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Saturday Night "Club ONT" July 12, 2025 [The 3 Ds]
—Open Blogger
Welcome to Club ONT! A collaboration of your Sunday through Wednesday ONT Crew - The Disco, The Doggo, and The Dino. We have been expecting you - everyone breaks eventually. Pull up a chair and grab some peanuts and pretzels.
A man walks into a bar, then goes to the bathroom. He comes out, goes to the bartender. He says, “You’ve got a great place, but my buddy was here last night, and he said you have golden urinals. Where are they?”
The bartender turns to the band and yells, “Frank, I’ve got a lead on the guy who ruined your sax!”
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One evening after the honeymoon, Bob was working on his Harley in the garage. His new wife was standing there by the bench watching him.
After a long period of silence she finally said, "Honey, I've just been thinking, now that we're married, maybe it's time you quit spending so much of your time out here in the garage. You probably should consider selling your Harley and all that welding equipment; they take up so much of your time. And that gun collection and fishing gear, they just take up so much space. And you know that boat is such an ongoing expense and you hardly use it. I also think you should lose all those stupid model airplanes and your home brewing equipment. And what's the use of that vintage hot rod sports car?"
Bob got a horrified look on his face.
She noticed and said, "Darling, what's wrong?”
He replied, "You were starting to sound like my ex-wife.”
"Ex-wife!?" she shouted, "YOU NEVER TOLD ME YOU WERE MARRIED BEFORE!”
Ingredients
3 oz. blanco tequila
1 1/2 oz. fresh lime juice
Seltzer (Topo Chico suggested), chilled
Ice
Fresh lime wedge for garnish
Directions
Add ice to glass
Add tequila and juice
Top with seltzer water
Add fresh lime wedge to garnish
Enjoy!
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Club ONT Requests
At the Club, the venom is on tap.
We can do pythons.
Danger Noodles. Floridians pay $25 (a bit more than in town) to participate in the annual python hunt. Let's hope the gators are busy patrolling Alligator Alcatraz.
For 10 glorious days (July 11-20 this year), registered participants can try to catch as many gigantic danger noodles as possible. The person who nabs the most snakes wins $10,000, which might cover your bug spray bill and therapy copay.
Dynamite. Which one of you did this? Definitely a Moron. Cannot quote the whole thing. Very worth the click and read.
"Sir, I pulled you over because I saw something shiny in your car. Did you have your phone in your hand and on?" an officer would ask another driver.
"Goodness no. I'm a law-abiding citizen and I know that's not legal. I was lighting up some unregulated explosives."
"I'm sorry, you did what now?"
"Yeah, I was trying to read this new book. It's something about driving dummies. Anyway, I thought I was lighting up a road flare to give me some light, but turns out that stuff I stole from the construction site was actually dynamite. And just between me you and the fencepost over there, FYI, I would totally avoid that bridge we just drove over if you go back the other way. Long fuse on that dynamite but it's definitely going to go off here in a second."
The Club ONT dance floor has made the earth wobble and speed up! Or there may be other explanations:
Over the past two centuries, humans have quietly nudged the very axis of our planet. As thousands of dams have been built across the world, Earth's poles have tilted by over 1 meter (3 feet). The movement of Earth's poles can be traced to two great waves of dam construction: first in North America and Europe during the 19th and early 20th centuries, and then across Asia and East Africa in the latter half of the 20th century.
It's all to do with mass distribution and the planet's moment of inertia. Earth will happily spin like a basketball twirling on a fingertip, but if mass is suddenly added to one region, the rotation starts to wobble.
Faster, faster!
On July 9, 2025, Earth spun a little faster than usual, enough to make the day about 1.3 to 1.6 milliseconds shorter than the standard 24 hours.
That may not sound like much, but it was the shortest day since modern records began. It's not a one-off either. Scientists expect two more short days this summer, on July 22 and Aug. 5, all thanks, in part, to the moon.
Earth doesn't rotate at a perfectly constant speed. While we define a day as 24 hours, in reality, the length of a day can vary slightly from one day to the next due to both internal and external forces acting on the planet.
Over long timescales, Earth's rotation is actually gradually slowing down, largely because of tidal friction from the moon. The moon's gravity pulls on Earth's oceans, creating tidal bulges that act like a brake. This adds about 2 milliseconds to the length of a day every century.
But over shorter timescales, days to months, Earth's spin can actually speed up and that's what happened on July 9, and will also happen on July 22 and Aug. 5.
AI-generated Psych-rock band The Velvet Sundown didn’t exist two weeks ago, but today they boast over half a million listeners on Spotify and are getting to put out their third album.
The Velvet Sundown is either the hardest-working and most inspired rock group ever, or they are simply playing by different rules. The psych-rock band appeared out of nowhere two weeks ago, but managed to put out to albums and has already announced that the third will be released on Spotify soon. They already boast a respectable 500,000 monthly listeners on the popular music streaming platform and show no signs of slowing down. But the overnight success and record-breaking album release schedule drew attention to the band this week, with many accusing The Velvet Sundown of being an AI-generated gimmick. And, truth be told, all the signs point to that being the case.
Club ONT is 100% opposite of an AI experience. We prefer natural stupidity.
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Club ONT Music
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Top 10ish Comments of the Week. Or thereabout...
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Club ONT brought to you by: Country hospitality and fresh scents.
Club ONT disclaims responsibility for injuries sustained from polar-axis wobbles or abnormal earth-spinning speeds. If Club ONT patrons believe that the earth is spinning around them, just lay down and close your eyes. Eventually, the spinning will slow down, stop and your world will re-adjust. We've all been there. By the way, the fridge has been fully stocked with classic Mountain Dew. (None of that diet stuff here.) Help yourself.
Saturday Evening Movie Thread [moviegique]: The Return of the Living Dead
—Open Blogger
It was another good fortnight-and-a-half at 'casa 'gique, starting with the indie/arty/actorly Everything's Going To Be Great, where a theater kid born into a theater family struggles with convincing people he's heterosexual and ultimately learns he's not the center of the universe, and ending with the taut Persian thriller Tatami, about a Persian judoku who is doing well in a competition, so the Iranian government calls up and tells her to fake an injury—because she might have to go up against an Israeli and they have to boycott Zionists and since they can't, they have to pretend they're not, and, my God, what a bunch of whiny-ass bitches running that country.
We bookended this with two '90s(ish) movies, Shall we Dance? and In The Mood For Love from Japan and China respectively.
And what was between the bookends? The glorious year of 1984(ish). We started with Tsui Hark's Shanghai Blues, went to a double-feature of Return of the Living Dead and Repo Man, then followed up with the 40(ish) anniversary of This Is Spinal Tap.
With the exception of Tap, none of these '80s films are (generally) regarded as classics—more cult classics, than anything. Shanghai Blues strikes me as under-rated: It's a romcom, almost a screwball comedy with a kind of kung-fu sensibility to the physical humor (think a less frenetic, less violent Jackie Chan). It, like the other three movies, has a surprisingly light, almost casual regard for things which would be ponderously heavy today. These films touch lightly on promiscuity, homelessness, pedophilia, assault, sexual assault, dismemberment, PTSD, death—in ways you really can't anymore.
I gots things to say about all of 'em, but tonight, let's just talk about the movie Simon Pegg called "a piss take" on the zombie genre.
Standard first level opponents of an '80s side-scroller fighting game.
George Romero and John Russo had different ideas about how to proceed with their unexpectedly successful flick, Night of the Living Dead. They decided to go their separate ways, distinguishing their products with "...of the Dead" (Romero) and "...of the Living Dead" (Russo). Richard P. Rubinstein (Romero's producer on Dawn of the Dead) actually tried to get the "Living Dead" removed anyway but since Russo had co-written NotLD, the WGA sided with him.
Russo did the novelization of the '68 movie and wrote a follow-up novel called Return of the Living Dead which served as the basis for the first screenplay. He hired Dan O'Bannon (scriptwriter of Alien, Blue Thunder, Total Recall and many more) to write and direct, and O'Bannon rejected the original script for seeming too much like a continuation of Romero's work (the third installation of which would beat this to theaters by about a month in the summer of '85).
So, O'Bannon created a world where Night of the Living Dead had been a documentary—an exposé of an army snafu that had resulted in zombies, and Romero had been forced to make changes to various elements to cover up the truth.
This serves as a springboard for a lot of the movie's comedy.
And this is a funny movie.
Jewel Shepard (Casey) turned down the role of Trash, alleging she'd had enough of being naked. She also alleges that the movie would've gotten an X if she'd done the movie since Linnea Quigley had "nothing much sexual about her". (Quigley got her start in 1978's softcore "Fairy Tales", so Shepherd's opinion was not widely shared.)
Freddie goes to his new job at the UNEEDA Medical Supply company and his supervisor Frank is there to show him the ropes—possibly the dumbest categorization system ever—and Frank gets to talking about how NotLD was a real thing and he knows this because the barrels containing trioxin—the substance that animates the dead—is down in the basement.
The barrel contains the gas and a corpse (later nicknamed "Tarman") and wouldn't you know it, Frank smacks the barrel confidently only to release the gas and animate all the little bits and bobs in the warehouse. Including the pinned butterflies and bisected dogs.
They call their boss Burt for help, and a number of gags ensue where they try to follow the NotLD formula, only to discover it doesn't work. The zombies aren't slow, they aren't dumb, they're just dead—and hungry.
Burt gets the idea of going next door to Resurrection Mortuary and asking Ernie if they can borrow his ovens. (Yes, Burt and Ernie.) They destroy the animated bits and pieces by burning it.
And the ash goes into the air, rain comes down and floods the nearby cemetery with trioxin.
Burt (Clu Gulager), Frank (James Karen), and Freddie (Thom Mathews). Dan O'Bannon wanted Leslie Nielsen for Burt.
Stereotyping
Freddie's friends are hanging out in the cemetery waiting for him (because apparently he always knows where the party is), and they're a melange of '80s stereotypes: Freddie's girlfriend is (inexplicably) a preppy. There's a party girl, a suit guy, a death metal guy, a slutty punk girl, and so on. They're slight exaggerations of the types, perhaps, but in real life, they didn't hang out together, generally.
They're fodder, amusingly. The movie is powered by the three old guys.
Even as fodder, though, they have a more real feeling than most main characters in modern flicks. None of them like the death metal guy, Suicide, who bitches that they only call him when they need a ride. When Trash (slutty punk girl) is throwing herself at him in the cemetery, he throws her off saying "Have some respect for the dead."
This is after expressing her sexual frustration by stripping her clothes off and dancing naked on the tombstone, in an iconic scene for Linnea Quigley.
The tone is much like that of Evil Dead 2 in that it's very comical in parts, and very horrifying in others. There are a lot of subtle gags, too, like an eye chart that reads "Burt is a slave driver and a cheap son of a bitch who's going bald", or the pictures of Eva Braun and Hitler up in Ernie's mortuary. (How did Ernie get so good at running a crematorium oven?)
This is where we learn it hurts to be dead, and only the brains of the living helps.
Legacy and Nostalgia
RotLD is a very entertaining movie even today, but it didn't have much of an impact. The sequel, by Ken Wiederhorn (Meatballs Part II, Shock Waves) is an odd remake of the original, with members of the original cast back in new roles. Brian Yuzna (Society, Re-Animator) directed the third installment, and it has a cult following, but it's completely serious. Grim, even.
Zombies went back to their slow-moving unintelligent selves. I don't think this movie actually introduced the brain-eating-zombie trope but I can't prove it. (I also don't think "I'm here to kick ass and chew gum" was original to Roddy Piper but I can't prove that.) And, for the record, Messiah of Evil had running (well-dressed) undead years earlier.
So it just stands as a good, fun horror comedy.
We saw this, as mentioned, as a double-feature with Repo Man at Quentin Tarantino's New Beverly Theater which actually uses a project to project 35mm prints in all their glories (and flaws). Lately, I've been overwhelmed by how much better films look than digital—like, even a trashy older film shot on film creates an effect that is largely absent from digital.
