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You can adopt police dogs that flunked training for being too friendly.
Instead of sending them to shelters, agencies like the TSA, Department of Defense, and various police departments have their own adoption programs, giving these lovable “dropouts” a second chance as family… pic.twitter.com/Wel7Yp9PFf
They left yesterday. None in the garage last night. 8,000miles, bound for southern Africa. I always feel melancholy when they leave. Safe journey, you wee beauties. See you next year. 💙🙏🌍 pic.twitter.com/mhEcyiBO66
I lost my pup Bruno last Tuesday to Lymphoma. It had been in remission but came back over a few days and just overwhelmed him. He's buried down by the woods, where he loved to run. I miss you buddy, and your wagging tail thumping against the cabinets in the shop.
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Oh, no. So sorry that you have lost Bruno. What a wonderful boy.
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This is the good Little Mama who brought her four kittens to our house and demanded that we feed them. She splits her time between our house and some unknown locale. She has been spayed and her boys have all been neutered now.
K.T.
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My kitty boy, Kovu! You can see his spots in real life, but they don’t show up in the pics. He is asleep so his big ears are wilted. pic.twitter.com/DOvRTTqnjt
I have always disfavored the saying “it’s about the journey, not the destination.” I find (usually) writers and artists employ this platitude to excuse a story or piece of work that is not too well thought out.
Our stories need catharsis (so said Aristotle), and if your conclusion is weak, it’s tempting to deflect by offering… “don’t you see, it’s about the journey?”
But certainly there are other aspects of life where the journey is –if not the point— as acceptable as the destination. Do I need to reach the summit of a mountain to enjoy a hike?
Might it be the same with gardening? Do we need the fruit or the flower to experience a sense of satisfaction? Perhaps the process can bring as much joy as the terminus.
I’m not trying to run interference for failure. In fact, last year, I posted on AoS about my ongoing battle with birds, which had, for years, poached my annual blueberry crop. That essay was titled “The Great Blueberry Bush Battle.”
A quick recap: the blueberry bushes at my house have, for the last ten seasons, yielded copious and healthy fruit. The only problem became preventing birds from stealing the berries, which happened until 2025 when I discovered thule netting (Photo 2; date taken 8-2-26) This style of mesh net acts like a Ziploc bag, encasing the bush in a net that no bird can penetrate.
So, after failing for a number of years to defeat avian pests, I found my game changer in 2025, and 2026 has been just as successful.
“The Great Blueberry Bush Battle” has been a fun journey, but it was always the goal to get good fruit. I did that, and boy has the catharsis flowed.
A quick recap: the blueberry bushes at my house (Photo 1; date taken 7-3-25), have, for the last ten seasons, yielded copious and healthy fruit. The only problem became preventing birds from stealing the berries, which happened until 2025 when I discovered thule netting. This style of mesh net acts like a Ziploc bag, encasing the bush in a net that no bird can penetrate.
So, after failing for a number of years to defeat avian pests, I found my game changer in 2025, and 2026 has been just as successful.
“The Great Blueberry Bush Battle” has been a fun journey, but it was always the goal to get good fruit. I did that, and boy has the catharsis flowed.
Unfortunately, the scrum with nature when it comes to my Empire apple trees has mostly gone against me. Unlike blueberries, there seem to be more factors that can affect a good apple crop. Rough winters, spring conditions, disease, and other unknowns that are out of my hands make getting good apples anyone’s guess.
I am certain I could do better if I put in orchard-level effort or used industrial-strength sprays, but that would entail hiring someone and I want this project all to myself. So, despite my instincts not to fall back on “it’s about the journey,” I’ve begun to lean into the phrase.
But should I?
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To help you opine, allow me to provide the history of the trees. The blueberry bushes were planted when I bought and redid this house in 2009-2010.
In the photo, you can see where the blueberry bushes will be planted—just in front of the pylons that will eventually become the porch. If you look to the right of Bobcat machine, you will see a line of trees.
These remained on the property until 2012. After their removal, the apple trees were planted in their stead.
I wish I had done more time lapse photography, but by 2014 the trees were established enough to produce a glorious year of fruit .
As you can see, there was enough fruit to fill shopping bags, and I employed my sons to transport the cargo from field to table in their toy car (Photo 6; date taken 9-20-14). The fruit was not just ornamental that year; it was largely unblemished and certainly edible.
In the succeeding years, there was little bounty. The trees grew and did produce fruit each season, but the apples were always spotted or bruised, and by harvest time the toy car was not needed.
I didn’t do much to tend them until— because of Covid fascists—I had to hang around the house in the summer of 2020. I began to take more interest in my fruit trees at this time, but taking an interest and producing a satisfying result did not go hand in glove.
It had been fairly common for the tree to blossom in May, which always portended fruit, but often, as mentioned, the apples would never survive in any kind of healthy way.
For better results, I consulted landscape architects, my lawn and garden service team, the internet of course, and neighbors who also have fruit trees. Naturally, I received a lot of advice. Neem oil to ward off insects. Other sprays to combat disease. Reflective tape to deter birds. Trimming in winter months only. Unfortunately, nothing seemed to work.
Then, in the summer of 2023, something amazing occurred. I did nothing special to prepare for this year, but the trees produced more fruit than I could imagine. The limbs were so heavy with apples I had to tie up splitting branches. I estimate each tree produced 1,000 apples.
Plenty of them were poached by animals or blemished, but there was so much that even a ten percent haul meant 200 edible apples. The toy car was long gone, but it would not have been able to handle the payload.
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To my consternation, there has been bupkis since 2023. In 2024, the trees didn’t even blossom and not one apple formed. In 2025 and 2026, there were small blossoms, and a few apples began to take shape, but by mid-summer there was nothing at all for the plucking.
Photo 14 is at the top of the post
The trees themselves have continued to grow and always appear healthy, but bearing fruit like those two great years (2014 and 2023) seems an impossibility now.
In the succeeding years, there was little bounty. The trees grew and did produce fruit each season, but the apples were always spotted or bruised, and by harvest time the toy car was not needed.
The trees themselves have continued to grow and always appear healthy, but bearing fruit like those two great years (2014 and 2023) seems an impossibility now.
My own very non-scientific theory is the trees have become too big. They were much larger in 2023 than in 2014, so that may disprove my theory, but it’s hard to gainsay they are probably twice as big as when planted. That is, there is too much wood. The branches shoot to the sky and criss-cross each other at every chance. I have trimmed each year, but they grow back quickly.
But now that this season is effectively over, I’m going to get much more aggressive with trimming and thinning than I have before. I’ve spent the last couple of weeks taking out branches, and the results are much more ‘airy’ trees.
Experts will probably say this is a mistake, that I should wait until winter (if you call Chat GPT an expert), but like the cop who goes on a hunch rather than by the book, I’m not sitting on my hands until next February.
Whatever the result in 2027, perhaps the point of these apple trees is not the fruit they can produce but the stories they engender. The neem oil, the toy car, wobbling precariously on ladders during trims. And on…
Even so, it would be nice to munch on an unblemished, crispy apples that come from my trees. Check in with me the next season, and I’ll tell you where I stand on journeys and destinations.
Thanks, LEX! What a project! You have kept good records, too.
Time for discussion!
Do you grow apples? Do you want to? How about pears?
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What's going on in your garden or neighborhood?
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Well, it's been quite a week for civilization in the USA. Try scrolling through the posts from the archives here from the past week for a sampling of craziness. Mark Steyn has noticed something, too:
This is my ancient column from that day, composed in the hours that followed, when very little was known. There are passages I would write differently today, and some I would not write at all, but I thought we would re-publish it as is, with the original (Spectator) illustration and headline. It was and is "a war for civilisation", but in ways I did not fully grasp until six months later, standing across the street from a Viennese maternity shop.
So here we are, a generation later, when no jihadist needs to fly planes into western skyscrapers - because, in New York as in London as in other western capitals, we have handed Islam the keys to those skyscrapers. In the excerpts from the flight manifests that appeared over the next few days, I was struck by the name of Christine Hanson of Groton, Massachusetts, a two-year-old girl sitting between her parents on a doomed flight. She was last heard crying in the background during her father's telephone call to her grandparents to report that the stewardess had been stabbed. Christine would be approaching thirty now - and I cannot but feel that the intervening years have dishonoured her memory:
Interesting to read what Steyn wrote 25 years ago. What has changed since then?
I would suggest that we might look back even further than yesterday's 25th anniversary, and think about what we want to teach the kids (a theme here last week). Ayaan Hirsi Ali has written a piece that reminds us that, while the details had not been worked out, there were people who had plans to attack the West long before 9/11.
After 25 years, it is time for the West to face the true cause of 9/11
In April 1996, more than five years before he steered American Airlines Flight 11 into the North Tower, Mohamed Atta sat in a small Hamburg apartment and wrote his last will and testament. He was 27, an architecture student at the Technical University, the son of a Cairo lawyer, fluent in German, and living comfortably in one of the most affluent societies on earth.
Nothing in his circumstances compelled him to dwell on death. Yet he gave detailed instructions for the handling of his corpse. “I don’t want any women to go to my grave at all during my funeral or on any occasion thereafter,” he wrote. He did not want a pregnant woman, or “a person who is not clean,” to come and say goodbye. The man who washed his body should wear gloves so as not to touch his genitals. He was to be wrapped in three white pieces of unadorned cloth, laid on his right side facing Mecca, and buried “next to good Muslims.” His money was to be divided “according to the Muslim religion as almighty God has asked us to do.”
There is no political program and no mention of foreign policy or economic grievances in the document. There is only a young Muslim man, in a German apartment, arranging to sacrifice his life to Allah in the confidence that Allah will reward his martyrdom in the life to come. The will was witnessed by fellow believers at the al-Quds mosque, where Atta prayed in Arabic, grew his beard, and where, four years later, he would meet the men he would die with.
The document is among the most neglected pieces of evidence from Sept. 11 because it contradicts the explanations of the attack that most Western commentators preferred. Atta was not poor. He was not radicalized by drone strikes that had not yet happened, nor by American support for Israel. He was not in any formal or organizational sense an “Islamist.” Rather, he had an uncompromising and militant commitment to Islam that he was ready to die for.
Yet for 25 years Western elites repeatedly insisted that men like Atta must have been driven by something other than the culture and the faith that provided him with a lens through which his actions seemed both sensible and necessary. After 9/11, intellectuals and policymakers asked “what went wrong?” as though the source of Atta’s animus toward the West was shrouded in some deep mystery. In the Western experience, men had not killed other men over religious questions en masse since the end of the great religious wars of the 17th century. Culture, a term that was once understood to encompass a great many facets of human identity, experience, and belonging—religion included—had also been ruled out. Saying that cultural differences exist and should be respected was a foundation of the multicultural order; the idea that some cultures might lead people to murder each other, for reasons that do not appear in the Western rationalist list of sane causes, struck many Western liberals as too close to racism to bother arguing the point.
Since then, each time the West collided with Islam, much of the Western intellectual class reached for explanations that made sense within its own secular humanist categories: grievance, humiliation, underdevelopment, alienation, foreign policy frustration, or the failure of Western states to properly integrate men like Atta, who were, or must be, inherently no different than immigrants of similar age, class, and educational attainments from Vietnam or Poland, or anyplace else. Since all conflicts are material in origin, it was assumed that they could be settled though material means. . .
Her insights into the thinking of Atta also have relevance to the current Iranian conflict.
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But since Ayaan brought up settling conflicts through material means, we have other adversaries who are quite obsessed with materialism. Mayor Pete's dad translated the works of Gramsci into English, for example. You might want to share the insights below. I am including links to two versions:
PS: This is not my article, is a simple copy from the x account of Krzysztof Szczawinski ; - @Kristof_Poland (consider giving a follow, he has a lot of good articles about socialism)
I don’t usually do this, but he explained what Gramsci was and his ideas way better than I could (even thought I knew about Gramsci for years).
Antonio Gramsci – The Most Dangerous Intellectual of the Twentieth Century.
