The Fed's Tough Mission

Plus: More strikes on Iran, Nayib Bukele runs for a third consecutive term, private dinosaur-bone ownership, and more...

What will the new Fed chairman do? "Fed governor Christopher Waller said Monday that while inflation could still drift back toward 2% without further tightening, 'there is still a credible' chance that upcoming data shows inflation remains elevated or accelerates again," reports Axios. New Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh testified before Congress yesterday, saying "the members of our committee have no tolerance for persistently elevated inflation." He reassured lawmakers that they "share a resolute commitment to restoring price stability" but did not outline how.

Another Consumer Price Index (CPI) report was released yesterday, ahead of the Fed meeting later this month. "The data showed that inflation in June cooled sharply as falling energy prices stemming from a temporary truce in the war with Iran dragged down the overall index," reports The New York Times. "'Core' inflation, which strips out volatile food and energy items to give a better sense of the underlying trend, also eased by more than expected."

"There might be some who look at today's data and say, 'Mission accomplished,'" said Warsh. "That is not my view."

That makes sense: If inflation has cooled in part due to falling energy prices, the resumption of fighting not just over the Strait of Hormuz but also early warning signs that the Gulf of Aden will possibly become a chokepoint for global oil are very big problems indeed. Warsh and co. should take this very seriously and not overextrapolate from the June CPI data, which does not reflect the current state of global affairs.

"Energy prices plunged on the Iran cease-fire and memorandum of understanding," Scott Anderson, chief U.S. economist for BMO Capital Markets, told Reuters. "But with fighting back on in the ​Gulf, the MOU in tatters, and energy prices heading higher again in July, the balance of risks remains more heavily weighted toward a rate hike at some point this year."

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Iran update: "We're going to hit them very hard tonight; we're going to hit them very hard tomorrow night; we're going to hit them very hard the night after," President Donald Trump told Fox News on Tuesday. "And then next week it gets really bad for them because next week comes the power plants. We're going to knock out all their bridges unless they get to the table and negotiate."

At 6 a.m. ET today, U.S. Central Command forces began launching a wave of strikes against Iran. The strikes are designed to further degrade military capabilities Iranian forces have used to attack commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.

— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) July 15, 2026

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Scenes from New York: A website (called, succinctly, "damnlines") has been created to monitor the wait for various New York hotspots, per that Brock Colyar piece on lines in Curbed. You would think these buzzy froyo spots could simply jack up prices to respond to rising demand.

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QUICK HITS

• "A Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton sold at auction for $50.1 million, making it the most expensive dinosaur ever bought," reports Semafor. "'Gus,' an exceptionally complete specimen with 61% of its bones remaining that was found in 2021 in South Dakota, stands 12 feet tall and is an estimated 67 million years old. The buyer is unknown, but ultra-rich private collectors of fossils are on the rise: The previously most expensive dinosaur was Apex, a stegosaurus, which was bought by hedge fund billionaire Kenneth Griffin. Apex did, however, still end up in a museum—Griffin loaned it to the American Museum of Natural History—while Stan, another T. rex bought for $31.8 million in 2020, is now on display in Abu Dhabi." I have no problem with "ultra-rich private collectors of fossils" and have a hard time seeing how anyone could.
• "A top Senate Democrat has requested an investigation into whether Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. broke a federal law intended to prevent political appointees from interfering in elections," reports The Washington Post. "Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon), the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, filed a complaint Monday with the Office of Special Counsel, a quasi-judicial independent agency that administers the Hatch Act and other civil service rules."
• Watch the England-Argentina World Cup game today for possible Malvinas-related chants and fallout. European football regulators would probably ban some of these chants, but FIFA tends to give a little more latitude.
• Against they/them rhetoric:

This is an amazing quote from Lindsey Graham about when he realized how politics works. https://t.co/sh04ahQOFq pic.twitter.com/bsoqfR1eK2

— nxthompson (@nxthompson) July 14, 2026

• "El Salvador's ruling party on Monday ratified President Nayib Bukele's candidacy for February 2027 presidential elections, paving the way for a third consecutive term," reports the Associated Press. "A September 2021 ruling by the constitutional Court allowed presidential reelection 'for one term only.'"
• Truly insane that it's come to this level of threat for Supreme Court justices:

NEW: Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett details the chilling threats her family has faced, revealing the terrifying moment her 12-year-old son discovered a bulletproof vest in her bedroom during the fallout of the Dobbs leak.

Barrett also recounted a recent "swatting"… pic.twitter.com/Cn6yG0VTYO

— Fox News (@FoxNews) July 14, 2026

Comments

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

As sullum writes his 50th article on why it is immoral for conservatives to get compensated against liberal government abuses....

