Scott Bessent: A Deranged Leftist Attempted to Assassinate Me Shortly After I Became Secretary of the Treasury
The New Republic: Don't You Understand You're Forcing Us Lefties to Murder You?
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Gerald Posner @geraldposner🔥 At the State Department's Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent answered critics who doubt the seriousness of far left political violence by making the threat personal.
Off-script, he reminded the room -- delegates from roughly 65 nations -- that he was the target of an assassination attempt by a left-wing activist two hours after being sworn in. (Bessent gave the wrong year on camera -- he said 2024; the actual date was January 27, 2025 -- but the case is real: a guilty plea, a federal docket, sentencing set for August 14.)
Bessent also announced Treasury is expanding its financial enforcement authorities -- OFAC, FinCEN, IRS-CI -- to investigate nonprofits and charities being used as cover to finance political violence, saying "violence requires money, channels through which funding can move, and institutions behind which it can hide."
This is the same pattern Secretary Rubio has been warning about -- violent far-left extremism dismissed as fringe, until it's the Treasury Secretary himself.
Bessent's challenge to the skeptics: be there for the sentencing.
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Trump: We Recovered Documents From the CIA About Their Scheme to Hide All Intelligence from Me That Could Help Me in My 2020 Re-Election Campaign
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Overton @overton_newsCatherine Herridge says a whistleblower was sounding the alarm about China's influence operations in the summer of 2020 -- but "suddenly it all was suppressed" instead of being elevated.
HERRIDGE: "So in the summer of 2020, as we're heading into the election, in the intelligence community, there were indicators of this Chinese influence operation."
"Influence operations means that you're trying to affect the outcome of how people vote or their sentiment about a presidential candidate."
"It's different than an interference operation, which is penetrating voting rolls and voter systems."
"And this whistleblower was raising the alarm about the influence operation and then suddenly it all was suppressed."
"My understanding is that some of their reports, there were in officials on hand writing that they wanted everything out could help President Trump in his re-election."
"So there clear evidence of political and personal bias, and intelligence is supposed to be neutral."
"So what we heard tonight from the president is an allegation that this intelligence was suppressed in order harm him. And now we're seeing documents already which back those claims."
"Compounding the travesty, the second set of documents we are releasing reveals that members of the deep state ... in our intelligence agency worked to actively suppress and downplay information about the extent of China's sinister election meddling, covering it up from both the president and the American people like nobody thought was possible," he said.
He also said while outlining the second area of documents, "CIA reporting explicitly stated, and I quote: 'In mid 2018, the Chinese Communist Party's policy was to leverage all domestic and foreign elements that were opposed to the U.S. president in an effort to reduce the U.S. president's votes and make him resign or prevent his re-election.'"
Trump went on to add that "Raw intelligence obtained by the FBI in 2020, yet buried by rogue bureaucrats, stated that China's activities even included an attempt to manufacture illegal ballots for Joe Biden."
Trump added that the documents reveal that reports regarding "China's election targeting" were omitted from his daily presidential briefs during his first term.
"Documents show that during this period, dozens of significant CIA and NSA reports about China's election targeting were kept out of the presidential briefing. These were briefings I would get almost every day," he added.
"Everything was kept out that was of importance. One email among intelligence analysts admitted that they had quote: 'deliberately massaged the presidential daily briefing to withhold information regarding Chinese activities related to the election,'" Trump added.
More from Catherine Herridge:
Catherine Herridge @C__Herridge
EXCLUSIVE: Whistleblower Alleges 2020 CCP Election Influence Ops Targeting Trump Were SuppressedMultiple sources tell me that a credible whistleblower complaint was filed alleging the CIA, FBI and other IC agencies suppressed intelligence about China's influence operations during the 2020 election targeting President Trump and his campaign.
Based on my reporting, China's goal was to "impede" President Trump's re-election and "denigrate" him as a candidate. I understand the DNI is actively working to declassify the records.
According to these accounts, the CIA, then led by Director Gina Haspel, would not document the Chinese influence operations, in a formal way, out of concern that President Trump would use the intelligence to his advantage.
Based on the complaint, senior intelligence officials are accused of heavy-handed editing of the whistleblower's reports about China's sweeping influence operations during the 2020 election cycle.
In some instances, senior CIA officials are accused of taking "pen to paper" to strike sections because "the intelligence assessments would help Trump." I am told some track changes make "specific reference to domestic politics."
A senior intelligence official emphasized that in 2020 China was not held to the same standard as Russia and other adversaries, including North Korea, Iran and its proxy Hezbollah. The official said Chinese influence operations were consistently "downplayed," while Russia's activities were routinely "amplified."The official added that the CIA was "driving political bias" in the intelligence assessments as well as the need to "massage" the President's Daily Brief. Known as the "PDB," it is a highly classified summary of intelligence and analysis on national security.
For calling out the apparent suppression of China intelligence targeting President Trump before the 2020 Presidential election, the whistleblower was allegedly retaliated against. The alleged retaliation included:
* Change in the whistleblower's job responsibilities
* Threats to destroy their reputation
* The "dissent" report that challenged the majority view about China's election activities was allegedly altered and the "confidence level" downgraded
Independent, publicly available cyber security reports appear to back up the whistleblower's allegations that intelligence was suppressed about China's activities in 2020.
In April 2020 a classified intelligence assessment found Beijing was ramping up activities in advance of the US election.
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Based on my reporting, by May 2020, there was a general consensus among the intelligence agencies that China was planning a "potentially huge campaign" targeting the upcoming Presidential election.
The Chinese Community Party's (CCP) effort was considered to be much bigger than similar election campaigns launched by Russia because the CCP campaign would be executed across multiple domains.
As one government contact put it, "If the IC (intelligence community) was suppressing the China intelligence in 2020, what else was it suppressing?"
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Maine Democrats' Debate to Replace Graham Platner Sparks Question, "Say, Why Did We Get Rid of Graham Platner?"
