Tuesday Cafe
—Disinformation Expert Ace
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day
@apodDec 25, 2023
Cathedral, Mountain, Moon
Image Credit & Copyright: Valerio MinatoExplanation: Single shots like this require planning. The first step is to realize that such an amazing triple-alignment actually takes place. The second step is to find the best location to photograph it. But it was the third step: being there at exactly the right time -- and when the sky was clear -- that was the hardest. Five times over six years the photographer tried and found bad weather. Finally, just ten days ago, the weather was perfect, and a photographic dream was realized. Taken in Piemonte, Italy, the cathedral in the foreground is the Basilica of Superga, the mountain in the middle is Monviso, and, well, you know which moon is in the background. Here, even though the setting Moon was captured in a crescent phase, the exposure was long enough for doubly reflected Earthlight, called the da Vinci glow, to illuminate the entire top of the Moon.
Sheep knocks on the door every day to play with cat friend.
Cats will always let you know that your attempts to please them are hopelessly inadequate.
Cat decides to change the decor.
Double tornado touchdown.
Senior dog is adopted after spending 700 days in the shelter.
Soaking your baby elephant, if you know what I mean.
Japanese zoo wants the lions to know what will happen if they try to escape.
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Quick Hits
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The United Nations reported Tuesday that at least 47 people were killed and 50 others were kidnapped in a violent gang attack near Haiti's capital of Port-au-Prince this week.The incident took place Sunday in Kenscoff, a commune located near the nation's capital. The massacre included the execution of 22 people who were found in a church compound. It is believed to be one of the deadliest attacks in Haiti in recent years.
"The relentless gang attacks on communities and the loss of lives underscore the alarming security conditions in Haiti and reinforce the urgent need to intensify Haitian and international security efforts to counter gangs," a spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Antonio Gutteres said in a statement.
WWII did something to Germany that can't be fixed.
A randy German councilmember known as the country's "craziest councilor" has proposed throwing sex parties at city hall as part of an effort to turn the burg into a "swingers' paradise."Julian Ferrat, 35, who holds office in the industrial city of Mannheim as part of the liberal Die Mannheimer party, wants to see the city transformed into a haven for indiscriminate group sex.
Ferrat, who has been known to frequent nudist resorts and pose for bizarre photoshoots while barely covered, unveiled the X-rated scheme at a recent meeting of the governing body, which is ruled by the conservative Christian Democratic Union.
"Group sex with city council members would be the ultimate in closeness with the citizens," he said, noting there are no laws on the books prohibiting swingers' parties at city hall.
"Ja!" posted a commenter calling himself Sweric Alwell.
Here's a pic of this German swinger. This is for The Ladies:
New Nathan Fielder series drops, Nathan for Sex.
They claim they're women now, you see.
One guy complains that he's not allowed to use a private room for hair removal, but can only use the hair removal equipment in his cell, which allows people to see his "maturing female body."
Three depraved criminals housed in a Washington state prison are suing the Department of Corrections for human rights violations after they say they were deprived of adequate "gender affirming" care and treatment. Reduxx can name the inmates involved in the suit as Michael R. Caldwell, who raped two children, Hunter S. Christian, who raped multiple dogs, and Andrew S. Kennedy, who murdered an infant.In the men's original 324-page complaint, which was filed in December of 2025, the three men separately outline their grievances against the state's Department of Corrections, and attempt to leverage the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to make their case that the denial of "gender affirming" care and treatment is unlawful, using a recent precedent set by Autumn Cordellione, another transgender inmate convicted of murdering a baby who successfully argued that the state of Indiana should have to pay for his "gender affirming" care.
The complaint, obtained by Reduxx, is opened by Caldwell, who now goes by the name Skeggi Hildof Katrinssonr or "Hildi." Caldwell was convicted in 2014 of raping two young girls trusted to his care, and was handed a 26.5 year sentence for the crimes. During the trial, it was revealed that he had initially blamed one of the children for seducing him and provoking the sexual abuse.
In his list of complaints, Caldwell reveals that his facility has a personal laser hair removal device for transgender inmates to use, and that the inmates were allowed to use the device in a private room within the medical clinic once or twice per week. But in 2024, the clinic discontinued access to the private room, and told transgender inmates they would have to use the device in their own cell. Caldwell deems this unacceptable, writing: "My cell door has a 34×34 [inch] window where any male inmate or officer can see inside my cell and watch me use the device on my maturing female body."
Caldwell refers to this lack of privacy as "sex discrimination," and says his proposed remedy -- which was to use the device in the shower area -- was rejected or ignored.
Caldwell goes on to claim that not being able to use the device in a private area constitutes the Department of Corrections delaying or depriving him of "prescribed medical treatment," emphasizing that his "gender dysphoria" is impacting his mental health and ability to perform his daily errands.
"I seclude myself from having to associate with anyone," Caldwell complains. "My mental health has regressed, elevating anxiety, depression, skipping meal times, no appetite, becoming overwhelmed in my daily activities where I at times cry ... The Defendants expect me to consent to relinquish my right to privacy. I will not consent to any relinquishment of my Fundamental Rights."
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The complaint continues with the declaration of Hunter S. Christian, who changed his name to Szeth Aslan Magnus. Christian identifies as "non-binary" and "intersex," and declares he/him and they/them pronouns in the document.
Christian was arrested in 2018 on charges related to bestiality and possessing child sexual abuse material. Christian raped at least three dogs, including a Rottweiler, an older Chihuahua mix, and a black Labrador. He filmed the sexual acts and was found in possession of the videos, along with depictions of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct. In 2019, he was convicted on multiple felony charges, including 1st Degree Animal Cruelty With Sexual Motivation.
This guy's complaint? He says he wants Minoxidil to grow his hair back, which he needs as a "non-binary person," and not just as a bald dude who wants taxpayers to pay for cosmetic treatments.
Oh and he also wants testosterone, paid for by taxpayers.
Join the club.
Weird that a "non-binary" is claiming his "non-binary" status to demand two things that regular ol' heterosexual men would also like.
In his grievances, Christian claims that he was denied access to Minoxidil treatments for head hair growth because he had no diagnosis for gender dysphoria and no desire to start feminizing hormone therapy. Christian also claims he was denied access to low-dose testosterone, which he wanted to begin to address his shrinking testicle size.Like with Caldwell, Christian also notes he was eventually given access to a personal laser hair removal device for his body, but refused to use it due to a lack of privacy in his cell.
"I have suffered not only setbacks in my prescribed treatment plan, but reversal of effects of the prior treatments, mental anguish, exacerbation of depression, anxiety, PTSD, and a loss of the forward momentum in maintaining the delicate balance between my masculine and feminine sides ..." Christian wrote in his declaration.