Not the most famous. Not the most read. The most dangerous and the most consequential – because he was the one who figured out why the revolution kept failing, and what to do instead. The man who… https://t.co/jvd7MHKRDopic.twitter.com/EB0fbaeyEL
The Classical Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer Revival
—Misanthropic Humanitarian
[I rate the preceding 100% accurate.]
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Good morning boys and girls and everything in between. Before we enter the Prayer Revival just a few housekeeping matters to go over. (Rulz for those of you in Sauk City)
1) This is an open thread, feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate. Never hurts to pray either.
2) Be kind. Be nice. Unless you're feeling lucky......
3) No. Running with sharp objects is not allowed.
4) Besides not being able to run with sharp objects have a Great Weekend!
Please submit any prayer requests to me, “Annie’s Stew” at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks unless we receive an update.
Prayer Requests:
5/23 – I used to have a Different Nic could use some prayers as he waits for the results of a biopsy of a mass on his prostate.
6/23 Update – The latest update is that he has stage 2, “unfavorable intermediate”, which he notes is an awful name, but what it means is, it is in the middle, but bad enough that they want to treat it. It’s more aggressive than previously thought. He is at the point where he has to decide on treatment options, which means choosing which set of pretty unfortunate side effects he prefers.
8/20 Update – He has finished his radiation treatment, so all he has left are blood tests and waiting. Thanks for everything.
7/25 – Teresa in Fort Worth posted an update. She is still doing fine. Her chemo pump seems to be working and everything appears stable for now. She says she is incredibly blessed! She is working on a stocking for an as-yet-not-born grandchild. She would appreciate prayers for a successful IVF procedure and pregnancy for her daughter and hubby. Next week, Teresa and her husband will be going to California to visit their daughter who lives there and her family.
8/4 Update – Teresa was admitted to the hospital while on vacation in California. She has a bad infection – cellulitis - not due to the cancer. She is being treated with antibiotics and hopefully it will be cleared up in a couple of days.
8/28 Update – Teresa’s bloodwork is back, and everything looks steady. She has a CT scan on 9/4.
7/29 – Notsothoreau asked for prayers for Billy Ray’s mother, who was just admitted to the hospital with pneumonia. She is a cancer survivor and chemo destroyed her immune system, so this is a big worry.
8/2 Update – Billy Ray’s mother is feeling better, on oxygen and medication. She is not out of the woods, but has stabilized. She appreciates the prayers from around the globe and says thank you very much.
8/16 Update – Billy Ray’s mother is at home, recovering, and down to just needing a little oxygen at night. One of the doctors told her that he didn’t think she was going to make it. Prayer works.
7/29 – TecumsehTea wrote that MrTea’s diagnosis is colon cancer stage 4. They are praying for guidance for how to proceed.
9/4 Update – MrTea has finished his 10 days of radiation. He feels pretty good. He is still taking fenben and ivermectin. He is still shedding pieces of the tumor, which is a good sign. In 2 weeks they will meet with the oncologist again, and hopefully the dna and blood tests will be done and the doctor will have a plan. Many thanks for the prayers.
7/30 – David sent an update on his wife, Susan, who we have been praying for as she is treated for cancer. Susan is still doing well and her numbers are headed in the right direction, but they are still having issues with the side effects of the chemotherapy. It is manageable, but they have to increase the number of office visits for additional treatments. Some days are really good right now, but others are only bearable with the Lord’s grace. They are so grateful for the prayers on their behalf.
8/26 Update – Susan’s cough has gotten so bad that they did X-rays on her chest. It might be pneumonia. She is in the hospital. Her sodium and blood pressure are low and she is not eating much now. They are trying to turn this around and ask for everyone’s prayers.
9/2 Update – Susan is back in the ICU. She either has an infection or the cancer has spread to her lungs. Either way, thank you all for your thoughts and prayers for Susan and please continue them.
9/3 Update – Thank you to everyone for their thoughts and prayers for Susan. They are expecting her to pass into the hands of the Lord in the next day or so. Please pray for them.
8/8 – Ace-Endorsed Author A. H. Lloyd posted that Mrs. Lloyd will undergo a double mastectomy to remove the breast cancer. She has advanced to Stage 1. Much hinges on the biopsy to determine the specific sub-category of cancer and whether chemo is necessary. Please pray for her in this time of need.
8/22 Update – Mrs. Lloyd is healing ahead of schedule and the surgeon was amazed at her progress. She is still in pain and has limited mobility, but each day she is gaining more freedom of movement. That is the good news; the bad news was the unrealistic expectations set by the medical staff. The surgery was much more significant, and she will also need chemo, contrary to what she was told before.
8/14 – RandomDave asked for renewed prayers for his job situation. He just found out that the position he was close to getting went to someone else, and doesn’t know where to turn. He hates to ask, but is getting desperate. He has a GiveSendGo set up; please contact Annie’s Stew for more info. Thanks to those who have already given and thank you for the prayers. They are keeping him from giving up.
8/15 – Donna V contacted Mis. Hum. to let the Horde know the following: “Please let the horde know I am doing fine in hospice”. She would appreciate your prayers.
8/15 – Buck requested prayers for his wife. She is diabetic, and had a bad day on 8/14, with weakness, vomiting, irregular pulse, high blood pressure. She has had sepsis 3 times. They went to ER, but they only gave her meds for nausea, and now she’s back home. Pray that she recovers quickly. Thanks to all.
8/15 – Intruder Driver asked for prayers for Tonya, who was burned over 90% of her body in a gas explosion in Cabo San Lucas. She is now in a hospital in Mexico City. She has a long road to recovery, if she survives.
8/22 Update – Tonya did not survive her burns. Prayers for her and her husband Rusty, who were/are active members of their local church in Mexico.
8/27 – P asks for prayers for the soul of her nephew, C, who committed suicide on 8/17. He was only 32. May he find the peace in the afterlife that he could not find in this life.
8/26 – Teresa in Fort Worth asks for prayers for her BIL, Dick, who was found dead in the alley behind the house in Texas. He had been in declining health and had dementia. They aren’t sure how long he was outside before he passed away. Teresa’s SIL seems to be handling it okay so far. Teresa also asks for prayers for a former neighbor, Melissa, who is hospitalized, recovering from a second stem cell/bone marrow transplant as they attempt to cure her leukemia. She now has blood blisters in her mouth and throat. She had to be intubated before her throat closed completely. This might be her body rejecting the transplant.
8/27 – “…” asked for prayers for healing (and sleep) for Brit Lass. She is having tests, and so far they are good, but she is worried. She has an imaging test coming up and then an appointment with a surgeon.
8/30 – SPinRH_F-16 requested prayers for classmate “D.B.”, who has ALS. Please pray that he remains as comfortable as possible and for support for his family as they see him through this. Thank you in advance for your earnest prayers.
9/2 – Bulg asked for prayers for purpose in his life.
9/4 – bluebell sent an update on grammie winger. Grammie was diagnosed with epilepsy now. And she is back in the hospital. They would love prayers for comfort and peace for her.
9/10 – Annie’s Stew asks for prayers for her husband as he recovers from knee surgery.
9/10 – D asked for prayers for the memory of 9/11. May the Lord comfort people in the grief, and may it bring people closer to God.
For submission guidelines and other relevant info, please contact Annie's Stew, who is managing the prayer list. You can contact her at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. If you see a prayer request posted in a thread comment, feel free to copy and paste it and e-mail it to Annie's Stew. She tries to keep up with the requests in the threads, but she's not here all of the time, so she may not see it unless you e-mail it to her. Please note: Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks or so unless we receive an update.
2 Corinthians 4:8-9
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair, persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.
The packages - software modules - themselves were malicious, and the efforts to upload them to RubyGems were malicious. The attribution to OpenAI itself as opposed to OpenAI's users is unproven, but the pattern looks similar to the attack on a German wiki site that has been admitted by the company.
It points out that the design space in question is a nine-dimension hypercube in which JavaScript of all languages is the one that got it right. Yes, there are tradeoffs that led other languages to decide differently, but those decisions are dumb.
Which is of interest to me because I've spent the morning on async-await in my own programming language. Well, that and adding wildcard indexes to my database and doing an end run around multidatabase ORM design.
It's great when you control the compiler and the runtime and the database libraries and the primary database; you can just make decisions that simplify things everywhere and there's nobody to complain. Well, Claude said my proposal would need rewrites of ten existing client libraries, but that's a bit like the creator of the C makefile format protesting that he couldn't change the format because he already had twelve users.
Also, just found that something I'm planning to do tomorrow was a PhD thesis topic as recently as 2018.
You can turn off that annoying thing Claude does when it hallucinates a harmful phrase and downgrades the model in use. Today it dropped from Opus 5 to the older Opus 4.8 in the middle of implementing a wire protocol to MessagePack translation layer, meaning that I need to recheck everything it's done for the past hour. Just go into /config and it's the third option.
Which to be fair I need to do anyway; time for the weekly adversarial testing round.
When I read Sherlock Holmes or history books (usually Jack the Ripper books), they refer to this kind of bus, usually calling it an "omnibus." "Omnibus" meaning in Latin, the internet tells me, "for all," in other words public, not private. The word "bus" is just a clipped version of that.
The term originated in Paris, where it began as "voiture omnibus," or "carriage for all" or "public carriage." They lopped off the "voiture." In London, the term was quickly shorted to the modern word "bus," by the 1830s.
But I swear I see "omnibus" when I read a history or period book in the 1890s.
I couldn't visualize what this "omnibus" looked like. I couldn't figure out if it was short-ish like a Wild West coach or long-ish like a modern bus. So, of course, it's short-ish like a Wild West coach. Duh.
Here's one from 1895, packed top to bottom with advertising.
More details here, including "buses" packed with people and absolutely jammed with luggage.
God, I love watching these people do this. They have to know that the odds are they will be eating pavement or hey. I'm guessing that they're mixing something with that Red Bull so that they don't care or feel the impact. 🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/AhrzHhYciS
Of Course: Garbage Tier Network NBC Is Now Doxxing the Lone "Rogue" Holdout in the Lindsay Clancy Case
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The media exists solely for purposes of blackmail and incitement to murder.
Sue O'Connell: COMMENTATOR, not a reporter
@SueOC_NBCBoston
EXCLUSIVE: The holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy trial had a history of domestic violence allegations, the @NBC10Boston
Investigators have learned through court documents and interviews with family members.
Fusilli Spock
@awstar11
It's just a matter of time before this guy is doxed and assaulted, if not murdered. Meanwhile Massachusetts has done nothing to stem the leaks or punish the leakers.
How much do you want to bet the Angry Alpha Karens doxxed his name to NBC?
It could also be the disgusting defense lawyer, who has filed a motion asking the judge to set aside the jury's non-verdict and declare Lindsay Clancy innocent on his own authority. The leak may be part of a public pressure campaign.
AG
@AGHamilton29
I was talking to someone who doesn't follow the news much and she had a convo where 3 mid 30's regular women were telling her about the case and they were all completely convinced that the husband killed the kids despite there being no evidence of that and even Lindsay Clancy's reps aren't claiming that.
It's a serious problem that so much of society now views news as a form of entertainment to the point where reality and facts become optional. They just go with the story they think sounds better to them.
It's why people, for example, listen to Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, and others who are consistently saying things that are provably false and insane. Conspiracies are now the norm and regularly people are consistently buying into them without evidence. It's a serious threat to a functioning society.
Plus: an actual Lindsay Clancy Super-Fan has done what the TikTok brained AWFULs told her was every woman's right to do, and hanged her 11th trimester fetus -- also known as a 2-year-old toddler -- and then declared she was temporarily psychotic and would like her book deal and Oprah appearance now.
An Illinois mother allegedly hanged her 2-year-old son that she described as the "anti-Christ" -- hours after discussing the Lindsay Clancy case with friends, authorities said.
Corie Walsh, 38, is facing first-degree murder charges after one of her neighbors found Walsh's son, Barrett, hanging from the rafters in the family's basement, FOX 32 reported.