But I didn't think showing them from a print on a projector was such a big deal. It struck me as the same pretentiousness seen in people who insist on playing vinyl records. (I'm not one of those "Nobody can hear the difference" because I wouldn't presume. I'm more "The people who are claiming to hear the different largely aren't.")
Well, color me pretentious, because I felt the projection on these (low-budget, throwaway!) old movies really added something to the viewing experience—scratches and all, because there are scratches on the RotLD print.
The New Beverly also leads with contemporary trailers and ads, which made the whole experience a lot like going to the theater 40 years ago. Down to the guy in front of me in the packed theater being a foot taller and having an enormous head!
I've never been a big nostalgia guy but, wow, what a time machine.
Do You Wanna Party?
In sum, old movies are better. Or they may not be better but they are definitely a safer bet, when you realize how cultural filters work.
But these '80s kids are punks and slackers. I worry for our future.
Welcome hobbyists! Pull up a chair and sit a spell with the Horde in this little corner of the interweb. This is the mighty, mighty officially sanctioned Ace of Spades Hobby Thread. We gave the Ace of Spades Wheel of Hobbies(TM) a spin and it came up with rocks.
You might be tempted to say "I'm not really into rocks as a hobby." Tough. Dig around in the content and soak in the comments. You might find that you're really into rocks and didn't know it or you might find reasons to get into rocks. Either way, glad you're here.
[Top photo: Sea Stacks by polynikes (16x20 oil)]
Sea stacks qualify as ocean-based rock formations.
Rocks are fun. Where did they come from? How did they form? Why are they so varied and different? What do they look like inside? How heavy are they? What can they be used for? How far can you throw them? Sounds like a lot of good opportunities for hobbying. Rocks are so much fun that even a Pillaging Idiot could get into them.
Do you collect rocks? Are you an amateur geologist that appreciates rock formations on a hike, in a photograph or as a matter of scientific curiosity? Do you use rocks in your hobbying?
We are going to leave mining for another thread. There is a whole separate theme of mining for gems or gold and corresponding art projects. We'll get there, but not today...
Generally speaking, there are three main types of rocks:
Igneous Rocks: Formed from cooled magma or lava, these rocks are primary evidence of Earth's fiery interior. Examples include granite and basalt.
Sedimentary Rocks: Created from particles of older rocks, as well as plant or animal debris, these rocks are like history books, recording ancient surface conditions. Sandstone and limestone are common types.
Metamorphic Rocks: Born from transformation under pressure and heat, these rocks are the shape-shifters of the geological world. Marble and slate are metamorphic rocks that started as something else but changed under Earth's immense forces.
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What does the start of the southern end of the San Andreas fault look like? What rocks are there? History and geology lesson here.
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This is near Yellowstone - amazing rock formations:
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Utah is a geologist's dream. So much variety and so many places with formations unseen elsewhere. Case in point: we've covered a lot of the state and I've never heard of the White Rocks:
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Anyone into hunting for geodes?
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Asking the difficult questions (beware: there may be math involved):
It all started with an innovative initiative to drill down hundreds of feet to explore the possibility for using the Earth's internal energy to heat and cool the Museum. But when you start drilling deep down into the Earth's crust at a museum full of scientists, the urge to survey and study what's down there becomes irresistible.
Alongside the geothermal drilling project, the Museum conducted a scientific coring initiative to better understand the geology beneath City Park and the larger Denver Basin. The scientific core was drilled nearly 1,000 feet below the surface, passing through layers of gravel and sand deposited by the South Platte River before reaching ancient bedrock from the Late Cretaceous Period. While it wasn't surprising that scientists uncovered fascinating geology all the way down, the scientific core extracted something that surpassed everyone's expectations: a partial dinosaur bone dating back 67.5 million years!
"It's basically like winning the lottery and getting struck by lightning on the same day," said Dr. James Hagadorn, curator of geology at the Museum. "No one could have predicted that this little square foot of land where we started drilling would actually contain a dinosaur bone beneath it!"
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Are you wise in the ways of painting rocks? Apparently painting rocks is a thing. Some people just paint rocks for their own enjoyment or for their gardens and others paint rocks and leave them in public for others to find. TRex has a small brain and short arms, so figuring out which rock painting content is Hobby Thread worthy is a challenge. Made a guess but feel free to put other resources in the comments with tinyurls.
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Are you a lurker? Do you enjoy reading Ace of Spades content, but have been reluctant to post and participate in the comments? Have you been waiting for a good opportunity to jump in and say hello? This could be your day. Come on in. The water's fine. We don't bite (usually).
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Horde Hobbying:
Lurker Paul Nowak sent this drawing:
My main hobby has always been art. Drawing. But more specifically, drawing dopey cartoons that have a lot of detail, no "higher meaning," and just basically make fun of stuff.
I don't have the time, money, or interest to attend Art School, or Figure Drawing classes, but that hasn't stopped me.
One of my recent doodles is this parody of DC. It's non-partisan: it's just a silly look at a city that somehow survives despite the fact that its worst enemies are also the majority of its residents and "leadership." Above all, it is a city that defines "bureaucracy."
Size is usually 11" x 17", done on illustration board and inked/colored by hand. The drawings are usually done for someone (or a group) in particular, so lots of inside jokes; that way they don't look too generic.
Total time for writing the jokes, pencils, ink, then color might have been 30-40 hours.
Process: I do what used to be called "tight drawing." You draw the entire thing in pencil, then ink it in; basically, drawing it twice.
TRex comments:
1) Wow. Very impressive. Thanks for sharing!
2) The detail is amazing. It might be difficult to see on the screen but check out these zoomed in parts.
3) I asked Paul to add the watermarks. The piece was so good that it could easily have been saved and repurposed for others without credit or compensation. I also reduced the resolution quality for posting on the thread to protect the piece. It is that good.
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As per usual Hobby Thread etiquette, keep this thread limited to hobbying. Your participation does not need to limited to the theme. All hobbying is welcome. However, politics, current events and religious debates can live in threads elsewhere. Play nice. Do not be a troll and do not feed the trolls. Pants, as always, are optional.
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Did you miss the Hobby Thread last week? We talked woodworking with lathes. The comments may be closed, but you can re-live the content.
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Notable comments from last week:
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Words of wisdom:
"Because despite all our troubles, when things are grim out in that wide round world of ours, that's when it's really important to have a good hobby." Posted by: tankascribe at June 22, 2024 07:41 PM (HWxAD).
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What if there really are more ways than one to rock? If you have trouble finding something in the content or comments that resonates with you, hijack the thread for your hobbying as you see fit. We will feature a different theme next time. What are you hobbying? We love showing off Horde hobbying. Send thoughts, suggestions and photos of your hobbying to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com. Do mighty things.
— non aesthetic things (@PicturesFoIder) May 6, 2025
Dogs that may keep you out of social situations altogether!
We confine our smaller dog when we open the door to strangers to keep them from trying to snuggle him (he was traumatized as a pup). The larger dog goes to the door with us (usually).
Do you have a dog with whom you take any precautions around people?
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A dog with friends in the neighborhood:
Bro sees older dog done with his walk, lends owner a wagon to help get the dog home pic.twitter.com/yYadfkCv96
From Popular Mechanice, a new cat color from Finland, "Salty Liquorice". They seem to be trying to neuter all the strays they find with the new color. Smart?
Meanwhile, orange cat:
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Meet The PetMorons
I've emailed the thread before about Lily (Sheltie) and Pinky (Silky Terrier). I'm sad to report that Miss Pinky passed on 4/30 and my life hasn't been the same since. She was my adventure buddy, car ride buddy, and morning walk buddy...she was a month shy of 18 years old. My life was better with that tiny little dog in it, and her absence is felt. I miss her terribly - without her to tell me what to do all day, I've been a little lost. Lily, as sweet as she is, didn't seem to care much that Pinks is gone, but she seems glad to get ALL of the hamburger I cook instead of just half.
Attached is a picture of Pinks on my bean bag footstool she took over, taken a day before she lied down and wouldn't get back up.
Thanks for letting me share a bit of Pinks, she is irreplaceable, the most special of special tiny dogs. My heart is broken.
Lurker - Jerake75
So sorry that you have lost Pinky. What a sweetheart. Glad you still have Lily.
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Good afternoon Pet Morons. Hope all finds you well.
Since my post last week, the chicks are continuing to grow. Chicks C & D have more than doubled their weight and at the weekly weigh in came in at 9 and 8 grams respectively. Chick A & B's eyes have opened, a picture of Chick B attached.
Last week I mentioned what we call the red, yellow and green zones of hatchling development. This is a reflection of the mortality threat for these tiny creatures. See below:
Red Zone Day 0 to Day 2
Yellow Zone Day 3 to day 10
Green Zone Day 11 forward
If you can get them to the Green zone, chances are that they will continue to grow and develop, but there are no guarantees.
Unfortunately there are clouds on the horizon for Chick A. He appears to be developing Splay Legs. That is when the chick can't get its feet under him and they just 'splay' out in front of them. There is a picture attached and it's pretty clear what the problem is when compared to the other image of Chick B. The good news is that there is a treatment protocol for this condition. I'm posting this on Wednesday, 7/9 and have an appointment with our avian vet on Friday. I'll fill you in next week on how that went.
Regards, David
Hope things go well for Chick A.
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Good afternoon Pet Morons. Hope all finds you well.
Since my post last week, the chicks are continuing to grow. Chicks C & D have more than doubled their weight and at the weekly weigh in came in at 9 and 8 grams respectively. Chick A & B's eyes have opened, a picture of Chick B attached.
Jill, the sedate lady on the left, and I recently welcomed Jax, our black Lab (All Labs Matter!) rescue. She’s been seen on the Pet Thread before, most recently as she was preparing for hunting season by watching an Outdoor TV video on pheasants. He’s the new addition. Has been added to our pack with only an occasional snarl. Jill: “Hello … no, I don’t come here often. No, I don’t care what your sign is. No I don’t want to dance. Yes, I have noticed that you have a penis … snarl.”
Our problem has been “fixed,” so to speak and he’s much more pleasant company for my bucket-list Lab, Jill.
My girl has had, since birth, about four or five white hairs on her muzzle. I know it’s stupid, but I want to take a magic marker and black them out so she won’t get older.
Onward, clc
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Found another special photo!
Feral Cuties:
A feral cat and her three kittens (two tuxedos and a grey tabby) have taken up residence beneath my back porch and often join me in lolling in the sun.
And yes, I know my porch desperately needs sanding and repainting. Soon!
Eris
I can see why you like having them around.
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Thank you for sharing your pets with us.
If you would like to send pet and/or animal stories, links, etc. for the Ace of Spades Pet Thread, the address is:
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I bought a fignomenal fig in fall of 2023--from Amazon! It was pretty tiny but it made through the winter under a grow light. It put out new leaves in the spring of 2024, I sent a picture of the tiny fig. I set it outdoors for the summer and it grew very nicely, maybe a foot tall by the fall. I took it in for the winter, again under a grow light. there it basically grew in place, so to speak. Once I put it outside again this spring it really took off, it's now in a ten inch pot. I'm pretty sure it's basically reached the mature size, it's even got a fig starting on it!
Lirio100
Sounds like a great fig for people where figs may be hard to grow. And yours looks great! An ornamental edible.
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Ah, Nature
Hi KT, glad to have you back! Here's a couple of recent wildlife photos from East Tennessee.
1. Turtle. There used to be a number of turtles at this bridge on my weekend walk; I hadn't seen them in a while, so I was glad when I saw this fellow. He was obviously resting after racing with--
2. Bunneh. It's bunneh season here in east Tennessee, and I've seen lots of them, from the tiniest babies to this fellow here, obviously prepping for the next Turtle-Bunneh match.
3. Bug. A small-eyed sphinx. apparently quite common in the US, this is the first one I've seen. When their wings are fully open you can see the small eyes on the underwing.
Thank you for the Saturday threads!
Great photos! Love them all.
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Puttering
Hi KT,
I happy you're back and I hope you are feeling better. That's tough being ill and in the hospital and I was thinking of you.
Your Saturday am threads are really interesting and I save the page so I can read all of your links.
I thought you might like this for the garden thread?
