Open thread 6/29/2026
Crown vetch. It’s an invasive weed. But it’s pretty and there’s a lot of it around right now:
The New Neo
A blog about political change, among other things
Crown vetch. It’s an invasive weed. But it’s pretty and there’s a lot of it around right now:
Visegrad 24:
https://x.com/i/status/2071412862833344833
Video clip at link.
ScotusWire:
https://x.com/i/status/2071595631349530711
J. Barrett wrote the opinion, CJ Roberts, J. Kagan, J. Sotomayor, anf J. Jackson joining.
J. Alito wrote the dissent, J. Thomas, J. Gorsuch joining, with J. Kavanaugh joining in part.
That’s absolute madness, given that it has been widely demonstrated that such a policy encourages and promotes electoral fraud. Big time.
Might as well just firm up the election laws by declaring loudly and clearly that electoral fraud is absolutely LEGAL and JUSTIFIABLE, and PRECISELY what the Founders intended….
I mean, why beat around the bush?
(On second thought, that’s exactly—or essentially—what SCOTUS did.)
As long as we’re kvetching (about this, that and the other)…here, discuss amongst yerselves…
“A Top Nuclear Expert on What the Iran War Accomplished”—
https://what-the-iran-war-accomplished.tiiny.co/
H/T Powerline blog.
Key blurb:
@Barry Meislin:Key blurb: You’d have to be delirious to think that’s the case
If the Iran War were a football game, Iran would need four downs just to get back on the field. Friends of Iran and enemies of Trump have had to heavily redefine “winning” and “losing”, and have different definitions for Iran than they have for the US and its allies.