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Lots of appreciative comments in the "X" thread. And:
Bohemian Waxwings are just beautiful. Here are some cool facts:
They're true nomads—one banded in British Columbia was found 13 months later in South Dakota, while another flew 280 miles in 11 days.
Their red feather tips come from carotenoids in berries, and the waxy tips grow bigger as they get older.
They have a specialized large liver to metabolize ethanol from fermented fruit, but can still get drunk!
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Happy 7th Birthday to our AoSHQ Swiss Guide Dog, Gioia!
Meet The PetMorons
Bun Bun is on the prowl
She's literally waiting under the bird feeder.
Miley
Bun Bun looks lovely and nonchalant by the beautiful flowers, some of which are also described in the Gardening Thread.
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By-Tor's pup Ruger is ready for a good walk!
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In case you missed the Gardening Thread:
Hey, KT
Summer has arrived in Cowtown. Water lilies, dragonflies and rainbow minnows are flourishing, and bullfrogs have spawned. And the Pancho pup is keeping the squirrels away.
R/s
CrotchetyOldJarhead
Good work, Pancho!
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Thank you for sharing your pets and animal photos and stories with us today.
If you would like to send pet and/or animal stories, links, etc. for the Ace of Spades Pet Thread, the address is:
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My terrace garden is pretty small so each blossoming is a little thrilling.This tiger lily was one tiny plant two years ago. I had trouble getting a good photo because they are in the planter and it is taller than I am. Of course, if you've met me, that is not difficult.
Sharon(willow's apprentice)
Thrilling photos! You did well in compensating for the height of the planter!
Hi KT,
The first Hog Wild daylily bloomed, plus white lilies (each stalk is like an entire bouquet).
Miley
What a gorgeous daylily! Interesting to see the differences in flower form between the daylilies and the lilies.
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Edible Gardening/Putting Things By
Pawpaws spotted at the creek yesterday. They are not ripe yet so DO NOT EAT. They will make you really sick. September or so they will be ready.
- fd
Let us know how they taste!
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In some earlier threads this week, there was some discussion of kale as a murder weapon, or at least as a non-food item. Suitable only as decoration on salad bars.
But for gardeners, there is another species of kale. The Siberian kales, related to rutabagas, are noted for bolting late in the spring. A kale breeder at Wild Garden Seeds says about Red Ruffled kale, "Rodrigo . . . harvested a treasure of "kale raab" from it during the hungry gap, before spring has arrived and markets are spare. He commented on the caliper of the tender stems, their weight, and sweetness. Leaves grey-green with purple-red veins and stems."
The Siberian Kales are not very decorative because they start to wilt almost as soon as they are picked. But they are easier to eat than regular kale.
Winter Red Kale
Red Russian is the only variety of kale "napini", "raab", "rapine" - or whatever you want to call the bolted stems and buds - that I have eaten. The flavor is fine, considering that the plant bolts in very warm weather here. The flowers are perfectly edible, too. They would be highly appreciated at a time when other veggies were not available in stores.
Perhaps even Piper's Ghost might enjoy the little yellow flowers.
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Hey, KT
Summer has arrived in Cowtown. Water lilies, dragonflies and rainbow minnows are flourishing, and bullfrogs have spawned. And the Pancho pup is keeping the squirrels away.
Evergreen shrub, erect, dense, to 8 ft (2.5 m) high and wide, may be a small tree 20-30 ft (6-9 m). Leaves opposite, simple, elliptical to oval, 4-6 cm long, leathery, margins entire and slightly wavy and irregularly turned under (revolute), glossy, essentially smooth and dark green above, paler and woolly below; petiole stout, to about 13 mm long, grooved and flattened above. Flowers appear in winter, male and female flowers on separate plants (dioecious), male catkin-like clusters are yellowish to greenish then gray, 8-20 cm long ("silk tassels"), female flower clusters are shorter, 5-9 cm long. Fruit are in grape-like clusters, each is round, about 6 mm wide, at first green but finally covered with a purplish-gray pubescence; may be present through the summer if not eaten by birds.
Sun or part shade. Not fussy about soil type, if well-drained. Considered a good foliage plant, can be grown as a hedge, moderate irrigation needed. Prune immediately after flowering. A few male cultivars with especially long "tassels" are available, 'James Roof' (30 cm), 'Evie' (25 cm).
From The Famous Pat*:
Name that tree: Husband and I used to live in the Bay Area of CA, and we strongly believe that tree is Garrya elliptica, also called Garrya, or Coast Silk Tassel.
Teresa in Forth Worth (and anyone else with sporadic asparagus): Cook the few spears you get, cut them up and add them to a salad - little tasty surprises as you go. Or cook them with corn or green beans. (We've pretty much given up on our asparagus bed. This year I planted broccolini at one end of the bed. And if I need space next year, I'll just overprint the asparagus some more.)
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Did autocucumber say "overprint" instead of "overplant"?
We may need to do a feature on asparagus - choice of variety (for climate), planting and care.
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Pat*'s Hubbie:
@40 > I have a question for you Morons, I have tried, unsuccessfully, for years, to eliminate Creeping Charlie from my lawn (northern MA). I have tried every weed killer mentioned on the interwebs and have pulled up as much as my old body will permit and yet it thrives. HALP!
Triclopyr is your huckleberry.
Martha Stewart has some additional advice and a nice photo for those who don't know what Creeping Charlie is. Related to mint, like lots of invasive plants.
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(overplant!)
From Boise area: lows 48-61 F, highs 72-91. Some heavy wind gusts, lots of sycamore sticks down - so far we've raked up half the lawn. Lots of blooms - fireweed, peony, blue penstemon, bearded iris, chamomile, larkspur, wild rose hedge (I'm gathering petals).
Checked the fruit trees - most have no fruit, or just a few. Strawberries are producing! Garlic scapes got cut off. Potato bags had to be topped up. Some of the orange bell pepper starts look very bad, but the reds and poblanos are OK so far.
Under Puttering At Home, we bottled beer, a style called Kentucky Common - made with corn, which we hadn't worked with before. It comes out short of 5 percent alcohol, with a very light flavor - what Husband calls "construction beer", and fancy people call "sessionable".
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Hope everyone has a nice weekend.
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With the recent news of mounting deaths due to heat in Europe, the latter position is becoming somewhat embarrassing.
Back in 2019, the Smithsonian actually published a positive piece on the American invention of air conditioning: The Unexpected History of the Air Conditioner
Working inside an office during a heatwave in June. A dinner party in July. Buying chocolate in August. If you talk to Salvatore Basile, author of the book Cool: How Air Conditioning Changed Everything these things wouldn’t have happened in America without the ability to cool the temperature around us.
“It has shaped our world to the extent that people can carry on very normal lives during the hot months, which would not have happened before,” Basile says.
Today, almost 75 percent of U.S. homes have air conditioning, but for an appliance that has become a near necessity for Americans, one of the first of its kind was surprisingly unconcerned with human comfort.
At the turn of the 20th century, humidity threatened the reputation of Brooklyn’s Sackett-Wilhelms Lithographic and Publishing Company’s high-quality color printing. After two summers of extreme heat disrupted business and caused swelling pages and blurry prints, the printing company found that a nascent cooling industry could offer help.
Willis Carrier, a 25-year-old experimental engineer, created a primitive cooling system to reduce humidity around the printer. He used an industrial fan to blow air over steam coils filled with cold water; the excess humidity would then condense on the coils and produce cooled air.
“Not only did it solve the problem, but [the cool air] started to make people comfortable, and then the lightbulb went off,” Basile says.
Even Carrier knew that his initial invention was not the most effective way to control humidity and continued tinkering with the technology. By 1922, Carrier had created the safer, smaller and more powerful Centrifugal Refrigeration Compressor, the precursor to modern air conditioning. At the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, one of the first practical centrifugal refrigeration compressor’s dating to 1922 is held in historic recognition of Carrier’s feat.
Experts are quick to point out that crediting Carrier as the father of modern cooling technology would overlook decades-long efforts by other inventors who used refrigeration to make hot days more productive or comfortable, though. Long before Carrier was even born, University of Glasgow professor William Cullen evaporated liquids in a vacuum thus creating refrigeration technology as early as 1748. . .
The story of the Florida doctor is interesting. And then there is the contribution of the movies to air conditioning . . .
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Another kind of American inventor, Martha Stewart, published A Brief History of the Refrigerator. The refrigerator is not all-American, but was refined here. This completes both of WaPo's 2015 topics above, I guess.
A lot of history buffs check in at this site, but Powerline posted a link to an interesting compilation of potentially important figures in American history:
A menagerie of 80 VPs, Speakers, Presidents Pro Tem, and Secretaries of State and Treasury who were first-in-line to inherit the White House from 47 presidents
These 80 included:
A general who won the Nobel Peace Prize and also wrote a musical piece performed by classical masters. Fifty years later, with lyrics added, it topped the Billboard charts for six weeks, making an R&B singer the first African American with a #1 hit. Other recordings featured Louis Armstrong, Art Garfunkel, Van Morrison, Merle Haggard, Cass Elliot, Freddy Fender, and countless others. (Videos below.)
A person of color who predated Barack Obama and Kamala Harris by nearly a century.
A Jewish Christmas tree farmer who lived next-door to a future president who also grew Christmas trees.
A man whose friends claimed (almost certainly wrongly) that he was actually President of the U.S. for one day.
A world-class plant geneticist whose sharp leftward turn and involvement with astrology and mysticism may have cost him the presidency and who learned botany from George Washington Carver, who lived as a guest in his house.
One who was so despised by his fellow senators that he derailed a presidential impeachment.
A 20th century diplomat who had been a right-hand man to Abraham Lincoln and was a poet, novelist, and naturalist.
A man who rose from stock clerk at GM to Chairman of U.S. Steel in 12 years.
Several Confederate officials and/or military officers.
A general described by Winston Churchill as “the noblest Roman of them all.”