I cut my lavender and I made a wreath. I've never made one before but I've been wanting to try for a long time. I'm not very artistic but I believe watching someone is easier for me to follow along and execute the project.
I watched a video tutorial on YouTube. I think the second time I make one it'll be a little easier. I kept having to trim the stems. I should have cut the stems shorter for my prep. I also should have pre cut twine.
She used 5 stems per bunch and attached them counter-clockwise to a wreath frame. She started attaching them in an X shape and then filled in bare spots with more bunches of lavender, tying them to the frame with twine and hiding the twine and stems with more bunches.
I needed more lavender, I was about three quarters of the way finished and I realized I needed more and the bees were out so I made do with what I had. As it was there were always two bees buzzing on the wreath as I was tying it but I didn't get stung.
The tutorial lady of course made her own frame out of a branch. I used a 12 inch wreath frame from Amazon, it was about 2 or 3 inches wide and I believe it would have been easer with a single branch frame, not as wide and not as many bunches needed to hide the frame/twine.
CaliGirl
A great project for a beautiful lavender wreath! Thanks for all the details.
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Katy,
I hope you're doing well. It's a lovely time of year, so I hope you spend a bit of your down time outside.
Attached are various pics I've been accumulating. Use them any time, or not at all!
I think some things are best en masse... azaleas and bridalwreath spirea are two.
Dirr, the guy who wrote the tree ID book most used in schools calls the fringetree the "landscapers Bradford pear". Heh
MkY
Well-placed plants, don't you think? What's in there with the azaleas?
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Hope everyone has a nice weekend.
If you would like to send photos, stories, links, etc. for the Saturday Gardening Thread, the address is:
ktinthegarden at g mail dot com
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Can the Democrats of New York help out California??
—K.T.
Recently, a young friend on social media posted a short clip suggesting that the harsh rhetoric of many prominent Democrats toward Zorhan Mamdani, candidate for mayor of NYC, demonstrated why they were ineffective at "fighting fascism".
Leader Hakeem Jeffries is focused on taking back the House from the MAGA extremists who just ripped health care away from millions of Americans," Jeffries senior adviser André Richardson told CNN.
"However, if Team Gentrification wants a primary fight, our response will be forceful and unrelenting. We will teach them and all of their incumbents a painful lesson on June 23, 2026," he warned.
"Team gentrification". Heh. There's some harsh rhetoric for you.
But "prominent Democrats" in NYC are not the only ones with communication problems lately.
Add it all up, and the impotent left in all its orthodox and street manifestations has become unhinged.
And why not when it rightly fears that not just its power, but the very sources of its power, are in mortal danger?
There are a couple of nutty things from California that you may have missed this week with Gavin on the podcast trail. He may not have covered all the issues, either. I have been wondering in particular if the state and local officials who have decided to require the building of low-income housing in Pacific Palisades might not want to take some tips from Zorhan Mamdani, whose ideas for "community housing"seem to be among the most popular parts of his campaign.
Together, California and NYC could show us how his ideas would work! Maybe they need a little "Team Gentrification". Instead of this:
Back in February, I wrote about a new Los Angeles ordinance that had come into effect, requiring low-income housing to be erected, replacing apartment buildings that were lost.
What that meant to fire victims who'd lost their rental homes was they might never have a home to return to if the landlord rebuilt their building and they now earned too much to make the qualifications for the low-income threshold.
In effect, LA County would be making them homeless.
You knew when comedian turned prophet Adam Corolla went on an epic rant from a hotel room desk, a fire refugee himself waiting on word whether he had a home or not, telling you then and there if your home was gone, it was gone for good.
Because Mayor Karen Bass, Governor Gavin Newsom, and the soul-crushing machinery of the State of California had the will and the power to ensure you would never rebuild, one way or the other.
There are a couple of videos embedded in this piece, too.
Could Zorhan Mamdani make the Democrats more popular here with his new ideas?
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Think about it
Codevilla emphasized the importance of bureaucracy in fascism. I kinda think that the classic communists quickly switch over to something like Mussolini's fascist economic ideas pretty quickly if they want to survive. In the West, we may see something similar . . .
Have a look at the high-speed rail development in California. Thirty years of planning and work, $38B spent, and only 119 miles more-or-less completed (a 2.5 hour drive) but already falling apart before a single ticket has been purchased. It's Soviet-like in every way because that is what happens in any society – forget socialism – that is burdened by a parasitic ruling class under any ideological slogan.
"A parasitic ruling class" is right. The people who designed this fiasco ignored the hopes and dreams of various members of their own ruling class (environmental in particular). They counted on forcing through a complex project by finishing the easy part first - - but the easy part was NOT easy.
Can Zorhan Mamdami help California out here? He's into mass transit. He smiles a lot and is popular. A political show business type who wants to bring legal prostitution back to the theater district.
We have seen some theatrics by congressional democrats recently, too.
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5/3 – D asked for prayers for his wife, Susan, who has been having some issues. They went to the hospital on 5/1, and all the signs are pointing to pancreatic cancer. They meet with other doctors on 5/5. Any prayers would be a blessing.
6/5 Update – The doctors have confirmed it is cancer, but they have not yet determined if it can be removed, or if chemotherapy will be needed first, to shrink the mass. They are so thankful for all the prayers and ask for them to continue.
7/3 Update – D asked for everyone’s prayers. At Susan’s appointment on 7/1, the doctor didn’t like what he saw. Susan has been in a lot of pain and was admitted to the hospital for a few days. They send their thanks for the love and prayers.
5/10 – Cosda asked for prayers for his wife, who recently had a mole removed that came back as melanoma cancer. She is scheduled for surgery next week, and it looks like that should remove it completely.
6/20 Update – The PET and brain scans showed no active cancer cells, which is great. But since it’s melanoma, and cancer was found in a lymph node, she is going to receive immunotherapy for the next year. Thanks to all. The prayers are working!
5/17 – neverenoughcaffiene asked for prayers for her sister-in-law, Jackie, who is looking at dialysis. Her kidneys have been failing for several years is she is getting close based on her numbers. Hopefully new meds will help.
6/28 Update – Jackie is stabilized and is working on exercising to make her last vacation to Italy in October. Thank you for the prayers; they definitely helped.
5/24 – Captain Obvious requested prayers for his friend J, who will be having surgery on 6/9 to try and relieve her chronic pain. She also has concerns because she is on blood thinners and nearly bled out after her hip replacement. Please pray for the best possible outcome and also to relieve her anxiety.
6/12 Update – J had her surgery on 6/9 and it went very well; the surgeon had to do less work than he originally thought. J is already experiencing relief from the chronic pain she had. Thanks to all for the prayers.
5/29 – Teresa in Fort Worth sent an update and her thanks for all the prayers and words of encouragement. They have sustained her and her family as she continues to battle cancer. She continues to receive good news: her oncologist is quite pleased with her response to the current medication protocol; they are decreasing the lab work frequency to every other week instead of weekly; the side effects from chemo have been barely noticeable; she can just take 4 tiny pills for chemo instead of spending one day a week at the cancer center. It’s been 7 months so far, and she expects that at some point the tumors will start growing again, but for now, they are encouraged.
6/6 Update – Teresa has a side effect from the chemo – her fingernails and toenails are starting to loosen and “lift” off their nail beds. It is painful, and also carries a risk of infection.
6/4 – Grumpy and Recalcitrant asked for prayers for his mother (Lynda), asking to give her strength and healing. Also, for the medical staff to be prompted to do a complete and thorough job diagnosing her.
6/7 Update – Lynda has been diagnosed with aortic stenosis. This is a correctable medical issue using surgery where they go in endoscopically via the leg, up to the heart, to fix the lower heart valve that is leaking.
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6/11 – Legally Sufficient asks the Horde’s prayers for her friend, Bubba, who was in a bad auto wreck on 6/8. Prayers for comfort, healing, and strength are needed for Bubba and his family. He is in ICU and will be there for a couple more weeks. Thank you!
6/18 Update – Legally Sufficient asks for continued prayers for healing, strength, and comfort for Bubba. God is great! Bubba is recovering from pneumonia (on top of the other injuries from his vehicle accident) but he is fully participating in PT, walking 25 steps a day with assistance, his breathing is improving, and he is finally eating solid food! Prayers for Bubba, his wife and family, and Bubba’s many friends are very much appreciated.
6/14 – MkY sent an update on his wife Judy’s battle with kidney cancer. Like Teresa in Ft. Worth, her tumors are shrinking. The shrinkage is so dramatic, they are discussing removing the cancerous kidney. Since that is the original source, that would make it easier to attack and perhaps kill the other tumors. Thank you so much for the prayers.
6/14 – Our Country is Screwed sent prayers of thanksgiving for all the thoughts and prayers as chemo continues. It has really been uplifting. The side effects have been minimal as well, thankfully, and there are 8 weekly treatments to go.
6/14 – Inspector Cussword requested prayers for Brother Tim. He has had a horrible time, living in his car and has just been handed a cancer diagnosis. Please pray for God’s Provision to be clear and comforting to him, and for his healing.
6/28 Update (from Brother Tim himself) - On 6/23, Brother Tim had surgery to remove the cancerous mass and some nearby lymph nodes. He has been in the hospital since then. He has trouble walking already, and is concerned about how much mobility he has lost after all this. He is hopeful that PT will be able to get him properly mobile before he is discharged, or at least that a rehab facility could be arranged. He should know by 7/4 if the cancer has spread. He still has long-term housing and income issues. Prayers are appreciated.
7/5 – Update - Brother Tim posted a comment that he learned on 6/30 that the lymph nodes showed no signs of the cancer, which means that it has not spread.
6/14 – Inogame asked for prayers for his wife and family. It’s very early, but they may have baby #5 on the way. They appreciate the support and prayers of the Horde.
6/24 – Fenelon Spoke asked for prayers on behalf of Sock Money and family, at the death of his brother, and for AOP who has PVC and spent hours in the hospital on 6/23. Also, Pawn could use prayers due to work issues; people are being laid off. Please pray for Israel as well as our country, and for Donald Trump, JD Vance, their families, and all of the Trump administration.
6/28 – Dave R requested prayers for healing, strength, recovery, and curing, as he was recently diagnosed with non-Hodgkin Lymphoma. He is 62 and a long-time AoSHQ reader.
7/5 Update – Chemo starts on 7/7.
6/28 – H asked for prayers for a mom of two elementary aged boys who lost her mother 3 weeks ago, and her husband on 6/28, both to cancer.
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6/30 Update – IrishEi posted that Jay Guevara has passed away, and offered prayers for peaceful repose in God’s hands and for comfort for his loved ones.
7/3 – 469 requested prayers for some medical tests he has coming up.
7/3 – Ciampino’s daughter posted to let us know that Ciampino is back in the hospital. He is dehydrated again. His kidney cyst is back and bigger, so he will need to have another surgery, but they don’t know when.
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2 Corinthians 4:8-9
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair, persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.
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Daily Tech News 12 July 2025
—Pixy Misa
Top Story
Economists and machine learning experts predicted that AI assistants would make programmers 40% more productive.
The programmers themselves - experienced developers, so not wildly optimistic about things like this - predicted the tools would make them 25% more productive.
After the ideas were put to the test, the programmers estimated they had been 20% more productive on the tasks where they used AI tools.
The problem is that AI is helpful when you don't know what you are doing - coincidentally in precisely the situations where you are unable to judge how useful they are.
When you know what you are doing, they are of less value. Of less than no value, on average.
So the best approach to taking advantage of AI is to use it for tasks where you can't judge the results and don't care whether they are correct.
The code calculates two values - correctly - but returns the wrong one.
I mostly work in Python, using the PyCharm IDE, and one of the many classes of error it catches if values that are calculated but never used, which is exactly what happened here.
And yes, there's a C version of PyCharm called CLion.
Zohran Mamdani's mother, a "famous director," lobbied hard to get Gal Gadot disinvited from the Oscars because she's a Jew.
The 2025 Oscars ceremony has drawn renewed attention to New York City mayoral candidate and Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, thanks in part to his mother's alleged role in a campaign to have Israeli actress Gal Gadot barred from the Academy Awards.
