– It seems bad to arrest firefighters while they’re fighting a fire.
– Intel is pathetic.
– I always dig these taking a lot of public transportation stories.
Have fun on the long weekend.
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I get a lot less from the GOP than I used to, now that HA is circling the drain.
There’s not much money in arguing with morons. Once Michael and ArtFart left, my stipend plummeted.
It’s a continuing trend. Last year Boxcheck Momala had to play influential black people to “endorse” her.
This year the DNC pays influencers to claim that a chick with a dick is really a woman.
I should revise: It’s a continuing, dishonest trend.
Release the Epstein files
To celebrate the upcoming Labor let’s talk LAYOFFS:
1) AP sez corps are hanging on to their workers. Nothing to see here.. Everything’s fine.. Like we should trust BLS anymore after DOGE and pants shitter put a project 2025 hack in charge.
2) Fedex is laying off 611 workers.
3) University of Chicago plans layoffs, needs to cut spending by 100 million
4) Kroger, 1000 corporate layoffs
5) Google cuts managers 35 percent
6) Best Buy has increased sales (get it while you can shoppers!) but is announcing layoffs.
7) Video game developers like Diablo and Rec Room are laying off.
8) Over 3000 freight, logistics and manufacturing layoffs
9) Nike is laying off.
So many layoffs have hit U.S. companies recently that it can be hard to remember which giant company laid off how many thousands of workers on which day. And whether it’s Indeed or Glassdoor, Microsoft or Amazon, many of the job cut announcements are linked one way or another to AI. Now an analyst at financial analysis giant Moody’s is loudly ringing alarm bells about the huge number of layoffs across the U.S., warning that while the economy isn’t yet in a recession it’s right on the edge of one.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/an-economist-says-mass-layoffs-are-a-sign-of-imminent-recession-here-s-why-that-matters-in-the-ai-age
It’s chicken on the grill for us on Labor day. Beef prices suck.
now that HA is circling the drain.
mr. dumbfuck of widbee, LEAVE THIS “DEAD” BLOG..
We’ll be just fine without your nazistic, xitter noise. zzzZZZZzzzzzz
At the Oak Harbor Music Festival this Sunday, 5:45 p.m.:
Jason Scott & The High Heat,
@ 4
It’s chicken on the grill for us on Labor day. Beef prices suck.
We shop quality, not price. A fair amount of our groceries are purchased off-island. Tomatoes here, in particular, leave something to be desired.
I miss Shoreline Central Market.
Maga Mike Jesus Johnson went on CNN this morning to let everyone know that he’s going to bury the Epstein files.
He literally said they have more important things to do in the house. Presumably planning the funeral of a traitor to her country.
Now that the White House has been subpoenaed and is not cooperating and giving a fraction of redacted documents, there is no need for Congress to take any further action on the Epstein files.
Quoted did I do good Mr. President? I know I’m a little old for you but I didn’t spill a drop. I swallowed it all. Can I maybe get a glass of water?”
That Nazi “townhall” is on the hook for many millions:
Elon Musk’s X has agreed to settle with thousands of former employees who sued the company after they were dismissed following Musk’s 2022 takeover.
This isn’t the end of X’s employment disputes. In 2024, some of Twitter’s former top brass, including CEO Parag Agrawal, Chief Financial Officer Ned Segal, Chief Legal Counsel Vijaya Gadde, and General Counsel Sean Edgett, filed a separate lawsuit claiming they were owed more than $128 million in unpaid severance.
The platform also faces the threat of a criminal investigation in France for alleged “organized interference,” as well as a lawsuit alleging X was negligent in its handling of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and slow-walked its response to reports.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/x-agrees-to-settle-500m-class-action-lawsuit-over-2022-layoffs-severance/ar-AA1L5e74?ocid=BingNewsVerp
Couldn’t happen to a nicer pro-Nazi site.
Trump says the U.S. would accept 600,000 Chinese students, sparking uproar among conservatives
“If we are only mass deporting 1,000 illegals each day but allowing 600,000 Chinese spies to come to our country, how can we call them mass deportations?” Loomer said in a post on X Monday. “Do the math.”
@ 9
…on the hook for many millions
Yes, it seems.
Still fired: 60% of Twitter. The company is leaner and meaner without them.
Say, how’s Mastodon doing these days?
The following was written in October 2024. Coincidentally, about the same time last year QoS McHillbilly stopped plugging Mastodon. Weird:
Anybody want to see a piece about all the companies who publicly left Twitter/X, only to quietly crawl back to resume advertising on Musk’s site? Welfare Queen YLB, maybe?
