Play stupid games...

AI is big tech's pipe dream. The only way the current version of "AI" takes all jobs is by crashing the economy when the bills come due for these vastly overextended companies.

This is the same freak who forced his child to give blood so he could use it in transfusions to stay young. No sympathy.

I'm with Al Green on this one.

...restoring gun rights to some people with mental illness

Never want to hear the it's not the guns it's mental health argument again.

We've already got rules for this.

Note: On January 24, 2020, the Department of State amended its B nonimmigrant visa regulation to address birth tourism. Under this amended regulation, U.S. consular officers overseas will deny any B visa application from an applicant whom the consular officer has reason to believe is traveling for the primary purpose of giving birth in the United States to obtain U.S. citizenship for their child.

Republican "leadership."

5-4?!?

They got this right at least.

Yes it's a bad decision but it will make it easier to fire every sleeper agent Trump tried to hide in the federal workforce once he's removed form office.

More: Writing for the 5-4 majority, Barrett said the federal law doesn't set a deadline for ballots to received so Mississippi's law doesn't conflict with federal rules.

"The question today is not whether requiring ballots to be received by election day is a good or bad idea; the question is whether the idea has made its way into the United States Code," she wrote.

More than a dozen states have similar laws. Additional states allow late-arriving ballots from military and overseas voters. Voting by mail has decreased since its peak during the COVID-19 pandemic. But nearly 30% of voters still cast a ballot that way in the 2024 elections.

Me and a small group of friends are hiking down to stay at Phantom Ranch for a few days down at the bottom of the Grand Canyon this August. Hopefully we don't become unreported statistics.

The Havasupais say they've been living waaaay down in that canyon "since the rocks were wet" - the beginning of time.

I've hiked to their reservation to see the falls and camp for a weekend. Was a hell of a hike but worth it.

Daniel Sanchez Estrada wasn't accused of attempted murder or material support of terrorism after a protest turned catastrophically wrong outside an ICE detention center in Alvarado, Texas. He was merely convicted of obstructing the investigation by moving a box full of antifascist zines after the protest. Giving him a long prison term would make a mockery of justice, his defense attorney, Christopher Weinbel, told U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor on Tuesday.

"The punishment must fit the crimes " not the headlines, not the politics, not the fears that have been mongered about the case," he said.

Instead, O'Connor gave Sanchez Estrada a 30-year term.

The lengthy sentence was among the eight harsh terms handed down by judges in two courtrooms in Fort Worth on Tuesday to activists who played roles at or after the July 4, 2025, protest at Prairieland Detention Center. Their sentences " longer than any of those received by members of the January 6, 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol " capped a case that is widely regarded as the Trump administration's first major victory in its crackdown on left-wing activism.

More: The housing bill would still become law without Trump's signature in 10 days after Congress formally submits the bill. He did not threaten to veto the measure. It's not clear if a president has ever refused to sign a bill he supported in similar circumstances before.

Thune seemed stunned by Trump's announcement that he wouldn't sign the bill.

"I just heard that. I guess I would say, at this point, I don't have any observations about that," he told reporters.

Shortly after the announcement, workers began dismantling a stage set up in the Capitol for a signing ceremony and removing the presidential seal from the lectern where Trump had planned to speak.

Warren said she had no idea if Trump would let the bill become law. He supported the measure from start to finish, especially the private equity provision that Warren championed. He'd even mentioned it in his State of the Union address on his prior visit to the Capitol.

"Don't ask me to rate Donald Trump's tantrums. That's not my specialty," she said.

If they can do this over their cities imagine what they can do with a swarm full of explosive packed drones.

More: The account, which has not been previously reported, was shared by the F-15 pilot with intelligence officials during a debriefing after the incident. It immediately set off a firestorm of debate within the US intelligence community that has yet to be resolved.

If the airman really saw what he described " a formation moving in unison " it would be an alarming advance in Iranian drone capabilities.

"Multiple drones interconnected and moving as one with smaller drones below the bigger drones like legs," one of the sources familiar with the pilot's witness account told CNN. "Real alien ---."

Another source told CNN the pilot described witnessing a "minefield of drones" in the air.

Good read.

It's not easy being green.

More: In a blistering ruling, U.S. District Judge Patrick Schiltz said there was "no doubt" that the subpoenas were issued to damage Walz " part of what he said was a pattern of Trump administration efforts to use criminal process to punish the president's adversaries.

"Initiating a criminal investigation in order to harass political opponents or to coerce them into taking official action " particularly official action that the federal government cannot directly require those political opponents to take " is a blatantly unlawful and unethical use the grand-jury process," Schiltz wrote in a 29-page ruling dated June 17 but unsealed Monday.

The George W. Bush-appointed chief judge said Trump's repeated attacks and promises of "retribution" against Walz, a Democrat, and other Minnesota officials "establishes beyond reasonable dispute" that the grand jury subpoenas " issued at the height of ICE's Operation Metro Surge " "were a part of a broader campaign to coerce state and local officials in Minnesota to assist the Trump administration in its enforcement of immigration laws."

The federal government is barred by the Constitution from forcing states to enforce federal laws, Schlitz added.

Moreover, Schiltz linked the subpoenas to what he called "the Trump administration's well-established history of using criminal investigations to retaliate against and pressure the President's political and personal adversaries." Schiltz pointed to the recent investigation of Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell, in which another federal judge similarly quashed subpoenas on the grounds that they were retaliatory.

The Justice Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Walz celebrated the decision as "a victory for the rule of law and our democracy."

The ruling rejects six grand jury subpoenas that federal prosecutors targeted at Walz, the mayors of Minneapolis and St. Paul, the Minnesota attorney general and commissioners of Hennepin and Ramsey counties.

He's --------- Ayn Rand in hell now.

I haven't used a credit card since the 90s. I dug myself a big (for the time) credit hole when I was in the Marine Corps right after high school and it took a while to get out. I'm fortunate enough that I haven't needed one and that I learned early what it means to actually live within my means. I had to say no to a few trips with friends etc when I was young and broke but also avoided debt and the ugly cycle that goes with it.

Having said that I'm not sure I could have done that if I was starting out in today's economy.