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  1. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “NPR is decrying the Trump administration’s leadership to remove sugary energy drinks from SNAP.
    The publication argues that children’s daily consumption of government-funded energy drinks is “normal.””
    https://x.com/calleymeans/status/1936502987104600285
    Naturally. Seeing as how NPR is as far removed from poor people as our local progressives, and God knows none of them have genuinely worked for a living, I can’t say I’m a bit surprised.
    I guess that if you have TDS, anything goes.

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  2. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Winning – Supreme Court allows Trump to restart swift deportation of migrants away from their home countries
    https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/supreme-court-allows-trump-to-restart-swift-20390263.php
    😉

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  3. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    Scenes 132 pm
    Looks like you get your info from tickytock or Twitter.
    Arkansas and Indiana, those damn commie libs
    https://www.npr.org/2025/04/20/nx-s1-5368289/two-states-want-to-remove-candy-and-soda-from-the-list-of-snap-benefits

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  4. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Clogged arteries causing that failure to comprehend the 132 @537 LOL
    😉

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  5. The Estonian Fox Avatar
    The Estonian Fox

    From Jeff Childers C&C blog yesterday – Haven’t seen these anywhere else-
    https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/the-bourne-coincydink-monday-june
    1. Not that he’ll get any credit— a point the President himself made. But, two days ago, Business Insider Africa ran a story headlined, “Trump declares end to Rwanda–DRC conflict with historic peace agreement”…corporate media largely ignored the massive story.
    The Rwanda–DRC war killed more people than any conflict since WWII. But now, instead of celebrating, it’s crickets among Trump’s critics. If ending that kind of war doesn’t merit a Peace Prize, what does? It’s almost like they don’t really care about peace. (In a separate poll, our 44th voted NO to the Peace Prize proposal)
    2. The Pakistani government’s X account posted Friday, “The Government of Pakistan has decided to formally recommend President Donald J. Trump for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize, in recognition of his decisive diplomatic intervention and pivotal leadership during the recent India-Pakistan crisis.” (Again, 44 & 46 both voted NO)
    3. re Vance Boelter (the Minnesota killer of local pols) – “…claimed in a letter addressed to the FBI —to Kash Patel— that Governor Tim Walz (D-MN) asked him to assassinate Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN). The one-page-and-a-half letter was described as rambling and “difficult to read,” but Boelter claimed he had been secretly trained by the U.S. Military and was asked to perform the killing so that Walz could run for Klobuchar’s Senate seat.
    Police say they found the handwritten letter in Boelter’s truck.
    …the media coverage has been painfully incurious. No mainstream outlet appears to be investigating any contacts or overlap between Walz and Boelter; tracing campaign donations, email records, or social media interactions; asking whether Boelter ever worked for or contracted with any state agency; checking whether Boelter’s “military training” claim has any verifiable kernel; or demanding to see the actual letter to the FBI, or whether it was logged, scanned, or buried.
    Incurious indeed.

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  6. fish Avatar
    fish

    From Drudge….

    MAGA FOODFIGHT! MTG Blasts ‘Screeching’ FOX…
    Levin vs Carlson turns NASTY…
    ‘Happy Hooker’…
    Bannon called ‘disgusting fraud’…
    Tucker says Loomer ‘world’s creepiest human’…
    Proud boys: Fuck this shit…

    …..and the democraps will still probably lose in a landslide.
    Embrace the chaos!

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  7. The Estonian Fox Avatar
    The Estonian Fox

    If oil goes down anymore, the oil companies will have to pay us a 2nd time to store their oil in our cars, just like 5 years ago.

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  8. fish Avatar
    fish

    WOW……ignore court orders….violate the law……

    DOJ Leader Suggested Violating Court Orders, Whistleblower Says…

    Oh noes! That’s terrible.
    …anyway…..!
    Where were you “Majesty of the Law” types when President Autopen threw the doors open to 15 million without any input from the citizenry?
    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/us/politics/justice-department-emil-bove-trump-deportations-reuveni.html?unlocked_article_code=1.RU8.VV7a.ynUiivSQlgrF&smid=url-share

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  9. fish Avatar
    fish

    Ahhh….The Bulwark….the Gay Bookstore of Republican commentary.

    Meet the DC Bigwigs Literally Profiting Off Deportations…

    Gee where were you guys when DC Bigwigs were Literally Profiting Off the Importations…
    No wonder Masticated Jeffybelly likes it so much…… reminds him of hith valuths.
    https://www.thebulwark.com/p/stock-trading-congress-palantir-stephen-miller-ice-immigration-mass-deportations-tiktok-trump-ban

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  10. fish Avatar
    fish

    I remember when this sort of thing what have sent the usual suspects to the ramparts screaming…”CENSORSHIP!”

