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Wednesday Open Thread

by Carl Ballard — Wednesday, 6/25/25, 8:13 am

– New bike lanes in Belltown.

– Maybe I am just a cynical asshole,* but if the police gave one of my friends a random act of kindness citation, they would never hear the end of it.

– Hearing about Travis Decker is so depressing. Fuck that guy.

– Contact your legislator or member of Congress.

* “just” is the only thing contested here.

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  1. 1

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Wednesday, 6/25/25 at 8:32 am

    What’s next?

    Iran’s parliament just voted to withdraw from their IAEA cooperation agreements and begin efforts to build a thermonuclear device that can be fitted to their existing arsenal of medium range balistic missiles capable of reaching to 2000 km.

  2. 2

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Wednesday, 6/25/25 at 8:36 am

    Attorney General Pam Bondi just testified under oath that she is unaware that DHS law enforcement personnel are wearing disguises and concealing their identities during immigration enforcement operations.

  3. 3

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 6/25/25 at 8:36 am

    @ 1

    “existing arsenal”? I didn’t think Iran had any left.

    That range should scare the shit out of Iraq and Jordan. Israel, not so much.

    Anyhoo, nice to see QoS McHillbilly parroting something other than #TeslaTakedown propaganda.

  4. 4

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 6/25/25 at 8:39 am

    President Trump’s press conference at NATO.

    Remember all those unscripted one-hour press conferences our last president held? Good times, good times.

  5. 5

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 6/25/25 at 8:43 am

    Also unserious:

    • AOC
    • Welfare Queen YLB.

    Democrats fume at “unserious” Trump impeachment vote

    What we’re hearing: “A completely unserious and selfish move,” one House Democrat told Axios on the condition of anonymity to speak candidly about a colleague.

  6. 6

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Wednesday, 6/25/25 at 8:46 am

    Alabama’s homicide rate is three times that of NYC.

  7. 7

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 6/25/25 at 8:56 am

    @ 6

    Alabama does have its issues. Among them:

    8X
    Black people were eight times as likely to die by gun homicide than their white counterparts.

    44%
    Young Black males ages 15-34 make up 4% of the state’s population but accounted for nearly 44% of all gun homicide deaths in 2022.

    A little Johns Hopkins data to go with your year-old tweet, McHillbilly.

  8. 8

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 6/25/25 at 9:44 am

    That hit ended the war.”

    Donald Trump, NATO press conference, today.

  9. 9

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 6/25/25 at 10:01 am

    TRAVIS DECKER: If I can’t have my kids, neither can my ex! I’ll show her some real pain! Take this, bitch!

    Yeah, fuck him. He’s probably dead. I hope so, it’ll save us taxpayers a lot of money. As a child killer, he wouldn’t last long in prison anyway, and he surely knew that. I think he ran into the woods and blew his brains out. That’s why they can’t find him. Dead fugitives don’t need food or shelter, and don’t leave a heat signature.

  10. 10

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 6/25/25 at 10:07 am

    @3 “Israel, not so much.”

    Yeah, if you watched the videos embedded in news stories or on YouTube, you saw that Israel shot down most of Iran’s missiles and only a few got through and blew up buildings in Tel Aviv and elsewhere. So what’s the big deal if a couple of nuclear warheads get through the missile defenses?

  11. 11

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 6/25/25 at 10:08 am

    @4 When did Trump ever follow a script?

  12. 12

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 6/25/25 at 10:09 am

    Presented with one comment:

    Mike Lawler
    @lawler4ny

    Tonight’s biggest winner is @aoc. @SenSchumer is cooked in a Democratic primary in 2028.

    8:12 PM · Jun 24, 2025

    Chuck Schumer has seemed weak this year, politically speaking. Clownish at times, and with increasing frequency. Is he the best Democrats can do?

  13. 13

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 6/25/25 at 10:17 am

    @5 I agree impeachment is futile. Republicans are long past having the patriotism, loyalty to the Constitution, and belief in American principles and democracy to remove a president who is a convicted felon, a pathological liar, shamelessly corrupt, a chronic lawbreaker, a would-be autocrat, and is pervasively incompetent. After all, he’s their president, and they were deficient by supporting and electing him, so nothing can be expected from them. And you’re one of ’em.

  14. 14

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 6/25/25 at 10:19 am

    @8 The difference between you and me is you believe everything Trump says and I believe nothing he says. We can’t both be right.

  15. 15

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 6/25/25 at 10:24 am

    @ 14

    The difference between you and me is …

    One of us is lying about claiming to be a millionaire, and the other has no need to make the claim.

  16. 16

    Shifting Tides spews:

    Wednesday, 6/25/25 at 10:29 am

    @5

    So what we’re seeing is now Democrats are only willing to criticize AOC anonymously.

    Maybe it’s how she got the likely next York Mehr through the primary.

