Claim: The Man Stealing the California Mayoral Election Previously Stole the 2004 Washington Gubernatorial Election
—Disinformation Expert Ace
This article says he's done it before.
He's very, very good at "discovering" votes in the 5th Quarter of an election, where Democrats really shine.
The man who stole the governor's election in Washington state is now doing the same thing in Los Angeles. We had absolute criminals in charge of the Democratic Party in Washington in 2004.Ron Simms, as we all know, lied to my listeners and me on the air when he was chair of Sound Transit Board of Directors. But Ron Simms was also actively involved in, what I am convinced, was the biggest Democratic Party conspiracy in Washington's history. When people ask me why I'm so cynical about local government, it was that gubernatorial election of 2004 that is at the top of my list. What I saw was a Democratic Party that was as corrupt as any political machine has ever been.
In case you need your memory refreshed, that was when Attorney General Christine Gregoire was running for governor against Republican candidate Dino Rossi. When they counted all the votes, Dino Rossi was the winner -- by 261 votes. Such a thin margin triggers an automatic recount. When they did the recount, they found some more Gregoire votes, but Rossi won again -- by 42 votes this time.
And that is when the Democratic machine of Ron Simms, Christine Gregoire, and the head of King County Elections at the time, a guy named Dean Logan, got involved. What was revealed in subsequent lawsuits was remarkable. On the third recount, they miraculously found a few hundred more votes for Gregoire to steal away the governor's race. Apparently, there were 300 illegal votes, 400 more where the voter could not be verified, 240 felons who voted illegally, 44 votes from dead people, and 10 people who voted twice. When all of those votes were counted, the third time around, all of a sudden Christine Gregoire was the governor.
Then and now, I think it was a Democratic Party criminal conspiracy. The guy spearheading this in King County was Dean Logan, who was finding uncounted ballots all over. He was absolutely amazing at finding Gregoire ballots in between counts.
But is there any reason to believe he's "discovering' Votes for Basura or the communist carpetbagger?
Well -- yes.
On election night, nobody was shocked that Pratt had closed the gap with Bass, just as nobody was surprised that Raman came in a distant third, as the polls suggested.But California doesn't have election nights. They have counting weeks, where vote totals change as batches of votes trickle in, and those batches show an amazing pattern: there are almost no votes for Spencer Pratt, which is nearly impossible statistically.
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Keith Edwards, a Democrat Podcaster and Political Strategist Who Got Advance Word of the Eric Swalwell Sexual Assault Accusations, Now Says the NYT and WaPo Are Racing to Report That Graham Platner Sexually Assaulted "Multiple" Women
—Disinformation Expert Ace
UPDATE! Graham Platner says there aren't any "credible" charges of sexual assault coming.
That's a very suspicious qualifier! Oh sure there may be some sexual assault charges coming, but trust me, no creeeeeeedible sexual assault charges!
Update!
Politics & Poll Tracker @PollTracker2024Senator Bernie Sanders was noncommittal when asked by a Washington Examiner reporter if there's a concern sexual assault allegations could come out against Graham Platner.
Bernie Sanders: "Why don't we examine income and wealth inequality?"
Another update: Democrats are complaining that Schumer is scheming to get Jared Golden, an independent, elected rather than Maine Kampf.
Another confirmation that something big is afoot at the Circle K.
Keith Edwards also used to work for the North American Man-Boy Lincoln Project, in communications. So you know he's got a lot of experience with sexual scandals.
The primary is this coming Tuesday. Republicans want to delay the news until Maine Kampf is officially promoted to be the Democrat's top SS officer in the northeast. (Along with Tuq'r Qarlson.)
The Democrat partisan media wants the story to come out before then -- if it's going to come out at all.
They may have decided it can't be covered up. So they're going to pretend to be truth-tellers, when they're really still just Democrat political operatives.
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Democrat Ron Wyden Lisps Defamations at Scott Bessent So Scott Bessent Asks Him About Wyden's Son's Business Dealings With Jeffrey Epstein
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Trump's Secretaries ate their Wheaties yesterday morning. They were accepting zero bullshit from the communist Nazi agents of foreign powers.
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Black Jurors Struck from Karmelo Anthony Murder Trial Because They Admit They Don't Want to Send a "Brother," Even a Murderer, to Jail
—Disinformation Expert Ace
So are we all just now interested in nothing more than advancing the interests of our particular race?
Are you sure you want to do that?
Potential jurors in the Karmelo Anthony trial said they couldn't imagine giving him life in prison or "putting a brother in jail" -- despite the heinous murder he is charged with.Prosecutors in Collin County, Texas, grilled candidates Monday on whether they would use Anthony's age, race, or likeness to their own children when deciding whether he killed fellow teen Austin Metcalf in cold blood.
Attorneys for the 18-year-old defendant will try to convince the jury he feared for his life when he pulled a knife and stabbed Metcalf in the heart at a track meet in April 2025.
"He looks like a child," several said in questioning relayed by WFAA, when asked if they could consider a life sentence for the teen, who has been charged with first-degree murder."I don't think I can make a decision about somebody so young. One mistake, one argument, one conflict, you can't say he's a bad person," one potential juror told Assistant District Attorney Dewey Mitchell.
Dewey had to remind panelists that nobody would get "in trouble" for revealing their feelings about the hot-button case, which the Anthony family, who are black, claimed is a product of "white supremacy."Mitchell asked panelists how they feel about this statement: "I don't feel comfortable finding an African American male guilty of murder."
"I don't know if I feel right putting a brother in jail," one candidate stated, according to WFAA.
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Meanwhile, a $600,000 grassroots fund for Anthony's legal fees continues to swell with new donations.
If a white kid goes into a black space where he's not supposed to be and the black kids tell him to leave - is allowed to kill the black kids, claiming "black supremacy" as a justification?