The baby-killer complains that doctors are treating him as a "cisgender man" -- which he is -- and also won't pay for an expensive test to determine if he's "intersex," which he isn't.
Kennedy ends his declaration with an appeal to his "divine rights."
"I see my curves and hips as a gift from the Goddesses and my masculine traits as a gift from the Gods. I was, from birth, granted the boon of seeing feminine and masculine within myself, yet too blind and misled to truly see them," Kennedy writes.
From Kennedy's declaration.
I think a visit from 6-10 good old boys armed with sacks filled with soda cans can render these monsters the "gender-affirming care" they deserve.
Noted "conservative" Tuq'r Qarlson joins the left in elevating "fairness" and "equality" -- everyone getting an equal reward no matter what their contributions -- as the highest of all political imperatives.
Tuq'r Qarlson knows that actual conservatives are rejecting him so there is no hope for his Nazification project except if he can make a deal with the Socialist-Islamist coalition. So he's adjusting all of his previous positions to accommodate his new political allies.
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Poll Claims That Le Pen Would Win the Second Round of the Presidential Election Against All Likely Opponents
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The French vote in two "tours," or turns, the first featuring all qualified candidates, the second being a runoff of the top two vote finishers (and sometimes three, I don't know what the cutoff is, maybe if you get more than 25% you go to the runoff).
The bane of National Rally has been this second tour. In the second tour, everyone, including the supposedly right-leaning Republicains, votes for whoever is running against the NR candidate, even if it's a communist.
So we've seen repeated cases of NR candidates being in first place in the first tour and then being defeated in the second.
A new poll claims that Marine Le Pen would actually command a majority of votes in a second tour run-off against her likely opponents.
According to a survey by Toluna-Harris, a market research firm, Le Pen is projected to win the second round of the 2027 presidential election against all likely opponents....
According to the survey, Le Pen is favored over the far-left Jean-Luc Mélenchon (68 percent versus 32 percent). Le Pen is also favored over so-called centrists Édouard Philippe (55 percent versus 45 percent) and Gabriel Attal (57 percent versus 43 percent).
The poll finds she would be the top vote-getter in the first tour, which isn't surprising, as NR candidates often are. It's the second tour that gets them.
This seems to confirm a poll from June, which also sees Le Pen winning the second tour -- although just barely so, if she's competing against a "centrist" candidate.
Back in July, a survey conducted by the French Institute of Public Opinion (IFOP) showed Le Pen beating Attal (54 percent vs 46 percent), Philippe (55 percent vs 45 percent), and Mélenchon (70 percent vs 30 percent) in the second round. The same survey also showed that Le Pen would receive roughly a third of the vote (36 percent). If she faces a centrist candidate in the second round, the survey projected that Le Pen would unite 50 percent of the right-leaning vote. If up against Mélenchon, Le Pen would unite 90 percent of the right-leaning vote.
I don't understand why they're saying she would "unite 50 percent of the right-leaning vote." I'm assuming that is mis-worded and they mean she would unite enough of the right-leaning vote to secure 50% of all votes.
Correction: No I guess I'm wrong, because they say she'd get 90% of the "right-leaning vote" against the communist Melanchon. But then I don't know why this is worth mentioning: Getting 50% of the "right leaning" vote is 1, not all that hard, and 2, something that happens as you lose the election, because getting 50% of the right-leaning vote would mean that you're getting around 20-30% of the total vote.
I guess she is getting a fair amount of left-leaning voters, too. Yes, I keep forgetting, Le Pen is attempting to forge an anti-immigrant/socialist alliance. She's not really "right" by any standard, except as far as sovereignty.
Meanwhile, the Socialists of Spain are demanding that the EU give it welfare money to pay for the 70,000 invaders they let into Ceuta.
Spain has formally requested emergency funding from the European Union to address the migration situation in its North African enclave of Ceuta, weeks after tens of thousands of people surged across the border from Morocco.The European Commission said on Tuesday that it is closely monitoring the situation and remained "fully engaged at all levels" to ensure the security of the EU's external borders.
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Country Music Star and Actress Dolly Parton Dies at Age 80
—Disinformation Expert Ace
What did someone say of FDR? He had a third-rate mind but a first-rate temperament.
Dolly Parton could be said to have been a first-rate talent with a first-rate temperament. Every time you saw her, she was was happy and cheerful and grateful and even humble.
Washington Nearsider posted this quote:
"It costs a lot of money to look this cheap." - Dolly Parton
She was also pretty funny.
Her nephew and head of her personal security had been asked to handle the public side of her death years ago, and so makes that announcement now.
Country music legend Dolly Parton has died at 80.Her family announced the devastating news in a video posted to Instagram Tuesday.
"I am representing the Parton and Owens family today, announcing the passing of my Aunt Dolly Rebecca Parton Dean," a statement read by Dolly's nephew Bryan Seaver said.
"The sadness lays with us, not with Dolly. Dolly has lived in the light and is in the arms of Jesus," Seaver continued.
"Dolly also opened doors for generations of singers, songwriters, musicians and dreamers from every walk of life," he added. "By her example we believed that anything was possible. She never saw a door she couldn't open, and the doors she opened made and changed history."
"My family and I have shared a lifetime of beautiful memories with Dolly, but so have you. She has always been on your television, your record player, you CD, and on your phone playlist, becoming an extended part of your family, whether you liked it or not."
It remains unclear exactly what the country crooner died from, but last year she confided to fans that she had been suffering from health complications since the death of her husband Carl Dean earlier in the year.
She had also cancelled a series of appearances and performances in the last year.
Known as the queen of country music, Dolly was famous for a huge voice which belted out hits like "Jolene," "Joshua," and "9 to 5."
She was also famous for her over-the-top looks, equally huge personality, charitable causes, and Dollywood theme park in her home state of Tennessee.
What do you think? Post a comment.
The superstar died over a year after her beloved husband, Carl Dean, who passed on March 3, 2025.
Dolly was born in 1946 into a rural household with 10 siblings and no running water, saying over the years that she grew up "dirt poor" and had to scrape by with her family.
But despite those struggles Dolly's mother encouraged her apparent musical talents -- by 5 she'd written her first song, by 10 she was singing on local radio shows and at just 13 years old she made her first appearance on the legendary live Grand Ole Opry radio performance in Nashville.
I did not know that.
That's where she met the likes of Johnny Cash and Porter Wagoner, two stars who she would work with throughout her career as she shot to super stardom.
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Despite those successes Dolly drove herself hard -- sometimes sleeping in cars and bathing in gas station sinks as she raced across the country from gig to gig for growing fanbase.
"My bedroom was the backseat and [my Uncle Bill Owens'] was the front seat," Dolly said during a 2018 appearance on "Shine On With Reese." "I'd wash my hair in the filling station bathrooms and put makeup on in the side mirror of the car, and that was just how you did it."
