Why does the BBC have to explain how fucked up California elections are?

According to a report on BBC.com, Every registered voter in California receives a mail-in ballot, which must be posted or dropped into a ballot box by election day to be counted. This sytem is - without question - the best possible way for someone to cheat the count.

Election results are still trickling in for primary races across California, including in Los Angeles, where incumbent Mayor Karen Bass is up against reality-star-turned challenger Spencer Pratt to lead the city.

But the days-long delay in knowing who won these Tuesday races is a common occurrence in California - the most populous US state that's home to about 23 million registered voters. Counting these votes - including the millions of mail-in ballots could take weeks.

 

That's due to a meticulous vote-counting process, compounded by the broad use of mail-in ballots, which are mailed to every registered voter in California. An estimated 80% of California votes are cast by mail and those ballots need to be sorted, validated and counted.

It just depends on who's doing the counting...

He Semper Fi'd the shit outta these little pissant thugs...

A Marine Corps veteran fought off a group of the usual suspects who tried to carjack him at gunpoint in broad daylight in Maryland. Jheyco Borda was working on his truck in Oxon Hill - about 10 miles outside Washington, DC - when four hooded teens approached him around 4:45 p.m. Tuesday, surveillance video posted to his Facebook page shows. “Be careful and be aware of your surroundings,” Borda warned in the caption.

 

The teens surrounded Borda at the bed of his truck while one suspect — who was wearing a red, white and blue sweatshirt — pulled out a pistol and pointed it at the veteran’s head, demanding his car keys and phone.

Borda, seizing on a moment of distraction among the group, grabbed the suspect holding the gun and wrestled him for the weapon.As the struggle broke out, two of the attempted carjackers dashed down the residential street, while another anxiously circled the vehicle.

Seconds after the struggle began, Borda’s brother ran out of the house to help his sibling fend off the group. A single gunshot rang out as the brothers fought for the gun, but nobody was struck.

 

Borda’s brother then went after a second suspect. Within moments, both brothers had thrown their attackers to the ground and restrained them until Prince George’s County police arrived and took all four suspects into custody. Borda credited his Marine Corps hand-to-hand combat training for giving him the instincts and know-how to disarm the teen.

Well, maybe it wasn't a good idea to come to a place where you don't know the language, eh Pedro?

Maybe we'll call this news tidbit the 'Delaney Diversion'. Detainees at Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” immigration jail said guards were denying them food and fresh water on Thursday until they signed documents presented to them in English that they did not understand. In an audio recording of a telephone call to an immigration advocacy group heard by the Guardian, more than half a dozen detainees alleged that the water given to them over the last three days was “rotten” and containing mosquito larvae, in an apparent attempt to pressure them to sign.

During the call, all the detainees identified themselves by name and the section and cage number they are being held in.  “They took all the water, and they don’t want to give us water,” one detainee said in the call to a representative of the Workers Circle, an advocacy group that has acted as a liaison between detainees and their families. 

Hey - ya fuckin' crybaby - yer a fuckin' criminal. Get over it. It ain't the Ritz Carlton - it's a jail.

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That's subtle. I like subtle...

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It's Jayne Mansfield in a pool with a bunch of Jayne Mansfields...

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Celebrity children identify as trans and non-binary at unbelievable rates. Charlize Theron, Cynthia Nixon, Robert De Niro, Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony - whose 18-year-old recently debuted a new name, changing from Emme to Oskar - are just a few of the stars with children who aren’t living as their birth sex.

There’s nothing wrong with being trans - except for the fact that they are denying their own genetics, but that's no big, right? But such an unlikely concentration in a particular community should be cause for pause - especially when so many of these kids began playing with gender at shockingly young ages.

In a geography where having a trans child has a tinge of chicness to it, one has to wonder: Is this partially due to social contagion? And, if so, don’t parents have a duty to their children to approach the issue of gender with compassionate skepticism?

The explanation is simple. It's the land of make believe - a place where the most famous of them spend their lives pretending to be someone else. It's surprising more of their kids aren't as fucked up as they are. Juss' sayin'...

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Ben McIntyre, 71, had guided hunters in the Adirondacks for 50 years. He could read a track in leaf litter and call a buck with a birch bark tube. In the fall of 1927, his eyesight was failing from cataracts. His son, Will, 28, took him out for one last hunt. Will did the walking. Ben did the listening. They sat on a ridge all morning. Ben could not see the deer Will pointed to. He could hear it move.

Will whispered, “Take the shot, Pa.”