Mira Nair, Mamdani's mother and acclaimed director of Monsoon Wedding, was one of the signatories of a letter demanding that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences disinvite Gadot from presenting at the Oscars. The letter, signed by 21 Academy members and more than 75 other filmmakers, condemned Gadot's "vocal and unwavering support" for Israel's military and described her presence as "deeply offensive."
The letter falsely claimed Israel's actions in Gaza were a "genocide," and accused Gadot of using her celebrity to "endorse violence against innocent civilians." It went on to pressure the Academy to remove Gadot from the ceremony -- a move critics say targets her based solely on her Israeli identity. "This is a moment to choose integrity over complicity," the letter stated. "The Oscars should be a space for artists who uplift humanity, not those who justify its destruction."
A source familiar with the matter told Page Six, "They spent a few hours trying to get Gal removed from the Oscars. It was disgusting." This isn't the first time Nair has aligned herself with anti-Israel activism. In 2013, she joined a cultural boycott and refused to attend a film festival in Haifa.
Mamdani's father, Mahmood Mamdani, is a Columbia University professor and chancellor of Kampala International University in Uganda. He has also drawn scrutiny for anti-Israel comments. In a 2014 speech at Columbia, Mahmood argued that "the longtime security of a Jewish homeland in historic Palestine requires the dismantling of the Jewish state," and stated that "Jews can have a homeland in historic Palestine, but not a state."
There's a "publishing scene" in LA -- they read books in LA? I thought they only read coverages of scripts -- and apparently it's getting "anti-woke," according to woke propaganda rag Rolling Stone.
Rolling Stone doesn't like this revolt against censorship.
Inside the 'Anti-Woke' Literary Scene Growing in L.A.
They felt excluded by "millennial moral censorship" -- but is their work pushing boundaries, or just pushing buttons?
Matt Pegas neatly arranges stacks of books atop the red tablecloth at the reception table in the front yard of the house party. Surrounding the books is a tableau of candles, rose petals, a tarot deck, and packets of wildflower seeds, which guests are encouraged to take home and plant. Midnight will mark the spring equinox, and the pagan decor is meant to celebrate a rebirth, because, they say, after years of being tacitly driven underground, the "anti-woke" arts scene in Los Angeles is ready to blossom in full view.
"We have been in hibernation. We have been in the cold. We've been hiding. Now we're out in the open," says party organizer and emcee Adem Luz Rienspects, clad in a white linen shirt and pants.
The function, held in a single-family home in L.A.'s Lincoln Heights, is, at a glance, your standard collection of Eastside scenesters -- nebbish guys in glasses; handsome bros in black leather jackets; guys with long Seventies rocker hair; doughy, bearded guys in ball caps, accompanied by women several magnitudes hotter than them; a man in a tweedy three-piece suit; a woman who's a dead ringer for Naomi Watts. Several women wear lacy white dresses and flower crowns, in accordance with the theme. The requisite amounts of woo woo and pretension. Nearly everyone is white.
"Nearly everyone" is white in a majority white country. What a crisis. I'm so sorry this is happening to you.
Say, what's the racial composition of Rolling Stone's editorial staff, I wonder...?
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More generally, the event is an act of defiance against "wokeness," which, these critics say, has for too long stifled free expression, at the expense of creating quality art.
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"There's a massive cultural pushback against millennial moral censorship," Chris Zeisscheig, a former porn performer turned indie novelist, tells me while watching the party crowd with removed awe.
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The backlash in historically liberal cultural circles has been deemed the Vibe Shift, a term coined by Substack writer Sean Monahan in 2021, and later adopted by the mainstream press, to describe the growing number of young people rejecting the "woke" identity-based politics largely embraced by the contemporary Left. Wokeness first rose to prominence during the Obama years and went mainstream after the gender reckoning of #MeToo, the racial awakening of Black Lives Matter, and the anti-Trump Resistance of his first term.
For a while, woke had a positive connotation -- co-opted from Black communities, it had come to mean being awoken to the historical wrongs perpetrated against women and people of color. At first, this was a welcome development, a long overdue correction to the racial and gender inequities in artistic endeavors. But after a while, a backlash started brewing, one that felt wokeness was overly censorious and punitive of anyone who dared challenge identitarian political ideals. To them, woke became synonymous with Cancel Culture, people being publicly shunned for their political views, and in some cases losing their career opportunities and social connections over them. To be woke, they believed, was to be scolding and off-putting. That anti-woke movement exploded into public view in recent years, culminating with Trump's re-election last fall.
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In this way, the alt-lit scene is part of the cyclical nature of pop culture. A school of thought (woke) takes hold, becomes popular among a certain set of creatively-minded young people, becomes so popular that it becomes uncool, only to be replaced by a counter movement (anti-woke), restarting the process. What is transgressive, indie and anti-woke today will one day be normie, derivative, and cringe.
The woke backlash is a manifestation of the horseshoe theory of politics, which posits that the poles of the political spectrum are more alike than different, Pegas says. "The post-Trump Right and the post-Bernie Left merged around creative disaffection somewhere around 2020, 2021," he tells me before his reading. "Culturally, it's about getting rid of woke and the censorship therein."
The left isn't just plotting a fake, Deep-State-organized color revolution for America.
'Hit Us, Please' -- America's Left Issues a 'Broken Arrow' Signal to Europe
"Broken arrow" is arguably the most chilling and desperate order that an American military commander can issue. When faced with an enemy about to overrun a surrounded force, a commander uses it to call in an air or artillery strike on his own position.
This month, many on the American left are issuing their own "broken arrow" signals, including calling on globalist allies to hit the U.S. with sanctions and other measures. They are seeking to achieve through sanctions what they could not achieve through elections.
The most recent such call came from commentator Elie Mystal on "The Joy Reid Show" this week.
"Our country needs to be sanctioned," he said. "We are the bad guys on the world stage. We are a menace to not only free people everywhere, but we are a menace to peaceful people everywhere at this point, and I'm not even going to say that we've only been a menace for the past three or four months."
Mystal's call was hardly a surprise for those familiar with his writings. A regular commentator on MSNBC, he previously called the Constitution "trash" and urged not just the abolition of the U.S. Senate but also of "all voter registration laws."
Yet, he is not alone in signaling that his position is being overrun by his fellow citizens.
After Elon Musk bought Twitter with a pledge to dismantle its censorship system, former Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton called upon Europe to use its infamous Digital Services Act to force him to censor fellow Americans.
Nina Jankowicz, the former head of Biden's infamous Disinformation Governance Board, appeared recently before the European Parliament. She called upon the 27 EU countries to fight against the U.S., which she described as a global threat.
To the delight of globalists, she declared, "Before I describe the details of Russia's recent online influence campaigns, I would like to call upon you to stand firm against another autocracy: The United States of America."
This year, I spoke in Berlin at the World Forum and was surprised to see many Americans joining European leaders in support of the forum's slogan, "A New World Order with European Values." Attended by figures such as Bill and Hillary Clinton, the conference heralded Europe as key to countering the threat posed by the U.S.
Others denounced America as the world's villain with boycotts and protests during Fourth of July celebrations. One leading influencer declared that "this country is beyond f**ked" and encouraged citizens to "walk away from the illusion that they built" around this country.
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Yet the fact is, this country is not being "overrun." Those are fellow citizens who are calling for these policy changes and rejecting far-left policies. Just as many in Europe are calling on the EU to block far-right democratic victories, many in this country are advocating for the trashing of the Constitution or transnational interventions to reverse political voting trends.
The fact is, the far left is not truly surrounded. They have simply retreated into smaller and smaller echo chambers rather than engage the rest of the country on these issues. Viewed from within the protected spaces of MSNBC or BlueSky, you can feel surrounded, but it remains a type of self-isolation. It is like watching wagons frantically circling on the plains without a hostile in sight. The problem is that most of America has moved on.
In the end, the calls for a globalist intervention are a final desperate call of America's self-isolated left.
CNN's woke, corrupt "medical reporter" Sanjay Gupta pushed masking and social distancing and shutdowns during covid, but now pretends he was skeptical of these measures all along.
Update to the earlier story of Gavin Newsom screaming about Trump's raid on the illegal pot farm that employs illegal aliens and children: Gavin Newsom wasn't just protecting illegals.
He was doing donor service. One of his political donors owns the pot farm.
The fire chief in Austin, Texas has been accused of not deploying firefighters to help those who were being impacted by flooding that took place in Kerrville County on July 4. Austin Fire Chief Joel G. Baker is accused of issuing a standing order "on June 6 that prevented Austin firefighters from deploying to assist those working to rescue people during the catastrophic 4th of July flooding in Central Texas," per the Austin Monitor.
Baker was accused by the Austin Firefighters Association (AFA) of refusing to deploy the firefighters to Kerr County to aid those impacted by flash floods. The AFA said that it was "absolutely outrageous" and an "egregious dereliction of duty" for him to deny the deployment of the firefighters. The AFA President Bob Nicks has called for his removal and a vote of no confidence will be held online from July 15-17.
Austin's Fire Department chief says DEI, not saving lives or deploying swimmers to save flood victims, is the number-one priority.
LA residents honored the Spirit of '76 by patriotically conducting Boston Tea Party style raids on jewelry stores. Diversity is very much our strength.
It's hard to believe, but the woke gay dilettante Barack Obama can't build a library. It's one of the many things he's bad at, including keeping his awful wife in line.
'I exposed myself to the [...] chapter leader for the local Moms for Liberty'
The Pennsylvania transgender coach who had been canned for inappropriate conduct, was rehired, but ultimately resigned over a porn video showing him smoking meth, recently admitted he was the one who had sent the incriminating video.
David Yates (pictured), who coached tennis at Gettysburg High School and switched to the name "Sasha" in 2022, was not rehired following a pair of incidents which included him allegedly "stripping down to bra and panties" in the girls' locker room.
Note that, as usual, the fetishistic male chooses a "kewl" fake name like the ones you might see in a Young Adult "novel."
Never a Debbie or Bettie or Susan among them.
But Yates later reapplied for the position, and had the backing of many who claimed he'd been let go due to "transphobia." A district solicitor reportedly recommended Yates be rehired so as to avoid a possible lawsuit.
And so, Yates returned as tennis coach after the school board voted 6-2 to (re)hire him.
But months later, Yates resigned after a pornographic video of him smoking meth was emailed to board member Michelle Smyers. Oddly at the time, Smyers also received a text message from Yates' number which said "I have information about Sasha Yates that you need to know."
A subsequent text from Yates informed Smyers that he planned to resign.
The texts appear to make sense now; a recent report by Reduxx notes Yates admitted to emailing the video to Smyers himself in a "'sissy' fetish forum":
"[In] October 2024, I met up with a guy from Grindr and went to his motel room. Was filmed getting spun and being f*cked by raw bbc. The video was sent to a member of the board at the school I worked at. That was my 'coming out' as a meth whore and I was fired," Yates posted on May 22.
"What I've never admitted is that yes, the video was sent from someone else's email address, but I actually wrote the email and hit the send button. I exposed myself to the member of the school board who is the chapter leader for the local Moms for Liberty. She has been trying to fire me for the last 2 year and this gave her everything she needed to legitimately fire me," he added.
"Since this happened I have not been able to find employment. I apply for jobs but don't even get an interview." ...
When asked whether he regretted his decision, Yates said, "There are parts of it that I might do a little differently, but the end result would be the same."
In his "sissy" forum profile, Yates notes his interests are "gangbangs, female domination, rape fantasies," and something called "poz breeding" -- a fetish for possibly contracting HIV from unprotected sex.
Schools aren't for educating students. Schools now exist purely as pervert funhouses for autogynephiles and sex criminals to show off their gender role-play to little kids.
Axios Claims Dan Bongino and Kash Patel Are "Furious" About Pam Bondi's Mishandling of the Epstein Case; Bongino Supposedly Will Quit Unless Bondi Is Fired
—Ace
Pam Bondi, you may remember, said that the "Epstein client list" was on her desk waiting to be released. She also summoned a bunch of conservative influencers to the DOJ to give them supposedly new information from the Epstein files, but all of this information turned out to be old news. The influencers had their time wasted and Bondi was embarrassed.
