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Schmoll: Credibly-Accused Sexual Deviant Thomas Massie Trails His Trump-Backed Primary Opponent
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The vote -- the reckoning -- is this coming Tuesday.
If these poll results are accurate, Thomas Massie will be spending more time with his weird sex fetishes like the Mexican Wheelbarrow, the Saigon Starfish, and the spectacular but dangerous Triple Lindy.
BTW, Elric the Blade said he didn't like pushing this kind of unevidenced accusation. But I'd point out that Thomas Massie has been doing nothing but accusing Trump, WITHOUT EVIDENCE, of participating in the Epstein sex scandals and covering them up.
You play the dirty game, then you play by the rules of the dirty game. Live by the sword, die by the sword.
But that said: This poll was conducted before those allegations were "re-surfaced" on the internet.
Quantus Insights
@QuantusInsights
NEW QUANTUS INSIGHTS POLL | May 11--12, 2026
Kentucky's CD4 Republican primary has become one of the most closely watched House primaries in the country, and our latest survey finds Trump-backed challenger Ed Gallrein leading Rep. Thomas Massie.
📊 Kentucky CD4 GOP Primary
🔴 Ed Gallrein: 48.3%
🔴 Thomas Massie: 43.1%
⚪️ Undecided: 7.6%
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With leaners included, Gallrein expands his advantage.
📊 Firm + Leaners
🔴 Ed Gallrein: 52.8%
🔴 Thomas Massie: 45.1%
⚪️ Still undecided: 2.1%
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📈 Leaner Movement
Among voters who were not completely sure yet:
🔴 Lean toward Ed Gallrein: 52.4%
🔴 Lean toward Thomas Massie: 23.4%
⚪️ Still completely undecided: 24.1%
Gallrein is winning the leaner pool by more than two-to-one, moving him above 50% when firm support and leaners are combined.
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📊 Key Takeaway
Massie retains a durable base of support, but Gallrein leads on the initial ballot and strengthens his position once leaners are allocated.
In a nationalized Republican primary shaped by Trump's endorsement, outside spending, and Massie's independent brand, Gallrein enters the final stretch with the advantage.
In more schmolling news: Spencer Pratt is performing pretty well in the LA mayoral race. He's just a scotch behind the communist catastrophe Mayor Karen.
Political Polls
@PpollingNumbers
New - Mayor poll - Los Angeles
🔵 Bass 30%
🔴 Pratt 22%
🔵 Raman 19%
Emerson #A - LV - 5/10
I'll bet I know whose supporters are most energized.
As you probably saw, a leftwing union released an "anti" Pratt ad accusing him, if you can believe this, of wanting the homeless to either clean up their acts or get out, of wanting to hire more police than social workers (!!!), and of saying that maybe government workers unions shouldn't have all the power in LA.
Pratt's supporters are pumping out parodies of that real ad (which itself seemed like a parody), accusing Pratt of not wanting LA to burn to the ground, and showing Mayor Karen celebrating her "accomplishments."
Those are parodies. But this is real: Mayor Karen is upset that the super-meth smoking homeless have no teeth. Her policy agenda here is to give the super-meth smoking homeless "comprehensive medical care" to fix them up with great false teeth.
Not to get them off meth, you understand.
That would be Fascist.
Karen Bass: “How many people, who are unhoused, that you meet have no teeth at all? They don’t have teeth, why? Because meth rots your teeth. YOU CAN’T SUCCEED WITHOUT TEETH! So there needs to be comprehensive healthcare provided to people.”
Appeals Court Rules That Trump Doesn't Have to Pay Lunatic Fantasist E. Jean Carroll for the "Defamation" of Continuing to Deny This Vicious Fruitloop's Sex Fantasy About Him
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Not only was the original allegation of "rape" insane and ripped off straight from an episode of Law & Order: SVU -- with this lunatic attention-whore unable to even say when the "rape" occurred more specifically than "in the nineties" -- but a subsequent New York jury also decided it was "defamation" when Trump later insisted upon his innocence.
Note that this rule has never been applied to anyone except Donald Trump. Any time a man proclaims his innocence following an adverse court ruling, someone can sue that man for "defamation" for denying his or her story.
And note that every instance of a false claim is a fresh defamation case -- so you can just keep suing an innocent man forever, for saying he's innocent.
This is government-compelled speech of the worst kind: When a partisan jury wrongly finds you culpable, not only do you have to pay the exorbitant penalty they impose on you for partisan bullshit reasons, but you are then compelled by government action to admit the lie of your guilt, forever, anytime someone asks you about it.
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals this week temporarily blocked an $83 million dollar payment that President Donald Trump owed to E. Jean Carroll in her defamation case while the Supreme Court mulls intervening.
The court order granted Trump's request for a stay, provided he increase his bond by nearly $7.5 million.
Carroll, in 2019, accused Trump of raping her in a Bergdorf Goodman's dressing room some time in the 1990s. She brought separate legal claims for defamation over his denials while in office and after leaving.
Separate -- every time he denies this floridly insane woman's preposterous story, it's a fresh defamation claim.
I just want to remind everyone that in addition to once saying on CNN that "rape is sexy," E. Jean Carroll's accusation against Trump is an exact plot line from a 2012 Law & Order SVU episode.
She claimed that this was a complete coincidence when asked about it.
Tennessee Strips Democrat Racial Insurrectionists of Their Committee Seats
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Sean Davis
@seanmdav
BREAKING: Notice has just been given to Democrats in the Tennessee House that all members of the Democrat Caucus are being removed from all standing committees and subcommittees as a result of their behavior in the statehouse during the redistricting debates last week, which included setting fires inside the Capitol and attacking law enforcement.
In the state of Tennessee, political terrorism will not be tolerated. National Republicans take note that this is how you exercise power.
The Republican speaker of Tennessee's House of Representatives on Tuesday stripped Democratic lawmakers of all committee assignments as punishment for their role in boisterous protests during last week's special session on redistricting.
The leftwing media -- which told us that some people milling through Congress was an insurrection that threatened the republic -- calls Democrat legislators' attempt to shut down the legislature by letting their activist goons menace the Republican majority "boisterous."
Boisterous.
Not a threat, not an insurrection.
Just Democrats will be Democrats. No big deal.
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The House floor vote in Nashville was met with raucous protests by activists yelling from the balcony of the visitors' gallery and from Black lawmakers who stood at the front of the chamber linking arms in prayer as protesters sounded air horns and chanted slogans against the new map.
Not threatening. Not "racially charged."
"Raucous."
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In a letter to Tennessee's House Democratic leader Karen Camper, the speaker, Cameron Sexton, said House Democrats were being removed from all standing committees and subcommittees as discipline for "instigating and encouraging" disruptions and "disorder on the House floor" during last Thursday's vote.
As examples, he cited lawmakers for "interlocking arms in the well of the House", for "blocking aisles on the House floor" and for using "prohibited props and noisemakers."
Of the 99 seats in the Tennessee House, Republicans hold 75 and Democrats 24.
At least one House Democrat, Representative Justin Jones, posted online a copy of the individual letter he received serving notice of his committee and subcommittee removals, referring any questions to Camper.
"This is the same pattern of racial discrimination and authoritarian abuse we have come to expect," Jones, who is Black and represents Nashville, said on social media.
🚨 JUST IN — FAFO: Tennessee Speaker of the House REMOVES Democrat lawmakers from *ALL* committee assignments who acted like thugs and trash when the legislature passed redistricting
GREAT! Now expel Rep. Justin Pearson (D), who intimidated a police officer. Pearson frankly… pic.twitter.com/ruAyToHzOu
Tennessee State Representative Justin Pearson (D-Memphis) was accused of using "race baiting" in his campaign advertisement announcing the relaunch of his campaign for the Democratic nomination for the 9th Congressional District, where first launched his campaign to unseat U.S. Representative Steve Cohen (D-TN-09) before the Governor Bill Lee signed the newly redrawn districts into law.
As part of the redistricting legislation, candidates must refile or file a notice that they no longer intend to run by Friday. In his video, Pearson confirmed he intends to run in the same district, despite most analysts saying it now leans overwhelmingly Republican.
"Today, we re-launch our campaign to take on billionaires and the political status quo. Whether you live in the new TN-09, the old TN-09, or anywhere that our systems have failed you, I'm running for Congress for all of US," wrote Pearson in a post to social media.
Pearson described the redistricting as "immoral and wrong" in his advertisement, before claiming Tennessee's redrawn congressional districts, "are racist tools of white supremacy," enacted "at the behest of the most white supremacist in the United States of America, Donald J. Trump."
It's always these weedy little black shrimpdick manlets who turn ultra-hard-core racist, to show how "hard" they are. It's their way of attempting to appear masculine.
It's called Spike Lee Syndrome.
