Oh, Great

This reporter's Representative. I voted for the farthest left candidate, Angela Gonzales-Torres, in the primary; Gomez is not radical enough for me. We'll see what happens in '28.

Kate Santaliz / Axios:

House Ethics investigating Rep. Jimmy Gomez over sexual misconduct allegations  —  The House Ethics Committee announced Monday that it is investigating Congressman Jimmy Gomez (D-Calif.) over allegations of sexual misconduct. … - The committee provided no further details about the allegations.

Josh Christenson / New York Post:   House Ethics panel probing Dem Rep. Jimmy Gomez after he admitted to cheating on his wife following Post report on staffer makeout

Lauren Green / Washington Examiner:   House Ethics Committee confirms investigation into Democrat Jimmy Gomez

Fox News:   House Democrat investigated over alleged ‘inappropriate sexual contact’ with staffer

Sudiksha Kochi / The Hill:   House Ethics investigating California Democrat Jimmy Gomez over allegations of sexual misconduct

Caitlin Yilek / CBS News:   House Ethics Committee investigating Rep. Jimmy Gomez for alleged sexual misconduct

Nicole Silverio / The Daily Caller:   House Ethics Committee Opens Investigation Into Democrat Rep Jimmy Gomez For Sexual Misconduct

Jeff Charles / Townhall:   Lawmakers Set to Introduce Legislation to Target Sexual Misconduct in Congress

Jim Hᴏft / The Gateway Pundit:   House Ethics Committee Investigating Democrat Rep. Jimmy Gomez Over Sexual Misconduct Including “Inappropriate Sexual Contact” With a House Staffer

Much ado about necking, per the usual imitation information sources above. Drier facts here.

Hurtful & just stupid, Jimmy, what the hell?

Get In The Streets, Sheep!!

Hundreds of people in Pakistan took part in nationwide protests and marches organized by the Islamist political party Jamaat-e-Islami on Sunday against rising fuel prices, high taxes, and soaring inflation. (AP video by Jahanzaib Aurangzeb)

Not a woman to be seen. C'mon America, it's not as if you have anything to lose, show these Islamist pigs how to do it. Men, women & children, pitchforks & torches! Insurrection now, insurrection tomorrow, insurrection forever!!

Arlene Smith, Musical Barrier Breaker, Dead At 84

Arlene Smith, one of the first “girl group” stars who as a teenager and a founder of the Chantels co-wrote and sang lead on the 1950s doo-wop classic “Maybe,” has died at 84.

Quite a life, & some history there too.

Republicans = Nazis

"Moses" & his fellow Jesus-loving vermin pray for your death.

House Speaker Mike Johnson says he grows more confident "with each passing day" that the GOP will retain control of Congress. Why? "This is a God thing. We have intercessory prayers who are on the ground at the Capitol praying."

"We"? Is the House paying for this praying?

They lie to themselves & they lie to you, every day of the wk. & twice on Sunday. String up the theocrats before they send you to the MAGA Inquisition!!

Top Ten All-American Hellhole States

These are America’s 10 worst states to live in for 2026

States of the former Confederacy, plus Oklahoma, Utah (not a state then) & Indiana; somewhat surprising until I remembered it was a Klan hotspot in the 1920s.

The Ku Klux Klan held immense political and social power in Indiana during the 1920s, with an estimated 300,000 members—representing roughly a third of the state's native-born white male population.

Guessing all these hellholes have Republicans as Goobernators & legislatures dominated by idiotic right-wingers.

And the biggest loser is:

America’s Worst Place to Live in 2026: Tennessee

And I'd heard so much about Nashville being a "hot", burgeoning cultural center, like Branson, MO but w/ less Jesus. Great for crackers, sure.

