Sacred Duties

I'll leave it at that. 

A Bay Area couple have been accused of shooting and killing their son-in-law in a suburban sports park on Saturday afternoon, the local police said.

The man, Jonathan McKinsey, 40, was found dead with multiple gunshot wounds around 3 p.m. in a parking lot at Dublin Sports Grounds, an athletic complex and playground in Dublin, Calif., about 35 miles east of downtown San Francisco, according to Dublin Police Services.

Mr. McKinsey was director of engineering for the games department of The New York Times, according to a company spokesman. Before Mr. McKinsey began working at The Times in 2023, he worked for several tech companies including Splunk, Coursera and Oracle, according to his LinkedIn profile.

The authorities arrested Shouyong Zhang and Shili Chen, both 76, in the shooting. They are a married couple who live in Dublin and are the parents of Mr. McKinsey’s wife, the police said.

No motive was described by the police for the shooting, but Mr. McKinsey and his wife had a turbulent marriage and were living separately, records show. Each had filed requests for domestic violence restraining orders against the other last year in Alameda County. Mr. McKinsey had also pleaded not guilty last year to two charges of misdemeanor child abuse.

Mr. McKinsey was a transgender man and accused his wife, Candice Jang, and his in-laws of abusing him because of his identity, according to his filing for a restraining order in December 2025. He said his mother-in-law called him and one of his sons a “pervert” and a “monster” after the boy tried on dresses, and he accused his father-in-law of punching him in the chest while he was recovering from double mastectomy surgery in 2010.

Violations

Once upon a time you could reasonably trust that this kind of thing would get it yanked from  Apple's App Store.

In a completely unsurprising turn of events, Meta's Muse AI is stealing Apple Messages, past and present, and uploading the contents to its cloud, even if explicitly told not to.

Of course personal privacy matters, but this is also a nightmare for anyone with a job requiring any kind of privacy (health, legal, etc).

Out Of Touch Kentucky Coastal Elites

Beshear is ruining all the work consultants have put in to make Dems more bigoted.

“Well, sports need to be fair and there should be no unfair advantage, but in Kentucky, we already had rules in place with our Kentucky High School Athletic Association that prevented any of the things that you saw ultimately in colleges or the rest. In Kentucky, we only had one trans athlete,” Beshear said. “She was a seventh grader that started a field hockey team in her middle school to make friends.

“But that bill you’re talking about didn’t just do that. It banned all trans care for youth, any and all, and removed the ability of any parent to make decisions on the healthcare for their children. So it was sweeping,” said Beshear. “But, here’s my take. We don’t throw anybody under the bus. That is not the party that we are. We start as a party of compassion and empathy. And I tell you what, if we want to ruin sports, put government in charge of them.”

Also fuck Jake Tapper and every journalist who pretends this stuff is just about sports. 

I don’t think Beshear is perfect here, either, but better than most.

Boys (not trans girls that i knew of) played on the field hockey team in my high school's league. In 1988.

Anyone getting upset about "fairness in 7th grade sports" is a wrong'un 

Foreign Actor

Would these people ever lie?

On Monday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Fox News that it was clear a "foreign actor" had been involved.

 

Without providing evidence or giving further details, he told the "Hannity" programme: "What happened, what almost happened, what could have happened in the UK over the weekend is a very serious situation. It's one that clearly involves the hands of a foreign actor."

Speaking earlier at the Oval Office, US President Donald Trump said he was "surprised" the five men who were arrested had been released.

"We know everything about them, we would not have released them," he said, adding that the UK had worked with the US "very closely" on this.

This is very funny. As I said yesterday, the British press would likely just have "moved on" and forgoten this whole thing. Donald isn't making that easy.

Wot's This All About Then

The British press is very good at hyping up things - such as potential acts of terrorism - and then pretending they never happened once they don't fit the preferred storyline.

Donald's little intervention ensured interest of the US press, making that slightly harder to achieve.

Afternoon

Busy with some things. Real life intervenes sometimes.

Sure Why Not

Shot:

FAIRFORD, England, Sept 27 (Reuters) - British police arrested five men on suspicion of explosives and terrorism offences on Sunday near an air base that has been used by the US to ​strike Iran, after a tip-off that three vans had been seen heading to the military airfield.

US President Donald Trump said the suspects had been looking to ‌do "big damage" and had been under investigation by British and US authorities.

Chaser

Counterterrorism police in Britain on Monday said that five men arrested in connection with a possible terror plot at a British military base were being released on bail but remained under investigation.

Laurence Taylor, the head of Britain’s counterterrorism police, said in a brief statement to reporters that the men would be “subject to stringent conditions on their movement and contact with others.”

 

Protection Racket

The scam grows.

I think the people who make the malware bots should be liable.

Chest Thumping

One isn’t supposed to say it, as "we" are good and they are bad, but the US and Israel have legitimized tactics of "war" that would have been labeled terrorism (and still will be, depending on who is doing it). I have no idea how much this is bluster and how much is concerning.

Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, says his country is open to “real diplomacy” but ready to confront any new US attacks, even if it means an “apocalyptic war”.

Morning

Mild Monday

My God It's Full Of Stars

Trump: "I'm rejecting their deal. They want to make a deal where they open the strait immediately ... we're winning tremendously. We have total control of the Hormuz Strait ... that deal would not be acceptable. They want to immediately open the Hormuz Strait."

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) September 26, 2026 at 4:06 PM

Afternoon

Weekending

Endgame

Busy with things today so likely no brilliant posts so a conversation topic: how do you think the Iran situation will "end"?

Morning

Sunday funday 

Saturday Evening

Enjoy

Lifestyles Of The

Not even sure how to describe her.

Former Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s onetime bodyguard and romantic partner was arrested this month in Maricopa County, Arizona, after he was accused of breaking into her home and damaging $200,000 worth of artwork and expensive alcohol.

Vaxxed?

I am very curious about what suddenly led to the CDC recommending that all adults be fatally poisoned by the Covid vaccine.

The "Make Things Better" Button

I do think Trump I would be desperately searching for it. Not that he would recognize it, necessarily, but he would be looking for it.

I don't think sundowning malignant narcissist Trump II really gives a shit anymore. 

Worrying!

At Least The War Is Over

I suspect the "war with Iran" will be an issue in 2028. 

 Trump has rejected Iran’s proposal for a seven-day ceasefire and has told aides he expects to resume bombing Iran after the November midterms, U.S. officials said.

Morning

Slacker Saturday