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Maine Democrats staged a Candidate Cattle Call last night.
The Context: Maine Democrats held a televised debate on July 16, 2026, as they sprint to replace Graham Platner, who withdrew from the race following sexual assault allegations. The newly nominated candidate will face long-time Republican Senator Susan Collins in the November 3 general election.Immigration & ICE: The debate was heavily dominated by discussions of immigration and law enforcement, following a fatal shooting by an ICE agent in Biddeford just days prior. All participating candidates called for the abolition of ICE. Pressed for practical reforms under the current Trump administration, candidates advocated for mandatory body cameras, banning masks for agents, and stripping them of immunity.
The debate featured a diverse selection of morons, half-wits, and the mentally ill.
A good cross-section of the Democrat Party, then.
And of course one man who just showed up to say he wants to use the women's bathrooms and changing rooms.
5 Takeaways From a Maine Debate That Showed Replacing Platner Isn't EasyMaine Democrats vying to become the state’s new Senate nominee met, and mostly agreed, at a debate filled with halting answers and stilted deliveries.
As Maine Democrats rush to replace Graham Platner with a new Senate nominee, eight candidates gathered on Thursday night for a debate that starkly showed the party's challenge in unseating Senator Susan Collins, the incumbent Republican.
The implosion of Mr. Platner, who dropped out days after being accused of rape, has left Maine Democrats choosing from a sparse buffet of candidates who either lost primaries for other offices this year or lack any traditional résumé to run for the Senate.
The contenders are sprinting through a truncated primary process that will culminate on July 25 with a nominating convention where roughly 600 party delegates will choose the nominee. The winner will plunge immediately into a race widely seen as crucial to the battle for control of Congress.
Onstage at a TV studio in Portland, all of the candidates were quick to highlight their anti-Trump bona fides and promoted a broad playbook of progressive policies to appeal to Democratic primary voters.
I think the cattle call consisted of two panels of four each.
Here are five takeaways from the hastily arranged debate, where the candidates had to be split up into two groups because there were so many of them:
Maine Democrats don't exactly have a deep bench.
The debate's first hour included four leading candidates with something notable in common: They all recently lost Democratic primaries for higher office in the state.
Halting answers. Convoluted responses and stilted deliveries. Former State Senator Troy Jackson, Secretary of State Shenna Bellows and Jordan Wood, a former congressional aide, all struggled to match the forceful message and rhetorical prowess of Mr. Platner, whose rallies electrified voters over the last year.
...The candidates love Platner's policies but not the man.
All of the candidates tried to thread a fine needle on Thursday night: They wanted to embrace the grass-roots energy that Mr. Platner captured and the policies he ran on, while not condoning the behavior that drove him from the race.
For Mr. Jackson, that meant celebrating Mr. Platner's support for "Medicare for all" -- a policy Mr. Jackson has long supported. Dr. Shah pointed approvingly to Mr. Platner's long-stated desire to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Below, some highlights.
It's pretty amazing.
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As US Forces Knock Out Iranian Power Plants, the IRGC Tells Iranians to be Like the UK and France and Turn Off the AC and Die In the Summer Heat
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Trump's bombing them all the way back to modern day Europe.
Iran has told its citizens to turn off their air conditioning during peak hours as the country's power grid came under strain amid US strikes.Tehran's energy ministry said that the power restrictions were necessary 'to help ensure a stable electricity supply in the southern provinces, which are currently facing extreme heat and attacks on electricity supply facilities.'
Temperatures in the capital were expected to hit triple digits Friday, with highs of 102F on Saturday and Sunday.
Donald Trump ordered the US military to hit Iranian bridges throughout coastal cities along the Strait of Hormuz. A report from Iranian state media claims an American missile struck Qeshm, an island which is home to a hidden 'missile city' buried underground. The US also fired on a ship which was trying to breach the blockade.
Qeshm extends out into the Strait and is, presumably, a key staging area for attacks on shipping. US forces appear to be attempting to bomb all roads and bridges to the island, to cut it off completely.
...Just hours prior, Trump directed the US military to hit Iranian bridges throughout coastal cities along the Strait of Hormuz.
Iranian officials reported Thursday explosions in Bandar Abbas and two blasts in Bushehr, home to Iran's largest civilian nuclear plant.
The US said its forces struck Iranian command centers, air defense sites, missile and drone capabilities, and coastal surveillance facilities tied to the battle over the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran hit the power infrastructure of other Gulf states in retaliation.
John Spencer @SpencerGuard
Updates on Iran: Following the breakdown of the ceasefire/memorandum of understanding, fighting has escalated/resumed over the past 6 days (roughly July 13--17), with the US conducting multiple nights of strikes and Iran lashes out.US (according to USCENTCOM) has conducted strikes for six consecutive nights, using aircraft, drones, warships, and precision munitions. The stated goal is to degrade Iran's ability to threaten commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.
Key targets hit (primarily southern/coastal Iran, focused on Bandar Abbas area and nearby islands):
* Coastal defense systems, air defenses, radar/coastal surveillance sites, missile/drone capabilities, command centers, and maritime/small boat assets.
* Locations: Bandar Abbas (port/naval hub), Qeshm Island, Kish Island, Abu Musa, Bushehr province (including Jam and Kangan), Chah Bahar (Chabahar), Jask, Konarak, Sistan-Baluchestan province (including areas near Rask and Saravan), and others.
* Military Infrastructure: Bridges (at least six in Hormozgan province), a maritime control tower in Chabahar (collapsed), military logistics infrastructure, and some inland sites (e.g., airports, possible rail/power elements).
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Trump: There Is Evidence of a Massive Chinese Effort to Compromise America's Voting Rolls -- But the Deep State Covered It Up
—Disinformation Expert Ace
And the death penalty should be on the table.