Reason continues to ignore more uncovered abuses. This time Jack Smith reading the text messages of 44 lawmakers while intentionally avoiding firewall teams.

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/jack-smith-reviewed-texts-40-congressmen-doj-records-show

So why is reaspn ignoring this story? Is the NYT also ignoring it so they dont know about it? Or do they realize they cheered these abuses at the time?

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Will they even notice now that Paul wrote about it?

Rand Paul
@RandPaul
December 2025: Jack Smith swore under oath that he didn't spy on text messages belonging to members of Congress.

Today: New evidence confirms he spied on dozens of members of Congress, myself included.

This is a blatant abuse of power, and exactly what our Founders warned about.

[Rev Arthur L kuckland (5-30-24 banana republic day)]

I would be simpathetic to smith. Only 1 month in jail for each message he illegally read

[Dillinger]

>>So why is reaspn ignoring this story? Is the NYT also ignoring it

seeing as goodLiz gets material from NYT maybe she just doesn't know yet

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

I have no problem with "ultra-rich private collectors of fossils" and have a hard time seeing how anyone could.

The government needs to subsidize the purchase of fossils by the lower income people of color in the name of equity.

[Rev Arthur L kuckland (5-30-24 banana republic day)]

Scenes from new york:
Mamdani opens free government funded fossil store

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

How much for the Pelosi?

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

If you have to ask...

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Democrats: fine you can deport illegal criminals.

Also democrats: cmon man, plane hijackers aren't that bad, dont deport, let them go.

https://nypost.com/2026/07/13/us-news/plane-hijacker-awaiting-deportation-freed-by-dem-appointed-activist-judge/

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

At least he hijacked a plane FROM Cuba.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Hilarious.

Visegrád 24
@visegrad24
An American transsexual man who applied for asylum in the Netherlands due to “oppression in Trump’s America” has been placed in the infamous asylum center Ter Apel famous for Islamist extremists and knife violence.

He says he regrets his decision…

https://x.com/visegrad24/status/2077023859299979439

[Eeyore]

I'm confused again. Is a transsexual man someone who identifies as a man or was that the other way around? I'm at a complete loss as to what gender that individual is.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Its all fluid bro.

[Zeb]

Whichever one makes less sense is probably what people who use terms like "transsexual/transgender man" mean.

[Outlaw Josey Wales]

I am he as you are she, as they are you and we are all together .

Goo, goo g'joob

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Trans-walrusing, are we?

[Rev Arthur L kuckland (5-30-24 banana republic day)]

Liz do you even reason? Only right wingers support violence. All the Amy Bennet threats came from right wingers.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Um, left wing violence is speech. You know the rest.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

NYC has already lost an estimated 11B in tax revenue from the rich fleeing new taxes and socialism.

https://legalinsurrection.com/2026/07/millionaires-are-fleeing-new-york-taking-11-billion-in-tax-revenue-with-them/

[Rev Arthur L kuckland (5-30-24 banana republic day)]

They also allow open air crime markets where foreigners stop people from going into legit stores

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

The plaintiffs alleged in the federal District Court of Minnesota that they suffered “bouts of uncontrollable weeping, inability to sleep, distractions from work, despair for the future of their children and humanity, inability to experience joy, feelings of guilt, social isolation, and anxiety,” as a result of a 2024 defense spending bill.

They sued elected federal officials along with then-Department of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin for funding the aid to Israel, which they say is complicit in “genocide in Gaza.” Defendants included Senators Tina Smith and Amy Klobuchar, along with current Department of War Secretary Pete Hegseth. The activists wanted “a declaration that the challenged law violates the Constitution, international treaties, and other federal law” and an injunction.

https://legalinsurrection.com/2026/07/anti-israel-activists-lose-lawsuit-alleging-uncontrollable-weeping-over-military-aid/

[damikesc]

My, cannot imagine why women have a reputation for being unstable.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Hey, women are totally the same and better than men, and so extremely fragile that they need special protection and legal standing and we all have to listen to them.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Yay for multicultural open borders.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/sheriff-says-somali-youth-gangs-are-running-wild-minneapolis

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

'Ramsey County Deputy Ben Seidel said the Somali youth gangs don't operate like traditional inner-city gangs in the sense of being motivated by money. "From what I've seen... it's all about showboating. It's all about ego for 99% of it. They aren't selling narcotics. It's all about just gloating," Seidel states in the video.'

That makes sense, since the open borders delusions held by the left are also 99% about ego.

[Eeyore]

Someone needs to infiltrate the gangs and start a psyop to convince the youngsters that chopping their own balls off is cool.