Walsh allegedly told investigators she killed her young son because he's the "anti-Christ" and "devil," according to prosecutors.
Little Barrett was found with his feet off the ground, and a ligature around his neck.
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Walsh was reportedly found lying in a bathtub, fully clothed and drenched in bloody water.
She was hospitalized after police determined she had attempted to self-harm, according to a court proffer viewed by FOX 32. Her injuries were not considered life-threatening.
Three other children were found unharmed inside the home.
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Prosecutors say that Walsh was infatuated with the Clancy trial, having texted friends about the case at 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, just three hours before Barrett was found dead.
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At the the time of Barrett's tragic death, the jury was still deliberating Clancy's case, a parallel prosecutors have noted to FOX 32.
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Walsh's husband was out of town at the time of the alleged murder and flew home Tuesday evening.
Killing the kid, attempting a kinda-fake "self-harm," doing it when the husband is away -- she's following the Lindsay Clancy playbook.
And now her lawyer announces she was just "psychotic" so she gets to kill one kid for free. After all, Lindsay Clancy got to kill three. Fair is fair.
Corie Walsh's defense will argue that the Illinois mother was psychotic and that the charges do not amount to first-degree murder after she was accused of killing her 2-year-old son.
"She was psychotic. And this is not a first-degree murder," Andrea Lyon told reporters.
Catholic priest Fr. Dan Reehil denounces the strong support for “demonic killer” Lindsay Clancy:
“If you’re dating a woman right now who is a supporter of this woman who killed her children— cut bait and run for your life.” pic.twitter.com/htkLswQA3a
Nike stock has fallen roughly 78% from its 2021 peak, traded this summer around levels investors had not seen in more than a decade, and is now about to suffer another symbolic blow.
S&P Dow Jones Indices will remove Nike from the S&P 100, an index intended to represent some of America's largest and most established blue-chip companies. It will remain in the S&P 500, so I would not overstate the mechanical significance of the change, but after everything that has happened to Nike over the last several years, the timing is difficult to ignore.
As a wise man said in the future of 1997, "Killian, here is Subzero, now, plain zero!"
Someone finally did a paper about the costs of DEI policies -- specifically, about the reduction in performance when you stop prioritizing performance and instead prioritize "diversity."
The equity excellence trade-off: A study of EDI in the Canada Research Chairs Program
The analysis reveals that EDI has actively weakened Canadian research and reduced overall academic performance at Canadian universities.
September 1, 2026
By Eric Kaufmann, Leif Rasmussen, and Jonah Davids
September 1, 2026
Is diversity truly our strength? Does equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) improve excellence?
Since 2017, the prestigious Canada Research Chairs (CRC) program, which sets the agenda for Canadian academic research, has moved dramatically in the direction of implementing EDI ideology and quotas.
Regrettably, prioritizing EDI results in an "equity-excellence trade-off": Canadian taxpayers are funding cultural socialist activism among elite professionals at the expense of the disinterested pursuit of truth.
And, Canadian research is paying a high cost for its unfettered embrace of EDI, both through the non-meritorious appointment of less qualified Black, Indigenous, and female chairs, and by diverting millions of dollars to left-wing scholar-activist research.
According to our analysis -- the first of its kind -- EDI ideology is costing approximately $36 million per year, equivalent to a 12 per cent "tax" on the CRC's $300 million annual budget.
While previous studies have examined demographic differences and the effects of EDI on organizational and team performance, none has examined its organizational-level consequences in academic research. This study fills that gap by testing EDI's impact on research output in the CRC holders program from 2016 to 2025. It turns out, diversity is not merely neutral -- it can actually lower performance.
To determine the scope of the EDI problem, we measured all award holders listed on the CRC site using the industry standard publication metric, the h-index, which combines both the number of articles a scholar has written or co-written with the number of times those articles have been cited by other researchers.
Our analysis reveals that EDI has actively weakened Canadian research and reduced overall academic performance at Canadian universities. Specifically, we find that:
* The average h-index of publication impact for Black or Indigenous chairs is 18, for female chairs is 28, and for White or Asian males is 38.
* The proportion of chairs who are White males declined from approximately 80 per cent in 2000 to around 25 per cent in 2025.
* EDI hiring resulted in lost productivity equivalent to 10 to 15 per cent per "equity-deserving" (female, Black, Indigenous) Canada Research Chair between 2016 to 2025.
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EDI in American federal grants peaked in 2021 and collapsed after 2024, but kept on rising in Canada, reaching record-setting levels by 2025.
Collin Cleary
@collin_cleary
I spent 30 years in academia. Here are my observations about my students. Toward the end, I was teaching "Gen Z." These students combined ignorance with strident moral certainty. They seemed to have had no general education at all, and lacked the most basic knowledge of history, even recent history. They were immature and emotionally fragile.
Many could not handle criticism, no matter how sugar coated. It took very little to reduce them to tears -- or to send them into a fit of narcissistic rage. They were shockingly bereft of intellectual curiosity, and many gave the impression of having no internal life at all.
I'll share more observations later.
More observations about my students: Many could not follow a simple chain of reasoning. Often it seemed like my class was the first occasion they had ever been challenged to think. It was common for them to visit me in my office hours and to ask me to tell them exactly what I wanted them to say on tests or in papers. When I said that I wanted to see evidence that they had done their own thinking, they would look panic stricken.
Some more observations about my students: It was extremely difficult to get a class discussion going, because they were often unwilling to make judgments of any kind. Partly, this was because they had an intense fear of offending anyone. In addition, most believed that everything is "relative" and that therefore it's wrong to judge (completely blanking out the fact that this itself is a judgment).
The Trump administration on Thursday launched two separate federal civil rights investigations into antisemitic persecution of Jewish students inside California's Etiwanda School District and the American Musical Dramatic Academy (AMDA) in New York, according to the advocacy groups that prompted the action.
The probe of Etiwanda schools--a 14,000-student district in California's Inland Empire--stems from a March 6 complaint to the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights, alleging that a 12-year-old girl "was subjected to repeated anti-Semitic bullying, harassment, and discrimination that continued to escalate due to inaction from the school." At New York's AMDA, one of the top schools for developing Broadway stars, a Jewish student allegedly "faced retaliation after she reported anti-Semitic harassment shortly after beginning studies at the performing arts college."
Both complaints--filed by the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and the Anti-Defamation League--were deemed credible enough by federal officials to initiate a probe, which will determine whether the schools violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by permitting discrimination against Jews. They are the latest federal actions aimed at stemming Jew hatred in the wake of Hamas's Oct. 7 terror spree, which fueled a massive rise in antisemitism across American college campuses and even primary schools.
The Etiwanda school district, which is 16 percent white, is in a county where the Jewish population is estimated to be at less than 1 percent. At the Etiwanda Intermediate School, which teaches sixth through eighth grade students, a Jewish girl was struck repeatedly with a stick and told to "Shut [her] stupid Jewish ass up" when yelling for help, according to the complaint. "She was then pinned against a table and choked for several seconds, until she escaped." The student also faced harassment inside the classroom, including in one case where the student was publicly "humiliated" and told, "This wouldn't be an issue if you weren't Jewish."
The Brandeis Center, ADL, and pro-Israel organization StandWithUs subsequently notified the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights of more disturbing behavior in the school district that allegedly included "students giving Nazi salutes in the hallways, the drawing of swastikas, praise of Hitler and the Nazi Party, Holocaust taunts and anti-Jewish slurs." The original complaint documents instances in which "a student allegedly said, 'I love making Jews uncomfortable, especially with Hitler jokes'" and another where a student was called a "stupid Jew."
"The continuing harassment is significant because the Brandeis Center, ADL and StandWithUs allege that the district's inadequate response to the original incidents left the hostile environment in place, allowing anti-Semitic conduct targeting the same victim to continue incident after incident," the organization said in a press release.
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AMDA reportedly investigated the incident and found that "several students had intentionally targeted the Jewish student." However, the performing arts school ultimately imposed a "mutual no-contact directive" on both the Jewish student and her abusers, a decision that the complaint alleges penalized the Jewish student for reporting to law enforcement what would likely constitute a hate crime.
"Rather than protecting the student from retaliation after she reported the anti-Semitic harassment, the complaint alleges that AMDA allowed the retaliation to continue and failed to punish the students for violating the directive," the organizations said.
Female resident of Zohran Mamdani's NYC complains that homeless men are allowed to just whip out their dicks and p*** anywhere they want, resulting in a filthy city that reeks of bum-urine.
Also in NYC: A Gentle Giant "Teen" whips out a knife and chases a soccer player around. The soccer player must be thanking God for his superior speed and endurance, or he'd be dead now.
No arrests for this in Zohran Mamdani's NYC. Arresting Gentle Giant "Teens" would be racist.
Young woman beats up a Soyboy Beta Cuck until she hits the Soyboy in his Okay Now I'm Pissed Off Button, and she gets a quick lesson in why men shouldn't be allowed to compete with women in sports. I wish he knew how to actually throw a punch because I fear this "lesson" was too lightly applied to stick.
This video screams "AI" but it features a Big Titty Goth Chick so I'll chance it.
If a cop is driving behind you with their sirens blaring, you don't have to get out of the way. In fact, stand your ground.
They are probably just out to harass some innocent illegal immigrant committing a crime, and the only thing between them and jail is you. Stand your… pic.twitter.com/TfCvWUiDN1
Let's check in on Round Rock, Texas (near Austin), where 26-year-old sub-Saharan African Benedict Ogbodiegwu Jr. just allegedly murdered a White man, 62-year-old Andrew James Wimsatt.
Andrew liked to sit at the park and take photos that he shared on his IG. Around 11am, Wimsatt was sitting on a park bench when Ogbodiegwu began attacking him with a knife. Ogbodiegwu wrapped his left arm around Wimsatt and started viciously stabbing him. Wimsatt tried to push him off but failed.
Ogbodiegwu continued stabbing Wimsatt several times before Wimsatt fell to the ground. Ogbodiegwu then got on top of the victim and started visibly sawing Wimsatt's neck with the knife before running away toward the park’s pool area.
The attack happened at Chandler Creek Park and was captured on a nearby security camera.
That video will never be released to the public and will stay hidden forever so as not to alarm White people.
More: No indication yet that he's an illegal alien, but he has been repeatedly arrested and repeatedly let go. Can't be a "carceral" nation, after all. It's racist unless remorseless criminals are permitted to roam free and cut your head off.
Austin Justice
@AustinJustice
NEW DETAILS on the murder and attempted beheading of a man at a Round Rock park.
Andrew James Wimsatt sat down on a bench that Monday morning in a plaid blue button-up and shorts. Three minutes later he was dead.
A neighbor's camera had already caught Benedict Ogbodiegwu Jr. leaving his house that morning, walking toward the park with something in his left pocket that detectives say looked like a large knife sticking out.
He stopped for a drink at the water fountain by the basketball court. Then he found Wimsatt.
He came from behind, wrapped his left arm around the man, and started driving the knife into his neck. Wimsatt tried to push him off. He couldn't. He was stabbed several more times before he hit the ground.
Then Ogbodiegwu walked around to his left side, knelt down, put his knee on the dying man's chest, and kept going -- sawing the blade back and forth while it was inside his neck.
He wiped the blade on his shirt and jogged off toward the pool.
Four minutes after he left the park, that same neighbor's camera caught him walking back home, two houses away.
That afternoon he turned up at a McDonald's in a different outfit and left as a passenger in a red SUV. The plate traced back to his father's house, nine-tenths of a mile from the bench.
When detectives showed him a still from the crime scene video, he admitted it was him. Then said he was never at the park. Then said he has a twin. Asked for his twin's name, he had nothing.
Deputies found a trash bag by the garage. Inside: the Honda shirt he was wearing at the murder scene, grey sweatpants with red stains, size 12 Jordans, and a 5.5-inch knife with a wooden handle. The red substance on the blade tested presumptive positive for human blood.