There was a lot in last night's speech. I'm going to break it up into two posts.
First -- this post -- about what China did.
Second -- in another post -- about treasonous US "intelligence" operatives covering it up to protect their Chinese pals -- and aid and abet China's efforts to influence our elections in the Democrats' favor -- and thus to interfere in the election themselves.
The president said the People's Republic of China (PRC) illicitly acquired a whopping 220 million U.S. voter files through "what is believed to be the largest compromise of election data in history."
"That information includes names, addresses, phone numbers, political party preferences, and other sensitive data that would be needed to register to vote and engage in other nefarious activities, which is exactly what was happening," Trump said.
"This data loss presents an unprecedented election security nightmare. The intelligence even shows that China assigned a data exploitation unit specifically to this new project," he added.
Trump said another key area of concern is a "deep state" cover-up of the extent of China's meddling.
The third set of documents "proves that for many years Americans were blatantly lied to about the security of our election infrastructure, including electronic voting machines and ballot counting systems, dishonest almost all," the president said, adding:
They're vulnerable and they're easily compromised, and people within our government knew that. Tonight, we're publishing a series of previously classified U.S. intelligence community assessments and other reports proving that our government has long known these machines are extremely exposed to attack. As one assessment states, we judge that the United States adversaries, including at a minimum Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, as well as non-state groups, have the capability to compromise U.S. election infrastructure.
Trump said documents "show the CIA obtained reporting of a specific plot to do a big number in favor of the corrupt Maduro regime in Venezuela, and that's exactly what happened, conspiring to digitally rig their own country's elections in 2020, and that's what they did."
The fourth set shows "significant evidence of fraud" was "buried and covered up," Trump said, pointing to "FBI files detailing evidence of alleged fraud by a large-scale voter registration operation in Michigan."
He added:
In 2020, Michigan State Police raided a Democrat Get Out the Vote organization, corrupt group, in Muskegon, and were so concerned by what they found ... that they contacted the FBI in Detroit. The documents state that some canvassers admitted to FBI agents that they signed voter registration forms in other people's names, submitted fraudulent registration for people who did not exist, and received gift cards tied to their number of applications that they produced. In other words, it was pay, play, and cheat.The final area of documents is a release of a Department of Homeland Security investigation, which uncovered hundreds of thousands of noncitizens registered to vote in federal elections, he said:
According to the DHS review, state voter rolls, and public records, they identified approximately 278,000 non-citizens who are registered to vote in federal elections. Since Democrat states refuse to share their voter files, the real number is actually much higher than that. Yet, even this limited analysis found more than a quarter of a million foreigners illegally registered to vote.The president added that the information he detailed throughout the address shows "an election system so broken and so vulnerable that no one can possibly defend it"
He also said, accurately, that you would only defend this broken system if you had the intention of cheating in elections.
There was election interference by a hostile foreign power.
But that power was not Russia, as the Democrat cover story had it.
That power was China, interfering in our elections in favor of Joe Biden, just as they interfered in the 1992 and 1996 elections in favor of Bill Clinton.
"As the documents we are releasing show, CIA reporting explicitly stated, 'in mid-2018, the Chinese communist party's policy was to leverage all domestic and foreign elements that were opposed to the U.S. president in an effort to reduce the U.S. president's votes, and make him resign or prevent his reelection," he said.
The president further alleged that China meddled in the 2018 mid-term elections and the 2020 elections, adding that China sought to undermine domestic confidence in the U.S. president during the year 2019.
At least one "CIA Note" posted to the White House website said that China had accessed data from the 2015 presidential elections.
"China was working to influence the results of the U.S. mid-term elections, and later the resuits of the 2020 U.S. Presidential elections," it said. "As part of this campaign, China was analyzing the 2015 U.S. Presidential elections and identifying U.S. states who voted for the U.S. President."
"The Chinese would then identify sectors within these states that voted to support the U.S. President's political party, and would attempt to make these sectors experience negative financial consequences by levying tariffs on exports to China from those sectors," it added. "The Chinese hoped that these measures would induce representatives from these sectors to lobby the U.S. President."
Steve Robinson
@SteveRobMy top lines from President Trump's election document release so far:
Homeland Security says more than 250,000 noncitizens were illegally registered to vote in California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Nevada alone.
In Michigan, FBI database checks on 107 voter registration applications found 91 with no matching person in government records.
An unevaluated FBI report from Albany claimed China made fake U.S. driver's licenses to enable mail-in votes for Biden.
A CIA note on 2018--2020 reporting says China's goal was to stop President Trump from winning reelection. Other documents show this reporting was "massaged" in order to mislead POTUS.
Declassified tables describe roughly 204 million U.S. voter records among datasets held or possessed by Chinese actors. Documents note these records could be used to request absentee ballots in the names of low propensity voters.
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) found many state and local election office networks so poorly secured that its testers could take full control in hours or days.
A Michigan witness told the FBI canvassers were paid with debit cards to register phony voters and said the operation seemed aimed at suppressing votes for President Trump.
The Michigan FBI registration-fraud case ran about four years before prosecutors declined charges, with long delays at the Justice Department. The case suggests the Biden Admin was deliberating thwarting investigations into pro-Biden election fraud, much as investigations into Hillary Clinton were slow-walked or killed prior to 2016.
A federal threat paper says China breached state voter registration systems and that stolen data can be used later to request absentee ballots or change voter rolls.
TL;DR - Foreign regimes targeted American elections to stop President Trump, and the Biden Admin greatly strengthened those efforts.
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THE MORNING RANT: Brown University Professor Sets Trap for Students to Reveal they Cheated Using AI
—Buck Throckmorton
When a professor at Brown University decided that mid-term and final exams would be take-home tests following the campus shooting last December, he inadvertently set a trap that revealed the seriousness of AI cheating on exams.