@ 10
Trump says the U.S. would accept 600,000 Chinese students, sparking uproar among conservatives
600k * full tuition @ $60k per student =
$36,000,000,000 to US universities.
Some conservatives are unhappy. US university presidents and boards of regents, OTOH, understand what happens if DJT47 turns off the tap to those 36 billion dollars.
The Even Bigger Fucking Moron has no idea what any of this means.
Dictatorship on the horizon. No more elections.
Be distracted by the in and out of the day. Self-defeating. Nobody said procreation would survive intelligently.
You will die much sooner than later.
@8
The midterms are gonna be a bloodbath, Mike.
Translation – we have no accomplishments to run on, except throwing millions of people out of work, exploding the deficit, taking away healthcare, kidnapping children, tariff expenses and alligator Alcatraz, and he really needs to stop pointing it out
And no, I won’t be helping release the Epstein files!
BlueSky is on the decline, too.
Posts on Thursday, March 6: 940,281
Posts on Thursday, April 10: 858,076
Posts on Thursday, June 5: 764,464
Posts on Thursday, August 28: 660,466
I picked yesterday because full-day stats are available. I picked random Thursdays before that, beginning 6 weeks after inauguration day. Feel free to cherry-pick to the contrary.
McHillbilly, comments?
@ 13
You will die much sooner than later.
Yeah, but it won’t be of virus-driven, festering anal carcinoma and full-blown AIDS-related amoebic encephalopathy and PCP pneumonia, G-clown.
You’ll have to tell us what that’s like. Much sooner than later.
Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro:
https://youtube.com/shorts/VAom-eDJ-pw?si=_NNqjpC3KgGNVqrY
Heh.. Puts something of a fine point on orange pants shitter’s babbling about “your country”..
Hard to believe that Pritzker is talked about as a 2028 presidential prospect.
The next time Democrats control the White House, US Senate, and the US House of Representatives, Democrats will bail out Illinois.
And Welfare Queen YLB’s two fucked kids will be forced to fund the bailout of Illinois, all while paying for my Social Security monthly check.
Welfare Queen YLB will vote lockstep for the uber-burdening of her two fucked kids.
‘Dark money’ group = The State of Israel
Tariff touches all
“ you should be looking at at THE REAL unemployment number the U6 not this fake number the government puts out. Yaaaaaaargh” -HA Trolls of yore
Americans can’t afford groceries as we head into the midterms, but here in this Iowa diner we found they all blame it on Joe Biden
I wasn’t plugging Mastodon. Merely using it as an example of the capabilities of ActivityPub. Bluesky is thriving, however. Without the millions of Russian and Chinese bots circle jerking to bigotry, misogyny, and Holocaust denial.
18,
The Nazi Fucktard sez DEFUND THE POLICE!
He’s right, for once.
Speaking of who will die sooner than later, Joni Ernst has quit.
Internal polling indicated that she has no shot next year.
And all the soybean bankruptcies haven’t even gotten going yet.
Groomed child bride at the podium : “The president has the authority to fire those who are not aligned with his mission.”
Well, kind of. Not the ones who are specifically given 6, 10 and 12 year terms so they are not at the whim of politics.
Hard to believe that Pritzker is talked about as a 2028 presidential prospect.
LMAO… Pritzker is a billionaire dumbfuck..
FROM YOUR KNEEPADS you “prayed” to orange pants shitter to lower his taxes..
and got sprayed…
And you called people like Pritzker “smart”.. people like Ellison and Murdoch and Thiel who threw munee at Liz Holmes’ debacle.
Dang, you’re a silly fuck.. Pensions are “golden handcuffs”.. I dunno maybe Pritzker wants public safety workers to hand around a bit longer to work on all the “crime” that’s so much worse than in Lousyana, Tennessee and Mississippi.
Elmo is just Holmes with a possible Y chromosome.
I’ve watched episodes of Alien: Earth.. The reviewers on IMDB, mostly old fans of the Alien franchise are panning it calling it “disneyfied” with CW network type characters. They have a bit of a point.
The detractors overlooked something. It totally models the world conceived by Curtis Yarvin. Government by the people, one citizen, one vote has been replaced by “benevolent” corporate dictators with dark agendas and hell bent on “trans-humanism” (sorry dumbfuck, not the silly shit you get off on.)
Mind-blowing.. At least that part.. Not sure yet if that is enough to make up for stuff that is silly or makes no sense.
The show creator, Noah Hawley, penned a brilliant first season of Fargo.. Even if this show doesn’t pan out, he’s still good.