The two men had never met. He apparently decided to just stab a stranger.
In January, Ogbodiegwu was arrested for theft, which was dismissed. In May, arrested for giving police a fake name - also dismissed. Years earlier, he was arrested for theft.
Apparently theft isn't a real crime any longer.
The victim, Andrew Wimsatt, was 62 years old, and an accomplished civil engineer in Texas. He was also an avid nature and wildlife photography enthusiast.
Fox News host @greggutfeld called him "supremely gentle. Willing to do just about anything for another person."
Before his murder, Andrew had just returned from visiting his mother a nearby nursing home.
🚨 attempted beheading 🚨
Let’s check in on Round Rock, Texas (near Austin), where 26-year-old sub-Saharan African Benedict Ogbodiegwu Jr. just allegedly murdered a White man, 62-year-old Andrew James Wimsatt.
unther Eagleman™
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🚨 JUST IN: Fairfax High was ready to welcome him back into the hallways. ICE put him on a plane instead.
Israel Flores-Ortiz, an illegal alien from El Salvador released into the country under Biden in 2024, enrolled as a junior at Fairfax High School in Virginia. He was convicted of assaulting nine girls by grabbing them between the legs in crowded corridors. Some victims were as young as 13. Local court gave him months, not years.
An immigration judge ordered him removed on Aug. 10. On Aug. 31, the day Fairfax County let him out of jail, ICE arrested him. On Sept. 8, he was deported to El Salvador. Nine girls got a predator in their school. America finally gave him a one-way ticket home.
Secure the border. Keep ICE funded. Protect our daughters.
Twenty Five Years After 9/11, Most Have Forgotten -- and the Children Who Were Born After the Terrorist Attack are Being Taught That Muslims Were the Victims and Americans the Racist Aggressors
Hijacking history: Woke teachers offer twisted 9/11 lessons focused on 'Islamophobia' -- not 2,977 innocents killed
Only two US states legally require that 9/11 be taught in public schools -- and the void is being filled with twisted lefty lessons blaming America, downplaying Islamic terrorism and portraying Islamophobia as the real tragedy.
The hijacked history of America's darkest day has created a lost generation. According to one shocking new study, two-thirds of American Middle East studies professors say college kids cannot identify who attacked the US on Sept. 11, 200,1 or why.
New York requires schools to observe a moment of silence on Sept. 11 and the state Board of Regents includes teaching about the attacks in social studies standards, but the state has no standard curriculum covering the attacks.
Only Arizona and Florida mandate that the 9/11 attacks be taught in schools. Ten states have statutes that encourage teaching about the attacks -- which could mean anything from a moment of silence, classwork, or a school assembly, according to an August University of Wisconsin Study.
"We made a promise to 'Never Forget', but today, only a handful of states require 9/11 to be taught in their schools," Rep. Andrew Garbarino (R- Long Island), who is pushing legislation to mandate 9/11 curriculum be taught in all 50 states, told The Post.
In the absence of mandatory standards, leftist activists -- some backed by billionaire George Soros -- are producing lesson plans filled with woke distortions of the attacks, even in New York City schools, according to an analysis from the North America Values Institute, an education watchdog.
"Teaching Beyond September 11th" -- a radical retelling of 9/11 that devotes a single paragraph to the horrific attacks and fails to refer to the murderous Islamic extremists as terrorists -- focuses lessons on "Right-Wing Extremism" and "Islamophobia and the Oval Office."
The curriculum was developed by the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education, and includes this passage: "On the 11th of September 2001, 19 hijackers flew two airplanes into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York, one airplane into the Pentagon in Virginia, and a fourth into a field in Pennsylvania. A total of 2,996 people were killed, including the hijackers."
Never forget, the hijackers were the First Victims on 9/11.
Education departments in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Wisconsin and Oregon all recommend "Teaching Beyond September 11th" in public schools.
The lesson does not provide the radical Jihadist motivations of the terrorists, and appears to equivocate on whether al-Qaeda mastermind Osama Bin Laden was behind the attacks.
"The US accused Saudi national Osama bin Laden, living in Afghanistan at the time, of being the mastermind behind the attacks," the lesson states, without mentioning bin Laden's multiple confessions or his broader campaign of terrorism and declaration of Jihad against the US -- which he labeled the "worst civilization witnessed by the history of mankind."
Other topics in "Teaching Beyond September 11th" include "Surveillance of Muslims," "The Muslim and African Ban," and "Muslim Youth and Resistance."
The Real Victims.
Oh, and I enjoy Muslim Youth and Resistance -- in other words, justifying Muslim violence on college campuses as heroic "resistance" against Jews trying to get to class without being spat on or punched.
A lesson on the 2005 riots over a Danish cartoon depicting the prophet Muhammad -- which caused the deaths of 250 people globally -- asks students to discuss how the media "presented certain values as more important than the fact that the cartoons were offensive and racist."
Zineb Riboua, a Research Fellow at the Hudson Institute, told The Post that the attempts to rewrite 9/11 history was part of a broader leftist project.
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The NEA, the national teachers labor union, provides resources for teaching 9/11 that quotes radical anti-Israel professor Edward Said calling the US "cruel and inhumane" and blaming the 9/11 attacks on America's support for the Jewish state.
The Voices Ethnic Studies curriculum used in Pittsburgh public schools teaches that the attacks led to "increased experiences with racism and Islamophobia," with no mention of how many people were killed or by whom.
A California ethnic studies curriculum reportedly stated that "9/11 served as a catalyst to bring about more blatant discrimination" and referred to America as a "colonizer."
The Council on American-Islamic Relations pushes 9/11 curriculum that accuses the US of "state-sanctioned Islamophobia" after the 9/11 attacks.
The woke propaganda appears to be having its desired affect, according to a damning new poll.
An overwhelming majority (66%) of American Middle East Studies professors believe that college students cannot correctly identify who the perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks were or what its causes were, according to a poll released by the academic research nonprofit the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa.
The poll also finds that the historical hijacking is not limited to America's public schools. Two-thirds of Middle East Studies professors said that scholarly academic work actively runs cover for regimes, groups and ideologies that hate America, according to the survey of 470 respondents.
Not to be outdone, a woke NYC teacher has taken it upon himself to assign his students Osama Bin Laden's infamous "Letter to America."
Adam Feinberg, who teaches at Brooklyn's City Polytechnic High School, then has them answer questions based on the propaganda text, such as, "Why do you think Osama bin Laden hates Jews so much?"
Other questions include, "For what reasons does he believe that America is the 'worst civilization witnessed by the history of mankind?'"
He also asks, "Find the word 'usury'. It means lending money with high interest rates. Why do you think Osama bin Laden disagrees with this?"
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Feinberg, who made $113,394 in 2025, routinely disseminates his leftist ideology on social media, such as sharing a meme mocking assassinated conservative firebrand Charlie Kirk shortly after his death. Feinberg did not deny the worksheet belonged to him but declined further comment.
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The goal of the curriculum is to "relate anti-Muslim racism/violence with other forms of racism and violence (e.g. Black Lives Matter; xenophobia, anti-Semitism etc.) in the United States and abroad," per its website.
It all started with this brain-damaged cokehead partyboy lib:
Only 6 days after 9/11, Bush, accompanied by CAIR and other Islamic leaders, visited a mosque and said, “Islam is peace.”
Since then, America has imported 4 million Muslims. 80% of all Muslims in America are the result of the post-9/11 decision to increase Islamic immigration. pic.twitter.com/x4CvzNr79V
George Bush has always been sold as a man who met the moment. Even some of his haters describe him that way. “I didn’t like him, but he was great after 9/11.”
You can’t handle that moment worse than George Bush handled it. 20 years of war and Muslim calls to prayer in America. https://t.co/xQmgm9vyF3
And this is what we got in exchange for our Wilkommen policy:
TERRIFYING: The Shia Muslim mosque of Dearborn, Michigan, pledged its allegiance to the Islamic Regime in Iran, calling the U.S. a nation of ‘Devil-worshipers.’
“America was built by Devil-worshipers. The Statue of Liberty represents Lucifer.
I kinda half-like Sydney Sweeney, but I am getting a little sick of this Jezebel Hussy.
Yes I know that makes me partially gay.
But still.
Madame, please put away your bosoms. I've seen them. We all have. Many times. They're becoming wallpaper. You are making boobs boring, and that I cannot abide.
The heartthrob and "Euphoria" star was looking to get everyone excited for the NFL season when she posed in her birthday suit with a variety of props that cover just enough to be legally distributed on airwaves.
"Think you know sports?" Sweeney said in the ad for Novig, a prediction market company also partnered with the New York Mets. "Prove it."
The camera then pans out to show that Sweeney appears to be fully nude, with only two footballs covering her chest.
"Novig is just sports," Sweeney says.
Among the riskiest shots, Sweeney sits atop a basketball hoop with a basketball on her finger tips and her hair falling over her breasts.
"You can trade this sport," Sweeney says.
"This sport too," she says while wearing soccer gear and a soccer ball held up by her feet.
She then lies on a felt billiards table and quips: "You can't trade this. I just look good here."
Sweeney is no stranger to controversial ads; she's previously sold soap for Dr. Sasquatch, where the soap was infused with her bathwater.
She's supposed to be a major movie star -- but she's acting like the most rancid, desperate OnlyFans e-girl.
I know many of your are naturally skeptical and demand evidence for everything I say, so here is your precious evidence, offered solely to appease the people saying "Cite?"
The Doctor Who actor who played Rose Tyler's Soyboy Beta Cuck boyfriend "Mickey" on the show between 2005 and 2010 has been charged with multiple sex crimes, from sexual assault to peeping/spying to indecent exposure.
While the UK legal system did not offer any information on the nature of the investigation, rumors of the actor's behavior had been rampant for years already. In 2021, Clarke even sued the Guardian for libel for its story on the rumors of his history of sexual assault, based on claims from more than 20 women.
The actor sued, but during the trial, more than a dozen women testified against him and alleged that he sexually abused them, charges that he adamantly denied.
Clarke lost the legal challenge and was ordered to pay the newspaper around $4 million in court costs.
Next item: Inde Navarette exploded to the A list, or at least the B+ list, for her turn in Obsession.
Jeff Sneider, meanwhile, is an internet "scooper." What's a scooper? It's someone who passes around rumors about upcoming movies, like who's being looked at for a role or what a plot points might be in it. In other words, it's a job for idiots. 80% of true tips are just planted leaks by the studio, which wants free advertising, so the "scooper" can take no credit for that.
Meanwhile, most "scoops" are false, usually just some bullshit the "scooper" saw on Reddit (Doomcock gets accused of this) or, when there aren't any rumors to drive traffic, simply something the "scooper" made up entirely for clicks.
Anyway, this oxygen thief wrote to Inde Navarette demanding her attention and demanding she give him content for his fake job, and she, or more likely her PR team, didn't respond.
He was outraged that someone would blow-off an internet nobody dickbag and threatened her, telling her that he would begin reporting every nasty and sham rumor he heard about her unless she gives him the attention he deserves:
When someone ragged on him for being a complainy gay bitch, he responded that this wasn't a complaint -- it's a threat.
In other words, he's copping to a blackmail charge.
And he's so arrogant about it. He really thinks he's something. He really thinks his stupid "look up rumors on Reddit and then turn them into twitter posts" job is something to brag about.
And then he doubled down, not just on the blackmail, which he deems a legitimate tactic, but on how awesome he is for being a gay-ass internet movie nerd.
After a ton of criticism, and other internet movie geeks announcing that they cannot countenance blackmail and would no longer platform the blackmailer, he offered a fake apology, in which he spent two sentences fake-apologizing and the rest of the post complaining that He's the Real Victim Here.
Jeff Sneider
@TheInSneider
Sep 5
Tired of the noise so I'll delete and apologize, as per protocol. That way we can all move on. I am sorry to Ms. Navarrette, who was and will continue to be treated fairly, despite previous comments suggesting otherwise.
