(1041) Tempus fugitting with a vengeance. Elevenses, dear reader. (1100)
15. The uncorruptibles
14. The unsaleability of toxic new builds
13. Males in female sports
12. Thune is lying
11. IYE corner (also at 1410)
a. ”Communities Making a Difference
Across the U.S., residents, town councils, planning boards, and lawmakers are organizing, voting, and litigating to shape how AI data centers come to their towns. Here are concrete examples of that work — drawn from the 5,028+ reports Erin has received from 49 states, and from coverage by reputable news outlets.”
b. ”The $70 Million TPUSA Endowment Nobody Was Supposed to Look AtSold as a rainy day fund for the movement. The $ shows a private investment vehicle that rewrote its own charter, locked up millions in private equity while the charity bled, and much more…”
(0622) Dark clouds out there, heater on here. Morning, patrons. (0735)
10. Downunder
Oz’s richest woman, using her money on things like this … er yes … and what?
9. Most people have no idea what’s about to be unleashed
8. Jen, to me, is Everywoman (in the best possible way) in her concerns
… currently not talking to me because of my Restore proclivities but ho hum, hopefully I can be forgiven after the hostilities are over.
7. pete at 1409 (video over there)
“After more than 3,000 years, Dartmoor’s semi-wild hill ponies are under threat of a potential cull of up to 92 % – because somebody now counts them as commercial livestock for the first time.”
6. Deryl Lynn on X
… draws attention to the overprescribing of statins and not just that … but to questionable statins as well:
“The elites in Europe are like the French nobility before the revolution. Totally out of touch with the populace. They keep saying far right which is the new let them eat cake.”
Jim Ferguson:
A Northern Ireland minister has blamed Elon Musk, Tommy Robinson and “bad actors” for helping drive public anger after the Belfast attack.
But one remark may come back to haunt him:
“I wish people didn’t see that image.”
The public watched the footage.
They saw the attack.
They drew their own conclusions.
4. Steve at 1409
Iran Threatens to Attack Musk’s SpaceX and Starlink Facilities in Middle East, Says Assets are “Military Targets”
America’s Worst Generation Is Dumber Than Us, Research Confirms (JH: It might seem just a throwaway assertion but I posted at N.O. in 2006 a long series of articles called “Dumbing down”, inc. GCSE results etc., much academic commentary. It’s not new. If you date those kids, say at 18, then they were mid-Millennials.
Russian Army Tightens Pressure On Ukrainian Garrison In Krasny Liman
Lessons from Sweden: After mass immigration comes the Orwellian state security system
Gallup Reveals Downtick in Same-Sex Marriage Support
Juryless trials will be complex, time consuming and lead to inequalities, the UK Justice Committee says
Blade Runner as Prophecy
Much more.
3. Lola news
2. DAD at 1409
a) Essonne France: Five men planned to kidnap a technician to empty ATMs; a tracking device had been placed under his vehicle. They intended to force him to surrender at gunpoint, using an explosive vest.
b) Salah Abdeslam [Sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for his participation in the November 13, 2015 attacks in Paris and Saint-Denis] allegedly asked another inmate if he could find the address of the director of Vendin-le-Vieil prison in order to send “two or three guys” to cause “a disaster”….
c) Less than a month remains before the much-feared verdict in the case concerning the Rassemblement National (RN)’s alleged use of fictitious European parliamentary assistants, a verdict that will determine Marine Le Pen’s fate and whether she can stand as a candidate in the 2027 presidential election….
d) France’s media regulator says that state-funded Radio France is biased against National Rally after finding out that representatives of the National Rally (RN) were overwhelmingly relegated to overnight programming, raising questions about political neutrality within taxpayer-funded media institutions….
1. We open with an unusual one
There was some sort of meeting between Cornyn and Scott Pressler, long time gr-a-fter for the MAGA cause … Cornyn called him a gr-i-fter and refused to shake his hand. Same nominal party, the Republicans:
Dear Senator Cornyn,
I approached you respectfully at the airport, extending my hand & introducing myself. We were at the ticket gate with literally dozens of witnesses — passengers inches away. Despite a quib reply back from you, I kept things professional & focused on the SAVE America Act.