A dying man who spent almost all his heartbeat-away time in Cuba.
A wit who said, “What this country needs is a really good five-cent cigar.”
Another who said the vice presidency “wasn’t worth a bucket of warm piss.”
You’ll meet these and many more in the chronology below. . .
American history - never boring. Can you identify any of these individuals by the brief statements above, without checking the substack? Have you studied the lives of any of the persons above?
On the whole, it’s been a good week. It’s not every week that serves up the kind of supreme schadenfreudey goodness that comes from the firing of the pompous CBS News blowhard Scott Pelley, with more to follow. Less noticed was that NPR laid off most of its climate change reporters this week, too. If NPR is giving up on the climate crusade, it is well and truly over. The strong showing of Steve Hilton and Spencer Pratt (fingers crossed about those “late” votes) is also cheering, though it will still be an uphill fight to November. England continues to spiral down the drain, but after their George Floyd-in-reverse moment, I am cheered to see anti-police riots in Birmingham. Oh, and props to DOCTOR Jill Biden for providing more free entertainment with her memoir. Can Hunter’s memoir be far behind? And Obama’s library opened, with a structure that looks like it belongs in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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Music
John Phillip Sousa marches have become part of America. From the Greenville Concert Band in 2023:
John Philip Sousa composed 136 marches between the years 1873 and 1931, and he described this march as his best one. Memorable and powerful in every respect, Semper Fidelis, composed in 1888, is the official march of the United States Marine Corps and takes its title from the motto of the Corps: “Always Faithful.” The special importance of this march is shown by the fact that Semper Fidelis was played as a funeral march when the Marine Band accompanied John Philip Sousa’s body on his way from the Marine Barracks to the Congressional Cemetery in 1932.
What is your favorite fun American music?
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Hope you have something nice planned for this weekend.
Comments are closed so you won't ban yourself by trying to comment on a week-old thread. But don't try it anyway.
UPDATE: A cursory search didn't show anything dramatic in the news about the scheduled June 4 state court appearance for the property manager still charged with improper disposal of hazardous waste.
Before we enter the Prayer Revival, just a few housekeeping matters to go over. (Rulz for those of you in Lake Mills)
1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate.
2) Be kind. Be nice.
3) Must we address the issue of running with sharp objects?
4) Have a great weekend!
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AoSHQ Weekly Prayer List
Please submit any prayer requests to me, “Annie’s Stew” at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks unless we receive an update.
Prayer Requests:
3/28 – Hrothgar asked for prayers for a dear and long time close friend and former neighbor, Daniel, who is scheduled for open heart surgery in mid-April. Prayers for his wife would be appreciated as well, as she will be carrying a heavy load for the next few months.
4/18 Update – Daniel survived his complex open heart surgery. He is sitting up and it seems like it went well, but they are not going to release him as quickly as he would like, so he is not happy. Thanks to the Horde for the prayers and please keep praying for his dear wife, who now has even more to put up with.
5/16 Update – Hrothgar sends thanks for the prayers for Dan. Thanks to his attitude and the miracles of modern heart surgery, Daniel is back home and in good spirits and mobile. He still has a lot of rehab ahead, but it sounds like a pretty good recovery to be home only 20 days after being on the table!
3/28 – Jordan61 posted that Mr. Jordan61 is back in the hospital. His sepsis has returned and gotten into where his compression fracture is, and he has vertebral osteomyelitis. The doctor is supposed to come in today and let them know the plan.
4/9 Update – On 4/1 Mr. Jordan61 was released from the hospital with six weeks of IV antibiotics, which Jordan61 is administering every 8 hours. He’s in a lot of pain; they’ve given him oxy, fentanyl, and dilaudid, and nothing seems to touch it. From what they were told, the pain won’t subside until the infection is cleared up. For the time being, he is bed-bound and they are limiting his movement as much as possible to keep the pain to a minimum. Jordan61 will send updates with progress.
4/25 Update – Mr. Jordan61 is making slow but steady progress. He can get up and walk for short periods of time, and can sit in the living room for an hour or so per day. He is halfway through the IV antibiotics, with 3 weeks to go. A physical therapist will be coming to help him build strength and learn how to move without aggravating his back injury. Thank you all for the prayers!
5/26 Update – Mr. Jordan61 had his last antibiotic infusion on 5/24 and his PICC line was removed on 5/26. He will have follow-up blood work in 2 weeks but for now, all looks good!
4/3 – Teresa in Fort Worth posted an update. Her chemo seems to be holding things steady for now. Unfortunately, as she is receiving a steroid, she has gained about 25 pounds. Her blood sugar has also jumped up about 40 points (which only happens when she is on steroids).
4/24 Update – Teresa in Fort Worth provided an update: The pump that was put in to battle cancer in December can only be used for 6 months. After that, it starts to damage the liver. So she may have to go back onto the medication that made her lose her hair and messed up her vision and nails, and then return to this medication after a break. This is not good news, since this new medication is working so well. But for now, she is doing well and is incredibly grateful for the time that she has been given so far.
6/1 Update – Teresa had a CT scan and has seen the surgeon. Everything looks good/stable. There are no new tumors and the ones that are there have pretty much stayed the same or shrunk. No metastises seen. Additional good news is that she can stay on the current medication, and just alternate it with other meds. She continues to respond extremely well to the protocols. She sends her gratitude for each and every prayer.
4/18 – neverenoughcaffiene asked that Devyn be kept in prayers. She is a young mother of 2 with a mass on her esophagus. The Doc said it was scar tissue and hopefully the second opinion will agree.
5/23 Update – Devyn had the biopsy and is waiting for results. Prayers are appreciated.
4/18 – Smell the Glove could use some prayers as therapy and rehab occur after gout/sepsis.
5/2 Update – The gout has cleared and the infection in the lower back is healing.
5/18 Update – Smell the Glove may be out of rehab this week, but still would need wound care at home. Thanks for all the prayers and well wishes!
4/18 – Sam Adams requested prayers for a friend, Mary F, who was just sent to a long-term recovery facility after having a tracheostomy.
5/2 Update – Mary’s breathing is improving, and they are weaning her off assisted breathing. She is now off the ventilator for 12 hours a day, and they are aiming for 14 hours soon. Many thanks to all of the Moron Horde for the prayers.
5/2 – neverenoughcaffiene requested prayers for parishioners at her church, who lost their newborn daughter, Astrid.
5/7 – turambar asked for prayers for relatives. Mom needs prayers as she was admitted to the hospital to check her heart and cardio. They did not find pneumonia. Two months ago, she fell at her assisted living place, and broke her hip. She also has dementia. Turambar’s uncle fell recently and broke his hip, too.
5/9 – D asked for prayers. He was let go from his IT job and has started a business making and selling lens cleaners to make ends meet. Please contact Annie’s Stew if you’d like more information – either to order lens cleaners, or if you’d like to contact him related to IT job openings (DBA/Network Admin).
5/11 – rez986 asked if anyone had an update on Neidermeyer’s Dead Horse’s health. The last info Annie’s Stew has was from January, 2026, that he’d been given 6 months to live due to heart failure and was being treated and waiting for a transplant at Mayo.
5/16 Update – Dash my lace wings! posted that NDH is recovering well. IrishEi posted that NDH did receive a heart transplant and that she is doing well. She also posted a link to NDH’s X account, and her fundraising page.
5/23 – rez986 sent thanks for the updates on NDH. It is much appreciated.
5/15 – Toad-O requested prayers for his second ex-wife, the mother of his two children. They were divorced 25 years ago, and 3 years later, she was diagnosed with schizophrenia, and the children came to live with Toad-O. The ex-wife is now suffering from advanced Alzheimer’s, and has been living with Toad-O’s daughter and her husband. The ex-wife fell last month and and cracked 2 vertebrae, and just was taken to ER with a rapid heartbeat and low blood pressure due to dehydration. Prayers are appreciated for her and also for the daughter who has sacrificed a lot to care for her.
5/16 – Anna Puma requested prayers for the family of Dan Fordice, who was killed when the aircraft he was flying crashed. He leaves behind a wife, 3 children, and many friends. He was a Warbird flyer, a CEO, and a veteran of the 2/20th SFG.
5/16 – Tonypete asked for prayers for Jane who is dying of breast cancer, and for Cheri who is in jail (again) for drug related crimes.
5/20 – D gave an update on his wife Susan and her continued battle with cancer. Her cancer markers are still headed in the right direction. She is on a new antibiotic, and it is causing some side effects, but it is keeping her out of another surgery, so that is a win. Thanks again to everyone for their prayers. May 1 marked one year since they found out about the cancer, and Susan is doing so well.
5/20 – E gave an update. She and her family were having financial struggles a few months ago, and asked for prayers. E sends her thanks for the prayers, and wanted to let people know that things are getting better, thanks to the Horde’s prayers and their church family. They have resolved their mortgage issue and her husband has resumed his side gig making deliveries. They are also cutting monthly expenses. They would like continued prayers as they deal with the insurance company of the person who crashed into (and totaled) E’s vehicle. Insurance only offered half the replacement value, so that struggle is still going on.
5/23 – San Franpsycho sent a praise report. His prayer to become a grandad has been answered, and Girl F will have a baby in December. Girl F still plans to attend grad school, but will delay a year, which means they will depend on them for child care. This pleases San Franpsycho to the nth degree!
5/23 – Vmom deport deport deport would appreciate prayers. She has been freaking out about her eyesight. Her eye doctor says she has myopic macular degeneration.
5/23 – I used to have a Different Nic could use some prayers as he waits for the results of a biopsy of a mass on his prostate.
6/2 Update – I used to have a Different Nic sent in an update. He has been diagnosed with risk group 2 prostate cancer. It appears to be localized to the prostate but this will be verified via another scan. He has doctor appointments lined up for the next month or so before he starts treatment.