She got swept up in a long-running feud.
I will continue to battle Hollywood's gatekeepers and publish the truth about this industry, as I always strive to. But my ego got the best of me and I went overboard with my victory celebration.
Having said that, the things I’ve seen written about me on this app over the past 24 hours from people who have never met me, spoken to me, subscribed to my newsletter, or watched my podcast, are absolutely crazy and I suggest some of you take a long, hard look in the mirror, because you're way worse than I could ever be.
But most of us aren't blackmailers.
I don't send execs death threats or anti-Semitic comments or any of the crazy shit I’ve been sent. This app is nuts, but I’ll never leave, because we deserve each other. You're stuck with me. And so is Hollywood. Have a safe and happy Labor Day Weekend. I'll use the holiday to reflect and maybe I'll return kinder and gentler. Let's hope you do the same…
I've never before been scolded so much in what purports to be a "per protocol" (in other words, offered only under pressure to relieve the pressure) apology.
Hollywood has made a movie about "To Catch a Predator" and its host Chris Hanson. It's called Primetime.
They never contacted Hanson, ever.
The only plausible explanation: The film is a hit piece against the guy catching predators to protect the poor, embarrassed child sex predators.
No, really. One of the gay child sex predators the show exposed killed himself, and this new movie, featuring Robert Pattinson, attacks the entire mission of exposing predators based on one predator's cowardly decision to off himself.
The film apparently centers on the death of William Conrandt, who got caught up in a sting operated by Hansen's team. Conrandt never showed up for his meeting in the sting, however, and Hansen never confronted him, on camera or off. Police got warrants for Conrandt, a former assistant DA, who shot himself when police showed up, THR notes in a lengthy parenthetical added to the transcript of their interview with Hansen. That makes this framing for Primetime even more suspect, since (a) law enforcement conducts similar stings, and (b) Texas had been conducting a parallel operation at the time as well.
When asked by THR whether Hansen regrets what happened with Conrandt, Hansen wonders what exactly he's supposed to regret:
We were completely transparent about what happened from the moments after it happened. This was no secret. It was unfortunate that somebody chose to take his life rather than face criminal consequences. You can draw your own conclusions as to why. They found child pornography on his computer. He had sexually explicit conversations with two different decoys posing as 13-year-old boys.
I can't speak for the police, but they decided to arrest him, apparently concerned about the possible destruction of evidence. He chose to take his life rather than face the consequences. We reported what we knew the next day on the Today show and continued to be transparent throughout the story.
There are certain things you can't control. Obviously, you don't want anybody taking their own life, but that was a decision made by that individual. They'll ramp it up in the film, I'm sure, and make it more dramatic than it really was. It was based upon an Esquire article that came out years ago that was a bit of a hit piece then, and apparently it's part of the narrative in the film.
Isn't it very odd how Hollywood both protects child sex predators and even attacks anyone exposing them?
Hollywood is just Hell with good restaurants. And I'm done with Robert Pattinson, who I never cared for anyway.
Speaking of Hollywood predictability: It's always when there's a Republican president when Hollywood puts out movies glorifying assassinations, civil wars, and uprisings. When there's a Democrat president, it's a scandal to even consider such material for theatrical exploitation.
Well, Trump is on office, the left is gunning down executives and celebrating their assassins as folk heroes, and Hollywood decides now is the perfect time to celebrate the so-called Peasants' Revolt from around, I dunno, 1340? (Nope, 1381.)
I'm assuming that's what this. Wat Tyler's rebelling over... well, taxation.
But I doubt they'll make it about government taxation. They'll claim it was over forgiving student loans and child care.
"It's time to set the world on fire."
And the trailer does mention taxes but then shifts the real grievance to... being forced to work for wages. Something Gen Z and Millennials are constantly complaining about. Changing a revolt over taxes to a complaint that we shouldn't have to work at all because Real Socialism Has Never Been Tried.*
To hell with Andrew Garfield, who is a really obnoxious Marxist SJW anyway, and Paul Greengrass too.
The only new movie I'll pay to see in theaters:
Bonus: this is annoying as hell, but keep in mind, it's the """ reporters """ who are constantly asking actors if they agree that their new movie is the gayest movie ever and supports LGBT folx.
Their answer here is essentially forced.
Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman discuss ‘Practical Magic’ having a ‘queer’ legacy.
“We’re representing a community of like-minded souls and it looks very different in the human body. But I love that there is an open door with this family. No judgement.” pic.twitter.com/XZma5w9CuE
* Actually, watching that video, I see that part of the problem was "duties" owed to the king and the lords. So it wasn't just a matter of money taxation, but required labor for the lords.
Will the movie make the point, then, that it is evil to force one man to work for the profit of another? You know, like in socialism or communism? Doubt it!
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and New Yorkers of all faiths on Thursday participated in a tribute to the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Approximately 100 people joined the Children of Abraham Peace Walk, the New York Post reported.
The peace walk was created for people to "come together to remember those we've lost, and to recommit to our shared vision of safety in solidarity," according to an online flyer.
Muslims were the Real Victims of 9/11, you know. Zohran Mamdani has said so repeatedly, "centering" his own experience in being pulled out of class on 9/11 out of fear -- not reality, fear by a leftwing teaching staff-- that he might be "bullied."
I mean, that's the important thing. Not the 2,997 people killed by his cousins, but the fact that a left-wing AWFUL thought he might be briefly bullied.
Amid calls for him to skip the ceremonies altogether, Mamdani only came for the end of the commemoration at the Islamic Center of New York City.
The walk started at the Hebrew Union College before stopping by Judson Church, and then continued on to the Islamic Center, where Mamdani delivered remarks remembering the victims of 9/11 and thanking first responders for their service.
Fox News Politics
@foxnewspolitics
Rep. Mike Lawler is calling on NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani to skip the Sept. 11 memorial in Manhattan -- with a petition signed by over 100,000 people, led by 9/11 families, backing the demand.
Lawler ripped Mamdani as a "vile antisemite" who has "associated with people who believe America deserved 9/11," pointing to the mayor's ties to far-left activist Hasan Piker and others who have downplayed or justified the attacks. A petition from 9/11 families details Mamdani's praise of Brooklyn Imam Siraj Wahhaj, who was named as an alleged co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
The backlash comes as the nation prepares to mark 25 years since the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people -- and Republicans say Mamdani's presence would be an insult to the families and first responders who lived through it.
Lawler told FOX News: "From my vantage point, I don't think he should be there, and I think most New Yorkers agree that he should not be there. Certainly, the 9/11 families and the first responders believe he should not be there."
The petition from 9/11 families goes further than Lawler's comments. It details Mamdani's praise of Brooklyn Imam Siraj Wahhaj -- named as an alleged co-conspirator in the 1993 WTC bombing -- and his endorsement of a candidate who described 9/11 as something "a couple of people did in the context of U.S. capitalism, racism, white supremacy, and Islamophobia."
That same candidate also expressed sympathy for Ahmed Ferhani, who pleaded guilty to plotting to blow up a Manhattan synagogue.
Republican Study Committee Chairman August Pfluger took aim at Mamdani as well, saying he shouldn't attend "until he can actually call out terror groups around the world for what they want to do to this country, and that includes Hamas."
NYPD Commisioner Jessica Tisch apparently has a frosty relationship with Mamdani, feeling that he -- get this -- celebrates terrorists instead of opposing them.
NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch blasts 9/11 revisionists blurring lines between heroes and terrorists
NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch pointedly called Wednesday for "moral clarity" ahead of the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks -- decrying revisionists who blur the lines between heroes and terrorists.
Tisch made the remarks before a stone-faced Mayor Zohran Mamdani and other NYPD and city officials as they unveiled a new 9/11 Memorial Wall at One Police Plaza.
The wall -- which includes 469 new names, commemorating NYPD members who have died of Ground Zero-related illnesses -- preserves the unfathomable devastation from the attack on the World Trade Center towers and the heroism in response, Tisch said.
"Preserving that history also means preserving its moral clarity," she said, addressing an audience of 9/11 first responders' families.
"The men who attacked this city were terrorists. The men and women who ran into the towers to save innocent lives were heroes," she said.
"Twenty-five years cannot be allowed to blur that distinction and shame on those who do."
The usually straight-shooting top cop left the specific culprits unclear. But the open-to-interpretation condemnation nonetheless set tongues wagging, particularly as Mamdani -- both the Big Apple's first socialist and first Muslim mayor -- leads the city through a politically fractious run-up to the terror attacks' quarter-century anniversary on Friday.
Several lefties in Mamdani's orbit have come under fire for their views on the attacks, notably online personality Hasan Piker, who previously said that "America deserved 9/11." Piker has since walked back his 2019 comments, saying that he meant US actions in the Middle East have a boomerang effect.
This might be what prompted her to blast Mamdani: Mamdani signed a bill to make 9/11 documents available to the public, and then gave this presentation pen to a lawyer for an Al Qaeda terrorist.
And just days before Tisch's remarks, she found herself smack in the middle of a controversy as Mamdani -- fresh off signing an executive order recognizing 9/11 -- asked her to hand a ceremonial pen to his chief counsel Ramzi Kassem, a civil rights attorney who once represented an al-Qaeda terrorist.
Three attendees at the NYPD ceremony told The Post they snickered when Tisch made her remarks on "moral clarity," and perceived it as a dig.
"It definitely sounded like she took a shot at the mayor, especially after the pen incident last week," said one attendee.
Mamdani, for his part, didn't flinch as Tisch made her remarks.
NYPD officials didn't clarify at whom Tisch's remarks were pointed, when pressed by The Post.
The communist jihadi refused calls to skip the 9/11 services.
He wanted that Victory Lap.
Maya Sulkin
@SulkinMaya
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Former Governor George Pataki says Mamdani's refusal to condemn the phrase "globalize the intifada" means he should not attend the 25th anniversary memorial for 9/11 -- aligning with a petition against his attendance that over 100,000 victims' families have signed.
Pataki also called it "ridiculous" to say Mamdani is being excluded because of his faith. "Muslims have always been included... but it's different when you tolerate -- let alone encourage -- violence. Then you don't belong there. This is about the families." Not attending, he added, "would be a sign of respect for the suffering that the families still face 25 years later."
It has nothing to do with Zohran being Muslim, it has to do with:
- Zohran campaigning with Imam Siraj Wahhaj -- an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing
- Zohran rapping about his love for the Holy Land Five
- Zohran's inability to condemn Hamas
- Being funded by CAIR
- Zohran's intern Arzoo Malik who called for a Holy War through Jihad
- Zohran's meeting with the woman who is responsible for making being gay punishable by death in Uganda
- Zohran claiming that it is an "illusion" that Muslims can become New Yorkers and settle into the city
- Zohran defending Anwar al-Awlaki -- the terrorist cleric linked to 9/11, Fort Hood, the Underwear Bomber, and whose sermons inspired the Boston Marathon bombing
- Zohran campaigning with Hasan Piker who said that "America deserved 9/11"
- Zohran's imam ally Siraj Wahhaj who referred to Homosexuals as a "Disease of this society"
Below: the pen incident.
He actually made Tisch pass the pen to the terror lawyer.
David Asman
@DavidAsmanfox
From the NYPOST: After Mayor Mamdani signed the 9/11 documents, he gave Police Commish Tisch the ceremonial pen, and whispered, "Can you pass this?"
Tisch handed it to Mamdani's chief counsel, Ramzi Kassem, who once represented an al-Qaeda terrorist with links to the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon, and who had just snuck into the press conference.
She then hurried out of the room -- the first official to exit the press conference.
This childish, calculated display of passive aggression was missed by no one, and will not be forgotten by Tisch or by NYC's millions of 9/11 survivors.
Mamdani is under fire after a symbolic 9/11 pen was handed to a former al Qaeda defense lawyer.
After signing an executive order designating 9/11 a citywide day of remembrance, the pen was handed to his chief counsel, Ramzi Kassem.
