Obama's Oxygen Thief HHS Secretary, Xavier Becerra, Is Currently the Leading Democrat for California Governor and Cannot Answer Questions About His Record Without Begging for Mercy

—Disinformation Expert Ace

First, he wasn't able to answer questions about the 85,000 migrant children he lost while supposedly safeguarding them in the Biden Open Borders Regime.

He claims they weren't "lost" at all. Merely, that when their "sponsors" were contacted to check up on the health and safety of the children, the sponsors didn't respond.

So not lost, exactly! We just placed them with extremely unreliable drifters with no fixed abode. They were not lost, the people we trusted them with just won't tell us where they are.

He also claims that it's not his fault that no one can find these children because they went missing -- or merely incommunicado, as he insists -- after the period of "sponsorship" by shiftless drifters.

See, they were trafficked later.

When the reporter points out that children as young as 14 wound up, get this, working as near-slave labor in slaughterhouses and with heavy machinery, he just sulks. It's not fair to demand accountability from a Democrat.

South Carolina Dixiecrats Tank Effort to Gain a Congressional Seat, Voting With the Declared Democrats to Kill It

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Indiana redux.

VoteHub @VoteHub

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The South Carolina Senate has rejected extending the legislative session for redistricting.

Unless Gov. McMaster calls a special session, the current congressional map, including Rep. Clyburn’s Democratic-leaning district, will remain in place.

Many South Carolina "Republicans" remain old south Democrats.

And they just showed that once again.

A group of South Carolina Republican state senators broke with their party to thwart a redistricting effort that would eliminate the Palmetto State's sole Democratic district.

Though the measure received 29 votes in favor and a mere 17 against, it did not clear the threshold for passage. State Sens. Sean Bennett, Chip Campsen, Tom Davis, Greg Hembree, and Shane Massey joined Democrats in opposing the measure.

The failure of the Tuesday vote significantly narrows the pathway for state lawmakers to redistrict in time for the midterms, though the governor could call a special session of the legislature.

One of the RINOs admitted he just didn't like Republicans having so much power and claims the "number one" ambition of the "founders" was to "diffuse" power.

Matt Rice @matt____rice

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As of now, three Republican South Carolina state senators are opposed to redistricting. It takes 4 to block the resolution allowing lawmakers to proceed with redistricting.

- Massey
- Rankin
- Campsen

Campsen says the founders' "number one" principle was to "diffuse" political power among the states.

Look at the RINOs spam out completely-insincere excuses for why they remain loyal Democrats:

Adam Morgan @RepAdamMorgan

🚨Senator Massey claims redistricting is a threat to state sovereignty.

Claims @realDonaldTrump is abusing his power and overreaching into SC!

Insane that a Republican would say this. And a blatant lie.

The President only recently weighed into the debate and by Massey's own admissions didn't unduly pressure.

The movement to redistrict originated from grassroots South Carolina conservatives!
Legislators in the @SCFreedomCaucus filed to bill to redistrict in January! Grassroots leaders like @ImFiredUp2 and myself, conservative media like @CharlieOnAir and @TaraServatius, and statewide figures like @RalphNorman have been relentless in pushing to fix this unconstitutional district for months especially since the SCOTUS ruling.

Make no mistake--South Carolinians are the ones demanding to follow the constitution and right this wrong.

And "Republican" senators spouting Clyburn's talking points and attacking their constituents and President Trump need to be thrown out of office.

Redistrict NOW!

Trump wanted you to do this so this is a threat to "state sovereignty" ? How about your own voters demanding it? Are they a threat to "state sovereignty" too?

This guy also lied and claimed he was blocking it to help Republicans win seats. He claimed, based on nothing, that if you changed the districts Democrats would still win one and could even win an extra seat.

But a tweet I linked earlier showed that the new districts would all have commanding advantages in GOP voters, ranging from +11 to +26.

In other words, he's lying, and he can't give his real reason, which is that he is, was, and always will be a dirty Dixiecrat loyal to the Democrat Party. It just became too hard to win in SC as an open Democrat.

Kristan Hawkins @KristanHawkins

Unacceptable.

South Carolina Senate Majority Leader Shane Massey (@shanemassey) is once again standing in the way of conservative priorities by trying to block redistricting legislation, just like he's spent this year blocking @SFLAction backed pro-life legislation from even being brought up for a vote.

@POTUS has made it clear that Republicans must fight back from the Left's power grab and redistricting efforts.

It's time for Sen. Massey to stop obstructing, listen to the people of South Carolina, protect Congress from a Leftist takeover that wants to stack the Supreme Court and legalize taxpayer-funded abortions up until birth, and stand with the pro-life movement instead of against it.

Now I think they needed a supermajority to extend the legislative session, but if the governor calls a special session, a majority will suffice. I think.

New Foreign Pirate Pillaging Operation Uncovered: 10,000 Foreign Students "Working" at Fraudulent Jobs Created by Fraudulent "Employers"

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Why the hell would we be paying foreign students to work, anyway? Why on earth would we be subsidizing foreigners to come here?

Pay full freight or go home. Better yet, go home whether you're paying full freight or not.

Correction: I assumed the taxpayers were paying the salaries of these fake "workers." But I haven't seen anyone say that and now believe this is simply a scheme to remain in the country beyond the limits of one's student visa.

I'll try to find out if government money is being used to pay these "workers," but for now, I'm rewriting the post to remove my claims about that.

The fraud concerns a program called Optional Practical Training, which involves foreign students "working" in "jobs" allegedly related to the fields they're training for.

Google's AI digest:

Optional Practical Training (OPT) is temporary work authorization for F-1 visa students in the U.S. to gain hands-on experience directly related to their major field of study.

It typically offers 12 months of employment, either pre- or post-completion of studies, with a 24-month extension available for STEM majors.

So if there's a fraudulent student "worker," he gets 12 months of extra time in the US or possibly 36 months if he's learning how to build bombs for terrorist organizations, or how to smuggle Chinese bioweapon specimens into the US. I assume that's what STEM means in this situation.

Key Aspects of Optional Practical TrainingTypes of OPT: Pre-completion (before graduation, part-time or full-time) and Post-completion (after graduation, full-time at least 20 hours per week).

Eligibility: Must be a full-time student for at least one academic year in an SEVP-certified institution, not studying English as a Second Language (ESL), and the job must directly relate to the major.

Authorization: Students must apply to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) for an Employment Authorization Document (EAD).

Application Timing: Generally 90 days prior to the program end date and up to 60 days after.

STEM Extension: Eligible STEM students can extend their post-completion OPT by 24 months, for a total of 36 months.

Employment Requirements: Employment must be in the field of study; for post-completion OPT, unemployment is limited.

The entire scheme seems built to defraud the American voter and reportedly that's exactly what it's being used for.

Jennie Taer @JennieSTaer

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ICE just dropped a major fraud bombshell involving 10,000 foreign students "who claim to be working for highly suspect employers" as part of the federal government's Operational Practical Training program.

Here's what they found...