Crow updates:
The crow continues visiting. Have you ever had eggs freeze in the refrigerator? I had two freeze so I broke them open and put them out for the crow. He loved them.
There was an incident -- I found a dead little baby bird in the feeder. I don't know what happened. I don't know if it was the crow or a bluejay or what. Maybe a pigeon -- I see them being pretty territorial with the other birds. One pigeon just sits his fat ass down in the feeding tray to claim ownership of the seeds and nuts.
I went out on the deck while the crow was eating the last of the egg and tossed him some of the cinnamon cereal I gave him on the first day of attempting to befriend him. He didn't fly away, he just ate the cereal.
Still no gifts.
Oh, I don't know if the crow caller works at all. It doesn't sound too much like a crow to me. Just a raspy honking kazoo, really. It sounds like Jake Tapper after a night of drinking Zima and puffing on a vape with cum-flavored nicotine.
What really seems to attract the crow is the smell of meat or egg.
How are you? Any luck for the other crow-recruitment officers?
One of the reasons for Trump's continued support among many is - as it has been for more than decade now - the fact that he is not like the Western norm. The same thing that strikes rage and terror into the establishment political class (and especially its hangers-on) is the same reason why Trump continues to do well. The "norm" is not desirable anymore, and hasn't been for some time now. The existence of Trump and his agenda also serves, day in and day out, as a larger-than-life foil. As the wider West zigs, he and his team zags.
It is, perhaps, immigration where this is most obvious. Seeing his approach as compared with the rest of the hateful and suicidal West is very much a "same planet, different worlds" - or maybe "same universe, different realities" scenario. It is hard to find a more comprehensive and total example of "Trump's way vs. everyone else's." It is not that everyone else is right, but that Trump alone has been willing to use the all-powerful word: "no." That is shameful for the rest of the world.
Any perusal of global headlines will make the opposite approaches obvious.
The United States did not participate in the International Migration Review Forum and will not support the May 8 "progress" declaration.
The United States has persistently objected to the United Nations' efforts to advocate and facilitate replacement immigration in the United States and across the broader West. In 2017, President Trump rejected the Global Compact on Migration. The intervening years have confirmed the wisdom of that opposition.
...
President Trump is focused on the interests of Americans, not foreigners or globalist bureaucrats. The United States will not support a process that imposes, overtly or by stealth, guidelines, standards, or commitments that constrain the American people’s sovereign, democratic right to make decisions in the best interests of our country.
Our goal is not to "manage" migration, but to foster remigration.
And in keeping with that, from PJ Media on the same date:
"The number of people receiving a decision of voluntary departure has risen dramatically since the change in presidential administration," writes non-profit Vera Institute of Justice in a report, "particularly among people who were detained. Judges appointed by the second Trump administration have granted voluntary departure at higher rates than judges with more experience - while still granting orders of removal at comparable rates."
As Ace covered last week and as reported in The Hill, it isn't just rejection of the globalists' immigration schemes and stepped up removal of illegals, it's also now denaturalization:
Federal prosecutors filed denaturalization actions in U.S. District Courts across the country this week against 12 people, alleging they lied during the naturalization process, including about previous criminal behavior.
The DOJ said these people -- ranging in age from 28 to 75 years -- concealed serious offenses while seeking legal status, including providing material support to a terrorist group, war crimes and sexual abuse of a minor.
So that's a smattering of developments from over here over the past week - but what about over there? It is, of course, the opposite. In Labour's Britain, it's still all about "accommodation," of course:
Chris Philp, the Shadow Home Secretary, urged Labour to "come clean" about where they plan to send illegal migrants, commenting: "The truth is that they are moving illegal immigrants from asylum hotels to residential housing because they do not have control of our borders."
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His warning has already become a "nightmare" reality for Crowborough residents. All 350 male migrants live a mere 20-minute walk from the town centre and are able to freely roam without a curfew. Residents are also entitled to a £50 weekly allowance to pay for basic amenities, such as food, clothing, and toiletries.
The Home Office confirmed the Crowborough site could house as many as 540 people. They will stay in the barracks for up to three months while their asylum claims are processed.
Not removed, just moved. And subsidized. And the locals' preferences be damned. Pretty normal. Not that this problem is limited to the north:
Greek Migration Minister Thanos Plevris said this week that Athens estimates there are approximately 550,000 migrants waiting in Libya, the African hub, for the opportunity to cross to Europe.
Pelvris said that Athens is working closely with Libyan authorities as well as the European Union’s external border force Frontex to prevent migrant boats from taking off from the coastline of the Maghreb nation.
Remember the constant "caravans" from Central America during non-Trump years? This is the Afro-European version of that. Do you remember what happened to those "caravans" once Trump took over? They stopped pretty quickly. These "caravans" do not happen spontaneously. They are funded, coordinated and managed by governments, NGOs and associated gangs. If you turn off the "government" side of that - including throttling the state sponsorship of NGOs - they stop. That this is getting geared up in Libya means only that it will succeed. They don't bother if it won't. Europe is as bad as ever.
But there is perhaps no greater contrast than between the US and Australia. While the US is denaturalizaling and deporting criminals, Australia is moving mountains to ensure they get to stay:
After his permanent visa was cancelled following his 2021 conviction Al Qatrani made an application to revoke the cancellation, which was refused in February this year, but last week he successfully reviewed the decision at the Administrative Appeals Tribunal in Sydney.
ART Senior Member Mark Harrowell overturned the cancellation using Ministerial Direction 110, which has been maintained by immigration minister Tony Burke since 2024, and has resulted in dozens of serious criminals being spared deportation in recent months.
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Mr Harrowell noted in his decision that Al Qatrani has two minor children aged 9 and 11 with his current wife - a South Korean national who he met in 2009, and an adult son with his first wife, and that he claimed he was a 'changed man from the one sentenced to the crime I was convicted of nine years ago.
We don't have a monopoly on Hawaiian Judges - or Hawaiian Ministers.
This all is - or should be - abjectly humiliating for the rest of the Western world. We have a long, long way to go until the US is cleaned up and some of the incalculable damage of the past thirty years is undone, but at least we are trying to deal with it and taking real steps to not only stop the influx but to reverse it. The rest of the West is the opposite and is still business-as-usual and full throttle on open borders, with the glorious masters in the warrens of their bureaucracies and at the United Nations leading the way as always.
Maybe the other benighted nations of the West will eventually tire of it and get some Trumps of their own.
Good morning kids. As we discussed with disgust yesterday, after getting their naked power grab of a gerrymander scheme shot down by the Virginia State Supreme Court, the reaction was surprisingly mellow for the Leftists - move to sack the entire bench, as opposed to the typical Democrat reaction which would be to lynch the Jurists who dared oppose them. All seriousness aside, among the most execrable Leftists around who has done more in service of Anti-Americanism over the course of his miserable existence is one Marc Elias:
The party considered all kinds of responses — including a scheme to force the retirement of every sitting justice on the Virginia Supreme Court. That's a perfectly normal reaction from a political party that claims they respect democratic norms, right?
But they weren’t done.
Marc Elias, the left's go-to power lawyer for all things election-related, took the rhetoric to a genuinely alarming place. Elias responded to the ruling by invoking language from the Virginia Constitution itself. Not to make a legal argument, but to suggest that the current Virginia government has lost its legitimacy and therefore can and should be abolished.
Marc Elias, the left's go-to power lawyer for all things election-related, took the rhetoric to a genuinely alarming place. Elias responded to the ruling by invoking language from the Virginia Constitution itself. Not to make a legal argument, but to suggest that the current Virginia government has lost its legitimacy and therefore can and should be abolished. I assure you that I am not joking. Democrats Now Want to ABOLISH the Virginia Government
The rising financial burden of the Iran war and heightened nuclear threats from Tehran underscore the fragility of the ceasefire, which Trump called “unbelievably weak” on Monday, and raise questions about the U.S. administration’s strategy in the Middle East. Iran War Cost Hits $29 Billion as Tehran Threatens to Enrich Uranium to Weapons-Grade.
Golden State politicians are bowing to the Teamsters and choosing higher transportation costs over productivity-enhancing technology. (So, union thugs, robots or drunken wetbacks behind the wheel? - jjs) California’s War on Autonomous Trucking
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
It’s a banner month for Jew-hating propaganda at The New York Times, where libel against the state of Israel is normalized and celebrated. Last week, jaws dropped everywhere when the so-called Newspaper of Record won a Pulitzer Prize for the 2025 work of a Gaza-based contributing photographer best known for a picture so misleading, fraudulent, so useful in the quest to ramp-up antisemitism, the paper was forced to issue a correction. New York Times’ libelous campaign against Israel continues apace
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The case highlights growing concerns over the potential for AI platforms to provide unverified medical advice, raising questions about liability and the need for stricter safeguards. It also underscores broader debates about the role of AI and whether teenagers, the mentally ill, and other vulnerable people should have unsupervised access to it. Parents Sue OpenAI After Son Fatally Overdosed Following ChatGPT Drug Advice.
