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How do you do, fellow kids? Good evening Horde. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans. The bar is open and freshly re-stocked. Free refills!
Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT which means another edition of random overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and join the fun. Good will offerings of amusing puns are encouraged. Pants are discouraged due to the heat. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors. If you're here for an argument, please go through the second door on the right and then close the door behind you. This is a Tucker, Candace, Megyn, and Bill Kristol free zone. Please.
Will reading the content protect you from Taco Bell lettuce explosive diarrhea? Couldn't hurt, right? The ONT is not a miracle worker, so keep your expectations low.
SpaceX Starship Flight 13 is scheduled for July 16. Launch window opens at 6:45pm ET. Excellent Flight 12 recap film:
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Horde Shopping Update
I know what you're thinking. "Last week, you told us about the impending auction of Gus, one of the largest and most complete T-Rex skeletons ever found. What happened with that auction?" Glad you asked.
The auction estimate was $20 to $30 million, but Gus sold for over $50 million to an undisclosed buyer.
A Tyrannosaurus rex fossil billed as one of the world's largest and most complete specimens sold for a record $50.1 million Tuesday.
Sotheby's said the 67-million-year-old fossil, nicknamed "Gus," is now the most expensive set of dinosaur bones ever auctioned off, besting the almost $45 million price tag for a nearly complete stegosaurus sold by the same New York auction house in 2024. The previous record holder had been a Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton nicknamed "Stan" that sold for nearly $32 million in 2020.
The auction house said the mystery winner outbid six other prospective buyers during Tuesday's 10-minute bidding battle.
If the buyer is among the Horde, please send me a note. Your secret will be safe with me.
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Kills Bugs Fast
Ace of Spades does not endorse any specific provider of mosquito killing drones and I cannot vouch for this company but anyone working to rid us of the flying blood suckers has my attention: Tornyol
Tornyol combines ultrasonic sonar and intelligent control algorithms in a 40-gram drone to eradicate all the mosquitoes in your space.
Tornyol uses ultrasonic sonar and autonomous guidance algorithms to locate and grind mosquitoes in its propellers.
A single Tornyol unit should be able to protect areas up to 5 acres.
If one is good, why not a swarm of skeeter killers? I'd be interested to see the result after roaming around my backyard for an hour.
Of course, there is always the old fashioned way...
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ONT Wayback Machine
You may know Jeremy Clarkson from Top Gear but did you know that he once hosted Robot Wars, the British television series that preceded BattleBots?
The voice and delivery is unmistakably classic Clarkson. On another level, a 1998 television show featuring fighting robots might have been prescient...
Pophouse Entertainment, the investment firm co-founded by ABBA's Bjorn Ulvaeus, has announced a partnership with legendary British heavy metal band Iron Maiden, acquiring a stake in the publishing and master music rights, and the name, image, and likeness (NIL) rights. Billboard reports that Pophouse has acquired a 50% "stake" in the assets.
The deal includes rights to the band's iconic mascot, the ghoulish character "Eddie."
However, for the sake of context, Pophouse paid upward of $300 million for a similar deal with Kiss, although the percentage was unclear.
The partnership, which has been structured and developed over the last year between Pophouse and the band's co-manager, Andy Taylor, "will enable Iron Maiden to pursue new creative ventures that connect with existing fans as well as bringing their extensive catalogue to new audiences," according to the announcement.
Does this mean Iron Maiden concerts will continue for perpetuity with a holographic Bruce Dickinson singing Fear of the Dark with a holographic Eddie?
Police in Ontario are reminding residents not to bring explosives to police stations after an unexploded World War II grenade was turned in at an Ottawa station.
The Ontario Provincial Police said a resident brought the grenade to the OPP Detachment in Ottawa on Friday.
"The OPP would like to remind the public that if you find such items, please do not transport them to your local police station," OPP East Region wrote on social media. "This could obviously prove extremely dangerous to the person bringing the item and others around."
Officials recommended residents instead leave any explosives where they are found and report the location to authorities.
Of course, Ontario appears to be on fire at the moment, so maybe grenades have dropped down the priority list since Friday.
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Niche YouTube Channel of the Week
Tonight's feature is a YouTube channel called The Baseball Bat Bros. The channel does nothing other than test, review and compare bats. That is it.
Does price matter for wood bats? How does an illegally corked bat work? Do different shape handles matter? Does the cheapest bat sold at Walmart work? If you're into baseball bats, they have it. Nothing else.
His channel has over 1.2 million subscribers.
I know what you're thinking. Have over 5 million people really watched a ten minute video testing eleven wiffleball bats? Yes.
I'm including solely out of awe that someone can establish a successful YouTube channel that does nothing other than test and compare baseball bats. This is exactly the kind of niche narrowcasting that is only enabled by the interweb and platforms like YT. The videos are short, simple and digestible with no artificial drama. No highly polished graphics or editing. No clickbait.
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The Pittsburgh police scanner keeps giving. Thank you people of Pittsburgh and thank you Pittsburgh scanner!
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly from the Danish National Symphony for the big ONT finish:
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Did you know that IKEA operates a hotel in Sweden? It is the only one that exists. Anyway, correspondence can be sent to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com where it will be promptly filed. Are you lurking ????
Raven steals the cat's food to give it to the dog.
Stella the stray dog is rescued -- and it's discovered she has something lodged in her stomach she can't digest, so she can't eat and can't poop. She would have died within days, but for one concerned man's intervention.
When a dog is caught chewing on a family picture, the two cats swarm in to cover up the crime. The cats have nothing to gain from this. Some men just want to watch the world burn.
"MASCULINITY IS BACK," Says Gay Liberal Media, In Transparent Attempt to Win Back Male Voters Who Aren't Gay or "Trans"
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Via Beege Wellborne: Steve Jobs' widow's Vanity Magazine The Atlantic announces "MASCULINITY IS BACK," but only for Democrats pretending to be masculine.
Actually-masculine Republican men, those who aren't just pretending as they run for office, are still Toxic and Ick.
Brian Poindexter had just finished wolfing down a Reuben sandwich in a deli outside Cleveland when he delivered a message that, coming from a Democratic House candidate in the year 2026, sounded almost provocative. "There's nothing wrong with being masculine," Poindexter told me. It's okay, he said, to be "a manly man."
Poindexter's own manliness credentials are fully in order.
Yeah I'm sure to a gay media writer he seems super-manly.
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Now Poindexter is running for Congress, trying to flip a Republican-held seat in Ohio with a pitch aimed at a constituency that has abandoned the Democratic Party over the past two decades: men.
You can tell this guy is really an advocate for men when he declares there's nothing wrong with the Democrat agenda: They just need to "message" to men better.
The party-wide reckoning that Trump's win spawned has centered in part on why Democrats lost working-class men whose life experiences resemble Poindexter's--and how the party can win them back. In Poindexter's view, Democrats' struggles with men like him owe less to policy than to culture. "It's all vibes," he said.
"Vibes" is something leftwing women like Kamala Harris talk about. Men talk about actual policies and results.
You are kinda gay, dude. You are very effeminate. And you're claiming that the Democrats' Pink Agenda just needs a splash of blue paint to cover it up and it will be "For the Men."
You're not proposing actual changes -- just "bluewashing" the Democrat anti-male agenda.
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Critiques such as Poindexter's have gelled into a consensus over the past two years, repeated ad nauseam by starchy senators and governors with an eye toward running for president in 2028. Closing the gender gap now seems to be an official electoral strategy for Democrats. A couple of months ago, I got a call from a party operative who pitched a story on the Democrats' effort to "win back the manosphere."
Democrat Party operatives call you to pitch you propaganda stories would be helpful to them?
No shit. I never would have guessed.
The operative ran through a list of a half dozen candidates in key House districts who "are engaging culturally in male spaces"--a bit of gobbledygook that I took to mean "manly men," or perhaps "guy's guys," but that also reflects the sort of anthropological distance that points to the depth of the party's problem. After all, an ironworker probably wouldn't describe himself as "engaging culturally in male spaces."
No, the whole idea of "spaces" is, get this, something leftwing women babble about.
In case you weren't already certain enough of it: The piece admits this is all a political con-job by having their "Masculine Manly-Man" declare that the Democrat Party doesn't need any actual ideas from men to support men and in fact nothing in the Democrat Party agenda is anti-male.
It's just perception, man.
Like your sex. It's all a construct.
For the most part, Poindexter and the other men Democrats are running this year aren't offering up any new male-centric ideas. That's not what's needed, Poindexter told me. Within the party's agenda, he said, "I can't think of a single piece of legislation that's bad for men." But, he argued, Democrats have hemorrhaged support from men like him--the ones who sweat more than type for a living--because the party has relegated them to the periphery.
