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Big Win for President Trump as House Votes to Pass the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’

Posted on | July 3, 2025 | No Comments

This is the kind of blogging I very seldom do, because the legislative process is generally boring, when it’s not painful. Grant that sometimes, the process is both boring and painful, but only the ultra-nerdy policy wonks ever get excited about this stuff, and I’ve never been one of those.

Both House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune deserve praise and gratitude for getting the votes necessary for passage of H.R.1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (yes, that’s the official name). Given that Republicans have a razor-thin House majority, and they’re six votes shy of a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, this was a near-miraculous accomplishment. Bradley Jaye at Breitbart:

Republicans successfully met Trump’s Independence Day goal – belittled as unrealistic by the establishment media – clearing the path for a bill signing ceremony Friday that undoubtedly will be one for the ages.
Trump, in a Thursday morning Truth Social post, accurately called the legislation “one of the most consequential bills ever.”
The bill, which codifies into law much of what Trump has done through executive action and unlocks much more that required Congressional approval, may be considered by history as Trump’s crowning achievement. . . .
[T]he legislation manages to include almost every campaign promise Trump made on his Shermanesque march through all seven swing states, delivering wins conservatives never could have dreamed of during the Barack Obama or George W. Bush — or even Trump 45 — administrations.
Although Democrat fearmongering on Medicaid reforms has received outsized attention from the establishment media, the legislation not only extends or makes permanent Trump’s 2017 tax cuts — including no taxes on tips, overtime, or social security – but delivers on Trump’s signature issue of border security.
In many ways, the big, beautiful bill realizes the promise of Trump’s 2016 win, during which the mogul destroyed the open borders globalists’ stranglehold on the Republican Party.

Even discounting for the MAGA fever hype factor of that description, this is nevertheless a major win for Team Trump, and may help congressional Republicans stem the expected 2026 mid-term backlash. Historically, the president’s party loses seats in mid-term elections, but the Democrats are in disarray, demoralized and discombobulated after the wretched end of Biden’s embarrassing one-term stint in the White House, so it’s possible the GOP can avert the typical mid-term defeat. Meanwhile, let me throw out a somewhat crazy take on how and why this deal got done:

The Israel-Iran war.

What was the biggest threat to passage of the Big Beautiful Bill? A Senate filibuster. Mike Johnson could whip his caucus and twist arms to get enough votes to pass the bill in the House, but how could it ever get past the Senate, where it takes 60 votes (or 59 senators, plus the VP’s vote, if necessary) to get “cloture” and let a bill proceed to an up-or-down vote.

OK, so the Big Beautiful Bill got final House approval on June 10. Three days later, Israel launched its attack on Iran, targeting their military leadership and nuclear weapons program. The war culminated June 22 with the U.S. striking three Iranian nuclear facilities, and two days later, Trump announced a ceasefire ending what he called “The 12-Day War.”

Trump’s decisive action as Commander-in-Chief served as a stark contrast to Biden’s weakness and now let me ask you, who is the Democratic Party leader in the U.S. Senate?

Say what you will about Chuck Schumer — and I’m pretty sure I’ve never said anything good about him — he has always been pro-Israel, and as much as Chuck hates Trump, you have to imagine that him seeing Trump standing strong against the mullahs in Iran counted for something.

Perhaps my hunch on this is crazy, but how else do you explain why Schumer didn’t wage a filibuster to stop what is obviously a major legislative victory for Trump? As much as our “America First” friends may lament it, I say Trump won by playing the Zionist card.

Anyway, Stephen Miller is in the gloat zone.

Really, this is a big win, and we don’t get many of those on Capitol Hill, so it’s best to gloat all we can when we get the chance.