5/23 – George V sends his thanks for the prayers on behalf of his wife, when she had a heart valve replacement. The procedure went very well and she is doing great in the rehab program. But prayers are still needed. There are indications of problems in her lymph nodes that showed up in the scans checking her heart. She will have a biopsy in June, as well as a biopsy on a skin lesion that is looking suspicious. Thank you for all prayers.
5/26 – Doof posted a request for prayers for his mom. She is back in the hospital. She is very weak from one or more infections, and is sleeping a lot. She isn’t really talking when she is alert for a few minutes.
5/27 – Grannysaurus Rex asked for prayers for Sherry, a co-worker, who is being tested for possible cancer of the blood.
5/29 – Bulg requested prayers for his sister, her husband, their four children, and the rest of the family as his sister is dying. She is in palliative care in the hospital, with a lot of blood clots, and is not expected to last long.
5/29 – huerfano requested prayers for her brother, R, whose appendix “got hot”. Luckily he was with his daughter, who got him to ER quickly, and surgery was scheduled for 5/29.
5/29 – Beltway Elite posted that s/he had just signed forms for her/his mom to enter hospice. Mom’s quality of life has been declining since she had a stroke several years ago, and she hasn’t been able to speak or swallow solid food recently.
5/30 – RandomDave posted that he would appreciate prayers as he searches for work. He has had some good job prospects/interviews over the past week.
6/2 – Ellipsis (…) sent in an update. We had prayed for a friend of hers who was going through cancer treatment. It’s been a little over a year, and her port is out now and her hell is over. She is battered and bruised, but clear. Thank you to the Horde for prayers, and praise to Jesus.
6/4 – Teresa in Fort Worth’s niece (Amanda) received a heart transplant a few months ago. One of the complications of that was that her kidneys started failing, and she needed a kidney transplant. On 6/3, she received a new kidney and it appears to be working. Hallelujah! The family is so grateful for the gift from the donor’s family.
For submission guidelines and other relevant info, please contact Annie's Stew, who is managing the prayer list. You can contact her at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. If you see a prayer request posted in a thread comment, feel free to copy and paste it and e-mail it to Annie's Stew. She tries to keep up with the requests in the threads, but she's not here all of the time, so she may not see it unless you e-mail it to her. Please note: Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks or so unless we receive an update.
2 Corinthians 4:8-9
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair, persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.
And recovered both boosters, with them landing autonomously on the company's two purpose-built drone ships.
I was curious as to how long it took mankind to launch its first 50 satellites into orbit, and the answer surprised me: Withing four years of Sputnik there were over a hundred satellite launches. "Space race" is no misnomer.
Which might sounds backwards but illustrates the scale on which the company is operating. SpaceX already has an arrangement with AI company Anthropic, which pays SpaceX $1.25 billion per month to lease compute capacity.
Though it's not clear what they can do. Even direct government investment or loan guarantees for Micron - the one American player among the Big Three memory makers - to accelerate expansion can only go so far because it takes years to build and fit out new factories, and the availability of the equipment for making chips is as constrained as the chips themselves.
Qualcomm is infamous for masking the specs of their processors. For more than a decade every CPU shipped has contained "Kryo" cores according to the company's own datasheets. Those are relabeled Arm cores, but you're not supposed to know which relabeled Arm cores. Could be the A53 from 2012; could be the latest X925. It's all just "Kryo".
It's as if General Motors announced its 2026 Car (TM) with Engine (TM) technology.
Anyway, in this case it has four A720 cores and four A520 cores on a 4nm process, because as soon as one person outside Qualcomm gets their hands on one the real specs leak out.
The cheapest model, the 304, has one performance core, four low-power cores, and one graphics core; the other current models have two, four, and two respectively.
The planned upgrade will bring the count of performance cores to four, a perfectly reasonable number for an everyday laptop.
Expected at the end of last year, these models would have swapped 2GB GDDR7 memory chips for 3GB models, with some unspecified other minor improvements. The 5070 with its 12GB of RAM - limiting for some recent games - would be supplanted by a 5070 Super with 18GB of RAM.
Rumours now include a 12GB 5060 Super, plus the new 24GB 5070 Ti Super and 5080 Super.
No leaks of when or how much, but not soon and not cheap.
But the features it removes are Brave's own - relatively unobtrusive - monetisation efforts.
(Speaking of which, Tom's Hardware has annoying new ads that fill every inch of whitespace on the page. If you set Brave's adblock to "aggressive" it makes them go away and leaves the page readable again. I don't want website owners to starve but there are limits.)
The $60 is a one-time payment and lets you install the browser on up to 10 systems, so I'd only need two licenses.
Yes, it's an e-ink display, so take that refresh rate with a pound of salt, and the resolution as well: In colour it is cut by half, so 1600x1200. Which is not terrible for a 13" display you would use mostly for reading text, but worth remembering.
I did some digging on the original 2012 Nexus 7 tablet - which I owned (and probably still have in a box in the garage), and which had notably murky colour thanks to the choice of a budget LCD panel. That still offered something on the order of 60% of DCI-P3 colour.
Been very busy at work recently, pushing a new project towards release. Got sign-off from both the QA and marketing teams yesterday, so I finally get a weekend off. Ish.
Musical Interlude
Disclaimer: What did you say to me? No, honestly, I couldn't find a translation. (Apparently it's in Teda, a language spoken in Chad.)
Howdy all y'all! Weird Dave is on ONT special assignment this week, so yer ol' pal Weasel is filling in. Since the ONT goes up waaaay past my normal bedtime I really have no idea what I am doing, so please bear with me as I figure out the complexities and subtle nuance of the thread.
With that, grab your favorite beverage and settle in for the overnight!
Man removes a big screw that got stuck in the giant foot of an elephant. How much trust do you need to have in the intelligence of an elephant to put your body directly under his foot as you painfully unscrew the screw out as the elephant cries?
Beta soyboy cuck gets into someone's face, jamming his bird-hand into the guy's face as he rants at him, and discovers he's not in his safe space any longer.
When Leah Wilson learned that an injured crow was trapped in a home's rain gutter, she couldn't ignore it. Overhead, a flock of crows was already sounding the alarm, circling and dive-bombing the area as if calling for help.
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Determined to help, Leah spotted a fire truck parked a few blocks away and decided to take a chance.
"I was like, 'Hey! You look like you want to save a crow today,'" she said with a laugh.
The firefighters happily stepped in, raising their ladder and freeing the injured bird.
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After the rescue, Leah personally drove the crow to a wildlife rehabilitation center. During the trip, something happened that she still remembers vividly.
"He latched on to my finger and held on," she said. "That was life changing."
"I wrapped him up, got him into the car. He was scared, injured, and exhausted. At one point he wrapped his claws around my finger and just held on. I was on the phone with wildlife emergency, trying to stay calm while he wouldn't let go. I will never forget that feeling."
A few days later, she learned the crow had recovered and been released back into the wild. Soon afterward, she experienced something she never expected.
While walking her dog, a crow swooped down and dropped what she describes as a beautiful bundle of feathers at her feet.
Actually that sounds like the "gifts" I'm getting. A dead bird.
Since then, Leah has received more than half a dozen offerings from crows, including sticks, balls of moss, and even a small bird's nest. What might seem unusual to others has become a meaningful reminder of her connection with the natural world.
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Today, her daily walks have become something of a neighborhood event. Crows regularly join Leah and her dog, flying alongside them from block to block.
"It feels so good," she said. "It's like visiting my friends every morning and knowing they're going to be there."
Collins doesn't have to match him in any poll. In her last three wins, the rigged polls drastically underestimated Collins' support. In 2008, polls were 8 points under her final vote performance. In 2014, polls again understated her support by 8 points.
In 2020, polls understated her support by 12 points.
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Democratic challenger Graham Platner are in a dead heat for the November Senate election, according to a recent survey.
Platner has faced a litany of scandals since he started his campaign, including having a tattoo featuring Nazi symbolism, and increased in recent days and weeks with revelations about sexually inappropriate social media posts and extramarital sexting.
Platner and Collins each earned 46% support among likely voters, with 8% undecided in the latest survey from Fabrizio, Lee & Associates, a Trump-aligned pollster. Among those voters, 39% said they would "definitely vote for Collins, while 40% said they would "definitely" vote for Platner. Politico first obtained the survey.
The most recent RealClearPolitics.com polls average has Planter leading by 7.4%.
Platner's scandals appear to have contributed to the narrowing of the contest.
When asked about this, he says she never told him it was a Totenkampf, so how could he, the owner of the tattoo and allegedly a "military expert" and "history buff," know what a highly-identifiable symbol from the most documented war of all time know?
I don't want to be a sexist, but it's men, not women, who are interested in World War Two and military history. It's not women watching the History Channel. (Though maybe they are -- isn't it all Aliens and Bigfoot now?)
So how did she know what his Totenkampf tattoo was before the military-expert war-buff who owned the tattoo did?
"I'll leave it up to them because I'm not in Maine, but I'll tell you if he were in New Jersey, the abuse of women, let alone the Nazi tattoo...would be disqualifying." pic.twitter.com/dzVGyAc5Lr
Henry Nowak died the same way a civilization dies: abandoned, handcuffed by authorities who neither trusted nor cared for him, and accused of hate crimes he did not commit. His murder is as tragic as it is enraging. He should still be alive today, and he would be if the last few generations of European elites had stood their ground against the politics of self-hatred and the mass invasion of migrants, many of whom despise the West and the people who love it.
Henry was far from the first to so needlessly lose his life, and I fear he won't be the last. Each time a life like his is lost, the proper response--the only response--is righteous anger. One of the most important things the Trump administration has proven to the world is that stopping the flow of mass migration and defending national sovereignty is a matter of political will and leadership. Anything else is an excuse.
It is because we love the West that we want to preserve it. We love our civilization. We love our country. We love our children. And nobody--nobody--should ever die the way that Henry Nowak died. May God comfort those who loved him, and may God rest his soul.