This is the left-wing, extremely feminine idea of "centering." It's not that men are actually being harmed by anti-male policies, this faggot is arguing -- it's just that we don't feel "centered" and "included" in Democrat Party group-photos.
But the propagandist finishes on The Big Takeaway s/he was ordered to really pound home for the masses:
If nothing else, Democrats are embracing their masculinity again, and they'll soon find out whether that's enough to win men back.
Oh yeah, they're so masculine now I can't even take it.
What is really creepy here is how top-down this disgusting leftwing hive mind operates. Their political commissars say "We have to do something to attract some straight men" and within months, all of their media organs are pumping out the same message.
It's like an alien cult. All of their brains are connected by invisible amoeba-tentacles.
Meanwhile, at the New York Times, a woman wonders: Why don't men at my workplace hit on me any longer?
Go On, Date Your Co-Workers
July 6, 2026
This is how they describe the picture running with the article:
A strangely-shaped paper clip reminiscent of Mickey Mouse's head holds down a piece of metal, studded at its sides; a photo, almost like a postage stamp in shape and resting upon the piece of metal, shows two birds fornicating. A brass, more standard paper clip sits upon the metal, as does, above and off the metal, another. The birds are blue and yellow, the hazy background green fading into orange. All is a metaphor for corporate drudgery interrupted by the subtle eroticism of nature.
Karens are lonely and horny and so they're announcing that men should brave lawsuits and #cancellation to f*** them again.
Don't bother, they're bad at sex. They're bad at pretty much everything.
Last year I developed an office crush. My friends warned me against doing anything about it, typically using a crude metaphor about keeping your eating space clean. Dating people you work with just seems like too much trouble these days. It's not that people aren't attracted to Jack in client relations with the smile lines and overzealous David Lynch obsession; it's that it feels as if the risk outweighs the reward.
But a return to office romance could be the solution to the sense many people have that modern dating is broken. Dating apps ask us to consider potential romantic partners not as full human beings with a caffeine addiction and tension-defusing sense of humor but as a set of optimized digital parameters.
Only 16 percent of U.S. workers went on a date with a colleague last year, down from about 40 percent in 2009.
Gee, why do you think that is, NYT? Can you offer any kind of explanation?
Maybe something to do with a all-consuming moral panic you stoked and profited from?
Workplace crushes -- a surefire way to inject excitement into office mundanity -- have waned, too, with the share of workers reporting one collapsing from 49 percent in 2024 to just 22 percent in 2025, according to a human resources industry group survey. The decline has been decades in the making. While about one-fifth of adults over 50 said they met their partners at work, just 13 percent of those 18 to 29 said the same.
Of course, workplace romance was always fraught, with its legacy of predatory bosses, favoritism and, when things went wrong, career retaliation. Years of sexual harassment training and more watchful human resources departments taught us not to go there. (About a quarter of workers now fear harassment allegations, one industry survey found.)
But where else in adulthood except the office would you bond with a potential paramour you share so much of everyday life with?
Below, the Masculine Manly-Man running for office as a Democrat that The Atlantic is ordering its readers to get behind.
I’m Brian Poindexter - I’m a union ironworker, and I’m running for Congress because working people's lives keep getting harder and harder while billionaires keep getting richer and richer.
I don't know what that blasphemous little imp's secret is, but he's got one. Don't be fooled by that creepy smile on his creepy face; there's something wrong with James Talarico. I can't quite put my finger on it, but I don't ever want to see his browser history, and I'd sooner have somebody from The Lincoln Project babysit my kid. It's just a vibe, but there are rumors out there, and unfortunately, no one has shared the specifics with me. I don't know exactly what they are, but we have no moral obligation to default to a presumption of normality regarding Democrat Senate candidates this cycle. After all, we just lived through Der Platnerdämmerung.
Is it related to his gender ambiguity? He's already famous for apologizing for his white male identity. Well, let's just say we can be pretty confident that Talarico has never beaten up or assaulted one of the many ex-girlfriends he's tried to convince us were his girlfriends. This is because, to the extent they actually ever were his girlfriends, they all look like they can kick his butt. And he looks like he might dig that.
Let's call out the pink donkey in the room. There's widespread speculation that the guy is in the closet, and anybody who's lived a few years has known guys in the closet, and well, this dude gives off vibes like he's in the closet. I don't know if he's in the closet. I do know that if he is in the closet, he should have come out and been honest about who he was. If he's lying about that, what else is he lying about?
All of my concerns about mentally-ill men obsessed with possessing women's bodies hanging out in women's rooms are instantly dispelled!
Keith Ellison claims straight people use 'gender-affirming care,' calls tax-funded police 'socialism'
"Cisgender heterosexual people like myself use gender-affirming care every day and all the time," Ellison said.
You can tell he doesn't mean it because Islamist clerics haven't issued a fatwa against him.
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has come under a flurry of criticism in recent days after a pair of comments about socialism and so-called "gender-affirming care." In both cases, Ellison was attempting to stretch the meaning of both words.
During a June 29 appearance on an LGBT talk show, Ellison discussed "gender-affirming care" and claimed that it is not exclusive to transgender people, saying that "cisgender heterosexual people like myself use gender-affirming care every day and all the time."
Ellison explained that he believes a man using erectile dysfunction medication, a woman receiving reconstructive surgery after a double mastectomy, or a woman with hair loss wearing a wig are all practicing "gender-affirming care."
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Speaking to the talk show hosts, the attorney general argued that a double standard exists which penalizes transgender people for seeking out methods to change their appearance. Ellison said he believes this double standard is "bigotry."
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"You call the cops, guess who pays them? Your tax dollars," Ellison said. "Guess what that is? That's socialism, pal! Sorry. You don't contract for your own private police department or fire department or water inspection or public works."
Former MSNBC crazy person Joy Reid is now a podcasting crazy person, "I hope you guys had a fabulous weekend where you definitely had a better week then the Republican Caucus in the United States Senate because hell opened its doors for at least one more... there is a thing that happens when people die who are not good people and who've done a lot of bad, but the media reacts to them in a very specific sort of fuck-up-ish kind of way, particularly when they're conservatives."
Candace Owens has a new theory, and I'm not joking: She wonders if Bibi Netanyahu ordered Charlie Kirk to kill her, and when he refused, Netanyahu then put out the contract on Charlie Kirk.
Ben Shapiro is skeptical. He thinks the toxic Cluster-B attention whore might just be itchy for attention.
Ah, yes, because if Israel wanted to kill Candace Owens, they would definitely call Charlie Kirk on the phone and ask him for permission.
Then, once he says no, and they're, of course, bound by that edict, they would stage an elaborate fake assassination of HIM.
That's definitely how secret government assassinations work.
This level of narcissism and delusion is not even funny anymore.
Notice that Candace Owens, just like a psychopathic stalker, cannot stop attempting to associate herself with the object of her obsession, Charlie Kirk. She wants the names "Candace Owens and Charlie Kirk" indelibly linked forever, as if they were married.
Psychopaths often do this. Ask John Lennon's assassin about his belief that Lennon had stolen his identity and taken his place.
UK "Equalities and Human Rights Commission:" People Must Use The Single-Sex Bathrooms for the Gender They Were "Assigned at Birth." Trannies Should Use Gender-Neutral Bathrooms.
Single-sex spaces - such as changing rooms and toilets - must be used on the basis of biological sex, new guidance from the equalities watchdog has confirmed.
This means, for instance, that a trans woman - a biological male who identifies as a woman - should not use female toilets or changing rooms, according to the code of practice.
The guidance, produced by the Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) and now approved by ministers, makes it clear that transgender people should instead be offered a third or a gender-neutral space.
The code states that leaving a trans person without access to any services or facilities would be unlikely to be proportionate and could be discriminatory.
The guidance was published on Thursday following the landmark Supreme Court ruling last year that the definition of a woman under the Equality Act should be based on biological sex.
The code of practice sets out how associations, businesses and services open to the public should organise their facilities. It covers a wide range of settings from shopping centres and gyms to hospitals and restaurants. The EHRC is planning to publish guidance for employers and staff facilities at a later date.
So you don't want trans-identifying males to feel threatened by the presence of other men when using communal toilets, but you're perfectly happy for women to be subjected to that same uncomfortable experience. Do you not see how illogical your argument is?
President Donald Trump on Wednesday praised the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and disputed reports it would end traffic stops. He said that traffic stops are key to effective enforcement of immigration laws.
"We must be strong, tough, and smart, and we CANNOT give up one of I.C.E.'s most important and effective Crime Fighting tools, THE TRAFFIC STOP! Once we do, we are playing right into the criminal's hands. The Radical Left Dumocrats would like to see this done, but it won't happen on my watch," Trump said on Truth Social.