Professor Roberto Serrano wrote a first-hand account of the AI cheating story at The Free Press (“I’m a Brown University Professor; Half My Students Are Cheating” ) but it’s behind a paywall.
For an account of the situation without a paywall, Inside Higher Ed gave the story wide exposure last week in a piece titled “Brown Professor Suspects Majority of His Class Used AI to Cheat”
Here is a brief overview of the highlights (written by me, not by AI.)
• Roberto Serrano is an Economics professor at Brown, who teaches a course titled “Welfare Economics and Social Choice Theory.”
• This was the first time that Serrano was going to have the mid-term and final exam be in “take-home, closed-book” format rather than in-class as they had always been.
• The mid-term exam was accessible through an online portal, and students had an 11-hour window to complete it.
• Of the 86 students who took the mid-term, 40 had perfect scores. The average score was 96. By contrast, in prior semesters with in-class exams, the average scores ranged from 65 to 80.
• By running the test through ChatGPT, Serrano found that its AI answers closely mirrored what his students had written.
With this information, Professor Serrano announced to the class that he suspected many students had cheated using AI. He then sprung the trap by announcing:
1) The final exam was now going to be in-person.
2) The mid-term results would be considered void unless the final exam had a similar distribution of extraordinary grades.
In the words of Mr. Serrano “I am not declaring [the midterm] void for now. I am going to give the class a chance to prove me wrong. That is, if the distribution of the final exam is roughly similar to the distribution of the midterm, I will count the midterm. Otherwise, which is of course what I expect to happen, I will declare the midterm void and reweigh the final accordingly.”
Following that announcement, 27 of the 86 students either dropped the class entirely, or didn’t show up for the final exam. That is a whopping 31% who pretty much admitted to cheating on the mid-term.
But it gets even funnier for those who stayed in class:
• The remaining 59 students had an average score on the final exam of just 49%, a huge dropoff from the 96% average on the mid-term.
• Serrano therefore announced that the mid-term would not be counted in their grade. A score of 40 on the final was now required to pass. (This was lower than the 50 that was his previous pass threshold.)
• 19 of the remaining 59 students failed the class.
Below the fold is a chart showing the distribution of the 59 students’ final exam grades on the left, and their extraordinary, AI-assisted mid-term grades on the right.
A few students stand out. Especially noteworthy are the two students who clearly didn’t cheat:
• Student #1 scored a 95 on both exams.
• Student #22 scored a 55 on the midterm and then improved to a 59 on the final. S/he is the only student whose grade improved on the final.
• Two students scored a 100 on the mid-term and a 0 on the final.
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The Morning Report — 7/ 17 /26
—J.J. Sefton
Good morning kids. Last night President Trump took to the airwaves and took a massive swing at the Chi-Coms.
President Trump revealed that China stole the voter registration data of 220 million Americans as part of his primetime speech on Thursday.“Over a period of years, starting during the 2020 election cycle, the People’s Republic of China carried out what is believed to be the largest compromise of election data in history, resulting in China’s illicit acquisition of 220 million U.S. voter files,” Trump said in remarks from the East Room of the White House.
“That information includes names, addresses, phone numbers, political party preferences, and other sensitive data that would be needed to register to vote and engage in other nefarious activities, which is exactly what was happening,” the president continued. “This data loss presents an unprecedented election security nightmare.
While this is of course a serious breach of our security it's obviously not a one-off as it goes hand in hand with the breach that occurred about a decade ago that hacked the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) exposing thousands of government employees including many in the most sensitive departments and agencies, as well as myriad breaches in the private sector.
Obviously, Donald Trump was and remains an existential threat to the plans and schemes of the Chi-Coms and every other malign actor in the world and they have a vested interest in derailing and sabotaging him at every turn. Did their hack actually interfere with or otherwise corrupt and subvert the results of 2020? Who knows.
But President Trump's and by extension our greatest threat continues to come from within our own country with its epicenter in the Democrat Party and leftist movement. It was and remains my assertion beyond any doubt that they did in fact steal the 2020 election via several tactics, most notably the massive mail-in ballot fiascos as a result of the coronavirus lockdowns that destroyed any semblance of ballot/election integrity most notably in the several key swing states and districts where corrupt Democrat operatives engaged in massive ballot dumping and cessation of the counts that allowed that to happen.
As you my recall, I wrote a book about it that is based on my reportage on election day/night and covering the subsequent weeks up until one of our darkest days in history, January 6th, 2021 when the electoral college vote was made kosher in Congress and the Democrats attempted to blood libel us with causing an insurrection.
If you don't want to purchase the book (and to this day I have yet to receive a penny in royalties, feh.) you can just access my column here in the archives from that day forward and read it there.
Of course equally as horrendous was the fact that several of the major networks refused to even carry the speech which only serves to underscore their naked corruption as Leftist/Globalist propaganda house organs.
CBS News aired part of President Trump’s prime-time speech on election fraud Thursday night, joining in late and switching away as the commander-in-chief called for ABC and NBC to lose their licenses for not showing his remarks. Before tuning into Trump’s speech, CBS anchor Tony Dokoupil explained why the network was airing it: “Much of what the President has said on [security of American elections] has been false.” “There is an argument that it’s irresponsible to air the president’s speech tonight. But this speech will be made. It will be news. And it’s our job to cover the news,” Dokoupil said.
Dokoupil, Douche-chill? And speaking of Leftwing terrorism
For far too long our counterterrorism doctrine has had a blind spot — a blind spot when it comes to extremist violence from the political left. Even today, the very idea that far-left terrorism could be a serious threat is treated as a right-wing fever dream, or worse, as a dangerous fascist conspiracy. It’s treated this way by many in the press, by many in academia and our universities, and by many of our legacy institutions. You will no doubt see the dogma rear its head in the coverage of this very conference.In spite of the clear and the undeniable reality, in spite of the objective numbers and statistics, in spite of the fact that in this room today there are representatives from across the political spectrum, we will hear this organized — that this kind of organized violence and terror will be dismissed. It will be dismissed as a partisan fiction. . . For years, this extraordinary ideological prejudice was embedded in the way we talked about political violence and extremism. It was repeated again and again, until it was accepted as the neutral and objective baseline, so entrenched in the mainstream conventional wisdom that it came to be regarded as an apolitical fact.