-Empty buildings and locked doors where hundreds of foreign students are supposed to be working

-Multiple employers claiming the same address, where none of them actually have a lease

-Small homes listed as worksites for hundreds of foreign students, where no employees are present. And when someone answers the door, they claim to have no knowledge of the business.

-Some of the employers claim to have offshore HR personnel

-Employers having tax liens, civil law suit collections and breaches of contract

And get this: Even where the taxpayers are paying for foreign students to do real work, guess who's getting the benefit of that taxpayer-paid work?

Tech monoplists, of course!

hernando arce @hernandoarce

New: Over the last 20 years, we're looking at roughly 2.5 million OPT and STEM OPT authorizations combined.

OPT stands for Optional Practical Training. It's a temporary work permission that lets international students in the U.S. work off-campus in jobs related to their major -- up to 12 months normally, and an extra 24 months for STEM degrees, so up to three years total. This is another fraudulent abused program running rampant in America.

Amazon tops the list with over 10,000 students, followed by University of California, Google, Microsoft, and Meta. Tech giants and universities dominate the top spots. Our government has sold us out to big tech for decades.

ICE has just announced a jaw-dropping fraud bust, saying 10,000 FOREIGN students are involved in the federal government's Optional Practical Training.

Barefoot Student @BarefootStudent

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ICE Director Todd Lyons describes the fraud related to the 24-month Optional Practical Training extension for F-1 students

"We've encountered cases involving espionage, biological threats, intellectual property theft, visa, and employment fraud, and even scams targeting elderly Americans, all perpetrated by individuals abusing their status as students."

"The scope and severity of these crimes cannot be overstated."

@EricLDaugh (Eric Daugherty):

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There are EMPTY BUILDINGS where HUNDREDS of students should be "working" as part of their ability to be in America -- run by foreign-linked groups that send money out of the country!

Locked doors, hundreds of students sharing the SAME ADDRESS, and "employers" sharing the same unleased addresses

There is a widespread "phantom employee" fraud going on. This is insane.

Many of the so-called "employers" have major red flags, such as facing lawsuits, no employment records, offshore payroll claims, and suspicious INTERNATIONAL MONEY flows

"HSI agents have visited problematic OPT employer work sites in Virginia, Texas, Georgia, Illinois, New York, New Jersey, North Carolina, and Florida."

"Foreign students themselves are entering false addresses and employer names into the student and exchange visitor information system."

"But we are uncovering evidence of organized fraud that spans national and international borders. This is not accidental. It is deliberate, coordinated, and criminal."

"To give you an example, one employer we visited claimed to employ only three foreign students through OPT, while our records show over 500 foreign students claiming to work there."

"The company's representatives were unable to answer basic questions about the business and deferred HR managers in India."

"OPT employers are required to directly train foreign students, but we've seen multiple examples of alleged employers claiming that all management is overseas in India."

"We've also discovered multiple state networks which are large networks of alleged employers claiming to train thousands of foreign students in OPT, then farming them out to unreported third party employers, making oversight nearly impossible and raising serious national security issues."

Shock: Cuck of the Century Thomas Massie Claimed to be Sexual Deviant by Ex-GF, She Claims He Offered $5000 to Keep Quiet About His Proclivities

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Maybe Massie orchestrated this leak himself. As you might have heard, the humiliation is the kink.

Allegedly he DM'd her two months after his wife died and began a sexual relationship shortly after that.

Is this true? Who knows.

What are the deviant sex acts Massie allegedly demanded that made her feel "uncomfortable"? No idea, she doesn't say.

Spoiler alert, it's usually about poop.

J @JayTC53

NEW 🚨 THOMAS MASSIE FILES

Cynthia West EX GIRLFRIEND of Thomas Massie exposes him as a sexual deviant & bribed her with $5,000 cash to stay silent.

Massie DM'd her on X in August of 2024 not even 2 months after his wife of 31 years passed away in June 2024.

Massie ended up getting her a congressional staffer job in D.C. Massie pressured her to be involved in deviant sexual behavior with him. Cynthia rejected feeling extremely pressured and uncomfortable.

When she rejected, Thomas Massie had her fired, bribed her & threatened her not to file a complaint.

A complaint was filed in fall of 2025. The same time period when Thomas Massie remarried to a different staffer 20 years younger than Massie.

The man who claimed screamed the loudest about "Transparency for Epstein" turned out to be a scumbag himself.

PatriotDadEV2.0 @Patriotdadev77

Please listen to every word of this woman's testimony. She alledges she was in a romantic relationship with Thomas Massie within 2 months of his wife's passing. According to her story:

Thomas Massie aggressively pursued her, pressured her to leave her job to follow him to Washington DC.

She alledges Massie secured a job for her with one of his collegues, Rep Victoria Sparks (R-IN), to bring her to DC with him.

She alledges Massie attempted to pursuade her to participate in behavior she was uncomfortable with and became very angry when she refused.

After breaking off the relationship and pursuing ethics complaints against him, are was retaliated against and fired.

She claims Massie became very angry when he learned of her ethics comparing, and attempted to buy her silence with a $5000 bribe with his untraceable proceeds from the sale of his livestock kept in cash.

She claims there is a pending workplace retaliation claim with a settlement of $60k from Congress she is refusing due to the requirement that an NDA would need to be signed.

Thomas Massie, Victoria Sparks, and House Leadership must be forced to respond to these allegations.

Trump Plans to Suspend Federal Gas Tax During Iran Squeeze

—Disinformation Expert Ace

The disgraceful Washington Post:

President Donald Trump has proposed pausing the federal gas tax as a form of relief for American consumers as energy prices soar as a result of the war in Iran.

The move -- which requires congressional approval to pass -- would mark the latest in a string of government interventions to address fallout from the war, which is weighing on Trump's popularity.

Since the war began in late February, the price of a barrel of Brent crude oil, an international benchmark, has skyrocketed from about $70 to more than $107. U.S. gas prices -- now an average of $4.50 a gallon -- have reached levels not seen since 2022 and contributed to Trump's falling approval ratings ahead of the November midterms.

Oh gas prices have risen to Biden levels? Weird because you insisted at the time that gas prices weren't that bad and might even be a good thing because high gas prices discourages driving and reduces the emission of CO2, The Invisible Killer.

But now gas prices are bad. I wonder what might have flipped this particular switch.

Congress is warming to the proposal.

With the average price for regular gasoline topping $4.50 per gallon -- up by more than $1 compared to a year ago -- officials and lawmakers are turning bullish on an idea many have been cool on.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) announced plans to introduce a bill on social media Monday. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) followed up with her own message soon after.

"American families need this relief on gas prices. My office will be working directly with President Trump to ensure we deliver this win for the American people," Luna wrote on X.

House Transportation and Infrastructure Chair Sam Graves (R-Mo.) has opposed suspending the 18 cent gasoline tax, which helps fund highways. Senate Finance Chair Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), who has jurisdiction over the issue, said recently he wasn't considering it.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) has been similarly skeptical. "I don't know that the federal gas tax is going to lower [gas prices] by a lot," Thune said earlier this year.

