"Ethical debate" my ass. Chickenshit corporate entities will knuckle under to the grift & gladly take blood money.Trump's immigration enforcers look into buying ad data. Industry insiders fear what comes next.
Businesses that collect and sell information on Americans face an ethical debate about its potential use in federal immigration probes.
Trump’s Truth Social posting over the last hour or so is completely batshit insane. Get a load of this nonstop nuttery.
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) May 30, 2026 at 2:56 PM
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Spencer Pratt on Fox News: "What these demons are doing to these poor dogs -- they're raping the dogs" pic.twitter.com/0qVNDrVJT4
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 30, 2026
Or the four-plus yrs. of economic struggle after electing a Republican President.Jamaica's tamarind season, commonly referred to as "tambrin season", generally takes place from January to March. This time frame is culturally tied to the economic downturn following Christmas. The term "tambrin season" describes a period of economic struggle after the Christmas holidays.
"Ceasefire" has lost whatever meaning it had, but at least some people still follow the Old Testament ways.Israeli soldiers share rare accounts from Gaza, describing ongoing killings despite the ceasefire
He and the other soldiers who spoke to AP said troops generally understood, based on leaders and fellow soldiers’ actions, that Israel was in Gaza for the long run, not an eventual withdrawal.
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| "Free" trial? To watch any of this crap? Never heard of any of it, none of it is interesting. And "Formula 1"? "MLS"? Excuse me, Apple, but are these the United States or some woke Euro shithole? If you don't like it here, feel free to send all your placstic crap back to China or wherever it's made, go to Europe & watch all the races & matches you can stand. Real Americans will be at the drag strip &/or watching football. |
Priorities.As noted yesterday. bostonboomer has done their own research, & there's plenty.Friday Reads: Trump Is Not a Manly Man. Manly Men are Not Obsessed With Redecorating
Come out of the closet & then get off the stage, you horrid scumbag! Also digby.I know this isn’t politically correct, but I’ve always thought that Trump was a bit effeminate–in his looks and his behavior. How many “manly men” are obsessed with interior decoration even in the middle of a war?Not to mention that he’s in an apparently loveless marriage. His wife doesn’t sleep with him or even live with him, and reportedly has to be paid to appear in public with him. Maybe Melania is just a beard.
NB: "The Pentagon Knew Enemies Could Track Troops' Phones for Years. Now They Are". Whiskey Pete's "non-woke Dep't. of War" doing its usual great job protecting American service people. Who are fucking morons for allowing tracking data on their 'phones.Raphael Satter / Reuters:
Exclusive: Pentagon says US military personnel are reportedly being targeted using location data — U.S. forces deployed to war zones have been targeted using commercially available location data, according to reports fielded by military officials, an illustration of how the global surveillance economy is shaping the battlefield.
Dell Cameron / Wired: The Pentagon Knew Enemies Could Track Troops' Phones for Years. Now They AreAmy Furr / Breitbart: Report: Adversaries Target U.S. Military in War Zones by Using App Location DataKarl Bode / Techdirt: Enemies Are Exploiting Unregulated Data Broker Location Data To Target And Kill U.S. TroopsZack Whittaker / TechCrunch: US says troops were targeted with location data, as senator warns ad industry is a ‘national security threat’Phillip Walter Wellman / Stars & Stripes: Federal lawmakers demand stronger protections for troops' location dataRaphael Satter / The Independent: Enemies using phone location data to hunt US servicemembers, Pentagon confirmsVictor Nava / New York Post: US launches new strikes in Iran targeting military site that posed threat to troops, commercial shipping : reportMike Brest / Washington Examiner: Commercial tracking data being used by adversaries to target US troops: CENTCOM
A world of secret hungers
Perverting the men who make your laws
Every desire is hidden away
In a drawer... in a desk
By a Naugahyde® chair
"Brown Shoes Don't Make It" — F. Zappa
Fat bastard's probably spent the last 70 yrs. trying to resist his hidden desires. Is this the root of his innumerable mental & emotional problems, or would he have been a royal piece of shit anyway? All the "pussy-grabbing" sounds like Don Juan Syndrome to this reporter:Ashley Parker: “President Trump delights in playing what he calls ‘the gay national anthem‘ whenever he wants to rev up a crowd. He’s obsessed with Elton John, was once friendly with Liza Minnelli, and has a Liberace-esque flair for gilded interiors. One of his favorite sports to watch—mixed martial arts—is basically sweaty, semi-naked dudes. And he is a deep and vocal admirer of the physique of fellow men…”“Some of Trump’s allies note that years before gay marriage was legalized, Trump had gay friends, took pro-gay stances, and allowed gay people to join his private club in Palm Beach starting in the mid-1990s. Ric Grenell became the first openly gay person to hold a Cabinet position when Trump appointed him acting director of national intelligence…”
“To be clear: Trump says he is attracted only to women and, in fact, has been married to three of them. He once hosted the Miss Universe pageant, was caught on tape saying that he loves to grab women “by the pussy,” and was found civilly liable for sexually abusing a woman. Loads more have accused him of sexual misconduct…”
“But there’s also little doubt that Trump has unabashedly embraced the aesthetic—the je ne sais quoi—of a certain kind of gay man.”