The 615-acre Fayetteville-based data center campus, codenamed “Project Excalibur,” was found to have one water connection installed without the knowledge of the Fayette County water system, and another that was not linked to its developer’s account and therefore was not being billed, according to the outlet. REPORT: Blackstone-Owned Data Center Drained 30 Million Gallons Of Water From Atlanta Suburb
The president needs Congress to act. There's no guarantee it will. GOP lawmakers, including Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), quickly promised legislation, but Senate Majority Leader John Thune was noncommittal. Trump Faces Uphill Climb to Suspend Federal Gas Tax
The report does not prove that inflation is spiraling. One month never proves that. But it does show that the comforting version of the inflation story has taken a serious hit. The best hope is that April was a storm month: war-driven energy prices, seasonal quirks, and shelter noise combining to make the report look worse than the underlying trend. But the Cleveland Fed’s numbers make that hope harder to hold. The whole point of median and trimmed mean CPI is to see through the storm. In April, we got the downpour. May had better bring flowers. The April Inflation Report Was Even Worse Than It Looked
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
Then again, it’s not always Democrat states that have this problem, because teachers around the country tend to be woke activists who support child grooming. Last May, for instance, I highlighted child-grooming educators from Florida to Tennessee to California. Seattle Teachers Union’s Brand-New President on Leave for Abuse Allegations
Harmeet Dhillon, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, recently announced a new legal offensive against states and localities with gun laws that clearly run afoul of the Constitution. Her office just filed very strategic lawsuits against the city of Denver over its ordinance prohibiting so-called assault weapons, and against the state of Colorado over its ban on selling standard capacity magazines. Trump Admin’s Recent Pro-Second Amendment Moves Are Good for Lawful Gun Owners
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY
The Senate Special Committee on Investigations announced Monday that it had subpoenaed Abrams, as well as New Georgia Project leaders Lauren Groh-Wargo and Nsé Ufot. They are expected to appear at the State Capitol at 10:00 a.m. on Friday, Fox News reported. Georgia Senate Committee Subpoenas Tank Abrams in Campaign Finance Violations Probe
“The poll finds registered voters closely split in their partisan preference ahead of the midterms, with 45% saying they’d support a Democrat candidate for Congress, 42% a Republican candidate, and 14% neither,” the CNN article said. “Polling on congressional preference this year, including previous CNN surveys, has largely given Democrats the advantage. Voters who aren’t sold on either party’s economic message tend to prefer the Democrats on the generic ballot, the CNN survey finds.” Poll: Support for Democrats Slides as Critical Midterms Approach
If successful, the petition could bring back party-specific primaries, ensuring each party has a candidate in the election for governor. The effort indicates a sudden change of heart among Democrats, given that the system has, up until recently, worked to their benefit. Back in early April, President Trump endorsed Steve Hilton. Hilton is an ex-advisor to former British Prime Minister David Cameron and a former Fox News host. California Dems Scheme to Alter Election Rules, Block All-GOP Governor’s Race.
“The Republican senators say the records — which include text messages between Hunter Biden and the women — show that the government had significant evidence of potential Mann Act violations allegedly committed by Hunter Biden from as early as October 2020,” the article read. “For example, the messages show that Biden, whose father is former President Joe Biden, appeared to have purchased a flight from Los Angeles to an unknown destination for an unidentified woman in 2018.” GOP Senators: Joe Biden’s DOJ Buried Newly-Released Texts of Possible Hunter Biden Prostitution Crimes
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
The historic results for the upstart party have apparently convinced some voters that Reform is a future worth backing, with the YouGov survey finding that 28 per cent of voters now back the Farage party, an increase of three points over just last week. Meanwhile, the Tories remained static at 17 per cent, the Greens gained one point to reach 16 per cent, Labour declined by two points to fall to 16 per cent, and the Liberal Democrats shrank by one point to 13 per cent. Reform Rising: Farage’s Party Surges in Polls Following Historic Local Election Results
There's big news about the new Trump-class battleship, but there's even bigger and more important news about what's going on in the Pentagon under reform-minded Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth. But first — some things never change — I must nerd out on the battleship news. How to Make the Trump Battleship Even Deadlier With This 1 Weird Trick
The review could lead to significant changes in how the U.S. funds and manages overseas biolabs, especially those handling gain-of-function research. The investigation could potentially end risky experiments that threaten U.S. biosecurity. DNI Gabbard Targets Secretive US-Funded Foreign Biolabs.
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Which raises the question: Why didn't the Chromebook run Android in the first place?
There are no specs or indeed any hardware information at all; that will be left to Google's partners including Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo.
It might potentially be a good time to be launching a laptop that doesn't need 32GB of RAM to get out of bed - as indicated by the runaway success of Apple's MacBook Neo. And there's a slim chance that at least one of the partner companies won't screw things up.
Amazon is requiring its developers to use AI tools to boost productivity. I mean, fair enough up to a point; I use Claude to review code and it catches conceptual issues and pattern mismatches that my IDE can't.
But Amazon is measuring productivity by the amount each developer costs the company on their AI tool usage, with perfectly predictable results.
There is an official music video of this but it seems to be restricted, so that's a reuploaded version. Just in case, here is the official videoless version as well.
While golfing, a guy accidentally overturns his golf cart in a tremendous crash.
A very attractive female golfer, who lives in a townhome overlooking the golf course, hears the crash and calls out, "Are you okay?"
"I'm okay, thanks," says the guy, as he pulls himself from the twisted golf cart wreck.
She says, "Come up to my home, you can recover for a bit, and I'll help you with the golf cart up later."
Even being a bit dizzy, the guy couldn’t help but notice that her bathrobe was partially open, revealing what appeared to be an amazing figure.
"That's mighty nice of you," he answers, "but I really don't think my wife would approve"
"Oh, come on now." she insists.
She was so pretty, so very persuasive, and the guy was so relatively dazed!
"Well okay, but I'm quite sure my wife won't be happy with me"
After a couple of gin and tonics, he thanks her and says, "I feel a lot better, and know that my wife is going to be really upset, so I'd best leave now."
"Don't be silly!" she said with a coquettish smile, letting her robe fall even slightly more open. "Stay for a while. She won't know a thing, we can have another drink” then she asks, by the way, “where is she, anyway?"
The guy replies, "Probably still under the cart, if I were to bet"
President Joe Biden's Homeland Security chief acknowledged Tuesday that the U.S. should have acted sooner to tighten immigration controls at the U.S. border with Mexico.
In an interview at the POLITICO Security Summit, former Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who became a lightning rod of Republican criticism for the Biden administration's alleged mishandling of a historic wave of migration to the United States, placed most of the blame on a "broken immigration system" that set a "low bar" for admission to the country for those with "credible fear of persecution."
Asked if earlier steps from the Biden administration on border security -- including raising the bar for migrants claiming "credible fear" of returning to their home country -- would have prevented President Donald Trump's return to the White House, Mayorkas replied: "I am not in a position to speculate, but I will tell you that I would be far more better rested and less punched."
Mayorkas, who was impeached by the House in 2024 on claims that he intentionally did not enforce U.S. immigration laws, also emphasized that the Biden administration did, eventually, act to address the migrant influx at the border.
"I was very pleased that in June of 2024, we took executive action that, I thought, made reforms that were sensible and that proved successful," Mayorkas said. "Our tougher border stance in June of '24 was coupled with an increased focus on providing lawful pathways for people to arrive at the United States outside the hands of smugglers -- more secure and more humanitarian. Those two combined -- our numbers dropped 70, 75 percent."
BTW, I couldn't remember his exact position. I thought he was DHS but decided that there's no way even Biden would appoint such an absolute zero to such a crucial position, so I wrote he was "Secretary of the Interior."
Obama's Oxygen Thief HHS Secretary, Xavier Becerra, Is Currently the Leading Democrat for California Governor and Cannot Answer Questions About His Record Without Begging for Mercy
—Disinformation Expert Ace
First, he wasn't able to answer questions about the 85,000 migrant children he lost while supposedly safeguarding them in the Biden Open Borders Regime.
He claims they weren't "lost" at all. Merely, that when their "sponsors" were contacted to check up on the health and safety of the children, the sponsors didn't respond.
So not lost, exactly! We just placed them with extremely unreliable drifters with no fixed abode. They were not lost, the people we trusted them with just won't tell us where they are.
He also claims that it's not his fault that no one can find these children because they went missing -- or merely incommunicado, as he insists -- after the period of "sponsorship" by shiftless drifters.
See, they were trafficked later.
When the reporter points out that children as young as 14 wound up, get this, working as near-slave labor in slaughterhouses and with heavy machinery, he just sulks. It's not fair to demand accountability from a Democrat.
