Comments on: Open thread 6/30/2026

By: SD

SD — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 10:37:35 +0000

JD Vance: This was a ‘MAJOR mistake’ – Full Interview with Laura Ingraham (Video)

https://commoncts.blogspot.com/2026/06/jd-vance-this-was-major-mistake-full.html

By: Chases Eagles

Chases Eagles — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 03:01:21 +0000

I moved to near Montgomery AL in 1966 from Minot. Our house (new) had AC, the school didn’t.

By: R2L

R2L — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 01:30:34 +0000

Huxley, I agree. I started grad school in FL in 1969 and there was no dearth of AC that I found.
In that case Disney was another “transformative agent” 🙂

By: huxley

huxley — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:24:07 +0000

My family moved to Daytona Beach, when I was 7 in 1959. There wasn’t much A/C around unless you went to a movie theater or a nice restaurant.

But over the next ten years that changed for us and the South. It was gradual, but house by house, business by business, A/C was everywhere. And it made a difference.

A/C wasn’t the only transformative agent, but it was a big one in turning the South from the sleepy world of Southern Gothic fiction to a serious economic force in the US.

By: Oldflyer

Oldflyer — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 19:32:08 +0000

Florida summer 1947 no electricity, no A/C, no plumbing. All day in the tobacco fields (age 12). Suwanee River was our occasional bathtub.
My heart bleeds for the Europeans.

Someone should remind SCOTUS that the Constitution was not meant to be a national suicide pact. The 14th amendment seemed open to a a different interpretation in my opinion.

Maybe we need to just require visas for everyone entering the country. It could be a streamlined somehow for tourists, but they would be vetted at any rate. From personal experience, entering Canada, Mexico, or England, for instance, could go from routine to complicated if authorities suspected that you might be more than a tourist, as in coming to somehow make money. It was abundantly clear that they would decide who entered and who did not.

By: TommyJay

TommyJay — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:17:34 +0000

There was an interesting decision on campaign finance.

From NBC News:
CAMPAIGN FINANCE: The justices also struck down longtime campaign finance rules challenged by Vice President JD Vance that place limits on how much a national political party committee can spend in coordination with individual candidates.

By: donnyf

donnyf — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 15:51:52 +0000

My favorite version:: by the composer with Johnny Mandel arrangement

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRD2V9qKxAM

By: Keith

Keith — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 15:18:49 +0000

Well ,an executive order to not allow pregnant birthing persons into the country would slow it down.

By: sdferr

sdferr — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 15:11:13 +0000

Trump v. Barbara (pdf): https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/25-365_4hdj.pdf

By: sdferr

sdferr — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 14:45:57 +0000

BREAKING: U.S. Supreme Court votes to uphold Birthright Citizenship in a 5-4 ruling.

https://x.com/i/status/2071966675121922075

At a quick glance this looks like the worst scenario to be expected. But I haven’t read it yet, so . . .