Tennessee Republicans, led by Gov. Bill Lee, make no apologies for a rash of state laws targeting the LGBTQ+ community, including a so-called “bathroom law” requiring transgender people to use the facilities designated for their sex at birth. The state also explicitly bars localities from adopting their own antidiscrimination ordinances. To underscore the point, Lee signed a resolution earlier this year designating June “Nuclear Family Month.”

“The nuclear family, consisting of one husband, one wife, and any biological, adopted, or fostered children, is God’s design for familial structure and has been the bedrock of society since the creation of the world,” the resolution states.

Its sponsors deliberately timed the observance to coincide with the month when Tennessee’s more than 300,000 LGBTQ+ people celebrate Pride.

Inclusiveness isn’t the only area where the Volunteer State falls short. Tennessee also has one of the highest violent crime rates in the nation, according to FBI statistics. And it has the third-highest rate of drug deaths, according to the United Health Foundation.

Who'd a thunk CNBC would be full of low-T lib sissies who are so concerned about the pervs?

"Low-T": EAIAC

Handsome Dick Manitoba is thrice the man Pete Hegseth wishes he were.

I wasn’t ready for this. ☠️ 😭

Low T Pete will never live this down. pic.twitter.com/gQ4k4vwv9R

— Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline) July 17, 2026

Sky Dancing has more on testosterone obsession, about half-way down the page. These people are ignernt & crazy.

Some physicians and researchers questioned the move and said some of Hegseth’s statements on testosterone Wednesday were not backed by research. Testosterone levels vary naturally over time, and it is unusual to screen patients for low testosterone unless there are symptoms, they said.

“This is non-evidence-based and could cause harm,” said Adriane Fugh-Berman, a professor in the department of pharmacology and physiology at Georgetown University.

Pin-dicked closet cases, every one.

The framing fits neatly within a growing trend of hormonal obsession on the right. Over the past several years, in corners of the internet, media, and politics devoted to an exacting vision of masculine supremacy, testosterone has become a substance of mythical importance. Calling a political opponent or message-board adversary “low-T” is the new “soy boy,” “beta,” or “gay.” Right-wing influencers are touting dubious pills that promise to increase testosterone production for more energy, bigger muscles, and better boners. The Trump administration is bragging that the president has the highest T level Dr. Oz has ever seen in a man over 70.

All this is befitting of a political movement that wants to eliminate gender-affirming medical care and gets its health advice from the supplement ads on Tucker Carlson’s podcast. In the eyes of Hegseth and his peers, testosterone isn’t just a sex hormone present in most human beings or a potential gauge of underlying health issues. It’s a magic manly potion, an indisputable indicator of sexual power, a tool for turning matcha-swilling weaklings into musclebound superheroes incapable of expressing any emotion but rage.

Funny, I doubt if there's any testeosterone left in my wretched body, but I can assure you I am a blue-hot ball of screaming rage!

Telling The Truth

From The Hill, via Attention To The Unseen. This may raise a stink among certain elements. The truth hurts.

House Democrat: Hegseth testosterone screenings indicative of ‘homoeroticism’

The New England Democrat added that the Defense chief is the “embodiment” of the style of hypermasculine, homoerotic art drawn by Finnish artist Touko Valio Laaksonen, better known as Tom of Finland.

“So I feel like they must be looking at that [Tom of Finland’s art] as like their example for what men look like,” Balint said.

No, really? Could explain why none of them like girls. One might even wonder if this were a peculiar & pathetic means of trying to get women out of the military.

The actual testosterone story, as opposed to what these simpletons believe it to be. Essentially, a pointless exercise for most.

They Either Don't Know What It Is, Or They're Against It

From the yr. 1984. How do they know?
Not sure what to make of the LDS reference.

I s'pose the sheep have always been this way. They're apparently worse in 2026.