Now this is where it turns pathetic: He begins whining that he agreed to a profile not an interview and in a profile you're supposed to shine his ass with Turtle Wax and a sheepskin chamois and only ask a few "tough questions" while this monster just keeps asking him tough questions!
Let me repeat the headline fact: He's the current front-running Democrat for governor, and he says it's not fair to ask him about his actual record.
Everyone’s been wondering whether Xavier Becerra can withstand scrutiny.
Incredibly awkward moment as Democrat candidate for California Governor Xavier Becerra gets caught asking reporter for a softball interview: “This is a profile piece - Not a gotcha piece, right?” pic.twitter.com/gzLqkZYKnK
Democrats who worked with Becerra in the Biden Administration have been sounding the alarm, not-entirely-subtly warning Democrat voters that this guy is an incompetent who's not ready for the Big Chair:
Biden administration official Xochitl Hinojosa on Xavier Becerra
"I do not trust Xavier Becerra to stand up to Trump. He was not effective in government. A lot of people in the Biden administration are talking about this because they realize he was not an effective HHS… pic.twitter.com/y0sI8N6y7K
South Carolina Dixiecrats Tank Effort to Gain a Congressional Seat, Voting With the Declared Democrats to Kill It
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Indiana redux.
VoteHub
@VoteHub
12m
The South Carolina Senate has rejected extending the legislative session for redistricting.
Unless Gov. McMaster calls a special session, the current congressional map, including Rep. Clyburn’s Democratic-leaning district, will remain in place.
Many South Carolina "Republicans" remain old south Democrats.
A group of South Carolina Republican state senators broke with their party to thwart a redistricting effort that would eliminate the Palmetto State's sole Democratic district.
Though the measure received 29 votes in favor and a mere 17 against, it did not clear the threshold for passage. State Sens. Sean Bennett, Chip Campsen, Tom Davis, Greg Hembree, and Shane Massey joined Democrats in opposing the measure.
The failure of the Tuesday vote significantly narrows the pathway for state lawmakers to redistrict in time for the midterms, though the governor could call a special session of the legislature.
One of the RINOs admitted he just didn't like Republicans having so much power and claims the "number one" ambition of the "founders" was to "diffuse" power.
Matt Rice
@matt____rice
1h
As of now, three Republican South Carolina state senators are opposed to redistricting. It takes 4 to block the resolution allowing lawmakers to proceed with redistricting.
- Massey
- Rankin
- Campsen
Campsen says the founders' "number one" principle was to "diffuse" political power among the states.
Look at the RINOs spam out completely-insincere excuses for why they remain loyal Democrats:
Adam Morgan
@RepAdamMorgan
🚨Senator Massey claims redistricting is a threat to state sovereignty.
Claims @realDonaldTrump is abusing his power and overreaching into SC!
Insane that a Republican would say this. And a blatant lie.
The President only recently weighed into the debate and by Massey's own admissions didn't unduly pressure.
The movement to redistrict originated from grassroots South Carolina conservatives!
Legislators in the @SCFreedomCaucus filed to bill to redistrict in January! Grassroots leaders like @ImFiredUp2 and myself, conservative media like @CharlieOnAir and @TaraServatius, and statewide figures like @RalphNorman have been relentless in pushing to fix this unconstitutional district for months especially since the SCOTUS ruling.
Make no mistake--South Carolinians are the ones demanding to follow the constitution and right this wrong.
And "Republican" senators spouting Clyburn's talking points and attacking their constituents and President Trump need to be thrown out of office.
Redistrict NOW!
Trump wanted you to do this so this is a threat to "state sovereignty" ? How about your own voters demanding it? Are they a threat to "state sovereignty" too?
This guy also lied and claimed he was blocking it to help Republicans win seats. He claimed, based on nothing, that if you changed the districts Democrats would still win one and could even win an extra seat.
In other words, he's lying, and he can't give his real reason, which is that he is, was, and always will be a dirty Dixiecrat loyal to the Democrat Party. It just became too hard to win in SC as an open Democrat.
Kristan Hawkins
@KristanHawkins
Unacceptable.
South Carolina Senate Majority Leader Shane Massey (@shanemassey) is once again standing in the way of conservative priorities by trying to block redistricting legislation, just like he's spent this year blocking @SFLAction backed pro-life legislation from even being brought up for a vote.
@POTUS has made it clear that Republicans must fight back from the Left's power grab and redistricting efforts.
It's time for Sen. Massey to stop obstructing, listen to the people of South Carolina, protect Congress from a Leftist takeover that wants to stack the Supreme Court and legalize taxpayer-funded abortions up until birth, and stand with the pro-life movement instead of against it.
Now I think they needed a supermajority to extend the legislative session, but if the governor calls a special session, a majority will suffice. I think.
New Foreign Pirate Pillaging Operation Uncovered: 10,000 Foreign Students "Working" at Fraudulent Jobs Created by Fraudulent "Employers"
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Why the hell would we be paying foreign students to work, anyway? Why on earth would we be subsidizing foreigners to come here?
Pay full freight or go home. Better yet, go home whether you're paying full freight or not.
Correction: I assumed the taxpayers were paying the salaries of these fake "workers." But I haven't seen anyone say that and now believe this is simply a scheme to remain in the country beyond the limits of one's student visa.
I'll try to find out if government money is being used to pay these "workers," but for now, I'm rewriting the post to remove my claims about that.
The fraud concerns a program called Optional Practical Training, which involves foreign students "working" in "jobs" allegedly related to the fields they're training for.
Google's AI digest:
Optional Practical Training (OPT) is temporary work authorization for F-1 visa students in the U.S. to gain hands-on experience directly related to their major field of study.
It typically offers 12 months of employment, either pre- or post-completion of studies, with a 24-month extension available for STEM majors.
So if there's a fraudulent student "worker," he gets 12 months of extra time in the US or possibly 36 months if he's learning how to build bombs for terrorist organizations, or how to smuggle Chinese bioweapon specimens into the US. I assume that's what STEM means in this situation.
Key Aspects of Optional Practical TrainingTypes of OPT: Pre-completion (before graduation, part-time or full-time) and Post-completion (after graduation, full-time at least 20 hours per week).
Eligibility: Must be a full-time student for at least one academic year in an SEVP-certified institution, not studying English as a Second Language (ESL), and the job must directly relate to the major.
Authorization: Students must apply to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) for an Employment Authorization Document (EAD).
Application Timing: Generally 90 days prior to the program end date and up to 60 days after.
STEM Extension: Eligible STEM students can extend their post-completion OPT by 24 months, for a total of 36 months.
Employment Requirements: Employment must be in the field of study; for post-completion OPT, unemployment is limited.
The entire scheme seems built to defraud the American voter and reportedly that's exactly what it's being used for.
Jennie Taer
@JennieSTaer
3h
ICE just dropped a major fraud bombshell involving 10,000 foreign students "who claim to be working for highly suspect employers" as part of the federal government's Operational Practical Training program.
Here's what they found...
-Empty buildings and locked doors where hundreds of foreign students are supposed to be working
-Multiple employers claiming the same address, where none of them actually have a lease
-Small homes listed as worksites for hundreds of foreign students, where no employees are present. And when someone answers the door, they claim to have no knowledge of the business.
-Some of the employers claim to have offshore HR personnel
-Employers having tax liens, civil law suit collections and breaches of contract
And get this: Even where the taxpayers are paying for foreign students to do real work, guess who's getting the benefit of that taxpayer-paid work?
Tech monoplists, of course!
hernando arce
@hernandoarce
New: Over the last 20 years, we're looking at roughly 2.5 million OPT and STEM OPT authorizations combined.
OPT stands for Optional Practical Training. It's a temporary work permission that lets international students in the U.S. work off-campus in jobs related to their major -- up to 12 months normally, and an extra 24 months for STEM degrees, so up to three years total. This is another fraudulent abused program running rampant in America.
Amazon tops the list with over 10,000 students, followed by University of California, Google, Microsoft, and Meta. Tech giants and universities dominate the top spots. Our government has sold us out to big tech for decades.
ICE has just announced a jaw-dropping fraud bust, saying 10,000 FOREIGN students are involved in the federal government's Optional Practical Training.
Barefoot Student
@BarefootStudent
2h
ICE Director Todd Lyons describes the fraud related to the 24-month Optional Practical Training extension for F-1 students
"We've encountered cases involving espionage, biological threats, intellectual property theft, visa, and employment fraud, and even scams targeting elderly Americans, all perpetrated by individuals abusing their status as students."
"The scope and severity of these crimes cannot be overstated."
@EricLDaugh (Eric Daugherty):
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There are EMPTY BUILDINGS where HUNDREDS of students should be "working" as part of their ability to be in America -- run by foreign-linked groups that send money out of the country!