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Supreme Court Blesses Trump's Mail-In Ballot Executive Orders by Vote of 6 to 3
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Standing, baby.
The procedural bar of standing -- the requirement that a litigant have an actual and particular legal interest in a case before allowing him to press sue -- giveth.
And it also taketh away.
Here, it giveth. It giveth good and hard.
One America News @OANNSupreme Court Sides With Trump Admin on Mail-In Ballot Restrictions
The Supreme Court has lifted an injunction blocking President Trump's election integrity order in 23 states, clearing the way for new restrictions on mail-in ballots ahead of the midterms.
Under the order, USPS can check its distribution of mail-in ballots against a DHS-maintained list of citizens. The DOJ and USPS say they will move to implement the changes immediately.
Trump scores Supreme Court win on mail-in voting restrictions before midterms
The Supreme Court allowed the Trump admin to enforce revised mail-ballot restrictions
In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court handed the Trump administration a victory on Monday, allowing it to enforce President Donald Trump's "election integrity" executive order restricting mail-in voting ahead of the November midterms.The high court lifted an injunction that had blocked the order in 23 states that challenged it after the administration appealed in July.
The U.S. Postal Service and Justice Department said they would immediately implement the revised mail-ballot restrictions after the ruling.
Most immediately, the ruling clears the path for the U.S. Postal Service to check its distribution of mail-in ballots against a list of citizens maintained by the Department of Homeland Security. But it's also a significant political victory for the Trump administration as it has advocated against the widespread use of mail-in-voting, citing what it believes is a heightened vulnerability to tampering and voter fraud.
Most recently, Trump slammed what he called a suspiciously high volume of mail-in-ballots cast for [Nythia] Raman in the 2026 LA mayoral race primaries.
"You know, they don't have voting booths; everything's by mail. I don't think a Republican can win in California unless you pass the Save America Act," Trump told Fox News, referring to GOP legislation to narrow the scope of mail-in voting and voter-ID requirements.
"They're going to have to get rid of mail-in voting."
Like many onlooking conservatives, Trump pointed out that, after election night, the vast majority of Democratic votes had been for Nithya Raman, creating a delayed outpouring of support.
Fox News Digital has not reviewed any particular case of election fraud tied to the LA mayoral race.
Even so, Trump's original executive order looked to eliminate any ambiguity. Titled "Preserving and protecting the integrity of American elections," it directed federal agencies to compile citizenship-based lists of eligible voters and ordered the U.S. Postal Service to deliver mail-in ballots only to people appearing on those approved lists."Several Federal laws, including 18 U.S.C. 1015 and 611, prohibit foreign nationals from registering to vote or voting in Federal elections. Yet States fail adequately to vet voters' citizenship, and, in recent years, the Department of Justice has failed to prioritize and devote sufficient resources for enforcement of these provisions," the executive order reads.
Where critics of the order saw a federal effort to dictate the terms of state-run elections, the court on Monday sided with the administration, stating that the way the executive order was made put requirements only on federal agencies.
In essence, the order didn't put any new requirements on the states themselves.
"[It] directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to take appropriate action to create and distribute State Citizenship Lists. This provision is an internal directive from the President to a subordinate. It imposes no obligations on the States, so they 'suffer no concrete harm from' it, and without concrete harm, there is no standing," the court wrote.
Obviously the three braindead woke women dissented.
AP's story is full of bias, obviously:
The decision leaves room for additional court challenges that could further slow Trump's order, and other similar cases have already been filed. The U.S. Postal Service laid out how it would implement the order last week, but time is running short to impose major changes. North Carolina is sending out ballots Sept. 4 overseas and to military voters, and other states will quickly follow suit in just a few weeks....
While the emergency order is not final, it does have the potential to create chaos around voting across the country, with Trump often questioning the integrity of elections and the nation's highest court again the possible arbiter of a political controversy.
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The three liberal-leaning justices publicly dissented, with Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson writing that the rule "lets another shoe drop in the Kafkaesque nightmare that our precedents have been steadily creating for certain plaintiffs who seek to bring election-related challenges."
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Mail balloting has long been a favorite target for Trump, who has claimed that it breeds fraud despite strong evidence to the contrary and his own use of the voting method.
Which "experts" did you consult? The same leftwing "experts" you always consult, right? Did you consult a single expert who believes that mail-in voting increases fraud, as it obviously does?
The leftwing media always claims that "experts" support its own leftwing biases. And yet the media never consults any other "experts" but the hand-picked lefties whose opinions they know in advance. That's why they call them. They know what they're going to say.
This is a racket that we need to address: The media is itself non-expert, but claims it can render expert opinions because it has consulted "experts" and is just relaying their opinion.
And yet, there are of course many experts who disagree.
But these are not cited.
Because the media has decided these experts are wrong.
But dinky-brained "journalists" went to three years of journalism school and have absolutely zero subject-matter expertise in any discipline. They are experts in nothing. This means, that in a dispute between experts, they are absolutely unqualified to determine the winner and loser. They don't know what the fuck they're talking about.
But in case after case, the media -- which tells you you must always rely on "experts" and must not "do your own research" -- does its own research and decides which experts are right and which are Lying Racists, despite the experts themselves having failed to make that conclusion.
They obviously did this with covid, in all disputes involving it, from masking to vaccine injury to the covid origin to the need to lock ourselves in our homes for a year. Some experts gave them the leftwing version of the story, and other experts disputed it -- but these know-nothing uneducated non-expert simpletons and fools decided Who the Real Experts Here Are and ruled -- WITHOUT EVIDENCE -- that all dissenters from this media-fabricated "consensus" were conspiracy theorists, frauds, and liars.
I'd really like to see more people challenging the non-experts of the media about their qualifications, or lack thereof, to settle disputes between actual experts. It's a very big question, especially today, as the media's favorite tactic for deciding the "truth" is to claim they know who The Real Experts Here Are and declare them to be in the right, based on nothing but their dinky, pathetic J-school degree.
Trump Links a Just the News Report Suggesting That Ilhan Omar is Being Investigated by ICE for Immigration Crimes
—Disinformation Expert Ace
As JJ mentioned in the morning briefing, Trump seemingly confirmed that there is an active probe into Ilhan "Omar's" immigration crimes.
Specifically, he shared this report from Just the News, which noted that ICE had refused a FOIA request for information about Ilhan Omar's immigration status, citing "enforcement proceedings."
That is: We do not discuss pending investigations.
ICE refuses to disclose records on Ilhan Omar fraud probe, cites ongoing 'enforcement proceedings'
It's All in the Family: The agency claims that releasing documents related to an investigation into the lawmaker's alleged immigration fraud would, under the law, interfere with "enforcement proceedings."