Ben raised his old .32 Special, held it a long time, then lowered it. He said, “I don’t need to kill it to know it’s there.” They sat until dusk. Ben told stories about hunts from the 1880s, about a time he got lost for three days and lived on partridge berries. On the hike out, Ben stumbled. Will carried his rifle.

Ben died that winter in his sleep. Will never hunted that ridge again. He told his own son, “Your grandpa taught me that the best part of hunting is coming home with the same number of shells you left with.” Will kept Ben’s birch bark call on his mantel. It cracked with age, but he never threw it away.

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I think my new neighbor has a sense of humor...

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The remaining three correspondents at “60 Minutes” huddled this week to discuss their futures following the firing of Scott Pelley as former star Steve Kroft warned that the iconic newsmagazine “no longer exists” in the form viewers have known for decades.

 

Bill Whitaker, Lesley Stahl and Jon Wertheim met Wednesday for more than an hour amid growing turmoil at CBS News following Pelley’s ouster and the sweeping shakeup orchestrated by CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weissy. The meeting came just hours after The Post reported that CBS insiders believed Whitaker and Stahl could be the next high-profile departures from the program.

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Construction workers drinking beer in Soldiers Joy Cafe

near Camp Blanding. Starke, Florida. December 1940.

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The average person eats about six times as much chicken and twice as much pork as their grandparents’ generation did, data from a UN report suggests, with global meat supply having risen fourfold in the last 60 years and expected to keep rising.

The supply of poultry rose from below 7lbs a person in 1961 to 24lbs in 2025, according to data from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Pork supply doubled to 32lbs a person over the same period, while beef, the most polluting food, stayed steady at 20lbs.

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I was up there Tuesday afternoon. It really is a stunningly different part of the State most Floridians have never heard of it. Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park sits just south of Gainesville on US-441, 25 minutes from my house — a 21,000-acre ancient basin that has been a lake, a cattle ranch, and a Seminole homeland. 

Today, it is one of the only places in the eastern United States where wild American bison and Spanish horses roam free on public land.

The bison were reintroduced in 1975. The horses are descendants of animals brought to Florida by Spanish explorers in the 1500s. You can see both from the La Chua Trail overlook at dawn or dusk — no fence, no zoo, no tour bus.

William Bartram, the naturalist who traveled through Florida in 1774, described Paynes Prairie as "the great Alachua Savanna" and called it one of the most extraordinary landscapes in North America. He was right. It still is.

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The beauty and the beast...

It’s not Photoshopped. She’s standing there. For years, photographer Mike Mezeul had wanted to come up with an image of extremes, one that showed both severe weather and a human element - call it a beauty and the beast setup, pretty much like the one you’re looking at.

Mezeul’s been photographing severe weather for 16 years, but it’s not his main line of photographic work. He accepts being called a storm chaser, but considers himself “more of a storm photographer.” This is a real moment, a real person, a real tornado. No composite. Dodge City, Kansas - May 24th, 2016. Photo by Mike Mezeul.

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A Police cat?...

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Are you eating right? She must be...

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They plan for the worst - and hope for the best...

 In Japan, the same machines that sell soda and snacks turn into lifelines when the ground shakes.

When sensors detect a quake of magnitude 5 or higher, special disaster vending machines automatically unlock, offering free water, ready-to-eat meals, masks, and even portable toilets.

These "survival machines" are stocked with about 300 drinks and 150 emergency items and are placed near designated evacuation shelters - ensuring help is available immediately, even when shops are closed .

It’s a remarkable fusion of everyday convenience and life-saving preparedness, turning a streetside fixture into the first wave of disaster relief.

When it comes to technology and creativity, Japan is always at or near the top of the list. From high-speed trains to cutting-edge innovations, the country is constantly finding new ways to make life easier and safer. Being prone to earthquakes and tsunamis, Japan introduced certain vending machines that can automatically provide free food, water, and essential supplies during earthquakes. In the western coastal city of Ako, located in Hyogo, special vending machines were set up to prepare for natural disasters. 

When an earthquake or other natural disaster occurs, sensors in the vending machine detect the event. The machine then automatically unlocks its doors, allowing anyone to take food, water, and essential supplies for free. These machines have been placed near buildings that are marked as safe evacuation shelters. The earthquake must be level 5 or higher on Japan's seismic intensity scale for the free access feature to activate. During normal times, the items must be purchased. This project is a collaboration between the municipality and Earth Corp., a pharmaceutical company based in Tokyo.

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And now they're talking about fucking with our Social Security...