 

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In The Mailbox: 07.02.25

Posted on | July 3, 2025 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Hopefully today’s note on Gettysburg won’t accidentally enrage the boss like yesterday’s…anyway, just about everyone knows about Joshua Chamberlain and the 20th Maine’s stand at Little Round Top. Less well known is the suicidal charge of the 1st Minnesota into the teeth of Wilcox’s brigades attacking Cemetery Ridge, ordered by General Hancock to buy time for reinforcements to come up. Colonel Colvill and his 262 men charged without hesitation, and within five minutes 215 Minnesotans were dead or wounded…but they bought the time needed. The 82% casualty rate stands as the largest loss by any surviving U.S military unit in a single day’s engagement ever; the regimental colors are still displayed at the state capitol in St. Paul.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

“The First Minnesota”, by Don Troiani

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Not What I Would Want to Do
Director Blue: CIA Declassifies Indictment Of CIA
EBL: Cha Cha Real Smooth, A Freako is not a R.I.C.O., and SIXTY MINUTES/CBS/PARAMOUNT PAYING MILLIONS TO DONALD TRUMP FOR BIASED REPORTING DURING THE 2024 CAMPAIGN
Twitchy: Etsy Threatened With Boycott For Alligator Alcatraz Merchandise, Boulder Terror Suspecr’s Wife Struggles With Modesty In ICE Detention, and Turns Out Pope Francis’ Ban On The Latin Mass Was Based On A Lie
Louder With Crowder: UPenn erases Lia Thomas, gives “her” titles to the girls they should have gone to, Scott Jennings nukes Democrat hack Paul Begala with truth bomb on Medicaid “cuts”, Drag queen lashes out at Donald Trump, proclaiming it’s better to “be a f***** than a fascist”, and Tim Walz’s daughter goes on a BANANAS rant over “Alligator Alcatraz”
Vox Popoli: They Tell You It’s Not Real, Self-Determination, JD vs VD, It’s Really Not a Flex, and Shipbuilding is Naval Power
Upstream Reviews: My Dragon Awards Ballot
Cedar Sanderson: Twofer
The Bugscuffle Gazette: So, Iran (Part 2)
JIm McCoy: Fourth Wing, Iron Flame, & Onyx Storm
Gab: Our Faith Is Not A Suicide Pact

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: SCOTUS Finds No ‘Right’ to Medical Care From Planned Parenthood
American Thinker: The Life Cycle of a Mail-In Ballot, also, BBB – Congressional Democrats Turn on Blue-Collar Workers and Retirees
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
BattleSwarm: Xi Out?
Behind The Black: Methane climate satellite fails, Astronomers discover supernovae that apparently exploded twice, Another interstellar object identified entering the solar system, New data: the ozone hole occurs mostly because of the sunspot cycle and cosmic rays, not CFC pollution, and Senate reconciliation budget bill includes Cruz’s big spending additions to NASA
Cafe Hayek: “America Firsters,” Of All People, Should Welcome Subsidized Imports
Don Surber: Trump sets tariff revenue record
First Street Journal: You in a heap o’ trouble, boy!
Gates Of Vienna: A Deadly Incident in the Dorsten Forest
The Geller Report: Poll Says Only 36% Of Democrats Are Proud To Be American, BDS (Boycott the Jews) Movement Defeat; $9.3B raised marks strongest half for Israeli startups since 2022, Head of Virginia School Kenneth Nysmith Glorifies Hitler, Kicked Jewish Children Out of His School After They’re Bullied, Major Victory – Senate Passes Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’, and CORRUPT USAID OFFICIALLY CLOSED, FBI To Move Into USAID Building
Hollywood In Toto: Can Trump Make Hollywood Great Again?
The Lid: Waffle House the Latest Proof of Trump’s Success
Legal Insurrection: Senate Hearing Reveals CCP-Linked Organization’s Influence on Climate Lawfare to Harm US Energy, Denaturalizing Citizenship For Immigration Fraud Comes Into DOJ Focus, Pro-Trump Legal Group Launches Website Tracking the Hundreds of Lawsuits Blocking Trump’s Agenda, Eco-Cult Website ‘Climate.gov’ Being Shuffled Off to a New NOAA Webpage, and Let’s Celebrate Deborah Harry’s 80th Birthday With These Classic ‘Blondie’ Songs
Matt Taibbi: Welcome Back, Wells Fargo!
Outkick: NHL Makes It Officially Official That Players Are Headed Back To The Olympics, Dodgers Pitcher Clayton Kershaw Powers to 3,000 Strikeouts, Joining MLB’s Elite Group, Paul Finebaum Thinks Arch Manning Could Be The Best College QB Since Tim Tebow, Lakers Add Former Top Draft Pick Deandre Ayton Who’s Rumored To Have Behavior Issues, and Nancy Mace Rattles The Swamp In Just Her Pajamas, CBS Golf Girl Amanda Balionis & Alligator Alcatraz Reviews!
Shark Tank: DeSantis Mocks Mamdani – “Makes DiBlasio Look Like Reagan”
Shot In The Dark: Glaucoma
STUMP: Social Security Insolvency Gets Closer…Again
This Ain’t Hell: Cannibal illegal alien reportedly started eating himself after being seated on a deportation flight, Better late than never, Bad Form, That, and DOGE Should Look at the Fed
Transterrestrial Musings: Light Blogging
Victory Girls: Columbia Acting President Shipman Has Some Explaining To Do
Watts Up With That: Ted Cruz Demolishes Activist’s “Climate H*micide” Claims, Solar Tax Credits: 1978–2025 (never enough), Natural Gas to the Rescue…Again, Burning Trash for Energy, People and Planet , and Decline of the Great North American Decarbonization Charade
The Federalist: You Can’t Celebrate 1776 While Ignoring The Invasion We’re Dealing With In 2025, CIA Review Blasts John Brennan’s Role In Launching Russian Collusion Hoax, Documents Show Burbank Unified School District Pushes Segregation, Transing Kids Behind Parents’ Backs, Ketanji Brown Jackson Was Appointed To Be A Political Activist, Not A Judge, and Numbers Behind Trump’s Biggest Win Could Doom Dying Democratic Party
Mark Steyn: Live Around the Planet – La Donna E Immobile, also, Happy Dominion Day!