You'd better think about. This current system where you get the benefits of absolute tribalism and none of the drawbacks of it is only going to exist for another year.
Lefists are boohoo whinin' and cryin' that black jurors were struck from the jury after openly admitting that they will not listen to evidence and cannot judge the defendant without racial or ideological bias.
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John Bolton Reaches Deal to Plead Guilty to Mishandling Classified Documents
—Disinformation Expert Ace
But wait I thought Trump was "weaponizing the DOJ to punish his enemies"?
No?
Or is it more like, as Bolton said many times, "No one is above the law"?
President Donald Trump's former national security adviser John Bolton is expected to plead guilty over mishandling classified documents, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News Thursday.Bolton could not immediately be reached for comment. The Department of Justice is declining to comment.
Bolton is expected to plead guilty to one count of illegal retention of sensitive documents, sources familiar with the matter said. Sources told ABC News that Bolton has also agreed to pay a fine of more than $2 million.
There is a rearraignment scheduled for June 26, which indicates it's intended for Bolton to plead guilty.
The guilty plea would make Bolton thus far the only successful case that we've seen so far in Trump's campaign of retribution against those he perceives to be his political enemies.
This is the Disney Groomer Corporation's Fake News service, ABC, by the way.
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The Morning Rant
—CBD
The amazing success of free markets can be traced through history, and their record is unblemished. That is not to say that they are perfect for all, because as Adam Smith pointed out 250 years ago, it is the millions of individual decisions that drive beneficial outcomes, and not all of those decisions are the best decision.
And...the fluctuations in supply and demand caused by those decisions can cause dislocations across the entire economy, as we see today with the price of petroleum, which has a massive global market and is an excellent example of market pressures at work.
But market economies do not work as well when they are constrained by regulation. Not regulation that controls damage to the public sphere, but regulation that impedes the natural growth of the economy. When businesses must navigate a labyrinth of sometimes competing regulations that do nothing but increase the cost of the project and increase the gap between investment and profit, they are naturally reticent.
Add in governments that are not committed to the freedom of global commerce, and the pressures to expand are overwhelmed by the easier, risk-averse, but potentially less lucrative work to improve efficiency and take advantage of rent-seeking.
Why US Oil Companies Are Holding Off on Drilling New Wells
“We’re seeing a combination of trying to reopen the Strait [of Hormuz] while simultaneously recognizing that there are going to be alternative routes to get oil and gas to market, including expanding production in new places and expanding production in the United States,” Caleb Jasso, policy expert at the Institute for Energy Research, told The Epoch Times. “The world as a whole is really reevaluating global energy supply chains and the need for a greater level of diversification.”Thus far, however, America’s oil industry has remained cautious, holding off on major new investments and focusing instead on increasing output from existing wells. The combined number of oil and gas rigs operating in the United States declined from more than 700 in May 2023 to 558 today, according to Baker Hughes, an industry analytics firm. And while the oil rig count has increased from 410 at the beginning of this year to 429 as of May 29, most producers remain reluctant to pour significant money into new wells.
Capital intensive industries like petroleum (and semiconductors!) cannot function efficiently on a four-year political timeline. Global markets cannot function efficiently, or sometimes at all on those timelines, when freedom to conduct commerce across the globe is held hostage to the political winds in Washington or Peking or Tehran.
It is very easy to throw up one's hands and say, "Let's just get the hell out of the Middle East!" And based on the less than stellar outcomes of our adventures of the past 25 years, that is a rational thing. Nation BuildingTM has been thoroughly discredited, and has, hopefully, been thrown into the dustbin of history, at least until the next president with delusions of grandeur and no common sense decides that Shitcanistan must become a Jeffersonian Democracy, and uses our blood and treasure! And the current situation in the Strait of Hormuz is in all probability a temporary dislocation, as the world scrambles to find alternative methods of transport.
But there is another Strait of Hormuz lurking out there, and another after that one. Even if we fix the issue of a chaotic regulatory landscape and give the economy freedom to plan past the next election, trade routes that can be closed at the whim of despots or 7th century savages is an issue that will never go away.
President Trump's actions against Iran may be politically difficult, but there is no looming occupation of Iran, and the goal of denying the Mad Mullahs and their IRGC handlers a nuclear weapon is unequivocally good. That he is simultaneously degrading their ability to affect global commerce is also an unalloyed good.
Now if we can only get Congress to get off its collective ass and do something about the regulatory miasma!
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Mid-Morning Art Thread
—CBD
Friar Pedro Shoots El Maragato as His Horse Runs Off
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
The Morning Report — 6/ 4 /26
—J.J. Sefton
Good morning kids. Considering the moral, cultural and societal degradation and collapse of Western Civilization that in most cases we brought about on ourselves, there are things that perhaps give us at least a sliver of hope on which to cling. The ghastly butchering of a white Englishman at the hands of an immigrant was bad enough, but the reaction of police and British authorities that made the victim into the perpetrator and the murderer into a hero was even worse, in that it further confirmed my initial assertion about our society and culture as we share a closely intertwined history and lineage with England and given what's happening there and here perhaps a similar fate. And yet, this is happening.
Based on the events that have taken place in Britain in the past 24 hours, this technique does not appear to be as effective anymore. For the first time in memory, white people are organizing in the streets — in large numbers — to advance their own interests. They saw what happened to first-year university student Henry Nowak, who was butchered in the street by a foreigner — like so many other innocent whites living in Britain. They saw how the police handcuffed Nowak and mocked him as the life drained from his body, all because the murderous barbarian claimed that Nowak had been “racist.” They saw how the police in Britain will strip you of your rights and your dignity if they believe you harbor any resentment whatsoever towards the foreign hordes who are destroying your country. They saw how the killer’s family conspired to hide the evidence and concoct a false claim of self-defense — without any remorse whatsoever, only tribal loyalty. And having seen all of this — just the latest in a long string of executions, systemic injustice and humiliation that whites have been forced to endure in Britain for the past several decades — the indigenous people of the UK are finally rising up. They are taking back their own country.