Megan Kelly has been speculating that the countdown clock for Bondi's firing or forced resignation is coming.
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino reportedly had a heated confrontation with Attorney General Pam Bondi over the Jeffrey Epstein files, and the fallout has been swift and telling. According to sources, Bongino was so frustrated with Bondi's lack of transparency that he took the day off work on Friday, leading some to speculate that he might have quit altogether.
"He ain't coming back," a source close to Bongino told Axios.
According to the story, both Bongino and FBI Director Kash Patel are "furious" with Bondi over the blowback her handling of the Epstein files has caused them. And who can blame them?
Inside the room: During the meeting, Bongino was confronted about a NewsNation article that said he and Patel wanted more information released about Epstein earlier, but were held back. Bongino denied leaking that idea.
"Pam said her piece. Dan said his piece. It didn't end on friendly terms," said one person briefed on the heated discussion. Bongino left angry, the source said.
"The fact is, Dan was for releasing the information with the video and had no problem until he got heat online," a senior administration official told Axios.
"Bongino found the video with the missing minute. He vouched for it after a 'thorough review,' he said, and he thought this would end the matter. When that didn't work, he lost his mind and ran out of D.C."
Said a pro-Bongino source: "Dan is not the bad guy here. He shouldn't take the fall."
Here's where things get interesting: Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche felt the need to defend the memo, insisting that all leadership signed off on it.
I don't know what's going on here. I trust Bongino and Kash Patel, and I trust Trump. So I don't have strong suspicions that they're covering anything up.
It could just be that this story simply does not end the way many people expected it to end. I know people have suspicions, but suspicions are not facts, and it's wrong to take one's suspicions as being true.
James Gunn's Superman No Longer Fights for "The American Way," but "the Human Way;" He and His Brother Both Say the Movie Is About How Vital Immigrants Are to Our Country
—Ace
Superman is a character I want to like more than I like. I'm a traditionalist who likes old pulp characters, and I like Americana.
I was hoping this movie might be good. I hear some saying it's good, and some saying it's bad, but it sounded like I'd be in the camp of people that like it. The movie is cartoony and inspired by the goofy, anything-goes ethos of the Silver Age of comic books, which sounds good to me. Apparently the movie makes the case that Superman's real strength isn't his physical power but his simple goodness and moral strength, which sounds nice to me. I'm tired of Dark and Gritty Super-Heroes for Children.
James Gunn changes Superman's catchphrase from 'Truth, Justice, and the American Way' to 'Truth, Justice, and the Human Way': report
I know America isn't popular among foreign degenerates, so I would understand if they made this change in foreign versions of the film. Hollywood routinely makes American versions of films that push politics -- like gays kissing in cartoons for children -- that it takes out of the export versions. Why can't that be done here?
But apparently Gunn doesn't want to say that the American Way is worth fighting for even in America -- his lefty friends of course hate America -- so not even in the American version can we hear that America is good.
According to Comicbook, Superman's new catchphrase is "Truth, Justice, and the Human Way," as seen on official Superman merchandise, eliminating the traditional phrase Superman has used in stories since World War II, only a few years after the character was created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster in 1938.
The phrase was seen on official Superman movie merchandise with David Corenswet as Superman. Gunn has previously said that he has to approve all the toys associated with the movie, per Cosmic Book News.
The figure of Superman comes with text that reads, "Superman must reconcile his alien Kryptonian heritage with his human upbringing as reporter Clark Kent. As the embodiment of truth, justice, and the human way he soon finds himself in a world that views these as old-fashioned."
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The reboot of the hero film directed by Gunn has been slammed before it comes out in theatres on July 11 after Gunn made comments suggesting that the story would highlight Superman as being an immigrant from another planet.
"I mean, Superman is the story of America," Gunn told reporters at The Times of London. "An immigrant that came from other places and populated the country. But for me it is mostly a story that says basic human kindness is a value and is something we have lost."
James Gunn's nepo baby brother Sean Gunn, who appears in every single Gunn movie like Clint Howard gets an easy paycheck in every Ron Howard movie, says that the movie is "about how we support immigrants and if you don't like it, you're not American."
Sold. I mean, you've sold me into the position of "No Sale.
Sean Gunn on the new Superman movie: "It is about how we support immigrants and if you don't like it, you're not an American" pic.twitter.com/ugYiYqrphe
Nerdrotic's review has spoilers, but he doesn't get into them until the 9 minute mark.
He calls it "mid."
Here's some more Hollywood trash. Proud adopted mother of two children who somehow both turned out trans, Charlize Theron brags that she's now picking up 26-year-olds for one night stands.
“I did just recently f*** a 26 year old and it was really f***ing amazing.”- Charlize Theron pic.twitter.com/LgNTr3vJFS
What have you watched recently that you would recommend?
Here's one I recommend, advisedly. I saw Dan from The Cobwebs Channel recommending the Japanese zombie movie One Cut of the Dead. He gave the quick pitch -- a low-budget film crew is attempting to make a cheap, crappy zombie movie, and are attempting to film it in one single take, when an actual zombie horde attacks the movie production -- and then said he can't say anything more about it.
So there's some kind of secret twist you're not supposed to talk about. That interested me.
I wouldn't watch the trailer. It gives too much away. It just shows you the twist.
Just go in with as little information as possible.
I have to offer an advisory on this one. For the first half hour, I thought this was the most inept movie I've seen in a long time. (I later found out the actual budget for the movie was $25,000.) I only stayed with it because I wanted to get to the big twist that supposedly justifies this sloppy, boring, clumsy movie.
I'm glad I stayed with it. The second half hour offers some background information about the zombie attack shown in the first half hour, re-contextualizing it. The third half hour then revisits the zombie attack, with this re-contextualization completely changing what you saw before.
By the end I really, really liked the movie. The last half our pays off everything set up in the first hour. All the "mistakes" that bothered me in the first half hour actually turn out to be justified.
I immediately rewatched the whole movie and enjoyed it again. Then I bought the French remake and watched that. The French remake, Coupez! ("Cut!"), is by the same director who did the OSS 117 movies and stars his wife, who played the female lead in the first OSS movie. The budget is higher (but it's still not a big budget movie).
Even though the French version may sound like it would be better than the cheaper original, it's not. The Japanese original is just better in almost every way. I think the French version goes a little too over the top and lacks the relative subtlety of the Japanese version. (Which is kind of surprising.) I think the French director didn't like how slow and clumsy the Japanese version was in the early going, and tried to correct that by adding more punch. But it didn't work for me. The awkward, clumsy opening of the Japanese movie turned out to be the right way to do it.
It's too bad, because the French Coupez! can be bought on Amazon for like five bucks while it costs five bucks just to rent One Cut of the Dead. It was produced by Shudder so it might be available on that streaming channel for no cost (assuming you subscribe or sign up for a teaser trial, which of course you'll forget to cancel).
I liked -- almost loved -- this movie, but be prepared to feel like I did during my first watch, thinking this is the worst movie you've ever seen and that I must be a moron for saying otherwise. Hold off judgment until the third act.
In terms of gore or objectionable material: There's really not a lot of gore, or, there's not any gore that's convincing. It all looks half-baked and on-the-cheap. I don't recall much in the movie that would bother any viewer.
Update:
It looks like you can watch "One Cut of the Dead" for free on Hoopla.
Posted by: bleakdaze
Oh, I never even heard of "Hoopla." If you have Hoopla, give it a try.
The Defense Department is withdrawing the nomination of Rear Adm. Michael "Buzz" Donnelly, The Daily Wire can first report, under whose command drag performances took place on board the USS Ronald Reagan.
Donnelly served as commanding officer of the aircraft carrier from April 2016 to September 2018, during which time Yeoman 2nd Class Joshua Kelley performed as a drag queen under the name "Harpy Daniels" at a department-sanctioned "Morale, Welfare, and Recreation" event on the aircraft carrier.
The Defense Department announced on June 18 that President Donald Trump had nominated Donnelly for promotion to vice admiral and an appointment as commander of the 7th Fleet, the largest overseas force that the Navy has.
Following inquiries from The Daily Wire about Donnelly and the drag queen shows he permitted on board the USS Ronald Reagan, a source at the Defense Department said that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is withdrawing Donnelly's nomination to lead the 7th Fleet.
Former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has admitted that President Donald J. Trump was correct on border and immigration issues, stating, "Trump was right," during an interview. He criticized Democrats for failing to address border security adequately, admitting the U.S.-Mexico border was "under siege" during Joe Biden's presidency.
Kerry, the Democratic presidential nominee in 2004, remarked, "The first thing any President should say--or anybody in public life--is without a border protected, you don't have a nation." He added, "I wish President Biden had been heard more often saying, I'm going to enforce the law."
The Democrats onstage saw themselves as morally courageous. American voters, it turned out, saw a group of politicians hopelessly out of touch.
Standing side by side at a primary debate in June 2019, nine of the party's candidates for president were asked to raise their hand if they wanted to decriminalize illegal border crossings. Only one of them held still.
Six years later, the party remains haunted by that tableau. It stands both as a vivid demonstration of a leftward policy shift on immigration that many prominent Democratic lawmakers and strategists now say they deeply regret, and as a marker of how sharply the country was moving in the other direction.
Last year, 55 percent of Americans told Gallup that they supported a decrease in immigration, nearly twice as many as in 2020, and the first time since 2005 that a majority had said so. The embrace of a more punitive approach to illegal immigration includes not only white voters but also working-class Latinos, whose support Democrats had long courted with liberal border policies.
"When you have the most Latino district in the country outside of Puerto Rico vote for Trump, that should be a wake-up call for the Democratic Party," said Representative Vicente Gonzalez of Texas, who saw Mr. Trump win every county in his district along the border with Mexico. "This is a Democratic district that's been blue for over a century."
How the Democrats reached this point, and their continued struggles on immigration, is a decades-long story of political failures, missteps, misreadings and misplaced bets -- and some shrewd Republican moves.
"We got led astray by the 2016 and the 2020 elections, and we just never moved back," said Senator Ruben Gallego of Arizona, who introduced an immigration and border security plan in May. "We looked feckless, we weren't decisive, we weren't listening to voters, and the voters decided that we weren't in the right when it comes to what was happening with the border."
What the party does to change its approach -- and to change how voters see Democrats on immigration -- may be the most consequential and difficult decision it faces as it searches for a path back to power.
But while there is party-wide agreement that Democrats have a problem on immigration and border security, there is no consensus on how to fix it.
Some are pushing for a course correction they see as overdue. A new proposal from the Center for American Progress, the party's leading policy shop, calls for expanding legal immigration while embracing ideas long championed by conservatives, including making it harder for migrants to qualify for asylum.
Neera Tanden, the center's chief executive, said the plan acknowledged a reality that Democrats had long resisted: They must embrace new immigration restrictions in order to have the credibility with voters to fight the far more expansive plans of the Trump administration.
"I'm happy to argue with Stephen Miller or anyone else about why they are wrong," she said. "But the way we're going to be able to do that is to also honestly assess that the border has been too insecure, that it allowed too many people to come through and that we need to fix that."
Many on the left vehemently disagree, insisting that more conservative policies will only aid what they see as an insidious and ambitious effort by the Trump administration to demonize and deport Black and brown immigrants who have been in the country for years, remaking the fabric of a nation that once took pride in its diversity.
"Democrats have to stop talking about the issue of immigration within a Republican frame," said Representative Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts. "This has nothing to do with law and order. This is about power, control, terror, and it is about racism and xenophobia. Donald Trump wants to make America Jim Crow again, and then some."
Complicating Democrats' efforts to chart a new path is the fact that the party's debate is unfolding in the midst of what it sees as a national crisis. The Trump administration is pursuing the harshest crackdown on immigrants since World War II.
Raids and patrols by masked officers, detentions at courthouses and workplaces, the promises to arrest and deport millions, and the deployment of National Guard troops against protesters all have undocumented immigrants and even some naturalized citizens running scared and lying low.