The federal government is refusing to turn over records related to an investigation conducted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement into allegations of immigration fraud by Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., citing a legal exemption for ongoing investigations.Just the News filed a Freedom of Information Act request for the records in January, seeking the records pertaining to any investigations conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement into the allegations that Rep. Omar, who represents Minnesota's 5th Congressional District, married a relative in order to help him remain in the country.
Omar has denied the allegations. No court records, DNA evidence, or other documentary proof has ever substantiated that Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, Omar's legal husband from 2009--2017, was her biological brother.
"ICE has determined that the information you requested is being withheld in full pursuant to Title 5 U.S.C. § 552(b)(7)(A). Disclosure of any responsive records at this time could reasonably be expected to interfere with enforcement proceedings," ICE told Just the News in response to the FOIA in May.
The FOIA exemption cited by the agency "applies to records or information compiled for law enforcement purposes when their release could disrupt such proceedings," the reply reads.
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Earlier this year, Vice President JD Vance confirmed that the Justice Department was reviewing the allegations.
"I don't want to prejudge an investigation," Vance said. "It certainly seems like something fishy is there. If we think that there's a crime, we're going to prosecute that crime, and that's something the Department of Justice is looking at right now."
The allegation that Omar's second husband, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, is related to her, or even her brother, first surfaced during her 2016 election campaign for a seat in the Minnesota House of Representatives. At the same time, allegations emerged that when she married her second husband she was still married to her first.
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President Donald Trump has repeatedly invoked the claim that Omar "married her brother" in order to get him into the country, accusing her of committing immigration fraud.
"She married her brother in order to get in, right? She married her brother. Can you imagine if Donald Trump married his sister?" He also called for her removal, saying, "We ought to get her the hell out," Trump said at a December 2025 rally.
The National Pulse suggests there may be other grounds to denaturalize her:
The records may concern longstanding allegations that Omar's 2009 marriage, to a Somali man claimed by some to be her brother, was fraudulent and arranged to benefit his immigration status. It may also relate to the fact that she may have failed to disclose her family's role in allegedly committing war crimes in Somalia.
Hasan Piker: By Only Caring About Israel, Jews Are Increasing Antisemitism and Anti-Jewish Violence, and They Deserve It
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Remember the very well-promoted "Islamic backlash"? We were told that the worst possible thing that could possibly be would be for people to take their anger about Islamic terrorism -- and Muslim support for Islamic terrorism -- out on Muslim civilians.
Norm MacDonald parodied this insane claim by telling us all what really terrifies him:
He told this joke to Margaret Cho, who, being an idiot, thought he was serious and virtuously agreed.
Leftists actually echoed MacDonald's dark sarcasm in earnest. After the mass slaughter of Jews by Muslims at Bondi Beach in Australia, lefties worried about the real horror -- but what if people retaliate against Muslims?
Nick Robinson @bbcnickrobinsonThe news from Bondi beach is grim.
For many it will have terrible echoes of the massacres on October 7th.
For Jews living here it will feel painfully close to the murders at a synagogue in Manchester.
It is a reminder - if one was needed - that Jews all over the world now live in fear.
If you struggle to understand that fear - you may not have any Jewish family or friends as it is a very small community - I urge you to think of the impact on the Muslim and, indeed, the wider community of the Christchurch mosque attack in New Zealand.
Tonight Jews everywhere will light candles to mark the start of the festival of lights - Hanukkah. Few will feel able to celebrate. Many will be worrying about what might happen next.
After the murder of Charlie Kirk, lefties worried about the real crime, which would be the hypothetical, possible postulated retaliation by rightwingers against leftwingers:
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The Morning Rant
—CBD
A college education used to be a useful thing. At its most basic, it confirmed that the holder of a degree was minimally capable of some complex thinking, and had a basic understanding of history and literature and science and mathematics. It also indicated some skill at planning and prioritizing and communication, in particular in writing.
Fast forward a few generations and the college education of many Americans has become a sad and cruel joke. Academia has morphed into a miasma of Woke leftism that indoctrinates its students into a progressive bubble of post-modern thought. The world is viewed as a capitalist, colonial, patriarchal zero-sum game, and the goal is to destroy it. Education has become the tool to reach that objective, and real learning has been discarded in favor of that indoctrination.
So students emerge with nothing more than massive debt and a skill-set that is useless in the real world. Add in Artificial Intelligence, which can do some of the basic tasks that new employees are often given, and a college education may be going the way of the dodo.
But wiring a new house can't be done with AI, and a degree in Low Country Lesbian Verse of the 17th Century doesn't help much when installing a 200 Amp service.
American students ditch college for trade school as enrollment rises 20% since 2020
Over the next 15 years, the enrollment rates in traditional higher education are set to decline by 15 percent, the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education has predicted. Some of that has to do with falling birth rates, as fewer Americans will be turning 18 in the coming years. Some have decided to go into the trades as the costs of higher education have increased more and more over the last several decades.
You don't need a college degree to run an excavator, but you do need real skill. Fixing HVAC is a real skill that is in demand, and that demand will never go away! Plumbing a new office park is a non-starter for AI, but not for 20-year-old apprentices with no debt. Making a double espresso with a cute pattern in the foam is a luxury that as labor costs rise will be replaced by automation.
Real education can be had with some curiosity and a library card. Indoctrination and huge debt can be had at any number of failing universities across the country, but more and more people are figuring out that it is nothing more than a scam. When graduates leave campus unable to compose a readable email or balance a check book, but are still on the hook for tens of thousands of dollars for their useless degrees, something has to change!
If I had a high school senior about to go out into the real world, the last thing on earth I would suggest is college, unless he is dead-set on medicine or engineering or one of the few professions that require higher education. Learning to weld may sound like a step down, but when he is debt-free and making $75k right out of trade school, while his friends are scrambling for entry-level jobs that don't even pay enough for their student loans, that step down might be the smartest thing he ever did!
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The Morning Report — 8/ 25 /26
—J.J. Sefton
Good morning kids. Well let's start off with some encouraging if not actual good news for a change. First up, we go to the immigration front which President Trump has been a stalwart champion on.
The Trump administration is preparing to revoke the business and tourism visas of up to 200,000 foreigners who have applied for or are currently seeking asylum status in the United States. If it happens, the move would be the largest single mass revocation of visas in U.S. history and would likely face legal challenges.
The states sued too early. The states and DC’s claims are way too speculative . . . The Supreme Court has paused a lower court’s ruling that blocked parts of President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting mail-in ballots with a 6-3 vote. This ruling does not have anything to do with the new USPS mail-ballot rules. Another injunction still blocks those rules. The majority agreed that the administration will likely “succeed on the merits of its jurisdictional argument, that the injunction is causing it irreparable harm, and that the equities do not favor leaving the injunction in place while the Government’s appeal is pending.”