Locked doors, hundreds of students sharing the SAME ADDRESS, and "employers" sharing the same unleased addresses
There is a widespread "phantom employee" fraud going on. This is insane.
Many of the so-called "employers" have major red flags, such as facing lawsuits, no employment records, offshore payroll claims, and suspicious INTERNATIONAL MONEY flows
"HSI agents have visited problematic OPT employer work sites in Virginia, Texas, Georgia, Illinois, New York, New Jersey, North Carolina, and Florida."
"Foreign students themselves are entering false addresses and employer names into the student and exchange visitor information system."
"But we are uncovering evidence of organized fraud that spans national and international borders. This is not accidental. It is deliberate, coordinated, and criminal."
"To give you an example, one employer we visited claimed to employ only three foreign students through OPT, while our records show over 500 foreign students claiming to work there."
"The company's representatives were unable to answer basic questions about the business and deferred HR managers in India."
"OPT employers are required to directly train foreign students, but we've seen multiple examples of alleged employers claiming that all management is overseas in India."
"We've also discovered multiple state networks which are large networks of alleged employers claiming to train thousands of foreign students in OPT, then farming them out to unreported third party employers, making oversight nearly impossible and raising serious national security issues."
🚨 HOLY SMOKES. ICE has just announced a jaw-dropping fraud bust, saying 10,000 FOREIGN students are involved in the federal government's Optional Practical Training
There are EMPTY BUILDINGS where HUNDREDS of students should be "working" as part of their ability to be in… pic.twitter.com/vmaKvrcBaT
ICE just dropped a major fraud bombshell involving 10,000 foreign students “who claim to be working for highly suspect employers” as part of the federal government’s Operational Practical Training program.
This is great -- fraud is endemic in OPT. But why hasn't OPT been cancelled altogether? Not only was it just made up by the executive branch, but it's facially illegal -- student visas are only valid while engaged in a full course of study.
And the pillaging continues along all fronts:
BREAKING: A Somali grocer, Abdidwahid Mohamed, has been charged in a $1.1 MILLION SNAP fraud scheme in Minneapolis.
Investigators say he used other people's EBT cards to buy energy drinks and baby formula at Sam's Club and Costco, then resold the goods at his store.
OUT: "Fraud, waste, and abuse" is but a minor part of the federal budget and anyone focusing on it is a charlatan who's not serious about cutting the federal budget
IN: Fraud, waste, and abuse is at least 20% of the federal budget. Anyone not focusing on it is a charlatan who's not serious about cutting the federal budget
When does the actual "enrichment" start happening?
Allegedly he DM'd her two months after his wife died and began a sexual relationship shortly after that.
Is this true? Who knows.
What are the deviant sex acts Massie allegedly demanded that made her feel "uncomfortable"? No idea, she doesn't say.
Spoiler alert, it's usually about poop.
J
@JayTC53
NEW 🚨 THOMAS MASSIE FILES
Cynthia West EX GIRLFRIEND of Thomas Massie exposes him as a sexual deviant & bribed her with $5,000 cash to stay silent.
Massie DM'd her on X in August of 2024 not even 2 months after his wife of 31 years passed away in June 2024.
Massie ended up getting her a congressional staffer job in D.C. Massie pressured her to be involved in deviant sexual behavior with him. Cynthia rejected feeling extremely pressured and uncomfortable.
When she rejected, Thomas Massie had her fired, bribed her & threatened her not to file a complaint.
A complaint was filed in fall of 2025. The same time period when Thomas Massie remarried to a different staffer 20 years younger than Massie.
The man who claimed screamed the loudest about "Transparency for Epstein" turned out to be a scumbag himself.
PatriotDadEV2.0
@Patriotdadev77
Please listen to every word of this woman's testimony. She alledges she was in a romantic relationship with Thomas Massie within 2 months of his wife's passing. According to her story:
Thomas Massie aggressively pursued her, pressured her to leave her job to follow him to Washington DC.
She alledges Massie secured a job for her with one of his collegues, Rep Victoria Sparks (R-IN), to bring her to DC with him.
She alledges Massie attempted to pursuade her to participate in behavior she was uncomfortable with and became very angry when she refused.
After breaking off the relationship and pursuing ethics complaints against him, are was retaliated against and fired.
She claims Massie became very angry when he learned of her ethics comparing, and attempted to buy her silence with a $5000 bribe with his untraceable proceeds from the sale of his livestock kept in cash.
She claims there is a pending workplace retaliation claim with a settlement of $60k from Congress she is refusing due to the requirement that an NDA would need to be signed.
Thomas Massie, Victoria Sparks, and House Leadership must be forced to respond to these allegations.
Allegedly, the woman's ex-husband confirmed the affair contemporaneously in 2024. This wouldn't be proof that her allegations are true but it would, if true, at least prove he was banging her.
NEW 🚨 THOMAS MASSIE FILES PT.2
I was sent this screenshot of Cynthia's Ex husband's Facebook post from someone who knows both parties personally.
The husband believed she was having a relationship with Thomas Massie In November of 2024.
President Donald Trump has proposed pausing the federal gas tax as a form of relief for American consumers as energy prices soar as a result of the war in Iran.
The move -- which requires congressional approval to pass -- would mark the latest in a string of government interventions to address fallout from the war, which is weighing on Trump's popularity.
Since the war began in late February, the price of a barrel of Brent crude oil, an international benchmark, has skyrocketed from about $70 to more than $107. U.S. gas prices -- now an average of $4.50 a gallon -- have reached levels not seen since 2022 and contributed to Trump's falling approval ratings ahead of the November midterms.
Oh gas prices have risen to Biden levels? Weird because you insisted at the time that gas prices weren't that bad and might even be a good thing because high gas prices discourages driving and reduces the emission of CO2, The Invisible Killer.
But now gas prices are bad. I wonder what might have flipped this particular switch.
With the average price for regular gasoline topping $4.50 per gallon -- up by more than $1 compared to a year ago -- officials and lawmakers are turning bullish on an idea many have been cool on.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) announced plans to introduce a bill on social media Monday. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) followed up with her own message soon after.
"American families need this relief on gas prices. My office will be working directly with President Trump to ensure we deliver this win for the American people," Luna wrote on X.
House Transportation and Infrastructure Chair Sam Graves (R-Mo.) has opposed suspending the 18 cent gasoline tax, which helps fund highways. Senate Finance Chair Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), who has jurisdiction over the issue, said recently he wasn't considering it.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) has been similarly skeptical. "I don't know that the federal gas tax is going to lower [gas prices] by a lot," Thune said earlier this year.
Of course Thune's against it.
But momentum appears to be shifting in favor of the idea. The question is whether pressure from the White House will be enough to convince lawmakers to join the push.
They should consider the example Trump made of the Indiana RINOs.
Trump has other plans to rein in oil prices -- the DOE will begin "loaning out" barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, which will be repaid later with more barrels.
And note this isn't a Biden Election Year Lie where no oil will actually be returned to the SPR, because the loaned oil must be repaid in oil, plus "interest rate" oil on top of that.
The Trump administration announced Monday it would loan out 53.3 million barrels of oil from the country's Strategic Petroleum Reserve to energy companies -- an attempt to bring down skyrocketing oil prices as a result of the U.S. war with Iran.
In March, the U.S. agreed to release 172 million barrels from the SPR as part of an internationally coordinated release of 400 million barrels in a similar attempt to lower the high oil prices that have been passed along to consumers in the forms of high gas prices and home heating costs.
Nine companies, including Exxon and Marathon Petroleum Company borrowed 58% of the 92.5 million barrels of the 92.5 million barrels the Department of Energy had offered to loan out of the nation's stockpiles, Reuters reported.
Oil exchanges, as they are called, allow the DOE to loan out oil to companies who later pay back to the oil with extra barrels, which functions like interest on a loan.
Of the 172 million barrels of oil slated for release from the SPR, the DOE had previously loaned out 80 million barrels. The U.S. petroleum stockpiles are stored in 62 salt caverns located at four sites on the coasts of Texas and Louisiana. These caverns are 200 feet wide and over 2,500 feet deep in the ground. The caverns are known within the industry as "Kamala Harris's Rotten Vagina."
Democrat Whistleblower Claims that Adam Schiff Ordered His Staff to Illegally Leak Classified Information In Order to Rig an Indictment Against Trump
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Adam Schiff, I assume, has been quizzed about this before.
And I assume he lied to federal investigators when he was asked.
That's obstruction of justice.
Tony Seruga
@TonySeruga
3h
🚨 ADAM SCHIFF'S FELONY CONFESSED BY HIS OWN DEMOCRATIC STAFF: Leaked Classified Secrets to Frame Trump -- 10+ Years in Prison or Just Another Swamp Pass?