The evidence for this startling conclusion comes from the most significant opinion study you’ve never read or read about. Published in May, the Johns Hopkins Agora Institute and ReD Associates conducted an in-depth research of conservatives in three red counties in Michigan, South Carolina and Wyoming. The authors describe the content of “Faith, Freedom, Family, Place: An Ethnographic Study of Conservative Americans’ Relationships to Democracy” as follows:

This study relies on ethnographic research: sustained immersion in people’s homes, lives, and communities through extensive interviews, observations, participation, and relationship-building. Where much democracy research documents what people say they believe, ethnography examines how and why political worldviews take shape within the full context of daily experiences, relationships, and social environments.

The most fundamental issue the researchers attempted to resolve is the relationship their subjects had with what is commonly thought of as the American secular faith in democracy. What the study found is that the respondents either had a notion of what constituted democracy that greatly differed from what is taught in Civics 101 — when such a course is even offered — or rejected outright the very concept of democracy. In fact, the latter view was the majority opinion:

14 out of 21 participants in this study had an immediate negative reaction when asked about democracy . . . Sarah (mid 30s, WY), a homeschooling mother, put it plainly: “I don’t like the word democracy.”

Spotted at Hullabaloo. As noted, worth reading. No reforms or promises will give these people functioning minds that can be changed. Members of the "godless and wicked majority" who they think are "besieging" them had better get to work on actual besiegement, before it's too damn late.

Covers, Plagarism & Mutation

Today In Mental "Health" & The First Amendment

A minimalist classic released 60 yrs. ago come July 23rd.

No More Dissent, Smart-Asses!

'It's All Very Scientific': Is The Government Going To Declare 'Trump Derangement Syndrome' A 'Diagnosable Mental Illness'?

Sounds like Soviet "psychiatry" to this reporter.Every accusation, &c. Read this & then decide who needs psychiatric help.

"Each level has approximately 8 to 10 symptoms and you have to have certain number in each category to be able to qualify," she explained. "For example, a mild case would include people who throw shoes at the television set when Trump comes on, or have a meltdown when they hear a song that is associated with Trump, like YMCA. The moderates—and there are many more symptoms, I can't really get into all of them—but for moderates, TDS has taken over more of their lives. And for severe, it's even at a higher level."

Lieberman claimed that people like Rosie O'Donnell, Mary Trump, Jimmy Kimmel, "would-be assassins," and "people who attack Teslas because of Elon Musk" would be classified as having "severe TDS" and therefore require psychotherapy so they can "work on the problems in them that make them hate Trump."

"For men, it has to do with men who have low self-esteem and they are envious of Trump because Trump has the stereotypically all the things that a man—an alpha male—would and should have," Lieberman said. "He has a great education, Ivy League education. He was successful before he became president. He's become president two times. He has a gorgeous wife. He has a wonderful family. All of these things that these men who have low self-esteem either don't have or don't have enough of or don't feel like they'll ever have. So somehow Trump is to blame for their not having these things."

"The women who have TDS are women who have problems with men, starting with the pussy hats," she continued. "So you would work with them to help them; Trump would be the man, like the worst man, the man that they would imagine it would be worse to be married to, because he's an alpha male and because that's what they can't deal with. So you would work with them to try to get them to not have so much hatred towards men, perhaps have good relationships with men. And so you're really not working on the [hatred toward Trump] because if you get into a conversation about like, 'Why do you hate Trump?' They tell you, 'Well, he does this, and this, and this.' It's not about that. Whatever they would say, whatever executive orders they might say, or whatever political thing or sociological thing, whatever they would say that he did that is bad; it's not really about that. It's about their feelings towards him as a man."

Just a guess, but no one "throw[s] shoes at the television set when Trump comes on"; simply changing the channel seems much more likely. Those in the know find it highly amusing that Lumpy is associated w/ "YMCA".

And are you still on about the pussy hats? Naturally, because it's all explained by S-E-X. Specifically, sexual confusion, after all, every sane & manly man wants to be just like "alpha-male" Trump, & apparently every woman should want to have sex w/ Trump, & not worry about all the stupid, vicious &/or evil things he does & says.

