It was raining this morning, and I stayed in, but Meade went out. Those are his photos and video.
Write about whatever you want in the comments.Hunyo 24, 2026
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It was raining this morning, and I stayed in, but Meade went out. Those are his photos and video.
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I lost my 8th Circuit case! Decided in less than 60 days!
A place of amusement gives free admission to those who present their papers and show that they are members of a Tribe. I claim that tribal membership is a proxy for race.
Eighth Circuit followed existing law that Indian tribes are a political entity and not considered a racial entity. But one has to have Indian blood to be a tribe member.
I'm seriously thinking about filing a cert petition. Justice Kavanaugh has written that the "special relationship" given to the Tribes needs to be rethought. I agree; especially with respect to third parties who are not the government and they are dealing with tribe members.
And, of course, SCOTUS is fed up with racial discrimination.
I have some other ideas, but cert is always a long shot.
Upon further review. The Buddha and Camus are really sides of the same coin. I can't have one without the other. In order to let go, I have to hold on first. Breathing in and out. The tides, you know. Yada yada.
Whether we are holding on or letting go, just know that it is only for a bit. Like the Sox are sucking bad right now, but I still follow and watch when I can.
There is a Latin American saying: "No hay mal que dure cien años, ni cuerpo que lo resista, ni aguacero que no acampe, ni mal que por bien no venga."
7.1 magnitude earthquake has hit Caracas, Venezuela. Trump will deny blame.
Caracas EQ caused by directed energy beam weapon when Maduro was liberated to the US. Just like vandals cause the algae to grow back.
Trump declares ‘national emergency,’ demands housing overhaul bill be scrapped in SAVE Act push ~ FOX News
The irony of a real estate mogul (pocket) vetoing legislation to make housing more affordable, which would make his party more electable, so he could get legislation to rig elections, in the name of getting his party re-elected.
Trump's capacity for political survival and his ability to avoid accountability have been pretty remarkable. However, he has the anti-Midas touch at this point. Even some of his most reliable supporters are tiring of the act and ready to move on from him.
I'm not sure that this housing proposal is going to actually resolve anything, but Trump's best hope at limiting the damage is to start enacting policies that help people. The problem for him is that even if he gets the policy right, it may take months before good policy translates into outcomes that people notice, and the November election is less than 5 months away. At a certain point, even people who otherwise trust Trump, stop believing his lies. This is his real problem.
“The Democrats are electing American-hating Communists and Republicans are worried about the Filibuster Rule.
Think about that...”
—— C3
You will always have 0bama/Biden, tinyee®!
We awoke to rain here as well. 91 degrees at 5am. Amazon purchased gauge said 26% humidity, but that can't be right when it's raining. Felt like a sauna all morning. First rain in 124 days in Vegas, which is no record. The record is 240 days back in 2020, when even the rain was ordered to not go out. The monsoon season starts July 1st. Weather nerds are saying El Nino is here this year and possibly even a super El Nino, which is just what we are praying for with our lakes and rivers drying up from last year's brutal La Nina, that brought record low snow in the Rockies. We need snow in them there mountains, and rain everyday if you want!
Iman, I saw that at Instapundit, and I don’t think it comes across the way they think. Most of the GOP Senators worried about the filibuster are worried it may be the only defense left if those communist got a majority. I realize many think (I’d be one) that DSA members would jettison the filibuster as fast they would pack SCOTUS. But you’re not going to convince the senators to believe it.
🚨Breaking A motorcade of 15 vehicles drove across the Lincoln Reflection Pool last month and is now suspected of damaging the pool's surface.
https://x.com/StevenCheung47/status/2052540371394081155?s=20
I join the President's request to arrest these vandals.
IEE, don't you ever get bored with the same shit-stained view of every development, because we do. Imagine for a moment that Trump wasn't responsible for your shortcomings. Remember, they were there before 2016.
"Imagine for a moment that Trump wasn't responsible for your shortcomings."
Somebody else was, then. And after Trump is gone, somebody else will be.