"We, and I include myself in this, created a vacuum on this issue that we allowed the current president to fill," said Cecilia Muñoz, who led the Obama administration's domestic policy council. "And the country is now living with the results. And the results are appalling."
The Washington Post sends out an email to workers -- or, let's say, Those Drawing a Paycheck -- telling them that if they feel their politics "do not align" with the current (less leftwing, allegedly) direction of the paper, they should take the voluntary buyout package. Unstated threat: If you do not align with Bezos's determination to make the paper less insane than MSNBC: The Print Edition as it is now, you will be fired and get nothing.
I am a clown and board president of the nonprofit, Clowns Without Borders. I'm here to set the record straight.
I have performed as a professional clown for 24 years. Clown, capital C, is a valuable and varied art form; pantomimes, acrobats, magicians, dancers, stand-up comedians, vaudeville artists and jugglers are all examples of artists who incorporate Clown into their work. Whether you know it as Clown or not, you've likely seen it. From stage clowns such as Bill Irwin to the characters of Cirque du Soleil, created by masters such as Michelle Matlock and Mooky Cornish; from pedagogical ensembles, such as Pig Iron or Spymonkey to health care clown organizations such as the Laughter League and Healthy Humor. Clown is huge.
Democratic socialists in New York City emboldened by Zohran Mamdani's mayoral primary win are warning that they may go after five House incumbents next -- and Hakeem Jeffries, the minority leader at the top of their list, is daring them to try.
Jeffries' political operation even has a nickname for those talking up threats to the House minority leader back home: "Team Gentrification."
That phrase reflects that Mamdani turned out young progressives who, according to unofficial election data, were largely Whiter and wealthier as a whole than the longtime residents of the districts represented by Jeffries and others being targeted. But it also speaks to the resentment many Democratic politicians in the nation's largest city -- and in places around the country that aren't as deep-blue as New York -- have at being told by Mamdani supporters there's a new reality that they now need to adapt to, and quickly.
Mamdani's allies, notably key leaders of the Democratic Socialists of America, are talking about running primary challengers against Jeffries and several other incumbents, including Reps. Ritchie Torres, Jerry Nadler, Dan Goldman and Yvette Clarke.
"Leader Hakeem Jeffries is focused on taking back the House from the MAGA extremists who just ripped health care away from millions of Americans," Jeffries senior adviser André Richardson told CNN.
"However, if Team Gentrification wants a primary fight, our response will be forceful and unrelenting. We will teach them and all of their incumbents a painful lesson on June 23, 2026," he warned.
Fox News’ @greggutfeld: “The problem with the Democrats right now is the hoax apparatus is broken. In the days you could rely on a big hoax - collusion, fine people, drinking bleach - the media would do your work for you.”
Must-watch compilation of the physical attacks and ambushes of ICE agents that the Democrat-Media Party continues to cover-up for, while also inciting new attacks:
* Layoff notices are going out to more than 1,300 employees of the U.S. State Department Friday.
* The firings are part of a dramatic reorganization and a push by the Trump administration to drastically downsize the federal government.
The State Department is laying off more than 1,300 employees Friday, a move that critics say will make us less safe abroad and hurt America's leadership across the globe.
The Trump administration has pushed to reshape American diplomacy and worked aggressively to shrink the size of the federal government, including mass dismissals as part of moves to dismantle whole departments like the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Education Department.
State Dept. layoffs
By the numbers:
The department is sending layoff notices to 1,107 civil servants and 246 foreign service officers with domestic assignments in the United States, a senior State Department official told The Associated Press.
Foreign service officers affected will be placed immediately on administrative leave for 120 days, after which they will formally lose their jobs, according to an internal notice obtained by The Associated Press. For most affected civil servants, the separation period is 60 days, it said.
The pinkslips are coming for DOJ lawyers who participated in the political persecution of the right.
Clandestine
@WarClandestine
Interesting.
WaPo claim anonymous sources are telling them that the Trump admin are currently "firing and pushing out employees" at the DOJ/FBI, with zero explanation or warning.
Sounds like a purge is going on.
Perhaps bad actors are being drawn out and eliminated. But one thing is for certain, that much is going on behind the scenes. There's plenty going on that we do not get to see.
A 17-year former Justice Department official is warning of a wave of retribution inside the agency.
Patty Hartman, who served as a top public affairs specialist at the FBI and federal prosecutors' offices, told CBS News, "The rules don't exist anymore."
Hartman, who was fired Monday via a letter from Attorney General Pam Bondi, is the fourth person connected to the agency's work on the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riots to be terminated in the past month.
"There used to be a line, used to be a very distinct separation between the White House and the Department of Justice, because one should not interfere with the work of the other," Hartman told CBS News. "That line is very definitely gone."
Hartman isn't a prosecutor, but worked on the District of Columbia U.S. Attorney's Office public affairs team that distributed news releases about the more than 1,500 Jan. 6 criminal prosecutions.
"I am not political. I do not serve a president or a party," she said. "I serve the American people, the Department of Justice and its mission and the citizens in the district where I work. I've been doing that for almost 20 years."
Julie Kelly says that's a lie.
The purge of Justice Department employees who worked on Jan. 6 cases began shortly after President Trump's second inauguration, when he installed a former Jan. 6 defense attorney, Ed Martin, as the acting top prosecutor in Washington, D.C.
Multiple prosecutors were promptly terminated.
The latest wave of firings included Hartman and three more prosecutors who helped handle some of the Jan. 6 cases. She said those firings appear to be a form of retribution from the administration.
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She characterized her dismissal as an indication of a broader destabilization inside the Justice Department and Trump administration. In a social media post this week, she wrote, "We appear to be driving straight into an abyss that holds no memory of what democracy is, was, or should be."
"The people in charge who are supposed to protect us -- our fellow Americans who we elected, along with those who were appointed, and swore an oath to protect this nation and our Constitution -- now use the Constitution as a weapon to suit their own ends. And the most terrifying fact is, their road map is very long," Hartman also wrote.
She told CBS News she had been fired without due process and said she's considering a legal challenge over her termination.
Julie Kelly 🇺🇸
@julie_kelly2
WashPo reporting fabulous news out of DOJ as employee purge continues.
"Widespread, abrupt terminations have left Justice Department and FBI employees wondering if they will be next, people familiar with the matter say."
This makes me especially happy:
"Patricia Hartman, a veteran spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney's office in D.C., was notified Monday that she was fired."
Hartman routinely refused to answer any of my media inquiries as she ran cover for Matt Graves and J6 prosecutors.
"I wish I HAD an explanation," Hartman told WashPo.
More: "At least three attorneys who worked on the prosecutions of rioters who stormed the Capitol on Jan 6 and had been demoted to roles elsewhere also were removed."
DOJ already fired several temp J6 prosecutors but many career prosecutors who worked on J6 cases remain but "fear they may be next to receive a termination letter."
Fake Republicans Are Blocking Trump's Minor, 0.2% Recission Package Plus: Was the "One Big Beautiful Bill" Actually... Good?
—Ace
A rescission package to trim a mere 0.2% from the nine trillion dollar budget is being blocked by the usual fake Republican saboteurs, and a couple of their new allies, writes Matt Vespa at Townhall.
The House did their job and passed the rescission package, but currently, it's in jeopardy because the same group of troublemakers in the Senate; Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Susan Collins (R-ME) are holding up the measure over concerns about cutting programs that are a complete waste of taxpayer money. What's worse is that they've found new allies in Jerry Moran (R-KS) and Mike Rounds (R-SD) and Dan Sullivan (R-AK) .
So, let's clear the air on some of the cuts that some of these senators find problematic. First, defunding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting ($1.1 billion) has been a conservative goal for a generation. It's biased, its CEO is aloof (and biased), and PBS has been overtly projecting Democrat propaganda for years. They don't need our money to stay afloat; they can sink or swim like the rest of us.
The Democracy Fund--$83 million--bankrolled programs for "Yemen community resilience" and spent millions on LGBT nonsense in the Balkan States. The Economic Support Fund--$1.65 billion--produced Iraqi Sesame Street, pride parades in Lesotho, and millions to subsidize Palestinian media companies.
Development Assistance was a $2.5 billion boondoggle that tried to get electric buses off the ground in Rwanda, a vegan food consumer base in Zambia, and civic engagement operations in authoritarian Zimbabwe. Folks, this is first-world, urban, liberal nonsense. For starters, eating 'vegan' is an elite privilege. Most people would die of starvation on that diet, and that goes double for the people of Africa. You need to eat meat to survive. Period. There's a reason why the late Anthony Bourdain compared vegans to Hezbollah, at least in the culinary arts.
The Bush-era President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) isn't going to be crushed, which you know is going to be a liberal talking point. The package preserves the $10 billion program that's saved countless lives, but funding for programs about transgender sex in Nepal, LGBT advocacy in Uganda, and free training in pastry making for male prostitutes are in the trash bin.
International peacekeeping, which has been rife with fraud, is taking a $1 billion haircut.
And of course Lisa Murkowski and now her Alaskan colleague Dan Sullivan object -- which is likely a scheme to pressure Trump to give unnecessary billions in porkbarrel spending to Alaska.
Boy, the "conservative" state of Alaska is turning out to be a lot more socialist and subsidy-dependent than I would have guessed.
We passed a budget of nine trillion dollars but we can't cut just six billion. And we're also not tough enough to do what's right and primary these motherf***ers out of office.
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer is signaling he could plunge the country into a partial government shutdown if Republicans move forward with rescinding just a fraction of a percent of government spending.
The Senate is expected to vote on a request from the White House to claw back $1.1 billion in public broadcasting funding and $8.3 billion in foreign aid next week. Schumer has threatened that Democrats will reject a government funding deal for the upcoming fiscal year if Republicans pass President Donald Trump's $9.4 billion rescission package, which could trigger a partial government shutdown at the end of September.
"Ask the Republicans why they are heading on this path," Schumer said at a Senate Democratic leadership press conference Wednesday in response to a question citing his previous warnings about the alleged harmful effects of letting government funding lapse. "We are doing everything we can to keep the bipartisan appropriations process going. And they're undermining it with rescissions, with pocket rescissions, with impoundment and every other way."
Schumer's implicit shutdown threat is a noticeable departure from his decision to avert a lapse in government funding in March by supplying the votes to pass a Trump-backed stopgap spending bill. The Democratic leader's decision to avoid a government shutdown earlier in the year infuriated the party's base, leading Schumer to postpone a scheduled book tour. Elected Democrats across the country criticized his leadership.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune criticized Schumer's recent remarks appearing to use the rescissions package as leverage in the anticipated government funding showdown later this year. Schumer wrote a "Dear Colleague" letter Tuesday warning of "consequences that will be felt far beyond the halls of power" if Republicans claw back funding for public broadcasting and foreign aid.
"I was disappointed to see the Democrat leader ... implicitly threaten to shut down the government," Thune said on the Senate floor Wednesday. "But I'm hopeful that that is not the position of the Democrat Party, the Democrat conference here in the Senate, and that we can work together in the coming weeks to pass bipartisan appropriations bills."
"Funding the government is our chief priority before October, but that won't stop us from considering additional measures," Thune said, in an implicit reference to the rescissions package.
On to the OBBB ("One Big Beautiful Bill"):
I know TJM has been praising it, but he also won't shut the f*** up about Prometheus, so... shrug.
But other people who do not bang on about Prometheus think the bill is something:
The Democrat crowing about how the Big Beautiful Bill is going to be the doom of the Republicans is about as convincing as Zohran Mamdami's college app claim that he's a black guy; in his defense, he is more Indian than Elizabeth Warren, in a manner of speaking. Though their social media doofuses and regime media toe-sucks are hooting about how Hakeem Jeffries set a record for running his fool mouth and how voters will totally be angry with the GOP for killing eleventy million people -- the BBB is even deadlier than net neutrality, climate change, and not allowing confused children mutilate themselves to conform to their delusions combined -- this is a huge and humiliating loss. It is also a rare exception to the usual GOP MO of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
Let's get the obvious out of the way -- this victory capped perhaps the most potent first six months of a presidency ever. Donald Trump came in kicking commie tush, and for the last half-year, he's been landing score after score while melting every temporary setback his detractors have dealt him. Just a month ago, Iran had a nuclear program. Now, it's a smoking ruin. Today, no innocent honor student undocumented migrant can walk home from reading to orphans without living in fear that ICE will disappear him into an alligator-guarded gulag. DEI is DOA, the stock market is setting records, and colleges are bending the knee to the hated King. Heck, he has even ended the Rwanda-Congo War and brought peace to Zohran Mamdami's people.