Dr. Lieberman seems awfully well-educated to be spewing inanities like this, but we see she enjoys attention, & writing books.

• Bad Girls: Why Men Love Them & How Good Girls Can Learn Their Secrets, Cogito Media 2010
• Bad Boys: Why We Love Them, How to Live with Them & When to Leave Them

What does ol' Doc Freud have to say about attention-seeking? And seeking toxic relationships. Might have an issue or two herself.

Breeder Scum!

"Patriotic" paternalism/patriarchy. Really sums up the father-child relationship, dunnit?

Just because your jiz was functional & you found a humanoid receptacle for it doesn't make you special or different. It makes you a filthy animal, like trillions* of other insects. And your putrid animal spawn has made existence worse for everyone. Shame on you all!

I reject your patriarchy, paternalism, patrioitism & pater himself. What'd my father give me? Astigmatism & myopia! Thanks a lot, asshole who died tring to pass someone a curve while drunk. Too bad you didn't take whomever you ran into w/ you.

Jerkwad mother-fuckers like Donald Trump & Elon Musk are "fathers". And both had "fathers". Need I say more?

As always, there is little that is stupider than wishing anyone a "Happy" whatever stupid & bogus commercial holiday. Or a "Happy Memorial Day". Fuck you, illiterate, unthinking toads. Your incessant bullshit is exhausting.

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*Scientists estimate that there are about 10 quintillion (10,000,000,000,000,000,000) individual insects and bugs alive on Earth at any given moment. This staggering figure breaks down to about 1.4 billion to 200 million individual bugs for every single human on the planet. Put it back in your pants, loser. They won. You can't compete.

Today In E.A.I.A C.

Who's covering up what now?

Past attempts to whip up hysteria by right-wingers & the fake news. QAnon, baby!! (Note "Recent Posts".)

Daniel Ruetenik / CBS News:
What's missing from the Epstein files? Questions persist about unexplained redactions, missing documents, email gaps

Rachel Kahn / New Republic:   DOJ Refusing to Release Old Epstein Emails That Could Expose Trump

Alexander Willis / Raw Story:   DOJ sitting on secret Epstein email account that could expose Trump ties: report

Where's the outrage now, hypocrites?

Tighten Your Belts, Aging Wretches!

Actually, "comrade", it's not your money unless you've made F.I.C.A. payments.

Time to start comparing cat food flavors; whether or not you're an idiot who voted for this, you're about to be screwed. But w/ less Social Security & Medicare you won't be around long enough to suffer that much.

Bloomberg: “Halfway through the primary season, what’s not getting talked about much on the campaign trail? The Social Security Trust Fund’s new projection that it will run out of money by the end of 2032.”

“That’s upping the ante on the importance of the midterm races this November. With the Senate’s six-year terms, whoever wins this fall will be in office when the fund is depleted. Regardless of which party controls Congress, the next crop of politicians will have to decide whether to hike taxes to cover Americans’ Social Security checks, or slash benefits by an estimated 22%.”

The decision has been made by the Grand Fuck the Old Party:

The GOP Has A Plan For That

Once again their family values are revealed but the corporate news doesn't give a crap & fake news is no doubt in favor of replacing it all w/ some kind of bogus investment accounts. Anyone remember the "Third Rail of American Politics"? "You touch it, you die!" And the promises that no one currently receiving Social Security would have their payments cut? Republicans don't care any more; they "love inflation".

A rant from Filosofa that should be on the op-ed page of every rag & news site in this benighted nation of ours.

Mehmet Oz, who calls himself “Dr. Oz”, made this most asinine statement on Fox News while speaking about Medicaid requirements:

“You have to work. You were not put on this planet to sit at home and watch TV. The average person who’s on Medicaid, who’s able-bodied, watches 6.1 hours of television, or just hangs out, every day. That’s not why God put you here.”

