Holy shit, I missed that. That’s a tectonic change if the Supreme Court can actually be bothered to recognize it.

Federal torts and also “qualified immunity”.

https://innocenceproject.org/news/what-you-need-to-know-about-qualified-immunity-and-how-it-shields-those-responsible-for-wrongful-convictions/

In before “YoU CaN’T SuE ThE GoVeRnMeNt” /s

I don’t think she even knows what she wants. If she didn’t want it to pass, she had her chance to kill it.

Republican is going to Republican I guess…

I would imagine the dust component is incredibly dangerous too! It’s been a while now, but when I was a kid, grain silo explosions were pretty regular:

https://www.kplctv.com/video/2022/11/10/grain-elevator-explosion/

Because the Senate passed it via reconciliation to avoid the filibuster, if the House rejects it, it goes back to the Senate to be re-formulated into something more acceptable to the House.

We’ll know more when the House votes on it. It may be House members will demand certain things be added or removed.

But then whatever changes have to be re-voted on in the Senate, so she’d have a SECOND chance to vote “No” while still voting “Yes”.

As usual, lots of rumor and speculation. Some folks were saying it was a plane crash (which was debunked). Some are saying arson, but we just don’t know yet.

But come on, it’s a fireworks warehouse… Probably wouldn’t take much…

For those who missed it:

https://www.newsweek.com/big-beautiful-bill-donald-trump-lisa-murkowski-vote-2093246

“Republican Alaskan Senator Lisa Murkowski said Tuesday that despite voting in favor of the sweeping tax and spending package, she wants the House to return the “One Big Beautiful Bill” to the Senate for further work.”

https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025/07/senate-passes-big-beautiful-bill-00434918

“The vote was 51-50, with Vice President JD Vance breaking a tie. Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Thom Tillis of North Carolina joined Democrats and voted no.”

Avoiding death I guess…

Pleading innocent, to guilty and agreeing not to appeal… That’s quite the switch!

Solitaire.

Sounds like somebody set the fire and was taking steps to make sure it kept burning…

A moth goes into a podiatrist’s office, and the podiatrist says, “What seems to be the problem, moth?”

The moth says “What’s the problem? Where do I begin, man? I go to work for Gregory Illinivich, and all day long I work. Honestly doc, I don’t even know what I’m doing anymore. I don’t even know if Gregory Illinivich knows. He only knows that he has power over me, and that seems to bring him happiness.

But I don’t know, I wake up in a malaise, and I walk here and there… at night I…I sometimes wake up and I turn to some old lady in my bed that’s on my arm. A lady that I once loved, doc. I don’t know where to turn to.

My youngest, Alexendria, she fell in the…in the cold of last year. The cold took her down, as it did many of us. And my other boy, and this is the hardest pill to swallow, doc.

My other boy, Gregarro Ivinalititavitch… I no longer love him. As much as it pains me to say, when I look in his eyes, all I see is the same cowardice that I… that I catch when I take a glimpse of my own face in the mirror.

If only I wasn’t such a coward, then perhaps…perhaps I could bring myself to reach over to that cocked and loaded gun that lays on the bedside behind me and end this hellish facade once and for all…

Doc, sometimes I feel like a spider, even though I’m a moth, just barely hanging on to my web with an everlasting fire underneath me. I’m not feeling good.

And so the doctor says, “Moth, man, you’re troubled. But you should be seeing a psychiatrist. Why on earth did you come here?”

And the moth says, “‘Cause the light was on."

Would be hilarious to see a primary with Don Jr., Eric, and Ivanka.

A GREAT game to play with kids is called “Stacking”. Looks like there’s a Linux version so you might be able to get it running on the Pi:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacking_(video_game)

PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Windows, OS X, Linux

The gag is this…

You play the smallest of a set of Russian nesting dolls and you want to re-unite with your family.

In order to do that you have to solve a bunch of puzzles in a world filled with other Russian nesting dolls.

You can jump into any doll one size larger than you, and you can jump out to be one size smaller.

Each doll has a specific skill or ability, so by swapping bodies, you use the various skills to solve the puzzles.

The challenge is, you might find one that has the right skill, but you’re too small to jump into them, so you have to find the right chain of dolls to size up and size down to do what you need to do.

Trailer:

https://youtu.be/oEJtypcyL5I

Well, define “Reasonably Priced”. I dig the Steam Deck for that kind of thing.

If he was only better at Jenga…

Worth noting that they consider “the border” to be within 100 miles of any entry point.

Here’s a map:

Add to that 100 miles of any international airport:

There are worse things…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Girls_(graphic_novel)

FTA:

“An LAist reporter saw a Border Patrol patch on a masked agent outside the stadium.”