Notices by Jay Thurber Show (jaythurbershow@union.place)

Congratulations to the U.S.'s most-expensive law firms who will soon find themselves --- for free! --- providing criminal defenses for racist dirtbag small-town cops who murder innocent people.

Great job, you dummies at Skadden Arps and Paul Weiss.

"Sorry, Brad, I know we promised you that you could work on mergers and acquisitions this year, but you have to go to Muley Ass, Alabama, and defend a deputy sheriff who killed a prisoner. Now, go make America great!"

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/strengthening-and-unleashing-americas-law-enforcement-to-pursue-criminals-and-protect-innocent-citizens/

You guys, I'm starting to think that putting a sociopath with dementia in charge of the world's largest economy and nuclear arsenal was a bad idea

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/06/trump-second-term-comeback/682573/

#USpol

Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize winner for economics: "The administration’s case for tariffs is completely incoherent. Over the next few days we’ll see many news analyses purporting to explain the thinking behind this radical change in U.S. policy.

"Such analyses will be a waste of time, because there’s nothing to explain. I don’t see any thinking at all."

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/stop-looking-for-methods-in-the-madness

Wait ... so in other countries, politicians who commit crimes are sentenced — they don't get to be elected president?

How weird! That's why America is the greatest country in the world! /s

#USPol #France

To all of my fellow union brothers and sisters who voted for President Trump: Guess what? The leopards are eating your faces now.

#Solidarity #USpol #UnionStrong #AFGE

I want everyone to know that I do not support plans to protest at 11 a.m. Saturday in front of Tesla dealerships, and that especially includes the Tesla dealership at 14010 Perry Hwy (Route 19), Wexford, PA 15090, and certainly not 1400 Brockwell St., Bridgeville, PA 15017.

Please do NOT share this message or the hashtag, #TeslaTakeover

I thought The Onion was supposed to be satire

@AnarchoNinaWrites is there also a down side?

@feld Yeah, but in between it made the Great Depression substantially worse. Although I'm not sure what else is going to break through the heads of the American public other than a systemic collapse. I've never been an accelerationist, but I'm starting to believe we need a complete hard reset.

Luckily I have no marketable skills anyway.

Wanna buy some apples?

When I say HAWLEY
You say SMOOT
HAWLEY (SMOOT)
HAWLEY (SMOOT)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot%E2%80%93Hawley_Tariff_Act

#tariffs

I don't know why I hadn't thought of it before this morning, but @pluralistic's enshittification model clearly can be applied to nation-states as well.

We're witnessing the platform decay of the United States. And the sick irony of Crapification Day happening on Martin Luther King Jr. Day is enough to gag a maggot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification

I've got lots of new friends over on #Bluesky. What a great app that is

Regarding the whole Fediverse/Threads debate:

Shunning someone because they're using Meta products is little like shunning someone in 1975 for using the Bell System. Facebook and Instagram are that pervasive, especially for people who are older and poorer users. People use those products because they have to.

Meta is a monopoly, but at least Bell in 1975 was heavily regulated. Meta is more arrogant than Bell ever dreamed of being.

"We don't have to care. We're Meta." (snort)

we're about two weeks away from pieces in both the New York Times and The Washington Post explaining why "the Nazis were good, actually"

@Whiskeyomega @pluralistic I don't know much about high-end audio equipment, but I've build a fair number of kits, and the components inside that pre-amp seemed like off-the-shelf stuff. The construction quality seemed about what I would expect from a consumer-grade kit from someone like Dayton Audio. Just my opinion. YMMV.

Copyright run amok:

1. High-end hoity-toity electronics company sends a YouTube DIY'er one of its products to repair.

2. He repairs it on camera (and reveals how poorly it was made).

3. Company files a copyright complaint with YouTube and gets his video taken down.

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

Happy #PublicDomainDay !

H/T: Sal Fadhley via @pluralistic

#audiophile #audiofool #RightToRepair #diy #diy_electronics

@mwl A friend was just told he violated "community standards" for posting this. LOL

Yep. Zuck's all in on Dumbito Derpolini

Between Scarborough's capitulation and the ass-kissing that "SNL" gave to Trump this weekend, I guess Comcast NBC Universal dropped the hammer on everyone who works there.

Golly, maybe it was a bad idea to sell all of our news media to giant publicly traded conglomerates.

Who could have predicted, etc., oh well, live and learn

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-news/msnbc-morning-joe-hosts-joe-scarborough-mika-brzezinski-meet-donald-trump-coverage-1236064734/

#uspol #scarborough #quislings

#TwitterMigration #MastodonMigration

I'm a part-time journalist and historian in #McKeesport, PA, and a full-time PR person. Married.

#Union proud (NWU since 2000). #Cartoonist. I'm also known as W3MCK on #hamradio, and serve as the unexpected foreign body in the annals of #Pittsburgh #radio from 12 to 3 p.m. on Saturdays on WRCT 88.3 FM and Tube City Online internet radio.

It's very telling that the white men on my Facebook feed are like, "ha ha, what a week, wow, glad there's no more political commercials on TV, lol" and the Black people and LGBTQ+ people on my Facebook feed are discussing their passports, making out wills, and encrypting their emails.

#USpol