Several outlets on Tuesday reported that ICE would curtail agents stopping vehicles as part of the federal agency's nationwide deportation operation. The change in policy followed two fatal shootings of motorists involving ICE agents in one week.
By the way, the man who was shot and killed while attempting to run down ICE in his vehicle was a Columbian immigrant.
The driver of the vehicle was killed in the incident and was identified as Joan Sebastian Guerrero, a Colombian citizen in his 20s.
The Washington Post pointed out that Guerrero "entered the United States via the southern border in September 2023, a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said in a statement, and received work authorization in May 2025."
As I said, this is terrorism and insurrection.
The left is asserting a general right to attack its enemies. In Point Pleasant, NJ, a woman slapped two kids for daring to wear MAGA and pro-ICE clothing.
A leftist Canadian woman allegedly slapped a teen who was wearing President Trump-branded clothing on the Jersey Shore over the Fourth of July weekend -- before she was arrested and detained by immigration officials.
Kaitlyn E. Tracey, 33, allegedly recorded herself confronting a group of four girls on the Point Pleasant Beach boardwalk when she became violent on July 3, according to court documents obtained by NJ.com.
Tracey took issue with two of the beachgoers -- who are minors -- wearing "patriotic colored" sweatpants with the words "Trump" and "ICE" before she struck one of them across the face and body, police alleged.
Video surveillance captured Tracey's alleged assault before she left the scene but was identified by police who obtained an arrest warrant for her, the outlet reported.
She was arrested on Monday and charged with endangering the welfare of a child, simple assault, harassment and obstruction, according to court records viewed by The Post.
The teen Tracey allegedly slapped was not injured.
Tracey had been living in Asbury Park with her husband after she entered the US with a passport in 2024, according to the outlet.
A woman takes a swipe at a teenager dressed in Patriotic Clothing of July 4th, 2026 on Jenkinson’s Pier in Point Pleasant, NJ. pic.twitter.com/MC76Zlw3TZ
This child-beating bitch is now in custody, ironically enough, at the Delaney ICE facility in Newark, the one the other lunatic leftwing women can't stop protesting. (And laying hands on people while they're "protesting," too.)
The Canadian woman who slapped a teenager at the Jersey Shore because she didn't like the girl's MAGA clothing was arrested by ICE and brought to Delaney Hall in Newark -- the very immigration detention center her lefty husband has railed about on social media.
Kaitlyn E. Tracey, 33, was taken into custody after she filmed herself confronting two girls wearing "patriotic colored" sweatpants over Fourth of July weekend at Point Pleasant, one of whom she struck across the face and body, cops said.
Her husband, Matthew Geroni, 42, revealed on TikTok Tuesday that she had been taken to Delaney Hall in a video he said he recorded with the purpose of getting her released from ICE custody "even if that means back to Canada," he said.
Tracey was arrested on Monday and charged with endangering the welfare of a child, simple assault, harassment and obstruction, according to court records viewed by The Post.
The couple have been living in Asbury Park since she entered the US with a Canadian passport in 2024.
It wasn't his first video about the now-infamous detainee facility, which became the site of angry protests and violent clashes between police and anti-ICE demonstrators in recent months.
Geroni posted a TikTok video in June purporting to imitate both sides of the conflict, portraying the protesters as peaceful and the police as violent, mindless thugs.
The video opens with him sitting under the words "peaceful protesters literally standing in their designated first amendment zone," looking confused and scratching his head.
It then cuts to him standing and aiming a gun-like object with which he mimics a rapid-fire shooting motion standing beside the text "State police and [ICE] at Delaney Hall in Newark, NJ."
American husband is begging for help for his Canadian wife, who was arrested and detained by ICE after assaulting a teenager in New Jersey for wearing patriotic Trump and ICE apparel.
Kaitlyn Tracey allegedly recorded herself confronting a group of four girls on the NJ’s beach… pic.twitter.com/Tq0J7JBIQX
Biden Slurs and Stumbles His Way Through Ad for His Ghostwritten "Memoir"
—Disinformation Expert Ace
This drooling imbecile was paid $10 million by the corrupt corporate media for a book that won't make $2 million.
As ghastly as that corruption is, at least we can take solace in Biden feeling disrespected by the fact he only got $10 million -- the clean, articulate black man (whoah, that's storybook, man!) who proceeded him got $60 million. (Plus a hundred million from propaganda op Netflix, just for existing.)
Former President Joe Biden will release his memoir this fall at a date set for two weeks after midterm elections in which Democrats seek to regain control of Congress.
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The memoir Promise Me, America will focus on his four years leading the nation, as Breitbart News reported.
Many Democrats remain divided on Biden's legacy and his ill-fated journey to seek a second term in the White House while questions have been raised about Biden's mental decline while he was in the White House and the alleged use of an autopen.
His own party's leaders hope to keep the fall campaign focused on the record of Republican President Donald Trump, the AP report notes, rather than that of a man who drifted out of view when all attempts to return to the highest office in the land came to nothing and his own party turned on him.
"'Promise Me, America' is about the challenges we faced as a nation. It's about the decisions I made and why I made them," Biden said in a video statement accompanying Wednesday's announcement. "Most of all, it's about my faith in the promise of America."
Below: A clearly mentally-ravaged Biden slurs his way through an ad for "his" ghostwritten book of lies. This short video has more cuts in it than a Michael Bay action sequence.
Incredible to watch this video and remember that Biden and his team fought for him to serve a second term. This is a recorded video, no doubt with multiple takes, and in the finished product he can barely speak https://t.co/PguoTKwd8O
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer appeared to suffer an embarrassing mishap on the Senate floor Tuesday when what sounded like a fart interrupted his remarks live on C-SPAN.
Schumer was criticizing President Trump over the war in Iran when the noise broke through the chamber's microphones.
"Now on Iran and the NDAA," the 75-year-old New York Democrat began before briefly pausing and continuing with his speech.
In a National Address Tomorrow Night, Trump Will Reveal a Far More Extensive Foreign Penetration of the 2020 US Elections Than Ever Known; Plus, RussiaGate Was Faked to Protect the Real Country Intervering in Elections: China, on Behalf of Democrats
DEVELOPING: President Trump to announce in prime-time speech Thurs night FBI/CIA/ODNI have uncovered "shocking" intelligence of foreign election interference (not Russian) in recent US elections inclg 2020 + COVER-UP. Directors Ratcliffe, Patel to certify evidence...developing...
So here's what we're learning from all these declassified materials: The US Intelligence Community *juiced* intel to make it seem like Moscow interfered in the 2016 election to help Trump, but then *buried* intel indicating Beijing interfered in the election to help Biden in 2020
Paul Sperry
@paulsperry_
BREAKING: I'm told forthcoming declassified docs will prove foreign penetration of 2020 election was deeper than anything the Russians were alleged to have done in 2016. Included hacking into state voter rolls. ID and ballot fraud. Yet Wray FBI +IC certified election was "secure"
Paul Sperry
@paulsperry_
BREAKING: Docs also will reveal Biden admin cooked a 2021 Intelligence Community Assessment to make it appear pro-Trump Russia had still been election interference threat in 2020 when in fact real threat from a pro-Biden nation.ICA used as "red herring" to throw public off scent.
Paul Sperry
@paulsperry_
BREAKING: Acting AG Todd Blanche just testified "we are investigating" an FBI agent's sworn affidavit detailing how the Comey FBI had no legal predication to pursue a FISA warrant and to wiretap Trump adviser Walid Phares in 2017. Here's my RCI scoop regarding that case.
By the way: The Democrats are pressuring the networks to not carry this address:
Paul Sperry
@paulsperry_
NEW: WH getting pushback from Big 3 TV nets over carrying Thurs primetime address live bc AOC/Dems claiming Trump's just gonna rehash "baseless conspiracy theories" 2020 election rigged/stolen even tho Trump promises "really big news" flanked by both CIA/FBI chiefs bringing receipts
There is a bullshit way around this. The DOJ will sometimes seize these messages anyway but they first go to a "Filter Team" to make sure that nothing in the messages is protected by the Speech and Debate Clause. If a message falls into that category, it's not passed on to prosecutors.
But Jack Smith said "YOLO" and just read all the messages he wanted to read, without any Filter Team clearing them first.
And of course, 90% of those he illegally, unconstitutionally spied on were Republican congressmen.
Newly released records reveal that Special Counsel Jack Smith's team bypassed mandatory protocols to secretly access the private text messages of 44 members of Congress during the probe into President Donald Trump, the Justice Department confirmed Tuesday.