It is the reason why, here in my country, so many people in positions of power have repeatedly dismissed acts of violence and even terrorism as legitimate forms of political expression so long as they served a left-wing cause.
It is why during those so-called George Floyd riots in the summer of 2020, as criminals and extremists burned and looted their way through America’s great cities and nearly brought the country to its knees, city governments all across the country simply refused to prosecute the people conducting these acts of violence and terror.
Of course our fantastic Secretary of State is absolutely right. The question is what are we going to do about it?! Yes, there are threats that do come from abroad but the cancer of Leftism/Communism which had its origins overseas a century ago have now metastasized here. It must be utterly eradicated root and branch and I'm afraid that is going to be a painful and bloody affair, both figuratively and quite literally given the nature of our most implacable of enemies, our fellow citizens in name only who view the nation and society that we allegedly share as both illegitimate and an evil to be eradicated by any means necessary.
I think Rubio one day will or could be a truly outstanding president, that is if the Democrat forces of darkness and evil do not snuff us out in the years ahead.
Unlike J.D. Vance who is truly turning into a big time disappointment.
Have a great weekend!
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- “Over a period of years, starting during the 2020 election cycle, the People’s Republic of China carried out what is believed to be the largest compromise of election data in history, resulting in China’s illicit acquisition of 220 million U.S. voter files,” Trump said in remarks from the East Room of the White House.
Trump reveals China stole voter registration data from 220M Americans in primetime speech
- Rubio Op-Ed: For far too long our counterterrorism doctrine has had a blind spot — a blind spot when it comes to extremist violence from the political left.
Marco Rubio: America will no longer ignore the threat of left-wing violence
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Daily Tech News 17 July 2026
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- TSMC has committed another $100 billion for four new leading-edge 2nm fabs in Arizona. (Tom's Hardware)
I'm not sure exactly why they chose Arizona apart from the fact that China is unlikely to successfully invade, but that seems like a good enough reason.
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Thursday Overnight Open Thread - July 16, 2026 [Doof]
—Open Blogger
Open thread. That's it. That's the content. Whelm yourselves!
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Secret Passages and Doodle Mansions Cafe
—Disinformation Expert Ace
"Manhattanhenge" sunset this past weekend,
when the path of the sun lines up over NYC's streets
A micro-drone that hunts... mosquitos.
Fun short film about the practical drawbacks of time travel. If you know the Rick and Morty "Vat of Acid" episode, this will be familiar. Very familiar. Rick and Morty seem to have swiped the basic idea.
This cat is aura-maxxing and mogging me with all his rizz. I don't understand what I just said either.
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US Will Withdraw All Forces from Iraq by September
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Is this good? I don't know.
WASHINGTON -- All remaining US military forces will be out of Iraq by the end of September, the nation's new prime minister Ali al-Zaidi said during a Tuesday visit to the White House."On the 30th of September, the US forces will be out of Iraq, while these companies will be inside Iraq," al-Zaidi said through a translator when speaking to reporters alongside President Trump in the Oval Office.
About 2,000 US troops currently are stationed in Iraq, mostly at the Harir Air Base in Erbil in the northern Kurdistan region.
Washington and Baghdad agreed in September 2024 to a phased withdrawal of US forces who had remained to support counter-Islamic State (ISIS) operations at the request of the Kurdish regional government.
Trump withdrew US troops in April from Syria, where they also helped crush the jihadist caliphate, which once claimed vast territories in the two countries.
...The current withdrawal reflects a shift in US focus after Trump forged a partnership with Syria's ex-al Qaeda president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, whom he has credited with imposing stability over his nation.
...Trump showered al-Zaidi with praise during his visit, announcing the men would have an unplanned lunch and predicting the "handsome" new leader, 41, would serve as a long-term leader with significant influence in the region.
And the blockade.
U.S. Central Command @CENTCOM53m
U.S. Marines from the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit conduct a verification boarding aboard M/T Wen Yao in the Gulf of Oman, July 16.
As of today, American forces have redirected 3 commercial vessels trying to run the blockade, disabled 1 that didn’t comply, and boarded 1 to ensure full compliance with the ongoing U.S. naval blockade against Iran.
The Strait of Hormuz and the surrounding waters remain free and open, except for vessels attempting to violate America’s steel wall blockade.
Trump's long-promised campaign to take out the bridges has begun:
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Quick Hits
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The networks haven't yet agreed to carry Trump's speech tonight, which means it's a "no." AOC told them not to cover it and they obeyed her orders.
LA spent $60 million on a "housing program" for bums... that $60 million bought three units, total.
This is the woman who "beat" Spencer Pratt to get into the runoff for mayor.
Just three out of a promised 2,000 apartments have been used to relocate the homeless in Nithya Raman's failed $60 million project to get people off the streets.Councilmember Raman, the chair of the Los Angeles City Council's Housing and Homelessness Committee, introduced the Time Limited Subsidy program back in September as a cheaper alternative to Mayor Karen Bass' Inside Safe Program -- meant to get homeless people into an established residence.
Raman's plan was to lease and move homeless people into 2,000 apartments and subsidize their rent, rather than pay for them to stay in motels or shelters.However, nearly a year after that plan was launched -- with $62.6 million in taxpayer funds behind it -- only three apartments are occupied.
The City Council first approved investing in the subsidy model last September as part of its strategy for complying with a court settlement with the Los Angeles Alliance for Human Rights.Four months later, on January 28, the council approved resources for a redesigned program targeting 2,000 households.
The full rollout began March 1.