Of course Thune's against it.

But momentum appears to be shifting in favor of the idea. The question is whether pressure from the White House will be enough to convince lawmakers to join the push.

They should consider the example Trump made of the Indiana RINOs.

Trump has other plans to rein in oil prices -- the DOE will begin "loaning out" barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, which will be repaid later with more barrels.

This should result in a short-term amelioration of the price of oil, plus a slight rebuilding of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve later.

And note this isn't a Biden Election Year Lie where no oil will actually be returned to the SPR, because the loaned oil must be repaid in oil, plus "interest rate" oil on top of that.

The Trump administration announced Monday it would loan out 53.3 million barrels of oil from the country's Strategic Petroleum Reserve to energy companies -- an attempt to bring down skyrocketing oil prices as a result of the U.S. war with Iran.

In March, the U.S. agreed to release 172 million barrels from the SPR as part of an internationally coordinated release of 400 million barrels in a similar attempt to lower the high oil prices that have been passed along to consumers in the forms of high gas prices and home heating costs.

Nine companies, including Exxon and Marathon Petroleum Company borrowed 58% of the 92.5 million barrels of the 92.5 million barrels the Department of Energy had offered to loan out of the nation's stockpiles, Reuters reported.

Oil exchanges, as they are called, allow the DOE to loan out oil to companies who later pay back to the oil with extra barrels, which functions like interest on a loan.

Of the 172 million barrels of oil slated for release from the SPR, the DOE had previously loaned out 80 million barrels. The U.S. petroleum stockpiles are stored in 62 salt caverns located at four sites on the coasts of Texas and Louisiana. These caverns are 200 feet wide and over 2,500 feet deep in the ground. The caverns are known within the industry as "Kamala Harris's Rotten Vagina."

Democrat Whistleblower Claims that Adam Schiff Ordered His Staff to Illegally Leak Classified Information In Order to Rig an Indictment Against Trump

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Adam Schiff, I assume, has been quizzed about this before.

And I assume he lied to federal investigators when he was asked.

That's obstruction of justice.

Tony Seruga @TonySeruga

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🚨 ADAM SCHIFF'S FELONY CONFESSED BY HIS OWN DEMOCRATIC STAFF: Leaked Classified Secrets to Frame Trump -- 10+ Years in Prison or Just Another Swamp Pass?

Declassified FBI 302s -- released by Director Kash Patel -- expose a Democratic whistleblower (a 10+ year House Intelligence Committee veteran) who warned agents in 2017 and 2023: then-Rep. Schiff convened staff and explicitly authorized leaks of classified intelligence derogatory to President Trump. The explicit aim? To manufacture material "to indict" a sitting President during the now-discredited Russiagate probe.

This was no rogue staffer. It was the ranking member -- later chairman -- of the very committee entrusted with our nation's most sensitive secrets, plotting in open conference to weaponize them against the Executive Branch. A fellow Democrat called it "illegal, unethical, and treasonous."

Professor Jonathan Turley captured the constitutional horror: "a truly chilling account... perfectly moronic to commit such a felony with a planning conference meeting with staff." Under 18 U.S.C. § 798, unauthorized disclosure of classified information carries up to 10 years or more per count. "Someone," Turley rightly declared, "is a felon."

The Framers designed the Intelligence Committee to defend the Republic from foreign threats and domestic overreach -- not to serve as a partisan Star Chamber. Schiff's alleged scheme was not oversight; it was subversion, the precise factional cancer the Constitution was written to excise. While he sermonized about "threats to democracy," he allegedly orchestrated one from within its most sensitive chamber.

President Trump has torn back the curtain. The rule of law is not optional. Equal justice is not partisan. The same statutes that bind the rest of us must now bind the self-anointed high priest of the Russia hoax.

America is watching. History is recording. Accountability cannot wait.

This researcher says that Eric Swalwell was part of the illegal leaking conspiracy as well:

South Carolina's Legislature Will Delete C***s***er Jim Clyburn's Seat Tomorrow; Alabama Now Free to Eliminate One of Its Two Democrat Districts

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Alabama has two majority-minority districts due to unconstitutional racist and Democrat Protection Racket mandates.

The Supreme Court just vacated a lower court ruling mandating the racially rigged districts, and Alabama will swiftly move to eliminate one of them.

The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for Alabama to implement a new race-neutral congressional map ahead of the 2026 midterms on Monday.

In a 6-3 order, the high court vacated a series of lower court rulings that effectively resulted in the state's use of a congressional map that includes two majority-minority districts. As The Federalist reported, such affirmative action districts were historically carved out under past interpretations of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act to Democrats' benefit.

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Responding to Monday's decision, Allen said in a statement that Alabama's May 19 primary election "will proceed as scheduled," and that his office "will remain in close contact with the Governor's Office and the Attorney General's Office as this situation continues developing."

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Writing for the dissent, Sotomayor argued that "[t]here is no reason" for the Supreme Court to vacate the district court's order and remand the matter "for reconsideration in light of the Court's new interpretation of §2 of the Voting Rights Act" in Callais. She contended that the lower court's "finding of intentional discrimination" in the battle over Alabama's 2023 proposed map "is independent of, and unaffected by, any of the legal issues discussed in Callais."

With that lawless lower court ruling vacated, the maps Alabama actually drew in 2023 should now back in effect.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday set the stage for Alabama to eliminate one of two largely Black congressional districts before this year's midterm elections, creating an opening for Republicans to gain an additional U.S. House seat in a partisan battle for control of the closely divided chamber.

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Alabama officials had pointed to the Louisiana case as reason for the Supreme Court to end a judicial order to use a court-imposed House map until after the 2030 census. The high court on Monday overturned that order and directed a lower court to reconsider the case in light of the Louisiana decision. That could free the state to instead use a map approved in 2023 by the Republican-led legislature that includes only one district where Black residents comprise a majority.

Anticipating a court reversal, Alabama officials recently enacted a law allowing it to void the results of a May 19 primary for some congressional districts and instead hold a new primary under the revised district boundaries. Alabama had asked for an expedited decision ahead of the primary.

I don't know how long the lower court will take to issue a ruling, though. The Supreme Court vacated and remanded -- the latter word meaning "sent back to the lower court for reconsideration of its decision, now informed by the Supreme Court's new ruling and instruction." I guess the lower court could once again attempt to impose the old map, making new claims.

Shipwreckedcrew, a former federal prosecutor, thinks it's unlikely the lower court can attempt to re-impose the court-mandated map without the unconstitutional command to gerrymander as many majority-minority districts as possible:

Shipwreckedcrew @shipwreckedcrew

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Alabama didn't make the same argument that the petitioners did in Louisiana. It did not argue that the race-consicous remedy was a 14th Amendment violation that was only available in very narrow circumstances.

The plaintiffs in the Alabama case can challenge the old map again, but they aren't entitled to "majority-minority" districts ordered by a court as the remedy. Alabama may be forced to draw new maps that explicitly rely on partisanship and not race, but the end result is going to be the same.