The disclosure, confirmed by records released by the Senate Judiciary Committee, has become a major constitutional flashpoint.
As lawmakers confront the reality that their private communications were accessed without following established filter protocols, the inquiry is igniting a broader debate over the separation of powers between the executive branch and the legislative body.
"Communications from Members of Congress pertaining to their official legislative duties are protected from criminal prosecution under the Constitution's Speech or Debate Clause," the Senate Judiciary's press release said.
The Speech or Debate Clause of the U.S. Constitution (Article I, Section 6) serves as a check on executive power and is designed to prevent members of Congress from being "questioned in any other Place," ensuring they cannot be subjected to the scrutiny of the Justice Department or the judicial branch for their legislative acts.
Yet DOJ records released to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, reveal that former Special Counsel Jack Smith's team reviewed the texts of 44 members of Congress, including 40 Republicans and four Democrats, during the investigation into President Donald Trump.
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"This is a blatant abuse of power, and exactly what our Founders warned about," Senator Rand Paul, R-Ky., also wrote on X. Paul also called out Jack Smith, where, during a December 2025 congressional deposition when he was asked under oath whether his team had reviewed the content of text messages belonging to members of Congress, he answered, "No."
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While the Filter Team's purpose was to prevent investigators from the Special Counsel's Office and the FBI from accessing privileged materials among records obtained, evidence shows that investigators bypassed this, potentially infringing on constitutional guardrails, according to the release.
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The phones were associated with a long list of officials serving in the White House during President Trump's first term, including Trump himself, as well as Stephen Miller, Rudy Giuliani, Kellyanne Conway, Peter Navarro, the president's daughter Ivanka Trump, former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and former Vice President Mike Pence.
Smith's investigative team downloaded and began reviewing the texts without waiting for the Filter Team's evaluation.
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Meanwhile, the scope of this investigative overreach has been igniting sharp backlash on Capitol Hill.
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Missouri Senator Josh Hawley also slammed the findings of the DOJ records, writing on X, "Joe Biden's DOJ not only tapped my phone; I just learned they ILLEGALLY obtained my texts with members of President Trump's administration," adding, "Everyone involved needs to be PROSECUTED."
Lawmakers are now calling for a full-scale investigation into the breach, decrying what Senator Ron Johnson described as the "Biden administration's weaponization of the Justice Department." At the core of their concerns is whether the government has prioritized its investigative reach over constitutional restraints.
Jack Smith, the illegally appointed Special Prosecutor whom Biden's Justice Department sicced on Donald Trump, is a perjurer.
That should surprise nobody; for years now it has been obvious that he is a partisan hack with a burning desire to take down Donald Trump, which is why the Justice Department violated its own rules (eventually destroying their case) in order to appoint him. They knew they could count on him to break any rule, tell any lie, and cross every ethical boundary to get his man.
🚨 WOW! A stunning revelation that Special Counsel Jack Smith SPIED ON the content of text messages of US Senators is resulting in calls for Smith to be prosecuted
I had the pleasure of joining @Bannons_WarRoom to talk about the 44 members of Congress whose personal text messages and privacy were invaded by Jack Smith. pic.twitter.com/noxyg0y4oV
Flashback: Jack Smith lied in a warrant to keep his spying secret, telling corrupt Judge Boasberg that Ted Cruz (among others) would shred evidence if the law were followed and they were alerted they were being illegally spied upon.
Jack Smith went to court and said that I’d destroy evidence if I knew about his subpoena.
Judge Boasberg signed off on the order.
I’m a member of the bar, I take my obligation seriously — there’s no basis for that. pic.twitter.com/I4JFUeVbRJ
This week, CNBC published their insane lists of the best and worst states. Much fun has been poked at CNBC in the wake of these lists, especially their list of worst states. The ranking is almost purely political. Not enough kowtowing to trannies? Bad state. Not enough unions? Bad state. Not enough abortion? Bad state. One of the few objective measures in the qualification for "worst" status is crime - and even then, if you subtract the urban (that is, Democrat) centers from the statewide figures, the numbers tend to start collapsing. The list of "good" states is much the same. They do this every year, but this year is particularly absurd and the commentary has been everything from outrage to bafflement to guffawing laughter, all of which seem more or less appropriate.
It's absurd and low-value on its face, and everyone can plainly see it. So what gives, beyond the obvious appeal of clickbait to a dying enterprise? I suspect that this pair of articles was a trial balloon, much like the Party sent up during COVID using its preferred high-brow outlet, The Atlantic. This may be the low-brow equivalent. If this bears out, expect a a period of relative quiet on this topic, followed by an increasing drum-beat of articles from more outlets about how awful the "bad" states and those like them are, and how great the "good" sates and those like them are. There is a reason for this if it happens.
It is likely waning now, but we're coming off one of the largest peacetime migrations in American history. A lot of people have moved in the past decade, and not just down the street or to a better neighborhood. It is plain that on CNBC's list, "red states" are bad and "blue states" are good, but there's more going on over the covers when you look at population. Per the Census estimates from April, 2020 as compared to July, 2025, the US total population increased by 3.1%. That is the baseline. So what about the best and worst?
CNBC "Best" States
- Vermont: +0.25%
- New Jersey: +2.79%
- Minnesota: +2.17%
- Connecticut: +2.24%
- Hawaii: -1.54%
- New Hampshire: +2.74%
- Virginia: +2.88%
- North Dakota: +2.60%
- Massachusetts: +1.72%
- Nebraska: +2.86%
Of CNBC's 10 "worst" states, seven of them grew population faster than the United States. Of CNBC's 10 "best" states, zero of them grew faster than the United States overall. In real terms, the entire "best" list has lost population over the past five years. Its "worst" states include most of the big "red" states, but it's "best" list doesn't include several of the big "blue" states. As a bonus, let's look at a handful of big, major-player states that didn't make either list:
- Illinois: -0.80%
- New York: -1.00%
- California: -0.51%
- Florida: +8.93%
- Ohio: +0.86%
- Arizona: +6.51%
Ouch. Deep blue California, New York and Illinois all shrank in nominal terms. On the red side, Florida grew even more than Texas and Ohio shrank in real terms. Purple Arizona grew more than twice as fast as the country as a whole.
The gigantic migration of the past several years is going to have profound consequences on electoral distribution and power dynamics - especially if (and it is a big "if") the red state population magnets remain red states. Population movement can cause major political and cultural change, which we've seen writ large as some states of the Interior West fell like dominoes, moving from red or purple to solid blue and how Florida moved from purple to red (thanks in large part to electoral reform and reduced cheating, but still...). If this migration serves to reinforce rather than degrade the targets of the migration, the ripples through the power structure are barely even being felt yet. I think this is what the establishment fears, is why CNBC went full retard with their lists this year - and why I expect to see more excoriation of the popular red states and more articles about how wonderful the blue states are.
People have spent the better part of a decade voting not just with their ballots or with their wallets, but with their feet. This has also been largely ignored by the mainstream, which is notable because this has been a big and consequential realignment spread over years. During this time, most of the establishment - regardless of nominal party affiliation - has been pretending it isn't happening. It is too big to continue ignoring it and I think this is a sign that the establishment is finally starting to acknowledge what has happened and to attempt to slow any more motion in the same direction. If this assumption is correct and this is the establishment's motivation, they waited far, far too long. The horses are out of the barn. The Great Migration has already redrawn the map. A media salvo and associated pressure campaigns now will be too little, too late.
The only real question is whether the Great Migration reinforces conservatism at its destinations, or whether the red states will fall. If this pair of articles is indeed a trial balloon and more follow with greater intensity and frequency, it will be a strong indicator that the establishment fears that the Great Migration is a reinforcing trend for its enemies - that is, for Americans.
A person was fatally shot in Biddeford, Maine, during an encounter with a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer. Witnesses report that the individual who was shot appeared to be attempting to run over the ICE officer before the officer discharged his weapon. . . The shooting in Maine follows another deadly shooting involving ICE in Houston, Texas, last week. Mexican national Lorenzo Salgado Araujo is also accused of having “rammed an ICE law enforcement vehicle, refused to follow multiple verbal commands, and weaponized his vehicle in an attempt to run over an ICE law enforcement officer,” although this is disputed by passengers presented in the vehicle at the time. Mexico is attempting to sue the U.S. over the incident.
William Kristol, the NeverTrump icon and supporter of President George Bush, wants to destroy the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency that protects Americans from nation-changing, wage-slashing mass migration. “Abolish ICE. Now,” Kristol posted on Monday... Kristol’s support for replacement migration is deeply unpopular among GOP-aligned and swing-voting Americans, largely because of the economic damage. The result is that Kristol and his former-GOP allies at The Bulwark are increasingly aligning themselves with pro-migration Democrats.