Obviously mail-in ballots go hand-in-hand with open borders insofar as greasing the wheels as it were of Democrats' patented election-rigging. You don't necessarily need millions of illegal alien wetbacks to actually cast physical ballots when your flunkies control the voter rolls and election process beginning to end, along with a postal service that will deliver ballots to anyone anywhere.
And so, we'll just have to wait and see how all this plays out as the midterms draw nearer.
On top of all that, there's this all-too-delicious to contemplate story.
President Donald J. Trump appeared to confirm on Sunday that federal immigration authorities are examining Representative Ilhan Omar‘s (D-MN) immigration history, sharing a report on Truth Social about U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) refusing to release records related to its investigation into her by citing a federal exemption for materials that could interfere with active enforcement proceedings... The FOIA request rejection will intensify public scrutiny of Omar and raise fresh questions about whether the Trump administration is potentially pursuing immigration enforcement action against a sitting member of Congress.
This evil grifting slag and her entire brood of mutants deserve immediate ejection from this country whom they hate with every fiber of their being. That they were even allowed entry and citizenship in the first place is a stain on our heritage and history, given the repulsive and criminal deception she engaged in to gain the tremendous privilege of American citizenship in the first place.
Sadly, the odds of her and her brood being given the boot are slim and none given her pigmentation, Islamic background and of course her all important status as a Democrat. Still, perhaps the exposure this garners will at least in some small way have a salutary effect.
Who knows, perhaps that may even be happening beneath the surface.
Something fascinating is going on below the surface: Black voters are loudly rejecting socialism. . . The trouble is that DSA acolytes tend to be lily-white and overeducated. A 2021 survey found that 85% were white and 80% had college degrees. Those demographics don’t work in most districts.. . Meanwhile, between 2020 and 2025, the number of black voters who identify with the Democratic Party has dropped by 10 points. For years, they were the Dems’ most reliable voting bloc; now they’re walking away. Black voters are voting with their feet.
CAIR, which was designated an unindicted coconspirator of a Hamas front group in 2008, has sought to distance itself from the Unity & Justice Fund and claims that it neither created nor funded the super PAC."CAIR has never donated any funds to any political campaigns, PACS, or SuperPACS, nor has CAIR established any PACS, nor has CAIR ever endorsed any candidates," said CAIR deputy executive director Edward Mitchell. "Doing so would be illegal."
That is true by a narrow legal definition. But CAIR two years ago openly created CAIR Action, which immediately established the Unity & Justice Fund. CAIR and CAIR Action share board members and have shared the same street address in the past.
Death to CAIR...
Have a good day,
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- The FOIA request rejection will intensify public scrutiny of Omar and raise fresh questions about whether the Trump administration is potentially pursuing immigration enforcement action against a sitting member of Congress.
Trump Signals There is an Active ICE Probe Into BRO-FO Omar.
- The Democrats’ ‘Decoy Dan’ plot to oust Sen. Dan Sullivan would be hilarious if it weren’t actually happening.
The Senate Race In Alaska Is What A Rigged Election Looks Like
- I believe that, as long as Trump remains alive, we will eventually see a revelation of serious Chinese involvement in our nation's various institutions: political, educational, and everything else we can think of. The communists are everywhere. Be ready.
Tinfoil Tuesday: Which Politicians AREN'T Chinese Assets?
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Daily Tech News 25 August 2026
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- Why Aliexpress is muting your music. (The Register)
Because they're taking your fingerprints using inaudible sonar.
Really.
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Monday Night ONT - August 24, 2026 [TRex]
—Open Blogger
Good evening Horde. The time has come for Monday shenanigans. The bar is open and the refrigerator has been freshly re-stocked with Orange Soda.
Welcome to the Monday night ONT which means vintage overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and join the fun. Good will offerings of amusing puns are encouraged. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors. Pants are optional. This ONT is a Tucker, Candace, Megyn, and Bill Kristol free zone. Fauci is fair game.
Horde prayers this evening for all who mourn.
[Top photo: Crazy Ann's Fireworks, Vonore, Tennessee circa 1984 - there is no evidence that Crazy Ann's is still in business. RIP Crazy Ann's Fireworks.]
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My Main Is a 40th Level Trump Cafe
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Image of the moon transiting the earth,
taken by the DISCOVR satellite from a
million miles away
Supposedly that's real. NASA says so. But then, they faked the moon landing, so grain of salt.
Whoops on the timing. I thought I posted this.
Video of an 1880 AD grist mill on Prince Edward Island. The images are nice but I'm mostly linking it because finally, at age Nearly 29, I bothered to look up the actual meaning of "grist." It means (drum roll): "grain to be milled."
Okay so that's not the biggest surprise in the world but it's nice to have it all out in black and white.
Baby elephant hiding under mama's skirts.
A bear, and her cubs, are out-of-control as usual, this time using a family's pool as they please.
Abandoned premature foal, too weak to stand, is nursed into being a healthy boy.
Mama elephant wants to eat grass but baby elephant won't stop playing with her food.
Scared Golden retriever is afraid of everything but likes babies enough to become a fuzzy nana.
Baby learns head-butting from the best.
This baby is also learning how to baby goat.
Why do people say they don't like cats?
Cat and dog rocking out to Yes.
These woke sons-of-bastards are trying to take away our Elemenohpee.
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Nike's Stock Price Falls to Its Lowest Level in 12 Years
—Disinformation Expert Ace
I used to buy Nikes exclusively. I knew my size in them and they fit right. No "in between sizes" for me.
And then they started the unending woke bullshit.
Dropped them like a bad habit. And it turns out that Asics and New Balance also fit me right. Oh, and also, that all of the innovations that Nike used to brag about like waffle soles and gel heel-cushions was now absolutely bog-standard sneaker tech that everyone utilized.
I wouldn't have discovered that, but Nike just kept pushing and pushing and letting me know they didn't want my patronage. So I found out that other companies made equivalents of Nikes but without all the fucking shitty attitude.
Seems like a lot of people had the same feeling.
From Colin Kaepernick to Dylan Mulvaney, Nike's decade of left-wing activism has finally caught up to it
Nike shoes and apparel once dominated cultural relevance, but the company's stock is now at a 12-year low
Nike spent much of the past decade making left-wing politics part of its brand and the company's stock hit a 12-year low this week.Before we get into that, we should acknowledge that the "social justice" messaging isn't the only reason the company is struggling. Nike is losing ground to newer competitors, its products haven't created the same excitement and consumers aren't exactly eager to pay more for sneakers right now.
Still, it's hard not to notice what Nike has been doing while its business has sputtered: picking fights over politics, race, patriotism, transgenderism and DEI.
From Colin Kaepernick to the Betsy Ross flag, Dylan Mulvaney and a study involving "transgender" youth athletes that Nike quietly backed away from after OutKick exposed it, the company has built an impressive record of left-wing corporate activism.In February 2026, it added an EEOC investigation into alleged race discrimination against white employees and job applicants to the list.
