Tamney from FreedomWorks got an oped published at the WSJ saying the GOP should love reinstating the salt deduction. What a great way to lose your voting base.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-gop-should-love-the-salt-deduction-11624918429?mod=opinion_lead_pos6

Stealing this item wholesale (less supporting links) from Ellis's outstanding newsletter, News Items:

13. The recent naval dispute between Russia and the UK in the Black Sea may have involved a cyberattack as well as conventional weaponry, an analysis of vessel tracking data has found. Yesterday, Russia claimed to have fired “warning shots” at the UK Royal Navy destroyer HMS Defender for being inside “Russian waters”, although the UK Ministry of Defense denies any shots were fired at the Defender or that the ship was in such waters. The event took place off the coast of Crimea, Ukraine, which is disputed territory. But last week, on 19 June, an international vessel-tracking system appeared to show HMS Defender and the Royal Netherlands Navy’s HNLMS Evertsen travel across the Black Sea to sail within a few kilometers of a Russian naval base at Sevastopol. This would have been a provocative act, but the voyage never actually happened – both ships remained docked at Odessa, Ukraine, as confirmed by a live web cam feed. The tracking readings seem to have been faked, in a possible cyberattack. (via newscientist.com, bbc.com, Twitter)

Much better for blood pressure than the NYT.

"...both ships remained docked at Odessa, Ukraine, as confirmed by a live web cam feed."

Heh. Like the "live" can't be hacked?

More to the point: why would a WARSHIP appear at all on a tracker when it is in combat status? Answer: it won't.

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> Like the "live" can't be hacked?

It probably can't, when it's military IT types doing forensic intel. This wasn't a teenager glancing at parking lot cam between intense sessions of Tik Tok on his Samsung.

Tuesday lunchtime boredom. (Roast beef in good air conditioning, and thanks for asking.)

AHA! Let's dunk on the Amish!!

The shortest path to herd immunity is vaccination. These people are putting their "faith" in free-riding, because they're scared of needles… As are all too many of the 𝘌𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘩.

I can see only two solutions. One would be for Republicans to start running candidates for city council in all the jurisdictions that are doing this.

The other would be for governors, or a future Republican president, to send in national guard troops.

In both cases, Democrats are proving that they are not merely unable but unwilling to protect our rights against these thugs. Or against terrorists such as BLM and Antifa, who are still rioting while Democrats cheer them on. (At least until they get to their homes.)

The government must do its job or we must make them. By war if necessary.

You sound totally meen.

Taking it back.

Note especially the titles under "Mandatory errata" near the bottom of the page.

Meeeeeeeee-yow!

Twittery treats:

• Milfs, right?

• Buy me this.

Tw— Turns out, North Korea isn't being spared by global pandemic… As we had all assumed they were!

Since talking about crime in Oakland.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/robbers-hold-up-tv-crew-interviewing-oakland-chief-of-violence-prevention/ar-AALyWvb

Tw— Consider these interiors. There are ventricles in the human heart from which I am estranged… And they're sheathed in tawdry fabrics.

Image #1.

Image @2.

It's snowing in Brazil.

It's 116 in Portland, OR.

I can haz small unpressurized nuclear reactors now?

Crid at June 29, 2021 5:03 PM

Well, *I* certainly didn't assume that...

After all, anyone knows that no Westerner would want to live there, regardless of whatever "benefits" may exist.* So it's no surprise to me that they didn't manage to hold off the pandemic.

*Offhand, the only benefit I ever heard of was that if you put down - and forget - some valuable item on the street, it will still be there two days later, when you come back for it. I don't know if that's true, but you'd think someone would just take it to the police station, so it wouldn't get damaged by the weather or what have you.

Lenona, they are afraid of being accused of theft. If you touch it you get punished, possibly killed.

(Was being facetious, and agree with Ben re: Norks.)

Ben, what I meant was, why don't the POLICE tell the citizens to bring it to the station?

Because the POLICE don't want to explain to envious superiors how this unbelievably expensive and desirable luxury item (scarf; Android tablet; umbrella; camera) came into their possession.

Look, something like 40% of Norks are meth addicts, because they don't get enough food, but everything still needs to get done. And being in a good mood when it does is not important. They're twitchy when interacting with anyone, but especially authorities and foreigners.

I pulled that number out of my backside. It might be 20%. It might be 8%. Would you be meaningfully less appalled?

Ben understands that NK society is endlessly threatening in ways to which Westerners can't relate (, man).