However, only three units had occupants by June 25, according to a July 1 presentation to Raman's powerful homeless committee -- a damning result for a program Raman has campaigned to take citywide if elected Mayor.
Fetterman: I'll quit the Democrat Party if it becomes, "officially," the anti-Israel party.
Well, for one thing, it already is the anti-Israel party. There was no official declaration but everyone understands it is now the Hamas Party. Even Rahm Emmanuel, who is Jewish, but running for president in a pro-Hamas party, announced that it's time for the US to stop funding Israel.
So Fetterman is okay with all of this, as long as they give him plausible deniability and not make it "official."
And more importantly: While I appreciate the support for Israel, there's another country the Democrats are trying to destroy that I support even more. That country is the United States of America. No problem with that, huh?
Who says The Today Show doesn't know how to party?
An unhinged heckler slipped past security at NBC's "Today" show early Thursday, lunging at host Craig Melvin and hurling a racial slur as he stormed the set, according to cops and sources.The scary scene played out around 9 a.m. when the 41-year-old intruder barged into an unauthorized area in a vestibule near Studio 1A at the Rockefeller Plaza studio.
He demanded face time with Al Roker and got close enough to confront Melvin, calling him the N-word, according to sources.
Some bonus Cultural Enrichment for you: the Canadian whore who slapped the child for wearing pro-Trump sweatpants is in the US illegally on a visa overstay.
Her husband, who should be deported with this c***, celebrated the murder of Charlie Kirk.
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Gaza Family of 18 Wins "Right" to Settle In England Despite Speaking No English and Being Determined to be a Net Detriment to Society
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The judge agreed the family of welfare ticks would be a net negative to British society, but commanded them all to be settled in England anyway, because... because the family would be missing out if they weren't allowed to jump on the UK welfare train.
Family of 18 from Gaza wins human rights challenge to allow them to come to Britain in major blow for Labour
Yes, even the Great Replacement Labour Party wanted to keep this gang of pirates out of the country.
A judge overruled them, citing Europe's pernicious, civilization-destroying European Commission on Human Rights -- basically the Enabling Act for the Great Replacement.
A family of 18 from Gaza has won the right to come to Britain after launching a human rights challenge in the British courts.The landmark case was brought after a Gazan-born mother-of-three - who came to the UK as a refugee and is now a British citizen -- was refused permission to bring her extended family into this country.
Her relatives -- both parents; a brother, his wife and four children; a sister and four children; and another sister, her husband and three children -- won a legal challenge on human rights grounds.
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood then attempted to have that decision overturned -- but this week lost the case.
The case exposes yet again how human rights laws undermine Britain's border controls by overturning decisions made by the Home Secretary.
The Conservatives said the 'shameful' ruling risked 'opening the floodgates to thousands of Palestinians claiming asylum here due to Labour's pitiful adherence to flawed human rights laws'.
The Home Office refused permission for the Palestinians' application to come to Britain under refugee family reunification rules.
Their original application was lodged in late November 2023, about a month after Israeli forces entered Gaza in the wake of Hamas' October 7 surprise attacks which killed nearly 1,200 people.
It has now emerged for the first time that the family won a human rights appeal in the lower immigration court in April last year.
That decision led to an appeal by the Home Secretary in the upper immigration tribunal.
But Upper Tribunal Judge Gemma Loughran threw out Ms Mahmood's case, agreeing that denying the family permission to come to the UK breached Labour's Human Rights Act.
The Palestinians argued they had a 'right to family life' under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and won their case under Section 6 of the Act which sets out how it is 'unlawful for a public authority to act in a way which is incompatible with a Convention right'.
The woman suing to bring this cart of invalids over to the UK admitted she could only provide for her parents -- the rest are going straight to permanent welfare.
..The ruling showed most of the adult applicants could not speak English and that the UK-based sister would only be able to accommodate her parents.
The lower tribunal judge 'concluded that the applicants would require access to public funds', the ruling added.
The UK-based daughter and her three children had suffered 'mental health problems' caused by their relatives' 'situation in Gaza', the judge said.
Referring to the lower court's decision, Judge Loughran said: 'The judge concluded that the applicants' refusal of entry clearance would give rise to consequences of such gravity for the sponsor and her children as to be unjustifiably harsh such that the public interest was outweighed.
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Surprise! Eric Swalwell's Adultery Wingman, Rueben Gallego, Banged At Least Two House Aides
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Not the guy who handed his nine-months-pregnant wife divorce papers so he could bang his side-piece openly (while claiming it's a "new relationship").
I shan't believe it.
Take your filthy lies, NY Post, and hit the road, Jack!!!
Arizona Democratic Sen. Ruben Gallego, a potential 2028 presidential candidate, engaged in sexual relationships with at least two House staffers and his "very flirtatious" habits with others may come back to haunt him, The Post has learned.The 46-year-old lawmaker admitted to the two relationships -- both with aides to Texas Democrats -- to one source while a second person said they had recently learned of the romantic entanglements.
A third source confirmed one of the dalliances, both of which are said to have been consensual and occurred during Gallego's decade representing Phoenix in the House.
The relationships are part of a broader "pattern of mistakes and missteps and judgment calls," one source said, noting the imbalanced power dynamics of an elected official dating staffers. One of the women was in her 20s and much younger than Gallego at the time."What else could there be out there?" this person asked.
Last month, the Senate Ethics Committee dismissed a complaint brought against Gallego by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) that alleged campaign finance violations and sexual misconduct against the Democrat, who was elected to the Senate in 2024.
The panel, chaired by Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.), "didn't ask" about Gallego's relationships with the staffers -- likely because it was unaware -- and instead "focused squarely on what Luna presented to them," an insider said this week.
"Ethics looked in the wrong place," this person summed up the congressional probe.
It could also be that Lankford, who is a stone-cold liberal saboteur, deliberately went easy on Gallego because he doesn't want Senators being outed for secret sex.
