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Eliminationist rhetoric about Jews is always a right wing thing, even though everyone in The Discourse pretends antisemitism is solely a left wing issue.

Depression

That was why Tom Kean says he was away and hospitalized for 4 months. Good he found the help he needed, though I bet we'll be treated to about 5 days of people praising his bravery and discussing mental illness as if it's an actual real and bad thing, who will then go back to talking about it being a fake thing if suffered by people who can't take 4 months off.

I suspect the legislative record of Tom Kean (R) on related issues is exactly what you would expect, but really even if not, the (R) says enough.

4 Of 9 Justices Can't Read

5-4 on the constitutional question of birthright citizenship, 6-3 on the law.

A bunch of people are going to pretend to be confused by this, as many thought it would be 8-1 at worst.

I don't waste my beautiful mind parsing their decisions anymore, but I am sure you can find more serious analysis elsewhere.

NPR briefly posted, and removed, a story saying Alito was retiring. Hilarious stuff. Good job, Nina.

Unclear whether they just accidentally published a standard pre-write or accidentally published the news before it was real. In any case, I hope he has much more time to watch Fox News.

Did He Find The Lost Ark

Better be good!

Westfield, New Jersey — One day before Republican Rep. Tom Kean Jr. planned to return to Washington, the long-missing congressman sat on the steps of his tidy Tudor-style home in North Jersey, sifting through mail beside his wife.

Kean, wearing a gray polo, offered a casual wave and headed inside when he noticed a reporter from CNN on his street. Then, he dispatched a spokesperson for his campaign to deliver a message that his own GOP colleagues have been eager to hear for months.

The 57-year-old congressman will be “fully transparent” about his nearly four-month absence when he returns to Washington on Tuesday, spokesperson Harrison Neely told CNN.

"Strong Borders"

You (and they) can argue if they were in charge that their tough on immigration stance would be different than Trump's. I can even believe that's true! But in the middle of (looks around at all this), this brands you as nothing other than "Trump lite" when people either want anti-Trump or The Full Trump.

Those Liz Cheney Republicans will vote for us next time, bro, I promise, and when we get enough of them we'll never have to hear the pig squealings of The Left again.

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"One Crazy Lefty"

If "one" is all it takes to ruin your cunning political strategy, I do not think it is so cunning.

The reaction from Democratic leaders this week was mixed, at best. Some regard Mamdani not as a saviour, but an existential threat. Centrists warn of electoral suicide, fearing that a leftward lurch will doom their chances in swing states in November’s US midterm elections. For Third Way, a centrist Democratic thinktank in the tradition of Bill Clinton, the New York results were a disaster.

Matt Bennett, its executive vice-president of public affairs, said: “It’s a bummer, and it’s a problem – not because there’s any danger of losing those districts to Republicans, but because those kinds of candidates and their ideas and rhetoric can be weaponised against Democrats running in tough races. We’ve seen this before, with ‘Defund the police’, and we’re worried about it happening again.”

The concern was echoed by Joe Walsh, a former Republican congressman turned Democrat and Trump critic. He warned: “Democrats have given Republicans a huge fucking gift. Republicans will do what I used to do: one crazy lefty says ‘defund the police’, and then Republicans and conservative media tag the whole party with ‘defund the police’. They’re gonna try to make the whole party out to be crazy, America-hating, democratic socialists and, to a degree, it’ll work.”

The Prayers of Devils Fill the Midnight Sky

At least they're somewhat incompetent.

They aren't completely incompetent, of course, and we shouldn't rely on there incompetence to save us, but they are, fortunately, incompetent.

State (and county) fairs are a thing. The country is filled with them every years. There are people, presumably not all Woke Libturds, who know how to put on a big event like that, who know what kinds of things would interest visitors.

Somehow they didn't find any of these people.

It isn't precisely the same as outsourcing your cancer research to "some shit I read on the internet," the whole "I do my own research" nonsense, but it isn't very different. People who know nothing assuming they, or their rich pals, know best. People who can't even delegate competently. People who think things are actually easy, so if things are broken it's because of DEI.

People who have never organized a church bake sale, or equivalent, or thought about how you might for 15 seconds. People who think the food at events just magically appears, like it did when mom took care of things.

Sure Why Not

Not a chance MY PRESIDENT is lying.

US President Donald Trump said Iran has requested a meeting that will be held in Qatar on Tuesday, despite Tehran earlier denying that any technical talks have been scheduled.

Occasional Surprises

Not that you have to hand it to them.

Just now: SCOTUS sides with grace periods for mail voting!

In a 5-4 decision by Barrett, with Roberts & 3 liberals, court says that it's alright for mail ballots to be received after Election Day (*as long as they were sent by then*).https://t.co/9ynHklzmVV

— Taniel (@Taniel) June 29, 2026

The correct call on all this voting stuff is obvious no matter which "side" you imagine it benefits (and I am not sure the Trumpers are correct in how they imagine that, for some of this).

At Least The War Is Over, Again

"Truce" talk happened Sunday night, right on schedule for the stock market opening.

The US and Iran will “stand down for now,” a Trump administration official said after both sides traded fire near the Strait of Hormuz. Technical talks with Iran remain “on track,” said a US official. It’s not clear yet what Iran’s position is on the matter.

Deadpan final sentence there. 

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The Greatest Event In American History

I admit I am curious about why, precisely, this looks so sad. I don’t mean the attendance. I get that.  DC (Besźel DC not Ul Qoma DC) is not exactly MAGAland and conservatives in the rest of the country know they will be shot by BLM Antifa Supersoldiers if they visit.

I mean who was responsible and why they were unable/unwilling to create a mildly compelling product.

Peter Doocy claims "people are still coming out" to Trump's 250th fair -- even as the camera shot shows clearly behind him that almost nobody is there 😆

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 28 June 2026 at 16:38

We Believed The Computer God Could Do Everything

A lot of the big corps/institutions have done this without any actually proven use cases. It has been "install AI and fire people."

Ford has admitted to rehiring hundreds of human workers after its aggressive Al adoption strategy backfired.

The US automaker hired over 350 veteran engineers, referred to internally as "gray beards", over the past three years in order to address mistakes made by automated

This is how you get paid the big bucks:

“Mistakenly, we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence and ingesting the design requirements that we had, that that would produce a high-quality product.”

I don't think older workers are automatically better in all fields, but there are some where keeping around the "gray beards" maintains necessary institutional knowledge that can't easily be maintained and transmitted otherwise.  

 

At Least The War Is Over

 

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