But, without the BBB passing, it would have been all for naught. The Democrats knew it, and they went all out to stop it. When the sky doesn't fall and the Dow soars higher, they get to explain, "Sure, Trump's brought America a new Golden Age, but his tweets are still really mean!"
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It's so weird to be saying good things about GOP congressional leaders, but John Thune -- he sounds like an MCU villain who fights Iron Man -- made it happen without blowing up the filibuster or setting a bad precedent.
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Okay, Mike Johnson. Who the hell is this guy? Where did he come from? When he got voted Speaker, most of us thought he was an asterisk on a placeholder. Mitch would have to score him an eight-ball of his cocaine just to get the preternaturally serene southerner up to "mild-mannered." And yet, he did the impossible, again and again, somehow bringing together utterly incompatible factions to create that nearly invisible area of overlap in the Venn Diagram that was the BBB. He did the impossible. And you know what else they are saying is impossible? Expanding the House GOP majority in 2026.
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And the losers? I mean, besides the entire Democrat Party? The Lol-bertarian Twins Rand Paul and Thomas Massie believed their own hype of being stalwart, principled iconoclasts standing in the breach. The Freedom Caucus got something by being a pain; these two got zilch and succeeded in doing what many believed impossible -- making libertarians even more annoying. There's no universe where their ideological fantasies pass any House or Senate that might ever exist on Earth.
Trump must crush Massie unmercifully as a cautionary example of those who don't get on the team. Paul still has a cycle to get his head right, but we're tired of smug talk. We want wins on the scoreboard, not some dork showboating for sophomoric incel fanboys by failing to accomplish anything except making sure no one else can accomplish anything, either. And if the passage of the BBB helps rid us of them, that's yet another reason to celebrate.
Immigration operation at California cannabis farms leads to clash between federal agents and protesters
Protesters clash with authorities using tear gas and smoke bombs at state-licensed cannabis sites
Protesters clashed with federal authorities Thursday during an immigration operation north of Los Angeles at a marijuana farm allegedly employing illegal immigrants.
Multiple agents arrived at the Glass House Farms, a state-licensed cannabis facility which is considered illegal under federal law, in Camarillo. Federal authorities had a warrant for illegal employees, Fox News has learned.
Another raid also occurred at another Glass House Farm in Carpinteria.
People were seen confronting the agents, who used tear gas and smoke bombs. Federal personnel used gas to push back protesters who arrived on scene after getting word of a raid.
Military helicopters were also seen flying low over the fields, a maneuver generally used to flush out people hiding.
"It is becoming increasingly apparent that the actions taken by ICE are bold and aggressive, demonstrating insensitivity towards the direct impact on our community," Luis Mc Arthur, the mayor of nearby Oxnard, said in a social media post. "These actions are causing unnecessary distress and harm. I remain committed to working alongside our Attorney General and the Governor's office to explore potential legal avenues to address these activities."
Footage captured by the news outlet showed several people being detained.
U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California Bill Essayli said the FBI has offered a $50,000 award for information leading to the conviction of an unknown suspect who appeared to fire a pistol at federal law enforcement officers near Camarillo.
"FBI has issued a $50,000 award for information leading to the conviction of an Unknown Subject who appeared to fire a pistol at Federal Law Enforcement Officers near Camarillo," Essayli said on X. "The shooting occurred on 7/10/25 at approximately 2:26pm on Laguna Rd between Wood Rd and Las Posas Rd."
Four people were transported to the hospital, the Ventura County Fire Department said. Three additional people were treated at the scene without being transported, Fox Los Angeles reported.
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Newsom criticized Thursday's raid and President Donald Trump on X.
"Kids running from tear gas, crying on the phone because their mother was just taken from the fields," the governor wrote in a post accompanied by a video showing people running to avoid tear gas deployed by authorities. "Trump calls me 'Newscum' -- but he's the real scum."
A mother "taken from the fields" = an illegal alien working illegally on a pot farm which is also illegal under federal law
He didn't say a thing about the shooting.
Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott responded to Newsom's post.
"Here's some breaking news: 10 juveniles were found at this marijuana facility - all illegal aliens, 8 of them unaccompanied. It's now under investigation for child labor violations," Scott wrote.
BREAKING: anti-ICE rioters are IMPEDING immigration officials and attacking their vehicles while waving foreign flags during a raid in Camarillo, California pic.twitter.com/rtbx11GxwY
BREAKING: 🚨 Protester caught on camera firing weapon at federal agents during immigration raid at California farm near Camarillo. pic.twitter.com/igVWBkL2o0
Hakeem Jeffries virtue signals about civility, while simultaneously encouraging his party to spew the most vile, hateful rhetoric against our ICE agents.
Assaults against ICE agents are up 700%.
Meanwhile, multiple members of his own party have called ICE agents “the Gestapo,”… https://t.co/RK053J3TpK
— Congressman Brandon Gill (@RepBrandonGill) July 10, 2025
Girlfriend. YOU are the violence experts. The ones who dance on the graves of little girls drowning and LITERALLY CALL FOR BLOODSHED
Your OWN CHILDREN assault police officers and get off 'writing a letter'
DEMOCRATS ARE DISGUSTING AND DANGEROUS
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— tree hugging s*ster 🎃 (@WelbornBeege) July 10, 2025
THE MORNING RANT: 2025 Has Been an Awful Year for EVs, and It Keeps Getting Worse
—Buck Throckmorton
2025 has been a disaster for the electric vehicle industry in the United States. But as bad as it’s been, it just got a lot worse. As I documented a few days ago, The One Big Beautiful Bill that has now become law eliminates the $7,500 federal tax credit for buying a new EV, and it also kills the $4,000 credit for buying a used EV. These tax credits permanently go away in less than two months.
Irrespective of the Big Beautiful Bill, sales of EV’s were already falling way short of expectations in the first quarter of 2025, and then the bottom fell out in the second quarter of 2025.
US car buyers continue to sour on electric vehicles. Ford Motor, Hyundai, and Kia all reported steep declines in EV sales for the second quarter, with Ford saying its fell more than 30% and Kia saying sales of two models dropped by half.
Ford’s flagship electric vehicle, the F150 ConflagrationLightning pickup truck, is in a sales free fall. Ford sold just 5,842 of these abominations in Q2 of 2025, which represented a 26% decline from the already-pathetic sales volume in the prior-year Q2. 2025 Lightning sales are annualizing to just 23,000 per year, while actually trending even lower.
Now is a good time to remember that Ford built an all-new plant near Memphis to produce 500,000 electric pickup trucks per year. That plant is now mothballed and heading toward obsolescence/repurposing without having ever manufactured one vehicle. Overall, Ford’s Q2 sales were up 14% year-over-year. Maybe that Memphis plant can be refitted to build cars and trucks that people actually want to buy.
For Volkswagen, the EV sales collapse is even worse. VW sold a paltry 1,992 electric ID.4s in Q2 2025, a 65% collapse year-over-year. These sales figures are approaching what might be constituted “nominal” sales volume. VW makes some great gasoline-powered cars, but it has been so distracted with the EV push, that its entire product lineup is collapsing, with total US sales down 29% year over year. Meanwhile, most other major manufacturers are seeing increased ICE vehicle sales in the U.S. If VW doesn’t get back to focusing on cars that Americans will buy, their U.S. operations are at risk. I am a fan of VW’s non-electric cars and I would hate to see them exit the US market, but VW will have to give up the EV dream if it is going to regain lost ground.
The same story plays out with other manufacturers who made major commitments to EVs. While BMW’s overall year-to-date vehicle sales in the U.S. are up, its EV sales are collapsing, with Q2 EV sales of just 11,094 units, a 21% year-over-year decrease.
Even Tesla sales are down significantly. Elon Musk’s EV company does not break its sales out by country or region, but its global sales have been down significantly in 2025, with Q2 sales down 14%. Mr. Musk famously angered the left by aligning with President Trump to clean out government waste, which clearly caused a backlash from some of Tesla’s left-wing customer base. But those lost Tesla sales didn’t go elsewhere. They just went away, or back to ICE vehicles.
And then there is Rivian. Not only is it not gaining sales from disaffected Tesla shoppers, but its sales are going the wrong way…rapidly. Having sold right at 50,000 units each of the past two full years, the company set a guidance for about the same number of sales in 2025. Halfway through the year, Rivian has sold less than 20,000 vehicles, which annualizes to under 40,000 per year. It really doesn’t matter. Be it 40,000 or 50,000 units per year, these are the sales figures of a zombie company. Rivian’s original business plan when it seduced more than $1 billion for a proposed Georgia plant from governor Brian Kemp was to be selling hundreds of thousands of vehicles per year by now. Rivian’s Illinois plant alone can produce more than 200,000 vehicles per year. The proposed Rivian plant in Georgia was not built, but Gov. Kemp did build a beautiful “Parkway to Nowhere” in rural Georgia for it. Rivian’s sales have been tumbling with the EV tax credit in place. It will be a financial bloodbath for the company when sales plummet further - with a bigger loss per unit - when the tax credit goes away.
In fact, all of these horrible EV sales results I’ve discussed are with the $7,500 EV tax credit still in place. There may be an uptick in EV sales in Q3 due to manufacturers desperately discounting their glut of unsold electric vehicles before the tax credit goes away. In fact, they’d better make those vehicles go away in Q3, because any unsold EVs on dealer lots on October 1 will become un-moveable boat anchors.
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One more quick item…
Do you remember that story a few weeks ago about a fire on a ship transporting EVs across the Pacific Ocean? The crew had to abandon ship due to the intensity of the fire. That car carrier, the Morning Midas, has now sunk.
Three weeks after a fire broke out on the ship off the coast of Alaska, the Morning Midas sank, along with thousands of cars on board.
This is becoming a disturbing trend. Ships carrying vehicles have had occasional fires over the years, but these EV fires that are causing cargo ships to be abandoned and sometimes sink is an all-new maritime hazard. In fact, insurers were already concerned about insuring cargo ships that transport EVs. In 2022, the Felicity Ace was consumed by fire thanks to its load of EVs, and it sank. A year later, a similar fire destroyed the Fremantle Highway, which was transporting EVs.
Insurers and cargo carriers were already getting wary of transporting EVs, as evidenced by a lawsuit against VW for its role in the Felicity Ace’s sinking, which was believed to have been precipitated by an electric Porsche spontaneously erupting in flames.
The ongoing debate over the safety of transporting electric vehicles is gaining new attention with reports that the owners and insurance company for the car carrier Felicity Ace are suing Volkswagen Group blaming the auto company for the 2022 fire that destroyed the vessel.
Traditional fire suppression systems aboard cargo ships are little help against the virtually unextinguishable runaway thermal fires from a load of burning EVs.
The “EV transition” is now de-transitioning. The next big conversation needs to be on where these explosive ordnance vehicles are allowed and not allowed. Following the Morning Midas’ sinking, it may become tougher for cargo lines to obtain insurance for ships carrying EVs. Insurers would also be well within their rights to deny coverage to buildings with parking garages put at structural risk by EV fires.
But, you see, here’s the thing: People want answers that seem logical, that provide rational explanations to obvious questions, that provide proof that the speculation is wrong. This is particularly true when the people now saying there’s nothing there were the very people who promised that answers, transparency, and accountability would be coming when they won. Well, they won, and we’re getting the same obfuscation. . . The problem here is that this is all happening in an environment where Americans are coming to believe that no one is ever accountable for their actions. We see city centers across the country imploding as stores, shops, and hotels close because of the crime that sees hoodlums, thugs, and drug addicts in urban centers basically take or destroy with impunity whatever they want. We see judges issue injunctions against the administration despite SCOTUS specifically ruling they can’t. At the same time, we have politicians, Antifa, and activists undermining, hindering, and assaulting ICE agents who are trying to deport criminals, and the chances of them being held accountable for these crimes are almost nonexistent.