  17. 17

    Funny spews:

    Wednesday, 6/25/25 at 10:38 am

    Solid Parody Account

    (Note: AIPAC put a lot into getting Cuomo through)

    NY Times Pitchbot
    @nytimesoitchbot.blsky.social

    The fact that Madmani did well with young Jewish New York voters just shows how antisemitic young Jewish New Yorkers have become.

  18. 18

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 6/25/25 at 11:02 am

    @15 “One of us is lying about claiming to be a millionaire, and the other has no need to make the claim.”

    I agree, but you have the identities backwards.

  19. 19

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 6/25/25 at 11:10 am

    A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the Trump administration from eliminating union bargaining for thousands of workers across the federal government.

    Siding with the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) and other unions, U.S. District Judge James Donato ruled that President Trump’s executive order letting several federal agencies dispense with union bargaining is likely unlawful.

    https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5368582-judge-blocks-trump-union-bargaining/

    It’s not surprising that a former businessman with a mobster mentality who routinely stiffed vendors and creditors, made breaking contracts into an art form, and is anti-worker to the bone is unilaterally tearing up union contracts. But it goes much deeper. This administration’s lawlessness is pervasive.

    All presidents have legal advisers. Under other presidents, their job is to advise the president where the legal boundaries are, so he doesn’t do things that are illegal. This president is different. He tries to tear down the boundaries by doing stuff that’s blatantly illegal, and this administration’s lawyers see their job as defending his lawbreaking in court, and suffering loss after loss (which isn’t exactly career enhancing). And those in executive positions, who participate in the lawbreaking and rights denials, put their licenses at risk.

  20. 20

    Donnie spews:

    Wednesday, 6/25/25 at 11:14 am

    Aaaaaaaaaaand

    Israeli Air Force conducts a targeted assassination inside Iran.

    Something something cease-fire

  21. 21

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 6/25/25 at 11:16 am

    Texas has the strictest anti-abortion enforcement in the country. Health care providers won’t even provide life-saving abortions. Consequently, Texas exports more pregnant women to out-of-state abortion clinics than any other state.

    More than 28,000 Texans crossed state lines in 2024 to receive abortion care, with many traveling to states as far away as New York, Washington, Maryland and Michigan. These Lone Star State residents traveled to a total of 14 states to receive the care last year ….

    https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5368919-texas-travel-abortion-access-study/

  22. 22

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 6/25/25 at 11:16 am

    Texas has the strictest anti-abortion enforcement in the country. Health care providers won’t even provide life-saving abortions. Consequently, Texas exports more pregnant women to out-of-state abortion clinics than any other state.

    More than 28,000 Texans crossed state lines in 2024 to receive abortion care, with many traveling to states as far away as New York, Washington, Maryland and Michigan. These Lone Star State residents traveled to a total of 14 states to receive the care last year ….

    https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5368919-texas-travel-abortion-access-study/

  23. 23

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 6/25/25 at 11:22 am

    In today’s major headlines,

    Trump denies Iranians moved nuclear materials before US strikes

    Hegseth lays into media over ‘preliminary’ Iran damage assessment

    It simply doesn’t matter what these guys think, or what they say. The nuclear materials were either hit or they weren’t. The only damage that counts is the actual damage. Their opinions, and their spin, isn’t worth a wad of used toilet paper, especially considering their willful ignorance of facts, their antagonism toward real intelligence, and their propensity to lie.

  24. 24

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 6/25/25 at 11:24 am

    Israel’s vaunted military capabilities took down Iran’s internet access for all of 12 days.

    https://thehill.com/policy/international/5368827-iran-internet-connection-restored/

    If you ask me, military “solutions” are overrated.

  25. 25

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 6/25/25 at 11:35 am

    Trump’s and Hegseth’s response to intelligence reports suggesting they failed to take out Iran’s nuclear capability is to look for who leaked the embarrassing intelligence reports.

    https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5368255-trump-hegseth-iran-leak/

  26. 26

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 6/25/25 at 11:36 am

    @ 24

    If you ask me, military “solutions” are overrated.

    You do realize, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, that restoration of internet access was part of the cease-fire agreement. Don’t you?

    To get the internet back, Iran had to lay down what is left of its weaponry.

    Oh. One more thing. Musk helped Iran get back on track.

    You can thank DJT47 later.

  27. 27

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 6/25/25 at 11:39 am

    @ 24, 26

    Let us not forget that part of the loss of internet connectivity in Iran during the brief war was because Iran itself cut off access, in order to prevent citizens from organizing to attempt an overthrow of the Iranian government.

    Iran had done this at least twice in the recent past.

    So yes, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, Iran is now allowing its own citizens to talk to each other again.

  28. 28

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 6/25/25 at 11:48 am

    Trump downplays U.S. intelligence report on Iran strikes at NATO presser

    President Donald Trump doubled down on his assertion that U.S. bomb strikes destroyed Iran’s nuclear program.