It obviously doesn't like women. See also: Roy Cohn.A male paraphilia in which insecurity about masculinity and/or latent homosexuality is masked by multiple sexual liaisons with different female partners, without emotional commitment, but not as a paid gigolo, hustler, or call boy
[From Twitter, via Hullabaloo.]“Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can’t cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money.A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive.
A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy.
A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven’t even been convicted of anything. They’re just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You’re the only developed nation where that’s happening.
Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba’s.
Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker’s stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn’t moved in 15 years.
You’ve got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn’t attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you’re calling Greenland poorly run? Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no. ‘NATO wasn’t there when we needed them.”
When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn’t even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years. And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your fucking mouth.” – Tony Locke
Aren't there 100 millionaires or billionaires who've sucked up to Lumpy enough to qualify as ambassadors? The first thing in any presidency is to reward donors & friends w/ ambassadorships. Too dense even to get that right. And of course has no friends.Tom Nichols: “The United States is fighting, in some form or another, with almost everyone. America’s in a hot war with Iran and a cold war with China and Russia (even ifPresidentTrump hasn’t figured that out). Trump has ignited various trade wars, and keeps talking up a possible conflict with Cuba.”“And just for good measure,
the presidentTrump seems still obsessed with grabbing Greenland, which would spark a confrontation with NATO, the most powerful and successful alliance in history—and one supposedly led by Washington.”“This might seem like a good time for some traditional diplomacy: deploying ambassadors to smooth ruffled feathers, assure friends and warn enemies of American resolve, and work out details on trade and other issues that require professional attention.”
“The problem is that those ambassadors don’t exist. As The Wall Street Journal reported last week, the Trump administration has left more than 100 ambassadorships unfilled, including some to important U.S. allies.”
Oh come on! Americans have the opportunity to be abused by their masters until they drop dead sooner than any other developed shithole nation. You want "agency"? Get a gun & some ammo & act!! Express yourselves!!WASHINGTON, D.C. — One in three Americans say they lack agency in their lives, feeling like their lives are mostly dictated by circumstances beyond their control. This sentiment is expressed most commonly by younger and lower-income Americans. Local community conditions, including social ties, housing affordability and economic environment, may influence whether Americans feel able to shape their own futures. At every age and income level, people who lack reliable neighbors or live in areas with unaffordable housing and limited employment prospects are less likely than others to feel a sense of agency and, by extension, opportunity.
Just saw this, for Saurday 19 November 1955. More Weterns than you could shake a six-shooter at, & Yma Sumac on Stage Show w/ the Dorsey Bros. In Jan. '56 Elvis Presley made his first national telebision appearance on the program.New Jersey Online:
Donald Newhouse, who inherited a media empire, led Advance Publications' newspaper and cable TV divisions, and was Newark Star-Ledger president, dies at 96 — Donald E. Newhouse, who as President of The Star-Ledger and head of Advance Publications' newspaper group presided over a prolonged period …Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine: BuzzMachine — I am terribly saddened at word of the death of Donald Newhouse …
Well, look who's getting pork-barrel money: Suck-up Jeff Bezos. Surprise, surprise!NASA lays out moon base plans with landers, buggies and drones at the top of the list
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA is already ordering landers, rovers and drones for a sprawling moon base, less than two months after the Artemis II’s record-breaking lunar flyaround.The space agency outlined the first phase of its moon base plans on Tuesday, awarding hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts to four U.S. companies.
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin will provide a pair of landers to deliver moon buggies to the lunar surface, at a spot near the moon’s south pole. These so-called lunar terrain vehicles will be built by Astrolab and Lunar Outpost. Firefly Aerospace, which landed successfully on the moon last year, will deliver the first drones to the moon.
Marking their "territory", like the animals they are.“Then we’ll be able to say, ‘Hey, we’re permanently here and we’re not giving it up,’” said NASA’s moon base program executive Carlos Garcia-Galan.Garcia-Galan envisions a moon base sprawling over hundreds of square miles, with a perimeter marked by drones, dubbed MoonFall, stationed at the corners.