The Oak Harbor Music Festival is billed as the only free weekend music festival in the state.
Which does not solve Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit’s problem of being unable to afford to travel further north than Everett.
New music by one of the scheduled bands, released yesterday.
@ 25
LMAO… Pritzker is a billionaire …
So is Elon Musk, Welfare Queen YLB. Doesn’t mean HA libbies treat him with any respect.
Since you brought it up, Welfare Queen YLB, did JB Pritzker build his own fortune like Elon Musk did, or did he inherit it? Here’s a hint.
Is Donald Trump, who also was born into a wealthy family, treated with respect merely for his wealth, Welfare Queen YLB?
Welfare Queen YLB, are you still glad you brought up JB Pritzker’s unearned billions? You silly twat.
“LMAO”
@ 26
Elmo is just Holmes with a possible Y chromosome.
And a daunting list of shit that works.
SpaceX’s giant Starship Mars rocket nails critical 10th test flight in stunning comeback (video)
Elon Musk is to Elizabeth Holmes as Twitter/X is to Mastodon, minus the extended prison sentence.
Fucking filter. I had a good comeback to the nazi fucktard.
The Oak Harbor Music Festival is billed as the only free weekend music festival in the state.
Smells like bullshit.. Haven’t been in years, but Northwest Folklife is free last I looked.
My comeback to @29 is stuck in the filter but @29 is whataboutism at its “best”..
lmao indeed.
@12 pointing out the magas feel betrayed.
@28
And you expect us to care about one of Thursday’s openers and what they have to say. Let me know when they hit the bog time and play a show at Galway Bay in Ocean Shores.
magat fuckwads bleating woke, woke, woke, woke, dei, blah,. blah..
https://youtube.com/shorts/kO-E7X74BhM?si=fuj3smRudVXV-F1g
schooled. It’s just capitalism you idiots.
We WISH we were like Mastodon.
More institutionalization. Less fucking coddling of these POS kids who can’t behave.
Like Parkland, Police Had Been Called to Minnesota Killer’s Home Twice Prior to Shooting
Bluesky now platform of choice for science community
Free Luigi!
https://bsky.app/profile/ryanjreilly.com/post/3lxkmwt6f7k2p
@39
So you’ll vote out the party that gutted mental health services, defunded the FBI, slashed funding for after school programs…
Dumbfuck, “DO NOTHING SO I CAN REPEAT MYSELF”
Also, how DID this kid with a wellness check seven years ago get his guns legally…
You mean the mental health institutions the Republicans defunded so they closed? Something about Republicans not wanting their taxes helping people who were not them.
Both sides are not the same.
Republicans want unlimited guns and no public mental health services. Democrats want sensible gun reform and support public mental health services.
Happy Labor Day weekend!
Highlights of what’s on the menu this weekend (in no particular order by day or grouping)
T-Bones on the grill
Asparagus on the grill
Zucchini on the grill
Corn on the cob(of course from the grill)
Scallops on the flattop
Smoked Brisket w/ burnt ends
Fillet Skewers on the grill
Shrimp skewers grill
and of course Mrs. Perfect is handling all in-kitchen cooking like the boss she is.
perfect weather
the views are epic
Cold beer and plenty of pool time……and the kids are all home for the weekend with their S/Os
does not get much better…
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/29/lisa-cook-trump-fed-powell-court-hearing.html
This lawyer isn’t necessarily a recent graduate (like two months ago) from a mail-correspondence law school. Rather, he knows what he has to say to keep his DOJ job.
In general employment law, an employee is “at-will” unless a law or contract says otherwise, meaning the employer can fire the employee without a reason and doesn’t need to justify it (so long as it doesn’t violate anti-discrimination laws).
Where a law, contract, or company policy says an employee can only be fired “for cause,” what constitute sufficient reason may not be spelled out, but there’s a body of law defining “cause.”
Cobb is a tenured appointee, not an employee, adding extra job security, and when the executive seeks to exercise its removal authority, courts will weigh heavily what Congress intended to be sufficient cause for removal.
Courts, not the executive, make that determination. It would be obvious to even a neophyte lawyer or judge that allowing the president discretionary authority to determine “cause” would convert Fed governor positions to at-will appointments, rendering the tenure provisions of the statute on Federal Reserve appointments superfluous. Courts avoid interpretations that render statutory language superfluous.
But this lawyer has to make the argument, or he’s out of a job. This DOJ has already fired lawyers for arguing in court that the executive branch has to follow the law, whatever it is. The only argument DOJ allows its lawyers to make is that the executive has unfettered powers; or, in layman’s language, what Trump wants Trump gets.