But this could take time. I don't know which maps will be in effect if the lower Hawaiian judge drags this out.

Meanwhile, South Carolina will eliminate race hustler Jim Clyburn's seat tomorrow.

The Morning Rant: AI-Driven Redistricting?

—CBD

Gee, has anyone noticed that federal legislative districts are in the news? Well, we have been screwing with them for the last 184 years, when The Apportionment Act of 1842 was passed. Some states were still electing at-large representatives, some states had multiple member districts, and it was a bit of a mess. Some states continued their wayward ways and there were other apportionment acts passed.

Oh...wait! Elbridge Gerry (of Gerrymander fame!) was screwing with them in 1812, and I am sure there were manipulations before then. The real issue is that there are no laws governing the creation of legislative districts that can rein in the base instincts of politicians. Partisan manipulation of districts has been found by the courts to be permissible, and that has overwhelmed the demands of "compactness," and maintaining political subdivisions like counties, cities, and neighborhoods within rational districts.

"Compactness?" That's a joke. Look at dozens of districts across America and the contortions the mapmakers went through to create, preserve, or destroy particular districts for partisan gain. Hell, the entirety of New England has zero members of the House of Representatives. That is insulting to our republican form of government, and even to our nonexistent but sound-bite-creating "democracy!"

So how can it be fixed, and what would it look like if it were?

Enter AI, which makes the creation of legislative maps a relatively easy process. It is by no means perfect, because the various systems are nowhere near intelligent enough to do what is requested. For instance, it took several iterations to explain to ChatGPT that Wyoming has only one legislative district, it is Republican, and Colorado doesn't get to snake one of theirs into Wyoming! It's actually an excellent way to see the many shortcomings of AI, and how far it needs to go. To be fair, my version of ChatGPT does not have access to the some of the data, like census blocks, and some of the more sophisticated GIS.

Here is a map that has some interesting restrictions. I began with rules that districts must emanate from the center of major cities, must respect "compactness," and city and county borders. I continued to tweak it, reminding the AI over and over that it must obey the specified rules. Some of the mistakes were marvelous! Pittsburgh was solidly Republican for a few iterations, and the Florida panhandle was Democrat. Yeah...AI is not smart.

This was based on 2024 voting patterns, and is probably a bit optimistic, but it shows a solid Republican majority, even with what seems to be under-representation in the major cities. The breakdown by state is illuminating, in part because smaller states are difficult to balance politically, but the larger states are also hamstrung by their large Democrat majorities in the cities.

This is an intellectual exercise, and will never be enacted by any state legislature. There is simply too much at stake. But it does expose the difficulties of creating reasonable legislative districts that represent the people, rather than the entrenched interests in the various statehouses.

[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X/Twitter]. If you folks who are on X/Twitter would follow us it would be much appreciated!

Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD

The Davicos (Portrait of the Davico Sisters)
Donald M. Mattison

The Morning Report — 5/ 12/26

—J.J. Sefton

Good morning kids. They're evil, and they're dangerous.

Democrat House leader Hakeem Jeffries and potentially the next Speaker, is the nephew of militant racist Leonard Jeffries.

Before his July 20, 1991 speech, Dr. Leonard Jeffries was already known for his teaching that blacks are racially superior to whites because blacks, whom he calls “sun people,” have more melanin in their skin than whites, whom he calls “ice people.”

“Let me clarify my views,” Dr. Jeffries said, after a long exegesis on the role of Jews in the African slave trade, “if they say we are destroying Western civilization with our proposals, then I say let it happen quickly, because Western civilization is nothing more than an institutionalized, sophisticated form of barbarism.”

. . .Now that’s important because when these people talk about “white supremacists”, they don’t mean the KKK, they mean Americans in general and all who aren’t on board with their black supremacist agenda.

Now let’s meet Hakeem’s brother in the present day.
Hasan Kwame Jeffries tweeted that, “John Brown understood that only way to free America from the scourge of white supremacy was to get rid of white supremacists by any means necessary. He was right THEN. He is right now.”
Whom does the possible future Speaker’s brother consider needs killing? Is Trump on the list?

His current timeline is full of rants about “white people” and claims that Republicans are the new ‘Jim Crow’

I suppose the only question left to ask is whether Hakeem agrees with his brother the way he did with his uncle.

You can bet your life he does. And with that as the set-up we have this twisted article of faith of Leftism.

Black conservatives perennially face the slur that they’re “not really black” if they aren’t on the Left. Not only that, they are tools of white racists if they dissent from the NAACP hard line.

When the Supreme Court voted 6-3 to overturn a racially gerrymandered congressional district in Louisiana, Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) was outraged by the local Deseret News in Salt Lake City prominently featuring an Associated Press photo of a lone black protester in front of the court holding a sign that said, “Thurgood is watching you, Clarence.” That implied Thurgood Marshall was disappointed in Clarence Thomas.

Lee tweeted: “They’re going after Justice Thomas for being conservative while Black...

So being black has nothing to do with melanin but political persuasion. Ditto sex, sexual orientation and heritage. The long and short of it is being good means Leftist, and being evil is anything other than that. And from there, you have the absolute moral authority to do anything to gain and maintain power because democracy, freedom and the planet demand it! And those who protest or accuse them of hypocrisy have no right because after all America itself, along with western civilization and Judeo/Christianity are collectively all to be blamed. And as this essay alludes, being a "white supremacist" merely means being white. This is where melanin or lack thereof is all that is needed to define people, unlike the reverse vis a vis Clarence Thomas and others like him.

Yes, the Democrat/Left are evil and dangerous and they're at their most evil and dangerous when they're cornered like rats and sense that the political winds are blowing in the opposite direction to where they want to take us.

With the Virginia Supreme Court rejecting the naked power grab of Spanberger and her cohorts in the attempted gerrymandering and complete disenfranchising of non-leftist Virginians, the reaction was almost worse than their attempted power grab: the sacking of their State's Supreme Court and replacement with Leftist lackies. If they succeed, God-forbid, it might be lights out for America before too long.

If at first you don’t succeed, throw out the rules and rig the game in your favor.

That’s the strategy Democrats are looking to embrace after the Virginia Supreme Court slapped down their illegal efforts to gerrymander the commonwealth in their favor ahead of the 2026 midterms. The state’s high court found (4-3) that the Democrat-run General Assembly violated the Virginia Constitution by bypassing procedural requirements necessary for the redistricting amendment to appear on the state’s April ballot. . . Not content with accepting defeat, Democrats are exploring ways to resurrect their failed gerrymandering gambit ahead of the 2026 elections, The New York Times reported over the weekend. Democrats’ brainstorming session included one “audacious” and “possibly far-fetched” idea that involves packing the Virginia Supreme Court with new Democrat appointees. Floated on a purported phone call between U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., and Virginia Democrat House leaders, the proposal involves the Virginia General Assembly and Democrat Gov. Abigail Spanberger approving legislation that would lower the retirement age for state Supreme Court justices.