Well whether that last assertion is true is debatable, but the protests over this as well as that of the Islamic rape gangs are, and the reaction from the powers that be in now going after anyone who dares stand up and speak out is naked tyranny. This is England in 2026, the nation that stood up to Hitler and gave us Magna Carta is teetering on the precipice of that New Dark Age that Churchill warned about, but instead of Hitler and the Nazis it will be homegrown self-hating Britons and the foreign-born masses they let in and subsume them that pushes them over the edge into the abyss.
Public outrage in Britain is rising after the release of harrowing police bodycam footage in the stabbing and subsequent arrest of Henry Nowak, an 18-year-old university student who was killed December 3, 2025 in Southampton, England, by a 23-year-old Sikh man named Vickrum Digwa. The circumstances of Nowak’s murder almost defy belief. On their own, they would be enough to send Britain into a spiral of race riots and civil unrest — if Nowak had not been white, and if his killer had not been Indian. As it is, the murder of Henry Nowak will probably not trigger the kind of rioting that George Floyd’s death did in the United States. But it does perfectly illustrate the logic of Black Lives Matter: racial minorities are to be believed and preferred, white people are not — even in cases where whites are the victims of violent crimes. When police arrived on the scene, he lied, telling them Nowak had called him a racist slur, which is a crime in Britain, owing to that country’s lack of anything like a First Amendment. So the police arrested Nowak, not Digwa, even as Nowak pleaded for medical aid, saying he had been stabbed. He told the officers he couldn’t breathe. He said this nine times, and four times he told them he had been stabbed...Instead of helping the victim of a violent attack, the police automatically believed Digwa. Why? Because he’s a racial minority and Nowak was white. The presumption of guilt and innocence, as far as the police were concerned, was determined entirely on the basis of race. The white boy must be guilty, the Sikh man must be the victim... On and on it goes, including the recent case of a Muslim man who called for the beheading of Jews but was released on bail, while white Britons who complained about him were arrested for posting about it on social media. ..This kind of thing has gotten out of hand in Britain, but the impulse to adopt racial preferences is actually an import to Britain from America. One of the odd and disturbing features of modern Britain is the extent to which they have adopted the racial narratives and in-group grievances of the American left — a paradigm wholly unsuited to British culture and history.
And speaking of this side of the pond and this kind of madness
. . . here are are again.Rick Chow, a 61-year-old Chinese store owner, shot an armed teenager he suspected of stealing from his store while defending his son. After a trial, a jury found him not guilty which means that BLMers are doing their “No justice, no peace” and threatening race riots down in South Carolina.
That also means it’s a national news story why, because, well I’ll let CNN tell it, “Chow, 61, who is Asian, shot Cyrus Carmack-Belton in the back after chasing him from his convenience store in Columbia, but maintained he acted to defend his son. The killing sent waves of anguish and grief through the African American community in Richland County, where nearly half the population is Black.”
It’s very vital to spell out that Chow… is Asian. We’ve gotten used to the addition of ‘Black’ or ‘White’, to stories, but now Asians get the same treatment.
In 1992 we cheered on the Rooftop Koreans of Los Angeles who defended themselves from the bloodthirsty savages who were out for blood, to avenge the death of Rodney King. Hopefully there will be rooftop Chinese in Columbia. While the deaths of Rodney King and Carmack-Belton were and are questionable. The reaction to the former and potential reaction to the latter were and will be inexcusable, regardless of the narratives put forth by the usual suspects in the race-hustler/divide-and-conquer complex.
Minnesota Republican Party delegates held a brief moment of silence for Derek Chauvin during their state convention in Duluth, and the expected outrage arrived right on schedule. "The audacity of the Minnesota Republican Party to honor an individual who has both been convicted by a jury of his peers for the murder of a fellow human being, while at the same time violated a professional oath to protect and serve his community, is disgusting," Floyd family attorneys Ben Crump and Antonio Romanucci wrote Tuesday in a statement, according to The Hill. The attorneys demanded that state GOP leaders "issue an immediate retraction of this immoral act and issue an apology to the family of George Floyd and to the people of Minnesota that they serve.". . . George Floyd, as we remember, died on May 25, 2020, after Minneapolis police responded to a call about a counterfeit $20 bill. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner ruled the death a homicide and listed the cause as cardiopulmonary arrest complicating law restraint and neck compression.
The same official report also listed arteriosclerotic and hypertensive heart disease, fentanyl intoxication, and recent meth use as significant conditions.
We're led to believe such an official report from a medical examiner, especially after so many people were fatally shot, yet during COVID, the bullets didn't kill them — the virus did.
Derek Chauvin was convicted of second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter, receiving a 22-1/2-year state sentence and later receiving a concurrent 21-year federal sentence after pleading guilty to civil rights violations.
Chauvin is every bit on the same level as an Alfred Dreyfus, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and to shove it in the face of the Left Nelson Mandela!
If there is a God in Heaven, Ben Crump and his ilk will soon be standing before Him awaiting eternal damnation.
On the one hand, I cannot see Derek Chauvin being exonerated and freed from the Minnesota Gulag but at least Mumia Abu Jamal is still rotting in prison long after I expected him to be unleashed on us by Josh Shapiro.
Funny how conservatives don't cause massive riots whenever real injustice, and not the fictional variety, is unleashed on us. If we were to add up all the depredations, indignities and injustices we have suffered at the hands of Leftists and their ilk lo these many years, there would be nothing left but dust and ashes if we reacted even to a minimal degree what the BLM/Antifa/SOROS goon squads were bought and paid to do.