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The Hills Are Alive … With Rachel Zegler?

Posted on | July 2, 2025 | No Comments

First, let’s get the actual “news”:

Rachel Zegler is reportedly in talks to play the main role in The Sound of Music. Zegler is known as a skilled actor on both the stage and screen. On the film side of things, she got her start playing the role of Maria in Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of West Side Story. This year, she returned to the musical genre when she played the titular princess in Disney’s live-action Snow White. . . .
Zegler is now reportedly in talks to play the protagonist in The Sound of Music. According to the source, the Snow White actor is in conversation to play the role of Maria von Trapp, a part originated by Julie Andrews, in a stage production of the series at Lincoln Center in New York City. It was noted by the source, however, that Zegler’s Sound of Music role is not yet confirmed.

Note that this is merely a rumor, and involves Zegler playing the Julie Andrews role in a stage production of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. This is absurd enough, but some people mistakenly got the idea that someone was planning a movie remake starring Zegler, an idea so obviously crazy that not even ultra-woke Disney executives would try it.

OK, but what if they did? Thanks to AI, we can get a glimpse of what such a project might look like, and it’s hilarious:

 

“Wait,” you say, “why is Sydney Sweeney on the title card?” Don’t want to spoil it for you, but trust me, it’s funny.



 

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In The Mailbox: 07.01.25

Posted on | July 2, 2025 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Thanks to those of you who bought stuff through my Amazon links in May. Both of you. (I kid, I kid.)
It’s the 15th anniversary of awesome space news site Beyond the Black. Go throw money at him. 
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

Day 1: John Buford’s cavalry division holds off Heth’s division on Seminary Ridge until John Reynolds and the Iron Brigade arrive.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Media Finally Notices Mercedes EV Explosion from March
EBL: Mr. Darwin, Mr. Wallace, Mr Matthew, Colonel Chamberlain’s Speech, Happy Canada Day, and Wait, what?
Twitchy: Paramount/CBS News Settle Kamala Editing Lawsuit With Trump, Alaska Has Epic Response to Question About Setting Up Their Own “Alligator Alcatraz”, and Waffle House Delivers Egg-citing News to X
Louder With Crowder: Donald Trump makes the consequences clear if Zohran Mamdani gets in the way of ICE, WH gives interesting response to whether Trump wants Zohran Mamdani’s citizenship revoked, New York debuts new “foot fountain” that squirts out of the tip and looks like a different body part than the foot, Tom Homan shares hilarious memory of one time he “met” Zohran Mamdani, and Kamala Harris Steps Up Governor Outreach Efforts, But Excitement Remains Low Among Donors
Vox Popoli: Iran’s Deep Bench, Yes, I Do Read Screencaps, The Fifth Generation of War, How China is Ending Divorce, and Five Generations of Modern War
The Bugscuffle Gazette: So, Iran
Upstream Reviews: July New Releases