What an asshole!!!  It happens that “able-bodied” people are NOT on Medicaid, asshole!  They are on Medicaid because they are disabled!!! So, did this God actually tell ol’ Mehmet why he put us here???  Does he have some direct line to that entity?  And how the Sam Hell does he know just how much television anyone watches per day!  And does the idiot understand that those who receive Medicaid are disabled, that they have medical issues that prevent them from being able to work?  I have an idea … let’s chop both his legs off, then tell him to get a job and not be such a sorry ass.  Maybe then he’ll actually understand!

Part of the war on wymyn too:

Women make up about 55% of all adult Social Security beneficiaries. However, they receive smaller average monthly checks compared to men due to historical differences in lifetime earnings.

Mature Americans, you have little to lose if you violently resist. Your lives are obviously w/o value to those in power, & you won't last long w/o your money & medical care, so get a gun & some ammo, or, if you're still driving around polluting the planet, redeem yourself by getting your wheels ready to run down Republicans. The war is at home!!

Can You Believe This Guy?

Serving in the Senate requires a test of strength now?

Ted Cruz on Talarico: "If you were making a list of 1,000 adjectives to describe this guy, 'masculine' would not be one of them. I mean, if a stiff breeze came by it would blow him over like a feather." pic.twitter.com/cBwv5qwQ87

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 9, 2026

EAIAC. But the idiot Democrats told Gov. Walz to lay off calling these weirdoes "weird".

Rafael, of course, thinks he's the Marlboro Man.

Or "Pete" Hegseth.

"Bounda Caca" means "full of it".

Primary Day 2026

Exclusive: House Ethics Committee investigating Rep. Jimmy Gomez over sexual misconduct allegations, sources say

Interesting these accusations are a bit late to affect this election. Gomez is this reporter's Representative, & because he's no radical, I'd already voted for the DSA-endorsed candidate, Angela Gonzales-Torres, 'though I suspect that incumbent Gomez will win.

Never been less interested in an election. All scum, all the time. Almost didn't arse myself.

Fruitbat Follow-Up

No question Handsome Dick Manitoba is a man.Some other New Yorkers, not so much.

Friday Reads: Trump Is Not a Manly Man. Manly Men are Not Obsessed With Redecorating

Priorities.As noted yesterday. bostonboomer has done their own research, & there's plenty.

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.

Come out of the closet & then get off the stage, you horrid scumbag! Also digby.

Queer As A Quail!

Straight Outta The Closet

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

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.”

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:

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

It obviously doesn't like women. See also: Roy Cohn.

[Political Wire]

Shut Your Festering Gob, You Tit!!

Cold Hard Facts From The Land Down Under:

An Australian responds to Lumpy's usual whining.

“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

[From Twitter, via Hullabaloo.]

Are The Breeder Scum Wising Up?

In further "Kill All The Humans" news, this, paywalled by some rag:

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?

A bit later: The fake news is very worried.

Matt Taibbi / Racket News:   Humanity Needs to Get Offline

Bryan Hyde / American Greatness:   Declining Fertility Rate Becoming ‘Existential Crisis’

Ireland Owens / The Daily Caller:   US Facing ‘Existential Crisis’ As Fertility Rate Continues To Decline

Dog Bites Man!

Is this sort of thing even "news" anymore? No one can possibly be surprised, 'though some may be disgusted & revolted. Xians, apparently, think it's how things should be. Father knows best!

Shannon Butler / WFTV:
Former ‘gay cure’ ministry leader Alan Chambers charged in underage sex sting
Bob Smietana / RNS:   Alan Chambers, former Exodus International leader, charged with soliciting minor
Quispe López / Advocate:   Former leader of ‘ex-gay’ Christian ministry arrested for soliciting sex from a minor

Can't even "cure" himself, if he does realize he's doing something more awful than the "sins" he thinks "the gays" are committing.

At least Gary Puckett tried to keep it in his pants.