Carl Benjamin said that we should view the UK police as the "colonial police" -- the colonial police protect the interests of the colonizers, and enforce the colonizer's will against the indigenous, conquered people.
[T]his horror speaks to a deeper moral rot: It reveals the corrosive effect the ideology of wokeness has had on the institutions of our society.
The reason the cops believed the knife-wielding monster and dismissed his dying victim is simple: The killer was a brown-skinned man, and his victim was a white-skinned man.
Critical race theory is rife in Britain's police forces.
Under official guidance, cops must believe every accusation of a "hate crime."
They're trained to always be on the lookout for racism.
Indeed Hampshire Police, which covers Southampton, boasts of its devotion to the woke state's holy mission of hunting down "hate."
Its "race action plan" fizzes with the kind of critical-race drivel you hear on every Ivy League campus.
It describes the Minnesota death of George Floyd in 2020 as a "pivotal moment" for Britain's police, too.
That tragedy compelled the force, it says, to be "anti-racist" in all police actions.
The irony is thick: This force claims to have "learned the lessons" of the death of a black man who cried "I can't breathe" -- yet just six years later its officers are horribly mistreating a white boy who pleaded the same.
It's precisely their embrace of the post-Floyd BLM mania that led these cops to grossly demean young Henry.
Having imbibed the infantile script that casts whites as oppressors and non-whites as oppressed, they were primed to believe Digwa and to doubt Henry.
To them, he was just a white man, and what could be worse than that?
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Prime Minister Keir Starmer and virtually our entire political establishment took the knee for the career criminal Floyd.
They've done no such thing for the kind, thoughtful Henry Nowak.
And there it is: the "virtuous," obscene racial prejudice of the woke elites.
For many self-described religious Democrats, squaring their support for abortion and radical gender ideology with their faith is a challenge. But at Texas Democrat James Talarico's church, supporting abortions is part of the congregation's "goals for the world."
At the Texas church where the Democrat senate hopeful preaches sermons on the need for abortion in the "trans community," church funds are sent not only to abortion giant Planned Parenthood, but also to radical organizations that pay to help facilitate out-of-state travel for women to kill their unborn babies, and an organization that runs a summer camp for transgender-identifying kids as young as 11.
St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, the woke Austin church attended by Talarico, lists Planned Parenthood, which ends the lives of hundreds of thousands of unborn babies every year, as one of the organizations that shares its "vision and goals for the world."
The church, which The Daily Wire reported last week stocks sexually explicit books aimed at young people in its library, sets aside money every year for Planned Parenthood, according to its website. It also describes itself as a "Reproductive Freedom Congregation," meaning it believes that "abortion is a blessing."
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The church's position on abortion is in line with Talarico's own support for codifying Roe v. Wade into federal law to create a so-called right to an abortion. Talarico grounds his support for abortion in the biblical account of an angel visiting the Virgin Mary and telling her that she would miraculously conceive and give birth to Jesus Christ.
"I say all this in the context of abortion, because before God comes over Mary, and we have the incarnation, God asks for Mary's consent," he said during an appearance on the Joe Rogan podcast. "You cannot force someone to create... so that's how I come down on that side of the issue."
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The radical pro-abortion groups are just a sliver of the liberal causes supported by the church. Other organizations St. Andrew's lists on its donation page included Out Youth Austin, the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights, Evergreen Action, and the Carbon180.
Out Youth Austin describes itself as a group that provides "a safe space for LGBTQ+ youth to come together, receive support, and make friends who understand who they are." One of the programs it offers is a summer camp for kids between the ages of 11-17 who identify as gay or transgender.
The bill was sponsored by Democrats Amy Paulin in the State Assembly and Senator Luis Sepulveda in the State Senate. The bill now proceeds to New York Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul's desk for approval.
Pride celebrations across the country continue to lose out on large sponsorships as corporations, a key source of funding, shrink their affiliation with diversity causes and LGBTQ+ events.
Corporate sponsorships of celebrations in several cities, including New York City, Salt Lake City, Louisville, St. Louis, Orlando, and Pittsburgh are down from previous years, organizers said.
Jordan Braxton, co-president of the United States Association of Prides, which supports Pride celebrations nationwide, said that while some smaller Prides have seen a growth in sponsorships, a majority have seen a reduction.
She said the Trump administration's dismantling of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives, has scared corporations away from sponsoring Pride celebrations. "I think that's why some of the corporations have pulled back, because they don't want that government scrutiny," she said.
Weingarten Blames Screens, Not Herself, For Falling Test Scores
American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten is sounding the alarm about the decade-long decline in student test scores, pointing to screens and devices as a culprit. She's calling it a "call to action."
She left out the part about how she helped cause the problem in the first place.
For two years during the COVID pandemic, Weingarten and the AFT fought aggressively to keep schools closed. In July 2020, as the Trump administration urged schools to reopen, Weingarten called the push "reckless," "callous," and "cruel," and threatened the possibility of safety strikes.
Internal emails later released by a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee showed the AFT had access to draft guidance from the federal Centers for Disease Control before it was made public, as well as proposed specific language that could trigger renewed closures.
Research published afterward confirmed what was already evident: Districts with stronger teachers unions were significantly less likely to reopen for in-person instruction, even after controlling for local COVID conditions.
So kids stayed home. They got on computer screens and stayed there for two years, cut off from teachers, friends, and anything resembling a normal childhood.
The consequences were not abstract. The National Assessment of Educational Progress recorded the largest declines in math and reading scores in its history. Reading results dropped to levels not seen since the early 1990s.
Researchers documented surging rates of anxiety, depression, and social developmental delays among children who spent critical years in isolation. The damage, experts say, will take a generation to undo.
In her book published last fall, Weingarten wrote that she "...led the AFT in developing a concrete plan to reopen schools as quickly and safely as possible." That's a remarkable claim given the documented record of what her union actually did.
Weingarten told Congress in 2023 there were "... things we really didn't get right," including the impact of prolonged closures. That acknowledgment was notable, but what followed it wasn't accountability. It was a pivot.
The same union that lobbied to keep students off school grounds is now positioning itself as a champion of children's well-being, pointing an accusing finger at Silicon Valley while the learning-loss data keeps compounding.
Kamala Harris’ stepdaughter Ella Emhoff shows off her fashion with an outfit of the day video.
Emhoff is signed to IMG, one of the world’s most prestigious modeling agencies, and has been described as a ‘fashion it girl’ and ‘top model’ by the fashion industry. pic.twitter.com/4236gBoOuu
Seven properties, a Mercedes G-Wagon, sneakers worn by Kobe Bryant and a Mickey Mantle rookie card worth $1.5 million. All of these things were bought with taxpayer money.
Paul Randall pleaded guilty in one of the largest Medicaid fraud schemes in the California history –… pic.twitter.com/wOiq0o0DkE
This is the scene in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood. They're smoking ISO, a new drug that's up to 20 times more powerful than fentanyl. pic.twitter.com/KrR2GmQPKg
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@christopherrufo) June 4, 2026
Over seven in ten people in France believe that crime is 'out of control', a year after fears emerged that the country was sliding towards a 'Mexicanized narco-state'.
According to a poll this week from CSA for Le Journal du Dimanche, 72 per cent of the French population believes that crime has dramatically escalated beyond previous levels.
This belief is strongest among supporters of the centre-right Républicains, at 92 per cent, followed by 83 per cent of National Rally, and 62 per cent of supporters of President Emmanuel Macron's neo-liberal bloc.
The conviction was also held by a majority of left-wing voters, at 55 per cent overall.
This included 58 per cent of supporters of the far-left La France Insoumise party, founded by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, and 51 per cent of Socialist voters.
Only Green Party supporters were below a majority, at just 45 per cent, in not believing that France is in danger of becoming like Mexico, where the state has lost authority to rogue criminal networks.
Women were more likely than men to view the situation as out of control, at 76 per cent compared to 69 per cent.
What can explain the stupid public believing that crime is out of control?
The firing of "60 Minutes" correspondent Scott Pelley could be just the tip of the iceberg at the venerable news magazine.
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Dylan Byers, a media reporter at Puck, a digital news company, warned more departures could be coming during an appearance on MS NOW.
Along with Pelley, correspondents Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega were recently fired and correspondent Anderson Cooper departed.
"No one has left the building at '60 Minutes' without some version of what Scott did, some sort of criticism toward the new management, and indeed the new ownership about the direction of the show," Byers said.
"It is very difficult to see how this new leadership is able to usher '60 Minutes' as it has existed in the past into the future," Byers added. "We only have three remaining correspondents there. I know that they currently are deliberating over what they are going to do.
"It's very possible that we're going to arrive at a moment here in a matter of weeks, if not days, where there is no existing talent left at '60 Minutes' and they are going to have to build this back up from scratch."
Meanwhile, three other leftwing propagandists in danger of being fired -- Leslie "we won't bother to verify the Hunter Biden Laptop, that's your job" Stahl, Bill Whitaker (who "interviewed" Kamala Harris in that sliced-and-diced advertisement that got CBS sued) and Jon Wertheim -- say that they're going to stay at 60 Minutes and not quit in solidarity because they're seriously overpaid and could not get work anywhere else.
Oh that's the real reason, not the admitted one. The fake reason they give is that they have to stay and fight the corrupt "leadership" from the inside.
Note that they wrote an initial draft announcing they were staying on, which attacked the "leadership" without naming names. That's because Weiss and Bilton have reaffirmed the basic rule that direct insubordination is, was, and always will be a fireable offense.
So they took the coward's way out and grumbled about unnamed parties in "leadership."
But they were even more cowardly than that, because they tore up that "initial" draft and just... leaked it to political ally Dylan Byers.
Dylan Byers
@DylanByers
NEW: The initial draft of the Stahl-Whitaker-Wertheim letter read like a full-throated rejection of CBS leadership, accusing their "overlords" of using "chilling" and "callous" tactics--all of it omitted from final memo. It also did not include any language about Nick Bilton...