When asked if The Post's reporting was accurate, Gallego again said, "I'm not going to engage in gossip."
Sources said it's believed both relationships occurred while Gallego was unmarried.
Uh-huh. You mean in between the pregnant wife he divorced and the side-piece he married later
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"If the Ethics Committee comes back and says, 'We are opening an investigation,' question one [for Gallego] is: 'Did you ever have relationships with any staff member during your time in Congress?'" a source said."I wouldn't be surprised if there are more that he has to list, and he can't lie about that because, you know, it's a sworn [statement]."
A Democratic operative who has interacted with Gallego said she found news of the staffer relationships "not surprising."
"I have witnessed firsthand his very flirtatious nature after a couple of drinks," she said. "Maybe he thinks he's being charming? I don't know. Guy gives me the creeps. I've always steered clear."
Gallego married his second wife, Sydney, in June 2021. He filed for divorce from his first wife, Katie, 10 days before Christmas in 2016 when she was nine months pregnant.In addition to the senator's personal life, Gallego faces another headache in the form of a Justice Department investigation into his alleged misuse of campaign funds to attend the Super Bowl in 2023 as well as to take vacations to St. Barts, Disney World and Disneyland. Gallego said the Trump DOJ was "targeting" him for political reasons.
The Post notes that Gallego -- hilariously -- thinks he can be president one day.
Of America, I mean. Not of Hooters, Inc.
The Illegal Alien Truck Driver Who Killed Three People Last Year Gets Less Than Five Years in Prison
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Yeah, a little more than four years sounds right for a Family Annihilator.
If you remember this guy from last October--
-- he plowed into slowed traffic without slowing killing three people and injuring four more.
Speaks no English. Got a Washington state trucking license anyway.
Biden gave him a work permit. He claimed he "feared for his life" in India, so he had to come over here to make American citizens fear for their lives.
Oh, he was also on drugs when he murdered three people.
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Tim Walz on His Pardon of the Rapist of 10-Year-Old Children: "We Can't All be Judged by Our Worst Day"
—Disinformation Expert Ace
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Leftwing Propaganda Found In Home of Suspected Murderer of Pro-Brexit Former Conservative MP -- Despite UK Cops Previously Claiming There Was No Political Motive
—Disinformation Expert Ace
This is the woman whose murder leftists, and trannies in particular, were celebrating.
The police lied again, claiming that the motive may never be known.
The suspect in the alleged murder of Brexit warrior and former government minister Ann Widdecombe reportedly had far-left literature in his home, as police have been forced to belatedly admit that there may have been a political motive in last week's killing.We're getting a little more detail from police now from a statement given on the steps of Scotland Yard, with Counter Terrorism Police saying of the killing of Brexiteer Ann Widdecombe: "It is clear this was a targeted attack. We are still working to understand the extent of any planning or preparation, and the motivation that sits behind that attack."
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Searches of the so-far publicly unidentified 28-year-old "white" male suspect reportedly revealed that he owned "Russian communist literature" and "items of political ideology" in his home.
The Lotus Eaters podcast pointed out the UK cops now routinely hide the race of a suspect -- unless he's white, in which case they repeat it endlessly, as they did here.
According to a report from the Daily Mail, the discovery was followed by counter terror police taking over the investigation into the alleged murder of Widdecombe, a strident conservative who, unlike many on the so-called British right-wing, publicly opposed abortion, gay marriage, mass migration, and who stood as one of the nation's leading Brexiteers and political allies of Reform UK leader Nigel Farage.The admission of a political motive behind the killing came after the local Devon and Cornwall Police were quick to attempt to downplay the possibility that it was either a terrorism-related incident or was politically motivated.
Assistant Chief Constable Matt Longman went on to urge the public to refrain from "speculation" over the motive behind the killing, describing it as "unhelpful" to the investigation and claimed that it was "distressing to the family and friends of Ms Widdecombe."
The police response has come under heavy criticism, with many claiming that it appears the messaging surrounding the investigation was intended to manipulate public opinion rather than relay the truth.
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"I don't understand why Devon and Cornwall Police were steering the public away from the idea that this was a terrorist case and I don't know why they didn't simply say they had an open mind as to the motivation," he said.
Similar sentiments were shared by Reform UK board member Gawain Towler, who said of the police response: "In the past, they'd have said all avenues of investigation are open, but this time they tried to close out avenues of the investigation. In a time when trust in the police is at an all-time low, this just plays into that they are trying to massage public opinion."
They have little interest in stopping crime, but a great interest in stopping tweets.
The suspect had communist propaganda in his home -- and specifically, Russian propaganda.
The brutal murder of Ann Widdecombe was last night being treated as a suspected politically motivated terrorist attack.In a dramatic escalation, counter terrorism officers yesterday took over the investigation into the killing of the former Tory minister. It came after the discovery of Russian communist literature and other items of political ideology at the home of the suspected killer.
And it marked a U-turn after the local force, Devon and Cornwall Police, spent days insisting that there was no link to terrorism. Officers, it is understood, are probing whether the 78-year-old may have been bludgeoned to death in a premeditated attack on Reform UK.
They are looking at whether a self-radicalised loner may have considered the pensioner an 'easy target' in comparison to more prominent party figures, such as Nigel Farage, who have security.
Last night, Reform accused Devon and Cornwall police of misleading the public in the initial stages of the investigation.
Senior officers were under pressure to explain why they so publicly ruled out terror or a political motivation.
Two days after the murder, detectives arrested a local labourer in error, before later detaining a 28-year-old man 270 miles away in Rotherham on Saturday night. The Mail has learnt that items of varying political ideology, including Russian material, have been found at the suspect's home and on electronic devices.
But investigators do not believe there is any evidence of hostile state involvement.