This lawyer apparently wants to keep his DOJ job, despite the shitty working conditions, constant threat of dismissal, and having to professionally compromise his ethics, look silly to other lawyers and judges, suffer reputational damage in the media, and perhaps risk losing his license.
I’m guessing he doesn’t have a family law firm to return to, or a trust fund to fall back on if something happens to his salary. And as Mark Twain supposedly said, “It’s hard to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
Virologist, Nutritionist, Immunologist, Physiologist RFK Jr. “Ultraprocessed is the root cause of all dietary problems.”
Also RFK Jr. “Stop eating beans and vegan proteins.”
Huh. A high fiber protein source whole food is bad now. Because it doesn’t fit in the Meat Cult Manifesto *
*not to be confused with a 90s band.
@2 Republicans don’t pay for anything. They steal music, over the objections of the artists. And the Trump campaign traditionally has always stiffed cities for security costs, stiffed venues for facility rent, and stiffed vendors for supplying his rallies.
Republicans remind me of Amazon third party sellers, guys with Craigslist and eBay hustles, and people selling stereo systems from vans, who have zero merchandise costs.
By the way, I wonder if these “Trump 2028” hats are exempt from tariffs?
@5 He’s been posting that going on 15 years now.
@7 “I miss Shoreline Central Market.”
When did you ever shop Shoreline Central Market? Did you once upon a time work at a Seattle hospital? Before you were shunted off, like Napoleon and Henri Charrière to exile on an island for bad professional behavior? That was quite a few years ago, wasn’t it?
Things have changed. If you look up the Yelp reviews (here), and go to 1-star and 2-star entries, you’ll see complaints that the deli food has gone downhill and the produce isn’t as fresh. And they don’t make their own sushi anymore.
I’m closer to Shoreline Central Market than you are, and sample their lettuce on a regular basis. In the store, not the dumpsters out back (I’m a rabbit, not a raccoon). They still have stuff you can’t buy at Safeway, Albertsons, or QFC; and it’s still expensive, which is no problem for well-heeled clientele like me.
They do have fresh-caught fish if you don’t mind paying $30.99/lb. for halibut or $19.99/lb. for sockeye. As I recall organic avocados are now $3.98 each, or maybe it’s $5.98 each with tariffs. So yes, expensive. But you don’t think twice about grocery prices, any more than you think twice about leaving a 10% tip at a fancy restaurant (because it’s easier to calculate in your head than a 5% tip), right?
@8 MAGA Mike’s excuses get lamer all the time. Don’t be fooled by the bow tie. He’s a snake.
@11 “Still fired: 60% of Twitter. The company is leaner and meaner without them.”
A shrinking business doesn’t need as many employees. And where there’s growth, “Most of the growth on Twitter is now coming from the international community.”
https://www.searchlogistics.com/learn/statistics/twitter-user-statistics/
@12 “Some conservatives are unhappy.”
With China no longer subsidizing tuition or kids’ apparel and toys, a lot of Gen Zers and middle-class families are going to be unhappy by next year’s midterms.
teh kreepee dumbfuck displayed teh kneepads for elmo earlier shrugging off many millions like nearly half a BILLION dollars in settlement costs if not more for all the employees it shoved out the door after lying to them about severance.
More to shrug off:
Years after a Tesla driver using Autopilot plowed into a young Florida couple in 2019, crucial electronic data detailing how the fatal wreck unfolded was missing. The information was key for a wrongful death case the survivor and the victim’s family were building against Tesla, but the company said it didn’t have the data.
Then a self-described hacker, enlisted by the plaintiffs to decode the contents of a chip they recovered from the vehicle, found it while sipping a Venti-size hot chocolate at a South Florida Starbucks. Tesla later said in court that it had the data on its own servers all along.
The hacker’s discovery would become a key piece of evidence presented during a trial that began last month in Miami federal court, which dissected the final moments before the collision and ended in a historic $243 million verdict against the company.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/08/29/tesla-autopilot-crashes-evidence-testimony-wrongful-death/
Tack that on.. Maybe the sting of all that was eased a bit after elmo and its shitler youth did their number on regulatory agencies – penalties for elmo’s reckless behavior was mounting into the BILLIONS..
Sigh.. but dumbfuck kneepads over a prototype rocket to Mars.. Can y’all say dog chasing car? Assuming the thing won’t blowup on the way there, killing its gullible kneepadder crew, what are they going to do once there?