Trump is probably going to release that video today showing the person who cut the 350’ gash in the Reflecting Pool to sabotage it. The Dept of the Interior & DC US Attorney have probably just been too busy to release it but I’m sure we will see it now because Trump doesn’t lie.
“…realize many think (I’d be one) that DSA members would jettison the filibuster as fast they would pack SCOTUS. But you’re not going to convince the senators to believe it.”
…it all makes sense when looked at from the perspective that congress has contempt for voters, especially when their wishes conflict with what Congress wants. One vote short because Collins has a crisis of conscience or we need to protect her. When they need two its collins/murkowski. Need four? those and two Trump haters on their way out. Cornhusker kickback, parliamentarian we can fire says sorry no. Credit to them for creativity at spreading the blame around for coming up a little short..
Yep, I understand that take, Leland. Republicans are somewhat hamstrung, as some of them are RINOs so they are really just moderate Democrats (and to the left of Fetterman).
That asshole Thune has gotta go.
..states are getting good at quashing citizen ballot questions, too. administrative mistake so sorry Massachusetts voters on that tax cut initiative. Yes we know you voted for it decades ago but we’ve just ignored that vote for decades…isn’t there a statute of limitations or sumpthin’?
It doesn’t matter the who, somehow they’ll find the numbers…
Remember when Ann et al were all wadded up at Kamala being appointed, as if it was any different than the last half a dozen candidates…
Sadly there is no Jaye P. Morgan tag on Althouse. There is one for The Gong Show but rarely used. There are many references to the show and characters however…
even during the first Obama administration they failed on card check despite the brief supermajority. Gish golly we just couldn’t get it done…
I cannot keep El Nino & La Nina, straight.
Like Medicaid and Medicare.
La nina is bad i think
There is a Latin American saying: "No hay mal que dure cien años, ni cuerpo que lo resista, ni aguacero que no acampe, ni mal que por bien no venga."
This too shall pass - short and sweet.
Pero sesente y siete son suficiente
“La nina is bad i think”
especially for AZ
https://x.com/MattSeedorff/status/2069649777848172626
El Nino is warming in the Pacific that brings moisture to the southwest and the Rockies in rain and snow. La Nina is the opposite. We love a big fat baby Jesus out here.
https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2026/06/24/former-la-fire-chief-sues-la-mayor-karen-bass-and-sparks-are-already-flying-n4954330
Trump Stuns Republicans With Whirlwind Day of Frustration and Finger-Pointing ~ Fox News
I find it impossible to believe that Republicans could be stunned by anything Trump does or says anymore.
Trump can do whatever he wants because Congressional Republicans are too craven to stand up to him. The anonymous crybabies are right: he’s obliterating their midterm chances at every opportunity. The two deserve each other.
Lem posted the link to the UK report read by Streamer Asmongold. He read the entire report live on stream and then loaded the video to YouTube. It’s very long but worth listening to. Asmongold says he’s dyslexic but he’s a very good reader. Well worth a listen. I’m about a third of the way (listening at 1.2X) thx Lem
https://youtu.be/Q6xOU_EObus?is=PGunmsEWrEwgCMSj
If a contractor screwed up the pool, that's a pretty small thing in the course of current events.
Alternatively, if Democrats vandalized it (and countless other things) because they lost an election, then by Democrat standards that's worse than Pearl Harbor and 9/11 combined.
We'll just have to wait to see if we had another cataclysmic even in the capital, or a warranty claim.
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When Democrats vote for one Jewish Zionist candidate who dislikes the current Israeli government over another Jewish Zionist candidate who supports the current Israel government, that’s the worst kind of antisemitism.
"Congressional Republicans are too craven to stand up to him."
Zero recess appointments, and refusal to pass the Save America Act which both Trump and a large bipartisan majority want badly.
Do you have the internet?
"[..Save America Act which both Trump and a large bipartisan majority want badly."
Claims of broad bipartisan enthusiasm are overstated—the bill is divisive and has not cleared the Senate. The housing bill Trump has delayed actually had the strong bipartisan backing your claim attributes to SAVE.