Nike wanted to be more than a shoe company. Mission accomplished.
Nike made its choice clear in 2018, when it put former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick at the center of its 30th-anniversary "Just Do It" campaign.
Kaepernick, of course, became a national political figure after sitting, and later kneeling, during the national anthem because he said he refused to show pride in a flag for a country that "oppresses black people and people of color."
He specifically cited "police brutality" and later wore socks to an NFL practice depicting police officers as pigs and showed support for Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.
Nike decided he was the perfect guy to launch a campaign with the slogan, "Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything."
At that point, Nike wasn't simply sponsoring a former NFL quarterback. It was elevating the most divisive figure in American sports at the time and daring consumers to take a side.
Some did. Nike received plenty of backlash, including videos of customers burning products or cutting the swooshes off their socks. But the company also received glowing coverage from corporate-media types who loved the idea of a massive American brand embracing extreme left-wing political messaging.
Nike didn't back away from the Kaepernick experiment, either.
The following summer, it pulled a Fourth of July-themed Air Max sneaker featuring the Betsy Ross flag after Kaepernick reportedly objected to the design. Nike said it halted distribution because of concerns the shoe could "unintentionally offend."
Think about that for a second. A company built around American athletes decided that a sneaker featuring the flag associated with the country's founding was too offensive to sell around Independence Day.
That was just the start, and I think I was still buying Nikes when this crap was going on. I wasn't happy about it, but whatever, I knew my size in Nike.
And then they started with the BLM shit. That's when I was done.
And then, of course, came Dylan Mulvaney.
This is where Nike's activism went from poor marketing tactics to something much more serious.In April 2025, OutKick reported that evidence indicated Nike had helped fund a study involving "transgender" youth athletes as young as 12. The proposed research was designed to track athletic and physiological changes among young people undergoing so-called "gender-affirming care."
Researchers connected to the project said publicly that Nike had provided funding. Boston Children's Hospital magazine later described the research as being supported, in part, by Nike.
Nike initially would not answer OutKick's repeated questions. A company executive later said on background that the study "was never initialized" and was "not moving forward."
Then, trans-identifying researcher Joanna Harper, a male, said Nike had "pulled out" after "haters got wind of it."
So, which was it? Was the study never initialized, as Nike claimed? Or did Nike pull out after public pressure, as one of its researchers claimed?
Nike has never provided a clear public explanation that resolves that contradiction.
I didn't even know about that. (Or, if I knew, my nearly-29-year-old brain forgot about it.)
Nike's stock problems go well beyond its aggressive political messaging. But the company has spent years building a brand that often seemed more interested in impressing left-wing activists than connecting with consumers in middle America.
Corporate leftists defend turning their companies into leftwing propaganda outfits -- despite the fact that this is not the mission of the company, and not what shareholders buy stock for -- by claiming that this kind of leftwing political "goodwill" is a genuine intangible asset that justifies ignoring the company's chartered mission to pursue.
This has always been a lie. It has always been the case that they knew they were destroying shareholder value -- they just decided it was worth it to destroy shareholder value to push their personal fucked-up ideologies.
Now they're seeing proof -- they always knew this, but the proof makes it hard to defend against shareholder lawsuits -- that there's a lot of corporate badwill incurred in pushing an unpopular extremist ideology, too.
I don't think the shareholders alone should pay for the sins of the corporate officers. I sure wish there were some way to personally sue them for violating the corporate charter to become the Official Shoe of Antifa and BLM.
I guess the only penalty the ideologues will pay is losing out on future jobs -- but leftwing civilization-destroyers never pay that price, either. Communism, Inc. always has a safety-net job for them in a university or a leftwing taxpayer-grifting NGO.
Democrat Presidential Hopeful Gavin Newsom Signs "Stop Nick Shirley Act" Into Law to Strip Conservatives of Free Speech and Cover Up Democrat Fraud
—Disinformation Expert Ace
No media is complaining about a Democrat criminalizing actual journalism.
They believe only Credentialed Guild Members, vetted for WrongThink and BadFacts, should have the right to commit journalism.
Newsom, however, won't be around to officially field any First Amendment court challenges of Assembly Bill 2624. The law does not take effect until October 1, 2027, nearly ten months after the northern California Democrat has left office because of term limits.The bill expands the state's "Safe at Home" program to employees of nonprofits that purportedly help people navigating the U.S. immigration system.
What that could mean, critics say, is investigative reporters are banned from seeking to interview workers whose organizations are suspected of fraud.
Mia Bonta, the Almeda Democrat who introduced the bill back in February has rejected that interpretations, saying the law does not conflate legitimate journalism with the doxxing targeted by Safe at Home, the California Post reported.
"Our immigrant service providers are living in fear because of extremists looking to demonize the work that they do and the populations they serve," the assemblywoman said Saturday. "That is an intolerable consequence of the anti-immigrant rhetoric that exists right now."
The bill penalizes anyone who distributes or posts information or "images" of immigration workers it says "incites violence or threats" with penalties that range from $10,000 to $50,000 and sentences ranging from one year in jail to state prison time.
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Shirley, an independent journalist and YouTuber, has made viral videos following immigrant workers and accusing them of fraud, particularly incidences involving day nonprofits in the Somali community in metropolitan Minneapolis.
The young journalist has criticized AB 2624, alleging it was created only after he "exposed widespread fraud in immigrant communities" in California and Minnesota.
Shirley had traveled to San Diego following the viral success of videos he produced about Minnesota early in the year.
Nick shirley @nickshirleyyCalifornia has officially signed the "Stop Nick Shirley Act" (AB 2624) into law. This bill was created only after I exposed widespread fraud in immigrant communities across America, specifically in California's Medicaid, nonprofits and other welfare programs funded by our tax dollars.
These politicians need the fraud to continue and they sadly use immigrants to do so often. They fund nonprofits and NGOs with hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars every year for immigration services, including free healthcare and have now made "immigration support service providers" essentially a protected class in California.
For example, if I film a hospice or a "learing center" with no patients receiving millions through Medicaid and the owner gives me a paper saying I cannot publish the video, I cannot publish it. If I publish it to expose them and they claim it caused them "fear" or a third party threatens them, I face a minimum $4,000 civil fine plus the legal fees of the individual or group suing me.
This bill was created by the Attorney General's wife and co-sponsored by CHIRLA, a nonprofit that has received over $80,000,000 in taxpayer dollars for "immigrant support services." Do you understand how this works yet? When the fraud is exposed, they create new laws to protect the fraudsters and penalize those who expose it.
By signing this bill, the Governor and California politicians expose themselves as the corrupt politicians they are. This is not the end, the fight has just begun. More to come soon, this is far from over.