Dangerous times, my friends, as if we weren't painfully aware of that by now...

America is not yet at the stage reached by the Weimar Republic in Germany in the 1920s or among Japan’s military rulers in the 1930s, in which the assassination of politicians became almost routine, a means to remove talented individuals from power and to discourage opposing views from being voiced.

But when putatively respectable individuals and institutions on one side of the political spectrum give voice to approval of violence and murder, the Weimar experience comes into view. When one side’s leaders’ rhetoric constantly portrays the opposition leader as another Hitler, it’s not surprising that some of its followers take it on themselves to kill him.

The assassinations and attempts might not be coming fast and furious, to coin a phrase, but the deplatforming, debanking, censorship, intimidation and other tactics surely have the same chilling effect on any voices of dissent wherever they come from. From the halls of Congress to the boardroom, to Main Street and Wall Street, to school boards and right down to the schoolyard itself!

Well, Weimar is as Weimar does. And with that...

Have a good day.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• So what do you want to do while we wait to get the all-clear on the Americans involved? I’ve got an idea. How about we contemplate exactly what the left is doing right now in its sick and twisted war rooms?  You guessed it: If someone dies, it will give the left a new narrative to use to bash the Trump administration in the run-up to the midterms.
  The Sick and Twisted Political Opportunity Democrats May Be Waiting For
  
• Victor Davis Hanson: Demographic change, DEI ideology, anti-Israel radicalism, and political cowardice have mainstreamed hostility toward Jews.
  The Four Horsemen of the New Antisemitism

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—Pixy Misa

• Digg is back - again - this time as an AI news aggregator. (Tech Crunch)
  
  That is, the content is about AI, but it seems to be ranked by human readers.
  
  I'm not sure why just AI - though that is a hot topic at the moment - but Digg was originally a news aggregator just like this.

Monday Overnight Open Thread (5/11/26)

—Misanthropic Humanitarian

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“Because race has always been identified as a political consideration, not only as it relates to the constitution of the United States but also how it is implemented at the state level. That’s why these districts were always drawn so that they took race into consideration.” Donna Brazile

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"My child did not go to school and say anything harmful or bad," Little said. "They could have simply explained to him, 'Hey, we cannot build things that we think are a weapon or look like a gun.'" Chanti Little

Sounds like a school district that discriminates against black autistic children. Guess who else at that school district never learned to think outside the box? And further more I would bet a Benjamin that the decision was made by a woman.

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Time for a dose of Paul Joseph Watson, it's been a while.

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We have more laws on the books than we have pickles. Isn't there a RICO Statute or some other federal law we can disband this hive of lepers?

If anything, the SPLC proved more aggressive during Huang’s leadership. That 2022 “hate map” included Moms for Liberty and other parental rights groups alongside chapters of the Ku Klux Klan. The following year, the SPLC added groups of doctors who oppose transgender ideology to the map. Last year, it added PragerU, Focus on the Family, and Turning Point USA to the map. A few months later, Charlie Kirk got a bullet in the neck.

Hayden’s story reveals yet more dysfunction and corruption at the SPLC, but his suggestion that the SPLC should grow even more aggressive in demonizing conservatives is bone-chilling.

Let’s hope the new leadership doesn’t follow his advice.

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Call me a misanthropic curmudgeon. But why in the hell would you visit a landfill in a 3rd world country? Oh hell, a snipe hunt.

The 70-year-old had boarded the ship with his wife Miriam after they visited a landfill in Argentina, where they are believed to have caught the virus.

He was the first person to die, with Miriam dying a few days later trying to board a flight back home to the Netherlands from South Africa.

The couple was on a five-month trip in South America, and travelled to the landfill site as it is home to a rare species of Patagonian birds, including the White-bellied Seedsnipe.

So how does "Karen" Whittmer Governor of Michigan and Soros flunkie explain this? Soviet Style Trial in Michigan for Criticizing a Politician – A Horrifying True Story

There were no threats—just strong criticism of a public official using the powers of his office to silence dissent.

What happened next is straight out of a Soviet playbook. In December 2023—three months after Aisen’s last email—Aisen was arrested in Massachusetts, extradited to Michigan, and locked up in Oakland County Jail.

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Free time and imagination, what can't it do?

Tracking private jets has become increasingly popular in recent years, whether to shame artists like Taylor Swift for her carbon footprint or to simply monitor the activity of billionaires like Elon Musk.

McDonald told Straight Arrow that he witnessed a notable spike in flights by private aircraft around the time of Trump’s threats.

“Was it because Trump was threatening genocide without even getting the approval of Congress?” McDonald asked sarcastically. “Hard to say.”

The surge in activity led McDonald to wonder: Do the wealthiest among us know something that we don’t?

Inside information
Less than two weeks later, while reading about the perfect timing of $1 billion in prediction-market bets about the Iran war, an idea came to McDonald: the “Apocalypse Early Warning System.”

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I'm not sure if Spencer Pratt will be the next mayor of LA. But, he is giving it his best shot.

Pratt, Reform, Trump, MAGA, MAHA, the pendulum is swinging in the right direction. Can the correct rhythm continue?

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The ONT Musical Interlude & Empty Nest Emporium

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She can continue her education at the Genius Award University & School of Ink

Kentucky woman arrested for allegedly giving toddler a tattoo

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I'm giving you the pavement. And Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.

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Someone's Got a Case of the Mondays Cafe

—Disinformation Expert Ace

by Mo Hushi (mo_ayra)/@mohushii

The woman who turned her dog-walking business into a dog adventure bus business.

The historical-- and religious -- inspirations for Tolkein's lembas bread/"waybread." If you don't have the time, it's based partly on the holy communion wafer, which is said to provide spiritual sustenance, just as the lembas bread, Merry says, gives "heart." It's also based on stuff like WWI era hard-tack.

Interesting: He claims that the first waffles were created as people were experimenting with the grills that made communion wafers, and claims that "waffles" is related to "wafers." I don't know if that's true, but the words "wafer" and "waffle" do seem related.

Kitten plays with girl's hair, alarmingly.

Watching Star Wars in Sensurround.

Cat gets tired of being herded.

Jelly bird. (I've linked videos like this one but I think this one is new.)

Foxes and their kits.

Floating bridge. This is in Iceland, where the ice-melt in spring floods valleys that are otherwise dry for most of the year, so no permanent bridge is needed. I just totally made that up but it's probably something like that.

Baby donkey is rambunctous.

It's not the weinerdog in the race, it's the race in the weinerdog.

Happy belated Mothers Day!

Quick Hits

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Culture, Enriched.

The former mayor of Arcadia resigned after admitting to acting as an illegal foreign agent of China in a federal plea deal unsealed on Monday.

Eileen Wang agreed with prosecutors that she worked with the People's Republic of China to boost propaganda with a fake news website on US soil between 2020 and 2022. She was elected to Arcadia City Council in November 2022. The city is within LA County.