Kassem previously represented a convicted al Qaeda member whose brother-in-law was one of the hijackers aboard American Airlines Flight 77, which struck the Pentagon on 9/11.
The moment is adding to the criticism Mamdani is already facing over his participation in 9/11 remembrance events.
Mamdani is under fire after a symbolic 9/11 pen was handed to a former al Qaeda defense lawyer.
After signing an executive order designating 9/11 a citywide day of remembrance, the pen was handed to his chief counsel, Ramzi Kassem.
The documents Mamdani made available are designed to claim that Giuliani and other officials dealing with his cousins' bloody handiwork were the Real Villains Here.
🚨Mamdani wants to spend $34 million to rewrite 9/11.
Not to hunt the ideology that celebrated those towers falling. To fabricate a new narrative: Muslims as the wounded, America as the problem, and you as the bigot if you remember the truth.
From the NYPOST: After Mayor Mamdani signed the 9/11 documents, he gave Police Commish Tisch the ceremonial pen, and whispered, “Can you pass this?” Tisch handed it to Mamdani’s chief counsel, Ramzi Kassem, who once represented an al-Qaeda terrorist with links to the 9/11 attack… https://t.co/HvuuroXfykpic.twitter.com/fsRLsbOdBX
The UK Branded Turning Point Members as Dangerous Right Wing Extremists, Claimed Leftists, On the Other Hand, Were "Moderate"
—Disinformation Expert Ace
They actually tracked and surveilled Turning Point UK members because they thought they were dangerous -- after a leftist killed Charlie Kirk. They feared they would agitate for "free speech," which is of course dangerous to a corrupt authoritarian and wildly unpopular regime.
They also complained that the "ERW" -- "extreme right wing" -- blamed Kirk's assassination on "the political left."
If Russia invades, I'll agitate to send Russia additional weapons to finish the job.
Inside Britain's Counter-Terrorism monitoring of Charlie Kirk's 'Extreme Right-Wing' supporters
A leaked counter-terrorism memo reveals officials tracked Kirk's British supporters, warning they would "push pro-free speech narratives" -- while describing the Left-wing response as “moderate”
One year ago, Charlie Kirk was shot dead; the British government immediately got to work.
Following Kirk's murder, the Research, Information and Communications Unit (RICU), a government counter-extremism and terrorism unit, began monitoring thousands of social media channels, gauging the reaction of what they describe as "Extreme Right Wing" (ERW) activists.
Published here for the first time, a memo generated by RICU reveals that officials assessed that "Extreme Right-Wing" activists, including Tommy Robinson, would use Kirk's assassination to "push pro-free speech narratives".
Counter-extremism agents assessed that Right-wing extremists would use Kirk's death to "encourage more radical action" and "abandon political moderation in favour of more radical political stances".
Meanwhile, RICU characterised the Left-wing online response to Kirk's assassination as "moderate" and largely "factual reporting", despite thousands of Left-wing activists celebrating the shooting.
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A memo entitled 'RICU Event Response: Charlie Kirk Assassination' was circulated across Whitehall, including to officials in the Home Office, Foreign Office and Cabinet Office, as well as police officers, on 11 September 2025, the day after Kirk was shot.
The memo was classified as "Official Sensitive".
RICU assessed that American and British ERW audiences would present the murder as "a shared attack on the ERW movement and free speech activism more generally", and monitored the response of Turning Point UK, the British arm of Charlie Kirk's American organisation.
"There is nothing 'extreme' about 'pushing pro free speech narratives,'" said Sarah Rogers, the United States Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy, who served as Kirk's attorney on First Amendment issues and has led the Trump administration's advocacy against censorship in Europe.
"That's why censorship by governments proves so unpopular."
Rogers added that in her judgment, the RICU report showed "blind spots" which "regrettably were not unique to the UK," pointing out now-discredited intelligence products rescinded by the CIA "show the same biases."
"Most glaringly, the memo describes the 'leftist' response as 'moderate,' despite describing the same leftists as 'celebratory' of Charlie's murder," said Rogers.
RICU is a government unit based in the Home Office that monitors and analyses terrorist and extremist content and supports government counter-terrorism communications.
This is the same unit that pumps out propaganda like "I'll Ride with You" after Muslims commit terrorist murders and also pushed covid hysteria to help the government control the population.
Founded in 2007, RICU has stirred controversy over its role in coordinating 'controlled spontaneity' campaigns in the aftermath of terrorist attacks, including pre-planned messaging, vigils and demonstrations intended to shape the public's response to terrorism.
For example, after an ISIS terrorist attack in 2014, RICU created an image of a Muslim woman wearing a hijab with a British flag, which was subsequently published on the front page of The Sun and other British newspapers.
The image was created because, according to a leaked document from the company RICU commissioned to make the image, "the UK authorities wanted to challenge ultraconservative and misogynistic interpretations of Islam".
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"The dominant narrative within the ERW attributes responsibility for the assassination to the 'political left' and claims that it is part of a broader campaign of violence against conservatives and White Christians," the memo stated.
As thousands of left-wing accounts literally celebrated Kirk's murder and called for additional murders, including fresh assassination attempts on Trump.
I am done. Done.
I'm going to donate to left-wing NGOs that settle "migrants" in the UK.
The "Rogue" Juror the Extreme Left-Wing AWFUL Karens Berated and Bullied for a Week? B L A C K
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Old bitter AWFULs communicating in their favored manner,
via birdhands
Thanks to Spencer Pratt for that.
What will the AWFULs do? They were all set on hating and deploring the presumably white (spit) man (spit) who refused to OBEY the Alpha Karens, but now it turns out the white man was actually a black man (or a White Black man, as the New York Times might say).
What's the Oppression Calculus on that? Turns out Tuq'r Qarlson was completely wrong about not needing any algebra after all!
Just kidding, you're allowed to be RACIST if you're an AWFUL! They are God's Perfect Beings and you are required to LISTEN and UNDERSTAND.
Curtis Houck
@CurtisHouck
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NEW: Lindsay Clancy juror Paula Devlin reveals on 'CBS Mornings' that the lone, male holdout juror who voted to find Clancy guilty of murdering her children was the *only* person of color -- a black man.
The 11 not-guilty jurors -- who hectored him for a week to cave -- were all white.
NEW: Lindsay Clancy juror Paula Devlin reveals on 'CBS Mornings' that the lone, male holdout juror who voted to find Clancy guilty of murdering her children was the *only* person of color -- a black man.
Gayle King is STUNNED to hear that the rogue oppressor juror is black. "I'm going to have to sit with that for a minute" she actually says, her world rocked by cognitive dissonance.
No women on juries, and no cucks, either. And if their are women, the only men who can be on the jury are those we know to be immune to AWFUL scolding, black men and GamerGaters.
By the way: The cuck male jury who claims the black juror was just "scrolling on his phone" when the other jurors were shrieking at him?
Seems to be a liar:
I checked the guidance in MA on use of phones during jury deliberations and, as I assumed, the policy is that phones are not allowed during deliberations.
On Oprah, they're against white women being allowed to murder their children, unless black women are afforded the same "right."
Room full of women on the Oprah show starts cheering after a doctor says that black female child murderers need to be supported too, not just the white child murderers like Lindsay Clancy.
"I want us to have the same passion for [female child murderers] who don't look like… pic.twitter.com/VbaQfq9BYi
Not only is the claim morally insane, it's not even factually true.
The New York Times Magazine ran a story in 2017 about a black woman who beat her child to death and later did some historical scholarship in prison. The premise of the article was that it was a scandal that… https://t.co/2fwzRV7Iz4pic.twitter.com/rWOVSxpEVA
THE MORNING RANT: EV Owners and Lessors Have a Problem - Heavily Depreciated EVs that Dealerships Won’t Take Off Their Hands at Any Price
—Buck Throckmorton
The failed “EV Transition” has led to a widespread suspension of electric vehicle manufacturing in the United States. Ford has discontinued its flagship F150 ConflagrationLightning, and it also mothballed an all-new plant that was intended to manufacture that unwanted electric pickup. Volkswagen suspended production of its only American-built electric offering, and GM is cancelling or postponing most of its electric offerings too.
But the nightmare isn’t over yet. There is still a great financial reckoning to come, due to all the lithium-ion albatrosses pushed on consumers over the past few years. Those who financed the purchase of their new electric vehicle will likely be woefully “upside down” when it comes trade-in time, because they’ll owe much more to the finance company than a dealer will offer for it in trade. There’s a good chance a dealer will not make a trade-in offer on an EV at any price. For those EV customers who were put in leases, the manufacturers’ finance companies are about to take a bath when those vehicles go to auction and don’t bring anywhere near the amount of the contracted lease-end residual value.
Whether the original owner of the EV is an individual or a leasing company, they will likely face a financial bloodletting trying to make the car go away. Horror stories are mounting.
Because Audi dealers are struggling to sell their new “e-tron GT” electric vehicles - despite heavy manufacturer incentives and discounting - those dealers have little interest in purchasing used e-tron GTs that are coming off lease, and certainly not for the original lease-end value. So, Audi is offering to pay the current drivers $10,000 to stay in the leased car they’re currently driving, because sending the car to auction would result in a much larger loss.
A recent Audi BEV Lessee Buyout Option Incentive sent to dealerships on September 1, reveals that current e-tron GT lessees are being offered a $10,000 discount to purchase their vehicle at the end of the lease term.
Dealers would be paid a small stipend for handling the paperwork, but Audi loses out on the sale of a new vehicle. When manufacturers offer leasing specials, the intent is for a customer to surrender the vehicle at lease-end to the originating dealership, at which time he is both car-less and in the perfect place to buy a replacement vehicle from the same manufacturer. Instead, Audi is forgoing a vehicle sale and paying a potential repeat customer not to buy a new car.
Lee Davey bought a new Porsche Taycan EV two years ago, paying more than $160,000. There is such a glut of unwanted used EVs that the dealer he bought it from will not take the electric Taycan back in trade at any price:
Ironically, the Porsche dealership he bought it from valued the Taycan at roughly $54,000 but still refused to buy it back, saying it was already overstocked with older Taycan models. Davey said this in the video: “I’m basically left with a car that’s worthless. Even the dealership does not want this car back.”
The financing arms of auto manufacturers are also sitting on a portfolio of soon-to-mature EV leases with a value not much greater than “worthless.” As I have been documenting, legacy automakers have lost tens of billions of dollars on their failed effort to become mass market EV manufacturers. Their problem is that there never was a mass market for EVs, nor could government regulators compel it into being. So, despite all the EV losses already booked, more massive losses are looming for the industry.
Per Experian, just about half (46%) of EVs sold in the United States in 2024 were leased. The good news for those customers is that as their leases mature, they can simply surrender the EV and go get another new car. The bad news for the manufacturers is that they will have to somehow find buyers for the impending glut of off-lease EVs. The supply and demand math will worsen the situation. There is already little demand from dealers for used EVs, and when this wave hits, the already awful auction price for used EVs will plummet even further:
Leasing played a major role in boosting EV adoption in the United States over the past few years. Incentives, especially federal tax credits that applied more broadly to leased vehicles than purchases, helped to lower monthly outlays and drove car shoppers toward short-term leases. Now, those two- and three-year leases are beginning to expire, sending a wave of used EVs back into the market.
A three-year-old EV retained about 40 percent of its original value at auction by the end of 2025. Compare that to early 2022 when comparable vehicles held roughly 90 percent of their value, says Cox Automotive. Analysts say that difference could translate into losses of around $10,000 per vehicle on average, adding up to as much as $8 billion across the industry by 2028.
Legacy auto manufacturers lost money on the front-end when customers bought and leased their electric vehicle offerings, and now they’re looking at losing another $10,000 or so per unit when the customer’s EV lease matures. The capital of these auto companies is not unlimited. They cannot absorb these losses indefinitely, and there is no path to profitability with EVs. They would be wise to take their final financial hits on these off-lease EVs and then return to doing what they know how to do profitably – manufacture and sell gasoline-powered vehicles.
