THIS IS SOUNDING POSITIVELY SOVIET:  NYC: Donate Your Spare Bedroom To An Illegal Immigrant.

THE PLIGHT OF HAIR-SPRAY ABUSE VICTIMS IS TERRIBLE TO CONTEMPLATE:  Newsom Threatens DeSantis with Kidnapping Charges After Illegal Immigrants Flown to Sacramento.

Apparently it eats your brain.

TO BE CLEAR THEY HAVEN’T DECLARED IT AN EMERGENCY WHERE GAYS ARE EXECUTED FOR BEING GAY, BUT HERE IT’S AN EMERGENCY:  Human Rights Campaign Declares State of Emergency Over Treatment of LGBT Community.

We’re denying the fundamental human right of lopping off your six year old’s penis.  And we won’t use the right pronouns. We need a whambulance stat.

MORE AND MORE CALIFORNIA RESEMBLES A RECLUSE WHO IS TRYING TO COMMIT SUICIDE BY MEANS OF INTERCONNECTED RUBE-GOLDBERG MACHINES:  New Salary Rules Jeopardize California’s Wildfire-Preventing Goat Herding Industry.

MOST OF THEM COULDN’T DEFINE PRIVACY:  Nearly a third of Gen Z thinks privacy shouldn’t exist.

Though I’ll point out for the record that “privacy” is a pretty new concept. I’m not sure the Founding Fathers even understood it as we do. Unreasonable search and seizure had other implications.  So, it might evolve again. Turns out we’re not the end of history after all. This is my shocked face.

FROM M. C. A. HOGARTH:  Earthrise.

“The thrills are nonstop, the alien cultures and races are well developed and fascinating, and there’s just the right amount of humor to keep the whole thing fizzing.” — Analog Science Fiction and Fact

Reese Eddings has enough to do keeping her rattletrap merchant vessel, the TMS Earthrise, profitable enough to feed herself and her crew. So when a mysterious benefactor from her past shows up demanding she rescue a man from slavers, her first reaction is to run for the hills. Unfortunately, she did promise to repay the loan. But she didn’t think it would involve tangling with pirates over a space elf prince…

Book 1 of the Her Instruments trilogy is a rollicking adventure set in the expansive Pelted universe, and kicks off an epic space opera series where the fate of worlds hangs in the balance. Fans who enjoyed Firefly or Andromeda will like this series.

SOMETIMES YOU GOT TO MEME:  Meme it Like it’s Hot.

NO ICE?  Shadowcam on South Korea’s Danuri lunar orbiter sees no obvious ice in the permanently shadowed interior of Spudis crater.

TRUMP, DESANTIS… LET’S CALL THE WHOLE THING MOOT:  The Game Isn’t Worth The Candle.

IT’S NOT REALLY A COMMUNIST REVOLUTION. ITS MORE REVOLUTIONARY LARPING:  Our Descent into Clown World.

ONE CAN HOPE:  Threat of ESG-Based Corporate Insanity Begins to Recede When Faced With Reality.

BECAUSE IT’S IN HIS NATURE:  Pence Begins Presidential Campaign With FEC Filing.

IF WE’RE GOING TO REVERSE ALL THE UNSPEAKABLE STUPIDITY WE’RE GOING TO BE HERE TILL THE END OF DAYS:  Mike Rowe Is on a Mission to Reverse the ‘Unspeakable Stupidity’ of Devaluing Work.

WE’VE NOTICED:  J6 Defendant on Ray Epps: ‘They Are Protecting Him Like Crazy’.

A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE FEELING SUCKER-PUNCHED:  I fought for gay rights — but trans activists have destroyed the meaning of Pride.

YEAH. I’VE NOTICED:  FDA commissioner betrays his ADHD ignorance.

Hot take: there is no writers’ strike. They’re just covering up for their inability to work without Adderal…

OBVIOUSLY:  Disney’s “defiance” of Don’t Say Gay is nothing of the sort.

NOT ENOUGH TO COVER THE PAIN AND SUFFERING, BUT…  Pushback: Court victory for volleyball student and coach father who were blacklisted for disagreeing with queer agenda.

SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED:  Kanekoa Releases The Konnech Files: FBI Shielded Two Firms Tied to Chinese Communist Regime That Holds US Voter Data in Mainland China.

FROM M. C. A. HOGARTH:  Zafiil Volume 1: FireBorn UnPainted.

Enter into the heart of an alien race in the first historical novel set in the Peltedverse…

Thousands of years ago, the God of the Faulfenza promised His people He would send a messiah to lead them into a Golden Age, alongside the Others: aliens who would be to them as brothers and sisters. Not a generation has passed without longing for the fulfillment of that Promise.

Zafiil Paidiiza Qodii has dreamed of finding the Others since she was a child, a dream that spurred her to train as leader of one of the Faulfenza’s galactic scout teams. Against all odds, hers is the ship that makes the prophesied discovery–and reveals the cost of the God’s promises, and the part she is destined to play in His designs…

Zafiil: FireBorn Unpainted begins the epic saga of the Faulfenza’s first contact with the Pelted Alliance, and unveils at last the mysteries of one of the Peltedverse’s most beloved alien races.

WELL, CHINA BOUGHT BIDEN THE PRESIDENCY. THEY WANT PAYMENT:  Pentagon Grant to U.S. University That Feeds China Military Research Comes Under Congressional Microscope.

AND WE USED TO MAKE FUN OF PALLYWOOD:  J6 Footage Shows Camera Rolling as Pelosi Made Her ‘Insurrection’ Exit.

IF THEY ONLY HAD A BRAIN:  How Bud Light backlash should terrify publicly traded companies.

THE CHINESE VICE-ROI IS UNSTEADY:  Biden Falls at Air Force Graduation, Takes Three People to Pick Him Up.

ANYONE WHO TOUCHES THESE BACK-STABBERS EVEN AS VPS IS A FOOL:  Former NJ Gov. Chris Christie to Announce 2024 Presidential Run Next Week. Will Pence Too?