    He criticized reporting on an initial U.S. intelligence report that suggested the bombings likely set Iran’s nuclear program back by a few months, not years.

    President Donald Trump on Wednesday doubled down on his claim that U.S. bomb strikes completely destroyed Iran’s nuclear program, and he bristled at the attention being paid to an initial American intelligence report that suggests otherwise.

    “It’s been obliterated, totally obliterated,” Trump said of the Iranian nuclear site at Fordo during a news conference, before he departed a NATO summit in The Hague, Netherlands.

    https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/25/trump-iran-intelligence-report-nato.html

    It doesn’t fucking matter what Trump says. The airstrikes either destroyed Iran’s nuclear program or they didn’t. I’m not saying I know the answer; all I’m saying is words can’t change reality.

  29. 29

    No Kings spews:

    Wednesday, 6/25/25 at 11:48 am

    Donnie is now running around and declaring war on “leakers“ and insisting he No longer has to share intelligence information with Congress.

    ‘For there is only one branch of government me Donald. But you can call me your highness or your worshipfulness or Lord perv’

  30. 30

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 6/25/25 at 11:51 am

    It’s simply adorable listening to Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit’s desperation as he hopes against hope that Iran can still threaten the fortunes of the West, and the existence of Israel.

    A more profound innate weakness than Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit’s is rarely seen.

  31. 31

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 6/25/25 at 12:11 pm

    @30 You haven’t been reading my posts. I don’t want Iran to have a nuclear bomb, and I want regime change. I’m against repressive dictatorship in Iran and the U.S.

    My concern is what it takes, how Trump is going about it, and whether he succeeds or fails. It takes a stupid person or a liar to read that the way you do.

  32. 32

    Edward Teller spews:

    Wednesday, 6/25/25 at 12:48 pm

    @1

    Tell us you don’t know the difference between a nuclear weapon and a thermonuclear weapon without telling us.

  33. 33

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 6/25/25 at 12:55 pm

    @ 32

    McHillbilly declares his ignorance of many issues on a quite-regular basis. It’s really something.

  34. 34

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 6/25/25 at 1:13 pm

    A mediator has proposed that an intentional coverup of Boxcheck Momala’s political incompetence during a CBS interview should cost the network $20 million.

  35. 35

    lmao spews:

    Wednesday, 6/25/25 at 1:21 pm

    Also unserious:

    https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/feb/16/our-principles-pac/anti-trump-ad-says-he-backed-impeaching-bush/

    lmao.. it probably didn’t need a diaper back then.. but then.. maybe it did.. It was a brighter shade of orange as well.

    Was Bruce Fein serious?

    Fein’s rationale for impeachment is that the Constitution must be protected from people like Bush and Cheney who try to usurp powers not intended by the framers. Impeachment is one of the main tools within the Constitution to balance the powers of the president and ensure he does not become a virtual king. Impeachment isn’t about removing the president, it’s about removing the precedent, so that these powers are not abused by future occupants of the White House…

    https://www.nevadaappeal.com/news/2007/aug/03/the-case-for-impeaching-bush-and-cheney/

    lmao.. a bonzo guy no less.

    This is ugly shit:

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/emil-bove-doj-whistleblower_n_685ad3d0e4b0124a7193e4a7

    And pants shitter should be impeached for it. It’s the freek’s policy.

  36. 36

    G spews:

    Wednesday, 6/25/25 at 1:32 pm

    Nowhere fast

  37. 37

    lmao spews:

    Wednesday, 6/25/25 at 1:35 pm

    a CBS interview should cost the network $20 million.

    Small price to pay for enabling a merger to benefit rich people.

    https://wgme.com/news/nation-world/trumps-lawsuit-against-cbs-hits-snag-demands-soar-amid-paramount-merger-talks

    2 billion dollar deal I hear.. repukes will minimize the taxes on that deal and widbee dumbfuck will fellate up and down and all over that.

    https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2025-06-18/trump-endorses-paramount-merger-with-david-ellisons-skydance

  38. 38

    Sorry about the extra 20k on your tax bill. Sell the Bentley spews:

    Wednesday, 6/25/25 at 1:41 pm

    $3m a year contract holding CNBC Anchor Jor Kernan is really shaking off the shocking loss of Cuomo in stride.

    They’re taking Wall Streeters and making them walk out onto the ice in the east river, And, and then they fall through.

  39. 39

    G spews:

    Wednesday, 6/25/25 at 1:41 pm

    Let us not forget that part of the loss of internet connectivity in Iran during the brief war was because Iran itself cut off access, in order to prevent citizens from organizing to attempt an overthrow of the Iranian government.

    Iran had done this at least twice in the recent past.

    Sounds like something the American Taliban would and will do.

    What’s your problem with it?

  40. 40

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Wednesday, 6/25/25 at 2:02 pm

    Conservatism vs. liberalism boiled down to one screen capture.

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