Wang pled guilty to the federal charge at her arraignment in downtown Los Angeles on Monday afternoon. She faces a maximum of 10 years in prison.

LA's top federal prosecutor Bill Essayli said this is not the first time China has been caught trying to exert its influence in the United States.

"Ms. Wang is just the latest to act as an agent for the PRC and it should terrify Americans that she was able to rise to the highest levels of local office in her city," Essayli said.

According to court documents, Wang worked with her then fiancé, Yaoning "Mike" Sun, on a web site called "U.S. News Center," which claimed to be news source for Chinese Americans.

But in reality the pair were carrying out Beijing's orders through the site, and sharing data on how many people had viewed the story with Chinese officials.

Wang and Sun "executed directives" from the Chinese government, posting propaganda designed to help China and reporting back to their masters with screenshots showing how many people viewed the stories, according to the plea agreement.

In one case, Wang's spymaster ordered her to post a PRC-authored essay denying the existence of genocide and forced labor in the Xinjiang region, according to the document.

"There is no genocide in Xinjiang; there is no such thing as 'forced labor' in any production activity, including cotton production. Spreading such rumor is to defame China, destroy Xinjiang's safety and stability," wrote Wang's master, according to the plea agreement.

Paul Sperry @paulsperry_

2h

BREAKING: Just-released DOJ and FBI records reveal the agencies possessed significant evidence of potential Mann Act prostitution violations committed by Hunter Biden as early as October 2020, the eve of the presidential election, yet did not pursue charges for the potential crimes

Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok

BREAKING: Walgreens reveals the Chicago South Side store they are shuttering after 20 years, lost $1 million mainly due to theft last year, which is 4x the company average, while they spent $400k a year on security and employees still got assaulted.

Paul A. Szypula @Bubblebathgirl

Mayor Brandon Johnson is facing outrage from Chicago residents over Walgreens store closures, particularly on the South Side.

Walgreens is closing its longtime Chatham store on June 4 after $1 million in losses in 2025 and high theft rates.

The store had been there more than 20 years. Walgreens said theft at that location was four times the company average.

Walgreens spent $400,000 a year on security officers in addition to other measures, but that wasn't enough.

Thieves would break through the defenses and rob the store anyway.

Johnson needs to seriously address the crime that's making businesses leave Chicago.

A local resident stands up and asks the obvious question: “How do you plan to meet the sexual needs of 600 men?”

This is at a local council meeting in Crowborough - where over 500 illegal, adult aged unknown migrant men are being moved in pic.twitter.com/DLcl9sPQAA

— redpillbot (@redpillb0t) May 6, 2026

Outstanding question that has no answer, except for the unacceptable answer: "We plan to just permit them to rape British girls as they please."

Which is how the woke DA in Minneapolis handles it:

In case you didn't read that right, because your brain made a correction to the words that couldn't possibly be accurate: Five years probation for raping a 15-year-old child, not five years in prison (which would also be a slap on the wrist).

Thanks to ComradeArthur/@ArthurK.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick

I still see people claiming that Biden flew migrants into the United States. That did NOT happen. No such program existed.

The closest thing was the parole programs which allowed some Ukrainians, Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans to come here legally for two years.

Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_

President Biden created the CHNV migrant flights mass parole program which allowed 30,000 migrants to fly into the U.S. every month (not on taxpayer dime) for 2 year humanitarian parole grants, totaling over 500,000 migrants. But they never left, and the DHS Inspector General found the Biden admin wasn't even tracking their parole expiration & certainly wasn't enforcing it. There was also no vetting of their sponsors and widespread fraud was found in the program, leading the Biden admin to temporarily pause it.

One Haitian man who flew into JFK airport as part of the program was supposed to be with his listed sponsor in New Jersey, but he ended up in a migrant hotel outside of Boston where he was convicted of raping a young girl in the hotel.

This program didn't exist before Biden, so yes, Biden quite literally allowed more than half a million migrants to circumvent the border and fly into the US outside of the normal visa or legal immigration process, and the large majority of them are still here well past the expiration of their 2 year parole grants.

Pratt's telling truths and exploding brains:

Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 @Bubblebathgirl Spencer Pratt on how he'll make LA more affordable:

"What people forget is they can't lower the cost of goods. The only thing you can do to make things more affordable as mayor, which I will be able to do, is put more money in people's pockets. We need to put more revenue in the city. We're over here they're always asking me, 'How are you going to balance this budget Spencer? There's going to be no money to do this.'

We should be the number one city in the world. We should have money shooting out of ATMs. We're Los Angeles. There'll be plenty of money when we let the systems work. When we let business work. How can you let business work if you have drug addicts going number two and number one in front of every café?

We lost over 100 restaurants in LA, not because they weren't good food, but cause you have drug addicts scaring people to go out."

Everything Pratt says here is right. He's sharp, smart and strong. He's just letting loose and it's glorious to see.

I wish I lived in LA just so I could vote for him.

This is so insane I wonder if it's a false flag hoax.

Democrats just dropped a new pro-Spencer Pratt ad. pic.twitter.com/CHR5gUXnnC

— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) May 11, 2026

David Thompson
@Dave_in_Fla

I'm just stunned that they think this is an attack ad.

Pratt should run this ad and add "I'm Spencer Pratt and I approve this message"

"We're going to have to explore judicial 'reform' state by state and at the federal level... everything should be on the table."

The "Democratic Party" is giving up on democratic elections. Hakeem Jeffries is now pushing for a full-out judicial coup.pic.twitter.com/PeizntLn06

— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) May 11, 2026

Unhinged liberal: "I'm sure it cant be that difficult to find the addresses of the Supreme Court justices in Virginia!"pic.twitter.com/kjhgIK5fQx

— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) May 11, 2026

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Washington Post: 42% of Democrats Think the Butler PA Assassination Attempt that Killed One Man Was "Staged"

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Gee it's funny, I remember Jake Tapper devoting his show to rebutting "conspiracy theories" for years.

And now he's silent as a dummy. I wonder why.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost

About 1 in 4 Americans think the April shooting at the White House correspondents' dinner was staged according to a new survey.

Roughly 1 in 3 Democratic respondents said they believed the event was staged, compared with about 1 in 8 Republicans.

Yeah I don't believe 1 in 8 Republicans said that. A lot of Democrats know how crazy they sound and are claiming to be "Republicans" who believe Trump had one of his supporters murdered as a sympathy play.

Full article:

Many Americans think Trump assassination attempts were fake, survey finds

About 1 in 4 say the correspondents' dinner shooting was staged, the poll found, including roughly a third of Democrats, as conspiracy theories spread widely online.

I remember when it was revealed that "Palestinian" leader Mahmoud Abbas was a Holocaust denier.

His defenders said -- and this is probably accurate -- Holocaust denial brands a "moderate."

Because the harder-core don't deny the Holocaust -- they celebrate it.

Similarly, it's the "moderate" Democrats who claim the many assassination attempts on Trump by their political allies were "staged."

The harder Democrat position is that the assassins were just bad shots, and they need to recruit better ones.