Unbowed by its EV failure in North America, VW continues to plow its precious capital into other U.S. electric boondoggles. Rivian is an EV startup company that planned to sell hundreds of thousands of units per year — its business plan depended on it. Instead, Rivian is struggling to sell a fraction of that volume, and it has lost more than $24 billion since going public less than 5 years ago. Inexplicably, Volkswagen has given Rivian a $6 billion lifeline, including $1 billion just a few months ago, while at the very same time VW was weighing which of its own models to cut and what plants to close.
Even more preposterous is the fact that Volkswagen is building yet another all-new American plant to build yet another all-new EV, a pickup truck this time.
This piece is not behind a paywall. I’d be honored if you’d give it a read.
My latest piece at The American Spectator: "Volkswagen’s Electric Suicide Pact; Caught in an EV-induced doom loop, Volkswagen continues to invest in new EV boondoggles"https://t.co/DOBrreCNf6
It is an iconic photograph, and one that encapsulates the horror of September 11th and the 2,977 people who were murdered that day by Islam. And I use the word "murdered" very carefully. This man did not commit suicide in the conventional sense. He was presented with two awful choices, and I believe that he chose the option that gave him control over his death.
If you would like to read Kris's commentary about this photograph, here it is.
But there are other images that may be becoming more important: those that represent the West's response to the 1,400 year old war against it conducted by Islam.
This is Gaza, soon after the Arab savages rampaged through the Israeli border communities. This was the beginning of the Israeli response to Islamic barbarism, and it is an image that may need to be repeated thousands of times across the world by a united West if we are to defend 21st century Western civilization against the 7th century.
And...this is not to denigrate the man in the photo above; he made an awful choice, and I respect him for it, and pray that he is at peace. But remembering and solemnity and sadness should be only a part of our response, and a cold fury, as seen in the second photo must be included.
Good morning kids. We are absolutely loaded with links and of course today being the 25th anniversary of 9/11 as is all too and painfully obvious the largest category far and away is about the events of that horrendous day. I'm sure we all remember where we were and what we were doing when we first heard the news. At the time, working as I was in both show business and the advertising industry, my time was divided between LA and NYC, and it was just after 6:00AM on the west coast when my father, of blessed memory, phoned me, and my first thought was "well here he is again calling to "use up his minutes before they run out" (remember those days?) until I heard him tell me to turn on the TV and that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. Yes, what he had said stunned me but it was the tone of his voice that was the shocker. That is until I did as he said and saw the smoking hole in the first tower. I remember physically taking a step backward trying to process what I was seeing. Clear blue sky and the smoldering hole in the facade. My first reaction was accident and thinking Cessna. That is until watching in abject horror as the second jumbo jet zoomed in and struck the second tower. Then I yelled the word "WAR."
Whether fate, Divine providence or dumb luck, I would've been right in the WTC plaza as the planes struck. I was in NYC exactly a week before, and had a routine I stuck to, which was eating breakfast with my folks and then taking the subway from Forest Hills down to the WTC, where I visited the Century 21 department store, J&R music world and then a cigar store before ambling up Broadway or Church street to grab some breakfast before either heading back to Queens or to my office. There but for the grace of God. I had returned to LA a few days before the attacks despite my parents wanting me to extend my stay so I could be with them for Rosh Hashanah, which was a week later on the 18th that year.
Kathleen Moran was a Brooklyn native. The second-born from a big Irish family, she often hosted the whole family for gatherings at her Bay Ridge apartment. In her backyard she tended a garden patch of tomatoes, zucchini and more, which she jestingly referred to as “her crops.” Kathleen made memories with her nieces and nephews at birthday parties and on trips to Disney World, and maintained a network of close friends who accompanied her on her travels, whether on weekend road trips to the beach or a week’s sojourn to Italy. After 9/11, Kathleen’s family found a jewelry box in her apartment containing a medley of small items precious to her. Her 1977 class ring represented her years at Midwood High School, where she sang and acted in school musicals. A gold broach with emerald stones spoke to her Irish heritage, the home country of her parents. There were also three Christmas ornaments, commemorating her travels around the world. These were only part of Kathleen’s much larger collection of distinctive ornaments, enough to fill multiple trees during the holiday season, according to her sister Bernadette.
May sweet Kathleen's memory and indeed all of the victims' be for a blessing.
9/11 Was The Beginning Of A Religious War That We Lost. . . We thought religion had no real influence on peoples and cultures, so we failed to recognize the religious nature of the conflict... Today, it’s easy to see just how naive and shallow Ambrose’s analysis was. The idea that there would be no more major ideological conflicts, or that Western civilization had nothing to fear from competing cultures and peoples, was positively delusional.. . At the dawn of the 21st century, no one could possibly take religion seriously, or think that medieval religious disputes had any relevance in the post-Cold War world that was taking shape. Then 9/11 happened. But instead of shattering this delusion, great efforts were made to shore it up. This proved difficult (but not impossible) because the leaders of al-Qaida were obviously motivated by religious beliefs, and said so repeatedly.
I was comforted/heartened for perhaps a nanosecond or so when Dubya proclaimed in the bullhorn that the perpetrators would "hear from all of us," but then he declared that we were in a war on "Terror." Right then and there I knew we were screwed.
And as for the estimable John Daniel Davidson, 9/11 was not the beginning of a "religious war," As Islam has been at war with the Civilized world since its inception nearly 1500 years ago. It seeks the death of unbelievers in its quest to conquer the world in order to make it Islamic in its entirety. And the Shiite part of Islam believes that bringing about Armageddon will make that happen, with them at the top of the heap for all time. So, regardless of how you think President Trump is handling the war with Iran, the leading Shiite nation state, that he is actively doing whatever he can to prevent them from obtaining the nuclear weapons to bring about Armageddon is absolutely the right thing to do, higher gasoline prices for a while being an acceptable price to pay.
Switching gears yet again, I draw your attention to the lead photograph which was the view from my former apartment in NYC when my wife lived there before we met. It was taken not long before 9/11. And she was getting ready for work when the Towers were hit and collapsed. So on that day and for several weeks to follow she was breathing in the air. Now 25 years on, during treatment for what we think is an unrelated neurological issue, the doctors discovered scarring on her lung due to potential asbestos exposure. Oh joy oh bliss.
Anyway, that's all I've got the energy for on this terrible anniversary.
Have a good day. And God Bless all the victims and their families, as well as our first responders and the military for all their sacrifices on that day and in the wake of the attacks, from Iraq and Afghanistan all the way to Epic Fury.
Death to Islam and to those who are allied with it who seek our destruction. May we see all of them wiped out in our lifetimes, so that we may actually have a lifetime to live in freedom and in service of the Lord and our fellow human beings. Amen.
Have a great weekend.
9/11/01 25 years on
Abruzzo was quadriplegic and used a power wheelchair. Everyone around him faced the same brutal fact: the only way out was down, and Abruzzo couldn't take the stairs... 10 Port Authority coworkers stayed. They were Michael Ambrosio, Peter Bitwinski, Phillip Caffrey, Richard Capriotti, Michael Curci, Michael Fabiano, Wilson Pacheco, Anthony Pecora, Gerald Simpkins, and Margaret Zoch. They became known as the "Port Authority Ten." On 9/11, They Couldn't Take the Stairs. Others Wouldn't Leave Them.
The years after the attacks proved challenging for conviction about America’s role in the world—and about my own motives. September 11 and the Loss of Certainty
I cannot agree with Kennedy that the Democrat Party used to be honorable and patriotic, because the leadership of the party has always been anti-constitutional, racist, elitist, and pro-violence. But I do applaud Kennedy for being willing to state the truth about Islam, even if he did so in a mistaken context of attributing his own views to previous Democrat politicians. RFK Tells the Brutal Truth About Islam on Eve of 9/11 Anniversary
If Vance and Rubio’s assessment proves accurate, the Iran war could become the defining issue of Trump’s second term, taking away from his policies on immigration, tariff reform, and reviving American manufacturing. Report: Vance, Rubio Have Warned Trump the Iran War Could Run Into 2029.
“We’re squeezing and strangling them, and that pressure, coupled with the military pressure, we hope will get them to act more reasonably in terms of giving up their nuclear weapons program, which they have, up until this point, not been willing to do,” he said. “A lot of that is driven by the blockade, the economic blockade, because their economy is 90 percent dependent on oil.” McCormick said the next step is to sanction other countries who continue to do business with Iran. Exclusive: Sen. Dave McCormick Reveals Trump’s Strategy to Economically ‘Strangle’ Iran
ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS, HEZBOLLAH . . . AND LEFTISTS. . . The U.N... AND HISTORY
Ghalibaf's assessment is actually from three weeks ago, which is why it sounded so familiar. But as it turned out, there was perhaps good reason for last week's news to resurface — renewed protests in various Iranian cities. Iran 'Cannot Survive Like This Much Longer'...AGAIN
The immediate legal fight involves parentage, jurisdiction, and who may make decisions for a critically ill infant. But buried underneath those questions is one that should make almost anybody uncomfortable, regardless of where they stand on abortion. . . How much control over a woman's body can she sign away before becoming pregnant? Can a Contract Punish a Woman for Refusing an Abortion?
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY
The incident could create additional scrutiny for Omar because the police search involved a firearm-related investigation at a home shared by her son. It also puts renewed focus on the contrast between Omar’s public support for stricter gun regulations and her decision not to comment when questioned about the firearms raid on her son’s home. BRO-FO Omar Refuses to Comment on Police Raid on Home Shared by Son and Felon Roommate
Every election cycle, Democrats run the same play. As the general election approaches, they start pretending to be reasonable moderates. The problem is they govern like radical leftists the moment they're sworn in. Here’s Proof That James Talarico’s Campaign Is in BIG Trouble
Midterms are always about the incumbent prez, with voters usually expressing doubts and discontent — that’s why the “out” party almost always gains seats. What Republicans can do to counter those tendencies is pretty obvious: Remind voters of how very much the GOP has done right, fixing the messes left behind by [so-called quote-unquote] President Joe Biden and the hyperactive Democrat Congress of 2021-’23 — and of how extremely weird the Democrats remain. The midterms ARE about Trump — and what he offers for America’s future
Ever the consummate showman, President Trump invented the concept of the midterm convention, and he stepped right in to headline it. But there's a perfectly legitimate argument that Republicans should run on what they've actually accomplished rather than turning this election into another referendum on one man. Democrats Asked for It, and Trump and the GOP Delivered
The AfD has dismissed the EU’s potential actions as undemocratic, characterizing the idea as punishing the voters of Saxony-Anhalt. If the EU opts to freeze funds to the region or attempts to override state government decisions through financial pressure, this could increase hostility towards the EU and bolster support for the AfD. It is also possible that the EU goes ahead with defunding the region in order to slight President Donald J. Trump, who congratulated the AfD on their win earlier this week. “Wow! The Populist Party in Germany just had a really big night… THEY ARE ON THE RISE, and not going to take it anymore! MGGA!!!” wrote President Donald J. Trump on Truth Social... European Union Mulls Punishing German Region for Electing Populists.
Perhaps more "allied" countries than we thought are currently led by people who are -- for all intents and purposes -- agents of the People's Republic of China. A Manufactured Trade War with Canada
Republicans have spent years correctly warning that dependence on foreign adversaries for energy and critical minerals is a national security liability. Food is no different. Canada just told the world food is a weapon
The legal filing says 3,500 doctors were sent to Brazil between 2013 and 2018 and claims the Cuban regime earned more than $2.3 billion for their services but paid them “a small fraction” — less than 10 percent — of their earnings. The doctors, now living in the US, claim that when dispatched abroad they were never informed 90 percent of their wages would go to the Cuban government. Cuban doctors claim they were forced into slavery as propaganda for the Communist regime — seek $129M in new lawsuit
The refunds may serve as an incentive to vote Republican in the midterm elections, which are scheduled for November. The policy is likely to be well-received by Americans most impacted by the expiration of ACA premium subsidies. Trump Announces $500 Refunds for Americans ‘Ripped Off’ by Obamacare.