"60 Minutes" correspondents Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker and Jon Wertheim said Friday that they planned to stay on at the newsmagazine, capping days of turmoil for the show.
"We have had a hard time deciding whether to stay," the three wrote in a memo to their colleagues at the program, before adding: "We don't want to see '60 Minutes' die."
60 Minutes would die without them, you guys.
The graveyards are filled with indispensable men. There's room for three or four more.
They wrote that they were still "deeply upset by the firings" of executive producer Tanya Simon and high-ranking producer Draggan Mihailovich, whom they called "strong leaders who everyone respected." Their colleague Scott Pelley was fired earlier this week after he challenged the newsmagazine's new executive producer over the recent firings.
The longtime correspondents said that "as far as we can tell," those leaders were fired because "they fought for our '60 Minutes' values and stood up to protect our independence and integrity."
"Newsrooms are not supposed to be run like dictatorships," they added in the memo, obtained by NBC News. "Collaboration and argument are the way we have always worked at 60."
Fuck you.
Weiss and Bilton should fire them for leaking the insubordinate initial draft, and for accusing them of running 60 Minutes like "a dictatorship" in the cowardly re-write they did wind up publishing.
Former CBS News investigative reporter @SharylAttkisson tells me she's shocked it took 60 Minutes this long to fire Scott Pelley:
"Scott Pelley was not a popular anchor in terms of his skill as an anchor as well as his personality... Quite a while before they removed him, I was… pic.twitter.com/gtRjsToRqe
Former CBS News investigative reporter @SharylAttkisson tells me she's shocked it took 60 Minutes this long to fire Scott Pelley:
"Scott Pelley was not a popular anchor in terms of his skill as an anchor as well as his personality... Quite a while before they removed him, I was… pic.twitter.com/gtRjsToRqe
Below: Pelley had on moms opposed to pornographic books in children's school libraries. The women read from the books and quoted the words "dildo" and "vagina" and "rape."
CBS muted the words so that no one could hear what was actually in the books.
“Tiffany Justice read from explicit books.”
Yes, I did. Watch my lips when I’m reading and you can see me say dildo and vagina.
I stopped at one point and asked @ScottPelley if he wanted me to continue. He said yes, if I wanted to.
This sissy idiot is bragging that "my team" -- my little clique of communist Mean Girls -- drove Bari Weiss out of the New York Times... and set her on the path to becoming a self-made media mogul and editor in chief of all of CBS "News."
Bragging that you initiated a chain of events that made your enemy 1000x more successful is a very, very funny thing to do https://t.co/q4Yyu5IPKM
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@christopherrufo) June 4, 2026
SPLC paid for KKK cross burnings, robes and hoods, recruitment, living expenses, racist merch: explosive indictment
Oh, and an SPLC employee was fucking one of the Cosplay Racists she was paying:
"The SPLC paid F-9 for over 20 years," the superseding indictment noted, also adding that an employee at the SPLC was in a romantic relationship with the field source.
Perfect.
The SPLC is literally in bed with the KKK.
A KKK they're paying to continue to "exist," at least on paper.
A superseding indictment returned by an Alabama grand jury on Tuesday has accused the Southern Poverty Law Center of secretly funneling millions in donations to informants associated with extremist groups such as the KKK, and those funds going towards the making of Klan robes and hoods as well as cross burnings and recruitment.
The newest indictment accuses the organization of funnelling around $4.1 million in donations "to a series of fictitious accounts" that were used to pay "field sources" affiliated with extremist groups between 2014 and 2023. The original indictment from April had alleged around $3 million in funds funneled between that time period, an amount that is now far greater.
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The indictment stated that donor funds paid to field sources were used to purchase materials for cross burnings and making Ku Klux Klan robes and hoods, attending and hosting extremist group rallies nationwide, creating and growing chapters of extremist groups as well as recruiting new members, making "racist paraphernalia that extremist groups sold at rallies," and paying the living expenses of field sources to allow them to "focus on their extremist groups rather than seeking other employment."
Did they pay anyone for blue button down shirts and khakis?
Hypothesis: Everyone wearing a mask in that photo was paid by the SPLC, through their catspaw, to be there.
"The SPLC actively led donors to believe that their donations would be used to 'dismantle' violent extremist groups. However, the SPLC hid from donors the fact that a portion of their donated funds was being secretly used to support extremist groups and to fund their violent, racist, and extremist activities," the indictment stated. "These activities were of the same nature as the activities about which the SPLC published articles on its website and other forums in an effort to obtain donations."
Prosecutors expanded upon the actions of field sources cited in the original indictment. One of the sources, dubbed "F-9" in the indictment, was allegedly paid over $1.2 million in donor money. The source allegedly infiltrated the National Alliance, a neo-Nazi organization, "at the direction of the SPLC," and helped raise money for the group. He allegedly received funds from the SPLC through a bank account for the fake entity Tech Writers Group.
May Jobs Report "Unexpectedly" Smashes "Expert" "Expectations"
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Good news. Not enough to reverse the public's sour impressions of the economy, I'm afraid.
And inflation is still a problem.
A new jobs report exceeded expectations despite the U.S. economy facing inflation and record debt.
U.S. payrolls rose by 172,000 last month, far above the Dow Jones' 80,000 estimate that CNBC reported Friday. Unemployment remained steady at 4.3%.
"Almost every industry is hiring again except tech and finance. There are a lot of encouraging signs for the labor market heading into summer. (Unfortunately, inflation is a lot worse)," Navy Federal Credit Union chief economic Heather Long stated in a June 6 X post.
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This jobs increase follows a period of increased inflation. The cost of everyday goods rose 0.9% in March and 0.6% in April since the start of the Iran War, according to Consumer Price Index data.
Amazing how President Trump’s opponents keep attributing this all to “luck.” As if lower taxes and reductions in government red tape had no role? Even if it were “luck,” I’d rather gamble with Trump than a communist Democrat. https://t.co/ERqvmUBeqy
Two researchers with the National Institutes of Health have been charged with allegedly trying to smuggle the infectious monkeypox virus into the United States, according to the Department of Justice.
In a news release issued Tuesday, the department announced Vincent Munster and Claude Kwe with the NIH Rocky Mountain Laboratory had been charged with "conspiracy to smuggle" the virus, as well as giving false statements to federal law enforcement in January.
The department says Munster and Kwe arrived at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport, with "a large black plastic case" after traveling from Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, where an outbreak of monkeypox was occurring. Monkeypox, also known as Mpox, is a viral illness that is spread through close contact, with symptoms that include fevers, headaches and a rash that looks like blisters or sores, according to the World Health Organization.
"Munster and Kwe falsely told CBP officers that the black case contained diagnostics and testing equipment," the DOJ said. "But subsequent investigation by CBP and FBI agents revealed that the case actually contained 113 vials in Styrofoam coolers."
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Munster and Kwe were arrested and now face a maximum sentence of five years in prison if convicted.
Catch and Kill: The New York Times Had Two Witnesses Prepared to Accuse Graham Platner of Sexual Assault but Didn't Publish Their Stories
—Disinformation Expert Ace
So there's the answer: Yes, there were "multiple women" accusing the Nazi of rape, but the New York Times ran a catch-and-kill operation to suppress their stories, while only reporting on less serious charges. (Though still serious enough.)
In newspaper parlance, "catch and kill" is a technique for "getting" a story with the intent to suppress it.
For over a week, Washington, D.C., was abuzz with rumors of a big story coming from the New York Times about Democrat Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner -- himself once a fixture for many young political staffers in the capital while serving as a bartender at the Tune Inn.
Although you likely won't read about it on social media, the Times story mentions serious allegations against Platner: that he physically abused an ex-girlfriend -- including grabbing her shoulders so hard that he left bruises and twisting her arm behind her back, shoving her into a room, and locking her in there overnight. Another ex-girlfriend shared that she cut off contact with Platner after a drunken episode that was apparently too disturbing to retell.
But these allegations are buried under mountains of campaign flack bullshit and then packaged as "intimidating" and "unsettling." Normal people have another phrase for it: domestic abuse.
That characterization is by design.
Let me be clear: the New York Times story was not journalism. It was a a soft catch-and-kill operation. It was a favor to Platner's campaign, a disservice to readers, and an insult to the women who say they were hurt by him.
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The term 'catch and kill' refers to a shady practice where a public relations firm or consultant works with a friendly news outlet that was pitched or 'stumbled' upon a negative story about a client to effectively 'catch' and then 'kill' the story -- or delay it until it no longer has impact.
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The Times's supposed vaunted exposé on Platner buries its lede 22-paragraphs in to the piece. By the time readers got to the allegations that should have opened the article, they had already been marched through campaign spin, euphemistic mush, and ex-girlfriend character witness.
In fact, for the first third of the New York Times expose, they focused on women provided to the newspaper by the Platner campaign -- who, of course, sang the degenerate former bartender's praises. And frankly, that is all many readers will come away with, because that is about as far as their attention span lets them get into the narrative. Which is, again, the point.
Prior to publication, I'm told that the Times spoke to two women who had credibly accused Platner of sexual assault. This detail was revealed to Fifield -- likely in an effort to encourage her to divulge more of her story. Those women's allegations never made it into the story. They were effectively 'killed' by the Times's editors and by Platner's attorneys, I'm told.
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The goal was to create enough doubt and ambiguity regarding Platner's disgusting behavior to let my friend, Lyndsey Fifield, be smeared by Democrat Party operatives like Emma Vigeland and partisan media hacks like Krystal Ball.
And that's exactly what they did.
Lyndsey Fifield writes that the NYT duped and used her to cover up for Maine Kampf:
Lyndsey Fifield
@lyndseyfifield
Anyone who has ever extracted themselves from a relationship with a narcissistic abuser knows it isn't clean or easy.