(The Center Square) – Over 60 million Americans could see their monthly Social Security checks slashed by $500 on average starting in 2032, according to a new report analyzing the impacts of the retirement trust fund’s insolvency. Absent immediate major reforms, the retirement trust fund will be exhausted in less than seven years, automatically triggering a 24% across-the-board benefit cut.

But retirees in some states will see higher cuts than others, with average monthly benefits shrinking by more than $500 in 29 states. Using the most recent state-level data available, the committee measured the impacts insolvency would have on today’s retirees in each state.

The committee found that retirees in Connecticut, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Delaware, Maryland, Washington, Minnesota, Massachusetts, Michigan, and Utah will be hit hardest, with average cuts ranging from $556 to $523 per month. The estimates are particularly troubling in light of a recent Congressional Budget Office report showing that Social Security benefits “play a critical role in families’ financial wellbeing in retirement,” particularly for lower-income households.

 

When measuring how Social Security benefits influenced household wealth disparities between 1989 and 2022, the office's report found that the program “plays a particularly equalizing role because of its progressive benefit formula and near-universal coverage.” As of 2026, retirees make up roughly 17% of the country’s population, meaning Social Security retirement trust fund insolvency would harm state economies along with seniors’ finances.

CNN Data Guru Says Americans Have ‘One Message’ for Bidens – ‘Go Away!’

Reported By: Mediaite - June 4, 2026 -  CNN’s chief data analyst Harry Enten delivered a blunt assessment of the Bidens’ standing with the American people: they want them to “go away.” Enten analyzed recent polling and concluded that both Joe and Jill Biden remain deeply unpopular, with Joe sitting at a net favorable rating of -19 points and still dragging down the Democratic brand heading into the 2026 midterms.

He noted that Jill Biden’s favorability as First Lady was historically low compared to predecessors like Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton, and said voters have one clear message for the entire Biden family. The comments come as Jill Biden promotes her new memoir and Joe Biden teases his own book, moves that have reportedly caused discomfort among Democrats who are trying to move on from the Biden era.

 

This is the inevitable result of four years of failed policies, inflation, open borders, and weakness on the world stage. The American people spoke loudly in 2024, and the polls show they still aren’t interested in hearing from the Bidens. Harry Enten is simply reading the data - Americans want the Biden era in the rearview mirror. The country is moving forward under America First leadership, and no amount of book tours or media appearances can change the fact that voters rejected the Biden-Harris agenda.

Thanks to Dick Wright and Florida Hillbilly for the inspiration.

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Nobody puts Baby in the corner...

When Dirty Dancing hit theatres on August 21, 1987, expectations were modest. In fact, early test screenings had been lacklustre - one rough-cut screening even found that a large chunk of the audience didn’t realise the film included a (then-daring) abortion subplot.

The film’s distributor was prepared to play it for a single weekend and then shuffle it off to home video. But, as the now-famous phrase goes, nobody was going to put Baby in a corner.

Against all odds, Dirty Dancing became a sensation and one of the highest-grossing films of 1987. Produced on a shoestring budget of about $4.5 million, it went on to earn around $214 million worldwide - a staggering success that launched its stars Swayze and Grey into bona fide 80s stardom

 

The film’s appeal was immediate and enduring. Set in the summer of 1963 at a Catskills holiday resort, Dirty Dancing follows Baby Houseman’s journey from naive teenager to confident young woman as she falls in love with Johnny, the resort’s working-class dance instructor. The chemistry between Grey and Swayze was palpable (even if the two actors had their behind-the-scenes tensions during filming) and resulted in some of cinema’s most iconic scenes - from the flirtatious rehearsal where Baby can’t stop giggling, to that triumphant final leap into Johnny’s arms during the climactic dance. Dirty Dancing earned positive reviews, with particular praise for the engaging performances and spirited choreography. 

 

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This is one helluva deal.

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"I love my team so much I'd gladly fight about it". Jeez...

 Knicks fans traveled well to San Antonio and the hometown faithful didn’t love it. During the Knicks’ 105-95 Game 1 victory, fans of the orange and blue were recorded taking over the concourse at Frost Bank Center. In a video making the rounds on social media, two Spurs fans went eye-to-eye with a Knicks fan wearing his blue Knicks cap, a Knicks No. 8 jersey and a platinum chain, which was ripped off his neck.

 

The Knicks fan then aggressively came over to one of the Spurs fans, who immediately began throwing punches as a brawl broke out. Two police officers wearing five-gallon cowboy hats ran over to apprehend the Knicks fan, despite the instigator appearing to be on the home team’s side. It is unclear if the Knicks fan ever retrieved his necklace.

It's just a fuckin' game, guys. Juss' sayin'...