Declassified FBI 302s -- released by Director Kash Patel -- expose a Democratic whistleblower (a 10+ year House Intelligence Committee veteran) who warned agents in 2017 and 2023: then-Rep. Schiff convened staff and explicitly authorized leaks of classified intelligence derogatory to President Trump. The explicit aim? To manufacture material "to indict" a sitting President during the now-discredited Russiagate probe.
This was no rogue staffer. It was the ranking member -- later chairman -- of the very committee entrusted with our nation's most sensitive secrets, plotting in open conference to weaponize them against the Executive Branch. A fellow Democrat called it "illegal, unethical, and treasonous."
Professor Jonathan Turley captured the constitutional horror: "a truly chilling account... perfectly moronic to commit such a felony with a planning conference meeting with staff." Under 18 U.S.C. § 798, unauthorized disclosure of classified information carries up to 10 years or more per count. "Someone," Turley rightly declared, "is a felon."
The Framers designed the Intelligence Committee to defend the Republic from foreign threats and domestic overreach -- not to serve as a partisan Star Chamber. Schiff's alleged scheme was not oversight; it was subversion, the precise factional cancer the Constitution was written to excise. While he sermonized about "threats to democracy," he allegedly orchestrated one from within its most sensitive chamber.
President Trump has torn back the curtain. The rule of law is not optional. Equal justice is not partisan. The same statutes that bind the rest of us must now bind the self-anointed high priest of the Russia hoax.
America is watching. History is recording. Accountability cannot wait.
This researcher says that Eric Swalwell was part of the illegal leaking conspiracy as well:
Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell conspired to leak classified, and falsified, information that I was a Russian Spy who had an affair with President Trump's National Security Advisor General Flynn.
South Carolina's Legislature Will Delete C***s***er Jim Clyburn's Seat Tomorrow; Alabama Now Free to Eliminate One of Its Two Democrat Districts
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Alabama has two majority-minority districts due to unconstitutional racist and Democrat Protection Racket mandates.
The Supreme Court just vacated a lower court ruling mandating the racially rigged districts, and Alabama will swiftly move to eliminate one of them.
The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for Alabama to implement a new race-neutral congressional map ahead of the 2026 midterms on Monday.
In a 6-3 order, the high court vacated a series of lower court rulings that effectively resulted in the state's use of a congressional map that includes two majority-minority districts. As The Federalist reported, such affirmative action districts were historically carved out under past interpretations of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act to Democrats' benefit.
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Responding to Monday's decision, Allen said in a statement that Alabama's May 19 primary election "will proceed as scheduled," and that his office "will remain in close contact with the Governor's Office and the Attorney General's Office as this situation continues developing."
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Writing for the dissent, Sotomayor argued that "[t]here is no reason" for the Supreme Court to vacate the district court's order and remand the matter "for reconsideration in light of the Court's new interpretation of §2 of the Voting Rights Act" in Callais. She contended that the lower court's "finding of intentional discrimination" in the battle over Alabama's 2023 proposed map "is independent of, and unaffected by, any of the legal issues discussed in Callais."
With that lawless lower court ruling vacated, the maps Alabama actually drew in 2023 should now back in effect.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday set the stage for Alabama to eliminate one of two largely Black congressional districts before this year's midterm elections, creating an opening for Republicans to gain an additional U.S. House seat in a partisan battle for control of the closely divided chamber.
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Alabama officials had pointed to the Louisiana case as reason for the Supreme Court to end a judicial order to use a court-imposed House map until after the 2030 census. The high court on Monday overturned that order and directed a lower court to reconsider the case in light of the Louisiana decision. That could free the state to instead use a map approved in 2023 by the Republican-led legislature that includes only one district where Black residents comprise a majority.
Anticipating a court reversal, Alabama officials recently enacted a law allowing it to void the results of a May 19 primary for some congressional districts and instead hold a new primary under the revised district boundaries. Alabama had asked for an expedited decision ahead of the primary.
I don't know how long the lower court will take to issue a ruling, though. The Supreme Court vacated and remanded -- the latter word meaning "sent back to the lower court for reconsideration of its decision, now informed by the Supreme Court's new ruling and instruction." I guess the lower court could once again attempt to impose the old map, making new claims.
Shipwreckedcrew, a former federal prosecutor, thinks it's unlikely the lower court can attempt to re-impose the court-mandated map without the unconstitutional command to gerrymander as many majority-minority districts as possible:
Shipwreckedcrew
@shipwreckedcrew
14h
Alabama didn't make the same argument that the petitioners did in Louisiana. It did not argue that the race-consicous remedy was a 14th Amendment violation that was only available in very narrow circumstances.
The plaintiffs in the Alabama case can challenge the old map again, but they aren't entitled to "majority-minority" districts ordered by a court as the remedy. Alabama may be forced to draw new maps that explicitly rely on partisanship and not race, but the end result is going to be the same.
But this could take time. I don't know which maps will be in effect if the lower Hawaiian judge drags this out.
Meanwhile, South Carolina will eliminate race hustler Jim Clyburn's seat tomorrow.
By the way: Every district will still be strongly pro-GOP. This isn't a case of reducing the GOP's margins to dangerously thin levels to eke out an extra GOP congressman. With virtually any map except an unconstitutionally racially-gerrymandered one, every district in SC will be stronkly pro-GOP.
The New Proposed Redistricted South Carolina Map With 2024 Margins:
Clyburn's district, and a Democrat-leaning district in SC, only existed due to racism and the Democrats' rigging of the rules to keep themselves in power.
Gee, has anyone noticed that federal legislative districts are in the news? Well, we have been screwing with them for the last 184 years, when The Apportionment Act of 1842 was passed. Some states were still electing at-large representatives, some states had multiple member districts, and it was a bit of a mess. Some states continued their wayward ways and there were other apportionment acts passed.
Oh...wait! Elbridge Gerry (of Gerrymander fame!) was screwing with them in 1812, and I am sure there were manipulations before then. The real issue is that there are no laws governing the creation of legislative districts that can rein in the base instincts of politicians. Partisan manipulation of districts has been found by the courts to be permissible, and that has overwhelmed the demands of "compactness," and maintaining political subdivisions like counties, cities, and neighborhoods within rational districts.
"Compactness?" That's a joke. Look at dozens of districts across America and the contortions the mapmakers went through to create, preserve, or destroy particular districts for partisan gain. Hell, the entirety of New England has zero members of the House of Representatives. That is insulting to our republican form of government, and even to our nonexistent but sound-bite-creating "democracy!"
So how can it be fixed, and what would it look like if it were?
Enter AI, which makes the creation of legislative maps a relatively easy process. It is by no means perfect, because the various systems are nowhere near intelligent enough to do what is requested. For instance, it took several iterations to explain to ChatGPT that Wyoming has only one legislative district, it is Republican, and Colorado doesn't get to snake one of theirs into Wyoming! It's actually an excellent way to see the many shortcomings of AI, and how far it needs to go. To be fair, my version of ChatGPT does not have access to the some of the data, like census blocks, and some of the more sophisticated GIS.
Here is a map that has some interesting restrictions. I began with rules that districts must emanate from the center of major cities, must respect "compactness," and city and county borders. I continued to tweak it, reminding the AI over and over that it must obey the specified rules. Some of the mistakes were marvelous! Pittsburgh was solidly Republican for a few iterations, and the Florida panhandle was Democrat. Yeah...AI is not smart.
This was based on 2024 voting patterns, and is probably a bit optimistic, but it shows a solid Republican majority, even with what seems to be under-representation in the major cities. The breakdown by state is illuminating, in part because smaller states are difficult to balance politically, but the larger states are also hamstrung by their large Democrat majorities in the cities.
This is an intellectual exercise, and will never be enacted by any state legislature. There is simply too much at stake. But it does expose the difficulties of creating reasonable legislative districts that represent the people, rather than the entrenched interests in the various statehouses.
[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X/Twitter]. If you folks who are on X/Twitter would follow us it would be much appreciated!
Democrat House leader Hakeem Jeffries and potentially the next Speaker, is the nephew of militant racist Leonard Jeffries.
Before his July 20, 1991 speech, Dr. Leonard Jeffries was already known for his teaching that blacks are racially superior to whites because blacks, whom he calls “sun people,” have more melanin in their skin than whites, whom he calls “ice people.”
“Let me clarify my views,” Dr. Jeffries said, after a long exegesis on the role of Jews in the African slave trade, “if they say we are destroying Western civilization with our proposals, then I say let it happen quickly, because Western civilization is nothing more than an institutionalized, sophisticated form of barbarism.”
. . .Now that’s important because when these people talk about “white supremacists”, they don’t mean the KKK, they mean Americans in general and all who aren’t on board with their black supremacist agenda.
Now let’s meet Hakeem’s brother in the present day.
Hasan Kwame Jeffries tweeted that, “John Brown understood that only way to free America from the scourge of white supremacy was to get rid of white supremacists by any means necessary. He was right THEN. He is right now.”