...in only a year or so we shall see the arrival of so many new rockets that the press will start to whine about a glut of launch capacity. In fact, this wave of new rockets has already begun, with successful orbital launches by two startups in just the last seven weeks... The coming tidal wave of new rockets
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
Jimmy Kimmel is lying. The FCC didn’t threaten him or his lowly rated show, or his network ABC or his affiliates or local stations. Kimmel lied when he said the “unusual circumstance” of his Talarico interview airing on YouTube and not on TV is due to the Trump administration’s objection to “traditional editorial decisions, guest bookings […] they don’t like.” Jimmy Kimmel Pulls a Colbert: Lies About ‘FCC Threats’ Forcing Him to Air Talarico Interview on YouTube, Not ABC
Like most of Hollywood, Rock is a long-time liberal who frequently uses his stand-up platform and satire to critique American politics..."fake news." Chris Rock Admits Trump Got One Thing Right
HITHER & YON
“Anders’ question resonates anew today...Our failure to think is the natural consequence of the modern worship of progress...Mass objects, through their identical multiple existences, attain a kind of ersatz immortality...Humanity must debase itself totally in order to escape its debasement...This was not cosmopolitan sentimentalism.” Günther Anders, the Philosopher at the End of the World
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Problem is they need to add three more zeroes to that number to make a dent. It's being billed as the "fastest growing space company in Europe", which is like being the most successful oyster farmer in Eromanga, population 98.
Anthropic says a lot of things. I am a paying customer; their product is a lot better than their PR.
"You are not seeing someone in a comic book kind of way say, 'Hey, I want to build a biological weapon to kill everybody,'" Jacob Klein, the head of threat intelligence at Anthropic, said in an interview. "It's an incredibly nuanced situation. They're saying things like 'But I don't want to cure cancer. I want to turn people into dinosaurs.'"
Though if you're able to live within a plan and not burn infinite tokens through the API, Opus 5 can be one 20th the price that comparison assumes.
Speaking of which: Fixed the performance of my runtime. The interpreter is now as fast as Ruby, where before it needed the compiler to match that. The compiler averages around 3x faster. And because it has a rich set of builtins, using those really puts on the afterburners, with minor changes in code lifting it to 15x the performance of the Ruby interpreter.
Of course, Ruby now has a compiler of its own, which I haven't tested against.
Right now, integrating multiprecision maths into the core.
Thursday Overnight Open Thread - September 10, 2026
—Doof
Photo and mystery click courtesy of nurse ratched
Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to the Thursday ONT! Mixed bag of content for those who care. Open thread, as always. On time, as always. What's on YOUR mind tonight?
One year ago, our founder, our leader, and our friend, Charlie Kirk, was assassinated while doing what he had devoted his life to: standing before young Americans and challenging them to think, to speak, and to have the courage to stand for what they believe.
There are no words that can adequately describe what this past year has been like.
We have had to learn how to carry on without the person who was at the center of everything we do. We have celebrated milestones that Charlie should have been here to celebrate. We have stood on stages where his voice should have been heard. We have watched his children grow without their father there to see it. And we have felt the weight of his absence in ways that never seem to get easier.
For the people who knew and loved Charlie, September 10 will never simply be an anniversary. It is the day our lives were changed forever.
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We miss him.
We grieve him.
And we will never forget him.
One year later, Turning Point remains committed to carrying forward the work Charlie began.
For Charlie. Always.
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One year ago, we tragically lost a fearless patriot. A champion for freedom and for our country.
Charlie Kirk changed the course of American history. His courage, conviction, and love of country will never be forgotten. ❤️
🚨 IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: A statue of Charlie Kirk was unveiled in Times Square today at 2:23 PM, the exact time Kirk was murdered on this day last year.
The $5,000 Trump Dividend talk receives different media coverage than did Biden's talk of $2,000 stimulus checks
CNN
Biden: 🦗🦗🦗
Trump: This is crooked!
NBC
Biden: “populist pitch”
Trump: legal and financial problem!
WaPo
Biden: “Big new opportunity!”
Trump: This is illegal!
I agree with The Bee on this one
Trump Pledges That If Voters Defeat Socialism In November, They Will Each Get An Equal Redistribution Of Wealth From The Government https://t.co/qe16k9ucsf
In a modest wooden home in Sardinal, about a 20-minute drive from Costa Rica's Pacific coast, Jose Flores spends his days napping, eating meals prepared by his granddaughter, and arm-wrestling with her.
His family and official records indicate that he is 119 years old, which would make him the world's oldest man, though international verification of his birth date is still pending as specialists review historical documents.
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As the validation process continues, Flores' family is awaiting an answer that Hellen Flores said would carry meaning beyond their own household.
"It would be a source of pride, both for the family and for the country," she said.
Flores had eight children and now has 23 grandchildren, 25 great-grandchildren and one great-great-granddaughter.
The world's oldest living person is Ethel Caterham of Britain. Born on August 21, 1909, in Hampshire, England, she turned 117 in 2026. She was recognized as the world's oldest living person after Brazilian nun Inah Canabarro Lucas died in April 2025.
A piece of fossilised dinosaur poo contains one of the best-preserved feathers from the dinosaur age.
A palaeontologist found the feather by chance while looking for fish fossils.
Researchers said the discovery, published today in Current Biology, might provide clues about why today's birds are the only dinosaur group that survived mass extinction.
Lead author Jingmai O'Connor, associate curator of fossil reptiles at the Field Museum in Chicago, said there might be more hidden feathers inside fossilised faeces, known as coprolites.
"This is the first-ever feather in a coprolite … and it probably would not have been found if it wasn't for a lucky break," Dr O'Connor said.
Dino, are you here tonight? We'd love your insights on your ancestor's droppings!
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Not that you hordelings need an excuse for fish puns...
Fishermen in San Diego were stunned to catch a nearly 500-pound bluefin tuna this week — sending the local fishing community into a frenzy.
“We both got a look at it, and we didn’t even say anything,” Markus Medak of Shearwater Fishing, who snagged the prize catch with the help of another, unnamed fisherman, told Fox 5.
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That’s the largest bluefin ever caught on rod and reel, according to Medak.
The record-breaking fish was brought to Tommy Gomes’s Tunaville Market and Grocery in Point Loma, which sells to local restaurants.
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A representative for the restaurant said that every part will be used — even its spinal fluid, considered a delicacy in some cultures.
Old Rip Van Winkle Distillery and Buffalo Trace Distillery today announced that the 2026 Van Winkle Whiskey Collection is on its way, once again delivering one of American whiskey's most sought-after and closely watched annual releases.
Produced in highly limited quantities, the collection represents four generations of Van Winkle whiskey-making tradition and decades of patience, with six aged expressions ranging from ten to twenty-three years. The 2026 collection includes Old Rip Van Winkle Handmade Bourbon 10-Year-Old, Van Winkle Special Reserve Bourbon 12-Year-Old, Pappy Van Winkle’s Family Reserve Bourbon 15-Year-Old, Pappy Van Winkle’s Family Reserve Bourbon 20-Year-Old, Pappy Van Winkle’s Family Reserve Bourbon 23-Year-Old, and Van Winkle Family Reserve Rye 13-Year-Old.
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The Van Winkle family’s legacy in American whiskey dates more than a century, beginning in the late 1800s when Julian P. “Pappy” Van Winkle, Sr. started his career with Louisville’s W.L. Weller & Sons before helping establish the Stitzel-Weller Distillery, which opened in 1935. His commitment to quality and carefully aged whiskey laid the foundation for the Van Winkle Collection, a celebrated family of bourbon and rye whiskeys that carries his name and enduring philosophy. In 2002, the Van Winkle family partnered with Buffalo Trace Distillery in Frankfort, Kentucky, where that legacy continues today through the careful crafting and aging of each expression.
MSRP for these bottles ranges from $170 - $500. If you happen to see one on the shelves, the price tags will likely be quite higher. I've seen these bottles in stores for as much as 5X their MSRP. Ridiculous!
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Oh no, someone stole my bag! This actually sucks. I could see this happening to me.
Stupid people cheer as a nearby volcano blows its top, apparently believing that because the volcano is on a screen and because nothing on a screen can hurt you, they are perfectly safe.
Idiocracy wasn't supposed to be a user's manual.
YouTubers suffer disasters as they make "unboxing" videos. One big problem I see: Instead of laying the product on the desk and shooting from above while they open it, these Influencer-Types are determined to get their own faces into the shot, which results in them having at least one fewer hand than necessary.
There's some of this going on, but a couple of Soyboy Beta Cucks do it too.
Steve Inman:
Entitled Karen attempts a simple grab-and-run robbery at a gun store, and quickly learns why women should not compete with men in track or Greco-Roman wrestling.
Drunk Karen keeps f***ing around until the woman she's laying hands on lets her find out.
Podcast: Is the Iran situation reaching a steady state? The UK sides with the enemies of the West, Vance the Squish? France and Germany and their coming elections, Canada trade war is one-sided, and Clancy is evil incarnate!
Dear RNC; Go f*ck yourselves. I have gotten 56 texts in the last two weeks...all offensive and sneaky and all begging for money. At this point I would rather donate to AOC. [CBD]
"The irresponsible reports that have been published stating that Maria Bartiromo was fired or is no longer an employee of Fox are absolutely and unequivocally false," Freedman said Friday. "Make no mistake, we have the receipts and witnesses and they will come out whether through the courthouse or otherwise."
He added: "Those reporting her firing or the incredulous facts supporting that fiction have exhibited a complete and utter reckless disregard for the truth."
from anon2020 So what, she quit?
Megyn Kelly (accursed be her name) used to say all the time that Fox has a top female PR person who is a nasty pitbull and leaks nasty claims about anyone Fox is at war with, including those who have left the network. So I guess maybe she technically resigned? I don't know.
NEW: @FoxNews has obtained Lindsay Clancy defense attorney Kevin Reddington's appeal filing to the MA Supreme Court, which includes Reddington accusing the lone holdout juror of being "biased" against those with "debilitating mental illness", which he says is a protected category.
Holiday Break: I've had a rough couple of weeks -- the shoulder is healing now and I'm finally getting decent sleep -- and I've decided to take a long weekend.
I'm taking Friday off, and then Monday off, too. I have Open Threads for both days and I will post if big news breaks, but if it doesn't -- and it probably won't, news is slow before a holiday weekend -- I'm going to take a four day weekend.
Sh0eOnHead discusses the Psychotic Cult of Lindsay
Real quotes:
"This case has me feeling like I'm on Law & Order with you guys!"
"We literally binge true crime as a hobby, we've been trained for this moment" Worth the watch. If you haven't seen the genuinely upsetting insanity motivating thousands of women, you should watch this just to see how society is crumbling. Ban TikTok, Trump. I don't care if Barron tells you it's popular with the yutes. It is an evil Communist China op and it is driving women insane.
Dolly Parton tells the story of the supposedly real-life Jolene As Andrew Branca says, can we see this Jolene, finally? Who was this hottie that was a genuine sexual threat to Dolly Parton? I think this is Fake News personally. When a magician claims he learned a trick from a Himalayan wise man, I don't believe him either.
Podcast: Dolly Parton...an American classic, Michigan's El Sayed is part of our future destruction, More Global Warming nonsense, mail-in balloting restrictions, Darline Graham? Get rid of family dynasties...and more!
1977 interview shows that Barbara Walters has always been a seaward and Dolly Parton always had "country class" Walters actually asks Dolly Parton if she knows that people think she's a joke. This because Walters can't get over the fact that a show-woman has 1, big breasts, and 2, dresses a bit outrageously because, get this, she's an entertainer. A stage performer. You know, someone people pay money to see live and expect them to put on a show. She never would attack Liberace for wearing glitter-tuxedos. But she's mad that Dolly Parton makes Barbara Walters look bad through association (by being a woman). Babs, you wish people associated the two of you. Believe me, we can tell the difference.
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