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Israel’s Doomed Bid for Mideast Domination
American Thinker: Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s Thunderclap Heard Around the Republic
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Long-Lost Relatives News
BattleSwarm: DoD Declares Rio Grande Defense Zone
Behind The Black: Mitsubishi wants to cut launch price of H3 rocket to $35 million, Speculation on future New Glenn launch schedule, China releases images of Earth and Moon, taken by its Tianwen-2 asteroid probe, Upcoming appearances on both the Space Show and Coast to Coast, and NASA still hoping to save its Lunar Trailblazer mission
Cafe Hayek: Fair Trade Is Unfree – and Unfair
CDR Salamander: The USAF Is Having A Good Year
Chicago Boyz: The Books of Montgomery County, Part 3: Punitive Expedition Edition, also, July 1st Means
Da Tech Guy: July Indulgence Calendar and hope you have a priest like this one at your parish
Don Surber: Trump celebrates Canada Day
First Street Journal: Philadelphia and the culture of lawlessness
Gates Of Vienna: Hark Upon the Gale, also, She’s Baaack!
The Geller Report: Harvard Violated Jewish Students’ Civil Rights: Students Spit On, Harassed with ‘Heil Hitler’ While University Did Nothing
Hollywood In Toto: Jurassic World Rebirth Finds Dino Franchise on Autopilot, also, Gay Comedian Scott Thompson: Eliminate GLAAD
The Lid: Advocates for Criminal Illegals are Now Targeting Children of ICE Agents
Legal Insurrection: Trump DOJ Sues Los Angeles, Citing Supremacy Clause in Challenge to Sanctuary City Policies, Trump Tours ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Detention Center, Gazans Testify That Hamas Deliberately Targets Civilians Collecting Humanitarian Aid, UPenn Bans Males From Female Sports, and Parents Sue Houston, TX School For ‘Socially-Transitioning’ Their Daughter To The Opposite Sex
Outkick: Penn To Apologize For Allowing Lia Thomas To Compete On Women’s Team, Randy Moss Defeats Cancer, Coming Back To Full-Time Role At ESPN, Halftime Legend Red Panda Takes a Tumble At WNBA Game, Caitlin Clark & Fever Teammates Send Strong Support, ESPN, MLB Restart Talks In Tacit Acknowledgement Of Another ESPN Mistake, and Cameron Brink Gets Spicy For Photoshoot, Kelsey Plum Fixes Fan’s Wardrobe & Gen Z Loves The Nuns
Shark Tank: DeSantis & Trump Open Alligator Alcatraz
Shot In The Dark: How To Make It, also, Miraculous Transformation 
STUMP: Happy Bobby Bonilla Day 2025!
The Political Hat: Redefining Terms And Natural Law
This Ain’t Hell: Jashua Aaron creates ICE activity tracking app: CNN gives him airtime, Army COVID Vets Return to Service, Big beautiful bill clears hurdle, expected to be on President Trump’s desk on Friday, and Happy 70th!
Transterrestrial Musings: Male Novel Readers
Victory Girls: DOJ Announces 324 Charged In $14.6 BILLION Healthcare Fraud Schemes
Watts Up With That: SURPRISING – scientists find ties between Earth’s oxygen and magnetic field, CO2 Sustains Greenhouse Farming Revolution, The Energy Trifecta: Nuclear, Fossil Fuels…and Geothermal Energy, and Concern Over Safety Of German Wind Turbines Heightens After 70-Meter Rotor Blade Snaps Off
The Federalist: Chris Taylor Is The Left’s Anti-ICE, Pro-Sanctuary State Candidate For WI Supreme Court, DeSantis Signs Provision Prohibiting State Agencies From Contracting With Media Censors, Trump Needs A Massive Drone Fleet To Defend U.S. Interests And Deter Its Enemies, Russia Hoaxer Marc Elias Loses Bid To Allow Foreign Interference In Kansas Ballot Issues, and Surviving The Smear Campaign: Emil Bove Shines At Confirmation Hearing
Mark Steyn: Death to You!!!