I mean, literally thousands of accounts on TikTok say exactly that.

About 1 in 4 Americans think the April shooting at the White House correspondents' dinner was staged, with a marked partisan divide, according to a survey published Monday.

Roughly 1 in 3 Democratic respondents said they believed the event was staged, compared with about 1 in 8 Republicans, according to a survey published Monday by NewsGuard, a company that rates the reliability of online news outlets. Respondents between the ages of 18 and 29 were also more likely than older people to think the incident was staged, according to the report.

Fake Jake, you want to get in on this or are you all good?

Last week, a federal grand jury in D.C. indicted the alleged gunman, charging Cole Tomas Allen with four felonies, including the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump. Soon after the incident that led to his arrest at the Washington Hilton, conspiracy theories began to spread online that falsely claim the Trump administration staged the incident in an effort to manufacture support for the president, the Republican Party and his planned White House ballroom.

The NewsGuard survey found that 24 percent of U.S. adults believe the incident at the Washington Hilton was fake, compared with 45 percent who believed it was legitimate. An additional 32 percent said they were unsure. The survey of 1,000 American adults was conducted by YouGov from April 28 to May 4.

"It's very striking," said Sofia Rubinson, an editor at NewsGuard. The results underscore broader skepticism that Americans feel toward the government and the press, she said. "Increasingly, people on all sides of the political spectrum are distrustful of both this administration and also the media," she said, but willing to trust unverified information they see online.

The White House rejected the conspiracy theories in a statement provided after publication. "Anyone who thinks President Trump staged his own assassination attempts is a complete moron," spokesman Davis Ingle said.

Joan Donovan, a Boston University professor who researches media manipulation, said the results are an indicator of the role of showmanship in Trump's presidency. "It just seems incredibly Hollywood to imagine that this is staged," Donovan said of the correspondents' dinner shooting. "The entire apparatus of the government has been turned into a reality TV show."

Oh I get it, the psychotic breakdown of Democrats is Trump's fault. Of course. Of course.

It can be natural of people to fall for conspiracy theories when they're trying to make sense of complicated events, Donovan said.

"Unfortunately, when governments or institutions are hiding the truth about what they're up to or they're playing fast and loose with certain regulations or they're not imposing certain laws on different people," Donovan said, "it is much easier to believe in a conspiracy against oneself than it is to believe that the system has become rotted."

This is the "expert" the Post called to get context for the left's psychotic break with reality. There were no other experts available.

Unfunny Anti-Childbirth Hag Chelsea Handler Gets Destroyed at Netflix Roast of Kevin Hart

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Ooof. "Speaking of dead kids, she's a big fan of abortions. She's been scraped more times than the grill at Benihana's."

These don't all seem in good fun.

Lizzo also get some abuse from Tony Hinchcliffe. She seems to roll with the punches pretty well. Though that might mostly be due to physiognomy.

Content warning, particularly for the Tony Hinchcliffe.

Keir Starmer Vows to Remain in Office for Ten Years, Double Downs on Endless Illegal Immigration, Calls Immigration Reformers "Dangerous" and Warns They Are Taking the UK Down a "Dark Path"

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Is he insane?

Keir Starmer: I want 10 years in No 10 and will fight my challengers The prime minister sets out his project of 'renewal', which includes a scheme to open up Europe for young people, admits Labour needs to act on its election drubbing, and questions donations to Reform and Nigel Farage

Keir Starmer has said he wants a decade in Downing Street and will fight anyone who challenges him for the Labour leadership.

The prime minister described his government as a "10-year project of renewal". Asked whether he would definitely lead his party into the next general election and serve a full second term, he said: "Yes, I will."

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In his interview, Starmer also pledged to put Europe at the heart of his premiership.

He revealed that the government is close to agreeing the terms of a youth mobility scheme with the European Union.

Oh great, more Migrant Youths. Just what the UK voters were hoping for!

Under the plan, which is expected to be up and running by 2027, Britons under 30 will be able to live or work in the EU. Young Europeans will also be allowed to come to the UK, with the number capped at "tens of thousands" a year. The new "youth experience visa" is set to give 18 to 30-year-olds the right to base themselves abroad for two to three years.

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But the prime minister said a deal would be unveiled before the summer. "Brexit has held back our young people," he said. "They should be free to work, study, travel in European countries, just as I was able to when I was growing up. That has been snatched away from young people because of Brexit. I'm not going to let Brexit stand in the way of their opportunities."

Note that Queer Starmer pretended to favor Brexit in order to Con the Conservative Rubes -- pissed off by the "Conservatives'" unwillingness to ever honor the "exit" part of Brexit -- into voting for him.

Three Labour MPs have resigned and 55 Labour MPs have called for Starmer's resignation or at least a timeline for his departure.

He's refusing.

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But the Labour leader was defiant in response to calls for him to quit and made clear he would not stand aside if MPs triggered a leadership contest. "I'm not going to walk away from the job I was elected to do in July 2024," he said. "I'm not going to plunge the country into chaos."

Starmer is also vowing that the Fake Conservative Party plunged the UK into "chaos" by repeatedly tossing out unpopular PMs, and says that Labour must not do that.

That is, Labour must keep him and his Sketch Foreign Male Model Entaglements at No. 10 Dowining Street.

Ministerial aides are resigning to pressure him to resign:

That was followed by a near constant soundtrack of Labour MPs, one after another, publicly calling for him to go, sooner or later.

And by teatime, the most significant of those - the resignation of ministerial aides, from the lowest rung of the government - saying they too had lost faith in their leader.

One of them, Joe Morris, was the parliamentary private secretary to Wes Streeting, the Health Secretary not short of prime ministerial ambition. What might Streeting do next?

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Naushabah Khan says she has resigned as parliamentary private secretary (PPS) to the Cabinet Office as she calls for new Labour leadership.

Khan, who is MP for Gillingham and Rainham, says she has always put her constituents interests first, and that is why she has made the "difficult decision to resign".

"We need a clear change of direction now and no game playing," she says, adding that a Labour government "can and will rise to meet the moment if we act now".

"I am calling for new leadership, so that we can rebuild trust and deliver the better future that the British people voted for," she writes.
Starmer 'no longer has trust of the public,' says ministerial aide Joe

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As Labour MPs call for Starmer to go, there is a feeling of momentum that the pace is quickening, that more and more names are being made public.

There is plenty of talk here tonight that there is plenty more to follow.

So, 55 Labour MPs and counting saying the prime minister should go or set a timetable to go.

If that number continues to remorselessly tick up, as it has been doing in the last few minutes and hours, it won't be sustainable in all likelihood.

There will be demands for the prime minister to say something, do something and respond to a party that increasingly is in open revolt.

Starmer insists he must remain PM to safeguard the "diverse" country Labour (and the treacherous Tories) have created, against the wishes of native Britons.