Yeah, totally shocking that Chlamydia Harris and Kristol meth are blasting away at ICE. But, Markwayne Mullin? The head of the DHS who in that position is running ICE for and at the behest of the man who put him there, President Trump?
In response, Mullin ordered that all ICE officers in the country stop pulling over vehicles in order to do their jobs. The method of pulling over vehicles is one of the most effective and preferred tools for ICE officers, as at-home arrests increase the possibility of danger with access to weapons, according to the Daily Wire, which first reported the directive. At-home arrests also require a judicial warrant, whereas traffic stops do not.
In other words, Mullin’s caving means more ICE agents will be put at risk while fewer deportations will be possible.
Foreign invading criminals are using lethal force to avoid apprehension and deportation and one of our lead law enforcement officers is ordering his front line agents to essentially stand down and become targets. What Mullin should be doing is standing behind his troops and publicly urging them to do their duty and announce that the use of lethal force to defend one's life in the line o duty will always be our policy.
. . . revolutionary movements often convince themselves that one spectacular act of bloodshed will awaken the public and spark sweeping political transformation. History shows otherwise, but the fantasy persists because every generation imagines it will succeed where the last one failed.
One of the interview’s most compelling moments came during a discussion of what Rothman calls the “permission structure” surrounding violence. Contrary to popular belief, widespread support isn’t necessary.
If only a small percentage of the population embraces political violence while everyone else hesitates to condemn it, whether out of fear, tribal loyalty, or ideological convenience, the normalization process begins. Silence becomes accommodation. Accommodation becomes acceptance. Acceptance becomes encouragement.
Sadly it's more than a small percentage and it and the others who may not hurl a molotov cocktail but who cheer on those who do make up a frighteningly large percentage of the populace, and all of them are Democrat/Leftists.
As I hinted at in previous posts, one cannot debate or otherwise reason with cancer. It must be eradicated, mercilessly, and excised from the body politic root and branch. How we are to do that in a manner that is in keeping with our values, heritage and abhorrence of violence is a big question mark. It is my fervent hope and prayer that the good Lord opens their eyes, hearts and minds to the evil they either perpetrate or otherwise support and make them repent and turn away and back towards a path of righteousness and decency. Before it's too late, for all of us.
Mullin is now the second DHS secretary in President Donald Trump’s second term to cave to the mob on the promise of mass deportations after noncompliance from protesters or subjects turned unexpectedly deadly. But the blame for every last death of this sort should be placed at the feet of Democrats, who insist that these encounters turn into fatal confrontations. Mullin Caves On ICE Enforcement After Texas, Maine Shootings
William Kristol, the NeverTrump icon and supporter of President George Bush, wants to destroy the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency that protects Americans from nation-changing, wage-slashing mass migration. Former GOP Champion Bill Kristol: ‘Abolish ICE Now’
Roughly 37 million Hispanics of Mexican origin lived in the United States in 2021, according to a 2023 study by Pew Research Center. That vast population was quietly welcomed by the U.S. establishment because it spikes consumer sales, pushes up real estate prices, and forces down Americans’ wages. Mexican Government Sends Lawyers to Block ICE Deportations
The strikes are part of a renewed campaign against the Iranian terrorist regime that began in response to Iran resuming violent attacks on seemingly random commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz in the first week of July, coinciding with a week-long mourning period in which the country held funerals for late dictator Ali Khamenei. President Donald Trump announced on February 28 that the former “supreme leader” was eliminated in the first American airstrikes as part of Operation Epic Fury, a campaign to erode Iran’s ability to pose a threat to its neighbors. U.S. Bombs Iran’s Bushehr, Home to Its Only Known Nuclear Power Plant
Breaking news: Pro wrestling is fake! Also, reality TV is scripted! And some people on social media are pretending to be much happier, more accomplished and more attractive than they are in real life! If you find all of the above perfectly and painfully obvious, congratulations: You’re much smarter than the United Nations. Jihadi Hamas monsters have always blocked aid sent to Gaza – now the useless UN has finally admitted it
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
Millionaires are Fleeing New York — Taking $11 Billion in Tax Revenue With Them
“Had New York maintained its share of the nation’s millionaires over the past decade, personal income tax collections would have been substantially higher.” Millionaires are Fleeing New York — Taking $11 Billion in Tax Revenue With Them
No matter how hard the politicians may wish and how much they bluster, there is simply no way to reverse this kind of death spiral by increasing tax rates. Rhode Island Chooses Tax Hike Death Spiral
Carney’s 13-year-old daughter found her mother hidden in her bed under a duvet on Tuesday morning in Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland, according to the Irish Sun. According to the New York Post, she had been beaten to death with multiple head injuries, and police were investigating reports that a loud argument had been heard in her house the previous night. Anti-ICE Woman Found Beaten To Death — Alleged Suspect Is ‘Asylum Seeker’ She Met At Pro-'Palestine' Rally
Tuesday's revelation comes less than a year after Smith denied in sworn testimony to the House Judiciary Committee that he had surveilled lawmakers. Asked if the toll records of phone calls and text messages — displaying metadata like time stamps — that he obtained had come with the content of messages, Smith tersely replied, “No.” Bombshell Revelation: Jack Smith Spied on 44 Members of Congress
The report offers temporary relief to households struggling with high costs, but persistent price increases in key categories like shelter and food indicate ongoing challenges. Additionally, the Federal Reserve may still face pressure to raise interest rates depending on future inflation trends and the conflict in Iran, which has intensified in recent days after the Iranians attacked commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and President Donald J. Trump responded by declaring a ceasefire with the country “over” and launching dozens of strikes. Inflation Eases More Than Expected with Significant Drop in Gas Prices.
“The U.S. economy demonstrated notable resiliency this year, with stronger business investment and hiring,” said Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan’s CEO, while cautioning about underlying risks. U.S. Banking Industry Rakes In Record Profits.
The days of the “good guy” developer with promises to build a shiny housing project that will enhance the neighborhood are over because hidden in the slick sales pitch, they’ve baked in an “affordable housing” caveat. ‘Developer Mania’ Threatens What America Has Always Been
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY
Platner announced his exit two days after 41-year-old Maine resident Jenny Racicot accused him of forcibly having sex with her in 2021. The Maine Democrat was embroiled in several controversies, including his Nazi tattoo, inappropriate social media posts and his mockery of a veteran. Graham Platner Drops Out Of Senate Race After Rape Allegation Proved To Be Final Nail In Coffin
Just as a fictional U.S. soldier was brainwashed into becoming an enemy of the U.S., so too has the Democrat party made that transition over the last 25 years. The Making Of A Manchurian Party
Well-funded far-left networks are targeting Idaho with a ballot initiative designed to fundamentally remake its laws on life and childhood healthcare. The Reproductive Freedom and Privacy Act (RFPA), set for a vote as a ballot initiative in the November general election, promises to transform Idaho from one of the nation’s strictest pro-life states into something resembling California. Radicals Set Sights On Turning Idaho Into California 2.0
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
Back from the brink of communist destruction, Trump deserves credit for the rightward lurch across Latin America. Trump Is Righting Latin America
The recoverable capsule competition is sure getting crowded. In the U.S. Reditus joins Varda, SpaceX, Inversion Space, and Sierra Space, all of whom have raised money or won contracts for doing such orbital work. In Europe, The Exploration Company in France, Atmos in Germany, PLD in Spain, Genesis in Croatia, and Space Cargo in Luxembourg have also raised capital. Another recoverable capsule company enters the competition
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
Socialist State Assemblywoman Francesca Hong reiterated her support for sex change drugs and surgeries for minors during a “Community Conversations” livestream hosted with Brix Cider on Sunday, Breitbart News reported. She vowed to immediately veto any legislation she considered an attack on the “trans community.” Socialist Governor Candidate Wants Hospitals To Give Kids Sex Changes
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For everyday tasks they make no difference, and for gaming the money is far better spent on a AMD Ryzen X3D CPU, or if you have an Intel system, on wishing you had an AMD system. The expanded cache on AMD's X3D CPUs makes memory speed largely irrelevant for most users, even gamers intent on wringing every last drop of performance out of their systems.
Intel will be shipping its own X3D equivalent later this year with its Nova Lake processors, which include up to 288MB of cache, though most users will do fine with half that much.
Native Qwen 27B uses 16-bit floating point, so it needs 54GB of VRAM to run unrestricted. And 54GB of VRAM is quite expensive in the current market.
What the Bonsai process does is to prune it down to ternary or binary with scaling factors per group. In ternary form it fits in 5.9GB of VRAM, while retaining more than 90% of the capabilities of the full model.