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In The Mailbox: 06.30.25

Posted on | July 1, 2025 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: The Environmental Impact of Electric Vehicles
EBL: Chuck Schumer Melts Down Over The Big Beautiful Bill, Firefighters ambushed by shooter, 2 deaths confirmed in Idaho, Becoming a Gettysburg Battlefield Guide, SALT, and Turbot
Twitchy: Megyn Kelly Says Preferred Pronouns Are An Effort To Override Instincts, Infantryman Gives Lefties Crying “Islamophobia!” A Brutal Dose Of Reality, and Just How Massively Did Jaguar’s Rebranding Backfire?
Louder With Crowder: Hundreds Rally Behind Teacher Who Was Fired For Saying The N-Word, Well over 100 Democrats tell Americans they won’t deport illegals who are busted driving drunk, Gavin Newsom sues Fox over coverage of an alleged phone call with Donald Trump, CNN host gets LAUGHED AT defending Zohran Mamdani’s anti-white comments, and Karoline Leavitt GOES OFF on CNN for promoting new app that lets leftists track down ICE agents
Vox Popoli: Confessions of an ex-Christian Zionist, The Smartest Conclusion, The Dismemberment of Disney, SIDS = Vaccines, and Legend
Upstream Review: Conscript 
Defending The Wood Perilous: Write The Most Controversial Story You Can – The Test of the Prophet
Ammo.com: How Many U.S. Households Have A Gun In 2025?
Toni Airaksinen: Nurse says “I Support Hamas”, tells detractors “Deport Me!”
Stoic Observations: American Neo-Feudalism, also, June Boxtag Update