Having mastered epidemiology, toilet paper supply chain logistics, bridge design, submersible dynamics, and algae management, bagoh20 would like to explain why the Trump Iran deal is better than people think...
I'm not enjoying the diminishing daily daylight in the top half of this planet. It's only downhill from here (until December 21).
According to TMZ, the pool has been repaired and "is looking magnificent". Of course this means the story will no longer be covered in the media.
Just like you, I don't know much about those subjects. Unlike you, I know that.
Anyone believing that a bipartisan housing bill will actually create "affordable housing" is delusional. It will create a bunch of high paying phone baloney government jobs and lots of revenue for consulting firms on how to create the housing, and perhaps even a demonstration house or two.
Want an affordable house? Come out to the county I live in. Don't like the vacant fixer uppers available? Buy an acre or so (about $5K an acre), buy a modular house and plop it on the land. If you don't want to deal being your own water and sewer company buy a fixer upper in town, demolish it and build anew. Last house fire in the village was because the knob and tube wiring in a wall overheated... I ruled out several houses before buying here because when I went into the basement there were fuse boxes and some of the fuses fed knob and tube wiring.
You can tell that IEE doesn't believe the crap he writes. If he was that dumb, he wouldn't be able to write at all.
Nobody really believes Democrats are going to fix anything anywhere. They never have, they don't care about that, and now they don't even care if you know it. They count on mental weakness and hatred. There is no shortage of either today.
Dave,
You raise some interesting points, the chief one being, when is a race not a race?
1. North American tribes have consistently refused to allow genetic surveys of the whole tribal assemblage or of any of its parts. They say that they will not allow European scientific methods, i.e., genetics, to define what it means to be a tribal member.
2. THe US entered into treaty relations with different tribes on the basis that these tribes were nations although obviously the tribes did not and could not regard themselves as nations since "nation" was a European concept.
3. Currently tribal membership is usually based on presence on a certain census roll. However, individuals with no relationship to any tribal member can be accepted into the tribe with full tribal rights. This kind of adoption has existed in all the tribes throughout their history as we know it. The Deerfield Raid was, in part, an effort to recruit new tribal members by kidnapping young children and integrating them into the tribe.
Is a tribe in the US at present based on nature or nurture? I think at present two brothers could come up to a venue and one brother be admitted with privileges which were denied to the other brother because one brother had been adopted by a tribe and the other had not. Yet if it were shown by genetics that a tribe was composed of descendants of European adoptees who had gradually replaced the descendants of the original ancestors, then I think questions might be raised about tribal legal privileges and land ownership and treaty rights. I suppose your case is raising these issues and might clarify some of them. If someone claims treaty rights without a blood relationship to those with the treaty was made is he making a valid claim? Is it racist to grant the claim or to deny it? Or both since many feel that identity is true and false both, at the same time?
El Nino is warming in the Pacific that brings moisture to the southwest and the Rockies in rain and snow.
And warmer/drier conditions for the Pacific NW. I prefer El Nino because instead of four feet of rain during the winter (during La Nina), we only get 12-18 inches or so. And very little snow ... if any at all.
IEE must be so proud of his party's nomination of Platner and Darializa Chevalier, who is openly campaigning on genociding Jews, keeping murderers out of jail, forcing kids to be trans, and who openly and adamantly hates America, boasting of using the American flag to wipe various body parts of herself on it.
So far, only Fetterman has criticized her. Certainly not people like IEE or Chuck or the rest of the leftist gang here. She represents them. She is them. Openly traitorous, and nary a dimes bit of difference between her and old Adolf or Stalin.
Someone noticed the amount of clearly recyclable items that were in this trash can.
It's the viral video that just keeps on giving... and the city recycling program is bullshit.
ai: "Yes, NYC has a mandatory recycling program."