After years of construction, months of anticipation, and one very public delay, the Gordie Howe International Bridge finally has an opening date – and Canada’s trucking industry says it can’t come soon enough.
The long-awaited crossing between Windsor and Detroit will open to traffic on July 27 after Canada, Michigan, and the U.S. government reached an agreement following weeks of behind-the-scenes negotiations over toll revenue and governance.
For Stephen Laskowski, president and CEO of the Ontario Trucking Association and Canadian Trucking Alliance, the impact stretches far beyond truck drivers.
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Instead of navigating city traffic and multiple traffic lights, trucks will head straight to a modern border plaza designed to speed up inspections, particularly for agri-food shipments.
The result, he said, is faster crossings, better security, and lower operating costs.
The trucking industry estimates companies could save anywhere from $20,000 to $100,000 annually, depending on the size of their fleet and how often they cross the border.
Laskowski also believes having another major international crossing competing for commercial traffic will benefit the entire industry.
Competition, he said, drives efficiency.
Seems like the truckers should have just said "it'll be a beauty, eh?"
The Cape Bridges project reached a major milestone this week when the Federal Highway Administration approved the project’s final Environmental Impact Statement and issued a formal go-ahead.
The action marks the first time that the Highway Administration has approved such a final statement for a roadway project in Massachusetts since 1991 and marks a significant step forward, according to a June 30 press release from the governor’s office. The state Department of Transportation is in charge of the project to replace the Sagamore and Bourne bridges.
These new bridges will be used by the staff en route to/from the Northern Command of Doof Enterprises. There is an internal betting pool as to whether or not the Key Bridge near the Mid-Atlantic Command of Doof Enterprises will rebuilt before one or both of the Cape bridges.
Did kids really wander around the front seat of vehicles in the early 60's?
Imagine surviving and even thriving after being strapped into a $1.88 Sears, “hope harness” only to grow up and get blamed for everything by generations after you. #boomers
Today in 1979, Disco Demolition Night at Comiskey Park goes off the rails when fans storm the field as local DJ Steve Dahl detonates records in the outfield. Chicago police arrest 39 and the White Sox forfeit the nightcap of a doubleheader with the Tigers. pic.twitter.com/VmznitIB4c
“Montrose – we were about to explode,” he reflected to Guitar Player. “We were gonna be the American Led Zeppelin, and he couldn’t take it. I don’t know what it was. He was afraid of success. He’d sit there in the studio holding his face like, ‘Oh God, what are we gonna do?’ I’m like, ‘Fuck, let’s jam! Let’s make some music.’”
Ronnie Montrose was one of the most in-demand session men in rock, having laid down guitar parts for the likes of Van Morrison, Edgar Winter, Herbie Hancock, and Boz Scaggs. Fancying his own project, he formed his namesake band in 1973 with a young Hagar behind the mic, cut the Montrose and Paper Money LPs before Hagar was fired, precipitating his solo career. Such fraught relationships with his band members and the routine dismissal of new recruits would scupper whatever momentum Montrose had enjoyed.
“I’ve never seen a guy like that,” Hagar added. “He fired everybody. The second you had one smidgen of success with him, he broke up the band.”
Montrose would continue without Hagar, but the hard rock explosion they promised was never realised, their founding guitarist smoothing the sound to a funkier direction with Bob James fronting the new style while Van Halen was conquering the Billboard charts. A string of solo albums would follow across the 1990s before he sadly took his own life in 2012.
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A genuine 1980 photograph shows the supertanker Esso Languedoc being struck by a massive rogue wave off Durban, South Africa. Captured by the ship's chief officer, the image remains one of the most famous examples of extreme ocean conditions.
The photograph captured what many scientists once considered nearly impossible: a rogue wave. Taken in 1980 as the oil supertanker Esso Languedoc sailed off Durban, South Africa, it shows a towering wall of water rising far above the ship's bow. The crew estimated the wave reached around 25--30 meters (82--98 feet) high.
For much of the 20th century, rogue waves were often treated as sailor's tales because traditional wave models suggested such extreme events were almost impossible. Images like this, combined with eyewitness accounts, helped change scientific understanding. Later advances in satellite monitoring, ocean buoys, and modeling confirmed that rogue waves are real and can form when multiple wave systems combine their energy into a single massive crest.
The waters off South Africa are especially dangerous because powerful Southern Ocean swells can collide with the strong Agulhas Current, creating unpredictable sea conditions. In 1995, the Draupner oil platform in the North Sea recorded the first scientifically measured rogue wave, a 25.6-meter (84-foot) wave that provided definitive proof these extreme events exist.
But one can see the inflation was only due to Iran blowing up oil ships transiting the Strait.
Inflation slowed in June by its largest monthly drop since April 2020 on falling energy prices -- slashing the odds the Fed will raise interest rates at its meeting this month.
The Consumer Price Index rose 3.5% in June over the past 12 months, cooling off from 4.2% in May, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Tuesday.
On a monthly basis, the inflation rate declined 0.4% -- more than expectations of a 0.2% dip.
Core CPI -- the Fed's preferred inflation gauge, which excludes volatile food and energy prices -- ticked down to 2.6%, still well above central bankers' 2% goal.
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"Tuesday's weaker-than-expected CPI print suggests the inflation surge driven by the Iran war is fading, but this may just be a temporary relief as tensions have escalated in recent days," Skyler Weinand, chief investment officer at Regan Capital, said in a note Tuesday.
Indeed, now that the psychopaths of Iran have forced the US to begin pounding them again, oil prices have shot back up.
Blockade underway: The US has reimposed its naval blockade of Iranian ports, according to a US military statement. The US previously enforced a blockade between April and June.
• Ceasefire in tatters: The US military has also launched its fourth consecutive day of strikes on Iranian targets. State media reported explosions in the port city of Bandar Abbas and several locations near Sirik. Meanwhile, Iran has targeted US allies in the region, including Kuwait.
• Trump rescinds toll decision: US President Donald Trump announced earlier he will not impose a 20% reimbursement fee on cargo moving through the Strait of Hormuz, saying it will be replaced by Gulf state investments in the US.
• Oil prices rise: Global oil prices are up sharply, with benchmark Brent crude rising to its highest level in over a month.
Trump's idea that he would charge ships the US was protecting a 20% charge has been retracted.
President Trump backed off his proposed 20% toll on all ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz Tuesday in favor of investment in the US by Persian Gulf states.
Trump said in a Truth Social post the reversal was "[b]ased on highly productive conversations with Middle East Leadership."
"Those Investments will be MASSIVE but, at the same time, extraordinarily good for them, and their future," he added.
Trump also claimed that exports of oil were "flowing like never before" thanks to recent US airstrikes on Iran, and "the Strait of Hormuz is open to All Ship traffic except for Iran -- and that is because of their lying, violent, malicious leadership, which is taking them down the path of TOTAL DESTRUCTION."
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Trump announced the new tolling scheme on Monday, declaring that the US would be the "guardian" of the Strait of Hormuz and would collect a reimbursement equal to 20% of all cargo value, which one shipping industry expert predicted could amount to $200 billion annually.
"We'll become the guardian of the strait. Maybe we'll call it the guardian angel of the strait, and we should be reimbursed for that," Trump had suggested during an interview on "Fox & Friends."
The US is pounding IRGC headquarters and weapons depots, as well as naval assets on the coast.
🚨 BREAKING: U.S. strikes have reportedly destroyed a major IRGC command headquarters in Iran, a key hub used to coordinate Iranian air operations. The attack devastated surrounding buildings, and a massive fire is now raging at the site. pic.twitter.com/zlM8tJ6AM8
Yesterday, using multiple one-way attack surface drones, CENTCOM forces successfully struck a submarine and ship maintenance facility in Iran. Three Corsair unmanned surface vessels hit the port at Bandar Abbas Naval Base, marking the first time American forces have employed sea… pic.twitter.com/bOM2kmgRxz
The below video describes the new plan for getting ships through the Strait. Basically, the go at night with no lights on and with the transponder turned off, so Iran can't see them.
Now their radars, of course, would still detect massive ships, which is why the US is bombing all of their coastal radar arrays.
The U.S. House will vote this week on a bill making daylight savings time permanent, despite warnings from medical, education and safety organizations.
The Sunshine Protection Act of 2025, which would end the nearly nationwide biannual clock changing and make daylight savings time permanent year-round, advanced out of committee Monday afternoon.
States that use standard time year-round -- currently only Arizona and Hawaii -- before the law goes into effect wouldn't have to change.
Mitch McConnell's Rent-Boy has already said he'll strip it out.