    San Francisco bookstore to stop carrying ‘Harry Potter’ series
    J.K. Rowling’s politics led Booksmith to make a big change to its fantasy section


    Know your place women…..know your place!
    https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/san-francisco-bookstore-harry-potter-20391936.php

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  11. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Well its going to be an interesting ride with a jihadi NY mayor. UGH
    😉

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  12. fish Avatar
    fish

    From the increasingly useless Drudge Report….

    Philly, Boston hit 100, NYC breaks record from 1888 amid heat wave…

    1888…..what the hell? Ooops sorry, I forgot ….that was when the plague of SUV’s was unleashed upon the land!
    I’d post a link but……well…..I don’t want someone to feel left out!

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  13. fish Avatar
    fish

    There is nothing more unsettling to an Atlantic writer than seeing his future Gardner, nanny and housekeeper leaving….

    The Self-Deportation Psyop
    With a repurposed app and free teddy bears, the Trump administration is pressuring migrants to leave.

    ….without the Democrats being able to stage a photo-op that indicts Mean Orange Man!
    Nick Miroff having to fire up the eGo electric mower……the horror!
    https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/06/self-deportation-trump-immigration/683313/

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  14. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Proposal of the day:
    Listening to local radio (both stations). A drinking game:
    Finish your beer every time someone says ‘community’.
    The funny thing is that my memory, from a small town years ago, is that there was none of that nonsense on local media, and the local events were a way bigger deal than anything in Nevada County.

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  15. fish Avatar
    fish

    Well I see Bobby Sherman’s death has passed without mention….

    ’60s teen idol Bobby Sherman dead at 81

    Probably explains the dearth of posting by some of the regular progressive commentariat.
    https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/60s-teen-idol-bobby-sherman-dead-81

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  16. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly
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    Resurrected Hillbilly
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    Resurrected Hillbilly

    Good times,
    “Ukrainian units now earn 15 points for wounding a drone pilot and 25 for eliminating them, said Maj. Robert “Magyar” Brovdi, the new commander of Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces, in a video address on June 12.”
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/ukraines-drone-pilots-overhauling-russian-111227210.html

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  19. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    Magaloon Time Piece
    Get yours before it is too late
    https://www.facebook.com/reel/1081596016749186

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  20. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The head of mossad rarely speaks publicly but said this about the B2 strike –
    ‘We hit the main facilities, factories, industries and knowledge centers. The cumulative achievement allows us to determine that the Iranian nuclear project suffered severe, broad and deep damage and was set back years.’
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/head-of-mossad-gives-rare-statement-hailing-significant-hit-to-iran-s-nuclear-programme/ss-AA1Hs2Ca?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=bb3c57ba8530431c9fb28feffb606c87&ei=102#image=3
    😉

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  21. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    HAHA –
    The New York Young Republican Club has urged President Donald Trump to revoke the U.S. citizenship of New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani and deport him under the Communist Control Act of 1954, which bans communists from holding certain political offices.
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-urged-to-revoke-zohran-mamdani-s-citizenship-deport-him-under-communist-control-act-of-1954/ar-AA1Ht4L6?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=bb3c57ba8530431c9fb28feffb606c87&ei=138
    😉

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  22. fish Avatar
    fish

    Remember when anyone….anyone…. interfering with the activities of Federal Law Enforcement was obstructing justice…

    ICE, ICE Baby: Denver City Council Ends Car Theft Tracking System To Protect Illegal Immigrants

    Yeah….me either!
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elián_González
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ice-ice-baby-denver-city-council-ends-car-theft-tracking-system-protect-illegal

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  23. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    DB 806 pm
    Our next President? Remember when Dear Supreme MAGA Leader tried that with Obama?
    Tennessee Republican calls for Mamdani to be denaturalized, deported …
    https://share.google/uZMwBu60GyKXi7ezn

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  24. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    So Hillbully, both your parents were trans?

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  25. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Did anyone get a load of the the Supremes ganging up on the DEI hire?
    https://reason.com/volokh/2025/06/27/justice-barrett-on-justice-jackson-in-trump-v-casa/
    I like the last bit:
    “JUSTICE JACKSON skips over that part. Because analyzing the governing statute involves boring “legalese,” post, at 3, she seeks to answer “a far more basic question of enormous practical significance: May a federal court in the United States of America order the Executive to follow the law?” Ibid. In other words, it is unnecessary to consider whether Congress has constrained the Judiciary; what matters is how the Judiciary may constrain the Executive. JUSTICE JACKSON would do well to heed her own admonition: “[E]veryone, from the President on down, is bound bylaw.” Ibid. That goes for judges too.”