YouTube: "UK government sends letters to rape gang survivors informing them that their abusers are being released early"
Right now it feels as if some kind of phase transition is occurring, and I worry that our 'leadership' are once again collectively losing their minds the way they did in 2016-17 and 2020-22. Only this time there doesn't seem to be a specific thing (MeToo, Covid, spazzing over race) that they're losing their minds over, which is perhaps more concerning.
Over the past two weeks I've heard from several former students at different institutions (pretty elite ones) that this past term many professors just seems to stop doing stuff. Email doesn't get answers, professors don't show up for vivas and other events, etc.
My wife came home from work incredibly frustrated because several different managers on different projects believed that reports or emails said the opposite of what they actually said (so one was berating a supplier for failing to delivered 700 parts, but the email had said that the parts HAD been delivered, but there were 800 of them and they had been mislaid in the shipping bay). "It's like they suddenly can't read."
My own institution has been spamming out gigantic emails to "explain" simple things like "get all your receipts in before June 15" in such complex and opaque language that everyone just ignores them. Apparently at the end of May there was a "mandatory" training that only 6 out of 100+ faculty showed up for because everyone just ignored or deleted the email.
Is AI-use pushing our management class over the edge? Is there an arm's race going on in which people use and LLM to effortlessly generate gigantic emails, memos, reports, policies, etc., and then because those texts are so huge, other manager-types use AI to summarize, and then use AI again to reply, and the accumulation of hallucinations plus the fact that no human is actually understanding what's going on is causing the managerial class to collectively crash out?
What's going on?
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The best fix for housing in urban areas would be a hard-core Giuliani-type crackdown on crime in the areas where it is most common. Crime and vandalism degrade local environments so significantly that people will be unable--or will refuse—to improve or even repair housing, much less go through the expense of converting empty commercial properties to residential ones.
Just rounding up the 1% of people who are habitual criminals and keeping them locked up somewhere would massively improve the quality of life for the working-class people that the government and NGO class is supposedly so eager to help.
Is there such a word? LONGGOING as antonym for shortcoming
Mrs. Hawkeye wanted fresh fish for dinner, so she took me to the Bordeaux covered market (le marche des Capucins). There was every kind of creature imaginable. The poissoniere wasn’t busy so he scaled and filleted a whole dorado for us. Now, off to seek out a cold bottle of Muscadet to accompany.
Two different cases- mil boyfriend is half tribe. His mom was a tribal elder. He gets called uncle by the tribe kids in town and in sense is tribe except he lives across the street not on tribal land and doesn’t participate in the casino $…sister in law is some low fraction of a different tribe and is full Scandinavian blonde but could receive full benefits. chooses not to participate…
“ Anyone believing that a bipartisan housing bill will actually create "affordable housing" is delusional. It will create a bunch of high paying phone baloney government jobs and lots of revenue for consulting firms on how to create the housing, and perhaps even a demonstration house or two.”
Exactly. Pretty much and attempt to build “affordable housing” is just an excuse for grifting. The purpose isn’t to actually build any units is just a way to make money for the politicians, their families, and their cronies.
You are welcome Eva Marie.
Looks like NYC Jewish Democrats are mostly antisemitic. That is why I say that anybody who thinks that criticism of Israel is antisemitism probably doesn’t have any close Jewish friends.
I, for one, am thrilled the N.Y. commies are sending three of their own to congress. They will join several other nutcases in the hallowed halls. The American public will see first hand the direction the country is headed when these crazed humans speak. It will become a turning point, one way or the other.
Do the N.Y.C. antisemites know Brad Lander, who they just nominated, is Jewish?
One prominent NYC Jewish person, Jessica Tarlov, is adamant that people separate Jews and Israel because they are not the same thing. I can’t tell if that’s genuine reflection on the recent deeds of Israel, or simply wishing to be accepted by the left crowd in NYC by denouncing Israel.
The affordable housing tax credit already exists and has for a long time. The biggest impediment to affordable housing isn’t the federal government. It’s the local zoning boards.
Dan Goldman must feel like an idiot. Carried the water in congress for the Commies, only to be thrown overboard. Of course it’s been reported he’s not the sharpest machete in the drawer.