Whom does the possible future Speaker’s brother consider needs killing? Is Trump on the list?
His current timeline is full of rants about “white people” and claims that Republicans are the new ‘Jim Crow’
I suppose the only question left to ask is whether Hakeem agrees with his brother the way he did with his uncle.
Black conservatives perennially face the slur that they’re “not really black” if they aren’t on the Left. Not only that, they are tools of white racists if they dissent from the NAACP hard line.
When the Supreme Court voted 6-3 to overturn a racially gerrymandered congressional district in Louisiana, Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) was outraged by the local Deseret News in Salt Lake City prominently featuring an Associated Press photo of a lone black protester in front of the court holding a sign that said, “Thurgood is watching you, Clarence.” That implied Thurgood Marshall was disappointed in Clarence Thomas.
Lee tweeted: “They’re going after Justice Thomas for being conservative while Black...
So being black has nothing to do with melanin but political persuasion. Ditto sex, sexual orientation and heritage. The long and short of it is being good means Leftist, and being evil is anything other than that. And from there, you have the absolute moral authority to do anything to gain and maintain power because democracy, freedom and the planet demand it! And those who protest or accuse them of hypocrisy have no right because after all America itself, along with western civilization and Judeo/Christianity are collectively all to be blamed. And as this essay alludes, being a "white supremacist" merely means being white. This is where melanin or lack thereof is all that is needed to define people, unlike the reverse vis a vis Clarence Thomas and others like him.
Yes, the Democrat/Left are evil and dangerous and they're at their most evil and dangerous when they're cornered like rats and sense that the political winds are blowing in the opposite direction to where they want to take us.
With the Virginia Supreme Court rejecting the naked power grab of Spanberger and her cohorts in the attempted gerrymandering and complete disenfranchising of non-leftist Virginians, the reaction was almost worse than their attempted power grab: the sacking of their State's Supreme Court and replacement with Leftist lackies. If they succeed, God-forbid, it might be lights out for America before too long.
If at first you don’t succeed, throw out the rules and rig the game in your favor.
That’s the strategy Democrats are looking to embrace after the Virginia Supreme Court slapped down their illegal efforts to gerrymander the commonwealth in their favor ahead of the 2026 midterms. The state’s high court found (4-3) that the Democrat-run General Assembly violated the Virginia Constitution by bypassing procedural requirements necessary for the redistricting amendment to appear on the state’s April ballot. . . Not content with accepting defeat, Democrats are exploring ways to resurrect their failed gerrymandering gambit ahead of the 2026 elections, The New York Times reported over the weekend. Democrats’ brainstorming session included one “audacious” and “possibly far-fetched” idea that involves packing the Virginia Supreme Court with new Democrat appointees. Floated on a purported phone call between U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., and Virginia Democrat House leaders, the proposal involves the Virginia General Assembly and Democrat Gov. Abigail Spanberger approving legislation that would lower the retirement age for state Supreme Court justices.
America is not yet at the stage reached by the Weimar Republic in Germany in the 1920s or among Japan’s military rulers in the 1930s, in which the assassination of politicians became almost routine, a means to remove talented individuals from power and to discourage opposing views from being voiced.
But when putatively respectable individuals and institutions on one side of the political spectrum give voice to approval of violence and murder, the Weimar experience comes into view. When one side’s leaders’ rhetoric constantly portrays the opposition leader as another Hitler, it’s not surprising that some of its followers take it on themselves to kill him.
The assassinations and attempts might not be coming fast and furious, to coin a phrase, but the deplatforming, debanking, censorship, intimidation and other tactics surely have the same chilling effect on any voices of dissent wherever they come from. From the halls of Congress to the boardroom, to Main Street and Wall Street, to school boards and right down to the schoolyard itself!
Well, Weimar is as Weimar does. And with that...
Have a good day.
ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
So what do you want to do while we wait to get the all-clear on the Americans involved? I’ve got an idea. How about we contemplate exactly what the left is doing right now in its sick and twisted war rooms? You guessed it: If someone dies, it will give the left a new narrative to use to bash the Trump administration in the run-up to the midterms. The Sick and Twisted Political Opportunity Democrats May Be Waiting For
Victor Davis Hanson: Demographic change, DEI ideology, anti-Israel radicalism, and political cowardice have mainstreamed hostility toward Jews. The Four Horsemen of the New Antisemitism
With the Iran cease-fire on “massive life support,” it’s time for President Donald Trump to resume Project Freedom, and get the Strait of Hormuz open to normal commercial traffic. Not Tehran’s traffic, of course: The blockade must continue until the Islamic Republic gives up its “nuclear dust” and verifiably ends its nuke programs. Reopen the Strait and quit playing along with Iran’s talk-talk stall
CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
On May 6, the day after the government filed its response, Pate denied the SPLC’s motion as moot: The government isn’t lying, and there’s no evidence that they intend to, so there’s no need to order them not to. The SPLC’s Drama Queen Media Defense Swings And Misses
The Dignity Act is amnesty dressed up as enforcement, proving once again that too many in Congress still value cheap labor over America’s borders, laws, and sovereignty. The Insulting Dignity Act
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY, PLUS VARIOUS & SUNDRY GODLESS HEATHENS
In a post on X, Fetterman shared a photo of an article from Politico regarding Wecht announcing that he was leaving the Democrat Party and becoming an independent. Fetterman noted that while he is not switching his party affiliation, he understood Wecht’s “personal choice.” Sen. Fetterman Calls for Democrat Party to ‘Confront Its Own Rising Antisemitism Problem’
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
If proven, the allegations could result in significant legal and financial consequences for Netflix. The lawsuit comes as Paxton, a longtime supporter of President Donald J. Trump and the America First agenda, is the favorite in a primary race to unseat Senator John Cornyn, a longtime detractor of President Trump and the MAGA movement, as the Republican nominee for Cornyn’s U.S. Senate seat in the November midterms. AG Paxton Files Lawsuit Against Netflix for ‘Spying on Texas Kids.’
NBC News reports that Vandana Joshi, widow of Tiru Chabba, one of two people killed in the shooting, has filed the lawsuit in Florida against OpenAI. Chabba died alongside Robert Morales, the university’s dining director. The complaint also names Phoenix Ikner, the accused shooter, as a defendant, citing what it describes as his extensive conversations with ChatGPT. Lawsuit: OpenAI’s ChatGPT Told Florida State Gunman to Target Children for ‘National Exposure’
The President needs Congress to approve the suspension of the tax. Recent estimates indicate that a temporary suspension of the tax would cost the federal government roughly half a billion dollars per week. The announcement comes as polling from earlier this month suggests a clear majority of Americans are worried about rising gas prices. Trump Plans Temporary Suspension of Gas Tax.
UCLA receives hundreds of millions of dollars in federal and state grants, including $641 million California approved in fiscal year 2024 alone. The school successfully sued to regain more than $500 million in federal funds the Trump administration froze in July over alleged campus civil rights violations, CalMatters reported. Master of Laws students at UCLA’s law school will be eligible for $20,500 annually in federal unsubsidized loans by July, according to the school’s website. EXCLUSIVE: California University Worked With Globalist NGO To Make Mexico’s Judicial System Gay
Consider it a cautionary tale the next time you read, and read, and read again about a new Democrat darling who will save the Republic through sheer grit and ruthless competence. Our readers will, of course, already know better. Abigail Spanberger’s Faceplant
Republicans may not be firing on all cylinders, but Democrats are hardly in better form. With gas prices climbing and the Iran-U.S. conflict showing no signs of resolution, the GOP faces real headwinds heading into the 2026 midterms. Yet while Trump and his party absorb most of the scrutiny, the disarray within the Democratic Party has gone largely unexamined. Republicans Are In Bad Shape, But Democrats Aren’t In Much Better
Accusations of “planted” candidates have plagued the already overcrowded primary, leaving Nebraskans with a bizarre lineup of candidates whose policy platform doesn’t always match up with their party registration. At least one Democrat candidate has pledged to drop out of the race should she win the party’s nomination. How Nebraska’s Senate Primary Became The Most Bizarre Race In The Country
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
Netanyahu’s proposal could reshape the U.S.-Israel alliance, particularly as bipartisan support for military aid has waned in the wake of recent conflicts. The move also signals a strategic pivot for Israel as it seeks greater autonomy and deeper regional partnerships. Netanyahu Wants to ‘Draw Down’ US Military Aid to Zero in Coming Years.