Counter terrorism police are investigating whether the 'lone wolf' targeted Ms Widdecombe due to her political views, which she frequently expressed during regular appearances on TV and radio defending Reform as the party's immigration and justice spokesman. The former Strictly contestant was well known for her beliefs, including opposition to abortion and gay rights.
They still haven't admitted the motive, but they're certain it's a "lone wolf" killing.
They can't do anything about crime and terrorism, so they'll just focus on manipulating public opinion through the leftwing media.
Of course you've seen this a dozen times in the US -- as evidence mounts that this was yet another leftwing psychopath obeying the implicit commands to kill fed to him by the political left, the left attempts to claim it wasn't leftist Assassination Prep that motivated the latest act of terrorist murder, but just generic "online hate."
Left-wing British politicians have already begun to seize upon the killing of Brexit hero Ann Widdecombe to push for more censorship on social media to combat "hate", despite police having made no public indication that the suspected killer was radicalised online.The political, media, and law enforcement establishments were quick to condemn British citizens for "speculation" over the potential motives behind the killing of former Conservative government minister and Brexit Party Member of European Parliament Ann Widdecombe, while accusing her long-time allies, like Nigel Farage, of seeking to exploit her death for political purposes.
However, contrary to Widdecombe's long career in public life, in which she stood as a strident defender of free speech, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, Lucy Powell, took to the floor of the House of Commons to give a speech concerning Widdecombe's death to advocate for more government speech restrictions.
"We do need to tackle some of the online algorithms and business models which heighten this kind of polarisation and hate towards those in public life, and we must do more to tackle this with urgency," she said.
One transgender former Labour candidate was in fact charged with "online hate."
A transgender former Labour candidate has been charged over online posts about Ann Widdecombe's death.The former Tory minister and TV star, 78, was found dead at her cottage in Haytor, Devon, last Thursday after sustaining serious injuries.
Only hours after Ms Widdecombe's death was announced, a post appeared on trans rights activist Heather Herbert's social media.
Writing on Bluesky, she said: 'And some good news for once. I hope it was an extremely painful death.'
In another post, Ms Herbert said: 'And I hope she was handcuffed to the bed as she screamed in agony.'
The posts were published before detectives announced they were treating Ms Widdecombe's death as murder.
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The Morning Rant: Go After The Big Employers Of Illegals First!
—CBD
ICE's efforts to rid America of the scourge of violent illegal criminals who prey on our citizens is laudable, and in fact should be expanded. Contrary to the media's portrayal of a country that is upset that violent criminals who try to run down law enforcement get ventilated, most Americans understand that trying to kill cops is a good way to get shot, and aren't troubled by it.
The FBI and other data suggest about 1.25 million violent crimes in 2024, and that's just the reported ones. Law enforcement shot/killed about 1,000 that year, so it certainly isn't some insane number of violent criminals being killed extrajudicially! The number that ICE shoots is a rounding error in the total, so the panty-bunched soi-boys in the corporate GOP and the Democrat Party (but I repeat myself) can shut the f*ck up and sit the f*ck down. And that goes for Markwayne Mullin too, but President Trump already took care of that! [Sefton and I talked a bit about that on our podcast]
But there is another vast reservoir of illegals that seems to have been put on the back burner by the Trump administration. And that is the millions that are employed by our largest companies. The open secret of widespread use of illegal labor in many industries is an obscene dismissal of the Americans who would like to work, but can't. Or the Americans whose wages are depressed because of the millions of additional workers in America who are paid less than the prevailing wage because of their illegal status.
Here are the heavy hitters.
CONSTRUCTION
1. D. R. Horton2. Lennar
3. Kiewit Corporation
4. Bechtel Corporation
5. Turner Construction
6. PulteGroup
7. EMCOR Group
8. Fluor Corporation
9. MasTec
10. Jacobs Solutions
FOOD PRODUCTION
1. Cargill2. Tyson Foods
3. JBS USA
4. Pilgrim's Pride
5. Archer Daniels Midland (ADM)
6. Kraft Heinz
7. Smithfield Foods
8. General Mills
9. Hormel Foods
10. Conagra Brands
HOSPITALITY
1. Marriott International2. Compass Group
3. Sodexo
4. Aramark
5. Hilton Worldwide
6. Hyatt Hotels
7. MGM Resorts International
8. Wyndham Hotels & Resorts
9. Choice Hotels International
10. Las Vegas Sands
Notice that Joe's Landscaping, and Quality Painting, and ABC Roofing, are nowhere to be found on those lists. And that is because the enforcement that I suggest should start at the very top, and target our largest corporations that knowingly, in direct violation of The Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) of 1986, employee illegals. Leave the little guys alone for now, and focus on the companies that are public, with boards of directors and CEOs and presidents who can be held criminally liable for the lawbreaking of their companies.
A few videos of the CEOs of Hormel and Bechtel and Hyatt being cuffed and thrown into the back of a police car would do wonders to focus the minds of the remaining executives!
And enforcement would be easier, since these large corporations keep meticulous records, and any halfway decent forensic accountant would be able to find the illegals. And yes, the pathetic government systems that give these companies an out by being able to say, "Well, we checked through E-Verify," need to be improved. They are not the only ones who are complicit...our government is its own worst enemy.
Concurrent with that enforcement should be an increase in the fines for employing illegals. Today it is a paltry $3,000/worker and imprisonment for up to six months. Those fines should be per worker, per day, and imprisonment should be more significant. And that imprisonment should be reserved for the highest corporate executive, not the clerk in the hiring office. And perhaps rewards for whistleblowers who rat out their CEOs! That would be a delicious way to energize the country and show our workers that they are not the targets...their bosses are.
Yes...that is rank populist sleaze, but it would work, and we do not have the luxury of taking the high road any more. Ronald Reagan took the high road in 1986, and the Democrats mugged him and left him on the side of that road with no pants.
[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X/Twitter]. If you folks who are on X/Twitter would follow us it would be much appreciated!