Bingo. Of course Democrat/Leftist politicians and sometimes their useful RINO confederates are protected up until the point where they become political liabilities, and then they are thrown to the wolves.
When roving bands of criminals, domestic terrorists and criminal domestic terrorists can riot, loot and burn with impunity while the average citizen is arrested, and tried for self defense (Kyle Rittenhouse) or worse, arrested, tried and imprisoned for merely exercising their first amendment right of free speech (1/6/21 in DC, at school board meetings and abortion abattoirs), a very dangerous precedent is set that can only end in the breakdown of the civil society as trust in our institutions that are meant to preserve said society is completely eroded.
Look at it this way. When degenerate scum like Jasmine Crockett and Karen Bass and the majority of their fellow Democrat politicians — again John Fetterman being the surprising lone voice of sanity and reason in that Snake Pit of Evil — openly call for violent resistance to Ice and law enforcement in carrying out their legitimate duties to arrest, detain and deport illegal aliens, What does that do to the morale and effectiveness of the officers on the front line? Answer: it destroys it and will ultimately lead to their dissolution or worse their defection to the terrorists and criminals and maybe the ultimate formation of citizens brigades that will arm and protect themselves even if it means using deadly force to do so. Is that what we really want? Answer that any way you want, but for sure it might very well be where we are heading, and then all bets are off.
Some, like Tucker Carlson (who seems to spend half his time in the Gulf and seems to have offered flattering interviews to every Muslim tyrant in the region), were obvious agents of foreign influence, others may have been sincere in their hysteria, but the combined effect made the movement look like clowns, especially once they were proven wrong. Most refused to admit they were wrong, but have gone on claiming that if it wasn’t for their bedwetting, we’d all be dead. Whoever won the debate on social media is hard to say, but we all know who won the debate in real life. Trump acted and shrugged off the antics. But, interestingly, there are signs he’s pivoting on Ukraine. While that may be in part hardball negotiating politics due to Putin’s refusal to make a deal, but it seems to have ramped up after the same people who had vocally argued against U.S. support for Ukraine burned up all their credibility trying to stop a U.S. strike on Iran’s nukes.
There is no doubt that a severely degraded if not completely destroyed Iranian nuclear program is a wonderful thing for world peace and security. Whether America should have been directly involved in delivering the coup de grace Qom shot at the Fordow foundation is something that even I, as an ardent supporter of Israel, thought beforehand was not the best course of action but what's done is done, and as stated, and the nuke program is a smoldering ruin. What emerges from the ashes there and in the Iranian government are still big question marks.
But President Trump's meddling in a war between Russia and Ukraine that has much less if not zero national security ramifications for America, unlike the Iranian nuclear program, is a head-scratcher. Russia as of right now will likely win the war and even if Trump does push Putin and Shecky Zelensky to a negotiation table, does anyone really think that Putin is going to surrender a single inch of territory? Regardless of the fact that Putin started this latest round of war, there is going to have to be some give and take on both sides, so what will Ukraine give up in order to stop the carnage?
As for Trump, is he merely doing this to get a Nobel Peace Prize, which would never happen anyway? What does Donald Trump and the USA have to gain by meddling here and potentially getting involved in a war that could very quickly get out of hand where a lot of hair would get mussed . . "depending on the breaks" as General Buck Turgidson would say.
Months of violent left-wing anti-ICE rhetoric achieved its apparently desired end state this week as an alleged Antifa cell conducted an attempted assassination of police officers outside the Praireland Detention Center, being used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement as a detention facility for illegal aliens.
On July 4, 11 black-garbed individuals, some equipped with body armor, ammunition, and firearms, conducted what the Department of Justice described as a “planned ambush.” Two of the attackers allegedly opened fire on ICE officers after their comrades initiated a disturbance to lure officers out of the building and into the line of fire by launching fireworks and spray painting anti-ICE slogans on nearby property. A police officer was shot in the neck but is expected to live. According to the criminal complaint filed by the Department of Justice, pamphlets on insurrectionary anarchism and propaganda materials, including a “Resist Fascism” flag, were recovered by law enforcement.
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The poll found that over 60 percent of all voters now support the deportation of illegal immigrants. Among Hispanic voters, 50 percent expressed support, with 48 percent opposed. Support among black voters stood at 53 percent, while support among white voters stood at 65 percent. This is despite pro-illegal immigrant riots and potentially deadly attacks on ICE in cities across the U.S., accompanied by highly inflammatory anti-ICE rhetoric from senior Democrats. Hispanic Support for Trump’s Deportations Is Surging.
The murderer’s name has not yet been released, but the July 9 ICE press release stated that he entered the United States illegally and is wanted back in his home country of El Salvador for “aggravated homicide of five victims; attempted aggravated homicide; deprivation of liberty; and terrorist organization affiliation.” These are the kind of extreme criminals who were allowed to enter America and receive taxpayer-funded freebies under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. ICE Arrests Terrorist From 100 Most Wanted List
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
Francesca Albanese, the UN boss trying to turn the ICC into an anti-American, anti-Israeli star chamber, hit with heavy sanctions. Marco Rubio Drops the Hammer
Douglas Murray: These include his claim that if he is elected in November he will look to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he even sets foot in this city. Mamdani has also suggested that he would also look to arrest the prime minister of India — Narendra Modi — if he comes to New York. Of course if a mayor of New York did have any such powers, then it would be another reason to move the headquarters of the United Nations out of this city. Mamdani just latest mayor wannabe who thinks they can police the world
The 59-year-old Routh’s attempt to assassinate Trump appears to have been inspired by the former’s obsession with supporting Ukraine. The would-be assassin appears to have been deeply involved with efforts to send Afghanistan military veterans to Ukraine to assist in the country’s defense against Russia Additionally, federal prosecutors have produced a letter authored by Routh in which he pledges a six-figure cash bounty on President Trump, with the text also suggesting that he was likely inspired by the anti-Trump rhetoric pushed by the Democrat Party. Would-Be Trump Assassin Ryan Routh Fires Lawyer, Wants to Represent Himself.
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
In a video shared with the post, Zeldin addressed the longstanding skepticism surrounding these topics, stating that people who previously questioned them were often “dismissed as conspiracy theorists.” He added that the EPA’s latest initiative is intended to challenge that perception. EPA’s Zeldin Releases Info on Contrails and Geoengineering.
Tina Descovich, the CEO and co-founder of conservative group Moms for Liberty, argued that the agenda item was emblematic of the dismal state of the American education system. “If the largest teachers union can’t define fascism properly we can all understand clearly why we are failing to teach children in schools,” Descovich wrote on X. “Number one priority is not to teach reading and math but a political agenda.” “It’s infuriating.” Largest US teachers union mocked for misspelling ‘fascism’ in anti-Trump agenda item: ‘Too rich to parody’
Sources tell The National Pulse that Lefkowitz has outplayed federal negotiators in the Trump administration and is on the verge of finalizing an agreement with the U.S. government to rescue the far-left college from the brink of financial disaster. This involves restoring over $400 million in suspended federal grants and preserving its tax-exempt status and accreditation, even as the university faces accusations of civil rights violations and internal bigotry against both Trump supporters and Jewish students.Lefkowitz’s name is infamous among legal and political observers. In 2007, while a partner at Kirkland & Ellis, he helped broker a non-prosecution deal with then-U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta that let Epstein dodge a 53-count federal indictment in Florida. The pair met at a Marriott 70 miles from the prosecutor’s office to hammer out the secret arrangement. Epstein would plead guilty to state prostitution charges, serve just 13 months with work-release perks, and—most shockingly—his victims would never be notified, a blatant violation of federal law. EXC: Epstein Lawyer Jay Lefkowitz Now Helping Columbia University Get Off Trump’s Hook.
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
Coming off the July 4 holiday weekend on Sunday night, Axios published a memo from the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announcing that their investigation found no evidence that convicted sex offender and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein maintained a “client list” or was murdered. It was an abrupt shock to the president’s base, especially after Attorney General Pam Bondi previously acknowledged that she was reviewing a “client list” and a group of MAGA social media influencers received a “Phase 1” binder of the Epstein files. EXCLUSIVE: Top Trump Officials Admit They’re Pissed At How The Epstein Story Was Handled
The numbers reflect deep frustration among Republican primary voters with Cornyn’s record. Many conservatives took issue with his role in shaping 2022 gun legislation praised by President Biden, as well as his behind-the-scenes involvement in a failed immigration package that would have expanded legal pathways during the height of the border crisis. While Cornyn ultimately voted against that proposal after its inevitable defeat became clear, critics saw it as emblematic of his long-standing connection with Mitch McConnell and the Washington establishment. Texas Senate Primary for Cornyn Seat Heats Up as Paxton Splits with Wife, Trump Mulls Engaging
At the heart of his concern is GNC’s 2020 acquisition by Harbin Pharmaceutical Group, a Chinese state-owned company with ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Harrigan argues that such ownership could pose a security threat, particularly since GNC operates stores on U.S. military bases. He’s now pushing for legislation—the Military Installation Retail Security Act—that would ban Chinese-owned retailers from operating on those bases. A Chinese State-Owned Company Is Selling Supplements on U.S. Military Bases.
Robert Zimmerman: "Kennedy’s changes in personnel guarantee that — at least until the end of Trump’s administration — we will no longer see health policies based on hearsay, rumors, politics, and feel-good opinions lacking any grounding in scientific research — such as social distancing, mask mandates, lockdowns, and jab requirements. Instead, health policies related to infectious diseases will return to the methods that were developed for over more than two centuries, based on actual research, data, and results." Another scientist blacklisted by the Biden CDC ends up in charge
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
By having the facility on site, SpaceX hopes to make the delivery of those gases more efficient by eliminating the need to have dozens of trucks deliver them from Brownsville. The company says they need more than 200 trucks of liquid nitrogen and oxygen delivered for each launch, a SpaceX engineer told the county during a meeting last week. SpaceX gets approval to build oxygen plant at Boca Chica
The truth is that we really don’t know exactly what motives brought Trump to make this appointment. It could be that Trump wants someone in charge who will have the political clout to push through his proposed NASA cuts. It also could be Trump wants someone with that clout to review those cuts and change them. Why did Trump suddenly pick Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy to become temporary head of NASA?
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
“First, the handful of T-Mobile employees who focused on diversity and inclusion will be redirected within Human Resources to focus on employee culture and engagement. As a result, T-Mobile will no longer have any individual roles or teams focused on ‘DEI.’ T-Mobile is also removing any language, logos, or other references to DEI on its websites, and will ensure that company websites and future communications do not have any references to DEI or diversity, equity, and inclusion, and are consistent with T-Mobile’s commitment to promote nondiscrimination and equal employment opportunity,” the company said in its memo. T-Mobile Axes DEI as It Seeks Merger Permission from Trump FCC.
Actor Dean Cain, who became a fixture in millions of American households thanks to his beloved role as Superman in the hit TV series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman from 1993 to 1997, says director James Gunn’s latest version, a $300 million-plus reboot hitting theaters this week, is too “woke” and politicizing the iconic character could hurt its box office success à la Disney’s Snow White. Former ‘Superman’ Star Dean Cain Says James Gunn’s Woke Reboot Could See ‘Snow White’-Like Box Office Backlash
Update on Jasmine Ratchet: The DEI Dum-Dumb is eyeing a Senate run, because why should Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke get paid millions every two years to get blown out in the Texas senatorial election? Shouldn't she get some of that sweet sweet Act Blue graft?
Crockett addressed the possibility in an Instagram post where she said she would make a decision "depending on how many people reach out," but that her main focus has been legislating in the House of Representatives.
The post came after a poll from the National Republican Senatorial Committee was published showing that she was leading the pack of candidates with 35 percent in a hypothetical primary and was leading former Senate candidate Colin Allred, who was at 20 percent, per the Latin Times.
The Republican Senatorial Committee claims that she's ahead? LOL, that might be a little troll-poll.
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