Ritual denouncing of “Israel” is the new requirement for Democrats. It is a sleight of hand. The people who won in NYC are not “critical of Israel” as the sanitized local “news” put it here in Gainesville. No, they shout “from the river to the sea” and “palestine (sic) must be free!” Those are not criticism but calls to eliminate the state of Israel. It is the only country in the world that the demo-social-fascists call to be destroyed.
Tarlov exhibits the age-old “hope they eat me last” reaction to an existential threat. First they came for the Israelites. But I don’t live in Zion so I will go along to get along. People are warning Jews in NYC “don’t wear a kippah!” “Don’t wear a Star of David!” Don’t be a JEW in public. Does that sound like Israel is their target, really?
https://substack.com/@dossier/note/c-282102188?r=2czur
No shes an idiot forgot her frog costume
She worked? for a reputable pollster doug schoen
To build a house in this part of PA you need to install a $30k electrified septic system. Multiple tanks, filtration media that requires replacement. Crazy.
It is the only country in the world that the demo-social-fascists call to be destroyed.
For now
Until Caitlin Clark arrived I had never watched an WNBA game. Her amazing talent drew me and many more into its orbit. Apparently because she is white and heterosexual the league is doing everything possible to deny her contribution to its elevation. Leaving her off the 30th anniversary poster is the last straw for me.
Aggie, you asked in an earlier post about how the DSA came to be voted into office in NYC. Apathy and momentum. Using memory so check if it sounds wrong: only 13% of the city’s eligible voters were required for Mamdani victory. Most people don’t care don’t even register to vote (as far as they know). Most of those who register rarely vote in local elections or primaries and only show up for presidential elections. That’s the apathy part and why people like Scott Pressler and the late Charlie Kirk were so important to Trump’s win last time, registering new voters is hard but necessary work.
On the left all the energy and so the momentum driving change is from energetic commies. D incorporated like GOPe is flat out of energy ideas and motion. Listless.
American politics going forward is a death match between MAGA and Maoist revolutionaries and the Uniparty is mostly united in fighting Trump. That’s where we are.
Too bad that like the turncoat Paul Ryan said in his brief ineffective leadership (“I’m still undecided” on whether to back Trump or not) senate snail Thune is presently undecided between Trump or communist takeover.
Here we are at the beginning of being awash in our 250th birthday, recognizing the sheer brilliance and fortitude of our founders and subsequent nation builders, and the current crop of congresspeople can’t even bring themselves to denounce the communists, socialists and islamists that seek to destroy our great nation. May they all dig deep and find and follow the correct bearing so that our fellow citizens and progeny will prosper and survive in this exceptional place.
Without passing the Save America Act the R’s will never win another presidential election. It will not pass in this session. The only chance of passage is winning the midterms.
hanuman_prodigious_leaper said...
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6/25/26,12:45 AM
LOL 🩷
Breezy said...
Here we are at the beginning of being awash in our 250th birthday, recognizing the sheer brilliance and fortitude of our founders and subsequent nation builders, and the current crop of congresspeople can't even bring themselves to denounce the communists, socialists and islamists that seek to destroy our great nation.
May they all dig deep and find and follow the correct bearing so that our fellow citizens and progeny will prosper and survive in this exceptional place.
6/25/26,7:50 AM
Amen 🇺🇸
Humperdink said...
“Without passing the Save America Act the R’s will never win another presidential election.”
That prediction was also made by Trump 45, only he was arguing expanded voting provisions meant that "you'd never have a Republican elected in this country again." That earlier claim was about expanding ballot access whereas the current issue is essentially the mirror image—that restricting registration through the SAVE Act is necessary for Republicans to keep winning.
Trump considers the Save America Act a national emergency because if he doesn't impose this voter suppression act he will lose both houses in the mid-terms. Elsewhere I read Bannon recommending MAGA taking guns to the voting booth.
We desperately need a Save America From Trump Act.
"Voter suppression" Yes indeed, we want to suppress fraudulent voting by non-citizens and ballot harvesting.
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