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said these territory markers are meant to be respectful of other countries’ spacecraft and equipment that might be nearby. He expects reciprocity in the matter.
The goal of the moon base is to encourage a lunar economy while conducting scientific research and laying the foundation for a Mars expedition, Isaacman stressed.
“For those waiting patiently, the grand return is close at hand and we will not slow down,” Isaacman said. “We are really just getting started.”
Of course these United Snakes may not have signed the agreement, & so what if we did, huh?Article 3
1. The moon shall be used by all States Parties exclusively for peaceful purposes.2. Any threat or use of force or any other hostile act or threat of hostile act on the moon is prohibited. It is likewise prohibited to use the moon in order to commit any such act or to engage in any such threat in relation to the earth, the moon, spacecraft, the personnel of spacecraft or man- made space objects.
3. States Parties shall not place in orbit around or other trajectory to or around the moon objects carrying nuclear weapons or any other kinds of weapons of mass destruction or place or use such weapons on or in the moon.
4. The establishment of military bases, installations and fortifications, the testing of any type of weapons and the conduct of military maneuvers on the moon shall be forbidden. The use of military personnel for scientific research or for any other peaceful purposes shall not be prohibited. The use of any equipment or facility necessary for peaceful exploration and use of the moon shall also not be prohibited.
In all fairness, this reporter visits the croaker every three months. Of course, it takes 20 mins. or so; they check my weight, blood presssure & blood, sometimes I pee in a cup (Which has nothing to do w/ lab work & I don't know why I mention it here.) so it's nothing that couldn't be handled by the White House physician in that now-ruined dump. I'm certainly not visiting a hospital for who knows what every quarter. If there's a dental facility in the Executive Mansion there must be a scale, a sphygmomanometer, a few needles & vials & a phlebotomist & a cup. ("Circumstantial evidence" of FDR being administered cocaine for his sinuses the afternoon of 7 Dec. 1941.)Trump Is Dying
The Walter Reed Lie, for the 100th Time
He is seventy-nine. He turns eighty next month. He went to Walter Reed today, his third visit in thirteen months (“Totally normal! Just a third checkup in a year!”), and the White House would like you to believe this is a wellness influencer’s self-care routine rather than what it obviously is: the late-stage management of a long-abused body breaking down in public.
All things must pass.Any M.D.s out there willing to guestimate how much longer Lumpy will be w/ us? What say the prediction markets?The conventional read is that this is power … the dictator phase, the strongman unleashed.I want to suggest the opposite. Strongmen at the height of their game don’t need the ballroom. They don’t need to rename the Kennedy Center after themselves. They don’t need the gold leaf, the fake portraits, the rebranded monuments and memorials.
That’s the behavior of a man who knows the clock is running and is grabbing what he can while the grabbing is good. That’s Marcos in Manila in 1985. That’s CeauÈ™escu in 1988, before he and the missus were lined up against a wall.
Genuine power doesn’t need to be advertised this loudly. The frantic, escalating, almost pornographic self-celebration is the tell. It’s a confession in plain sight. The man building his mausoleum while he’s still alive is the man who knows he’s running out of road.
"No uranium for Iran!!" but let's put plutonium in the hands of money-grubbing civilian energy executives. Nothing could go wrong there. After all, this isn't the future anymore; it's all happened.Brad Plumer / New York Times:
U.S. Seeks to Give Weapons-Grade Plutonium to Start-Ups for Fuel — Companies say it's a better way to dispose of the Cold War-era material — and fix a shortage of nuclear fuel. But the plan has also faced criticism. — The Trump administration is moving forward with a plan …
Rachel Frazin / Associated Press: DOE eyes using plutonium in nuclear fuelTim De Chant / TechCrunch: Trump administration wants nuclear startups to use plutonium for their reactorsElla Nilsen / KTVZ-TV: The Trump administration is working on a deal to give weapons-grade plutonium to energy companiesRachel Frazin / The Hill:
Energy Department takes steps toward allowing plutonium, historically used in weapons, in nuclear fuelJim Mishler / NewsMax.com: Energy Dept Opens Surplus Plutonium to Industry
The Great Depopulation
Why is the birth rate declining in every country on Earth?
Why has the number of births declined everywhere, all at once?
Some blame technology, particularly smartphones and social media. Others blame a kind of 21st-century weltschmerz—a sadness about the state of the world and our uncertain future in it. A long essay in The New York Times by Anna Louie Sussman, titled “Why So Few Babies? We Might Have Overlooked the Biggest Reason of All,” argues that today’s generation is too anxious about the future to make the irreversible commitment of having a child.
So who is right? Is this about phones and technology, or is it a reflection of modern anxiety about the world? Or, perhaps, both?
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