I cringe remembering how many times I tried to play the "cool girl" or fawn in response to what was clearly abusive, coercively controlling behavior by Graham.
I also know how dangerous it is to become the target of a narcissist -- so even long after our relationship ended I continued to be upbeat any time he reached out, though I would also immediately shut down any attempts on his part to initiate flirting or romanticizing of the past.
Yes, the day I saw him announce he was running I wanted to make sure people knew he had a Nazi tattoo -- and I was terrified he would find out it was me.
But of course he knew it was me.
What's ironic is I absolutely never would have shared my story if he hadn't been relentlessly attacking my character behind the scenes for months once the tattoo story came out.
I tried to signal that I wasn't the source and stayed completely silent about him on social media even as most of my friends posted regularly about what a bad person he is.
But then in early April the New York Times came to me. I asked how they got my number. I said I was not interested in sharing my story. They said but wait--there are other women. Women terrified to tell their stories, too, and you need to band together. WE will help you. We will protect you. Men can't keep getting away with this.
Hours before their first call to me I saw Eric Swalwell's name plate get removed from his office door in Cannon. It felt like fate.
I welcomed the two journalists into my home days later, nervous and overwhelmed. Justin Fairfax had just murdered his wife and himself the previous day and even conservative pundits were conjecturing that "if only those women hadn't accused him of abuse, this never would have happened..."
But I told them my story. I let them take pictures of my diary pages. I sent them screenshots of messages and gave them phone numbers and contacts. It was excruciating. I was surprised by what details I remembered, and as I poured through old messages I was horrified by how much I had forgotten.
I explained very clearly that, like many women abused by their partners, I had not told anyone about his violence at the time--I had covered for and defended it. I accepted his earnest apologies. They said that's fine because the diary entries and my on the record story was enough.
They connected me to two of the other victims so we wouldn't feel so alone. I insisted to each of them that I trusted the NYT journalists and that we were doing the right thing despite their (sadly very accurate) sense that something was wrong.
One of the victims and I realized our relationships with Graham overlapped completely - he had been cheating on both of us the entire time we were together....
Here's the post where she reveals that she provided the names of people who would confirm her account -- but the New York Times lied and claimed there was no one to confirm her account:
Lyndsey Fifield
@lyndseyfifield
I bucked all advice from my friends (and resisted my conservative bias) and decided to fully trust the Times journalists.
As they left my home they asked that I not talk to any other outlets and I insisted then and repeatedly over the following weeks that I would keep my word and only share this story with them.
But then the weeks dragged on. They kept coming back to us saying the editors needed more. I needed to go on the record (okay). We need more screenshots (okay). I met every bench mark they set, eager to provide more sources or evidence as needed.
After the story went up I began to ask them ... wait, where are the stories from the other women? Where are their accusations of sexual assault? Why am I the focus? Why are there 11 paragraphs dedicated to detailing my work history (more than has been published about Graham's by far)?
Why does it say "nobody could corroborate" when I offered them sources that COULD corroborate?
Why did they include an out of context quote from a friend joking "do not call Graham" after I called off my wedding? (Because she knew I would never).
Where were the screenshots they'd said they would use? Or the mention that I'd supported local democrats and that most of my family (and husband) are liberal?
The editors said it was too much, they explained.
The Times also failed to include any mention that I DID confide in multiple friends through the years that Graham had been abusive -- long before he was running for office. Those friends confirm they told the Times so.
It dawned on me that this really was a set up all along. The journalists I trusted who convinced me to share a story I never wanted to tell methodically delayed and twisted this into a gift to the Platner campaign. Violating the trust of his victims. Shattering the trust I placed in them with the most vulnerable story of my life.
And at the end of my call with them I reluctantly accepted their insistence that this was still a powerful story and that I had done a brave thing. And I thanked them for all the hard work they had put into it.
NEW from @dailycaller on the NYT's catch and kill operation:
- A source tells @wupton that the NYT had two women prepared to make sexual assault allegations against Platner. - Those details were revealed to Fifield, presumably to make her feel more comfortable coming forward… pic.twitter.com/buC8wN5u0i
It is rather obvious that NYT story was more of a cover up for Platner than an attempt to reveal the truth.
They essentially made the women in the story targets by intentionally withholding so much. I hope other women seriously take note to never trust the reporters or editors… https://t.co/Xxc9uiNqFY
Graham Platner & Al Qaeda’s Congressman-Elect from New Jersey Are the Consequence of Democrats Failing the “David Duke Test” with Mamdani
—Buck Throckmorton
In August 2025, in the run-up to the mayoral election in New York City, I wrote a piece for The Blaze outlining how that election was a “David Duke” test for the Democrats. They had the choice of a supporting a racist adversary of the United States in Zohran Mamdani, or repudiating Mamdani and supporting the Republican, no matter how unpalatable they might find the decision to vote “R.”
Democrats failed the test, choosing to rally around Mamdani, who is now New York’s mayor.
The consequences are being realized quickly, with Jew-hatred and virulent anti-Americanism now mainstreamed in the Democratic party, as evidenced by Democrats clearing the field for Nazi fanboy Graham Platner to win the Maine senate nomination, and Adam Hamawy winning the Democrat nomination to a Congressional seat in New Jersey. Mr. Hamawy is a squad-endorsed former Al-Qaeda volunteer who also palled around with the original Twin Towers bomber, Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman (aka “The Blind Sheik.”) Hamawy actually testified as a character witness for the Blind Sheik in the trial following the first World Trade Center bombing in 1995.
In Louisiana’s 1991 “jungle primary,” the two top vote-getters were: Edwin Edwards, a former Democratic governor who had been charged with bribery and later convicted of extortion and money laundering; and David Duke, the former grand wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, who ran as a Republican. Duke received only 32% of the vote, but that was enough to advance to the runoff. Although he had run for office several times in the 1980s as a Democrat, Duke ran as a Republican in 1991 — and won the Republican candidacy. Faced with an impossible choice of backing an unrepentant white supremacist on their party’s ticket, Republicans rallied around Edwards, launching a campaign under the nose-holding slogan: “Vote for the crook — it’s important.” And it worked. The crook Edwards defeated Duke, 61% to 39%.
Democrats are doing just the opposite of how Republicans handled the David Duke problem. Democrats won’t even renounce a candidate who supports terrorism against the United States, nor one with the Totenkopf tattoo used by guards at Nazi death camps.
With Democrats rapidly sliding down the most odious of slippery slopes, it does not seem far-fetched for them to soon embrace Sharia law, pogroms, and other once unthinkable “solutions.” It was bad enough when Elizabeth Warren endorsed Graham Planter in March, gushing that he’d ”flip Maine and then actually deliver change for working people.” But after even more awful revelations about Platner, Senate Democrat Leader Chuck Schumer met with the Nazi-loving Democrat and proudly announced that he still supports Platner. The most polite term I can think of to describe Schumer’s action is to call him a kapo. I have Jewish friends who use much harsher language.
Chris Rabb just won the Democrat nomination for a congressional seat in Philadelphia. With no Republican opponent, this anti-semitic “Democrat Socialist of America” will be representing the Democrats in Congress. Rabb has never criticized the Palestinian mass-murder of Jews on October 6, but he refers to the Israeli response as a “genocide.” In response to the Hannukah mass murder of Jews at Australia’s Bondi Beach, Mr. Rabb shared a post on Instagram alleging that the massacre was a “Zionist false flag.” Not a single Democrat member of Congress will condemn Mr. Rabb or declare his unfitness to be a part of their caucus.
And there are still more of these types likely heading to Congress after next November’s election. Darializa Avila Chevalier is running for a congressional seat in New York City. She is endorsed by Mamdani and her positions include eliminating police, eliminating national borders, eliminating free enterprise, and, of course, working to eliminate the state of Israel. She doesn’t specifically articulate an endorsement for the murder of Jews, she just plans to celebrate when Israel and its Jewish inhabitants “suddenly disappear.”
If Democrats had not failed the “David Duke test” with Mamdani, perhaps these elections would have turned out differently. Or maybe not. But the Democrats now have no moral authority to prevent their Al-Qaeda wing from asserting its agenda and taking on leadership roles.
It’s also fair to ask at this point if there are any Islamo-terrorist positions that Democrats could not tolerate among their members. They already have caucus members who embrace the murder of Jews in Israel and abroad. The only place they aren’t advocating for it is in the United States, at least so far.
Amidst all this Jew-hatred, it must also be understood that the Democrats’ new base hates straight, white Christians just as passionately. We’re not safe from where this is headed.
Mamdani, Platner and the others are now everyone’s problem, because they are now the base of the Democrat party, which is rapidly becoming America’s Islamist party. Shame on the Democrats for not stopping this problem before it was too late.
I also document that voting records show these refugees voting overwhelmingly Republican in the red states they settle in. For instance, the registration by party of those moving from Washington to Idaho was documented by Fox News to be 62% Republican to just 12% Democrat.
I’ve also noticed a growing number of vehicles throughout the greater metro area that I would compassionately call “Reverse Okies.” They have license plates from places like California, Washington, Oregon, and New York on their weathered vehicles. A demographic observation of the drivers indicates that they are the “deplorables” or “bitter clingers” that are so despised by prominent Democrats. While we in Tennessee are justifiably worried about our culture being upended by woke Californians, the couple from Modesto in a 12-year old Chrysler minivan, and seeking a new start for their family, is not going to be sending a cross-dressing child to school. States like Tennessee are clearly a land of hope and opportunity for regular Americans beaten down by blue-state governance.
This piece is not behind a paywall. I’d be honored if you’d give it a read.
My latest at The American Spectator: “ ‘Reverse Okies’ and Blue State Refugees - Another Wave Appears to be Building”
“An influx of blue-state license plates hints that conservative refugees are once again heading for red-state America”https://t.co/yXXg4B9Gl9
— Buck Throckmorton (@BuckThrockmort) June 3, 2026
While raising an LGBT pride flag over the state capitol building, Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers said he plans to defy a Supreme Court ruling on so-called “conversion therapy.”
