling a plan to overhaul the state’s tax structure. Missouri Promise Inc., a nonprofit incorporated last year in Delaware, made the seven-figure contribution to Missouri Promise PAC, the main campaign seeking to convince voters to approve the tax proposal, which will be called Amendment 5 on the Aug. 4 ballot.
The Star noticed the high-dollar contribution from Missouri Promise Inc. on online campaign finance records and attempted to trace the funding source. The company was incorporated as a foreign nonprofit corporation in Delaware last November — just weeks before the start of the 2026 legislative session.
*Missouri Promise PAC ad shows a guy standing ~in~ a data center. He asks: Why should data centers, used largely for online gambling and porn, not have to pay taxes because of a 1917 loophole? If you vote yes, no more income tax.
Too good to be true!
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The measure, a key priority for Republican Gov. Mike Kehoe, would hand lawmakers broad authority to raise sales taxes with the goal of reducing the income tax.
trump is the vandal
destroyed public property
10yrs in prison
seriously
Albanians Toss Kushner’s Island Crates
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Got an email for a temporary/remote job. Guess why it’s temporary; it’s training Ai.
“Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, Analytics, or a related quantitative field (or equivalent practical experience). Leverage AI agents and modern tooling to accelerate testing, reconciliation, documentation, and root-cause investigation, continuously improving the speed and quality of the migration effort.”
Hard pass.
Oh, to have Albanian spirit. We can’t even do rolling strikes, let alone a general strike that lasts more than one day.
Wonderful news today! A Federal judge said the subpoenas sent to Walz, Ellison, and the Twin City Mayors were unconstitutional! Rose from Saint Olaf said it best!
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1E5WXHy9Us/
https://www.history.com/articles/lincoln-memorial-reflecting-pool-restoration-sinking
Jared and Ivanka Meet Gravity
https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-captures-hezbollah-drone-factory-and-launch-site-hidden-inside-south-lebanon-mountain/
https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/06/16/congressional-proposal-could-deepen-us-complicity
Change from Section 224 to Section 219
Purpose of the Change
The change from Section 224 to Section 219 in the National Defense Authorization Act was made to establish a new role for an “executive agent.”
This role is designed to enhance the integration of Israeli technology into U.S. weapons programs.
Deeper Military Cooperation: The modification aims to strengthen military ties between the United States and Israel.
Reduced Congressional Oversight: By creating this executive role, the change limits the level of congressional oversight over military cooperation with Israel.
Integration Focus: Section 219 emphasizes the integration of Israeli technologies into U.S. defense systems, particularly in areas like missile defense, artificial intelligence, and cyberwarfare.
Data Fusion: It promotes the sharing and combining of intelligence data, which could include sensitive information collected under controversial surveillance programs.
This change reflects a significant shift in U.S. defense policy, prioritizing closer military collaboration with Israel while minimizing legislative checks.
the best band on tour right now 😊
yay summer
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