Johnson has said he'll facilitate a process that would attach the SAVE American Act to a bill to fund the State Department. Luna and other Republicans believe the maneuver will make it hard for the Senate to oppose the funding packages.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., said she'll support a procedural rule that would allow the House to consider a bill to fund the State Department and a measure to make daylight savings time permanent.
"We will try the MIRV process on the condition that Speaker Johnson attaches the SAVE America Act to all the appropriation bills and all must-pass bills here in the House and ensures it is sent to the Senate as one bill," Luna said on X.
The vote to reopen the House floor on Tuesday would end a power struggle between Luna and Speaker Mike Johnson over the election security bill, the SAVE America Act, Politico reported.
Johnson has said he'll facilitate a process that would attach the SAVE American Act to a bill to fund the State Department. Luna and other Republicans believe the maneuver will make it hard for the Senate to oppose the funding packages.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune has said he won't go for the plan, and Luna's statement put pressure on the South Dakota Republican to reconsider.
"If John Thune strips it out in the Senate that will be on him and the entire country should be watching what he does. If he wants to actively work against Voter I.D. & the SAVE America Act he must face the consequences of his actions. His State party should censure him and/or he should be primaried if he wants to betray his constituents in this manner. That is the nature of politics," Lunsa said.
Yeah he doesn't care. The entire purpose of the GOPe is to betray and restrain conservative voters. They're proud to do it.
Mamdani ran on a platform of bringing rents down. Despite thousands of people fleeing the shithole city of NYC, rents just hit their highest levels in history.
Under the leadership of race-communist Mayor Zohran Mamdani, rent in Manhattan has risen to an all-time high of $5,295 a month, representing a nearly 10 percent increase year-over-year.
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With the cost of living booming and Mamdani backing a "tax the rich" agenda to pay for his hyped-up socialist policies, New York City seems to be dying. A study from the New York Post showed that the city lost nearly $11 billion in tax revenue after a mass exodus of millionaires. Meanwhile, 40 percent of New York City's units are occupied by foreign born tenants, many of whom filled vacancies left after caravans fled the city during the COVID pandemic.
Mamdani and his communists are doing such a great job they've voted themselves all a massive pay raise.
NYC Council members want to give themselves 18.2% pay hike -- and set automatic increases every year after
Pay yourself first -- over and over again!
Shameless city lawmakers are pushing to give themselves eye-watering 18.2% raises -- in a scheme that will also give them automatic pay hikes of at least 2% every year in the future.
City Council Member Nantasha Williams (D-27) introduced a bill that would inflate her and her colleagues' salaries from $148,500 to $175,500 backdated to January, while also ballooning pay for the mayor, the City Council speaker and other elected positions.
The bill comes days after the lawmakers signed off on a record-breaking $126 billion city budget and includes salaries even higher than a 16% raise the council tried to sneak by in a similar bank-account boosting measure at the end of their session last year.
And the bill also ensures taxpayers will be on the hook to pay elected officials more every year -- with no requirement for public debate or a City Council vote.
Under the proposed law, if the council doesn't vote to hike salaries for four years, raises kick in anyway, at either 2% per year or 8.25% overall -- whichever is less.
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The mayor's salary would also get boosted from $258,750 to $305,800 and Council Speaker Julie Menin's would rise from $164,500 to $194,000 -- though both leaders have said they wouldn't take the pay bumps.
Mamdani hasn't taken a stance on whether he was in favor of the hikes and said he'd leave it for the City Council to debate.
An American transsexual man who applied for asylum in the Netherlands due to “oppression in Trump’s America” has been placed in the infamous asylum center Ter Apel famous for Islamist extremists and knife violence.
The silence is a tell. These are not difficult questions. They are only difficult to those who know the answer that is required of them to remain Democrats in good standing is an odious lie that they know to be false and know that they cannot afford to be seen saying aloud… https://t.co/ojoIufNRCy
The author of an acclaimed book about slavery is crying racism after her writing came under scrutiny by scholars for questionable assertions and sloppy sourcing.
Kerri Greenidge's 2022 book "The Grimkes," which tells the story of a prominent South Carolina slaveholder family who later played a role in the abolitionist movement, was lauded by critics and won the American Historical Association's Joan Kelly Memorial Prize.
But skepticism grew as her prose came under the microscope by historians and scholars, including Myra Glenn, an author and retired American history professor at Elmira College.
In a 2024 examination of "The Grimkes," Glenn called it "deeply flawed," and called out that Greenidge "all too often lacks the evidence to substantiate many of her major claims."
She added that "her work is also riddled with factual errors and repeatedly omits needed endnotes."
Presented with these and other disputed findings discovered through Glenn's analysis by the New York Times, Greenidge immediately cast herself as the victim, and accused her growing roster of critics of racism.
"I am heartbroken that a field I have given my life to can treat me this way," she told the outlet. "The attack on Black women academics is real."
Terrorism Works: DHS Instructs ICE to Stop Conducting Traffic Stops After Illegal Alien Attempted to Ram His Car Into ICE Agents and Was Justifiably Shot and Killed
A Biddeford, Maine, resident is reportedly dead after he weaponized his car against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent(s), causing at least one to shoot in self-defense.
Maine House Speaker Ryan Fecteau (D-132nd District) released a statement on Monday, confirming the bare facts of the incident, but he and the press are jumping to the conclusion that the dead activist is the victim. The reality is that when a person attempts to run over an officer with his car, he is using the car as a deadly weapon, meriting a potentially deadly response. Furthermore, if that is what happened, the activist died a felon because it is explicitly against federal law to attempt to injure or interfere with ICE agents.
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The Post Millennial reported that an eyewitness described seeing a person "trying to hit the ICE officer" with a car, causing the officer to shoot. Since a car being used to run over someone is very certainly a deadly weapon, the facts in the case would seem to be fairly straightforward. There is no information as of yet on any details about the identity of the dead ICE-hater.
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As of the start of this year, attacks on ICE had gone up by 1,347%, while death threats against ICE had increased by an almost unimaginable 8,000%. Given the endless violence against ICE, it is actually remarkable that more federal officers and activists have not died.
And here's something the mainstream media and main Democrats will not tell you: 18 U.S. Code 111 penalizes anyone who "forcibly assaults, resists, opposes, impedes, intimidates, or interferes with any person designated in section 1114 of this title while engaged in or on account of the performance of official duties." In other words, the Biddeford wacko was not only doing something obviously dangerous when he or she tried to run over the ICE agents, but this action was also very clearly in violation of federal law.
But the terrorism of the left is always indulged, because the terrorists are part of the same leftwing establishment that controls our institutions.
ICE will stop making traffic stops except for the most heinous illegal alien criminals, at least as long as it takes to retrain them.
Retrain them how? Are they supposed to allow themselves to be attacked by leftwing terrorists and illegal alien criminals?
Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_
BREAKING: Per multiple federal sources to @FoxNews, ICE has been instructed to immediately cease most vehicle stops during immigration enforcement operations nationwide, except for operations targeting the most egregious criminal aliens.
This comes after two people were killed by ICE in shootings in TX and ME in the last week in incidents that began as vehicle stops. DHS alleges one of those incidents was a ramming attempt.
I'm told this will be temporary until ICE officers receive new training on vehicle stops.
The policy change will have significant impacts as many of ICE's arrests begin as vehicle stops when they find and follow a target, as we've witnessed on multiple embeds.
She's a transgender Rachel Zegler. She's taking down a movie because she just can't shut her enormous mouth.
Transgender actor and The Odyssey star Elliot Page came out against traditional gender roles, calling the male-female dynamic a "quaint myth" and insisting that if animals can engage in "queer" sex, why shouldn't humans.
Appearing on the extremist, left-wing Democracy Now podcast, Page attacked the "cis hetero patriarchal structure" and claimed that the traditional way we view gender is scientifically inaccurate.
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On the podcast, Page, who narrates the film, insisted that the normal gender ideas that mankind have supported for all of recorded history are "absurd."
"In terms of looking at nature as if it's some sort of cis hetero patriarchal structure is absurd, and that this, you know, gender binary that we've created is nothing but a quaint little myth," Page said.
The actor added that Second Nature, the documentary he is flogging on the podcast, "really shows what we have been taught in school in regards to these structures -- men being superior, women being inferior. You know, submissive or what have you -- it being this heterosexual existence is just completely false."
Page goes on to assert that the idea that queer is normal and traditional gender roles are "false" has been "suppressed" from general knowledge.
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The five foot one, 106-pound actor recently sparked controversy by being cast as a Greek Warrior in director Christopher Nolan's epic remake of The Odyssey. Detractors thought it was absurd to cast a tiny trans actor as a powerful warrior in the epic tale.