[Zeb]

Do you really want roving bands of Somali eunuchs? I feel like that might be worse. Though there will be less rape in that case.

[Eeyore]

Eunuchs are reportedly less violent. They are also supposed to live longer - so they are getting something out of the deal.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Not sure. In britain many of the rape reports are migrants using broom handles and other objects.

[Spiritus Mundi]

Public schools have that market locked down.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Two tier justice.

Fresh footage from Northern Ireland captures police sprinting past a group of knife- and stick-wielding feral youths to cuff a local man who had grabbed a stick to protect the native women and children in his street.

Police ignore the asylum seekers with knives to go after those defending themselves against them.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-yet-another-shocking-video-uks-two-tier-policing-drops

[Medulla Oblongata]

I don't think you have, mate.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Ivy League kids are retarded.

https://thefederalist.com/2026/07/10/increasing-number-of-ivy-league-students-cant-even-read-so-lets-stop-calling-them-elite/

[Idaho-Bob]

They'll be running for federal offices before long.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

And that's why we need to expand, not cut, government agencies.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Democracy has spoken, but Democrats (excuse me, the 'non-partisans') are ignoring the election results--indeed, they are denying the legitimacy of the election. Where's the No Kings people? Where's the people so desperate to "defend democracy"?

https://ballotpedia.org/City_council_recall,_Avenal,_California_(2025-2026)

An election to recall Mayor Alvaro Preciado and City Councilmembers Leticia Gamez, David Reynosa, and Pablo Hernandez was held April 28, 2026, in Avenal, California.[1]All four city officials were recalled as a result of the election.[2]

The recall effort stemmed from a proposal to replace the city’s fire service contract with a volunteer-only department, in addition to concerns about transparency and lack of communication with residents.[3]

Although voters approved the recall, the four officials remain in office as of June 2026. Mayor Preciado and councilmembers Gamez and Hernandez voted to reject the recall election results on June 11, 2026, alleging the election was conducted unlawfully by Kings County and was not properly authorized by the city. Recall organizers are pursuing a quo warranto lawsuit, an uncommon legal practice which asks a court to determine whether officials are lawfully holding office.[4] California Attorney General Rob Bonta approved the lawsuit June 17, 2026.[5]

[also, from New York Post]

The Kings County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a resolution placing four Avenal City Council seats up for election in November, saying the move would restore representation after months of turmoil stemming from the city’s explosive recall battle.

Under California Elections Code Section 11381, recalled officials are barred from running in the special election, according to Kings County Counsel Laurie Buelna, who said the county confirmed the interpretation with the California Secretary of State’s office.

The vote came just one day after Councilmember Ricardo Verdugo, the only member of the council who survived the recall election, appointed himself mayor – further deepening the city’s leadership crisis.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Hey, man, democracy is not, like, for regular people to tell elites what to do, mkay?

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

Poor Matty Y:

"He cannot be this stupid."

"Au contraire, I assure you he can be"

https://x.com/ingelramdecoucy/status/2077067643727536395

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

He is in fact that retarded.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Just the way all his followers like. And are.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Come to think of it. Isn't Matt Y from an Ivy League?

[Medulla Oblongata]

Sucks to be her...I think there's a metaphor in there somewhere...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/other/i-paid-thousands-of-dollars-to-legally-bring-my-brother-to-the-usa-now-he-refuses-to-work-or-move-out-of-my-house/ar-AA27QjWL

A U.S. citizen in her 40s living in California, known as Maria for privacy, spent more than $15,000 and waited nearly four years to bring her younger brother from Honduras through family-based immigration. She covered lawyer fees, application costs, travel, and initial settlement expenses. Today, two years after his arrival on a green card, her brother remains unemployed, spends most days at home, and shows no signs of leaving. Her extended family back home and in the U.S. pressures her not to abandon him, leaving her trapped between love, cultural expectations, and mounting financial stress.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

I was told chain migration didn't exist.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Also that every immigrant is an eager worker and productive dynamo.

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

He’s doing all the doctoring and engineering at night, she just doesn’t know.

[Zeb]

Chain migration doesn't exist. But something with a different name and all of the same characteristics does.
Also, is two links a chain?

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

2 links was enough to scare Corn Pop off.

[Medulla Oblongata]

"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. "

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/dod-watchdog-finds-155mm-artillery-plant-built-2-years-ago-has-produced-nothing/ar-AA27Tv5Y

A Pentagon watchdog report found that in the roughly two years since it was built, an ammunition plant in Mesquite, Texas, has not produced any parts for 155mm artillery rounds, hindering the Army's goal to help backfill stocks of ammunition provided to Ukraine after Russia invaded in 2022.

