Democrat Agriculture Secretary Nominee Says Farming ‘Isn’t That Hard,’ Farmers Work ‘Only a Few Weeks’ a Year
breitbart.com | 8/12/2026 | Jasmyn Jordan

Democrat Chris Jones, who is running for Iowa secretary of agriculture, was rebuked by Iowa Republicans after saying farmers are “wealthy,” grain farming is “not that hard,” and farmers are “only working a few weeks out of the year.”

The remarks were highlighted Tuesday by Iowa Field Report, which posted video from a 2021 interview Jones gave at the Iowa Ideas Conference, hosted by the Cedar Rapids Gazette.

“And a lot of this grain farming now, it’s not that hard. They’re only working a few weeks out of the year,” Jones said.

Think he’ll take on teachers next?

(… which is more than you’ll get from the mainstream media.)

Yosemite Sam = News organizations, judges, and (of course) Antifa

Bugs = Trump

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Alternatively:

Yosemite = Trump

Bugs = Iran

How free childcare started winning US elections: ‘Overnight, people realized how essential it was’
The Guardian | July 29, 2026 | Sunny Patel

In a matter of weeks, Francesca Hong, an unlikely candidate for governor in one of the country’s most heated battleground states, will test a message that is at once radical and, to many, incredibly practical: the government should help pay for childcare.

“When we talk about free childcare, you can connect to folks whether it’s on an economic argument or just purely that it’s the right thing to do for our kids,” said Hong, a democratic socialist running in Wisconsin’s Democratic primary on 11 August. “I always like to remind folks: if we don’t take care of our kids, who’s going to take care of us?”

For 50 years, US childcare policy lived in the welfare drawer with programs such as Head Start, a free early learning initiative for low-income families, and subsidies focused on keeping poor mothers in the workforce. Anything broader was often shut down by conservatives advocating for families’ “personal choice” over government-run childcare. And while Democratic lawmakers, often women, campaigned on the need for affordable childcare – presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton, Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris made it central to their platforms – they had little success.

Then something shifted as the cost of care surpassed college tuition and a pandemic hangover pushed caregivers, and their wallets, to their limits: childcare became a middle-class problem that could no longer be ignored. In November, Zohran Mamdani made universal childcare a cornerstone of his New York mayoral campaign, and two centrists, Abigail Spanberger and Mikie Sherrill, won the governorships in Virginia and New Jersey, respectively, running on the same plank. In March, New Mexico became the first state to offer free childcare for all.

Can liberals even imagine any reason that parents don’t have 11 or 12 kids?

Or why non-parents should chip in?

Before continuing, we just want to acknowledge that we are using bandwidth that indigenous people could have used if they had, you know, had computers.  And yada, yada, yada.

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This is from a Popeye cartoon. I was surprised I could capture it from YouTube (without getting the big “Pause” button showing in the middle). But I suppose you kids with your Sony Walkmans and other gizmos consider it easy.

Feds Offer Up To $15 Million For Tips On Top MS-13 Leaders ‘Porky’ And ‘Cuervo’
Tampa Free Press | June 18, 2026 | Jack Kaminsky

The U.S. government is significantly ramping up its efforts to capture two high-ranking leaders of the MS-13 gang, offering a combined reward of up to $15 million for information leading to their arrest or conviction. …

Specifically, authorities increased the reward to up to $10 million for Yulan Adonay Archaga Carías, a fugitive widely known by the alias “Porky.” A separate reward of up to $5 million is being offered for Víctor Eduardo Morales Zelaya, who goes by the street name “Cuervo.”

Million migrants expected to sign up for Spain’s amnesty
The Telegraph | June 15, 2026 | James Crisp

Spain’s migrant amnesty is set to attract more than one million people, which is double the expected number of undocumented workers seeking legal residency rights.

The migration ministry said it had received about 900,000 applications. The government initially thought only half a million illegal migrants would claim.

Meanwhile: . . .

Tourists in Spain face scrutiny over their finances – with new rules meaning visitors could be asked to prove they have ‘sufficient’ money for their stay
daily mail

Millions of Britons will jet off to Spain this summer – but holidaymakers should make sure they’re financially solvent before they touch down or face being denied entry.

Tourists visiting for up to 90 days could be asked to present proof of having sufficient means for the duration of their proposed stay, after regulations were first introduced post-Brexit in 2021.

Spain’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs quietly announced earlier this year that every visitor to the destination in 2026 will now be required to have €122.10 (£105.53) per person per day.

So, interns can’t go there unless they sneak in and apply for amnesty.

Definition:

Taedium Vitae:

Ennui. Irksomeness of life. The inanity of sublunary things has afforded a theme to philosophers, moralists and divines, from the earliest records of antiquity: “vanity of vanities,” says the preacher, “all is vanity!” Nor is there anyone, I suppose, who has passed the meridian of life, who has not at some moments felt the nihility of all things.

— Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia (1794–1796)

From the future:

Man Will Die on Fourth of July Trying To Light Off Fireworks

He just doesn’t know it yet.

Check back here in November for our turducken fatality forecast.