There has been a steady drumbeat of Labour MPs officially calling on Starmer to resign, and especially after his poorly received reset speech this morning. From a couple of dozen at daybreak we’re now at 69 plotters, edging clearly towards the threshold of 81 members to trigger a leadership challenge. Half of Britons Say Starmer Should Stand Down as Prime Minister as Coup Plotting Picks up Momentum
The Nicaraguan communist regime led by dictatorial husband-and-wife “co-presidential” couple Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo has signed decades-long gold mining lease contracts with at least 15 Chinese mining companies that have effectively handed over control of the nation’s gold resources to China. Those deals have also resulted in Chinese companies reportedly controlling as much as over 1.013 hectares of Nicaraguan land, or the equivalent to 8.5 percent of all of Nicaragua, of which six percent is controlled by five U.S. sanctioned companies. Report: U.S. Sanctioned Chinese Mining Companies Control 6 Percent of Nicaragua
Venezuelan interim President Delcy Rodriguez responded Monday after President Donald Trump said he’s “seriously considering” making Venezuela the 51st state. Trump floated the idea during a phone call with Fox News’ John Roberts, claiming that there is “$40 trillion in oil there” and that Venezuelans love him. Rodriguez later rejected the president’s suggestion. Trump Says He’s ‘Seriously Considering’ Making Venezuela 51st State. Delcy Rodriguez Responds
Needless to say, Zelensky and his henchmen either never quite believed the UOC or they just don't like Christianity (or both), and so on May 11, 2026, Ukrainian storm troopers descended upon the UOC’s St. Michael Monastery, and according to reports, forcibly removed parishioners, volunteers, and clergy. Diminutive Dictator Zelenksy Is Now Shutting Down Churches in the Name of Democracy
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
Eileen Wang agreed to plead guilty to a single felony count that carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in federal prison. Feds Charge California Democrat For Acting As Chinese Agent (The entire party is a wing 'wang?' of the CCP!- jjs)
The image to the right, cropped and expanded to post here, was taken on May 3, 2026 when the spacecraft was still about three million miles away. Psyche approaches Mars
Katalyst has never done this before. It was preparing LINK as a demo mission when NASA requested bids for saving Swift. It proposed reconfiguring LINK for that purpose, and won the contract in September 2025, only eight months ago. Katalyst completes final ground testing of its Swift rescue spacecraft
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
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Accoridng to the creator of the library and utility cURL, who knows a thing or two about AI bug hunting having been inundated with AI-generated bug reports for years.
Python is a great programming language for humans to use, because it makes it easy to get something up and running - at the cost of becoming slow and burdensome for large systems.
But the same properties that make it easy for humans to write make it hard for AI models to reason about, and languages like Rust and Go that favour strict, static typing are easier for AI models to generate correctly and also compile to code that runs faster.
The remaining win for Python is its massive ecosystem with modules like Numpy and PyTorch for numerical processing and AI respectively, but if you don't need to use those directly, why not go straight to Rust?
It's basically a slightly slower version of the 8GB 9060 XT, drawing slightly less power. The recommended power supply has dropped from 500W to 450W, so we may be seeing a card that draws 120W or less.
Musical Interlude
Disclaimer: Sixty days of siege, outnumbered and weak... Oops, wrong battle.
Podcast: Sefton and CBD are joined by Jeff Carter, candidate for NV treasurer, and seasoned finance professional, for a discussion of the issues facing Nevadans, and the larger financial challenges in America.
Few people remember that Norm MacDonald began his career as a ventriloquist MacDonald's old partner Adam Egot revealed that MacDonald repurposed a bit with one of his ventriloquist dolls -- that he was a "bad guy" who "didn't believe the Holocaust happened" -- for the Norm MacDonald show, in which he claimed Egot didn't believe in the Holocaust.
Funniest thing I've read about the Virginia mess. Back when they were hustling the referendum through the assembly both Senators, Warner and Kaine, advised them to go slow and play by the rules. Louise Lucas said she respected them but didn't need advice from the "cuck chair" in the corner. The gerrymandering was overturned and Louise is heading for the big house. Edward G. Robinson voice "where's your cuck now?"
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"Ahhhhh ahh I put my career on the line for Louise Lucas and Jay Jones thinking they'd vault me into presidential contention and we ended up costing Democrats 20 House seats and unleashing a Reverse Dobbs ahhhhh ahhh"
"It's f**king f**ked." -- reportedly a genuine comment offered by a "senior Labour source" Correction: I wrote that Labour is losing 88% (now 87%) of the seats it is "defending." I think that's wrong. The right way to say it is the seats they are contesting -- that is, they don't necessarily already hold these seats, but they have put up a candidate to run for the seat. It's still very bad but not as bad as losing 87% of the seats they already held.
Basil the Great
@BasilTheGreat
🚨ED MILIBAND [a Minister in Starmer's government] SAYS KEIR STARMER WILL RESIGN AS PRIME MINISTER
He has reportedly reassured Labour MP's that Starmer will be resigning following the disastrous results tonight
It's over
"The end of the two party system in the UK" as first the Fake Conservatives and now Labour chooses political suicide rather than simply STOPPING THE INVASION Incidentally, the only reason this didn't already happen in the US is because of the Very Bad Orange Man (who is right on 85% of all policy calls and extremely, existentially right on 15% of them)
No political party that is NOT also a doomsday religious cult would EVER choose a cataclysmic loss -- and possible extinction as a party -- to support a toxically unpopular favoritism of NON-CITIZEN ILLEGAL MIGRANTS over actual citizen voters.
Only a cult does this.
Now they've lost 84%.
Annunziata Rees-Mogg
@zatzi
If this continues Labour loses 2,148 seats tonight.
That is much worse than the worst case predictions I’ve seen.
Cataclysmic
Update: They've now lost 88% of the seats they're defending. As I mentioned earlier, I think I heard that London will not bail them out, as many of those Labour seats will probably flip to "Muslim Independent" or Green. Detroit's 5am vote will not save them.
Yup, Labour is losing 80% of its seats...
The British Patriot
@TheBritLad
🚨 BREAKING: Labour have lost 80% of all seats contested as of 2:25 AM.< br>
If this continues, Keir Starmer will be out of office next week.
Reform has surged and projected to pick up between 1700-2100 seats.
Wow, up to 1700-2100 seats. It's not incredible that this is happening. It's incredible that the Davos crowd is so absolutely determined to privilege Muslim "migrants" over the actual native population who elects them, no matter how loudly the natives scream that they want to be prioritized, that they will gladly self-extinguish as a party rather than simply representing the interests of their own voters. Astonishing.
Remember, when they call other people "cultists" -- they are the ones so imprisoned in their social reinforcement and discipline bubbles that they will choose political death rather than dare upset the Karen Enforcement Officers of their cult. Update: Now they've lost 83% of the seats they were defending.
(((Dan Hodges)))
@DPJHodges
Reform are basically wiping Labour out in the North. It's not a defeat. It's not even a rout. Labour are simply ceasing to exist.
Nick Lowles
@lowles_nick
Tonight’s results are calamitous for Labour. Not just for Keir Starmer's leadership, but for the very future of the party
STARMERGEDDON: In early returns, Reform gains 135 seats, Labour loses 90, the Fake Conservatives lose 36 (and I didn't even know they could fall any further), the Lib Dems lose 4, and the Greens gain 6. Note that the only other party gaining seats is the Greens and they're only gaining a handful of seats.
Update: Reform now up 145, Labour down 98. Labour projected to lose Wales -- where they've ruled for 27 years. Fulton County Georgia just discovered 400 boxes of ballots for Labour
Update: REF +156, LAB -107, CON -45
Brutal: In four out of five council seats where Labour is defending, they've lost. 80%.
I'm sure it's not this simple, but Reform is straight taking Labour's and the "Conservatives'" seats. They've lost almost exactly what Reform gained. If understand this right (and warning, I probably don't), all of London's council seats are up for election, and Labour might lose hugely there, as their old voters abandon them for Reform, Muslim Indenpendents, and the Greens.
REF +190, LAB -134, CON -56.
Updates on the Labour collapse in council elections -- which wags are calling #Starmergeddon -- from Beege Welborne. There are about 5000 seats up for grabs, Labour is expected to lose 1,800, Reform will probably gain 1,580, up from... zero. So this would be more than that. People claim that while Labour has adopted the Sharia Agenda to appeal to the million Muslims it allowed to migrate to the country, those voters are ditching Labour to vote for the Muslim Independent Party or the Greens. Delicious. This shadenfreude is going straight to my thighs. Oh, and if Starmer loses about as badly as expected, Labour will toss him out of a window Braveheart style and replace him. He will announce he is resigning to spend more time with his Gay Ukrainian Male Prostitutes.
Media bias and senationalism are as old as, well, the media:
That was written by Denny O'Neill and illustrated by, get this, Frank Miller. Editor to the Stars Jim Shooter was in charge at the time. I always thought the gag was original to the comic book, but in fact the "Threat or Menace" headline was a satirical joke about media bias and sensationalism for a long while. The Harvard Lampoon used it in a parody of Life magazine: "Flying Saucers: Threat or Menace?"