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Z Man and The Book is not Dead
American Conservative: Argentina Onward, also, How 24 Hours in a Remote Greenland Village Showed Me Its American Spirit
American Greatness: Mr. Trump’s Successful MAGA Tightrope Walk, also, Florida’s Victorious Operation Dragon Eye
American Thinker: Yes, the U.S. ‘Obliterated’ Iran’s Nuclear Capabilities, also, ‘A Very Consequential Two Weeks’
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
BattleSwarm: Hegseth Slams Lying Media, Trump To Iran Last Week: We Can Remove Sanctions On You Now. Trump This Week: Or We Could Have, If You Hadn’t Been Such Colossal Dicks, and Hello Mudder, Hello Fatwa
Behind The Black: Baby stars illuminating the dust that surrounds them, Update on SpaceX’s plans to resume Starship/Superheavy flight testing, Blue Origin completes another New Shepard suborbital flight, and Orbex delays first launch from Saxavord until 2026
Cafe Hayek: Deficit Financing By Government Is Unethical and A Source of Excessive Government Growth, also, Full Text of Gramm’s and Boudreaux’s “Tariffs Mean Electoral Defeat for the GOP”
CDR Salamander: A Pre-July 4th Midrats Melee, also, Bastions for the Boomers
Chicago Boyz: Enablers of Mamdani: America’s Universities, also, Barbarity For You
Da Tech Guy: Assorted Thoughts Under the Fedora
Dana Loesch: SCOTUS Smackdown, 
Don Surber: SCOTUS saves the judiciary, 
Elizabeth Nickson: Is The Feminist Stronghold  Showing Cracks?, 
First Street Journal: Mustn’t ‘peace’ mean more than just the absence of war?
Gates Of Vienna: Oregon Drags its Feet on Greater Idaho, Imam of Bologna Says Lega Members Are Satanic, Knife Jihad in Wangen, A Sexual Emergency at the Pool in Gelnhausen, and It’s coup o’clock!
The Geller Report: State Department Officially Revokes Visa For British Band Who Chanted ‘Death To The IDF’, Socialist NYC Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani Wants to Raise Taxes on White Neighborhoods, Trump Urges Passage of “No Tax Dollars for Riots” Act, Over 150 Women Stabbed by Syringes in Coordinated Attack at French Music Festival, Several Muslims Arrested, and HISTORIC: President Trump Brokers Peace Between Rwanda and Congo, Ending 30 Year War
Glenn Reynolds: What Is College Good For
Hollywood In Toto: James Woods’ Shark Was Canceled Too Soon (Just Like Its Lead), Four Reasons why M3GAN 2.0 Bombed, A Flailing Elvis Costello Joins Anti-Trump Resistance, The Wrap Compares ICE Raids to Anne Frank’s Plight, and Let Bob Vylan Speak!
The Lid: Lefty SCOTUS Justice Sotomayor Claims Public Education is Doomed without Gay Indoctrination and Trans Story Hours
Legal Insurrection: ‘Death to IDF’: Glastonbury Music Festival Spirals Into Antisemitic Rally, Harvard “Putting Things In Reverse Order” by Claiming Civil Rights Enforcement Will Damage Research, Institute at Berklee College of Music Finds There Are Too Many ‘Male-Identified’ Jazz Educators, The New York Times Discovers Female Loneliness, and Now It’s Murder: First Victim of Illegal Immigrant’s Molotov Attack on Jewish Group Dies
Outkick: Emily Ratajkowski Promotes Socialism With Spicy Photo, Immediately Gets Destroyed, Florida Panthers Pull Off Ultimate Salary Cap Coup, Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese Received Low All-Star Vote Totals From WNBA Players, Rockies Interim Manager Makes The Most Of His First Ejection, Goes Nuclear On Umpire, and Tiffani Amber Thiessen Gets Sloppy And Has Patriots Howling, Jordon Naps With Bill & Brady’s New Deflategate!
Shark Tank: DeSantis Confirms Trump Will Join Him At “Alligator Alcatraz” Opening
Shot In The Dark: The Future Of The DFL – If The MnGOP Is Very Lucky
STUMP: The Week In Meep – Don Quixote, Books, & Jack Chick, 
This Ain’t Hell: Good Idea Fairy in action, Jasmine Crockett questions Melania Trump’s visa, Hunter Biden Coughs Up Law License, and Iran’s grand ayatollah issues fatwa against President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu
Transterrestrial Musings: The Late Bill Moyers, Trump’s Past Two Weeks, and For New Yorkers Thinking About Fleeing To Florida
Victory Girls: About Time: Green New Deal Energy Subsidies Booted From Trump’s Bill, also, Vote-a-rama: The Last Scene Is Being Played Out In The Senate
Watts Up With That: Toward A New Climate Paradigm, COP30 CEO: “Climate change is our biggest war”, and Will Fewer Balloon Weather Observations Mean Reduced Forecast Skill?
The Federalist: We Still Have An Imperial Judiciary, Yet Trump Continues To Exercise Extreme Restraint, Lawsuit Claims Nevada Elections Chief Is Hiding Records On Alleged Illegal Voter, America Deserves Better Than Amnesty For The Politically Connected, For The First Time In Four Years, Americans Aren’t Paying More For Their July 4 Cookouts, and England Codifies A Culture Of Death
Mark Steyn: Dutch Treat, All Far Too Quiet on the Western Front, Death in the Afternoon: Grand Prix and the Motorsport Movie, Build a Fence Around Your Sister, and I’ll Never Smile Again

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Rule 5 Sunday: Overall Beauty

Posted on | June 30, 2025 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Cautioning New Yorkers Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Queen Maxima, MAGA Message To Leakers, “Live And Let Die”, Superman: Red Son, Free Immigration & Welfare, Peggie Castle, Bobby Sherman RIP, Flight Risk, Duster, Danielle Trotta, and 100-Foot Wave

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Sara Malakul, Fish Pic Friday – Eleni Stewart, Trump “Obliterates” Media Meme, Tattoo Thursday, The Wednesday Wetness, News from MDDNR, Tuesday Tanlines, The Monday Morning Stimulus and Sunday Sunrise

BACON TIME: Rule Five – A Trip To Hooterville

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious linkagery!