Lord help them should the day come when we finally say enough is enough.
Have a great day,
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- This story follows a report from late May showing that emergency room (ER) visits caused by tick bites had skyrocketed from 39 per 100,000 to 137 per 100,000.
Scientists Propose Using Genetically Modified Ticks to Make People Allergic to Meat.
- Victor Davis Hanson: California’s decline is no mystery: decades of one-party rule have turned America’s golden state into a warning about the costs of ideological governance.
Can California Still Be Saved?
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Daily Tech News 4 June 2026
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- Apple's MacBook Neo is selling so well the company has doubled production. (MacRumors)
At that rate they'll run out of bad chips and have to start using good ones, but economies of scale may make up for it.
Also the company is reportedly working on a 12GB model for next year. If they can hit the same price that will offer a worthwhile bump in capabilities; 8GB is a bit restrictive even on a Mac.
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Wednesday Night ONT - June 3, 2026 [TRex]
—Open Blogger
Good evening Horde. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans. The bar is open.
Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT which means another edition of random overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and join the fun. Good will offerings of amusing puns are encouraged. Pants are optional but why would you be wearing pants for the ONT? Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors. This is a Tucker, Candace, Megyn and Bill Kristol free zone. Please.
I know what you're thinking. "I've been sitting here all evening in my underwear tearing through a bag of blue ranch Doritos contemplating the mysteries of life. There's crap on television and only cat videos on the internet. If only there was a place on the interweb that was an oasis of sorts. If only there was a place where the eccentric and eclectic gathered and Truth, Justice and the American Way still led from the front. I've got Dorito crumbs everywhere and my glass is almost empty but still...if only there was some overnight thread where the irreverent and insightful blend their collective wisdom and keep vigil to ensure the flames of freedom remain lit..."
Anyway.
[Top photo: Live Free or Die. For reasons.]
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Pratt Summer Cafe
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Ardez, Switzerland
Senior dog moves better than Biden and is ten IQ points smarter. And he's rested and ready to serve.
Cat just couldn't let the last little drop go.
German shepherd checks up on the new kittens.
This German shepherd is almost as keen a reader as I am.
I think maybe hummingbirds would be easier to befriend than crows. Spencer Pratt managed it easily enough.
Oh, and crow update: The crow caller does something, but I don't know what. I can't summon the crows, but I sure can get them squawking. I had about a dozen of them squawking and cawing. But I don't know if their squawking was friendly or hostile, because I don't know if the sounds I'm making are friendly or hostile. I might be saying the crow version of the n-word.
If the crows don't work out, there are other birds.
Even penguins understand right of way. So why do humans not understand they're not supposed to block the doors of buses, subways, and buildings as people are exiting?
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American Carnage: Sanctuary City Rapes, Decarceration Slaughters
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Democrats pretend crime is just something that happens and that it's not fair to blame them for it.
But all of these crimes are the direct, inevitable, and easily-predictable consequences of the policies they choose, not just random events.
A deranged homeless man barred from entering Atlanta's public transportation stabbed an innocent 66-year-old woman 20 times for no reason, killing her.
Is it "public" transportation if the people actually paying for it can't use it because state-sponsored Droogs will murder them if they board?
One preventable slaughter after another.
A chilling, apparently random stabbing on a MARTA train leaves a 66-year-old woman deadA 25-year-old man has been charged with murder after police say he stabbed a woman to death on an Atlanta commuter train in an apparently random attack.
It's not "random" any longer. It is, as the Joker says, "all part of the plan."
John Elijah Matthews was arrested around noon on Saturday, moments after he stepped off the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority train at the Oakland City Station, said MARTA Police Chief Scott Kreher. First responders tried to resuscitate Margaret Swan, 66, but she died at the scene, he said....
Kreher said video from the train depicted an unprovoked and chilling attack on an apparent stranger, and that Swan was stabbed up to 20 times.
"There's no evidence at this time to suggest they knew each other -- this was merely a random act of violence," Kreher said.
"He walked over, stood next to her, and within 30 seconds he had killed her," using a small pocket knife, Kreher said. "He looked at her, didn't say anything to her, pulled out a knife."
Other people were on the train at the time, Kreher said, but the suspect did not approach any of them.
"He finished attacking her, and he just stood there and waited for the train to stop in Oakland City. He got off the train car, went over on the platform, and just sat down. He didn't even try to run or hide," Kreher said.
Why should he? He's been protected by the anti-human state all his life. Why should he expect this time to be different?
This Solid Citizen and Cultural Enrichment Officer was supposedly "permanently banned" from Atlanta's public transportation system. What does that matter, when you don't prosecute fare-evaders? It's easy to jump the turnstiles.
To get banned from a subway, you need to have had many contacts with the police.
But the Decarceration Agenda made sure he was free to menace and murder at will.
Horrific video taken by passengers of the slain woman lying on a train floor splattered with blood here.
The police are refusing to release video. Why would they? The Regime doesn't want the proles to see their handiwork.
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Virginia Judge: It's Unconstititional To Ban That a Repeat Convicted Child Sex Offender from Loitering Outside a Children's Swimming Pool
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The judge is so determined to set the pedophile free to molest children that he's decided that it's "unconstitutional" to mandate that a repeat sex offender who has admitted he gets off on exposing himself to children can't, well, go into the YWMC lockers when little girls are present and expose himself.
You may say, well at least Virginia will appeal this ruling.
Except the guy appealing it will be the incompetent DEI disaster Jay Jones who proudly wishes for his political opponents' children to be murdered.
Even if he were to appeal it legitimately and not deliberately tank it -- he'd wind up tanking it, because he's an incompetent who only has his position and his law degree due to DEI and white guilt.