In a report released Monday, the Defense Department inspector general found that as of March 2026, the plant had not produced any metal projectile parts that met the specifications laid out in the contract and the "the Army's expenditure of $469 million to establish the Mesquite facility could have been used to address other Army or [Department of Defense] priorities."

The gap, the report concluded, occurred because Army officials "accepted the risk" with the contractor's plan to procure equipment which had not been tested. According to a timeline in the report, the Army contracting office requested the plant stop work in Aug. 2025 while the government evaluated if it could meet its obligations and work to resolve the production issues.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

Too busy bbqing.

[Spiritus Mundi]

Hard to belive WWII lasted only 4 years for the US. In that time we built hundreds of naval vessels, thousands of planes and tanks, millions of arty rounds. What has changed?

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Regulations on procurement. 30 year lifespan requirements.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Also the feminization of the country. That includes coddling everyone like a gigantic preschool.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Of course it is...bless her heart...

Historian says it’s racist to question her — after her book about slavery pulled from shelves over inaccuracies

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/historian-says-it-s-racist-to-question-her-after-her-book-about-slavery-pulled-from-shelves-over-inaccuracies/ar-AA27TcsC

The author of an acclaimed book about slavery is crying racism after her writing came under scrutiny by scholars for questionable assertions and sloppy sourcing.

Kerri Greenidge’s 2022 book “The Grimkes,” which tells the story of a prominent South Carolina slaveholder family who later played a role in the abolitionist movement, was lauded by critics and won the American Historical Association’s Joan Kelly Memorial Prize.

But skepticism grew as her prose came under the microscope by historians and scholars, including Myra Glenn, an author and retired American history professor at Elmira College.

Presented with these and other disputed findings discovered through Glenn’s analysis by the New York Times, Greenidge immediately cast herself as the victim, and accused her growing roster of critics of racism.

“I am heartbroken that a field I have given my life to can treat me this way,” she told the outlet. “The attack on Black women academics is real.”

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Well, facts ARE racist. The Smithsonian told me so.

[Medulla Oblongata]

A repeat offender was charged with trespassing at Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker’s Chicago home over Independence Day weekend, prompting renewed criticism from Republicans and crime-policy critics over the Democrat’s public-safety record.

Dwayne Cortez Milton was arrested on the night of July 4 after he was seen allegedly jumping a fence and entering Pritzker’s backyard. Milton faces a trespassing charge but was released from custody pending trial, ABC 7 Chicago reported.

Milton was ordered released in the trespassing case, but court documents show he pleaded guilty July 7 in a separate theft case and remains in custody. The suspect was allegedly under electronic monitoring at the time of the trespassing charge and had an extensive criminal history, CWB Chicago reported, citing court records.

Pritzker has been repeatedly criticized for his soft-on-crime policies, including the elimination of cash bail, opposition to mandatory minimum expansions, expanding parole opportunities and sentencing reform. Illinois became the first state to abolish cash bail statewide after Pritzker signed the SAFE-T Act in 2021, following years of Democratic-led criminal justice reform efforts in the state.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Why does this racist have a fence anyways?

[Zeb]

It's to keep Pritzker in.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Thats one huge fence then.

[Zeb]

I was thinking the opposite. Shouldn't be hard to keep that fat fuck from getting over a fence of fairly modest dimensions.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

Short, but strongly reinforced.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Sturdy, but not very tall.

[Dillinger]

>>Thats one huge fence then.

pen. Pritzker would be kept in a pen.

[Zeb]

Or possibly a sty.

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

Walls don’t work!

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

'New Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh testified before Congress yesterday, saying "the members of our committee have no tolerance for persistently elevated inflation."'

Uh, how about no inflation? I know that sounds crazy, but we have tried everything else.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

The purpose of the fed is to make future debt cheaper through inflation. And fuck things up.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

'Scenes from New York: A website (called, succinctly, "damnlines") has been created to monitor the wait for various New York hotspots, per that Brock Colyar piece on lines in Curbed. You would think these buzzy froyo spots could simply jack up prices to respond to rising demand.'

Or you would think that rational humans would get over themselves and their urges to gather at the bestest spots in the bestest city.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Not best, most popular. It is social virtue signaling when you wait in a line.

[Zeb]

People are so weird. If I see a line for a new popular spot, I'll just check back in a week and see if it still seems worth checking out.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Same.

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

No, you need to be first so you can brag about it on social media.

[Zeb]

Yet another thing I don't get. I have never once "shared" anything on social media.
I can't wait until I can retire from having a real job and just ignore the world from my remote cabin.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Didnt work for Ted Kazynski. Planes started flying over his cabin and campers kept invading his space.