On Monday, the Democrat governor shared his support for protecting “trans kids” and, in particular, keeping on the books a regulation that effectively bans counselors from assisting gender-confused and same-sex attracted kids.
divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled Monday that the Pentagon’s policy barring individuals with gender dysphoria from military service likely violates the Constitution. In Talbott v. United States, the majority found the policy -- issued under President Trump’s executive order and implemented by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth -- appears driven by “the bare desire to harm a politically unpopular group.” The court upheld a preliminary injunction protecting current transgender servicemembers from removal while allowing the ban on new accessions.
This is not constitutional adjudication. It is judicial legislation dressed in equal-protection robes, and it represents another dangerous step by federal courts outside the bounds of their authority and into the core constitutional domain of the political branches.
So Evers and the Democrats can go tell SCOTUS to go "F" itself because reasons. But in the second story, a circuit court literally violates the separation of powers and usurps the power of the President as the Commander-in-Chief to direct the military as he sees fit. As we all know this is just the latest illegal usurpation of the President's authority by the judiciary over the past few years which sadly has gone unanswered, except for the President's admirable but ridiculous strategy of relying on the very same corrupt courts to seek redress.
In the name of “norms” and “democracy,” radical Democrats are renewing calls to pack the U.S. Supreme Court should they regain control of the federal government.
The wave of alarming threats came about after the high court handed down a ruling in Louisiana v. Callais on Wednesday that nuked states’ ability to use race in the redistricting process. As The Federalist reported, the decision effectively gives states leeway “to eliminate majority-minority districts that were carved out under past interpretations of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act — interpretations that benefited Democrats.” . . . “The Supreme Court is a disgrace. And then, in the new Congress, we’re gonna have to do something about the Supreme Court,” Jeffries said. “And let me be very clear: Everything is on the table — everything — to deal with this corrupt MAGA majority that is issuing political opinions that are designed to bolster the prospects of the Republican Party. And we will not allow them to succeed.” The far-left Demand Justice issued a similar veiled threat in apparent support of such efforts. President Josh Orton — who boasts a background in Democrat Party activism — issued a statement following Callais‘ release, in which he smeared the Supreme Court for its decision and said it “must face fundamental reform if it is to once again serve our democracy.”
Pack the court with more commie rubber stamps like the America-hating dim bulb nebbish Brown-25 Jackson. And should future GOP presidents get to nominate and actually seat anyone even remotely like Clarence Thomas, the Left can always call on assassins to hunt them down like they did Brett Kavanaugh a few years back and most recently Amy Coney-Barrett. And the President himself multiple times.
New Poll: Fewer Than One in Five Democrats Are Proud to be Americans... “Those surveyed were asked what term best described how they felt when they thought about the United States marking its semiquincentennial anniversary, and Dems had almost nothing good to say.”
...You know, our people have died long enough. And what has changed for us is that the kind of recriminations and the kind of lies that are leveled at the Jewish people over the centuries are now being leveled at the Jewish state. There’s no difference. No difference. We deliberately kill children. We perform genocide. We’re poisoning the wells.” Netanyahu on Iran War Unpopularity: ‘I’d Rather Get a Bad Editorial than a Positive Obituary’
CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
Murphy, the Deputy Democrat Conference Secretary who is said to be on the shortlist to one day replace Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) in leading Senate Democrats, recently insulted millions of Americans by suggesting to Fox News that they are total rubes and “actually don’t know much,” living as zombies. Democrat Sen. Chris Murphy Suggests Trump Voters Are Ignorant and Ill-Informed
“The overwhelming majority consisted of happy, loving, and hard-working families... Cuban minors and sponsors were often surprisingly affluent... There was a darker dimension to the family’s concerns...A broader conversation must also be had about reforming asylum.” My Time Inside the Immigration Industrial Complex
Reporter Manu(re) Raju asked, “So why is it so important to get this, to target the weaponization fund here, is it’s because the president has kept this option open?” RINO scumbag Tillis: If Blanche Doesn’t Condemn J6ers, He Won’t Be AG (they should be praised as national heroes - jjs)
“Taxpayer dollars should not fund a surveillance system that treats every law abiding American driver as a suspect. As we work to address very real problems, we cannot allow our Constitutional liberties to be shredded or create a world where every American driver becomes a node for data gathering,” Rep. Michael Cloud (R-TX) told Breitbart News in a written statement. Freedom Caucus Cheers Committee Passage of Provision to End Biden-Era Auto ‘Kill Switch’
“Islam must dominate,” said Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, “and not be dominated.” Yet many people, both Muslim and non-Muslim, have noticed that Islam has failed in its quest to dominate the world, but few have been willing to admit this failure. Instead, the formulation of excuses for this failure has become a venerable tradition in Islam, and a veritable cottage industry in our own day. . . When Islam Fails
The Justice Department claimed that Bolton sent more than 1,000 pages of classified information to his wife and daughter via email. Then he allegedly printed out this information and kept it in his home. His motive was purely mercenary: he wanted it for his Trump-bashing memoir. John Bolton Agrees to Guilty Plea for Felony Mishandling Classified Docs
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
With political tensions rising to a fever pitch this week following the release of bodycam footage showing Henry Nowak bleeding to death while pleading for aid to indifferent if not hostile police officers, who had handcuffed the stabbing victim after deciding to take at face value accusations of racism by Nowak’s Sikh murderer, the accuracy of quality reporting is of critical importance. BBC Forced to Apologise to Nigel Farage After Making Up and Repeating Fake Quote Multiple Times
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This Executive Order promotes advanced AI innovation while directing agencies, particularly CISA, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the federal government's lead civilian cybersecurity agency, to strengthen cybersecurity, protect critical infrastructure, and deploy AI-enabled defensive tools across government and industry. Trump’s AI executive order strikes the right balance between innovation and security
Pam Bondi’s PCAST appointment underscores a push to strip regulatory barriers and keep America ahead of China in the AI race while protecting innovation. Trump’s AI Council Just Got Stronger
Monterey Park residents were displeased with rising utility costs, the centers’ nearness to homes and effects on the natural environment, the Guardian reports. The same report states that an indefinite moratorium on data center construction passed in Monterey Park in April. (RELATED: Voters Oust Half Of Missouri City Council For Greenlighting $6,000,000,000 AI Data Center) California Town Bans Data Centers Permanently In Landslide Ballot Measure
Democrats wanted to flip Maine so badly. The question is whether they’ll realize that Platner is not the candidate to do that before it’s too late. They should have known when we first learned of the Nazi tattoo that the guy was bad news. The NYT Just Dropped a Bombshell Report on Graham Platner
“Well, I like them both, and I like them together. You know, it would be great. I don’t know how you beat them if they’re together; that would be a great team. JD and Marco would be a great team,” he said. Trump Says Vance-Rubio Ticket in 2028 Would Be ‘Very Unbeatable’
The Democrat National Committee’s long awaited and long suppressed analysis of Kamala Harris’s campaign bodes ill for the party’s future. The Failures in the Harris ’24 Autopsy
The results of the Los Angeles mayoral primary are disappointing to the rest of America but unsurprising. LA: Who’s Surprised?
Sullivan said, “What happened was, there was another candidate who filed at the last minute with the name Dan Sullivan from Petersburg, Alaska. He’s a sham candidate. Alex. What do I mean by that? First, he’s doing everything in his power to confuse Alaskans, right. Let me just give you a couple examples. He is a liberal, progressive Democrat. We have all the records of all the liberals he’s supported. He’s even supported, again, the Democrat candidate in this race, Mary Patel, a couple times with donations. But at the last minute, he claimed he was a Republican last minute. So he filed as a Republican. The reason he’s doing that, he’s not a Republican. The Republican Party put out a press release saying, this is absurd. This is a scam. The reason he’s doing that, he wants his name to be on the ballot.” Exclusive: Sen. Dan Sullivan Exposes Democrat Plot to Rig Alaska Senate Election
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
The State Department’s post could increase tensions between the Trump administration and Britain’s left-wing Labour government, which has consistently denied the existence of two-tier policing. The Trump administration and Labour have already clashed over issues such as Iran, free speech, and the Chagos Islands. U.S. State Department Recognizes ‘Two-Tiered Policing’ in Britain.
The Manchester Arena Inquiry found that Salman was involved with the February 17th Martyrs Brigade in Libya, and may have participated in raids against Gaddafi loyalists. Images recovered after the bombing showed Salman and Hashem Abedi in military uniform in Libya in 2011, and a hard drive found at the family home in Manchester confirmed it. .. Reform UK Candidate Blamed HILLARY CLINTON for Mass Terror Attack. Here’s Why He’s Right.
The regime is also angry upon learning about this latest round of sanctions and came out swinging at the "Yankee government" on Thursday evening. At least, on social media... As I mentioned a few days ago, what they say publicly and what's going on privately are two different situations... Cuba Falling: I Didn't Even Know You Could Do This Many Sanctions
ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS, HEZBOLLAH . . . AND LEFTISTS. . . AND HISTORY
Following two days of U.S.-mediated talks at the State Department, Washington, Jerusalem, and Beirut issued a joint statement announcing that the ceasefire would require “a complete cessation of Hezbollah fire” and the evacuation of all Hezbollah operatives from areas south of the Litani River, while establishing “pilot zones” in which the Lebanese army would exercise exclusive control “to the exclusion of all non-state actors.” Following U.S.-Mediated Talks, Israel and Lebanon Agree to Ceasefire if Hezbollah Ends Attacks
The regularity with which Congress has defied the President recently, from ending the Anti-Weaponization Fund, a measure to compensate victims of government lawfare, to pushing a war powers resolution, suggests the executive is coming under increased pressure from the legislature, both in relation to domestic and foreign policy. House Advances $8 Billion Ukraine Aid Package.