Registered sex offender Richard Cox is facing charges in Arlington County for exposing himself to women and girls in school locker rooms, but the case was thrown out by an Arlington County Circuit Court judge.For months in 2024, Cox used women's locker rooms in Fairfax County and Arlington County. Those two counties allow people to use bathrooms and locker rooms based on their chosen gender identity.
Cox claims he's a transgender woman.
"My civil rights as a transgender person allow me to use a public facility, including restrooms and changing rooms that identify as my gender," Cox can be heard saying to Fairfax County police in November 2024 on a police body-worn camera that 7News obtained.
Although Fairfax County police never arrested the registered sex offender for exposing himself to women and girls in rec center locker rooms throughout the county, Arlington County police did.
In 2024, Cox used women's locker rooms in two high schools and a county fitness center in Arlington.
For that, the Arlington Commonwealth's Attorney Parisa Dehghani-Tafti's office indicted the sex offender for loitering within 100 feet of schools and child swim and gymnastics classes, and exposing himself to women and girls in the locker rooms.
Cox asked a judge for the indictments to be dismissed and that's what happened.
Judge Daniel Lopez ruled the Virginia law under which Cox is being prosecuted void for vagueness under the Fourteenth Amendment.
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The judge's core reasoning is that the statute criminalizes "loitering" within 100 feet of schools and child day programs by some convicted sex offenders, but does not define "loitering" or give standards for when it becomes a felony.
Loitering has a long-established legal meaning -- it means contriving to remain present at a place without having any legitimate business there. If you are barred by law from entering a child's swimming center, you cannot hang around the doors waiting for kids to come out. Because, what is your legitimate business at this place? You have none. You are barred from entry. Why are you there, then?
This is a significant ruling because it not only found an issue with how the statute was applied to Cox. It says the statute itself is constitutionally defective.
The Arlington prosecutor disagrees with the judge's decision and appealed.
The Court of Appeals accepted the case, and now Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones will represent the commonwealth on appeal.
Great.
For now, everything in the Arlington trial court is on hold.Separately, Cox was recently convicted by a jury for possessing child pornography, which Arlington police found when they arrested him at Barcroft Sports and Fitness Center.
He brought the child porn to the children's locker rooms. Great.
Meanwhile, in Fairfax County, Cox is charged with sexually assaulting a woman in 1988."I want to see justice served," the victim told 7News Reporter Nick Minock.
Note he's been a rapist and a child sexual material offender from before he "became transgender."
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Democrats Nominate Al Qaeda and Hamas-Linked Advocate for the WTC Bombing Mastermind for Congress
—Disinformation Expert Ace
January 6th protesters stole a chair and a coat-rack so MAGA must be purged.
Meanwhile, Democrats are electing actual Al Qaeda terrorists.
This cannot go on. And the good/bad news is-- it will not.
Joel Mowbray @joelmowbrayBREAKING -- A protege of the Jihadist behind the World Trade Center bombing, Adam Hamawy, has been declared the WINNER of the Dem primary in the solid Blue district.
Hamawy's mentor was Omar Abdel Rahman, known as the Blind Sheikh, who was close with Osama bin Laden.
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Because it was such a crowded field, Hamawy got thru with just over a quarter of the vote. And since the district is very blue (61% for Kamala), this unrepentant Islamist will join Congress -- unless national Democrats can somehow force him aside.
They won't. They're all in. The Communists and Terrorists have, get this, joined forces.
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Joe Biden's Childhood Stutter Crashes Doctor Jill's Book Promotion to Ask Her How Much She Loves Him
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The childhood stutter flares up from time to time, resulting in dementia.
Former President Joe Biden crashed his wife Jill's debut book talk Tuesday, stealing her spotlight to bizarrely ask the former first lady whom she loves the most in a cringe-inducing moment before aides could cut him off.Jill Biden had been wrapping up a Q&A about her newly released book, "A View from the East Wing," with moderator Whoopi Goldberg at the 92nd Street Y on the Upper East Side when Biden, 83, left his seat in the audience and wandered up to the edge of the stage.
Goldberg had read a comment from the audience thanking Biden for his service, and Jill, 75, stood up to give her husband a standing ovation when the ex-president's seemingly unplanned speech began.
"I have a question," Biden said unprompted, and without a microphone, while flanked by security guards.
"Joe has a question, like you couldn't ask it later?" Jill responded.
"Who do you love most in the whole world?" Biden enquired.
Christmas, this is embarrassing.
"Whoopi," Jill answered, causing the audience to break into laughter.
As "The View" co-host tried to speak, Biden continued to stand and blankly face his wife, seemingly unhappy with her answer.
The former first lady eventually caved and said, "I love you most, Joe. Was that it? Was that the answer he wanted?"
"It's overwhelming, isn't it?" the 46th president continued -- barely audible without a microphone.
"Overwhelming, well, that's what keeps him on his toes, he's never 100% sure, I always keep him guessing, is that not true?" Jill said as her husband lowered his head and made the sign of the cross.
In an attempt to end the bizarre moment and wrap up the event, Goldberg encouraged the audience to purchase Jill's new book. But Biden remained standing and pointed his finger as the exit music played.
"My book...," Joe Biden began before a crew member came from backstage to hand him a microphone. "My book, which comes out in September, read it...""Do I have to remind him that this is my event?" Jill asked jokingly.
"The only thing that Jill does better than write, she's a beautiful woman," Biden declared before the event finally concluded.
Her vagina goes "vroom, vroom." You should hear it.
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California Primary Results
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Although California will take days or weeks to full tabulate the " " " votes " " ", it appears that Karen Bass will take about 35% of the vote, Spencer Pratt will take 30%, and communist carpetbagger foreigner Nithya Raman 22%.
