Yes, we know the site’s been a bit glitchy as we install (not by choice) new whatever-it-is-we-install-when-we-have-no-choice. Starting to think the glitches are deliberate from some sadist, or some sadistic AI bot, designed solely to annoy me. But, I digress.
Looks like the Delaware press decided to take Juneteenth off. However, this photo caught my attention. I’ll leave it to you to try to figure out why:
State Rep Larry Lambert (D-Claymont) with House Speaker Melissa Minor-Brown (left), at a rally for HB 444 on June 7, 2026.
A small fly has the potential to impart a big impact on Texas’ beef and agricultural industry.
On June 3, the New World screwworm was detected in a three-week-old calf in Zavala County by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Since then, the agency reported more screwworm infestations in Texas.
It’s unclear how many cases could hit Texas. Nearly 28,000 cases have been detected in Mexico since November 2024, according to Mexican officials.
State and federal officials are working together to stop the northern migration, which they have tracked since 2023. In response to the cases, USDA and the Texas Animal Health Commission have ramped up animal surveillance of animals near the confirmed detections by setting up zones around each infestation. Animals are not allowed to leave infested areas without being properly inspected.
Officials are also increasing fly traps, surveillance of wildlife and releasing sterile flies, which are used to break the reproduction cycle of the parasitic screwworm fly.
Trump’s Department Of Agriculture asserts that there’s no danger. I believe them. Why shouldn’t I?
Hegseth Made Flu Shots Optional. The results?:
A major flu outbreak has sickened nearly 160 troops at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas less than two months after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that U.S. troops would no longer be required to be vaccinated for the flu, defense officials said.
The outbreak at the base in San Antonio raced through an Air Force Basic Military Training wing, where new recruits sleep on bunk beds in open bays and share meals at large communal tables.
A trainee in his sixth week of basic training died after falling ill on Friday and being taken to Brooke Army Medical Center, the Air Force said in a news release. It was not immediately clear whether the death of the trainee, Keon McDaniel, was related to the flu outbreak.
A comprehensive medical review (aka ‘cover-up’) into his death is underway to determine the cause, according to the Air Force.
Mr. Hegseth cast his decision to make the flu vaccine optional as a matter of religious freedom and medical autonomy.
“Under the disastrous Biden administration, this Pentagon waged an unrelenting war on our warriors on many fronts, including when it came to denying them simple medical autonomy and the freedom to express their religious convictions,” he said in a video announcing his decision in April.
He described the longstanding flu vaccine requirement as an “absurd, overreaching” mandate that had served to “weaken our warfighting capabilities.”
Yes, he still has his job.
ShowerCap’s Weekly Diatribe. If you like, or at least tolerate, what we write here, you’ll almost certainly enjoy The ‘Cap’s stylings. A sample:
When last we met, the regime was sulkily stalling the court-ordered removal of a certain game show host’s name from a certain arts center. Which I loved. You dorks wanna draw the humiliation out? That’s super hot, actually. There’s absolutely nothing sexxxier than autocracy in retreat.
First the scaffolding goes up. Sits there for a bit, coquettishly building anticipation. Clownish last-minute legal appeals only spike my arousal.
Then it turns out the scaffolding is only there to hide the removal from the public. Which is just…thrillingly degrading. We’re sinking to exotic new depths of self-abasement here, folks. The naked emperor attempts the dance of the seven veils.
Not that I don’t get it. If I were an aspiring tyrant, I wouldn’t want such a potent image of my weakness in circulation, either. And if I were a malignant narcissist fresh off getting big-timed by what’s left of Milli Vanilli, I’d be so fucking scared of headlines like Kennedy Center De-Naming Videos Draw Better Ratings Than All of Two-Term President’s State of the Union Addresses Combined that I’d piss myself, and Susie says she’s not getting up in the middle of the night to change me anymore, so I’m on my own.
So I guess this tarp stays up untilllllllllllll…?
…until whatever Enrique Tarrio has planned for that $1.776 billion blows up in our faces? Or until the inevitable Cabinet meeting nap from which no man wakes, no matter how many memorials to other people he glues his name to?
You get the idea.
The new jet, designated VC-25B and decked out in a punchy red, white, dark blue and gold livery, was gifted to Trump by the Gulf emirate of Qatar, provoking howls of political protest since the $400m jet wildly exceeds the limit on unsolicited gifts of $50 in value in a single calendar year from the same source.
Trump dismissed criticism of the arrangement, saying it would be “stupid” to turn down the offer. Then Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell had said that “the secretary of defense has accepted a Boeing 747 from Qatar in accordance with all federal rules and regulations”.
In other words, if we say it’s so, it’s so.
Criticism of the gifted Qatari jet, which the Gulf state had previously tried to sell without success, included accusations that the costs of conversion could divert money from Sentinel, an ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile) modernization program already running years behind schedule.
At the unveiling, Trump thanked the emir of Qatar. “He’s a fantastic guy,” he said. “He went through a lot over the last few months.”
“This is considered the world’s most luxurious plane.” Trump added. “When it was built, it was built at a level that will probably never be seen again.”
Trump has argued that the new jet was necessary to keep pace with more modern aircraft flown by foreign leaders. “These countries have a lot of respect for us, and yet they have a plane that’s much newer and much better. It’s a little ridiculous,” Trump said.
That’s it. I’ve reached my daily level of Trump tolerance.
What do you want to talk about?
I might be wrong (probably am) but I thought I read somewhere that Lackland AFB now has a special waiver to require the vaccine
Not that it was open to begin with:
Iran’s military said on Saturday that the Strait of Hormuz had been closed to maritime traffic, citing what it called a “clear breach” of U.S. commitments to implement a preliminary deal to end the war, according to a statement carried by state media.
The Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, a central military command, cited the killing and the displacement of Lebanese residents from southern Lebanon, along with Israel’s refusal to withdraw from the region, as factors for closing the strait.
The deal between the United States and Iran stipulated an end to hostilities on all fronts, including Lebanon.