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Scott Bessent Announces He Is Tightening the Screws Not Just on Iran But On Its Trading Partners
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Bessent unveils 'Operation Economic Outcast' sanctions targeting Iranian regime
The measures, which the Treasury Secretary first teased last week, are designed to punish "enablers" of Iran that purchase its oil and facilitate financial flows.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced on Monday a new raft of sanctions targeting the Iranian regime dubbed "Operation Economic Outcast," which he compared to the historic D-Day landings during World War II."Iran now faces a very clear choice, with only two paths before them: complete global isolation and a subsistence economy, or a path back to normalcy with an opportunity to rejoin the global economy," Bessent told reporters at a 1:00 PM press conference.
These new measures are designed to ramp up pressure on Iran's "enablers," which Bessent has called out for purchasing Iran's petroleum products, allowing their financial systems and banks to facilitate transfers of Iranian funds, and allowing Iran's shadow fleet to transfer oil products in their territorial waters. Bessent and President Donald Trump indicated last week that the United States planned to shift to a comprehensive economic blockade of the Islamic Republic, hoping to strangle the regime by cutting off its economic lifelines.
"We are enforcing a zero leakage approach. There will be no minimal breathing space for the regime to rebuild its capacity to inflict terror against America and the world," the secretary said. "The final refuge of this regime is the mistaken conclusion of nations that still finance the Iranian threat in the hopes of evading it. It is no longer acceptable to operate in the gray spaces of this conflict. Countries cannot claim they are blind to enabling this activity."
The sanctions, Bessent said, are designed to target five of Iran's lifelines during the conflict: "digital assets, technology, gold, aviation, and shipping."
The Treasury Department will sanction "over 60 entities, individuals, and vessels" globally that officials believe enable Iran to purchase nuclear and missile technology, carry out cyber operations, and allow it to generate oil revenue.
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China has purchased the vast majority of Iranian oil for years, even while its exports are under international sanctions. Chinese banks and front companies help Iran with oil transactions to avoid the sanctions and operate ships in a shadow fleet to transport the sanctioned oil, according to the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. China has also sold Iran the technology and inputs required to construct its fleet of attack drones and missiles.
Lee Smith wonders if Bessent and Trump really mean it -- are they actually going to punish Turkey and China for trading with Iran?
Lee Smith @LeeSmithDC2h
It would be great if Trump admin targets Qatar, Pakistan, Turkey, Russia and especially China for Iran dealings. But since that's very unlikely, what's really happening here?
Trump is threatening an "Economic D-Day" and says Iran is collapsing.
On social media, Trump posted "Iran is completely collapsing" hours after US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, in a column for the Financial Times, declared that an "economic D-Day" had begun against Tehran and warned that any country that continued to enable the Islamic Republic would become a "global pariah".Bessent also claimed on X that the US had "dismantled Iran's military capabilities, destroyed nearly 100 percent of its military factories, and buried its nuclear programme".
Meanwhile, the US is escorting ships through the Strait of Hormuz and a fair amount of oil is flowing. Though Iranian attacks have definitely slowed the flow.
The U.S. military has quietly established a shipping corridor in and out of the Strait of Hormuz to transport millions of barrels of oil each day -- a notable success even as the broader war remains at a stalemate, two U.S. officials told Axios.Under the operation, which has been underway for the last several weeks, 15--20 tankers have entered and exited the strait each night through a southern channel along the coast of Oman.
About 10 million barrels of oil a day -- roughly half the pre-war volume -- are being transported out of the strait and injected into the global energy market, the officials said.Why it matters: The U.S.-led operation is mitigating one of the most painful aspects of the war: the disruption to oil supplies that sent crude prices soaring. While the amount of oil coming out of the strait is still below pre-war levels, it is making a discernible difference in global supplies, officials say.
If you wondered why the media was pushing the new PsyOp -- we can't have sailors stationed on aircraft carriers for months at a time, sailors didn't sign up for the Navy to spend months aboard warships! -- this is why. It's working, so the Communist-Islamist propaganda machine goes to work to convince Americans to just give up and let Iran have its nuclear bombs.
Here's CNN's efforts to aid and abet the Iranian terror regime. It's paylocked, so here's a digest:
A CNN report detailed severe supply shortages and daily hardships--including a lack of fresh food and milk--aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln during its record-breaking deployment in the Middle East.Deployment Hardships
Record Time at Sea: The ship spent over 250 consecutive days deployed without a port call, straining both the crew and supplies.
Supply Disruptions: Combat actions and regional supply chain damage in the Middle East forced lengthy detours for resupply.
Rations and Shortages: Crew members and their families reported limited food options, smaller portions, and a lack of basic items like fresh milk, soap, and toothpaste.
Official Response
Government Denials: President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth dismissed the reports of poor living conditions and food shortages as "fake news" or misrepresented.
Congressional Concern: Lawmakers pressed the Pentagon for answers regarding the crew's well-being and mental health support.
There are a few points here: Yes, spending 250 days at sea is a hardship. On the other hand, this is a war, and while I appreciate servicemen experience hardships during war, I can't say that not having fresh milk, just the powdered kind, is a hardship enough that we should take a $13 billion aircraft carrier out of the fight.
Also, so I never served in the military, but one thing I've picked up from movies, reading, and hearing veterans talk, is that military people complain about their conditions a lot. They have a fair amount to complain about, and complaining is their outlet. Complaining is a sport in the military, just like jerking off guys for $15 a man is a sport for garrett.
We've never changed war policy over complaints about not having fresh milk before.
CNN wants to institute this as a new National Imperative, because they're on the other side and always have been. Same as they used to track casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan when Bush was president and then immediately stopped tracking them with Captain Cocksucker became president.
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Enes Kantor Ejected from WNBA Game for Wearing a Shirt Defining Woman as an Adult Human Female; Angel Reece Freaks Out Over Another Green Dildo Attack
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Regarding the green dildoes:
The women melting down and claiming to be "assaulted" over seeing a fake penis in a public place are the exact same women telling little girls they shouldn't be bothered to see a real penis in the confined space of a changing room or spa.
Are they offended by the green dildoes? Given that 80-90% of the WNBA is lesbian, they could only be "offended" in a Crocodile Dundeean sense: "That's not a dildo. This is a dildo."
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Arbitration Board Says That Racist Grifter Karen Attiah Was Wrongly Fired for Making Up Fake Racist Quotes "by" Charlie Kirk and Celebrating His Murder; Hasan Piker Mocks Kirk's Murder in Hate Rally
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Karen Attiah is a degenerate, unqualified DEI hire formerly, and now presently, employed by the Washington Post to write the same three columns about racism, colonialism, "Islamaphobia" and sexism over and over again while hammering checks.
After she made up fake quotes by Charlie Kirk and used them as a predicate for celebrating his murder, the incoming less-leftwing management of the Washington Post fired her.