That means that Bass and Pratt will go on to the general election, which will be held on November 3rd.
Unless Karen Bass's fraudulent vote elves can print up enough fake votes to get her over 50%, in which case she wins immediately. But I think that's too big a lift even for the Democrat fraudsters of the Home of "Ballot Harvesting," California.
Ugh:
Byron York @ByronYork54m
At the moment we have 58% of the votes counted in the California governor's race and 63% counted in the LA mayor's race. From NYT: "Most Californians vote by mail, and ballots postmarked on or before Election Day have one week to arrive. In the 2024 primary, about half of results were reported by 5 a.m. Eastern time the day after the election. It took 10 days before 95 percent of results were reported."
Assuming they can't "harvest" enough "votes" to get to 50%...
When I saw those numbers, my first thought was "that's terrible, that means the communist vote is 52% combined and Spencer Pratt will lose."
However...
Karen Bass is the incumbent and could not manage but a tiny bit more than one third support.
An incumbent with 35% support is an incumbent in trouble. Not all of Nithya Raman's voters will migrate to Bass -- after all, they're choosing against the obvious leftwing candidate, the incumbent, for a reason.
Also... the fact that we've established that the total universe for votes for leftwing candidates is right around 52% is bad news for Bass. That's her ceiling. It's a low ceiling.
Regarding the governor's race: the top two vote-getters were Obama/Biden non-entity and incompetent Xavier Bercerra and British FoxNews populist commentator Steve Hilton. Deranged billionaire Tom Steyr and Republican sheriff Chad Bianco finished beneath them. Given that there are still votes to count, and anything can happen in a Democrat-controlled 5th Quarter of voting, it's possible that either of those two could slip into the top two.
There have been reports that Xavier Bercerra used dubious means such as bots to boost the impression that he was the front-runner. It seems to have worked, and there's nothing to be done about that now. But bots aren't going to put him over the top in the general election -- that will require real fraudulent votes.
Other Democrats have already conceded defeat, including college teacher and the Native American demonic Spirit of Ravening Hunger, Fat Wendigo Katie Porter.
I don't think Bass or Bercerra will wear well over the next five months.
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Scorned Woman Pelley Shrieks Out
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Adam Klasfeld @KlasfeldReportsScott Pelley is the face of the highest-rated newsmagazine on TV, and every "60 Minutes" staffer in the room reportedly gave him a standing ovation after this exchange.
The idea that Bari Weiss can blithely fire him without also committing institutional arson is naive.
Pelley did this because he has integrity-- but also because he has power.
Does he though...?
Dylan Byers @DylanByers#SCOOP: Scott Pelley had a meeting with CBS News leadership at 5pm ET to discuss a path forward after his protest in 60 Minutes all-hands. The two sides did not find common ground and it now seems likely he will either resign or be fired, though neither has happened yet.
He was given a standing ovation by the other communist cultists in the room, which they were eager to tell the media that they were sure Nick Bilton could hear as he was walking away.
John Ondrasik @johnondrasikThe fact that every staffer stood and applauded is further proof that 60 minutes needs a full tear down.
And now: the bitch has been fired.
And I mean fired. CBS didn't just let his contract lapse without renewal, which they were obviously already planning to do.
Fired for cause, invalidating whatever time is left on his contract, and ending their obligation to pay him under it.
Gross insubordination is almost always a cause for a firing under the terms of a contract, and CBS exercised their right to fire for that reason.
And Pelley left them no choice. But this wasn't bravery. Again, he knew he was being let go. This flounce is all advertising for his substack and podcast, which I'm sure will be fair and objective, because that's what Scott Pelley insists he is.
CBS News axed veteran "60 Minutes" correspondent Scott Pelley on Tuesday night, a day after after the longtime network star blasted editor-in-chief Bari Weiss and challenged her newly installed leadership team in a heated confrontation that exposed the widening civil war inside the iconic newsmagazine.In a letter obtained by The Post, newly appointed "60 Minutes" executive producer Nick Bilton blasted Pelley in informing him he was fired "for cause effective immediately."
"[Y]ou hijacked my first meeting with staff to disparage me, my qualifications, and my intentions with remarkable incivility and contempt," Bilton wrote, referring to Monday's heated face-off between the journo and his boss.
Bilton further accused Pelley of staging a "performative display of hostility" and claimed he had "no interest in contributing to the future success of the show, or approaching my new tenure with a mind open to collaboration and progress."
By the way, Sex Machine Brian Stelter reported that Bilton had asked to meet with Pelley privately, before the meeting, to discuss next steps. Pelley refused to attend a private meeting, choosing instead this flouncing public tantrum.
Brian Stelter @brianstelterWorth noting amid all the coverage of Scott Pelley's scathing criticism today: According to a person with knowledge of the matter, Bari Weiss and Nick Bilton sought out Pelley for a private meeting last week, but the longtime correspondent did not take them up on the offer to talk.
I think Pelley refused to attend that meeting because he expected they would tell him his contract was not being renewed "but we can talk about what your role will be as we wind down the time remaining on the contract."
And I have a source for that -- the source is It's F***ing Obvious, Jack! Open your ears, Jerky!
"I am here to deliver first-in-class news programming, not to make headlines about newsroom drama," Bilton wrote.
He went on to tell Pelley: "Your antipathy to the future of the show has come through loud and clear. And I have heard you."At the meeting in question, Pelley told Bilton that the new leader had "slender" qualifications for the job and would "never be welcome here," sources previously told The Post.
Bilton fired back: "You are not going to intimidate me in front of this group of people."
The correspondent also accused Weiss of "murdering '60 Minutes'" and claimed she "was brought in to kill it and is doing exactly that," according to sources familiar with the exchange.