The reintroduction of the New World Screwworm has been feared by authorities in Texas for some time. The discovery in Zavala County poses a serious threat to livestock producers within the state and nationwide should the screwworm migration spread. As reported by Breitbart Texas’ Bob Price, officials in the state have braced for the threat as the pest’s northward migration progressed through Mexico towards the Lone Star State. Flesh-Eating Screwworm Found in Texas, Infected Calf Detected Near Border (the true mascot of the democrat Party - jjs)
Hardly a surprise: In order to put an end to the stupid clickbait speculations of some hack scientists, the SETI Institute has just completed seven hours of detailed radio observations of interstellar comet 3I/Atlas, and has confirmed that it has no alien technology and is nothing more than a comet, albeit unusual because it comes from outside our solar system. SETI confirms through extensive radio observations: Comet 3I/Atlas
has no alien technology
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It's not. I mean, not unless for the AI companies, and not for anyone else unless it pops the bubble, and not even then as trillions of dollars of virtual money suddenly disappearing would cause a certain amount of drama.
Despite that, Altman projects that AI token usage will continue to increase. He said that six-and-a-half years ago, the top token spender at the startup used 100,000 tokens a month - today, that is the global per capita average token usage, and that OpenAI's token leader uses about 100 billion a month. The OpenAI chief also admitted, to his own embarrassment, that someone else uses even more. So, if token usage were to grow linearly, then he would expect the global per capita token usage to hit 100 billion monthly.
Somehow I don't think that will happen. At OpenAI's current rates, that would cost the average user over a million dollars a month and provide the company with a quadrillion dollars in monthly revenue.
I'm thinking of picking up a 5800X3D because I have plenty of DDR4 and the larger cache on that chip helps hide the lower bandwidth.
In addition to production of DDR4 modules restarting, CPUs using DDR4 have resumed production - or, from Intel, never stopped - and fresh motherboards are rolling out of factories.
We'll kick things off with a bit of self-awareness. Yes, your host this evening was a dumbass. But only that day. I'd appreciate it if everyone would focus on my...nevermind.
Gabbing while adding antifreeze to the radiator. Which in my defense, is right next to the fuel tank. You can fill in the rest of the story about which tank the antifreeze went into.
What do you have horde? What is your dumbassery moment of the week?
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Pretty cool lounge in the basement of a Chicago restaurant, which got the brain thinking about speakeasies, which are basically bars pretending they are not bars. Or, during COVID, a bar with the windows blacked out where you parked two blocks away and snuck in through the kitchen door. Or so I have been told.
Decent collection of modern speakeasies for your perusal.
This Cuban-style speakeasy is located in the basement of the building that previously housed a bank. Whats more, the bar pays homage to the building’s history by transforming the vault—which serves as the entrance—into a lively lounge area. Once you enter through the vault, you’ll need to provide the staff with a password, which changes daily and can be found on the bar’s social media pages. Just be sure to leave your jeans and tank tops at home: Las Floriditas has a strict dress code.
Hit the comments if you have a good speakeasy story.
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The Hot Topic of the Week
Behold! The fouled lawnmower plug! Yes, ONT crew, yes. The content you have been demanding. The humble spark plug is basically a miniature lighting machine. Creating tiny little explosions and surviving.
History of the spark plug? I thought you'd never ask. A good aggregation of charts and info at the link.
This journey from simple copper electrodes to advanced multi-ground platinum-iridium designs reflects broader changes in engine technology, materials science, and performance demands. Understanding spark plug evolution reveals how seemingly small components drive major efficiency and performance improvements across all vehicles.
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Wearing This Costume Does Not Enable You To Fly
Warning labels? Sure. Somewhere, there is a person who inspired each of these warning labels. May we all be lucky enough to never meet them.
Here is the big list of Warning Labels. Inspired by the patient zero folk.
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ONT Music. A theme without Doof! Blasphemy? Perhaps.
For those who have no time for such riddles and guessing games. Evening Music Theme can be found at the link.
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A bit of light reading on Cleisthenes. Widely credited as the Father of Athenian Democracy.
Under this new and radical idea, the power and responsibility of decision-making were entrusted to the hands of the Athenian citizens themselves rather than a select few. This was done in complete opposition to the norm up to that particular time, which had it that the principle of power belonged to a select “excellent” few, otherwise also referred to as aristocrats (“aristokrates”).
Those well read on the topic, drop some knowledge in the comments.
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Old but still cute: A scary looking pit bull wants pets from the neighbors but they're too afraid. So his owners put up a sign announcing that Tubbs is very friendly and would love to be pet.
Women brings home a lonely goose living in a parking lot, and the goose finally makes a friend.
NEW: Five FBI employees were fired today over the infamous Richmond Catholic memo on "radical traditionalist Catholics," FBI source confirms to @realDailyWire.
Oof. Reviewers do not like Scary Movie 6. The criticism I keep hearing is that the movie mistakes a reference for an actual joke. The movie (they say) keeps Key Jangling a reference to another movie (or some other pop culture ephemera) and you expect there to be a joke but nope, the Key Jangle was the joke. Other reviewers say that the promise that "no lines will be uncrossed" is a fake-out, and that the movie is bland and inoffensively corporate.
Whoops! I posted about Dan Goldman losing the NY congressional primary. He might do that, but it won't be tonight -- the primary isn't held until June 23.
One race to keep an eye on: the Levi's heir nepo baby and egregious "Designated Liar" Dan Goldman -- one of the Democrats from a safe district Democrats send out to spread their most indefensible lies -- may actually lose his lower Manhattan/Brooklyn set due to, get this, antisemitism in the Democrat primary electorate. Antisemitism? In the anti-Nazi Democrat Party? Sounds crazy, I know, but apparently the anti-Nazi Party wants to eliminate Jews.
Henry Rosoff
@HenryRosoff
🚨EXCLUSIVE POLL:
Brad Lander is 34-pts ahead of Congressman Dan Goldman with #NY10 Democratic Primary voters. @ZohranKMamdani is backing the former Comptroller.
@bradlander: 57%
@danielsgoldman: 23%
Poll by @PIX11News & @EmersonPolling.
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Oh my Totenkopf Tattoo, that is a DRUBBING! I'm usually very anti-antisemitism but if the Communist Antisemite Jihadists can pull this one off, Go Communist Antisemite Jihadists, Go!
Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., on Platner: "We know that Graham has lived not your typical political experience. He's been very clear and open with his wife, and they worked through whatever they worked through. At the end of the day, this man has had 60 more town halls than Susan Collins has. He's winning the polls, he's willing to accept that he has grown as a person, and I think we should accept that."
Gallego says the drip-drip of revelations won't harm Platner's campaign.
"I think you guys are all in a bubble here right now. The drip, drip that's actually happening is Americans are really, really hurt the fact that gas is still high, food is still high, they can't buy a home, you can't afford rent. They're not going to care about text messages and everything else like that that happened years ago, especially when it was worked out between spouses."
I like that he says that it's okay that Graham Platner sexted 12 different women within months of marrying the woman to sponge off her because he wasn't then "living a political life" -- the clear meaning being, "We all cheat, we just don't cheat when we're running for office, and he didn't know he was running for office when he was sending dicpics to half the women he ran into."
Except he was running: His own wife turned the sexts over to his campaign.
And obviously Reuben Gallego didn't let his "political life" get in the way of his extramarital dating life:
Podcast: CBD goes solo in a short segment...talking about Iran, the nativist issues surrounding Reform and Restore in the UK, and the delicious pain of an imploding Democrat Party, courtesy of Talerico and Platner!
Funny -- if you don't mind clicking on TikTok. "Amy.Pranks.22" set up an AI scam-call screener which replies to a foreign scammer trying to get her bank information with Trumpian bluster. This might be fake because I don't see how a program can respond in real time, but it's funny.
The ULA rocket just launched Thanks to Joyenz The rocket's enormous engines are fueled by "the volcanic heterosexual lust between James Talarico and his Neighbor With a Uterus 'girlfriend'" I hope Amazon's rocket works better than the Amazon Prime app does as far as allowing people to watch the black and white version of "Spider-Noir"
From the CA Post:
Spencer Pratt is now Karen Bass' biggest headache.
A bombshell California Post poll conducted with McLaughlin & Associates shows the reality TV star-turned-mayoral candidate has surged to a statistical tie with the incumbent mayor.
And voters blame homelessness, affordability and the direction of Los Angeles as the reason for turning on Bass.
Pratt now leads the field with 30.1% support, compared with 29.5% for Bass, setting up a razor-thin race heading into next week's primary.
Socialist councilwoman Nithya Raman sits in third place at 23.4%.
Thanks to beckster
Just like "Spartacus" Corey Booker, now that James Talarico is running for a higher office, he unveils his previously-unknown "girlfriend" and hooboy, it just so happens she used to work for him, and, get this, likes to "dance the night away" at gay bars Gee I wonder where they might have met Oh and she's a vegan
When Corey Booker needed a "girlfriend," he conjured up known LGBTQ activist Rosario Dawson. How convenient that when these guys need a girlfriend to show off to the normies that just happen to find an activist with a strong history of and interest in Supporting Gay Men But seriously, this James Talarico romance with a Neighbor with a Uterus is a love story for the ages. The passion of their lovemaking is hotter than a blue star with a core of Primordial Sex Atoms created in the Big Bang
Radicalized white men are the greatest domestic terrorist threat in our country.
He's referring to three mass attacks committed by white men in, oh, the past six or eight years. There were a huge number of mass shootings and bombings he had to skip over to cherry pick three committed by white men. Which kind of makes me think that "white men" are not the greatest terrorist threat in our country.
No, I doubt he'll be a guest on Tucker Carlson. The only thing that Tucker clings to that he claims makes him "conservative" is a palpable hatred of gays. Any time there's a communist enslaving their population and executing dissenters and conservatives, Tucker praises that dictator by saying "at least he represses the homos!"
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