She sued, which invoked an arbitration over the firing. (Which was specified in her contract, it seems.)
The arbitrator decided that it's no big deal for a "journalist" to make up quotes and justify political assassination of conservatives and ordered her to be rehired and be paid for the year she had off.
An arbitrator has ordered the Washington Post to rehire Karen Attiah, the opinion columnist who was fired last September after she blasted Charlie Kirk as "a white man that espoused violence" the day of his brutal assassination.In a written decision Thursday, arbitrator Sarah Miller Espinosa said WaPo "did not have good and sufficient cause" to fire the scribe and "violated" its labor agreement with the controversial columnist.
Espinosa ordered the legacy newspaper to compensate Attiah with back pay and lost benefits.
"This decision confirms what we've said from the start: I was doing my job as an opinion journalist, and doing that job is not misconduct," Attiah told The Post in a statement, adding that she is "relieved to finally have that record set straight."
She added that she hopes her win "sends a message to journalists and media institutions everywhere that freedom of expression is always worth fighting for."
Really? Is conservatives' free speech worth fighting for?
If Scott Jennings glorifies violence against leftists, will you fight for his right to agitate for assassination while collecting a corporate check, too?
...The decision -- which is binding, according to WaPo's labor agreement -- caps off a yearlong battle after Attiah argued a slew of controversial social media posts she fired off the day of Kirk's shocking killing did not violate company policy.
On Sept. 10, 2025, Attiah wrote in a Bluesky post: "Part of what keeps America so violent is the insistence that people perform care, empty goodness and absolution for white men that espouse hatred and violence."
In another post that day, she wrote: "Refusing to tear my clothes and smear ashes on my face in performative mourning for a white man that espoused violence is ... not the same as violence."
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Wayne Connell, WaPo's chief HR officer, wrote that Attiah's Bluesky posts had violated the company's social media policies, harmed "the integrity of our organization" and potentially endangered "the physical safety of our staff."
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Attiah's case against the WaPo went to arbitration in June and included testimony from her, O'Neal and Connell. Attiah was represented by lawyers from Democracy Defenders Action, a nonprofit co-founded by lawyer Norman Eisen, and the Washington-Baltimore News Guild.
Norman Eisen is the guy behind the Infinite Lawfare against Trump.
Eisen, one of Attiah's lawyers, called the decision "a thunderous victory for Karen Attiah, an award-winning journalist fired for doing her job, over Bezos' Washington Post."
Am I allowed to justify violence against Normal Eisen or is that an offense worthy of cancellation? I assume it's the latter, right?
Meanwhile, Gay Islamist Race Hustler and assassination-agitator Hasan Piker is on some kind of gay tour and led his crowd in cheering the murder of Charlie Kirk.
We have seen protesters on the left around the country mocking the assassination of Charlie Kirk, even reenacting his murder. Hate traffickers like Jennifer Welch have even justified his assassination. It is all shocking and depressing, but none reached the level of Hasan Piker leading a huge crowd in mocking Kirk and his faith. Before he was murdered, Kirk debated Piker and called him a "socialist hypocrite." What is shocking is not the utter depravity and cruelty of Piker, but the ecstasy of the crowd in relishing the death of someone with opposing views. It is part of the conditioning in an "age of rage."In the video, Piker leads the crowd in the meme song "We Are Charlie Kirk" at a stop of his "Fear& LIVE" tour, including such lines as "We are Charlie Kirk, we carry the flame. We'll fight for the Gospel, we'll honor his name." His co-hosts and the crowd seem to be laughing with joy.
Joining him at this hatefest at the Golden Gate Theatre in San Francisco on August 21 were reportedly Will Neff, QTCinderella, and AustinShow.
Hasan is wearing his now-signature Mao jacket as the young crowd and his co-hosts laugh hysterically. It is the very essence of this movement to desensitize people, particularly young people, to violence and hate.
In Rage and the Republic, I wrote about this national ragefest. It allows people to hate completely and without thought to the humanity of those being hurt. What people will not admit is that they like it. Rage is addictive, and it is contagious. Just look at the crowd in San Francisco, and you will see the addictive quality of uncut, undiluted hate:
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Morocco: Now That We've Sent Criminals to Invade Your Country, We Are Prepared to Negotiate Your Surrender of the Conquered Territory
—Disinformation Expert Ace
NEXTA @nexta_tvMorocco has made territorial claims against Spain
Moroccan Justice Minister Abdellatif Ouahbi said Rabat maintains "historical and geographical rights" to the cities of Ceuta and Melilla and wants to create a special mechanism with Madrid for negotiations.
He described their incorporation into the kingdom as Morocco's ultimate goal.
Spain categorically rejected these demands, stating that Ceuta and Melilla are part of its territory.
Morocco has claimed both cities since gaining independence in 1956. Melilla has belonged to Spain for more than 500 years, while Ceuta has been Spanish for more than 400 years.
The issue has flared up again because of the migration crisis in Ceuta, where tens of thousands of illegal migrants crossed from Moroccan territory at the end of July.
Gavin McInnes @Gavin_McInnes
Ah, so it WAS an invasion. Got it.
Via Instapundit, where Stephen Green wonders if a demand for Andalusia -- the former Caliphate in Spain -- is next.
Thanks to Robert.
Related flashback: In February, Joe Biden claimed that he had ended the mass illegal immigration he... inherited from Trump.
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Real Headline: "WNBA team reveals new 'non-binary' turtle mascot to taunt Indiana Fever star Sophie Cunningham"
—Disinformation Expert Ace
If you're wondering "How is that even a turtle?," there is a shell you can barely see on its back like the shield of Captain Trans America.
As many are asking: Isn't this grooming? Yet another clear attempt to appeal to childish minds.
The Toronto Tempo debuted a new "non-binary" mascot ahead of their WNBA matchup with the Indiana Fever in an apparent swipe at controversial star Sophie Cunningham.The Tempo revealed Dez, a butch, non-binary Borealis Blue Snapping Turtle who uses she/they pronouns and "has a fondness for soft shell tacos," the team said in an Tuesday announcement unveiling the new mascot.
Sometimes I make up fake quotes and stick them in the quote box as a joke.
This is not one of those times. This is real.
Dez also has a partner in crime, anthropomorphic arctic hare named Dot who uses standard she/her pronouns.Dez is a Taurus, the team made sure to include in its announcement.
It joins the Seattle Storm's Doppler as the only two non-binary mascots in the WNBA.
The Tempo made a point to announce the new, queer turtle totem during their home game against the Indiana Fever -- and their guard Cunningham who has been outspoken about defending girls and women's sports from transgender athletes.
The Fever beat the Tempo, 101-95.
Cunningham scored 13 points on 3-of-4 shooting, going 3-for-3 from behind the arc while snatching two rebounds and dishing out two more assists.
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