The clash lasted roughly 15 minutes before Bilton ended the meeting and walked out.
The confrontation divided staffers at CBS News, with some insiders branding Pelley's behavior "bullying" and "grandstanding" -- and yet another reckoning that it was "a set-up," sources told The Post.
Nick Bilton had no choice. If an underling pulls bullshit like this, degrading you, undermining you, and attempting to pose as your superior, you have no choice but to fire him. Gross insubordination can't be tolerated in any organization, even as trivial and inconsequential one as television entertainment. (Which is all 60 Minutes is.)
And now -- He's quitting Twitter and he means it this time, guys!
He's written a long ranty entry in his Slam Book and he wants you all to read it!
Scott Pelley accused CBS News management under Editor-in-chief Bari Weiss of trying to inject "falsehoods and bias" into reporting after the veteran correspondent was fired Tuesday.Pelley, who spent 37 years at CBS News and became one of the most recognizable faces of "60 Minutes," leveled a series of extraordinary allegations against CBS News leadership without giving specifics.
"For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story," Pelley wrote. "I've been told to include assertions that are unverified."
Pelley claimed he repeatedly resisted those efforts."To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them," he said.
He also alleged that politicians had been given influence over editorial decisions."Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast," Pelley wrote. "Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done."
Let me translate that for you. The media decided ten years ago that Republicans were Nazis and that they could no longer report "both sides" because there are not two legitimate sides -- there is the Democrat side, and there is Evil.
Bari Weiss had previously demanded the CECOT story be held up so that she could receive comment from the targets of the hit-piece. Democrat operative Sheryl Alfonsi freaked -- You can't include comment from Trump! He is the Antichrist! His words are the lies of the Devil!
But of course getting and publishing comment or denial from the target of a hit piece had been standard ethical media practice... until ten years ago.
Bari Weiss demanded a return to the former media practice, which was still biased as hell but at least they'd include a denial at the end of the story, read with unmistakable contempt.
That's what Scott Pelley is shrieking out about -- he won't include the "lies and falsehoods" in his story, aka "the denial and comment from the Trump Administration officials he is running political hit pieces against."
Scott Pelley is so obviously a grandstanding bitch that even fired, disgraced CNN Thumb Chris Ciilizza sees through it.
Seen in the most pro-Pelley light, he chose to confront Bilton and Weiss in an all-hands gathering as a way to make his point as big and brightly as possible. Huddling behind closed doors with the bosses wouldn't properly convey his upset over the restructuring at "60 Minutes" etc etc.Seen in a less pro-Pelley light, however, Pelley chose to do his "truth to power" thing not in hopes of actually changing anything but rather as a way to make it as performative as possible -- in a content age in which performative emotion is absolute gold.
The immediate leaking of the audio of Pelley's remarks to literally every media reporter suggests to me that the latter -- and admittedly more cynical -- explanation has real plausibility.
Because let's consider how the next few days are likely to go.
Pelley is very likely to get fired by CBS News. I mean, you can't blast both your immediate boss and your big boss and expect to keep your job. And I would assume Pelley knew that going in! Like, if/when he gets fired, he is not going to be super shocked.
And when he gets fired, Pelley will cut a video announcing he is starting a Substack where he will engage in "fearless" commentary about the capitulation of CBS (and all other media) to Trump and the almighty dollar.
And that Substack will immediately rack up lots and lots of subscribers. And Pelley will make money. Maybe lots of it. (We've seen this exact arc play out repeatedly in recent years.)
Cillizza admits that his media pals are a guild of dinosaurs who just can't accept the public has been increasingly rejecting them for ten years and that they need to change:
But there is also NO doubt that broadcast news -- and cable TV news -- are a dying product. The average age of a CBS News viewer is 62! NBC News is 57. ABC News is a "youthful" 55.That's a problem. Because unless science figures out a way to get us all to live until we are 150, the reality is that the main clientele for what CBS News is offering -- yes, including "60 Minutes" -- is, quite literally, dying off.
Which is why I found myself vigorously nodding my head to the defense Bilton offered on Monday amid the Pelley barrage: "Broadcast is an ice cube that is melting."
YES. YES. YES.
No one -- presumably not even Pelley -- thinks that the solution to what ails big media is more of the same. Like, yes, "60 Minutes" still works! But for how long? And doesn't it make sense to look at your flagship products -- whether that's "60" or the evening news -- and say "How are we going to make this product continue to work amid massive disruption in how people want to consume content?"
To me, the answer is very obvious. Which is why Pelley's criticism -- You guys don't have decades of experience running a broadcast news division!!! -- rings false to me.
If I was Ellison -- or anyone who owns a legacy media brand -- I would want people in the decision-making room who AREN'T old hands at the thing the legacy media brand was built on. Because we know those legacy media content delivery vehicles -- linear TV, print newspapers etc. -- are dying off. And that no amount of expertise in how to make great-looking broadcast TV shows or put together a whiz-bang front page of the print newspaper is going to reverse the steep decline of people who consume their content that way.
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But, again, the fact that neither Weiss nor Bilton have long experience in making TV seems to me more an asset than a detriment. CBS News (and every other legacy outlet) has to figure out new ways to reach people on new platforms. Why not have people -- like Weiss! -- who has done that?
Why then was there a rush to tout Pelley as a hero and Bilton and, by extension, Weiss, as the bad guy(s)?
Because I think a whole lot of journalists -- mostly tied to legacy media but also some in the independent space -- are still clinging to the idea that the way things worked up until 5-10 years ago can still work today and in the future.
They can't.
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We've reached the "kill your darlings" stage of legacy media. The boat has already hit the iceberg. Now the only question is what we do about it. And doing the same old things -- or slight variations on the same old things -- ain't going to work.