Virginia Democrats Seethe and Scheme to Mass-Fire All Seven Supreme Court Justices to Replace Them With Compliant Communist Operatives, but Senate Leader Says It's No-Go

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley

May 10

The gut-and-pack scheme is brutally cynical. The Virginia Supreme Court described the earlier gambit as "a story of the tail wagging the dog that has no tail." Now, Democrats would just shoot the dog and adopt a politically modified dog bred to serve.

They're all about Saving Democracy. Didn't you know that, racists?

RedState reported Sunday on the sheer desperation that has set in among Democrats at the state and congressional levels after the Virginia Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the process state Democrats used to put their gerrymander referendum on the ballot was a violation of Virginia's Constitution.

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Perhaps the most extreme of the measures that, per The New York Times, were being considered during a meeting Saturday that included House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (NY-08), was to have "Democrats in Richmond lower the mandatory retirement age for state Supreme Court justices... from 75 to 54," a plan that, if seen through, would force out every justice currently sitting on the state Supreme Court. Afterwards, they conceivably would use their power to "then fill vacancies on the court with sympathetic Democratic lawyers."

Let us violate the clear wording of our state constitution or else we will take the also-unconstitutional step of declaring 54-year-olds to be too elderly to work.

Unfortunately for Democrats, the brakes have been slammed on the various plots they were cooking up by none other than Virginia State Senate Majority Leader Scott Surovell (D-Fairfax), according to reporting from the Virginia Scope's Brandon Jarvis:

It is not happening

Surovell, the top Democrat in the state Senate, told Virginia Scope Monday morning that these drastic measures will not be taken.

Surovell said that the time restrictions at the Department of Elections make the notion impractical.

He also said forcing the retirement of Supreme Court justices would be extreme, and he wants to work within the existing legal system when fighting against Republicans.

Speaker of the House Don Scott, D-Portsmouth, has not responded to a request for comment.

The timing issue is that all changes to congressional voting must be finalized by May 12 -- tomorrow. So they would have to implement this unconstitutional mass-firing, stock the court with seven compliant communists, reconsider the previous ruling, and issue a new communist ruling in 24 hours.

Even attempting to fire the judges by this method seems to violate the constitution:

Ed Whelan @EdWhelanEPPC

The Virginia constitution provides one means for removing judges: impeachment by the House of Delegates, followed by conviction by 2/3 of the Senate. The idea that the Virginia legislature could remove state supreme court justices by lowering the mandatory retirement age and applying that lower retirement age to *existing* justices is bonkers. And a majority (perhaps all) of the Virginia supreme court justices would rule that such a measure violates the state constitution.

Be Back Soon

—Disinformation Expert Ace

I'm at the doctor's. Not fun!

Thanks to @coloradoalex.

I'm not really at the doctor's. I just wanted a little more time before the first real post.

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MORNING RANT - The War on Labor Expense: There Never Was a Truck Driver Shortage

—Buck Throckmorton

Those who seek to flood this country with inexpensive, non-citizen labor like to claim that this is necessary due to a shortage of Americans that can or will do the job here in the United States. This has certainly been the case regarding truck drivers.

But there never actually was a truck driver shortage. There has been a shortage of professional truck drivers who will work for the compensation of unskilled labor. Bringing in foreign indentured servants as truck drivers was an awful way to avoid paying market wages for skilled labor.

It somehow became an accepted fact in the business community that one of the industries suffering from a labor shortage was truck driving. This was puzzling, because driving a truck has always been a great opportunity for Americans to earn a middle-class wage and provide for their families, without needing to pursue the college route or go to a highly technical trade school. But that is not to minimize the professional skill and training necessary to be an over-the-road truck driver. It requires its own schooling, technical skills, and a professional demeanor to handle the various challenges of a job that is often very stressful. It is the farthest thing from an entry-level job or a position that requires unskilled labor.

Unfortunately, there is a growing intolerance of any labor expense in some business circles, which makes cheap foreign labor look attractive. In one of those bizarre, horseshoe-shaped political alliances, the American left is in alignment with those who seek to eliminate career-wage, blue-collar jobs in this country. For the left, it’s due to their animus toward heritage Americans, especially those of the “deplorable” working class.

In recent years, while some of us were barely paying attention, our highways suddenly became overrun with untrained, non-English-speaking foreigners who were effectively the property of the Asian “body shops” and the European crime gangs that were trafficking them into the U.S.

Fortunately, the Trump administration is cleaning up this mess and targeting non-qualified and non-domiciled CDLs (commercial drivers licenses), as well as the companies that employ and control them. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is doing great work.

Paying the market wage for skilled labor among a nation’s citizens is not antithetical to capitalism. Just the opposite. It is a fundamental input into the pricing of goods in a free market. Adam Smith, the “Father of Capitalism” was unambiguous in his contempt for the evil institution of slavery as a means to avoid paying for labor. He also understood the futility of expecting the same labor quality from human chattel compared to the quality of work from free people who willingly trade their labor for compensation in a competitive labor market. The chaos and carnage on our nation’s highways from foreign truck drivers has borne this out.

Rather than a shortage of American truck drivers, there will be an abundance of them once the invisible hand of the free market is no longer distorted by the injection of unqualified, foreign labor trafficked into the cabs of America’s big rigs.

Jeffrey Carter Has My Endorsement for Nevada Treasurer

A reminder to readers/voters in Nevada, a friend of the blog, Jeffrey Carter, is running for state Treasurer in the Republican primary. He has my endorsement and he deserves your vote. Early voting starts on May 23 for the June 9 primary.

There are a great many reasons to vote for Jeff, including his financial acumen. But the thing to know is that he is one of us, an out and proud, Trump-supporting conservative who was reading Ace of Spades long before he thought about running for office. He cut his teeth in the Chicago Commodities Exchange, and then ventured into the world of venture capital, never apologizing for or hiding his conservatism nor his support for Donald Trump. (Carter writes the widely linked political site “Points & Figures.”)

While I would endorse Jeffrey Carter, who is a friend of mine, irrespective of the quality of his opponent, Jeff is the clear choice in this race. His opponent, Drew Johnson, is a serial candidate who has name recognition from the races he has lost. The Carter campaign has a link discussing various ethical imbroglios involving Mr. Johnson, but all I need to know is that Drew Johnson is a fringe libertarian who admires Thomas Massie. When Mr. Johnson ran for Congress (a race he lost) he promised to provide Massie a 2nd Republican vote when Massie is working to undermine President Trump.

This is from the Nevada Independent, after Drew Johnson unexpectedly won the 2024 GOP nomination for a Nevada congressional seat:

True to libertarian form, [Drew Johnson] said the current members of Congress who impress him the most are Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), two libertarians who frequently find themselves as the lone "no" vote on bills that every other member supports,

That skepticism of his own party has frequently extended to Trump. In posts from his now locked personal account on X, Johnson called Trump a "socialist" during the 2016 race, called his presidency an "embarrassment" in 2020 over a federal execution during the lame-duck period and said Joe Biden's 2020 victory was "an endorsement of humanity, restraint & kindness."

For Nevadans, Jeffrey Carter is the best candidate to be Nevada’s next Treasurer.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]