[Zeb]

I can deal with that. I'm not quite that angry with the world.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

'I have no problem with "ultra-rich private collectors of fossils" and have a hard time seeing how anyone could.'

DSA on line 1. And lines 2 and 3.

[Zeb]

Think how many African babies could have been saved.

[Zeb]

Or "not murdered", I guess.

[Medulla Oblongata]

My father was a labor relations collective bargaining specialist for a large corporation. He regularly wore a bulletproof vest during negotiations. Kept it in the trunk of his car and thought none of us knew about it. But after the brick through the living room window that one time...

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

"A top Senate Democrat has requested an investigation into whether Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. broke a federal law intended to prevent political appointees from interfering in elections"

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[Medulla Oblongata]

Some of them just jack off on the victim.

https://x.com/Whiplash437/status/2077027195827130557

Mamdani on why rape is up in NY: "A lot of it is from expanding what counts as rape"

These commie idiots in NYC voted for this rape apologist for mayor

Sick, sick losers.

[Zeb]

That could be a valid explanation. No idea if it actually is. I tend to doubt it accounts for all of it.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

The change on the definition went live 3 years ago. The increase is last year to this year.

[Zeb]

Yeah, not the least surprised that he's full of shit and trying to pretend nothing is happening.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Is there anything a guy does anywhere that is not rape? Including this comment?

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Not rape if youre a migrant and say sorry or didnt know better or it was a cultural norm.

[Dillinger]

sex with his wife is likely more violent from her side than his?

[damikesc]

I remember how reviled Todd Akin was for equally asinine comments.

Republicans distanced themselves from Akin.

I bet Democrats have criticized Mamdani...

[Medulla Oblongata]

Scenes from NYC:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/general/mamdani-stonewalls-audit-of-nearly-13b-in-nyc-education-contracts/ar-AA27UBKm

Mayor Zohran Mamdani stonewalled Tuesday on handing over details of nearly $13 billion in Department of Education contracts — a day before a City Council deadline to share documents or else face a subpoena.

Hizzoner contended officials needed time to redact sensitive information in the documents pointedly demanded by Council Speaker Julie Menin in a scathing letter last week.

Menin, in her letter threatening to subpoena the records from the department, accused Samuels and the DOE of a “pattern of opacity, slow-walking and delay” in responding to the request.

[Medulla Oblongata]

New bill filed...

The "Welfare Abuse and Laundering Zillions (WALZ) Act" from Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., is at the core of the broader anti-fraud package targeting Minnesota-style violations, COVID fraud, foreign remittance abuse and repeat offenders; projected to save taxpayers roughly $240 billion, Fox News Digital learned.

[Dillinger]

clever

[Fist of Etiquette]

So this is what goes on here when I'm not around.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Someone looks jealous.

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

He knows a mess when he sees it.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

I hope you have a note.

[Its_Not_Inevitable]

You should see Fridays.

[Dillinger]

>>What will the new Fed chairman do?

destroy it from the top down like the Education Secretary?

[Dillinger]

>>Truly insane that it's come to this level of threat for Supreme Court justices:

(not from me I like peace) all high-level government agents live in constant danger. ACB could return to South Bend today and be safe as houses. the vest is her choice.

[mad.casual]

Other than Nazi-style, socially-oppressive, malicious stupidity, I don't understand the purpose either. It's like threatening to murder the editor of Mein Kampf. Not Hitler, not the publicist, one of 9-10 semi-random editors without which the book will still get published anyway and killing them will only validate the grievances.

[Dillinger]

ya Pelican Brief took place before the rulings, Amy

[damikesc]

The Left wins frequently because people are legit afraid they will MURDER them if they disagree.

[Dillinger]

>>Watch the England-Argentina World Cup game today

been waiting 40 years.

[damikesc]

Gotta root for the only non-Muslim country in the final 4.

[Dillinger]

funny. I've spent 20 years of those 40 wondering why just one person won't run Messi the fuck over the second he cuts left. he always cuts left, guys!

[mad.casual]

I have no problem with "ultra-rich private collectors of fossils" and have a hard time seeing how anyone could.

IDK. NBD for T. Rex and Stegosaurus skeletons and displayed and maintained in a private home or public museum or whatever is win-win, but I could see issue with some ultra-rare archaeopteryx or whatever skeleton being ground into bone meal for a fitness shake or poured into someone's concrete floor because it looks cool.

[Dillinger]

>>I have no problem with ...

is the strawman she's fighting even going to show up?

[Dillinger]

>>Iran update:

wake me when the Persians are free.