Plant a flag with an image of a wanker panzer?
Less fucking coddling of these POS kids who can’t behave.
Does the 20 minutes of action types need “less fucking coddling”..
‘course not.. how else are they going to be immortalized in the “body count” book if not by coddling from their kreepee dads?
Karoline Leavitt covered herself in dog feces this week by blasting Kyiv for not negotiating with an invader.
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/karoline-leavitt-makes-galling-both-sides-comparison_uk_68b138e0e4b068b1ec8b4b2e
Meanwhile, Denmark’s foreign minister summoned a U.S. envoy to complain that “at least three people with connections to President Donald Trump have been carrying out covert influence operations in Greenland.”
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/28/nx-s1-5520519/denmark-us-envoy-interference-greenland
Remember the opening scenes from “The Longest Day” and “Saving Private Ryan” depicting the slaughter on the Normandy beaches? Have you watched YouTube videos of the now very few, very aged veterans returning to those beaches, walking the now-peaceful sands, and remembering that day? Have you ever thought about the young Germans manning the pillboxes, trenchers, and bunkers facing American firepower that day who never returned home? All of this was caused by Hitler’s decision to make Germany great again with military power.
It’s pretty plain that Trump has in mind using military power to make America great again, albeit on a much less ambitious scale. (Small hands, small dick, small ambitions.) But the warmongering, starting with tank parades, ICE’s military tactics and flooding American cities with National Guard troops and Marines, is the same. Pursuing political ambitions with military means — as Putin is attempting in Ukraine — creates heartbreak for millions.
And as often as not a single politician, assisted by sycophantic aides, is behind it. Hitler was temporarily a hero to many, but is remembered as a monster. Trump is temporarily a hero to some, but he too is pursuing political ambitions in a militaristic manner; is he setting himself up to be remembered as a monster?
When I watch those movie scenes, and think about the few remaining elderly veterans stepping carefully on the Normandy sands, so as not to lose their balance and fall, I’m reminded of how terribly important it is to keep the power to affect the lives of millions away from people of bad character with harmful mindsets, how easy it is to fail at that, and then I think of the Republican voters who, despite the warnings of history, gave power to Trump. It’s a sad fact of human frailty that some people make mistakes the rest of us simply can’t forget or forgive.
@53 left out… “shit that works”…
too funee..
@47
Related, Federal Court certified the class for authors whose works were used to train LLM AI.
As Sam Altman CEO of Chat GPT pointed out late last year, if AI companies have to PAY creatives for the work their business is built on that is impossible and an existential threat.
And they did it anyway. THIS is why the DOGE boys are trying to take the Library of Congress and its copyright powers.
BREAKING:
Fed Appeals court affirms lower court ruling that A President DOES NOT have broad power to unilaterally to impose Tariffs.
Expect an emergency stay from SCOTUS and oral arguments during the midterm campaign.
That’s going to he fun. Arguing American’s should be paying more for the consumer goods they way in court while saying ‘Low Taxes On Billionaires Big Beautiful Blowjob” is our crowning achievement and we’re building the White House Casino and Convention Center so YOU can pay for UFC happening there.’
$218 million to build the steel pipe and canvas buildings. One month of use. $20 million to tear it down.
There is ZERO chance we find out in the future Ron DeSantis didn’t end up with some of that in his personal accounts.
@58:
“…Absent a valid delegation by Congress, the President has no authority to impose taxes.”
Taxes??? on moi??? Weren’t we all told China, Mexico, EU, Canada… ????
Communist Judges!!!!
Fall service change takes effect tomorrow, for Metro , it includes a fare increase, finally.
https://seattletransitblog.com/2025/08/29/fall-2025-service-change/
The Heterosexual Neanderthal Virus isn’t new.
https://apnews.com/article/buford-pusser-walking-tall-tennessee-cold-case-6a3162fb834a19947b33fbc9002a9a45
Bitches surrender to your girly man!
Yes, he wants to that monster.
His cult were and are to stupid to see it.
You guys are missing the big story hanging above Trump’s tariff defeat in the courts. This
is only the beginning.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/29/trump-trade-tariffs-appeals-court-ieepa.html
And tariffs are only a part of it. Trump has encroached on other core congressional powers. In many cases, stretching them to see how much he can get away with. If the courts stop him here, they’ll stop him there, too. This ruling means separation of powers is still in effect. That substantially limits executive orders. And that’s the big story to be gleaned from the tariff ruling, if it holds up in SCOTUS.
Stephen Miller has the face of a baby hitler.