 

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LGBTQIA2S+ Pride Month Update: New Maryland Charges for Three Members of Radical Vegan Transgender Cult

Posted on | June 29, 2025 | No Comments

Left to right: Jack LaSota, Michelle Zajko, Daniel Blank

During Pride Month, Maryland prosecutors?

Three people linked to a group known as the Zizians are facing new felony charges related to firearms and illegal drug trafficking, on top of the misdemeanors that have kept them jailed in Maryland since February.
Members of the Zizians have been tied to violence in several states, including the fatal January shooting of a border patrol agent in northern Vermont.
The charges were filed last week against the three suspects who are named in court documents as Jack Amadeus LaSota, Michelle Jacqueline Zajko and Daniel Arthur Blank and who had previously been charged in Maryland with several misdemeanors each.
Those charges, including the unlawful possession of handguns, trespassing and obstructing arrest, stemmed from their arrest in Frostburg, Maryland, in February while allegedly camping on private property.
Now, prosecutors in Maryland’s Allegany County have brought a new indictment against each of them.
The new charges include felony counts of narcotic possession with intent to distribute and drug trafficking with the use of a firearm, according to court records and an article Wednesday in the Cumberland Times-News in Maryland.
The penalties for the latest felony charges, if they lead to convictions, carry up to 20 years in prison.
Prosecutors and attorneys for the three defendants could not be reached Wednesday afternoon for comment.
LaSota, Zajko and Blank have been in custody in Maryland since their initial arrest in February while the cases against them have been pending.
Zajko and LaSota have also been previously charged with federal offenses as has one other person linked to the Zizians in Vermont.
In the Vermont case, two people named in court records as Felix Bauckholt and Teresa Youngblut were pulled over by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent David Maland on Jan. 20 on Interstate 91 in Coventry.
Youngblut, according to court records, opened fire, leading to a shootout that left Maland and Bauckholt dead and Youngblut injured.
Youngblut, 21, of Washington state, faces federal firearms and assault charges but has not been charged directly with killing Maland. At a court hearing Tuesday in Youngblut’s case in Burlington, a defense attorney stated he expected federal prosecutors to file new charges against his client in “short order” that carry the possibility of the death penalty.
Authorities have alleged that the guns that Youngblut and Bauckholt had at the time of the traffic stop in Vermont had been purchased by Zajko, who had lived for a time in Coventry.
Zajko has since been charged with a federal offense related to the purchases of firearms in Vermont. Zajko has not appeared in court in Vermont to face that charge.
LaSota, the alleged leader of the Zizians who blogged under the name “Ziz,” was federally indicted last week in Maryland on a charge of being an armed fugitive.

Guess they’re all going to be enjoying their vegan cuisine in the Allegany County a while longer. Shame they have to miss out on the Pride festivities, not to mention the Fourth of July. Speaking of which, I’m rattling the tip jar like a meth-head over here.



 

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Make Fireworks Great Again

Posted on | June 29, 2025 | No Comments

It was John Adams who, in a 1776 letter to his wife Abigail, declared that the occasion of our independence should “be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival” including “Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more.” And by “Illuminations,” of course, he meant fireworks, which is why the Big Yellow Button has returned.

 

Although the PayPal donation button is permanently on the page, on special occasions I enlarge for the benefit of those readers who might be nearsighted and thus unable to see the button at its regular size. Click upon the Big Yellow Button and it will take you to PayPal where you can contribute $17.76 toward our family’s celebration of independence.

There is a “buy one get one free” (BOGO) coupon burning a hole in my pocket today. You see, as a frequent customer of the nearest major fireworks vendor, I’m on their text message list, and they send coupons to my phone. Today’s one-day special is BOGO on any item $50 or less, so if any readers were feeling particularly generous, $50 would be awesome, but any amount — $5 or $10 or $20 — would be most welcome.

Son Jim rigging our 2022 finale board.

WOW, it’s been three years since we did a show? The Biden years were tough, man, but now that America Is Great Again, it’s time to remind readers of the Five Most Important Words in the English Language:

HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR!



 

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