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  26. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    Scenes,
    Even the Supremes are bitch-slapping each other…
    Good Times!

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  27. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    The world thinks Drumpf is a douche…
    Good Times!
    WATCH: Dutch Queen Appears to Mock Trump to His Face During NATO Visit https://share.google/CQGTtrqRWmgyuuUyg

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  28. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: Supreme Court.
    This should be of no surprise to anyone:
    “Number of words spoken by each Supreme Court Justice in the 2024 term, as of November 15, 2024”
    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GdBZLZ5XAAAJlFB.jpg
    Meanwhile, men-in-dresses are doing well at Frisbee stuff. I must say that they don’t pass very well.
    https://reduxx.info/five-trans-identified-males-compete-in-womens-disc-golf-championships-taking-nearly-5k-in-prizes/

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  29. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    I am ashamed to be an American and very sad for our country. This was just in the news:
    New Orleans family says ICE detained Iranian-born woman who’s lived in US for 47 year and had no criminal record. Kashanian is married to an American citizen and has a daughter born in the U.S. Kashanian was taken into custody Sunday morning in front of her home on Woodlawn Place. According to her family, she was picking figs with neighborhood children when three unmarked vehicles pulled up around 10 a.m. and officers handcuffed her without saying a word.
    Her daughter, Kaitlynn Milne, said the arrest happened within 60 seconds while she and her father, Kashanian’s husband of 35 years, were inside the home, unaware.
    https://www.fox8live.com/2025/06/25/new-orleans-family-says-ice-detained-iranian-born-woman-whos-lived-us-47-years/

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  30. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Punch, I am also ashamed for you.
    In the meantime, there may be others moved to deal with old issues, like not overstaying expired visas.

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  31. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul “I’m ashamed” Emery | 27 June 2025 at 02:46 PM
    I am ashamed to be an American and very sad for our country.

    I’ve often felt that way as well! I’m too am ashamed that Paul Raymond Emery of Nevada City, California is an American.

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  32. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    I wonder how many low level guv’mint employees should be empowered to ignore clear violations of statutes… I mean, this woman was here on a long invalid visa, and as far as I can tell, she knew it.

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  33. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    “The Supreme Court’s decision on Friday in FCC v. Consumers’ Research didn’t just preserve a telecom subsidy—it delivered a serious setback to efforts to dismantle President Trump’s trade agenda. In a 6–3 opinion written by Justice Elena Kagan, the Court rejected the claim that the Universal Service Fund’s contribution mechanism violates the Constitution’s nondelegation doctrine.”

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  34. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Et tu, Elena?

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  35. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    So Gregory you have no problem with a government police force who has the authority to take a woman away from her family and put her in prison her for the “crime” of not being a citizen when there is no evidence or even suspicion of her committing any crime.

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  36. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Bullsh*t, Paul.
    Her visa is invalid. She knew it, and so did her husband.
    It would have been easier to find a lawyer to deal with it before the Trump rush.

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  37. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    The crime in this case is being in the country.

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  38. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Note to the po ol ponytail of ignorance being in the country without permission is a crime, the fact she gamed the system overstaying a tourist visa is still a crime and is subject to deportation.
    The law of the land being enforced is obviously a new thing to you but too damn bad, its the law.
    😉

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  39. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    What harm did she do Gregory to any persons or to the Country?

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  40. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    She was here, illegally.

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  41. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    And then there’s this one Gregory showing the American Gestapos arresting a self employed man with three sons in the Marines and beating him up on the ground He also had committed no crime other than not being a citizen. Check out this video clip:
    https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/23/us/narciso-barranco-father-detained-santa-ana
    https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-06-22/father-of-3-marines-violently-detained-federal-agents
    .

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  42. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Not being a citizen isn’t a crime, Punch.
    Not being a citizen and not having a valid visa IS.
    I was born in East LA, man I was born in East LA.
    This ain’t a Datsun, it’s a Chevrolet!
    Orale!

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  43. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Is is it a crime that deserves the punishment of being sent to a foreign internment facility without a trial for an indefinite period of time and leaving your children and family behind and making it impossible for them to even see you? That’s what our cruel government is doing to decent human beings. Do you support that Gregory? Trump is truly evil to sponsor this and it’s a dark moment in our history.

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