While I respect that you say you want to ensure wins this November, I speak for millions when I say that voters will be more likely to vote upon the passage of the SAVE America Act. Voters see what’s happening in California & wonder why our Senate isn’t doing everything in its power to secure our elections.
Did you know that former Congresswoman Michelle Steel (R-CA) lost by 653 votes in 2024? Did you know that former Congressman John Duarte (R-CA) lost by 187 votes? I have no doubt that the SAVE America Act would have prevented these losses.
Why are we normalizing an expectation for California to count votes for weeks after Election Day — like Spencer Pratt’s election. In North Carolina, the State Board of Elections found 34,000 dead voters on the voter rolls — fact-check me. (CC: Senator Tillis) How can Americans have confidence in our elections & how are Americans going to be inspired to vote if you don’t legislate as the majority?
Last — & I mean this with the utmost of respect — for the $150 million that was spent on the Texas Senate primary/runoff, we could have built massive voter registration/get out the vote operations in every single swing state. While I understand it might be difficult to contemplate an American citizen doing this work because it’s the right thing to do, I’m proud to say that I don’t take PAC $ — not even from my own organization.
I can’t be bought, which frustrates the political establishment. My one singular mission is doing right by the American people and delivering legislative wins that the popular vote delivered in 2024. I’m on the way to the Texas GOP Convention to help ensure all of our Republican candidates win this November — I hope you’ll do the same.
I hope you’ll do the right thing & encourage your colleagues to pass the SAVE America Act — let’s win big.
🇩🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 "I'm already sick of all this Ukrainian nonsense. It's some kind of farce," a German explained in two minutes how EU sanctions against Russia have affected ordinary Europeans and who ultimately turned out to be the main beneficiary
— Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil (@ivan_8848) June 11, 2026
19. On and on and on and on
18. Landlords and Blackrock
17. What’s with this hatred of our ethnic group?
16. The Irish
Eire political pundit Mandy Gall, along with this lady above, plus I have seen many others, will not have a bar of Sinn Fein. So who exactly is doing the protesting in NI?
Had to have gone through two dozen versions of Stairway reactions to find one I could use. First issue was that most reactors used the inferior live version which was all theatrics, not music. Second issue were the reactors … so many being total horses’ backsides, ignorant, arrogant with no foundation …
… then I ceased the steam from the nostrils, realising that these are just kids … and not only that but shockingly brought up and “educated”, how many from broken homes … plus from a quite different era. But a few of the younger ones were good, plus a few of the more mature. The real shockers were maybe 25 to 45 years old.
Plus youtube itself commenting that they can do nothing about the flood of AI, which viewers dislike with a passion. Plus one on Jimmy Page, saying he hated this guitarist or that … utter bollox, as many commenters noted, tearing into the AI presenter.
Eventually, two were left, this being the second:
Pity in one way but the background graphics were poor on that version, such is life. Here’s the one I’m going with:
Out of the Blue is a 1947 American screwball comedy independent film[2] based on the short story by Vera Caspary, whose work was adapted for Laura and adapted A Letter to Three Wives, also co-wrote this screenplay. It stars George Brent, Virginia Mayo, Turhan Bey, Ann Dvorak and Carole Landis. It was directed by Leigh Jason…
“Brent, who seldom gets a chance to show how accomplished he really is in light comedy easily holds up his end, but it is Miss Dvorak who wows as the screwball interior decorator. Dvorak reveals an entirely new side to a public that, if it hasn’t exactly forgotten her, never remembers her in this sort of thing. Had the others fitted as neatly into their roles, outcome might have been quite different, but it is very hard to accept Bey without a turban, while Virginia Mayo registers only when she simulates a tough babe.”[7] – Variety (magazine)
“the direction isn’t swiftly paced enough for effective farce, and some of the actors obviously aren’t comfortable in the genre…one must be in an open or forgiving mood to get the most out of this uneven comic effort”[8] – Matt Hough, Home Theater Forum, November 2019
“a curious film, not quite making the grade as a screwball item yet catching a good if spotty reaction through the incongruity of George Brent, Ann Dvorak, and Turhan Bey working as comedians”[7] – Laurence Dabin, Toronto Film Society, November 2020