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Erick Erickson: "Alarming" Rumors Swirl About Graham Platner's Ejection from Elite Boarding School; More Is Coming About His "Behavior" with Women
—Disinformation Expert Ace
I was wondering about Larry O'Connor's statement from a few weeks back: That the Nazi tattoo is only the tip of the iceberg and much, much worse was coming.
Was the sexting with 6-12 women the "much, much worse"? Or is there more?
Apparently there's more. The really toxic stuff hasn't been released yet.
No one is saying it but it sounds like they're hinting about the r-word, and I don't mean his already established racism. This seems to be hinting about sexual misconduct of some kind.
The latest is the sexting scandal wherein Platner texted sexually explicit messages to a half-dozen to a dozen women. The original report was about a dozen women and the campaign says it was only about a half-dozen. From there came revelations that Platner has been on a social site called Kik, which is a favorite site of predators. And, bubbling to the surface are allegations that Platner might have left school for alarming reasons -- those are being whispered about right now.
Could cheating or an honor code violation be an "alarming reason"? I don't think so. It sounds like something more serious.
He writes about the various people shifting blame for Graham Platner's serial infidelity to the staffer who tipped the media after the texts were shared by his wife.
This includes a Washington Post "reporter," who took the odd position that the source who revealed relevant information about a political candidate should be shunned and banned from employment.
That doesn't sound like a "reporter."
That sounds like a Democrat Party fixer determined to punish those who leak the truth about Nazi candidates:
After people questioned why a "journalist" is so committed to covering up the truth from the public, she deleted that tweet -- and has refused to answer questions about it since.
Of course, Democrat Socialists are also blaming... the Jews. See his substack for that, with a DSA "former campaign staffer" attacking a NYT journalist who wrote about the Platner affairs for having belonged to a "Students for Israel" group in college.
This is where I used to say "unbelievable" but of course it's not unbelievable, it's mainstream Democrat Communist/Nazi/Jihadist Party agitation.
As I've pointed out myself, he notes that when Graham Platner talks vaguely about problems he's had in his marriage, he's talking about a "marriage" that isn't yet three years old. He was sexting with strange women from his wedding day.
He only covered up his SS Death's Head concentration camp guard tattoo a few months ago!
So all the "talks" and "growth" he's talking about -- happened in the past few months.
Back to Erickson, and hints about what kind of "alarming reasons" led to the rich bitch nepo baby's ejection from tony Hotchkiss Academy:
...The man has a Nazi tattoo. He said soldiers in combat deserved to die. He blamed Susan Collins for sending him to war, despite volunteering repeatedly, even going back with Blackwater. He bragged about killing people. He fantasized about rape and said rape victims deserved some blame. He bragged about taking leave to have sex with prostitutes in Southeast Asia. And he claimed he can't get in a porta-potty without masturbating and fantasizing.
I didn't hear about the fantasies about rape, but it's very ominous when combined with the next sentence:
Soon we'll get the even worse allegations against him and what he did to women beyond fantasy.Just remember that the Democrats have stuck with him. Eventually, the PodBros, Bulwark, and the rest will abandon Graham Platner. Once they're done blaming the Jews, the victims, the women around Platner, the Republicans, and others -- they'll abandon him. What's coming will force them to abandon him.
And when they finally flee, remember they were comfortable with him through all of these things -- things that all point to where the next accusations will be.
I can't wait for the Tucker Carlson interview.
Obviously I don't know anything about this, but I am able to read words and infer the meanings they're implying.
Now I wondered, if there's an absolutely radioactive attack coming, why is it being held? The primary is in six days, next Tuesday.
But of course Janet Mills has announced she remains a candidate in the race, albeit one whose campaign is suspended. So Democrats could abandon Platner and vote for Mills instead.
So I think this hit is being held until after they're locked into Platner, after they've chained themselves to his stinking corpse.
Or who knows, maybe this is a false op designed to scare Democrats off of Platner.
I guess we'll see.
In his interview with Two-Way, he says that classmates are talking about the reasons for his ejection from Hotchkiss, and "reporters are circling," and, once again, "women" specifically are talking about it.
Why would women in particular be talking about it if it's just about, say, an underaged DUI? Seems that the allegations have something specifically to do with women.
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Wednesday Morning Rant
—Joe Mannix
Despite most of the Horde not yet reaching the age of 29, many nonetheless have memories that go back much further. This is a temporal oddity, but a useful one. As a result, many will remember the period 30 years ago. A lot was going on the interregnum between the fall of the USSR and the rise of globalization and Islamic extremism. Economically and financially, this era was defined by high finance (though not as much was the mid-aughts would be) and high technology. The latter, fueled by the promise of the Internet and manic irrationality brought us what is now usually referred to as the "dot-com bubble."
Companies with no profits, no real plan to become profitable and in some cases even without meaningful revenues went public and raked in credulous investor capital. Other companies saw staggering growth in valuations as already-public companies that became major players in internet infrastructure were handsomely rewarded by the mania. Not all of the latter companies failed, but many never recovered and have never achieved their dot-com heights in the thirty years since. The narrative of invincibility became a narrative of dread as it the mania collapsed. The aftermath of the dot-com bubble took years to shake out, and set up some of the environment that led directly to the subsequent 2008 "Global Financial Crisis" and the following Eurozone debt crises.
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Mid-Morning Art Thread
—CBD
Cupid Chastised
Bartolomeo Manfredi
Good old Bart is considered one of the many Caravaggisti, and it is obvious that he embraced Caravaggio's style, and quite well!
From the Getty Museum website:
Bartolomeo Manfredi was known throughout Italy and beyond as Caravaggio's closest follower. More than simply copying Caravaggio's style, Manfredi reinterpreted his subjects and rendered new ones, while drawing upon and propagating Caravaggesque naturalism and dramatic use of chiaroscuro.