It turns out the 5'1" woman is not playing mighty Achilles, but another great warrior, "Sinon," I think they said, who was called "the greatest soldier" in the Greek army.
Chris Gore and Alan Ng saw the movie. They split in their reviews: Gore says it's disappointing and boring but "not a disaster," while Ng says it is a disaster, and so boring it's hard to get through.
They do say that the Stunt Casting isn't too much of a factor because those are small roles with little screen time. I mean, yes, we knew that Helen of Troy would just be in the beginning, but still this absurd casting stops any audience member from enjoying what should be the point of making a historical, or mythic, epic: feeling that this is something like what it must have really looked like.
Ng checked out early. "I was bored out of my mind," he says, adding he was gone "pretty much from the beginning." The sound didn't help. He says he couldn't make out the dialogue at first, and once he could, he realized "how bad the dialogue is."
His verdict: "This is the most pretentious movie I've seen all year." And the kicker: "I can't wait to not see this movie again." When the two wrapped up, the one-word summary of Ng's reaction was simply "disaster."
Gore: 'Not A Disaster,' But Mixed
Gore lands softer, though it's no rave. The modern-sounding accents "diminished the film" for him and made Nolan's period epic play more like Alejandro Jodorowsky's El Topo, "a modern epic," in his words. He also says parts drag, especially in the first half.
The highlights, per Gore: the Cyclops material, the fall of Troy, and Samantha Morton as the witch Circe, the same performance Nolan has been comparing to Heath Ledger's Joker. He also calls the way the soldiers transform "very clever," while declining to spoil how.
I think Circe turns his men into pigs.
"I'm still marinating on it," Gore says. "It's not a disaster." His final word is "mixed," and unlike Ng, he's going back for a second viewing.
That's a quote you want on your movie poster -- "It's not a disaster."
Here's a digest of some reviews, echoing most of what Gore and Ng said -- the film is very slow in its first half, and of course it's three hours long, and no one seems to be in character. As Gore said, it's just Matt Damon and Tom Holland reading lines. You never feel like you're watching people who aren't celebrity actors.
abe Hernandez | Urban Fantasy Author
@MrGabeHernandez
Early, TRUSTED reactions of The Odyssey are confirming what I feared would happen. The Odyssey is a pretentious slog to get through.
The specific critiques are fairly consistent.
Casting controversy: Ellen Page and Lupito Nyong'o appear in glorified cameos. For all the controversy their casting generated, they had no meaningful presence in the film, which gives weight to the theory that they were brought on as stunt casting and Oscar bait.
Music/Sound: A consistent Nolan criticism across several of his films is the bad sound mixing. That problem persists here. Further, the Travis Scott "rap" at the end is described as "painfully cringey."
Main Actors: Aside from the one or two standouts, such as Samantha Morton as Circe, none of the actors embody or immerse themselves in their roles. The ensemble presents as actors simply reading through the script.
Visuals: The historical foibles regarding armor, weapons, and ships have been dissected to death, but the bigger problem is the overall aesthetic that's grey and dark. It's as if Nolan shot the film in a frequently overcast corner of Northern Europe instead of any locale that resembles the Mediterranean regions.
Pacing: The film doesn't "get going" until at least 30 minutes in. A 3-hour film is a lot to ask of an audience, so if the opening hook is sedate, you've got a problem on your hands.
Dialogue: The modern language frequently takes viewers out of the story, particularly with all the actors speaking in their respective native accents. There's no sense of period or commonality around a culture and its people.
Will The Odyssey be a commercial hit or bomb?
Too soon to tell, but it does appear clear that the controversies were self-inflicted, that this "interpretation" of Homer's Odyssey was meant to appeal to a very small set of cinephile elitists and Hollywood backscratchers, and that Christopher Nolan forgot the one thing that a director should never forget...
A film's first and primary job is to entertain.
The movie comes out on Thursday. I already have my tickets to not see it reserved. If you haven't gotten your tickets to not see it yet, you better act quick, they're running out.
Not seeing The Odyssey is going to be the cultural event of the year.
Meanwhile, the remake of Little House on the Prairie is just as woke as everyone feared it would be.
Fandom Pulse
@fandompulse
Little House on the Prairie showrunner Rebecca Sonnenshine on why she rebuilt the frontier classic around a new lens:
"I think a lot of our pop culture portrays the West as men riding around with guns and solving problems with violence and posturing, but that is just not how it was settled... We really are trying to do a show that does not fall back on tropes of sort of masculinity."
Is a story about settling the American frontier supposed to avoid masculinity?
Little House on the Prairie showrunner Rebecca Sonnenshine on why she rebuilt the frontier classic around a new lens:
"I think a lot of our pop culture portrays the West as men riding around with guns and solving problems with violence and posturing, but that is just not how it… pic.twitter.com/mdxI5Rkw53
There's no other way for me to put this: Netflix did indeed woke-ify Little House on the Prairie. This new version makes a deep bow to contemporary concerns about the politics of the source material. Some of the Ingalls family's closest new friends on the show are an Osage couple, a black doctor and black storekeeper, and a French Canadian woman who wears trousers and practices free love."--Rebecca Onion, Slate
Liberal Establishment NYT Columnist Thomas Edsall: Democrats Can Beat Republicans with One Easy Trick -- They Just Have to Adopt Republican Positions on the Three Most Salient Issues Confronting the Nation.
The odds of Democrats repudiating their left wing-- which is now the wing, the body, the beak, the tail, and half of the other wing -- is the same as future Senator Bluto's GPA at Faber College. Zero point zero.
Wesley Yang points out that Edsall is attempting to square the circle by offering the nonsensical "compromise" that while we must "respect" transgenders' gender fantasies, we should also completely ignore them.
Okay but then how is that "respecting" anything?
Their fantasies are false. Period.
And telling the truth is respectful.
A lot riding on the meaning of “should be respected.” Should be accepted? Should be believed? Should be regarded and treated as true? How is it “respect” to then ban a person from inclusion in sports and spaces of the sex they claim to be but are not? How is it not… pic.twitter.com/LR7BpAeu75
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CNBC ranks Tennessee as dead last in its “Worst States to Live” analysis. The specific reason is that cross-dressing men in TN are denied access to children and women’s private spaces. Texas finished 49th. The “worst” states were all red states. [Buck]
In response to someone asking why the video tape doesn't show Tyler Robinson's face (PS, it does, but it's crappy video so it's blurry):
Candace Owens
@RealCandaceO
Because as I demonstrated on my show, there were MANY young men that all woke up and decided to dress in Maroon shirts and light shorts on the day of the Charlie's assassination.
The footage can be any one of these young men and in my opinion is likely multiple of them.
If Tyler Robinson's defense would like to contact me-- I'd be happy to supply them the folder of the maroon boys that I began archiving when I noticed the bizarre fashion trend.
I have thus far ID'd two of them, but will focus on IDing the rest of them when I am back on air.
I have maintained that the Feds had multiple decoy maroon boys on the ground that day. Without a clear image, they certainly cannot declare it is Tyler Robinson which is why all the Zionist influencers are hoping they can simply hypnotize the public into trusting blurry images and videos.
For such an "open and shut case" they have thus far provided ZERO evidence of anything outside of a criminal government conspiracy, the likes of which hasn't been seen since the JFK assassination.
More "fedslop" that Cavernous Nostrils is too smart to be taken in by:
Blake Neff
@BlakeSNeff
BREAKING: Lance Twiggs says that Robinson admitted to him in-person on Sept. 11 that the message he had sent the night before (presumably, messages sent while he was trying to retrieve his rifle the night of Sept 10) was true. He says Robinson told him "He wishes he hadn't done it."
Fenix Ammunition
@FenixAmmunition
Photos of the ammunition recovered from Tyler Robinson.
Remington headstamp on the case and despite the somewhat low resolution on the photo you can see the somewhat blunted nature of the projectile's tip.
This is a Remington Cor-Lokt soft point round. It's SPECIFICALLY designed to deform, slow down, and prevent an exit wound. Available at literally every single gun store and sporting goods store that sells ammunition.
In fact, 16 out of the 17 .30-06 varieties manufactured by Remington use some type of expanding, deforming, or fragmenting bullet. Only ONE of their products uses a full metal jacket projectile that could/would be expected to leave an exit wound.
Here's a clip of them sitting in my desk.
This has been the most easily debunked claim of their entire web of lies and it's really mind blowing considering this is exactly what you would choose for an assassination.
But yeah, definitely keep getting all your information from the DEI hire and the Portland pizza boy. I'm sure they know more about this than I do.
Post here, showing Tyler Robinson's ammunition, matching this guy's own box. And it is an expanding-tip hollow-point round.
Boy these Internet Experts (TM) sure do get a lot of things wrong.
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