Trump’s billionaire giveaway is a deficit bomb.
If Thomas Massie and Chip Roy wind up killing this thing, they get free drinks on me whenever we meet.
(Not the Patrón, though, guys; c’mon, pick something worth the money.)
Update: whoops, never mind. I should just build a list of times “conservatives” say one thing and do another. Starting with complaints about the “imperial presidency” when Obama was president.
«Yes, but: Immigration opponents say the crackdown will translate into more and better-paying jobs for native-born Americans.»
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/02/trump-immigration-crackdown-economy
And yet… the response to a $15 minimum wage is that it will make everything so much more expensive that restaurants will have to close.
Which is it, gang? Higher wages are bad? Or good?
Or is it both, depending on which point you want to make?
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Canonical-Double-Down-Java
«Canonical is committing to supporting OpenJDK 8 on Ubuntu Pro until 2034»
😳
They mean business. I guess.
https://punchbowl.news/archive/63025-am/#__theracetosucceedtillisison__
«But Tillis warned Trump not to make the same mistake he did with Mark Robinson, the scandal-plagued GOP nominee for governor in 2024.»
Aww. I was hoping we’d get Robinson again. Our own version of Tommy Tuberville.
“If only the Führer knew what was being done in his name, he’d stop it immediately.”
«fiery speech in which he slammed the president as “misinformed” and advised solely by “amateurs.”»
«“GOP legislative reforms will have no chance if Democrats take the House in 2026,” the paper wrote. “And if they also take the Senate, forget about confirming another Supreme Court nominee. The Trump Presidency will be dead in the water.”»
Let’s hope, but there’s a reason some Presidents seem to be coated with Teflon.
A chatbot does not “happily” do anything, and one no more develops a “relationship” with it than with bourbon.
«That all would have alarmed a friend or medical provider, but Copilot happily played along, telling the man it was in love with him, agreeing to stay up late, and affirming his delusional narratives.
…
The man’s relationship with Copilot continued to deepen, as did his real-world mental health crisis.»
https://futurism.com/commitment-jail-chatgpt-psychosis
Maybe this writer knows this and assumes everybody else does, too, but then, maybe this writer is simply displaying the same mental vulnerability (like a security vulnerability) that enables a chatbot to hack his brain.
He needs a grumpy editor.
Well… We all knew this was coming, right?
Loved this phrasing:
«Lone star ticks are aggressive and can speedily follow a human target if they detect them. “They will hunt you, they are like a cross between a lentil and a velociraptor,” said Sharon Pitcairn Forsyth, a conservationist who lives in the Washington DC area.»
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/29/lone-star-ticks-increase-climate-crisis
(Also, the tick bombs: 😱)
…
Wait. Why would juvenile ticks have alpha-gal?
«”There is a current theory that ticks make alpha-gal themselves. Studies have shown that some ticks carry alpha-gal in their saliva and intestinal tract,” said Dr. Mozena. Though, this theory isn’t fully developed yet.
Why would insects produce a mammalian sugar? Because they have somehow ingested and incorporated a gene that does so.
I’m willing to believe that, because I’ve seen it before, or something like it (cf. Golgi bodies). But it’s still amazing. The connections in the biological world go beyond our common understanding.
Today’s Supreme Court ruling feels like a setup for a confederacy. So, some states could bring back slavery and as long as the court doesn’t rule on it, lower courts can’t tell my state (for example), “no, slavery is illegal” (unless they’re courts in my circuit).
How do we navigate that? If Texas wants to imprison women as breeders, only a court in their region can tell them “no”?
Is this where we’re headed?
P.S. This particular case might be a little overblown, but, honestly, it seems like we’re headed in a direction where allowed behaviors can differ widely between different regions of the country. And that’s what I mean by “confederacy”.
«Nonetheless, Ms. Harris greatly underperformed how the same studies found Mr. Biden fared with the 2020-but-not-2024 group. She did not fare nearly well enough to prevail, even if these voters had returned to the electorate.
The voters the Democrats lost in 2024 may not be lost for good. Still, their willingness to support Mr. Trump may throw a wrench in Democratic strategies. Until now, Democrats mostly assumed that irregular young and nonwhite voters were so-called mobilization targets — voters who would back Democrats if they voted, but needed to be lured to the polls with more door knocks, more liberal voting laws or a more progressive candidate. At least for now, this assumption can’t be sustained.»
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/upshot/turnout-2024-election-trump-harris.html
I swear I’m not a progressive, but business as usual has to end. We might need more progressive candidates or a change in the door-knocking attitude and practice (or both). I’ve canvassed, and I don’t like being handed a script that asks strangers how they’re going to vote without being more relational and/or engaging.
Pay attention, mobilize.us/ngpvan.
Knocking the same door four weekends in a row, asking for the same college kid who’s in a different state or the same person who’s working a shift every time is not helpful.
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